April 6-7: Yes/No
We learn a little bit more about Nazuna and Nori.

Can’t start a Hidamari episode without a scene of Yuno waking up.

Typical Miyako behavior.

Welcome to Hidamari Apartments, Nazuna and Nori!

That’s not really reassuring, Sae.

Let me just say, Nazuna is really adorable.

Miyako demonstrating her special conversation dice. Again, typical Miyako behavior.

Nori has a thing for computers.

Yuno and Miyako are confused. They hurt themselves in confusion. (Oh god, I can’t believe I made a Pokemon reference.)

If someone asked me the reason why I draw on the spot, I’d probably react just like Yuno.

Oh god, she is just too cute!

Turns out Nazuna is not part of the Art Department.

She also has an inferiority complex.

Ouch….

I am really happy right now. More Hidamari Sketch is a good thing. (For me anyway.) Its a good time to be a Hidamari Sketch fan. Bad time for nutbladders.

Yuno failed at her grammar test.

Miyako trying to cheer Yuno up is lulzy.

Its been a really long time since I have posted anything about anime. Yesterday the local station here, QTV 11 aired Aria the Animation. I only got the chance to watch it today since I don’t have classes on Thursdays. (I don’t also have classes on Mondays.) Aria is a favorite anime of mine. Hell, if it isn’t my favorite, I wouldn’t have finished all 3 seasons of it. I’m going to type in my thoughts on this. First off, I’m really glad that this is now aired. Its like a breath of fresh air. I mean, anime like Naruto, Hunter X Hunter, One Piece, and too many more anime to mention (Filipino viewers will know the rest of the anime that I did not mention.) have been aired to death and  should make way for even better shows. The only other thing left that I can comment on is the dubbing. (Which I must admit I was worried about a little when I saw the commercial for Aria.) Now, the episode I have watched today is episode 2 of Aria the Animation so the voices that I have heard so far are from Akari, Alicia, Aika, and Akira. I must say the dubbing isn’t bad. The only thing that I have a bit of a problem with is Akira’s voice. Akira’s voice is high pitched and does not come off as tomboyish. I also think they changed President Aria’s voice which I have no idea why they did that. Overall,  the dub is okay and I hope they have proper voice actors/actresses for the other characters. That’s pretty much all I have to say.  To bad I have classes tomorrow. Episode 3 is the episode where Alice is introduced. (Yeah, I have a soft spot for Alice.)

Current exploration team.

Finally! It took me a day or two to figure it out and complete the maps on Floors 10 -12 but I have finally done it and ascended to the 13th floor. The following floors are annoying mainly because you have to turn on/off switches in order to get access to different areas. Also you have to locate 4 fail safe locks in order to get to Kaguya and co., battle them (You get Eirin and Reisen after the battle.), and ascend to the 13th floor. The battle with Eirin, Kaguya, and Reisen was also annoying. It took me 4 tries to beat them. I really thought that I would have an easy time with that battle mainly because I was going back and forth from 10 – 12 floors looking for switches, exploring the huge map, and having lot of enemy encounters along the way. Holy crap, was I wrong! I tried to kill of one of them at first but then apparently if you kill either Kaguya or Eirin, the one that remains will use a multi-hit spell that can wipe out your entire party. After much frustration and reading of the Labyrinth of Touhou thread at Pooshlmer, I followed their advice and used multi-hit spells so that I can kill off Kaguya and Eirin almost at the same time. (Almost at the same time because Eirin has higher HP than Kaguya.) I almost got wiped out by Eirin’s Astronomical Entombing spell but luckily I managed to switch out Marisa with Komachi (Who has like 7000+ HP.) earlier when someone (I forgot who among the 3 did it.) sapped  Marisa’s SP. All 3 in my party died but Komachi survived the spell. I quickly replaced characters in the 3 empty slots and proceeded to unleash everything on Eirin. About Reisen, well she’s just a useless bunny only good for her sex appeal so she is taken down easily. So now I am at the 13th floor and its another teleporter puzzle like in Floor 7. I’m kinda disappointed that both 7th and 13th floors have the same music but what can you do? The 13th floor teleporter puzzle isn’t hard which is a relief after those 3 nightmarish floors. Well, time to continue exploring!

The strongest year has now ended (We’ll celebrate Cirno awesomeness again in 2019, don’t worry. Wait a minute, does that mean that 2016 is that atomic raven’s year?) and now its time for Shou to shine.

First of, Happy New Year! Its kind of late already but what the heck, I want to make a New Year post. (January 2 here already.) Though many disastrous events happened last year, I’m still hoping that this year will be much better. Also, I am hoping for a clean and fair 2010 elections though I am not holding my breath for that.

Anyway, enough of that now. Time to talk about stuff that I like: doujin games.

Currently, I am playing Labyrinth of Touhou. It is a doujin game that is like Etrian Odyssey (minus the annoying FOEs). Just like Etrian Odyssey, you explore the maze like floors of the dungeon, trigger events and get items from treasure chests. You also get to recruit other Touhou characters to add to your exploration team by triggering an event, doing some quest for a character, (like beating 4 calamitous souls to recruit Komachi) and defeating them. (This is the most common way of recruiting.) You bring along 12 characters (4 characters battle the enemies while the remaining 8 are back up which you can switch around at anytime during a battle.) There is no currency in this game so obviously there is no shop. The only way you can get items to equip is by getting them in chests or drops from enemies. Leveling and boosting desired stats work differently in this game. You gain experience points and skill points in the dungeon but you do not level up inside the dungeon. You have to go back to Gensokyo and visit the Hakurei Shrine and spend your experience points to level up and visit the Voile Library and spend your skill points to boost desired stats and resistances. Each character also has a set amount of TP which acts as a limit on how long a character can stay inside the dungeon. At the end of a battle, 1 TP is used so that you recover your HP to full. You also use 2 TP when you use the Rest command on the Menu to regain SP. (SP regained is based on the SP regeneration rate of the character.) When a character has no more TP, she leaves the party. This is a really fun and challenging game. I am currently at 10F – 12F. (I bunched up the floors like that because those floors are related to each other. You need to flip switches on the 11th and 12th floors to gain access to the other areas.)

I am also playing Suguri. (The first one. Not Acceleration of Suguri.) I am only at Stage 3 on Easy. Pathetic, I know. I just can’t beat Nanako. To anyone who has played this, any tips on how to beat her? Also how many weapons exactly do I gain in the game? The last weapon that I gained is the one that shoots an electric ball that does chip damage to anyone who is caught in it.

Thats pretty much it for know. Back to playing Labyrinth of Touhou for me now.

Hey arvikun, You haven’t talked about Touhoumon for a long time. What happened?
Well, my ROM for the Touhoumon Aqua/Yui Patch is acting up. I probably messed up patching one of the Halloween patches. Now whenever I check the status of my current team, it sometimes freezes my game. I did manage to beat the game before this happened and here is the team I used to beat the Elite 4:

As much as I would like to find something to fix this, I haven’t been checking out the latest threads in Touhoumon on Pooshlmer. (Which means I have to wade through a lot of threads to look for a fix.) I’ll probably just look for a new clean ROM and start over… when I feel like it.

I have finally seen Stage 6 of Touhou 12!
I finally got to see it! After a lot (and I really do mean A LOT) of plays, I finally got to see what Stage 6 looks like! It was really strange. For once, I was really playing so well even in Stage 5 which always gives me a really hard time. Well that is until I fight Shou of course. God, she is annoying. All the hard earned extra lives I collected, gone  immediately. I did manage to beat her, with one life left. I got to fight Byakuren and I lost obviously but its enough. I will just continue playing until I can manage both Shou and Byakuren. By the way, Fires of Houkai is awesome.

Been Buying Manga Lately:
I have been buying manga lately. Since I pass by a mall when I go home, I buy manga in Book Sale, a store that sells second hand books and strangely enough some manga. (And they are sold cheaply at that. 160 pesos compared to 450 pesos on other bookstores.) I have just recently bought Scrapped Princess Volume 1 and Planetes Volume 1. I was going to buy R.G. Veda but then when I came back, it was not there anymore. Isn’t it sad, arvikun? :3

I see interesting titles there every once in a while. I have even seen Miyuki-chan in Wonderland there. LOL