This is a love-triangle like no other.
Japanese films have this reputation for being all sortf of weird, regardless of genre. This looks to be no exception.
The plot is basically that a Highschool student, (Mizushima) gets valentine’s chocolates from the new girl at the school, Monami. But, the girl is a vampire and has put some of her blood in the chocolate to infect him. He decides he wants to be a vampire with her.
He already has a girlfriend, Keiko, who catches the two of them kissing and tries to kill the vampire girl, but in the attempt accidentally kills herself. Keiko’s father ressurects her as a Frankenstein’s Monster type creature.

And the Vampire and the Franken-girl fight in the name of love.

I only heard of this film recently, and haven’t seen it yet, as the UK tailer was only released recently.
It is really, extremely violent, but to the extent that it becomes uneblieveable and comical in some ways.

(WARNING: Gore and Violence)

It’s been a little while since I uploaded a gothic lolita outfit post, so here’s some photos of what I wore this weekend.

The best full-body shot I could get was on the stairs, in the full-length mirror. Not the best ever, but you see the general idea:

It’s my old faithful black and white skirt again!

recently, on the EGL communities there was a lot of distaste expressed for black socks with white shoes, but honestly I like it.
Face photo!

I changed my hair. It’s pink underneath now instead of blue. And I curled it instead of straightening it, just for a little variety.

The next photo is another face-shot, because just before leaving I decided to change the bow I was wearing. So here’s the same thing, but with different head wear (and I have my coat on).

A quick photo of the full effect, with coat.

Sorry, for the sulky face, totally unintentional!

I have one more bonus photo, which was accidental and wrong, but still turned out quite itneresting and I like it anyway.

How regal, how suave! If only I knew how to do that whenever I wanted! :p

This is a new anime series that I recently started watching. produced by SHAFT. (SHAFT also produced the massively popular Bakemonogatari)

The vampires in Vampire Bund cannot walk in sunlight, unless they are wearing a special gel that allows them to (essentially, really strong sunscreen, right?). And they do have the power to transform into various huge, violent beasties like spiders and lizards to fight each other.

“Dance in the Vampire Bund” is about vampires coming out and making themselves known to humans as their leader, the Princess Mina Tepes, is trying to create a land just for vampires off the coast of Japan.
This is quite interesting as it deals with the modern public, and how they would react to discovering that vampires are real. And there are a few clever twists as princess mina makes plans to have vampires live alongide (or take over?) human beings.

There are elements of clan rivalry between vampires both human and vampire policitics, human military involvement and smaller-scale tension between humans and vampires.

In true Anime style, there are elements of both drama and comedy. Predictably, the vampire princess transferrs to the main boy’s school, at home she is served by three old-fashioned maids, and there are frequent typical outlandish battles with increasingly powerful enemies.

There is some contoversy over Princess Mina, as she is a child character, who appears naked, or partially so, quite often.

As with most modern vampire stories, where there are vamps there must also be werewolves. However, the two don’t seem to be rivals or anything in this series..

overall, I like it so far because dealing with vampires coming out into the human world is interesting to see.

It is no secret that I love really cheesy, old horror movies, and pretty much anything about vampires.

Recently, I watched the 1979 movie “Thirst”. It had all the makings of a really good, bad-vampire-film. It was directed by Rod Hardy and written by John Pinkey, and the film won “Best Special Effects” at the Catalonian International Film Festival in 1979….

The plot is basically about the last direct descendant of Elizabeth Bathory, a woman named Kate. She is a vampire and doesn’t know it, and other vampires kidnap her away to their secret hideout to have her join them. But first they leave a milk carton full of blood in her fridge.
Kate doesn’t take to drinking blood, and doesn’t want to be a vampire (do they ever? lol). She tries to escape, and the vampires try to brainwash her and keep her captive.
Some parts, including the escape scene and brainwashing horror scene, were quite like some comon nightmares and were quite tense in that respect.

The vampires keep a Blood Farm, in which humans were kept like cattle and herded off in groups to be bled by strange ‘futuristic’ blood-sucking machines. This reminds me of the novel “Piggies” by Nick Gifford, which I read when I was quite young. It was also about humans being kept on a blood farm by vampires, but from the point of view of the humans.

Here’s a screenshot of the blood farm:

Main character, Kate, is suitably disgusted by all this.

Vampires in “Thirst” can walk around in the daylight. They don’t seem to have any superhuman abilities like strength or speed. But their eyes glow red when they’re about to bite someone.
They don’t have permanent fangs.

Here’s my favourite scene from this movie. I like it purely for how memorable it is. Old Lady Vampire!

The glowing red eyes really set off those glasses, don’t they?

I realised that I never post about everyday life anymore, and that’s probably because now that I’m not living in Japan I personally don’t find everyday life very interesting.
Mostly, I’ve been looking for jobs with little to no success. Over the last 3 months I’ve had uncountable rejection letters, and two interviews, neither of which came to anything. Still, the hunt continues!

Today, is Pancake Day. And pancakes are arguably my favourite food ever. So, this morning for breakfast I had pancakes:

Yes, that is one strawberry pancake, and one bacon pancake.
And the same again, except bigger, for lunch!

Yesterday, I went to the UK Premiere screening of the new Evangelion films; Eva 1.0 and Eva 2.0.
Being and Eva newbie, I can’t compare it to the original, but I can say that it was pretty fantastic and I enjoyed it fully. There was a lot of people there, and a lot of familiar faces from other events and such. There was a great atmosphere, and everyone seemed very impressed by the films. (and so they should! They were great)
There are mixed opinions on the new character, Makinami Mari, but I personally really liked her.
Here’s a wee head-and-shoulders image of her with her pink plug suit and red glasses.

you know, my glasses were very similar to those.

Over the weekend, I went with Bry and his friend Steven, who was visiting from fife to Glasgow Cathedral and the Necropolis. Despite being from this city, I’d only been to the catchedral once before and I’d never been to the Necropolis before, so it was quite interesting.
Wikipedia informs me that the necropolis has aproximately 3500 tombs in it.
Quite impressive I think.

I’d been looking for new boots for quite some time, since last autumn my last pair of knee-high boots had a terrible accident and were ruined.
So after months of looking around aimlessly, I realised I wanted black and white ones. This pair from Qutie Land ( http://www.qutieland.com) fitted the bill;
http://www.qutieland.com/product.php?id=57

Since they have a black and white option in the drop-down menu. Now, I was always wary of sites that made things to order, and replica companies in general. Mostly due to the endless stream of size problem posts that the EGL community gets from girls who have ordered clothes and they haven’t been made properly. And I know a lot of others are worried about this too! Which is why I am making this small review.
I really wanted these boots, so I decided to take the chance and order them.
The standard size fits me, so there was no custom sizing. Sorry I can’t review from that perspective. However, they are still made to order. I was a little extra nervous, since the black and white colour combo isn’t shown, so I had to just hope they’d be the in the same pattern as the red ones.

The communications with Qutie Land went brilliantly, they kept in touch at every stage of the process and all their messages were clear.

Counting production time, they took just over a month to reach me, which is quite outstanding since they ask 20 working days to make each pair. It was a long wait, but I was expecting that.

The boots arrived to me last week, the box they arrived in was slightly bashed, but that’s the postal system for you.

Inside, they were perfect. And are very solid and well made shoes! Here they are:

The laces are exceptionally long, but do work so you can tighten or loosen them if you need to. You can see that the toe is quite solid and the soles are thick.
Also, the black and white pattern is exactly what I was looking for!

The only negative thing is that the cuffs around the tops of the boots are NOT detachable. They are shown detached on the website, and they are described as detachable on Ebay, but they are not on my pair. They close by velcro on the inside, and are glued on. Assuming they were detachable, I almost peeled them off by accident, so the glue isn’t very strong. But that is easy to sort out, and isn’t a problem considering the overall good quality of these boots.

They are also extremely comfortable, I wore them every day last weekend and they did not become uncomfortable at all.

Here are some detail shots:

Overall, I am very happy with these, and will deffinately consider shopping from Qutie Land again.

It’s about time I got started on some Sanguis City related updated, so here we go!

I’ve added some preliminary character pages to the site to give the basics about SC’s main vampires. So far only 3 out of the 7 have images, and the details are sparse, but i will be updating them as much as possible over the next few months with more information and pictures

I started this year as I mean to continue, so here’s some more Lolita.

Now, I had some trouble taking photos of the full outfit. This shot shows my blue eye makeup (to match my hair, sort of ), Mary Magdalene katyusha and neck bow.
I like that hair band a lot, because it doesn’t hurt my head. They usually do, but this one is very flexible!

Now, as much as the white-door background works for showing off photos, it gets boring if I have the same setting for all my photos doesn’t it? Unfortunately there wasn’t really any other suitable places. But determination made me go for a different angle, and this is the most interesting photo I had that still showed off my skirt:

The neck bow was originally attached to this skirt, but they make a lovely set seperated.

And the shoes:

Metamorphose high heels. They’re cute and comfy, I plan on wearing these as much as possible in the future!

My usual style is this black-and-white, classical look. It suits me, and I do like it.
But sometimes you just have to mix it up! So this is what I wore to my friend’s birthday party:

(pokerface! get it?)
Unfortunately I didn’t get a photo of the whole outfit, but I’m wearing a red angelic pretty JSK, black and red rose socks and red heeled shoes with this hair and makeup.
I like to think that the giant Metamorphose bow works with the pink wig, it looks a little out of balance with my usual short hair.

New year is a time to party! So this is what I wore to celebrate:

This is one of my favourite dresses. It’s a storybook jsk by Innocent World.
I must admit, I chose to wear it because I thought it would co-ordinate well with the Professor…

He looks so happy hanging there between my bows….

Shoes make an outfit!

And finally, my unimaginative makeup and outifit-matching red and gold nails.

The new years party was great fun. What an amazing end to last year and a great start to this one
I hope you all had fun too!

and a Happy Boxing Day.

The snow is still with us, and it was the first white chistmas we’ve had in a long time.
Bry got me a camera for christmas! So I took some festive photos.
first, a practice shot of the fireplace I took from the sofa..

He also got me this cute little professor layton:

I’m wearing him as a necklace right now. (I’ll never be without a puzzle again… oh dear. Maybe he’ll be a little good-luck charm and I’ll be able to solve all of life’s troubles.. :p)

We went outside to take more photos, I was quite excited about it since I love snow. I took the oppertunity to take some photos of the park looking pretty.

Everything else was black and white except this tree!

There’s beasties out here in the snow!

By the stream…

It’s only Paws :p

and Bry, attempting to cross the pipe next to the bridge. I used the bridge.

And the path back home.

Christmas Dinner was huge and delicious, and everyone seemed to enjoy themselves. There was a three-bird roast, lots of types of stuffing and cranberry sauce and all the usual favourites, it was very impressive. We will have leftovers tonight. Mmm.