Ouran High School Host Club Live Action TV Series

I just found out! It has been formally announced: Ouran High School Host Club will have a live action TV adaptation! Yipee! It is set to air on TBS beginning July 2011 and will star Yusuke Yamamoto as Tamaki Suoh and Haruna Kawaguchi as Haruhi Fujioka. Here's the complete cast for the Ouran High School Host Club live action TV series:

Kawaguchi Haruna as Fujioka Haruhi

Yamamoto Yusuke as Suoh Tamaki

Daito Shunsuke as Ootori Kyoya

Takagi Manpei as Hitachiin Kaoru

 Takagi Shinpei as Hitachiin Hikaru

Chiba Yudai as Haninozuka Mitsukuni

Nakamura Masaya as Morinozuka Takashi

Ryusei Ryo as Nekozawa Umehito

(Photos from: http://hanashi-sekai.blogspot.com/2011/05/se-confirma-el-dorama-de-ouran-host.html)

I'm a little disappointed by the cast line-up though. I was expecting the Host Club guys to be better looking, I guess. Somewhere around the handsomeness of Ikuta Toma, Mukai Osamu and Hayami Mokomichi. *Stares and drools... Haha!*

Hayami Mokomichi

Ikuta Toma

Mukai Osamu

But I'm still definitely looking forward to it. I bet it's going to be a lot of laughs. :)

Love Shuffle

Love Shuffle is so freaking awesome! I had no idea J-Doramas (Japanese TV dramas) were this interesting. I watched five straight episodes today - Wah, I'm a couch potato! Hehe.

I find the concept of Love Shuffle very intriguing. Four people living on the same floor of a high-class apartment building in Tokyo get stuck together on the elevator one stormy night and decide to start something they call the "love shuffle" after learning about each of their love troubles. But then they learn that the one who's controlling the game has an ulterior motive. Gah, I'd be watching the next five episodes right now if I didn't have to go to work tomorrow. The suspense is killing me.

Also, it doesn't hurt that the three leading men are hot, drop dead gorgeous specimens of the male species. Hah! :)

Guys from L-R: Matsuda Shota, Shosuke Tanihara, Hiroshi Tamaki

Kuroshitsuji II

Update 04/21/11:

OMG! I watched the rest of Kuroshitsuji II tonight and it was amazingly good! In fact, I would say that it's a whole lot better than Kuroshitsuji I. I totally regret not watching it until the end when I first started it last January. One really good thing about the second season of Kuroshitsuji is that they doubled the number of hot butlers! Haha! Then again, the other butler Claude could never compare to Sebastian Michaelis in my opinion. Sebastian is and always will be one hell of a butler! I love Sebastian Michaelis!!! Wahahahaha! *intended to be a crazy maniacal laugh* Hehe. :D

Original Post 01/21/11:

Will somebody please explain to me what is going on with Kuroshitsuji II? I've just finished watching the first two episodes and am extremely confused. It doesn't follow what happened at the end of season one at all. And Ciel Phantomhive inside the suitcase at the end of episode 1, what the hell was that about? I had expected episode 2 to clear up that mystery, but it was about something else entirely. Not only that, the story was like the events in season one never happened. Argh, I don't know whether to continue watching this anime or not.

Sebastian Michaelis

The only reason I finished watching the first season of Kuroshitsuji in the first place was because I liked Sebastian Michaelis. And to be honest, I found the story too slow and boring in general, although it did get interesting towards the last few episodes and the season ender intrigued me enough to want to watch the second season.

But season two so far has got me scratching my head in utter confusion. Sigh... Maybe I should just abandon the anime and read the manga instead. I hear the manga is good.

My Very First Anime Drawings

I found my old drawing book from way back with the very first anime drawings I had ever made. Feeling nostalgic, I decided to scan them. The pencil marks don't show well on the scan (especially the first one) and I was tempted to outline the drawings with a black pen, but I decided to leave them in their original form.

Kenshin Himura, Rurouni Kenshin

Sanosuke Sagara, Rurouni Kenshin

A cute dog I saw in an anime magazine

A character I found in an anime magazine

Actually, these four are the only anime drawings I've done - ever. I stopped drawing because I didn't think I was good enough. Now I realize that I was my own worst critic. I couldn't meet my unrealistic standard of perfection and I quit. Now that I have come to accept myself more, I can ease up and just allow myself to enjoy the learning process. I'm finally ready to start drawing again. :)

150,000 Total Pageviews

Anime & Manga 4 All has reached 150,000 total pageviews as of today. I am in awe thinking that I have either reached 150,000 people from all over the world or have reached people from all parts of the globe a total of 150,000 times. It's just so amazing. :)