I’ve returned from Japan!  Well, I actually returned almost half a month ago, but I upgraded Wordpress and ran into a few problems with my admin panel.  I haven’t been able to make a post since then, but luckily it seems to be fine now! I have lots to say and lots of images to share [...]
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Recently I bought an external hard drive to make my laptop a little happier - it was exploding from all sides with anime and manga downloads because I seem to have a problem keeping up with my files.  I’m not that attached to anime downloads, (I pretty much delete them as I watch them), but [...]
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I am so excited! There are just seven days separating myself from Japan. The months since the flight was booked have just flown (har har) by! I’m fairly certain that I have everything in order… I’m at a loss for words!  I fail at blogging due to excitement and the sheer amount [...]
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  Last weekend I travelled to Ottawa for some random fun as a break from school.  It was a five hour bus ride all alone but it was definitely worth it to meet up with my long distance boyfriend (teehee).  I’ve been to Ottawa one time many years ago but I was never able to stop [...]
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I’ve been cosplaying for years but I never joined cosplay.com because when I first started, I had an anti-positing-photos-of-self-online stance.  That’s probably a good thing because I started cosplaying when I was a minor.  I don’t feel as weird posting photos now so I’m not as worried, and instead see archiving my cosplay sewing online [...]
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I love love love love making music videos.  There’s something so satisfying about it!  I have several on the go right now because I’m the type of video-editor who likes to poke away at things when I have the fancy. My most long term project is a Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch anime music video using [...]
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For my fan fiction class, I chose to analyse the following anime music video: I love Princess Tutu, but I sadly haven’t watched it in years.  I have most of it on DVD, but I’m missing the last volume.  (One day, one day!)  I’ve watched Chapter of Egg (the first half of the series) several times, but I’ve only seen Chapter of Chick once all the way through [...]
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Prince to Yobanaide is an incredibly fluffy romance story, featuring a tomboy as the main character.  Hoshino is a girl who has fallen in love with a boy at her school, but she feels that she must live up to the role that others have given her: she is considered the school’s prince, even though [...]
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If success is measured by looking at hit counts, Sparkle Sparkle is…slightly more successful than before!  (It’s so relative!) Sparkle Sparkle has finally cracked 5000 unique hits in one month, which is a pretty big deal to me as a small-time, not-so-regular shoujo blogger.  I almost reached my goal of 5000 in one month in December, with 4978 hits (ouch! so close!). Sparkle Sparkle is also 500 days old as of today!  I’m going to try to keep on sparkling.  Thanks for reading my blog! I mentioned the other day about the anime music [...]
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Nagareboshi Manga is one of my favourite scanlation groups who distribute super cute shoujo series.  If you have never checked them out, you really should.  They’re scanlated many shoujo series, including the ever-so-popular Modotte Mamotte Lollipop, Orange Planet, and Pink Innocent. They’ve released a new series called  Tabecha Dame, which they warned as being 13+ at least.  It’s a pretty steamy series so [...]
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I’m pretty excited about one of my assignments that is coming up quickly. For my Fan Fiction class (yes, a legitimate English Studies course at my university), I have to write a five minute analysis of any fanvid I want from youtube. Since I love shoujo anime, I decided that I would choose [...]
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