Journey into Mystery

You know why I disappeared for the last few days? My Okamiden copy arrived on Wednesday, two days early again :D Still not finished, though.

I feel very dirty for saying it, but going in with very low expectations this game is going much better than expected so far. I MEAN, there are still WTFs and all, but I have yet to find a butchery that makes me throw my DS to the wall and raegquit. If anything, I like that Benkei's quest for fish makes sense now and they even throw a reference to the original legend. Yeah, I'm all for tiny details. But they better justify the Tao Troopers' disappearance or I'm cutting a bitch! They're also giving me brand new Moon Tribe canon I need to mull over.

The stylus as the Celestial Brush is the best thing ever. Too bad about the d-pad controls and the camera being horribly awkward, but it's still hella fun. It's good that there's a skip button for cutscenes, but the automatic scrolling text is such a bad idea (sneeze and you missed a line).

Oh, and I fucking love Kagu! Kurow was a given because me likes the lunars, but this girl is so amazing.

I think, if I do a reaction post of it, I'll save it for the second playthrough. Pokémon is very straight-forward, but I always end up overthinking Okamiland stuff and I want to play more quickly.

outou pointed me out that Pixiv is an effective place for spoilers. On one hand, now I know what I wanted to know. Good, it's not the worst option! It gives me more questions, but they're new questions at least! On the other, now I know the particulars of the thing I vaguely heard they were going to pull, and I think I didn't want to know about that one. The implications of both facts is very D: to the point it's eclipsing my distrust of the game itself with just... staring at angsty fanarts of Japanese fanon forever. Like Waka didn't have enough of those already.

So I guess I'll have to pull my big girl panties and...



Eshiro, you do hate everything I love. But hey, I made a silly animated gif!

And now I'll shut up about Okamiden, at least for a while. Spoilers will surely be in comments, instead of being a normal gal and use a cut.

Let's begin with the headcanon meme with a half-baked prophet.

( Waka gets his own post because his is paragraph solid and plotbunnilicious. And no one was surprised... )

And because I have no self esteem lately.

Love Meme
my thread here

Images seen in Twitter and LJ flists:

1. Cute LEGO Stormtrooper is cute. I awww'd, even if it should be sort of funny/sad.

2. I see the Dragonball live action movie looks as LOLastic as usual, but why am I not surprised Piccolo isn't even green? He looks like a, um, a vampire! *rimshot and joke about Spike goes here*

Other strange flist alignments relevant to my interests happening in the last 24 hours:

3. A couple of CLAMP fans remembering Shin Shunkaden (Legend of Chun Hyang) existed and complaining about never knowing who her father was in the end. And still, we're the weird ones because the whine du jour was supposed to be about X and Lawful Drug or something.

4. Two friends getting into Apollo Justice at the same time. And both of them nodding in favor of my ship. Makes me feel somehow vindicated! :D Yesssss, more sane people! And yes, I might be a horrible person for introducing others to Ace Attorney through AJ, who at the same time introduce others through AJ. But hey, that way it's less painful, if you still haven't met Maya and the Edgers, and they'll avoid the usual comparisons between generations. Besides, most of these friends do it in order to understand our RP's AA cast (I'm to blame we even have one), and they're all post-timeskip so far.

Either way, yesterday made me feel less of an oddball.

I remember reading about this at pengiesama's plus some jokes about Valentinian royalty descending from the Moon Tribe from Okami, which FITS THEM SO MUCH, but I completely forgot about it till I got this text scroll at Cornelius' book:

The founder of the [Kingdom of Valentine] is said to have come to [Erion] in a flying ship from another world. At the time, Valentine's magic was far more powerful than any other nation on the continent, and it rapidly gained control of over two-thirds of the land. One of their unique magics was the ability to [make magic stones]. With the [Cauldron], a giant magical furnace, they had technology that enabled them to [store magic power in stones].

...LOL. I love it when a canon pulls UNEXPECTED LOL ALIENS on me. Particularly when the things coming from the aliens happens to be the point of most of the plot, or the more doomtastic part of it at least (the Crystallization Cauldron, the Ark of Yamato...)

Hell, even Zelda (remember Majora's Mask? the aliens kidnapping the cows?) and Elite Beat Agents pulled aliens on me. And in books... Good Omens? The other books with aliens I have read were pretty much the premise of it. Same with manga. And you could argue, back to videogames, that the royal family of cosmos on Katamari are some sort of aliens god-like beings (no, really, what the fuck ARE they?).

Now I feel like rewatching that Monty Python sketch in which everyone in Britain is turned into a Scotsman.

In less than a week, I've had two molars removed. The second one couldn't be fixed, so out with it. I'm paying for years of neglecting dental consults with blood, sweat, and my family's cash. Fucking dentists.

On the bright side, I'm conquering my fears. I still dislike the pinch a lot, though.

Oh, and I bought Elite Beat Agents. Damn, so entertaining and weird -not as weird as Ouendan, but what can I do. I've finished all the missions in the easy level, but I'm working on improving my levels and scores before attempting anything harder (the last four songs were bitches to follow, and it was the EASY level).

I've been watching some comedy series recently.

1. Spaced
British, short episodes, two seasons. It's quite funny, and geeky, and cute. It's kind of slice-of-life but with crack. The characters are so quirky, and I like that a lot.

2. The IT Crowd
British, 30-hour episodes, one short season. This one was recced to me by hamsterfactor. It's The Office meets Monty Python meets Internet memes. Even geekier and more batshit than the previous one. Can't wait for season two.

3. Gintama
Anime, outgoing like the Jump shounen series that it is. I've already talked about the manga and that I've liked what I read. So I tried the anime, and it cracked me up as much (and sometimes even more). I've only watched what's been subbed, and it's great. All the characters are great but... strangely enough, I've developed a bizarre crush on Zura Katsura :D Funny: I thought I'd be more into Shinpachi (he is cute, and I'm amused when he's all Watanuki on people, but Katsura is such a crazy dork~).

What else? I've started reading The Count of Montecristo today, borrowed from my uncle.

Also, I doubt I'll migrate any time soon, but just in case you want to friend me I'm kirisame everywhere:

kirisame @ GJ
kirisame @ IJ.

Oh, and I just remembered I'm also kirisame @ Twitter, but I always forget to update it anyway.