~ Sitting, waiting, wishing.

I saw an anime for the first time on the big screen today! It was English-subbed too, and the subs were, well, huge and easy to read! xD

My fellow Filipino anime blogger, usagijen, kindly invited me to watch the 2006 anime film Toki o Kakeru Shōujo (it is also referred as TokiKake for short, or The Girl Who Leapt Through Time for its English release) at the cinema at the Shangri-La Plaza Mall as part of the J-Pop Anime Matsuri hosted by the Embassy of Japan, which in turn is part of the Eiga Sai 2008 brought to us by the Japan Foundation, Manila, in cooperation with the Embassy of Japan, Shangri-La Plaza Mall, Cultural Center of the Philippines, and the UP Film Institute. The best thing about it? It was an AWESOME anime and it was FREE!

It was my second time to meet another blogger friend, usagijen, she was really nice (The first blogger/online friend I met in person was the the lovely strawberrychips). Despite a little mishap initially with the free admission tickets (which we settled nicely, thanks to usagijen’s friend and Batman! ;P), I had a wonderful time!

I think you have to see it to really appreciate it. And seriously, TokiKake was a very enjoyable anime film to see. It’s really funny, touching and meaningful at the same time. I absolutely loved it! I’d say it was very well written and well done, and I’d definitely recommend you to watch it too! ^_^

... or so I've heard. Hence, in time with the new year, I figured I should change the layout and some userpics. =)

I am SO loving Ikuta Toma right now (see userpic). I get all giddy whenever I see or hear him. *blush*  The Honey and Clover live-action drama needs more love!!! I also added added/changed a couple of userpics including Yamada from HachiKuro and Shirota Yuu *melts*. 

This LJ layout has a header, so I made a header for it... hehe, it's not made especially for this though, this header was made for my anime blog header and just cropped it and tweaked it a little to fit the alotted header space for this LJ one (lazy me, I know. ~Lol)  This LJ layout is courtesy of grrliz from thefulcrum  and gossymer

On a whim, I wanted to see  Amanda Bynes' new comedy film Sydney White but when my day off came, it was no longer in the theaters. Phooey! My brother wanted to see National Treasure 2 instead but I wanted to see something that's more of a comedy... so we settled for Alvin and the Chipmunks instead... it was shown late here because of a local film festival during the Christmas season where they show only local films... Anyway, I enjoyed it. I've always been quite fond of those chipmunks, watching the cartoons on TV when I was little. They did an acapella version of "Funkytown" in the film and I thought it was awesome! Haha.

Yep, I better go to bed or I might oversleep and miss my graveyard shift later. Heh. (^_^')

Merry Christmas and a Blessed New Year!
I wish you a wonderful holiday season and the best years to come!
Take care! ^_^

**holiday icon by kotae

I just heard an anime news that affects me greatly... Darker than Black  has been licensed by FUNimation... after merely 12 eps, its now licensed! Aaaahhhhh! Do you know what that means?! No more subbed episodes for me... *sits in a sad corner, Tamaki-style* 

The fansub group that I'm familiar with who's working on DtB have announced that they'd now be dropping it from their projects as it's now licensed ... I'm not sure about the other groups, but they most likely will follow suit and drop it too (I'm still hoping one of them will keep subbing it  *sheepish grin*) Obviously, it'd be removed from crunchyroll too. :(

It's probably good news that it's been licensed, I guess... that means more DtB followers and possibly more episodes or something like that... but still, I'm sad that I won't be able to watch it  subbed anymore. I wish I can speak Japanese, then I'd have no problem seeing it raw... *sighs*  Anyway, I wish DtB all the best, in my opinion, it's a really good series so it's kind of not that surprising that it got licensed right away.... but still... *sighs, sighs* 

On a lighter note... HARRY POTTER!!! My brother and I already booked theater tickets for the 5th film on July 11th and as a bonus we'll watch it on IMAX!  It'd be my first time watching a film on IMAX format, so this should be interesting... I just hope the film is done well. ^_^