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Mirai Nikki [Future Diary] Chapter 23 Scanlation

Scanned by Anons from 4(or 2?)chan, edited and translated by Anons from 4chan. SimpleManga is down, so I’m offering the download here.

Mirai Nikki [Future Diary] Chapter 23 scanlation from Rapidshare.

It was a rush job, so some of the sentence fluency and grammar may seem stilted… I apologize. I did the translation job in one sitting.

Mirai Nikki

Please excuse the bad art

I recently read a manga titled Mirai Nikki (Future Diary) and I found it to be the best thing I’ve read since Ore Tama and Kodomo no Jikan.

The premise of Mirai Nikki is that twelve people must participate in a Battle Royale-esque game to kill each other until only one remains, who will then succeed Deus Ex Machina, the gamemaster’s position. Deus Ex Machina modifies a personal item belonging to each of the participants and turns it into a diary that details the future, and this is the main weapon that everyone fights with. When the diary is destroyed, so is the owner. The main characters of Mirai Nikki are Amano Yukiteru, a meek boy who is forced to team up with the yandere Gasai Yuno.

Yandere seems to be a pretty popular personality type for girls nowadays… Yuno’s axe skills would make Rena proud.

You can read the first 21 chapters of Mirai Nikki on SimpleManga here. The scanlation job is somewhat shoddy, but I don’t know of any other translated online source of the manga. It almost makes me want to take up scanlating the manga…if I can find a raw source, that is.

Darker than Black Episode 26

A new episode for Darker than Black -Kuro no Keiyakusha-, Episode 26, will be released on DVD. From what I’ve read, it doesn’t seem to be one that will tie up much of the loose ends from episode 25 but rather more about another mission that Hei was on.

Source: Darker the Black Fan Book, scan via 4chan.

Entry for AnimeBlogger.net Mascot Design Contest, Part 2

I’d like to announce that I’m a complete idiot. *sob* My entry was a rush job in itself, so it wouldn’t have been able to shine amongst the other art masterpieces anyways.

This was my entry.

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Entry for AnimeBlogger Mascot Design Contest

…Not really. This is just my preliminary design for the character, drawn up in ten minutes on MS Paint. Her name will be AB-tan.

Check out the contest page & information here!

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Ending

I’ve been forced into picking up book #7 of Harry Potter for my brother, because he is out of country when the release happens. I’m not a massive HP fan like I’ve seen some folks devolve to and I’m terribly irked by the end-of-the-world outlook of the hysteria known as THOU-MUST-NOT-SPOIL-THE-END. I don’t care much about book endings; it’s the journey that matters. Some of the fanfiction spoilers that I’ve read are pretty illogical and horrible from a literary perspective. Stories must follow a definite format to produce the maximum character development and drama without destroying the plot.

I’m sure that the fanaticism will die down in a week. My policy on spoilers is a simple comment; people need to know how to control themselves. It just might turn out to be pure fanfiction anyways, but an archive is always nice.

This is my comment: the end is at the end of this post.

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Death Note Swimming Lessons THE ANIME

Made with screen shots from episode 37. That is sufficient warning.

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