Watashi, MAKENAI!

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.

YouTube is Dumb Sometimes.

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. >_>

Roll's Theme: Kaze Yo Tsutaete

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

One More Day... I Think...

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

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~

Scramble

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.

Anticipation

Brawl is less than 36 hours away now, and I am soo uber excited! So my banner is going to be Brawl themed again. This is a fun video with a catchy tune that is spreading like wildfire in the Brawl community, so I hope you enjoy it! :D

Yay banners, this is the old one that I am ever so fond of, but now is the time for a Smash themed one.

And a Meta Knight one I made for my clan. xD

Sociometry

Wow, Mai-Otome 0 ~S.ifr~ came out so fast! I am in awe, the episode was wonderful! It's pretty cool to see Mayo and Shion finally animated too! They look and sound great! It's hard to believe that Sifr seems so much more like Arika than Lena does, I'm a bit shocked. I can't believe that Sifr is going to marry such an older man and have Nina-chan with him! It's quite shocking. Sifr seems so sweet and innocent too... Maybe that's why Nina was in love with Sergey? He's an older guy too. :o

Oh well, the episode was amazing, and the characters are great! Mayo... or Raquel rather is pretty awesome. She has a staff! And I knew Lena would be amazing, but wow she just blew me away! The fight scenes were awesome and there wasn't much fanservice at all, which is good. Zwei had a bit too much fanservice... Anywho, I'm already excited for the next episode! What happens to Sifr?! I wonder why the headmaster of Garderobe is so evil... Not like Natsuki at all! Poor Elliot, has to choose between her love and her master. :o

Also, I absolutely LOVE the new ending for Shakugan no Shana Second! Sociometry by KOTOKO! I seriously can't wait for the single to come out so I can have the full version because the song is just beautiful. Oh... and I just realized that this was my 100th post. :P

True Tears / First Post

Hello, I'm new to this and its my first post so I will just be posting of animes, mangas, and games that I think its worth to be blogging about. I'm kind of shocked that this anime is different than the visual game. The art is different and the whole story is too. I started when it first came out and then became attached to it. True Tears became one of my current top five favorite anime, so its worth it to watch. Rarutos didn't watch it, so maybe this blogging about it might get him to. I love the opening song because its so peaceful and actually matches the anime. So far, there 7 episodes out. The story is depressing and shocking at the same time. Every episode leaves with an event that comes in the next episode like Shakugan no Shana Second, so it makes it seem short.

On the left is the 5 main character of True Tears. Shinichiro, one of my favorite characters in this anime, is the main guy character in this anime who is the the way left of the picture. He kinda confused with all the girl drama thats happening since those 3 girls loves him and it leads to drama.
Opening of True Tears.

Myself; Yourself

Ahh, another anime has been completed by me! I'm on an anime spree now aren't I? Hmm, oh well!

Anywho, this one is called Myself; Yourself. It's another anime based off of a Visual Novel, and it's not bad at all. Although I started hating Sana, the protagonist in the beginning because of his stupidity towards Nanaka, but he redeemed himself towards the end. Anywho, this anime is somewhat comedic, but for the most part, dramatic and depressing. Aoi makes up for the depressingness though, however it was sad that she didn't have as big a part as Nanaka, Asami, or Shuri.

Nanaka is pretty cool though, she's the main heroine I suppose. Even though people list that both Sana and Shuusuke as the main protagonists, it seems as if it's mostly about Sana after all. Maybe in the original game you got to choose who's side you take or something? Also apparently, one of the heroines didn't get much time for her either, which is Yuzuki-sensei. Yes, their homeroom teacher, though I did find it odd for the teacher to be a heroine, nontheless she's pretty cool. Anywho, although Shuu and Shuri's story was pretty depressing, considering they had a messed up home life, I'm wondering why they ended up running away from their problem so easily like that. Either way, the anime makes it seem like ZOMG TWINCEST even at the end, considering they explained NOTHING! Asami is pretty cool as well, although I never expected her to be evil...

Anywho, enough of my ranting. Myself; Yourself isn't one of my favorites but it's pretty good. I recommend it to people that like depressing anime. The characters are pretty interesting, but yeah the only ones I really liked her Aoi and Nanaka. Mostly Aoi though, Nanaka was a bit depressing, but still cool. Asami was cool too, I liked her until she showed how evil she was, but she seemed to be better off at the end anyway. Oops, I ranted again sorry! I'll stop here.


This is the opening! The song is nice. I believe it's called Tears Infection, it fits the anime, sorta. Anywho last note, I kind of found it amusing when the seiyuu say Myself; Yourself when they're giving previews for the next episode. xD And I just realized I forgot to say anything about Hinako! :o All I think of her is that she looks like Asuna from Negima! She's not a bad character though. :P

Kokoro no Tsubasa

Yay Minami-ke Okawari! I'm so happy it's finally getting subbed, even though it's being subbed my amateur subbers. Either way, I greatly appreciate them being subbed! Thanks a lot random subber people! Anywho, I've grown addicted to the opening song for Okawari... It's kind of sad, I've been listening to it over and over. Oops, I really should be finishing up my English homework rather than blogging. Shame on me. I do like the art in Okawari though, seems a lot more crisp and nice.

Anywho, this is old news, but Lucario, Jigglypuff, and Ness are confirmed to be in Brawl, so yeah. Check Brawl Central, the news is all there.

Happy 2008

As 2007 ends and 2008 begins, my love for Ar tonelico just continues to grow. I've been watching too many gameplay videos of Ar tonelico II and I'm practically at the final boss for Ar tonelico, although I do still need to go through Misha's path. Anywho, I posted up the opening for Ar tonelico II, just because I'm so obsessed with Ar tonelico right now. I honestly have no idea how I became this obsessed with it, I didn't enjoy it as much as Atelier Iris at first, but now I've grown to like it so much that I've practically ruined Ar tonelico II for myself already. Haha, I'll still play it though, and I'll probably love it as much as the first. Chroche-sama FTW! I'm already a fan of Chroche even though I haven't played the game yet. Sad huh? I really hope NIS announces their plans to localize this soon, because I really want to play it right now. Hehe. Anywho, my blog has been comment-dry lately, probably because I haven't been posting as often, but oh well. Not like anyone cares but me anyway. Happy new year everyone! I pray everybody really DOES have a good year. :]

Oh and Merry Belated Christmas, as I totally forgot to post on that day. Haha. Hope everyone got what they wanted, as I didn't get much this year anyway. :] Totally don't remember where I got this picture, but it's a pretty awesome one. :D

Ar tonelico: Melody of Elemia

Ar tonelico! So, I got this game like... last year in February I think... 2006. I didn't really start playing it until the couple weeks before Winter Break, and now I'm wondering WHY I waited so long. This game is freakin AWESOME! I expected no less from Gust... but I guess I was turned off by the Sci-Finess of it at first, but it's very fantastical too. I don't understand why I didn't start playing it until now. Anywho, the art is beautiful as always, Gust's video games always have beautiful art. In fact, the art was the whole REASON for me buying Atelier Iris, and I'm glad I did because that is what introduced me to Gust's games. Thank you NISA for localizing Gust's games! Now if only you would announce that you're localizing Ar tonelico II... I wouldn't mind them localizing Atelier Lise either... Hmm...

So yeah, Ar tonelico is an RPG that is very character and story-oriented, and I have to say that this game has a ton of sexual innuendo, it's quite humorous actually. The headline of the game is "You never forget your first..." Of course, it's referring to diving into the Reyvateil's minds like Aurica and Misha, but even diving is practically referred to as sex, though it really isn't. The characters are pretty awesome though, I don't have too much fondness for Lyner... He's the typical main character that wants to protect everything and everyone. Jack is pretty cool actually, I like his Gatling Gun, but otherwise, he's still not up there for my plethora of favorite characters. Meh at Radolf, I barely use him and he's not very likable to me, though he's not a bad character himself. Kruche is awesome, that's all I need to say about her. Ayatane is pretty cool too, really interesting character. Aurica, I like her but she does hate herself a bit too much, good thing that if we play through her path, she turns around and we can SEE that she is growing as a person. I LOVE MISHA! She's so awesome! She's the only reason I'm playing Aurica's path first, so I wouldn't mind playing through the game again with Misha's path. Then there's Shurelia, who is also pretty awesome... The music is also pretty awesome, and that's very very rare for me to say.

Oops I think I ranted too much now. WALL OF TEXT! *gasp* Sorry about that.

Tenjou wo Kakeru Mono Tachi

So... I'm currently addicted to this song. It's the ending theme for the Shakugan no Shana Movie. Tenjou wo Kakeru Mono Tachi by Love Planet Five which consists of KOTOKO and Kawada Mami as well as others from I've. Anywho thought I would share this with people. *shrug*.

Every week I greatly anticipate the release of a Shakugan no Shana Second episode, and they're great so far! Good humor and everything, though the plot is going kind of slowly right now. Hopefully it will start to pick up with episode 8. Anywho, I absolutely adore this anime, haha. The characters are just plain awesome as well as the plot and the concept. I hope episode 8 comes out soon! :]

Yeah I did change my banner, and I really want to do so much more than that. Hopefully I'll be able to soon. :P

GLORY ~Kimi ga iru Kara~

So... As I sit here procrastinating on the first five page essay out of two that I really should be finishing by today, I thought about my favorite anime character of all time for some really odd reason. I never really talked about her on this blog before though, and I really should make this entry short because it is out of a whim and I really should be getting back to that damned history essay. Anywho, this is one of the One Piece endings and is the only opening/ending really featuring Nefertari Vivi, which is why I consider this her song now. Lol. Anywho, the song is GLORY ~Kimi ga iru Kara~ by Uehara Takako. This song really does reflect Vivi's story in One Piece though, which is probably why I like it so much. Haha. I should end this here... Like seriously.

Watching this again is tearing me up though. WHY DID YOU HAVE TO LEAVE VIVI?! *sob*

Haru ☆ Star

I just discovered this video and it's so freakin awesome! It's Lucky Star's opening but with Haruhi characters! Haha, I'm actually in Alice's dorm room right now typing this up. I was showing her some videos and just found this one! I love this video haha, it's so awesome. Lucky Star + Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu! Yayyy~

Lucky Star

Haha, I've been watching a lot of different anime lately, I just recently got three new anime series, Kimi ga Nozomu Eien, Gunslinger Girl, and Lucky Star. Out of the three, Lucky Star is my favorite right now, if you couldn't tell. Haha. Kimi ga Nozomu Eien is a bit depressing, it doesn't seem like most of my friends like it anyway. Gunslinger Girl, I have yet to get past episode one! I should soon though, but I'm pretty absorbed in Lucky Star. It references to Suzumiya Haruhi a lot! Haha, I heard Hare Hare Yukai like twice already. It's really fun and random! I love it. Plus the main character is an anime and video game freak! Haha, it's so awesome, if I could understand Japanese, I would probably be like, I know exactly what she's saying, most of the time. Haha, but I can understand her when they subtitled her like that anyway. Kona-chan, as she is called by her friends is plain awesome. Haha, I loved it when they put up the MMORPG chat, it was hilarious. ROFLSkATESBBQ~1 Anywho, the video I put up is the opening for the anime.

Kimi ga Nozomu Eien is a romance story depicting Post Traumatic Stress Disorder which is based off a Virtual Novel video game. It's very dramatic and tragic and according to Jasmine Ngo, makes you "hate all the characters." It's probably because the anime has backstabber best friends and stuff, but I'm watching it because I downloaded it, I don't want to waste my 2 days of downloading for nothing. Lol. Anyway, the names are very reminescent of other anime! Haruka and Akane are sisters in it, and both names appear in Mai-HiME and Mai-Otome. Their last name Suzimiya, of course reminds me of The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi! Plus, Suzumiya Haruhi and Suzumiya Haruka are both very similar names, but I suppose that doesn't really matter. Just pointing it out really. Haruka has the same seiyuu as Erstin Ho in Mai-Otome though! That was probably one of my only incentives to watch it, besides me having the opening songs which are also sung by the same seiyuu, Kuribayashi Minami. Also, is it just me, or does Haruka look strikingly similar to Kinomoto Sakura of CCS? :o I thought Yoshida Kazumi looked similar to Sakura as well... Coincidence? Maybe. :o

Don't know much about Gunslinger girl so far, except it's about a bunch of little girl assassins that were abandoned or something and have gone through some enhancements and trained to kill. Jasmine, one of my anime referencers and buddies, said that it was a very good anime, so I'm going to keep watching it. Haha, besides, it would be a waste to download and never watch. Henrietta seems pretty awesome though. Darn me though, watching too many girl anime! I should pull out Kiba which Dennis gave me a few weeks earlier, and start watching One Piece again. Anywho, if anyone has any suggestions for watching anime. Tell me pl0x! I'm bored in the summer, and have nothing better to do. Oh, and I'm going to use this post to set up some labels that I will probably talk about in the future! For future reference and stuff. Since I mentioned so much anime that I haven't talked about yet and love oh so dearly. :]

Rarutos no Yuutsu

I thought it would be very fitting to post this video up after I finished watching The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi. Haha, I really do love this anime, it's freakin awesome. The dance amuses me too. I showed this video to Stephoni this morning and she found it very interesting. I owe a lot to Stephanie actually, she helps me whenever I ask and she always keeps me company when I need it. I feel like I never give her enough credit sometimes. Anywho, I'm pretty sad that such an anime was so short, haha at least there is going to be a second season! I'm happy about that, so I'll be able to watch it later on.

My friends and I actually went out today, it was great, but most of us probably had a bit too much sugar. Fortunately for me, I have pretty high tolerance on sugar, so I don't get high off really easily. Heck sugar doesn't even help me stay awake and neither does caffiene. I know, I'm pretty wierd. I'm really glad that I had a chance to actually go out with my friends for once though. I missed them, I hadn't seen any of them since graduation/grad night. Haha, apparently Dennis is planning a get together with Connie-sama at my house on Thursday that I didn't hear about until Connie-sama actually told me today. Odd that Dennis plans things at my house without my knowledge. Anywho, Jennifer, Connie-sama, Stephanie, Crystal, and I went to Porto's, this interesting Cuban bakery/cafe in Burbank. All the sweets were pretty good and I liked the sandwich. I was surprised at how cheap the stuff was! I thought the cake would be more expensive. I brought some home for my family. I hope they do enjoy it. o.o

Anywho. I'm getting pretty excited about Starcraft II, which is coming out sometime either late this year or early next year I think. Patrick and I are planning a Starcraft reunion. Haha, he was the one that got me into it pretty much in Middle School, kind of miss those days. It's too bad Patrick and I don't talk as much anymore. He's a cool guy. Anywho, my favorite race in Starcraft has always been the Protoss. I don't know why, haha. I always thought the story was pretty good too. With Sarah Kerrigan getting all evil and everything. Kind of makes me want to play through it again. Without cheats! I usually cheat on RTS's which means I'm not good at them at all. I hope to build up my skill a bit with GrimGrimoire. I've been wanting to play Warcraft III with Dennis again, but he only wants to play Tales of Pirates. *sigh* The art is pretty cool too. I'm excited about some of the new Protoss and Terran units. :] I think this one is called the Stalker.