Tora_Chan´s journal

It's finally Halloween, so I figured I recommend some nice horror mangas for the occasion.

Devilman by Go Nagai
This is a classic manga and not just for the horror genre. Demons threaten to take over the world, so the friends Akira and Ryo decide to fight them. To do so, Akira must become a Devilman, a human possessed by a demon but still keeping his human heart. Soon the countries of the world are thrown into chaos as nobody can trust anybody to not be secretly a demon.

Uzumaki by Junji Ito

A small town gets cursed by spirals. These range from attacking hair to students turning into snails and it only gets worse from there. Much worse...

Franken Fran by Katsuhisa Kigitsu

Fran is a Frankenstein monster type girl, who lives in a castle with all kinds of other monsters created by her master, the doctor. In his absence Fran takes over the business, performing all kinds of operations and other medical procedures for their clients. Too bad that most of the time it doesn't end well for them.

My two other recommendations are sadly not available on Manga Fox, but can be bought on Amazon.

No. 1 is a one-shot simply called Goth. It's a loosely connected collection of stories about killers. Our protagonists are a boy called Kitazawa, who's fascinated with killers and would love nothing more than see his fellow protagonist, a girl called Morino, be killed by one of them.

No. 2 is Mermaid Forest by Rumiko Takahashi of Ranma 1/2 and Inu Yasha fame. It's about 2 immortals called Yuta and Mana, who gained their immortality by eating the flesh of a mermaid. Now they try to find a way to become mortal again, so they can live a normal life.

I hope you'll like these recs and if you have any of your own, feel free to name them in the comments, I'm always on the lookout for new horror comics.

Well, fuck.

After making icons of the whole Utena TV series, I have now finally finished making icons from the movie "Adolescence of Utena". There are 325 icons in total, which I posted in 10 installments.

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Part 5

Part 6

Part 7

Part 8

Part 9

Part 10

Next, the manga.

And it's finally time for another figure review. This time a couple of Pinky Street figures. If you want to know more about them, you can check out http://www.pinky-street.com/

( Asuka and Rei )

so here is a zombie with butter on it's head.



This is the music video to the game Plants vs. Zombies, where your objective is to keep the zombies from reaching your house by planting all kind of plant in their way.

I finally did it, this is the overview for the icons made from the 8th and last DVD of the Utena TV-Series. 39 episodes, that's a lot. Of course now I'll still have the movie and the mangas to turn into icons, but at least this part is done.

Episode 36 - And the Gates of Night Open

Episode 37 - The One Who Will Revolutionize the World

Episode 38 - The Ends of the World

Episode 39 - Someday, Shine with Me

Dear people on my friends list, I have a confession to make.

...

I, Tora_Chan, collect action figures. And not only that, but also figurines and gashapons (little Japanese vending machine figures).

So I decided (inspired by Astro Toy with Rob Bricken on ANN) to post reviews of my stuff. Heck, maybe someone out there will even care.

Anyway, let's get started with my two newest additions.

( Sailor Mars )

( Ranma-chan Ryoga )

A lot of you have probably already see this, but it's made of so much freaking WIN, I just needed to post it too.

Made a whole bunch of Harry Potter icons from the video games.

Philosopher's Stone

Chamber of Secrets

Prisoner of Azkaban

Goblet of Fire

Order of the Phoenix

Quidditch World Cup

Gacked from professor_mum

1) Look at the list, copy and paste it into your own journal.
2) Mark those you have read however you want
3) Feel free to tell your friends what you thought of them.

Bolded those that I read, italicized those I plan on reading.

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( DeathBob NotePants )

( The American Akira )

And now I finished capping and making icons from the second to last DVD of the Utena TV series. One more to go and then I'll do the movie.

Episode 31 - Her Tragedy

Episode 32 - Romance of the Dancing Girls

Episode 33 - The Prince Who Runs in the Night

Episode 34 - Seal of the Rose

Episode 35 - The Love that Blossomed in Winter

Well, I just got back from the dentist, who removed my two left wisdom teeth. So now I'm sitting here, holding a cool pack to my cheek. And what do I do? I go on YouTube and watch the Dentist song from Little Shop of Horror.

That's pretty accurate.

Yesterday it started snowing like crazy here in North Germany. And since snow is such a rare occurance here, I took some pictures this morning.

( Winter Wonder Land )

I was tagged by arichan1981.

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I finished making icons from the original 7-part El Hazard OVA. So, here they are.

The First Night

The Second Night

The Third Night

The Fourth Night

The Fifth Night

The Sixth Night

The Seventh Night

BTW, does anybody else love this anime as much as I do? I absolutely adore this original OVA of El Hazard and to me it was perfect the way it was. It had the right amount of action, comedy and romance. Which is why I never will watch the other El Hazard animes. I tried watching the TV series, El Hazard - The Alternate World, but gave up after 8 episodes or so, because I hated what they turned it into. And even though the second OVA and TV series are build on this OVA, I have zero interest in seeing them, because as I said, there is nothing they could add to make this anime better. In fact, they can only go downhill with it, which from what I've read, is exactly what they did.

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Got S from pauraque

( This list was harder to get together than I thought )

And for the last time, this review will contain spoilers for the episode and short story.

( You Know They Got A Hell Of A Band )

Near where I live is an abandoned hospital, that has been like that for a few years. It was supposed to be torn down to make room for apartment and office buildings, but plans fell through and I haven't heard of any new plans. Anyway, for quite a while now I've toyed with the idea of going in there and taking some pics after seeing people on silenthill do the same. And since I started playing SH: Origins yesterday, I went there today.

( Several pics behind the cut, definitely not dial-up friendly )