Brothers Conflict - Episode 11 [v.P]

Hey Bro! It's that time of the week! Only 2 more episodes to go!
(A slight delay in obtaining the raws this week, hence the late post.)

Conflict 11: Love and Hate.

Autumn 2013 Anime Previews

Now that Summer is over (in Japan) and Autumn is officially kicking in, despite the numerous tweets that Japan is still too hot, it's time to check out what's on the Autumn anime season and track down which ones will go on your 'to watch list'.

This website is very informative about the upcoming animes and I highly recommend it!

(I'm still trying to track down the compilation video of anime previews. I'll update once I find it.)

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So far I've got 40 animes on my 'To watch list' (@_@ That's over 20 hours each week; Or 3 hours each day... I am so dead), with 6 of them maybe dropping depending on the first (or second) episode. It seems like this season will be a sports anime season, having a total of 5 sports related animes. It appears that the Otome genre died down big time (I can only see at most two animes that lean towards the female fanservice lane), and Supernatural/Fantasy is the new wave to ride.

Kishio Daisuke's new single PV released

The PV for seiyuu Kishio Daisuke's upcoming, and his first, single 「0F〜Love forever〜」 was released today on YouTube. This PV features fellow seiyuus Hirakawa Daisuke, Maeno Tomoaki and Terashima Takuma. The single will be released in early October 2013.

This song is used as the Theme song for the Smartphone/tablet Otome game 『家政婦さんっ！～トキメク☆イケメン男子寮～』

Seiyuu appreciation post: Suzumura Kenichi

Psycho Pass second season and movie gets green light

A second season of Psycho Pass and a movie are currently in the works. Fans can look forward to these productions soon!
Source: animate

Making unlimited Wacom tablet nibs for under $6!

This is just a nice reference for me in future when my nibs wear out.
I discovered this nifty little post here.
No more having to spend your week's pay just for nibs for your tablet pen. All you need to do is head over to your closest hardware store!

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PSP get. Otome heart unlocked!

I finally got my hands on a PSP thanks to my good friend Megabubbletea.
Although it is a third-hand hand-me-down, I am still very very excited.

First things first, time to put the games onto the memory card. (Computer says it's going to take 30 minutes... @_@)
What games did I put on it?
Well the main reason why I craved for a PSP is because most otome games run on this system. Including my very much loved... UTA NO PRINCE SAMA!! and Brothers Conflict.
//I quickly scanned the user manual while waiting for the files to transfer//
Next is to customize the machine and explore all the buttons.

Special Azusa theme from BroConf.

The long awaited moment... UTA NO PRINCE SAMA!! Start from game one: Repeat! (well technically this isn't the first UtaPri game, but Repeat is the revamped version of the original game, ie. it has better CGs).

Hello babies!! Mama is coming for you!! -kiss kiss-

Uta no Prince sama new game confirmed

Today marks the release day of UtaPri Music2. The team had another surprise for us fangirls by updating their site with this picture.

There will be a continuation of the All Stars game!

The slogan on the picture says: Shall we continue our kiss. More sweet. More bitter.

Pumpkin's Palette: Levi/Rivalle (SnK)

Seriously, three months ago, I would've never dreamt of even attempting to draw Heichou. I can't believe I did it tonight...

This is my attempt of spoof off OnoD's promo PV for his upcoming mini album. You can watch it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1zaSv0JK_Y

I may as well throw in this WIP of Syo I drew a few days ago, which I am never going to finish:

Free! Character songs #3-#5 scores consecutive ranks 6-8

Oricon released their rankings for this week's new release, which include the three Free! character songs, by Rin, Rei and Nagisa. These boy scored a high ranking of 6 to 8. Congratulations!

Shingeki no Kyojin (Cosplay) - 「This love」

Remember this post about a SnK fan that drew a trace-over adaptation of Shinhwa's "This Love"?
A group of Chinese SnK cosplayers actually danced the whole song at a recent cosplay competition.
Isn't it awesome?

Uta no Prince sama Music2

The PSP game Uta no Prince sama Music2 will be released tomorrow!

But since 11 days prior to the release date there has been a special countdown on the main UtaPri website. Here's the log of countdown pictures!
Will we get a surprise picture on the day of release? Who knows but to wait for tomorrow!

Brothers Conflict - Episode 10 [v.P]

Hey Bro! It's that time of the week again!

Advanced apologies that I'm not going to spam much this week because: 1) This frame killed me when they aired it at the 4:28 mark, so much that I had trouble focusing in the rest of the episode, 

The producers are out to kill me,
by putting my two most treasured boys in the same frame.

and 2) My home internet died again, so I'm using my phone internet and it is super slow, so I can't upload many pictures.

Conflict 10: Equinoctial week (when Buddhist services are held)

Uta no Prince sama Maji 2000% Spinning Around

I've been wanting to make this UtaPri crack for a while now. Yes, I know, it's lame, but it's somewhat funny right? ... maybe...not...

BroConf #9 Rewatch

Rewatched last week's BroConf episode and noticed two things:

1) Since the cats were named after the twins, did SuzuKen or Tori-chan voice the cat meows as well? I mean it kinda sounds like Cecil's cat sounds (from UtaPri)? lol.

2) Okay this doesn't make sense. I googled that squirrels can live up to 20 years in captivity, and since Juli was alive when Chi was a baby, and Chi is now 16, this means Juli is at least 17 squirrel years old. Meaning he's an old grandpa. So how can he transform into this 15 y/o bishie!?

[Lyrics] 14 to 1 (Azusa 梓 ver.)

Part 2 of lyrics translation request. But before the lyrics let me introduce to you the BroConf "click and drag" game available here.

I'm extra happy that Kaname is my bf, but not sure if I'd like to date a player. I do believe that, if anyone, it would be Hikaru to save me from trouble, and Tsubaki steals my first kiss >/////<

Current mood: I'm tempted to attempt to translate or give an overview of the mini drama that also came bundled with the BD/DVD1. Does anyone actually want it? [Please reply if you do, otherwise I won't bother, cos translating drama CDs takes a lot more effort than translating songs].

Description: Kanji lyrics, Romaji lyrics and English translated lyrics of 14 to 1 (Azusa ver.).

Note: I couldn't find the scans of the lyrics booklet, so I got the lyrics from here. The parts in brackets ( ) in the English translation are there to help the meaning flow smoother.

The key thing to note in Azusa's version is that he uses the "polite form".

[Lyrics] 14 to 1 (Tsubaki 椿 ver.)

Current mood: Absolutely itching to draw, but I have no idea nor inspiration on what to draw. So I'll complete this request to translate Tsubaki and Azusa's version of 「14 to 1」 which came bundled with the first BD/DVD release.

Description: Kanji lyrics, Romaji lyrics and English translated lyrics of 14 to 1 (Tsubaki ver.).

Note: I couldn't find the scans of the lyrics booklet, so I got the lyrics from here. The parts in brackets ( ) in the English translation are there to help the meaning flow smoother.

The key thing to note in Tsubaki's version is that he uses "casual phrases" (example: changing "naru" form to "chau" form; and using "tari" instead of "suru"); so terms you would use when talking with your friends as opposed to talking to your elders - I tried to translate to more casual terms in English, but sometimes the casual-ness just doesn't come across so clearly.

Serah's Adventures: #1 Lucid Dreaming

Why hello again boys and girls! The reason for my prolonged absence is likely because I had nothing entertaining to talk about, rather than cram stupid details about my daily life like pictures of food and stuff and various identity crisis etc etc. I have decided to wait for something interesting to happen to me. And lo and behold it has!

So Lucid Dreaming; not sure if any of you have heard of it before, but basically its when you know you're dreaming in a dream. I've actually heard about this in various forms in the past but never really took it seriously until I discovered /r/LucidDreaming . Fascinating. Simply fascinating.

So how can you make yourself conscious in your subconscious? I had a discussion with my father about this topic and we basically agree that Lucid Dreaming is likely mentally moving your conscious into your subconscious while you are conscious and making this into a habit until it happens naturally when you dream. I will have to read more about this from reliable sources but this explanation sounds relatively plausible.

I take it everybody who likely will ever read this blog post has played Minecraft before? Well Lucid dreaming is basically Minecraft in creative mode, high definition and in virtual reality.

I won't bore you peeps with the minutae of how I managed to lucid dream. Long story short.
Keep a Dream Journal.
Develop a habit of Reality Checking ( My current fav is holding my nose and trying to breathe through it <-- doesn't appear too out of place when I do it in real life)
MILD

My First Lucid Dream
One day, after I had been woken up by various members of the household and attempted to go back to sleep whilst doing a FILD. I fell asleep reminding myself to Reality Check in a few minutes. Well I woke up and discovered I had stopped moving my fingers, instead it felt like there was something in my fingers... Chopsticks.
Chopsticks in my fingers in bed...
I moved them and they clicked like chopsticks are meant to.
I immediately did a reality check and thus my first Lucid Dream began!
(I tried out a few techniques that I had read about, spinning teleports don't work for me- i just started levitating instead =="- And I may be slightly terrified of doorways thanks to my magnanimous friend Rhycen)

Once again I won't go into the details of what I did, but it was AMAZING. Right now I can think back and it feels like a dream, but right after I had woken up, I honestly had to reality check again to see if I was still dreaming; it was that vivid.

There are so many things you can do in a lucid dream; build a personal dream base; fly; talk to your subconscious; make a dream teacher( remember your subconscious retains copious amounts of information that you have almost no access to in your conscious state- I can't wait to try studying with this technique! No more late nights for me!) The sky is the limit! And in this case your imagination is the limit!

Why dream normal when you can Lucid dream?

Uta no Prince sama Car

I NEED THIS CAR!!
Source: Twitter

Ono Daisuke's new mini album PV preview

The Lantis Youtube channel posted a short preview for OnoD's upcoming mini-album, Upstairs and Downstairs. The two songs being 「Kiss Kiss Kiss」 and 「モノクロの虹」 (Monokuro no Niji). 

Kiss Kiss Kiss shows off OnoD as a Casanova, much like his previous single Delight. While Monokuro no Niji goes for the serious wet look. Either way, be dazzled by this 35 year old man!

Miyano Mamoru new song 「Identity」 PV released

To promote Mamo's upcoming album 「Passage」, the PV for one of the songs, Identity, has been revealed!
I love the dance and the costumes!

Seiyuu appreciation post: Shimono Hiro and Suwabe Junichi

Just randomly selected a picture from my "Seiyuu" folder, so not to leave today's blog post blank; and I have to go to meeting tonight so no time to scroll through anime/music updates.

Uta no Prince-Summer! Update

Ooooo I never realised until Suwabe tweeted about it. Prince "SUMMER" is a pun on the "sama" of Uta no Prince sama, since they sound almost the same in Japanese.
Also, the Prince Summer site updated, announcing the 5th project, being Prince Summer goods. There will be clear files, note books, badges, poster and bracelets.

Brothers Conflict - Episode 9 [v.P]

HEY BRO! It's that time of the week again!! And we're gonna see Juli in his human form (or so the rumours say)...Will we??

Conflict 9: Illusion/Fantasy.
What did Ema see on the sheet of paper from last week's episode?

New Monster Hunter 4 videos

Recently, Capcom have been releasing more and more Monster Hunter 4 videos, and it's got me super hyped for its release!

Though we're still waiting on a western release date, I think it's safe to believe that it'll defenitely be released globally. I can't wait!

Rhycen

[Download] Free! - Iwatobi Channel Vol. 1 (イワトビちゃんねるVol.1)

Hey guys! I found a download link for Free!'s first radio CD, Iwatobi Channel Vol 1., HERE.
Just click on the "下載" button, the middle one.

Masato and Ren figurine model previews

While everyone is on a UtaPri high, here are more things to fangirl/boy over.
Here are the sample models for the soon-to-be-released Masato and Ren figurines!

Here's the Otoya and Ichinose figurines which are officially on sale tomorrow.

Source: here

Confirmed: New UtaPri project in the making!!

Yes, and it's official!! There's a new UtaPri project in store! A summer campaign from the boys! 

Official site is here. The campaign is held between 27 August 2013 to 9 September 2013.

The blurb on the bottom of the main picture translates to: "Here are the belated summer greetings from the 7 idols of Shining Office. Thanks to you, the idols had an eventful/wonderful 2013 Summer.  Thank you for you continuous support. Please continue to look forward to their future activities."
While the main slogan in the middle translates to: "Although we've become adults, we won't forget".

So far there's 4 events/projects listed on the site:
1) and 2) are about the huge posters on the Shibuya109 building. And it's kind of (funny) nice of the company to have this warning that while it's okay to take photos, customers should be careful of their surroundings, especially the traffic.
3) and 4) are about the release of UtaPri Music2 and to celebrate the release, you can get these character "clapping fliers(?)" (ぱたぱたチラシ) [I have no idea what they are...]

I'm sure there's more in store, so keep an eye out for them!

New UtaPri Project(?)!!

This morning the following photos have been circulating around twitter which shows new UtaPri posters on the Shibuya 109 building promoting a new project! No other details of the project has been announced yet, but from the pictures it looks like it involves the Summer theme, and the slogan on the main poster says: "Although we've become adults, we won't forget".

[Piano Sheet Music] Devil Survivor 2 The Animation OST 2 Track 10 アルコルとヤマト

One track down. 20 more to go?

This is one of the sadder pieces of OST2. 

Please support my work here and give me some stars! Thanks.

Seiyuu appreciation post: Fukuyama Jun

Recorder to Randoseru Mi☆ Episode 7 [v.P]

Suwabe appeared in this week's Recorder to Randoseru Mi as Yoshioka senpai!
Why does Suwabe always get thrown with all these cheesy lines (lol!).

[Cosplay] Devil Survivor 2

(Hibiki) 久世響希 @ Sara - Tousa Bao
(Yamato) 峰津院大和 @ DD-Tenka(風牙護)