Pray for Japan

I'm getting more and more depressed everyday reading/watching/listening to all the updates on the situation in Japan. :(

Here's a list of donation channels to help with the earthquake relief. Please help if you can. Even if it's a little. If you don't have a credit card, try asking your parents, relatives or other adults you're close to to help you donate using their card and pay them back in cash! I plan to donate once I get my pay at the end of the month.

That said, I'm putting this blog a short hiatus till the situation in Japan gets better. Not that it's going be of any help but I'm just not in the mood to squeal over otome games when my favourite country is getting screwed over, not once but numerous times consecutively, by acts of Nature.

Also, to all those people who said things like it's "divine retribution" and other insensitive comments of the like, just...go away. =/

Seiyuus Known Safe

Okay, I'm sure everyone knows about the earthquake thingie by now and the idol fandom world is in chaos with everyone frantically trying to make sure that their idols are safe. Mine are, thank goodness. One was them was in the middle of performing his musical when it happened. I'm SO GLAD that he wasn't doing one of his flying stunts at that moment and was instead waiting behind the curtains for his cue.

Anyway, here's a list of seiyuus who are known to be safe for the otaku fans. There's also a wiki that is keeping track of the names as they come in. Seems like most of the otome game seiyuus I know are safe. All of the Starry Sky seiyuus are on the list...except for Hirakawa Daisuke. Oh god, please be safe. D: Toriumi Kousuke, Tachibana Shinnosuke and Terashima Takuma are safe too.

And um, something to lighten up the mood: some dude getting himself an eroge after the earthquake. Uh... O_O

Update: Hirakawa Daisuke is safe! Thanks to information from Rin. ^^

Ijiwaru My Master / Prologue

Since the prologue itself is quite long, I thought to make a post on it before I move on to the individual characters. I tried to include the details in the First Impression post but it ended up REALLY LONG so yeah, putting it in a separate post.

Kurumi is a typical high school girl who leads a boring and un-happening life...and likes it that way. Her wish is to just float through life peacefully without getting involved in any drama-lama stuff as much as possible. But unfortunately this is impossible, being the heroine of an otome game.


One fine rainy day after school, she was burabura-ing around the streets when she caught sight of a bunch of blue roses at the florist. Fascinated, she stepped closer to look at them, thinking that WOW TECHNOLOGY IS SO ADVANCED THAT WE ACTUALLY MANAGED TO ORGANICALLY PRODUCE BLUE (like really BLUE) ROSES!!! Yeah. Then she heard someone calling her from behind and turned around to see her kouhai Homura-kun smiling at her. ♥ She told Homura about the blue roses and was disappointed when Homura told her that the flowers are just artificially dyed. She then remarked that since blue roses represent "impossibility", if there ever was a day when blue roses could bloom naturally, it'd be a miracle. /awkward translation

WARNING: SUPER MAJOR CONTENT AND CG SPOILERS AHEAD

PSP Get!

PSPゲットだぜ！

FUCK YEAH FOR REALZ.

My first ever gaming console~ ♥ 大事にするよ！

Bought it yesterday and my friend who accompanied me was also tempted to get one after seeing it. After having lunch, we actually went to a library, got ourselves a seat in a random corner and started frantically setting it up and then playing with it (yes I bought the game along with me). XD

So, this marks a significant milestone in my gaming history. Who knew my interest in PC otome games would lead to a purchase like this??? :P またレベルアップです！

P.S. Almost done with the Prologue review post for Ijiwaru My Master. 待ってろ！

Woo

Got my first PSP game!!! :D

FUCK YEAH. Now you know how my bedsheets look like.

Woooooo. Gotta go play this thing right no-- oh wait, I haven't bought the game console yet. *facepalm* (Planning to get it this weekend!)

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.