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22 November 2009 @ 11:04 am
I feel I should be sounding fanfares or something because I finally, after two and a half years of playing and stalling, managed to get to the end of one of the Hachiyou paths. In the end it was Katsuzane because Yasutsugu didn't behave himself and didn't give me his final event even though I had all his kakera. (Meh. Next time...)

One thing I haven't got used to though is the save-anytime function on this game and all the ones following. I remember having to fight the Kirin a zillion times for the endings in Hachiyou Shou, so I clean forgot that in this game I could save the darn thing right after the final battle and go back to get Katsuzane's Kyou ending without having to fight the monster all over again. Do'h Vraie, because that monster isn't easy to beat. But to be honest, I like the real world endings better in Hachiyou Shou and I think the same will probably apply with this game. It's geekish but I like to see the characters in normal dress. And at least I can say that I've finished the game through once!

So, the similarities and the differences between it and Hachiyou Shou (HaruToki 1).
Hrm.


As for the Hachiyou...

I've already spoken about Yasutsugu and Katsuzane yesterday.










Anyhow, overall..I think HT2 has enough in it to stand as a game in its own right and not be considered a copy. The characters have similarities but the plot takes them different ways and their backgrounds also. And most of all it's been nice to play it without preconceived ideas of the characters (only the OVA, really). I've come to be very fond of Random-Confession-Of-Love-Without-Saying-Love Katsuzane and I-Can-Jump_-Into-A-Tree-To-Prove-I'm-Not-Human-Yasutsugu. I will no doubt now not play this game for another six months, BUT...as my very first bought neoroma, I'm glad I persevered with it.

The one negative is the voicing element. The characters only get voiced scenes towards chapters 3 and 4 and so on after the initial intro which means if you don't encounter some of them for the first time right at the start, you may not hear their voice for a while. The battle attacks are voiced, but otherwise, I don't think I heard Yoritada speak at all...

Katsuzane, Yasutsugu and Akuram all voiced later events...and the ending is almost fully voiced. But you have to play quite a bit to get there so...given the curliness of the HaruToki game kanji and script - you have to really be able to read what's going on to quite a high level to follow it all through.

Oh, and the ending titles are really pretty. Just thought I'd throw that in there xD.
 
 
vraieesprit
21 November 2009 @ 10:53 am
Well, like [info]appaku , my JLPT grows ever closer. All the hotels in London are booked up in the area of SOAS, so I'm having to stay across the city, but at least it's booked now and I can stop thinking about doing it. And at least I'm not scared of the tube system. Plus, coincidentally I've actually been to the exam location before, so hopefully I might actually manage to find it.

Where SOAS's actual campus is remains a mystery, but seemingly one I don't need to worry too much about.

In light of my fast approaching examination, I have obviously been studying my grammar and kanji very hard...

By...erm...playing HaruToki 2 on the PSP.

This probably earns the prize for longest ever time playing one neoroma game, because I got it and began it over two years ago now and I'm still not at the end yet. I have got as far as Chapter Four though, this time...which is something of an amazement in itself because up to now I'd only reached about chapter two.
HaruToki 2ness )
As for Yasutsugu and Katsuzane...

Yasuaki vs Yasutsugu )

Katsuzane was accidental. I don't like Tenma all that much in the original series, and I'd heard people say Katsuzane was exactly like Tenma.
Absolutely. Totally. Without a doubt. NOT.
Katsuzane vs Tenma )



Right now I'm stuck on some Byakko-related quest. I have no idea, to be quite honest, what Yukitaka and Hisui are meant to find/do/bring before meeting the Myouou and gaining the seal or how they're meant to do it. That makes life somewhat interesting, and in the meantime, Yoritada's turned up again....

I rewatched Shiroki Ryuu no Miko as well over the last few days (no subs, that makes it listening practice) and I really like it as an OVA but it always makes me wish for a longer series. Especially now knowing the story between Isato and Katsuzane, but also the one between Kazuhito and the impossibly nice yet impossible to hate Akifumi. Showing Yoritada's angsting about having to kill Karin to fulfil his duty is nice but...there's potential for more too.

I maintain that the characters from 2 are not simply copies of the ones from 1, even if they are not as exciting and dazzling as the ones from 3. And if I didn't keep losing my power cable to charge my psp, I'd probably have finished at least one route by now...

If nothing else, HaruToki is EXCELLENT for learning/remembering keigo. Between FujiHime and YukariHime, I've learnt an awful lot more from HaruToki than I've learnt from my grammar book and that has to be good, right??

 
 
Current Mood: accomplished
Current Music: Isato's Solo: Ushiromuki Jirettai CD
 
 
vraieesprit
02 October 2009 @ 01:39 pm
I watched this this morning. (Raw - I've heard there are Chinese fansubs out, don't know if the English ones are yet, perhaps not). And there are a number of things I have to mention/squee about/etc.

Spoilers beneath cuts. Click at own risk.

the plot )


 

Ah, and that brings me to another plot WTF.

 

Urahara...?! )


 

A little thing to fangirl over...and Yamajii )

 

Erm, what else.

 

Renji and Byakuya )

 

 

Random observations )



So yeah. That's my overall random on this for now. Off to do something useful I guess...
 

Am leaving this unlocked in case anyone wants to link it out. I was trying to take screen captures but my PC will not cooperate >< 





 

 




 
 
vraieesprit
25 September 2009 @ 07:00 pm




375 (Kanji etc). )

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vraieesprit
24 September 2009 @ 08:17 pm
I have to make Juu Shun time.

Well, Shun time, actually.

375 )

And on a complete other random note...

HARUTOKI 3 IS GETTING A NOO ANIMEEEEE

Ok its an OVA, I think...but...does that mean we get a conclusion to Kurenai no Tsuki?

I must finish Hinoe and Kagetoki's paths before that comes out...
 
 
Current Music: Mediaeval Baebes: Quan Vey La Lauzeta
 
 
vraieesprit
Out of the shadows...

Other than that, my random rough translating impulse has been startled into life. No idea if other and better translating peoples have got to work on these yet but since I'm working hard at my Japanese these days, I decided to do some for myself. Gomen if you've all read before...feel free to comment if anything makes no sense.

First point )
Second point )

Third point )


And finally... )

Er yeah. Fangirl Vraie over and out ;)

 
 
Current Music: Por Una Cabeza xD
 
 
vraieesprit
14 September 2009 @ 03:47 pm

Ok, so now I've read my way through it completely...

 

O.O )

 

And then this...! )


 

Childs play? )

Credit to Bleach Asylum and Nja @ 2ch for the japanese spoiler text...

 

Final edit, I promise:

At last I think I get it! *sigh* 

 

 
 
vraieesprit
09 September 2009 @ 01:21 pm
O.o I feel like I haven't been here in such a long time, though it really hasn't been that long. I've just had (and still have) so much craziness going on.

But I felt the urge to write a little at least about Rose since I cling on to being his fangirl before he started doing cool stuff.

Last chapter: Spoilers
Last chapter... )
I realised also I have said nothing about Hacchi of late.

Hacchi )
And this week's spoilers.

Ok. 

Rose.

 

Roujuu-kun )

 

Also...the other thing:

 

Spoilers below, but... )







 

 
 
Current Mood: bouncy
Current Music: Something by Arashi...
 
 
vraieesprit
So...I decided to post the first part of the first chapter of the first volume of Sotsugyou M's manga here. (Translated by me from the Japanese into English to the best of my ability).

The chapters are quite long (longer than in the PLUS manga) so I'm breaking it up into logical sections. Also I'm posting it here because...I want to create M converts xD So I plan on posting more parts here later if people want me to (and later the whole chapters on Rakuen.)

Also I figure it's good practice for me right now, too.

So please, people, read and comment. Even if you're not familiar with SotsuM (as many won't be)...I'd appreciate it.
 

This is the manga storyline associated with E.M.U, the seiyuu unit that featured Okiayu,Midorikawa, Ishikawa, Sakaguchi and Kanna in the mid nineties (they finished in 2000). It was never produced in English at all, and only the 2 ep OVA has been fansubbed, leaving 95% of the storyline submerged (sigh).

Arai Tougo, Nakamoto Shou, Shimura Mikimaro and Katou Yuusuke are all students at a prestigious boy's boarding school in Tokyo. This first chapter introduces all of them and also the new student, Takagi Shimon, who is the final member of the group of 5. Takagi isn't in the translation yet though...he doesn't arrive till later in the chapter...

Bokutachi no Kotae (Chapter 1 part 1) )

 



Copyright as ever to Arisugawa Kei and Sugisaki Yukiru, particularly Arisugawa-sensei.
 
 
Current Music: Brilliant Future (Takagi Shimon)
 
 
vraieesprit
06 August 2009 @ 05:36 pm
雨乾堂
Ugendou

Okay, so sometimes random things come to me when I'm sitting on trains travelling in between one busy city and another...erm...not so busy non-city. I came back from my trip today and (after having read the spoilers, am loving Hacchi all the way for the record...) I started wondering a bit more about this.

The discussion... )

I dunno. What do you think people? Opinions please!
 
 
Current Mood: curious
Current Music: Akasha, sore ga akasha...sadamerareta shinjitsu....
 
 
vraieesprit
18 July 2009 @ 02:59 pm
So I was writing Third Chronicle...and yes, I am writing Third Chronicle...but in honour of the latest chapter, was inspired to write this about Rose.

I have literally just written this in fifteen minutes straight and not edited it at all, so if it sucks or is full of weirdness, my apologies in advance. It's just a brief oneshot scene about Rose in between the time he was taken from Soul Society and before he had control of his inner hollow. We know nothing about this time or how it was for them in the beginning - but the last chapter of manga made me want to write something for my pet Vaizard boy...

Potential spoilers for the latest chapter under the cut.

Four beats. )

~

It;s a little angsty/depressing/whatever perhaps. But...meh, whatever. I already wrote Rose crackness. Now some Rose angstness seems appropriate.

 
 
Current Music: Midorikawa Hikaru sounding freaky
 
 
vraieesprit
11 July 2009 @ 11:49 am
So I wasn't gonna post it for ages yet, but because I posted the first part on Juu's birthday, I kinda had to post something for Shun's as well.

So yeah. There it be:

Meifu's Gate: Third Chronicle.


Synopsis under cut )

Currently posted - 2 chapters. I've almost 23 plus prologue written...but I'm not sure how long this one will be yet or if it will be broken into two...

As for the Omake for the Juu-chibis - I'm still working on it nominally, but it's going to have to wait a while longer...

*scuttles away*
 
 
Current Music: No Bravery: James Blunt
 
 
vraieesprit
26 June 2009 @ 07:50 pm
Ok, I promise. I'll post something else other than Bleach soon. However.

363.

Where to start. Hrm. Good question. SPOILERS are below cuts.

Da Joo )


 

Da Shun )


 

Da rest )

 

 
 
Current Music: Ai O Makimodoshite: Kanna Nobutoshi
 
 
vraieesprit
It got kinda long, so more spamness. Gomen, minna. (bows). Gomen, doubly, for the non-bleach f-list people. (more bowing). Although for any SotsuM f-list people, is anyone interested in proofreading some manga translation...?

Aaanyhow...yes...back to 362 again. This from the raw of the chapter...and other stuff.


Everything and then some more, because I'm like that... )
Ok. Done now. Back to other stuff. *flits*

 
 
vraieesprit
I may have to confess absolute love of Kubo-sensei after having read the latest spoiler additions.

Although I don't envy the scanlators in trying to make sense of it all...
Fangirl spoilerness and Kanjiness )


Hurry up, Friday. I need to see this for myself.

*fangirls off*

 

 
 
Current Music: HaruTokiness
 
 
vraieesprit
So yeah, I finally saw the raws for 361. And a few things caught my amusement.
Yakko-san )


Los Lobos )

One Bankai or Two? )


 

100 more years... )

 

Okay, that's my Japanese geeking for the day. Am leaving this post unlocked - feel free to link it out to anyone else fangirlish enough to care about the intricacies of the JuuShun Epic...


 
 
vraieesprit
31 March 2009 @ 10:07 pm
Pictures and prices )

Please post or PM enquiries. Offers also will be considered and shipping combined. Paypal only please. Shipping from the UK to worldwide. References available under 'reide' on ebay.
 
 
vraieesprit
27 March 2009 @ 08:29 pm
Well, the special aired. And I've not downloaded it yet, but I have seen it.

So far as it goes, it's what I expected really. A 2 part series is not enough to introduce 3 new characters adequately and still keep the quality of the existing ones.

What I liked... )

What I didn't like )

Overall, though - pretty much as expected :) We'll see what happens in part 2.
 
 
vraieesprit
14 March 2009 @ 02:09 pm
I feel I have to say something about this, because I dug out my PSP and decided I was going to finish this game if it killed me (slight exaggeration there). I bought it originally because I didn't know if I'd ever have a chance to play with the 1 characters and it was something of a compromise. But I don't want to just bypass the 2 characters without giving them a chance. So I started over again from scratch a couple of weeks ago - and I'm giving each of them their chance to prove they're not clones.

This time I started from the Chi/Mikado side rather than the Ten/In side, just because I still have my meanderings from Yoritada's beginning from well over a year and a half ago that I might decide to finish at some point.

The first thing I'll say is that I think I like the Chi better than the Ten for the most part so far. Also, obviously, because I've begun from the Chi side, and I can't remember everything from playing the Ten side last time, I'm going to have more to say about some characters than others. And especially Yasutsugu, since I'm playing his path ;)
So, beginning with the Chi. )



And now the Ten... )
 
 
Current Mood: pensive
Current Music: Soshite Omae... (Isato)
 
 
vraieesprit
08 February 2009 @ 08:58 am
Ack.  
...Yorihisa had to kill a Nue.

That's so wrong.

And yet so right all at the same time.

After the struggle I had to find the kanji for Nue, mind you, I was amused to see it written in hiragana in the game battle *lol*
 
 
Current Music: Premier Amour : Erenfried (Irino Miyuu)
 
 
 
 

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