Coming to a close

The holidays are going to end soon, and I still haven't done what I've set out to accomplish. Sorry to the people who I pissed off yesterday, because I was frustrated trying to learn how to speak with a filipino accent. Also, apologies to anyone whom I may have offended in the last year, especially anyone in our class, we're all good friends, right?

Sadly I'm still only on my first series on the re-watch list. Right now I'm on episode 4 of 'Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu', and I doubt I can watch all my 4 anime series (Kanon, CLANNAD, SHnY, Lucky Star) by Friday, since CLANNAD, Kanon and Lucky Star come to a total of about 24 hours of watching. That is intense, yo. And I still have other stuff I want to do.

But I already covered a bit of Kanon, since I already watched the Mai arc just to remind myself a bit.

Anyway, damn, because of christmas, CLANNAD After Story 13's subs have been delayed. Even now, I still wait for the episode to be posted up on the eclipse website so that I can torrent and seed later.

I can't play DotA unless you guys don't mind me dcing very often (it tends to happen at the most important times) so.

...Damn my blogging skills have really diminished.

ー少女おたく

Another template skin

I find the template skins to have a certain amount of finesse that pyzam doesn't have. Mostly because theirs is a simple 2 or 3 brushes together with the template skin base. Anyway, I changed the skin to, well, this, since the colour is nice and kind of looks like parchment paper in some bizarre way. I remade a new header too, since the old one was specifically for backgrounds of that colour.

I will eventually do something about the cbox, but for now you guys can just deal with it. Post coming up soon, maybe tomorrow or later on. For now, I'm going to play.

ja ne~

ー少女おたく

yume wo miteiru

Since the holidays is coming to an end, with only a few days left, and those days being taken up by drama practice, I thought I would spend my last few days doing something worthwhile. Although I suggested having at least one more outing, it seems everyone is too busy getting back into school mode, and with me and Zong and Danyal out of commision for the most part, due to drama practice, I guess it's impossible.

So today, I came back from drama and played a game of fail-DotA with Zong, Danyal and David, which ended promptly when half of us DC'd. So I was bored and went to read up on some trolling in Gamefaqs and read the 'Best of 2008' articles by Gamespot. Thankfully, Valkyria Chronicles actually won something, though I thought it would win at least Most Innovative. But some game called Braid got it, and various other awards too. I'm surprised it didn't even make it into the finals, I guess it wins most underrated game of 2008. I was listening to the Kanon OST after that and was listening to 'Shoujo no Ori' which is, in all technicality, Mai's theme, and translates into 'The Girls' Cage".

The song alone made me have that 'Ungh.. sad anime...' feeling so I decided to watch Mai's arc, starting from the 'swordplay' exhibition in the ballroom, until the end of it, and not surprisingly I almost cried again. I know most of you probably can't imagine me with a sobbing face, but I probably look weird.

So I decided, in these last few moments of my holiday, I would re-watch all the anime in my folder. This means, The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi, Kanon, Lucky Star and CLANNAD. Sadly I don't have AIR in my folder, but I'll get it eventually.

So, like, don't bother me unless you get at least a 2v2 for a DotA game, or you want to play a pub. Otherwise, I'll either be on my PSP playing Dissidia, watching one of above-mentioned animes, or preparing myself for School.

Also, Harukyon ftw.
'I think ponytails are cute.'
じゃね。

ー少女おたく

Suzumiya Haruhi

Merry Christmas everyone!

All hail Suzumiya Haruhi, for she is Goddess and Tanigawa Nagaru is her prophet.

I've recently delved deeper into Haruhiism, and done research. In the last 2 hours, I've found the things that have made this day the best Christmas in my life so far. To say what I've found, well, Suzumiya Haruhi no Yakusoku, which directly translates into 'The Promise of Suzumiya Haruhi', which is a visual novel for the PSP based on the Suzumiya Haruhi anime franchise. Next up, would be probably the best thing so far, all 9 chapters of the Suzumiya Haruhi light novel, translated into english! So in school next year, you'll probably see me going around with sheets of paper stapled together, and reading for most of my spare time. Next, I found a translation project for above mentioned Suzumiya Haruhi no Yakusoku. Although it's going slowly, it's still going on, which is extremely good, for me anyway. And finally, I've been enlightened in the ways of Haruhiism.

Right now I'm torrenting a shitload of stuff, and seeding stuff I recently finished. First would be the torrent for Suzumiya Haruhi no Yakusoku, which I sure as hell am not going to pass up. Second would be Dissidia: Final Fantasy, which, although in Japanese, should be fun anyway. And lastly is Fate/Stay Night's visual novel, which I already have the english patch for.

What I've already finished would be Planetarian, the visual novel by KEY which isn't their normal romance, but rather is a science fiction, which is why I originally didn't bother about it, but now that I'm almost finishing my current visual novel, I decided I'd get a few more just in case I'm still into the whole VN scene.

As for the Visual Novel I'm playing now, it's called ONE ~To the Radiant Season~, which is a visual novel made in 1998 by Tactics, which is KEY, who made CLANNAD, Kanon, AIR and the like, way back before they formed KEY itself. Surprisingly, despite what I'd seen in screenshots, the art and music and stuff are actually good, and the characters are interesting, albeit somewhat generic. Also, a lot of the girls use 'Uguuu' so now I know that Ayu wasn't the first to use it.

Hm..
Hope you all have a 'ma-ri ku-ri-su-ma-su'
Visit this site for some enlightment on other, non-Haruhi related stuff

ー少女おたく

Bored, I guess

I feel an obligation to keep my blog alive for the sole purpose of competing with Bristan's blog, and to give everybody else something to read as they do their own stuff (Play DotA, paint plastic models, read books or whatever the hell Thomas and Dornel do).

So as most of you know (The stupid people probably don't), I just got back from my vacation, which was a 4 day 3 night stay in Batam at HARRIS hotel resort thing. It was fun I guess, for the most part you guys have seen my intense (and uneven) sunburn and Zong has some kind of remnants of skin flaking in his house, but probably not since I was wearing clothes.

Annnyyywayyy, while I have nothing to give you all from Batam (Seriously, there wasn't anything. The most high-tech thing I saw there, not counting PC and laptops, was a PSP. There were fake Gameboys and DS and PSP too, probably the guys there are being cheated by some supplier that likes to manipulate people), and unless you guys wanted toilet pipes, you all shouldn't be complaining.

After I came back, I realised I had to go to Drama Practice 2 days later and got all pissed off (as usual), so when Thomas started 'baa-ing' to me on msn I blocked him immedietely and probably pissed him off. As usual. Next 2 days were spent stoning at home. On Sunday night I was sort of invited to go to Zong's pseudo-Gayzember, to which I agreed since I had played enough of ONE~TTRS~ for 2 days.

I only brought one pair of clothes since I wasn't expecting to sleepover with my sunburn but somehow I gave into temptation. Anyway we spent Monday playing World Tour at Zongs house, and I learned that Zong's singing is horrible, but then again, so is mine.

I can't wait to get World Tour, they have j-Pop songs that were fan-mapped, and there are songs like God Knows from the Suzumiya Haruhi soundtrack, and probably others like Lost my Music.

Oh my Haruhi, I can't wait. >_<

ー少女おたく

This past week

A photo of my current collection

The good condition 'Mint in Box' straight-from-Japan figure

Well this past few days have been the best for most of the holiday, only topped by Gayfest in October and finding the CLANNAD translation patch/voice patch/visual novel game. So far, I've gone to my very first anime convention, taken a picture while being squeezed in between two girls (Oh my gosh, that was so exciting >_<), gotten a good high quality Haruhi Suzumiya model for a cheap $25, obtained 3 super-cute chibi Haruhi/Yuki/Mikuru figures for a total of $50, and obtained the Kanon visual novel with a teaser patch, and finally gotten a website that is doing the Kanon translation which looks almost done already.

Awesome.

じゃね～！

ー少女おたく

Retro EOY '08

I still can't believe this happened

Yummy Naruto Cosplay

Moar Yummy Naruto cosplay

I wonder how Danyal feels right now....

Spoils of the war

Well, I'll start off this post by saying what I bought. A $50 set of chibi Haruhi, Yuki and Mikuru in bunny girl outfits with little extra accesories, a $25 model figure of Haruhi Suzumiya herself, which is of very high quality and came mint condition in the box, a $5 Tsukasa phone pouch, $9 worth of stickers that can stick to anything (which is the 3 stickers of Kyou, Fuuko and Nagisa), a $7 Konata sticker (the blue one), and a free D.N Angel DVD box.


We met up at City Hall MRT early in the morning, around 10:20 by the time we had all arrived at there. We took the MRT to the Expo place, and ate at Subway. After that, it was already 11:20, so we decided to quickly head off to the place. Even though we were about 30 minutes after the opening when we got there, there were still considerably few people there, compared to how many there were at the end of the event. There were lots of cosplays ranging from Lucky Star to Naruto, as you can see at the top part of the post.

First thing to do was start camwhoring while we still could, while everyone else got irritated with me gawking at all the anime stuff. Sadly there was nothing that had to do with CLANNAD or Lucky Star.

We took a lot of picutres with the cosplayers, especially the female ones which were better and fancier, maybe the frilly dresses made them look really good. We also noticed that cosplayers started coming in groups, that consisted of the same anime. Or.. at least, I did.

The first purchase I made was the Tsukasa pouch, for 2 for $5, and gave one to Randall (My old Junior friend), and then we started to walk around and take pictures of the various cosplayers, although my camera soon was running low on battery.

There were performances by people too, and most of them were songs, but some of them were dances and stuff like that, like group called 'Natsu' (?) that did an interesting dance, though I expected the music to burst out into a J-Pop song and them starting to go hyper and dancing.

Anyway, skipping stuff since most of the stuff is the same, we walked around more and more, and finally ended up at the Cosplay Competition at 4 when we sat down in the hall and watched the registered cosplayers do their thing on stage. They posed and stuff, some did skits and some had a small action thing.

Later on it reached the team cosplay competition, and that's when it really got awesome. A group of 47 Naruto cosplayers jumped on stage doing a skit that I can only presume has been rehearsed for weeks. At first they did each of the genin squads, and then they started to do a fight scene with Naruto and Sasuke obviously starting off. Sadly this is also where my camera died on me and my video cuts off there. Later on the other rivals and stuff came up too.

After that most of the team cosplays weren't as impressive, but they were definitely interesting. The one that I thought actually stood a chance against the Naruto team one was the two people that did that dance thing. But sadly I have no idea what anime that's from. Finally the team cosplay competition ended with a Hare Hare Yukai dance by a Haruhi group, but sadly only Yuki and Kyon cosplayers could dance properly, and in the end their dance didn't even follow the one that the seiyuu's danced at Suzumiya Haruhi no Gekisou, which would have been awesome.

Finally event came to close, I went home by MRT with Randall who left about 4 stops before I got off, and I walked home from there.

Mm, I'm really glad I went. My christmas present (the figures) are pretty awesome too, and them sitting on the desk make me super happy just looking at it. The $25 Haruhi figure is definitely the best, and is very detailed with almost no paint smudges, in fact, I think there's only one, but it's only seeable if you look very very closely.

On the other hand, the $50 set had some missing parts, but I made up for it with a G2 pen ink tube.

Well then, I'm tired and stuff so I guess I'll go play a game or smth.
Also; I got the Kanon and AIR games, HAPPY!

じゃね～！

ー少女おたく

Kanon Update

Well, I hope you're ready for a considerably long post. With pictures. Ehehe, hope you have fun reading it!

I just finished episode 19 of Kanon which marks the end of the Shiori arc and the start of the Ayu arc. This means that I am near the end of Kanon, which spans a total of 24 episodes, and its only been like 2 days since I started watching Kanon. This is why I want the visual novels for the games, they last way longer. For example, if I were to watch CLANNAD, I could probably go through the whole thing in 1 or 2 days, but going through the many different arcs of CLANNAD in the Visual Novel clocked in about 15 hours of gameplay, which seems to last a lot longer than it actually is because of the intense amount of reading. Sadly, the translation patches out for Kanon only are about 57% of the entire game, which is definitely not satisfying enough for me. Though, I wonder if there's an official (meaning I buy the CD) version of Kanon that is translated in english. Hopefully it is the standard edition, in which case I can ask my mom to buy it for me. I'd have trouble getting it if it was the 18+ version, argggh.

So far I've finished the Makoto, Shiori and Mai arcs, and enjoyed them all thoroughly. Though if I had to pick one, it would be the Makoto arc, since hers was the only one to push me to the point of watery eyes. I was going to make a photo montage to put up on the blog today, but then in episode 19 there were flashbacks of all the girls, and finally Ayu and Yuiichi kissing, so I just used the flashback images instead of going through 19 episodes of screenshots. Sadly I was too lazy to compile it nicely, but, whatever.

I'm definitely enjoying Kanon as another one of Key-inspired animes, much like Air and CLANNAD. Their definitely at the top of my list of favourite animes, along with The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. But anyway, let's get in depth.



Makoto's arc, actually, I don't have much to say about it. I already talked about it in my last post.




Mai's arc was kind of weird with he chance meeting. I enjoyed the short picnic scenes and watching Mai do all kinds of weird stuff that Yuiichi told her to do, and find her not to be too much of a stereotype. I dunno if you could really call her a tsundere, since I've become accustomed to using that term for people like Kyou and Kagamin (aggresive and stuff on the outside, but soft on the inside), while Mai is more of a cool, passive person that is hiding her feelings for the sake of other people. Her introduction was kind of weird, with Yuiichi just deciding to visit her every night like that, and then them becoming friends like that. But then again, Yuiichi was a childhood friend of Mai, so maybe it was because of that, that Mai allowed him to be her friend so easy.

I liked the way her arc ended, and how they made it happen. Watching Mai stab herself was a "WHAT THE HOLY SH*T F*CK?!" moment, but what happened after totally made it work. However, after they went to the hospital, I haven't seen any references to Mai and Sayuri, other than the flashback scene in episode 19.



Shiori's arc was neat. You notice how they actually introduce you to the characters about one arc before that character's own arc. I find Shiori to be the cutest of all the girls though, and maybe it's because of her attitude. Though, I didn't expect her to be Kaori's sister, even after we found out her surname was Misaka, I completely forgot that Kaori's surname was that. The fountain also made for really cool scenes to watch, but I'm surprised they didn't say anything about the fountain changing colours, since I found that part kind of pretty. Best of all was the kiss that Shiori stole when Yuiichi turned around, but it must really suck for him to be kissed by a girl and then the girl has to leave him behind.

I found it odd that after that episode, even after the kiss, that Yuiichi doesn't even go to visit Shiori or anything like that, but the anime clearly shows how he still thinks about it. Though, I'm still wondering if Shiori is still alive.


Kanon also seems to have a theme of miracles too, what with Amano talking to Yuiichi about miracles after Makoto disappears, and how Kaori talks to Yuiichi, being pessimistic about miracles and stuff like that. And I noticed that all of Key-inspired anime have balls of light, or snow, or something really pretty to set the feeling for each of the animes.

Hmm...
I will report back after I watch Ayu's arc. Though I'm kind of wondering.. isn't Nayuki also a main heroine? Haven't seen any signs of an arc for her.

じゃね！

ー少女おたく

Makoto's Arc

-SPOILER ALERT! (For Kanon)-

I just finished watching until episode 10 of the 2006 Kanon series. I have to say, it kept my eyes watery for about 20 minutes or so. Well, like Dornel said, there wasn't any outright bawling for the most part, but the little details like Akiko turning away and sobbing quietly as Yuiichi and Makoto left the house, made the whole thing just as sad. But the Makoto and Fuuko arcs were kind of similiar in how it ended abruptly, and it builds up right from the 2nd or 3rd episodes where they make everyone in the anime slowly grow to like the character (Makoto/Fuuko) more, and then suddenly the main hero (Yuiichi/Tomoya) finds out that their time with the character is limited, and they start to spend time together, ultimately spending one or two nights together with that character (No Sexual Activity intended), before they have to part.

Mm, I really liked Makoto though. She was quite cute, and the 'Auuu~' thing, I thought it was a 'cute sound' that all the Kanon girls seem to have, except after awhile I realised that it was the sound that the fox could make.

As usual, KyoAni's choice of music made for the perfect sad atmosphere that would ultimate lead up to the end, and it has left a deep strong impression on me.

I was talking to Sasha just now (You might remember that I met with her a few months ago), and apparantly not all girls like to watch these, so-called, 'boring and slow' anime, and actually would rather have action and stuff. So I figure I'm just a weird male at this point. A weird male that enjoys watching Shoujo that no one else watches.

I'm going to the EOY anime convention with Merrill and gang instead of my JS friend on Saturday, but chances are I'll make a blog post tomorrow about Valkyria Chronicles and my next Kanon arc (I probably cover two or three full arcs by tomorrow, maybe even finish the whole anime.)

それじゃ、じゃね！

ー少女おたく

Kanon and.. other.. random.. shit...

Well, on Tuesday, December 8th, us as a group went out together, presumably for the last time before school starts and we all go our seperate ways in our different classes. Hopefully we all keep in touch, and I mean that with everyone, even Dornel and Thomas. Okay maybe not so much Thomas. But I'll definitely miss talking to you guys in between classes (Zong, Dornel, Thomas, David), even you guys that I don't talk to in between classes (Bristan, Danyal). I'm sure I'll keep in touch with Merrill and Dornel since we're all e-geeks and we enjoy playing against pubbies together, in contrast to Zong, Thomas, Bristan and Danyal. Hopefully, in the future we not only play DotA together, but we still go out together, and maybe even fulfill Zong's 'tradition' of organising a 'GayFest' every holiday that we can do one for. It looks like we won't have one for '08 December though, or maybe I just won't be here when it happens.

By the way, I'll be on holiday from 15th to the 19th of December.

As I was saying, on Tuesday, we met up at Borders and after much arguing, frustration and irritation, me and Zong caved in and decided to watch 'Bolt' with Danyal, Bristan and Merrill. After that we walked around Orchard thinking where to eat, until I finally decided to suggest Takashimaya, and Merrill led us there. We all ate Japanese food, basically, and later on we went to Newton MRT, all the while making jokes about Dornel screwing Zong with the EZ-Link card pass thing again. After that we went to Decoders and had surprisingly a fun time there, although I thought it would be boring. Definitely the best game we played was the writing-your-thoughts game. I'm sure we all enjoyed it, although Dornel was cheating a lot.

Recently I downloaded the Kanon series to watch so that I could argue with Dornel about CLANNAD, which we both seem to have forgotten about. Anyway, after finally finishing the download after 2 nights and 3 days, I opened up episode 1 to find out... I had gotten the wrong series. What I wanted was the 2006 edition which was animated by Kyoto Animation, but by accident I had gotten the 2002 edition which has considerably worse art. So I deleted 2002 and spent 2 days and 1 night downloading the 2006 edition, and I just got it a few hours ago. I'm on episode 4 now, and it seems that I'll genuinely enjoy watching. I noticed one CLANNAD character that seemed a lot like two Kanon characters.

Ayu <-> Fuuko <-> Makoto

While I sort of spoiled myself already, I plan on downloading the Kanon VN game with an english translation patch if I can find any, if not I guess I won't. But Ayu is so adorable~
I love how she jumps onto Yuiichi's bag and struggles around, the way her legs are flailing about is really cute.

x3

じゃね～！

ー少女おたく

If you wish...

If you wish... would you like me to take you? To a place in this city... where wishes come true.

Finally, after almost 50 hours, or so I estimate, of playtime, I've finished CLANNAD, 100%'d CG mode and fully completed the game, including all bad and true ends of each and every character. It was definitely a satisfying ending, although I found it strange that I didn't have the option to 'cry out' or not to 'cry out'.

Well in any case, the anime should still be interesting, they promised not to kill off Nagisa in that one, so I would assume it is different from the Visual Novel. But since the true end of the Visual Novel is for Nagisa not to die, I figure that the anime will finally get around to have to do with the light orbs that you should have seen if you watched the Yukine arc.

Right now I can't download it because either bleachexile.com's servers are clogged up, but it's okay, I probably already seen what happened in that episode through the Visual Novel.

Anyway, I'll be going to EOY Anime Fest '08 so I'm just making the tough decision between going with my old Primary 6 friend or Merrill, Jon Wei and Jon Wei's cousin. Hm...

See you all later, chat me up for a DotA game if you want. I'm relatively free, just that I will probably have CLANNAD on my mind for the next week/month.

ー少女おたく

After Story

After almost 9 intense hours of playing CLANNAD into the early hours of the morning, I have finished my first run-through of After Story. I can honestly say it almost made me cry, and if not for the music which totally contradicted the mood of events going on, I definitely would have. I can't really say anything since I'll spoil it for Bristan (The stuff I just went through is bound to happen in the anime later on.), but anyway.

Now that I've gone through the first run-through and earned 13 Orbs of Light, I can now play the 2nd mode of the After Story, or what the general public would call 'True End'. Basically I am not going to play it now, but from what I have gathered from my first run through, I will be able to use my orbs of light to save either Ushio or Nagisa, which is really a heartbreaking decision. No doubts, my dreams when I go to sleep soon will be about CLANNAD. Strangely the only other character whose future I've seen is Kyou's. I haven't seen Kotomi, Ryou, Tomoyo or any of the others recently.

Well... good morning, world.

ー少女おたく

Oh thank HARUHI!

I've found a translation patch for After Story!
AOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO~!
Also; I forgot to do my -Otaku thing at the end of my last post. Darnit.

-しょうじょおたく

CLANNAD, once again

I've been playing a LOT of CLANNAD the last 2 days, and have finally finished Story Mode.
Replaying Fuuko's arc was the saddest part of it, though I didn't expect Fuuko to reappear at the end after the wedding and after Tomoya and Nagisa and the rest forget who she is. Even more so, I didn't expect the 'True End' route to lead to Fuuko asking Tomoya on a date after the wedding/forgetting, while the 'Good End' route is where Fuuko asks Tomoya, Nagisa and Sunohara to be her friends.

I've also skipped through Koumura's route (The old not-so senile teacher), since it seemed to be totally about how Koumura's life has always been about just watching the students, but when Sunohara and Tomoya appeared as trouble cases he finally had someone he could really teach the values of life too. It also showed how important Koumura was in Tomoya's and Sunohara's life too. Honestly I couldn't care less, but it was in that arc that I made the wish for Fuuko.

Finally I re-did Nagisa's arc with all the little extra goodies here and there if you do it right. Finally I unlock Afterstory!
I opened it up and the first sequence was translated. I was so pumped as we left the 'Illusionary World' part and went into the 'Real World' part, only to find out it hadn't been translated yet. ARGH!

-slashwrist

Looks like I have to wait for baka-tsuki to finish the CLANNAD translation project. Hopefully before next year comes.
I can't wait! >_<

Only to be fair

Seems like I'm the only one actually posting about what I do in real life now. Zong has stopped posting entirely to pursue his other random hobbies, such as setting those darned Germans on fire, and making tanks blow open with bazooka. Also; he enjoys making models. Of vehicles. Bristan is sort of posting about what he does I guess, Danyal's blog is entirely made to update on bleach so it's more of a fansite, and not so much a blog any more. Infact, he's slow on updates so it's kind of fail anyway. Merrill hasn't posted anything since Hari Raya, but I still check every once in awhile. Dornel's blog is somewhere out there but I forgot. He probably would rather look for 2142 aimbots than update his blog anyway.

After my previous post about my drawing, I was bored enough to make another one, so I set out to practice. This time I had a better idea of what I was doing and it turned out a lot better than I thought. And it has a proper face this time!

Recently, in Bristan's blog, my battle with Dornel rages on about our opinions over CLANNAD. Since my only ammunition is having watched AIR and CLANNAD, while he keeps using Kanon as a reference, I am currently downloading Kanon and its OVA's and special episodes to watch so that I can argue with him properly.

Although I have already given up on like, forcing people to like CLANNAD, he keeps saying it sucks, so the battle will prevail on.

As you can see, I'm listening to Tori no Uta, which is the OP for AIR, and it makes me sad.
;-;
Leave criticism about my art in the CBOX or MSN me~!
Or be a Dornel and comment.

ーしょうじょおたく

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Now playing: Lia - Tori no Uta
via FoxyTunes

The pictures are ready

I originally uploaded them as pictures in my post but they were too big so they might've just crashed your computers or something.

WARNING: ALL OF THESE ARE NSFW (NOT SAFE FOR WORK)

All of 'em together
That's all of them sitting nicely on my small desk in my room.

Yuki Nagato (Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu)
Yuki, the quiet 'background' character in the SOS-dan clubroom.

Tsuruya, the adorable~ (Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu)
The spunky Tsuruya, probably the easiest figure to set up.

Mikuru, in the Mikuru Beam pose (Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu)
In that maid outfit that Haruhi likes to put her in too.

The star of the show, Haruhi Suzumiya (Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu)
Haruhi in a ponytail
These two came bent and sort of messed up, and when their on my table, they face the table instead of looking straight forward. Ah, not much you can expect from cheap figures.

Miyuki, the tower of moe (Lucky Star)
My Miyuki figure from the Lucky Star gachapon. Definitely the highest quality figure, strangely. Although the others are prettier and nicer to look at, this one is sturdy, and still adorable. Only thing is that the base is kind of bent around.

Hopefuly in the future, there will be more figures to join them.

-しょうじょおたく

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Now playing: Toki wo Kizamu Uta
via FoxyTunes

Past events

Well, today I was supposed to put up a post about my new, and my first anime figures I bought. But sadly my mom forgot to bring her camera home and so I can't show them off to you guys while bragging. But since I promised, I will post today.

Yesterday I woke up at 8:45a.m. and got ready. By the time I finished showering and all, it was about 9:20a.m. I set off with my wallet, phone, PSP and earphones and took off to Vivocity, thinking it would definitely take at least an hour to get there by public transportation. Of course, with my miserable knowledge of public transporation backing me up, I ended up in Vivocity at 10a.m., a whole 30 minutes earlier than I was supposed to meet the others. I called everyone but sadly almost everybody was at home and Dornel didn't pick up his phone. So I just walked around.

Passing by the Toys'R'Us, I remembered my friend saying that he got a Lucky Star keychain of Tsukasa which was really cute, and he got it from a Gachapon. So I went to the Gachapon place in Toys'R'Us, and with much embarrassment at myself for being ripped off, bought 2 Gachapon eggs from the Lucky Star machine fo $8 in total. Also; I got 2 Miyuki's. Worse part is that the figures I wanted was either Kagami or Konata, Tsukasa would be okay too, but I ended up getting Miyuki. Then I noticed they were all dressed up for fetish people. Konata in a swimsuit, Kagamin in a cheerleader outfit, Tsukasa in a miko outfit and Miyuki in the schoolgirl outfit. But I guess it's okay.

Later on I went to meet Dornel first, followed by Zong and Merrill. At first we just walked around since the hobby shop wasn't open, and I was all happy about going to the anime shops around VivoCity. But first, we went to Toys'R'Us and walked around a bit and looked at stuff like Thomas the Train, etc etc. And then we went to the other part of the building with the small anime shop. Sadly it was still closed, but instead we went to the TimeZone next to it and we all spent about $3 on TimeZone cards and played around a little. Then the anime shop had opened and we went inside and looked around. There was a lot of Naruto and Bleach figures but only 1 Haruhi figure, which was Mikuru's Mikuru Beam thing, but no Lucky Star figures. Oh well.

Next we went back to the hobby shop where Zong was looking at model tanks and I was looking at all the anime figures there while the others kept making jokes and insulting my love for all things anime. I saw a lot of anime figures there from ToHeart, Haruhi, Star Ocean, some other random animes. Some Fate/Stay Night too. In the end, after spending almost 30 minutes just looking at all the stuff, I ended up spending $15 on 5 anime figures for Haruhi.

In the end we took Taxi to Zong's house, did some rather random shit there blahblahblah. Went home, assembled my 6 anime figures and kept the spare Miyuki one in the drawer and put them on my desk.

Well, yeah.

-しょうじょおたく

Call of Duty: World at War

Well, me and my brother have finally finished CoD:WaW Co-Op today, and we finally got the Playstation 3's network up and running again. Apparantly when my dad turned on WEP security before, he triggered a switch that only allowed 4 specific MAC addresses to connect to the modem, which was my mom's, my dad's, mine and my brother's, but my PS3's MAC address wasn't included in the list for some reason. So I was toying around in the dataframe thingy just now and saw it, input my PS3's MAC address and it should work fine now.

Anyway, I woke up at about 10a.m. and we started playing World at War after doing the normal stuff (shower, teethbrush, but no breakfast though) and we went through about 5 stages before you guys called me to go play DotA. Since at the start of the game it said that there was an auto-save feature we didn't go and check anything about the saves. So we were like "Alright, let's stop and quit." and we did.

Later on my brother was bored and went to look at our save files and noticed that we had only unlocked the first stage. Irritated by this, I went to search the internet. Apparantly World at War's autosave doesn't work in Co-Op mode, and to unlock the stages you have to play it in solo campaign.

On a happier note, I played a bit of World at War online Co-Op and versus matches. It's quite fun and the lag is a definite improvement over Call of Duty 4. Out of the 12-13 matches I played, only 3-4 of them had a 1-bar connection, which is a lot better than Call of Duty 4, in which probably only 1 of them would have had good connection.

The maps are also very big and wide, and with a lot of hiding spaces. And there are tanks. Friggin tanks. I really suck at it but it's fun to play. Hopefully I get a BDS (Black Dot Sight) for my BAR soon, although I'm not sure if it even has one.

So long!
じゃね～！

ーしょうじょおたく

Lucky Star~

おはらき！～

Recently I've taken a break from playing the CLANNAD game, after finishing off Kotomi's arc, to start rewatching Lucky Star. This one, I can't really say how many of you would like it. If anyone, I expected Merrill to like it but apparantly he found it boring so, I guess my whole assumption thing is off.

Well, it's December, as Dornel gladly comes to tell me around the 1st minute of December 1st. Christmas is coming soon and we only have a week of this holiday before we all go back into 'normal life'. And for you lucky people, you won't have to deal with Keith Tan or Arzami, damn it all.

Recently been hit by some kind of virus or something, my computer freezes if too many applications are going on, but since AVG can't pick up any virus, I'm assuming my computer is just running low on memory or something. Ah, my uncle from my father's side bought me Call of Duty: World at War and Fallout 3 so I can say something about them in this post.
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Call of Duty: World at War

- I've only played until like the second mission, but I found the Co-Op screen placement quite ridiculous. The whole horizontal stacking thing worked fine, but in CoD:WaW, the screens are diagonally placed, so if you have a small TV, you're pretty much screwed right there. Also, the character skins for the Japanese and the Americans are only that little bit different, not counting the Japanese having a headband with the Japanese flag painted on it. Also they seem to like running at me wielding their bayonet guns and trying to poke me to death. The revive system is kind of lame in the Co-Op system, and I personally found it odd that the AI wouldn't ever bother about you on the floor, and often step over you. Another thing that kind of bugs me about these revival systems is that you are ready to get-up-and-go as soon as you get bandaged. And then you just fall down to that last bit of HP and you need to be revived again, but when you do there are no side-effects. If you really want a realistic experience, at least add like a cripple to running or a shaky aim-screen for a few seconds after being revived.

- The gun selection looks pretty sad too. So far out of 2 levels and almot 40 minutes of gameplay, I've only had the Namba pistol, the BAR, M1 Garand and some Japanese rifle, a 100-type machine gun-ish thingy and a 99-type disposal (?) machine gun thingy, and that one Thompson that my brother found in a secret area. Anyway, the real experience probably will come in online play, so hopefully I get my PS3's network settings up and proper soon.

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Fallout 3

- Maybe it's just not my kind of game. I found it REALLY boring, and the whole dull backgrounds and all were very.. boring. So far the fighting system has me down. The V.A.S.T thingy, or something like that, pauses all time so you can properly shoot here and there, and whatnot. But to wear your weapon, or switch weapons, you have to press start, go to the menu, choose the items menu, pick the item you want, and then exit the menu. Kind of troublesome, since they could have used some other button set to do this.

- Anyway can't say much about this. Since it was a gift from my uncle, my mom didn't want me to ask him to exchange because she felt bad about it, but then I'd just have a PS3 game that I don't want to play. So I asked her to ask my uncle whether I can get Valkyria Chronicles and exchange in Fallout 3 for, well, that. Hopefully the shop has it, because I'm anticipating VC more than LittleBigPlanet. Anyway, for now I'll be playing WaW, but not too much, I think I've neglected my poor CLANNAD.exe

Ugu~~

-しょうじょおたくsama