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Goods: Natsume’s bishonen figure! (Natsume Yuujin Chou)

Posted in Character Goods / Misc by ponytale on February 8, 2010

Natsume Takashi

Natsume is finally made into a lovely bishonen figure! (more…)

Goods: Boy’s Love-themed Notebook/Laptop (Nitro+Chiral Yupon Edition)

Posted in Character Goods / Misc by ponytale on February 6, 2010

BL notebook

BL notebook? Welcome to the Nightmare… *_* (and so the banner says LOL~) (more…)

BWAHAHAHAHA…

Posted in Life in General by ponytale on February 5, 2010

BWHAHAHA...I was really -stressed out- this week by work. Especially today. I’m fine now cos I cleared the most pressing ones already. Oh well, but while my brain was imploding from the pressure, I happened to be listening to a drama cd which gave me ideas. So after some editing…

Imagine responding like this to your clients/boss when you have to field off all those impossible deadlines and unrealistic requests.

Epic. (This seiyuu)

Listening to this (in the context of the drama cd it was from) seriously cracked me up. Am contemplating using that as a ringtone or sms tone LOL. XD

Well, thank goodness the week is ending! There’s still unfinished work but the mind just feels a tad better when it knows that the weekend is near. TGIF! (more…)

BL Anime: Junjou Romantica Season 1 Boxed Set (English)

Posted in Anime by ponytale on January 30, 2010

Official US licensed (Nozomu Entertainment) English subbed Junjou Romantica Season one anime will be released as a complete 12-episode boxed set in 4 May 2010. Preorder is open now!

Compared to the Japanese release (Region 2), it is cheap at US$49.99 for the whole season. But I guess we’re paying for all the extras in the Japanese DVDs, since the price of each DVD can get you the whole English subbed set already ^^;;;

Price: US$49.99
Release Date: 4 May 2010
Boxed set comes with a 24-page booklet featuring character bios, artwork and behind-the-scenes information.
Special Features: U.S. Season 1 Trailer, Clean Opening and Closing, TV Spot, DVD Commercials, Previews.
Spoken Languages: Japanese, English subtitles.

It is subbed and not dubbed (lol~ so far we haven’t had any English dubbed BL DVDs, right? XD) but I guess that is best left to the Japanese seiyuus (^///^)

Date of release for season two has not been announced yet :)

More info: http://romantica.rightstuf.com/

Related posts:

About Junjou Romantica 純情ロマンチカ
Junjou Romantica Limited Edition R2 DVD Vol. 1

Eek! Earphones sound leak?! *_*

Posted in Life in General by ponytale on January 26, 2010

I’ve always been kinda paranoid about whether people can hear the audio of a BL drama I’m listening to while taking public transport and I notice that recently, I’ve been listening to music on my iPod at a much higher volume than before… so more than ever, I begin to wonder if my current volume level is going to out my BL drama listening activities to unsuspecting strangers without my conscious knowledge…

So, I decided to test playing a hard-sex track from Netsujou no Ori de Nemure (when I’m at home of course) at my current listening volume.

Having no other test subject to report the findings, I pressed the earphone against my own wrist and played the track…  (more…)

BLCD: Kuchibiru de Kowasareru (Kamiya Hiroshi x Nojima Kenji)

Posted in Drama CD Reviews by ponytale on January 23, 2010

Title:
Kuchibiru de Kowasareru
唇で壊される。 (25/08/2009)

Pairings:
Kamiya Hiroshi x Nojima Kenji 神谷浩史 x 野島健児

Rating: Recommended

Quick Summary: [There are some spoilers but no ending-spoilers ^^]
When university student, Canna Yuzuki (Nojima Kenji) and Oka Tomochika’s (Kamiya Hiroshi) eyes met, it was love at first sight.

Chika caught Yuzuki’s eye at a night club and the two had a brush with each other when he accidentally burnt Yuzuki with his cigarette. Chika apologises and kisses the burnt area on Yuzuki’s shoulder. Yuzuki is shocked by the unexpected gesture but pretends to be unfazed. As fate would have it, Yuzuki’s best friend, Igarashi Ryouya happens to be Chika’s acquaintance. Yuzuki thought that it is the last he would see of him after they parted ways, but the two meet again at the bar where Ryouya works at and the night ended with Yuzuki following Chika home.

Although Yuzuki is incredibly drawn to Chika, he tries to tread carefully, holding back his intense attraction to the younger man. He was badly hurt by his first love three years ago. It was an older man, Tsukasa who taught him that love is a game and the moment either party puts his real feelings into it, it becomes boring and the game ends. Since then, Yuzuki has learnt to play love games with all his pursuers and has never gone deeper with anyone of them physically or mentally. But this time, Yuzuki seems to have met his match in Chika… (more…)

Goods: BL Trading cards sale! 50% (Junjou Romantica, Togainu no Chi)

Posted in Online Shopping by ponytale on January 15, 2010

Comicomi
Comicomi Japan is selling these cards for a BIG discount of 50%! ^^

Online store: http://www.comicomi-studio.com/home.html

Series include:

1) Togainu no Chi (More info? Read my post here and here)
2) Junjou Romantica (Related posts here and here)
3) Hiiro no Kakera (not BL but pretty illustrations)

Having problems navigating Comicomi? Key in 50%OFF into the search box and you’ll be able to see the list.

Also read the tutorial (register and shopping at comicomi) if you’re not sure how to shop there :)