neko's thinkbox

As I said on twitter, I feel very anxious right now, and in an attempt to identify the cause of this unrest, I thought I felt the necessity of updating this blog. Maybe it’s that, maybe it’s not.

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So, I’m just back from my short trip to the UK (to check out the campus, my accommodation, and get a glimpse of the atmosphere overall), and I received some good and bad news upon arrival. Recruiting writers! More info after the jump.

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I kind of went on a Star Ocean kick and bought the entire series, that being the PSP ports/remakes of Star Ocean I: First Depature and Star Ocean II: Second Evolution, then Star Ocean III: Till the End of Time for the PS2, and lastly Star Ocean 4: The Last Hope for the Xbox 360. It may seems strange and completely out of place to start the series with the most recent game, but the stories of each game are not dependent on one another, and in all actuality Star Ocean 4 is a prequel to the previous 3 games in the series.

After the jump is a gameplay video and short explanation of various aspects of the game!
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Aurica! Marry me!

One year and a half after buying this game, I started playing it. And right now, I realize how stupid of a person I was not to have played it immediately.

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This is me!!!

Image by Gargron. (Yes, I did slap Autocontrast on it (without permission, I know, sorry) to make the outlines look more pronounced.)

The original (un-autocontrasted) picture hereI was truly speechkess when I first saw this drawing., first seen on twitter.
This in relation with lolikitsune’s ambitious project of creating a great VN called CCY-senpai wa 17sai featuring prominent (and not-so-prominent; read: me) anibloggers.

My reaction to this:

omg I can’t believe I’m so… C-C-C-C-CUTE!!!!!!

This definitely ain’t good for people with diabetes. Even K-On! is no match against this overly sugarcoated depiction of yours truly.

lolikitsune and Gargron, you are godlike. Thanks lolikit for including me in your project, and thanks Gargron for your great drawing!

More info to the VN can be found here; more artwork to the other characters of the VN here.

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The only drawback to CCY-senpai wa 17sai is that the artwork costs quite a few $$$, at least from Sixten’s side.

In any case, I want to convey an important message to my 3 faithful readers here: if you can spare a couple of bucks or so, don’t give them to Unicef or that beggar around the corner of your street please donate them to lolikitsune and see to the fruition of this awesome project. Thank you!

As announced, I am extensively playing Ar Tonelico, and since I suck at multitasking I don’t really have much time to watch animu. I should dish out a batch post once in a while though, because this current PS2 addiction might last a while – I received Persona 3 FES and Persona 4 this morning, and Ar Tonelico 2 should be in my mailbox tomorrow too. So… unless I tire of gaming, it might be a while until I can do episodicals (I told you, I suck at those!) but then again, I think I’d be better off with just quarter- or mid-seasonals or so.

SO. Have some Riannon pics. Reminds me, I need to catch up to Tears to Tiara soon, I’m 6 episodes behind again.

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