Little duck and her prince without a heart?

I planned this post ages ago...

but was too busy to write it

and now some of my thoughts are lost...

And I got involved in this anime too much 

and forgot to take screenshots or wrote down quotes.

Eh... this anime is worth writing a better post...

Never mind.

Princess Tutu?

It sounds dumb, right?

Magical girls? And ballet?

You can imagine something similar to

Card Captor Sakura (or even worse)

plus ballet which will make it even dumber.

Nothing more misleading.

What you get is an absolutely beautiful fairy tale

with ballet and classical music which creates even more magical atmosphere.

 Episodes are named after famous ballet stories

and this is not a coincidence, but you can find a connection within their content.

Ant this connection really makes sense. It seems natural. 

Once upon a time a man died.

His work was creating stories to tell other people.

This is how the story begins.

Like typical fairy tale.

The action takes place in a city with a ballet school

where stories come true.

There is a small duck who turned into a girl,

a prince who lost his heart,

crow's daughter

and a ballet teacher who is... a cat.

It can all sounds really childish and a little silly,

but in fact every second of this anime is a food for mind and eyes.

Welcome to the stage I've been saving. 

Now. tell me the best story that was ever told! Tell it to me with no regard for your lives! 

I will risk and say that it is one of the best story

I have ever seen.

This is one of this anime that I truly enjoy and find deeper meaning,

but I would also love to show it to my children one day.

It is just for everyone.

And if you additionally love ballet you will be in heaven. 

There is so many gorgeous AMV on the Internet...

when you start watching them.. prepare for losing at least a few hours...

I chose two of them to show^^

Kiki from the past

I feel really tense today.

Just three days until Versailles concert...

I can not concentrate on anything

so I was just looking through some old things at home

to kill time and distract myself from one thought.

When I was a child 

all kids were collecting different printed papers

and then were exchanging them to have other ones.

I was really shocked when I have found this one in my collection!!!

It is from Kiki's Delivery Service!

Ghibli's anime.

At this time I had no idea about anime or Ghibli .

It is so strange.

I feel like finding a part of current me in the past^^

Dante with Gackt's voice

I planned to watch all Sket dance,

but I get bored after the 1st episode 

(so schematic...)

and jumped to 15th episode

where Dante appears.

He is created 

in very stereotypical way,

but I have to admit that I fell for him

from the first sight.

He is a visual kei musician

and as you know he has Gackt's voice♥ 

But if you want to watch it just for Gackt's voice

you will be disappointed.

Dante is a very shy type

and he speaks very rarely.

But this is exactly his appeal!

As I said the image is very stereotypical.

Dante, or rather Date...

introduces himself as

He has not only vk appearance

(black-violet spiky hair, make-up,

painted nails, jewelry etc),

but also vk behavior.

He usually expresses himself 

in one strange word which

is difficult to understand.  

He makes this typical vk poses

which seem so cool for us fans,

but strange and annoying for the others.

How sweet he blushes♥

On a stage he is an 

absolutely different human.

Self-confident and powerful.

BTW it is really funny

that such stereotypes still exist XD

Anyway Dante is really kakkoi.

Mana's custom of not speaking,

together with Gackt's voice

and in fact he looks like Kisaki in my opinion. 

Manga's author admitted

that Gackt was an inspiration for Dante^^ 

I want all anime

with such character!!!

Here you can listen to a song

which Dante sung 

on School rock festival in anime.

In September full version

will be revealed. 

Can't wait♥

Fantasy of Iblard

Iblard Jikan is a rather unknown Ghibli anime.

It does not have any special plot 

and it is quite short.

It generally consists of 

paintings which show

some fantastic places.

Here are my three favourite ones.

All show a girl from the back.

I want to be a jellyfish princess!

I do not remember 

when I watched all anime in one day.

Kuragehime is really absorbing.

I could not stop watching it.

What makes it so special?

1. Cute characters

Here we have cute... jellyfishes.

I did not know they can be cute, 

but they are!

here is Clara^^

Jellyfish dolls♥

Want!

2. Cute guy

He is definitely cute.

Thin with pale face and big eyes. 

What is more?

He dresses like a women^^

Let's skip my strange fantasies 

about dating a boy in a dress,

twinning in loli

or shopping together XD

He somehow made me think about

Ryohei from Megamasso^^

He would make perfect Kuronosuke.

He has cute face

and his daily clothes are quite girlish♥

3. Otaku girls

They are absolutely amazing.

I understand them perfectly well.

Maybe I like buying clothes and 

wear make-up every day,

but still I am just a self-conscious otaku girl XD

4. Clothes

They play important role in all story.

I do not mean only Kuronosuke's interest in fashion,

but all story about a jellyfish dress.

When Tsukimi was a child

her mother promised to make

her beautiful wedding dress 

which would look like a jellyfish.

If I got married 

(of course it is not possible-

otaku girls can marry oshare men

only in anime or drama)

I would wear jellyfish dress^^

Babyssb made collaboration with Kuragehime

and this is how all collection was created.

Jellyfish dress is a part of it.
*_*

In fact this

French Lolita outfit 

which Kuronosuke was wearing 

is quite cute as well.

And btw Lolita Fashion was mentioned^^

They had no idea

what pannier is^^

their expression XD

*came back to reading manga*

Magic of Ghibli

I have not watched Ghibli animation for quite long.

Today I watched Arietty the Borrower 

and I have felt this magic again.

Love this doll house♥

I can not really understand this phenomenon

but it is exactly how Miyazaki said.

After watching it I felt happy.

Just happy without any reason...

GOSICK!

I started to watch GOSICK only for pretty dresses,

(btw it seems a little strange that all characters
are wearing such victorian or edwardian outfits,

when it is already 1924 XD).

but I have found much more in it.

Beautiful urban legends, well-constructed characters 

and complicated secrets. 

One day a monster with its rabbit appeared.

It took a form of a beautiuful, blond-haired girl.

It was called Monstre Charmant.

They wanted to defeat the monster and use its power.

The first they killed the rabbit, which always protected the monster.

But then they realized that:

why?

This legend is really beautiful and refers perfectly to all story.

Here are Victorique and Kujo in 

Monster Charmant and the rabbit's outfits
which they wore for the Christmas party. 

My blog is still mostly about Lolita Fashion

so let's concentrate on this topic.

GOSICK made collaboration with Innocent World.

This collection is really beautiful, but as far as I remember

Victorique has never worn such dress...

White version would be good as a wedding dress^^

And boots are amaizng *_*

Main characters' seiyuu.

Yuuki Aoi wearing Victorica dress^_^

BTW Aoi seems really cute (and small 144cm) and 

makes perfect Victorique.

What is the best? 

She likes Lolita Fashion by herself.

Most of Victorique's cosplayers

seem to choose her dark outfits from first episodes.

This is the best from what I saw:

(more)

I have to admit that watching this anime made my into mood for wearing

lavenda dress.

I do not want to exactly cosplay Victorique, 

but just get some inspiration.

Very frilly lavenda dress^^

For example this one

by Classical puppets would be perfect.

Or at least quite simply

Baby Dessert OP

I want lavenda dress for my happines XD
And to it Victorique's inspired
long wig with hime cut ♥_♥

What else?

Volks made dollfie inspired

by Victorique and Kujo!

♥_♥

For the end my fav screenshots. 

Endings by Lisa Komine are just stunning.

Here is the second one♥