Odin Sphere ~Mercedes~

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?

Backloggery Banner

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...

Kasugano Sakura in Street Fighter IV!

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!

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.

Improvement

Like oh my goddess, I'm getting so much better at photoshop, it's shocking! Check these out and tell me what you guys think. ^___^

Ugh, it doesn't look like they transitioned too well. Oh well, I think if you click on them you can see better images of them. COMMENT PLEASE! Especially you Amanda-yan.

Rozen Maiden

I finally finished watching ALL of the Rozen Maiden episodes, I realized yesterday that I hadn't posted anything about it since I started watching it. Anywho, this is a really great anime, lots of emotion and great plot. The characters are plain awesome, especially Shinku. Sawashiro Miyuki, her seiyuu is pretty awesome and I've become a big fan of her because of Shinku, Chroche-sama from Ar tonelico II, and Velvet from Odin Sphere. Sawashiro is also in Mai-Otome as Sara Gallagher and in Mana-Khemia as Titil Mimi Nike Mele. Honestly, I can't tell that it's her sometimes, that just means she's a good voice actress. Anywho, I do recommend to watch this anime to anyone, it's really good! Though some might be creeped out by the fact that the dolls are alive in this... *coughDenniscough* It's not bad or creepy at all in my humble opinion.

The Next Odin Sphere?

I have just found out about Vanillaware's next project! It's going to be called Odoro Muramasa Youtouden! The screenshots that are currently out make it look very much like Odin Sphere! I'm so excited! Odin Sphere was one game that really got to me and is now is one of my favorite games of all time! So of course I would be excited about this one! THE BEST PART IS THAT IT'S FOR THE Wii and not PS3 or the 360! I'm so happy... I love Vanillaware! Anywho I got the magazine scans off a news site called News 4 Gamers... So yeah.

The link to the article is in here.

Is this possibly the SSBB boxart?! It looks so real... It also uses different models than what was already on the site! Who knows...? I'm convinced if it is. Besides, it looks freakin awesome. :o

GrimGrimoire

Yay GrimGrimoire! Thank you Dennis for getting this awesome game for me at my time of need. Now I'm finally going through the game! By the way, this is the Japanese Boxart that I like way better than the English one. It's more blue and is just plain BETTER! I don't really understand why they changed it to Lillet falling to Gaff. Quite odd really, this one is way better. Haha. The story is actually getting pretty interesting, and I'm actually doing pretty well despite my skill at Real-Time Strategies. Though I feel bad because I rely on Morning Stars and Dragons, though I don't like Dragons because they're uber slow, though they're really good for defense. Haha, I was never really that good at RTS's but they're really fun. I liked Starcraft and Warcraft III. I'm really like GrimGrimoire right now though. VanillaWare sure knows how to develop their games! I'm so going to keep following their games, they're pretty cool. Princess Crown looks good too, and I already know that Odin Sphere was awesome. Haha, the story is interesting, but I don't feel as attached to the characters because I don't directly control them, except perhaps Lillet, if you choose her as the cursor for selecting units and such. I like Lillet though, she's pretty cool, though I'm not far enough into the story to be able to like her as much as I did Mercedes and the other characters in Odin Sphere. Well, I suppose that's all, I wasn't supposed to blog twice today, but don't be surprised if I don't blog tomorrow. If I do, I must either be really excited about something, or just bored enough to find something to blog about. I wonder if I'm going out with my aunt tomorrow though. Hmm...

Oh! Let me post my old wallpaper since I just changed it to a GrimGrimoire one. :]

I Hate Spoilers

Well, I've finally started reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, and it's pretty interesting so far, I think I'm so slow. Haha, a lot of my friends have already read the whole thing, in one day even! They're insane, that's what they are. No offense! Damn though, I had so much spoiled to me already, partly because of Connie-sama's post to Michelle's Facebook, partly because of my cousin, Alex, and partly because of my idiotically wandering eyes on Wiki. It's so awful! *sob* Hopefully I'll still be surprised! *prays* Eh, well, the book started off all actiony much more quickly than the last few, of course, Harry is in much more peril than ever before, every other chapter has fights and duels, it's quite interesting. Romances are starting to blossom as well, much to my horror, I already know how the pairings end up. It's hinted quite subtly in the first few chapters, but I already know how they are paired in the epilogue and what happens in their later lives. *sob* STUPID WIKI! Gawd, I didn't expect that Family Tree to reveal EVERYTHING! *sob* Darn it. I hate spoilers with a passion! I really have to stay away from websites, message boards, and stuff until I actually go through a whole thing! Odin Sphere's ending was somewhat spoiled for me too, and I was very sad about it! *sob* I wasn't as surprised as I had hoped, I'm so depressed because of it. DOUSHITE?!

Anywho, I just started watching a new anime this morning, Kaze no Stigma. Another anime based off of a light novel, and it's pretty good! I blame Dennis' stay here for getting me interested in it. I always was wondering what it was about, as it seemed pretty popular with lots of downloads and stuff. I like the characters so far too, Kazuma and Ayano are both awesome. haha, I'm hoping the story continues to progress well. I still haven't played any video games since the day before Orientation, which means, I'm still deprived. Though, reading Harry Potter is keeping me quite content at the moment. *sigh* I really need to find something to do other than sit at the computer all day though. :\ Oh well, life goes on.

Tired... and Sharing Amazing FanArt! :o

I got back from Orientation a while ago, and I feel exhausted. Mostly because that was the most walking I have done this year. Haha, also, I feel very deprived. I haven't played video games for two whole days. It's so awful, I know. Horrible even! Orientation was interesting though, met a lot of good people, hopefully, I'll be able to talk to them more once school starts. Haha, as I blog, I am searching for them on Facebook, I know, I'm a freak. :\ Some of them found me already though, haha. It's too bad UCR is almost an hour drive from here, makes me feel nervous about bumping into traffic when coming back on the weekends. Haha. I don't sound very tired, I know, but I am! I really should get into bed earlier than usual, but I really don't want to for some reason. I might eventually, so whatever.

I feel like posting up Fanart for some reason, of Mercedes specifically, but I'm going to post some official art as well. I'm really amazed with the quality of work that was put into these, they're really awesome, they look like they're the real thing! I wish I could draw and color like that. It's so amazing. I don't really have anyone to credit at all, mostly because I got these off a post on GameFAQs on the Odin Sphere Message Board, which is pretty awesome. They had great Gwendolyn art too, and one good Velvet one, but I thought it was a bit much for me. Haha. But man, these artists give a LOT of props to Mercedes, their art is so beautiful that it makes Mercedes just look freakin awesome. I know, I tried to sound like a good art critic, but failed. I need to expand my vocabulary a bit more. Lol. Anywho, the first one I posted was official art, on the cover of the box art with the cluster of the main characters and key players in the plot of Odin Sphere. I was looking for a chance to post these arts up anyway, I'm so impressed with them, and I just wanted to share them with people. Haha. Some fans do depict their favorite characters more "oh my god she's effing hot!" than I think should be, but oh well. I'll deal with it, the art is still beautiful though, haha. There are some strange people out there that get turned on by such artworks, thankfully, I'm not really one of them, so woo-hoo me. Anywho, I think this one is really good, though the legs are much more showy than I would like, it's still awesome. It looks almost like the real thing, I really wish I could draw like that. Haha, man. If I could draw like that, I would be posting my drawings up like crazy, but, unfortunately, this is not the case. I'm usually too busy playing games and admiring the art in it, rather than creating my own, which leads to me having a weak ability in drawing such art, as much as I would love to create and draw my own characters. I wouldn't know how to color them like that anyway, I probably would just screw them up more. Haha, maybe I can get some training somewhere or something. *shrug* who knows.

This one is my favorite, it just looks so freakin awesome, there are no words to describe how beautiful this one is. Haha, I am GREATLY impressed with the amount of detail and color in this gorgeous artwork of Mercedes. It's just plain awesome, if I could do something like this, I would be very very very proud of myself. Who ever did this art, I'm giving a lot of props to. Haha, it's great! I'm just totally impressed with it. I will never ever be able to match such a scale of artistic ability. :D

This one is by my friend! I asked her if she wanted to try drawing it, and she thought it would be fun. Haha, I'm VERY impressed with it! If only someone could help me make it look prettier by coloring it on Photoshop or something. Oh well if that never happens. it's still very good. Haha, if I could color it myself, I would, but I don't have any materials or anything. Thanks Twinkles! Haha, she's my good friend's niece/cousin/whatever they are to each other, and she's VERY good at drawing. I remember all those drawings of Naruto and stuff she drew on my friend's insert, it was so awesome. I was impressed, which is why I was wondering how well she could draw Mercedes, my favorite character from Odin Sphere. As you can tell, even though I've finished Odin Sphere, I'm still into it, haha even though I haven't played it since I beat the game, I still love the game. I'm hoping they come up with a sequel, or "spiritual successor" of sorts! Like Odin Sphere was to Princess Crown. I wish I could play Princess Crown somehow, but I'm not sure if I ever will be able to. Hopefully I'll be able to take Japanese in UCR, Haha, I'm greatly looking forward to that so I can start importing games and not caring if I can't understand it or not anymore. :P

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.

Armageddon: Final

*WARNING: POST CONTAINS MAJOR SPOILERS FOR ODIN SPHERE*
Well, I finally beat Odin Sphere, the ending was great! But I'm still sad about it. I love all the characters, they're so great. Mercedes is still my favorite, but... but... *SOB* She's the only one that dies! I am so depressed about that. Well, technically she's not dead though, she's the World Tree, Yggdrasil. She is in the Fin screen with her Riblam underneath it. The bad ending, the world ends and the last one standing is Myris, which is quite interesting. In the true ending though, Myris and everyone dies, it's sad. The only ones that survive are the Pookas, Velvet, Cornelius, Gwendolyn, and Oswald. Technically, Cornelius and Velvet should have died, but Cornelius is a Pooka, and Velvet got turned into one, so they both lived. Mercedes though, perished after revealing her true name. *sob* Poor Mercedes! She wasn't in the ending at all, only as a tree. I'm just sad that she is the only main character that technically dies. Though her soul lives on in the Yggdrasil tree. Cornelius and Velvet turn back into humans in the end as well, but only years and years after Gwendolyn and Oswald have babies and their offspring are now living throughout the world. Gwendolyn and Oswald are practically the Adam and Eve of Erion after Armageddon. The ending is quite grim either way. *sob* Poor Mercedes. Well I guess it's off to GrimGrimoire now. Or something. *sob*

Umm...

Hmm, I'm not sure what to blog about right now... :\ I think I'm taking too long to finish Odin Sphere and start GrimGrimoire. Although it is partly because my cousin is here. Also, I got Harry Potter yesterday, but I still haven't started on it, unfortunately, I didn't anticipate it as much as everyone else. Ehh, I'm bored. There isn't much to say right now, except that I finished the first season of Zero no Tsukaima. Haha, darn, I'm starting to get into these anime with love stories and triangles and such. Shakugan no Shana has it too. I love Kazumi-chan though, but I love Shana as well! I don't know who Yuuji should choose. Haha.

Shakugan no Shana & Zero no Tsukaima

Shakugan no Shana! I really like it so far! So much action, and a lot of drama in between. Haha, I like a lot of the characters. Shana is especially awesome, I like her when she fights, she's pretty ruthless, I just can't help but feel sorry for Kazumi-chan though, she loves Yuuji, but Yuuji and Shana are so connected that they can't really be separated, I mean, Shana sleeps in Yuuji's room! It's quite humorous though, I really like Yuuji's mother, she's really cool. It took me quite a while to get all the episodes and I really don't want to finish them so fast, but there is going to be a Shakugan no Shana Second coming out in October! So I can follow it then, when it comes out. I'm going to try to come home every weekend so I can get them, muahahahaha. Anywho, I started two new anime this week, which is quite surprising, considering before, I didn't even want to get into new ones. Haha. It's kind of bad though, I haven't played Odin Sphere at all today, probably because my cousin is here and taking up most of my time, as he will get bored if I play Odin Sphere by myself. So, *shrug* I guess I can beat it in a week or so. xD Well, he brought me GrimGrimoire! So YAY! I got the game I wanted, wo000~ I started on it, but I didn't get too far, still at tutorials, but I'm still intrigued.

I also started another anime just as I already stated! It's called Zero no Tsukaima, and they have the same main character seiyuus as Shakugan no Shana! Shana and Louise's seiyuu is Kugimiya Rie, Yuuji and Saito's seiyuu is Hino Satoshi, and Kazumi and Henrietta's seiyuu is Kawasumi Ayako, it's so awesome really. Haha. I like both of the animes they're really good! Zero no Tsukaima's sequel came out already! I downloaded them but I'm not going to watch them until I finish the first one, it's only 13 episodes anyway! :D The female leads are the title characters! Haha, and they're all kind of stubborn when it comes to the male lead, it's really cool. Haha, Zero no Tsukaima is about a bunch of mages in a school, centering around Louise, who seems to not be able to have any success with magic at all. The story is really interesting, I would have to continue watching to see what happens! There hasn't been too much action yet, but I know more is to come! I like the magic in the anime, it's pretty cool. Haha, well, my cousin is going to start pestering me about doing something with him later and then we have to go out to eat again. *sigh* Oh well, tomorrow, we have to go to the mall and get our pre-ordered Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows book. Although I'm not too thrilled about driving to the mall, but whatever, we have no choice really. Haha, oh my goddess! Only one more week until Orientation. I don't know if I should be excited or not. o.o

Armageddon: Chapter 3: Oswald

*WARNING: THIS POST CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR ODIN SPHERE*
Oops, I forgot to post about this yesterday! A lot of stuff was distracting me so I couldn't really post anything at all, even if I wanted to, but I didn't because I made two posts previously, but oh well! I realized that shouldn't matter anyway, sorry Stephanie, I'm contradicting what I just told you. >_<

Anywho, I played this chapter two nights ago, and once again, it was very tragic. Oswald had to fight King Onyx in his inferno beast form once again! I beat him a bit easily, but Oswald still ended up perishing in the end, in a way. He ended up becoming a Revenant of Souls, and was just wandering after the battle, muttering "Gwen...do...lyn." *sob* Poor Gwendolyn, she didn't even realize she lost her love already. I played as Velvet in Chapter 2 as well, and she died, but we didn't see how. I was sad though. :\ I really hope the true ending routes are much happier. :o I have to finish playing though Gwendolyn and Cornelius' books again so they can actually stand a chance against the final bosses though, otherwise they're pretty much doomed to fail. I have to get them to at least level 40-something. Gwendolyn, I already go to level 40, but I need to raise her HP levels up a bit. After I finish Gwendolyn's, I'm going to have to start Cornelius' again. It sucks having to play through the WHOLE books again, but it's find, I don't mind refreshing my memory of the story.

Armageddon: Chapter 1; Mercedes

*WARNING: SPOILERS OF FINAL CHAPTER IN ODIN SPHERE*
*Sob* I just beat Chapter 1 of Armageddon, and I chose Mercedes because I didn't want to get the true ending yet, and... I'm heartbroken! *sob* Poor Mercedes! Whyyy?! The first chapter battle is against the Beast of Darkova, who is Ingway transformed into a Cerberus-like-beast. Unfortunately, his heart is being controlled by Beldor, who is guess what? Back from the dead! Thanks to King Gallon. Mercedes loves Ingway, and she is forced to fight him because I chose her to fight him! The result is TRAGIC! I still can't believe it... Poor Mercedes! Died fighting the person she loved! *sob* I was literally crying during the scene! I was like "NOOOOO!~ MERCEDESS~ *tears*" I know, I'm pretty lame, but it's a good thing that's not the true ending! I'm still quite sad about it. *sob* This post is going to be a bit short since it's only one chapter, but I thought it was significant enough to post, since Mercedes is my favorite character. *sob* The picture to the right is Ingway by the way! I got his picture off the wall paper, you can probably tell that Cornelius is under him because of his ears. xD Well, I guess that's all, I'm not going to post about ALL the characters going through the chapter, only if it's a significant fight between boss and character. Mercedes vs. Beast of Darkova is one of those significant fights, even though it's not supposed to happen supposedly, or it happens in an alternate ending. However, every character has a significant fight in the path to the true ending, so stay tuned. :D

Fate: Velvet

Velvet, the princess of Valentine and the bastard child of Demon Lord Odin. Twin sister to Ingway, half-sister to Gwendolyn, granddaugher to King Valentine, lover of Cornelius. Velvet's story is very intricate, it focuses on the prophecy of the inevitable Armageddon to be brought upon Erion. Apparently, it was her and Ingway's fate to become cursed and die horrible deaths, but Velvet was seeking a way to save herself and her brother. Unfortunately, Ingway was doing his own sinister deeds, and now I know why he was not playable at all. Haha, Ingway is much more of an Anti-Hero than Oswald, it's quite interesting. He uses evil means to do what he believes is good for the people he cares about. Turns out, he holds a horrible secret, it was him that destroyed Valentine! *gasp* He was the one that unleashed the Cauldron that destroyed his kingdom, and he was the one that gave Titrel to the Fairies which started in inevitable war between the Aesir and Vanir! Man, Odin Sphere's story is freakin awesome, I just can't believe how great it is right now. How all the characters' lives are intertwined and how they can avert prophecy. The game is very tragic though, I'm not going through the true ending yet. I'm doing that last, so I'll probably cry a lot! Besides, it's better, I get to feel all the emotions of the bad ending before I can with the True Ending. I'm going to make a separate post about the first chapter of Armageddon after this one, even though that will show up first. xD

Anywho, back to Velvet, she's actually pretty interesting to play, though I was a bit frustrated at how weak her attacks were at first. It really paid off to level up a bit, but I think he HP level is a bit low, but that's not big deal as long as her Psypher level is up there. Velvet has a lot of lag between her attacks though, haha. Which is probably what frustrated me the most, with me getting damaged WHILE attacking the evils. My goodness, Velvet had the most difficult fights of all the books. She had to fight Belial AND Beldor, as well as one of the End Game bosses in her epilogue! It was crazy really, but I ended up pulling though, I do like Velvet quite a bit, she's trying to avert her own destiny. I forgot the name of her weapon already, it was only mentioned once, I think someone on GameFAQs told us the name of the weapon, *goes to check* Graveryl! That's it, a chain that can whip monsters to death! Woooo~ Haha, well on to Armageddon, but I think I'm going to play through Gwendolyn's and Cornelius' books again, they are a bit underleveled for Armageddon, and they don't have any Elixers. I need to prepare them. I might have to for Mercedes as well, she doesn't have Elixers either, but other than that she's fine, so I don't think I'll need to a whole lot.

Mai-HiME Destiny

Wow, I've just read the first three chapters of Mai-HiME Destiny and it's pretty interesting! Though Mai has yet to make an appearance, the main character, Mayo is a strange character. The setting is almost practically the same as the original Mai-HiME, in Fuuka Academy, though it's on top of Hokkaido Mountain. Many of the returning characters also retain their personality traits, names, and positions in Destiny. It's great, Natsuki is awesome, Shizuru is uber strong, and Nao is as insightful as ever. Mayo is the one with pigtails and handcuffs, which bounds her hands together for some reason. Not even Mayo knows why. The handcuffs depict dragons biting their tails to make a circle, and not even Shizuru could break them with her uber strong MiKO skills.

MiKO are the new HiME, and they're psychic, which I have always found fascinating. My favorite type in Pokemon is Psychic, and one of my favorite characters in X-Men is Jean Grey, who is psychic. Well anywho, Mayo's MiKO powers are telekinesis! Which is pretty awesome, but it's interesting, when she fights her personality changes and she becomes a ruthless girl capable of total destruction. Unfortunately, when her personality changes, she can't seem to be able to remember anything while it happens, she probably has multiple personalities or something. She also seems to remember Shion, the girl with glasses that looks very similar to Chie, as her childhood friend. Although Shion denies it, or just simple doesn't remember it. Shion's MiKO powers are of Psychometry, which is pretty much being able to see the past of something by merely touching it, it's quite interesting. It has made Shion quite intuitive and intellegent. Natsuki, Nao, Shizuru, Yukino, Haruka, Akane, Aoi, Chie, Reito, Nagi, Takeda, and Fumi all return! I may have missed someone but oh well! Oh and strangely, guys can be MiKOs too, it's quite interesting. Takeda and Nagi have both exhibited psychic powers, though I'm not sure if they are considered MiKOs as well. I kind of hope they turn this into an anime! I would be very excited about it, they'll probably announce an anime of it if it's coming out after Mai-Otome Zwei finishes up. :]

Oh, I've been wanting to watch Shakugan no Shana for a while, and I'm finally going to get the chance soon! Haha, it seems interesting, though I'm not sure what it's about exactly yet. I like the openings, it seems like there's a lot of action in it. Shana seems like she is the main fighter, and the protagonist, Yuuji, I believe his name is, is probably just a bystander watching her fight or something. The anime is based off of the light novel, which is what Mai-HiME Destiny is right now, in the form of a light novel. Haha, light novels are basically novels with manga illustrations within them, it's pretty neat. I'm so glad I'm able to read Mai-HiME Destiny though, because I didn't think I was going to be able to. I'm thinking they should call Mai-HiME Destiny, Mai-MiKO, haha. I'm also hearing rumors that Mai is dead in Mai-HiME Destiny, I hope that's not true, she's probably going to appear sometime! Hopefully soon. Oh! I forgot to mention, there are also Mai-Otome characters in Destiny! Which is quite interesting, Mai-Otome characters in a Mai-HiME world, Tomoe was shown in one of the pictures, I wonder if she'll be as evil as she was in Mai-Otome. Haha.

I've been trying not to beat Velvet's Book so quickly in Odin Sphere, but I become so bored if I don't play. Which is probably why I'm blogging right now! :o Oh well though, I guess I should play it soon, I haven't played all day. Lol. I guess I'll be getting to that! I can't believe I'm on Chapter 6 of her book already though, it's crazy. I go way too fast. But I feel underleveled with Velvet for some reason, Oswald was almost at level 40 at Chapter 6 and my Velvet is only level 33 right now! Probably because I didn't have too much of a chance to level with Velvet getting captured by the Valkyries. Oh well, now I know what happened after Gwendolyn saved her from Brigan. Haha. Until next time I guess. *waves*

The Black Sword: Oswald

Ah, Oswald. I can't believe I'm at the Epilogue already. I just started his book yesterday! Well, I suppose that's what happens when you have nothing better to do. Anywho Oswald, though he is my least favorite main character in Odin Sphere, it doesn't mean that I don't like him. Once I got through his book, I started to warm up a bit. He's actually really kind! Especially to Gwendolyn, and although he has been used for most of his like by Melvin (Thank the gods he died) he tries his best to not allow anyone to feel used like an object ever again. Playing through his book makes me understand Gwendolyn's a bit more too. Oswald is actually uber powerful, and the most tankish playable character in Odin Sphere. The only times I died were when I was incredibly careless with the enemies around me. Unlimited Power and Painkillers helped. I hate how Carroteers only rarely appear in Elrit Forest though, makes it harder to make Healing Tonics and Elixers. Also, with Oswald, I ended up finding a way to level up Psypher levels much quicker, and he's level 42 Psypher right now, right before the Epilogue. It's quite Amazing actually, I think he'll end up surpassing my Mercedes at Psypher level, but not in HP. It's kind of hard to grow things in Oswald's book compared to Mercedes. Mercedes is able to get free Quick Grows, and I exploited that, so she has one of the highest HP levels of my characters, or rather, the highest. Haha. Oswald's character is really good though, I'm actually enjoying his book more than I expected. We find out how Oswald got Odin to give him Gwendolyn, as well as what happens between the time Gwendolyn is put under Odin's spell and when she wakes up. It's very interesting. Well, I suppose that's it for now, hopefully I won't update with Velvet's that quickly. o.o

Fairy Land: Mercedes

I absolutely LOVE Mercedes, haha. She is my favorite character in Odin Sphere so far! She's so fun to use, with her Riblam shooting enemies from afar. I completed her book just now, and I was sad that she didn't get an ending quite like Gwendolyn or Cornelius. Haha, I was sorta right about the Mercedes and Ingway romance thing! I don't think it's going to end up happening though, poor Mercedes, she's the only one that doesn't have a lover. Haha, if Ingway didn't become so evil, then perhaps they would have had a future together. Oh well, she was the very first on screen kiss in Odin Sphere technically. Enough of that though! I absolutely love Mercedes' story, it really shows how much she grows from an immature Fairy Princess to the great Fairy Queen of Ringford. It really shows her character growth, and I truly love it when it does, it makes me feel like I grew up with the characters. I'm sad that her book ended though, I won't be able to play as her again until after Velvet's book. I'm on Oswald's right now, and hopefully, I will enjoy his as much as I enjoyed the others'. I don't like him so much right now, he killed Hindel for Melvin, whom I absolutely despise! Mercedes should have killed him when she had the chance. Seriously, I don't know for sure if he really died or not in Mercedes' book, maybe I'll find out in Oswald's. I find it so interesting how all the characters' stories intertwine though. Mercedes, not so much. Mostly with Oswald, but in Gwendolyn's and Cornelius' books they fight Mercedes, and that's their only connection really. Cornelius meets Mercedes before Queen Elfaria dies, while Gwendolyn meets Mercedes after Mercedes' Epilogue chapter. She lost Titrel to Gwendolyn, but Gwendolyn only wanted it back because it was a gift from Oswald. Mercedes does connect to Velvet at the same time as Cornelius too. As Cornelius fought Mercedes for Velvet. Well, I think I've rambled on a bit too much. Haha, I'll just stop here. :x