I got alot to talk about this time, and most of it is actually worth writing about. So first, let's start with clearing up the E3 staments I made in my last blog. I was reading the comments in the last one and I ended up reading the blog to myself, and I realized I made it sound alot more negative than I ment too. I was gonna type a section about the things I saw this year that really made me happy and that I am really looking worard to, but I guess I forgot to get around to that part or maybe I thought I already talked about it since I took a break in the middle of that one to eat. I also wrote the blog immediatly after I finished watchin the live stream for Sony's show, so I didn't see anything of day 3 or many of the individual games after the main three shows. And yes, eventhough I still don't have my emblems for it, I did watch both Nintendo and Sony live like I said I did. My day 3 emblem didn't even show up till last Saturday, so who knows if the other 2 will ever be here.

Anyway, I got my main complaints about it out in that blog, so here's some of what I did like. First off, I'm really excited about the new Castlevania. I missed the live Konami event, but I saw the recordings. I gotta say, I'm very suprised about who is in charge of this project, but it's a very welcome surprise to me. It looks amazing fro mthe trailer, and hopefully the graphics will transfer into the gameplay graphics. The enemies look great, and they finally make a 3D Castlevania game more, for a lack of better terms, in it's element. I've had problems with all the 3D games in the series so far. 64 was good when it came out, but I was in like 6th grade and didn't really know better. lol. It was fun and strange to play in that enviornment. The bosses were original and the story was decent, but it had it's flaws. Legacy of Darkness was the same, just with 1 and 1/4 new stories, and just the same likes and dislikes about it. LoI and CoD had basically the same, but I just hated the tight rooms all over the place. They were just way too cramped. However, Lords of Shadows worries me slightly. The trailer makes the gameplay seem like it'll be another "It worked for God of War, so let's give up originality too" style game. If the bosses, mini-bosses, or any in game combat at all has any form of quick time or button guessing thign that is forced upon the players, I will f*cking hate this game. Like I said, I am optomistically awaiting it, but Konami and me have a very abusinve relationship, usually involving me suddenly having a black eye and telling our freinds that I fell down the stairs again. I love the sh*t outta Konmai, but I wish they'd just stop doin this to me.

The Last Guardian is on track to be one of m favorite upcoming games. Team Ico is on this project, and it is going to be the last part of the Ico trilogy. I loved Ico, and still strongly believe it has one of the best endings in any game I've ever played. If you never played the game, it's a really fun puzle game, but it's a little short. The details in every part of the castle and the outside look amazing, and the story is pretty good for how small it it. Also Shadow of the Collosus is the second game, and it's just as great of a game. The gameplay is way different, but if you get the 100% ending, you see how it leads into the story from Ico making SotC the prequel. Anyway, these were great games, and were very overlooked in favor of the DA HALOZ LOLZERZ!!11ELEVEN! The Last Guardian looks like it will play a little different than the first 2 again, but I'm really looking forward to how it will turn out and to see how the story ends.

The new Metal Gear (the one that actualy plays like a real Metal Gear game) looks great too, and I'm really happy I held onto my PSP. lol. Peace Walker fixes the main problem I had with P.O. and from the looks of it, it should be a fun game this time around. As we all know, the main problem I'm refering to with P.O. was that I f*cking hate the team based sh*t. I don't want to spend 3 hours just draging people back to a truck just trying to randomly find one guy with good stats. It annoyed the piss outta me and I hated played what otherwise could have been a perfect PSP game. Personally, it ruined the game to me and I couldn't take it long enough to finish the game that way. I got to what the guides made out to be the half way point, and I'm amazed i could stand it that long. I know Peace Wlaker will have 4 player co-op, but that is so much better than always switching out to peopel with bad stats, and a lack of decent equipment since I'm too lazy to play the same places a million times just to get mulitples of good weapons.

As I've mentioned a few times in some of my older blogs, I was getting stuff for working as an editor and doing reviews of games, anime and manga for a site who I won't mention for reasons to be explained soon. I was kinda happy about, because I liked the job and I liked being able to be brutally honest in a place where everyone is swears if it's not American it ain't sh*t. I **** hated everyone there, and I have even more reason to hate them now. I was thinkin about leaving for a while mainly because the ammount of American bias was disgusting. I don't mind being proud of your country, but when you are such an extreme supremesist about it, it's f*cking sickening. Especially when it's about America. We get it. Murder and slaves building everything made this place great. What have we done since then? Nothing. So I'm just sick of those f*ckers acting like the world would explode if America didn't take care of every little thing in the world every day. Back on topic, I found out a few days ago that the guy runnin the site stole almost everythign they have there. All the content he contributed, the site layouts, and pretty much everything in the site itself was almost all stolen form other sites. Not only that, but he was stealin the majoity of the profit we made there. So yeah, now that I know aboout how much they stole everything there, I refuse to work for them anymore, took down all my work, and will never go back or mention the name to prevent anyone else from goin there as much as I can. I want to make it clear that my reviews of games there were way better than my reviews on GS. The ones I do here are just for fun kinda things, and I don't takje them seriously or really try with them anywhere near as much as I should. If anyone wants to see some examples, or wants me aroudn to ohelp with editor stuff, PM me and I'd be happy to help. This is the main reason I've been so absent from GS forums and unions, but I'll be back way more now.

I'm still in my absence form the PS3 time, since I'm still unable to get a pciture from it since I don't have HD cables, or an HD t.v. to use. I've been replaying some older games that i neglected and have been trying some others that I missed out on. One of particular interest to me is a game form 1998 called Shuusou Gyoku. There's three games in the series so far, but the third game's demo was out in 2002 and the full game wasn't out until 2008. lol. The first game is all I've played through so far though. Basically there's no English patch for the game since it's so unknown, but I found scripts and stuff and it's one of those games where I felt better not knowing what the hell was going on. The main story is it takes place in an laternate future of Earth, and you play as a robot maid named VIVIT (yes it's all caps). The main story for the first game is that her master snet her out to do things for him, and when she was on her way back, random people kept attacking her saying that she tired to kill them and did all this other stuff to them. She gets word from her master that his daughter was kidnaped while she was gone, so she decides to try to find his daughter and is forced to fight any of the people that try to kill her along the way. It's a danmaku shooter game, but all enemies are basically some form of future air ships, and all the bosses uses super advanced versions of those to fight. The maid doesn't have any of that though.

The game has a few glitches, but it wasn't anything I think the makers intended players to do. In game sliek that I'm used to them either having a death bomb system, or I force a death bomb myself to preserve my lives when I play. For those of you unfamiliar with the term, death bombs in danmaku shooters are when you get hit and have a reaction time of less than, up to, a full second to react and use a bomb at the cost of 2 or 3 instead. The reaction time also usually differs depending on the character. Anyway, if the game doesn't have that programed into it, you can force one by using a bomb right as something touches your hit box. The problem with this in Shuusou Gyoku is that it glithces out the game, and it kills you, uses the bomb, and then rests your character with 1 ess life and you are missing a bomb form the new life's supply. I beat the game after like 2 tires on Normal mode, and I gotta say, either I'm getting really good at these games, or this one was a little too easy. The last 3 stages are pretty tough to suvive with no deaths, but it's nothing compared to some of the stuff I played. The ending is kinda weird, and the final boss is really fun and challenging. I also ended up unlocking the EX stage. I tried it out, and again, not the hardest I've ever played since no one started throwing easier bosses at me like Yuakri, and no one got me CAVED!!!!!!! like EX Keine. lol. I won't spoil who the EX bosses of the game are, but it made me laugh to see the two of them show up in this one. Porbly my favorite cameo spot in any game I've playedd so far. lol. It's a long ass stage too, and I wanted to upload a playthrough of it on GS as my seconfd video here, but then I found out GS doesn't acknowledge any of the games in this series as existant.

As a closing note, I wanna promote a few people form over on the Youtubes. First, I wanna tell yinz guys about someone with the user name agentjr. He just finished his LP of Silent Hill 4. He does some games that I don't see a ton of other people doing in most cases, and his kind of comedy is very different form all the other LPers out there. He's hillarious and it's worth checking out some of his videos. Also I want to talk about ZoopSoul. He works at IGN, but I never heard of him till I started watchin his videos. He's one of those more graphic comedy kinda people, but he's one of the funniest people I've ever watchin in some of his videos. He's kinda like Hulk Hogan, but not bull sh*t Hulk, more like real Hulk form back when I was a kid and there was people like Randy Savage runnin around being psychos on t.v. and back when that was ok, and fun. Zoop is more like the old Hulk Hogan, but with bigger boobs. lol. He describes himself that way, so don't get mad at me for boob jokes. He did a bunch of older games like the first two Splatterhouses 'n' at and this is one of my favorites I've watched of his so far. He's one of those people that are more hillarious the more frustrated he gets.

So yeah, I almost forgot to mention that recently atomicpuppy was banned. It really sucked to me cause I loved seeing like 4 new videos every day, but now there's a second account up to replace the banned one. Unfortunately, atomicpuppy lost his damn mind in the time away. So this video pretty much sums everything up. It gets better about half way through. lol.So yeah, I'll tyr to be more active here, and I hope this cleared somethings up for everyone so that no one gets the wrong inpressions this time around.

Special Bonus 29!

I'm still depressed over this from back in 2008. They built half a game engine just for a joke. If you can;t read the text, during the soul crushes it says something like " This game does not exist. It will never be made. Please don't look for it. Looks like it would be fuin though. Too bad we wont make it." It goes by too fast for anyone to read it though so most people never caught it till they started makin screen shots fro mthe trailer. lmao. I hate you so much sometimes Japan. *Runs away before Konami comes back to beat me again* lol.

So E3 started, and already I hate Nintendo for ruining Metroid furhter, trying to pass off a Wii Ware game for full price, and making a shopping game and trying to act like people over the age of 4 would want that. Sony did way better than what I was expecting since I thought they would just f*ck up. Also, I didn't watch Microsoft, because lets face it, I have no reason to watch a bunch of High School jocks circle jerk about Master Chief, the dude with a stereo in his chest and Madden.

This year Nintendo had a 70 minute confrence just to say the same things over and over again. The Wii has motion sensors. Did you guys know that? I sure as hell didn't and after about 40 total minutes of that being repeated every 3 minutes, I think I'm almost to the point where my tiny consumer brain might be able to comprehend this. Mario Galaxy 2 was somethin I didn't really expect. It looks exactly like the first though, just with Yoshi fan service. I'm kinda upset about it, but at the same time, I didn't relly hope for a sequel to begin with, so if it sucks I don't really lose much. The other Mario game on the Wii seriously looks like sh*t. I mean I loved New Super Mario Bros. on the DS, but then 3 hours later when I finished all the stages and had nothing left to do except a few side paths that only take a few more hours to complete, if that much, the fan service charm wore off and I got titred of it. The one on the Wii is gonna be exactly the same. It should be a $10 Wii Ware game, and I refuse to pay more than $20 for it at the most since I already know what to expect from the DS attempt.

Also, the Wii has motion sensing technology. I was hoping to see something of Muramasa, but I didn't see anything at all of it so far this year, probly because the Wii has motion sensing technology. I was surprised about how much they f*cked up Metroid already. First you see Final Fantasy Samus. Then I realized it was supossed to be her like 2 mins into the thing. Oh wait, that was just some other girl. So now they say Samus is the one that looks liek her and not that FF short haired girl rip off thing. F8ck. I hate this already. Then I see the damn Team Ninja sh*t in the trailer. Then I see Samus aparently because a ninja during this one chapter of the story, and must have lost those skills with her constant suit downgrades she has at the start of every other game. So now, with her politically correct new found non-threatening black best friend, Samus sets out to ... I guess talk to some random doctor woman. This game pisses me off so bad already. Also the Wii has motion sensing technology.

Most of Nintendo's day was just recycles garbage from last year, so there wasn't much real news. I really wonder if there will ever be a new Star Fox game. If only they had some sort of mtion sensing technology. The big sh*t in their mind this year was that the Wii now has an add on to give it motion sensing technology, which is aparently a first in the video game world, but I always thought the eye toy was out a bit before the Wii. Oh well. SO this new gimick not only lets you move the remote to play games, but it's also apparently required for some up coming games. I dodn't get it. The Wii responds fine for me for everythign they advertised, and I don't need some gimick to make what isn't broken work. Let's see. Tennis. It worked fine in Wii spots, and a few Sega games for me. Rowing. Worked fine in Mario and Sonic at the Olypics. Archery. Again worked fine in Mario and Sonic. Swords. Worked fine in Oneechanbara Revolution. I really don't think I will buy this garbage untill they lock they games to not work without the thing pluged into the remote, cause we all know they'll do it as soon as possible. Also I was impressed that the Wii has motion sensing technology. I just think Nintendo has way too mcuh fun trolling their fans.

Sony had a long show. I serioudly didn't think I'd be sitting around for a few hours watching this. There was some good stuff like the new PSP Metal Gear which actually plays liek a real Metal Gear Solid instead of that BS team based thing they pulled in PO, at least I hope. The 4 Big Bosses takin on the Metal Gear U.F.O. kinda made me worried. By the way, what is it with U.F.O.s and Japan recently. This is the 4th game in the last few months to use this gimick I've seen. Whatever, the important thing is that the Wii has motion sensing technology. So there was a new trailer of the next Final Fantasy and the next MMO game. They announced back then the original FFXII trailer was released that they already started working on XIV, but only recently did they say there was gonna be a new MMO in the series. Put the two together, and there ya go. I dodn't know why people were so shocked by that. Then again, Square's fan base is mainly made of sheep anyway, so you can't really expect much from them. I would want to check out the MMO if it didn't look so generic. There's just basic looks for all the classes in the trailer, and not many classes you can't find in every MMo ever. I hope they have more than they let on. Wii has motion sensing technology by the way.

There's the Little Big Planet sequels they've been talking about since the original came out, but who cares. It's probly just gonna be the same game again anyway. That's the only problem with games like that, it's hard to go anywhere from there. I was honestly underwhelmed by most of Sony's stuff this year. I don't really see a point in yet another PSP design since there's almost no reason to own one to begin with. To be honest, I started reading a book and was only half listening to the show around the point they started the PSP stuff. I dunno. There was alot more to what they had, but I already forgot most of it. At least the Wii has motion sensing technology. They said there would be over 300 new games for the Playstation platforms this year, I just hope at least 20 of them are good.

So as for individual games, I'm looking forward to the Konami part of the GS coverage. I wanna see somethin about the Castlevania game, but I'll probly be let down by good ol' Iga again. Seriously, I'm f*ckin sick of Alucard now. In 3 he was awesome. Then he was in SotN and Legends, and that was great to me as a kid. Then he was back in what felt like every other CV game. I'm just so damn tired of Iga's personal fan service to himself. Alucard went from my favorite character to "F*ck! Why this guy again?" Also, why make a game directly after SotN? I don't need a full game just to tell me he didn't go back to sealing himself away again.

In the future, I think I'll end up loseing faith in all mainstream companies, and end up playing nothing but doujin games. I mean seriosuly, I'll never have to worry about getting news like "In this game Sayo Yuhki decided to be a ninja cyborg with breast cancer and front loaded anvils. Also, she's now half zombie, has a golden desert eagle, and the game will now require you to buy at least 3 gimick items for it to run on your system."

I had some regular stuff to talk about like I usually do in my blogs, but I'll save it till all the E3 stuff is over.

For the time being, my PS3 is basically in brick status. I took it over to a friend's house, and had to switch the output for the video so it would be set up for an HD t.v., and I forgot to switch it back before I left. So when I got home I realized that for once the picture not showing up wasn't from the cables being lose, but because it just doesn't work on older t.v.s anymore at all. So I won't be on PSN or any PS3 games online in general untill I can fix this. I have to either 1) Get an HD t.v. to fix it at home, which ain't happenin, or 2) Take it somewhere to use someone else's HD t.v. to mess with the out put, but since that would take anywhere from 1-2 entire minutes, no one wants to let me do it.

So yeah, because of this I have to put getting caught up on Valkyrie Profile 2 on hold also since I was using the internal memory on the PS3, and re-playing that first 30 hours of the game on a new memory card just isn't worth using a PS2 to finish it to me since I'm almost half way through the main game at this point. So yeah, for everything else I play online with anyone here, I'll still be around for all those games, just nothin on the PS3 for right now.

Also, if anyone wants to play Scarlet Weather Rhapsody online, please let me know. I love playin it with people, but I'm tired of everyone online I meet randomly always using Marisa and spamin all day. It's to the point where I don't even mind the other spammy characters like Alice and Youmu at all now, just Marisa pisses me off way more than she used to. Plus I found out about a program that let's you play Touhou games on the PSP. So after I got out my PSP for the first time in over a year, I let it charge for the required 6 hours, and by the time it was done, I was still sort of in the mode to play games. lol. It's a fun gimick and all, but you have to have the thing hooked up to the computer just to play it like that. It kinda sucks, but it makes me wonder why Japan can get that far, but not make it so we can download it to the memory thing or somethin. Seriously Japan, get on that sh*t. If I could pplay any fun game that isn't already on some console on my PSP I would love that thing and actually play it more than once every year for 15 minutes before it get sick of it.

So yeah, if the PS3 issue gets fixed soon I'll try to remeber to mention it in the next blog or somethin, but for now, who knows.

That's a Space Ghost refrence for anyone who was wondering. Recently I've been catchin up on some older games that I missed when they fist came out. There's a ton of older PS2 games I wanted when they were released, but either didn't have the money at the time, or they don't sell them here because they lack the words 'Halo', 'Madden' and 'Hero' in the title. So I've been buyin a few at a time and have been tryin to finish them all. This has becaome a problem, because I should never try to finish more than one 50 hour+ game at once. lol. I ended up buyin Okami, which I am very happy that it lives up to how good everyone said it was. I also got Valkyrie Profile 2. I loved the sh*t out of the first one, and I wanted the second for a long time. They had it down to $17.99, so I had to buy it before it was gone for good. The game is amazing. At first I hated the combat just cause I was so used to the original's, but once I got used to it, it started to become so much easier to beat bosses without even getting hit in most cases. People kept saying it's a prequel to the first game. People who said that either never sfinished the first one, or neveer finished this one. It's a sequel that takes place in the past. lol. It took me forever to figure it out, but it makes so much sense once *SPOILER* shows up, and then *SPOILER* so then Silmeria's all like OW HELL NAW *SPOLIER*. lol. It's kinda hard to explain without completely ruining possible endings to 1, and ruining a huge surprise that gets added to your party at the end of chapter 2. The following paragraph has all the spoilers.

*SPOILERS*

I still don;t know how to make the spiler tags, so you'll have to excuse that. Anyway, in the end of 1, there's parts in the B and C endings where Lenneth talks about wanting to go back to the past and stop Lezard fro mwhatever the hell he did back then. So in 2, you play Silmeria's story from a few hundred years before 1 took place. The problem was that Odin f*cked up and now Lenneth is hunting you down while Silmeria is still traped in a human body shared by the girl's soul, kinda like in Bastard!!, but she doesn't change appearance when Silmeria takes over her. So that's how it's in the past, but at the same time, Lezard joins you near the end of chapter 2, so it's him at his same age as in 1, so it proves that he really did go back to the past, and that Lenneth really did follow him, so it is after the events of 1 also. lol. This makes a huge problem in the timeline, so most people subscribe to the split timeline theory like in Zelda, whereas I think Big Boss was really just misunderstood the whole time. lol. I haven't finsihed the game yet, so I'm not sure what happens past chapter 3 since I'm doin all the optional dungeons right now.

*END OF SPOILERS*

So yeah, it's pretty fun. lol. I got some other games, but nothin too special. I thought about getting Grafitti Kingdom just cause everyone I know with it really liked it, but I have way to small of an imagination to make anything worth using in that game. The only thing that made me almost buy it anyway is that Reimu Hakurei is in the game as "Flying Maiden" sinced Zun worked on making the game with whoever developed it. lol. Still not worth it to me thoguh since I can't come up with creative looking characters to make in the system they have in the game to build things.

I started building Gundam models again, and I realized the last time I did one was back when I was in 8th grade. lol. I was lookin at some of the perfect grade ones, but I think $125 is a little much for somethin like that. I just got some more 1/100s instead, and they changed them so much since back when I got my last one. Instead of figures, the new ones have little plastic character pictures that have a bio about the pilot of the suit and they come wit ha little stand thing to display it. lol. I never saw anything about those before so it was kinda weird to find that in the box. All the info is in English though, so that makes it a little nicer to have on display. I got Lunamaria's Zaku, and I got a replacement for an old Wing Zero Custom that got ruined a long time ago. I saw some awesome Char customs that I wanted. They had one of his Zaku that was like a metalic finish to it's coloring, and it look so awesome. Of course it was like almost $150 though, so I didn't get it. lol.

I also saw somethin on ebay where they had every volume of Bastard!! in the original Japanese run of the manga for sale as a set. They only wanted $70 for it, which I would have bought, but the shipping was like $100, plus the fastest it could get here was 2 months after it was shipped out. The hell is wrong with that guy? I swear he's gonna send them like one at a time to whoever buys that. I'd love to have the original set since America censored so much language and overal "art" (for a lack of a better term) out of the manga, but that's just retarted.

More of my reviews are being published again. They finally got around to publishing ym Touhou 11 review. On the subject of Touhou, I saw this video on the 24/7 Touhou network a few months ago, and finally found it on Youtube. lol. So in honor of the "Embodiment of Scarlet Devil for a Very Busy Person" movies being released, I bring you EoSD as retold by Marisa Kirisame herself. lol. I wish her hat worked that way in the actual games. I can't read much of what the mass ammount of text says, but some of the animation is still funny. I like the Remilia fight the best just for when she starts usin the broom on her. lol. For those of you who don't get the video, it's basically just a joke about how over powered Marisa always is in the games. There's actually one game where if you keep her power level at 4.0, and don't let it ever go any higher, she can kill any boss in the game in under 3 seconds. It's insane. lol.

So yeah, I have to have a review of DW: Gundam 2 done. Apparently because someone on the site siad I had the game, I was supossed to have a review done of it. I just wish someone would havelet me know about these kinds of things. lol. I'll porbly have that one done sometime tonight and have it published by Monday, eventhough it's not really a brand new thing at this point, but then again, I'm the only one on the site that knows anything about stuff from Japan. You have no idea how many times I have to argue with those American bias jagoffs about how Aqua Teen Hunger Force isn't an anime. I've never met anyone so f*ckin stupid in my life, and that's really saying somethin when ya meet the people I've seen on the forums here, especially the "Hardcore" elitests in the Wii forums that think Mario and Zelda are the only hardcore games out there. They aren't even that hardcore compared to games that aren't made to be easy for all ages to complete. I'dlove to see them play somethin with real puzzle difficulty, or somethin harder than "jump on that guy's head for massive damage, then murder him for being different than you".

Anyone who read my last blog probly saw the pics of the figures I was saying I was gonna try to pre-order. Well, I decided to not get the figures, but kept my order of the Inaba manga. lol. I couldn't find them for a lower price than $80 each. The figures are extremely high quality, but I already have enough Reimu stuff, and Sakuya just looks way too much like any generic anime maid with knives unless you know it's supossed to be her. They could have a least gave her the Luna Dial or her scarf she had in the maga where she first showed up at the SDM, or better yet, they could have made her with her hair as long as it was before she became the maid there, but whatever. I don't really like Marisa in the games, but I love her character in the manga, so I did't really want a figure of her. Plus I already have a 8" model of her I got from Japan, so that's just as good as the figure to me. The Remilia figure looked amazing, especially since her wings looked like real bat wing flesh jut from being so detailed, but I'm not really a Remilia fan. If they would have had one of Reisen (been waiting 2 years now for that figure to be mass produced), Tenshi, Mokou, or Flandre I'd buy them without a second thought, but I doubt It'll happen anytime soon.

So much hapned recently. New stuff, new games, new things that are way too overpirced to buy. lol. Anyway, let's start with the genral stuff. I had my last guitar lessons last week. I've been going to the same teacher since I started playing, and I've been playing since the summer break between my sophmore and junior years of high school. My teacher was telling me about how he was gonna quit working at the place where I got lessons at the end of the month. He said it was mainly because they just don't pay enough, and he was tired of working there for such little take home money. He also said "We just had a baby recently too, and I need to figure out how to be a dad.". lol. He's not a bad parent, just so no one gets the wrong idea, but I completely understand what he means. So, today is the first week I don't have guitar lessons to go to. It kinda sucks cause I was so attached to it. I seriously got extreme speration anxiety the entire time I was there for my last lesson. Any time I pick up my guitar now, I'm just too depressed to even play it for more than a few minutes. I guess I'll get over it eventually, but I might take a break from playing for awhile.I'm also really considering looking into piano, just because there's so many songs I like way more on a piano, but I don't really have the money for that right now.

I recently got around to finally setting up a checking account for buyin stuff online. lol. I wanted to do it for years, but I was always so lazy and never did it. Now that I have it, I'm so excited about all the stuff I can get that I couldn't before. I ended up getting everything I wanted form Japan imported in the last few weeks. I had a ton of money set aside for when I'd finally egt around to this kind of thing, and I'm really happy I held on to all of it. My friends on other sites have been showing me a ton of places where the import fees are extremely cheap, and I end up getting tons of stuff with only $6 added to the price for shipping and customs and stuff like that. lol.

As a really random note, I think I had the swine flu for a grand total of 3 hours. lol. I got a bunch of games imported from Japan. When I opened the box, I kinda breathed in somethin that made my throat hurt for a long time. Im not suere if it was because the box had a bunch of newspapers stuffed into it, or if there was some kind of sickness in there. lol. But yeah, I swore I ended up gettin that flu, but even if I do get it, I'm almost completely imune to regular flus at this point, so the swine flu won't affect me much anyway. People thought I was crazy for never taking any kind of medicine ever, but I kept telling them, when my immunity makes me to the point I can't evene get colds anymore, they'd see who was stupid. So now, I might have had the flu for a day, but I might not have. My throat hurt alot, and my stomach hurt all that afternoon and night, but the next day I was fine. So either I had it from that Japan box, or I just had a random combined sickness that also could be side effects of a flu. Either way, I still say I'm immune to the dissease. Since they keep sayin it's no worse than the regular flu, I'm not worried at all. Also, I saw somethin online one day. It said that Paris hilton was one of the only 2 people on earth to not understand what the flu was. I forget who the other was. So I thought to myself, if someone as f*ckin stupid as her can't die for mthe thing in some amazing act of karma, there's no way I could get it where I live since I'm nowhere near mexicans, and no one near my area has had anything close to it. I still wish she would die though.

So now that I can buy stuff from Japan, I've been looking into some of the figures and stuff liek that I missed out on. Over on Gensokyo, they upload scans of the newest Touhou manga with english translations. They upload one in particular called 'Inaba of the Moon and Inaba of the Earth'. It's basically an ongoing 'slice of life' comedy series about Reisen Inaba. It also features the other main characters form he game Imperishable Night and every now and then has cameo appearances by Mokou (from the same game) and even more rarely has cameos fro mother series characters like Reimu and Patchouli. Anyway, during one of the last chapters, they had an add in the back. They translated the add just because it's a huge thing for fans. Since the series is officially supervised by the creator of the Touhou series, Zun, they are considered cannon. Now that the manga has been selling well in Japan, they are gonna start releaseing volumes of it. This was huge news, because not only are they gonna make it available to places out side of Japan, but there is a pre-order bonus. If you pre-oder before May 15th, you get a mini-figure of Reisen Inaba in the pose when she started fighting Mokou. Reisen is my favorite character in the series, and maybe my favorite character out of anything, so I pre-ordered the manga and figure the second I saw it. lol. The only thing that pissed me off was that last night the pre-orders went on sale for $10 less than the original price, and they wont refund me the difference. It's only $10 though, so I'm not too upset over it. The pre-order for the limited editon set ends next week, but I wont even get the thing till September. lmao. It'll be a nice surprise when it does get here though.

Also on the subject of overpriced Touhou stuff that I have to get, they are finally releasing official figures for the series, again, supervised and endorsed by Zun himsself. The only problem being, they only sell them at specific stores in Japan. So far the set only has four figures. Reimu, Marisa, Remilia, and Sakuya are the only ones to start with, but I think if they sell well enough, they may make more. I really hope they make Reisen, Mokou, and Tenshi. I saw a picture of the demo figure of Reisen years ago, and I haven't seen anything of it since, so hopefully that will be part of series 2 when they make more. The thing is, when they release stuff in sets for the series, they always have the same aptern. So far the paterns are 2 at a time. Reimu and Marisa, then Remi and Sakuya, and then Patchouli and Alice. So far no series of sets has gone past the Alice set, so who knows what will be in the next set of 4 past those two. I just really hope it's Reisen and not some fan service set like Youmu and Yuyuko. The pre-orders ahven't been opend yet, but you bet your sweet bippy I'll be there when they do. (That line is a tribute to someone I've been watching do let's plays recently. The guy is hillarious, so I just wanted to throw one of his lines in a blog). Anyway, teh figures cost $100, but they are being rapidly marked down even before they start the pre-orders. I'm no matter what buying a Reimu figure form the set, and I will buy a Sakuya figure since she was tied as my favorite character when I first got into Touhou a few years ago. I just don't like the face they modeled for Sakyua. She just doesn't look right at all. She looks more like a generic anime character, but everyone else was modeled after their designs in Scarlet Weather Rhapsody.

So yeah, that's pretty much the better of whats been goin on in the last few weeks. I also got Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 2. Holy f*ck there is so much fan service in that game. Worth a rent if you like Gundam. No 00 in the game, but they have most series form the origianl to Seed Destiny covered. I'll include some pics of the figures I was talkin about and stuff at the end of this, and some special bounses since I haven't had one in who knows how long. Also if anyone wants to check out the Inaba manga I was talkin about, here is a link to the newsest 2 chapters in English. Just click the first 2 pcitures and they will open foor ya. There's a bunch of inside jokes, so if you do decide to check them out, you might not get all the jokes and refrences in there. If you want to see the previous chapters, let me know and I can send them to you, or tell you where to get them.

Special Bonus 25!

Special Bonus 26! Seriously, Yukkuris need to go away.

Special Bonus 27! Tenshi is my hero. lol

Special Bonus 28! You will not make it through this one. If you do, congradulations on actually making it to all the things that made her laugh. lol.

It finally happend. My favorite anmie site finally decided they need to be morally correct tin thier line of work. So now, after all these years of being mainly known for nothing other than being one of the biggest places for pirated anime, manga, OSTs, and JAVs out there, they decided to take away everything that made that site what made it so great. Now it's a place just for general chat, and a few minor anime forums. I've been there a little over 2 years now, and I seriously lost over 30 posts because of the change. I lost countless amounts of manga uploads, and just to give you an idea, I lost over 150 Touhou manga that I've uploaded just in the last year, and I had hundreds of others for other series. Now all of that is gone forever, and to make it worse, they took away fro mmy post count for everything that I posted in those sections, and the count for all the posts I made as replies in those sections. For some reason they think that being an all ages kinda place will make them a better site, but they already lost almost half the members they had. The sad thing is that I went to donate $100 to the site, but then I saw the site while it was being changed. When it was all over, I found tons of new things that are way more deserving of that same $100.

Anyway, remeber that part where I always talk about how I hate those Playskool "You Can Be a Big Boy Too: Music Editon" games? Well, as if they were child friendly enough, they now have a Lego edition aparrently. Lmfao!! So now all of you that pay $120+ for a game that could be run on a PSX and still have almost the same graphics, and the same level of terrible covers of the worst songs possible, can have a game in the series that actually requires it to be run on a PS2 or higher to handle the graphics. Also more sh*tty covers that have no sense of timing, or any respect for keeping the original song intact have been confirmed for the super kid friendly version too. I bet everyone of you dumb ass sheep that buy every version of this game will say "I'm not buying that lame Lego one", but you know what, your dumb ass already bought the same damn game at least 4 times over by now anyway, so don't worry sheep, you'll be right at home buyin the same game yet another time. Have fun.

So yeah, the other day I went to a manga shop I haven't been to in forever, and I ended up findin some old semi-rare stuff. i saw 2 of the old Castlevania figures. I only have Alucard, so I was gonna buy the other 2 since they were only $10. They had the Dracula variant where his mouth is closed instead, and they had the original Succubus where she has the correct color skin, and the bra isn't attacted. Both of these are really rare compared to the other version. The Dracula with the closed mouth is one of the only variants in the set, the other being a clear figure of Simon Belmont. The Succubus they had is also rare because it is the original release before they started to make the "America hates nudity" version of the second figure, which is way more common in sales. The second one has a tan skin tone, and her bra is actually made as part of the figure so people can't detatch it, because the original figure wasn't supossed to have a top at all so it would be like the version of her that appeared in the original version of SoTN. Anyway, I just bought the Dracula figure and didn't get the Succubus because I wanted a few Claymore manga while I was there. lol. But yeah, other than that, nothing of particular interest has been goin on. My Touhou 11 review is gonna be published soon, but at this point, the game has been out so long it's kinda irrelivant of them to use it right now. The only reason they want to is because it's fro mJapan, and they just now realized anime is a popular thing over here. *FACEDESK* I hate those people on that site more than the sheep on GS forums.

As you all know, Easter is a day where everyone celebrates the Easter Bunny fighting Jesus in battle, for a bag of candy. Jesus wanted this candy stored in plastic eggs and fake grass, because he was a very greedy man, and he thought that he should have all the candy to himself. So this giant, anthropomorphic bunny fought Jesus, on top of a mountain, next to a burning bush, so that we might all enjoy the sweet sweet taste of victory.

It was a long battle. It lasted three days. In the end, Jesus was defeated, and we all got to taste the sweet taste of victory, in the form of Lemon Heads, and Cadberry Cream Eggs. The important thing is that we never forget what that six foot tall, candy craving bunny did for us this day, millions of years ago, when he fought a man with magic powers in a cave.

So we salute you Easter Bunny, and all that you've done for us. We shall never forget.

It's been a few weeks since my last blog, and I'm kinda bored since i have nothin to do for a few hours, so I'm doin another one. So I started doin reviews and stuff and my first 2 are officially out there. lol. The first one was just anything i wanted, so I just wanted to do some doujin games since they are way better than most profesional games these days. They ended up picking a few out of 7 to use on the main area of the site. They loved my Touhou 11 review and I did one of an H game for the anime section. lol. I also did a review of the DSi since I finally got mine on Sunday. Overall, if you love the ds, but you already have a lite, wait till the Hybrid and DSi exclusive games come out, because you don't need the upgrade right this second. If you don't have a DS in any form, you need to get aa DSi as your first.

I've also moved up to being an editior on the site, so I'm in charge of anime news. It kinda sucks cause I love manga 1,000x more than i like anime, but I worked it out so one of my freinds there does the main reviews of new anime releases, and I just do the list of what all comes out each month in DVDs and Japan's theaters. I also get to cover ALL Comuket news. lol. I really hope this works out into me talkin them into a free yearly trip to Comuket every time. lol. I doubt that will happen though. I am happy I get to work on the anim e news though, mainly because everyone else there is a f*cking idiot when it comes to anime. I had to argue with one guy for over an hour to get it through his f*ckin skull that Aqua Teen Hunger Force is in no way an anime. How f*ckin stupid do you have to be to think an American made flash cartoon is an anime. I pretty much had to have this same argument about pretty much every cartoon in history. I really hate people sometimes.

Not much has been goin on with music lately. I'm still gettin a little better, but I'm just to the point where I wanna be lazy about it for a bit (I was gonna say take it easy, but those damn yukkuris). Right now my teacher is STILL teachin me yet another Maiden song. It's startin to get kinda boring at this point. I think we are gonna start goin back to learning structure and stuff like that after I learn this song though. If not, I'll probly just have to beg to him to teach me somethin by someone else for a bit. lol. Also I'm trying to teach this song to myself. It's a medly of Reimu and then Marisa's themes from Imperishable Night. I'm mainly trying to learn Marisa's theme (it mainly starts after the keyboard solo in Reimu's theme around 4:07) as a easy skill builder kinda thing, since I still really suck at treming for some reason. I can do everything else fine, but I still can't do that without f*ckin up a bunch. So i think if I try to learn something other than an Iron Maiden song that uses it, it might help me out. lol. Plus both songs are pretty basic overall.I was gonna try to learn the vocla version since I usually use drums and vocals to keep my timing when I learn a song, but the vocal version is so god awful. This is the only version I can find anywhere.

There hasn't been many games to play lately. I'm still waiting for Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 2. I really hope this ends up being better than the first one. I liked the first, but some of the stories were just really boring to play through. Theres trophies in 2 though, so at least there will be an actual reason for me to play through the stuff I don't care about. I hate G Gundam, and Gundam Seed bored the hell outta me, but I'll just play those modes just to get the trophies and just skip all the movies in the game for that part. lol.

I've also been playin the demo for Touhou 12 alot. AtomicPuppy gave me the demo, and it makes no f*ckin sense. The demos always just have the first 3 stages and all the characters and shot types are there, but the story that you get in just those first 3 stages is so weird. I nly got to the end of the demo as Reimu, but she just contradicts herself so many times that I have no idea whats going on anymore. There's a treasure ship, but every time someone talks about it, it either loses it's value, has some completely different purpose, or it's just some rotting lunber in the sky. I don't get it. None of the info the bosses give you matches up, so I have no idea what to believe. Plus the 3rd boss is yet another male character to be added to the series. Most people think this is the first male character in the Touhou series. Most people are f*ckin retarted. He's technically the 5th, 3rd if you don't count characters not show in the stories of the games. The thing I hate is that there's 2 bosses at once in the 3rd stage, and they are their own mid boss too. It's furstrating cuase it's just liek when you have to fight all 3 Prism River Sisters at once in Perfect Cherry Blossom. Plus the dude has giant fists he uses to attack that take up almost 1/3 of the screen. So you got that dude tryin to fist ya to death, the shots those leave behind, the other boss shooting at ya, plus you have to find a safe way through the girl boss' maze while avoiding these huge fists that keep showing up in all the only safe spots that I can find so far. I can't even remember these bosses names. Then when you finally beat them, she tells you about how the ufo tokens you keep collecting have somethin to do with reviving her sister, but the word she uses just means big sister in a sense that it could just be someone superior to her. At that point I'm just clawing at my eyes in frustration. I don't give a flyin f*ck about her sister, just tell me what the f*ck the ship is for, or give me a deffinate answer to what is inside it. So of course, stage 4 is inside the damn ship, but you don't get to play that part cause the demo cuts off there. It's so annoying. If nothing else, this game is a hell of a lot easier than SA was, but there hasn't been any interesting characters yet. Most people just keep talkin about how the umbrealla loli is their new favorite.

So yeah, I pretty much have to wait till June just to know what the hell is goin on with that game. I think Zun needs to stop being such an alcoholic, because his stories make no sense anymore. Why can't anyone tell the difference between a treausere ship, a ship that has nothing in it, a ship full of corpses, or a ship that had an entire civilization in it. I mean seriously. There's just way too many false leads in just 3 levels to make any sense. I feel like the first time I watched .hack//SIGN where all the characters give you false leads on purpose up till the last few episodes. Plus if you play as Marisa or Sanae, the stories are different. I just wish Sakuya was still playble for this one. At least she would have had a story that makes sense.

Also, the yukkruis continue to destroy everything I liked about fan made stuff. I have no idea if I think this video is funny or not. I seriosuly have no idea anymore. The original made me laugh, and the new jokes in this version are funny and all, but the yukkuri Reisen just pisses me off. Eirin's brain fart was a decent joke that I didn't see coming, but still, those damn yukkuris are everywhere now. Here is the original as a comparison of the new one.

The other day I was on the anime forums uploading more random manga and stuff like I usually do. Whenevr I'm there I mainly stay in the random talk and video game sections when I go outside of the manga sections. Anyway, one day I just randomly get a PM from someone about how they wanted me to do reviews for thier website. So I already decided that I'd do it, and then I read on and saw that she offered to not only pay me for the reviews, but to also pay for the games if I wanted and they'd pay imoprt prices if I do the Japanese series stuff and doujin reviews. I seriously thought she was jokeing, but I did a demo review for them, and she seriously already bought me a game for me to review next. lol. So now this one guy got fired cause he was completely bias toward American crap and refused to believe the fatc that there was ever a PRG better than FFVII beofre or after it was made. Seriouslty, tyou fan boys need to get over it. There was better RPGs beofre it, and theres been way better RPGs since that game. It's an ok game, and that's all. Not the best, not the worst. Sicne the guy finally started a huge fit avbout how he hates Japan and everything form there (but for some reason loved Square), he lost his position, and now they want me to do Japanese game reviews and reviews of series that are heavily influenced by Japanese development teams. The main thing is that I'll be doin stuff made by people like Nipon Ichi and Japanese developers like that. Plus I'll be doin doujin series reviews, including danmaku shooters. Which of course means Touhou was on the list of what they want me to review (big shock there. lol).

I have to review Pokemon Platinum, which isn't too bad since they are payin for it in full and I get a free game. lol. Plus, pretty much every one played the games at some point, and I've been playin since 5th grade when red and blue got to America, so it'll be an easy game to review and I wont have to worry too much about not beain able to try out all the content by any kind of deadline. lol. I have no idea what I have to do after this one thoguh. The good thing is that I get to stick with hat I know. So i am garunteed that I will never get stuck playing the next generic FPS of that week or anything like that. So I'll mainly be doing a few different types of RPGs (western and Japanese) everynow and then, and a bunch of doujinshi in between.

So yeah, I'm gettin kinda tired of the yukarri thing already. These damn things were so helpful at first, but now they are annoying as f*ck. It's only been like 3 months and the bastards are everywhere. I mean I have no idea if I should hate Yamaha even more or not. I know to blame either Miku Hatsune, or Touhou, but I have no idea which one did it first, and which one popularized it. It had to be one doing one thing and the other making it more mainstream for everyone. I mean seriously, "Take it Easy" was such a simple idea, then out of nowhere Miku starts doin that "Take It Easy Dammit" song, and now everytime I see anything I see a damn yukkari of eirther Miku, or Reimu and Marisa. At first they'd help people out by explaining things for people and stuff like that, but now they just annoy the hell outta me just by being in every fan made thing ever. It's actually more irritating than the McDonald's fad. So of course, they once again remade Cirno's Perfect Math Cl*ss to have yet another fad involved to make sure everyone sees the new trend as soon as possible. So now there is Cirno's Perfect Yukkuri Cl*ss. It's to the point where they even made a yukkuri of Overdrive. I mean the yukkuri version was hillarious cause of the fact there wasn't one original lyric form the song in it, and they had way too many adult jokes thrown in to abuse the running gags with Reisen and Eirin, but to this day I can't find the video anywhere other than when it randomly plays on the 24/7 Touhou network. At least Reimu still delivers yukkuri abuse fanservice, and also serves as the ultimate abortion system now. lol. If you don't get the refrence check the description link for the pick.

Anyway, I've been watchin Let's Play videos for a long time now, mainly because of boredom to the point where I started to enjoy watchin people play bad games and act like absolutly had to finish the game or else someone would kill them. I hate when they act like someone is forcing them to finish the game, and upload all the videos of it, but theres finally a team that makes fun of the worst LPers out there. There's this channel called retsupurae. These guys are awesome. If it wasn't for them I never would have realized how generic DesceasedCrab really was being with all his LPs. They just watch a bunch of random LPers' videos and do comentary over them in the same way that Mystery Science Theater did back when that show was still on. They found this guy called Navitagatar. It's spelled wrong, but I think I wrote it the way the guy does. This dude does the worst video game reviews in history. He actually swears that not only was Golden Eye on the N64 a bad game, but that anything above the easiest difficulty is actaully ipossible to finish. lmao. He also does a review of Tomb Raider saying that Laura needs to have cancer and then the series will be perfect. What kind of idiot says sh*t liek that about a game? Plus retsupurae does a ton of videos about billyMC. If it wasn't for them, I would have never knew anything this hillariou was around. Each billy video gets progressively better, trust me. You have to watch Billy's Christmas Adventure. It made me feel so bad for laughin at people like that. One of my favorite videos they did was this one named The Marios where they found the most stereotypical Italian man ever in the history of the world. I seriously feel ashamed of being Italian after I watched it just cause the guy made us look so stupid. Here is a link.

Also, as a last minute thing, this video is a new fan animation that the person makin it has been workin of for a long time. I think it turned out great and the attention to detials in the renderings in really great. if you do watch it, please watch it in high quality just so you can see it the way it really looks.

So the demo of Tohuou: UFO is out. All I can say is, it's alot easyier than Subteranian Animism, but it's still not Phantasmagoria easy. lol. I'm pretty sure no one will understand that comparison, but it makes a lot of sense if you ever played those 2 games. Subteranian is probly the toughest game I've ever played in my life. I can't get past stage 3 without using at least 1 continue. I refuse to play any of the games on anything easier than normal mode cause then Reisen will make fun of me for suckin at Touhou. lol.

I did make some progress though. I finally cleared Imperishable Night with 1CC (1 CC means there were no continues used). I got lucky though cause after stage 5 you get a choice of which path you want to take and they don't give you any idea what the differece would be. Imperishable Night also has a time system that only shows up in that game, so everytime you clear a stage, 1 hour is added to your time, and every continue adds 30 mins. You start at 11P.M. and if the time at any point reaches 5A.M. you just immediatly lose and it takes you from whatever you might be doing straight to the bad ending for whatever team you playedd as. Most of the time I played before, I would end up at 5a.m. or 5:30a.m. with the time added once I beat Reisen, so I never got to see the pick your path thing. It just lets you pick if ya wanna follow your eyes or follow your instinct (both are a recuring joke in the Reimu and Youkari story). So I couldn't decide which, so I just wnet with A since I always do the choices in order whenever I play other games in Japanese and have no idea what the options do. So picking follow your eyes ends up leading to Eirin as the stage 6 boss. I was so lucky I picked her though cause alot of her attacks leave really easy open spots to follow and it made it way too easy to survive for a final boss. She had like 6 phases to get through, and I only had 2 lives left after Fighting reaisen and just getting through the 6th stage itself. But anyway, I finally beat it and died on the part where Kaguya and Eirin do that final attack together. It just takes up way too much of the screen and i wasn't ready for that at all. lol. The good thing is, if you die there you dont get punished for it, you just dont get the absolute best ending possible, and you dont get the EX stage unlocked.

Anyway, I went back and got the EX stage open on there for every team, and I haven't been able to do that for any other game in the series so far. lol. I guess IN is just a little easier than all the others. I tried the EX stage cause Mokou is the final boss there, and she's my second favorite character in the series, so I really wanted to try fighting her. I couldn't even survive the stage long enough to get to her. I beat Keine (stage 3 boss in IN and mid boss of the EX stage) and pretty much died 5 seconds later. lol. I give up on that one. Here is a vid of the stage if anyone wants to see why it's so damn tough to beat. IN has my favorite music in the series, and the EX stage and Mokou's theme are probly 2 of my top 3 favrite video game songs of all time. Also as a not, the dude that played the stage just used fast foward for everything except the fight wirth Mokou just to get it to fit the 10 min limit on youtube. Also as another note, the dailouge at the end of the stage was pretty boring. It was mainly a long conversation about mokou being imortal, but still feeling pain and giving up cause her wounds got too bad. After that they make a bad joke about jelly dounuts (it's a play on one of the words in japanese) and they all talk about how scary they are? The scripts for EX stages are always weird.

So yeah, other than that not much else has been goin on. I bought volume 4 and 5 of Space Ghost last night cause I kept forgeting to buy 4 and I had no idea 5 was even made yet. Plus they had a sale that if you buy 5 you can get 4 for $5. lmao. They hate Space Ghost way too much at [adult swim] for some reason. I think it might be the most often cancled show ever since they cancle it just for fun at least a few times a year. I got some more manga too, but nothin too great. I still have to wait till July for the next volume of Bastard!! and I still have to wait till probly 2010 for the final volume of Hellsing to come out.

I haven't been doin much new with music. I've been gettin kinda bored cause my teacher is goin through another phase of teachin me like 5 Iron Maiden songs in a row. I love the band and all, but it gets kinda boring learing so much of their stuff in a row like that. The good thing is their music teaches ya so much vital stuff, so I guess that's why he always picks them as an example. I've been tryin to get back into learnin old video game songs too. lol. I saw this video and it really reminded me that the old Sonic games had way better music than I remember. I know it's a little different to make it better, but it still sounds alot better on guitar than I thought it would. Plus anythings better than those god awful songs they put into the 3D Sonic games. I swear I actually had to play the Secret Rings game with the T.V. muted just cause I could stand hearing the same 4 second loops of the same generic riffs and lyrics over and over again for the 10 minute stages. I'm eventually gonna have to just sit down and make a list of all the old video game songs I should learn and try to teach them to myself. I'll probly end up being too lazy for that once I learn 1 or 2 though. lol.

So yeah, like always I have no idea how to end the blog, so I'll do it by admiting it this time. lol. Plus they just posted all the manga from this year's Reitaisai festival, and they got a new chapter of Inaba of The Moon and Inaba of The Earth (my favorite Touhou manga ongoing series) so I'm gonna end the blog here so I can start readin all those. lol.

Oh yeah, Special Bonus 24!