Episodic Review: Hanasaku Iroha (latest episode: 3)

19 April, 2011 Leave a comment

hanasaku irohaFollowing the hasty escape of her mother and her mother’s lover from authorities, Matsumae Ohana is thrust from urban familiarity into the care of her grandmother, a woman she’s never met before, who runs a hot spring inn in the countryside. While expecting hospitality on arrival, what awaits her is disapproval seemingly passed on from the flaky relationship between her mother and grandmother.

With the discovery that her residence at the inn is subject to the condition that she earns her keep, and with poor first impressions with the people working there, this story will surely be one of the challenges faced in adapting to one’s environment, the opportunity to change one’s life and finding a place to call home.

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My own pictures of Snow Songs Miku

9 May, 2010 Leave a comment

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On reflection of my review for the Snow Songs Miku Hatsune figure, I decided that I’d add some solid evidence that I wasn’t just generically speaking about something that I’d seen or heard of. Not that I believe that I need to prove myself or anything, I just feel that, for the sake of originality, I should include my own images.
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Series Review: Hanamaru Kindergarten

9 May, 2010 Leave a comment

Having commenced my journey of blogging on the subjects of both gaming and figures, I decided that my next post should feature anime and get the trio under my beginner’s literary belt. On this decision I realised that finding a specific topic for this post would be far harder than the previous two, as both of those were influenced by recent factors (namely the purchase of my figure and the release of some alpha screenshots of the Cataclysm expansion for World of Warcraft that I spied on Kotaku) but attempting to write a review on an anime that I was currently watching would be far too much of an incomplete insight for my tastes. Instead, it would have to be a series that I had completed and could remember sufficiently to be able to feast upon with my pen (or keyboard, whatever!) Now with me being an indecisive bugger at the best of times, accompanied by the unweildy library of anime series that I have seen, I decided to take an easy way out and asked a few friends for some suggested series, placing my faith on their (hopeful) good taste. I then rolled a virtual die (ah the wonders of the internet!) and made my selection thus. So, without further a due, I will provide you with my insight into Gainax‘s Hanamaru Kindergarten.

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Of men and MMOs

7 May, 2010 Leave a comment

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Having delved deeply in World of Warcraft for several years (and having come out of the other side… for now), I am all too aware of the powerful, ‘addictive’ quality that a good MMO can hold. Blizzard’s 11.5 million subscription mammoth has seen months of my life and hundreds of pounds vanish, with my adoration for the world of Azeroth unwavering throughout the process. Evenings spent continuously playing for “just that extra hour” and both school and social life suffering for it. I’m not going to make this a post about the corruptions of WoW or other MMOs, however; MMORPG s are games and, despite the often negative connotations associated with them, are forms of entertainment that, clearly, carry out their intended tasks well enough for us to complain about it ruining our lives! So this is a positive look at what makes the massively multiplayer scene such a moreish endeavour. Read more of this post

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First steps, a review and electoral distractions

7 May, 2010 Leave a comment

Well this is my first venture into blogging, so I have next to no idea what structure to implement for this post. Oh well, I’ll just type and see what happens; there’s always the ‘edit’ button, after all…

I’ve been listening to BBC’s coverage of the general election, though I’m sort of simultaneously having a crash course in the ways of our country’s political system. This was the first time I could contribute, though I am ashamed to admit that I missed the deadline for registration, thus my voice was unheard this time around. So this post will probably take the better of half the night to complete, with me tabbing back and forth whilst passing my naive judgments on the events unfolding by spouting such lines as “Damn Tories!” and “Bloody politicians!”. Read more of this post

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