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{Spotlight Yuri Manga} (spoilers! w/pics) Kissing Mars – The BEST First Kiss Scene Ever! It’s all about the lips…

18 Wednesday May 2011

Posted by Eves in Art Gallery, Kissing Mars, Kissing Mars, Yuri Gallery

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Chapter 4, Comics, Download, Final, First Kiss, Japan, kiss, Kissing, Kissing Mars, Manga, photos, relationships, Shoujo-Ai, Subbed, Torajiro Kishi, Yuri

Torajiro Kishi is my FAV manga illustrator. Her character illustrations are like a splice between staple Japanese manga illustrations and Marvel. I have a pillow spot for stories and illustrations that look realistic-truer to real life people and events. That said, Torajiro Kishi is excellent with her erotic mangas like Maka Maka because not only do the girls look more realistic, but snippets of her scenes actually do happen in real life.

Here we have in Kissing Mars, two high school girls that happen to become friends after one sees the other kissing the statue of Mars. One girl already has a boyfriend while the other longs to be in a relationship. The cliche ensues as they become closer until Miki goes on her first date and the other girl gets jealous-normal when someone else is in the picture and you end up spending less time with the person you care about.

In the scenes leading up to the kiss, I could feel the nervousness and suspense through the characters. Her depictions of the two voluptuous glistening lips semi-touching one another are perfectly frozen to give the reader that sense of a slow intimate softness that comes with kissing a woman. No Frenching….just a gentle and sweet lip to lip.

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Hokkaido Trip Part 2: Sapporo Snow Festival Cont’d

28 Sunday Feb 2010

Posted by Eves in Art Gallery, Japan, Photography, Travel

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Art Gallery, Japan, Photography, Ramen, Sapporo, Sapporo Snow Festival, Snow Sculpture, Travel

SAY CHEESE! Even though the quality of my profile shot is really crappy, I thought the sparkley-ness (I make up my own words) of it was pretty cool! I tried to take a shot of the city below from my hotel room, but there was way too much reflection! In this photo I’m using a Sigma 10-20 mm wide angle lens. I absolutely LOVE it! Wide angle lenses are so much fun to play around with! Unfortunately, I didn’t start using my Wide Angle lens until I arrived in the Abashiri a couple days later.

Okay Nakayo was right..these are so not life size, but it’s still pretty damn massive for something carved out of ice!

Hahaha! I loved this Snow Bento Box! It’s hilarious!

The Kana reads “Stop! Metabo” I don’t get how that relates to Homer Simpson.This snow sculpture won the championship. Rightly so! It’s so detailed, the angles used appear tricky to manipulate without thinking this thing will just topple over, and it’s dramatic!

This one is just plain strange and creepy, yet interesting nonetheless.

It reminds me of Jack and the Beanstalk where Jack tries to escape from the giant.

Seaturtles made from Hawaii.

Located at the opposite end of Odori park, is this sculpture, a slide, a few stalls, ice skating ring, and the Saporro TV Tower. Arial view of Odori Park from the Saporro TV Tower. Took close to one hour to get to the top, but it was well worth taking a photo of this view! I was trying to ignore the group of tipsy people behind me in the line who reeked of alcohol! That orange glow sculpture is the same one as the previous photo (it changes colours) and to the bottom of it out of the photo is the ice skating ring.  The blue and purple is the massive slide and beyond that is the rest of the park where all the snow sculptures are.

For some weird reason, the TV Tower looks small. I never imagined there to be an elevator in there with a store at the middle and top! This reminded me of going up the Las Vegas Eiffel Tower.

The main street of Saporro across from JR Station.

I seriously LOVE how I was able to capture the stop motion of the falling snow! They look like stars frozen in mid-air!

Look a Mickey Ds! There were quite a few of Mickey Ds and KFCs around there!

Seemed like we walked forever to finally get to the Ramen Alley in Susukino! I asked these two little older women if they knew where the Ramen Alley was on the map. It was just across the street thank goodness! Once we got there, it was difficult to chose a place to eat! Finally i settled on this place. I had miso Ramen which was really tasty! I forgot to take a pic! :(

Now this bowl of Ramen was DELISH! I never knew scallops looked like that until I saw this dish! Usually just the round meaty center is served. From what I recall this is Shio Ramen.

Oh the infamous Mister Donut from the manga Girl Friends! Akko and Mari in this one is hilarious! It’s from Chapter 4 where Mari and Akko are studying BUT Akko gets “distracted” by the doughnuts! TOO FUNNY!  This scene looks all too familiar!! I think the Japanese have a different idea of what a doughnut is supposed to taste like than Americans.  The chocolate one I had didn’t taste much like anything! If I were to bring in a box of Mister Donuts to my colleagues, they’d be like,”What is this? Fat Free doughnuts!?!” I know a certain someone by the name of Viridian who would go nuts in Mister Donut! :P

Lastly, A HUG SIGN! No it’s not a store with strangers inside ready to give you a hug when you need one. It’s a bitty produce market. Just thought the sign was too cute to miss! *HUGS* Hope everyone had a fabulous if not relaxing weekend!

~Sapphire

Hokkaido Trip Part 1: Sapporo Snow Festival

22 Monday Feb 2010

Posted by Eves in Art Gallery, Japan, Photography, Travel

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Art Gallery, Hokkaido, Japan, Photography, Sapporo, Sapporo Snow Festival

Check out all that white from the plane! I was super excited to be able to experience all that snow! I was hoping I brought enough of the right clothing to keep me warm! We shall see if I froze my bum off!

Upon entering Odori Park, this is the first snow sculpture you will see. It’s pretty damn amazing seeing all the details put into this!

If you don’t know what snow sculpture this is, then you probably live underneath a rock! This was my favourite part of the snow festival because it was the only sculpture with pretty music and changing lights! There was a little girl singing on stage while the snow was falling and it felt like I was back at Disneyland! It was a very cool performance!

More of the Disney Snow Sculpture..

I don’t remember what building this was but it’s all made of ICE! CRAZY! It’s HUGE! Most of these are near life size! This is exactly how it looks in person!

This shot I took before the photo above when the sun was about to set. I really liked how the birds flew overhead when I took the shot! It’s kind of eerie looking though…like a haunted house! O_O”

Another highly impressive snow sculpture! To construct an entire building made of snow is simply astonishing! It would have been nice to see these being made!

Now for the smaller individual snow sculptures that surrounded the rest of the park. I decided to post a few worth mentioning. This one is of Totoro, one of my FAV anime characters!

Mika! Dedicated to Nerei who appears to be absolutely smitten with her! hahaha!

Last but not least, this semi-dodgy photo is dedicated to all the yuri fans out there! Most specifically Ninnypanties, Hayashi, Jo, and Yuuki! Oh and Nakayo! KIDDING Nakayo! Hahaha!

Well that concludes Part 1 of the snow festival! Stay tuned for MORE!

Back from Hokkaido! *Massive 50 ft Wave* (prelude)

18 Thursday Feb 2010

Posted by Eves in Photography, Travel

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Hokkaido, Japan, Photography, Snow, Travel

All I am going to say is “WOOOOW!” to all the lovely snow in Hokkaido! I did tons of stuff, took tons of shots, and bought heaps of snacks!  I did manage to pull out one of my SD cards and grab a photo of a Snowlady I helped make in a lovely park…OKAY OKAY so I just took a couple handfuls of snow and put it on the head just to say I helped make it, BUT I DID CONTRIBUTE A TEENIE BIT! My hand froze quick and hurt pretty bad for a few seconds! I had to yank it into my sweater under my arm just to warm it back up! I even had to walk through a few feet of shin-high snow to get to her and take a photo. She is quite cute with her eyelash like eyes in a wink, joyful smile, and whimsical stick arms that look like they are about to twirl around.

If you look REALLY REALLY closely you can see my purple box of cheesecake bubble gum on the right stick of the Snowlady. Would it be considered littering if I accidentally forgot it there?! Ahhh! It tastes just like a blueberry cheesecake too!

Once I get settled into the reality of my personal life, I will be sure to post more photos and experiences of Hokkaido! Stay tuned and big hugs to everyone!

~Sapphire

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