Sanae = Philia? D:

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.

BON BON!

*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!

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

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

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!

Video Games of November

So... November is pretty game-crazy. Haha, I'm going to be poor because of this month, five games coming out for this month, it's quite ridiculous. I'm not really including the Wii Zapper either, which comes with Link's Crossbow Training but I'll probably get that anyway. *Shrug* Anywho, I feel like listing the games that I'm getting/have gotten this month, including a couple more games I have failed to list before because I was preoccupied. Anywho, FE10 is up first! I've already introduced this game in a previous post and I'm still loving it. I love Micaiah! Haha, but yeah. This game is awesome, I'm actually playing through FE9 again, and it's not that hard going through it at all. Probably because I played it like five times and I know exactly what to do. Lol.

Then there's Mario & Sonic at the Olympic games. I'm still not sure exactly how good this game is because I have like, nobody to play it with. I tried to get my sisters to play it with me, sorta, but they still haven't. Maybe I'll get to play it with them over the break, or I'll bring Elizabeth, Connie-sama, Stephanie, and them over or something. It's a cool concept though, bringing Mario and Sonic together before Brawl, it seems like a fun game too, I just haven't been able to give it a chance yet, partly because of school.

Super Mario Galaxy! Haha, this game is pretty awesome even though I only played it for like 15 minutes. Princess Rosalina is pretty cool, and I love the whole theme. The only part I don't like is how Peach gets kidnapped again. Well, the way Bowser kidnaps Peach this time is practically the same way he did it in Paper Mario! Haha, I was laughing about that, it was quite amusing because I love Paper Mario ever so dearly. Except Mario is still in space and being assisted by Princess Rosalina instead of Mario having to collect the Star Spirits in the Mushroom Kingdom. I heard the game was REALLY good though, so yeah I'm looking forward to playing it more.

Like oh my goddess it's Final Fantasy XII-2! xD Anywho, I have NO idea how this game is going to be, but I'm getting it because it's Final Fantasy. Vaan and Penelo are back, and I'm pretty sure Fran and Balthier are as well, but where's Ashe?! Anywho, I still need to beat FFXII anyway. xD

SOUL CALIBUR LEGENDS! I really can't wait for this game to come out, it seems so AWESOME. C0-op game play FTW. Sophitia is in it tooo~ Oh love and happiness. Haha, I have no idea when this game is going to come out though, it's either this week or next week, but I'm so excited! I still can't believe that Lloyd is in it though.

Final Fantasy Tactics: War of the Lions, the remake of Final Fantasy Tactics for PS1! I absolutely LOVE this game, but I haven't been able to play because FE > FFT, oh and Zelda: Phantom Hourglass kind of took my time for this too. So yeah, I think I'll beat it eventually... I got this with my PSP, yes... I actually got one, it has Darth Vader on the back! But yeah. It's pretty awesome.

RIVIERAAA~ Yes, I finally got this game, and even though I really wanted it over the summer, and now I finally have it, I barely gave it any time at all. I know, quite sad really. I was so excited about it too and now all these other great games came out and I have to beat those too! UGHH! SO MANY GAMES! Oh well, I'll try to beat them all eventually. :o

Well yeah, that's pretty much all I wanted to say right now... Hmmm. Oh and thanks to the people that actually commented my blog! Mostly Amanda-yan, but other people too, I TRULY appreciate it. :D I really should talk more about my life than just my games and anime though. LMAO. Oh well, maybe if I feel like opening up more. xD

Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles

Wow, I really have no idea what to blog about right now, so I'll just blog about playing Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles with Connie-sama. It is quite fun to actually have someone to play FFCC with after all this time, and I'm looking forward to the DS version that will be coming out next year, but it's been a while and maybe it dulled out for me a bit. Well, I did lose my Year 9 file, which is probably why I'm like ugh. Oh well, it's still fun to build up a new character and actually play something cooperative with Connie-sama. Hopefully we'll be able to do more than just play this though. xD We did play SSBM together though! We played a bit too much seeing as how I got really tired after a while. Haha, at least I'm getting out of the house more often. Reality is starting to hit me a bit though. Considering I have a humongous bill to pay for UCR, and that school is starting in less than a month is starting to frighten me a bit. I am excited about dorming and making new friends, but I'm just afraid of too much change all at once. Oh well, it's going to happen, so I'm going to have to buck up! Maybe it's just today, I'm feeling really down and out for some reason. I'm really out of it today, my head hurts and everything. *shrug* Going to get Guild Wars: Eye of the North with Connie-sama on Wednesday though. The preview made it seem a bit fun. For some reason though, I can't get myself to play more. It's horrible. Hopefully Dennis will get me addicted to it again or something. I feel like I don't have any motivation to do anything right now. x___x

By the way... The Anonymous person that has been visiting and commenting my blog, thanks for all the comments! However, I'm VERY curious as to who you are! Considering that I thought only people I know visited my blog, so I'm assuming you're either someone I know, or someone one of my friends know... Haha, I'm sorry, I'm just uber curious.

*Yawn*

Damn, I just woke up from a nap, I took one because I had a headache. Well, it's gone now, and I'm just randomly blogging. Don't know what to blog about right now. Which is why I didn't blog yesterday. I feel like if I neglect blogging for too long it will turn into what I did to my Xanga. Well, I finished Deathly Hallows yesterday night, a little bit over midnight. I was sad about all those characters that perished, but the ending was rather happy. I don't really want to spoil a lot at all, people might hate me forever if I say more. Lol. Damn though, I haven't much to blog about since coming back from Orientation, kind of killed my motivation for blogging right now. All I've been doing was reading Harry Potter. I did start playing Final Fantasy III like last week, and I got all four party members, but I only played when I went out, as a way to get rid of my boredomness. I'm still trying to beat Tales of the Abyss, though I only played for like 30 minutes or so today. I still can't believe I was asleep for more than 3 hours. I must have been really tired or something. I wonder how bored I'm going to be for the next few weeks until school starts. My friends and I are planning a get together before Stephanie moves to CSU Northridge though, so that should be good. Elizabeth asked me if I wanted to do something this week, and I'm wondering if we really are going to. Lol. Eh well, this might be my ugliest post ever, considering I don't know what pictures are relevant besides a couple of character arts, oh well. I'll just put them up anyway, might as well. o.o The first one is Fon Master Ion from Tales of the Abyss and the one tot he left is Refia from FFIII. I like Ion, it's too bad what happens later on in the game. :\ I'll play FFIII mostly because of the job system. Haha, it seems fun, like FFTA but more RPG-style than action RPG, I really can't wait for FFTA2, that's going to be fun. :]

Tales of the Abyss

Tales of the Abyss! I'm starting to play it again, although I wish the Japanese voices were available to me, but the English ones aren't too bad like in Odin Sphere. I played through Odin Sphere with the Japanese voices though, haha, I tend to prefer Japanese voices mostly because they are the original ones and tend to be better. Kind of sucks though, Japan gets a much cooler boxart for Tales of the Abyss than us. I got this game like last year, and I'm looking to beat it next, after Odin Sphere. I figured that if I played GrimGrimoire after Odin Sphere, it would become kind of dull to me to see the same graphics and art style and game style as the developers are the same for the two games. Besides, I've had Tales of the Abyss longer, and I've been looking to beating it. My DS games can come later because I'll probably be able to bring it to UCR with me to play, at least once I know that it will be safe there. I like the characters of Tales of the Abyss though, most of them are pretty cool, Tear with her calm and collected coolness, Guy is just plain awesome, Jade with his sarcastic remarks, and Natalia's archerness! I liked the characters in Tales of Symphonia more, but it doesn't matter, I like Tales of the Abyss anyway. Well, hopefully I'll be able to beat it in a couple of weeks. I hope it doesn't take more than a 3 like Odin Sphere, but I did really love Odin Sphere, with it's awesome characters and plot. I hope Tales of the Abyss makes me say, "Man, that game was good" after I beat it, although it might be better if I'm sad when I beat it because that means I'm sad to leave the game and start a new one. Lol. Well, I suppose that's all I need to blog about really, Tales of the Abyss is next on my game list to play. Maybe I'll beat Final Fantasy XII after it, since I'm pretty close to the end, being in Archades after all.