It's pretty symbolic.

I think it’s quite unique it deserves an entry here.

Also “I Want My Head Back – Tomoe Mami”

The original ” I Want My Hat Back “

” Hiroyuki Sawano 澤野弘之; born 12 Sep 1980 in Tokyo) is a Japanese composer. He is part of the group Legendoor. He was first recognized after completing the Soundtrack for the drama ‘Iryu~Team Medical Dragon’. He composes for dramas, movies and anime series. On July 15th 2009, he released his first original album entitled ‘musica’. “

The person responsible for my ear orgasm.

Sawano-san composed most of the memorable track from recent anime, noticeably Gundam UC OVA and Guilty Crown. Most of his work are really impressive and brings about a feeling of sadness but at the same time determined.

His first work that captivated me. Good tracks are "Unicorn" and "Piano to Anna"

Another UC track for episode 2 and 3. Also have a lot of good tracks. My favourite is "Mobile Armor" and "MAD-NUG"

Also to my ignorant nature to the soundtrack music scene, I just learned that he also composed the soundtrack for Guilty Crown. No wonder I cried a bit when Ouma draws Inori’s void in the first episode.

Lots of songs with weird title inside. My favourite gotta be "βιοζ-δ" and "κrOnё" "

You can check the rest of his info and discography on last.fm instead of wiki. Also check out his own website here. Maybe I’ll try Ao no Exorcist soundtrack next.

Ahem, Gentlemen.

If I were to describe the game… It was juicy, delicious and badass. Though some might find it offensive in some part, I think I had so much fun with it. Hey, it got me more addicted than Skyrim in the first try.

Don't say stuffs like that, I might fell in love.

Game system is pretty simple, if you’re familiar with Grand Theft Auto, then you have no problem running through this game. There’s 2 seperate part of the gameplay, one is the main mission, and the other one is the city-conquering part. Though it’s better if you enjoy the city conquering part first since it’ll give you bonus stuffs to go through the story.

This game involve shooting guys dressed in cute costumes.

Running around naked is a routine to prove how badass you were.

By any chance you think this game was just an ordinary mafia wars, it gets better from there.

Always trust a big naked guy, he always come in handy.

Am I fighting against an aircraft carrier now? *immaokaywiththis*

Next we go wresting, seems pretty normal to me.

A tank that fell from the sky? that must be good news.

The city got infested with zombies? No problem, I'm really good at these.

Somewhere in Cyber space, I need to take down a hacker.

Okay mister hacker, you're going down!

So a floating aircraft carrier... Give me a heli and I'll get the job done.

Someone remind me why am I on Mars right now?

Nooooooooooo!!!!

That probably sums up the game. Though I think most of my time are wasted on modifying the character.

Husky looks.

Innocent nerdy looks.

But of course.

Hey... don't look at me like that...

I think I’ll go for another replay tonight. So that’s all folks.

Ah, my dangerous and destructive waifu. Gasai Yuno.

First of all the director Naoto Hosoda . Looking through his record, I can say that none of his works that I like and most of his work is Key Animation. Seriously my expectation of Mirai Nikki anime turns out to be awesome had turned to dust just from here. Then here comes the main attraction of the series, Gasai Yuno, to be voiced by Tomosa Murata (?) . Fresh seiyuu is good, and sometimes it turns out really good like what happened in Soredemo Machi, but I think Yuno voice is totally annoying and my image of yangire waifu is ruined. While blood drenched and everything, she suddenly screams like a cat… So I turned the volume down.

Please stop screaming, I'll do anything for you, just stop screaming.

Sometimes stuffs isn’t all that bad, looking at the good side, there’s Norio Wakamoto(Charles Zi Britannia) as Deus and Ishida Akira(Athrun Zala) as Akise Aru(another of my favourite character).  Also, VERY nice opening by Yousei Teikoku , 空想メソロギヰ . And coming from the director who always did key animation, the animation can be pretty fluent at a time but the studio isn’t all that good so expect less quality coming from it and enjoy the plot. Btw looking at the enormous number of staffs in the anime production, I shouldn’t complain much since I watched it for free.

The guitar sound is making me aroused.

As I already know the plot, maybe I expect a little high in quality here. But for those who doesn’t know, I think it’ll be best if they enjoy the plot twist.

Holy plot twist.

p/s : I also enjoyed the Mirai Nikki Inspired Album Vol.1 – Ingaritsu Noise. Lot’s of good hipster songs inside.

With character 'theme' songs.

Download here.

Short skirt + guitar sells?

The first episode of dotHack//Quantum : Walking Party

Those who are not familiar with dotHack series, it’s a story about a MMORPG that supposed to be far more advance than any MMORPG that existed today. It uses VR to simulate real life experience in the game in conjunction with a microchip implant in your brain; which causes all the trouble from the story. This one is a three episode OVA installment for the series, which feature The World R:X which is a newer version of The World.

The new version of The World featured in the OVA.

What makes it different from the other dotHack series?

Three girls as the lead.

Real life version of them.

The retarded main heroine who causes trouble to everyone. *somewhat familiar traits*

And of course...

Aside from the moe girls approach, the series promises better quality compared to the previous dotHack anime which is full of disoriented character anatomy and unnatural body language.

>_<

Quality dragon breath scene.

Panic in-game battle.

Angry dragon.

And dragons, they rock! Through the fire and flame.

Those who are familiar with the dotHack series can’t help but notice the camoe from the previous dotHack series.

The PK'ers who PK'ed Haseo in dotHack//G.U.

Don't want to spoil about who she really is, but you'll surely get it from the avatar she's using.

Overall the story is enjoyable and light. If you want to smoke something deep, might as well go for dotHack//G.U. instead. As a dotHack fan, I can say the anime is good way of conveying how The World works to non-dotHack followers.

Epitaph user Data Drain, they didn't care to explain it at all. But it's a hack ability nonetheless.

Though some terms and unexplainable situation can’t be described in 3 episode but the dotHack fan surely ignore it since they’re all reference to the older dotHack.

In game conversation.

IRL conversation.

Wait, what?

Shinryak!Shinryak!Shinryak!Shinryak!Shinryak!Shinryak!

Been a month or so since I bought L4D2 at a discounted price, and yeah, addicted to the multiplay ability of the game. And there’s been a fuss after installing the K-On mod thanks to ultimaweaponx. But after a while, the mod started to get buggy and interfere with the game resulting an interesting situation where all the character can fly like Gundams and slide thru ground like a snake. The thought of disabling it to prevent the bug seems fruitless, so let’s game people.

And yeah, pics…

Moeagare~

Moeagare~

Moeagare~

The cover flow phailed hard after upgrading it.

So yeah, gonna reorganize my songs and downgrade it later. Sadly my iMac can’t help me this time, the HFS partition is set to 100GB(thanks to my dad)… which is not enough for my songs.

Acid Black Cherry - Re:Birth

It was love at first sight, the first time I heard it and I’m already mesmerized. Re:Birth by Acid Black Cherry probably among the best song of the year. A song for the latest installment for the Another Century Episode series “Rebirth” , filled with fast and delicious guitar riff, double guitar solo harmonic, soothing Janne Da Arc vocal and overall it’s a really nice arrangement. The wait is killing me ( about 3 month I think ) but once it was released, can’t stop headbanging to it until now. Already tabbed it out, but not in the mood to write it down unless requested. The game itself is not worth much mentioning but this song is a must try.

うたかた花火 - Supercell

Oshit it’s Naruto song but NO! Don’t discriminate it like that. Kudos to Ryo again for making such a wonderful song. It’s the continuation of the series Kimi No Shiranai Monogatari >> Sayonara Memories >> Utakata Hanabi , all telling about the same thing, memories of a girl about a boy but in a different expression. Unlike the previous 2, the song is a ballad, with Nagi as the vocalist, sorry vocaloid fans out there, I still can’t accept the synthesizer feel of a vocaloid song yet. The PV is less attractive as the previous one but it’s really artistic in a supercell kind of way. The second song is the theme song for Mahou Tsukai No Yoru, Hoshi ga Mabataku Konna Yoru ni, a fast tempo song, again with intricate chord progression.

Walkの約束 - Nangi

Ignored it during the first time I listen to it, but after a while, starting to like it after putting it in my driving playlist. The ED theme for Shiki, melancholic in a way and the chord progression during the chorus is awesome. In a weird way, the lazy ass voice is kinda soothing to listen to. Same like Supercell’s, the PV is really artistic and not really enjoyable for most people.

SPARKY☆START　- 片手☆SIZE

片手☆SIZE is a trio group starring Aya Hirano, Horie Yui, and Maeda Ai. And yeah, I like most songs performed by all three of them so having them combined is something to look forward to. ED for Nurarihyon no Mago, a youkai + yakuza like story, didn’t watch it until I listen to this song. Yukionna/Tsurara, the character voiced by Hocchan is really dazzling, her eyes captivated me during the first look on the album art. And yeah, after listening to Hocchan voice in the song totally sold me out. The anime wasn’t all that good in terms of quality, but they got a good female seiyuu lineup and enjoyable story. The manga give a lot more chivalrous feel to it though.

It's A Wonderful World - Mr. Children

Forgive me for being a slowpoke but Mr.Children is really awesome, much more awesome than Radwimps and  Bump Of Chicken. I’ve fallen in love with their song after listening to Kurumi. But this album here doesn’t have that song, but it contains my favourite song ‘Fastener’. Their song pattern is pretty much the same and gave a feeling of nostalgic and melodic. Enjoyable if you’re listening to it while reading a slice of life novel or manga.

H.O.T.D - Maon Kurosaki

Kurosaki Maon is a newcomer to the anisong music industry, though from reading her profile, she already debuted in Akihabara as a performer. Up until now, she already performed the song for HoTD and the new Index series installment ( can check out the PV for that here ). Okay, the album consisted of all 13 H.o.t.d ED recorded in full version. Overall I give it a 3 star except for ‘Fuss Fuzz’ which deserve 5 full star from me. The song might me normal during the first time you listen to it, but once you put on your headphone and listen to the detail, it was really an exploding experience. The guitar arrangement is really awesome and somewhat producing an exploding sound from the palm mute, making you wanna headband right away. Though, I think one with less music instrument proficiency couldn’t notice it well so it’s not really a strong argument.

Venus to Jesus - Yakushimaru Etsuko

Weird song for a weird series, Venus to Jesus is a really premelodic kinda song where it’s the combination of cuteness + slow rock + ballad. Yakushimaru Etsuko voice is really cute and gave off a peaceful sensation, quite ‘windy’ like Hanazawa Kana’s voice. Kinda reminds me that I still haven’t watch S2 of the series.

]]> http://eccen.wakarimasenlol.com/2010/11/17/november-playlist/feed/ 0 http://eccen.wakarimasenlol.com/2010/11/16/random-updates/ http://eccen.wakarimasenlol.com/2010/11/16/random-updates/#comments Tue, 16 Nov 2010 12:06:24 +0000 eccen http://eccen.wakarimasenlol.com/?p=919 Cheers to me, got myself a new lineups of bandmates. They’re not as good as my previous band in term of skill but hey, they’re enthusiastic. Not gonna talk about that much, some things are best kept secret, so I’ll just keep writing menial task here like chords and reviews.

From left, me, Merru, myself and Kitsu.