音時雨 ～Regentropfen～

I'd never known that I would love Yui Makino's newest album "Holography" that much. I liked her song since "ARIA" and "synchronicity", so then I tried her first and second albums, but I didn't like those albums. To me, I think there was not a good consistency in those albums, which were more like a collection of her anime theme songs.
However, her third "Holography" is really very good. Even though I have to say they are still pop songs, this time, songs in the albums are more like one unity (and I'm not sure if there are lots of anime songs in it.xD).
I strongly recommend this album. If you love cute voice, you mustn't miss it!

"Haru Machi Kaze". It's a good one as the opening of the entire album. This song's melody is also a bit nostalgic to me.
"Onegai June Bride" is one of my favorites. I love it's bouncing melody and the joyful ambience. When I know it's a song for Shiseidou CM song later, I could understand why this song has such a pleasant charm in it.
"Merry-go-round". It's called "album ver.", but I don't know anything about it's "original ver." (I haven't paid attention to Yui Makino since her second album ^^;). It's still a delightful song and can make you relaxed, but to me, there's nothing very special in it.
"Fuwafuwa" is another of my favorites. I loved it as soon as its single released. The melody is so sweet, yet the lyrics is rather bitter. Yui's voice is cuter than other songs (I believe!). I also tried to sing this song, but I still need to control my voice in a better way. Well, hope I can do better in future. :3
"Cluster", not very special to say...
"Precious". I love this song, especially its melody. As the title says, Yui's voice is so precious and gentle. However, the only thing I want to say is this song is too short!
"hologram". Here, the style got changed. This song's ambience does fit its title. I like the mysterious feeling.
"crepuscular rays". Nothing special to me.
"Nidome no Hatsukoi". Same as above. Just, this song has a similar nostalgic feeling as "Haru Machi Kaze".
"Brand-new sky". I like its melody, but don't like some parts of its arrangement. But overall, this is a good song, and it's also one not-that-delightful song among all tracks.
"Ao no Kaori". I didn't try this song when the single was out. But I think I should get the single sometime (because then I can get the instrumental version of the song xD). The melody is pretty good, and the lyrics is good. I especially love the last phrase. Her voice matches with this type of melody. +_+
"Mirai no Hitomi wo Hiraku Toki". Why, why I have a deja-vu of another melody I ever heard before? xDD Anyway, I love this one~ the last part is superb!
"Sono Saki e". Hmmm, a good ending song here, isn't it? :P

So, here, just remembered suddenly, about the monthly top songs plan. Maybe I should quit before I start it. To me, I more like to write about new good songs as soon as I find them. Monthly top songs... what if I loop the same album for lots of times and I love them equally? Therefore, I told myself, I should quit here! lol

Time for a new blog post, huh?
Actually, I myself don't know how to write this time, because everything happened recently was so dispersed and hard to be organized into the same post. -_-'
Anyway, I'll just write randomly (which means, not in order of time) and see how this post looks. xD

Gmail's new look
Google has released a new post about their new gmail look. Before I saw that post, I've noticed the difference in g-calendar and my iGoogle homepage. The transparent top bar became black. At first, I was like "What? Did I do something wrong in the settings so it gets a weird color?" But later, I was finally sure about that's a general change for all google users. Gosh, now google looks like My Opera homepage! xDD
Yet I do like the new "preview" theme of gmail/other google services (switch to it under gmail's themes tab~), though I think it currently doesn't have a good integration with some gmail lab products, e.g. putting g-talk widget in the right makes that widget very weird. So hope they can figure out such bugs as soon as possible, I really love this neat theme!

Opera's new look
OMG, this should be written before gmail's! I've upgraded Opera Browser to the newest version, which is v.11.50. Nothing too much about other new features or fixed bugs, I just want to say the new Opera look is SO PRETTY! I like they changed the "unread new tab notification" from a blue dot to a folded edge of the tab. It's so cute. Also, the entire interface is much neater than previous version, which includes the top-left "Opera" main button~
However, I have to use Chrome instead sometimes when some conflicts come out between google stuff and Opera... ^^;

A new way to use my gmail
I spent some time to send myself all my past blog posts into my own gmail inbox. Why? Comparing with using MS Word to save my posts, using gmail is a better way to access them anytime, anywhere as if I have Internet access. And without Internet access, I can't post to my blog. Should be a more organized way to find out a specific post too, I believe.
So will my inbox become a writing pad? lol

Anime Times!
Long time no watching animes, and I watched 3 in all in last week!
"Angel Beats!", "Puella Magi Madoka Magica", and "Bungaku Shoujo OVAs". To summarize these three animes briefly, maybe I should use "excellent", "crazy" and "kinda boring"... orz

"AB" is really excellent, no matter from the plot, character design, settings, cast voices, and music. It makes me want to know what happens in next episode. Like other Key-related animes, there are pretty many of amusing scenes, and suddenly it turns into a more formal ending (The original ending was so touching, yet I don't like the "another epilogue", it looks sort of... well, depressing, maybe). So it's just my warning, to get a satisfied ending for it, DON'T watch "another epilogue".

"Puella Magi", the beginning was no much difference between this anime and other magical girl related animes. But there are still some unique elements. I mean the witches' barriers (and I really love those scenes). After, maybe ep3? The anime got overturned. Later, when I read the staff list, the director's, the story writer's names, I suddenly realized why this anime is so special! Anyway, not want to spoil to people who haven't watched it, so I'll just stop here. xD

"Bungaku Shoujo". To be honest, I watched it only because of the heroine's cast voice from "AB". Even not because of the music since I can enjoy any good music without knowing any about the anime/movie/etc itself. The OVA's are short, so that's why I watched them first. And I just felt bored with the story. Or maybe the previous two animes were too exciting comparing to this one. However, I'll still watch the movie soon, since there is more Hanazawa Kana's voice in it! lol

Angry Birds
Another "old" topic, huh? I ever saw a friend playing this game on her iPhone, and noticed a chrome ad about the game's chrome version.
The result was, I got addicted to this game.
But I think I need another individual post to talk about my tie to this game, so I'll just leave this topic in the beginning here. Maybe tomorrow, or maybe later, I'll post about it again~!

Dragon Nest~~
DN again? Yes, I'm still a big DN fan~
Since last September, a lot of things have happened in game, and now, I've made my main character (though she was the last character I created) to lv50 in last night!
Same reason as above, I need an individual post to talk about my game life... so that's all. xD

A monthly blogging event, can I do it?
I was planning to do this since a while ago, but haven't decided. That is, to post my monthly top 5 songs. Or maybe weekly, since last.fm keep track my online music weekly (it's so stupid last.fm doesn't have a feature to collect your monthly tracks, which should be a more useful span -_-).
I remember there is one blog I follow, and the author ever made herself a weekly plan, to post a song each week. As a result, she quit (or this or that kind of forgetting of posting). Probably my plan will be the same as hers, so I'll keep quiet at this point right now. :3

The last thing before I end. Summer has come for real. Bad luck! :P

P.S. Suddenly realised today is Tanabata... so the title will be............

@pixiv

The original idea was from Noriko Mitose's cover album "Cotton -2nd-", the song called "Kuroneko no Tango". Although it's a world-famous (?) song, I had never listened to it until Noriko's cover... =_= Anyway, I loved this cute song. The melody is so vivace and catchy. Then I also tried the original version (don't like it so much, I love Noriko's version! lol)
Then, as you might have expected, I got the inspiration to draw for the song. To draw what? Of course that's the time for neko-mimi~ oh, gosh, I'm MOEd! XDD
Since the theme is about tango, I think I'm supposed that's what I need to draw. However, from online search, I've known that tango is sexy... (before, all about tango is the rhythm.. =/ ). Oh, no, how I can I draw my girls to be sexy? o_O Never, it's impossible to me!! Is there a cuter way to depict the theme?
I didn't know, so I did another search for tango videos, hoping to get some good moment as a model. As a result... I ended up with a kind of fine thought (and that's what you see here, though I think people may not think that's tango, actually xD;).
Anyway, whether it's tango is not important. I want to mention, I tried to change their hairstyle this time, to make them more into a "dancing" mood. But, in this work, I've seen that I still need to improve my skill, to make my characters not to be so still. Hmm, seems it's hard, since I've tried for quite a long while... but I do like the colour matching between black and red! xD

A small P.S. I used 5 pieces of A4 paper for drafting, and thus shortened my pencil for about 0.5 centimeter... lol

Moreover, a surprising I got from it. While searching for a good tango video, I found a pretty "interesting" music video called "tango", by a band called "negative". At first, before the singer starts to sing, I thought it's another tango show, but since she sings, I was completely attracted by the song, as well as the scene in this video. Pretty gothic! No? And... the red rose petals! What an excellent video!!♥

hmmm, I'm getting off-topic now... must end this post here! lol