ルパン三世 Green vs RED

Re-watched it. Still find it great. This time got a subbed version so finally understood some bits. During the first (few) times hadn't managed to grasp the idea that Yasuo did not intentionally become Lupin. This time had a nice understanding that being a criminal genius is hard and you have to make your own entertainment, like for example carefully raising an opponent worth fighting (maybe the creators read a lot about Vetinari?).Has become one of my favourites for ever and ever and ever. Also love the many nods to Castle of Caligostro they have been having lately.
About the end, am sure that the weird guy at the ramen shop is a post-op Yasuo after all, he knew Yukiko but she didn't) and Lupin nicked Yasuo's ring as a keepsake and an entertaining memory of [another?] experiment gone wrong. Somehow it's a theme the anime has lately - looking for a subtitute and pointing him in the right direction only to have him fail at the end. Maybe am looking too much into this because of Jigoku Shoujo III (maybe they are working together, muaha)
The voices are a bit strained, but I suppose that that is how it is and I can only hope that the seiyuu know how much joy they bring the die-hard fans. Looks like we'll be getting a new Zenigata, also possibly Goemon

Heart no Kuni no Alice ~Wonderful Wonder World~

ハートの国のアリス　～Wonderful Wonder World~

o_0 an incredibly addictive game and damn hard to find your way through. Been playing it for several days straight with no luck of finishing a single ending... I love the graphics, but only as long as they aren't CGs (because those look crap). The character design is great, the March Hare and the Cheshire Cat look great, so does the White Rabbit.
As always the game has little to do with the book, but it's none the worse for it. The cast alone is rather mind boggling: Fukuyama Jun, Sugiyama Noriaki, Konishi Katsuyuki, Koyasu Takehito [actually, why are they all from BLEACH?!] . The girl (you, me, us) still doesn't have a voice, which I find annoying since can't understand half of the things she says.
Oh well, read on Macbeth, pretty soon I'm going to be in a state where I'll be having Alice themed hallucinations (which always sound promising) and STILL wouldn't have had any luck with Eliot the March Hare. Fuck

Butlers ～Meshimase Ojousama～

バトラズ　～召しませお嬢様～

Overall: 7

You are a simple OL, who one day is abducted my two young men. They bring you to a mansion and tell you that you are the granddaughter of a rich and powerful man, who though disowned his daughter (your mother) still loves her (even though she died many many years ago). So the servants decided to find you and arrange a family reunion.

Bad points:

• The art was pretty bad when most of the CGs were concerned, especially the ero ones. The style was pretty much the same as in Brothers, but they kept trying to hide the girl's face. Not to mention that half of the time I kept looking in horror at either her boobs or the mans face.
• I didn't like all the voices. I'm just picky, I thought that Shido the womanizer ought to have had a better voice or at least one that didn't sound like he was either having serious problems in his colon or just a seriously blocked nostril. The grandfather could have done a better job too.
• I loved the youngest boy, but I really couldn't believe that he was 21. from the voice and the way he acted you thought that he was something like 17, but that's just me, as always.
• Also the lack of the 'Skip' button annoyed to no end
  

Good points:

• Quite a few times during the game I started laughing out loud because the characters and situations were adorable.
• Despite the negative review from everyone else I LIKED the fact that it was easy to find the man because with Brothers you needed a lot of time and patience or a walkthrough to get all the events. Even though it made me feel that I just kept stalking the guy I still liked this way more.
• Ichijou Kazuya! I can't help it. I like his voice and can now recognize him easily by the way he keeps making weird noises and sucking in air between words. The fact that he did a lovely accent in this game gave me an even bigger kick.
• I've finally fallen in love with Tiaramode. They keep making stranger characters. While in their later game they made a perfect and charming model who can't use anything but spoons, this time they had an emo character who grows mariomo! (And names them Charles and Elizabeth, because he was supposed to be English. The fact that Japanese aren't good at faking English accents is going to be ignored for now)
  

Overall I enjoyed this. I'm now sorry that I didn't play this first and Brothers second because then I would have liked Brothers even more. But now I understand that the people at Tiaramode are into really kinky things. In this game they didn't have a rape route but the Night Mode disc enabled you to play the...ahem...darker side. Apart from two, they all ended up with the girl doing serious femdom, I'm not even sure that one of them enjoyed it. With Shido there was a threesome where she still managed to have the head butler as her slave.
Interesting note is that Ichijou Kazuya plays AGAIN a person who is a bit of a sexfiend. After all, she couldn't dominate him, quite the opposite (HA!)

pleasant thoughts

BLEACH chapter 319

I love Kubo Taito. This chapter gave me a rush, AGAIN!
I can't wait for the anime to catch up so as I could hear Fukuyama Jun doing what he does best and also there will be lovely Kira. I used to dislike Kira quite a bit, but I started liking him at some point. Now I'm all into the weird passive and depressed face and of course his CV has a special place for me after Mononoke
Oooh, this is going to be fun.

am happy

Step~futari no kankei ha ippozutsu~

Step～二人の関係は一歩ずつ～

overall:5

Story:
Well it's like this, you once used to live in this town and now came to visit your uncle. Why, I have no idea. You meet with your uncle (who likes to sleep naked and never shaves properly), two childhood friends (of which one is of the male persuasion so you only get to sex him up), a tsundere boy who sits next to you in class and an otaku (who keeps talking to himself and mostly about slightly perverted things, so that's scary enough)

Bad points:

• the drawings weren't the kind I'm really into. The faces were right off and the boobs during most of the H-scenes looked both painful and ridiculous.
• Somehow the story did really work for me, but then again I'm not really into school romance.

Good points:

• Nicely made characters: the childhood friend with the superbrain and the scary glasses ended up crying on your lap half of the time, the tsundere boy wasn't as annoying as one might expect and the uncle of the compulsory incest ending was voiced by Ichijou Kazuya, who played Kageyama Satofumi in Brothers
• They had a Densha Otoko scenario! ¤dies happy¤

happy thoughts,
will go and hunt for more games with Ichijou Kazuya
(wouldn't actually say no to any with Takatori Rei in them either, but just can't get any TT_TT)

Brothers ~ koisuru oniisama ~

I just started playing and am getting the feeling that Morikubo Shoutarou and Okiayu Ryoutarou are both in it.
Not to mention that the Father looks like Urahara Kisuke to me.
Oh my, this WILL be fun

EDIT: I was so wrong. But the eldest brother still does sound like Okiayu Ryoutaro so I'll just pretend it's him =P