Umineko no Naku Koro ni 01

First episode aired. Bear without screenshots for now. I figure I’ll do a little visual-novel/anime comparison for a while.

Happenings

Umineko EPISODE 4 -Finished it yesterday. I can’t stress enough over how amazing Ryukishi07 is. Being able to create so many questions around incidents is incredible. I’m very much looking forward to the anime now (if you couldn’t already tell).

Eushully eroge - None of these are translated. But I’m having a blast with them.I love Hatozuki Tsumiki’s art, so that combined with understanding some of the story works out well.

Ikusa Megami Zero – RPG system is fine. Can’t complain too much,. I need to play more of it.

Himegari Dungeon Meister – You may recall I did a article on this (in which I miss-romanized lots of the names). The game is fun and hard but also very simple. It’s a strategy RPG in which you simply move characters around and attack them. You also have the option of sacrificing monsters which is very useful.

Meishoku no Reiki – I got addicted to this. Seriously, it’s very fun. I had alot of trouble, thankfully someone was kind enough to give me a save with alots of powerful units. I beat it once and got the ok ending. It’s also strategy RPG, but on a grander scale than Himegari, you control armies to conquer countries, whilst using power gained from a princess. Replaying now.

Genrin no Kishougun 2 – Took a while to figure out. This game is particularly funny in that it can summarize the difficulty of Eushully’s games to some extent. What do I mean? Other games by Eushully are just difficult, but in this game when characters die they are dead forever, you cannot even access their story sequences, they are dead for real. Thankfully, using an awesome memory editor I’ve been able to set my characters as invincible and give me lots of moeny (I feel particularly proud of this, cause I was only able to do stuff to Touhou earlier).

Manga – Should have mentioned it earlier, But Ubel Blatt is kickass, go read it if you haven’t. Also Kouta Hirano (creator of Hellsing) has a new series Drifters it’s pretty awesome.

Purchases – Bought a bunch of new pencils. Particularly a lead-holder from Staedtler.  Also a book by Guy Delisle (a Canadian comic artist) I really like his work.

Anime – Phantom has had it’s WHAM episode. Valkyria Chronicles had an episode which showed the Imperial side of things. Saki is starting to get into the interesting matches (featuring Hajime, the girl with restraints on her arms).  I should catch up with Eden…

What have I been watching…

Well since I haven’t really posted for last season and this season. I’ll just jot down a whole lot.

More Drawing

I’ve been practicing more and more. I got a new “how to draw” book and a 2mm lead holder. This is one of the results. 
I also messed around with photoshop and used the impression brush to emphasize the lines that the scanner couldn’t

Feeling good about it. Comments please.

Umineko voices!

Haven’t blogged in a while due to school work, depression, laziness, gaming, and wanting to draw more.

But this is a fun thing to blog about so…..

Umineko Anime – All Main Cast Designs

The only reason you are getting this post is cause Rosa looks good.

We finally got a very nice update on the Umineko anime. Particularly how the Ushiromiya family and their servants will look.

I decided to only do the leading ladies for the sake of convenience.

Updates – 1/2 Purchases 1/2 Valentine’s

My spoils

As the title of this post says. It will be partially on stuff I bought. And partially on Valentines Day.

New page!

Because I realized I have failed to emphasize “I love character designers and artists” I made page dedicated to listing all the eroge/manga related artists that I love. I’ll update it everytime I find another artist.

If you can’t find it above.

Toradora reaches new levels of awesome

Screenshots don’t show enough awesome, watch it here.

If only there were more fights animated like this.
I’ve been enjoying Toradora (I had been looking forward to the anime ever since I read the manga).
J.C. staff needs to take the team they used for Toradora and use them more.

In relation to the eroge blog community… (NSFW)

She's sitting on her throne....waiting for me.

M3rryweather and Hemisphere fight over which bishoujo they get in their harem (a recent fight is here NSFW). It is very much an inside joke.
So I’ve decided to join in on it, particularly after finding out that Hemi has been playing Ikusa Megami ZERO (a game which I have shown my love for). So I have decided to get a jump on Hemi before he claims any beautiful ladies from the game.

So…… HAISHERA’S MINE HEMI! GET ONE OF THE OTHER DEMON OUJO-SAMA FOR YOURSELF BUT HAISHERA’S MINE.

So either…..he will not care at all. Or he will care a bit. Either way this was a very fun post. He hasn’t finished the game yet.

Alittle more after the jump (a slightly intimate shot)