Hello, good morning, welcome pages-of-new-crack-I-missed-while-I-was-asleep-that's-become-so-common-I-can't-even-be-shocked-anymore.
Ok, mass recap, lesse.
@Pearlcougar:
/is killed for looking up Shikata Akiko on wikipedia
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I HAVE SOMEONE HERE WHO DOESN'T KNOW SHIKATA AKIKO. OK, NO. I CANNOT LET THAT GO. I DON'T CARE IF THIS IS COMPLETELY OFF TOPIC OR IF I GET BANNED FOR SPAM THERE'S NO WAY I'M LETTING THAT GO.
! Shikata Akiko, aka the Goddess of Music, is an amazingly talened Japanese singer and songwriter. This lady can sing all sorts of styles, from rock, to opera, to fantasy-esque gregorian chanting. Her most well known works are undoubtedly due to Umineko no Naku Koro and Tales of Symphonia and Shadow Hearts: New Covenant, but that's far from her most amazing work.
! She composed the sountrack for Hanakisou, otherwise known as the most beautifully compiled and written visual novel I've ever played in my life. She's also responsible for some of the breathtakingly fantastic and shiver-inducing etheral music from the Ar Tonelico HYMMES. Her work for Hanakisou was so amazing that the Moscow Symphonic Orchestra did orchestral renditions of some of the songs. Yes, that's right. The Moscow professional orchestra did songs from a doujin BL game. (well, I can't call it BL as there's no kissing or hugging but I can't call it het either >_<). And the world should've exploded from amazing overload.
! Her main music style might not be to everyone's taste, but she has songs in all sorts of genres so unless you don't like music, you're guaranteed to like at least one of her songs. She apparently speaks Italian and sings in it as well as in English, French, Aluet (?!), one of the numerous African languages, and many others. AND NOW I GO INTO FULL FANGIRLING MODE. YOUTUBE SPAM TIME.
! This is the opening for Hanakisou and one of my favorite songs
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! And the actual opening PV twywf66TgDs
! A preview of the orchestral stuff, WHEN THE WORLD SHOULD HAVE IMPLODED FROM AMAZING OVERLOAD. bWy–G2_n3Q&feature=related
! And here's one of her more well known works, the opening of Umineko
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! And Tales of Symphonia OVA, the Teth'ella chapter both a preview of Inori no Kanata and Tai no Tomodachi
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! And some from her original albums, my personal favorites.
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! And some preview compilations from her recently released albums. This one is for Harmonia, otherwise known as the giant meshing of all sorts of styles.
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! This is for the album coming out on the 29th, a remix and original of the Ar Tonelico 3 hymmnos. Ar=Ciel Ar=Dor (This world, this land) LVKoP_8rYCw
! And some of the amazing hymmnos songs from the Ar Tonelico series. Which is one of my favorite series of all times. They're not the most amazing, but they're engrossing. MWzpUBTp7O8
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! Shikata Akiko has three distinct vocal ranges that fans tend to label as "soft", "medium", or "hard". Most of the songs I've posted use her soft and medium ranges. METHOD_REPLEKIA is a good example of her hard range.
! VAGRANCY's webiste http://www.vagrancy.jp/
My all time favorite singer hands down. I haven't found any song of hers that I dislike to date. <33 My lifelong dream is to go to one of her concerts and get an autograph….well, her and Sound Horizon. They're pretty neck in neck, but she still wins by a bit.
Anyways, onto relevant stuff.
@Wyvren:
…. No not that, but, What are your guy's favorite fandoms? I think this would be a fun discussion (if this has been in the thread before (that I really need to read the rest of) then new peeps can join in too :3)
All of OP. No seriously XD I might like some characters more than other…or hate some characters more than others (>___>) but I love the whole OP series. It's so lively and filled with action, adventure, tragedy and drama that I can't help but love all of it.
@Cyber-Robin:
Ah yes! Welcome! I assume you have your bow-tie already? Bow-Ties Are. Cool.
JOIN THE FEDORAS!
@Cyber-Robin:
I prefer ZoroxSwords.
It's the only pairing I can see him in that makes any sense to me.
Normally right about now I'd call C-R silly, but after a moment's thought and hesitation, I realize.
….he's right, really. I have to agree with him on that. :|
@Cyber-Robin:
ROFL at that Jango comic XD
I still wanna see Jango on Amazon Lilly. That's SOOOOOO where he got the hypno-shroom from.
It would so be like:
Young Amazons: waaaaaaaaaaah it's a maaaaaaaaaaan! Points
Jango: Ah crap! Ummmm. Oh! When I say 1. 2 Jango you will all think I am a beautiful woman! 1…........2...............JANGO!
Amazons: Oh....Hi there! Are you a new girl?
Jango: I AM A BEAUTIFUL GIRL!
XDDD PFFT, oh gosh, I SO want to see that now. That's freaking hilarious.
….I just realized, why am I only quoting C-R??? XDD
@Myehmyeh:
Because I can't keep up with the thread to save my life and I don't contribute much, please don't add my information.
XD It's ok. I doubt any of us are completely up to date with this thread, and you showed up in the crack fic! You have to be a part of it. I ALREADY DUG THROUGH EVERYTHING FOR YOUR INFO T_T
@Cyber-Robin:
Yeah. I'd REALLY prefer if you didn't. At least my stuff. AP is fine cus I can see it. But I don't like the idea of it being elsewhere. I mean sure pictures that are posted or whatever is fine. But still.
Alright, that's fine. I can give you the link to the AP wiki so you can take a look at what sort of place it is, but I'll get rid of your info for the final draft.
http://arlongpark.wikia.com/wiki/Arlong_Park_Wiki
@trappedolphin:
erm is it kinda weird if i request for my information not to be displayed? i'm okay with writing things about myself - mainly cause there are tons of pages and it would take a highly dedicated stalker to sift through all that to find out my age. but having my age or something on another website is kinda discomforting, so i'd rather not. but feel free to put my username, and any of my posts other than those containing my personal information. :happy:
That's fine. Same as C-R, I'll get rid of your info. We'll just keep your username and quote your posts when we need it, kay?
And then, YAY picture dumps! I better get mine together soon.
@piratemarimo:
Also, I just want to clarify something! About the AP Wiki, honestly I'm with you guys on not wanting personal information displayed on the website. None of the other pages are really formatted like that either, and I'm not comfortable with some of my info displayed too. But nobody has any objections to a page that's just about the thread right? I never really planned to do anything extensive on people here, except to make note of the fact that they post here.
I don't think anyone has an issue with a page about the thread. As for personal info, I think I'll just keep it in a .txt file to make it easier to edit and only post it here. Personally though, I really don't mind any of that info I've given out. I haven't given out my real name or address or age (TIME LORD!!! bricked) so feel free to use my bio as an example if you want.
@trappedolphin:
by the way: i should just say that i don't read spoilers. i hate the feeling of reading something but not understanding everything that's going on, like watching an unsubbed Japanese show or reading an untranslated chapter of One Piece. i prefer to wait until the proper translated scanlation comes out. with that said, if you guys want to discuss the new chapter when the spoilers come out, please spoiler tag with an un-spoilered warning before that cause i tend to click open all the spoilers anyway (who doesn't?). thanks so much guys!
the wait is almost over!!! more fangirl/boy material to come!
I don't think I'll post anything until the chapter actually comes out,s o you don't have to worry about that from me. I actually get the Japanese version of Jump later that all of you guys (yes the irony. The stinking scanlation comes out BEFORE the japanese SJ does >_>)
@Masha:
I really can't wait anymore! This forum is going to explode!
Going to? It already has. Good god, you should see some of the threads. This was like…the forum version of a shoot-out. Don't get me started on some of the other forums I've seen. I've actually seen one admin take a month long break because the chaos wasn't going to be quelled anytime soon XD
@piratemarimo:
@Skyrius: When we do the Supernova theme, are you going to be doing group shots first? because I'm thinking one page per supernova would be cool. I think supernovas as a group should be first. and I hope you'll give the rest of us a chance to post stuff too (though by the way you've been talking I'm starting to feel it's unlikely I have any images that you don't already plan on posting).
God, I've kinda accidentally mixed all of the supernova pics into the giant mess of other links, so I can't guarantee I'll find them again >_> Currently I'm just working on a giant dump for the 100th page. Just one post with all the pics I can fit. Once the limit breaks, I'm just going to stop so I might not even get all my pics up.
@trappedolphin:
for real? i thought we were going to throw a mass oceanwide party when we hit 100 pages, with rotating disco balls and strobe lights and waffles and everything. i was thinking of a "who-can-post-more-crack" competition.
then again, gypsy could just post her entire crack fic and win the whole thing. i would post that gif Muda made of Whitebeard punching a crack into some poster's wall of text.
but eh if it's been decided, who am i to ruin the fun :silly: supernova dump ahoy!
Why can't we do both again?
We can always make member cards out of the banner as soon as I'm done.