Kyou Kara Maou ep 2

Whee~ ^^; I'm back. For those interested, Jem and I brainstormed on the soon-to-be yaoi site of ours, and we kinda decided it to be Lemon Strings. ^^ Watch out for it.

Moving on to the Kyou Kara Maou review~~

Whee! Bathtime! Fanservice on the second episode! Whee! Half-naked Yuuri~~ *does a happy dance*

Oh~ Oh~ Oh~~ I found out that there is no manga for Kyou Kara Maou, but there IS a novel for it, and some illustrations by a BL game/doujinshi artist.. Hmm.. Will post up more info on that later on.

Gunther proves that he's as much as a perv as most of us fangirls are. Impure thoughts.. xD We all know what those thoughts are *wink wink* But you ahve to admit, he's just so adorable when he's mooning about Yuuri. And Conrad/Konrad [I have no Idea how to spell his name correctly] really does seem the father figure for Yuuri.. Especially at the baseball scene.

Wait. I skipped a super duper important part.

Did you know that slapping people on their left cheeks is a wedding proposal? Which is what Yuuri did to Wolfram at dinner. ^o^ But then he didn't know that it was a marriage proposal and refused to take the slap back. And Wolfy's mom, the "sexy queen-san" Yuuri met earlier in the bath, happily agreed and accepted the proposal. Aww.. Doesn't that make us all happy? *fangirl squeal of joy*

But then Yuuri picks up the knife that Wolfy "accidentally dropped" meaning Yuuri's accepted a challenge from Wolfy. Aww.. Yuuri just proposed to the guy and now they're in their first Lovers Quarrel?

*slaps self* bah! What am i saying?!

Anyways, that night, Yuuri and Conrad play a little game of catch, where Yuuri finds out that all his name torments came from Conrad and his great idea that Yuuri was July in German or soemthing.

The next day, Yuuri teaches Wolfy how to play sumo. Half-naked. But Wolfy didn't want to take his clothes off, the shy cutie. Anyways, Wolfy ends up getting his but kicked.. Um, but technically he lands on his butt after a scolding from Maou!Yuuri and his water serpents. I *like* water serpents.

will you guys just stop and listen to me for a moment?

oh my goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood!!!

screw you if you think using the name of god in such a way is damnable...

@.@ i am so freaking high on yaoi goodness right now curtesy of roo-too-good-to-be-true-sama... roo by the way is probably one of the best yaoi writers out there... am not lying... she's really one heck of a kick-ass yaoi person lady...

anywaaaaaaaaaay!!!

a big chunk of the yorokonde staff is a yaoi sympathizer if not a yaoi lover... and most of us read and write yaoi stuff anyway... so... i was kinda thinking...

why dont we put up our own yaoi site thing...?

it would have yaoi fics of all shapes and sizes... yaoi fanart courtesy of rika, the lithium girl, jessica and kang! forget about my drawings... you might drop dead... lol

what do you guys think?

oh and if anyone asks?

this is all roo-sama's fault

ja ne~~~

oh yeah... almost forgot... :P dont hesitate to hit me back with anything with regards to this post okieee?

Kyou Kara Maou ep 1

Oooooh-kaaaaaaaaaaaayy.... I'm back with a review!! ^^ *cheers*

Recently, I've gotten myself BitTorrent, 'cause I've been downloading scans from HemuLoki Scans through their torrent files.. and then a friend of mine suggested I should watch Kyou Kara Maou.. So I did a little research on it on the web, and look! Fansubs! I was so happy and started to download them. Thank you very much, DSL. ^^ After downloading eps 1-3, I started watching and boy was it fun!! xD I fell in love with the series~ ^o^ So here I am, doing reviews for it~

Okay, so we have here this normal shounen, whose name is Yuuri Shibuya, in this very cliche scene: watching the baseball team play/practice at the end of the day. Next thing you know he's fending off bullies who's picking on the resident smart-ass straight-A student, complete with glasses and messy hair, mind. You'd think the smart-ass highly intelligent classmate would back Yuuri up, but nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo, he chickens out and runs away from the fight, leaving Yuuri alone and gets beat up by the bullies. He goes home battere dand bruised and.. Wait, wrong series.

Yuuri gets flushed down the toilet. In the female's public urinal. Near the park. Yep. You read right. He got flushed down the toilet. Like those dead goldfishies. If you think about it, it's impossible. But not for this anime. Cliche? No, i dont think so. I wonder.. Is Yuuri a goldfish? O_o

Anyways, the animation ish coooooool. Its gots smooth coloring, pretty eyes, and not to mention, winged skeletons~ Go winged skeletons!! xD The art is very good, though for some reason, there are those times that I think Gonzo did some of them.. Not sure. I dont exactly pay much attention to the credits...

The opening song is uber funkeh. The ending song ish lurvleh-- and the ending animations is just soooo adorable~~. They were both sung by The Stand Up, and they apparently love their guitar solos [in the full verions]. Might do a separate review for those later.

Anyways, back to the review. For a first episode, everything just goes too fast. Most of the major characters get introduced in the episode.. And believe it or not, Yuuri gets to meet this really really cute bishie. (Wolfram!! Marry me!!) Oh, and Yuuri and horses don't mix. And people might think that Conrad is Yuuri's real dad. Ch'yeah right.

Prince of Tennis Review

Prince of Tennis started out as a manga publish by Shounen Jump/Jump Comics *dont you just love the name?* followed by the anime series that followed the manga closely. Later on Prince of Tennis GAMES were developed and released for the adoring public of POT and gamers to enjoy.

But I am here to write about the series and write about it I shall. Should you need further information on the manga and the games google it up or something. :P

Prince of Tennis or otherwise known as Tennis no Ouji-sama or Teni Puri basically focuses on the story of 12-year old freshman tennis genius Ryoma Echizen and his life as part of the SEIGAKU tennis club and their troublesome journey towards the Nationals.

The anime is very well put together. The drawing styles are consistent throughout the series and does not morph into these ugly bits of colored silhouettes holding tennis rackets at the climax of a tennis match. Speaking of morphing, there's this episode in the series that features all the characters found in POT in SD form! :P I turned to mush at the sight of the Seigaku Tennis Club flooded in SD cuteness... *ahem* Vital scenes like tennis matches, injuries, super tennis moves and the likes are all drawn with utmost style that it makes you really look forward to who's going to win and what that move is called or make you gasp from the injury acquired.

The series also features an insane amount of bishounens that makes it quite hard for one to look away even if it's just the ending song running. Needless to say I've fallen in love with almost all of the characters in POT but my loyalty lies on Ryoma-kun, Tezuka-sama, Momo-chan-senpai, Kikumaru-chan and Fuji-samaaaaaaa! Okay, okay that's practically the whole team but I can't help it! They're all insanely cute and their personalities are just to die for.

PoT can be watched by everyone from tennis enthusiasts to people who have no idea how to hit a tennis ball to the otherside of the net. It is comical, fun and actionpacked. I would recommend this to anyone who would want to watch a decent sport-related anime anytime.

~end~

Prince of Tennis

now you guys listen to me. i havent seen the whole series but i will not write a review of prince of tennis per episode! this is going to be a one-shot thing if not done in multiple parts due to writer's block and miscellaneous/anonymous reasons...

i believe nobody has taken claim over prince of tennis... so if there are no violent reactions whatsoever from the readers, other reviewers and whoever you are... i shall put up my review the next time i go online.

advert: you can go see prince of tennis here in my house but i only have episodes 1 up to 115. feel free to ask me about viewing this certain series or any other series that is par of my euh... anime collection?...

ja

Swords and zombies mix VERY well...

...Especially when releasing agression. Expecting another Anime Review? Too bad. I review games, dammit. That's why I'm the game reviewer. Unless I feel otherwise. Unfortunately, I do not watch TV on a regular basis. And I do not have the funds to sustain Anime-ishness with VCDs... So I'm stuck reviewing games. Ha.

Onimusha3
Capcom
PS2
First off, this game has actual actors... well, not actual, but character models based on actors. We have Kaneshiro Takeshi or something, as the main hero, who comes back from Onimusha 1, as Onimusha 2's hero died, And Jean Reno, that french guy from Hollywood, (but for some reason I only remember him from Godzilla) as Jacques Blanc, the second hero to this game.
On the gameplay, Does having two switch between two characters affect playing style? None. You just either enjoy yourself using swords and kick arse as Samanosuke, or lash around with whips, castlevania style, throwing/whipping/shooting monsters right and left. Yes people, There is a gun in this Onimusha. Sounding like resident evil already? Puzzle wise, it is... but there is a very resident evil-ish sequence when you run around with a rifle using the third character...
Coming back to this game of course, is the Onimusha transformation, which some purists consider as a 'Devil Trigger ripoff' but then, DMC isn't really that much fun. It's more of a shoot-em-up with the devil trigger thrown in to make it even easier. In Onimusha however, the Oni form is nowhere as all-pwerful.. you're given set invincibilty, but for about seven, eight seconds tops. Less if you use magic. But you deal damage like no one's business.
On the game itself, The in-game puzzles are difficult, but nowhere near the RE series, where if you forget an item, you trek backwards for miles.. This game also boasts that you also require some skill; unlike other games where you can mash the slash button and kick arse, this one enforces that you learn it's skills, such as the issen (attacking at the exact moment as your opponent-critical blow.) hajiki issen (blocking, THEN attacking, but only at the exact moment of your opponent's attack) chain-issen (critical blow.. followed by several more to the surrounding enemies. Don't worry, a critical blow is an instant kill.) at least several more skills that simply require practice, and actually making use of the block button. In other words, this game may seem deathly hard to a newbie, but stick with it, and you won't stop until you unlock everything... or at least, Samanosuke's panda costume.
VISUALS:
FMV:excellent, FF-worthy.. I mistook this for an actual movie first time I saw it. NO kidding. ^^ The opening movie is a must-see. Will post alink to the trailer when I find one. 10
in-game:Fluid, and makes very good use of the PS2 processor. And the combos never get repetitive. You can always mix the moves on the fly, going from the Tenso's light sword combo to the Chigo's Magnum Break-looking fire explosion. Plus, no break-up whatsoever. An Opponent may occasionally go through a wall though. 8.5
SOUND:
Background Music: Pretty good, But nowhere near Tenchu. 8.5
Voices: Ehh.. I suffer. The english cast is pretty good, but I get thrown off by the fact that the character mouths aren't in synch. I prefer the Japanese version. 9
Effects: bones breaking as you kick an opponent into a wall, the whip cracking as it hacks into opponents, metal on metal, and that loving squelch when you stab an opponent into the floor. 10
STORY: Most people will feel this is incomplete, but this is part three in a trilogy, dammit. go play Onimusha 1 and 2 before you complain about the story. Me, I give it a 10.

Overall:9 or 10-ish. Just play the damned game if you can. If you find it too hard, go play SSX tricky instead, or something. Hell, Shinobi was hell of a lot harder than this.. Want to play on easy mode in Onimusha3? Die twice in a row. this automatically unlocks easy mode, since the game pities you.

Don't like my review? Too bad. :p

if you wonder why I take so damned long between reviews, ir's because I spend time playing the game again and again.. I don't get paid like they do at EGM.. and I don't have my own PS2.. *sob*

***half an hour later***
Gee. NOW I find it. http://www.gametrailers.com/gt_vault/t_onimusha3_4.html
You can download the trailer here. The trailer only, though.. haven't seen if they have any of the in-game movies.. It am downloading as I type.. My connection is slow. >.<

smoosh.

Oh nothing. Just thought i'd be the 101st post. XD