[Cover] Pray: Tommy Heavenly6 (Gintama OP1)

I really liked Gintama's 1st opening song Pray, sung by Tommy Heavenly6. It is really upbeat and makes me feel like I should be all fired up and go do something! XD

I made a cover of this~ I'm not a pro singer... this is just for fun~ Enjoy~ :3

Please feel free to leave any comments and advice~ Thanks! :3

[Cosplay] Monkey D Luffy: DIY Luffy's red vest

Okay~ so after some discussion with hubby... we kinda forfeited the cosplay couple for Halloween idea and decided it'd be way too much effort to try and get/make both costumes... and being a beginner in sewing... for me to try and make any costumes with elaborate details will just end in failure... :T so in the end, we've decided that he would play detective Conan and I'll play Luffy from One Piece~ X3 (we did think of me dressing as Lan from Conan... but I'd have to get the high school skirt and another blue blazer... which would just end up costing too much... :S) This is the first time that I'm actually attempting to make a costume and actually "cosplaying" an anime character! X3 (my first steps into becoming a real otaku~ <3 haha~) though I have played more classic comic characters like Popeye's girlfriend Olive Oyl (with great success too... someone came up to me and said that I look exactly like Olive... not sure if I should be happy about that or not though... :T)

Real Luffy! 

[Video Game] Tokimeki Memorial Girl's Side 3rd Story: Falling in love again like a high school girl~ Review and some tips~

Can't call myself a real otaku without doing a real video game review entry~ (^-<)/ Well... I don't play nearly as much video games as I use to.... but recently I did get extremely addicted to the otome game (love simulation games aimed at girls~ therefore lots of eye candy guys to chase) Tokimeki Memorial Girl's Side 3rd Story~ <3

Konami's official website for Tokimemo GS3
and the Tokimemo GS series on all this that~

fanart of Bambi and the princes \(^/////^)/ ~<3

This game first came out October 2010 on the NDS (Japanese edition only though...)~ so has been around for a while already (recently annouced that it's also coming out on the PSP platform in a premium edition Spring 2012! Q.Q me wants PSP....) If you're familiar with the Tokimemo GS franchise (with the famous/ infamous? skinship mode on NDS o^-^o), there's been a heck lot of improvements to this latest series compared to the old Tokimemo GS 1 and 2~ Not only can you date the prince that your heart desire... you can date two of them at the same time! X3 AHHHH~ (known as 3P mode or "W prince" mode, W= "double"...). Also your "girl" friends in this series are real genuine 2D friends... helping you out with guys info or fashion and no longer turn into b*tches if you happen to like the guy they like... Also there's an upgrade to the type of fashion that you can combine to come up with~

Anyways, I actually pick up this game late last year (or early this year.. can't remember now...) where I had only played through Arashi and Kou's routes (and the first attempt where I didn't get any prince endings at all... Q.Q... then I looked up the wiki's). And then during my more recent addiction phase I managed to finish playing all the individual prince's routes as well as accidentally triggering 3P- Arashi/Niina mode... (^///^)q

My preference of the routes:

Kou > Ruka > Arashi > Niina > Konno > Seiji

Honestly, I didn't really dislike any of them~ *shy* but I guess the first play-throughs  really had the best impressions... the later routes were more about seeing the CG's and dates rather than actually feeling Toki-toki at all... :3 I'll go through my impressions of each character after the jump~

[Movie] The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Hollywood remake trailer~

Okay~ something not so otaku, but I'd like to share the new trailer of the Hollywood take of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, 'coz I'm a fan of Stieg Larsson's The Millennium series~ (*twirls around*)

The books were great and we had also watched the Swedish film of the first installment... frankly... the film was not so great... :T hubby who did not read the books could not follow the story line and I had to keep pausing the DVD and explaining to him what they missed out (without giving away too many spoilers...)

Swedish vs. Hollywood

I remember complaining to hubby that  Mikael Blomkvist's character would have been really suited for Daniel Craig..... and Lisbeth's character (although pretty well caste in the Swedish film) could have been a bit smaller boned and skinnier as implied in the book (not blaming the Swedish actress though... cannot change her body that way...) So when I found out today that in the Hollywood version coming out December 21, 2011 WILL have Daniel Craig, I was jumping for joy~ (*claps hand like a little girl*) On top of that, Lisbeth will be played by Mara Rooney who looks like a malnourished teenage model! (PERFECT! :D) The Hollywood trailer looks great! most parts had the look that I had in mind while reading the book.... (even Erica looks way hotter here than the Swedish lady~) *thumbs up* to the director (David Fincher) and others involved~ :) 

looking good Lisbeth~ (^-^)b

[Video game] Final Fantasy XIII-2: New Trailers and Adult Hope! O.O

I'm a BIG fan of the Final Fantasy series and had totally fell in love with the protagonist Lightning from the latest installment FFXIII~ (*sparkly eyes*) She's the strong and cool female character that is the opposite of many RPG female characters (usually the healer... or magician...). So when I found out few months back there there will be a second game I got really excited~ X3

Lightning and her new boyfriend??

Lightning in cool new armor, Sara out of school girl gear

FFXIII-2 (official website) is said to take place 3 years after the original... and the main character this time round is Sara, Lightning's sister (now.. she's a more typical female RPG character... at least her weapon of choice is a bow... :T). Sara is joined by this "mysterious" boy call Noel... whom suspiciously wears the same tribal gear that Fang did in FFXIII.... (perhaps they are related.... or he had been a younger version of the original design for Fang who was suppose to be a male character....) From the new trailers (one of them linked below) it seems that this time round the story will be very convoluted with time travel involved... (reminds me of the classic Chrono Trigger~) hope they do a good job with the time travel... and not leave serious loopholes in space-time continuum story... X3 

[Anime] 2011 Summer Season Anime: Recommendations and rants

A summary of the summer season animes that I've been watching~ (^^*)/

The main series that I have been following this season were (will write separate blog entries for these later):


- Natsume Yuu-Jin Chou: Story of a boy and his interactions with the yukan (ghost) world.... Love it! brings warm fuzzy feeling to the heart~ \(^////^)/

- Hanasaku Iroha: Tokyo girl ends up living in a countryside traditional Japanese hotel as a waitress~ Love this also~ was surprised that this was not based on a manga... but have mangas based on it~

- Ao no Exorcist: Story of the satan's son (who gives off blue flames) wanting to become an exorcist~ Started off really good~ even cried through one episode (the one with the cat demon... Q.Q poor kitty)... but then the story kinda turned mediocre... :T still follow it in hopes that it'll go back to how it was~

Natsume, Ohana and Rin from the above series~ <3

[Manga] Lovely complex: a story of sabi and bonbi

I stumbled across this manga while looking for couple cosplaying ideas for Halloween..... I could not believe it! The main characters' height difference is exactly the same as me and hubby! o.O These characters overlap with us in real life sooo much!! @-@; I'm really glad that someone's actually written the comedy and awkwardness that a tall girl short guy couple has to go through.... :3 And funny enough.... bonbi and I are more of a comedy couple just like the characters rather than to act all lovely dovey towards each other~ 

sabi and bonbi.... um.. i mean koizumi and otani

 (Warning: some spoilers below the cut line~ :3)

[Anime] Giant Killing: an anime for soccer/ football fans

bonbi (the hubby) has always been an avid fan of soccer~ on top of watching real life games from our favorite team Barcelona (go Xavi~ <3) he also has a team from nearly every league that he supports... and of course not forgetting to keep an eye on how the respect rival teams are doing (=.=;) during World Cup times he'd be crazy enough to support up to 3 different teams... (one from each continent....). On top of that... when there's no real life games going on... he'll be on the Xbox playing FIFA... sometimes to relive a game that has just been broadcasted hoping to change the past somehow... orz

Well recently, he found the perfect soccer anime for him to watch- Giant Killing by the author Masaya Tsunamoto! Giant killing actually won the Lodansha Manga Award best general manga in 2010 

[Anime] Gintama: Catching up on a classic

To be honest... I really got into manga/anime at relatively late in the game... only having picked up the JUMP big three (One Piece, Bleach and Naruto) maybe 5 years ago... (though I've dropped Naruto, Bleach and is finding the mermaid land arc of One Piece a bit boring at the moment...) Well recently I've been randomly looking for new anime/mangas to follow and to fall in love with~ and have been totally addicted to Gintama (銀魂) story of a silver headed samurai~ 

First Rant~

Having been in a NEET situation for the past few months have increased my otaku-meter! and needing a place to share an overflow of this new found otaku energy I've decided to start this blog... (that said, I've been bad with keeping up previous/ non-otaku related blogs... due to various reasons... even then, this blog may increase or decrease in otaku-ness overtime.... just a disclaimer... not that anyone would be reading this anyways... X3)

Well... just thought I should document some stuff that I've been up to... else my time as a NEET will really feel like time spent on total nothingness... 

Yoroshiku onegaishimasu~~~ <3