Back From Japan

Games I have that I need to play

DS

Professor Layton and the Curious Village

Professor Layton and the Last Time Travel

Henry Hatsworth and the Puzzling Adventure

SMT Devil Survivor

Fire Emblem

Chrono Trigger

Various Educational Games

PS2

Persona 3

Virtual On Mars

Sengoku Basara 2

PS3

Metal Gear Solid 4

Disgaea 3

Street Fighter 4

BlazBlue

Killzone 2

Little Big Planet

Xbox 360

Oneechanbara

PSP

Star Ocean

Patapon

FF Tactics

Hammerin Hero(last level)

Games that are out/coming out that I want

Infamous

Final Fantasy 13

Star Ocean 2

Fat Princess

So that's the dilemma I'm facing right now. When I get home I usually just want to play BlazBlue, but I've got all these other sweet games to play too. I usually play my DS at night before bed, but lately I've been watching Genshiken season 2 and Ga Rei Zero instead.

I just got back from Japan. It was awesome. I saw the Gundam. I'll be posting some pictures later, cause now I'm kind of doing this and some other stuff, and I have to go to work soon. But yeah. I'm trying to figure out how to manage all these games. The issue I run into is that 2 of the games are fighting games that my friends play also, and Killzone has excellent multiplayer. I'd really like to play more Little Big Planet, but it's more fun with 2 people. I'll need to get some online going or something. I'd like to try level design too, I'm just trying to think of a theme. I bet I could make the school from K-on lol.

Speaking of Gundam, Unicorn Gundam looks kind of sweet. I may need to rewatch First Gundam and Z. Or at least the First Gundam movies. I like the Zeta series more than the movies. I like the first series too, it's just if I had to choose I think I would watch the movies for First

I've been meaning to...

So I've been meaning to post about some stuff but I graduated then came home and got really busy. I'm still kind of busy. So here's what's been going on.

I got 214 and 215 of Yakitate!! Japan done, 2 more one-shots (Akazukin Eliza and Home Stay Steady) , another Berserk, and I've been slacking on Usogui. I'm going to get to it. I have the first volume translated and set by next friday.

Going ons...

As soon as I got home, my mom started on me about getting a job. I've applied for 8 part times that could potentially fulltime, and for 1 "real" job. I'm going to go to a job placement agency on Tuesday and hopefully that'll go well.

I've got a ridiculous amount of stuff to watch, and there just seems to be no time to do it all. That plus the translation stuff plus video games, I don't know how I'm supposed to do it all.

Me and Roadside are going to do a mini triathlon. To prepare, I'm going to start going to the gym soon. First I'm going to do some group classes, and then I'm going to get into a real goal oriented practice pattern. I have to look at this book I'm borrowing to plan out exactly what and when and how much and all that stuff. It's going to be fun, and I (should) be getting in shape.

So, I had an amazing moment. It was when I was watching Haruhi Season 2. God damn that was amazing. I guessed what the plot of the ep was going to be because I had read a short synopsis of one of the novels before, but it was still awesome. There is something about that show that to me is just.. amazing.

I went to book off and kinokuniya in New York recently.I got:

Bakuman 1,2

Eyeshield 21 1, 2

Jojo's 4

Saint Young Men 1

Ima ai ni yukimasu(book)

Yakitate!! Japan 25, 26

Detroit Metal City 3

Gintama 23

Air Gear 15

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So here's what my watching list looks like:

This season

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Haruhi S2

Dragonball Kai

K-on!

On my harddrive(in no particular order)

G-Gundam

First Gundam

Z Gundam

ZZ Gundam

Toradora

Candyboy

Mariaholic

Black Lagoon

Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei

Ga-rei Zero

Gun X Sword(half watched)

Overman King Gainer

Genshiken

Gundam 08th MS Team

Fafner

Blood +

Macross

Macross Frontier

Soul Eater

Super Robot Wars OG

Stuff I don't have

Gintama

and more on my external that I can't remember off the top of my head

My reading list:

NarutoBleachOnePiece current

Gintama(i don't know where to start because the anime takes like random parts of the manga but there's no filler...)

Saint Young Men

DMC(it kills me that I have the volumes and haven't read much)

Jojo's

Bakuman(i want to get this going ASAP because I'd maybe like to do it as a MA project current

Air gear

Beck(on volume 8)

Eyeshield 21

Ima i ni yukimasu

Haruhi book 1 and 2

And I have a good amount of stuff I want to read in english. I don't know how I'm supposed to do all of this. Hopefully if I get a job I'll be able to get on a good schedule.

Super Robot Wars K, BLUST, and Miracle Attack

First off, Miracle Attack Scans first release is available

 Read Usogui here: 

http://sites.google.com/site/mascans/Home

I also completed the translation for the One Shot "BLUST!!" a little while ago. It's by the writer of Eyeshield 21. I'll post the link when FH finishes the typesetting

So I finally beat Super Robot Wars K recently, and I've been meaning to write my feelings on it, then school got crazy, and I got asked to do Blust.

Right from the start, I'd like to say, I really liked this game. I've played a couple other SRW games before and although it would have been nice to have some voice acting, I'd say this one was really good. Let's start with the series list

• Mobile Suit Gundam SEED
• Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny
• Mobile Suit Gundam SEED C.E. 73: Stargazer 
• Mazinger Z
• Haja-Taisei Dangaioh
• Overman King Gainer
• Cyber Troopers Virtual On: MARZ
• Shinkon Gattai Godannar!! 
  
• Shinkon Gattai Godannar!! Second Season
• Fafner of the Azure 
• Zoids Genesis 
• Gun X Sword 
• Gaiking: Legend of Daikuu Maryuu 
• Steel God Jeeg 

At first I couldn't really get into the series list. Kind of tired of Gundam Seed characters, didn't know a lot of other ones, and no Go Lion. A very serious lack of Go Lion. But as I played along, I started to appreciate the cast more, and then got interested in the actual shows.

So the story starts out with you,　Mist Rex, meeting the fine people of Danner Base. He pretends he has amnesia, but they put him to work as a low level mechanic and gopher anyway. For some reason, The Mazinger crew is attending Anna and Go's wedding. Of course it gets attacked. Kouji(Go Danner) and Shizuka roll out, but get defeated in a moment. You fight with Mazinger and stuff and then Mist Rex shows up and saves the day.

So the story is pretty lame. But everything else is really awesome. The animations for the fights are really good. The gameplay itself, while majorly the same is of course fun. One change they made is attack combo works differently. Noe if you have the appropriate level of attack combo, you can attack up to one, two, or three people in the range of the attack(plus their support unit). I do have a few complaints though. 

First, the game can pretty much be played with just Mist Rex, Van, Kira, Gainer, and Shin/Kenji, depending who you level up. I'm actually on my second run through now using only the listed above. 

Second, the levels are a bit too long. Near the end there are 2-4 reinforcement deploys. Also pretty much the last 5 levels are 2 parters, so the fact that the total mission count is lower than the last game is a bit misleading. 

Third, they changed it so that if you press B during an animation, you don't see the battle result. You only see that when you skip the demo. 

Next up, more scans, and Hammerin' Hero!

Gundams... Well Zoids I Guess.. A Reality?

Well.... we're fucked. Haha, no, but holy crap. For those of you who don't speak Japanese, this 60 year old man made this Beetle Robot(dubbed Kabutom MX-03) by himself, over 11 years. 6 people can fit on the inside. He made three other versions. The reason for making it:

"I told my wife about the idea, and she said 'Yeah, go ahead and build it, then you can ride in it and take out the garbage"

Yeah.. Sweet lol

Got up chapter 213 for Yakitate!! Japan. 214 is rough, cause he's explaining about Azuma's bread. Got about 6 pages done so far.

Looks like a new manga started in Shonen Jump. I got the raw for it today. I'll post about it when I'm done reading.

Last level of Super Robot Wars: K, so that'll be coming up soon too

色々

Finally finished Yakitate!! Japan chapter 213. Met with Rush, OtakuJoe, and Steve today for some Mahjong. Rush won. I was in second I believe, I ran out of time so we didn't count. Then from 2 o clock pm to 11:45 pm, I did Japanese to English interpretation for this musician, Keiji Haino. He was pretty cool. A little odd, but still neat. It was an amazing experiance, but it tool 5 hours longer than I thought it would. I have a project due tomorrow, and I need to get this thing done for my House Wide Program done asap. Here it is, 4:21 in the morning, and I still haven't gotten to either. This is why I shouldn't do this stuff at the table with people I know.

Sometime, probably at the end of this week, I will be doing 2 game reviews.
Hammerin' Hero and Super Robot Wars K. Look forward to it.

K-On! Bracing for nerd rage...

Alright, so, let's talking about one of this years super popular new anime.....

K-On


K-on( short for Karui Ongaku, Light music) is an anime about the adventures of 4 high school girls who join the Light Music Club. They all instantly become super best friends and they have super fun times. Not joking. Let's introduce the characters and then we'll talk about the plot a
little more.

Here's the serious in a few words: Recycled, Moe, Lesbian, Loli, Kind of Like Beck, Garbage.



Yui
The main character? She's really retarded. I mean really bad. She is your stereotypical dumb girl type character. She was basically created for people who like girls like Nodame of Nodame Cantabile. She gets really easily distracted, she likes snacks, she's late to school... you know the type. At least she's not dirty as hell. She's also not a genius at her instrument, but we'll get to that later.


Mugi
If you watched Lucky☆Star you should know this type very well.
Mugi is pretty much Miyuki. She's rich, polite, and naive. She plays piano. End of story.



Ritsu
Ritsu is the drummer of the band. She's kind of like Haruhi, kind of like Lucky☆Star's Konata. She's super energetic, kind of dumb, and generally the comedic relief.

Mio
Here is where I am going to get fan-flame if anyone ever reads my blog. Mio is the bassist of the band, and the overwhelming fan favorite. She is kind of like Mikuru, but without the squeaking. She gets all shy and stuff. She is the cute otaku bait ideal girlfriend.

Ok, the Story

Alright, so Yui starts high school, and of course she's late. She meets her friend who is pretty serious and well put together. Enter Ritsu and Mio. Friends from before, they both enter the light music club. However the club currently has no members, and if at least 2 other people don't join, it'll get shut down. Can't have those little clubs you know, throw those kids to the streets! So Mugi comes to the room by acciddent because she is looking for the Choir, but instead gets conned into joining the light music club.

Alright, so eventually Yui gets sent to the room, gets enticed by snacks, and then decides to join. She lies about being able to play Guitar, quickly gets out, and decides to learn. She gets 50,000円(approx $500) to buy a guitar, but the one she likes costs 250,000円($2,500). They all decide to work a part-time job counting traffic to help her out. The girl who can't play guitar at all... who they just met... they're going to work to get $2,000 for her. K.

So they do their jobs(not really well mind you). In case you forgot they remind you that 2 are retarded, are serious, and that Ritsu is a drummer. They still have nowhere near enough money, and she decides to give them their portion back. They decide to buy a cheaper one instead, but then it turns out that Mugi's family owns the store, and she gets it for $500.

Yui then poses with the guitar, takes pictures... and yes... sleeps with it

So like I said. Recycled moe garbage. Here's the sick part.

I actually kind of like it.

I can't stop watching. Blarg.

I'm going to start blogging about shows and games from here. They might not always be new, but oh well. I'm going to leave Saki to my buddy Roadside. Ps thanks for the pictures :3

Well then, next up is Super Robot Wars K. After I beat the last next 4 levels

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K-On, Super Robot Wars K