Hiragana charts

There are several Hiragana charts and I find that some suits my needs and some don't. I hope you find these useful as I do ^^

Maid-sama's Comicon Adventure 2013

An incredibly belated post, but this year I was actually able to attend Manchester MCM Expo - Comicon 2013!~

The story? This year, I was going to go to three different conventions (Birmingham Comicon, Manchester Comicon, and Sakuracon Manchester), but complications arose, and I only ended up at Manchester Comicon.
Who did I cosplay as? Reimu Hakurei of the Touhou universe~

I took very few pictures, but here they are~

My cosplay;
[these pictures weren't actually taken on the day - I took them after my cosplay finally arrived in the post, and wanted to try it on, makeup, shoes, tights and all~]

 

 

 



 

My haul from the day;

 

Maid-sama's Anime

Anime I have watched;

1. Wolf’s Rain
2. Another
3. Ginga Densetsu Weed
4. Elfen Lied           
5. Witch Blade
6. Queen’s Blade
7. Queen’s Blade: Rebellion
8. Puella Magi Madoka Magica
9. Pandora Hearts
10. Fairy Tail
11. Umineko no Naku Koro ni
12. Strike Witches
13. .//Hack Legend of the Twilight
14. Romeo x Juliet
15. Ah! My Goddess
16. Princess TuTu
17. Murder Princess
18. Heaven’s Lost Property
19. IS: Infinite Stratos
20. Black Rock Shooter
21. Dead man Wonderland
22. Ceres, Celestial Legend
23. Vampire Knight
24. Vampire Knight Guilty
25. Black Butler
26. Black Butler II
27. Earth Maiden Arjuna
28. Spice and Wolf
29. Spice and Wolf II
30. Pokemon
31. Angel Sanctuary
32. Sonic X
33. Rozen Maiden
34. Freezing
35. Shattered Angels
36. High school of the Dead

Anime I am currently watching;

1. Phantom of Inferom Episode 2
2. Attack on Titan Episode 19
3. Choujigen Game Neptune: The Animation Episode 1
4. Denpa Onna to Seishun Otoko Episode 2
5. Horizon in the Middle of Nowhere Episode 1
6. Strawberry Panic Episode 11
7. Strike Witches II Episode 5
8. Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse Episode 10

Anime I have on my watch list;

 

Day Break Illusion

1. Mondaiji-tachi ga Isekai Kara Kuru So Desu yo?
2. Fate/stay night
3. Fate/zero
4. Sword Art Online
5. Is This a Zombie?
6. Steins;Gate
7. Neon Genesis Evangelion
8. Kamisama Kiss
9. Valvrave the Liberator
10. Shining Hearts: Shiawase no Pan
11. Shining tears x Wind
12. The Mythical Detective Loki Ragnarok Toradora!
13. Kannazuki no Miko
14. Future Diary
15. Guilty Crown
16. Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
17. Angel Beats
18. Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle
19. Brothers Conflict
20. MAOYU
21. The Severing Crime Edge
22. Ano Natsu de Matteru
23. Saikano 

So, as you can see, I sort of live for anime ^^'

List of mangas I've read

I tend to read more mangas than watch animes because the mangas I like are by my favourite mangakas; Junji Ito and Kago Shintaro.

Completed:

1. A certain hero's death
2. Abstraction
3. Anamorphosis no Meijuu
4. blow up
5. Closed hospital
6. collector
7. communication
8. Corpse party: blood covered 
9. disks
10. drafting a water goddess
11. Drunkard condo syndrome
12. Everything's peaceful
13. fetus collection
14. genesis
15. Hara Kiri
16. Iwa and Izaemon
17. Kijin Gahou
18. Labyrinth
19. Lord of the ring
20. Many times of joy and sorrow
21. multiplication
22. My beloved lady
23. Odoru! Kremlin Kyuuden
24. Oral cavity infectious syndrome
25. Punctures
26. Safety hit
27. supergirl begins
28. superglue
29. the big funeral
30. The collection
31. the memories of others
32. When all's said and done
33. Yume no Omocha Koujo
34. Black paradox 
35. Gyo
36. Uzumaki
37. Yami no Koe (voices in the dark)
38. The fashion model
39. Shin Yami no Koe - Kaidan (new voices in the dark)
40. Itou Junji no Neko Nikki: Yon & Mu
41. Itou Junji Kyoufu Manga Collection 
42. Flesh coloured horror
43. Drifting classroom
44. Fuan no tane
45. the ice cream man
46. headless sculptures
47. Suicide circle
48. deep sex 
49. Cursed toilet
50. we are all living on earth
51. the holes
52. Plastic Girl
53. Loop
54. Shiranui kitanroku
55. Dead heads
56. Ibitsu
57. Koe no katachi
58. Terror
59. Higurashi no naku koro ni ~ hinageshi
60. Rokuyoku
61. School Ningyo

Partially completed:

1. Kagayake! Daitoua Kyoueiken (Shine! Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere)
2. Confidential confessions
3. Pretty soldier sailor moon 
4. Vampire doll
5. Fourteen
6. Parasyte
7. Tomie
8. The shard of evil
9. Battle royale

°。•·~Maid-sama's Otaku Stuff~·•。°

I have a pretty decent collection of what I call my 'Otaku Stuff'~

°。•·~Manga~·•。°

This is my collection of manga. In total, I own 45 manga volumes, and the collection will continue to grow as the series I read get longer and longer. I read Pandora Hearts, Black Bird, Umineko: When They Cry (No Naku Koro Ni), Puella Magi Kazumi Magica, Spice and Wolf and Attack on Titan. The series I have finished reading are the manga adaptations of Puella Magi Madoka Magica and Wolfs Rain, and Strawberry Panic!

 

 

°。•·~Plushies~·•。°

I own three plushies - Black Rock Shooter and a Megurine Luka plushie, both of which I picked up at the same convention, a year apart, and a Legend of Zelda's Link plushie, which was a gift~

 

°。•·~DVD's~·•。°

7 DVD's in all - though one of them is the CGI film Final Fantasy VII Advent Children, I still class it as an Otaku item - Final Fantasy is quite big in the realms of Otakudom. I have two of Studio Ghibli's films, the amazing Princess Mononoke and Howl's Moving Castle, and hope to own more by the studio, as I'm a big fan of their films. The other four DVD's are three volumes of Ah! My Goddess season 2, and the first story arc of Fairy Tail.

 

°。•·~Figures~·•。°

Yes, I'm an avid collector of figures, mainly the Good Smile Company's figma figures. In terms of figmas, I currently own 10, and the figures themselves are as follows -

• Hatsune Miku Append version from Ebay
• Yui Takamura that I picked up at a convention this year
• Mami Tomoe who I also picked up at a convention last year (Manchester MCM Expo Comicon 2012) 
• Madoka Kaname figma, from Manchester MCM Expo Comicon 2012
• Kyouko Sakura figma which I got as a gift
• Sakaya Miki figma which I picked up at Manchester MCM Expo Comicon 2013
• Ultimate Madoka/Goddess Version Madoka from Jlist
• Black ★ Rock Shooter TV Animation version from Ebay, given as a late Christmas gift
• Black ★ Gold Saw TV Animation version from Ebay, also given as a late Christmas gift
• Dead Master TV Animation version from Manchester MCM Expo Comicon 2013

As well as owning figmas, I also own five other figures - a Super Sonico nurse version figure that I got from AmiAmi, a Lara Croft figure which I received for preordering the delux limited edition package of Tomb Raider, and a set of racing petite nenderoids, including Hatsune Miku, Kagamine Rin and Megurine Luka.

 

°。•·~Books~·•。°

I currently own three other 'Otaku' books, which aren't really large enough in number to have their own categories, i.e. art books or anime fiction~. These are two books, which I picked up separately - my English copy of Oh My Goddess! First End, written by the women who voiced Urd in the Japanese dub of the show, my Hatsune Miku Art book, which was among my haul that I brought back from Comicon 2012, and my Final Fantasy XIII-2 (13 part 2) post card/art book, which was also among my haul~.

Lembas bread recipe

Lembas Bread (Lord of the Rings “authentic” Elvish bread)

Ingredients: 

 2 ½ cups of flour
1 tablespoon of baking powder
¼ teaspoon of salt
½ cup of butter
1/3 cup of brown sugar
1 teaspoon of cinnamon
½ teaspoon honey
2/3 cup of heavy whipping cream
½ teaspoon of vanilla

Directions:

Preheat oven to 425F. Mix the flour, baking powder and salt into a large bowl. Add the butter and mix with a well till fine granules (easiest way is with an electric mixer). Then add the sugar and cinnamon, and mix them thoroughly.

Finally add the cream, honey, and vanilla and stir them in with a fork until a nice, thick dough forms.

Roll the dough out about 1/2 in thickness. Cut out 3-inch squares and transfer the dough to a cookie sheet.Criss-cross each square from corner-to-corner with a knife, lightly (not cutting through the dough).

Bake for about 12 minutes or more (depending on the thickness of the bread) until it is set and lightly golden.

***Let cool completely before eating, this bread tastes better room temperature and dry. Also for more flavor you can add more cinnamon or other spices***

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Gun art reference

Found this on tumblr

It's a great reference to drawing guns - especially if you're drawing anything involving action