I’ve been noticing this trend of a daily, weekly, or monthly digest kind of posts in the blogosphere lately, catering to different niches — anime and manga thoughts, impressions and news round-ups, blogosphere buzz news, and whatnot. Omni also joins in the news bandwagon with his Daily Doses recently. If there’s one thing I noticed among these posts (even with the current anime, manga and games news resources we have), it’s that NONE of them cater for otome gamers. Hinano and Taiyaki posts about otome games from time to time, but they’re not exactly otome game [news] resource sites either. There are a few English sites dedicated to otome games on the web, like the BL Games HQ, My NeoRomance, among others, but they aren’t really ‘connected’ with the blogosphere atm. If only I had more time to play these games, that probably would’ve been the ultimate focus of my blogging.

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Rumors of my identity have been greatly exagerrated, such as being this Reisen bunny of the game Touhou

The comments I’ve read in my Shugo Chara DS game post reminded me of the time I was in the same boat as them. When I was a Nihongo n00b, yet filled with the desire to play Japanese games, and become a weeaboo On my part, it became a prerequisite that I memorize the Japanese alphabet first, at least, before anything else. Though my original intent in memorizing hiragana and katakana way back elementary grade 5 was no other than to impress my crush and to follow anime songs LOL.

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So I ordered a bunch or random stuff from Play-asia last February coz I found their Year-of-the-Rat Sale too hard to resist orz. That, in turn, allowed me to participate in their Year-of-the-Rat raffle draw, though I already forgot I was even part of that. Until, I got this news from Play-asia, that I won a $30 coupon! w00t!

I’ve thought long and hard about this, before finally deciding on buying myself Talkman^TM for PSP. It’s a neat little voice-activated translation software, somewhat like an interactive traveler’s phrasebook, which you can use both as reference and practice tool for various languages, primarily Japanese, English, Chinese, and Korean. Another Talkman version, the Talkman Euro, has also been released, supporting English, Italian, Spanish, German, French, and Japanese (or Chinese, in the Chinese Talkman Euro version). I ordered the former one, which comes bundled with the USB microphone for the PSP, so I can readily use it for brushing up on my sucky Japanese and Chinese communication skills.

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(Here goes another round of ‘fillers’ as I finish off the rest of my posts… Really need to focus >_<''')

Anyone still remember Fushigi Yuugi? The shoujo craze more than a decade back, loaded with a heap of bishounens, most of whom unfortunately fall head over heels for the whiny heroine Miaka. Well FY is back, bringing with it a chance to fulfill the very fangirl’s wish of the Suzaku no Miko! Having a PS2 is a requirement however, since the upcoming FY game is slated to be released on this console, this coming May 29, 2008.

You’ll be playing as Madoka Ootori, the “Miaka” in this game, interact with the characters, like any visual novel / renai adventure otome games. She reminds me of Alice from Alice 19th.

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Shugo Chara DS Game

As I am still in the process of finishing my thoughts and babbling on KimiKiss episode 14 (gawd I think too much x__x), I’m gonna take a short break and plug about this COOL and SPICY news first.

Given the popularity of Shugo Chara in Japan (and in all other countries across the globe, for that matter), it is of no surprise that we’ll finally be seeing a Shugo Chara game for the DS, this coming March 13, 2008. I’ve already mentioned about this possibility, way back November, and I think my “wish” was more or less, fulfilled. Quoting what I said, in my Shugo Chara Hype post:

“Aside from these novelty items, I can already see a Shugo Chara console game coming out sometime soon from Konami, hopefully an RPG-ish otome game =P”

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A hamster-lovin’ “Happy New Year” to everyone!

We managed to borrow the video projector from my dad’s company for the holidays and we’ve been wii-ing in a big way ever since. Wii~!!

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…I get a Wii instead! w00t?

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Dead Fantasy Part I

This is what happens when you put a set of game divas in one place.

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To soothe us from the scorching heat of the summer sun are Tifa Lockheart and Aeris Gainsborough, from one of the best RPG games ever made, Final Fantasy VII. Both are a vision in their yukata, a Japanese garment worn during the summers.
This is the second time that Tifa and Aeris have graced Alternative [...]

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Here to bring some hot new info on upcoming (just recently announced) Otome games

DEAR My SUN~ *kyun kyun*

Hiiro no Kakera 2~~~ >o<

Real Rode~
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