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Wednesday, October 20, 2004 @ 01:42 p.m.
WA3 can be frustrating as I kept on looking for the next dungeon. I had spent hours going around and around. One of which turned out to be just an island away from the beach where I left and I had almost gone around the world. ^^;; I’m really feeling like Zoro. The directions aren’t helping either that one time I got all confused how to read a compass. Argh. So now, I just downloaded a map of the world of WA3. Time is wasting for going around and around all over the place.
I’m still reading MARS when I’m in the mood. I think in the drama series, they made the plagiarist the same guy as the guy with the suicidal tendencies. I think he does fit the part for he can really look really scary at times and he does seem to be a bit feminine in his ways – the time that tend to be bullied but he doesn’t look like a girl as in the summaries tend to imply. I tend to think of it as somewhat like in HYD. The usual conversation and shock is on ‘you haven’t done it yet?’ ^^;;
I guess I’m the old fashion type. I don’t like to get things fast but then, I’m not into pre-marital sex. I can’t help comparing it to SB! ^^;; I like it when it slowly develops and well, a little comedy won’t hurt. Hehehe...though SB! has lots of them. For now, it is my favorite shoujo manga.
 Tuesday, October 19, 2004 @ 11:29 a.m.
The newspaper ad of the US version of Grudge seemed to be a bit wrong. I was wondering why is Sadako’s hair and eye is there when in Grudge, the main ghost is the young blue boy though his mother side kick is like Sadako but then, she doesn’t seem to have that ‘eye’. I was guessing that ‘Three’ is about a family of four but one of them isn’t really one of them hence the title but it turned out to be meaning three horror stories in one. ^^; Then, there is that Doll Maker, which features beautiful Korean, dolls in life size but then, it kills. The girl in the ad looks pretty.
Endless Love Autumn and Summer is being shown in Wowow and I guess Winter wasn’t much of a hit. Could it be because of the lead? Hehehe They had a short clip on the movies done by the lead and he can pretty much look different based on the hair. Amazing. Then, another clip on Won Bin – his movies. It is noticeable that it is the guys, which are of importance than the girls in these dramas. Hehehe My mom haven’t seen Summer Scent yet but Wowow is showing it in Korean dub and Jap subtitles. It is hard to play guessing game here. Oh ya, the most popular, of course, is the original Autumn. I’m thinking spring will be coming up soon to complete the four seasons.
In Magic Mi Lo Mi Lo, I’m beginning to really not like the two leads in the anime. I am beginning to like the ‘antagonists’ ^^;; They were having a vacation and the lead girl is busy making goo-goo eyes on the lead. Red elf tried to spoil the party and as usual it backfires on him and it caused them all to be locked out of the house. His master [girl] tried to make him magic the rain away but red elf ended up being blown by the wind to the sea. Guess who saved him? It was the rich kid but then, he ended up drowning. ^^; Mi Lo saved them and ended up gloating. I don’t like the blue elf nor the girl elf that tends to make something worse with her magic. Anyway, I think the other girl and the rich guy makes a nice couple. I hope they snap out of being in love with the undeserving leads.
I got GB voodoo child 8 and I didn’t quite get what is happening. ^^;; I’m basing on what I read from other blogs. Maria is told by Ban’s grandmother to send the voodoo children where they belong then Maria wore a battle outfit. Why am I think of Chun Li here? ^^; Somewhere else, Queen is busy preparing for the stadium and something about mirrors. A guy with glasses who had a feel of a villain from Saiyuki caught someone eavesdropping. He put a curse on him that he should not tell others what he had heard but he didn’t so he died.
Akabane is now leading Himiko to some place called Sodom. I think it has something to do with her and her mirror twin’s destiny. Near Mugenjou, Kadz [back at his old outfit – I guess the Chinese dress is just a disguise then] asked Jubei and Toshiki to help him by joining the contest but they would still need two more people. Sakura came to join them as she holds a cloth wherein it is written Fuuga.
Monday, October 18, 2004 @ 04:15 p.m.
Last Saturday night, we went out to treat a cousin who came home from Canada to visit. My nephew had tagged along with us. He was basically the main entertainer of the night. His school is sure is teaching him well. He is more fluent in English than in the local language. I think Spiderman 2 had quite an impact on him. He likes Dr. Octopus. ^^;; I think he had even memorized the lines from the movie, talking about getting the ‘-ium’ forgot the mineral that the character is in need of. Well, I guess watching cartoons and movies made him more fluent in English.
Since Saturday, our store’s phone lines are dead. Not just us but the whole block! It was being fixed only today and it turned out that someone/a thief had stolen 3 meters of the phone line most probably to sell it. My father said that it is the sign of the times – many are poor for even the cover for the drainage has to be chained down for it had been stolen many times. Our workers are even taking vale already on their next week’s salary aside from a bigger amount of money which they ‘loan’ and later on, pay on a weekly basis of whatever they have extra from the salary.
Yesterday, I check the games which I asked sis to buy. I got Star Ocean again and this one is working fine. I do find the dialogue a bit slow and teeny bit irritating. I guess it is a bit boring at first for I had repeated the first part a lot of times before when testing the defective one before. There is still no ZOE2 and I am beginning to lose hope that I’ll get this one. Then, I got Shadow Hearts:Covenant which is a bit fun to play and had a bit of FF feel to it. The judgment ring isn’t hard as I expected and the plot is interesting. It is like re-writing history and inserting some things on ‘demons’ and stuff. The setting is in Europe. I don’t think they will explain what had happened in the first part though. Anyway, I want to finish WA3 first – I tend to get confused with plots and ‘ways of playing a game’ if I play multiple games at once.
Asher gave me complete summary of MARS which I haven’t finished reading. I am still at the part that explains the reason about the lead’s twin’s death. Ah, so that is what had happened. I do need some catching up for the drama is now at visiting the lead’s father. I find the drama a bit slow. Mom watched Snow Angel that will be ending next week. I do think there is a line to be crossed when one falls in love with one’s brother’s wife to the fact that the brother was almost a saint. Based on that knowledge, I don’t like the leads of the story. The girl is pretty whiny and irritating. The one who suffered most seem to be the brother to even kneel down on the bad guy just so that the bad guy would free that ungrateful wife and to the fact that the younger brother/lover didn’t do it.
Now, the girl had settled down in some province church, teaching kids. The brother gave up on the woman and letting her go for his younger brother. The younger brother doesn’t want to get the woman anymore for he is thinking of his brother. I hope it would stay that way but no, I guess not. Oh well, at least the brother’s assistant seemed to be more deserving than the woman.
Then, I watched a bit of Fun Fun Race or something like that which features MARS – how did we do that ‘stunts’ and bloopers, I guess. I skipped that and waited for Norick’s appearance. Hehehe He had the girl host ride at the back as he races. Then, after a 30 minute wait, I watched a game show to know what is being released in PS2. Not much interesting except for MGS3 which will be out by December and I’m thinking this is the Jap release. There is also a GS game and I was a bit spoiled by ZOE2 that I guess it is a so-so game but then, it is in Jap.
Yesterday, I didn’t get to watch KnGB because I got my vcr fixed – it had conked. I went out to go to church with sis then met with bro. We were suppose to eat outside but I got ‘kidnapped’ by my niece and nephew that they wouldn’t let go so we ended up eating at their house. It was late so sis and bro-in-law stayed at our house. Bro-in-law has been playing Spiderman 2 and even before he left.
I did learn from him that the voter’s id is not a recognized id because he told me about someone wanting to get his/her money out of the closed bank, the teller? said that they wanted another id to support the voter’s id because it isn’t recognize or well, no value? ^^; So much for getting it for that purpose then.
Saturday, October 16, 2004 @ 03:17 p.m.
I checked it on the net and indeed, the guy in Grenadier, Yajirou is voiced by Zoro’s va. It was said to be based on a manga and the story is like a cross between Trigun and Scrapped Princess. Well, it does have that Scrapped Princess ‘feel’ to it.
I finally got the FMA scans. Ed and Alex had already arrived at their destination. They had just passed the little girl from Xing and I was hoping that they meet already. Hehehe Anyway, Ed was surprised to see Breda meeting them. They then met with a Xing elder and will be going to some ruins – outside the country illegally [without their passports]. Then, after the journey, Ed saw a huge circle alchemy type drawing in the ruins of a city, which was said to have been destroyed overnight. I was thinking something regarding the ‘gate’ here. Anyway, they found Ross alive.
Elsewhere, the other homunculi are arguing with Wrath as to why he let Roy and the others go. He said that he would try to make Roy open the gate using his ‘weakness’. Father let him do as he planned and left his seat. I thought he was always stuck at his mechanical seat. ^^; At the hospital, Roy is reprimanding Riza [Hawkeye] for losing her will to fight after being told by Lust that he had died. Then, Havoc was shown alive as they talked about being ‘cooked’ hehehe Unfortunately, Havoc couldn’t move his legs anymore but then, there is a ray of hope for the Xing alchemists are known for their healing. ^_^ They discussed as to what they would do next and if it is good to trust the Fuhrer.
At Ed’s hometown, Pinako was browsing over the album when Hohemheim, Ed and Al’s father, came. Den was barking loudly at him and based on the album, he hasn’t changed much. Also, based on the chin and beard, Hohemheim’s is the same with Father’s. I think it could be the same person for their father is said to be well versed on regards with the Philosopher’s stone. And, that’s it. Next chapter would have a lot of explanations like how did Ross escaped, Lan Fan explanation of the ‘aura’ of the homunculi and well, Hohemheim’s sudden appearance.
I think the GB scans in Chinese is a bit behind based on what I have read to be the latest in certain blog. Things are getting interesting indeed. Akabane seems to know Ban’s father who could be actually living in Babylon. It was speculated that is why Ban went to Mugenjou before but only get to see Ginji. It seems that if one wins in the Queen’s cup, the winner can live in Babylon.
Friday, October 15, 2004 @ 02:40 p.m.
I watched late last night a new anime in Wowow. The title is Grenadier. I was thinking why it was shown late at night – 0030 at Jap time but then, the heroine’s breasts are way too big so it got be a case of not fit for young children. I wasn’t able to watch the opening and I almost forgot to watch it. The story started with some samurai-type people attacking a fortress wherein the people there had captured an old man. They all had guns so the ones invading are at a disadvantage for all they have are swords.
Then, there is this boy teen who is helping them but he got surrounded and fell off a cliff. In a hot spring, he got to see the heroine [cow girl outfit] taking a bath. She helped hid him from the enemy. Then, she followed him to the fortress and outgunned all of the people there. It is quite unbelievable but then, a cowgirl in Japanese setting is already unbelievable. Anyway, it is interesting where she gets the bullets for her gun – the in-betweens of her breasts. ^^;;
They freed the old man and went on their way. I think the boy teen is some sort of helping people with a fee type for I thought he is with the others. He has this ultra long katana. The two traveled together as the girl rushes to go to another hot spring – she loves dipping in them. The ending is in hot spring. The art is good and well, fight scenes even a bit unbelievable are pretty cool. The boy isn’t really a pervert but then, he can be a bit shy type. His va sounded awfully familiar. At first, I thought it was Ban then maybe one of the guys in Saiyuki like Sanzou but then, maybe it was Zoro.
Ban: Maybe none of them.
Ya, but I have heard it somewhere. The eye catches were pretty cool, too. The two poses with their weapon. Based on the ending, there will be a kid who will be with them. Oh ya, there is also some sort of goddess in the story. I have no idea what’s the deal with that. I did get to see some anime/manga promo stuff and in Newtype, it features Anthrun for Gundam Seed Destiny. I really think he outshined Kira in GS. ^^; Regarding this new series, it is interesting and I might watch some more, that is, if I didn’t forget to watch it.
I’m quite surprised that I got scans of not yet ‘officially released’ magazines yesterday ahead of schedule. SB! already has been scanned and translated and it was suppose to be out by the 20th. Kyoko has a dilemma on how to tackle the role when the director had an anxiety attack/hyperventilating after he was told to be copying his father that he tried all his life to not copy. Good thing that Ren knows how to calm him down though I’m interested as to what Ren told him to make him calm down. Then, Ren helped get Kyoko some extra time to ponder on how to do her role and at the end, she managed to know how to do it.
Meanwhile, Sho is going to a station with his manager who is trying not to let him know about the high profile drama show Ren and Kyoko is doing when she realized that they are heading to the station which produced the show. Hehehe That would be fun. I wonder how he would react. I had downloaded the parts of SB! that I wanted to see and leave the rest when I get the manga. I do find that Ren and Kyoko are a match especially both had ‘devil’ faces hehehe and had some sort of love problem. I’m also interested in when Ren gets to the mode of ‘wanting to ‘kill’ the other guy’ as suggested of Lory regarding being in love. Poor Sho, he might ended up with two people wanting to ‘kill’ him. I do notice that there are instances when Ren notes of Kyoko’s behavior changes as to when he met her before and gets to blame it all to Sho. Anyway, it will be a two weeks wait for the next release. Volume 8 will be out by the 19th so the Chinese might be out next month.
In OP, which was also released, scanned and translated early, Luffy and the others decided to stakeout at Iceberg’s mansion for Robin will surely come back. They plan to talk/capture her. All of the shipwrights and the people are guarding Iceberg for they are also sure the assassins will come back to finish the job. Frankie seemed to be going there, too. Then, a high heeled shoe was shown, probably Robin’s. Elsewhere, Usopp is busy fixing Going Merry.
Tuesday, October 12, 2004 @ 04:11 p.m.
I tried my luck again last night to check if there are SB! scans and yup, I did found one. It is in simplified Chinese and not quite clear but it is okay. At least, I finally found it. ^-^ They are now shooting for the movie/drama. I thought Ren was acting as a student because of his outfit but it seems that he is the teacher. I begin to think that kid Ren looked nowhere near what he looks now for Kyoko not to recognize him. I can’t wait for that time but then, it will be a long wait. I didn’t quite get what is happening because of the simplified Chinese which are quite difficult to decipher.
I read a brief summary of FMA. I guess the theory about Maria Ross was right. When it was mentioned in the forum, I re-read the scans and the possibility is there for her to be alive. I did notice that one of Roy’s men is missing in action. Well, I guess Roy is quite intelligent after all and not as brutal as he was depicted to be at that part. Anyway, more on this when I get the scans.
I checked out the over-hyped anime [here] Ragnanok which is basically two people, a swordsman and I think, a healer type traveling and meeting with a magician to stop some bullies. I thought the magician was a ‘power’ woman but she turned out to be a wimp just because her blindfold came off. She said that it is for practice but then, her alibi of not wanting to fight because it is off is really lame. ^^;
Monday, October 11, 2004 @ 03:40 p.m.
While I was cleaning the aquarium when I realized one of the fishes is missing. ^^; I couldn’t find the body if it was dead and it was only when I saw some of the eels gathering around a place when I saw what was left of it. ^^; Now I’m thinking if my theory on blood worms is not right. It was okay the other day though. Oh well, this is when my brother tells me that I suck at taking care of fishes. ^^;
I wasn’t able to start KnGB since I was watching bro-in-law playing Viewtiful Joe yesterday. Well, Takamine and Gash are fighting an ice-based enemy and after a lot of injuries when Takamine figured out the enemy’s secret and weak point that made them win. They were suppose to rescue their friend but it turned out, all that fight was for nothing since the enemy didn’t got her in the first place – she was actually sick at home. ^^; Before disappearing, the enemy hinted that there is another kid who looked exactly like Gash in London. The next episode is about the school’s field trip.
Sunday, October 10, 2004 @ 08:18 p.m.
We went to this Chinese charity bazaar this afternoon since sis got some coupons [money] to buy some stuff there. Since it is for charity, the stuff being sold are quite expensive like for something that can be bought for a 100, it is 600 there, that is for glass candies [for display]. In the end, sis managed to buy some stuff to more or less get the money worth of the coupon than nothing at all. There are a lot of people there – looking around on how to buy off their coupons.
Since brother-in-law is here, I asked him to play Viewtiful Joe to jump over that tub. It is irritating to see him do it effortless and in one try. ^^;;; Sis just have to say, isn’t that what you can’t do in games – jump. Sigh. Anyway, finally get to go beyond it and is now in chapter 4.
I managed to get Chinese scans of GB. ^_^ It is from the site before where I got OP. Anyway, GB visited Maria after being commissioned by Akabane to get back Mirror Himiko. They learned more about the voodoo children. Ginji is being cute again. I think he loves going there to have fun – karaoke and eat lots of food. On their way home, Ban told him the deal with Himiko’s brother on how he got killed.
The Dark/Mirror of Himiko’s brother, Yamato appeared on that day. So, this is the reference to Ring 0, they are actually two people not just like in Clamp wherein it is just one person as if it is just a split personality type. Yamato who seemed to be quite beaten up though I don’t know who told Ban to kill the other one. Yamato managed to make the other one to stop moving but then Ban killed the other one, Yamato became one with the mirror Yamato and died. Poor Ban was pretty much shocked over what he did. Yamato said it is okay and asked him to prevent it from happening to Himiko. It was on Yamato’s 28th birthday when it happened, the mirror of himself will come to..ah I guess kill him or merge with him. For Himiko, it is on her 17th birthday which will be coming soon.
Ginji told him that it is no problem for he believed in Ban ever since that he isn’t a bad guy. So, they vowed to save Himiko and get Mirror Himiko back. Somewhere else, Akabane met with Himiko in a place with lots of circus type people. He killed some people then from the screen appeared Mirror Himiko. Himiko was pretty much shock when she saw herself. Akabane called mirror Himiko Queen and seemed to ask permission to join in a certain fight. Then, after defeating the rest of the goons, Himiko saw a refection of herself on the water puddle. She stopped and seemed to went to her ‘evil self’ Then Akabane asked why is she using/carrying a very dangerous perfume. Himiko was confused as to why then Akabane asked if her birthday was coming soon. Himiko got more confused as she realized that it was the feeling of the Queen that got into her. Akabane then told her that it is for them to go and something about her not being suitable for being bloody or maybe it was sacrifice. I’m beginning to wonder why Akabane is doing this for Himiko unless he had a different agenda for he did talked with the Specialist after talking with GB about the mission.
I did observe that Akabane’s hair had grown, it is already at his chest. His sword from his hand reminded me of Arashi’s. ^^; Ban seemed to have mellowed down for he doesn’t tend to keep on beating on Ginji anymore when Ginji was being silly. Well, maybe in these chapters – it is a serious theme. There are some silly scenes wherein Maria imitated Sailor Moon pose ^^; , when in the nude which affected Ginji but not Ban and Maria trying to ‘kill’ Ban if he insulted her for being old. Hehehe
In OP, Luffy and Nami retreated. Usopp managed to hide when they were looking for them in the ship. Zoro is also on the run. Sanji and Chopper managed to see Robin who had already bid them goodbye and thanked them for stand up to her all this time. Sanji tried to chase after her but she is gone. Chopper went to tell the news to the others who were hiding. I think Sanji went off to find Robin. Now, they are wondering if Robin is indeed an enemy or a friend. So, now there are two members who wanted out of the crew. Anyway, this is what I had understood in the Chinese scans. I will correct if I read the English translation.
I didn’t watch MARS again for I was watching with mom – Snow Angel. It is just a love polygon and it is already ending. It was after that when I realize it though my intent was just browsing it. Then, I got to see cute Norick again and some ‘how we did it’ scenes in MARS for Vic doesn’t really know how to ride a motorbike. Then, I waited for the game show that turned out to be in another channel. ^^;;
They featured Naruto 2 fighting game. I find it amusing that Sakura managed to defeat Gaara using a technique which the woman sensei tried to do to Itachi. Then, there is that huge ‘real side’ of Sakura squeezing Gaara like what she did to Ino but then, that is quite unbelievable. Another funny thing was Naruto tries to do his sexy technique to Neji and Sasuke. Hehehe Anyway, Tales of Symphonia looks good though the cg made them looked like kids. The anime is nice though and the lead reminded me of another character, which I can’t seem quite able to figure out who.
Saturday, October 9, 2004 @ 04:20 p.m.
There was an earthquake here last night at intensity 6 then a brownout. It was a good thing that I had already closed the lights on the aquariums. Well, when I was calling my brother if he is okay, he told me to check the aquariums to see if water had spilled out. Sure enough, it was all wet outside. I had to mop it all up before going to sleep.
I kept on forgetting to mention that I had seen the GB anime ending. It is pretty abrupt though. It is pretty weird to see Akabane walking casually on the streets with that get up but I guess if it is in Japan, it won’t be that weird, he would be cosplaying. ^^; But then, this is an alternate world so I guess it is okay. The manga just never depicted him walking around like that. Kagami is much more love sick guy it seems having taken pictures of Himiko but then, Kagami can actually spy on someone’s every move so I guess that is not quite believable. And, of course, Ban and Ginji looking lovingly at each other’s eyes seems awkward for me. ^^;;
An update on Bleach, Ichigo had just saved Rukia. Well, more or less, that’s it but he sure had a nice entrance. Hehehe But then, some guy is lurking around.
I just watched Bowling for Columbine which is a famous documentary on guns and the USA. Mm..I didn’t know that Canadians don’t lock their doors. I do know that in Japan they do that, too though. I just realize that is what tv news crew in Japan do when they go into hotels/hot springs/restaurants – well, to interview about food that is. I also didn’t know that people could buy bullets at big grocery stores either. Interesting. But then, they did make that store to stop selling the bullets. I don’t quite know what NRA is though – something about a group that are pro-gun, I guess. That cartoon history sure helped though. Hehehe But then, it didn’t really quite answer the question why are there more gun killing there than in other countries. It did touch on poverty as the reason though – well, for one case.
Saturday, October 9, 2004 @ 04:20 p.m.
There was an earthquake here last night at intensity 6 then a brownout. It was a good thing that I had already closed the lights on the aquariums. Well, when I was calling my brother if he is okay, he told me to check the aquariums to see if water had spilled out. Sure enough, it was all wet outside. I had to mop it all up before going to sleep.
I kept on forgetting to mention that I had seen the GB anime ending. It is pretty abrupt though. It is pretty weird to see Akabane walking casually on the streets with that get up but I guess if it is in Japan, it won’t be that weird, he would be cosplaying. ^^; But then, this is an alternate world so I guess it is okay. The manga just never depicted him walking around like that. Kagami is much more love sick guy it seems having taken pictures of Himiko but then, Kagami can actually spy on someone’s every move so I guess that is not quite believable. And, of course, Ban and Ginji looking lovingly at each other’s eyes seems awkward for me. ^^;;
An update on Bleach, Ichigo had just saved Rukia. Well, more or less, that’s it but he sure had a nice entrance. Hehehe But then, some guy is lurking around.
I just watched Bowling for Columbine which is a famous documentary on guns and the USA. Mm..I didn’t know that Canadians don’t lock their doors. I do know that in Japan they do that, too though. I just realize that is what tv news crew in Japan do when they go into hotels/hot springs/restaurants – well, to interview about food that is. I also didn’t know that people could buy bullets at big grocery stores either. Interesting. But then, they did make that store to stop selling the bullets. I don’t quite know what NRA is though – something about a group that are pro-gun, I guess. That cartoon history sure helped though. Hehehe But then, it didn’t really quite answer the question why are there more gun killing there than in other countries. It did touch on poverty as the reason though – well, for one case.
Friday, October 8, 2004 @ 11:12 a.m.
Magic Mi Lu Mi Lu is starting to bore me fast. I guess the target audience is really young since the plot is going nowhere. Actually, it is more or less like one episode with not much continuation in mind. The elves most of the time, try to out beat each other while the two females are out to get one guy. Of course, the evil schemes always backfires on the antagonists. ^^; It is really silly. The guy whom they are after doesn’t seem to be that ‘good’ anyway. Well, it would be funny if he didn’t fell for any of the two.
FMA anime has ended last Saturday, I think. From what I understood, well, it does seem to be a sad yet happy ending. It makes me really wonder about the manga. In the anime, Ed sacrificed himself to bring Al back and he got lost in the gate while Al is back to his human self but then, back when he was young without any memories of their adventures. There are a lot of things inserted in the anime that are not in the manga so I cannot quite follow it regarding Dante and being in England in real time – meeting with Einstein. ^^;;
Well, there is a movie so it might finish off what it has left off. Bones animated this one so one would noticed that they do love complicated themes much like in Rahxephon and Wolf’s Rain. I don’t know about Cowboy Bebop though. Since FMA anime had finished, it is now the start of Gundam Seed Destiny.
I have read that FMA author was from a province where they have a dairy farm. Now, I get it why she mascots herself as a cow and that the Elric brothers are from the country. Okay, even Roy is from the country. Hehehe
WA3’s plot is becoming like its predecessors. Jet is reminding me of the lead in the first part. He looks human but maybe not human and a key to what is happening. The human turned demon enemy physical appearance also reminded me of the lead in the first part or was it the second part. ^^;; Well, it is the same predicament as the one at the second part.
Thursday, October 7, 2004 @ 02:38 p.m.
So much for ZOE2, it seemed that all their copies are defective at the same places and since I don’t like their other titles, I will just get the one I like next time. I did tested Gungrave 2 [forgot the real title], I think I read about it in Unicorn’s blog. The anime is nice but the gameplay, not really. I have very poor control over what is happening that in one minor fight, the shield got depleted already. I worried what more if it is the major fight so I didn’t buy it.
So, I don’t have ZOE2 and Star Ocean. It somewhat comforted me that another customer complained that her second disc is defective, to the dismay of the kids, I assume. As they say, misery loves company. I guess there Star Ocean copies are also defective. I’m still torturing myself for not playing it through at the 3-day deadline to return it. Well, at least I learned my lesson that I tested ZOE2 thoroughly this time.
I’m also looking if there is still a copy of Shadow Hearts. IGN had rated it very low that I didn’t buy and I didn’t really see it in stores though after surfing the net lately, it is a ‘depends’ game for some hated it while others loved it type of game. The second part has already been release and it was said to be good. Unfortunately, it is a continuation of the first part. So, I was thinking it would help if I get the first game.
About the fishes in the last entry, I forgot to mention my convicts. ^^;; It was only while I was cleaning when I remembered them. Gomen neh, my little white convicts. There is also an empty aquarium. My brother wanted to be the one who would design it and was contemplating on cichlids. I let him have it as his ‘project’ to de-stress himself. He had been obsessing over French Bulldogs lately. I asked if he would buy one. He said, no but he hoped someone would give him one. ^^;; He asked me to look for the net for pictures of the dog and where it is being sold in the country.
Wednesday, October 6, 2004 @ 11:44 a.m.
I found myself watching that shoujo anime Magic Mi Lo Mi Lo. ^^; Mi Lo’s younger brother came and wanted to say with his brother’s mistress. The brother doesn’t want to and now, they went off to find a master for me. Much to the anguish of the younger brother, it was a guy, not a girl. The new guy is the typical pampered rich boy but this one doesn’t have the ego. He tends to have a double face for he is really a crybaby. Because of the lead being nice to him, he had fallen for him. Hence begins the love polygon.
The second ZOE2 I got is still defective. Argh, this is becoming frustrating but then, that is what happens when one buys bootlegs. Sis told me it is the same with DVD movies. In WA3, a character there reminds me of Seichirou of X – complete with glasses and a family. So far, it is a breeze through game and good thing that it has horses so I can cover more ground while looking for the new places. It also has this automatic play when it is just the minor monsters. I push X and the computer just blasts them away while I do some other things and get back after they finish. Hehehe Well, it does seem to defeat the reason why one plays games eh?
Later in the afternoon, I will clean the aquarium. I begin to wonder if it was because I feed them bloodworms before that they tend to get sick easily. It happened in the large aquarium. The swordtails are dying one by one. I decided to stop feeding them bloodworms and somewhat the dying stopped. Bro-in-law’s arowana was given to us because their feng-shui master told them that it is not compatible with him – something about not good in health. Lately, he learned that he had some eye problem that he wanted to give the arowana to us as soon as possible. ^^; So now, it is now in our house, eating for it haven’t eaten for the first week that it had arrived here.
One flowerhorn has this weird ailment of shedding mucus substance and making it just stay near the floor of the aquarium. It is okay after changing the water wherein the mucus thingies just dropped away. Just last week, I changed the water then after it shredded those things, I changed the water again. I was thinking that if it is still in the water, it could cling back to the fish again. So far, it is okay now. So now I have a two community tanks, 3 flowerhorns, 1 arowana and well, a pail of three sick fishes which I think are post-mortem but then, I don’t have the heart to kill them deliberately as in euthanasia.
Tuesday, October 5, 2004 @ 10:52 a.m.
Mmm...it does seem that WA3 had also the same theme with hints of end of the world – darkness will engulf the planet, etc. I somewhat felt sorry for the heroine. She saved her town and she got slapped for it. ^^; That is for being reckless and then another slap when she is trying to chase a guy who kept on ‘tricking’ her by another drifter who said that that guy is doing what a drifter does. Huh? I didn’t quite get it. I do remember what I don’t like about this game and that is I’m always lost at some part in the ‘world’ trying to locate the next place to go.
Ban: Doesn’t that happen to you on other games?
Well, ya, I guess I know how Zoro feels. Aside from my electronic jinx lately, I guess bootlegs hate me, too these days. I got ZOE2 and yup, it was way better than the first part. I can target lots of enemies and fire that fireworks type weapon. It was very pretty just like in Gundam anime. The gaming works fine but the opening freezes near the end, which is a bummer. I had it changed to make sure that at the end of the game, it doesn’t freezes at the movie part. They made the story part in anime-style unlike the first one, which is in cg.
In OP, Luffy did managed to talk to Iceberg who did told him that it was Robin. Iceberg wanted to see Robin again but Luffy doesn’t know where she is. Iceberg then ordered everyone to get them. Somewhere else, Frankie was chatting with the woman from the train station. Then, there was a mention of CP9, which turned out to be an assassination group. At some place, the guy was talking to Robin about going back to Iceberg and making sure they get ‘it’ which I guess was the ship which the government also wanted.
Oh ya, last weekend, I thought FMA was going to be shown on tv. ^^; They had an ad of it so I tried to get the schedule but it turned out to be just a promotion for the dvd. But then, I’m somewhat thinking twice about it since from the way the ending is being revealed, it was really out of this world. ‘The manga was way better’ was the usual comments. The new chapter might be out by next week. ^_^
There is much talk on the new Chinese movie ‘2046’ I actually saw the ad in the Taiwanese channel and told it was very artsy with lots of famous actors and actresses in it who are known for their great acting. It turned out to be a movie just being shown, at first, I thought it will be shown on the television. ^^; The maker of the film was Wong Kar-Wai known for his works like Chungking Express and In the Mood for Love. I guess that is why the list of actors/actresses were those he had used before. I think Tony Leung [the bsho one] tends to be his lead actor in most of his films. The plot is as always a bit confusing one. I was surprised that Takuya Kimura is in this movie. I didn’t recognize him in the pictures. He seemed all grown up already or maybe it was the look – the rugged type that he doesn’t do in this dramas. And as usual, the cinematographer is Christopher Doyle who won lots of awards for his works with Wong Kar-Wai.
Monday, October 4, 2004 @ 11:04 a.m.
I couldn’t sleep the whole night thinking of what to do with the game Star Ocean since it kept on hanging at the battle scenes. Should I re-align it again or what but the cd is fine though, the PS2 just couldn’t read it. This morning, I called up the store and it turned out that the game is defective. ^^;; I would just have to wait for new copies and hopefully that would work. Okay...sigh, lately, my nerves are quite edgy and I don’t know why. Having nightmares about death lately doesn’t help either.
So, the RPG game I’m playing is Wild ARMS 3. Even though the art is a bit weird, it is okay to play with it. I had already finished the four players prologue. It is about drifters, people who went from place to place – doesn’t want to be stuck in one place – free as a bird. Two are bounty hunter while the other two are just beginner drifters. I wonder if like the other WAs, it will be soon about the end of the world type.
In KnGB, Gash and Takamine bash Mars and his owner and defeated them with a little help from Tio. Then, when Tio wanted to fight them, Gash and Takamine thanked them and wanted to go back to the concert. Tio and Oomi were confused and asked why they are not fighting since to be king, there can only be one. Gash said that it is okay for him that Tio be king since she is nice. He wanted to be a tender king. As thanks, Oomi gave them a t-shirt with her name. They enjoyed the concert as Oomi sang. Tio sleeps nearby happily that she has friends.
It is amusing that GB is now becoming Clamp-ish as a blogger wrote that GB authors should stop reading Clamp and well, watching Ring-0. It turned out that GB is borrowing some things from those two. From what I read from the comments, Himiko has a split personality being a Voodoo Child. So, she is now Dark Himiko. ^^; Mm..like Dark Hinoto or Dark Fuuma in X. It seemed that she is an assassin and at age, ah, was it 16 or 17, they will convert to their assassin personalities. Dark Himiko has a liking for mirrors = Kagami? The split personality is actually a soul of an aborted child called back from hell so Himiko has two souls in her. Maria was tasked to send voodoo children back to hell and if Ban didn’t do it, she will. Anyway, it seemed that there is a new battle arena type - and it will be a group of 5. Meanwhile, the side story is about Kadzuki and the black thread person, I guess. I think I’m too far behind to even wonder what’s happening already. I’m surprised that Fuuga [Kadz’s group] has another mysterious member and Sakura used to be in that group. Eh? So, the two siblings are with Kadz before. ^^;; I wonder if it was mentioned only in the new chapters or I didn’t read the past chapters well. ^^;;
Ban: How can you read them well when you can’t hardly understand most of it?
^^; Well, if only there were GB translations. Unfortunately, if it is licensed, most of the time, translations are also gone. About Naruto, I’m not too happy that he lost. It made me wonder what was that fight all about when Sasuke did manage to get away after all. So, all the chasing and in the end, the mission had failed. Well, at least there will be a new arc.
Sunday, October 3, 2004 @ 11:36 a.m.
Well, I’m feeling a bit better now after a day rest and playing PS2. I realized that the ZOE I bought was actually the part 1. I was wondering why it was way too short and the walkthrough was way different. [I ended up figuring the puzzles by myself. ^^;] So, I’m now wondering if I would bother getting the part 2 since the plot of this one isn’t quite good. Okay, it is a just like one episode = deliver the frame/mecha to Mars. The dubbing is way annoying too. Leo kept on wanting to stop fighting and not kill but ended up doing it after feeling guilty for not helping when he learned that the people needed his help is much worse off or at the end, his friend got shot by Viola whom he didn’t killed when he had a chance to. The last fight turned out to be very easy than the fourth to the last fight, the one at the park. ^^; Anyway, Viola made him not save her again and then became melodramatic saying that she lost everything and fight only to verify her existence, blah..blah. Leo’s friend survived as they went to the shuttle ship to Mars and ADA [mecha] somewhat bonded with Leo and he isn’t happy to learn that she will self-destruct after the final mission. That’s it.
I’m playing a bit of Viewtiful Joe at the side. It is fun until I got stuck at the some obstacles that needed to jump or do a certain trick to achieve. The walkthrough are of no help. It said it so simply and when I tried it, it didn’t work. ^^;; I have to depend on my own. Geez, and I’m playing easy.
Ban: The same goes with ZOE, eh?
Ya. It is what I do, easy first then the hard part for I might not be able to do it in easy. ^^;; Well, I think I should do an RPG game for my fingers and hands are aching already from button bashing.
Friday, October 1, 2004 @ 01:52 p.m.
Sigh, I think I’m coming down with something. My throat hurts and I’m feeling all tired. Guess I really need to take some rest and drink lots of water..hopefully, it will go away.
We had finished watching Muko Dono. It is weird that some of the discs that don’t work on the dvd player works on the vcd player. My cousin told my mother that she even bought a Taiwanese vcd player for the discs to work. ^^;; Anyway, much like in YanPapa, the lead helps in all of the others’ problems and in the end, it is his turn to have a problem. They helped him get over it and that’s it. After watching this, I somewhat thought that this might happen in SB! wherein Ren might have problems in showbiz later on, perhaps regarding his past. Since I was thinking if it discusses about entering the business, why not about the ‘fall’ of a showbiz personality.
Tuesday, September 28, 2004 @ 02:41 p.m.
I realized who the young playboy doctor in Yamato Nadeshiko [Perfect Woman] was. Hehehe...he was the other guy in Love Revolution. I guess I can easily remember people if they are not ‘normal’ looking people. ^^;; I tend to get easily confused with girls in Jap dramas than the guys for they seem to look alike especially if the haircut is pretty much the same. The other girl in YN turned out to be the lead in My Little Chef. Well, in Muko Dono [My Husband] it is pretty much like Yanpapa. The lead gets into a family who doesn’t exactly like him but then, he makes them ‘like’ him for helping out with their problems in life.
So, they did made a new FF7 game called FF7: Dirge of Cerberus. It will be an action game with Vincent as the lead and is set two years after FF7:AC. I think the pre-sequel game is a phone game, which is about life with the TURKS. Forgot the title. Browsing on screencaps of Xenosaga 2, it seems that they made the characters’ faces more realistic which seemed odd to me for I had gotten used to the cartoony face. ^^;; The screencap of KOS-MOS body was a disappointment. Wasn’t she supposed to be sexy? She didn’t look quite nice there.
I watched a bit of Magic Mi Lo Mi Lo [Chinese title] and the little elves rivalry somewhat reminded me of Naruto. ^^;; Blond hair in blue clothes are always fighting with black hair in red clothes. Unfortunately, black hair loses – I’m a sucker for his colors. ^^; Then, there is a girl elf but she isn’t lovesick like Sakura. The elves are with the different leads of the series. The two rivals are with the two girls after the boy while the boy had the girl elf. I tried searching for the title in English but no luck.
Monday, September 27, 2004 @ 01:43 p.m.
Miraculously, ZOE2 is running in my PS2 though at times, it had a hard time reading it. So, I guess I would play this one. The story is about Leo, a kid who was a bit of a coward for having failed to save his friends during an attack. Now, he managed to fly ADA, a mecha and was asked to transport it. Together with his friend whom he had saved, they are off to do the mission. This is action based and I played easy. ^^;; hehehe Their world is much like in Gundam – their colony is under-attack and Leo wasn’t really into killing just like Kira in Gseed. Anyway, I don’t have to buy this game again. ^_^
We finished watching Yamato Nadeshiko yesterday after watching it the whole day. ^^;; Well, it was pretty obvious that the two leads will be the pair. The lead girl finally realized what is more worth than money on the day of her wedding when she thought that the guy had gotten worse. The guy turned her down for fearing that he isn’t the ‘prince’ she is looking for. At the end, she went to go to him while he studies again. They got married and that’s it. It was somewhat unbelievable for the girl’s fiancé to be super nice to accept that she didn’t love him though she did admit she is only after his money. He even drove her to the airport, wishing her happiness. Overall, I like this drama. There is a side character of a young playboy doctor, among the guy’s group of friends, he looked awfully familiar. I wonder which drama I have seen him before.
We took a peak at the drama My Husband. I thought the lead was the same doctor but no, this one is a bit more dorky and it was the lead in that drama Yanpapa. Okay, so, I guess it is the lead singer in Tokio. In this drama, he plays as a singer/actor who fell for an ordinary girl whom he plans to marry. The father of the girl doesn’t quite agree to it and well, the girl’s family is a tad different. The eldest sister is a divorcee or separated, likes to get gossip and is into weird exercise devices. The second sister is a biologist who fears men and had a child through artificial insemination. The third vows not to get married. The youngest was the son who is into kendo and likes his teacher.
Being an orphan, the lead yearns to have a family and so, the story is basically, trying to hide from the fans that he is going to get married and getting along with his girlfriend’s family. Oh ya, he maybe quite cool and suave on the outside but in real life, he is dorky and nerd looking. ^^;
In KnGB, Takamine went with Mizuno to a concert of Oomi who had a ‘monster kid’ Tio. Tio hates this battle of the monster for her friend, Mars had even tried to kill her for the battle. She doesn’t want to rely on anyone and will help Oomi so that the concert will not be interrupted. Gash had sneaked in the concert hall and Oomi tried to attack her but realized that Gash just came to see the concert. Oomi also realized that Gash had amnesia so he doesn’t remember much about what had happened in the ‘demon world’. Then, Mars with his human companion came and tried to attack Tio. Gash shielded Tio and asked her to call Takamine for help.
Tio couldn’t believe that Gash is going to help her and when she was going to the audience, she hesitated and decided to handle this on her own. During a break, I think, she called Oomi to help her. They returned to see Gash beaten up. Gash was disappointed that Tio didn’t called Takamine. Tio and Oomi fought Mars and Rembrandt but they were no match for them. Tio’s power is only shielding. Tio tried to shield the unconscious Oomi from the next attack when Gash came with Takamine to help them. Tio was glad that during this battle, she could have someone to depend on. That’s it. The continuation will be for next week.
Sunday, September 26, 2004 @ 02:33 p.m.
I find it hard to watch Narita Rikon since the characters aren’t that fun to watch so we decided to just watch the ending. Well, it wasn’t really worth watching based on the ending. The story is about a girl meeting a guy and falling for him after she was very frustrated that her lover didn’t came on the appointed night. After getting married and the honeymoon, they came to realize their differences and upon arriving, they had a divorce.
The whole 10 episodes is about them getting a divorce. ^^; At the tenth episode, when they are just going to go on their separate ways, they decided that they wanted to marry again and on the wedding party, they started quarrelling again. Then, it ended. Huh? What was that all about? ^^;; In short, the plot has gone nowhere. Too bad for the marriage quotes at the end are quite interesting. It is funny that mom doesn’t want them to be together since she hates the woman. ^^;;
We have started watching Yamato Nadeshiko. I somewhat like this one. A girl who vowed to marry for money since she doesn’t want to be poor again. Because of mistaken identity, she thought a poor fish monger was rich. The cast is funny and interesting. The lead guy is actually cyborg guy in Good Luck! though younger here. Mmm..he looked handsomer when he was older. Well, the girl even if she was already engaged, she is still playing the field for she wanted to marry the richest possible, believing that being rich can bring one happiness. There is a copycat of Notting Hill here on sneaking in a park at night. I like the song here.
Mm...GB and Ragnarok is being advertised at the local channel...this could change their program schedule. I was thinking Ragnarok will be at the afternoon schedule. Let’s just see then.
Sunday, September 26, 2004 @ 02:33 p.m.
I find it hard to watch Narita Rikon since the characters aren’t that fun to watch so we decided to just watch the ending. Well, it wasn’t really worth watching based on the ending. The story is about a girl meeting a guy and falling for him after she was very frustrated that her lover didn’t came on the appointed night. After getting married and the honeymoon, they came to realize their differences and upon arriving, they had a divorce.
The whole 10 episodes is about them getting a divorce. ^^; At the tenth episode, when they are just going to go on their separate ways, they decided that they wanted to marry again and on the wedding party, they started quarrelling again. Then, it ended. Huh? What was that all about? ^^;; In short, the plot has gone nowhere. Too bad for the marriage quotes at the end are quite interesting. It is funny that mom doesn’t want them to be together since she hates the woman. ^^;;
We have started watching Yamato Nadeshiko. I somewhat like this one. A girl who vowed to marry for money since she doesn’t want to be poor again. Because of mistaken identity, she thought a poor fish monger was rich. The cast is funny and interesting. The lead guy is actually cyborg guy in Good Luck! though younger here. Mmm..he looked handsomer when he was older. Well, the girl even if she was already engaged, she is still playing the field for she wanted to marry the richest possible, believing that being rich can bring one happiness. There is a copycat of Notting Hill here on sneaking in a park at night. I like the song here.
Mm...GB and Ragnarok is being advertised at the local channel...this could change their program schedule. I was thinking Ragnarok will be at the afternoon schedule. Let’s just see then.
Saturday, September 25, 2004 @ 05:39 p.m.
I found Wild Arms 3 in a store while trying to get Star Ocean to work. ^_^ The art isn’t as good as the new ones but nevertheless, it was fun playing it while waiting. I got a kid audience. Hehehe The PS2 has to be re-aligned so that the new cds would work. I have just finished testing the old ones and so far, only one doesn’t work, ZOE2. I will see if I can get another copy. I’m still thinking what to play next, in the meantime, I’m playing the expert mode of KH.
Miraculously, the vcr is function okay now. I’m not sure how long it will last though and hopefully, it won’t conk out when I’m recording something. And the computer is running faster than before after re-formatting since it helped removed unnecessary programs that are running at the background. I’m not sure if all of my media files are running though. Haven’t checked yet and I’m a bit lazy to get the necessary software, again.
The replacement of Naruto is Magic Doladola-something. I did watch the first episode. In some place where there are a lot of small sprites/elves and one had found a mysterious place with lots of mugs. In the human world, the lead girl needed something to get the boy of her dreams to notice her and she found herself in a store with lots of mugs. She wished and some wordings appear at the bottom of the mug. She took it home and poop, the little sprite came out of it. So, she will use some magic together with the sprites and hopefully, get the boy she likes, attention instead of the new student who also had her sights on the boy. The art looks awfully familiar though.
The Taiwanese movie channel didn’t bother finishing HxH and quickly replaced it with a Digimon kind of anime wherein the kids uses some sort of guns. The two leads have their own respective leading ladies. The art is somewhat like Cyborg009 ^^;
The Four Sisters had finally ended. Well, it was more or less a happy ending with the four sisters ending up with the ones they love. No tragedy or anything. I somewhat find it a bit corny for the second sister. They are just playing ‘hard-to-get’ or guilty effect and in the end, it was still them...everything is forgotten after they met and hugged. I guess when the ex-fiancée of the guy realized that she has no future with him. Good for her.
So far, we had watched two of the Jap dramas that cousin had borrowed to us. One is ‘Hero’ which bored us in the first episode so we cheated by just watching the last episode. It is basically a new government prosecutor who is quite informal that his co-workers looked down on him but he managed to make them know that he is really good. In the end, the last case, which he handled, was found to have no guilty party but they got to have a scapegoat so he got demoted by being transferred to the province. His secretary followed him there. That’s it.
The other one is Shotgun Marriage. Ryunoske, the lead had impregnated the younger sister of his friend whose father turns out to be a cop. They basically freak out at the start. Later on, they decided to get married and hope to get along for the next nine months as the guy tries to prove himself and the girl tries to become more mature. In the end, the guy did prove himself by choosing his new family than a pretty good job offer. Everything ends well with a co-classmate in the pregnancy class had offered him a job. They did get married in the end. Their friends also got their respective girlfriends. The end.
Friday, September 24, 2004 @ 01:50 p.m.
Hehehe...and I forgot to gloat how I easily finish the enemies in Xenosaga. Well, I had completed Shion’s mecha which reminded me of Voltes V for its long clip on transformation and it can hit a wallop with 9999 a hit though can only be used once in a battle. Basically, it is somewhat like ‘cheating’. I made JR pretty powerful too. Hehehe, I like the little kid..the colors maybe. His attacks can cause a huge amount of damage compared to the others.
My vcr managed to play what I have recorded before – KnGB. It focused on Sherry as to why she is fighting. She was just like Kyoko of SB!, her mother was overbearing and wanted her to be good at everything. She attempted suicide when her mother told her that she regret giving birth to her. Koko saved her and they became friends. As they became older, it seemed that Koko is always bullied in town and the day Sherry went to tell Koko’s new job, Koko had found a ‘monster’, Zophis, which gave her power. She destroyed the town and even tried to kill Sherry. Sherry was devastated but was saved by Brago. Sherry wanted to stop the ‘monster fights’ and hopefully, get Koko back to what she was – when she saved her.
Jump is publishing pretty early lately or since last week. I got a glimpse of OP and DN already. In OP, it is more on the shipwrights fighting Luffy then Frankie decided to get in the fight. Luffy took this opportunity to escape with Nami. Frankie and the shipwrights vowed to get them. Well, that is the fast browse. After getting the English scans, I’ll correct if it is wrong.
Thursday, September 23, 2004 @ 05:40 p.m.
It’s about a week already that I haven’t write. ^^; Last Sunday, windows crashed on me. I don’t know if it is coming since it has been hanging lately before and I thought if I get this program to fix the registry to prevent the hanging. It turned out that it had hasten up the malfunction of windows that I couldn’t even get in. The last resort was formatting since the program is already corrupted.
As of now, I’m burning cds for back-up of my files since my back-up harddisk where I store most of my files is creating a sound lately and that would mean it would ‘crash’ soon. Just in case, it is better to be prepared than to be sorry and I couldn’t retrieve the files anymore.
The new layout was visualized last year. ^^; The girl was supposed to be holding a watermelon. The words there is a poem for kids, I think. I was suppose to make it ‘moon-theme’ for the mid-autumn/mooncake festival but I was out of time so might as well used this one.
One Piece is now showing on the local channel. Another reason why I truly regret buying the vcds of it. ^^;; The dubbing was ok but then, I don’t really like the voices. Hehehe The visual looked cleaned up and clear – as in the colors are pretty bright than the ones I have, well, it seemed to be. I doubt it will finish it anyway since it isn’t finish in Japan. Maybe near Alabasta arc.
In the manga, Luffy and Nami thought that the shipwrights are going to help them but they were in turn got arrested. I guess Frankie and his goons are the witnesses to testify that they were busy beating them up that they were no way near Iceberg. All of Luffy’s crew are now being hunted for Iceberg’s attempted assassination. Somewhere above a building, Robin heard of the news.
What a way to end Naruto [in Taiwanese channel]. ^^; It was very much hanging. Naruto using ‘fox’ spirit was about to pounce on Gaara to wake him up and it ended there. The colors here are somewhat bright. I like the blue in Sasuke’s clothes/hair. Hehehe It is basically getting shock over everything that Naruto is doing. They didn’t even finish the Orochimaru vs Third Hokage fight. ^^;
I was busy playing Xenosaga last Sunday that I totally forgot to watch KnGB. ^^; It was already half way through. It was basically air kid kidnapping Takamine’s friends and they went off to rescue them. Basically, that’s it. Then, they showed the ending which is a first for me and it focuses more on the blond girl. It was her episode last last week which I haven’t watch. I’m counting on reruns to watch this through again for this channel is fond of them and well, that other channel, too which is rerunning PoT.
Well, since I had already finished Xenosaga 1, here is the story. Shion, a chief engineer who is working on KOS-MOS, somewhat of an android, a pretty one, too on a ship by doing some simulations. Then, the ship got a Zohar, huge gold thingie from space and was going to deliver it somewhere. When Shion passed by it, a kid who looked like her, talked to her and she was all confused. Later on, the ship was attacked by genosis, transparent-type monsters. She and her assistant who had a crush on her managed to escape with the help of KOS-MOS. KOS-MOS was made specifically to have the powers to destroy genosis. Oh ya, a guy who have eaten Realian [artificially made humans] had died but he seemed to be important and a commander got escaped with them.
They were picked up by a scavenger ship and in that ship was Chaos who had the power to make genosis disappear. Meanwhile, elsewhere, a council had ordered a cyborg, Ziggurat 8 who was nicknamed Ziggy to rescue a 100-series realian, MOMO from some evil guy who wanted to use her for something diabolical whatever concerning U-DO, I think they are the U-TIC people. It wasn’t quite revealed what is U-DO or I didn’t get it. Anyway, the rescue was a success but on the way out, they were attacked. Fortunately, they were saved by the scavenger ship.
Elsewhere, a kid boss, JR from the Kukai Foundation was scavenging the remains of a U-TIC battleship. After that, Shion and others went to a dock colony for repairs. The commander had wandered around and got beaten up by some thugs since they hated the military for abandoning them. They got the commander back who is acting weirdly and well, he is the spy from the U-TIC people. Then, they encountered genosis again and got sucked in. The little girl told Shion to ‘save him’ meaning the commander. They went and found the commander and to their shock, he became a genosis. It seemed that he was quite uncontrollable before that his ‘psychology’ had to be altered a lot of times and he found his place with the U-TIC boss who wanted to create a ‘new world’. After his defeat, Shion managed to send him in peace as he wanted to be alone for he couldn’t get along with other people.
They were later saved by JR who got them to his ship and will go to the Federation. JR showed them the Zohars that they got and they are named after the disciples of Jesus. Then, he showed them of a genosis, which is somewhat human. Shion learned that if anyone got touched by genosis, their physical structure could change and she was bothered that she was touched but nothing happened to her. JR then exclaimed that it was all Joachim’s [a certain professor] fault and MOMO was hurt for it was her ‘father’. Shion and others managed to cheer her up.
At the Kukai foundation, after some rest and revelation that JR is actually older and the head of the Kukai foundation, Gaignun was related to him. Actually, they looked alike. Then, they realized that they were under-attack by the council who accused them of blowing up the ship which Shion and others used to ride on. The enemy had super-imposed the U-TIC ship which JR destroyed with Shion’s former ship. With some help, they managed to escape and dive into KOS-MOS memory to get evidence that cannot be duplicated. While in there, Shion and JR had to face their nightmares – their pasts. A few more revelations from the kid Shion, Nephilim and asking for their help when they finally able to face their past.
After getting back at the Foundation and freed of the charges against them, a song was being played – the Song of Nephilim and it had attracted a lot of genosis. Shion and other went to save the people and on the way out, MOMO left behind to care for some people but ended up being kidnapped by Albedo, who has a thing for 100 series Realians. ^^; He took her some place and freaked her out by his craziness. He wanted to go ‘in’ her to learn of the secret of Joachim for U-TIC.
The federation was about to blast them for thinking that they are attracting the genosis, Vector, the company where Shion works appeared and told her to use KOS-MOS to find the real source of the Song which was a huge ship called Song of Nephilim. JR was pretty much angry when he realized that it was Albedo who got MOMO. JR’s real name is Rubedo and that is what Albedo calls him and they are also somewhat connected that JR knew Albedo got MOMO. On their way there, Shion asked the captain to go on top to peek and she saw that the symbol on top was the same one as in Miltia, her homeland. They rushed to save MOMO and found her lying on the floor with her memory wiped out. They set out to get Albedo. After finding him, they learned that the MOMO with them was a fake and tried to kill JR. I was thinking here why the others aren’t helping him. ^^;; Anyway, JR made it fly away using his power. Albedo managed to anger him by taping into MOMO and made him thrown back. They quickly helped MOMO and Albedo prepared to attack. Even though I won that fight, it looked as if the others are more tired than Albedo. ^^;; Then, another figure came to help him to go already and he would fight them. After the fight, the figure seemed to know Shion and Chaos. I think he was the guy who ate Realian but then, I have no idea how he survived though he did mention something before dying before.
Albedo wanted to taunt them more by summoning Proto Merkabah which was where MOMO was ‘born’. He told them that he is going to use it to destroy Miltia. Miltia is the place where the Realians had an outbreak and something happened there on Shion’s childhood and JR’s past. It was shown that Albedo saw inside MOMO – Shion and KOS-MOS who are guarding the secret of Joachim. After finding Albedo at the reactor which they hope to destroy to save Miltia. After fighting them, he had merged a genosis with the reactor. After defeating it, it will blow up. KOS-MOS volunteered to stay to activate the destruction sequence. Haha..just like in Gseed, that is the only place to activate it. ^^; Anyway, they managed to get away with KOS-MOS barely making it.
Then, the ship had a damage so they can’t into the atmosphere properly. Again, KOS-MOS volunteered to do it which made Shion pretty worried. On her way out, Chaos had somewhat realized something about her. As KOS-MOS was shielding the ship’s impact, she looked somewhat like Nephilim. Then, they managed to get in Miltia safely as everyone is relieved that KOS-MOS is okay. Somewhere near a cliff grave, a guy, probably, Shion’s brother was watching the asteroids from Proto Merkabah falls. So, that ends part 1. I guess part 2 would be in Miltia where it all started.
I got a glimpse on DMC3. It was okay and the opening is a bit the same as DMC1. I have a problem with his body though as if something is off. ^^; Dante looked younger here. The Taiwanese game show is in midnight, no wonder I wasn’t able to watch it before. Then, on ign, there was a mention of a new FF7 game which have Vincent as lead and more or less after Advent children, for those who wanted to have a better ending than the FF7, after many years later ending with the favorite characters not shown because they would most probably be dead by that time.
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