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I have been waiting for the release info of the revamped White Album PS3 game since a few months ago… for some of the regular visitors here, it’s the same old routine of me embarking on a fact finding mission of learning about the story of the characters being release in Dollfie Dream form.

I read some initial review of White Album, but I wasn’t too impressed with the basis of the story at the time, but a few online friends have managed to convince me to give the White Album anime that was being aired last year a try.  They thought I would take a liking into Ogata Rina 緒方理奈 because her character is quite unique and devoid of any “moe” character trait that seems to dominate the anime industry in recent years.

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I seldom talk about anime in general because there are plenty of blog site that cover those area; but when when I heard about the new sequel of Space Adventure Cobra coming out in this season, I feel that it’s my turn to say something about it because, well.. it’s an old boy anime!  It’s been over 30 years since the manga came out back in 1978, it was later adopt into an animation in 1982.  I watched Cobra when I was a little kid in primary school… it was leap and bound ahead of most animation of the time, it was a futuristic science fiction back in the 80s and it still feel very fresh when I acquired the DVD set a few short years ago.

I was looking around in youtube trying to locate the original Cobra OP and was in shock that I couldn’t find a decent one…. so, it was time for me to take the matter into my own hands!  I took my DVD set out and ripped the OP video file.

Here is a more modern look with the original song mixed into it.

Just who is this Cobra guy you ask?  Well, he is a space pirate, has a signature weapon, “Psycho-gun”—a cybernetic arm-laser  connected directly to his brain and capable of targeting enemies without having a line-of-sight; he is very tough and is nearly unkillable.  Like the other manga draw by artist Terasawa Buichi 寺沢 武一, such as Goku Midnight Eye, Space Adventure Cobra is filled with very gorgeous looking women wearing bikini style clothing, quite a shocker back in the 80s, mind you… but they were never being portraited as being any less significant… it was just the artist’s idea of futuristic clothing for women.  The original TV series focused on the Cobra’s encounter with Captain Nelson’s triplet daughters, Jane, Dominique, Catherine and their quest to the greatest treasure of the entire universe.

I am keeping track of this new sequel so far, probably the only anime that caught my old boy interest this season.

I rarely talk about Anime I am following because I usually don’t follow anything until afterward, unless there is a compelling reason that I must watch something…  However,  after reading blogsphere comrade Snark’s review on The Sacred Black Smith, I felt compelled to research on this series further, for the detail review provided by yours truly, please go directly to Taikutsu Remedy for the funny yet insightful review on The Sacred Blacksmith 聖剣の刀鍛冶.

So, why am I looking at this so called The Sacred Blacksmith?  The anime looks pretty weak at this point… The reason is simple, while I rarely talk about it, I do in fact have a maid/waitress uniform bias (or fetish, whatever you choose to call it!).

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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 seems that Kotobukiya and Danny have been working closely to bring about more synergy between figurine manufacturer and us collectors through Danny’s newly launched figure.fm;  Kotobukiya loves the otaku room photos that were submitted to the 20090326 giveaway so much that they are planning to publish a book based on otaku room photos named – OTACOOL.  In response to Danny’s call to submit new photos, I once again took out my digital camera and started snapping photos of my command center!

It seems that somehow, my Dollfie daughters and Hikari photo studio managed to get on the cover!  Well, it’s not the finalized version it is quite cool already!

Anyway, I snapped a bunch of photos and hopefully some of them will get picked for the book!  To be honest here, I never was ready to take good photos during the giveaway since I was literally buried in junk before, I guess it really took 4 months to completely reorganize my room to a point where I can safely take photos of it without embarrassing myself in front of everyone.

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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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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Getting an oppai mouse pad seems to be the *in* thing to do recently and I have acquired one as well.  However, once I started using it, I am running into some difficult to adapt to the oppai region.  So here is the new mouse pad I acquired from Hobby Search.

As I am speed playing through Choko Sennin Haruka to refresh my memory of the game and heroines’ background story, I am finding the oppai region of the mouse pad is actually pinching my wrist.

Feeling the pinch, I moved my hand to one side.

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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.

Practice makes perfect right?  That’s what they always says.  Well, that’s exactly what I am going to do!  Thanks for the kind words from twu, I pulled myself together and did another photo session with Ryoko Bunny.  Why Ryoko Bunny again?  For comparision sakes of course!  The setup this time is slightly different, I free up more space in my crafting table and was able to position Ryoko a little further away from the light diffusion box.  The diffusion material this time is wax paper you use for microwave (no tracing paper) instead of the matt laxen film I was using last time.  The camera is still the same old Sony Cybershot DSC F707.  I have adjusted some settings in my camera also, the shooting mode is portrait.  And here is the result

Once again, any comments and suggestions are welcome