Bigheart711 (Level 20)

A few weeks ago, I had visited Momocon once more! I failed to post it in my usual sites last year, but this year, I went all-out with my good buddy, who's moving to California in a while. It was bittersweet, but it was also a good sendoff to his farewell. Aside from that, I found a lot of my friends and many cosplayers were from well done to excellent. A list of the things I managed to get...

• Full-Series Boxset of Princess Tutu (not the ADV Version, but this one kept most of the extras and had new trailers)
• Booster Box of Vanguard BT03 (I'm building a Dark Irregulars Deck)
• Vanguard Oracle Think Tank Trail Deck
• Keychain of Mami Tomoe (of Madoka Magica)
• Playmat of a gal with a Buster Sword.

The Cosplay

Here's all of the cosplay pictures that I managed to take! This time, I even ran into someone using a Serinity Form Sailor Moon, a Chibi-Usa and even an Elizabeth cosplayer. <3

Well, that pretty much sums everything up, except getting back home was the best workout ever (for me, not for my folks). XD Until next time!

First of all, I'm very sorry with my absence as of late. My school work took a major toll on me and it really showed within the past month, so I'm making it up to you all by listing all the anime (and stuff of interest) within over the past month! Here goes! [This will be updated as I go because real life's calling me AGAIN. Will be back with more, including images and video games!]

Anime Series

Welcome to my initial blog series, Absolute Destiny Whatever (Named after a Twitter hashtag I made up while I was working on a wiki for those that were wondering) where I'll be discussing not only what videogames I've been playing, but also about what else is going on about my life as of late. The holidays came and went and it turned out to be fine despite the year that I had with my family.

Christmas Eve and Day

Unlike other X-Mas Eves, that one was shorter than hell rather than the usual feeling of it being longer than two to three days. Christmas Day arrives and I ended up having some fun as my folks gave me some gifts despite being far from perfect and the lazy-ass job they did with my stocking. (A big ziplock bag filled with candy in a stocking? Seriously? The candy part's what the actual stocking is for.) -__-

Gifts that I Can Remember from that Time

• Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks. (Link via GiantBomb)
• A shirt that doesn't suit me (It was purple with light blue text). :(
• A new stereo/cd player.
• A box of Old Spice stuff (Which smells very good in my view).
• An fancy Invicta watch that made the ones from my nearest mall look like counterfeit ones.

New Year's 2013

2012 was quite a ride in gaming, anime and hanging around at the campus lounge and on the internet. I also learned that I have an fearless-like ability when talking to women outside of the school lounge as pointed out by a few friends of mine. (Didn't even need help from GB's off-topic section for that. :P ) However, when it came to my home and family life, it was a bitch and a half. I lost a loved one, another loved one got arrested (too many driving tickets), and the family car was towed in late September, thus royally screwing everyone's plans until my fall quarter, which totally blew despite my good performances back there. I dealt with the negatives of 2012. Now I'm attempting to turn them all into positives for 2013.

That's about everything that went on with me during the holidays, so with a song to welcome the new year , I'll see you around until next time. (Also feel free to comment if you want to share your thoughts on how your holidays went too).

Since K-On ended up becoming a phenomenon since the first season's release, there's already more merch for it than I can even remember, but this recent one caught my eye and ended up being one of the moments when I wish I knew how to speak Japanese even though there was already an introduction to it on this very site. There's this article for the themed Portable GPS that showed up on ANN not too long ago and judging from it as well as the original source (it's only in Japanese, but sadly, my chrome browser couldn't pick up any text from it, so I had it translated in order to actually read it).

Looks like I got my wishlist extended....

It looks like a cassette tape when being started up, but it then goes to a themed menu, which also includes the settings for which band member to pick. The voices of Yui, Mugi, Mio, Ritsu and Azusa can guide the user to their destination when one of them is chosen as the avatar for your car.

I would definitely use the Mugi one if I could. <3

It just got released in Japan, so it looks like the fun begins for the lucky bastards who come across this. I doubt this'll end up with an English version option, but a guy can dream, can't he?

Sources

• http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2012-09-18/k-on-portable-gps-car-navigator-revealed#gallery_top (Via ANN)
• http://www.rwc.co.jp/product/rm500htt/index.html Original Source (Japanese)

I don't want to let her go either, but I must. :(

This will be the last of my report on the series before my full review of the series. It was a fun time following every episode, even though the one-parters threw me off a bit. This last set (11 and 12) are two-parters once again.

Synopsis

We go back in time once again to Sweet Girl (Mediator)'s Grade School days as she is enrolled at a late age and plans to skip and advance a couple of grades. However, she happens to be an anti-social person who thinks that Curly, a roommate and potential friend of hers might take advantage of her age and bully her along with a suspicious group of kids her age. There's also an rumor of a group of fairies holding a tea party somewhere at the time and it might end up becoming a real event after Sweetheart finds a fairy near the bullies.

Good

• The story for both parts turned out to be excellent.
• Part 2 fills in the origin and friendship for both Sweetheart and Y.
• There's some very good humor, but this set is more on a serious note like some of the past ones.
• The outcome of the set turned out as an excellent closer.

Bad

• Part 1's story felt very slow up until the second half of the episode.
• This is one set that makes a lot of the episodes feel jumbled up from the plot's standing point.

Weird

• Curly's insanity is either equal or greater than the Curly from Hey Arnold in one particular episode.
• The Guard Robot was mysteriously more helpful than harmful because it wasn't updated at all.

I hate spoiler-highlighting stuff because it freaks me out, but as it turns out the message at the very end likely hints at a second season, but the fans of this (such as myself) can only hope for it. This won't be the last time I'll be reviewing episodes from series like this, so keep under watch for anything, loyal readers! :)

Highlights

Of course, everyone's hair was messed up back then.

Hm. He resembles Professor Layton. Are there any puzzles lying around?

Always watch out for the cute ones. They can be trouble.

Now's not the time to read any Yaoi, Y. ;p

I hope to see you again! <3