Facts about my association with manga , Japan , cartoons the world, anime and my logic that is now beyond the point of no return.

As of these date...

1) My first manga's I've read when I was 10. It was in Japanese languages since our public library was located in a very Asian area they had many weird ones. The ones I began reading where Bastard! and X/1999. Since I did not understand the language I made up my own words. I was a perverted little person because I was fangirling over Dark Schneider hitting on some sexy nacked ladies. If you ever read bastard, you would think that is something that a little girl would be obsessing over.

2) I known more of anime then manga, so the things I watched when I was little came from an ancient era of Japanese animation. Ghost Ship the movie, Toeie adaptations of Swan Lake, Little Mermaid(made me cry), Wild Swans, Thumbelina, Candy & Candy, Magical Witch Sally, 80 Days Around The World with Willy Fog, The Puss in the Boots, and of course Sailor Moon. That was all available to me at the age of 5 and younger. Most of the animation was done in range of time period (1960-1990). Sailor Moon being the recent.

3) Also my actual anime obsession did not start until I was 9/10. The story was we had an random guest staying at our house. He saw I was watching Sailor Moon on TV and said Oh I have better stuff then Sailor Moon, its about wizards traveling and stuff. So I was like imagining Sailor Scouts becoming wizards and traveling then I am like that makes no sense and that sounds like crap Sailor Moon is the best. The next thing I know he gives me two tapes, titled Slayers. From that point on I was obsessed. At first I had no Idea how to get more tapes being young, no anime common in USA and having no money of my own to buy things. My only source was the person that gaves me the tapes. When I herd that there are more then 24 tapes of the series x 20 dollars, I believed it will take me forever to get them all if ever. But, little did I know in those 8 years I would have watched more then I imagined.

4) Before reaching age of 12 some of the titles I have watched: Perfect Blue-This left mental damage for me, Blue Submarine # 6- I loved it, Tenchi Muyo-my first and last harem anime that I watched completely, Ghost In Shell the Movie-Shocked my mentality but started accepting phsyco dark anime, serial experimental lain, fruit basket, shamanic princess, Devil Hunter Yohko-Oh man... my first overly pornographic animation, Fresh Knights Of Ramune another shocker I thought it would be less nude, Runouri Kenshin OVA(because the ova was so dark I couldn't take the tv series seriously.) then Love Hina-hated it from the start, fushigi yuugi-began good then turned into hate, Neon Genisis Evangelion -All I can say is people over rate it and it's shit on crap, Burn Up W- man never saw chests as big and bouncy as that series, Gundam Wing a classic, Cowboy Bebop-never was too crazy about it, Outlaw Star- I liked this better then Bebop for some reason maybe because Spike got on my nerve and Faye got the most cruelest fate for a female in animation history( She is stranded alone in future to wonder the earth, has one sided love in whom the guy never loves her back because he is paired up with Juliah whom I hate anyway....So the point it is cruellllll.) next is some maid angel series forgot the name, then X the movie(made me cry, caus i finally understood the story.), DNA2 also made me sad and featured an annoying female character with brown hair that represents an ideal girl for many asian guys and some other titles... Forgot witch.

5) Anime has saved my life... I really don't know where I would have been without it. All I can say was during really dark times of my life I had nothing I could have leaned on except my imagination and anime. So I am in debt to it and I give my thanks to Japan for creating that will always be something special to me.

6) Anime I love: GTO(Great Teacher Onizuka), Anything Done by Satoshi Kon(Paprika , Millennium Actress, etc.), Interstella 5555, Slayers, Sailor Moon, Candy Candy, X/1999, Hataraki Man, One Piece, Trigun, Hanada Shinichi....hmmm can't think of anymore, but I know there is more.
Manga I love: GTO, One Piece, Dokebi Bride, Skip Beat, Five Star Story, Hunter x Hunter, Hikaru no Go, lots of indie stuff can't remember the titles, anything that involves gender benders or cross-dressing, too many to list.

7) Anime that I don't like/hate with burning passion: Chobits, Overly Cute Ones, Tsubasa, live hina, EVA, Ranma 1/2, Inu Yasha, Magic Knights Ray Earth-Tv,(I liked the dark series OVA caus other characters got more attention then the main girl.)
Manga That is one my black list: Inu Yasha, lots of clamps stuff, love hina, anything done by Yuu Watabase(can't spell her right but works such as Aisha no Ceres, Alice 19th etc etc), death note, what else gets on my nerves ehhh... Oh yes Yaoi + BL!!! I preffer straight or yuri. Burnn.... This sums up some small facts. Booohooo Hoo...


8) For those of you who actually read through this entire journal and made sense of it I give you thumbs up & and the reason for this is to share something with you about me and my odd taste.

Lets start with the good. I spend good 2 months of work of planning thinking and being silly in making this awesome storyboard.
And Its done! Yey!!!!! Pats on my back.
I love the way it came out. It has many good parts, needs a lot of fixing in composition, but hey I can take it straight to animatic without more pictures to make it move. Because I showed all movement including the characters within my storyboard. So yes I went straight into almost Key-framing it.
Now here is the bad part!!! I had so many nightmares of making myself do too much work on it, so I decided to cut down and cut scenes out. Thinking I made life easier when I printed out I still managed to get 115 Pages of Storyboard. 115 x 3 panels each, thats 345 panels of storyboard. Ahahahahahaahaahahaahahaahahahahaa.... Sweat drops.... I was planning to make a film with in 5-10 minute range, but according to storyboard statistics people tend to draw 20 pictures per 1 minute- but here are the cold large scary number 345.... Now if I do my math correctly that will be around...17.15 minutes.. (And my hairs start rising just thinking about this number... Oh man I hope for me it should be 35-40 pictures changes per minute, otherwise I am doomed. I will have to only one part of it.. So hopefully my worries will end when I put my Ideal* Animatic and see for myself how long it is.)

Let's see:

This Week:
1) Update refurbish website [link] ( lots of work)
2) Do Business Cards. (OH yeah!!!)
3) Mentally Collect Myself- self note Maria dont stress!!
4) Ponzi ^_^(yey finalli)
5) Write emails to peoples

Next Week:
1) See how the publishing goes// maybe stress on that.
2) Start Reila Mini steps
3) Complete all the website fixes. (I am gonna strangle myself if it's not fixed by then)

Alright Note to myself... I will be revamping few things in my gallery and deleting old stuff that me not like anymore. I am most likely won't draw any images or illustrations until I complete my wonderful task on Reila. My summer hopefully will consist of these things: Reila, Ponzi and video gaming, driving and working on health. If I master all those I will be happy...

For people who don't know Reila is my animation project that has been in my head for a year now and I am finally taking the task into adapting it into a small animated short for my thesis year. It will be alot of work and lot of stress, but hopefully the image that would come out wouldn't be disappointing. I will also pray to bring out the characters I see to life. yea.... well that is it for now I just hope i can do it.

There are so many things we want film at this point:

1) We wanna film two music videos featuring Kate(being piano player) Lily (drummer) Jen(Guitarist) Me(vocalist) perfomring hot singles "FRUSTRATION" and "I am so young Your so 40". Their awesome videos.

2) Live Action adaptation of Woyzeck cast:
Woyzech- Me Andres-Jen Mari- Lily General- Kevin Doctor-Kate

3) And the last and the most exciting we are gonna film reaal life adaptation of Disney movies cast. ( We will be using actual recording of the original cartoon, with people mouthing their parts, so use your imagination on how it will turn out.) If you see two roles they play both.


Beaty & Beast
Bell - Kevin
Beast - Lily
Gaston - Me
Marice, Chip - Jen
Cogswarth - Sono
Lummiere - Kate
Ms Pots/ Insaine Assylime guy- Joyce

Lion King
Simba - Jen
Nala - Lily
Scar - Kevin
Mufasa / Crazy Monkey - Sono
Timon - Kate
Pumba - Me
Hyanas - Joyce

Little Mermaid
Ariel - Sono
Prince Eric / French Cook - Lily
Sebastien - Joyce
Flounder - Me
Eric's Dog - Kevin
Ursala - Kate
King Triton / Crazy Seagull - Jen

Aladin
Aladin - Kate
Jasmine / Iyago - Me
King - Kevin
Genie - Joyce
Jafar - Lily
Abu - Jen
Carpet / Tiger - Sono

Hercules
Hercules - Me
Meg / Horse - Kate
short trainer (goatman) - Kevin
Hades / Zeus - Jen
Little Demon guys - Sono & Lily
Joyce- all the evil beasts

Mulan
Mulan - Jen
General / Matchmaker - Joyce
Mushu / Cricket - Kate
Short Angry Guy - Kevin
Phat Guy / Mulan's Grandpa - Me
Skinny - Lily
Evil Shan / Mulan's Father - Sono

Peter Pan
Peter Pan - Kate
Wendy - Lily
Captain Hook - Me
Smart Brother - Joyce
Youngest Brother / Nana Dog - Sono
All of Indians including the Indian girl / Shmee - Jen
Alligator / Tinker Bell - Kevin

Pocahontas
Pocahontas - Joyce
Racoon - Lily
Evil Dog - Me
John Smith / Tree - Jen
Evil British Leader - Sono
The Guy shoots the Fiance / Pocahontas Father - Kevin
Humming Bird / Indian Fiance of Pocahontas - Kate

Fine that is it. ^_^ For now. Ohoho hoo...

Alright kittens, Pigtail Studio household finally hates to admit this but it needs a male maid. Its a place full of lonely flat chested woman who have a genderbendin flavor to life. We seek someone who can clean while wearing tight black leather suit, someone that can cook and where a petite cute maid outfit. Yes we are starving artist and yes we need a male model who contiusely will pose for us as we draw porn yaoi and normal comics. After all I WWAAAANNAAA seee SOME bodiess... Yes I am deprived and horny, but seiing male bodies that will pose for you nude or in transexual clothes will make 3 virgin maidens happy for rest of their lives. After all besides being a failure as woman that cant cook, clean or take care of themselves properly, we seek feminine and manly beauty in our male model who is a maid.

Yes, This is beyond a dream, and please do not take this wild fantasy seriously. Right now in realistic state I probably have no guts or any money to hire a male maid maibe when i am very very old, this naughty fantasy will come into reality. BEEEp.

-the end

The world is cruel and lonely and my lover is dead. Hormones need to die.