Azure Flame Reloaded

Some jewel merchants offer their wares to Russian Empress Elizabeth. Elizabeth: These jewels bore me. I have no intention of purchasing goods from characters as generic as you. In a blatant stroke of irony, d’Eon’s party are attempting to enter the country by posing as jewellers. They are stopped by a border guard. Guard: I’m [...]

A minor dilemma lies before me; I want to read the Good Witch of the West manga, but at the same time I am scared to invest in something that could turn out to be as bad as the anime (let’s just say ‘acquiring’ it doesn’t seem to be an option; even Tokyopop’s website doesn’t [...]

Thor and Rai run through the forest of planet Chimera, chased by nameless enemies. Generics: Those look like main characters, the natural enemy of nameless generics! Kill them! Rai falls over as they run. (Thor: Damn Rai, always holding me back. Still, I suppose I’d better build up audience sympathy by pretending to like him.)

Yume Kikuchi is an apprentice mage who has come to Tokyo to finish her training. For a country girl like Yume, the city can be a daunting place, but nonetheless she resolves to hold firm to her ideal of using magic to help those in need. Under the tutelage of practising mage Masami Oyamada, however, [...]

Talk to the paw. Mikaze Hanjyou is a trainee pilot for the Meteor Sweepers- part of the ground-based defence line for inbound comets set to impact with the surface of the Earth. At first, it isn’t a job that she particularly cares for, but a high altitude mission gives her a taste for the dizzying [...]

Today on ROTK, we get a look into a life of the Great One, God on Earth, Zhuge Liang…through a clip show. Fortunately, a lot of the clips are from before I started blogging the series, so I can unashamedly use the screencaps. It’s ironic that only a few weeks ago I jokingly said “these [...]

There’s going to be a bit of a parody break for the next few days; not just because of the Jyu-oh-sei HDTV incident, but because I’ve been spending a lot of time on the Mai-HiME RPG (despite a tendency for the victory music to play in unwanted places, episode three is generally going well). If [...]

Itsuki Kamiyama is interested in murders; in fact, some might say he has an unhealthy fascination with mutilation and death. Despite the somewhat bizarre nature of his hobby, however, he is able to find a kindred spirit in classmate Yoru Morino. Drawn together by their shared interest in the darker impulses of the human soul, [...]

Making an RPG is an arduous task. Before even opening RPG Maker, you may find yourself spending hours in a graphics program trying to make the perfect sprite, tileset, animation or battle graphic. Once that is complete, you have to load your game project and start making some area maps, all the while trying to [...]

The Four Musketeers get in their carriage and depart for Russia. Robin thinks back to a conversation with the Queen. Marie: The stolen Psalm of the King is a very powerful key item. Those who acquire it can become boss monsters. The carriage continues onwards and passes a cannon firing range. Teillagory: These cannons are [...]