Tsukihime – Now in English!

Mirror Moon has released version 1.0 of their Tsukihime full English translation patch. To receive a copy of it, all you have to do is to destroy the support disc, answer twenty Tsukihime trivia questions and send a photo of you holding the game CD while naked…

Nyaaa

OR, you can just download it here.

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Saber (Holiday ver.) goes on a…holiday

Today was the first day of my school holidays. I thought to myself, what better way to spend my holidays than to go to the beach?…

Ok I’m lying. As if I would voluntarily go to the beach. It’s just an oversized sandpit and a shit load of salt water for Haruhi’s sake. I just fell victim to peer pressure. It was horrible. People were getting buried alive. I think a few drowned too. Just imagine the fishes picking away at their corpses as we speak. The beach is dangerous place.

Since I probably won’t be going to Sentosa for the next few years, I took the opportunity to bring Saber along for a holiday that she deserves. I mean, she’s called “Holiday ver.” for a reason.

Saber

See…

Saber likes lions.

The Merlion is half lion. (Or so the travel brochures claim)

Therefore, Saber likes Merlion.

GAO!!!

I’ll just go lie down and die now. I think I walked for 10 hours today.

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Haruhiism Time Capsule Project – Part VI

Haruhi

Heya! It’s your favourite Haruhi fanboy again. Time sure passes by fast. Here’s the second last status update of HTCP (read this if you have no idea what this whole thing is about).

Currently, we are just a few pictures short of the goal of a hundred! And by a few, I really mean a few. Like, four or some crazy number like that! If you have some pictures lying around, go submit them now! And if not, go take some! Just follow the instructions here. We only have 5 days left to go.

Because Yahoo’s flash script sucks, I have saved a copy of all the submissions in this gallery. I especially like this one. So… which of you guys was responsible for it?

– Making Haruhiism Last Forever 2006

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1/8 Haruhi gone in 60 seconds

Various hobby websites put up preorders for the second batch of Max Factory 1/8 Haruhi today. The first batch of 5000 units is due for release in February and the preorders, online and offline at Akihabara, were gone in a matter of hours. The second batch was put up today and is due for release in April.

Haruhi

And once again, preorders ended at record speed. I think we can all agree that Haruhi is awesome and this happens to be the most accurate representation of her awesomeness so far, making it one of the most awesome-nest figures ever. To misquote the late Winston Churchill, never in the history of human conflict entertainment has so many fapped so hard to so few.

Just a few websites that were taking preorders.

Your best hope now is to keep refreshing CDJapan because they have yet to start taking orders for the new batch. Alternatively, pray for HLJ.

P.S. I ordered two from HLJ for the first batch. I hope they are able to fulfil the orders…

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“Kyoushirou to Towa no Sora” Promo

The official site of Kannadzuki no Miko 2 Kyoushirou to Towa no Sora has released an online promo clip. 「京四郎と永遠の空」 is an upcoming TV series based on the somewhat popular manga serialized in Dragon Age from the mangaka of Kannadzuki no Miko.

CHIKANE-CHAN!
CHIKANE-CHAN!

She’s Chikane-chan! I just know it! I sense more angsty yuri love with mecha next year. Watch the video for yourself.

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Sumomo mo Momo mo – Saikyou OX Keikaku

So, instead of spending last night dong last minute revision for the Higher Chinese O’level paper which I just took a few hours ago, I decided that it was a futile struggle and translated the OP of Sumomo mo Momo mo instead. This song has the coolest lyrics that I have ever seen. Seriously.

Sumomo mo Momo mo

But before that, I just want to add a note about Sumomo mo Momo mo’s title. 李 (sumomo) means “plum”, 桃 (momo) means peach and particle “mo” means “also” or “too”.

The title is actually derived from a popular Japanese tongue-twister 「李も桃も桃の内」 (“sumomo mo momo mo momo no uchi“), literally, “Plums too, peaches too, they are in peaches”, or to put it in English, “Plums and peaches are both part of the peach family.”

Yeah, the title of the anime is not actually nonsense. Shock! As to what plums and peaches imply in Japanese, I’m not really certain. The song seems to use them as metaphors of child-bearing/pregnancy, I think? Or maybe chastity. Whatever.

Read on for the lyrics.

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October spendings

Ahhh… October is almost over. And it’s a good thing too because I am almost out of smackaroos. Hobbies are expensive addictions. You are probably better off taking drugs.

Money!!!

So anyway, here are some purchases I made this month that I have NOT been regretting. The rare few, that is.

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We are back!

2000

Testing. テスト。

It’s alive! Yay! This blog is now hosted at Dreamhost. :3 I maxed out my bandwidth on my old host, so I thought it was a good chance to switch. I’m pretty happy with Dreamhost so far. It’s faster and I get shell access (IRC yay!) now. Not to mention my month bandwidth increased by a few dozen folds…

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Suzumiya “Hahiru” no Yuuutsu

The title is NOT a typo.

The Japanese porn industry has finally caught on with the Haruhi craze. Suzumiya Hahiru no Yuuutsu will be released on DVD in stores nationwide on 15 Dec for the price of ï¿¥3,990 (tax inclusive). That’s hella cheaper than what Haruhi DVDs go for…

Hahiru
WARNING: FULL VERSION NOT SAFE FOR WORK

Ignoring the explicit depiction of sexual intercourse, the cover design is almost exactly like the limited edition cover design of Yuuutsu Vol.1.

Ah, is there anything that hasn’t been turned into porn by those crazy Japanese? (That’s a rhetorical question BTW)

Continue reading for some work-safe pictures of the promo clip.

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LG Digital Fine Contrast does magic for anime!

Were you rubbing your eyes in disbelief at episode 3 of Yoake Mae yori Ruri-iro na? Or were you stabbing them with blunt pencils to relieve them of their agony like I was? Does it bring you merciless flashbacks of those recurring Soul Link nightmares that took many days of psychological therapy to suppress?

If you answer “Yes” or “Maybe” to any of those questions above, you need to get yourself a LG digital LCD display! It will solve all of your anime quality problems completely!

Read on for the delicious details.

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