i really didn't want to post this but...

i really didn't want to post this but this has gone too far for me to ignore.

This guy by the name of Uchiha Sasuke (http://www.myspace.com/infinitezala), Akaza Zala (http://www.friendster.com/31024514) and Hayate Haramoto (http://www.friendster.com/43365062), has been copying me from the way i phrase words to the images i upload there. I don't know what to do with him...


Image 1: This is the myspace profile mentioned above. It is only viewable if you are "friends" with him. The things he copied is quite obvious.


Image 2: This is my myspace profile. As you can see, that box below the display image is supposed to be in the MS PGothic (ＭＳ Ｐゴシック) with the background transparent (may appear blue-ish if viewed in Safari (Apple) browser) and saved in PNG format. In Image 1 you can tell that he edited it and typed the name different from the display name and saved it in JPEG format, which means a loss in image details (due to compression) each time it is saved in that format.


Image 3:A closer look of Image 1. This guy copied the same text as me (and box, which is mentioned earlier) and has the nerve to call my drawings as his.


Image 4:He also copied the list of anime i am watching currently (though the shows are slighty different and most of them are not of current anime/episode). The japanese text were originally saved in GIF in with 35px with Terbuchet MS in paint. He rezized it to height to 50px and created more in the same height but in a different font (most likely Arial Unicode MS). After I first noticed that he copied me, I used a vector program instead of MS Paint, changed all the stuff to what you see in Image 5.


Image 5: "Anime watch list" in the media box on my 3rd friendster profile. As you can see, the background for the japanese text is transparent and can see the background image through it. (if entered as text instead, it would convert to some code or to ?'s).


Image 6: In addition to Image 3, he also put my drawings even after I reuploaded them. (the earlier ones did not have the date and the website url). If you are curious on what was on the blog on that image, go to: http://asuna888.blogspot.com/2007/06/please-read-this.html


Image 7: The zoomed out version of Image 6. Loacted between Image 1 and Image 4. You can see that he posted more of my drawings (and none of his own) on the profile.

New Summer 2007 anime

New Summer Anime: (in the following order)
Row 1: Zombie-Loan, Code Geass: Leauch of the Rebellion (Episode 24,25), Buzzer Beater, Mononoke, Botomuzu
Row 2: Sayonara Zetsubo Sensei, Higurashi no naku koroni kai, Zero no Tsukaima: Futatsuki no Kishi, Dojin Work, Moe-tan
Row 3: Umishiyo, Nanatsuiro Drops, School Days, Code E, Botemayo
Row 4: Shigerui, Baccano, Mushiuta, Tokyo Majin Gakuen Kenpucho: Tou 2nd Act, Happy Happy Clover

2nd day, 5th month, 2007th year

(Lucky Star was featured in the June 2007 issue of Newtype Japan)

Okay, i know i have not been updating my blogs lately. i just don't feel like updating and not to mention that i have school (holiday is in june/july) and have many different profile and blogs to maintain, i regularly update those at friendster. At http://www.friendster.com/friends/4623690, I received a very long list of friend requests. As it already reached the 1000 friends, I had to delete those with non-anime/japanese related display images but still accept at the other 2 accounts until either reaches the 1000 limit. (btw. the link to my MySpace profile can be found in my 3rd friendster profile).

Note1: I have dropped "Nagaserete Airantou" as at episode 8. I'm sick of seeing 19th century japan-like environment and nosebleeding comming from the only guy on the island. (the rest are females and odd looking animals and plants)

Note2: ODEX is the devil for being the only legal anime distributor here and provide low quality video and subbing.

Note3: It seems that only 2/3 of the anime i watch now (out of 8, more if you count those i have watched before) are licensed by ODEX. They are "Idolmaster Xenoglossia", "Darker than BLACK" and "Nagaserete Airantou". (oddly enough, even though "School Days" hasn't started airing in japan yet (though they have released a preview in 2005), they have already licensed it)

Note4: Seems that some poor guy has been caught for ilegally downloading anime (go to www.darkmirage.com and look for blog entry around end-may/early-june 2007). Looking at the scan/pdf of the letter (dated mid-may 2007), it seems that person download subbed version of bleach and inuyasha from DB (dattebayo) and whatever site/groups i don't download from for the month of february of the same year.

Note5: Don't download subbed anime, especially popular ones ;) (hint hint) If you want to watch the subbed one and not support ODEX, buy those R1 DVD ones.

Note6: in the letter mention in note4, none of the downloads that "violate" (can't verify if the orginaisation the letter is from is legit) contains raws or non-latin based charaters. though i'm not sure about those sent to other people.

Note7: None of my friendster profiles contains my real name, including my main (3rd) acc. (though you need to add my real given name as the last name or 1 of the few email addresses with my real name in it to add me)

Note8: So long.... -_-

Note9: That list is updated already.

Note10: I don't like the climate in Singapore: Hot tropical climate (no winter), small land area (=dense population and expensive houses. a 5rm (200sqm)apartment (with minimal/no furnishings btw;) is already around SGD 300,000 (SGD1.5=USD1) and single houses in the 1mil range. Houses in the suburbs of other developed countries are barely even 50,000 and the size is larger.), might emigrate one day (most likely around 2018)
Note11: I want to marry someone from japan, move there and change my name and surname

Note12: Trying to understand japanese including both spoken and written.

Note13: You might have noticed that this post has minor changes as compared to those i posted at the other blogs (and the Japanese Language version too)

Japanese animation in Singapore

I was in Singapore the other day and noticed that the only anime that people talk about is "Naruto" and "Bleach" and whatever anime that airs on Animax (a cable/satellite channel that is headquartered in 港区 inside 東京都) and free-to-air channels. The only thing I saw on TV and the TV schedule was anime that I would consider "outdated" and "boring" (Pokemon, Prince of Tennis, Detective Conan) or where the subtitles and/or dubs spoil the anime (and maybe the video and sound quality too). If you look at "Anime I'm currently watching" at the side of this blog, you would notice that most are very new. So new that the episode mentioned there was aired in Japan less than a week ago.

I'm not sure if I have mentioned this earlier (could be on my Windows Live Spaces or Yahoo! 360 blog, not sure where) but there is only 1 distributer (Obdex or something like that) for anime and the quality (packaging, media used, video & audio quality, subtitles, language channel) is bad. Also, unless you look at certain branches of specialized stores (normally inside the large branches / located in a major shopping district), the manga found in Singapore are either English or Chinese translated versions and not the original ones. Note: The page ordering for the English verison is most likely to be reversed from the Japanese/Chinese verison. Name ordering is also reversed: Family name followed by given name. (Strangely enough, Chinese and Korean names are left unchanged unless they have a western name, in which the order could be: western given name followed by surname and then the given name in hanyu pinyin)

URL changes

I was navigating to http://www.myspace.com/the1iam when I saw a guy that is not me. (urls on MySpace cannot be changed). Also, a few months earlier, while searching for fnfd on youtube, i saw a video of a fire bridgage putting out a fire. On search on google, it turns out that FNFD means ??? ??? Fire Department and also something that has to do with stock market. Since my nick was not original to begin with (fnfd was shortened from flyernofoolsday (which itself is shorten from "a flyer which is not a fool on a day"), a name i used on neopets), I might as well create a new one from scratch. The new urls are based on the display name of my friendster accounts at time of typing. (1st: ' ' ' ' Konomi Fujimiya, 2nd: ' ' Yukari Fujimiya, 3rd: Yukiho Horie)

So here are the changes that uses the following:

fnfd -> fujimiyayuki
the1iam -> yukarifujimi
(asuna888 is unchanged)

Therefore, new accounts and places where the display name and/or URL can be changed, are with effect from 13 April 2007 (Friday). Note that some of the links still points to the old ones.

(8 September 2008 edit: Please refer to this post for further changes)

Changed back the layout

(feeds of this blog is at http://the1iam.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default)
[[Anime related blogs at http: http://asuna888-en.blogspot.com:

New batch of drawings. (12 March 2007)

New Anime (March - July 2007) (6 March 2007)]]

I was looking at the changes between the "new" layout and the layout before that and found that the previous layout was better. It just needs some minor changes. What further prompted the changing back to the previous layout was that I was viewing my profile at YouTube (which I hardly go to lately, due to YouTube/Google removing "infringing" videos and the quality of audio and video is lower), when I remember that a code is needed to make the background which I could apply to here (under the older version). What I need to do now is to somehow make the title of posts appear instead of just the date or having to check the arcives or rss feed and also update the "Anime I have watched" and "私が最近見たアニメ" on all of my blogger blogs (as a rough guide, the shows in that list are the most recent (unsubbed) episode)

(I'm not sure if using #XXXXXX as the colour code at YouTube to make the background transparent still works. I forgot when it was last edited but I know that it's before December 2006.)

New blog layout

I found the prevous layout very boring and ugly, so I decided to use this new layout and make changes to it. This layout only works only on the old layout of blogs of Blogger.com (created before 19 December 2006 and had not upgraded). So, if you want to look for a new layout for your blogspot, pay attention to the date when the template was posted.

Note: The other 2 blogs (http://fnfd.blogspot.com/ and http://asuna888.blogspot.com/) are under the new layout. Go there to find the links that were here until i've finished with the new layout) I will make some modifications in the near future like hosting that image (or other images that fit the style of this page) on imageshack, make the area where the posts are wider.
If I have the time, this may not take too long to be done. (ps. The images and youtube videos in earlier posts may need to be readjusted)

Anime I should look out for in the future (2007-02-24)

These are anime I should look out for in the future (as at 24 February 2007). Whether I will watch through the entire season or only the first few episodes depends on the storyline, visual art and so on. The ones below are based on the storyline (if any) and promotional image at animenewsnetwork.com and Wikipedia. The exact amount I will watch depends on time constraints with my school (eg. homework, exams), found that the ones listed below is boring and decided to stop watching. I may watch what is not listed below mainly due to the lack of information at time of typing. What I have typed at this post on my other blog may also apply to the below. (Note: Movies are not listed here)

• ToHeart2 (OAV) (1 Episode) (2007-02-28)
• Hitohira (TV) (ひとひら) (2007-03-28)
• sola (TV) (12 Episodes) (2007-04)
  
• Shinkyoku Soukai Polyphonica (TV) (神曲奏界ポリフォニカ) (12 Episodes) (2007-04)
• Nagasarete Airantou (TV) (ながされて藍蘭島) (26 Episodes) (2007-04-04)
• Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS (TV) (魔法少女リリカルなのはStrikerS) (26 Episodes) (2007-04)
• Kaze no Stigma (TV) (風の聖痕) (2007-04)
• Idolmaster Xenoglossia (TV) (アイドルマスター XENOGLOSSIA) (2007-04)
• El Cazador de la Bruja (TV) (エル・カザド) (2007-04-02)
  
• Nanatsuiro Drops (TV) (ななついろ★ドロップス) (2007-07)
  

That is all I could find there. There are rumors about the second season of The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi (涼宮ハルヒの憂鬱) because it's official website has changed around December 2006 just like it was when 涼宮ハルヒの憂鬱 was still airing on Japan's TV networks. An infamous example was when the ＳＯＳ団 logo was messed up along with text on that page. Later on the page was fixed and the logo was changed to ＺＯＺ団.

Friendster media box

This is a test to see if the HTML in the media box of my profileworks properly outside friendster.
(2007-03-02 edit: video resized to that found on my MySpace.com profile to fit the new layout.)





京四郎と永遠の空オープニングテーマ：『クロス*ハート』CooRie

Kyosho to towa no sora opening theme: "Cross＊Heart" by CooRie




京四郎と永遠の空 ED 「微睡みの楽園」歌 Ceui

Kyosho to towa no sora ending theme by Ceui




月面兎兵器ミーナオープニングテーマ：『Lights, Camera. Action!』HALCALI

Getsumento Heiki Mina Opening: "Lights, Camera. Action!" by HALCALI




のだめカンタビールエンディングテーマ：『』

Nodame Cantible Ending: "" by




ネギま!?オープニングテーマ：『1000%SPARKING!』佐藤利奈・神田朱未・野中藍・小林ゆう

Negima!? Opening: "1000% SPARKLING" by Rina Satou, Akemi Kanda, Ai Nonaka & Yu Kobayashi




シャフル！オープニングテーマ: 『ＹＯＵ』　ＡＬＡＩ

Shuffle! opening: "YOU" by ALAI




のだめカンタビールオープニングテーマ：『Allegro Cantabile』 SUEMITSU & THE SUEMITH

Nodame Cantible Opening: Allegro Cantabile by SUEMITSU & THE SUEMITH











More videos can be found here.



Anime I've watched recently:

Code Geases: Reaulch of Rebel (Episode 18 of 25)

Negima!? (Episode 21 of 26)

Tokimeki Memorial -Only Love- (Episode 20 of 24)

Death Note (Episode 20 of 37)

Shuffle Memories (Episode 6)

Kyoushirou to Towa no Sora (Episode 6 of 12)

Getsumento Heiki Mina (Episode 6 of 11)

Nodame Cantabile (Episode 8)



私が最近見たアニメ：

コードギアス 反逆のルルーシュ (18話/25話)

ネギま!? (21話/26話)

ときめきメモリアル Only Love (20話/24話)

デスノート (20話/37話)

シャフル！ memories (6話)

京四郎と永遠の空 (6話/12話)

月面兎兵器ミーナ (6話/11話)

のだめカンタビル (8話)

Subbing complains

I have recently been busy making subtitles. I type the text from an already subbed version by a group then add the subs to a raw (unedited; usually to a higher quality ver). The reason for doing it is the one subbed by a group have hardsubs (espically the opening/ending) and cannot be removed. Next, even if there are softsubs, the op and ed and some scenes is still in hard subs (for most groups these days. Exceptions (everything including op/ed, credits of ppl who did the subs)include POGO (which, unfortunately translates only from Japanese to Chinese). Obvious
examples include the 1st episode of "Saint October" (Jan 2007) by Ryoumi subs (though another group did a better job): The ローマ字 (romanised japanese) for the opening; an annoying waving text that goes to the next line every japanese word (about 3-7 in romanised form) in a poor attempt to follow the japanese text (which is hard to copy btw). Next, group subs that put some image before the video starts (which means that the timing is pushed back) and even more annoying if that thing appears and the audio of the actual video is heard only and only appears a few seconds later. Examples include スクルーランブル二学期 (1H 2006-3Q 2006) by yourmom subs (that's the name btw and another subbing group stopped subbing until ep 9 (of 24) due to it being licensed by some US company though yourmom continued until the end [i heard people saying US=the world]. They post random photos from lamposts to cats), N・H・Kにようこそ！ (3Q 2006-4Q 2006) by toybox (the part about hearing audio only applies to this; one of the main female charaters on an orange background with text of ppl who did the subs and their IRC channel). Fortunately, another subbing group is doing it and the fonts are better. next, SHUFFLE! memories (1Q 2007) by ayako (or something like that). A picture of a featured charater (from the game or a CG art; the former is likely) appeared before it starts (there are no japanese text; only the romaji and english translation for ep 3 btw). ep 4 is worse: that image along the audio of the original video appeared until the first line of the song begins. I'm not sure if the following is done by the same group but the OVA of はぴねす！ (DVD raw was released on the 1st week of January 2007) starts off with an alien looking outside (from the inside) on a planet (the scenery is something like at the moon). Speaking of that episode, it involves Wasare Jun (who dresses and behaves very much like a girl) and one of his close friend/classmate (i think his nam is yuma) being turn into a real girl after being hit by combined spell that resulted by an accident, got hit. Jun went to the toilet after it happened since jun felt something strange with jun's body. Jun notices "those things" from the chest and "that thing" missing from Jun's bottom (Jun got hit directly but the latter was right next to Jun when it happened. Therefor no one noticed until Haruhi (another classmate) notices that yuma didn't go crazy over Jun (by which the spell is removed) unlike all the guys in the school and then notices "those things". Afterwards, the madness that happened to Jun (being chased by all the boys in school, although that didn't happend to jun immedately) happens and that is where the episode ends. The entie episode focuses on jun by the way).


ps. I don't know how to extract the subtitles from videos (mkv) containg softsubs. If i did, i wouldn't go through this much trouble. I plan to do Negima!? (1024x756 (although the 640x780 version is aired earlier); done ep 1-5, 6 in progress), SHUFFLE! memories (used 1280x720 but found no difference in video quality as compared to 704x396 when viewed in full screen at 1024x768.; only ep 4) and Kyoushiro to towa no sora (640x360; havent started).

[Feb 2 edit: I think I will also do のだめカンタービル (1280x720)]
[Feb 9 edit: Decided to put 京四郎と永远の空 on hold as there is only 1 episode at 1024x768 (by AniMa-RAW) while the remainding episode by many other RAW providers are at 640x360. The video with subs by Ayako (the same group that did SHUFFLE! memories, only without images appearing before the video) seem to clearer/sharper than the one by other RAWs of the same resolution. I guess i'll wait until the DVD rips are avalable.]

(originally posted on Feb 5 at http://fnfd.blogspot.com)