Update (May 26, 2016)

Really sorry for not posting the past few months! I was in a drawing mood so all I did then was draw, draw and draw lol. I promise to post new stuff soon! ;A;

In the meantime I would like to reiterate that no one is allowed to use, modify, crop, reprint in any form, repost or redistribute my art that I've posted on my tumblr, pixiv, twitter, instagram. I do not grant permission to repost my art. Due to a recent reposting incident I have now deleted almost all of my anime-related artworks from my deviantart.

Also I was inspired by Hinano-san to blog about my thoughts and feelings with regards to shoujo manga and otome games so I will start writing about them soon as well! ^_^

Art Theft

I've posted this on my tumblr but I'll post it here again. So upsetting that this has to be my first major post of the year. :/

Today I got curious about how people try to find their art/photos that get re-uploaded without credit and randomly went to do a search without expecting anything. But to my utter shock and dismay I found my art of Akura-ou on this website feed thingy (it's not Facebook).

As you can see my watermark is right there (when I watermark my art they usually go by “Akina”, “Shirayuucchi” or “Juaki”). And it was posted way back in May last year without my knowledge, and even worse, with no credit whatsoever. I’ll be honest here. I’ve never believed my art would get taken because it isn’t at all the best in my opinion but apparently this isn’t so.

I don’t know Russian so I can’t understand what the comment is saying and neither do I care what it says because I’m just plain upset right now. (Edit: I used Google translate for the website and I understand what was written now but I honestly don’t care what people think of my works plus that’s not the real problem here) Even if I don’t think my works are up to standard, I put in a lot of effort in what I do and like any other artist, I don’t like it one bit when my works are being used in such a way.

I’m aware that so many works are being stolen on a daily basis but now that I’ve finally fallen victim to this widespread practice, I can fully understand how unbearable it feels when your stuff gets stolen. Even though it may not be as bad as having my art being claimed by another, it’s still art theft, people!

And this is a very, very well-known nagging reminder but some people just turn a blind eye to it. It’s not that they don’t/can’t understand, they just REFUSE to. Social media has developed ways to appreciate people's works in the form of likes/shares/reblogs/retweets so there is no excuse whatsoever when it comes to the issue of re-uploading others' works.

✔ Shares (Facebook)/Reblogs (Tumblr)/ Retweets (Twitter): You SHARE the work from its ORIGINAL SOURCE.

✘ Re-upload: You SAVE the original work and UPLOAD it on your own site, usually without any credit or permission.

Some of my own sites where I’ve uploaded this art of mine:

My Deviantart

My Main Tumblr and reblogged to my Art Tumblr

My Instagram

** If you want my art by all means I allow you to right-click and save them into your computer, BUT PLEASE DO NOT RE-UPLOAD THEM ELSEWHERE WITHOUT ANY FORM OF CREDIT TO ME!!!!!!!!

A reminder to everyone in the creative industry (and to myself as well), please remember to always, always watermark your works. And please watermark them in such a way that art thieves will not be able to get rid of them so easily. Let’s also as a community help each other to alert and report stolen works.

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Adding on.

The comment according to Google translate is critiquing the art. I’m very appreciative of people’s comments and critiques on my works because I want to improve and work harder for my future art. But this doesn’t make me happy at all. In fact it makes me even more upset. Because it was written on a website where my work got re-uploaded instead of on my accounts where I originally posted them. And this isn’t okay at all.

I went to the site's Terms page and this was stated so if I understand my English well, I believe this also means not to re-upload works without permission.

I just did another round of checks because I was feeling uneasy since last night. I found out the same art got uploaded more than twice on the same website, but by different people. Along with all those other stolen works. =__=

This person even used my art in a fanfic of some sort!
Wow I'm soooo happy and proud.
Not. =__=

Please do not support accounts/pages that repost uncredited works!!!!!!!

Please read and share! Thank you! ♥

Happy New Year 2016

It's still January 1st of 2016 in my country so I'd like to take this opportunity to wish everyone a very happy new year!! The past year had been a blast, though it wasn't at all a smooth ride...but I made it out well in the end.

Thank you so much to everyone who was a part of my 2015, making up a part of my experiences, the things I learnt, etc. There're a lot of things I want to do in 2016 and I really hope I can accomplish them all!

Here's to another fulfilling year filled with lots of anime, otome games and drama CDs! Best wishes everyone! 今年もよろしくお願いしますね！^_^

GameStart Asia 2015

Second post for November! ＼＼\\٩( 'ω' )و //／／ Today's post will be on GameStart Asia 2015 which I attended on November 15th, Sunday. And yes this post is written like a day before I head down to AFASG. ☆*:.｡. o(≧▽≦)o .｡.:*☆

I didn't know this gaming convention existed until I saw its page recommendation on Facebook, and I went to look it up. It apparently started last year and this year is the second time it's held in Singapore. I enjoy playing video games but I'm not into many of the games people are crazy about nowadays lol. I used to play tons of PC video games a few years ago but then after I bought a Macbook and spent more time online, I slowly stopped playing video games. XD But since I've gotten my self a game console, I'm baaacccckkkk (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

This post isn't as photo-heavy as others thankfully 8'D

*Please DO NOT take out any of my photos

STGCC 2015

Hello again! ( ´ ▽ ` )ﾉ Today's post will be on STGCC 2015. I know it's been a while (nearly two months in fact) since the event ended but I couldn't find time to update because the situation at home changed somewhat drastically .-. But today is a public holiday here in my country so I have time to update my blog, and also before the next event this weekend, GameStart Asia.

This post is PHOTO-HEAVY
*Please DO NOT take out any of my photos

Rejet New Titles (2nd half of 2015)

Hello! This time I'm back with new Rejet titles to share. Yes I know it's really late... Rejet announced the new titles early last month but I wasn't online much then and I didn't realise they had made announcements and also the fact that I'm a lazy person so yeah TTvTT

As usual, since I'm such a busy and lazy girl, I haven't listened much to any of Rejet's CDs orz. However I've recently started playing the Diabolik Lovers: Haunted Dark Bridal game uhuhu and I must say so far it's been.....interesting..... definitely not your typical otome game lol OvO And yes I'm still playing Touken Ranbu pfftt

Anyway without further ado, let's move on!

CharaExpo 2015 (20 June 2015)

Greetings! It's been a month since I've posted an entry in this blog! I've been busy over the past month...my apologies!

Today I'll be blogging about last month's CharaExpo which was held in Singapore for the very first time. I only went on the first day because I was really tired and lazy to go for the second one www

This post will be pretty PHOTO-HEAVY!

*Please DO NOT take out any of my photos!

Funan Anime Matsuri 2015

Hello, it's me again~ June this year is just full of anime events and that means I'm going to be broke this month (like I'm not already broke in the first place) _(:3 」∠)_

Yesterday I went to Funan Anime Matsuri 2015 (8-14 June) held at Funan Digitalife Mall. I wanted to go earlier in the week but I was busy... But I managed to make some time to attend it ;v; I was mainly attracted to the promotion - Touken Ranbu official merchandise on discount! LOL *shot*

*Please DO NOT take out any of my photos!

Gundam Docks at Singapore

Hello~ It's been a while! My last post was dated March and now it's already June. Time really flies! :o

Some updates, I graduated from my polytechnic on May 18th, and I'm currently in sword hell aka Touken Ranbu lol XD

And today I went to the Gundam Docks exhibition in Singapore. The exhibition runs from 4 to 28 June at Ngee Ann City, with the merchandise available at the B2 level.

I'm not a hardcore Gundam fan but I appreciate mecha and their designs. Here are some photos from the exhibition!

*Please DO NOT take out any of my photos!

Costest: Nine (Zankyou no Terror)

Hehe so I finally did a costest after so long! I used the new products I bought yesterday and I'm glad to say that I'm satisfied with them. The only thing was that I didn't expect the tip of the gel liner to break off so easily LOL so I ended up having to line my eye using the leftover stump XDD
The Essence BB Cream is pretty good, but my only complaint is that it's kind of stinky (.-.) I still prefer Silkygirl's Magic BB Cream, plus it has a pleasant fragrance X3

I'm costesting Nine from Zankyou no Terror by the way. I'm still not good with the eyeliner so the only thing I'm not satisfied with for this costest are the eyes...cursing the unsteady hand and bad vision (ToT) But I'm really happy that I managed to pull off a guyish makeup! I do think I look quite ikemen LOLOL *slapped*

New cosplay makeup supplies~

As a personal rule, I don't wear makeup (with the exception of BB Cream because heck everybody loves them too). But because I do cosplay, I have to put it on XD So I went shopping for more makeup supplies for cosplay today~ I'll be sharing on the products I bought in this post :3

This is not a product review by the way, because I haven't tried any of them on yet.

Watched Naruto The Last~

I finally got to watch Naruto The Last movie today, and since today's the last day it will be airing in my country, I feel really lucky to be able to catch it on the big screen!! :D

I literally got goosebumps when the original Naruto theme played near the beginning of the movie aaaahhhh I realise I really do love this series after all (even though I never managed to catch up with much of Shippuden www) _(:з｣∠)_

The movie is good, and I just had to bring home with me all the lovely NaruHina feels (TvT) ❤

Rejet New Titles 2015/2016

Ehehehe once again this post is long overdue! XD
But I want to post about it anyway, mostly for my own reference~
It's also the opportunity for me to finally, FINALLY watch all these PVs :'D

A few weeks back (I can't remember exactly when because I was too busy with schoolwork when I saw the announcement on Twitter >.<) Rejet updated us with new titles for this year!

As with the previous year, I was busy doing my work (this time it was a bloody report ugh) when Rejet spammed my Twitter timeline with updates. 酷いな…(Ｔ▽Ｔ)

HOWEVER.... I myself am severely not updated when it comes to listening to Rejet's CDs due to the fact that there are so many of them, I can't keep up welp hello it's like hundreds of CDs vs only one of me... (´ｰ`* ))))
I have no idea where I stopped at for Diabolik Lovers (possibly the first volume of Dark Fate orz), and as for the other Rejet CDs, the last thing I remember listening to was Vanquish Brothers Masamune ;;;;;;