So dark the con of man.

Youths arrested for ‘otaku hunting’

Eight youths who engaged in what they called “otaku hunting” — mugging geeks on the streets of Tokyo’s Akihabara district — have been arrested in three separate cases, police said Thursday.

The teens all targeted junior high school students they referred to as “Akiba-kei,” or geeks who like the otaku culture found widely in retail outlets throughout Akihabara.

Police said there have been 25 reported incidents of “otaku hunting” since the start of the year, with victims losing a combined 350,000 yen between them.

“Otaku are weak and they’ve got money, so we went after them,” one of the arrested youths told the police.

Police said one of the cases involved three boys waylaying a 14-year-old boy who was headed to Akihabara to buy an anime doll and demanding he pay them money or he would be bashed. The boy handed over 3,000 yen, the police said.

In two separate cases in July and September, two groups of boys threatened two other boys, cajoling them into handing over 1,500 yen in cash. (Mainichi)

Well, that’s more reason to disguise the fact you are otaku. Or take up self-defense lessons. Or better yet,not acting like a goddamned haughty idiot.

As for the idiots who do such things, well, consider yourself lucky. If you met me, I’d be the one arrested. For disposing of you like week-old trash. I might even dump your carcasses in the ‘burnable trash’ pile. Because humans burn so wonderfully.

As forotaku, do everyone a favor and be better at hiding your true identities. Mostly because of incidents like this. If not, be prepared tokill at a moment’s notice. This is not a warning, this is an ultimatum.

Desu power.

I did something stupid today.

I just desu’d Your-Mom Fansubs. And it felt stupid and good. I guess I still have a bit of the /b/tard in me. (Click on More to see the stupidity.)
Well, back to wondering what happened after the events of Planetarian.

“What do you think about the planetarium? That beautiful twinkling of eternity that will never fade, no matter when. All the stars in the sky are waiting for you.”

Upon seeing these words from the last time from her mouth, I burst into fresh tears. Not that it mattered; I was already crying even before that.  Her eyes, once shining with life, now lay silent, devoid of the life that once shown.

I stood there, the tears streaming from my eyes. She had not known me for more than a week, yet, she had shown me stars, things I had never seen in my life. Her annoying chatter,  once irritating, now I yearned for it.

I must be crazy, she’s only a robot, useless in this world. Her still form, half of it now nothing but a tangled mess of precision equipment. Beyond repair.  Whoever could repair her had already died. All the people she knew. Everyone I saw in her eyes. All dead.

Except for me. I had  spent the last week of her life with her. But then, I didn’t know it would end like this. Not with her standing in front of that Fiddler Crab doing what she had done.

“Curse you Asimov. Curse you and your laws.” I muttered under my breath. Tears flowed anew. The Rain, still pouring down, uncaring for what it touched, what it did.

Her left ear, what did I promise her? Right. I took out her memory card. Still warm to the touch, she must have released it at the very end. I put it into my waterproof cigarette pouch.

I heard footsteps. Clank of machinery. The Fiddler’s backup must have come. I threw my gun away. That would not be needed where I was heading.

Goodbye… … … … … … …Reverie. Your heart is with me, and I will treasure it forever.

——————

And this is where fiction ends and fact begin.

Planetarian is, well, needs no introduction.  A story that needs no introduction. A world-weary Junker, looking for treasure,  wanders into a planetarium, where it’s sole inhabitant is a talkative robot. Tired and wanting for rest, he sleeps, mildly annoyed by the robot. Led by the promise to see the stars, he stayed behind, fixing the large projector. And his constant companion, the robot, who then takes him on the most wonderful journey throughout the stars. Somewhere in that show, something in him changed. Fast foward to the current story. He sees her being destroyed by the war robot he was fighting, losing her forever. In her dying moments, she plays out her life story, and revel that she knew a long time ago, she knew no one would return.

Touched and completely shaken by the loss of the beautiful world she left in his mind, he throws away his gun and puts the memory card in his coat, before wandering off with a broken leg as the fallen war mech’s automated backup close in on the scene.

Planetarian is a story that’s poigant, beautiful, and touching. The sight of Reverie, the journey throughout the stars, even the ironic, bitter end. It’s all done in such a beautiful manner, I could not believe it. At the journey throughout the stars, I cried; it was too beautiful. The ironic, bitter end, where Revvie shows to the character (and us) the beautiful world she had lived in, I lost my self restraint. I cried, I bawled, I blubbered. It was too much for me to bear.

I was told I would cry after experiencing it. I was skeptical. I was wrong. I broke down like a newborn baby when it was hungry. It’s that powerful. If you have played through it and not cry, I’ll fucking murder you, you cold-hearted bastard. The world needs less of you.

Yuíchi Suzumoto, I salute you, for writing something so simple and so… … … beautiful. And fuck you Isac Asimov, for cooking up the Three Law of Robotics.

One reason why Fate/Stay Night sucked.

No, we’ve already established that DEEN haet eroge and doozin(Again, another bad pun from #shrinemaiden @ irc.pyoko.org). This is pertaining to not just the animated series, but also the game itself.

I’ve been reading Character Development And Storytelling For Games by Lee Sheldon  (ISBN: 1-59200-353-2, Library of Congress Catalog Card No: 2003115725, Amazon Link) And well, I’m reminded of the time I took Storyboarding and Scripting (if you must know, I am doing Creative Game Design and I knew this book would come in handy). One of the essential things that a story needs is for the main character to be radically changed, either in body, spirit or paradigms of thought, aka the main character has to develop and grow, aka he or she has to be somewhere else but here.

Looking back at what I’ve watched up till now and what I’ve read about the Fate Arc (which was essentially animated), we can safely assume TYPE-MOON picked the wrong arc to animate, because, well, the Fate Arc was shit. Character progression-wise.

To quote from the book, “There is only one realm in which characters defy natural laws and remain the same – the realm of bad writing. And it is the fixed nature of the characters which makes the writing bad. If a character in a short story, novel, or play (or in this case, anime and/or visual novel, or game) occupies the same position at the end as the one he did at the beginning, that story, novel or play is bad.” Okay, so I’m actually quoting Lajos Egri’s The Art Of Dramatic Writing (ISBN: 0-67121-332-6, Amazon Link) , but that’s immaterial.  Point is, Other than Saber’s  character going imperceptibly small changes(depending on how you see it) in her personality, what of Emiya Shirou, the main character? Apart from gaining the ability to shoot swords out of his hands and make uberhax scabbards, does his mental and psychological processes undergo a huge change? Does he realize his silly dream, or does he see the harsh truth about being a hero? In all respects, Shirou’s thoughts are as unchanged as the day we meet him. His wanting to be a hero has annoyed the hell out of us, and he still annoys us to the end. And then some. His core personality has yet to undergo a dramatic change. He has, as Lajos Egri says, defied natural laws (not all that hard considering Nasu’s earlier works) and stayed the same.

I’m not one to argue with a guy who wrote the best-selling visual novel of all time, but what the hell was Nasu thinking of when he penned the Fate Arc? I mean, Tsukihime kinda starts out the same way, but but Jove, Shiki is a changed man after turning Arc into delicious cuts of meat, killing Nero twice, Roa twice, killing himself, his beloved little sister not related by blood, SHIKI three times, watched Kohaku commit suicide, blahblahblah. If Nasu wanted to lay the foundation of UBW and Heaven’s Feel, well, I don’t think this is the way to do it. Again, I don’t want to criticize my idol, but as far as writers go, they are human, and humans goof up sometimes.

But is Fate truly a piece of shit? I leave it up to you to decide. General popularity assumes Heaven’s Feel was too much for the average Japanese otaku to bear, but personally, I found it to be a much better story than Fate. (And well, we all know UBW was ALL ABOUT ARCHER EMIYA and Rin, not that Shirou feller.)  Heaven’s Feel is really a good representative of what Nasu does best; exploring (and wallowing in) the dark side of characters. Hell, Tsukihime did the same thing(5 FREAKIN’ TIMES!), and became the best-selling visual novel of all time. As for me, the Fate Arc was the opposite of what Nasu does best. To me, it was one of the worst pieces of writing to come from the guy. And knowing he can, and has done better only makes me realize how incredibly shitty the Fate arc really is.

And this is coming from me, an overt Nasu fanboy. Fuck, I love Tsukihime and Fate/Stay Night (and their respective fundiscs, Nasu does humour really well too!), but realizing this has got to be crushing, even mindblowing. But I have a greater purpose to fufill here, one to good storytelling, and that takes precedence over any silly fanboy sentiments.
So there you have it. The Fate arc is shit because Shirou still remains the clueless idiot he was when we first met him.  Apart from him gaining the ability to fire swords from his hands and make uberhax scabbards.

This makes me wish Archer killed him when he had the chance.

I has Shion =3

No, I’m not talking about Sonozaki Shion(though I would love to have her), I’m talking about my BRAND SPANKIN’ NEW COMPUTER!

Here’s the specs:

• Intel Core2 Duo E6300 1.86GHz
• ASUS P5W DH DDeluxe
• XFX XXX PCI-Express nVidia GeForce 7600GT 256MB DDR3
• Kingston 1GB (PC-5400) 667MHz DDR2-667
  
• Western Digital Caviar SATA2 250GB HDD
• Samsung SHS-182D 18×18x Dual Format Dual-Layer (Int/Black/Box) DVD-RW/RAM Writer
• Seventeam ST-420BKV 420W
  
• Currently running on: Windows XP Professional SP2 (I think)

Well, no keyboard and/or monitor as of yet, but I’ll get those as soon as budget permits :V.

And well, why the sudden purchase? It’s because I’m going back to polytechnic and I have to take Computer Animation (3D Animation) this semester. Also, I will be taking Creative Game Design. /o/ I rock. Now, while you computer junkies tell me this graphics card won’t do the job I want it to, the thing is, I’m on a bit of a budget, and there’s no way in Dante’s Inferno am I going to plonk down SGD$1000 for the proper card. So I’ll just make do with what I’ve got.

And now, off I go to ponder over how to install Linux.

Just skimming over news, animation-related and otherwise.

Wii not being region-free: Not that big of a surprise there. Well, at least it ain’t Sony. Here’s hoping it won’t kill Nintendo’s sales.

omo using one of my communities’ bad puns: O_O That was quick.

About Viz, editing that silly bit of manga and the delayed reaction to it: Wow, silly people. If you didn’t notice it until someone pointed it out, it wouldn’t have been noticed, LAWL. Also, where were the Christian fundies when the manga was licensed? LOLOLOL

Moar praise for Planetarian: Amazing. The game has been out for a while. And the English translation for it as well. And still, not enough people will know about it. I want Hirameki to pick this up. I wanna see the look on gp32’s face when he sees the announcement. I also demand an animated 5-hour movie on it. Screw Lord of the Rings, this will kill your tearducts, bladder and brain for days to come if it were made.

Ender, kabitzin and Kunfucius have blocked out 37K spam posts: LAWL. So, will it be the p0n0s or the Viagra-clone?

OMG TOUHOU CELLPHONE GAEM: (link is Japanese orz) zOMGWTFBBQIT.

That kinda wraps it up. Now to go jump in glee.

And since hung is pulling a tsundere act, it’s time to raid the ANO podcast mailbag.

Well, since japes caught the cooties and no one wants to talk, and well, ALL-PORN podcasts hasn’t released it’s latest episode… …

MAILBAG RAID LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

(mostly taken from the ANO podcast mailbag.)

What are the worst anime OPs you have listened to?

BEING by KOTOKO. It didn’t fit the general flow of the series.

*Which anime would you show to people who
a. Haven’t seen an anime
or
b. Have a bad opinion of anime, i.e. think it is childish

a. Azumanga Daioh, ARIA, Rurouni Kenshin, Honey & Clover, Saikano if I’m feeling rather sadistic.
b. Depends on what they like. If they’re D&D geeks, maybe a dose of Scrapped Princess, BERSERK, Slayers. For Battletech Fans, Full Metal Panic, 08th MS Team, UC Gundam. Western fans, a touch of Trigun, Cowboy Bebop, Coyote Ragtime Show. Supernatural Freaks get their dose of Hellsing Ultimate. And Christian fundies can go watch Neon Genesis Evangelion and go suck it.

*Are any of you fans of NARUTARU?

Wait, not Naruto? NEXT!

Just curious as to why some of the more stronger hitting and well done anime movies/OVA are never mentioned among many bloggers or even in your own podcasts in reference to stories that affected or left lasting impressions. Is it a generational thing? (i.e. younger anime watchers may not have seen these titles and not taken the time to go back and watch as they are too obsessed with the latest Bleach or Naruto fillers?)

1. I may not have watched it, and 2. I have a really short-term memory.

NOT being an ignorant “All USA, USA ROCKS, EVERYONE ELSE SUCKS” kind of idiot, I can handle a bit of anti USA undertones in anime. We dropped 2 horrible bombs there in Japan, and we are often a world bully (usually when a Republican is in office) so I get it. But I feel as if there is more and more anti American themes in anime lately and it’s getting to the point where it seems like every show is brining up the “Evil USA” or the evil USA military. What is your take on all this anti-American comments, themes, and do you think it will effect DVD sales here in the USA? (Examples, notice how super similar looking characters mimicking Condoleezza Rice and other current Bush administration people are shown to be wanting mass murdering Chiropterans in the Blood series? In the GITS shows, it’s the evil American Military that is an underlying enemy to Section 9. And so on, and so on… It’s as if the anime industry in Japan is reverting back to it’s old sterotypes of American again..

Well, most of the consumer base are open-minded, level-headed people. And well, even though America DID drop ‘TEH BOMBS’ on Japan, they’ve helped speed up the Japanese post-war economy, not to mention bringing in technology and stuff. As for the anti-American sentiments… … … well, go read the news and come back to me.

Are Anime viewers more likely to be open to new ideas? Since Anime is not a main-stream entertainment outside Japan, and if you also consider that Anime is more likely to deal with fantasy stuffs or Sci-fi things, I thought that anime fans would be more likely to entertain novel ideas and concepts. Much to my surprise, the local anime club I joined and paid membership due, the Purdue Anime Club, has repeated called me stupid for putting up new topics or answering some of older topics in their forums and often locked or deleted the posts almost as soon as I put up one, even though they contained no profanity nor anything that might be offensive to someone: an example of the post that was called stupid and basically told me to be glad that it wasn’t locked up was a post about what I thought were some of the best or most influential anime songs. What bothered me the most was, however, I have heard in the club meeting someone else mentioning a point similar to one I have raised in the forum post, and he was quickly told to shut up: more precisely, he questioned the physics in Shakugan no Shana’s world and was told that since there is magic, we should not think about any science in Shana’s world. So the question is, are anime groups and communities generally this closed minded and impolite like Purdue Anime Club, or is PAC an exception to the norm?

I have never come across such haughty and ill-advised bastards outside of my club. Or outside of 4chan, but we all know 4chan has the largest pool of retards per square Internet than most places on the Internet. With the exception of HongFire, which has the largest pool of haughty bastards per square Internet than most places on the Internet.

However, let me share with you my experiences.

While generally, the club I belong to (SP Life Arts, a lot of you have heard about it, I think) does not engage in such deep and time-consuming topics (this is left mostly to the philosophers, and I’m not one), close-mindedness and impoliteness runs really deep in the club. Although the club has had an unofficial reputation among members of the club of recruiting one oddball per academic year, I have noted we tend to attract more of the haughty bastards who claim themselves ‘otaku’. This lot is a dangerous, impolite, close-minded and stupid lot with zero regard for rules and regulations. They are a selfish bunch who have a lot of say in the running of the club because the club’s administration doesn’t give a rat’s ass about past events. Which may or may not be a good thing.

but I’m digressing from the point here. These bastards are most probably the same caliber of the people who run the Purdue Anime Club. And why do I know? These stupid people have confronted me in real life over issues we don’t see eye-to-eye about. And worse still, they are wimps, hiding under whatever is handy(physical or otherwise) so that they don’t want to die for their beliefs. They may think they are the elite, being able to flame those who dare speak their minds, but in reality, they are nothing but spineless idiots who would most probably deny their otakuness under threat of death. Worse stil, they’ve proven themselves to be able to disregard the status quo and the rules in the past to do whatever they like. I don’t know about you guys, but after knowing such people exist(ed) in my club, I don’t know if I want to even associate with them.

Thankfully, the club is not filled with such people. It’s also filled with clear-headed, unbiased, open-minded people whose only desire is to see the club survive.

How would you go about asking a fellow fan who is a friend of yours to tone down their overt fanism in public? Have you ever been embarrased by a friends displays of anime fandom?

With whatever’s handy(I will not hesitate to shut him up in the most efficient means possible; ie, by offing him.). And no, I feel a sense of pride that I keep my otakuness hidden from the public eye.

“There should be a lolicon in the podcast. IT IS DEMANDED.” (Yes this is from ALL-PORN)

Well, I’ve promised lolikit to actually haul ass and get on the podcast, and I’m slowly turning lolicon, so, I guess that’ll work out. Assuming lolikit has enough time to pull of another one.

Instead of watching more anime, I did this.

For some silly competition by one of the sick minds of the Internet to revive a missing character from one of his comics that community loves, I have prepared a tale of utter carnage, Gundam-rape and other unmentionables. Enjoy.

Disclaimer: Nana is a character from Elfen Lied, and I’m honestly at a loss as to who is the owner of this copyright. Well, All copyrights are (C) to their respective owners. The ‘Unlimited Nana Works’ appearing in this twisted fanfic is a modification of ‘Unlimited Blade Works’ that originally appeared in Fate/Stay Night, and Archer, which is (C) TYPE-MOON. Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni is (C) 07th Expansion, Studio DEEN (may they die in the fires of Hell in honor of Nana) and God-Knows-What Antediluvian horrors they have unleashed. Armpits is (C) #shrinemaiden @ irc.pyoko.org.

Author’s Notes:
Well, someone had to make a Fate Stay Night/Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni/Elfen Lied crossover. It had to be done.

This fanfic is dedicated to Nana.

Special Thanks to Dan Kim, Tyrenol(THAT 10 o’ Clock Assassin), Stephen Hawking, too much Touhou, way too much Tsukihime, my hardcover copy of The Universe In A Nutshell, #shrinemaiden @ irc.pyoko.org, and #animenano @ irc.rizon.net.

NANA NO NAKU KORO NI CHAPTER III(OMG ROMAN NUMERALS): Sacrifice

“Damn you Dan Kim. Damn you to Hell and Back.”

That was my first reaction to the notice. Bringing back Nana from the dead? You evil monster! After you made her suffer and killed her off just like that?

I knew what I had to do. However, sacrificing Dan Kim was not the answer, for that would cause a rip in the time-space continuum and fuck up the cosmological constant. Also, it would throw Stephen Hawking’s calculations off so bad, I think not even fifteen hundred supercomputers processing hentai, loli hentai, and all that other stuff would be able to crank out new calculations in time to save the universe. Also, there were other suitable sacrifices to be used. And most of them were in Japan. And who would maintain Clone Army?

So, after casually slaughtering a few assholes who would not be missed in my little hamlet(say what you will, I still consider Singapore a hamlet compared to most of the other countries in the world.) and FedExing their bodies to Japan, I bought a plane ticket and went to Japan to look for more fresh meat.

The trip was long and uneventful. Well, if you call shaking hands with Osama bin Laden, then protecting his ass from the wrath of American anti-Japan terrorists who wanted to crash the airplane into the Tokyo Big Sight in order to kill all those poor otaku selling doujinishi at the Summer Comiket and then having to sit through my award ceremony because I saved the plane and caught World Public Enemy No. 1 long and uneventful. Osama approved of my actions, though he didn’t know what or who Nana was.

Oh well, at least I was in Japan. Time to make a few unofficial hits. First up was Mitsuo Fukuda nad his wife. For his crimes against scenario writers and scriptwriters everywhere, he and his wife had to be punished. For the sake of Nana. It was a bloody affair. Damned if I will, that fucker and his wife were in Gundams and didn’t go down without a fight. Freedom and thet bloody Strike Freedom. Thankfully, reality set in and rendered the Gundams immobile and useless. It also had the dual effect of killing Fukuda and his wife. Say what you will about Gundams, but by bloody hell, they were a pain to move.

Next up, Studio DEEN. Someone had to pay for the less-than-desirable animated adaptions of Fate/Stay Night and Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni, no? At least thier puny bodies were somewhat easier to get. “FOR THE GLORY OF NANA!!!!” and they all dropped dead from shock.

And since I was in the area, I got me a stack of doujinishi. Just in case. Oh, and some Touhou games. For the folks back home. Comiket was fun, and well, I was welcomed with open arms.

The next step was to lug the sacrifices to Hinamizawa, or at least, what’s left of it. I didn’t relish the thought of lugging Gundams and human bodies and FedEx packages all the way there, so I hired a big flatbed truck(actually, three) and led them all to the place.

Everything was set for the ritual to take place. I laid the sacrifices in front of the Furude shrine, and proceeded with the ritual necrophillia. Well, didn’t you know? You have to violate the dead before you do any ritual revivification or necromancy! It’s basic ritual behavior! And no, fucking Gundams was the most mentally scarring thing I have ever done. But for the sake of Nana, I must do what I have to.

As I reached the shrine, I found that what was missing had already been prepared. Archer with his swords sticking out of him. Heeheehee. And he was already dead and violated. With much glee, I removed Kancho and Bukkakke(actually Kansho and Bakuya, but who the hell cares?) and uttered the words of power:

I am the bone of my Nana
Nana is my body
And Nana is my blood
I have created over a thousand Nanas
Unknown to Life, nor known to Death
I have created many Nanas
But these hands will never touch Nana
So, as I pray,
UNLIMITED NANA WORKS

“Oh Oyashiro-sama, how unworthy are we of your lolimoeness and slutbiriness. I, your humble servant, have offered these heathens and hereitcs to appease your hunger, in the hopes you may once again revive Nana, so that she may once again exist on this planet.”

I knew something had happened. When I looked up, all the sacrifices were gone. Even the bloody stain marks and my multiple murder warrants. And in their place, was this cute little girl with upturned horns and purple hair and looking lost. It might be of note that she was also dressed like a miko, but with her armpits exposed. I resisted the urge to initiate axilary intercourse and prostrated before her.

“Oh Oyashiro-sama, I, your humble servant, prostrates before thee.”

“Ehhhhh? Who are you?”

“Wait, I’m not in some weird parallel dimesion, am I?”

“Errrr… … … I don’t know. What’s a ‘parallel dimension’?”

Okay… … … this was going to be weird. And probably very hard.

She tugged at my pants.

“Where’s everybody?”

“Errr… … … Everybody? As in everyone in the village? Well, I assume they either moved away or died in some sort of methane-involved accident. That or some nasty bomber planes dropped what seemed to be a mixture of incendiary and normal bombs to level the village.”

“Did Hanyuu-chan do something bad?”

“No, I don’t think so. Come, I have a little request for you.”

And well, I briefly explained to her what is it I wanted to do. Ignoring the fact that I armpitfucked her, I managed to revive Nana, and one other… … …

“Mii~”

Go me. Dan Kim, eat your heart out.

FIN

Don’t bother with the contest. It’s most likely ended by the time you read this.

Boof. Source for that ‘yaoi girl’ pic found.

Remember this pic?

Yes the yaoi girl pic. Apparently, it’s from this H-game called Touji no Saya (kanji: 杜氏の郷) And it seems that one pic is part of a series of cute pictures seemingly unrelated to whatever passes for the main story.

Here are your customary Getchu links:

Touji no Saya Normal Edition
Touji no Saya Limited Edition

Her name’s Sayuki, and no, she does not have any relation with either Gensomaden Sayuki or Pataliro Sayuki. She is cute and has big boobs. =3

Also, the danbooru tag.

This is DrmChsr0, telling you to respect the Berne Convention, and not to act like fucking faggots. And yes, a cat is fine too.

What’s with all this TEROGE being turned to anime?

I was wondering to myself, with3 months left in the year, what’s with all these TEROGE being turned into animated series.

In Japan, we all know how popular TEROGE are. There’s a rabid fanbase ready and waiting to eat up anything related to these TEROGE. Shitajiki, resin kits, fanbooks, you name it, those wacky Japanese have already made it. Heck, one of them sold so well, that sales figure has yet to be topped by any other TEROGE. (I’m talking about Tsukihime, doi.)

Well, in the past, most animation companies had enough material to work with, so they could turn a blind eye towards those TEROGE. However, with the softhouses wanting more money to make more TEROGE, and source material dwindling, they have had to shake hands and work together. Not that I’m complaining. I’m always dying to see how they’d handle a multilayered branching story. So far, they’ve all mostlly hit the mark.Tsukihime was fine by itself (honestly, with all those long faces, you’d swear there was a funeral or something.), Fate was good at the beginning, shit in the middle, and good at the end (Never piss off a TEROGE scenario writer and then fuck them over. Bad idea.) Shuffle was pretty damn surprising (okay, who ripped off Nevada-tan, boxcutter and all?), Utawarerumono hasn’t disappointed yet (easily one of the better conversions I’ve seen), And, um, that kinda wraps this paragraph up.

And with the new autumn releases, well, here’s hoping Watarase Jun pwns Feena Fam Earthlight. LAWL

There’s still a lot of TEROGE on the market, whiich also means more source material for the animation houses to do. Of course, with all that manga and light novels screaming for an animated series, it’s a hard fight.

And no, don’t ask me how I came up with TEROGE. It wasn’t my pun to begin with. (It’s from #shrinemaiden @ irc.pyoko.org)