Kurogane's Anime Blog

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.

So finally the truth is out. Yes, Saturnine Owens is a girl. Being someone who’s actually met her in real life, I second the bewilderment of DS for her to take on such an aggressive persona online.

Let me tell you about the events of that day… when I first met this beauty. It was for ACGC 2008, some generic local anime/games event, and I extended an invitation to Saturnine, which she accepted as she was also going out on the same day. I relished the chance to finally meet this charismatic person for the first time, coming to the meeting place at the local Borders, with a lot to talk about on my mind.

Just like DS, I was expecting to meet with a guy… so I was surprised when one of the cute girls that I noticed instantly upon entering the store suddenly walked up to me, causing me to feel nervous a bit. “Hi there, are you Kurogane?”, she said. In a daze, I managed to mumble something resembling “yeah”, and she proceeded to introduce herself as Saturnine Owen. My mind blanked out for a few minutes as I tried to process the incongruence of the fact.

When I came about, she was lightly shaking my arms, asking me if I’m alright… “Man… everytime I show myself to someone, they always do that.”, she added. “Of course… you’re… you’re… so beautiful….”, I wanted to blurt out loud, but instead I kept my calm and mumbled another “Yeah”. I felt really pathetic at that point. Such a beauty in front of me, and I’ve only managed to say out two words.

Anyways, we proceeded to look for a book, about story writing and structures, and I realized that all the tl;dr posts that she made are truly from her own knowledge. She confided to me that she was planning to be a screenwriter some day, as she loved to write. I listened intently to her, all the while fixated at her beauty, her gracefulness and generally enjoying being in the company of such a beauty. I noticed many a spiteful glances directed to me, although she didn’t seem to notice or, if she did, mind.

Moving out of Borders, any thoughts of heading for the event I had planned to go with him her, evaporated in to thin air, and instead I suggested that we head for a nearby cafe to sit down and maybe eat some lunch (it was around 1pm at that time). As we both walked in, I could see nearly half the cafe’s male customers turning their heads… some very visibly to their girlfriends, earning them a quick pinch or under-the-table leg jab. I chose a rather secluded corner of the cafe to sit down, not wanting to attract more attention.

Sitting down at the cafe… I ordered food, although what exactly I ordered and ate, until this day, I still cannot remember. Breaking the ice by talking about true tears (as I just watched 12 a few hours before heading out), we started to talking about various things, wandering through many topics. I shall not bother with the details, and besides I would love to keep some things between us ^^.

Without noticing, nearly 2 hours passed and Saturnine decided to take off early, as she had a promise to keep. I enquired further, believing that I’ve earned her trust enough, but she just blushed slighly and answered, “Hi~mi~tsu~”. I guess now I know who she made the promise to. I nearly fainted at that point, but I kept my composure, and we both headed to the counter to pay. I tried to pay for the both of us (I must note that I actually only had 50 ringgit at that point, and the total came up to 45 ringgit, pretty much leaving me penniless), but she insisted on splitting the bill, as she didn’t want to owe me anything. I felt a bit disappointed (but relieved at the same time). Till this day, I wonder if she noticed that I was actually forcing myself to pay for it. Sigh… male pride :(.

Parting with a “Ja, mata ne!” and a sweet smile on her face… I managed to wave goodbye, and left for the event, suddenly remembering about it, but feeling empty and yet satisfied at the same time. Sigh… another bittersweet memory to include in my days of youth. It’s just too bad DS already took her, but I will always keep this feeling in my heart.

P.S. Luckily, I did bring a camera along for the event, so I managed to take a picture of Saturnine herself. Enjoy her glorious beauty :)).