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Christmas update

Monday, February 1st, 2010

Well, just pretend it is.
I got four gloves (Yeah, four, they’re even the same type, just in different colors), a t-shirt (Iron Maiden, seriously, it’s not that I have anything against Iron Maiden, but I like about three songs and I’ve gotten eight Iron Maiden t-shirts over the last couple of years, please, no more.), some perfume and a bunch of random stuff.
I got “Driven to Kill” some Steven Seagal movie.

Then, the important stuff. :P
I got Falconer’s newest album, with their autograph. :) They’re family, somewhat, kinda. :P
Also, I got a bunch of gaming stuff
A PC-Engine, second CD based console ever, released in Japan and in the US as Turbografx-16\Supergrafx\TurboDuo. It competed with the SNES and the Genesis\Mega Drive. It actually sold more then the Mega Drive in Japan.
Never released in Europe. :/
The version I got was the PC-Engine Duo R, which is a hybrid of sorts, since the CD playing part originally was an addon.
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They forgot to remove their test disc before sending the console I think, so I got the game 三国志III (San Goku Shi III) as well. (I think it’s some kind of strategy game, haven’t played it yet.)

The other PC-E CD games I got.
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らんま1/2 (Ranma 1/2, the first Ranma game released, right after the second season of the anime I think? Sidescrolling beat-em-up)
うる星やつら -Stay with you- (Urusei Yatsura -Stay with you-, Adventure game)
Ys 1&2 (Top down slash & hack RPG)
Ys 3 (Sidescrolling RPG)

And last but not least, a Sega Mega Drive.
My Uncle just happened to have on of these with a couple of games.
Unlike the PC-E, I had no idea I was getting this. :P
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A couple of guidebooks, too bad they don’t actually fit inside the covers. (They would if they were about 2-3mm shorter :/ kinda bothers me.)

And the games ofcourse.
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Altered Beast (Beat-em-up)
Dungeon & Dragons (RPG\Dungeon Crawler)
Phantasy Star II (RPG)
Phantasy Star III (RPG)
Sword of Vermilion (RPG\Dungeon Crawler)

And I got about 2500kr (about $400), which is nice. :)

A few days after christmas I bought a bunch of PS2 games. (Really cheap ofc)
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The ones that aren’t pushed in completely yet.

MMM – Manga, Music & Mmmmmgames

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010

I’ve recently picked up a couple of games, Persona 4 (With OST) for the PS2 and Drømmefall – Den lengste reisen (In english: Dreamfall – The longest journey) for PC.
Sorry, no pictures right now. :/

A couple of weeks ago I went to Oslo, Why? Because one of my friends is an actor, so I was invited to go watch a play. It ended up being really great. :3
I also grabbed the chance to get the last two volumes of Genshiken (8 & 9)
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Today I first picked up a couple of albums on a whim.
Alestorm – Black Sails at Midnight
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Yeah I know, “True scottish pirate metal”, god damnit that’s awesome. :P

and also Masterplan with the album Masterplan.
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Sorry for the blurry pictures, I blame the camera.

I got some stuff in the mail today.
Tamaoki Benkyo’s latest manga series, ねくろまねすく (Necromanesque. I dunno why it’s written like that, I figured it would be ねくろまねすくえ, but apparently there’s no ‘e’ (え) at the end in japanese.)
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A touhou manga, Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red, with a CD.
Two pictures since the golden part doesnt work with the blitz, and the rest looks terrible without the blitz. :/
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And here, have some heavily censored stuff. (Though, it is uncensorable by using gmask’s cpmask filter if you can guess the password.) One of the mangas is by Rate, and the other is by Oyster, which would explain a lot if you know who they are.
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But wait, there’s a good reason for me buying “those” kind of mangas.
When I buy a certain amount of manga I get free shipping, so adding more manga is cheaper. (Until a certain point ofc)
But I only buy short series or one shots, and not everything is in stock at all times, so I had to get something.
Also, I felt like I had to own atleast one, just for the sake of owning one. :P

Anyho’
I didn’t make a christmas update, so one will be coming along shortly.

Desucon 4 -Day 2

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009

Back again, this time one hour later, since I wasn’t going to Neo-Tokyo before I went over to OKS (Where Desucon is being held).
I went to Outland first though, and got some manga:
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As far as being crew goes, this day was more or less just running around with my friends, I didn’t really have that much to do, except answering questions about the different events when asked.

Went to see the “The history behind Desucon”-presentation, with Espen and Alejandro, it was pretty entertaining, especially how Alejandro shows his utter contempt over stuff like Naruto, Bleach and especially Twilight, everytime they get mentioned. :P

Half an hour after that, I, nekoflaa, Sindre and Ole decide to go relax at Ryko’s (Ryko89 on youtube) AMV lounge, after about 2 hours watching AMVs with Ryko, me and Nekoflaa leave to do some stuff, I went to buy some stuff from Otacon (from japani.no), which we had decided on earlier.
To be more spesific, this:
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‘Kimi Tsunagi Five M’, Asian Kung-Fu Generation’s first full-length album.
It’s not their best in my opinion, but it’s still pretty damn good. :3

And also, this:
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Genshiken, awesome series.
There’s 9 volumes, so I’m still missing the two last ones, but I’ll get them in the near future most likely.
This is about otakus and comiket, if you like reading about stuff like that, I’d recommend these, or at least the anime. (Same name.)

Then we went back for one more hour of AMVs, before we decided to go do something else.
After that we just walked around everywhere, with no particular goal in mind, until the auction started.
Not a normal auction though, you could bid to keep or to destroy stuff.
With Alejandro (Which hates everything :P ) as a host this couldn’t be more perfect.
All the money went to a good cause ofc.
There was three really good parts, one can’t be explained though.
The other two was when they cut a twilight poster in two with a katana, and when some (obviously crazy) guy bid 1000kr (about $160) for destroying a $15 hello kitty doll by himself.
That is, first beheading it with a katana before shredding it to pieces with his own hands, that was some pretty strong hate right there. :P
The twilight poster thing is up on youtube.
here

After that it was pretty quiet until the ending show, which had stuff like caramelldansen on stage with Maid crew and organizers, and some coplay event were people had to introduce themselves as the characters they cosplayed, ‘Shookie monster’ (Cookie monster) won, with especially Grimmjow Jaegerjaquez doing a good job aswell in my opinion, but Elmo was awesome, so incredibly in-character.
Edit: Video

After that it was pretty much over, I went over to Neo-Tokyo’s stand where Kenneth had something which was kinda a surprise for me:
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Yes, the newest game in the Touhou series (Touhou 12.3th) Touhou Hisōtensoku.
Oh and it has an actual character printed on the cd, I think that’s a first. (Though, I don’t have every Touhou game yet, only about 2/3 of them, so don’t take my word on that.)

After that I went home and to sleep, which I really needed. :P
Money used in total: 3800kr ($670)
Now I’m eagerly awaiting (My wallet isn’t though :P ) next Desucon, which will be in the summer 2010.

Pictures from the event itself will get it’s own post when I get them (and upload them).

Eddie Rath

Sunday, October 4th, 2009

He calls himself the first “manganime rapper” and the world’s first “black shinobi rapper”, rapping about everything from Naruto.
I’m no big fan of the Naruto anime (Though, the manga is nice), but his album (Naruto 2009 (Explicit)) showed up on bemaniso, so I just had to give it a try, and well, it’s certainly unique.
Just listen.
Sakura-chan
Crank dat Uchiha

And you can get everything that’s not on the album for free over here:
Soundclick – Eddie Rath

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Music

Friday, August 14th, 2009

Most of it:
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Starting of with: (Everything will be named from left to right, starting in the top left corner of the picture)
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Gallhammer – Ruin of a Church [DVD] (I still don’t like them that much though, it’s just that I have their previous stuff :P )
Apocalyptica – The Life Burns Tour [DVD] (Apocalyptica is just awesome, or atleast unique)
Apocalyptica – Enter Sandman (Live in Düsseldorf)

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Some Beatles documentary, I like it.

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Dir en grey – Uroboros [CD] (Their newest album, it’s pretty good, not my favorite though)
Dir en grey – It Withers and Withers [DVD]
Dir en grey – A Knot Of [DVD]
(I’ve not seen any of the DVDs yet)

I found a lot of CDs from MUCC, so here:
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MUCC – 6 [CD]
MUCC – Homura Uta (葬ラ謳) [CD]
MUCC – Houyoku (鵬翼) [CD]

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MUCC – Kyutai (球体) [CD+DVD]
MUCC – Kyutai -Sphere- (球体 -sphere-) [CD+DVD]
MUCC – Shion (志恩) [CD+DVD][Limited Edition]
I’m not completely sure what’s up with those Kyutai albums, I figured they would be Edition A and Edition B, but it seems like they are 2 different versions of Edition A. (I think?)

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Pendulum – Hold your colour [CD] (Their best album in my opinion)
Pendulum – Live at Brixton Academy [CD+DVD] (Haven’t seen it yet)
Pendulum – In Silico [CD] (Honestly, not that good, in comparison to Pendulum’s other albums)
That means I have all their releases as of now :)
Pendulum – Slam

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Girugämesh – Girugämesh [CD] (Only missing one album by Girugämesh now)
D’espairs Ray – Mirror [CD]
An Cafe – Harajuku Dance Rock [CD+DVD] (Harajuku just reminds me of that shitty Gwen Stefani who stole the name of the most awesome style in the world and made some shitty crap out of it :( oh why, why couldn’t you just fuck off. An cafe on the other hand, is awesome)

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Eluveitie – Slania (Tour Edition) [CDx2]
Metal with a bagpipe, how can you not love it :P
Eluveitie – Inis Mona

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HORSE the band – The Mechanical Hand [CD] (HORSE the band – A Million Exploding Suns)
Dvořák – Symphony No. 9 ‘From the New World’ [CD] (4th movement, ’nuff said)
Andrew W.K. – I Get Wet [CD] (Party hard and get ready to die)

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Decay of the Angel – Decay of the Angel (?) [CD]
Monster-0 – Entertainment System [CD]
I randomly bought these, Decay just felt….broken (I don’t know how to word it) and monster-0 was quite boring.

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Moi Dix Mois – DIXANADU ~Fated “raison d’être”~ Europe Tour 2007 [DVD]
Mana

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Live at Wacken ‘07 (Limited edition) [DVDx3+backstage pass+one of those thingies you can sew to your pants, I don't know what they're called] (Wacken… need I say more?)

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The Berzerker – The Berzerker [CD]
The Berzerker – Dissimulate [CD] + The Principles and Practices of The Berzerker [DVD] [Limited Edition]
The Berzerker – World of Lies [CD+DVD]
The Berzerker – Animosity [CDx2]
The Berzerker – The Reawakening [CD+Poster+T-shirt]
I had Dissimulate and The Reawakening already, I just felt that I should get a picture of all five together :P

Well, that’s about it, atleast for the music. the rest will be following tomorrow.

I upgraded my room

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

Say hello to V2

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Now with added Proson Conquest 6020 MKII speakers :3

I also changed the architecture of the floor, it is now wood-based.

Inactivity

Friday, July 31st, 2009

Well, there haven’t really been that much happening lately.
The next interesting post will probably be this sunday or monday.
Except for that, I got into my 1st choice on schools. (I found out some time ago, but I can’t remember if I wrote anything about it)

And ey, if you like j-music check out Radwimps with the song いいんですか (iin desu ka, which mean something along the lines of “Is it okay?” If I’m not mistaken)
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They have some heavier stuff which sounds kind of similar to bands like sr-71, sum 41, like なんちって. (nanchitte, derives from nanchatte which means “just kidding”)
Both being cool songs :)

なんちって (Bad quality :( )

And this おしゃかしゃま
It’s kind of “technical” sounding, but it’s kinda cool.

And “4645″ is nice too, it’s entirely in english.
Well, that’s one song from each of their albums, excluding the first one.

Yeah, I’m making up for inactivity by posting music. :3

DJmax video

Thursday, July 9th, 2009

Fallen Angel LV8 Hard (4B)
Just trying out that psp-tv cable. :)

Now I have videos of Taiko, DJmax and Stepmania, I’ll probably do Beatmania, Guitar hero and possibly Ouendan sometime.

I sure do like buying stuff, eh?

Saturday, July 4th, 2009

X-Japan – The Last Live and X-Japan – Art of Live (Tokyo Dome 1993.12.31)
So yeah, live dvd’s from one of my favorite bands :3

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Jrock night\Soracon buying spree

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

So yeah, revealing most of what I ordered
First of, touhou games :3
The official ones (which were in stock)
Touhou 7 – Perfect Cherry Blossom
Touhou 8 – Imperishable Night
Touhou 9 – Phantasmagoria of Flower View
Touhou 9.5 – Shoot the Bullet
Touhou 11 – Mountain of Faith
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Too bad Embodiment of a Scarlet Devil weren’t in stock, it’s my favorite, and the first non-pc-98 touhou game.

And I got two Touhou spin-offs, Megamari (Like Megaman, just with a touhou theme\ characters\music, and まとめの音楽集その1 by “Moon Goddess”)
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Kinda dark picture, but what is haruhi characters doing on the cover…
And why does this page list it as a book?

http://doujinshi.mugimugi.org/book/145552/

It sure as hell doesn’t look like one, atleast mine does look an awful lot like a CD. >_>

Then there’s just one spin-off to go, it’s on its way, more on that when I get it.
Whatever, moving on…

A new headset, yes, I have one from Koss and one pair of Steelseries, but I wanted some smaller ones, I figured I should get some which are a little bit “exotic” or atleast unusual in comparison to what people around here usually have.
So I decided on XCalgo, some japanese brand, I noticed them over at akibaharanews some time ago and they looked pretty cool.
Here’s a GIF
Rawr xcalgo gif

Hmmmmmmmm…………
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I also got some manga, I don’t like to buy long series, I will make exceptions though, for series I really like, like Kare Kano and Urutsei Yatsura :3

First of we have:
Tenchi Muyo: Sasami Stories
It’s just a one shot, and it was cheap, so I thought “why not?”
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Next one:
Kare Kano
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I thought there were just like 1 book, but apparently there’s 21 volumes (IIRC)
I love mangas like this and Lovely Complex, I don’t know why, but these are now both amongst my all-time favorites.
At about 600 pages, this is huge.
Comparison shot:
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Last but not least, another random buy. (I influenced Nekoflaa to buy it too :P )
Mao-Chan (By Ran and Ken Akamatsu (Of Love Hina fame, one of the characters even bears a striking resemblance to Narusegawa from Love Hina))
Wikipedia says 4 volumes, but my version is just two slightly larger volumes. (There seems to be somewhere in between 100 and 200 extra pages with info and a side-story)
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Comparison shot again.
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It was so cheap, couldn’t not buy it. :P

And I needed a new bookmark, so yeah.
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And I got some YoruichiXSoifon fanart. :3
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That means I didn’t draw it.
I actually haven’t drawn anything in quite a while, still, a bunch of girls requested that I’d join Deviantart, which I now consider doing.

So yeah, I think this be it. :3