So in chapter four, we finally get to know the names of some of Rin's classmates. Sadly, it does not include Eminem yet. He wasn't even in the chapter much. Heck, Yukio wasn't even in the chapter much. (Boo!) I lament the lack of Yukio.

Meanwhile, I find Shima kinda cute. I guess it's the happy, laidback disposition that got me. As for Suguro--well, it seems he is being set up as the manga's token rival-friend, which I think will make his relationship with Rin very interesting once Suguro finds out that Rin also has the blue flame. Either Suguro ends up Rin and be his enemy, or two they sort out their differences and remain friends . It's too early to tell which way Katou-sensei is going with the story. In the meantime, I like their dynamics. I was laughing during the last couple of pages wherein Suguro suggested to Rin that he use a hairclip for his fringe. It was so cute. It was like watching two girls sharing hair tips. By the way, I think Rin should follow Suguro's suggestion and try the fringe-less look, really. He looks fine without it.

But I think the best part of this chapter is the revelation about Mephisto Pheles. ( SPOILERS )

As for Amaymon,doesn't his character design remind you of Tao Ren? I guess it's the hair. He's not as egotistical as Ren though.

( Is it required for the sons of Satan to have a quirky fashion sense? At least, his fashion sense is a lot better than Mephisto's... )

And speaking of Ren, I miss ManKin. I mis Yoh, Manta, Lyserg, Faust (our old Nokia phone still has Faust as its screensaver.) and I miss Horohoro!! Oh drats. Now, I have the urge to read ManKin again.

But on a fully unrelated subject, I have finishing catching up with the scanalations for Amatsuki.The plot is moving on nicely so far. Little by little secrets are being revealed. I love the backstory between Ginshu and Bonten. But frankly, I'm still confused as to what is really going on (Are they playing the game or are they not? ); I guess it'll be much clearer on the next chapters. However, for now, I know for sure that I love Bonten! And Tsuyukusa. And Utsuboshi. And Susutake. And Toki. And Kon. And Kuchiha. And Kurutobi. Everyone! Why Amatsuki's English fandom is so small, despite its awesomeness (great story, great art, Bonten), will forever boggle me.

It's been a while since I made some Shiki icons, so here.:D I'll probably do some more icons once I've checked the Chinese scans that hollymyew shared in sotoba. By the way, most of the icons feature Shiki's female characters, because they are creepy and I love them to pieces. :D


Shizuka [04]
Megumi [03]
Sunako [02]
Muroi [01]
Natsuno/Megumi [01]

Preview



( More under the cut )

Meanwhile, I'll go catch up with Amatsuki. I haven't read it for like two years already. LOL

I can finally sigh in relief. I thought SQ will totally cancel Ice Revo from their line up. It turns out that it's simply going to be
to be converted into an online comic like Tales of Innocence. Better that than none. So I assume, any series that doesn't do well in the readers poll gets converted to an online comic? Or did they transfer Ice Revo to their website to give way for Mayu Shinjo's new series? Speaking of Mayu Shinjo, here's an image of her new series with Naked Ape's Rico on the side...



Sadly, there's still no information as to what her manga will be about. Also,I found out that Go Shimei Desu isn't Mayu Shinjo's first manga in SQ. She published a one-shot in October last year, and I tried to find a scanlation , or even a raw for it but it seems no one really cared enough to scan that one-shot.

Anyway,I'm giving Mayu Shinjo the benefit of the doubt. Who knows? Maybe she can pull it off the way Yoko Kamio did. Maybe she becomes better as a shounen manga-ka. Ah, I can hardly wait for next month. XD

I dn't believe this. According to the news I got from the SQ thread in MH, Ice Revolution will end in SQ #08. Why oh why? I think Ice Revo is a unique , funny series. I mean, how many manga do we have that is about ice skating? *sigh* Well, I hope, SQ doesn't cancel Ao no Exorcist or else I will be seriously mad. *shakes fist*

But despite Ice Revo's cancellation, I'm still slightly happy because I heard that Naked Ape will be doing a oneshot for SQ. I used to read Switch so I'm interested to read Rico and see if it's anything like Switch.

Also, Mayu Shinjo is writing a new series for SQ. I was never a fan of Mayu Shinjo (in fact, I hated her works, no offense to her fans) but I'm interested to see her transition from shoujo to shounen.

I went and watched Transformers 2:Revenge of the Fallen yesterday. Apart from the action sequences, it was pretty average. I wasn’t that satisfied. I have already posted about this in my Wordpress, but just to summarize , here are my thoughts about the movie in bullet form, complete with some fangirling and some whining.

( Spoilers )


Now from Transformers, I move to Evangelion 2.0: You Can (Not) Advance. I haven’t seen the actual movie yet actually, so I’m basing these thoughts mainly on the reviews and the detailed summaries I’ve seen online.

( Spoilers )

But really, I shouldn’t be talking or giving opinions about Eva 2.0. Watch the film first, self. Watch the film.

On a fully unrelated note, chapter 30 of Tegamibachi is already up.( Spoilers )

I notice some are dong master lists for their OTPs. Since I'm bored and got really nothing to do, I jumpd into the bandwagon. I thnk I have forgotten some fandoms. Oh well. It can be edited in the future anyway.

( Anime/Manga/Cartoons/Comics/Games )

( Books/Movies/TV )

Oh shit. Evangelion has been remade and I did not know about this until now? And to think I call myself a fan. Some fan he? Anyway, I found the trailer for Evangelion 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance, the second part of the Rebuild tetralogy (otherwise known as Hideaki Anno’s attempt to milk some money out of a very old cow).



From what I’ve seen (and read about) , the movie will cover Asuka’ s arrival up to her and Shinji’s fight with one of the Angels, but with some changes. For one, there’s a new character was added—some girl named Mari Makinami Illustrious. Also, the EVA Unit 02 has been redesigned and Asuka’s last name was changed from Sohryu to Shikinami, to continue the Japanese maritime vessel name trend. Personally, I prefer Asuka Langley Sohryu to Asuka Langley Shikinami. The former sounds way cooler, more apt for a bitchy badass like Asuka.

But changes or no, the remaking of Evangelion became a very good news for someone like me who has recently rediscovered my love for Evangelion through Gakuen Datenrokou, the AU Evangelion spin-off manga that is serialized in Asuka. The manga features the Angels taking human forms while the EVAs manifest as handheld weapons. I like it much better than Angelic Days because of the art, the characterization (no cheerful Rei here) and the storyline. The only thing I like about Angelic Days is the sheer Asuka/Shinji-ness of it. (As if my icon isn’t obvious enough, I am Asuka/Shinji-biased. XD)

Going back to EVA 2.0, it’s set to show this coming June 27th. Hopefully, I’ll be able to find a torrent for it. (Leecher! XD)

And what’s this--- there is a plan for an Evangelion live-action film? No kidding? I wonder who they will cast for the movie. I wonder if it will be good. Well, I sure hope so. Meanwhile, I’d like to share this fanmade trailer I found in youtube. This has to be one of the best fanmade trailers I’ve seen for any fandom. The editing, the music—they were all perfect. The idea about Kirsten Dunst as Asuka is a bit amusing though. And who is Keanu Reeves supposed to be? Kaji? Hyuuga? Probably not Gendou because as much as I like Keanu, I don’t think he’ll pass for a believable Gendou Ikari.

The more I read JUMP SQ, the more I love it. The magazine markets itself as magazine that serializes good quality manga and based from the manga I've read , it does deliver its promise. Tista, Luck Stealer, Shiki, Kure-nai, Tegamibachi and Ao no Exorcist---these are manga of varying plots, genre and art style. All different from each other and in my opinion, all surprisingly good.

Now, I'd like to add Ice Revolution to the list. To be honest, I didn't expect to get hooked to this series, especilly with the summary I got from MangaHelpers:

Being the daughter of a dojo manager, Oozawa Masaki has been practising nothing but karate. Her chance encounter with a certain young man sparks her interest in figure skating. Can a mannish Masaki transform into a sweet, lovely girl on the skating rink?

It's a manga about ice skating. Not really my cup of tea. I thought there's no way a manga about ice skating could be that fun. But I tried it anyway because I was curious about how the other SQ series are. I thought I'll never get past the first chapter. Boy, was I wrong! I fell in love with the story after readng the first chapter and them I went ahead and downloaded the rest.

Masaki is such a lovable character. You just can't help but root for her in her quest to be good in ice skating, and in her quest to get Kaoru as well. I literally squealed in this scene:

( Your Prince is right here )

And I normally don't do that.(Though to be honest, I ship her more with Saya. There's not enough Yuri in this world. Haha.) Now, I can't wait for chapter 8 because chapter 7 ended in a bad way for Masaki. I hate Kaoru for making her cry. He's such a dense boy. At least, there's Saya. :(

My internet is soooo slow right now. I can't dowload even just a 3 mb file. And this has to happen just as soon as I find out that there are new updates for Mr. Fullswing! I've been stuck on chapter 27 for thelongest time (a year or two, I think. KO-Scans was the team doing the scanlation back then.) and I really , really, really, REALLY want to know what happens next. I've waited two years for an update, ISP. Don't deny me the chance to read it.

Meanwhile, I guess I'll do some catching up with Kure-nai. Luckily, I was able to download the chapters that I've missed earlier this morning.

On a fully unrelated note, I'm currently listening to the news about what happened to Rochelle Barrameda's sister. First, the husband and his family killed Ruby Rose and then they placed the body inside a metal container, and then they slid the container inside a cemented box. And then this cemented box was thrown into a lake. That was really, really heinous. What happened to Ruby Rose reminded me of the book I've read before (If I'm Missing or Dead was the title I think), wherein the author's sister went missing for so long, only to find out later on that her husband had killed her.Makes you wonder if these people can still actually sleep peacefully at night after what they did.

After reading the third chapter, I can truly say that I officially love Ao no Exorcist. Not only that, I can also officially say Rin and Yukio have become two of my most favorite manga characters in general, and what's amazing is that they managed to enter my list in just three chapters.

So chapter three begins with Rin crying his heart out while reading a JUMP SQ edition that has Tegamibachi (or Mailbachi as it's drawn in the panel) on its cover.Yukio enters and does his role as the spoilsport younger twin. He snatches the manga from Rin's hands as Rin complains about the kind of books ( "For kids") that Yukio demands him to read. He orders Yukio to stop trying to make a fool and out him, and Yukio replies by saying hat he's not making a fool out of him...though he does not deny that he (Rin) is one (a fool). Ah, Yukio and his witty comebacks.

I love him.

Moving on, Rin reasons that he won't really learn anything if all he does is read books. Yukio acknowldges his point , but still he insists that Rin reads his reference materials so he can be prepared for their next lesson. All of this they do while also in the middle of arguing who's the real owner of the JUMP SQ magazine

I really adore the interaction between the Okumura twins. Even if the story goes downhill later on (which I pray does not happen), I think I'll still be following Ao no Exorcist just to read about them and how they interact with each other. I can't really choose who's my favorite. Personally, I find Yukio the cooler twin but that doesn't necessarily mean that I think less of Rin. While Yukio is cool , I think Rin is just simply adorable.

Back to the chapter, Yukio receives a request for him to perform an exorcism rite. Upon knowng this, Rin insists to acompany him. Yukio declines at first, but eventually agrees after a mild persuasion from Rin. While Yukio goes and meets his client, who happens to be the owner of the shop where he gets his supplies, Rin goes and meets the shop owner's daughter by accident. Her name is Moriyama Shiemi.

Their first meeting isn't exactly friendly, and it's because Rin broke the gate of warding which only reacts to demons. Rin vehemently declares that he is neither a human nor a demon. It does nothing except scare Shiemi even more. I can't blame her though. With Rin looking like he's going to eat her alive, no doubt she's afraid.

So she tries to crawl away as far as possible. She only gets a few feet, however, before she stumbles to the ground. Rin approaches her and he discovers that there is something wrong with her feet. It turns out that a demon has been attaching itself to her through the garden soil and has been parasitically feeding through her heart.

About the new character. Well, I like her. She's actually pretty cute and so loli. Though I think we may have a closet!seme in Shiemi. She got Rin to do the work for her. How she got him to do that, I so want to know. And I so want them to be BFFs because I think they'll be great together as friends.

( Friends...? )

But you know, I think the real reason why I like Shiemi is because she fangirls Yukio like whoah.



I think this panel is really cute and funny, with Rin blushing like that because he's getting a compliment, only to find out that he's being upstaged by his younger twin agan. Sorry Rin. You're cool but not Yukio's level of cool. Oh and since I've mentioned panels, the panel below contains what has to be my favorite facial expression from Rin.



Oh Rin, you just can't hide your excitement, can you? XD

Has Tista already ended its run in Jump SQ? I went to the magazine's homepage and I no longer see Tista in its lineup. That's too bad. I thought Tista would run a little bit longer. And since Tista is done, I hope the scanlations pick up. I think Illuminati-Manga has stopped scanlating it? Anyway, I've seen some new titles in SQ. Well, they are new to me. Two got my interest. One is the story about the Four Kuzumoto brothers, the other one is Ao no Exorcist. I couldn't find any scanlations or raw for Kuzumoto so I read Ao no Exorcist instead.




Ao no Exorcist is about a fifteen-year old boy named Rin, who is sort of a troublemaker. Unlike his intelligent, seemingly weaker twin , Yukio, Rin always gets into fights and has no direction in life. But he has secret, a secret he himself didn't know until his guardian has been killed. Rin is actually the son of Satan. He has no intentions of joining the King of Hell however. Instead, he joins the True Cross Order and trains himself to become an exorcist, to fight the minions of his very own father.

So far, I'm liking Ao no Exorcist a whole lot. The art is pretty nice,especially the colored pages. I'm a sucker for series that have gorgeous colored pages. The story is okay, so far. I've only read two chapters so I can't say much yet. But I do love the humor. Below is one of my favorite panels.

( Who's the real Slim Shady? )

Oh, Rin. XD

The characters themselves are quite interesting. I love Rin, and his varying expressions. I love Mephisto Pheles and his ultra-weird fashion sense which reminded me of the Earl from D.gray-man (That's where their similarities end though because Mephisto actually is a good guy. And he has a pink limousine.). And I love Yukio because he is so cool. *_* He's like the Jiggy Pepper of Ao no Exorcist.



See? He even uses a gun, just like the Letter Bee idol. :D But what I'm really looking forward to in the manga is the interaction between Rin and Yukio. I love their dynamics. I also can't wait to know more about Rin's other classmates. Especially Eminem. LOL. God, one month is too long to wait for a chapter. This is one of those days wherein I wish the series I'm following is a weekly comic instead of a monthly one.

For the community's fifth annivrsary,ship_manifesto is doing a shipping battle here. Goodness, the match-up between Will/Lyra (His Dark Materials) and Gilbert/Anne (Anne of Green Gables) is so close. It's thisclose. Would you believe I go online just to check who'd win between these two? I have no life. LOL. Anyway, I voted for Will/Lyra. And I think it's so unfair that Serafina/Farder is matched up with Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy. The latter will surely pwn the former. Wait...it's alread doing that. :(

I mentioned in my Twitter that I will be doing some catching up with the latest chapters of Tegamibachi chapters, which I did and did in just one sitting. Actually, I did some backtracking too since it's been months since I last read from the series. Last chapter I've read was chapter 14 . What is was all about, I could even barely remember. Heck, I didn't even remember much about Tegamibachi except for some character names like Lag , Niche, Gauche (Goos). And of course, the oh-so-cool Jiggy Pepper.



With a name like that, it was simply hard to forget him. And it does help that he happens to be one of my favorite characters in the manga.

( Jiggy Pepper Mini-spam )

Yeah, I love him.:D

Anyway, backtracking did me a lot of good because I was reminded why I even loved Tegamibachi in the first place

Tegamibachi was one of the four series that I had been following faithfully when JUMP SQ first came out. (Others were Shiki,Luck Stealer and Tista, two of which are not getting much scanlation love and I think SnoopyCool and Aku-tenshi have Shiki on hiatus?) It tells the story of a young boy named Lag Seeing and his quest to became a Letter Bee or a courier. Simple? Not quite, for the job of delivering letters proved to be quite dangerous because of the many gaichuu (armored insects), ready to attack anyone or anything who has a heart.What I liked most about Tegamibachi is the touching stories behind each letters. For a story that is focused on hearts, this manga also has a lot of ,you guessed it, heart--and an awesome art, to boot. I love Asada's coloring style. It has this , I don't know, ethereal feel. The characters are also very likable, especially Lag. When I first started reading Tegamibachi, he reminded me of D.Gray-man's Allen Walker. They both have this certain charm wherein you simply just can't find a reason to hate them.


The plot of Tegamibachi has become even more interesting, now that Goos, after his brief disappearance, is finally back. It's not really a good thing though.( Spoiler text and pics ) Inspite of the depessing things that are happening in the manga, I found something to smile about.



They are so cute together. And I like that despite being tied to a wheelchair, Sylvette can actually take care of herself. I'm not sure which direction Asada is taking though since there are some Lag/Niche foreshadowing especially during the latter chapters. Well,Lag/Niche or Lag/Sylvette--either is fine with me. But I do prefer Lag/Sylvette a little bit more. :D

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Tegamibachi wll be animated. Yes ,yes,yes!!!

After reading the first book in the Maximum Ride series, I actually considered or contemplated buying the books in paperback. I honestly enjoyed The Angel Experiment and the book that soon followed it. However, as I read Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports, I found myself falling out of love with the series as quickly as I've fallen in love with it. For one, Max has become more annoying as the story goes on. Her sarcasm was charming at first, but after a while, I found myself wishing that the book was written in third person instead of her POV so I didn't have to endure her negativity and her constant whining.

Secondly, the characters mostly remained two-dimensional, especially the Flock. Three books later, and what do we get? Some significant character developments? I wish. Even Fang/Max couldn't keep my love for the books. But that's to be expected since I fell out of love with Fang/Max (or Fax as they are called n the fandom) first before the actual books themselves. Fax didn't turn out to be as interesting as I was hoping. Come on, we have two people who have treated themselves as siblings all their lives and then suddenly they realize they might be in love with each other. I love this trope, one of my favorites in fact. Imagine all the confusion, the UST, the thrill of the journey towards the most awaited confession...It's rather frustrating that Fax failed to deliver.

Lastly, the plot. It could have been a decent sci-fi series: a group of genetically-altered teenagers on a mission to stop a corporation who's plannng to cure the world of pollution by erasing 3/4 of the world's population. It should have been a sci-fi book with a bit of teenage angst, not teenage angst disguised as a sci-fi story. If rumors were indeed true that James Patterson has ghost writers, I strongly suggest he gets better ghost writers. Maximum Ride had a lot of potential. Sadly, this potential was not explored better. Still, I'll be reading Final Warning and MAX, even if a good portion of the fandom thinks the last two books suck. I've started the series; I might as well finish it and enjoy and laugh how it goes downhill hereon. (And okay, I admit: I read it for Iggy. There's not much of him in the books though. Wrong decision, Mr.Patterson.)

On a fully unrelated, my friend lent me her Septimus Heap books again so I'll be doing some re-reading this weekend.

And then, Moxie and I had a photoshoot earlier. LOL. I swear my cat is such a camwhore. She loves it when I take her picture.

( I want to be a supermodel )

After our photoshoot, she slept.



We would always wonder why she loves to sleep with her head hanging outside her box.

Going back to some fandom-related stuff, ship_manifesto created a survey for the members' top ten couples. It's part of the plan they have for community's upcoming fifth anniversary. I am surprised to see a lot of Will/Lyras in the responses. And Harry/Lunas. If these two made it to the survey, I'll be very happy. :D

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I'm finally using Twitter!

Earlier , I tried to do the old 10-song meme wherein you have to write a drabble within the duration of the song. I sadly failed that meme, because not only was I not able to write 10 drabbles, I cheated because I had one song on repeat. Okay, two songs. XD Anyway, here are the results of that failed meme:


( Hallelujah - His Dark Materials; Will )
( That's What You Get - His Dark Materials; Lyra/Billy )
( She's Got You High - The Mysterious Edge of the Heroic World x From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs.Basil E. Frankweiler; Amedeo/Claudia )

Please don't ask me about the last one. It's a pretty random pairing, I know. I just thought it'd be fun to write Claudia and Amedeo together.

I was checking some videos in Youtube when I've encountered the video below.



Gods, I love this song. I love the show where it came from, even if it was so cheesy. I still want to be Pink Five and Red One is my first crush ever. :D

Meanwhile, another meme ganked from fandom_memes.

( Pairing Meme Part II )

Name your 15 absolutely favorite couples (het/slash/canon/fanon) and ask people to see what trends they notice about your couples. Try to pick different fandoms:

Hmm... it's hard to choose just 15 pairings because I'm such a pairing-whore.LOL Okay, so I'll be selecting pairings that I've shipped for years and those I think I'll be shipping for a long time.

1.Will/Lyra (His Dark Materials)
2.Cloud/Aerith (FFVII/Tactics)
3.Peter/Wendy (Peter Pan)
4.Jesse/Leslie (Bridge to Terabithia)
5.Leo/Kami-sama (Waqwaq)
6.Taikoubou/Shinkouhyou (Houshin Engi)
7.Kyon/Haruhi (Suzumiya Haruhi series)
8.Soujirou/Yuuki;Ximen/Xiao you; Yi Jeong/Ga eul (Hana Yori Dango, Meteor Garden,Boys Over Flowers)
9. Shinj/Asuka (Evangelion)
10.Clark/Lois (Superman)
11.Mustadio/Ramza (FFTactics)
12.Nicko/Snorri (Septimus Heap)
13.Red One/Pink Five (Bioman. What. They are my first OTP.)
14. Owen/Kate (Nearly Famous)
15.France/England (Hetalia)

I've just finished Peter Pan in Scarlet and I strongly belive that Sir J.M. Barrie would have been very pleased with this sequel. There were some parts though that didn't seem to follow the original book's epilogue. I assumed that the sequel happened right before Jane met Peter Pan for the first time.

But I enjoyed the book a lot, despite it's inconsistencies with the original source (isn't it that Peter can fly even without his shadow?) Hey, it's Peter Pan, how can I not love it? XD( Some spoilers here. ) And boy, do I ship Peter and Wendy all over again. I know it's wrong because she's already an adult (even if she physically became a child again when she returned to Neverland), a married woman with a daughter even, but goodness, the chemistry is still there. If there's one thing I didn't like about the book, it's ( Cut for character death )

I can't wait to see this book filmed. Sadly, the 2003 movie cast will be too old for this (Or maybe Rachel Hurd-wood could play the grown-up! Wendy?), but I'm excited to see some new faces.

So I went to meet my bestfriend in Robinson's today. We went and watched the movie adaptation of Dan Brown's Angels and Demons (the second time for me because I've already seen the film back in Bacolod), which was a pretty good movie. I haven't read the book so I couldn't make a book-movie comparison but my friend,who has read the novel, liked the movie as well and I trust her opinion so I assume it was a good adaptation.

Anyway, after watching the movie, we went window shopping, ate at Pizza Hut (Sausage Pops! Yum!), then said our goodbyes because she still had to go home to Sigma. Meanwhile, I headed straight to National Bookstore in search of either Stop in the Name of Pants! by Louise Rennison or The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg. I found neither books but I did find something that really caught my my attention, something I wanted ever since I've heard about it but disregarded since I thought , 'Nah, this book will never be sold where I live.' Oh how wrong I was!

Peter Pan in Scarlet is the only authorized sequel to JM Barrie's classic tale, Peter Pan. It's written by Geraldine McCaughrean, a well-awarded writer from Berkshire, England. She has won three Whitbread Children's Book awards, a Carnegie Medal. the Guardian Fiction Prize and the Smarties Bronze Award, but most importantly she has won the great privilege to continue to story of the Boy Who Does Not Grow Up.

Peter Pan in Scarlet starts in the year 1920, where our much beloved characters like the Darling kids and the Lost Boys are now all grown up and married. They, however, continued to have dreams of Neverland and dreams that seem so real!( For example, the Old Boys--formerly the Lost Boys--would dream that they were playing with the mermaids in the Lagoon and surprisingly,they would find themselves soaking wet when they wake up.) They think the dreams are actually warnings or messages: there must be something wrong with Neverland. And so Wendy proposes that they go back to Neverland. But ,of course, they must first find their fairy, and a way to turn themselves back to children.

McCaughrean's writing hardly strays from the original style, so fans of JM Barrie will not be disappointed. Nine chapters into the book and the mystery of Old Boys and the Darling Adults' constant dreams about Neverland is yet to be revealed, but I'm loving what I've read so far. It was fun to see what became of the Lost Boys when they grew up. And I'm so interested as to what the new character's--Ravello--connection is to the happenings in Neverland. If McCaughrean stayed consistent all throughout the book, without a doubt Peter Pan in Scarlet, like its predecessor, would most likely end up as one of my most beloved children's stories.

Now, excuse me, I think I need to start on chapter ten now. :D

So I'm done with the last episode of Nearly Famous. First and foremost, you have to check out Cal and Lila's rendition of Hallelujah which happens to be one of my favorite songs of all time (WARNING: Youtube video has spoilers). I don't really like Talulah Riley's voice but the arrangement of the song itself is beautiful.

Second, I don't really understand fandom's hate for Kate. I think Kate is awesome. She is my favorite feamle character in the show, actually. Yes, I know she does drugs, I know she sleeps with almost every guy she meets, but I also do understand that these are Kate's sources of escapism. She has a very sad life. Sure, she's rich; sure, her parents are celebrities, but they barely have anytime for her (they give her blank checks instead of their love and time) and most of the people around her befriend her simply because , well, she's rich and her parents are celeberities. I don't necessarily agree with her actions most of the time, but I do see where she's coming from and because she's not perfect that I'm drawn to her character.

The last episode really made me love Kate more. I have so much respect for her because though she knows that Owen is in love with Lila and though she herself is still in love with Owen, she accepts that she and Owen are through, and she remains to be a genuine friend to Lila in the end.I was actually afraid that Kate may have gone the vindictive ex-girlfriend route, but Nearly famous surprised me by going the opposite direction.

OTP-wise, I'm still all for Owen/Kate, which is rather surprising because Owen/Lila seems to be the type of pairing I thought I would be rooting for. But it turns out that I like them better as platonic friends. It's the same ase with Joe and Kate. I'd like to try and ship them together but I just couldn't. I can't seem to see them going beyond the friendship that they already have. And it's good thing that the show didn't pair them romantically. The relationship is beautiful the way it is.

Anyway, the show is so asking for a second season. Unfortunately, Channel 4 seems to have no plans giving Nearly Famous a second one, so I guess it's up to us and our imagination if we wanted to know what became of Lila,Kate , Joe and Owen. Sobring those fanfics in, fandom. :D