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At this point, I would tell you my age and a little about myself, but I believe that my birthday can help you discern the former for yourself. As far as things about me go, I am a man who has a fondness for writing, philosophy and psychology. At the moment, I may or may not be employed. Which one it is I cannot say, for I am writing this at a moment in between both, and at no point in the future will I remember to change this.
I enjoy a large variety of anime, and manga, simply requiring it to be enjoyable when I watch it, and while there are many things on my “to watch” and “to read” list, in actuality, most of it should be on hold. I can’t say if I’m easy to talk to or not, as it depends on who you are, but I try my best to be a friendly as possible, so talk to me if you feel up to it. I also request that you talk to me before you send any friend request because I am quite willing to leave them untouched for months to years upon end.
If you’re interested in my writing, just click my website above where you can read new chapters to each story every two weeks (assuming I’m not bogged down). With that, I find myself without much else to say. Hope we can get along well.
>this reply feels like it's going to be small.
Through the power of will we shall garner enough strength to write five paragraph essays to each other. We can do this! Hah, that sounds kinda familiar to I problem I tend to have. I have a tendancy, for whatever reason, to write much more than what's needed for a reply and usually reply back with at least 110% less of what I wrote. It's times like those when I don't know if I should laugh or cry. Curse my overwhelming need to write more than what's needed.
Such a shame there's next to nothing on the manga, and considering there's no way I could possibly play the game I guess I'll never have the pleasure of venturing into the series. Shame, because it doesn't look half bad. At least I've still got Pokemon to keep me company because it makes me happy...
Let me tell there's no greater pain than being able marathon the first two seasons in less than three days and then having to wait a week for the next episode of the third season. Game of Thrones is truly a strange beast, hard to watch at times *cough cough Joffrey should get punched in the throat STAT cough* and difficult to explain to others. (Whenever I try to tell my friends about it I always end up saying "And then they had sex" which doesn't lead me anywhere...) Despite that I can't stop watching.
It kinda sounds like Canadian weather, one time it's warm and the very next minute it's raining droplets of water the size of someone's fist. Mother nature sure likes to play dirty tricks. At least here in Africa it's like a bajillion degrees all year round with next to no fluctuations. Baccano! light novels in PDF format. Volume 9: Alice in Jails - Street Episode isn't in PDF format but you can read it here. (just scroll down till you see it.) Also, that list doesn't have Volume 17: 1711 - Whitesmile, but you can get it here. The novels itself is still ongoing but there's a translator who's willing to translate them in the future, so lucky us! :D I also downloaded PDF's for other novels, namely Fate/Zero, Spice and Wolf, Banner of the Stars, Garden of Sinners, ect. So if you ever want to read them I can link them to you.
I don't think there's any new trailers for Layton other than the Azran Legacy one. I believe the English game is being released in summer, right? Woah, Phoenix is only gonna be for download? Damn I gotta keep up with the news these days. Why are they only making it downloadable? Off by Mortis Ghost. Have fun purifying distressed people in zone 1 while riding ducks in rivers of blood. I can only imagine how bad I'd be at making a game, haha. Is there any type of theme you've got going for your game?
The main thing that irks me about DeSu2 is how painfully dull it is. I don't remember half the characters names and I'm sorry, getting demons on a phone app is not a good concept for a show. A game, sure, but not a show. Relatively certain they're leaving out a ton of stuff, hell they even killed off a character who would have otherwise been important to the plot.
I see you're also watching Valvrave... Run while you still can...
Oh yeah, I have impeccable timing. I decided to comment when you're likely smack dab in the middle of finals (assuming that you're in college or something...?) Yeaaah, sorry 'bout that.
Well for one thing I don't blame you. Your fingers were frozen and it can look a bit... intimidating trying to answer a behemoth like that. You can omit anything you want from our conversations, or feel free to start over, I really wouldn't mind.
Oh yeah I heard of Suikoden. Well, the manga adaption, never knew it was a game. Suppose I should add it to my list of "Games I want to play but never will because I'm much too lazy." I approve of you watching Game of Thrones, how far you in it?
Been pretty much the rainy season here. Didn't watch a whole lot, but I managed to read the Baccano! novels at a furious pace and they're quickly becoming my favourite. Along with that I downloaded the pdf's for, like, 20 other books which I plan to read when school's over and done with. I've also been flailing around at the sight of the new Layton and Ace Attorney games, and I had the rare occasion to play an actual game. An RPG-Maker game called Off. (Which was really awesome, by the way.)
Oh yeah, watching the new anime that's out too. Devil Survivor 2 is, uh, disappointing to say it lightly. Never played the game, but this adaption doesn't really make me want to.
Pretty sure Christmas has ended for the whole world by now, so Happy New Year. I ended up getting a new computer and the one ring, along with too much candy. Anything worth while happen to you?
I like to think that when I go sleep I'm not giving up on my dreams. Sit sleeping is really hard, but I suppose I've mastered the art from sleeping in class and in front of the computer. Damn, I sure do have my priorities straight. Thing is, it was permanent marker, so it was kind of a bitch to scrub off. Aw, why do you think you're not worthy of friends who draw on your face?
I used to think gaming was a hobby but all it has done for me is give me anger and pain. Either I get too emotionally to the characters and cry buckets of tears for them or I get ridiculously annoyed at them. ..So I guess that's why I quit gaming. Well, you needn't be jealous of me! You see, the past few days I've been... Dazed and confused, shall we say, and I can confidently say I'll never get to finishing Scribblenauts. I have been owned by many things, a door is not one of them. So kudos to your friend, I guess. Korean Variety show featuring a K-Pop group called Big Bang. I guess they're something like game shows? I'm not entirely sure myself. From what I've seen most, if not all, K-Pop groups go on a variety show at least once in their careers. I wouldn't really say they're down to earth, a lot of the times they act like five year olds, haha.
My friends and twin sister go on tumblr, and therefore they spout out every single detail that's going on in their fandoms. I know your pain. I admit I couldn't take Magi as seriously as I wanted to because I kept thinking the characters were going to break into song about how they want to be freeeeee~! So I guess he was toying around, or teasing, with his viewers. Nothing too egregious. This is completely besides the point, but I once saw a let's player who played a game called Bully, and in that game you play as a male student and you choose whether or not you can kiss other male students. The player decided to and got a considerable amount of hate. He responded by flashing the kiss numerous times in another video.
Oh sweet damn, Phoenix Wright is the Doctor. Excuse me as I go imagine him persecuting Daleks or something.
Ah, good old TV Tropes. It is a site that has provided me with many things, most notably this. Maybe that'll make you feel better after experiencing high octane nightmare fuel. It's just not cartoons, but also the TV Shows. Sure, I wasn't a very big fan of That's So Raven or the Suite Life of Zack and Cody but at least they didn't make jokes about eating disorders. Thing is, I think the older shows has more mature humor, they had inside jokes and got away with many things. I think now they're just running out of ideas.
Awh, I've seen a bit of Fish Hooks. It was mildly amusing albeit the only thing I remember from it was a pink fish saying "guuuuuuurl".
Remember now, the Layton franchise is primarily aimed at small kids. Of course it's going to be a game that treats you with apparent kindness that betrays the feeling of superiority. The movie adaption was announced quite a while ago and no info has been discovered since, so I expect it's going to take a long time for it to get released. It seems like a slow production. I'm definitely interested in it as it's most likely going to be a Japanese production so the actors will be Asian and Layton is, well, British. ..I think.
Little Busters! could potentially be the most talked about anime of the season because it's based off a popular visual novel and everything expect it to be animated by Kyoto Animation. The visual novel was also written by Key, whose previous works include Clannad and Air, which I'm sure you've heard of. Those two are renowned for being so emotionally involving it can make a rock cry. People were excited about it, but then it came out that it was going to be animated by J.C. Staff, who are inherently bad. And finally, when the damn thing actually came out people said, and still are saying, it sucked. But then again there are people who spout the age old saying "it gets better later on" in a last ditch effort that their favourite visual novel doesn't get a bad name.
... But I guess that was beside the point, anyway, never trust an anime based off its synopsis. Apparently in Little Buster include the following: (Hint hint, major spoiler alert.)
The world of Little Busters! is in fact an artificial world created for the two main protagonist because the majority of the cast died in an accident.
And you guessed it, this is supposed to be absolutely heart wrenching for those who played the VN. So it's a big deal that the adaption gets it right for the fans.
Guess you didn't read that from the synopsis? I think not!
Pretty sure the majority of everyone who's on this site got into anime with good old Pokemon and the lot. They're the usual suspects. I watched those shows too when I was young, but I wouldn't necessarily say I got into anime because of them. I was lucky enough to have an anime channel that aired Eureka Seven, Wolf's Rain, Last Exile, and a couple of shows on a day to day basis. One time they only aired Eureka Seven for the entire day. Sadly, the channel has since been abolished because, well, they started airing anime less and started showing their hosts doing stupid things.
I look forward to hearing your adventures with Gankutsuou.
Shinsekai: Thing is, from what I've heard from, when the kids are young homosexual couples are encouraged by hetero couples aren't. But when they're older hetero couples are encouraged and homosexual couples aren't. I've yet to figure out why that is. It's apparently near the end of the world so I don't think turning everyone gay is such a good idea. I mean what if most of them remain gay? What then?
Opinions man, sometimes I just don't understand the concept of them.
Tonari: Romances tend to make me mad, not only do most of them have a nauseating amount of conflict that could have been resolved with the main couple actually communicating with one another like rational human beings, but it also tends to be stupidly melodramatic. Romance is the development between two people who display real chemistry throughout the course of a relationship that experiences actual progress through real interactions. You can't just put two characters in a stupid situation where they do dilly dally with another and randomly fall in love with another in just 1 episode. (For God's sake, all the shoujos this season ended up with a kiss between two people whose barely known each other for 20 minutes. How about you develop your characters a bit more so we can actually care about them, then develop their bond with one another so we can root for them, and then make them fucking kiss?!) All you end up is shallow interaction.
You have no idea how frustrated I get over these things.
It's just about girls being insufferably nice to each other. I don't know how it is in Japan, but I certainly don't have idle conversations with my friends or drink tea and eat biscuits with each other. If anything, we're obnoxious and loud. I don't know, I just kinda don't see how it can be so popular. Hey now, at least Hyouka gave us a great enigmatic manipulator which is Chitanda and her "I'm curious!" catchphrase.
I am silently rooting for you and your Layton adventure, my friend. You keep yourself at it. Oh boy, writing. Ain't that a sight for sore eyes. As I said before, I've sorta been dazed and confused for the past couple of days. I have those moments when I’ve planned out a whole story idea in your head and I'm so excited to write it but then I open up a blank word document to begin and realize that I actually know absolutely nothing about it and I'm completely lost in a sea of vague plot details and random dialogue. It makes me groan in anguish.
Plot twist: You're a ninja without realizing it and I make incredibly bad jokes. Speaking of dozing off, I fell asleep in my science class today. We were doing a chapter review and we could literally do whatever want, so I fell asleep. My friends were nice enough to draw a mustache on my face and vandalize my binder. So I went to French with a giant mustache drawn on my face and everyone laughed at me, man, I have the best friends ever.
Meh, as long as I can watch anime and read manga without getting the blue screen of death Im perfectly with not being playing any games. I used to look at let's play and the such but I don't anymore. I'm just not very interested in gaming anymore, which is really going to be contradictory to what I'm going to say now: I've started to play Scribblenauts: Unlimited and it's ridiculously fun... Maybe it's because I can't really lose in it so I don't have to go through the frustration of having my stupid character die in a stupid way because I was stupid enough to fall for a trap or something. You see, I'm really good at games aimed at young children because they're really easy for idiot gamer like me. Have you never seen a Korean Variety Show? I would show you some but I doubt you'll enjoy them as much as I do because I watch Variety Shows that have my favourite Korean Idols do nonsensical crap to boost their sales. Oh, I'm sorry for hurting your image of your character. ):
It appears I'm ruining characters for you, sorry again, hehe. So basically you watched a let's player that was a yaoi shipper or something? I'm fine with people pairing up characters of their choice but only as long as they don't shove it down my throat. I don't know, it kinda sounded like the let's player you watched did that. We should have a spin-off Ace Attorney game where you play as the female companions when they go off with their own lives and adventures.
The infamous 'Return the Slab' scene? Yeah, that was one of my favourite scenes. But the all time most memorable moment in any cartoon ever created for me was probably this. I don't mean to be one of those cynical people who always say that good has come and passed, but those old cartoons sure as hell leave more of an impression than the cartoons of today. It's funny, I was never afraid of Courage when I was younger but when I rewatched it I lost sleep. Seriously, shows like Courage and Ed Edd 'N Eddy have some sick, twisted humour at times.
I say finishing that game is being productive, shhhh. What's your thoughts on it? People look for money (or Picarats, so to say) in cracks and crevices. People don't have jobs, they make up puzzles and look for gold coins on the ground to make a living. Oh yeah, did I ever tell you that Pr.Layton is getting a live action movie?
I have to admit, yaoi is genuinely some of the funniest things to read at times.
Sometimes I just want to create a paper mache trophies that say "Wow, you sure are a brave soldier" for those poor people. Of course, there could always be those instances where the cameramen actually enjoy filming idiots because they can get a good laugh or something. Also, how are they not, like, Olympic Athletes? They literally chase after grown ups acting like little children with heavy equipment. I would imagine that the cameramen are...Buff to some degree.
Maybe they were comparing SWOT to Bakuman instead as that makes more sense. Bakuman and Death Note have the same artist but it's just that Bakuman's art is a helluva lot more toned down. Plus, they both have pointy chinned characters. Top three anime of the season: Littler Busters! K, and Tonari. I've never seen Little Busters! but K and Tonari... Aren't that good. Curses, differentiating opinions strike again.
I'd say I got into anime with a pretty damn good start. Watched some pretty amazing shows like Last Exile, Wolf's Rain, and Eureka Seven when I got into the medium. Especially loved Last Exile purely because of its complex designs and great plot. It was just so different from what I was used to. GONZO is like Manglobe: They at first produced some pretty kickass shows, but at some part they just started to fall apart. Manglobe's reputation was forever tarnished since they produced an anime about a Blacksmith and haven't been able to produce a good show since. I'm not too sure what happened to GONZO, but I think they went bankrupt. Anyway, you should totally watched Gankutsuou. It's another GONZO masterpiece with its own sense of style, seriously, if you haven't watched it you're missing out.
Shinsekai: Funny thing is, the very next episode after that the show completely forgot about it. There was no reference to it and it was like it never happened. Also, if it seems like I'm spouting out spoilers, please tell me.
^My general thoughts on the anime community.
Tonari: I honestly think the supporting cast should have their own anime, they're just so much likable than the outcast main leads who can't quite seem to put one and one together and figure out they have feelings for each despite it being blatantly obvious. They keep stalling and I continually find myself screaming "Just kiss already, dammit!"
Highschool is something you want to escape, so why make countless anime based around it? I literally can't stand the cute girls doing cute things genre. Hell, is it even a genre? And that's why I dislike Kyoto Animation. They have shockingly good animation, but they have this nasty habit of wasting it on making some of the most uninteresting anime in existence.
Productivity at it's finest, for sure. I know for a fact I was productive today since it took me 6 hours to reply to this, I get distracted way too easily these days. Hmm... Might as well say this just in case the world really ends on the 21'st.... Happy New Year!
Hah, I highly doubt that. My week of Halloween delight was the busy one, now I've been freed from any forms of work for the weekend, huzzah! And that' why I absolutely adore my Social studies teacher, she doesn't give out tests and does her best not to give out homework either, if only more angelic beings like her existed.
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Pfft, took me a while to see what you did there, I'll back on procrastination later. In the meantime I have to stare at my work for a couple of hours as it truly fascinates me.
And that, my friend, is why I don't call myself a gamer, because I can't play any games. My brothers are the gamers and I generally watch them play stuff, which usually leads me to get kicked out of their rooms whenever I point and laugh at them whenever they die. I guess it comes in handy that MAL is the only site I have an account on. When I'm not on MAL, I'm listening to music or watching those obscure Korean Variety Shows on youtube. Gee, I just realized how lonely that must have sounded. I'll just imagine a human Komodo Dragon for the visual representation then.
I know that feel, people on the internet tend to get insulted a little easily these days. Phoenix truly is an inspiration, especially in the live action as he has a real-life '=3' face. Seriously, the actor who plays him can make a smile like that, it's so uncanny looking! Also, I recently found out the actor who played Edgeworth was a gay pornstar...My image of Edgeworth has been torn to pieces. I'll be happy with the new girl as long as there's a legit reason for Maya not being present. Maybe she felt she couldn't grow as a medium being with Phoenix, and they shared their heartfelt goodbyes and parted their separate ways. Or, you know, she gets murdered like Mia because we all know Phoenix is such a lady killer. I found out about Avalon Code after searching up some otome games to play (shut it,I don't need to explain myself to you!) and it popped up. You can play as either a girl or a boy and you get affection points when complete quests for certain characters. Oh yeah, I think it also has something to do with a magical book that controls the fate of the world or something. I don't know, I was too busy looking at the beautiful character designs to pay attention to the plot.
Mangafox.com is the main manga site I go to, so far it has:
Devil Survivor chapters 1 - 5
Devil Summoner: Kuzunoha Raidou Tai Kodokuno Marebito chapters 1 - 4
Oh good, I was worried for a second there. 90's and early 2000's cartoons are amazing, I'm glad to have been a part of that generation. Courage the Cowardly Dog will always hold a special place in my heart albeit to the fact it absolutely terrifies me now.
Oh goody! Which one are you playing? I can confidently say that even after completing all the Layton games out so far I am still at the same average intelligence I always had. Maybe that's because I used a walkthrough whenever I really needed help, but you didn't hear that from me. *shifty eyes* Yeah, sometimes the wording of the puzzles aren't exactly great. But the thing that mainly gets me the most is how serious puzzles are. Sure, this is a game focused on mind games but the characters are literally like: "Oh, you wanna go through this door? But first a puzzle!" It's a little silly and it makes me wonder if puzzles are an Olympic sport in the Layton universe.
You eventually get used to art styles you initially don't like. However, I have a tendency to yell "YAOI HANDS SYNDROME!" whenever I see a body part that's largely disproportional to the rest of the body. (Eyes don't count anymore)
Oh God no, if anyone dares come up to me and says that Jersey Shore is art I'm going to launch myself to the moon where I can silently cry to myself. At moments like these you truly have to commend the camera crew for sticking up people like them and making it out alive. Hey, that should a reality show, pitting normal people to follow around a couple of douches whilst holding heavy equipment. On second force, that sounds like capital punishment.
Oh yeah, SWOT. I remember only reading that because someone told me it had artwork similar to Death Note. I'm pretty sure I was trolled. Essentially one could say that K and SWOT are the same thing. They try to hit all the genres ever created, and sure why not hit all the fetishes as well while they're at it? Goth loli? Check. Catgirl? Check. Yaoi undertone Bishounens? Check. It's so infuriatingly stupid too, they made a character we've literally seen only two seconds of the main big bad guy in the climax of the seventh episode without any build-up whatsoever. Oh, and I'd show you a screenshot of a female character who has massively misshaped breasts, but I fear it might scar you for life.
Sword Art Online seems like it's almost trying to insult you with it's stupidity, but that's beside the point. At the very least, I want to have my own copy of Last Exile that I can watch over, and over again. First anime I've ever seen, and if I had my way it'd be my last one too. Viva la free and illegal fansubs. God I feel terrible for typing that.
Shinsekai Yori - The newest episode doesn't really help much either. Everyone turned gay, and not that there's anything wrong with that it's just everyone turned gay. Seriously, in some shots every couple you see are of the same gender, and there were a lot of couples. I'm not too sure what happened there, it was like animating heterosexual couples was suddenly banned for A-1: Pictures. It also doesn't help that the animation quality dropped ten fold. Aha! Code Geass, ah, I remember the time I attempted to watch that show when I was still new and afraid of the anime community. I didn't succeed very well.
Tonari - I'm sure Japan has citizens that can tell the difference from what's right and wrong in the real world VS. the anime world. It only took it 7 episodes, but I think it sorta got to the point it's completely toned down. It's now on the usual love triangle route we always see in rom-coms. Yeah, anime! I can always count on you when it comes to originality! But yeah, seriously, I really don't care about the main couple at all. I do, however, quite like the supporting cast.
Zetsuen: Again, the only manga site I go on is Mangafox.com. I'm pretty sure it's the biggest manga site around too. Of course, there's the old problem when a manga doesn't update because no one's translating it.
Surely male Japanese highschoolers can't be uninteresting, uninspired, dullards who have no zest for life at all? I would think protagonists would have motivation, and would want to do something awesome, otherwise what would make the story extraordinary other than the fact there's a bunch if cute girls?
I better wish you a Merry Christmas before it's too late then.
...Merry Christmas!
It's a-okay! It's not like I'm one to talk either, having been bombarded with tests, homework, going to a Halloween party and visiting friends in the hospital in the past week has made me increasingly slow with responses as well. When in doubt, 3-minute noodles are great for breakfast, lunch, and dinner as I tend to literally make microwaves explode. You have your life and I have mine, so I don't expect you to reply with lightning speed. As long as we are actually able to talk every once and awhile I'm perfectly happy. ˚▽˚ /
I'm relatively certain that laptops can handle things better than a netbook. Hell, my DS emulator is laggy as heck so I'm pretty sure my netbook wouldn't be able to handle it. Afterall, these types of machines are made for work, not play, haha. If I ever do get my hands on Dishonored, something I seriously doubt, it's probably result in me getting the blue screen of death. If anything I'll just my brother play it, I'm really not much of a gamer. At the moment the main character is just well, 'Main Character' for what I have written down so far. Kinda funny though, since I had the entire cast of another story I have in mind named in one sitting. I pretty much just looked up random names on those baby naming sites and viola~! Gotta admit I had to look up 'fish out of water trope' to figure out what you meant, I feel stupid now. Pretty much anything that puts the main character in a perilous situation that results in them failing in one or another is something I truly love. Ooh, cool sounding design. It'd be pretty cool to get a visual representation of it.
I'm just terrible with technology, so it's not insulting at all. At the moment I'm putting off Phoenix Wright to do homework efficiently and well, go on the internet. Judging by some of the videos I've seen on youtube Phoenix could easily make Kamina feel inferior with how manly he looks when he flings paper at his enemies, but honestly it seems like Maya does most of the fighting. Alrighty, I shall now procrastinate until it's Winter break before I even thinking of downloading Scribblenauts! Just curious, have you heard of a game called Avalon Code?
I swear, you do not want to mention Yukari when my friend and I talk about P3, things get rather nasty. Anyway, are you reading the manga adaption of Devil Survivor and/or Devil Summoner?
Yup, and boy, what did you do in your childhood? Next thing you'll tell me is that you haven't watched Spaceballs yet. I highly suggest that you watch it with a group of friends and in the middle of the night with pizza. It'll be the best night of your life.
I've been patient with you now, but I'm guessing you haven't played it yet, huh? *silently judging*
Eeeyup, pretty much. And really, will anime's art style change that much in the year's to come? I doubt it. People are too picky when it comes to art, but then again I think Skip Beat! looks atrocious, so I guess I shouldn't be talking...
Right! It's time for me to go on a quest to find a real life Gary Stu to be my husband!
It makes me sadface. But you gotta admit, those reality programs with people doing really stupid things can get pretty entertaining. Makes me feel better about myself, as in, I can say confidently that at least I'm not that stupid! I can only imagine what future, more sophisticated generations will say about us.
Who can forget the obligatory panty shot? (And boy, do the characters look so out of place in the highly detailed backgrounds.) I get that they want to draw viewers in any means possibly but seriously? They have BL undertones, a loli, and now panty shots. I think they're hitting too much fanbases at once. Hmm, are you even watching the show, do I even need to rant about this thing?
I guess introducing Morgiana first and then make the boys go to the brothel enhances... character development? If anything it just made the guys look like douches who've yet to figure out their morals. Yush, The Cart Driver is quite fantastic. I suggest you check out the Terribad Anime Reviews section.
Amano has that age all problem of having "same face syndrome". But hey, at least her art isn't as bad as Sword Art Online's same face syndrome. Huzzah for legally watching anime! Seriously, I'd love to buy DvD's and manga and all that jazz, but I'm afraid I'm as broke as they come. At least I can scrounge around Crunchyroll.
Shinsekai Yori - This is one of those rare instances where I just don't care about the show. I don't know why, but if it were to just stop airing I don't think I would notice. Not to say I don't like it or anything, I'm just not ...'hooked' so to say. Ep 5 gleefully said bye-bye to the consistency the last episodes had and just became... Weird.
Tonari - I guess girls like it when guys forcefully kiss them and threaten them with rape. It toned down a lot, but the thing is there's still those odd scenes where Haru covers Shizuku's mouth and drags her to the back of an alleyway. Seriously, can this boy not talk to people normally? I mean if my friend did that I would punch them in the face.
Zetsuen - I'd say read the manga first. It does characterization way better and of course it's way ahead in the story. That, and the Shakespeare quotes don't seem as cheesy.
That's what made Steins;Gate likable in the first place. The main lead was the definition of awesome. He wasn't one of those self insert wish-fulfillment leads who couldn't talk to a girl whether or not his life depended on it, he was honestly a really likable guy! Not only that, but all the characters had really good chemisty. That's why I'm avoiding Robotics;Notes at the moment, because the main lead looks like the blandest main character who ever blander the blandest in the history of bland. That, and they're highschoolers. ...Stupid highscoolers.... Anyway, I have to admit I was really bored with Stein;Gate in the first half. If something's on noitaminA, it's bound to get viewers.
Hi! I read it from mangatraders, it's complete there. You might have to download it, which I hope it's not a problem, although they do have an online reader, but I never use it. Here's a link for you, enjoy. I know I did haha
Your laptop would explode? Then I can only imagine what my netbook would be reduced to if I tried to play it. Anywho, I saw some gameplay walkthroughs of it, very pretty game albeit it's pretty much the same thing as Bethesda's other games. My father says that hardest part of writing a novel is the beginning. Which I say: Bullocks to that, it's naming the bastard child that's the hardest part! I still have no concrete name for my freakin' main character for pete's sake! ;_; Anyway, your ideas seem very, for lack of a better word for I am a terrible critique, awesome. The one with the boy being transported to another realm interests me greatly since I absolutely adore those types of stories. There's just so much potential from that idea waiting to have it's chance to shine. I look forward to reading it whenever I can get the chance, as I would love to know how the fantasy realm came to be a reality in the boy's school. Now this is just my two cents and you don't have to take it into consideration or anything, but by saying it's going to have a bittersweet ending it kinda makes me think that the two worlds will collide. The not-so-human girl's world will fuse with the boy's world resulting in some catastrophic cataclysm that kills a bunch of people or something. I don't know, but that's just me. D'ohoho. Dragon boys are certainly cool. Just wondering, does the dragon boy actually look like some type of lizard human hybrid or is he a human who can breathe fire? I'mma take a gander you're going to break down your character's humanity and idealism in this story, huh?
From what I've seen it appears that Phoenix is probably the most sane one out the entire cast. Did you know he was in one of the Capcom VS Marvel fighting games? Blehehe. My game didn't save, looks like I'll have to start over with the first case. I don't know if I somehow missed it or if I'm terrible for looking for things on the internet, but I couldn't find a synopsis for Scribblenauts. Welp, that could be a good thing. I guess I'll jump into the game not knowing what to expect. Dating sim?! ohmygawsh. Game of the century, right there. Please tell me I can play as the girl so I can screw around with the guys? I-I mean, farming. Yay.
I can imagine it now, grade schoolers from all around the universe having a snow boarding competition on planet Earth that determines whether or not your planet will be destroyed. It will contain ANGST, and DEPRESSING BACKSTORIES, and LATIN CHANTING, and probably more ANGST. I've heard of the games, but I'm really not sure what it's about. My friend loves it though, and he says Yuzu is like Yukari from P3. As in, she's a "fat cow who doesn't know when or how to shut up."
Seriously, how can you resist killer wabbits? Oh wait, wrong movie. Lord of the flies is like Polar Express? Correct me if I'm wrong, but Lord of the flies was about a bunch of boys stranded on an island, a bunch of boys who eventually started killing each other. Last time I remember Polar Express was a very Christmas-esque movie that was about happy times and giving gifts to people. Are we talking about the same movie? xD
First one was Unwound Future fanart, by the way. It wouldn't just make a stone cry, it'll make a mountain weep. You certainly have to question yourself that. How is it possible you got into something called Scribblenauts and not Professor Layton?!
I would imagine that if ever show my kids/grandkids my favourite shows that'd whine about like this: "But moooom! That's so 2000!" In other words, those shows will be old, and by default something being old means it's crap. But who knows, maybe Steven Moffat's descendant will remake Doctor Who in the future.
Awww. It appears I have some hope for my love life yet! Although I'm kinda specific with what I want in a man. As in, he must have some type of a European accent, be able cook, be able to play a musical instrument, enjoy long walks on the beach, and he must, must look damn good in an apron. ...Is that asking too much?
Huh, it takes you half a day to watch two episodes? Well it's not like I'm one to talk, it took me 3 hours to watch the newest episode of K.
Essentially it's about Ned, a pie baker who has the mysterious ability to bring things back from the dead. However, if something is revived for more than exactly one minute, something of similar "life value" in the vicinity drops dead, as a form of balance. Additionally, if he touches the revived person or thing a second time, it falls dead again, this time permanently. Ned's childhood friend and crush, Chuck, was murdered, so he revived her to see her again. Not able to see her die again, he keeps her alive and someone else drops dead as 'payment' for her staying alive. The two of them fall in love, but they can't touch each other because if they do Chuck will end up dying again. So basically they go around solving murder mysteries by reviving the dead back and asking who or what killed them. It's quirky, witty, funny, and full of heart, so you can imagine my disappointment when I realized it only lasted for 2 seasons.
I don't know if I'll give you the word for K anytime soon since I really can't bring myself to care about the show. Ep3 had some explaining, but they did it in such a stupid manner. It was basically like: "I am going to kill you, but first let me tell you the plot to this show."
Well reading from the manga Alibaba and Aladdin went to the brothel before they met Morgiana. So I guess it has something to do with them rushing through the first arc of the manga. Got it from the Cart Driver.
I'm pretty sure Amamo only did the character designs and only that. I don't think she's actually working on the thing. You should start watching it, Ep1 laid down the themes of the show and Ep2 introduced some of it's world and characters. It certainly isn't the best start I've seen to an anime I've seen, but I'm willing to give it a chance.
Shinsekai Yori - Really? I thought it was really slow and mainly just introduced you to the world for the first three episodes. At the moment it appears to be transitioning into full throttle with throwing that weird rainbow tentacle sheep thing in. I don't know, with character designs like that, I really can't help but laugh at the idea of gore being in the show.
Tonari - Read this blog and be amazed. But I guess I shouldn't hate that much, I mean the last two episodes definitely toned down alot. But you know, rape is neither romantic nor funny. :/
Zetsuen - Well after reading 10 chapters I'd say I'm pleasantly surprised on how it's going. The characters think before they act, the laws on magic is interesting, Yoshino is indeed a manipulative bastard, and the twists are well-written. Sure it does pull out some cliches out of it's ass here and there, but I'd say it's one of the better shounens I've read. Not quite as good as say, Hunter x Hunter, but it's definitely up there.
I'm really curious with how they'll do the "I'M MAD SCIENTIST, IT'S SO COOL SONOFABITCH!" part since the best part was the obviously the Engrish, haha, I imagine that government conspiracies will pop up later in the series, and you know, maybe someone will get shot in the head. However this is based on a VN, so I'm bracing myself for a 'date all the girls' episode. Just so you know Litchi Hikari Club is what you call guro. So if you like it I guess guro is the type of thing for you. Enjoy reading a story that's about a bunch of androgynous homosexual psychopaths trying to kill each other! :D
Speaking of mysteries that are full of steampunk goodness, have you heard of a game called Dishonered? Well I can guarantee you it's gonna be a while before I start sharing much of my novel. I've been writing it for a year and a half now and it's been through countless edits and it's been renamed a bajillion times and I'm still not satisfied with it. Writing stuff about politics and battles that involve strategy is hard work. ): Care to share snippets of what your planned novel and magnum opus is about? I've love to know.
I managed to get through the first case, oh yeah baby. I like how sarcastic Phoenix is when he thinks to himself. I am prepared for face-palming as by judging by this video things get pretty wild... Thing is I have a netbook, and it's pretty damn tiny so I'm not sure if I'll be able to swish my cursor around very effectively. Scribblenauts sounds and looks funky as hell, I'll definitely give it try once I'm done with all the games I want to play for the DS and Gameboy Advance. I assume that Harvest Moon is about cute kids doing cute things on a farm with cute animals who are cute enough to give someone diabetes? If so, I'll give it try too.
Do you know what I wanna play? Snowboard Kids. (And it's for the DS! Yeeees.) It's an ATLUS game so surely it must have a bunch of kids going through a terrible ordeal that involves the fate of the world. Holy cow, I just realized I can play Devil Survivor.
Well Halloween is closing in, so it's mandatory that I watch some good and bad horror movies. Last Halloween I watched a movie called Night of the Living Lepus. It's something you should watch because it's terrible.
Yup. Why? Because Professor Layton is amazing and you should play it anyway. I played it in chronological order like that when I first got into the series, The Last Specter is the weakest one in my opinion.
Curses! Well then I'm off to Pixiv to look at pretty Layton fanart, which mainly consists of Layton and Descole doing dirty things to each other. Guess that's not such a stellar idea. Does it work for you now? And for heck of it, here's another piece of fanart for you eyes.
Nah you'll live. For what it's worth season 8 is about angels and demons again, you know, the type of stuff Supernatural is good at. I'll be happy to announce to my kids and grandkids that Doctor who was a part of my childhood, and then I'll force them to watch and they'll like it. So much so that watching Doctor Who will become a tradition. That is, if I ever get kids as I am a lonely person.
There's only two episodes of Elementary out so far, so I'd encourage you or your friend to watch it now so you or them don't get too far behind. I think it airs every Thursday, although due to time zone differences I don't know if it's the same for you.
You wouldn't happen to have heard of a show called Pushing Daisies? It's one of my favourite shows.
K got real stupid real fast. I iniatially thought that this show was going about showing and not telling and essentially be something like Durarara!! where you have to rack your brain to figure out what's going on. So what did they give us for episode 2? Nothing. Nothing I tell you! Nothing relevant happened! But I digress, it's only been 2 episodes, maybe I'm being too harsh.
Magi - What I especially found amusing was the part where Aladdin and Alibaba met that slave girl. They're like "Look at that slave, living in a life of abuse and humiliation. Her life is full of hardships and she is looked down upon society and ashamed to be in her position" What happens in the next scene? Aladdin and Alibaba promptly go to a brothel. Oh and, if you're familiar with the Disney rendition of Aladdin get ready to have your image of him ruined:
I can show you some boobs
Shining, shimmering, splendid
Tell me, pervert, now when did
You last let your libido decide?
You can open their bras
Take them udder by udder
Over, sideways and under
On a magic groping ride
A pair of boobs
A new fantastic house of whores
No one to tell us no
Or where to go
Or say could you stop staring
Psycho-Pass - What's wrong with the designs, is it just not your style? It shouldn't irk you off, as it is probably the prettiest show of the season. People say it's like the Minority Report, which I know nothing of, so if you're familiar with that you'll probably like it.
Shinsekai Yori - Is it just me, or is A-1 Pictures animation funky as heck? Yeah I'm not much of a fan or the designs either, but it still proves to be interesting. From what I hear in the novel it gets bloody. Like, horrendously violent and full of sex.
Tonari - Let's just say rape is involved.
Zetsuen no Tempest - I wouldn't say it's trying to be deep, it's just that one of the main characters was in the middle of a fight and while he dishes out some punched he starts quoting Hamlet. That's cool and all but why in the middle of a fight? Then again, this show as a fully orchestrated soundtrack and it clearly wants to be taken seriously so I guess it is trying to be deep. I'm going to read the manga since apparently the main character turns into a manipulative bastard at some point.
Last time I remember Steins;Gate had a pretty solid dub and besides, it's not like I'm going to be missing anything since I'm pretty sure Robotics;Notes will have a slow and boring beginning like Steins;Gate. Be careful, the stuff in Litchi Hikari Club is something of an acquired taste. Hell the first chapter has the boys ripping their own teacher apart. Although I have to say it has some of the most unique ways of murdering someone. (Hello toilet!)
Oh no it doesn't arrogant at all, it's always a good thing to have faith in yourself when you aspire to write something. Well at the moment I mainly have a bunch of random ideas in my head that I've yet to put on paper. As of this moment I've got concepts for about five stories or something. However the main story I'm focusing on right now is a steampunk action mystery type of thing. It's about a military commander who pilots airships and there's a whole war going on; later on he discovers that he has a twin brother who wants to kill him and that his family has some dark secrets concerning how the war started blah blah blah. Essentially is starts over pretty simple but I plan on psychologically destroying my characters at some point, haha.
Oh goody, thanks again. Although first I'm going to make my way through the Phoenix Wirght series as fast as I can. So It'll be a while before I play Mother. My friend has practically been begging me to play The World Ends With You because of how apparently amazing it is. Sure, I wanna play it, but when I watched her play it you needed to use your stylus a lot. So I'm not too sure how that'll translate with me playing it on my computer.
ATLUS said that their main priority is providing enriching games that'll satisfy their fans. Then again, that's what every gaming company says but I don't know if gaining more money for a port is truly ATLUS' main focus. Besides, there are more gamer guys than girls, that's a fact. Therefore, the target audience for Persona are males. Although I'm pretty sure having a FeMC is a highly demanded feature, so it isn't too far-fetched that P5 will allow you to select which gender you want to be.
Especially the scene where the guy hallucinates about his wife having a bird cage on her head. I have no idea if that scene was even necessary, but it did send a chill down my spine. Now I gotta go watch some of the horror movies they made.
Good, I approve of this. This is the chronological order of the series:
The Last Specter
The Eternal Dive (Not a game, but an animated film)
The Miracle Mask (Hasn't been released yet.)
The Curious Village.
The Diabolical Box.
The Unwound Future.
I've played all the games that's been released and I'd say The Unwound Future is by far my favourite. I'm sure you'll see why once you play it. Epic Descole picture?! Please do share with me.
That is truly a 'too epic for words' piece of Zelda fanart you got there. Ah, Zelda, good times. Here, have some Professor Layton fanart which may or may not contain spoilers, I honestly don't know.
Don't worry the Leviathan's only last for two seasons if my memory serves me well, just be brave and finish it up, I'll be rooting for you! I'm sure that if Doctor who ever ended the fandom, as well as myself, would just sit in front of their screens and ask themselves "What now?" Essentially life would have no more meaning. I've seen the first two episodes of Elementary. It's what you'd expect from a Sherlock Holmes adaption: Watson is a down to earth character who's forced to tag along with an eccentric, arrogant, and aloof Sherlock. I like Lucy Liu's portrayal of Watson, she's acts as a pretty badass character and she's pretty useful when Sherlock is deducing a case. I just hope there's no romance between Watson and Holmes just because of the gender swap. Anyway, it's a nice show, not my favourite but it isn't something I loathe watching either.
Stuff I'm watching:
K. Bishounen, bishounen everywhere. It's pretty much style over substance, but it's still pretty entertaining to watch.
Magi. You'd think people who live in a desert would be more tanned than this.
Psycho-Pass. Urobuchi Gen is working on this, it's immediately going to be the best thing ever, period.
Shinsekai Yori. I don't know, I can't get myself to care about this.
Tonari no Kaibutsu-Kun. It manages to be creepy when it tries to be cute, I have to applaud that.
Zetsuen no Tempest. Why, why do the characters randomly quote Shakespeare at the most unnecessary moments?
At the moment I'm putting off Btooom! and Robotics;Notes in hopes that they'll get English dubbed or something. Also, having read the Litchi*Hikari Club manga, I'd advise you not to watch the anime. I wouldn't even call it an anime, it's just a 2 minute flash animation thing that insults the intelligence of the viewer.
You should definitely continue to write, as I have bookmarked your blog to read over some stuff in the future. Although since I mainly just skimmed it over I don't know what it's about, lol, but i'll read it whenever I have boredom that needs curing. I look forward to whenever you get your novel published. ;)
Hallelujah! Thank you very much, kind sir. I downloaded Mother 3, and it worked. Although it's in Japanese, so I guess I downloaded the wrong game. I also got myself a Nintendo DS emulator and Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney. Which is awesome because I don't need to poke at my screen like you would with a stylus. Now I wonder if I can get a World Ends with You rom.
I can't understand diddly squat about what's going on. 8D To be honest when I saw the very first trailer it kinda looked like it was about two worlds colliding, your world and the real world. But that doesn't seem to be the case anymore. I know this is gonna sound crude and all, but I really liked P3P because I could screw around with Ryoji and Shinjiro. I mean, we girls like dating sims too! Afro guy seems like he's going to be the playful type, maybe he dreams about girls. I'm sensing a pattern here with Lowenthal voicing those types, lol. Regrettably I'm not really that familiar with Japanese VA's so I don't really know who Kazuya Nakai is. Damn Atlus, you mad mo-fo's you. Showing us trailers for games that's going to be released in a year's time.
T'is a good movie, although it wasn't as over the top as I thought it would be. Sure their get-ups looked ridiculous but it was surprisingly mature. You could totally tell that the studio that made the movie also makes horror movies, lol.
You need to play it. Period. It's full of colourful character poking around in the dirt in search of puzzles. It also manages to be heartbreaking when it needs to be. Does that not sound like the best ever?! Oh yeah, Descole is a fabulous villain too. /biased fangirl.
Yup, one episode is out so far. And thank God that they're done with that Leviathan mess. That was painful to watch. I don't know, how far are you on Supernatural? Ho boy, so I guess this could really be Matt Smith's final season. That, or Doctor Who is ending for good but I seriously doubt that. I guess some fans can't imagine a female working with the Tardis. It'll be like how people absolutely exploded upon discovering that a show called Elementary, another adaption of Sherlock Holmes in the Modern era, changed Watson into a girl.
You wouldn't happen to be watching any of the Fall's anime? It's a pretty good season thus far.
