Eh? How long has it been since I last posted on DW? On LJ too, I've been on a slight hiatus. So why not cross-post, right? I can kill two birds with one stone  ^__^

I managed to download the 6th movie in the Kara no Kyoukai series last week. Yeah.. it's been almost a week since I've downloaded and watched it, but there is just so much to do lately that I just don't have the mood to write much. I'm skipping work right now, coz I really don't feel like doing my assignments just yet |D

I wasn't expecting gg-takajun subs to appear until this week actually, considering that the official release of the DVD was actually last Wednesday, but on Thursday night, I  surfed the Internet and voila, the subs were there! I just went nuts when I saw the download links and straight away downloaded them ^^

As expected, the animation quality is very good indeed. The duration of the movie is back to within an hour, after the awesome, yet confusing and "spiralling" 5th movie. The faeries look kinda strange on closer look toward the end of the movie, though. But the lighting and the colours used to animate them made for a very beautiful effect. This movie is pretty much an explosion of bright colours, really. Just like Kalafina's Seventh Heaven PV. We get to see a kick-ass Azaka here, plus a little bit about hers and Mikiya's past. The Shiki-Azaka combo is funny to watch, with Shiki acting a bit aloof and Azaka being demanding toward her XD

Plus, we get to see Azaka use her fire magic, which is also a wonderful bright-coloured explosion of awesomeness. The soundtrack of the movie is different from the previous movies, and it's quite calming and sounds a bit like Kalafina's fairytale song, which is the ending theme. The only thing I find disturbing is the scene towards the end, where Araya meets Keita. Can I just say... It was probably the worst part I had ever watched so far in the KnK series. I felt queasy watching it, and I thought the arms-and legs-twisting of movie 3 was bad enough. This one tops it off as the most violent/sadistic part of KnK. Well, for now anyways, since I haven't watched movie 7 yet.

Conclusion: When are they going to release movie 7 on DVD?? Fly me to Japan now so I can just watch at the cinema~~~ :3

I went to Kinokuniya at KLCC yesterday to chaperone my young cousin to the bookstore because no other adults were available (since my lil sis is doing her internship) and our weekends are booked due to the upcoming weddings in our family. Plus I had way too much free time on my hands XP

It was a long while since I went to KLCC.. I usually just went to Mid-Valley coz its just so much more nearer to where I live (and near to uni). I planned to buy a cousin of mine who just turned 14 last week a book as her belated birthday present, but I ended up buying more than I thought I would have.

I managed to buy a kakuro book I've always wanted to buy. If you don't know what kakuro is.. it's similar to sudoku. It's a Japanese puzzle with a format similar to a crossword puzzle which features across or down numerical clues that you have to add up to result to the amount written at the top of the line/row. I don't normally see a lot of Kakuro books around. So I thought, I'd just grab one, since I've always wanted to and I'm already bored with sudoku anyways. I just wish they'd have a cheaper book, though. This one costs me MYR 25.

But what I really didn't bargain was finding (and later buying) Vampire Knight vol 8 and 9 for MYR 18 each! I mean.. just 18? I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw the price! And I couldn't resist not buying them.. The truth is, I really wanted to buy one of the Trinity Blood novels.. but they cost around MYR 35.. and I could buy 2 vols of VK with the same price. So VK it is XD

But it was only when I got home and unwrapped the books from their plastic covers did I realise that the reason they were cheap is that they were printed in Singapore, and it wasn't the ones by Viz Media (the ones holding the license for English language release in North America). I'm pretty sure the ones by Viz costs about the same as the usual ones ~ around MYR 33-35. Ah well.. I just wanted a copy of the manga volumes instead of just reading off the scanlations.

Not sure what the Viz ones are like, but the copy I own writes Yuuki as Yuki, and pure bloods becomes the true bloods. Can't say I like the way they changed it so much, but I'll probably buy volume 10 by Viz when they're out to see the difference ^^