” 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.

-made a lot of friends, especially in the music department. And learned that there’s a lot more I need to catch up as a musician.

-lose friends who are very dear to me due to misunderstanding and my attitude of expecting too high from people.

-learns nothing new

I think that pretty sums it up. So… derp. I don’t have any new year resolution or what to fix in 2012, that’s kinda how a boring person I am.

I was born in the year of the dragon.

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?

What's the point of knowing everything when there's no one around to share it?

Well, I started off with guitar, and joined with people who I thought had the same interest as I am. Played many live show, jammed many times, just to know that I’m not compatible with their taste. And to proceed, I learned drum, since I don’t think I can find a drummer which will suit my taste of music. I already know how to play bass at this point, so if anyone need me to play bass which compatible with my taste, I have no problem to join them.

Most important thing for musician, you enjoy what you are playing.

Turns out everything I did was pointless, none of my friends replied. In the end I’m left alone, and continue being a drummer for my new band. They taste are very different from mine, but for the time being they really need me and they have the determination to play the music they like although the lack of skills and experiences. The least I can do is support them and push them forward until I’m no longer needed.

Skills, I don't need it. What I want is determination and passion to start something.

Maybe there’s no one out there that have similar music taste like I am, so looks like I made a really stupid choice believing that the day where I can jam mecha anime songs, shonen anime songs and male jrock band songs. End of rant.

Well, it’s good to know that you have a friend, but are they a friend in need? … Maybe I should stop there. Then again, I felt like many of my time and money wasted going out loitering where I can actually use my time and resource for self improvement… which is really my hobby. Hate to say that I’m not the thinking type, and sorry for not paying attention for anything that happened around the world but my life is short lived and to go through it is more important to me than paying attention to something I can only know but takes no action. So I’m more interested in learning skills compared to adding more and more heap of tottemo cool information in my brain. Curse me all you want, but if everyone is a thinker, who’s gonna do the freaking job?

While you are busy thinking about plans, she's already my waifu. Something like that.

It’s okay if people don’t know me that much, it’s okay if my friends didn’t appreciate what I ever did but at least I can be of help to anyone in need. Being useless in a situation sucks, so let’s just train myself during this short mid sem break and hopefully March is a better month and I’ll be a better man.

Ganbare... Ore...

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