Author: eternal

Merchandise

Artbook Review – Happy Soda vol 1

For those of you who may have missed the news, super rats of Happy Soda recently released a figure photography doujin, sold for only a week at lulu.com. I believe the final statistics were that 25 people ordered a copy, and as one of the 25 who happens to run an anime blog, I felt obligated to write a post about it. Besides, for any of you who have visited Happy Soda before, you’ll probably agree that the man’s photography skills are superb – and like always, things look better on paper than they do on a monitor.

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Episodic

ef – a tale of melodies [ep 6]

The story seemed pretty innocent so far, didn’t it? Considering the genre, as well as the first season, we all knew that a few heartbreaking twists were bound to come at some point – forgotten memories, a painful childhood, something of the sort. We’ve seen these things all too many times in Key anime to be surprised any more. On top of that, I myself assumed (and hoped) that we would get another awesome love triangle in the second season, because even though my choice was made from the first episode, I throughly enjoyed – in a perfectly ordinary manner – watching Kei and Miyako fight over Hiro. It added a little flair to an otherwise ordinary plot, and the romance overtones are something that can bring me to watch almost anything.

But this…this isn’t ordinary. Nor is it cliche, or romantic, or in any way moe. This is one of the best episodes of anime I’ve ever seen in my life, and this is serious business.

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Miscellaneous

[Launch] – Animal Crossing: City Folk

Despite what I say about casual gaming and LOL Wii Fit LOL, Animal Crossing is one of those utterly casual and “kiddie” games that I’ll probably always be playing. I’m not sure why I like it when I could just as easily play The Sims (or even try wandering around the real world), but I do know for a fact that I’ve been looking forward to this one almost as much as Gears of War 2. Perhaps it has something to do with childhood memories – funny how my childhood memories stretch up to the early Gamecube generation – but for some reason, whenever I play an Animal Crossing game I always get that warm, fuzzy feeling that I usually only get from good shoujo. I’m aware of how stupid that sounds, but it’s the truth, and it’s probably the only reason I’m still playing a childish game about catching bugs and talking to animals.

But I digress: the new Animal Crossing game for the Wii has just launched in North America, and I’m about to play it. Hopefully it’ll last me until I get around to watching Special A or Nana.

~ ETERNAL
つづく

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Miscellaneous

A Week in the Big Apple: ISML, Barack Obama, and a quick visit to Kinokuniya

Ne, ne, guess what?

…Guessed yet?

…

…Well, you’re taking too long, so I’ll just tell you anyway. After a rather short absence that probably felt a lot longer for me than for you (in a good way), I’m back, and with a burning passion to finish everything that I told myself I would do since summer.

…Either that, or just to post semi-frequently and play Gears of War 2.

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