Azure Flame Reloaded

Is this image even necessary? Not really, but since a picture is supposedly worth a thousand words, it effectively doubles the length of my article. For a while now, I’ve wanted to rave about Air, but since I didn’t really think I could turn it into a coherent blog post, I had to leave that [...]

Masahiro is making ink when Mokkun arrives. Mokkun: Is that ink you’re making? Don’t tell me this episode is going to be as boring as the last one. Masahiro: It wasn’t that boring- I mean, I did get a good chunk of screen time. Mokkun: Whatever you say. Let’s just have a quick Flashback Mode; [...]

Guan Yu and Zhang Fei have been separate from their beloved Liu Bei for a while now, but at long last the time has come for their long-awaited reunion. Will love be in the air as the HARD GAY brothers rediscover each other? Where better to have a strategy meeting than the house of a [...]

Mokkun is talking to Masahiro. Mokkun: Anyway, I was given this huge chunk of dialogue to tie up what happened last episode, so I’ll just read it all out now…hey, are you listening to me? Masahiro: Hmm? Oh, sorry, I didn’t realise the episode had already started.

This is what happens when you don’t make time for lubricant. At the beginning of the year, I was desperate to have Alter’s version of KOS-MOS, but since I hadn’t got my order in in time, I had to go without. When a re-release was announced this year, I was determined not to miss out, [...]

Anna receives a letter from d’Eon. (Anna: A letter from d’Eon! I thought he didn’t care about me, but he sent me this letter just so I could get some screen time!) D’Eon: Dear Anna, I hope you understand that this letter is not so much an indication of my affections for you as it [...]

Are you so addicted to Hikaru no Go that even the anime and manga in their entirety can’t satisfy your needs? Have you discovered a new love of Go but want to hone your skills against a computer before you completely embarrass yourself against a human opponent? If, like me, you find yourself answering yes [...]

Masahiro wanders around outside after his coming-of-age ceremony. Mokkun: Having your coming-of-age ceremony held offscreen must be a real blow for a main character like you, right, Masahiro? Masahiro: I’m already thirteen- I feel like I’ve been an adult for many years already. Masahiro’s father Yoshimasa appears.

I wasn’t particularly looking forward to doing episode five; in my mind I think of it as the ‘angst episode’ in which nothing really happens- not to mention the fact that it required no small number of new sprites and locations. Fortunately, it all went better than expected, and thus I can present to you [...]

I usually use this section to ramble about a random and vaguely relevant topic that no one really cares about, but given the sudden resurgence of the great “blogs need this, that and the other” debate (well, I guess corydorf got his wish of making people refer to other posts, go trackback power!), I thought [...]