I'm Umeda Isao. I'm trying to make it as a mangaka in America. And it is here that I'll be putting up some of my ideas I have for mangas and/or animes. I would like everyone's opinion on them so if you have anything that could help improve my stories, please tell me! Your opinions will help me better myself as a mangaka.
So here's a little bit about myself:
Real Name: Noland Isao Kana'i Soga (yes it's a bit long ><) Birthday: July 2,1990 Birthplace: Honolulu, Hawaii Resides in: Las Vegas, Nevada Hobbies: Drawing and reading manga, watching anime, learning Japanese Likes: Food in general, anime/manga xP, video games (especially racing games and RPG), stories that have a serious moral to them Dislikes: Going to work T^T, being in a slump while working on ideas Favorite Music: Anything that strikes my fancy :D Favorite Musicians: Please refer to my last answer =w= Favorite Seiyuus': Kikuko Inoue, Nana Mizuki, Aya Hirano, Mai Nakahara, Ai Shimizu, Shinichiro Miki, Takehito Koyasu, Tomokazu Sugita...and more ^^ First Anime Watched: Speed Racer XD First Anime that made me an otaku: Initial D (lol)
I had such an awesome time there! I would love to go there again for more than my "day-cation".
Though the day didn't exactly start off great lol My friend, whom I set up the flight to San Fran for because it was her birthday, was told that we were supposed to fly out of Vegas at 6am. She told me she would be staying up until then and sleep on the flight there...ironically, she ended up falling asleep and didn't wake up UNTIL it was past 6! XDDD
Here I am, running around blowing up her phone when she calls me, "OMG I AM SO SORRY! >.<" So we ended up taking the next flight out.
Though we had less time to go do stuff, we tried to make the best of it. We first hit Nihon-machi aka Japan Town. I just got a rush of nostalgia of how Hawaii's shops and stuff were set-up; so small and close together.
Kinokuniya Book Store is my newest shop for EVERYTHING! Original japanese manga, TONS of artbooks, manga art supplies, and a whole other slew of other stuff I go NUTS for!!! Too bad I had such a small amount of money I could only splurge on 3 artbooks=over $150 DDD8
While in the area, we found Baby, The Stars Shine Bright. For those of you who don't know, it's a Lolita based clothing line specializing in Sweet Lolita. My friend, a Lolita cosplayer, HAD to go there. Dude, I didn't realize how expensive that stuff can get! ONE DRESS COSTED OVER $400!!! And that's just the dress, it didn't include the other stuff: Blouse, shoes, accessories etc
There was another shop called Angelic Pretty she wanted to go to but unfortunately it was too far out and it would have more expensive than Baby o____o; Thank GOD I didn't buy her any of that stuff; hell I got her plane ticket to and from San Fran lol
Our last stop was Fisherman's Wharf which was 2-3 miles from Japan Town. 2-3 miles doesn't bad to walk...if it weren't for the fact that we were in San Francisco Dx Holy crap that whole walk felt like it took forever! Especially with the contrast in weather kicking in; 60 degrees compared to the usual 80-90 degress here in Vegas.
But once we made it...I was back in nostalgia. We headed down to the beach and took in the sights. I sat on the side and took it all in while my friend wanted to go soak her feet in the water. I gotta say though, I had a moment watching her run around in the water...like an odd feeling I had seen this in a manga or anime somewhere lol And now I'M the one experiencing it xDDD
After all that, we had a little stop at the Ghiradelli Square and got a BIG sugar rush! I had this "Vanilla" shake that seemed to just drown in chocolate! Hell you could even tell that there WAS vanilla in there anyway lol
I didn't take too much pictures cuz I SUCK at photo-taking and our time constraint for the day. But now I feel like making this kind of vacation a usual thing except we go for a weekend or something rather than a day.
And so that was a little taste of our experience there in San Fran. I'll try to put up some more details about it in my Tumblr maybe.
So...it's just getting worse with my comp now...my buddy at the shop said he had to leave it overnight because the strength of this virus is not letting my OS update or something like that. The thing is too strong for my anti-virus software to locate =___= I don't know too much about this stuff but he's never let me down before; so his word over my gut lol
ANYWAY, that aside, for all you PERSONA fans and PERSONA 4 fans especially, have you checked out the latest trailer for PERSONA 4 The Animation?
If you haven't or if you are interested, here's the video link---> A slated release around Fall 2011 for the anime is stated and more teasers are to be released according to specific dates from the game =w=b Go play the game if you don't remember the dates but I think something might come up very soon~
Also another anime I'm oddly looking for is Idolmaster lol It'll be interesting to see how they work this out haha Here's the video link for this one--->
I don't know how long it'll take to get my comp back but I've got a trip to San Francisco coming up this Friday for my friend's B-day so hopefully everything goes well with that lol I've never been to San Fran before so this'll be an awesome experience!
Somebody recommended Vocaloid so I'm gonna give it a shot >w<b
Okay so I've asked around and I think I may have come with a list of possible prints to use for AV in Sept.
Here we go:
-Blazblue
-Pandora Hearts
-Deadman Wonderland
-Touhou
-High School of the Dead
-Key Visual Art: [Kanon, Air, Clannad, Little Busters, Angel Beats, Rewrite]
-Persona 3 &/or 4
-Sailor Moon
(Gonna give it a shot since Sailor Moon's celebrating 20 years xD) -Vocaloid
Please give me more ideas guys and maybe I can narrow this list down...or add to it lol xDDD
