True tears up to 8

Going good really liking it so far much better than I had hoped/expected.  Entered the realms of epic just need to stay on the Noe path for the rest of the series.  Now see me hoping this is bad as pretty much whoever I think it is in these is always wrong with the exception of shuffle I nailed that one!

What I am watching

This season is one that had me start several series and drop them lets see what I am still watching!

Shakugan no Shana II:  I am keeping up with this but barely its getting really close to the drop point but the last episode sparked my interest a lil bit.

Hayate no Gotoku:  This one has remained solid in my viewing schedule well as solid as the fansubs are released anyway as they went bye bye for awhile.  I still like it, remains to be funny good characters not much to say.

True Tears: This show I didn’t even plan on watching after the first episode, but I was glad that I usually go to ep 3 as it really picked up past that first episode funny and good slice o life stuff along with a decent romance line and Noe is a great character.

Minami-ke Owari:  Funny, what seems to be pretty good animation except for the walking in the op and end thats just weird there.  Other than that I don’t really have much to say except lol @ makochan.

And for my on and off viewing

Bleach: I watch it bursts of around 4 episodes at a time as it drags some stuff out way too long and I make very good use of the 10 sec skip on my media player.  Also I do not watch any filler episodes so when those come up I will just tell someone to contact me when it comes out of it.

Rosari + Vampire: loved the manga hate the anime just flipping through them in about 5 mins till it gets to some good manga material thats if it doesnt become some kind of anime original thing.

Utawarerumono English translation Review

As many people already know Mirror moon has released the much awaited Utawarerumono translation release. I bought the game around christmas time when I learned all they had to do was set up the installer so I was ready for it when it came out. I just recently finished it which is why I havent had many posts for awhile a it takes quite a bit of time to finish.

On to the review the translation and editing is fairly well done pretty faithful with a few harmless localization things included in the script overall I give it a A. I myself did not have any problems running the game with the translation others had some issues but the forums seemed to help those who had issues fairly quickly. So on Mirror moons end everything looks perfect.

On the actual game aspect the story was good the battles were what is to be expected even if that timing aspect to the fighting was kinda hard to get used to since they all attack at different speeds making some characters much harder to use then others aka. Oboro and Touka. After you get that part down it becomes fairly easy whenever you enter a battle placement is more important on the harder difficulties(a nice bonus to the game itself most eroge SRPG don’t include varying difficulty levels.) Now if you play on easy you can easily beat the game, but if you are having issues I reccomend maxxing technique then making a few characters that have 3 atk to every 1 def and maybe 2 characters that are 3 def to every 1 atk this gives you good enough balance for the game and the rest you can do whatever you want with you usually only control about 5-7 characters at a time and when you get to use all your characters the ones you havent been using are pretty much just to use to buy time or be a distraction.

Now onto the story aspect and its choices. Not much really you get to pick where to go for the day during the non combat roles. The choices really don’t matter as i believe you can see it all in the first run as it pretty much requires you to. This means it actually is a very linear route while you may see them in a different order it is all the same. The h-scenes are a little subpar and don’t really feel earned kinda more of just a gratuitous service its not that they are bad its just not very detailed or anything each scene lasts maybe 2-5 minutes at the most pretty short for eroge title.

In short good game worthy of the translation but I could think of a few other games that I would have rather had translated but its still good glad they did it, Overall translation and game itself i give a Fairly strong 8/10

Edit: Touka FTW

Puri Puri Vol 1

I finally got this like 3 weeks after the other stuff it was supposed to be shipped with.

Other than that it was a good book, good art, good plot for the genre mind you. Its a pretty basic Ecchi manga which is good to read every now and then. As for things about the book it had these little flaps folded in on the cover for both sides which I assume is for marking your spot like a bookmark which while handy to have isnt really needed for me since I usually read them in one sitting. The paper quality seemed a little low as everything had a yellowish tint to it. Taking everything into account I would say it gets about a 4/5 which means I most likely will be buying the other volumes when possible.

He is my Master Vol 1&2

Okay this is something I purchased based on the fact that I enjoyed the anime quite a bit. While its not bad in its manga form it wasn’t as good as I thought it would be. The story pretty much follows the same with a few small variations here and there nothing too ground breaking though. I don’t know if it was actually bad cause it could just have been that it did not meet my expectations making it seem worse I suppose not too much else to say has good print and binding quality a few good cultural notes in the back pretty much what I have come to expect. So taking everything into account I would say 3/5 you can add another point to it if you make alot of focus on art as it is of really high quality here.

Mabinogi

Just recently tried this game out it is filled with awesomeness and win too bad its only closed beta at the moment.  Should still be able to get a beta key from file planet I believe something I will definetly be playing in the future when it goes open beta I kinda hit a wall when I made it to level 23, so I think I will be calling it quits till it goes open beta and I won’t make so many mistakes building my char next time and waste AP.