Kurogane’s Anime Blog

Not a Tokikake post without this pose.

Well, barely a week after my viewing of Evangelion 1.0 in Cathay, GSC’s Japanese film festival brought in Toki wo Kakeru Shoujo to local theaters. Makes me wonder, what will be next? I would die if Byosoku 5cm got aired here, lol.

Anyways, the real experience wasn’t really that awesome though, because due to the weekend and the unexpected popularity of the show, me and my friends from AnimeShrine only got the front row seats, seriously the first row from the screen, mind you, so we have to crane our necks quite a bit to watch T_T. My other fellow Emina Cyber friends couldn’t even get any tickets, bless their poor souls :(.

Aside from that too, I suspect they used a HK or Taiwan bootleg DVD for the screening, since the picture quality was DEFINITELY not 9mm and they even had the black letterbox bars too! This also resulted in quite some pixelation, compounded by the fact I was seating right below the screen too. The subs and the typeface was a dead giveaway as well, but thankfully, the translations weren’t too terrible although they took some lines out of context.

There was also additional problems with the sound as well, since the back channels were kinda missing, so I suspect they chose the 5.1 surround and outputted the sound wrongly. It was a bit irritating for my first time watching friends, but wasn’t too pronounced with me because I’ve already watched it.

As for the movie, it’s definitely a good watch, suitable for families too, and I’m not kidding when I say the cinema had a lot of kids and families watching the movie. I think it’s a good exposure for them, although Makoto’s long running scene did elicit quite some naughty laughs in the cinema (you know you did it!). Some of my friends even nearly cried near the end too, lulz.

Otherwise, it was a pretty nice outing for me, and I’m quite surprised to be actually going to the cinema two weeks in a row lol. Finances are kinda fucked up right now though, unfortunately :X.

Oh wow. Holy fuck. How come no one told me about this!!! The things you miss when you stop reading the (government propaganda distribution) newspapers.

Right, so I’m definitely going. Definitely. Better book the tickets now.

Finished Kane’s Wrath. God damn, I really lose myself when I play all this games. Stupid Nod missions throw tons of surprises at you.

Especially hate the Temple Prime mission, because I wasted time building up my initial base, only to be stolen by AI and forced to go commando. Not to mention the game crashed at the mission completion. Then the final Nod mission was WTF too, because there’s only 6 mins to capture the final mission objective… but a MARV and a whole fucking base to take out before that…. 2 hours of base building gone down the drain. DAMN YOU EA. Not to mention the stupid Nod campaign ended with more cliffhangers, yet again. Someone, really, please kill EA’s story writers.

On the plus side, it’s pretty fun to play Nod now, and I’m pretty particular to the Black Hand faction. PuriFIRErs are fucking awesome when upgraded. It’s truly a sight to see when a group of 10 Purifiers march in to a fully garrisoned city, and clean it all out in under 3 minutes, with only 2-3 casualties. Flame on, baybeh.

Nod’s new artillery rocks too, and it works way better than Beam Cannons. The new upgrades are fun too, especially Particle beam upgrades. They make base defending really cheap, using Shredder walls. Hell, they work even better than PEW PEW PEW LAZERS.

Haven’t tried the GDI or Scrin factions yet… maybe tomorrow. Also need to try out the Global Conquest mode.

And before I forget, it’s Ayako Kawasumi and Megumi Hayashibara’s birthday today (totally forgot the day, lol). I wish them both another wonderful year (and more roles too).

Just a small pimping for GameAxis, they’re running a simple contest to give away Limited Edition Animax Trexi Toys. Just answer the following three questions:

1) Kazuma Azuma possesses what natural talent?
a) Solar Hands
b) Solar Feet
c) Lunar Buns

2) What is the name of the famous bakery chain that Kazuma wishes to join?
a) Fantasia
b) Pantasia
c) McKentucky

3) In less than 25 words, explain why you like to eat bread?

Send the answers along with your personal details (Name, IC No. and Phone number) to editorial@my.gameaxis.com by the 31st of March 2008, and you’ll stand a (pretty good) chance to win the Animax Trexi Toys.

Only one prize per person, one entry per person, and winners must claim their prizes from the GameAxis office within one month of the winner’s announcement. Contest is also only open to Malaysians by the way, but if you can come and collect the prizes at the GameAxis HQ at:

Write On Media Sdn Bhd
31-4, Block F2, Jalan PJU 1/42A
Dataran Prima, 47301 Petaling Jaya

… you’re welcome to join to :).

Here’s a picture of the prize:

To the people on that Friday night/Saturday morning when Masakazu Morita-san came in for a surprise visit to the GACC committees, I sincerely apologize for hijacking myself in some of your group photos.

I was pretty caught up in the flow of things that night, being surprised and all, so I didn’t realize that it was inappropriate for me to be inside some of your group pictures. For that, I have nothing but myself and only myself to blame.

However, I would also like to say here that I am not a particularly socially sensitive person, and I admit that I am an dumbass at noticing social cues which are pretty obvious, so I would’ve appreciated it if someone could’ve pointed out my mistakes to me before hand. I am not a person who is afraid to admit my own wrongdoings, but I am a person who really hates to be kept in the dark and forced to accept punishment without any knowledge of the reason.

Again, I apologize sincerely for the incident, and I shall endeavor to not repeat the same mistake again, to the utmost of my abilities. I dearly hope for everyone who I have hurt their feelings will accept this sincere apology of mine.

Comments will be closed as this is not an incident that concerns my regular blog readers, but I felt that using my blog as the platform is the best way to reach out to all the people that I have offended as I do not have all their personal contacts.

I got rickrolled by my lecturer. Woke up -just- to go for the only class I had today…. to find out that it was cancelled. I’m getting a GACC hangover too… god I miss the fun and the highs caused of lack of sleep + cute cosplayers + crazy ass people + Haado GEI.

In other words, I should really get my ass to finish off the 2 other reports on GACC 2008 that I have to write. I wish I could copy and paste things T.T.

Update: Download the pictures from here instead: http://rapidshare.com/files/96771352/GACC_Day_02.zip

Back from GACC 2008. Had a ton of fun, shit, giggles and lulz. I think I’ll let my pictures do most of the talking this time round. For those who would like to skip my long-winded event report, then feel free to download my own collection here: http://www.sendspace.com/file/w397xe . Just please credit them back to me if you decide to use them somehow.

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The single most fucking awesome moment in the entire day, no, the entire event, in fact, so awesome it gets it’s own post. Hard Gay and Commando Chaos getting asked by judge Kidchan to dance to Motteke! Sailor-fuku for the solo cosplay competition. Yes. We all almost keeled over laughing when we heard it at first and actually keeled over when they did. Thankfully I managed to capture the video before keeling over.

This is going to be remembered as the most legendary thing on the local scene for a while. I have a new-found respect for kidchan after this.

P.S. Jeya… upload also credit to me lah! :P.

My major souvenirs for the GACC trip this year.

First off, the hug pic I promised earlier (with my real face censored out for privacy concerns) with Morita-san.

Also, the signed event t-shirt I got from him with my nickname on it :). God, I really love the event t-shirt’s this year.

Now, back to organizing pictures and videos of Day 2.

Update: Download my pictures from here instead: http://rapidshare.com/files/96760324/GACC_2008_Day_1_-_Upload.zip

Massively tired out despite it being just the first day. I felt this was a better first day than last year, even with some shortcomings here and there.

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