Anime Name - Uchouten Kazoku Aired - Jul 7, 2013 to Sep 29, 2013
Episodes - 13 Produced By - P.A. Works
Staff - Masayuki Yoshihara (Director), Tomihiko
Morimi (Original Creator), Kouji
Kumeta (Original Character Design), Toshiyuki
Inoue (Animation Director), Yoshiaki Fujisawa (Music Score)
In this day & age it's sometimes very hard to find something original, the anime as a form of art has now become so generic & predictable with typical shounen & typical ecchi spewing around us from all direction that it is really hard to remember sometimes that this is not only a form of entertainment (or rather shameless fan service) but it is also a form of art. And fortunately there are still anime's like "Uchouten Kazoku" still being made to remind us just that.
Album Name - Persona 4 The GOLDEN OST Catalog Number - SVWC-7859 Released On - June 27, 2012 Composed By - Shoji Meguro, Atsushi Kitajoh Arranged By - Shoji Meguro, Atsushi Kitajoh, Kenichi
Tsuchiya Published By - Aniplex
Performed by - Shihoko Hirata (01,02,10,14) Rie Kugimiya
(05) Lyrics by - Benjamin Franklin (01,02,10,14) Yuichiro Tanaka
(05)
The soundtrack of a remake of a PS2 game into a PS vita game, thats about says it all. Now first of all credits to the publisher that they put on the effort of putting on a whole new soundtrack (almost, except for 2 track actually) for this game. This OST is composed of 5 vocal tracks & the rest are instrumental among which two are arrangements of existing persona 4 themes ("Never More ~Welcome Home~" & "Shin Mitsuo Tensei"). I have some bad experiences regarding vocals in video game OST & is not actually very keen on the idea. So I was quite reluctant to pick this up at first, but due to a few good reviews I finally decided to check it out. And guess what my fears were almost correct, and the vocals do disappoint but does that mean that the whole album was disappointing. Well, not exactly.
Anime Name - Gin no Saji Aired - Jul 12, 2013 to Sep 20, 2013
Episodes - 11 Produced By - A-1 Pictures
Staff - Tomohiko Itou (Director), Hiromu Arakawa (Original Creator), Jun Nakai
(Character Design), Shusei Murai (Music Score)
Ah, one of the most hyped anime of the season. Why? Not only is it adapted from a commercially successful, award winning & critically acclaimed manga but also it is written by the famous mangaka Hiromu Arakawa who is responsible for the world famous FMA. So how was the anime? Does it live up to the hype? And how can a manga based on life on agricultural school be this famous? And most of all how come a mangaka who wrote such an action based title as FMA write this? Let me just say that whatever else this anime does it proves (or tries to actually) that you can be a person who doesn't have a clear goal in life or any vague idea what you are gonna do with your life even if are surrounded by ambitious people and it is not always bad; and most of all it proves that book-worm nerds can be cool even when they are acting all moronic & stuff.
Anime Name - Blood Lad Aired - Jul 8, 2013 to Sep 9, 2013
Episodes - 10 Produced by - Brain's Base
Staff - Shigeyuki
Miya (Director), Yuuki Kodama (Original Creator), Masaki Mayuzumi and Toshiyuki Sakae
(Art Direction), Kenji Fujisaki (Character Designs) Oh, damn, those vampires again, it seems they are everywhere, and why am I complaining when I am reviewing a vampire anime? First lets make it clear I picked up this only for the fact that it seems like it would be a comedy and for the Seinen tag. Turns out it is mostly a comedy anime but I don't understand why its Seinen? This is typical Shounen manga with damsel in distress formula with a supernatural comedy twist, but definitely not Seinen ( some uncalled for ecchi doesn't make Seinen, sorry), so stop advertising false information.
This is my newest combo video on youtube now, from the game "Super Muscle Bomber/Ring of Destruction/Slammasters 2", a classic cps-2 game.
Info -
All games and Music in this video are property of their respective owners, they were used without any view of profit.
Most of these combos were recorded a few years ago, only some done recently and some had a bit changes.
No hacks or tools were used but occasionally Player 1 Infinite energy cheat was used to get player 1 in rage mode.
BGM - "Love's Vagrant" (from Bravely Default Flying Fairy OST)
"Attack Of Delusion" (from Attouteki Yuugi Mugen Souls Attouteki Soundtrack)
Special thanks to "KIREEK" from sftchina for his awesome combo video for this game (which I saw from youtube but can't currently find the link). I only did combos for some of the characters cause he already exploited most of the mechanics for combos of this game.
And special thanks to Maj@Combovid.com for still providing us with awesome combo video new. Check out his mind-blowing site if you like fighting games.
Hope you guys enjoy this.
If you do you can watch my earlier solo combo videos (both for obscure SNK fighting games), recorded and edited and uploaded by armison - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pELx3n3GPIY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYc7n40
PS 1 -
If you want more combos for this nice game please check out awesome combo video from sftchina performed by "KIREEK" (Sorry I can't provide the link cause I can't find the video on any site, I have it on my hard disc if any of you want it PM me & I'll send it to you).
PS 2 -
1. If you want to request combos for any characters or any pc fighting game you can request it on the comments. I will try my best to fullfill your requests.
2. If you want to see the transcript for these combos also you may request in the comments, then I will upload it.
3. Please do check out my blog of "Reviews & Stuff" and leave your comments -
http://ihate00critics.blogspot.com
Book Name - All You Need Is Kill
Writer - Hiroshi Sakurazaka
Published By - Haikasoru / Viz Media
First of all I didn't know this was going to be a Hollywood movie when I started but found out when I was about 1/3rd through (otherwise I might have read some other "Haikasoru" novel).
If you have read the synopsis you know this is gonna be sci-fi time loop story, you know there is going to be action, and you definitely know this book is heavily video game influenced.
And you would be write on all accounts, this is a book where a private called "Keiji" is caught in a time loop after dying and fights the same losing battle against aliens everyday. There is a female soldier from America (so cliche) who is the best warrior for humankind and she kinds of helps the protagonist to understand whats happening, in between there is a bit of background on the enemy, a bit of world building and a touch of romance thrown in.
As it goes it is a kind of story where you always kind of see where the plot is going, yet you are satisfied with the overall result, the progress is quite predictable yet the end is likeable.
My main gripe with this short and fast paced novel is that there is not enough action as was advertised my the synopsis or as was necessary (or may be just not for my liking, but I got this to read action like video games and I didn't get much of that). On the other hand the character building is quite nicely done especially for the main character who progresses through the same trial over and over again to maturity.
All in all it was a short and average read which would have scored a bit higher by me if I had more world building or action or if some of the side characters were not so generic. My final score is 3 out of 5 stars.
This is my 2nd combo video, from an obscure SNK fighting game called - "Fighters History Dynamite/Karnov's Revenge"
The songs and the game used on this video are all property of their respective owners and are used without profit.
All combos were performed on keyboard; no tools, cheats or hacks were used.
Info -
BGM - "Lies" by Assailant (from the album "Nemesis Within")
"The Cauldron Of Renascence" by Eluveitie (from the album "Evocation I: The Arcane Dominion")
Special Thanks to - http://www.cyberfanatix.com/ & http://www.combovid.com/
for quenching my thirst for Kof and combos, still
Hope you guys enjoy this.
If you do you can watch my earlier solo combo videos (both for obscure SNK fighting games), recorded and edited and uploaded by armison - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pELx3n3GPIY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYc7n40
PS 1 -
Sorry for same stage on all the combos, I tried many things to change the stage but just couldn't in vs mode. I didn't record 2-3 infinite combos cause they are already published on various videos on youtube. And also I couldn't record a few combos because I wasn't able to repeat them for recording.
If you want more combos for this nice game please check the following videos - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DSVVjcUo7k http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0gcVaG1TOc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhGcoB5h008
PS 2 -
1. If you want to request combos for any characters or any pc fighting game you can request it on the comments. I will try my best to fullfill your requests.
2. If you want to see the transcript for these combos also you may request in the comments, then I will upload it.
3. Please do check out my blog of "Reviews & Stuff" and leave your comments -
http://ihate00critics.blogspot.com
Album Name - Re:Birth II/Romancing SaGa Battle Arrange Catalog Number - SQEX-10327 Released On - August 29, 2012 Composed & Arranged By - Kenji Ito Published By - Square Enix Musicians - Masaru Teramae, Atsushi
Enomoto, Yu "masshoi"
Yamauchi, Noriyuki Kamikura, Reiko Tsuchiya, Masahiro
Makihara, Kenji
Ito /
寺前甲 / 榎本敦 / 上倉紀行 /
土屋玲子 / 牧原正洋
Japan is the land of rpg's and we as non-Japanese speaking people often miss out on some of the true gems of this genre due to absence of ports of some of these games into english language versions. Romancing SaGa is a trilogy whose only english port was the ps2 remake of the first game which makes us almost unable to enjoy this series. But that doesn't mean we need to miss out on this rocking arrange album which comprises music from the total of the series into this solid 10 track rocking album.
