I call it bullshit. Bullshit that contains Fan Service, Moe, Traps, Loli’s, School setting, Ecchi and what so ever. All those things ruined the Anime.

If you are one of those people who like that stuff, then do so. But I have certainly enough of that shit called Anime. That’s why I dropped yesterday many series or deleted them. I have enough that it’s repeats in every season the same. 95% of the upcoming will contain that shit too.

So as I’m looking now, I see only shit coming to us. Nothing new. Just things that is made easily and let the watcher to get horny from that shit and want’s to see more.

I don’t want to be one of those people anymore. I have enough moe for my entire life. Anime makes no fun anymore. It’s just getting more and more frustrating.

I miss Anime’s like Claymore, Code Geass, Elfen Lied, Kara no Kyoukai and all such kinds. I miss powerfull Animes with a impact after watching it.

The only thing we are watching is now brainless IS with more Fan Service and Harem shit then Mecha stuff. Then Madoka with that silly looking character which not fit with the style at all.

I have enough. If that continues, I gonna stop watching Anime at all.

A new year, a new month, new loot!
And a expensive one. AGAIN.

I know, this blog post is a bit late. It’s already February. But the last week I was busy with school. Had three tests which means learning, learning and learning. But now they are over and I can rest until I have the next test. The next big one will be the 2nd March. Still have time until that day.

So let’s talk about the loot which I bought this month. And as many other Loot posts before – this wasn’t cheap either. But let’s talk about those “cheap” stuff first.

Senjougahara Hitagi by GSC

I really like her. I like her color setting, she is nice modeled and I like her eyes. Really nice eyes. All in all I would say good job from GSC.

Nyan-Koi US DVD complete Box

I bought that because… I like the Anime and well… complete box is always welcome. Still haven’t re-watched the series. There are some other things that needs to be re-watched first. And completed.

Black Rock Shooter Limited Edition

At first I wanted to buy only the regular version of that. But I went with the Limited Edition. BRS Fan should do so anyway. It comes with DVD and Blu-Ray of the Anime. Then Dead Master and BRS Nendo Petit (which was a pain for me to place them like that), a small art-book and the story board.

Left story book with Blu-Ray and right Artbook with DVD

Some sketches from the Anime

Some art

All in all I have to say I like the content of this edition. Still have to enjoy BRS on BD quality.

Some Mangas

Those were the cheap stuff. If you know my last blog post you would know that something is missing now. For the folks who didn’t read it. I bought some computer parts. Like Mainboard, CPU and RAM. And now I even bought a 128 GB SSD. For the sake of no more waiting 5 min until I can start using my programs.

Everything is working now really fast. Never imagined that a SSD would speed your system that up. Most of the money went there. Hope February I can save some money. I should prey for that.

BTW: I’m still searching for a new hoster of my blog. But I still get no response of those people… Hope that I have more to tell later.

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It was about time. After 3 Years.

First of all, sorry guys for being lazy the last 3 weeks. I was kinda like… busy with things. Busy with PC stuff and Bad Company 2 stuff. And work of course.

But let’s begin how I started to upgrade my system.
It all happened in the first week in the new year. I thought why do my mkv 1080p stuff doesn’t lag sometimes. I enabled DXVA (Windows 7 code to play mkv stuff) but still.

So I asked why. It turns out that my old GeForce 8800 Ultra somehow can’t do it due an lack of update for that. So pissed off I went and bought a new GPU for the PC.

The MSI N460GTX 1GB Cyclone Edition

It’s a nice card I say. It’s not so loud and don’t need that much energy like my old 8800 Ultra. I was happy with a more silent PC now. Then I decided to buy after year a PC Game. So I bought Battlefield Bad Company 2 + Vietnam for a good price.

But… it was lagging all the time. So I changed the settings to middle and even less. And still. I wondered. I thought my old CPU could still handle it. So I thought. But that was wrong.

Then I thought to overclock my system. But with my Asus Striker Extreme it’s kinda… shit. Google that mainboard and say overclock you will see pages with troubles. So OC that thing was kinda impossible.

After that bad idea I had one. A one which is expensive – get a new Mainboard, CPU and RAM = new system. So after a while of thinking, discussing and checking… I went and bought the parts.

The CPU is now a Intel i7 950. Intel fanboy- desu.

To the mainboard I get the ASRock X58 Extreme6 X58.

I actually love how much USB 3.0 you have there and the amount of 12 SATA’s is also nice

The RAM is now  Corsair XMS3 DDR3 6GB kit. 6 GB is a nice amount of RAM.

The installation was okay. I’m not that bad when it comes to some PC things. But Seems like my CPU Fan is not very compatible with the mainboard, but it’s working. And working nice.

Now I have a new PC with the last month’s upgrades. It’s fast, not so loud anymore. The only thing that left is to get a 2TB HDD.

And now I can play smoothly Bad Company 2 now!

I wish you all a Happy New Year 2011!
With all luck someone can have, a strong health that even a train can’t hit you
and wealth to buy the Otaku good that we all need!

See You next Year again with some longer post!

I never thought that I would get so many clicks after only two years!
Thank you very much!

It’s been now only three weeks after my blog second aniversery and it passed the 50.000 clicks. When I started with blogging with wordpress I never thought I would get that many visits.

I want to thank all my dear readers, who mostly unknown to me. Why don’t leave a comment? It’s not that hard. I also want to thank the people who helping with my little problems and that encouraged me here. Thank you very much.

The final Loot for 2010.
Let’s end it with a bing bang! Or something

As many months ago I wanted to save some money. And failed again. I don’t know. Maybe I’m just wrong.

Anyway what happened happened. So let’s see what I got this month.

ALTERs Asuka Test Plugsuit

She is georgous! Really. Her shiny red suit, the colors, the details – you see it’s a Alter. Even the base is great. I should take with her a shooting soon. But I’m being lazy again. You should know me a bit now.

GSCs Dead Master Orginal Version

She arived yesterday. She is really awesome. I like the base, her sythe and how she is standing. Like a boss or something. Really evil. Finally some other characters then BRS in my collection, which contains now 34 figures.

Gunslinger Girl 2nd Vol. 3 and 4. (GER)

After 3 years I finally found time to collect all DVDs and watch that great series. I must say that I don’t see those girls in the Anime as machines. I see them as human beings that only want to be loved. Really great series.

Samurau Harem – Asu no Yoichi! Manga (US)

My first English Manga that I actually bought by mistake. I thought there were in German since Amazon.de offered them. I was mistaken. But I think since I can write this blog with my awesome English skills, I still can read it. Very funny Manga. Since I watched the Anime too, I’d like to get the US DVD of Samurai Harem too. Let’s see.

Samsung P2770 HD

You see now why I couldn’t save any money. My new 27″ big TFT monitor with a resolution 1920×1080. It also can used as a TV, haves the same connection like TV and there is a remote control too. It’s really great to work on such big screen I have to say. Not only working, but also playing or watch Anime. I even use now this monitor to watch Anime. It’s only 5″ smaller then my old HDTV but haves a higher resolution.

That’s shall be all for this month. The next month SHOULD be not that expensive again. I’m aim for that.

It was time to have one, a photo box.
What is that box?

Well, that does a photo box actually?

Maybe you know this, you want to take a shot of your figure or something small but the light sources you have. But most of the times the light turns out to be too bright or the figure is not good enough lighted.

And there comes this photo box in action. Due the transparent paper, the light will be “filtered” and will be smoother. Smoother like the whole figure is lighted and not a only spot with many other dark spots.

So how do I make one? What do I need?

4 things:

a carton

some trasparent paper and some tape and something to cut.

I suggest you use a better tape that I used. Because of the warm of the light later, some tapes are going off.

First of all, take the carton and fold the bottom and upside to have only the frame. You don’t need to cut them out. Only more work and so you have a more stable box later.

Then tape those loosey parts together to increase the box itself. And we don’t want to have later shadows because we have some carton in the way of the light, right?

Now put the transparent paper on one side of the box. Use the tape to fix and hold the paper on the carton.

Should look like this

Now get a light. The brighter the better. Since I have only those lamps you will see how bad they actually are.

Now let’s have a look

As you can see her, the light got very smooth. If you use more then 2 layers of the trasparent paper, the light will also get smoother. I went by 1 layer since my light are not very good right now.

Of course you can use the one box and start shooting. But I suggest you do a 2nd one in the same way. The more light source you have, the better the shot later will turns out.

Some of you people know, I streamed this “crafting” into the world wide web. Was only for the fun, but if you want I can give you the video.

Any suggestions to the little post are, of course, welcome. After creating another one I used them for my Senhime Shooting. I was pleased with the quality of the pictures. Now only one thing is left – GET BETTER LIGHT SOURCES!

The brighter the better (day light). You should use them too. The difference in the pictures will be huge. And positive.

Hope you liked this a bit different post.

Wallpaper:

For all pictures, visit my flickr Album about Senhime.

All pictures were taken yesterday with my ustream. I edited them in Lightroom.

All pictures were taken and edited with Lightroom. I beginn to love this program.

Comments are always welcome. And still I’m in need of better light source. I’m open for gifts.

My Blog just made it to it’s 2nd Birthday

Yeah, another year for my blog, and for us soon, as well has passed.

As may of you dear reader knows the blog started as an Upload thing and so on. I think I said that story already. If you don’t know it, feel free to read it here again.

So what exactly changed during the year?
To be honest nothing. Well, it got some Otaku comrades more here and there, some new PhotoShooting sets there and some GREW Explains.

I actually wanted to change a bit of the layout of my blog like another theme, a new header, some plug-ins and such, but my admin is not there and I don’t have the FTP things anymore.

So I can’t please you with some fresh new design. Maybe later. When I receive an email from my dear Admin.

But there is actually a thing that it’s going on here: I’m getting more spam posts and less comments. That’s all.

Now I want to thank you all for your support, reading and commenting on this blog!
Let’s have roll it for the next year too!