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telophase ([personal profile] telophase) wrote2005-06-10 09:25 am

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Two impulse purchases today:

1) Comickers: Color Marker Start Up Guide Series. Japanese text, but I've seen Comicker books in English before and the text itself doesn't have a *whole* lot of stuff to add to the photos - they never tell you exactly how to do it anyway - and it had two sets of magic words: "Using top anime and manga artists' works, such as Saiyuki, you can see how the pros do it" and "On sale: $10.00."

I would so pay $10 just for the page with the photos of the marker going on to a Saiyuki pic. And I expect I can work out some sort of deal with some of the Japanese-reading people here to translate a couple of pages for me in exchange for art or books or something they want. *looks inquiringly at [livejournal.com profile] homasse*

2) Action Pose Book #4 - Hands. Kind of expensive at $36.80, but duuuuuude! It's a book of haaaaaaaaaands! In normal, everyday poses, doing normal, everyday things, and not in those weird Art! poses you get in normal pose books. And the marker book only cost $10, so it was worth a splurge.

Will hit Borders today - the website claims that it doens't have Blade of the Immortal, despite it just having flipped from "Not yet published" to "In print," but there's a How To Draw Manga book on digital tones out. I don't care much about the book, but it comes with a CD of 100 tones, and I WANT THAT.

[identity profile] homasse.livejournal.com 2005-06-10 03:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Dude, in about a month I'm gonna be stuck in a hospital with no internet access and unable to walk. I am going to be bored silly and ready to kill things after a day. Send me crap to translate before I get incarcerated, and I'll be frothing at the mouth to do it, because the other choice is, well....staring at the senile old lady who will inevitably be in the bed across from me. XD

[identity profile] telophase.livejournal.com 2005-06-10 03:19 pm (UTC)(link)
XD Can do - when it gets in, I'll start scanning. I'll have to dig up my Saiyuki doujinshi, then. It's not porn more's the pity, but there's a weird cross-dressing segment in it that's certainly quite puzzling. (I think it's the one I scanned here (http://www.sfolse.net/random/saiyuki_doujin01.zip), zip file, 1.8 megs - the doujinshi has 2 or 3 more stories in it besides this one.)

[identity profile] rachelmanija.livejournal.com 2005-06-10 05:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Even if there's no net access (not even wireless?) you should still take a laptop so you can watch DVDs and CDs and previously downloaded manga and books and so forth. Sympathies!

[identity profile] homasse.livejournal.com 2005-06-11 12:33 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, hells, yeah. I bought a laptop a few weeks ago just for that.