The Most Anime Birthday I’ve Ever Had

So on the 16th of January it was my birthday and I wasn't expecting anything at all to be honest. Really just expected a quiet day alone with anime and my boyfriend. We started out by watching Naruto for about 6 hours. LOL that's right Naruto on my birthday. I don't even overly enjoy the show (don't hate it either) but my boyfriend likes it a lot. I made a post about it here. I haven't been wanting to watch anymore Naruto since then either haha.

I made my character of the day post about my favourite anime character ever, Yang Wen-li. <3 (great picture from ghostlightning's blog) He's super awesome and I hope more people watch Legend of the Galactic Heroes. I actually plan on re-watching it sometime. Probably not this year though unless I manage to get through more of my other anime goals. Mononoke, Kaiba, My-Hime (plus all relations), Simoun (all enjoyed by me!) and started Naruto is all I've done so far off of that list. I'm going to start watching Nodame Cantabile very soon because of the current airing Finale. I plan on making February Macross month. So expect a lot of Macross posts in the near future.

Anywho back to the birthday. After all that Naruto and blogging I went to sleep. Woke up to someone at the door. It was a friend from Montreal that my boyfriend invited down to celebrate with us which was a super awesome surprise because he brought beer and gifts. So after bumming around for the day at home we went out to a nice Thai dinner where another friend from the area meet us. She brought a lovely bottle of wine as a gift to me that was literally dressed in jeans. Has a cute pocket and everything.

After that delicious dinner we returned home to watch some movies and open presents I went to the computer to check my e-mail and messages only to have all the lights turned off and people started singing  "Happy Birthday" and a cake entered the room. This cake right away made me laugh. I'm a weird gal so I expect weird when it comes to gifts and whatnot. This cake had what looked like a dead clown on the top made of bright icing. LOL

We moved to the kitchen to slice up that cake and start on gifts. Took some silly pictures of the slicing action as well hehe. First I opened my friend from Montreal's gift. It turned out to be a book. But not just any book. An anime book! More specifically "Manga: The Complete Guide" by Jason Thompson, published at the end of 2007 so it isn't even that much out of date. It's super awesome as well because this book will help me with my manga goal for this year to read more than just one shots. It tells all sorts of information about over 900 different series.

Then it was time to open my boyfriends gifts. He had 2 bags of stuff that I wasn't expecting. First bag had some awesome chocolate and random pocky that he actually found at the local grocery store. There was some delicious port in there as well and a hilarious CSI Miami card with Horatio Caine on it (points to the wine bottle picture) and he says something about looks (it was a talking card). Very hilarious. After giggling over the card for a while, I opened the second bag and this is where things got totally awesome.

Inside there was a green box. The same green box that comes from a local store around here. In the past I have gotten sheep (I have a sheep figurine collection) from this store in said box, so obviously I was expecting another sheep treasure to add to the sheep masses (there's more where those come from).

Boy was I wrong. Inside there were 9 little Hetalia mini figures .  I love this show to bits and was super excited. These are my first figures EVER haha. They came with flattened boxes that my boyfriend took out and showed me right away, along with one bigger box, also flattened. Sure I have anime posters, some manga, and dvd's  but I never ventured into the figure part of my anime obsession because, well, I just don't have that much money kicking around.

He then showed me another little bag that was filled with more little figures. They are all Final Fantasy characters that he said came with the deal he found wherever he got them. Now FF isn't exactly anime but having little figures of these characters is just as awesome as anime because FF is awesome. They also came with an awesome engrish message that had a little sun magnet attached to it made out of wood. Very random lol.

So now I have all these little Hetalia guys staring at me surrounding my computer screen. We put the FF characters downstairs in the studio where a lot of other strange oddities surround them. This was the most anime oriented birthday for me ever. Generally it's only me getting anime goodies for myself but I think that more and more of my friends are starting to understand my small little fandom world of anime.

After this wonderful day I managed to catch a terrible cold that knocked me out for a whole week which is why all you saw was character posts last week. I feel kinda bad about that as it is so early on in blogging journey but well... these things happen. At least I was conscious enough to do my characters. I'm feeling "better" now and back to doing what I love. Writing, chatting, and watching lots of anime.

(P.S. I know I suck at taking pictures )

Catch Up with FALL! January 16-17 Anime-Planet’s Monthly Marathon

It's that time for another Monthly Marathon Event called Catch Up. With Anime-Planet hosted by me (again ) Click on the image below to see the anime list. (made that logo myself lol) Catch Up is a special event that I created for people to get caught up with the anime season that just ended so they can be in the loop about all the shows people are still buzzing about. My Christmas marathon was a lot of fun but I always find these Catch Up events more entertaining for some reason. If you aren't a part of AP already I urge you to join! The site has a lot of awesome features and it is always adding more each day. Currently AP is working on a Character DB which will make way for a Staff DB soon after. Very exciting stuff!

I will not be participating this time around because I've already seen everything on the list AND it's my birthday weekend so I'm gonna watch stuff I actually want to. (and probably be pretty drunk) I will highly recommend watching Kemono no Souja Erin! Best show of 2009 IMO.

Happy New Year! Resolutions Anime Style!

The New Year is here and what better way to start than to make some anime goals! I hope everyone had a safe and awesome new years bash and is ready to face a new decade with anything and everything it throws at us.

Just like last year I plan on watching every anime that airs in 2010. Some might take a while to get to as I'm sure there are going to be a lot of sequels to shows I haven't seen, but it is always possible to catch up. I found it to be fun to do last year and I hope to pace myself better this year as well. I kinda skipped Spring last year and it proved to be a huge season that I probably shouldn't have skipped as I just finished on the 30th of December.

So trying to think of some anime goals, I went around a close circle of friends from Anime-Planet and asked them for suggestions for shows that they think I should watch in the new year that I haven't seen already for one reason or another. I told them it could be anything as long as I haven't seen it before and it wasn't on my "won't watch" list on AP. After all was said and done about a week of hunting people down and nagging them for suggestions we came up with a pretty big list.

Then there is my current "want to watch" list that isn't really my personal want to watch anime but is compiled of lists that a member of AP made "just for me" they are more of a joke as he knew I wouldn't like hardly any of the anime on the list. But a challenge is a challenge and I will finish this list off. I have about 50 titles to finish off down from like 300... Doing good. I hope to be completed that stuff at the end of next year at the latest.Watch all anime started airing in 2010.

1. Watch the list from my AP peers and make reviews for them
2. Finish watching the "purplemo" list
3. Read more manga
4. Watch all anime that starts airing in 2010
5. Watch all of Naruto

Now goal number 5 is going to be an ongoing project throughout the year that I plan on writing about whenever really. I was going to do one episode per day but I don't think I really want to actually watch Naruto everyday for a year. XD

Anywho there's my anime plans for the year. Some might get added later on and I will be putting up that list that my friends picked for me to watch soon enough. Here's some pictures to kick off the new year.

UPDATED HERE

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays!

With my 12 Days posts wrapped up for this year I thought I'd take the time to wish everyone a Happy Holidays! I hope people enjoyed reading my 12 days posts and look forward to my next project: 365 characters in the new year.

Next up before the year is over is the long awaited Top 60 anime series of the decade list along with a review of 2009, favourites and hated series throughout the year 2009.

I'll also have a new banner up soon with my mascot as well. I still need to design that and I suppose give her a name. Random name suggestions welcome! The more food themed the better.

Now a pictures gifts of anime characters all seasonal. Enjoy!

The 12 Days of Chistmas

While surfing around looking at all the awesome anime bloggers out there I came across animemiz’s scribblings.. and saw this post. I think this is an adorable idea so I will be following animemiz's example. I shall be doing my own little 12 Days of Christmas by looking at 12 gushy lovey dovey moments in anime that made my heart melt. I too shall start this on December 14, and go till December 25.  Seems like a cute little tradition for the holidays and a nice warm up for getting into writing a post everyday. ^_^"

 

Welcome to Oishii Anime!

I've just started this blog up within the last month so things are a little weird as I'm very new to the blog world and still learning and figuring out stuff to make this site better.  So I am aware of a lot of little issues floating around here and they are being worked on. So please bare with me while I settle into this anime blog journey. ^_^"

I hope to entertain, inform, and gain your support!

Future plans include:

• Daily updates for current airing anime
• In 2010 I'll be starting a 365 days of a close look at anime characters
• Top lists
• Monthly Marathons associated with Anime-Planet
• More reviews
• Better Banners for the site
• Polls
• Lots more pictures!

I hope this interests people and you are all getting as excited about this as I am! ^_^"