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Some of you who have been following my blog would know that I have just traveled to Japan recently for a super condensed sight seeing and shopping trip.  I have a set of mission objectives that I wanted to accomplish, and I have managed to finish most of them by Saturday night Japan time.  But how can it be?  There are only 3 real days to work with, I have to be back in the airport before noon on Sunday.  As I reveal the details of my complete walk-through of my super condensed Japan trip, it will become more obvious!

1. See the Odaiba Gundam
2. Watch the Kamen Rider movie
3. Watch the Evangelion 2.0 movie You can (not) advance
4. Shopping in Akihabara
5. Shopping for Dollfie Clothes and appropriate size Rider belts
6. Go to a maid cafe

I am fairly proud to say that I have accomplished every one of the above objectives even though this trip was so short.  For starter, I am going to cover my loots during this trip and I will expand onto some of the finer details of my experience of my super condensed, super fast pace first trip to Japan.  Without further ado, let me get started.  First is the grand scale loots!

Obviously, you can’t really see anything like this, so let me break them down into their categories.

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It’s been almost two weeks since I started this Yoake Mae yori Ruriiro na Visual Novel marathon run project which includes the original Yoake Mae yori Ruriiro na Visual Novel (2005) August soft, Yoake Mae yori Ruriiro na -Brighter than dawning blue- (2009) Aria soft and Yoake Mae yori Ruriiro na -Moonlight Cradle- (2009) August soft, it’s a massive undertaking that I have never attempted before.   But after over a week worth of effort, I am finally getting close to the midway point.  This project really started when I redecorated my room with three Feena fam Earthlight Dakimakuras and one bath towel, then all of a sudden I wondered about how much do I really know about her.  Sure I have watched Brighter than dawning blue ~Cresent Love~ but that may not be adequate given the amount collector’s items I have on her and the fact that the animation may not represent the game character adequately.  On top of that, I have always been curious about the 2nd tier heroine Natsuki Takamizawa and the new cast from PS2 port Estel Freesia.  All that curiosity became a massive determination to drive me to work on all three Visual Novels in a row.

The effort really paid off, I really enjoyed the games so far, the games frequently put you in the main character’s shoes and have confronted you with questions that don’t have a clear cut answer.  After I finished Feena’s normal end and Natsuki’s end, I started talking about Natsuki’s story in an earlier post while I really should have started from the beginning and give the proper background information regarding the the whole story.  Without further ado, let me set the record straight once and for all.

Update: I have updated this page to include some of my other posts related to the game

Edit: Re-publish and sticky post to include Bonus Wallpaper from Moonlight Cradle Premium box

Feena fam Earthlight’s normal ending

Estel Freesia’s ending

Natsuki Takamizawa’s ending

Warning, this post is massive and full of spoilers, intended for those who want to learn the story but have no way of playing the game.

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Alright, so I finally made it to the new cast on the PS2 port version Estel Freesia.  What can I say about her?  Estel is quite a tsundere, more than Natsuki (especially after I started her Moonlight Cradle arc) and definitely a tough nut to crack!  I am going to try a slightly different approach and compact her story a bit more, Feena’s story was way too long and I probably had way too much details in the last writeup.

Before I dig into Estel’s story, allow me give a brief explanation of the moon church.  静寂の月光 (Silent Moonlight) is the main religion in the Kingdom of Sphere and it’s divided into 3 branches: Internal Affair, which handles personnel assignment; External Affair, which deals with the more political ends of the church, this particular division of the church is highly dependent on personal connection and basically it’s only for people with connections; and Lost Technology, which safe guard and handle the the remaining technology from the pre-war period.  Needless to say, the Kingdom of Sphere cannot survive without Silent Moonlight because if the Lost Technology is not operational, the Moon is basically uninhabitable.

Estel Freesia was a recent graduate of the moon church academy, she graduated top of her class but she was assigned to City of Mitsurugasaki instead of the External Affair division that she applied for because of her orphanage background.  She is hard working, and a generally honest girl that has a problem accepting her past (the fact that she was demoted to Earth did not help at all).  This mental barrier prevented Estel from being honest with herself.  She was raised in an orphanage along with Karen after she was found near a church by high priest Moritz Zabel Frantz (whom Estel considered as her foster father) when she was still a baby.  She idolized Karen for being able to advance her career despite her upbringing and she vowed to achieve the same result as Karen by going through a different path.  Estel can be rather confrontational when it comes down to matters regarding Earth and Earthlings because of the highly competitive moon church academy environment she studied in.  Estel is beautiful just like Feena but her personality has a slight tilt towards tsundere and has been seen hitting Tatsuya with various objects whenever he did something to spite her.  She is a dog lover though, especially puppy.  She has been studying very hard since her assignment to Earth in order to try to get reassigned away from Earth.

Estel’s storyline branches off Feena’s story and Tatsuya first ran into her when he was on his way back home after delivering dinner to Sayaka in the Royal Moon Museum within the Lunarian Residential District.

Update: I have updated this page to include some of my new posts on the game

Feena fam Earthlight’s normal ending

Estel Freesia’s ending

Natsuki Takamizawa’s ending

Spoiler to follow, you should know the drill by now

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Finally, I finished the true episode, Brighter than dawning blue arc today.  I would like to give it some thought before I finish Feena’s story since the true episode is completely different from the anime counterpart.  The similarity between the game and the anime fell apart after Karen took off for the moon. The end result may be the same, but the process to get there is completely different!

Update: I have updated this post to include some of my other posts related to the game

Feena fam Earthlight’s normal ending

For now, I am moving on to the PS2 port version because I have to replay Feena’s arc again to better refresh my memory and to get to Estel Freesia.  Stay tune for an update on Feena’s story and Estel Freesia later on

Three nights worth of hard work I have managed to get to the final arc of Brighter than dawning blue…  Before I even realize it, I am starting to develop a habit to talk about Bishoujo game character profile, I may eventually devote a specific section just for that.  Some people might wonder why I care so much about the story, and to that I can only say the eroge scenes are not as exciting as if one do not understand the story that is leading to the scene and what happen afterward.

The final arc, Brighter than dawning blue 夜明け前より瑠璃色なhas finally shown up on the game menu.  With this, I can finally finish this game and move on to the PS2 port version and work on Estel Freesia.  I really like how the stories are setup in such a way that you don’t have to start over from the beginning.  However, in order to get to this point in 3 nights time, I have to summon the all mighty “crtl” key a lot, I skipped over Mia, Mai and Sayaka while finishing Natsuki and Wreathlit’s stories.  I have always wanted to dive deeper into their stores since I watched Cresent Love.  Since Feena’s story has already been well covered in Cresent Love, I am going start talking about Natsuki first.  Eventually, I do plan to go back to cover Feena’s story after I finish the final arc to settle any differences between Cresent Love and the game, eventually the after story in Moonlight cradle.  While I could hardly wait to finish the rest of Feena’s story, but I feel compelled to cover Natsuki’s story first because her story is relatively unknown.

Basic background information can be found in the Yoake mae yori ruriiro na wiki page, although some  information may be inaccurate

Update: I have updated this page to include some of my new posts on the game, it’s highly recommended that you first visit the following links first.

Feena fam Earthlight’s normal ending

Estel Freesia’s ending

Natsuki Takamizawa’s ending

Major spoiler to follow

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Woah, took me the whole day to finish the remaining of Feena’s arc just to find out that wasn’t the end of the Feena’s story -_-; I have to finish Mia, Mai, Natsuki and Sayaka in order to unlock Wearthlit then the final arc Brighter than dawning blue would be unlocked :s Out of the remaining group, I am only interested in Natsuki’s story, what to do ;s

Anyway, my impression for the game after this first play through has been very good, I am quite happy with the quality of August soft game, I have no choice but to play through Fortune Arterial now (this is going to keep me busy for weeks now).  It’s a shame that I didn’t notice this series sooner (partly because I was too involved in FFXI during that period of time when the game was released and I was pretty much out of the whole eroge gaming scene).

Anyway, what a huge shock for me.  Feena is actually quite a naughty girl!  Get this, the first eroge scene was initiated by Feena, not you!  I know this is an eroge game, but this is quite unexpected given I watch the anime first.

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For the past couple of days, while I have been finishing up on my massive clean up/construction project, I tried to decide which eroge game I should tackle next.  After a long delibration, I have  decided I need to finish 夜明け前より瑠璃色なYoake Mae Yori Ruriiro na once and for all, and including moonlight cradle in the process.

While I have always thought that the animation ~Cresent Love~ has given me the necessary background story for Feena for me (and it’s true still), playing through the game so far has given me a chance to see the subtle differences between the two.  I am about over half way into Feena’s arc right now and I am just starting to see Feena and Tatsuya showing some affection for each other.  May be this is my first August game and I am still trying to get used to their presentation style.  In one instance, Tatsuya entered Feena’s bedroom while she was still changing…

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For the 2nd week in a roll, I went to Ikea to pick up some furniture for my ambitious construction project, the loots for the day were a half width “Billy“, a Benno, a Strip Dioder, a Disc Dioder and a Lack Table.

This project really started after I partcipiated in the Dannychoo.com 20090326 giveaway contest where I was forced to realize how terribly lack of space I was.  I didn’t have enough space to display my Dakimuras, Bath Towels and some figurines were in congested area, etc etc.    I made up my mind to do a full sweep clean up and construction project so I can properly display my goodies.  For the past 2 weeks, my job was to sort out garbage, clean up, and reorganize stuff so I can be more space efficient.  The first half of the project was completed last week where I installed a half height Billy bookshelves on top of my 5 drawers chest.

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Went out drinking in a local Rock Bottom Brewer with a colleague until 11:00pm, got home and found this pile of loots coming from HLJ, Hobby Search and BeNippon!

Pile of boxes

The loots inside the boxes!

Now the Alteisen Riese, Auβenseiter, and Dygenguar are pretty much self explanatory so let’s not waste time on them until I finish building them.  Lets move on the the books.

Replicant, G's Magazine March, G's Festival Vol. 15, the Saber Portrait and sneaking in the middle like a mouse is the Rin/Archer optical mini mouse

I am not a regular reader of Replicant, but with a Saber Lily on the cover can only lead to one result: Click to buy.

Saber Lily Fold out, nice!

Back side of the Saber Lily fold out

Next up are the G’ses, they never disappointed me and this time is no exception.

There have been enough coverage of the Honey Moon Box that I don’t think I need to do it again here.  Now, the G’s Magazine comes with a little pencil board of the gorgeous looking Feena on front side, Cynthia Marguerite a Moonlight Cradle excluive character on the back, very nice looking indeed.  And with the G’s Comic Vol. 5 received late last month.  I say I got all the bases covered for all the Feena merchandise this time around!

Then there is the Saber portrait, quite a few pictures have been circulating in the Internet cloud, a very special book if you consider yourself a Saber Fan.

And last, but not least… is the Rin/Archer mini usb mouse!

Besides my well publicized interest in Saber, I am also very fond of Rin the devil.  Unlimited Blade Work is still my favorite arc of the Fate/stay night visual novel.  Too bad that there aren’t as many merchandise on Rin as there are in Saber >.>

A few more things that are on their way here, there is Queen’s Blade Alice from Megahouse, all thanks to comrade twu from Theinfernoproject that I decided to check an ebay seller with tons of inventory.  The trick is to get Alice delivered to me without any damage >.>, we will see about that one.  Comrade Optic over in http://thedisjointedzone.com kindly informed us over in DC that there is a Megami Super Deluxe floating around with the best illustrations from vol. 1 to vol. 100, just what the doctor’s ordered! I tried to snatch a copy at HLJ immediately but now it’s showing to be on backorder >.> 1/7 Teana Lanster PVC from Alter is also on her way.

Right, so I was suppose to cover Eroge Games as well, Feburary 27th marked a major release date for two of my most highly anticipated games: 夜明け前より瑠璃色な ~Moonlight Cradle~ from August soft and Schoolmate Sweets! Fandisc from Illusion soft.

Update: I have updated this page to include some of my new posts on the game

Feena fam Earthlight’s normal ending

Estel Freesia’s ending

Natsuki Takamizawa’s ending

Brighter than dawning blue opening screen

Moonlight Cradle opening screen

Schoolmate Sweets! opening screen

Click here for a more detail review. Potentially NSFW depending on your standard.

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