Kurogane's Anime Blog

Despite news on the contrary, which reached me through the grapevine, I am unfortunately not able to attend this year’s AFA due to assignment and exams gangrape by my university. Honestly, this year’s a bit too expensive for me as well, what with the entrance tickets and concert ticket prices rising up to a pretty premium compared to last year. Besides, I’m not gonna pay to see Shoko-tan eat cats on stage! I really wanted to hear Mamoru Hosoda talk (WTF 600 SGD ARE YOU GUYS CRAZY?) and Aki Toyosaki live though…. sob sob sob.

You guys have fun with stalking Danny Choo then. /shrug.

Yeah it is. Now I get why it’s such a phenomenon. I’ve been actually on Twitter for the past 2 weeks or so and I’ve gotten pretty comfortable with it.

With that, I’m adding a small twitter feed on my sidebar which will show the latest 5 tweets from my Twitter account as well as a link to the full thing if you want to follow my (spoilerish and spammy) ramblings.

An interesting email came to me via reader rynstone, who informed me that there’s a dedicated group of Elfen Lied fans who are trying to a Lilium music box, a very important memento of Lucy in the Elfen Lied series.

The group has managed to persuade Sankyo, a Japanese company, to make the music box mechanism but it requires a one-time project fee of USD 670 + about USD 7 per mechanism to produce and they are looking for fellow fans or kind donators to contribute to the fee.

Personally, I think this isn’t a bad undertaking and it does result in very interesting piece of merchandise. Fellow Elfen Lied fans can visit their website/forums at http://stromnova.webs.com/ to register and find out how to donate.

Interested fans can also directly email Mr. Jarrod Pierce at liliumbox@gmail.com to get more clarification on the project.

Just got this in the mail…

It’s the moment you Minorin fans have been waiting for! Online ticketing preorders for the AWSM(RM 250) and ELITE(RM 150) tickets are now open on http://www.daiconnews.com.

Just go to http://www.daiconnews.com/cm_ticketing.php, grab our Preorder Form and read the instructions there. Fill it up and send it back to us at ticketing@daiconnews.com and we will process your orders ASAP!

For further enquiries,please email info@daiconnews.com with your questions.

The ticket prices are relatively reasonable considering the scale of the event. Hey it’s at least cheaper than AFA was! From what I hear, the AWSM tickets are pretty limited in quantity, so whoever wants them better go and grab them ASAP before it’s sold out.

Why all the K-ON hate? ;_;

Noe-chan, the server that I’m hosted on, is in dire need of funds infusion within the next 24 hours or it’ll be shut down.

To that end, Noe-chan’s owner, mellow_bunny is running a Donate or Die campaign for people to save their himegimis so please head over to Mellowspace to help rescue them and keep my blog alive!

Any amount, donated sincerely, will do. Even one euro will be a big help towards keeping Noe-chan alive until the 20th February. All donations will receive my eternal thanks and appreciation as well as the satisfaction of saving your most beloved himegimi! Donators will also be entered in a lucky draw to win Paprika and Tekkon Kinkreet on DVD as well as a Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS A3 Poster Set by Collateral Damage Studios.

UPDATE: Oh wow, in less than 10 hours you guys help donated 175 euros to save your himegimis (with one killed LOL). Thanks a lot guys (and girls too), now Noe-chan’ll be safe till next month :).

(I wanted to comment here but you all know how アニ・ノート is.)

Hey! I maybe brief but I’m not lazy! ｬダヽ(ｏ`皿′ｏ)ﾉ

Besides, the other two musketeers already provide a comprehensive joke coverage on the grope… spatula.. whatever.

To be honest though… when Taiga got thrown in the water and her fake boobs came off, I was kinda pitying her too much to actually laugh. When Ryuuji put it back in despite knowing the abuse he’ll probably suffer later, I thought that was kinda manly…

Finished plowing through Hinano’s Renai Blogger, and it made for quite a good laugh and enjoyable hour for me.

While I appreciate the effort she put in it, I have to say the game doesn’t meet up to my mark due to two things:

1. It’s too short. All the romantic development happened so suddenly. It does make me wish that real life emulates the game more though. So easy to score with girls!
2. No Impz route.

Seriously, why no Impz route? S/he was easily the hottest character of the game! T.T

Impressions on the other girls:

• CJ: Pretty normal, pretty cute. Gotta lol at the volleyball part and also nice Nanoha cosplay there.
• Natsuko: 16 IS NOT LOLI, OKAY!
• Jen: Second hottest girl after Impz. Probably because I prefer older, mature ladies. Her route was kinda bland though.
• Hinano: Typical tsundere character. Took me a while to get her route flag up, but hers was the most entertaining route of the game. I lol’ed at the karaoke, Hinano sure loves her Mosaic.wav.

It would’ve been funny to see a j1mone route in it too. Hahahaha.

P.S. Forgot to add, but the School Days-style bad end in Hinano’s route was pretty awesome.

Finally, after much persuasion by Owen.S, I’ve made the jump and joined MyAnimeList. Now I can stalk read Owen’s miniblog in it.

Feel free to add me, my username’s kur0gan3. “Kurogane” got taken up by some UK-fag, while “Kurogane Shiroikaze” was too long T.T. Currently, still need to add OVA titles and movies to my anime list, probably will take quite a while to add the manga and other sections of the site.

By now, I hope that everyone has figured out that my earlier post was for April Fools, if the glaringly obvious timing of the post, along with the nice link at the bottom of it haven’t cued it in. BTW, yes, you can use TinyURL to forward to a Youtube video.

As for saturnine herse-… himself, sorry, his reaction has been mostly tsun-tsun, but it’s really to fit in her, I mean, his online persona. She’s He’s pretty dere-dere in real life, I assure you.

By the way, I’m starting a Suki Suki Satchan club, does anyone want to join? I also need someone to design a club badge for it, if anyone’s up for the task.

P.S. Oh man, I still need to write my true tears review. I’ve got a ton to say, but I keep feeling lazy to put them in black and white. Gotta lay off the games for a while, seriously.