Ijiwaru My Master / First Impression

Love the OP!!! It's sang by Terashima Takuma, the seiyuu who voiced the main guy. :)

Plot

Kurumi is a typical high school girl who leads a boring and un-happening life...and likes it that way. She doesn't commit herself to anything or anyone if she can help it. Neither does she have desire for anything or anyone in particular. Except for blue roses. Real ones. Not those that are artificially dyed. Yeah.

Her wish for a peaceful life was destroyed when one day after school she was suddenly swept away by a mysterious gust of wind and thrown into the demon world. Before she could figure out what the heck was happening, she was captured by a strange-looking man with horns and wings and brought to a market to be sold to the highest bidder!

Along came two buyers, one cute red-haired bishie who wants to bring her back as research material for his professor and one beautiful gold-haired bishie who wants to bring her back as a maid for his master. Both were willing to pay as much as it was needed to have her. The horned+winged guy then asked Kurumi to choose who she wants to go with because he couldn't decide who to sell to. Here, the choice you make will dictate which direction the story goes...

Characters

Leon: LEON-SAMAAA ASDFGHJKL /DEAD *coughs* Leon is a demon. A rich and powerful one. He's self-centered and arrogant. An oresama character. However, due to a certain event (which is revealed later on), he has shut himself away from the rest of the world and stays in his castle all day with only Eins as his tsukaima.

Delta: Delta is also a demon. He's obsessed with science like humans are obsessed with magic. His greatest wish is to build a robot wtf. He's called "hakase" i.e. professor by some people. Kind of a social retard who doesn't know how to read between the lines and speaks bluntly. XD

Eins: Eins is a dragon. He's Leon's tsukaima, the golden-haired bishie who wanted to buy Kurumi to serve as Leon's maid. Gives off a yasashii vibe and speaks in polite form. You know, like desu, masu, deshou, itashimasu, nasai etc etc.

Evans: Another demon. Evans is Delta's research assistant, the red-haired bishie who wanted to buy Kurumi to serve as material for Delta's research. A genki and akarui character. Or so it seems. He's one of the people who calls Delta "hakase".

Luca: Luca!!! HE'S SO DAMN CUTE I SWEAR. That pair of droopy eyes just makes me go "awww". Also, Luca is an incubus! And he's got a personality disorder hahaha. That is, the day!Luca is sweet, innocent and adorable (and speaks at a speed of one word per 10 seconds), but when night comes, he becomes a sexy pervy manbeast. Two for the price of one! XD

Shirosaki Homura: Kurumi's kouhai. Very popular among the girls in school. Good in studies. Good in sports. Has a nice personality too. He's not captureable until you finish all the other characters and a particular Normal route. But what does a human has got to do a story set in a demon world??? Well, we shall see. Heh.

First Impressions

This is one of the first games I got to know about when I first started reading up on otome games. When I first read the storyline, the first thing that came into my mind was "porn" lol. I mean the concept of a girl being sold to someone to be their maid??? Yeah. It's hard to think otherwise. And the title doesn't help things. XD (Well okay, this IS a 18+ game but you get what I mean.)

Favourite character at first sight? Luca!!! In fact, he's the reason why I decided to play this game. That pair of droopy innocent eyes just kills me so. XD And his supposed day/night character difference makes it all the more moe haha. This is probably one of the rare moments in my otome gaming history where a non-main character catches my eye more than a main character. ^^v

Will touch on the prologue in the next review post!

Updates: New Layout, Moar Drama CDs, Otome Games

Self-centered rambles ahead hahaha.

New Layout

Welcome to version 2 of Love Sweet Parfait! Featuring the Spring guys from the Starry Sky series~~~ ♥ Initially I wanted to use another Sumire no Tsubomi CG (Kanade!) for the header but uh, I found this cute picture of the Spring guys in one of my folders and decided it's too cute to NOT use it.

By the way, not that anyone would care, but the background on the left side of the banner is pattern-ed from the right side (which is part of the original picture) as I had to accommodate the dimensions required. So if you're thinking that they look inconsistent, you're right haha. I apologise for my bad Photoshop skills. :P

Drama CDs

Due to an unexpected addiction to drama CDs, I haven't been playing otome games for a while now. Every night I'd happily jump into my bed and listen to the drama CDs under the covers. BEST FEELING IN THE WORLD I TELL YOU. To just lie still and do nothing but let the beautiful voices attack your senses. Even better than otome games since you don't even have to move your fingers to click on the screen to progress and make decisions. Also, on weekends, I'd laze in my bed after waking up and continue listening from where I left off the previous night before getting out of the bed hurhurhur. Man this is awesome bad. XD

I think I'll probably do a review on the drama CDs as well...after I figure out which to review first. :P I just listened to an awesome title called Yandere Heaven two days ago and OMG SO HARD-CORE LOLOL. Reminds me of why I don't like yanderes (unless it's Starry Sky hahaha).

Otome Games

I'll be starting on a new game review soon. Look out for my first impression post. Like tomorrow. Maybe. :D

Also, remember I ordered Hiiro no Kakera on Play Asia? Well, apparently there's a DELAY in getting the stock from the supplier wtf. And they can't confirm when it'll be available. Siiigh. I understand that it was released in 2008 and thus quite an "old" game so maybe they need to dig into their warehouse to search for it. But if this is the case, I find it kind of deceiving for them to put "usually ships within 1 week" on the website. =/ Or maybe it's because of all the backlogged orders due to Chinese New Year weekend??? Will wait for one more week and decide what to do. Maybe I'll cancel my order and get it from HMV instead. But even HMV says they can't confirm if the stock will be available bah. WTF CAN'T AN OTAKU GET HER GAMES IN PEACE. ヽ(`Д´)ﾉ

Update: It's IN STOCK at HMV!!! Hmmm. Guess I'll cancel my order at Play Asia and order from HMV if they still doesn't ship by next week.

Update 22/02: It shipped!!! That's TWO weeks after I placed the order wtf. Now hoping that it will arrive to me safely. I predict it'd take another one to two weeks. That's what you get for being cheapo and taking free shipping.

Happy Valentine's Day!

HAPPY (belated) VALENTINE'S DAY TO EVERYONE!!! ♥

Screw red roses. Blue (and sparkling) ones are better.

This is also a teaser for my upcoming new game review, Ijiwaru My Master! :D

(The reason why this is "belated" is because I kept going back and forth about whether I should launch my new layout. It seems like I still have feelings for the current layout (YANAGIII) so...I guess the new layout needs to wait for a while.)

Get the Game First

Just ordered Hiiro no Kakera Portable from Play Asia. First time buying from them. Hope everything goes well! ESPECIALLY THE PAYMENT PART. Please no credit card rejection. No double-charging. No shit of the similar kind. *prays hard* Oh yeah, and please don't tell me like one week later that the item is actually not in stock wtf. *prays harder*

I'd order from CD Japan since they've never screwed up on me before but they don't seem to have it in stock. Plus Play Asia has free shipping! Well, okay, Yes Asia has free shipping too but I've read horror stories of their haphazard packaging so...

And yeah, I'm getting the game first before I get the PSP because I don't think I can stand waiting for 2 weeks for the game to arrive while the console sits on my table.

Updates: Next Game Review, Drama CDs, New Layout?

Some updates on my otaku life. (Actually, "otome" would be a more accurate description I think.)

Next Game Review

Now that I've finally finished reviewing Crazy Rabbits, time to decide which game to review next. Initially I planned to review Starry Sky ~in Spring~ since that was the game I played (or rather, continued playing) after that. But I'm having second thoughts now because I'm planning to get a PSP (those delicious Otomate games are killing me) sometime within the next two months. Which means...STARRY SKY PORTABLE F**K YEAH. :Dv

So considering that the PC version has been reviewed to death by so many people, I thought it'd be better to hold on till I get my hands on the PSP version and review that instead. The only issue I have with this arrangement is that I've already started drafting the review (before I decided to buy the PSP obviously so don't ask why I bothered doing so) and it doesn't sit well with me to have to put it aside now. It's like asking me to hold my pee in after I walked miles to get to the toilet.

But well, I guess I'm still gonna put it aside. Which means I'll most likely be reviewing Ijiwaru My Master instead since that's the next game I moved on to after completing Starry Sky ~in Spring~. (Chinami ni, I've already started drafting the review for IMM. Heh.)

Drama CDs

I don't know why I didn't discover this earlier but drama CDs are possibly the next best thing after otome games. And manga. And anime. Yeah. I was intrigued after reading a review on a Under the Moon drama CD (written by my favourite Japanese otome game blogger) and decided to try it out...except that I couldn't get my hands on it anywhere fml (actually I have it now). Instead I found Ijiwaru My Master ones and OMG SO CUTE!!!!!!

Once I was able to grasp the beauty of the whole drama CD thing, I decided to try out the famous Starry Sky Seiza Kareshi drama CDs and well, I'm NOT looking back now. XD I haven't listen to all of them yet but I highly recommend the Pisces i.e. Kanata's one! The Seiza Danna series are pretty cute too. In fact, I like them more than the Kareshi ones but that's probably because I got to know the series via the games and the Danna series are an extension of the games while the Kareshi ones are kind of a standalone thing.

What I like most though, are the "Roman Tan" series. It's sort of a game extra. I've listened to the Spring and Summer ones, and both are so cute!!! I especially love the Spring one because it was so funny and had a lot of moe stuff going on. Listening to it made me love the Spring guys a lot more. ^^v The Summer one was funny too though not as moe as the Spring one in my opinion.

Oh yeah, I'm also listening to the Danna Catalogue series (also by Honey Bee) as well. :P This is why I won't be able to get a husband. Hmmm. Maybe I should start reviewing drama CDs too. :D

New Layout

Been thinking of making a new layout recently. I'm quite glad that this blog is surviving nicely, considering how my personal journal is dying and that I've tried to set up a blog for my J-pop fandom twice and failed both times haha.

Anyway, yeah, new layout. I'm quite eager to make one except that I love Yanagi-kun *points to header* too much and can't bear to take him down heh. Ya I know I can always use him again for the new layout but this is his best CG in my opinion.

Still, I guess he can't be up there forever. I think I'll just go through my games sometime this weekend and see if I can find a nice CG to use for a header.

Crazy★Rabbits ~Wakaresaseya no Usagiri Jimusho~ / Final Thoughts

Hurray for the first milestone in my history of writing otome game reviews! Now we're finally at the end hahaha. I bet no one else could have milked more than TEN review posts out of a game lol.


Okay, enough of crapping. Moving on to my thoughts upon completion.

WARNING: NOT MAJOR BUT STILL SPOILERS AHEAD