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Tag Archive: Moonlight Cradle


Alright, so I had a good night of sleep and lunch, it’s time to do a proper inspection on the mega loots I received yesterday.  As part of the July 4th Independence Day long weekend, I had a day off from work yesterday.  I guess it was a coincident that Dollfie Fate and Dollfie Nanoha, one from Volks Japan, another one from Volks USA would ended up arriving on the same day, everything just worked out the way I wanted!  The only problem was that the UPS driver didn’t show up until late in the afternoon so I couldn’t start the the inspection until after dinner.  Hobby Search came through with a package of their own as well, let’s take a look at them.

Obviously, the main attractions this time are DD Feito and DD Nanoha, but we have also got Feena cushion cover Moonlight Cradle version and a few Cospa cushions which has been out of stock at Hobby Search for some time now.

Edit: Added revised group photo, previous one was too cram.

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Been posting rather frequently in the past day or so :P Woke up on this fine Saturday morning and heard the doorbell within minutes, it’s from the post office!  The Project Tenso packages have arrived!

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Still in the middle of planning my come back strategy on adopting Rin Tosaka Dollfie Dream, whether I should go straight to Yahoo Japan Auction (a few Rin Tosaka DD has already popped up on Yahoo Japan Auction but they all come at a ridiculous price, some even ask for as much as 90000yen for a 50000yen Dollfie Rin, no thanks, I am not in that much of a hurry!), or try to take a shot at the After event items, still undecided.  In the mean time, two of boxes have arrived for inspection for the month of May, this is the 3nd round of loots arrival for the month so far.  Let’s take a look at what we have here:

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The month long Yoake Mae Yori Ruriiro na (PC2005), Brighter than dawning blue (PS2->PC 2009) and Yoake Mae Yori Ruriiro na ~Moonlight Cradle~(PC2009) visual novel marathon plus the odds and ends of summarizing Feena normal end, Natsuki and Estel storyline has finally come to an end.

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I am happy that I dug deep and stuck with it, and I enjoyed the time I spent summarizing their stories; it really gave me a reason to try to understand their stories a lot more than I usually would have.  I have yet to finish Feena’s true arc summary, something I intend to do in the near future.  I have accomplished my goal of bringing the stories of these wonderful heroines to light, that’s one down on my to do list.

Now I should present my treasures of the month… this month will be crazy, yea I said it.  Three boxes are up for inspection, the hobby search box has arrived a few days ago but I have put off the inspection until I finished Moonlight Cradle, plus the package yesterday that I picked up at the post office today and the package that arrived today.

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It’s been almost a month now since I started this Yoake Mae Yori Ruriiro na Visual Novel marathon run project, it’s finally coming close to an end.  I have just completed Cynthia Marguerite’s arc and the final arc Moonlight and & Earthlight is finally opened to me.

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Moonlight Cradle takes on a completely different approach from the original game, I have to clear everyone before Feena’s after story is open to me.  All in all, Moonlight Cradle is very short and get to the point since the story and setting is basically the same as the original game.  But before I talk about anything else, I need to give the Marguerite Sisters an honorable mention.

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I guess I wasn’t prepared for sad endings, I felt a little sad when I finished Lease/Wreathlit/Fiacca’s ending, but not until I began Cynthia’s arc do I truly understand what’s really going on.  The older sister Fiacca, transformed herself into a data bank and lived on as memory for the past 700 years to watch over humankind to help preserve peace and the Lost Techology; the younger sister Cynthia, in order to protect the dimensional portal she invented, sealed herself in the portal terminal (where time does not flow) so her invention couldn’t be used in the previous war.  I am quite easily moved by this self-sacrificial acts, especially those that last hundreds of years with no end in sight, yet they had to do it because it’s the right thing to do (Think Gunbuster OVA3).  If anything else, I would really like to see a Cynthia figure so I can keep her in my collection, only then would I be able to neutralize the sadness I felt when I saw her ending.  I liked her story but at the same time, I don’t necessarily like the sad ending.  It’s a good thing that I can start Feena’s final arc right the way; otherwise, I would be upset for the rest of the night.

Anyway, to break off from the visual novel for a bit.  Tonight was suppose to be the night I meet my adopted daughter (dollfie) but all I got was this dreaded note from the post office.

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Alas, that just meet I need to go to the post office first thing in the morning!  Alright, I should go back to finish Feena’s final arc before it’s too late.

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.

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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

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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 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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Loot update March 17, 2009

March is a really busy month with various magazines, figures release etc.  I don’t think April would be like this, perhaps May would be crazy again.  Anyway, various boxes have arrived in the past few days and then we have an update.

Loot update March 17, 2009

Loot update March 17, 2009

Upper left we have G’s Megazine vol.4 2009, upper right Megami Super Deluxe,lower left we have painted resin of Subaru from Beat Blade Haruka, and Hatsune Miku from GSC in lower right.

I thought I was done with all the G’s Magazine goods for Moonlight Cradle earlier this month, it turns out I was wrong!  While searching for Megami Super Deluxe, I stumbled upon this and the focus is the give away Feena trading figure.  Yeah I know it’s usually low quality, but I vowed to not skip out on any G’s Magazine bonus goods for Feena ever again, so there it is.

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G's Magazine 2009 vol. 4 with bonus Feena Fam Earthlight trading figure

Break open the bonus box and we have a tiny Feena that looks surprisingly good for give away.

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Then we have Megami Super Deluxe featuring all the moe 2D girls from vol. 1 to 100 (special thanks for comrade Optic from http://thedisjointedzone.com/ to inform us about it on DC).  Due to some technical error, I am going to end up with 2 copies of Megami Super Deluxe ;x, I might look into selling one when the market depleted of them.

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Megami Super Deluxe

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Next up we have the painted resin figure of the optional heroine Subaru from Beat Blade Haruka, a training ADV game released by Alicesoft released back in Feburary 2008.  Beat Blade Haruka is actually the 2nd game that utilize the Beat Angel System game mechanics (the first one being the popular Beat Angel Escalayer released in 2002)  in which the main character must recharge the heroine’s energy level by performing various sexual stimulations.  If the heroine were to lose against the monster in battle, her energy level would also be recharged, this time by the monster!  Since Subaru is the only one of the three heroines that didn’t have a PVC figure release, so I decided to pick her up.  She is actually rather popular among the fans, not sure why there isn’t a PVC made of her yet.   Anyway, when I saw her up as a Gathering kit from one of my main sources for prepainted resin, I picked her up immediately at E2046.com.    The unique point about this figure is that every pieces of her clothes are magnetically attached to her body!

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And here is a teaser shot

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Working on her photos shoot and background story right now, should be ready in a few days time!

And lastly, we have Hatsune Miku from Good Smile Company.  Now I don’t claim to be very knowledgeable on Miku’s background story.  All I really know is that she is originally a visual representation of a computer music program that synthesizes singing in Japanese.  Developed by Crypton Future Media, it utilizes Yamaha’s Vocaloid2 technology with specially recorded vocals of voice actors.

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Still on their way to me is the Queen’s Blade Alice figure, I have no idea why it’s taking so long for her to get to me, must be the free shipping thing ;x (I’m still crossing my fingers to hope she would arrive free of damage),   my first Oppai mouse pad, and 1/7 Teana Lanster PVC from Alter.

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

Pile of boxes

The loots inside the 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 and the Saber Portrait mook

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.

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Saber Lily Fold out, nice!

Saber Lily Fold out, nice!

back side of the Saber Lily fold out

Back side of the Saber Lily fold out

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

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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.

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

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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.

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