Another Code: R

11 days between posts. Wow, I fail. Well, I'm here now, and that's all that matters! Heehee

I've been busy this past week and a half. I haven't had a lot of time to get on and post something up. I've been doing a lot of reading lately. I'm almost finished with "Four to Score" the fourth Stephanie Plum book. I love Sally Sweet. That's all I'm saying.

Anyway, besides reading till my eyes are gonna fall out I've also started watching Karin. I found a place with the subbed episodes, and instead of finishing one of the series I've already started I started another one. I'm a genius. Really. The anime is a lot of fun. I definitely enjoy the manga more. I've never been a fan of bringing in characters that weren't even IN the manga/book. Winner is a fun character but he's not supposed to BE there. It just kind of turns the entire story upside down and changes everything. Besides that the series makes me laugh. They play this music..almost like angels singing, every time Karin has a dramatic nose bleed. Plus Kenta's mother is hilarious in the anime. I mean she was fun in the manga after Karin bit her, but to see it animated just makes it 10x better.

I was flipping through my February issue of Nintendo Power, and made the most amazing discovery. ANOTHER CODE: R. In other words, THE SEQUEL TO TRACE MEMORY! Trace Memory (Called "Another Code: Two Memories" in Japan) is a DS game that I played 2, or 3 years ago. I loved that game, and have replayed it 2 times since then. Another Code: R is the sequel to that, and it's on the Wii. There wasn't much info on it in my magazine. They're not even sure of a North American release yet. I seriously hope for one though! I spent last night looking up trailers, and it looks GREAT. It's set 2 years after Trace Memory. Ashley has been living with her newly discovered father for those 2 years, and while they're not very close..what with not being together for 11 years, she seems happy with her life. Her dad invites her to go camping at Lake Juliet, which is where her mother was killed 13 years ago. I'm not sure WHY her father would ask her to go camping at the place where she witnessed her mothers death, but her father is kind of weird anyway. After she arrives it seems memories of her mother are slowly coming back to her, and with your choices you will slowly start to unlock her past. Pretty cool, huh? I'm curious to see if Ashley will find another ghost at Lake Juliet. I liked having D around in Trace Memory. Discovering his past while trying to find her father made for an interesting story. I really hope that Another Code: R is longer than Trace Memory. While the story in Trace Memory was great, and the gameplay was fun it was so short.

Here's the trailer:

Another Code: R comes out February 5th (my brothers birthday =O) in Japan. I also found out that Gyakuten Kenji (Edgeworth's game!!) is coming out May 28th in Japan. I WANT THEM BOTH TO BE COMING OUT IN AMERICA. AHHHH! I CAN'T WAIT.

I think that's all I have to say for now. I'm going to go spend my Saturday playing video games, and loafing off. What more could you want to do on a Saturday?

Books, Manga, Drawing, Oh my!

Time flies when you're having fun. January 20th..how did that happen? Ugh, I'm not going to think about it.

My mom has managed to get me into the Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich. We have been reading them aloud together since it's a lot of fun. When we get to the more...romantic situations we usually just stop, read that paragraph to ourselves, then pick up after it ends. I figure if the books get more intimate we'll read that chapter separately and read the next chapter together. Works for me. I think Ranger wins in my favorites so far. I can't help it.

High School Debut Chapter 49 finally got translated. It was cute. One thing about High School Debut is that you will get extremely embarrassed for Haruna. I also kind of wanted to die when Yoh started singing Karaoke. I was happy they didn't have any cheesy lyrics up, but it felt SO out of character I was ready to rip my hair out. I'm really sad that the series will be ending soon, even though it seems now we're stretching out 2 months between chapters. So who knows? Maybe it WON'T end. I also found out that Kazune Kazahara made an extra for the series. I think it's going to be something like "a few years later..." and give you one last look at the characters you fall in love with. I actually love when authors do that. It kind of ensures what happened to the characters. I wish LoveCom would have done that. Then again I didn't read the manga, I watched the anime. Maybe they did.

I've been working on drawing realism more often lately. Finally decided that if I'm gonna get anywhere I have to practice the stuff I don't know too. I don't like failure so it's a challenge sometimes. I'm doing a little better than what I thought I would which makes me happy.

Haven't finished Hana-Kimi as of yet. Still where I was the last time I posted. I kind of fell out of it because I got frustrated that the author did that sudden jump into a filler arc. They pull a "Sano, your father collapsed, he's in the hospital," and then suddenly they're doing a treasure hunt in the dorms. Way to kill a climax of a story. I might just skip over the next chapter, and try to get back to the interesting stuff. I can come back to it later. I'm a Naruto fan. You can only take so much filler from so many series.

I slept over at my friends house over the weekend. It was a LOT of fun. Besides being woken up at 6 in the morning by a demonic snow plow, and getting itchy from being around her cats. We ended up dancing around in silly hats, and making sound recordings. It's was pretty awesome.

I'm tired. My eyes hurt. I watched the inauguration, and read most of the day. Not exactly a BAD way to spend a day, I guess.

Later

Gray days

I love winter, I really do. I just get tired of the lack of color. It makes me feel lazy all day long. I had a list of stuff I wanted to get done today, and here I sit. Loafing around on the computer. Blargh.

I have yet to give up my mourning over Vampire Knight. I also miss it. It gave me a reason to post on here. Now I have no series to fuss over while I wait for the next episode. Boohoo! Plus I miss my spazz sessions with my one friend. Maybe I'll do some research to see if I can find another good one that is still coming out. I'm planning on starting Soul Eater eventually, but that already has over 20, or 30 episodes out.

Just got done reading chapter 100 of Hana-Kimi. I'm soon done! ..Okay maybe not. That makes me sad though. XD There are 144 chapters, plus a side story that is based a few years after their graduation. I figure once I finish Hana-Kimi I'll go finish up Trigun, and Itazura na Kiss. Then I can start on some other shows I've been itching to see.

High School Debut hasn't had a new scanalation since November 25th. *emo corner*

Mom and I have started another series called "Hamish Macbeth". It's pretty good. Definitely more of a light hearted mystery compared to Lynley. Which we finished, and I miss. I also want season 7 of Monk on DVD NOW. I miss Disher.

I should be reading my book for tomorrow. Instead here I sit. I'm barely a hundred pages in and it's a 500 page book. GO ME.

I blame the grayness.

I want to play Okami or work on my AMV, but I have to go help shave the dog and give him a bath.

Blargh.

Aiming to get to chapter 120 of Hana-Kimi tonight.

Peace out.

Colors of the wind~

Am I really lame enough to steal a song title from Pocahontas? Yes, yes I am.

Only reason I chose to use that as my title was because I started Okami tonight. I turned it on thinking I'd play for an hour, get through the whole 'learning how to play' part that you go through with every game. (That starts to be a drag after awhile.) I ended up playing it for 3 hours and 40 minutes. It's AWESOME.

I fail. I totally fail. I haven't finished ToS: Dawn of the New World, I haven't finished Vampyre Story, I haven't finished Professor Layton. So what do I do? I START A NEW GAME. I just couldn't resist...I'm currently concerned when I'm playing Dawn of New World because my Wii sounds like it's eating the disc during Z skits. Vampyre story I like to play an hour or so at a time since the main characters voice can really grate on your nerves, and Professor Layton I have to be in the mood to really really think when I turn it on. Today I just felt lazy. Okami was calling..I couldn't resist.

The art style really IS gorgeous. The gameplay is a lot of fun and very different. The story has already caught my interest. Which surprised me. Since I figured the story might be a little like Legend of Zelda where it doesn't really snag my complete attention, but I love the gameplay so I play it anyway. (Nothing against Zelda's stories, they just aren't that in depth) This seems to have a good story to back it up.

I'm not going to go into great detail yet...especially since I'm not that far. I will however, say that fighting, and restoring deteriorating land with the paint brush is a lot of fun. I kept fixing the trees that were dead as I was heading back to a save spot. The art is just so PRETTY that I can't skip watching them change every time.

Besides gaming I've also been reading Hana-Kimi. I accidentally stayed up till 3 in the morning because I kept going "ONE MORE CHAPTER, JUST ONE MORE". I ended up stopping at chapter 86 last night. There's like..147 chapters. It's such a cute series! The whole plot is so convoluted.

-Mizuki (Girl) leaves America and joins an all boys school to get to know the person she admires most, high jumper Izumi Sano

-Mizuki ends up DORMING with Sano

- Sano figures out that Mizuki is a girl, but doesn't say anything.

- Nakatsu (friend of Sano) starts to fall for Mizuki, and begins to panic because he thinks he's gay

So basically Nakatsu thinks he's gay when he's really not since Mizuki is a girl, and Mizuki continues to try to hide the fact that she's a girl from everyone, especially Sano since they're roommates, while Sano already knows she's female. Right.

Then there's Umeda-sensei who is the doctor at Osaka Gakuen. He figured out that Mizuki was a girl the first time he met her, and told her this the minute they were alone together. He decided to keep her secret for her, and Mizuki goes to talk to him whenever something is bothering her, or when she has her monthly troubles.

So basically where I'm at there are four people that know Mizuki is a girl, and Mizuki only knows that Umeda knows. HA. HA. HA.

Along with the fact that Sano has fallen in love with Mizuki, and Mizuki is in love with Sano. Problem is, Sano is pretending he doesn't know that Mizuki is a girl. This series is great. Really. XDD

I'll say now that Umeda is my favorite character in the series. He's a sarcastic doctor who kicks people in the head when he gets mad at them. He has rather violent tendencies and he hates to be woken up. He DOES take his job very seriously and will lecture people on taking care of themselves if needed. Besides all that he's gay and enjoys wearing flashy clothing when he is not in his uniform, and it seems, the reason why he doesn't like women is because of his older sister. Who dressed him up as a girl when he was little, and is more violent than he is.

How can you NOT love that? Really?

So that's what I've been up to the past week or so. Besides watching Rosemary and Thyme with my mom in the evenings, reading The Book Thief, and working on an Ouran High School Host Club AMV.

Went to see my friends new puppy today. She's adorable! I told her I plan on stealing it.

Still licking my wounds over Vampire Knight. Every time I watch a ZeroXYuuki AMV I almost cry. Every. Time.

Ciao for now!

Vampire Knight Guilty 13

Vampire Knight Guilty 13, the final episode, the finale. I'm pretty sure there won't be another season after this, which is extremely sad, in my opinion.



The finale was a disappointment for me. I was close to sobbing at certain points of the episode and the whole time I was feeling depressed. It was so SAD.



I thought Rido was extremely easy to kill. For all the building they did on his character throughout this entire season we barely got to see his skills. Zero shoots at him with his giant glowing orb, and Rido disappears. Then Zero chases after him, and finds Kaname blasting off his shoulder and uses his gun for the final blow. Yet part of me wanted to scream, "BOOM! HEADSHOT" when Zero shot him...even though it was nowhere near his head. XD;



This in itself, was a let down. I was positive that Yuuki would have more to do with this battle than just someone who needed protected. I thought reawakening Artemis was going to mean something, and I surely thought we'd find out why he craved Jurri's blood so.

Then Kaname tells Yuuki that it's soon time for them to leave. I can't help but wonder WHY they have to leave. Yes, the association was going to be angry and out for revenge. There's a little problem though. WHO THE HECK IS LEFT AT THE ASSOCIATION? Ichijou, I assume, killed his grandfather. Rido's dead, and that psycho dude with the fan was defeated by Chairman then finished off by Ichijou's grandfather.



Yuuki managed to completely let me down this episode. She decides to go with Kaname to God knows where. I understand she wants to protect Kaname and that she loves him, but what happened to the other people she wanted to protect? What about Zero, Chairman, and Yori? Heck, even Yagari and Aidou (Yeah, I know he decided to go along at the end. She didn't know that though) became closer to her. No. She completely leaves them behind to follow someone who used everyone as a pawn.



I think Zero got the shortest end of the stick in this whole thing. I was so close to tears during his conversation with Yuuki. The fact that when he said "Drink my blood if you're really a vampire." and then Yuuki DOES it shocked me. I was sure she would refuse, but I guess she did change after she became her old self. Then again I'm sure Zero did that only because he wanted Yuuki to know how he felt for her before she was a vampire. Then he tells her that the next time they'll meet he'll try to kill her. Only thing I didn't understand was the "I'll be waiting." from Yuuki. She'll be waiting for him to come kill her? Does that mean she'll let him kill her?



Oh, and now Zero is a freaking SUPER VAMPIRE HUNTER PURE BLOOD. XD WITH RANDOM VINES THAT SHOOT OUT OF HIS ARMS. (Yes, I know it was connected with the bloody rose, it was just amusing.) Oh, and he can now heal himself. Which is a little confusing.


Zero wasn't the only one completely left behind. There was also YORI. Who's, it seems, only friend was Yuuki. So she's basically abandoned without even a goodbye from Yuuki. Great friendship, huh?



Ichijou is somewhere in a pile of rocks. Alive, or dead who knows? That SUCKED. We didn't even get to see the fight. "SORRY ICHIJOU, WE HAVE NO SCREEN TIME LEFT SO YOU END UP DEAD WITHOUT ANY EXPLANTION." That is going to drive me insane. IS HE ALIVE? IS HE DEAD? IS HIS GRANDFATHER STILL ALIVE?



I also almost started crying when Zero imagined the human Yuuki at the gate calling him over and he started to go to her.


Zero, why?? I thought they would at least give him a somewhat HAPPY ending. He started as an angst infested teenager, and he ended as an angst infested teenager who's in love with a girl who doesn't exist anymore. Oh, and he plans on killing the girl who is a shell of the one he loved.


THE END =D

I was talking about the ending with my friend and I decided that after Yuuki leaves, Yori and Zero end up together.


Because we all know Yori is really lezbo for Yuuki.


And Zero is still hot for her.

>:D


Aidou is awesome through and through. Rima and Shiki are adorable together. Akatsuki and Ruka will end up together in the future.


I think that about covers everything for me.

I'll just go weep over my loss of canon ZeroxYuuki. I need chocolate. Lots of chocolate.

Maybe in a week or so I'll start reading the manga since it's still going on. I haven't decided yet.