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And just when I thought I’d be going to bed at 3 AM, ding, incoming feed: the Ar Tonelico 3 official website is now live!!

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While I’m stalling on the already long ended Spring/Summer season, and while social life is (fortunately) picking up as of lately, I’m kind of glad to have something interesting to report on: A new wave of figures, because I don’t mind dilapidating my tuition money the big way.

…So. The first figure, obviously still fueled by my ongoing Ar Tonelico frenzy, is Luca from AT2! Coincidentally, it arrived in the same week as the first announcement of Ar Tonelico 3, which makes me even more enthusiastic about this beautiful figure!

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Yep, Namco/Bandai and Gust are now gearing full throttle towards Ar Tonelico 3, now with the official release of the AT3 teaser site, which you can find here: http://ar-tonelico.jp/at3/.

Said site only offers a short 2 minute video, which doesn’t have that much to offer besides a revamped version of the Dive Shop/Load Game BGM (yay nostalgia! ), a new BGM extract, and two background images of Sol Cluster cities/locations.

As this is only a teaser, that’s unfortunately where the fun already stops for today. More to come when the official site will be launched on October 19th… in 4 days. Next Monday! I’m so looking forward to it!

Even Jakuri goes キラッ！！

Image by [ハニュー ] (Hanyuu)

OMG, I almost screamed out of excitement when I saw a photo of the Famitsu mag announcement on /jp/

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!

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…to either ragequit, experience an endless loop of oversaturation, or see and clear everything, such that there is no need to spend any further thought on it. And I think, the latter finally happened.

My new AT2 favorite. By Hijiri.

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The whole shebang.

Wow. It took me way longer than I had imagined it would, and… I am blown away. It’s been almost one hour since I finished the game, and I still have goosebumps all over my body, still teary-eyed. And listening to EXEC_with.METHOD_METAFALICA/. definitely won’t help it either.

Now that I’ve cleared both Ar Tonelico and Ar Tonelico 2 in roughly 2 weeks, I know I will have a hard time letting go. A very hard time.

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