So another year, another Anime Expo has come to an end. While things started out kina slow… OK VERY SLOW, things did pick up by day 2. Unfortunately for me, I caught a pretty bad fever on day 4 and now 2 days after con, I can barely get out of bed to go through the pictures. O well here are some pictures from Anime Expo 2009 for your enjoyment. I’m going back to bed, gana try to make it to work tomorrow.

 

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Some more Dango Daikazoku icons. Found out I didn’t have enough icons for all the crap on my desktop, so here’s Dango Daikazoku Icon pack 2. Enjoy.

Same as before with left/right orientations.

Dango Daikazoku Icon 2

Needed a theme for a new laptop, so thought I’d share the goods. A set of Dango Daikazoku icons featuring left and right orientation.

Icons are vista ready and scalable to 256×256.

Dango Daikazoku Icon

Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu

I thought I’d start with a lighthearted anime before I begin my hours of mindless marathon in an attempt to catch up to the new season. And sure enough, Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu fitted the bill nicely.

the starting of summer

Unlike many of the harems following established eroge and other dating sims, the girls surrounding Ayase Yuuto, the male protagonist, are seemingly useless. We get hints of attempted love triangles here and there, but they rarely last more than an episode. Simply put, the writers either 1) don’t know how to write a real triangle drama, or 2) didn’t want the story to steer in that direction, but needed to fill twelve (12) episodes, so anything goes. I vouch for the latter.

another mahou shoujo

I’m a sucker for these kinds of stories. Not particularly fancying harem wannabes, I simply enjoy a heartwarming story of two people in love. One of my still all time favorites of all times in this category is Lamune (Ramune). A fairly loose harlem built in to that story, but whatever, we’re not talking about that series.

Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu follows Ayase Yuuto who discovers Nogizaka Haruka’s secret of being a closet otaku. And the story progresses from there with imoutos, maids, overwhelming dads, madusa like moms, the whole bit.

seems they need to start telling kids to read in a brightly lit room

The story was pretty linear (which I like) and the fan service was done fairly tastefully. Art over all was pretty normal, some drop in qualities here and there, but picks back up where it counts. Opening and closings were enjoyable, but nothing earth shattering. Haruka’s voice took a bit to get use to, as the attempt to portray her as shy, sweet, and innocent though her voice was not doing it for me.

my voice?!

The series is certainly worth watching, especially as a prelude to the summer (yea, I know summer ended). Worthy of a 7.3, it fits nicely between all the monster killing, robot beating, girl chasing, man hunting (in more ways than one), world destroying, magic chanting, backstabbing lineup of every single season of every single year. Well worth the first time, but seconds? Well let’s just say Haruka should be thankful Lamune is only 12 episodes long, it leaves plenty of time left in the day to rotate between all the “fairly good” light hearted summer picks.

How dare you rate me so low!

NDS + PS2 mockup?

are foreigners big? or are the natives just small?

foreplay

The End… or is it?

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Marianne is a Prankster

Episode 21 of Code Geass R2 marks the “tell all end all” episode of the series. The why of eveything was reveal and explained and frankly I thought it was kina lame. I was expecting Charles to wana rule the world, not pretend to save it. O~ and my “lovely” image of Marianne was ruined, too bad. Tho I really love her entry into the World of C, lovely twirl. =D

Forever in her 20’s

So the entire episode revolves in the World of C with pertty much nothing but talking. Important part of the entire series and cant be missed, but don’t expect much else tho.

Late afternoon tea

anyways, not to ruin too much more, Lelouch Kings himself…FINALLY! Can’t wait till next week for the showdown between Lelouch and Schneizel.

In the name of lelouch vi Britannia, I double my power!

Even kings must dress like a student on the thrown.

All hail Lelouch vi Britannia

Let’s settle the throne with a game of chess

WTF Marianne?!?!

<Marianne screen cap>

^yea… fresh OS, nothing but firefox on it…so just pretend there’s a screen cap between every other line…

Anyways, now that no one is trying to take over the world, I’m starting to lose interest in the show… Don’t get me wrong, Code Geass R2 is still good great, but R2 just doesn’t have the same “I Will Take Over The World” presence to it. And now that the plot has unfolded to the stage it is now, yea…I missed the old Lelouch.

BTW, any one know what’s Marianne’s geass? I really need to find time to watch ep20 again.

BTW if things gets spoiled because your reading this…TOO BAD….

NANNALLY!!!!!

Although it was highly expected…I’m still sadden by the occurrences of ep18. Thus I’ve decided to boycott ep18 and suppressed all desire to talk about it any more…but still..=’(

But here’s a reason for celebration =D, now if only Suzaku would die too…

FINALLY!

Anyways, not much action in ep19, but the direction of the episode was well worth 24 minutes of my Sunday afternoon. Zero finally  comes out of the closet and is being shun upon. Actually rather than coming out, he was ratted out. Owell same difference. Because of this, there is no more “taking over the world.” Rather the new goal is now “kill Charles vi Britannia.”

ahh…I miss taking over the world already.

Suzaku finally loses it

Boy is setpoint annoying. It’s great when it works… problem is that it doesn’t always. I’ve only had it crash on me 2x when messing around, but it’s caused games, browsers, and a few other software to crash. But without setpoint, the functions on the mouse just doesn’t cut it.

Other minor things that I have yet to get use to is the center mouse button. I love the free spin wheel, but because of that, it feels like there’s 2 clicks. You have to push down a little harder than I would prefer. It’s wasting my energy (really).

The battery has been good to me. I was abit scare after reading the forms. It would appear many are saying the battery isn’t lasting very long. But 4 days at about 12 hours on and off use, and battery is still holding out.

I’ll prob try out UberOptions for the setpoint later on once I get use to the mouse.

There is really no justification for spending $90 for a mouse, but I couldn’t resist when i saw it on Buy.com for $70 – $20 mail-in rebate. Good buy imo. Now if all those figures comes with rebates…

The do everything remote

BTW, my predictions following ep14 appears to be wrong……dam….

Quickie on the episode…minor spoilers…

…you’ve been warned…

Geass laser show

The episode starts out with Lelouch killing Charles…

I’ve WON!!!!!!!

But as we’ve still got about 10 or so more episodes to go, Charles doesn’t die…go figure.

Suzaku gets slap by Karen.

The cause…

the effect.

V.V. looks better with short hair

We learn that V.V.’s immorality was taken by Charles.

Something and something, and we learn from V.V.’s pass that all those who are immoral wishes to die, and that the only way to die was to pass on their powers to a “mature” geass user who would gain the power to kill them.

the love triangle

Wonderful picture of C.C.

Weird stuff happens and Lelouch destorys the twilight zone.

Topping off the episode is C.C. having amnisia.

C.C. rejecting Lelouch