Good J-POP/J-ROCK groups that I like/recently got into

I'm bored. So I decided to post this. ^^
High and Mighty Colour
Comments: This is one of the groups that I listen to the most now! ^^ They did "Pride" from Gundam SEED Destiny and "Ichirin no Hana" from Bleach. They are really good!! I really love this one song by them, called "Style ~Get glory in his hand~". It's really good! It's like this one time when I was hooked on "Sakura DROPPUSU" and "dareka no negai ga kanau koro" by Hikaru Utada. They all got stuck in my head.

ZWEI
I really like this group!! I first listend to one of their songs "Hikari" on Karaoke Machi, a Karaoke site which I think is still down...:( anyway, I started listening to more of their songs and I started listening a lot to them. "Pretty Queen", "Movie Star" and most of their other ones are all excellent. I don't end up skipping any of their songs (I do this sometimes with L'arc ~en~ Ciel). Please give this group a listen!!

Hikaru Utada
The first time I ever listened to J-POP, I listened to Hikki. Now I'm hooked. So Hikki has got to be really good, to get a Westerner with very few Japanese relatives hooked on Japanese music, right? Well, if you thought she was really good, you would be right! I like almost all of her songs ("First Love", one of her singles, I never really liked that much.) But, some of her newer songs are really good. "Travelling" one of her older songs is really good! I also liked "Passion/Sanctuary", as do lots of Kingdom Hearts fans. One of her albums, "Exodus" wasn't that good though...

Ayumi Hamasaki
I first listened to her when I listened to "Dearest" from InuYasha. I like some of her songs, but not all. Some of her remixes are not that good. But "Blue Bird" one of her newer singles did really good on the Oricon!! I have that tune stuck in my head.

Yui
I first heard her singing when she sang "Life" for Bleach. I didn't appreciate it at the time, untill I heard "Rolling Star", the newest Opening for Bleach. Now I'm a fan of her. I first thought she was Yui Horie (Person who played Tohru Honda in Fruits Basket) but now I realized they're different people...-_-;;

And that's all I have to say for now~bai bai and oyasumi nasai~

Manga Quest Review

Manga Quest: Join The Adventure and Learn How to Draw It by Ben Gibson and Serge Marcos
I decided to write this review because I have been noticing that there are tons of "How To Draw Manga"s around in libraries and bookstores. One day, when I was at the library, I saw this one book that stuck out to me, for 3 main reasons:
1. The art was totally crappy. I know people at my high scool that draw way better than these guys.
2. One the back, it says that the authors are "award-winning illustrators". I don't know about you, but I definetely would NOT have given these guys any sort of awards in the first place.
3. The length. It's short. There are maybe 30-40 pages devoted to teaching you how to draw (out of almost 77 pages)
Now, lets get this over with...
Concept: This comic book uses a comic format to get to the different components of drawing manga. It's a pretty interesting format. I think it's been done before, but in the books that I've seen, it's only been used quite sparsely. It makes for a good change of pace, despite the fact the comic is totally unoriginal. Now, this book would be an excellent if it weren't for....

Art Quality: Although I've said this before, I feel the need to to say it again: the art in this book is some of the crappiest I've ever seen. The outlining is really wonky, the color sucks, the teeth are drawn all odd (I realizing I might be nitpicking a bit, but still, the art is THAT bad). Also, the characters they go over are common, common stock. Afew examples are: Elder wizard, woman seer, child prodigy (one of the worst), the schoolgirl (man, oh man, they even messed the schoolgirl up!), the pretty boy, and one of my favourites (total sarcasm here), a demon. It bears an uncanny resemblance to Ryuuk from Death Note. Although the drawings of animals are bettter than most of the art in this book, still. DO NOT MODEL YOUR MANGA STYLE AFTER THE STYLE OF THESE BAKAS!!!!!!!!!!!!! Even the mascot (a weird flying monkey thing), manages to be un-cute.

Rating: 3.5/10 It has some (extremely sparse) good points, but for the most part, this is definitely not a good "How To Draw Manga" book. Avoid this book like poison, PLEASE!!!!!!!

Nothing is happening so far...

Life is normal and boring. School starts up tomorrow :(. Just finished watching Bleach Episode 17 on youtube, I won't be able to watch any further untill Friday...:( man, really busy schedule.
Before, I used to think, "Math sucks, Science sucks, Home Ec sucks..." but now things are looking up! ^^ Math is tons easier, doing percentage now *yawn* Science is not so bad anymore, and I'm starting Food Studies in Home Ec!!!! Finally!! Before in Home Ec, I was sewing, and I wasn't doing that good, had to stay after school to finish my project.
As for anime and manga related stuff, I finally bought Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 1!!!! Yayness~I also have xxxHOLiC vol. 1 & 2 so it's fun to look at both (because they tell the same thing from two points of view.) I finished some fanart of Yuki, Tohru, and Kyo from Fruits Basket (don't think it's that good) but I'm too lazy to do anymore!! Hah...my laziness annoys me...
Well, till next time~
Ja, ne~

First Post

Konnichwa, minna-san! ^^ I am Haruhi Fan! Even though the picture below
is from Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu, I also really like the Haruhi
from Ouran High School Host Club.