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I am sure we have all heard of some eroge game companies began blocking access to non-Japanese IP addresses some months ago, but until recently it really hasn’t affected me all that much until yesterday… I found out one of my favorite online shop Getchu.com, they sell Anime DVDs, various Anime related merchandises, Games, Music, Books, Doujin, and the all important Eroges… and I have been using their website for the latest releases in Japan because they have a very comprehensive coverage on just about everything, not just eroges…but all genres.   However, my worst fear have happened last night, they have begun blocking Non-Japanese IP. At first I thought their site might have went down…

Edited:  Popular game publisher Alicesoft is also blocking non-Japan IP >.<;

Edited again: It appear in less than 24 hours since I wrote up this post, the apparent ban on non-Japan IP has already been lifted… for now.

Getchu.com banning Non Japan IP addresses

But then I found their twitter account online…. everything seemed fine… which confirmed my fear…. I pulled myself together and found a Japan Proxy Server to use on top of my Virtual Machine.

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I have always heard about how Anime Expo is one of the largest Anime Conventions in North America but I have never once thought about going there myself in previous years.  However, the convergence of various factors this year including the chance of meeting some of the friends I have made online at figure.fm, a trip to Volks USA and meeting Danny in person were enough to convince me to make this journey.  Not to mention that based on my previous experience at Acen 2010, an anime convention is the perfect opportunity for me to take my Dollfie Dream daughter outside for some intense photo sessions without having to worry about uncomfortable stare from onlookers not familiar with Japanese anime.  So, for this past weekend, I have my most pampered Dollfie Dream daughter, DD娃娃 Kiriha Kuze 紅瀬桐葉 to accompany me to Anime Expo 2010 in Los Angeles!

在上個星期,我帶了我最痛愛的DD娃娃紅瀬桐葉到洛杉磯去渡假和參觀AnimeExpo 2010!

Volks Dollfie Dream ドルフィー DD娃娃 Kiriha Kuze 紅瀬桐葉 in Los Angeles outside Marriott Downtown

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With a little over a week to go before I fly out to LA to attend AX 2010, flight and hotel are booked and I am very excited about the Dannychoo.com x Fakku meetup, which is one of the main reasons why I even decided to go to AX2010. As I have mentioned in some of my earlier topics, my previous experience in meeting up with fellow DCers has been overwhelmingly positive. Back in 2009, I met up with Fumoffu in Acen and we ended up going to Japan to see Odaiba Gundam together. Back in May, I met up with Anonymous Object and we attended the Doll Meet together at Acen 2010. The only disappointment I had over the Doll Meet was the fact that there were so few DDs there, but I am expecting a lot more DD parents showing up to this meetup. Seeing that there are potentially over 100 people that I can finally put a face to the username, I even prepared my own “Networking Namecard”, which I have them printed at Vistaprint just recently.

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I seldom talks about upcoming Anime in advance, but thanks to figure.fm member Emiri that I found out Fortune Arterial has gotten the green light to be adopted into Anime.  As a fan of Fortune Arterial, I hope that it won’t suffer the same fate as Brighter than Dawning Blue ~Crescent Love~ and got totally butchered out of the original story.  I suppose with a linear path arrangement, they are going to go for Erika’s arc while trying to get as much coverage on the other heroines as possible, but let’s hope for the best.

I will be keeping my eyes open for any development on the Fortune Arterial Anime.

Source: Anime News Network

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.

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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.

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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.

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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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Japan trip loots

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!

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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!

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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.

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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.

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フィーナ Feena Fam Earthlight

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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