Fantastical Elements of Life

Midnight Hearts - Moving Blogs!

2010-11-14T01:29:00.000-08:00

Hi guys! I know I don't post here anymore but... I have a new place! I made a new blog after the Masters of Unlocking which I referenced to earlier shut down. This time, with a really close group of friends. Don't know how often THEY'LL be posting, but hopefully I'll be posting a lot more there.

I feel sad that I'm not really posting here a lot anymore though! But I can't really tell if people even read this stuff! That and I like Wordpress better. Anywho, go there if you really care to hear about whatever the hell I want to talk about. All of my posts from Masters of Unlocking are there too, so yeah. Here's the link: http://midnighthearts.wordpress.com/

You can also click on the banner. Anywho, I guess I do still get a few visitors here and there according to the visitor counter. But they rarely ever comment or whatevz, but yeah. Anywho, thank you for the continued support!

And bah, I made all these banners here just so they could ROT. Oh well, some of them are pretty so I'm going to keep this up anyway.

Rorona has English Voices

2010-06-21T12:23:00.000-07:00

Atelier Rorona: Alchemist of Arland Official Trailer

Yay articles from Xugo.

Everyone Needs to Buy Sakura Wars

2010-06-16T11:43:00.000-07:00

So yeah, it's been a while since I've blogged here. BUT, since I seem to be getting semi-decent amounts of visitors every day I thought I might as well post here. Yes, this blog is TECHNICALLY dead, but I'd like to share something with everyone to visits this even if it's completely random strangers that only visit for like 1 second and then leave as they found my blog through Google or something.

Anywho, everyone needs to go buy Sakura Wars: So Long, My Love. Right now. Okay, you don't HAVE to, but seriously, it's like one of the best games I've played all year, and it got me obsessed with the whole freakin series. Sure, you probably won't get as obsessed as me, but one game of the series getting me so into it that I start buying artbooks, merchandise, and immersing myself in it's music and art, is quite an impressive feat. I've even started planning to buy a Japanese PS2 for the remakes of the first and third games. I'm that obsessed. But yeah, if you like Visual Novels, if you like anime, if you're familiar with the series through the anime, if you like Strategy RPGs, please please please get this! More people that buy it, the more chances there are of it actually coming out here!

Come on! The girls are cute, the story is great fun although a tad idealistic, but it's great! I love it! Awesomeness! But yes. DO IT DO IT DO IT. If you have money of course.

That is all.

formspring.me

2010-02-18T16:11:00.001-08:00

Fill in the blank! "Kimchi taste good with _____"

Anything that neutralizes the spicyness.

Ask me whatever.

formspring.me

2010-02-17T22:05:00.001-08:00

What your first RPG-game?

Technically, Pokemon Red/Blue, but I consider the first I've ever really got into to be Final Fantasy IX. It's my first Final Fantasy, and my absolute favorite. :)

Ask me whatever.

I Feel Bad...

2009-12-13T12:09:00.000-08:00

For abandoning this place... I made so many pretty banners for it, and yet I barely even come here anymore! Probably because I'm not as motivated to post here, but yeah.

I'm blogging with a blog group from the Backloggery now though! So if you want to hear from me and my video gaming just go to:

http://mastersofunlocking.wordpress.com/

Yes, I am now a Master of Unlocking. I might have mentioned this in a previous post, but whatever. I've only made 3 posts there so far, but it's pretty fun! I'm even in an AIM Blast Group with them so I can talk with them every day. They're all really good people too, so it's really nice, so you guys should check it out! (If anyone even still comes here. XD)

Ar tonelico III!!!!!!!!!

2009-10-16T15:45:00.000-07:00

Click picture for teaser site/trailer. :D

Odin Sphere ~Mercedes~

2009-09-25T00:34:00.000-07:00

ATLER has done it again. First, a elegant Gwendolyn figure and now a new Mercedes figure awaits Rarutos to purchase this gorgeous figure. The cost is not as much as Yamatos's Mercedes figure, but it is still pricey. I think this gorgeous figure cost about 80 dollars in USD money depending where you purchase it. Anyways, I personally want to play Odin Sphere someday but I'm too distracted with education and other video games that wants to be completed as soon as possible. I wonder if ATLER will release a Velvet figure someday?

Mana-Khemia 2 Semi-Review

2009-09-10T18:54:00.000-07:00

Click the Picture to check out my full semi-review of Mana-Khemia 2: Fall of Alchemy! I didn't use a score system because I was lazy and because I thought that I would be too biased about it anyway. ^^'

Oboro Muramasa

2009-09-08T09:43:00.000-07:00

My Muramasa is almost here! It shall be played when it gets here! Unfortunately, I got three day shipping and instead of getting it last Friday, I'm getting it tomorrow, because WEEKENDS AND HOLIDAYS DON'T COUNT APPARENTLY. Never again.

Greatly looking forward to this very artistic and beautiful game. Awesome thing is, Momohime is voiced by Sawashiro Miyuki! She was also in Odin Sphere, which this is the spiritual successor of! Wooo VanillaWare! If you liked Odin Sphere, you should check this game out. Tis for the Wii.

~One Coin Figure Hetalia~

2009-09-05T00:11:00.001-07:00

Great five minute anime show! I would have never thought they would have one coin figures. It just shows that this anime series is popular. America and Japan~ I do not know if I should get this but I do not want to miss the opportunity to miss this set. I still need to catch up to the current episodes.

Gust Calendar 2009 & Salburg Shop

2009-08-31T21:38:00.001-07:00

I been wondering if a Gust would have a calendar of its own..... only in Japan. Salburg (Gust shop in Japan) has many merchandises that we want.....go check out. =) There is Atelier Rorona towels, art books, Ar Tonelico II T-shirts, soundtracks and many more. I want a Gust Calendar. xD There is a way to purchase them but it is quite expensive to use that method.

Salburg Shop

Mana-Khemia 2

2009-08-26T20:31:00.000-07:00

Finally! Its out... Rarutos and I are going to be busy this game for quite a while. Blogging could be delayed due to being occupied on Mana-Khemia 2. The art book and poster looks amazing.

Atelier Annie

2009-08-22T15:02:00.001-07:00

Atelier Annie pre orders are up on Rosenqueen website.

Watashi, MAKENAI!

2009-08-15T15:50:00.000-07:00

Currently addicted to this Pokemon (Yes, Pokemon) ending song sung by KAORI, who is Haruka's (May) seiyuu! It's an upbeat and cute song, and I really like it for some reason! KAORI awesome sang Tears Infection, the opening of Myself; Yourself. She's pretty talented! The above video is the ending from the anime itself, below would be the full song.

Mizuki Nana

2009-08-14T12:53:00.001-07:00

As I was watching Minami-ke and playing Tales of Symphonia today, I came to the realization as to how amazing Mizuki Nana is. Mizuki Nana, is simply put, an amazing seiyuu with a great singing voice! A majority of her songs are quite amazing, most notably, the first few I've heard from her, the openings from Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha, like Innocent Starter and Eternal Blaze. Amazing tracks those are! And now, I'm being more exposed to her, and I have to say that she is definitely one of the more talented seiyuu out there!

Her voice range is pretty amazing too... From Fate Testarossa to Colette Brunel to even Minami Touma! I was surprised to hear that she was Touma, I never would have guessed it was her. Anywho, just felt like posting about my realization of the awesome Mizuki Nana. XD

I'm So Depressed...

2009-08-12T19:30:00.001-07:00

Nobody looks at my blog anymore! T_T

I might as well close it down if that's the case... Although all the pretty banners will go to waste...

Also, I need more money... All these good games are coming out, and I can't possibly buy them all... T__T

Oh well...

Tales of Series Metal Nedsuke

2009-08-01T18:05:00.000-07:00

Check out these Tales of Series Metal Nedsukes (I'm calling them straps) whatever they are called. I already have Raven, Zelos, Rita, Yuri, Estelle, and Klarth preordered for quite awhile. They were suppose to come out July 25th but changed to August due to some reasons..... Anyone else going to purchase one or more of these? *Advertising on Rarutos's blog =)

Agarest Senki Getting US Release via PSN

2009-07-29T11:01:00.000-07:00

I was shocked when I heard the news! Thanks to Nara-chi for pointing it out on the forums. I've wanted to play this, but I didn't think it was worth importing... So yeah, I'm glad to see it coming, even if it's only through digital distribution.

Here is the link to the article.

Twitter

2009-07-19T01:50:00.000-07:00

I have sadly given in and got a Twitter account... Follow me if you wish, although I'm not sure how frequently I'll end up using it. It's all because of Shiki-sama.

Never Mess With Fujibayashi Kyou

2009-07-15T07:54:00.000-07:00

As she will suddenly go into demon mode and rip your heart out of your chest.

I have obviously, recently acquired the CLANNAD Visual Novel (Thank you Orpheon-sama!)! And it being my first real VN, (Ar tonelico doesn't really count I guess. ^^') I'm actually quite enjoying it! Especially since I did watch the anime first, and I know what's going to happen for the most part, but it's nice to get to know the characters once again in a LOT more detail! Now, I really want to play the Kanon VN, despite it being an H-game, (Hopefully we can skip the scenes? o_o) because Kanon was my absolute favorite out of the three Key animated series that I have watched.

I was trying to go towards Kotomi's path first, but I think I ended up winding towards Nagisa's path on accident... I was just choosing what I felt like after all, and I just could not refuse Nagisa's being alone in the courtyard, eating her Anpan by herself... She's a lot more similar to me than I thought I guess. Which is why I actually really liked her quite a bit back when the first season came out.

"ANPAN!"

She shouts to encourage herself. It's so heartwarming to be able to try to make her happy in the VN, and to encourage her to do things that she would have otherwise not done on her own, but man... I already know her fate if she becomes, "the one" for Tomoya, and that's depressing... Oh well, I have to go through all paths to get the true end eventually anyway I guess...

Also, Nagisa's theme/the Dango Daikazoku song from the anime's melody is now stuck in my head.

Dango~ Dango~ Dango~ Dango~ Dango Daikazoku~ After watching the After Story though... It does make me kind of sad... T__T

Argh Laziness... And Cross Edge Impressions!

2009-07-13T22:07:00.000-07:00

Wow, I've been much too lazy to make actual blog posts as of late haven't I? That's why nobody really looks here anymore I guess... Sorry guys! I'll try to liven it up a little more somehow...

So, most of you guys have probably heard by now, but I HAS A PS3! Yay! I'm well on my way on going through Cross Edge, and it is so much love. Shurelia, Aurica, Misha, Lilia, Wuim, Roze, Marie~ All are awesome! The Mana-Khemia 2 characters do make me want to play the actual game, tis a shame that Cross Edge came out before Mana-Khemia 2, but oh well! Either way, I'll play both anyway.

The gameplay is a lot more complicated than I expected! It takes a bit of getting used to, but it's still uber fun. The character fanservice is great! Shurelia is still getting lost and tripping in battle. Very MOEEEE indeed. The story hasn't been all that exciting, but the characters more than make up for it! Yuuto is a jerkass though, and I don't like him too much. Mikoto however, is such a sweetheart! She's constantly looking out for everyone in the "family" as Misha has put it. And boy, is it a huge family, and it's only expanding! I'd say this is the only RPG where you have OVER 9000 unique characters to choose from. Which obviously makes it difficult to choose a permanent team for me... As I do end up liking a lot of them. XD

Also, the Ar tonelico II costumes for the Ar tonelico I Reyvateils are just so much win.

I should also mention BlazBlue shouldn't I? Great fighting game! I haven't played it too much lately because of Cross Edge, but I absolutely love it! And I have so many friends that I've met through the Backloggery that have it, it's going to be a blast to play even more! Noel and Rachel are my current favorites, but that could still change, since I haven't had too much time with it. If you have a PS3 and BlazBlue, hit me up!

I guess that's all for now... I'll try to start posting more! I promise!

Anime Expo 2009 - Day 3 & 4

2009-07-04T22:28:00.001-07:00

Just Day 3 of Anime Expo. I don't think I'm going tomorrow. My feet and legs are so sore. All I did today was go to the Smash Bros Brawl Display meet with my friends and shop. Nothing special then to Little Tokyo for some okay ramen and shop a bit. Hi-chew candy are very addicting.... Anyways, last pictures of AX booths of NIS America, ATLUS, and Capcom.

NIS America: Prinny cosplay XD

ATLUS:

Capcom:

Anime Expo was fun despite all the boring and embarassing events. I think the only good events was the concert honestly... the small exhibit booths are okay nothing to buy besides at the RosenQueen store and checking out the ATLUS booth for free Neo Steam things. I also got myself a Prinny fan =D. The Aksys games booth was okay they were promoting BlazBlue. Well it was fun. Looking forward to go to Anime Expo next year and hope it gets better.

Anime Expo 2009 - Day 2

2009-07-04T01:04:00.000-07:00

Nothing really special today. Same booths just that the Aksys Games booth was there. I purchased the Gamestop bonus Blazblue artbook there and got a free Blazblue folder. I did not take as much pictures today and it was mostly tiring and boring there. All that was great was going to the Morning Musume concert. Rest of the events were dull and lame. Seriously, at AX, I met some hardcore fans there that they would embarass themselves out to hundreds of people. Sorry to be mean.

More NIS America Pictures - Day 2

Aksys Games - Day 2 Note: couldn't take as much pictures too many people there and got lazy.

The stuff I purchased and got for free yesterday and today.

I'm planning on going back tomorrow to AX probably to shop and thats it.

Anime Expo 2009 - Day 1

2009-07-03T01:15:00.000-07:00

ATLUS Booth.

So tired right now so here is a quick post of day 1 of NIS America and Atlus booth at Anime Expo 2009. I was at AX all day till midnight. I want that Ar Tonelico II Giclee Art.

NIS America Booth

I got Rarutos the Prinny fan he wanted. Alright, I need to get some sleep for tomorrow. Day 2 of AX. I'm probably just going to go 2-3 days since its an exhausting and expensive food trip.

There's a Zombie on Your Laaawwn~

2009-06-27T22:31:00.000-07:00

Best. Music Video. Ever.

Hey ya'll! Sorry I haven't been checking my blog lately... I've been mostly preoccupied with my Backloggery! But yeah, I just got and played an incredibly fun and addicting video game known as Plants vs. Zombies! Very fun stuff. I've been too lazy to post stuff here lately, but I'll try to start posting again... I think... Err... I'll try writing reviews again, or just posting game news I find important and stuff... Yeah...

Thanks for visiting everyone! My blog has been dead a while, but I'll try to bring it back up. :3

YouTube is Dumb Sometimes.

2009-06-13T14:48:00.000-07:00

I wanted to post YUI's amazing song here titled: SUMMER SONG to comemmorate my summer vacation starting up, but when I look it up... I only find people that are not YUI trying to play the song. :[

Currently, I'm addicted to the backloggery.

Oh, and does anyone want to make a donation to my PS3 fund? I want to play Cross Edge. >_>

Nintendo Press Conference 2009

2009-06-02T10:20:00.000-07:00

NEW GOLDEN SUN ZOMG!

NEW SUPER MARIO GALAXY ZOMG!

NEW METROID WITH NINTENDO WORKING WITH TEAM NINJA?! WTF + ZOMG!

But...

Where's my Kirby for the Wii? :[

Roll's Theme: Kaze Yo Tsutaete

2009-05-24T17:01:00.000-07:00

Roll's Theme is so so much win. ^_^

"Beating" Fighting Games

2009-05-17T16:20:00.000-07:00

Okay, so I have recently been very active in the backloggery. It's a fun thing, keeping track of my games and having different themes for my currently favorite games at the time.

However, there is a question that has arisen... How do you know when you've "beaten" a fighting game? Is it just when you see the credits like with every other game? But technically that would just mean beating Arcade or Story Mode with just one character, then voila! You have beaten the game. Is it really that simple? Either that... Or is beating the game a lot more difficult and requires beating the game with every character? But doesn't that count towards 100% Completion? In Smash Bros. I could have considered myself beating the game after I've unlocked all the characters and stages. But what if the fighting game doesn't have unlockable characters or stages? It's a mystery... If you guys who still actually visit my blog read this post. Please give me your opinion of when we technically have beaten a fighting game. You can use examples from past experience if you want!

Such is my predicament. With Battle Fantasia and Street Fighter IV, have I already technically beaten them by beating Arcade/Story mode once and seeing the ending credits? Or... Is there something MORE I have to do? In Street Fighter IV, I suppose I could say that I haven't beaten the game yet until I've unlocked Seth, but that would be a very tedious process... The same can be said for Battle Fantasia as well, as I still have The End of Deathbringer to unlock, although he technically won't ever appear on the character select screen as you have to choose him in a certain way after meeting the requirements, which is pretty much beat Story Mode 100% with each character. Which is also a VERY long and tedious process.

Any opinions are welcome. XD

Terrible FanFiction Idea

2009-05-14T14:17:00.000-07:00

Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining Sonic the Hedgehog and Sailor Moon.
The story should use a sex-change operation as a plot device!

Generated by the Terrible Crossover Fanfiction Idea Generator

I'm being forced by Orpheon-sama to do this, so I'm just going to post it here for right now... Until I get to it eventually... IF I ever do.

Wow, it's been a while hasn't it? o_o

I guess I'll post my reviews/opinions on the games I've beaten recently later. XD

A Reyvateil's Melody: Waath

2009-04-05T17:14:00.000-07:00

Well, the old forums have exploded, and they have been revived to the new link above here! The Chroche-sama sidebar to the side will link to it to! Enjoy Ar tonelico fans! Register, chat, and please don't make the new one explode...

Metafalica

2009-03-27T10:23:00.000-07:00

Yes, I have finally achieved Metafalica... Last week. I finally was able to beat Ar tonelico II last weekend. I'm currently on Spring Break this week which is why I was able to. I need to go back and get all 100 I.P.D.s to join Chroche's fanclub though. The ending was spectacular! It makes me wonder how good Luca, Jakuri, and Cocona's endings are... Although the last parts of it will be the same. The only difference would be the scene with said girl and Chroah (A lovey-dovey scene. XD) That said, despite all the localization mishaps, I really enjoyed the game. Although the game did freeze on me randomly at least 5 times... Mostly during I.P.D. fights, but once while I was looking through Chroche-sama's costumes... I know I'll be going back to play through Ar tonelico II again eventually, because it really is an awesome game with lovable characters and a great story.

Also, I finally finished Clannad ~After Story~ yesterday. Very very very sad story. I cried several times. The ending was super though! Miracles can happen if you try apparently. (Well, at least in Key produced stuffs) Everyone was happy in the end, although there was a lot of hardship to be had for that to happen. Even though, the last few episodes now seem meaningless... But anywho, Ushio = absolutely adorable. Watch the anime if you can, I think the second season was a lot more depressing and serious than the first season. I'm not sure which one I could consider better, but they're continuations of each other, so I'm not sure if we can compare...

Also, I need to find a way to get a PS3 soon... Lots of Cross Edge news has been coming out as of late... And I just really really want to play that game. Hopefully NISA won't screw it up like they did with Ar tonelico II... And yes, the costume above is Misha is Chroche-sama's costume. Which was a big surprise for me when I first got a look at it thanks to raymk-san from A Reyvateil's Melody.

Well, that's all I could think of writing for today, got to do some house chores...

Resident Evil 5 Impressions

2009-03-13T22:47:00.001-07:00

Okay, not really impressions, since I have been watching/playing it for over a week. I have an actual copy of it now though! Collector's Edition, being the swag queen that I am... The bag is fairly amazing, although a bit smaller than I would have liked. Chris figurine is VERY small, and it's not a really good rendition of his RE5 incarnation. His physique is more similar to that of when he had less muscle in RE1. XD

I also got the Laser Cell Art from the Gamestop preorder, and the BSAA badge, as well as the necklace. All very nice. Not sure what I want to do with the badge though. XD

Anywho, the game is fun as heck! Especially with a friend. The Co-Op is AWESOME! More games need co-op nowadays. There haven't been a lot of those since the NES/SNES days. *remembers games like Bubble Bobble and Donkey Kong Country* Co-Op is a big selling point for me, especially for these kinds of games... My friends actually play with me! It's great. We can even go online to find people to play with! So if anyone has RE5... Hit me up if you want to play online! Of course, I can only do that when I'm at home, when I actually have internet on the 360...

Overall, it is a fun game! The gore isn't that bad actually... They don't even show much of the decapitations anymore, unlike RE4. Of course, I am kind of used to it now in RE... I still can't really take gore in movies and stuff though...

The story is fairly interesting so far, although I know all the big spoilers already... =.= Oh well, I'm still enjoying it, and seeing how the heck we got to those spoilers. XD

Video Game Deprived...

2009-03-09T13:42:00.000-07:00

Life is taking it's toll and I haven't been able to play anything at all lately... *sadness*

I should have beaten Ar tonelico II weeks ago, but alas... I'm stuck at Sol Marta for the time being. Maybe I'll be able to play sometime this weekend? Who knows...

Anywho, I'm just making a blog to let everyone know I'm alive! Well, it's not like many people read this thing anyway right? XD

I've been addicted to EXEC_with.METHOD_METAFALICA/. lately though, shows how much I miss playing the game I guess...

I preordered Shikata Akiko-sama's Harmonia album as well, despite starting to run low on the moneys, but it was worth it... I think... I'll wait until it comes, I'll probably love it. XD

In the mean time... Click here to help me out please! It's Resident Evil 5 related. :D

So Much To Deal With...

2009-02-28T12:17:00.000-08:00

Way too much drama within the past week... Glad it's over with. I'm away from the dorms for the weekend, so I suppose it's good to get away for a bit...

Of course, finals are coming up... And those aren't fun at all. Also, I've got a paper to write for my History class that's due next Monday... Rawr.

I've already signed up for my classes next quarter, they include: Japanese 3, Science Words: Greek and Latin Roots, Art History: Western Art: Baroque to Modern, and hopefully my first upper-division class: The Supreme Court and the Constitution.

I'm hoping that next quarter won't be too tough, but I can't be certain about that, considering how lazy I am...

On a different note, I have finally acquired my Atelier Vocal Historia and Tales of the Abyss Image Album! Also, I got my Luca Truelywaath figurine (And still haven't opened it because I'm too afraid to...), Digital Devil Saga 1 and 2, Devil Summoner, Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon, Street Fighter IV (The Collector's Edition), and will be getting Star Ocean: The Last Hope once I get back to school.

Yes, my backlog is DEFINITELY building up.

Not to mention Resident Evil 5, Pokemon Platinum, Mana-Khemia: Student Alliance, and Devil Summoner 2 coming in within the next few months... Among others.

Gah... I need more money and time. >__<

Meanwhile, Street Fighter IV is definitely a game that brings everyone together. We've been playing it non-stop since I got it... And well, I suck! Having Sakura doesn't help me at all... I was never good at fighting games to begin with I guess. However, it is still a lot of fun at times. although losing does suck, I just need to practice some more I guess.

I'm finally in the Tower of Ar tonelico II... Does that tell you how close I am to the end? D:

Once again, once I'm not lazy. I'll post photos of my new collectables. XD

Hmm...

2009-02-15T11:00:00.000-08:00

I haven't been blogging a lot at all as of late...

In fact, I haven't even been chatting, foruming, or doing a lot of internet stuffs much at all as of late...

I still HAVE been doing stuff like that, but they seem to be waning more and more everyday.

I have come to the realization that I have finally made some of the greatest friends I will EVER have during my second year of college. I've even already slept over one of their houses... And I've NEVER done that before. Life is pretty good in terms of my social life... I still get sad and emotional sometimes, but that's only because of certain circumstances... Overall, I am actually a lot a lot happier than ever before because of all the wonderful people I have come to know in the past several months...

This is also including those people I have met over the internet like Thunder-kun, Lazy, Kazu-kun, Deciare, Ayame-chan, Starry-sama, and Orpheon-sama. Thank you all SO much for being there for me, and sorry for not being able to chat as often as before! You guys truly are awesome people that I am grateful to get to know! I love you all! ^^

Especially since I had the BEST BIRTHDAY OF MY LIFE! I'm so thankful to have met such wonderful people who I can never doubt!

I made this lovebar with the intention of spreading the love for all the playable Reyvateils. As for my progress with AT2... I'm in Phase 5, about to sing Viena. Chroche-sama is love as expected! Luca is pretty cool, and Jakuri is undoubtedly the best character in the game. Despite how badly NISA messed up my favorite game ever, I can still enjoy it... Although I am very disappointed that I have to go through certain means of actually having the full experience of it... Hopefully I'll have access to being able to playing the game with the full Japanese voice track soon enough...

I also made a fanclub known as the Church of Pastalia on the Ar tonelico: A Reyvateil's Melody forums... But that's not very important I suppose. XD

Also, I cannot wait for Street Fighter IV! (Even though I've played it already.) Go go Sakura!

I have a lot of new merchandise to show off, but I'm too lazy to take pictures of them. Maybe next time. :D

One Piece Portrait of Pirates Collection

2009-02-14T13:56:00.001-08:00

I am almost done collecting one of my favorite anime and trying to support them. All I need is Brooke and Mr. 2 aka Bon Clay figure model then I have all the Neo set =D. Yes I even have one of Rarutos favorite character in here and I bet you guys can guess which one it is....heh

Yes, I removed my Tales collection and displayed on my 2 new wallshelves.

I HAVE IT!

2009-01-19T17:56:00.000-08:00

I Hath Saved The World From DEATH

2009-01-03T12:04:00.000-08:00

I HAVE FINALLY BEATEN THE JOURNEY! It took my whole Winter Break, (Which technically ends tomorrow... :[) but I have finally beaten it! Now I'm wondering if I should go on to the answer... /hmm

The game was awesome to say the least, I absolutely LOVED the story... I suppose I'll do a review after I finish The Answer, if I finish The Answer... Rawr. I heard it's even more Nintendo Hard than The Journey (on Normal Mode of course.) because it's permanently on Hard Mode. D: *wonders if he's masochistic enough to do it* Oh well, after losing a two hour battle then triumphing over him at 3 in the morning, I think I should be up to it. :D

And oops, I forgot to reflect on my whole year. D: Too lazy now...

P.S.: Kirijo Mitsuru is <3

Happy New Year~

2009-01-01T12:41:00.000-08:00

Will reflect later.

Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu

2008-12-26T20:05:00.001-08:00

While I'm vigorously working on Persona 3: FES, I realized I NEVER posted about this wonderful anime that I really really really really liked. D:

Beware of slight spoilers... (Although not too too major...)

Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu is one of the cutest anime EVER! I love it because of what Haruka's secret actually is... I didn't realize being an otaku was so... Rejected! Well, it probably is here in the United States, but I didn't know that it was in Japan... Well maybe in the upper-class which is exactly what Haruka is! But yeah, Haruka is awesome! It's one of the most sweetest love stories I've ever experienced after Lovely Complex. I won't give it a complete review right now though, it's not fresh enough in my mind. Although the last arc was kind of disappointing, it seems like they gave Yuuto a stupid conflict to deal with, because well... Haruka would have obviously loved whatever he gave her... ESPECIALLY SINCE IT WAS CLUMSY AKI-CHAN! D:

Noto Mamiko does an awesome Haruka~ I've never seen her voice a rich girl quite yet~ Much less an otaku! The story is so cute too... I couldn't believe how well Yuuto and Haruka went together. Shiina (the other woman) didn't even really get into the way of Haruka and Yuuto's relationship all that much! (Except for one major plot point...) Haruka's maid and imouto are a lot of fun as well~ Also, CLUMSY AKI-CHAN FTW!

But yeah... I liked it overall, the main character wasn't an absolute idiot (until the ending at least), and the heroine was super cute and awesome. I advise romantic-comedy anime fans to watch this. :D

On a random note: I have Tales of Hearts. :D

Backloggery Banner

2008-12-21T01:00:00.000-08:00

Yayy~ Look what I made for my backlog! It took me like five hours to make... And it was kind of worth it... XD Now my backloggery is pretty! I've never actually posted about my backloggery before, so might as well now! it's what I use to track my games... As to how much I've beaten and stuff. It's really useful actually, and gives you more motivation to actually play and beat your games. :D

You can click the banner to get there. Besides, if you want to see the full size, you have to click it anyway. :3

Anywho, the banner has Chroche Latel Pastalie from Ar tonelico: Sekai ni Hibiku Shoujo-tachi no Metafalica (Duh), Estellise Sidos Heurassein from Tales of Vesperia, Viese Blanchimont from Atelier Iris 2: The Azoth of Destiny, Mercedes from Odin Sphere, Amagi Yukiko from Persona 4, Micaiah from Fire Emblem, and Flonne from the Disgaea Series! Of course, there is tha Ralts evolution line on top of the text, but they were mostly accessories for my screen name. XD

Hope you guys like it...

My Poor Wallet...

2008-12-18T11:22:00.000-08:00

Click the NISA Logo for the interview... Cross Edge is coming out here in March! D: Now I seriously need a PS3 before then... Or else. I wasn't anticipating this! RAWR!

BUT YAY IT'S COMING AND I'LL UNDERSTAND IT! AND SO IS MANA-KHEMIA 2! ZOMG! NISA, I love you to death more than ever right now... Even if you did butcher Ar tonelico II's names and probably will butcher Mana-Khemia 2's names... But, THANK YOU SO MUCH! Although at the same time, I feel remorse because that's a LOT of money going out of my wallet... Rawr. Atelier Annie might come here too....

Oh well, I suppose this means I get to play Disgaea 3 and Valkyria Chronicles after all... Now I'm hoping a lot of games like Persona 5 and Ar tonelico III are coming out on the PS3 and hopefully Vesperia can be ported to the PS3...

What?! Don't glare at me like that! I have to get a PS3 for more than just 3 games! D:

Widget

2008-12-16T09:25:00.001-08:00

Tales of Symphonia is out now on Nintendo Wii.
Join the Tales Brigade for your chance to win just for being a fan!

Stole Dennis' post. :D

~Ralts

Dual Audio in Ar tonelico II

2008-12-14T10:36:00.000-08:00

*Tears of Joy*

Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World REVIEW

2008-12-09T21:12:00.000-08:00

Alright! I'm going to review a game for the first time and we'll see how it goes. So yeah, I finally beat Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World! Yayyy! Uhm, let's see... How am I going to do this? I'm going to have... 5 different categories? And rate them out of 5? Maybe? Possibly? Hmm, the categories would be... Story, Characters, Gameplay, Music, Graphics, and Replayability. Actually, I think I'll rate them out of 10 instead! :D And here we go with the review! (I hope I do this right...)

Never mind I'm scoring out of 5.

Story: Alright, I went into the game thinking that it wouldn't be as great as Tales of Vesperia. However, the story of this game actually amazed me! Although there are some shortcomings within it... For example, why can't we meet all 8 Centurions? We only meet Tenebrae and Aqua! Why Namdai? Even if this game was a spin-off... I really would have liked to meet all of them. Anywho, the story was adorable! And at the same time, it was grave.

Honestly, the most defining characteristic of the story was the Emil and Marta's relationship, as well as Alice and Decus. Although the conflict between Sylvarant and Tethe'alla was kind of interesting as well... Hmm... Well, actually the story was VERY confusing. Although it did make a lot of sense when everything became explained to you. :D Overall, I'd say the story was really good! Honestly, the love story is very cute, and quite a change from the average RPG, considering most main heroine and heroes are too dumb to realize they love each other until the very end, well at least one of them... But yeah, I think the story was one of the best parts of the game... So I give it, an 8! Since it's not perfect... But at the same time, it made me cry at some parts, and made me go "Aww..." in others. :D

Score: 4

Characters: ZOMG the characters. The original Symphonia characters are AWESOME! Although, the English voice acting for them isn't what I really wanted because they changed EVERYONE but Colette, Presea, and Kratos (Colette and Presea being my favorite original characters...) But overall the acting was REALLY good! Especially towards the end, as Emil got less and less annoying. Johnny Yong Bosch did a great job with his voice towards the end. Which made me happy. But yeah, Marta was great, it's refresing to finally have a main heroine like her. Outspoken in her love for the hero rather than it coming gradually and being shy about it. Emil's story was VERY interesting... Pull of twists and turns. Tenebrae is fudging WIN! One of my new top favorite characters for sure. I loved Alice and her sadistic ways. The way her story ends was so... Just... *sobs* Decus was fun~ He was more comic relief than anything though, but his role in the story was pulled off rather well.

The original characters are still as awesome as before. I have much love for Presea and Colette, even more now that I've played this. :D Although Presea did NOT get enough screen time. I mean seriously... Actually, Colette didn't either! Strangely Regal and Sheena got the most I think... Anywho, yeah the characters were one of the reasons why I actually started liking the series in the first place, so of course I wouldn't be disappointed in the sequel to the game that introduced me to the series. Although, I was expecting the quality of the story and characters to be much lower going into the game... Because it was a spin-off. Just goes to show that I shouldn't judge a book by it's cover. :D

Score: 5

Gameplay: Having played Vesperia first, I would have to say that I miss a lot of things like Link Encounters and Magic Lens and stuff... The battles ARE a lot of fun! But for some reason, it feels kind of... What's it called... Choppy! XD But yeah, sometimes when I attack with Marta or even Emil... I'm attacking, yet the enemies aren't getting hit and I'm getting frustrated. Also, Unison Attacks are kind of useless once you get Hi-Ougis which are WAYYY too easy to execute, but at the same time it's a lot of fun to spam them. The gameplay is definitely not as good as Vesperia, of course, I shouldn't be saying that because technically this game is older than Vesperia... But, I did have a lot of fun playing the game. The Quests are long and tedious sometimes though... However, the other sidequests are a lot of fun. Especially the ones related to the characters, like Richter and Alice. :D Overall, it is a fun game in terms of gameplay! But it does have some flaws... Just like Vesperia does.

Also, the Monster System. Not a big fan, but it works. I of course, prefer the human characters like Colette and Presea to the monsters, but the fact that they LIMIT the original casts' levels SUCK REALLY BAD. It would make us forced to use the monsters of course, if we can level up the original characters, there probably wouldn't be a point to the Monster System... Although it does give us the collecting ability of finding all the monsters and evolving them... It still sucks in a way though. Marta and Emil being the only permanent party members does make me really sad though.

Synthesizing is useless for the most part actually... We find all these materials and we don't really need to synthesize much at all. Although if you want to collect all the items... (Which is kind of useless considering there's no collector's book...) You have to synthesize. But blah... We get so much money that we can buy all the stuff that we can synthesize early anyway. I dunno, I just didn't feel like it mattered all that much. We even get the best weapons for Marta and Emil outside of Synthesizing... So yeah.

Also, the World Map... I'm disappointed in. No free roaming and instead point and click. A HUGE downgrade in my opinion.

Although, to be honest, a cutscene skip would have been nice... But it's okay, I like listening to the story anyway. :D

Score: 3.75

Graphics: They're beautiful! The expressions on the characters are amazing and the game runs VERY smoothly with those graphics. Honestly, I'd say the 3-D animations are almost better than Vesperia's! Although they aren't as colorful and crisp as Vesperia's... But the animations with the 3-D models are just simply amazing. I was surprised at how animated they were. Although I am disappointed that they didn't add any anime cutscenes at ALL. Although they did have the opening at least... Tempest had some opening scenes not anime which was lazy... But funny at the same time. XD

Score: 4

Music and Sound: Voice acting was great! Although I wish the old VAs came back. Music is mostly a rehash of the old soundtrack... Although the new stuff is kind of neat... Not ZOMG THIS SONG IS AWESOME neat... But neat. Honestly, I wasn't too impressed with the soundtrack, although it was great hearing all the awesome songs of old, but if they had a new really good song, it would have been great. :D

Score: 3

Replayability: There's New Game+! Which Tales of the Tempest surprisingly didn't have. That makes the replayability rise quite significantly! As well as Hard Mode... I'm not sure if there's an Unknown Mode or not... o.o But if there is... More Replayability! There's also all the monsters you want to collect, but that would take quite a lot of patience and time... Although I'm sure there are those that love the game enough will do it. Overall, replayability is good with the Grade Shop and stuff, and I wouldn't mind playing the game again at all, as I enjoy the story quite a lot and I did miss a couple of sidequests relating to Alice and *insert spoiler here*, so I probably will play eventually!

Score: 3.75

FINAL SCORE: 3.91 = C+

Wow, I graded a lot more harshly than I expected! But yeah, I did actually have a lot of fun playing this game! I mean, I LOVED the story and characters. It's just the gameplay could have been a lot better. The defining quality of this game are definitely the story and characters though. The graphics are good and very animated, which is great! Maybe I should have rated it higher actually. I only rated it lower because of the lack of anime scenes and that it wasn't as crisp and colorful as Vesperia, but oh well. Sound was meh, but overall it is a good game. I mean, it's not HORRIBLE, but it's not super duper good either. I guess this is what happens when someone breaks a game down and grades it. You realize that it's not the greatest game in the world. XD Although there probably is some bias in there that we can't avoid. Hopefully I wasn't TOO bias. Well, that's it! My first review EVER!

Questions? Comments? Concerns? Just comment this blog. :D

1 Hour Before History Final...

2008-12-08T10:42:00.000-08:00

Yes, I have one hour before my history final and I really should be looking over my terms. XD

Anywho, I have some good news and bad news! Mostly good though... I think. ZOMG RESIDENT EVIL 5 IS CO-OP! *excited* I never thought I would like Resident Evil until I watched it... It's actually a lot of fun to watch, I really need to try to play Resident Evil 4 before 5 comes out now. Darn you Jonathan for getting me into Resident Evil! Oh well, hopefully this will have me get over my fears of horror movies.

Persona 4 is coming out this week. That is all.

I got my Player's Bibles for Atelier Iris 2 and Ar tonelico II, I'll take pictures of them later~

I MIGHT BE ABLE TO PLAY UNDUB AND IMPORT GAMES AFTER MY WINTER BREAK! Well, for PS2 at least. One of my awesome hallmates might be able to give me the ability to do this, and I'm SOOO excited. Legendia in Japanese? Hells yeah. Persona in Japanese? Awesomeness.

Anywho, bad news. I have just found out that the DSi is going to be region-locked. Really Nintendo? Why would you do this to me? :[

Anywho, I really should be studying now! *waves*

Tokunaga and My Gust Collection. (So far...)

2008-11-28T17:54:00.000-08:00

Woooooooooooo~ My Tokunaga finally came! THANK YOU UNDINE! I was super excited when I finally got them. I was shouting and telling EVERYONE. XD Aren't they great? :D

And I felt obligated to take a picture of my AT stuff... But I obviously didn't have enough so I just made it my Gust stuff! Mwehehehe. It's actually not much at all. Just the games and the AT1 and 2 Artbooks and Mana-Khemia Strategy Guide... Uhm... I'm getting the AT2 and AI2 Player's Bibles soon though. At least I hope so.

Ar tonelico II English Trailer

2008-11-25T12:30:00.001-08:00

Click the picture, then "Special"

"LADY CLOOOSHHHH! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

*dies*

Random Post!

2008-11-24T15:53:00.000-08:00

Yay! I'm finished with my term papers! AND IT'S ALMOST THANKSGIVING I'M SO EXCITED! Hopefully I'll be able to beat Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World soon so Aya-chin can spoil me to death! Disgaea and Persona 3 too. I'm so excited about Persona 4 right now, it's ridiculous.

I'm still disappointed that Chie got a horrible voice... Oh well, I'll get used to it. She was Horie Yui too... :[

Koshimizu Ami and Kugimiya Rie are both in it as well! And guess what? Marta and Rise's seiyuu are both Kugimiya Rie, and their English VAs are both Laura Bailey! *gasp*

Although, I do kind of think that Kugimiya Rie's voice doesn't fit Rise very well... I think Laura's is slightly better. *gasp*

Vote For Your Favorite Tales Character NOW!

2008-11-18T16:17:00.001-08:00

It's that time of year... The time for the voting of YOUR favorite Tales of Character ever! They added the Tales of Hearts characters too, so you can vote for them! If there isn't a character you see that you want to vote for, just add them in that last blank space on the bottom. It has to be in Japanese though... So yeah, good luck searching for the katakana names~

Click the picture above to vote! The picture depicts the last three years' winners... *Thinks it's not fair that Leon gets to appear on the ballot twice*

I urge you guys not to vote for Leon (Unless you really REALLY love him of course... But a lot of people already do it seems.) Let's have a female in the top 3 for once yeah?

ESTELLE, COLETTE, PRESEA, FLYNN, RITA, FENIMORE, TEAR, ION, NATALIA, PHILIA, and CHROCHE FTW! :D

What's my Arcana?

2008-11-10T10:51:00.001-08:00

You Scored as XIII: Death

Death is probably the most well known Tarot card - and also the most misunderstood. Most Tarot novices would consider Death to be a bad card, especially given its connection with the number thirteen. In fact this card rarely indicates literal death.Without "death" there can be no change, only eventual stagnation. The "death" of the child allows for the "birth" of the adult. This change is not always easy. The appearance of Death in a Tarot reading can indicate pain and short term loss, however it also represents hope for a new future.

You can take the quiz: HERE.

I also tied with Empress! But I'm not female so that didn't work out very well. XD

Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World Hype!

2008-11-09T10:07:00.000-08:00

Anyone else super excited about Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World? :D

Hopefully this video will get you even more excited! The video was put together by my awesome friend, bunnywisk/Meleiyu-chan, she worked REALLY hard on it, so please, please, PLEASE watch, rate, and comment!

Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World is coming out THIS WEEK! Wow, that was actually kind of fast... I still have lots of games to beat... Oh well, I know it'll be enjoyable at least! I can't wait to see all of my old favorite characters from the original game, as well as make some new ones, like Marta and Alice! Wheeeeeeeeeeeee more Tales hype! ^__^

I've Bought Too Many Games...

2008-11-06T15:37:00.001-08:00

In the past couple of months... It's ridiculous! Oh well, I'll go over the ones I've gotten...

PS2:

I always hear a lot of good stuff about Disgaea... And after I tried Disgaea: Afternoon of Darkness, I had to get the second one... Don't ask why. It was the first game I bought online with my recently acquired uber online purchasing powers...

I've always wanted to try this too... Connie-sama has it, and said she would let me borrow it, but I don't see her nearly enough to even begin to borrow it... And considering my current backlog, I'm not even sure when I'll ever get to play Radiata Stories. XD

I'm bad, I know.

YAY! PERSONA 3! I've actually wanted to play this game for a while... It's love so far... I really like it. I actually already am sold on the series... I know, I'm crazy.

I've always heard good things about Okami... Then I heard directly from Aya-chin that it was good. So I thought, what the heck, I'll just get it and try it out! :D

Wow, Guilty Gear. I never thought I would get this game. But after hearing about it from a lot of online friends, I thought, I have to see this. Actually the only reason it was mentioned was because a lot of them thought Chroche was Bridget... Which she most certainly is NOT. But, it's an interesting fighting game nontheless.

PSP:

Wooo~ Star Ocean! IN 2-D! The game was made RIGHT after Tales of Phantasia by the same team. The team quit because Namdai made some changes they didn't like, blah blah blah. I already explained this in my Infinite Undiscovery post... Since Tri-Ace is the one who made the Star Ocean series, and they were branched directly from the original creators of Tales of Phantasia. Anywho, I can't wait to try this game! Although my PSP is dead... So I can't... Hopefully I can get it back soon... T__T

I've heard a lot of good things about this SRPG. Domination said it was good, so I'm assuming he is! He and I have similar tastes anyway. And I generally do like SRPGs... So, yeah. I could have tried it if my PSP wasn't dead... T__T

XBOX 360:

Had to re-buy it because my other disc got killed... Sadly... T__T

Wheeeeee~ The first Sonic game I bought since Sonic Adventure 2: Battle! I heard bad things about this game... But I might like it just because of Silver and his telekinesis! I'm sure I'll enjoy that part of the game. XD Hopefully I like it... If I like it, I'll probably get Sonic Unleashed. Curse you Aya-chin and Starry-chan for making me want to try more Sonic games! *blames them*

Yep, that's all of them... I think! I'll post future releases that I've already preordered...

Yay Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World! I actually refuse to call it Tales of Symphonia 2 now, because I realized that if they really wanted to call it Tales of Symphonia 2, they would have. Like with Tales of Destiny 2. Hopefully they'll eventually make a Tales of Symphonia 2! With a different cast? Maybe? :D I still want a Tales of Vesperia: Flynn side in a way though... :D

Persona 4! Yes, I've put Persona 3 and 4 on the same post... Meaning, I've preordered 4 and I'm playing 3. I'm so insane. This is why my backlog is sooooo huge. :[ I'm kind of sad that P4 won't have Japanese Voices though, because Horie Yui, Koshimizu Ami, and Kugimiya Rie are all in it! D:

Yep, Kingdom Hearts: RE-Chain of Memories! I'm kind of excited about it actually. I never thought that I would be able to play this in English... I already beat the GBA version, but playing it again in 3-D should be fun! :D

Surprise! I actually preordered this... Now Thunder-kun won't have to tell me if it's good enough or not! XD I'm not sure whether I should call it Poison Pink or Eternal Poison... But I think I'll go with Poison Pink for now, because that's it's original name. I hope it's goood~ It's another SRPG! XD

Last but not least, my most look-forward to game for like ever (Besides Tales of Vesperia). I preordered it on Rosenqueen and I hope it gets here ASAP! Because, I really, really, really, really want to play it. CHROCHE-SAMA FTW! *ignores English names* *shudders at Jakuri's English name, "Jacqli" and Gengorou's English name "Goro"* I hope the release will be fine... I'm worried about the JP voices and the translation... But hopefully NISA will pull through as they usually do... Although they've recently taken a liking to changing names and stuff... It's all very disappointing...

Anywho, the only huge English Boxart for AT2 out right now is on Amazon, and I couldn't save it to show you guys... So sorry! I like the Japanese one better anyway...

Anywho! The next game I was going to post was Star Ocean: Second Evolution, but I haven't pre-ordered that yet... I will eventually though, probably. Along with Star Ocean: The Last Hope. You know... I probably should play and beat one of these before I buy more... Because, what if I hate it? I guess I think that since it's by the people that made Tales of Phantasia, that I'll like it... Who knows? I never actually beat Phantasia myself... But I do like the game and the concepts... Oh well! If ONLY they released Tales of Phantasia: Full Voice Edition here. *shakes fist at Nintendo*

OH YEAH! AND THERE'S TALES OF HEARTS! *wants anime version* However, I don't think I'll be getting that just yet...

And wow, that's a lot more games than I expected... Lots of money... Wow... I'm a horrible person. XD This is what happens when I have too much power... I mean seriously, online purchasing powers are unlimited! Unless you have no money of course... And I technically don't... Err... Thank you Financial Aid! :D

And this post took me a LOT longer than I expected!

Prinny: Can I Really Be the Hero? ANNOUNCED FOR US RELEASE!

2008-11-05T13:55:00.000-08:00

Trailer.

Yay! Prinny got it's own game, and now it's coming HERE! *excited*

Oh, and according to the Radiant Mythology 2 Official Website, Yuri Lowell's gender is... Nale.

Some depressing news, Prop 8 passed in California and now discrimination is part of California law! It'll probably be overturned eventually though. But yay Obama.

More depressing news, I shipped my PSP to be fixed. I hope it will be fine... T__T

What is my Japanese name? D:

2008-11-04T13:01:00.000-08:00

My authentic japanese name is 松尾 Matsuo (tail of a pine tree) 大輝 Taiki (large radiance).
Take your real japanese name generator! today!
Created with Rum and Monkey's Name Generator Generator.

Apparently, I am Matsuo Taiki... I should have used this name in Persona! XD

Just kidding.

Addicted to Persona 3

2008-11-01T10:55:00.000-07:00

Yup... I'm hooked. But I loves it so far~ I can't wait to play more. Ehehehe.

My Tales Collection

2008-10-26T11:06:00.001-07:00

Check it out. More Pictures here:
Here is a chance for both me and you to win a copy of Tales of Vesperia game. Click the Banner to sign up and refer me.

What I Want Most For Christmas/Birthday...

2008-10-25T00:54:00.000-07:00

Here... Though it's sold out... T__T

Cheapest Figure... Here.

Here.

Besides AT2 itself. :D

And yes. I'm official a Disgaea fan... I still need to beat both Disgaea though. XD I'm still in the beginning! D:

Well, I'm at least a Prinny fan. YAY NEW PRINNY GAME!

WATCH THIS! And... Lovebars.

2008-10-22T17:58:00.000-07:00

Watch bunnywisk's awesome video! It's really funny and if you've played Tales of Vesperia, you'll surely enjoy it somehow! Watch and rate for her please! It's for a good cause. ;]

Also, I can make lovebars now. Enjoy!

Sanae = Philia? D:

2008-10-12T10:07:00.001-07:00

Okay... This might be complete and utter nonsense to some of you... But watching Clannad ~After Story~ Episode 2 and seeing Sanae dressed up like that made me think... Wow. She looks very very very similar to Philia! D:

Considering Sanae is only TEMPORARILY dressed up like this... The fact that she looks just like Philia is kind of amusing! Of course, this is probably purely coincidental... But the even more ironic thing is that Philia and Sanae are both seiyuued by the same seiyuu, Inoue Kikuko! Which makes me laugh... I'm not sure if she was ever dressed like this in the actual Visual Novel of Clannad, but if she was, I would probably jump for joy at the unintentional (or is it?) reference to Philia Phillis of Tales of Destiny fame.

Of course, this probably doesn't mean much to most people, because a lot of anime/video game characters have similar appearances in some way... But it just seems bit coincidental to me! I mean, they have the same seiyuu, and Sanae randomly decided two wear her hair in two braided pigtails and glasses as a disguise... Just turn her hair green and make her wear priestess garb, and she might really be Philia. :3

On the subject of Tales... The Tales of the Abyss anime is REALLY REALLY good so far. I loves it. They made Mieu even more adorable than in the game... And Ion is awesome! Although I miss Otani Ikue as his voice. (Even though I never really heard her voice Ion all that much...) But Pikachu and Chopper's voice on Ion would have been great. :D

I'm also doing a lot better in my Japanese class than I expected! It's quite interesting... Considering some of the students of actual Japanese-descent seem to need more help than I do... I shouldn't say things like that though. It's just plain mean of me. I'll do my best to help them out though! :3

Random 'shop of the day. Made it yesterday. Marie from Atelier Marie using her Cross Edge Art. Speaking of Cross Edge, yesterday I edited Wikipedia and added all the Seiyuu of the Playable characters for Mana-Khemia 2! Yes, it was I that found them all and put them in the English wikipedia! Of course, I have to thank Lazy for finding the Japanese Wikipedia for Mana-Khemia 2... I also found the seiyuu for Marie through that Wiki, it's quite fascinating.

Oh yeah... I just remembered my summer goal... It was an utter failure. I didn't beat as many games as I possibly could have...

Super Metroid
Eternal Sonata
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
Tales of the Abyss
Tales of Vesperia
Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift

That's it... I got really close to beating Metroid Prime... But stopped at like near the end... Like I usually do with some games... x__x

Oh well! I'll probably get to beat a few games over the school year... Although I don't think I'll be able to beat that many... End post.

Kasugano Sakura in Street Fighter IV!

2008-10-08T14:09:00.000-07:00

I was feeling down before making this post... But, this news just cheered me up and made my day! Sakura, my favorite (and usually best) character in Street Fighter (Alpha)/Marvel vs. Capcom is OFFICIALLY confirmed to be in the Home versions of Street Fighter IV! This news pretty much sold the game for me. I'm so excited now! I mean, I was happy that Cammy was to be in it. But Sakura pretty much is the one I'm looking forward to playing as the most. XD

Without Sakura, it wouldn't have been as much fun. Mostly because I wouldn't know who else to play besides Cammy. *nods* Got the article from Wikipedia by the way.

Anywho, I finally started up my Seiyuu Banners... Starting with the wonderful Sawashiro Miyuki! I know, I have a lot more banners, sigs, and avatars I still need to do... But school and stuff do get in the way, as well as what I feel like making at the time. XD

*nods* These are all characters she has played! Including: Chroche Latel Pastalie from Ar tonelico II: Sekai ni Hibiku Shoujo-tachi no Metafalica, Velvet from Odin Sphere, Milanor from Yggdra Union, Shinku from Rozen Maiden, Titil Mimi Nike Mele from Mana-Khemia: Gakuen no Rekinjutsushi-tachi, and Houjou Reika from Goshuushou-sama Ninomiya-kun. :D

Lazy-kun says the sharpness contrast of the renders makes it look bad... So, I need some second opinions on whether I should fix it or not. Thanks!

She's an awesome Seiyuu. She made me like Chroche-sama as much as I do today to be honest! Which is why I am hoping to Goddess Martel that there will be Dual-Audio in Ar tonelico II. Chroche-sama won't be Chroche-sama without Sawashiro Miyuki...

Anywho, yay Sakura in Street Fighter IV, and yay Sawashiro Miyuki!

Welcome Week, Kirby, and Money

2008-09-27T09:23:00.001-07:00

Well, I'm back to school, and it actually hasn't been that bad at all. Most of my new suite/hall/floormates are awesome. I feel like I've already known some of them for a long time already. Plus, several of my friends from last year visit often! So it's great fun. Although, I really have to start getting into studying soon... I REALLY want to do well this quarter, and I hope that I will be able to actually hit the books and study... We'll see how it goes.

I have one complaint so far though... My roommate, and I hope to Goddess Martel, Eolia, Frelia, and Tylia he never sees this. XD

He's kind of in your face... Of course he claims to be bipolar, but I wouldn't know how to deal with actual bipolar people... There's only so much I can take within a year... Thankfully, I probably will be able to move out into the otherside of the floor, which is where I hang out most of the time anyway.

Anywho... I've been playing Kirby Super Star Ultra, and it is ABSOLUTELY AMAZING! I love Kirby. I'll never get tired of the adorable pink ball of love~ He's my favorite Nintendo character. Period. Kirby will always have a place in my heart... WHICH IS WHY I REALLY WANT THAT HOSHI NO KIRBY WII TO COME OUT!

I really want to go out and buy a hard copy of the game... As well as Yggdra Union. But my family is SUPER short on money right now... I'm not sure how I'm going to do that... Blah.

RE: Chain of Memories

2008-09-19T21:20:00.001-07:00

Click the picture. That is all.

Thanks for bunnywisk/Meleiyu for letting me (and all of Tales Brigade) know! Too bad it's not Final Mix though. Seems that Squeenix is still open to releasing PS2 titles...

WAIT A SECOND! HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO GET THIS, AR TONELICO II, AND P4 (well, maybe not P4, I need to play Persona 3 first... Anyone want to get me a copy? >.>;)?! D:

Character Rant

2008-09-18T12:57:00.000-07:00

Alright... I kind of have something to rant about today, and I'm kind of getting annoyed by people on GameFAQs because of this.

For some reason... There always seems to be unnecessary hate for some characters. Particularly, main heroines in the Tales series. For some reason, characters like Colette Brunel and Estellise Sidos Heurassein, both very sweet, kind, and adorable characters, seem to have fans that love to hate them. I don't understand why anyone has to hate any character at all... It just seems like people are saying in their minds... "I have to hate someone in my main party, I'll just go with the default annoying heroine."

First of all, I don't see how either Colette or Estelle are annoying... They are both really likable characters that look out for their friends, and try their best to help out with their best efforts... Seriously, even if you hated Estelle, she would have helped you if you were on the verge of death, regardless! She's instinctively helps people, when she sees someone hurt, she has to heal them right away. Heck, she even feels sorry for the monsters she has to kill! I honestly don't see what is so bad about being so nice... It's like people these days hate extremely kind and caring characters for no reason at all. All they give is that, oh Estelle and Colette are both annoying!

But... Why? Because Estelle drags the party around so she can find out the truth about herself? Yuri, Repede, Karol, Rita, Judith, and Raven don't seem to mind too much... So why does the player have to? Although Judith did speak out to Estelle about dragging out the party to do whatever she wants, and it's quite CLEAR in the game she does, I still don't understand how it is annoying if it's only something used to advance the story in order for the player and Estelle herself, to learn more about who she is. Estelle is a character that actually has flaws, she's selfless to a fault, and people are STILL calling her a Mary Sue! It's ridiculous.

Also, for Colette, sure she says sorry like... For the whole game. But Lloyd apologizes practically as much as her... People only notice Colette's apologies all the time because Lloyd points them out all the time... Sure she hides her pain from the whole party until it gets extremely bad, but it's because she's WORRIED about her friends being worried. She doesn't want to burden them with her problems. Heck, I'm like that... I hate burdening my friends with my problems... It doesn't really benefit them at all to worry about me, although it is nice to let things out once in a while... And I have some really good friends that will listen to my problems no matter how minor.

There's also hate for Shirley Fennes from Tales of Legendia, and I kind of understand that a bit more, she does go kind of crazy jealous. However, I do still like her, and the only reason she did go crazy was because she didn't have many friends, she loved Senel, but Senel was in love with Stella, who was her older sister. And when Stella died, Senel didn't exactly help comfort Shirley, as he was writhing in misery as much as she was... But Senel had Chloe, Norma, and the others to bring him out of his shell. Shirley had Fenimore, but... Well, it didn't exactly work out. T__T Poor Fenimore... So yeah, Shirley is a main heroine that is actually capable of hate, selfishness, jealousy, and greed. And people hate her for that. Yet... People hate Estelle and Colette for being extremely kind, caring, and selfless... Irony eh?

There is also seemingly hate for Micaiah of Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn fame... Although I still haven't beaten the game myself, I know the jist of the rest of the story. Sure, Micaiah is kind of perfect... But she does have one flaw... Blind loyalty to her country, and that blind loyalty obviously lead her to fight for the wrong reasons. FE10 was a disappointment anyway... One reason I did like it was Micaiah though. She's a great character in my eyes.

Tear Grants of Tales of the Abyss isn't AS hated... But she's been accused of being a boring character, and that under her serious and soldier exterior, her love for cute things is a bad attempt to make her seem like a real girl... She DOES open up towards the end... And, I seriously thought Tear was a good character. Her love for cute things made her more lovable for me, and it was a bit amusing to have the other main characters (particularly Anise) tease her about it.

I think that's enough ranting for now... Although, I'm sure I forgot to mention a lot of things... But on a lighter, but strange note...

Beryl Benito, a main character from the upcoming Tales of Hearts... Is 18 years old. *shock* I seriously thought she was 13 or something... >.>; Maybe there's a story behind her appearance.

Estelle avatar up there was made by domination. Picture and screenshot from Abyssal Chronicles. Thanks a745!

Oh, and my rant probably doesn't pertain to most people that actually read this blog. So I'm not really talking about any of my friends. Just stupid people on GameFAQs for the most part.

Oh, and I might as well show this off:

Yes, it's a boxart for a Tales and Gust crossover... Ar tonelico, Atelier, and Tales all in one! XD I know, marvel at my geekiness. By the way, if your favorite character is on this... And I talk to you frequently through IMs or forums. It was for you.

One more thing, Pokemon Platinum is looking to be SUPER awesome. Rebattling gym leaders, move tutors for better movesets, stronger Elite 4 after the National Dex. EEVEE AND RALTS BEFORE THE ELITE 4. It's all looking to be super exciting. And my Pokemon fandom is starting to be rekindled once again. :3

Random Photoshops

2008-09-15T23:19:00.000-07:00

Okay, I guess they're not TOO random... But these are the photoshops I worked on this week (and last, sorta).

Guess I feel like showing them off because the topics on various forums that I used to post them on failed... So yeah. :D

Oh yeah... And for some reason, I've been using the Harrington font on everything... Maybe because it's not too fancy, or not too normal. Plus it's very Talesy if you want it to be. /ok

These characters are... Jakuri from Ar tonelico II: Sekai ni Hibiku Shoujo-tachi no Metafalica, Ulrika Myberg from Mana-Khemia 2: Ochita Gakuen to Renkinjutsushi-tachi, and Shurelia-sama from Ar tonelico: Melody of Elemia/Sekai no Owari de Utai Tsuzukeru Shoujo and Cross Edge(Which is where the avatar art came from).

I relatively like all of them in terms of design and personality, despite not knowing too much about Ulrika... But I've heard enough about them to like them. :3

My Tales Wall & Tales of Symphonia Display

2008-09-12T18:06:00.000-07:00

This is my current Tales Series Display! It started to improve dramatically as you can see new merchandises I received. Anyways, it looks so much better to see it in real life than this picture itself. I am amazed by this too. It not the best display and all but I really like it. I hope my interest in Tales series stays so this can too. I still need Tales of the Abyss up there somehow. I ran out of room so I think this is it for now. What do you guys think?

This is my current Tales of Symphonia Display. I really like this but my Tales of Phantasia display is better. I have all 7 characters but they never made a Raine and Regal figure so they aren't in it. I wish they did though but they didn't. I need a background for this and any suggestions which should I use? I was wondering if any of you who read this post has a good Tales of Symphonia pictures that I can get from you?

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Tales Brigade Invite

2008-09-11T12:04:00.001-07:00

So um, I'm supposed to cordially invite you to join the Tales Brigade with this:

Yes yes, I KNOW you've already seen it. But here it is again! Please join Tales Brigade! And if you do because of this post... Make a referal to me!

Sorry for advertising~

It's for a quest. ;]

Tales Brigade

2008-09-10T11:11:00.000-07:00

Web banner made by Meleiyu/Bunnywisk. Her banners/sigs/avys are awesome. :P

Unfortunately, it got cut off so you can't see the whole thing... Stinky width limit. >__<

I know I've made several posts about this before, but I'm here to day to spread the message of the community for Tales fans from all over~ It's a great community, so at least check it out yeah? :D

Also, new link for Tales of Vesperia~ I'm reposting the old ones too. ;P

http://www.talesbrigade.com/link/?i=3L72vM
http://www.talesbrigade.com/link/?i=FTYNp5
http://www.talesbrigade.com/link/?i=DMbjjP

So yeah, click and learn more about Vesperia and help me out at the same time yeah? :D

Which Tales of the Abyss Character Am I?

2008-09-09T12:41:00.001-07:00

No really. Which Tales of the Abyss character are you?
created with QuizFarm.com

You scored as Ion

You're Ion! You're a very timid person, but you're known for your compassion and concern for others. You wouldn't want those close to you to get into a fight, ever.

Ion

85%

Natalia Luzu Kimlasca-Lanvaldear

75%

Tear Grants

75%

Guy

65%

Florian

60%

Luke Fon Fabre

60%

Legretta

55%

Mieu

50%

Jade Curtiss

45%

Peony

45%

Sync

40%

Largo

40%

Dist

35%

Arietta

35%

Anise Tatlin

30%

Van

30%

Asch

20%

Original!Ion

20%

So yeah, I'm apparently Ion! Yay Ion~

Tales of Rar's Fandoms; Tri-Ace

2008-09-09T00:03:00.000-07:00

Yes, I know. *gasp* It's midnight and I'm not playing Vesperia! In fact... I haven't played since... like 4 PM! Okay, I know... That's STILL not very impressive... But hey, I got a new game~ Which I still haven't even put into the system... But, I'll probably play it eventually. Or hopefully...

Anywho, that game is Infinite Undiscovery developed by Tri-Ace and published by Squeenix. Anywho, as very few people know... Or if I'm wrong and a lot do... Tri-Ace was originally the Tales of Phantasia team that started what we today know as the Tales series! The top Tri-Ace developers and writers did help out with Tales of Phantasia, but a lot of their stuff got changed by Namco, so they got mad and left after Phantasia was published and made a contract with Squaresoft. Thus they created their company, as well as the Star Ocean series that many people know and love today. Myself not included yet. Apparently, the original Star Ocean had many similar gameplay mechanics and stuff to Tales of Phantasia... Which is why I kind of think it's worth checking their games out.

Most people know their games, and they are pretty popular from what I've seen. Their most prominent series is Star Ocean, which most of you probably have heard of... Technically, Star Ocean is the sister series to Tales. Although it seems to be more Sci-Fi based than Fantasy. I only own one of the titles though, and that is the third one. Star Ocean: Til the End of Time. Thankfully, the English version didn't come out until the Japanese version got fixed... Apparently the original Star Ocean 3 was dreadful somehow... Though I'll never be certain! But yeah, we got the Director's Cut... Which included additional features that were added in from the original Star Ocean 3.

Unfortunately, I haven't had the heart to play it too much yet... Only thirty minutes in so far. I'll get to it eventually though! Mark my words! I will beat every RPG I currently have! No exceptions! Unfortunately I'm really slow though... So that probably will take a while, considering how slow I was with Vesperia. Okay, I wasn't really slow, as I beat it in a little more than a week, and it usually takes me much longer to do that. Considering that Vesperia was considered to be around 40-60 hours long without sidequests... Me taking an extra 40+ hours to beat it with sidequests means that I AM slow. XD

Anywho! Back to Infinite Undiscovery... I heard different things about it in different boards. The one thing I heard that stuck to my mind was... "If you played Tales of Vesperia first, Infinite Undiscovery will feel very weak because Tales of Vesperia beats it in almost every aspect." Okay, that wasn't really a quote from anywhere, but it's pretty much summing up one of those topics made on GameFAQs... Of course, after seeing that, I got it anyway, because I know that I can't judge anything unless I play it myself. I learned that through Ar tonelico...

One of my secrets is that at first, I wasn't a very big fan of it... I played through the intro of it, and thought it wasn't as good as the Atelier Iris series. Of course, I only played through like... the first 30 minutes. Mind you this was like 2 years ago, so I don't think I was thinking quite like I do now. I grew a lot in the past year because of my first year in college...

But anywho, yeah I judged Ar tonelico at first because it just seemed like it wasn't my style of game... At first, it just felt VERY Sci-Fiey, yes I just made that word up. Of course, the beginning definitely WOULD feel like a Sci-Fi game, I mean Shurelia-sama looked like an android (and she technically really IS one, considering Reyvateils are artificial beings, although Reyvateils are a lot closer to humans than robots)... The Tower was VERY mechanical, and Lyner ended up flying a spaceship to the bottom of the tower... So yeah, very Sci-Fi so far. Also, viruses = more Sci-Fi. Anywho, since I was probably distracted by some other game, I stopped playing from after Lyner landed next to that village in the forest, both names which escape me... (feels ashamed to call himself an Ar tonelico fan now.) And I didn't touch the game until the fall of 2007. Yes, last year. Surprisingly, I wasn't such a big fan of Ar tonelico a year ago... If someone had mentioned the name "Chroche" to me last year, I would have no idea what they were saying. Of course, I did start playing it slightly before the release of Ar tonelico II in Japan... I know I beat Ar tonelico the first time in December of 2007 for sure. So yeah, my fandom for Ar tonelico steadily and rapidly grew as I played it. And here I am, today, a huge Ar tonelico fan, with my favorite character EVER being Chroche Latel Pastalie of Ar tonelico II: Sekai ni Hikibu Shoujo-tachi no Metafalica fame. XD Wow, things sure can change fast...

...

Like this post... Gah! I am RAMBLING! Goddess Martel, I keep getting off topic of what I was originally meant to post! Anywho, Infinite Undiscovery. I got it. The most interesting thing I noticed about it first... Was the heroine's name. Aya. Yes, that's right, her name is Aya. I INSTANTLY thought of my Tales-fanatic friend AyameMajikku. It doesn't really help that she's an archer either, because Aya-chin LOVES Chester. Who is, obviously from Tales of Phantasia and is the Archer of the group... Anywho, I found this hilarious and felt that I needed to tell her right away... Which I did. Just because of the heroine being an archer named Aya made me want to play Infinite Undiscovery a bit more. XD

Hopefully I can enjoy Infinite Undiscovery despite my great love and bias towards the Tales series now. I was looking quite forward to it, despite it coming out a week after the amazingly awesome Tales of Vesperia. I thought it was very pretty the first time I've heard of it! I didn't even know it would come out so close to Vesperia's release... Considering I was already a huge Tales fan, and that my fandom for Tales and Gust RPGs have greatly overshadowed that of Squeenix's RPGs (although I shouldn't group Final Fantasy and Tri-Ace's games together, because they are developed by different teams) Infinite Undiscovery coming out AFTER Vesperia, really hurt it's chances of me playing it sooner. I'll play it eventually though, I know it. Possibly sometime this week! I still have just about two weeks before school starts after all! XD

I honestly don't know how I got into so many different fandoms... I know I said Chroche-sama is my favorite character of all time. But Nefertari Vivi from One Piece isn't forgotten yet! I'm still a uber fan of her despite my current... lack of Viviness anywhere. Or One Pieceness for that matter. o.o

Oh yeah, and I made a new banner for Connie-sama! I made her an Avatar too, she seems to like them. Check them out at her blog okay? XD

Anywho, I think that's enough rambling for now, because I've gone on wayyy too long enough, considering I was supposed to be mostly talking about Infinute Undiscovery rather than my fandom for everything... /swt

I beat Vesperia... On Accident.

2008-09-07T10:32:00.000-07:00

So yeahhh~ I wasn't supposed to beat Vesperia last night... But I did! Total accident though... I'm going to try to give the non-spoiler version so everyone can read it... And if I did post spoilers... I'll put them in white text, so you would have to highlight them to read it... >.>;

Anywho, I was in the final dungeon... And at the end, right before you go enter the final boss' chamber... A very tall staircase pretty much told us that that was the place the final boss was hiding. However, we had to take a little detour in order to gather all the chests in the dungeon as well as unlock all these little warp elevator things... That I did... And I went through all the puzzles and opened (hopefully) all of the chests! Took me like... 1.5 hours, around there. And yeah, I unlocked the warp elevator thingys... And I was taken back to the entrance of the place...
So I was like, sweet. I can go back to finish up some sidequests... But WAIT! I was supposed to have found a Blue Dice somewhere in there... So I go to one of the warps, thinking it would take me somewhere new... When I go on it... It asks me what level I would like to go to... And of course, I end up picking the highest level, Level 7! Because I thought, hey, why not start at the top? But... As it turns out... The elevators... Were just elevators to get around the dungeon easier... Damn... And Level 7 was... As you probably guessed, the Final Boss' chamber... And guess what? I didn't realize it until the scene started.

Obviously, I started sweating bullets, wondering if I should reset the game or not... But, if I did... Then I would lose all the treasures I had just found and to go through all those stupid ladders and stuff again! I was like... Ugh, I guess I'll just kick his ass and see what happens after the ending... Oh and I should mention that the scenes before the battle differ depending on who your lead character is... Ironically, mine was Raven, because I was having him master Tempest at the time... >.>;

So yeah, I beat his first form... Pretty simple. Then his second form comes out, and EVERY OTHER ATTACK HE DOES PUTS LIKE 100 STATUS EFFECTS ON YOU! RAWR! So yeah, I switched to Yuri automatically at the start of both the first and second battle... But during the second battle, I heard that if you kill him with your Hi-Ougi, then you can get the Last Fencer without having to forge it... But, the AI was being extremely stupid... Estelle wouldn't heal at the right times, and Rita and Raven consitently got their artes sealed... Which was getting quite infuriating. I waited until he got to his 50,000 HP point, since he had like 300,000 that took a bit. But anyway, once I got there, I put Yuri in overlimit... Start comboing... Then wait...
WHY WON'T MY ARTES WORK?! NO! MY ARTES ARE SEALED! *quickly goes to the item menu and uses panacea bottle*

*Starts using Shining Dragon Swarm IMMEDIATELY* And guess what? I didn't make it in time... Well, he was still alive... So I quickly started to use Limit Bottles to get my Overlimit bar up again. I used two, and I got back up to 3 bars. I use the overlimit thinking that he's going to die soon, make sure I don't have sealed artes on me... and start comboing... But the boss... Doesn't stagger... And attacks me... Which costs me more time... And then, I got stunned! ZOMGWTFBBQ! And before I knew it, Raven or Rita beat the boss up and I lost my chance of killing him with Savage Wolf Fury... Rawr. Darn you DUKE! Sorry, had to say his name instead of "Final Boss." Now I have to get the Last Fencer the hard way... By forging it. >.>;

Anywho, the ending was pretty cool... I can't say anymore than that because it's an utter spoiler, unless I highlight it all. But yeah, Duke obviously didn't die, and while Yuri and party were summoning all the spirits to kill the Adephagos, Duke helps out with Dein Nomos! Yuri was just using the Vesperia No. 1 after all, and it was made by Rita, of course that power alone wouldn't be enough to kill the Adephagos... But yay Undine, Sylph, Gnome, and Efreet~ As well as Yuri, Estelle, Repede, Karol, Rita, Raven, and Judith! And I just realized that Repede wasn't in the ending all that much... Poor Repede... ;___; But yeah, I expected a lot more out of the ending... It seems like they somewhat left it opened for a sequel... Terca Lumereis now has the power of spirits and mana instead of Blastia... But how are the people living with their new lives? That I wonder... What the heck are Yuri and Co. doing afterwards? Although they had little illustrations during the credits, it didn't explain too much except that they eventually all gathered together in the end again... But yeah. I LOVED this game...

And I love it even more now... Because they made New Game EX a totally different option! In Tales of Symphonia and Tales of the Abyss and Tales of Legendia... You would have to reload your last save in order to open up New Game+. However, in Vesperia, you can open your clear game save and continue on with EVERYTHING you got after saving before the final boss, which for me was like 1.5 hours. So I was forgiven for my mistake of accidentally walking up to the final boss... Thank you Tales of Vesperia, you are now officially my favorite Tales game. All the characters are great anyway, so me being saved from losing 1.5 hours of final dungeon completion just added more love.

And yeah, I only fought him in two forms... There's still the supposedly super hard third form... I got all of the Fell Arms that were NOT in the Final Dungeon before I actually went and explored it... And found the last two there. I kind of wanted to fight the boss without fighting his third form first... And if I had gone out of the dungeon after activating the elevator warp thingies, I would have had to fight the final boss for the first time with it's super hard third form because I would have had seen the scene with the party saying that we got all the Fell Arms, and that wouldn't have been very fun... Considering I was already somewhat frustrated with the second form... But yeah, due to my accident, I guess I did end up fighting him without his uber third form after all. The next time I fight him though... It will be with it. I'm apparently super overleveled anyway... So... After some more sidequesting, it probably shouldn't be too difficult. Although level 80 probably isn't too overleveled for the super secret third form.

I went on wayyy too long about this... Longest blog post I ever made? >.>; Maybe... And oops, I put more spoilers than I thought... Hopefully I didn't spoil anything in the non-highlighted text... /swt

People probably wouldn't care to read all this anyway. /swt

Thanks once again to Abyssal Chronicles for all the media~ Like the picture above...

What does my Birthday Mean?

2008-09-05T22:31:00.000-07:00

Grr html... But!

- February 9 -
You are daring, honest, loyal and stubborn. You are incredibly determined and you always think outside of the box. You also love to chill take it easy with some friends.
Positive Traits: tolerant, compassionate, idealistic, sensitive, sympathetic
Negative Traits: bad judgment, immorality, delusional, arrogance, bitterness
'What does your Birthdate mean?' at QuizGalaxy.com

Stole this from Valor... >.>

It seems true for the most part. I'm not ARROGANT though! I hope I don't have bad judgement... >.>'

And why does this have to go so far down? >__<

Invitation for Tales Brigade

2008-09-03T18:08:00.000-07:00

Just made it for a quest... Surprised I'm not playing Vesperia? I know you are...

Click it if you want to see the whole thing... It gets cut off. >.>;

Tales of Vesperia

2008-09-03T02:07:00.000-07:00

So yeah, Tales of Vesperia = Love.

Don't worry, I'm not posting spoilers. Well, big ones anyway...

I'm at the end. Although I probably won't be beating it for a couple more days... Sidequests, sidequests and more sidequests! Oh and weapon synthing! I feel like I'm going to play through it again after I beat it though. Just to get a better understanding of the story, as well as to get everything I missed. So yeah, I think this is my favorite Tales game so far... All of the characters are great! I mean, I can't say I even hate one of the main characters... I wish Flynn were playable more often though, because he is sexy! Err, well he has Sword Rain: Alpha! So yeah. Shining Fang for Yuri is awesome too... And METEOR STORM as well as Tidal Wave! Holy Rain is love! I love all the hi-ougis, burst artes and fatal strikes are win... Honestly, the battle system in this game is just super fun!

I kind of wish Estelle got Judgement and Rita got Indignation though... But oh well, I'll live! And as I've mentioned before, I do wish Flynn was a permanent member... Oh well, maybe they'll make Tales of Vesperia: Director's Cut in the future and make a Flynn side! Since he pretty much could have his own game... Although the only party members would probably be him, Sodia, and Witcher... Maybe they can add more though? :P

Oh and I LOVE the story in this... I mean, it has some cliches, but I've enjoyed every minute of it so far. The relationships between the characters also make me smile! Estelle and Yuri, Yuri and Flynn, Yuri and Karol, Estelle and Rita... No I'm not listing pairings! I just like how they interact with each other in the story. :D

Rita is the most fun to use so far... I love using Estelle too~ Oh goodness this game is just too great~! I just can't get over it. :P

Screenshot is from Abyssal Chronicles by the way.

Less than 24 Hours!

2008-08-26T23:19:00.000-07:00

I AM SO EXCITED. VESPERIA ZOMG! IT'S COMING TOMORROW!

I'm going to probably ignore everything to death once I get started on this game... This is my most anticipated game in a LONG time! Since Brawl of course. :D

By the way. NEW LINK!

CLICKY PLEASE! THANKS.

http://www.talesbrigade.com/link/?i=FTYNp5

You're helping me earn Gald, so ANY clicks are greatly aprecciated! :D

*prays some easy to get prize will come about sooner or later*

One More Day... I Think...

2008-08-25T12:20:00.000-07:00

It's finally being released tomorrow...

I sure hope tomorrow is the RELEASE date and not the Shipping date...

Namdai's official site says release date... But a topic on Tales Brigade made me all nervous that it's shipping date is tomorrow. I assumed that it would be like Soul Calibur IV, because that game's release date was on a Tuesday as well... And I got it that Tuesday morning! I hope to get that call from Gamestop today, you know, the one that says "Hi! This is Ashley, from Gamestop! Tales of Vesperia will be in stores tomorrow morning!" Or something like that.

*is nervous yet excited*

I can't wait for this game. I PROMISED myself I'm not going to look at ANYTHING during my first playthrough. Therefore I will like it way more than Abyss, because that game got spoiled like crazy to me. It's probably why I enjoyed Symphonia a lot too, as I didn't really get spoiled at all when I was playing it. I hope there's no time frame side-quests like in Abyss though. *shakes fist at the Ant Lion Man*

Well, I suppose that's enough ranting. *Prays to Goddess Martel that Vesperia will be in stores tomorrow*

I love Ring a Bell/Kane wo Narashite by BONNIE PINK by the way.

I also wonder who that White Haired Pretty Boy is in the opening... /hmm

Follow the Nightingale

2008-08-22T19:46:00.000-07:00

The opening theme for Tales of Innocence by KOKIA! Actually, I've had this song for quite a while... But I just realized today that the song sounded strangely like something that would come from Ar tonelico! XD

Of course, it probably wasn't intentional... Unless it was SOMEWHAT inspired by the songs from it, but I doubt it. I really like this song though, and part of the reason probably was because it sounded like something from Ar tonelico! Also, the lyrics are sung in Japanese, but backwards! Which makes it sound even MORE exotic than usual. It's a lovely song nonetheless, and I wanted to share it! It's probably on my music list... But most of you probably don't really stop and listen to my music most of the time anyway, I know I don' t. XD

Love this song! KOKIA is a great artist! I also liked the ending song for Innocence, Say Good Bye & Good Day, as well as her song that is the opening of Gunslinger Girl 2, Tatta Hitotsu no Omoi. They're all really great songs. ^__^

I hope you guys like this one~ Also, I'm getting very interested in Innocence! Thank goodness throughhim from Absolute Zero is working on an English patch! I'll get to play it in English! I can't wait for it to come out~

Tales of Phantasia Display

2008-08-21T14:23:00.001-07:00

Yes, Tales of Phantasia Display was completed like one or two weeks ago. Finally, that "San-chan" is banned... I hope, I can now blog more often now. So what do you think about the display? Waste of money? Well, It wasn't for me as least.

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Sorry for taking over DEN's blog but... Want to help me earn Gald? Then please click these links!

http://www.talesbrigade.com/link/?i=xzna5y
http://www.talesbrigade.com/link/?i=DMbjjP

Thank you!

~Rarutos :D

EDIT: Okay, so we all know how horrible Namdai is doing in their marketing of Tales of Vesperia right now... I mean, can anyone tell me they've seen a Vesperia ad somewhere that people would actually notice? Well, I found Vesperia being featured on the Gamestop website... But look at the description:

"Follow the journey of two new young heroes, Emil Castagnier and Marta Lualdi, as they seek to uncover the mystery of why their world has fallen into ruin."
Source

That is Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World! Not Tales of Vesperia you morons. =.= Namdai USA better up it's advertising game, or else Vesperia is going to turn into another Legendia/Abyss... It's no WONDER the Tales series is so unknown. Seriously.

And oops, I took over DEN's post even more now... :D

~Rarutos

Chroche is Pastalia Love <3

2008-08-21T10:14:00.000-07:00

So, last night I was on the Official Tales Forum, and I found the topic where everyone was getting their lovebars from! I thought they were great! So I decided to compliment Valor, the lovebar-maker on her good work!

Of course... I added in that I would make a request myself, but the one I wanted was of a non-Tales character(sorry Tales!) and that I didn't want to trouble her, so I wouldn't bother. Then she QUICKLY responded(despite it being around 1 AM where I am) and said she wouldn't mind making one for me at all! So I submitted some pictures to her, and soon after went to bed.

When I woke up this morning, I was surprised to see the lovebar ALREADY made, and there being an extra Avatar in the mix! That made my mood shoot up quite quickly! Despite waking up early than I usually would like to, so right now. I'm in a VERY cheerful mood! THANK YOU SO MUCH VALOR! I LOVES IT! <3

Not too many responses on my previous blog on the Tales Brigade though... So I'm kind of disappointed about that. Guess no one wants to help me choose characters for the wallpaper. XD

Tales of Random Stuff

2008-08-20T18:44:00.000-07:00

Alright, so in the past week, I've made a couple of wallpapers...

Tales of Heroines

Tales of Heroes

They're of the respective roles for the Tales of Series! People seem to like them on the Tales Brigade site... So I'm guessing they're pretty good... At least, not bad! It's been a while since I attempted a wallpaper. The last one I did attempt was that Zelda and Sheik one I did a while back for DEN... Which he never used. /swt.

Anywho, I've made a LOT of banners and sigs since the last time I posted some... And I know most people won't care for them if I posted them here, but I have whole topics of them in it, and I just realized I should post a link to my photobucket account so people don't have to just look to those forums for them... But yeah. Anywho, I was super chipper a while ago! But someone ruined my mood. At least awesome friend: Ayame-chan is always supportive and chatting with me! So I'm still kind of happy about that. I guess that's all I wanted to post... Oh, I'm planning on making a Tales of the Best Friends wallpaper next! I'm not sure exactly which characters I should use yet, so I'll post the current list. If there are any suggestions at ALL for whatever characters, please help out! :]

Tales of Phantasia: Chester
Tales of Destiny: Woodrow or Leon? I don't know which!
Tales of Eternia: ...Max? Or maybe Keele qualifies for this as well as being the smart one...
Tales of Destiny 2: Uhhh, I don't know enough about this game to know... /swt
Tales of Symphonia: Probably Zelos
Tales of Rebirth: Tytree?
Tales of Legendia: Probably Moses?
Tales of the Abyss: Guy, for sure.
Tales of the Tempest: Uhh, dunno! :D
Tales of Innocence: Spada? o.o
Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World: n/a I think.
Tales of Vesperia: Repede! XD
Tales of Hearts: Unknown, as of yet... I think.

Yup, that's it! Posted directly from my blog on Tales Brigade! Thanks for your possible help! It will be welcome~ Of course, I don't really expect any in the first place... Considering I don't know how many readers I actually get. /swt

Oh, and I'm still working on working to get a new background because white has no "flair" as thunder-kun had said... So, yeah!

Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha

2008-08-18T02:13:00.000-07:00

Alright, it's 2 AM in the morning, and I JUST finished watching the second season of Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha... And I have to say... That THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST MAHOU SHOUJO ANIME EVER! I mean, wow. It is much more deeper than your typical mahou shoujo anime... I don't even know how to explain how it is deeper! Of course... One difference is that Nanoha beats up her enemies until they become her friends, but she's kind of cool like that. My favorite character has to be Fate Testarossa though. She's great~ With her lightning magic and dark past... Her devotion as a mage... Her character was awesome, and I grew to like her quite a bit, even when she was facing off against Nanoha!

Well, I'm sleepy... So off to bed for me. I recommend this anime for ANY action fans! Sure it might start out as a typical magical girl anime, but trust me... It will change in like the 4th episode once Fate shows up. :D

Yes, I did change the layout to white now... I was getting tired of the dark layout. Besides, I think white suits me more than black! Not sure about "DEN" but meh. :D

The One Who Would Sieze Glory Has Been Vanquished

2008-08-13T18:08:00.000-07:00

Beat Tales of the Abyss! This is a pretty piece of art, so whoever did this (if it's not official) I shall give credit to! Anywho, the ending was pretty interesting... Tear loves Luke! I loved this game overall, the characters were great~ Tear, Natalia, Jade, and Guy were my favorite characters! Along with Ion... Story was great!

Now... I need to play Tales of Phantasia. I would have wrote more if I felt like it, but I don't right now. :P

Tales of Vesperia Special Edition

2008-08-10T13:34:00.000-07:00

Tales of Vesperia Special Edition coming to United States. It comes with an art book and a tales 10th anniversary sound track. Most of all it come with a Tales of vesperia artwork tin case. I am getting this when it comes out.

US Tales of Vesperia official cover.

Chroche-sama = Cloche?

2008-08-08T11:10:00.001-07:00

I always knew that the localization for one of my most anticipated games won't go un-hitched (I hope I used that right. >__<). NISA has decided to change the names of Chroche-sama and Chroah! I knew about about Chroah's for a while now... And brushed it off because it wasn't too big of a deal... But now they've gone and changed Chroche-sama's name! WHY?! Her name was in ENGLISH in the Japanese artbook, and yet NISA took a strange route and wanted to make it different for some reason! I mean, Cloche? Chroche "sounds, looks, and flows better", and I'm quoting thunder, who posted that on the forum. *is sad, angry, and disappointed*

Tales Brigade

2008-08-08T01:46:00.000-07:00

Well, the Tales Brigade community finally opened up yesterday morning! If anyone is a huge Tales series fan, you should join and mingle with those of the same interest. :D

By the way, if you get an account, add me! I'm Rarutos (obviously). :D

Tales Videos Galore!

2008-08-06T00:40:00.001-07:00

So, I'm currently obsessed with the Tales series again! I haven't been this way since Symphonia. Must be the anticipation for Vesperia~ Anywho, I'll post some videos that I've found that I found awesome, interesting, and/or just simply want to share.

Tales of Vesperia:

Tales of Hearts:

Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World

Tales of Symphonia:

Tales of the Abyss:

Tales of Legendia:
*SPOILERS*

FINALLY SOME FENIMORE VIDEOS FOR LEGENDIA! Anywho, enjoy! Looking forward to Vesperia, Symphonia II, and Hearts! Am now playing Abyss, Phantasia, and Destiny!

Obviously, still have love for Symphonia and Legendia too. :D

Tales of the Abyss Being Animated?

2008-08-01T16:33:00.000-07:00

Yes, Tales of the Abyss is going to be an anime series airing this October. I don't know which day. I am guessing its going to have 24 episodes or 26? Excited? I'll update more on this later when the summer 2008 animes are about to end which is in the end of September including the animes that I find interesting thats airing in Fall.

AR TONELICO II COMING TO AMERICA~

2008-07-25T14:02:00.000-07:00

I just found out from one of the forumers on the Ar tonelico fansite that AR TONELICO II WAS ANNOUNCED! It was confirmed in the Playstation Official Magazine! Go look at that for proof! I would post it here, but I think posting American magazine scans online is illegal, right?

It's coming out in December of this year(2008)!

And I am so uber excited.

Tales of Vesperia

2008-07-23T15:18:00.000-07:00

I think this is my first game blog. I usually let Rarutos handle the games and I take care of the anime but whatever. A game that I am looking forward to in August when class starts for me. Tales of Vesperia is going to be in Xbox 360 and lets hope that its better than ToS 2. I already played the demo and its amazing. The voice actors are pretty decent but I'll rather have japanese seiyuus instead but I cannot be selfish. Anyways I hope its good because I rarely plays games now and looking forward for a good game that can keep me active while class starts. I like most of the character in this game they all look cool and its going to be HD! The ART is very amazing looks like Tales of the Abyss art enough of my blogging now.

I already have three favorite character and these are jsut the two so far. I couldn't find the other one but he is the top left. This game is coming out in August which is next month in Japan and United States. I hope its comes with a limited edition or with a bonus.

There should be a ToV banner pretty soon when Rarutos gets a chance to make it. We just need to find what characters we want up there and all. I hope all can be put up but it won't fit I think. I put up too much pictures and it is everywhere. If you have a xbox 360 with xbox live, make sure to download the demo its free and fun to play. I might get back to this post again and keep updating when I feel like it.

BON BON!

2008-07-17T15:16:00.000-07:00

*Ahem* So I recently finished watching three anime surprisingly! The first one was School Rumble's second season! Seeing as how the first OVA for Sangakki comes out today, I'm hoping it gets subbed first so I can continue watching the awesomeness that is School Rumble! Tenma and Yakumo are awesome. :P

The next anime I finished was Lovely Complex, which was a really sweet romantic comedy that I actually enjoyed! The main character of Koizumi Risa's seiyuu is of One Piece fame! Nami's voice actress of Okamura Akemi! She also plays Sheena in Tales of Symphonia! Anywho, Risa's character and Nami's character are very very similar in terms of appearance and personality actually, it's quite surprising. The fact that they have the same voice doesn't really help with that situation. Haha, I ended up calling Risa, "Nami" for quite a while, until I started to get into this 24-episode anime more. The main story is mostly about, as my cousin had posted before, a tall girl falling in love with a boy shorter than him! it's actually adorable how the whole plot plays out, although Risa does cry a LOT! Practically every episode. Poor thing, falling in love with someone as dense as Otani. xD One thing I like about this anime though, is that it IS funny! Romantic comedy, rather than those depressing ones I've been watching. Actually School Rumble kind of counts as romantic comedy too, but it leans more towards the comedy side, while Lovely Complex leans more towards the romantic side. I recommend this anime to anyone who happens across it! Jasypants says that the live-action version of it is pretty good as well, so maybe people should check that out too, although I'm not sure if I will, maybe someday. Title of this post is a reference to one of Lovely Complex's ending songs by the way. :P

The last anime that I finally finished yesterday is none-other than Otome wa Boku ni Koishiteru! The main plot is that of which a boy goes to an all-girl's school. He obviously has to dress up and BE a girl while staying over there. Of course, he does not go there because he WANTS to, it's his grandfather's death wish for Mizuho to go to the private academy that his mother attended. His mother was one very dear to Mizuho and his family, and he ends up doing a lot of the things his mother did back when she went to the school. It is pretty interesting how he ends up acting like a girl so naturally, of course, he is kind of feminine to start with. :P Translated, the title pretty much means, all of the maidens are falling in love with the Elder onee-sama. Which is what Mizuho ends up becoming early in the story. The Elder of the school is kind of like... The representative of the school, although not necessarily student council, she usually is admired and adored by all the other girls of the school, defined as the most beautiful and elegant student there. I actually do like a lot of the characters within the anime. Shion-san and Takako-san are both a couple of characters I grew rather fond of as I was watching this anime. It's quite interesting how this anime was displayed at one of the yaoi exhibits at Anime Expo though, considering the story is technically about girls falling in love with a guy, although they do not know that he's a guy at the time. Well, except Mariya. xD If anything, this shouldn't even be considered shoujou-ai, as Mizuho is really a guy anyway! My cousin pretty much wants nothing to do with this anime, which is sorta understandable... Although he shouldn't judge a book by it's cover. The anime isn't bad at all. It's rather light-hearted and funny at times. I enjoyed watching it! :D

Surprisingly, over the past couple weeks, I've also finally beat another game! Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift. I actually REALLY liked it! Although the characters of the story won't beat the first game's, I did actually enjoy a lot of the characters. Especially Adelle, she's a cool character. Frimelda as well, she's just great! Hurdy is fun too~ I'm not sure if I enjoyed this game more than the first FFTA, although I know I enjoyed it as I couldn't stop playing it for over seven days straight. Overall, I did really like this game. Although some of the laws were frustrating, it was fun in the end. In fact, I still have to finish about 30 quests to fully complete the game. I do also want to train my Vaan, Penelo, and Montblanc up, as well as my Frimelda a bit more... My Adelle, Hurdy, Luso, and Cid are already quite great. Well, so far, I've completed two games over the course of the summer. I still technically have two months left of my summer, so hopefully I can beat a lot more.

I've been playing Metroid Prime more recently. A lot of my files had gotten corruped last summer, so I have to rebeat quite a number of games! Mostly just Fire Emblem 9, Metroid Prime, and Tales of Symphonia though. I already beat FE9, and I'm almost done with Metroid Prime I think... I just got the Plasma Beam, so I must be kind of closer! Anywho, I'm also currently on a quest to get an Xbox 360. With the advent of news that came with E3 from Square-Enix of Final Fantasy XIII going to the 360, I ultimately decided that I need a 360 now. Tales of Vesperia is coming out next month, and Soul Calibur IV is coming out NEXT WEEK! Oh whatever am I going to do? I don't nearly have enough money for a 360... At least it recently got a price drop! Down to $300 dollars now, according to one of my friends that works at Gamestop. With the 360, I'll finally be able to play Eternal Sonata too, another game by Namco. They actually did something right in that game by putting in the Japanese voices too, which is great! Hopefully that means they added the Japanese voices to Tales of Vesperia. :D I guess that's enough ranting now though, so byeeee~

Happy Belated Independence Day!

2008-07-05T20:50:00.000-07:00

Yes, it is July 5th, but I thought I might as well make a post about the United States' belated birthday. 1776 was the year when America was freed from British rule, and now we're living in a democratic republic that is ruled by the people, sorta. Well, ruled by the people in the fact that they choose their leaders. Anywho, America is officially 232 years old! Yay! My family and I were supposed to go to Vegas for the holiday, but instead we stayed home. However, we did have an uber dinner today that involved a lot of the family, and that's always fun. :D

Anywho, I went to the Anime Expo the day before yesterday, and it was pretty fun! Although mine and everyone else's legs were sore, and feet were in pain, I thought it was worth it because I was able to buy the Ar tonelico II artbook! So I'm happy. I also bought a Kirby plush, which is adorably awesome. :D

I also added three new banners! Yay. Look for them if you are curious. :P

Rotating Banners

2008-06-30T15:38:00.000-07:00

Hey peepz! If you haven't noticed, whenever you enter my blog now, the banners change, thanks to my awesome friend Mat. Hope you guys enjoy the new and remade banners! I added an Ar tonelico II and Odin Sphere one today, and the people that visit my blog often, the Colette one a few days ago. Hope you guys like them!

I've recently been addicted to Final Fantasy Tactics: War of the Lions on PSP, and I was playing Metroid Prime again for a while. Oh and I also just got Final Fantasy Tactics A2, so I have tons of games to beat! But FFT is going to be the next one on my list to beat! Hopefully I will, it's great so far. :P Wallpaper depicts Agrias Oaks. She's awesome.

Summer Gaming Progress: 1% Complete

2008-06-24T10:18:00.000-07:00

Well hello, and welcome to my blog. Do you like my banner? It's very dramatic. *ahem* Anywayyy, so my summer goal of beating as many games as possible is going absolutely no where! And darn it, I just realized that Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift just came out today... I was supposed to beat FFT: War of the Lions before it came out! Darn it! Guess I failed that too.

Yes, Final Fantasy Tactics A2, a game I have been looking forward to for quite a while has finally came out in the United States! I personally can't wait to go out and get this game, as I know it will be awesome. I loved the one on the GBA, and I'm sure this one is much better than that one. Although I'm getting more games than actually beating them, there is a bright side to this. As I have miraculously obtained a rare and precious video game that I have been searching for a while. MARVEL VS. CAPCOM 2! ZOMG!

This game has been one that I've loved for quite a long time! I believe it came out on 2002 or something here, and I've played it over the course of my Freshman year in college for a couple months because of one of my super awesome hallmates. And now... I have my own! My favorite character in the game would have to be Kusagano Sakura, the Japanese school girl from street fighter! There's just something about her that I've always liked, as I've been a fan of her since I got Street Fighter Alpha 2 for the SNES when I was a kid.

Anywho, about the 1% completeness, I've finished Super Metroid! Yay! Although it only took me seven hours, and it's not too hard of a game nonetheless, which is pretty much why it only counts as 1% despite me not knowing how many games I need to beat until I get to 100% anyway. xD So whateverz. But yeah, Super Metroid really made me realize how much I loved the series. I need to go beat Prime 1-3 now. THERE NEEDS TO BE A METROID V!

Summer Boredom: NARUTO

2008-06-13T15:55:00.000-07:00

So, yeah. I've got nothing to do right now... Pretty boring. I know I made one of my goals this summer to beat as many games as possible in my free time, but I guess I have no motivation to do so. No wonder I never really beat any games unless I really like them. Umm, so yeah. Nothing to do, just another boring day! Although there are plenty of things I could be doing... Watching anime and finishing School Rumble up. Yup that's one. Oh and beating all the games that I have yet to beat. So yeah, Den gave me the idea of blogging about Naruto. So I think I'm going to do that!

*ahem* Naruto was one of the first anime that I have every got into! I was introduced to it by my friends actually, but my cousin is the one that really got me into it. He was able to find all the episodes for me to watch, and I did just that! I actually really liked Naruto at the time! I felt like Naruto was someone like me, who wanted to be accepted into society, and I grew rather fond of the character himself. Also, the Haku story arc was what really drew me in, just because Haku was just super awesome. The Chuunin Exam did keep things interesting actually, but it did last for QUITE a long while, and I was wondering when it was going to end. I mean, they had the Written Exam, the Forest of Death, and then the tournament! The tournament which, obviously lasted quite a while as they had to depict fight after fight. The anime did a pretty good job with it though, even adding the Tenten vs. Temari fight, which was over too quickly to even notice in the manga.

Anywho, I really felt my interest in the series waning significantly once Sasuke actually did something dumb and went to join Orochimaru. Sasuke is a character I have never liked throughout the series, he just always irritated me with his emoness. Ugh, I always even liked Sakura better than Sasuke! Although a lot of people disagree with me here, but that's for you guys to argue with me about, because I frankly just don't care for Sasuke. Anywho, I was interested after the Time Jump and followed it in the manga until after the whole Rescue Gaara arc, which wasn't too too bad, it actually gave Sakura some growth as a character, which was great. But in the end, it would be mostly focused on Naruto of course, I just find it odd how they have so many characters, yet only so few are so important. One Piece does a good job with distributing character's time in it's koma pages, as everyone in the crew has their own thing. Anywho, I honestly think that Naruto is overrated now, and I haven't been following the series for a long while, but I'm led to believe that it is currently going downhill.

Oh, and I also recently heard from my cousin that Sasuke actually DOES get his revenge against Itachi! Great, now Elizabeth is going to be super devastated, oh well. Hinata needs more koma time IMO, she's an awesome character. ~end rant~

Scramble

2008-06-12T17:51:00.000-07:00

So, I'm currently addicted to the first opening of School Rumble! I don't even know why, it's so cute and happy! It cheers me up and I love Horie Yui, she's awesome. She's the voice actress of Eri in School Rumble, who is one of my favorite characters in the series! I should finish watching the second season actually... Hmm. I was meaning to blog about how much I like School Rumble before, but I've been lazy and dealing with school. However, I'm officially in summer vacation now and am in a very very good mood right now! ~Gurugu Mawaru~

I know San-chan is tired of these, and I'm sorry for that. Okay, not really, but I made an avatar of Aurica from Ar tonelico! Hooray.

Photoshop Skill Level Up! +?

2008-05-17T23:55:00.000-07:00

ARE YOU HAPPY NOW SAN-CHAN?! They're different and better. Thanks to only one tutorial. w00t. Featuring Pamela from Mana-Khemia and Chroche-sama from Ar tonelico II.

Subarashiki Kono Sekai

2008-05-11T00:46:00.001-07:00

I am currently obsessed with this game. The battle system is fun and the story is keeping me wanting to play it. Shiki is awesome, and Joshua is wierd. Neku is emo, but seems to be breaking out of his shell as the the story goes on. I'm REALLY enjoying this game! People should try it! Of course some people didn't like Kingdom Hearts, and this was made by the same team. I'm surprised that Tetsuya Nomura had time to make this game/design characters for it in between Final Fantasy XIII and the two Kingdom Hearts games.

Yay Shiki! The other two are ones I made like a week ago. :P

Mana-Khemia ~Last Chapter~

2008-05-07T23:43:00.001-07:00

I'm FINALLY on the last chapter of Mana-Khemia! This game is pure love and joy for me, the characters are awesome and the battle system is uber fun! Philo-chan, Anna, and Pamela are my favorite characters! All of the characters are awesome in their own ways though, they all make me laugh somehow. The game is refreshing in the fact that you're not trying to save the world in it, but rather you just go through the everyday lives of the students within the academy of Al-Revis, doing alchemy and learning of the backstories and personalities of the wonderful main characters. Character events, assignments, and jobs rule this game, but it's fun all the same. The alchemy system is obviously very similar to that of the Atelier Iris series, and the field and battle system is most similar to Atelier Iris 3.

Overall, the game is AWESOME! I'm going to have to play through it again to make sure I'm able to watch all the character endings! Good thing there's a New Game+! But it makes you overpowered I think... Oh well, should be nice to go through the game quickly so I can watch all the character events and endings~ The game is more character centric than anything, which is one of the main reasons why I like it! Plus it's from Gust, and Gust = Love.

I can't wait for Mana-Khemia II now. ;P