The Kanonade

All hail

What an awesome shirt. Couldn’t resist from ordering this when I happened to see someone wearing a similar one in Philly this past weekend.

Speaking of ordering this, I am finally privy to doing such again with the recent acquisition of my debit cards again! For those who didn’t know, someone got a hold of my credit card number a while back and decided to have some fun. What everyone doesn’t know is that I managed to lose my wallet on a bus about 2-3 weeks ago. That’s not just replacing my cards and dealing with fraud charges. That’s losing EVERYTHING. What a pain in the ass I tell you. I can’t get back into my college apartment. I can’t get into my work building. I no longer have my monthly bus pass. I have lost all card documentation on health insurance, certifications etc. Christ. Having the power of ordering on the internet and having a means to using the money in my bank account now feels like a significant boon compared to when I took it for granted. On the other hand, I STILL haven’t gotten the money back from the fraud investigation. I’ve been assured countless times that I will receive the money back. When? I can never get a pinpointed answer. Why? Cause they don’t care. I have suppose received merchant credit for these. What the hell does that mean? I don’t want credit to your services. If I did, I’d use the MONEY in my bank for it. You don’t give me credit back for what some guy bought at your store to compensate. It was my money before it was stolen, and I’ll spend it where I like.

The might be some angry Korean Hulk transformation going on at my bank later today. Chink Smash!!!!!

Peace! Brush your teeeeeth.

O hai.

All hail. The sequel to Immaterial and Missing Power has been released recently. Named Scarlet Weather Rhapsody, the sequel is along the same lines gameplay wise, but has tweaked a few things here and there. To anyone who likes any sort of fighting game, I’d recommend giving these a try. They’re free, they’re well made and have excellent art/music. You can find them on Doujinstyle.com or Tantrumbull’s site (Google it). If you’re planning on it, try IaMP first. It’ll give you an idea of whether or not you’re like the game. Unlike most other fighting games, the gameplay is highly based off projectiles, or bullets, rather than melee moves. Techniques such as grazing, which will allow you to pass through bullets, will charge up your meter to allow you to do special moves. There are Wiki’s for both games which will give you an idea of how in-depth the game really is. That being said, don’t be overwhelmed by some of the pages. Sometimes the people who created the Wiki pages will fill it with moves and numbers that don’t make sense. I can tell you that I haven’t looked into combos/advanced techniques at all and I am still fully enjoying the game.

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Saber | Fate/Stay Night

Tony Taka

So basically, long story short, Paypal employees took my credit card/bank account info and decided to go on a spending spree. While my bank covers the loss (supposively), I transferred all my funds out and closed my Paypal account. Once the security has been compromised…not going to trust that kind of service. I’m not saying other people shouldn’t, but just be wary of them.

Thus begins more screen shares. I like this wallpaper because the premise is one that is quite uncommon. Usually, the wallpaper will have a main focus, and it will be vibrantly displayed. Sometimes it’s much more mellow, but the focus is still there. In this picture, only the girl is shown while the shadows are what tell what is actually happening. I assume this is from an H-game of some sort and have acquired lots of these screens lately, though none that are explicit.

Now, in Ichi, I’m only really giving the screen to people who are willing to post and request. Since it wouldn’t be a screen share if I didn’t share, I’ll start posting links to wallpapers from now on.

Wallpaper Ni

Requests for wallpapers themes can be mailed to me at anti0ptimism@gmail.com or posted here. Enjoy.

Yoshizku Iori from I”s

If you’re into romantic comedy, this manga is a must for you. Check it out at Onemanga.

I’ve been dead to this blog due to school becoming overbearing. It’s almost near the end and finals are right around the corner, but my workload hasn’t slacked off at all. Wish me luck, or I may have too much time on my hands all of a sudden.

Manga is much greater than anime. Hands down.

Alright, maybe that’s a little unfair. Anime can be much more entertaining. But at the same time, I know when I read a manga chapter that if I’m disappointed at the end because they dragged something out, at least it didn’t waste 20 FREAKIN MINUTES. God. I can deal with having to waste a couple minutes to read a crappy chapter. But episode after episode of long drawn out crap really irks me. I can especially see how apparent it is in anime such as Naruto and Bleach. These two are notorious for having long scenes of people’s faces coming across the camera over and over, then maybe after 3 minutes one of them will grimace and make a funny noise. OH THE SUSPENSE.

Then again, there’s also the fact that some manga is never turned into anime. But ssh. I don’t want to sound too biased.

Title pretty much says it all. The series of choice right now are Spice and Wolf, Clannad and Shakugan no Shana II. Spice and Wolf is up to 8, Shana is currently at 19 and Clannad should be hitting 19 this week also. I’ve also been tearing through random manga such as Addicted to Curry while keeping up with older ones like Unbalance X Unbalance. School is keeping me very busy though. Music selection of late has been focused on Kotoko. Songs I would recommend include Agony, Being, Second Flight, Cream+Mint, DuDiDuWa Lalala and Chercher. Ijou!

Gatling cannons not included. I’m in the midst of playing through Xenosaga III in my free time, which is the (roman numerals might give a big hint here) third and final game in the Xenosaga main series. It is a highly story driven RPG, which hours worth of just cutscenes. It’s also one of my favorite games ever, minus the 2nd one which they decided to desecrate by ruining the animation and battle system. Regardless, it was worth it to play it for the story so I could continue on to the 3rd one. I recommend any serious RPG fan to check this serious out, as it’s quite good. 1 and 3 will keep you interested constantly. 2…just bear with it like did. It did redeem itself a little bit though when Jr. calls someone a “damn bitch”. Lawls. Wasn’t expecting that one.

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Big surprise there. I don’t really expect anyone to come here regularly anyway. Basically it’s back to school and classes keep me busy, so there’ll just be an odd post here or there. Be prepared for the randomness. Rawr.

Happy 50,000 viewers. As always, thanks for all that visited. Hope you will continue to check from time to time.

Keeping up with my previous statement, I am indeed posting more frequently as I am back home with less to do. Thus, I will share with you some fine photos from Shining Tears X Wind, since Tony Taka has an eye for creating some of the better anime artwork out there (IMO).

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