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So much negativity is sad, isn't it? I need to be more positive. Hm, yes. I think so. Kamisama was just such a disappointment, it left me feeling pretty bitter. I'm trying though. I'm aiming to get through a whole month of no caffeine! Yay! ... It's hard. It's really hard but I must perservere for the sake of my mental health. It's definitely had its downs over the past year. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't stay away from the coffee. I even slipped up and went back to drinking. Arrrgh... well, no caffeine or alcohol this year! Be clean~
Maybe someday I'll feel productive again and write oodles of fanfiction.
Apparently a Summer Pockets anime is in production? Wow, that's quick. Wonder what studio is doing it? Hopefully a good one. Clearly, it's going to be the return of Key x Kyoto Animation! /s Summer Pockets was so good. I love it almost as much as Air.
You know, despite the negativity in my previous post, I do still love Little Busters very much. It was there for me when I was getting depressed and dropping fandoms and deleting everythng and spiralling into depression. It has a special place in my heart. Sometimes I just get down on things and feel my interest wane and... yeah. But I've learned to recognise that just because interest in something drops doesn't mean it will be that way forever. Maybe it's just depression. Learned that the hard way.
Last year was rough. But it will surely get better. Got a few new things coming from Key this year. The kinetic visual novel project, some media mix project, Heaven Burns Red... I do look forward to seeing how Maeda will perform now that he's working in an unrestricted format again. It looks like it won't be standard high school stuff again. Then again, I thought that of Kamisama initially >_> He just doesn't do anime well at all. I want to believe he'll return to form with Heaven Burns Red.
People are making a big deal about him deleting his Twitter but it's like the third time he's done it. I'm sure Maeda is okay.
I'm going to write lots and lots of fanfiction this year! Yosh! ... I say that every year, by the way.
Maybe someday I'll feel productive again and write oodles of fanfiction.
Apparently a Summer Pockets anime is in production? Wow, that's quick. Wonder what studio is doing it? Hopefully a good one. Clearly, it's going to be the return of Key x Kyoto Animation! /s Summer Pockets was so good. I love it almost as much as Air.
You know, despite the negativity in my previous post, I do still love Little Busters very much. It was there for me when I was getting depressed and dropping fandoms and deleting everythng and spiralling into depression. It has a special place in my heart. Sometimes I just get down on things and feel my interest wane and... yeah. But I've learned to recognise that just because interest in something drops doesn't mean it will be that way forever. Maybe it's just depression. Learned that the hard way.
Last year was rough. But it will surely get better. Got a few new things coming from Key this year. The kinetic visual novel project, some media mix project, Heaven Burns Red... I do look forward to seeing how Maeda will perform now that he's working in an unrestricted format again. It looks like it won't be standard high school stuff again. Then again, I thought that of Kamisama initially >_> He just doesn't do anime well at all. I want to believe he'll return to form with Heaven Burns Red.
People are making a big deal about him deleting his Twitter but it's like the third time he's done it. I'm sure Maeda is okay.
I'm going to write lots and lots of fanfiction this year! Yosh! ... I say that every year, by the way.
Jun Maeda is a hack
Dec. 31st, 2020 11:33 amI live! Barely. I mean, I don't do much in Key fandom these days. The Little Busters fandom keeled over and died after the anime ended. I tried, I continued to write fanfiction for it, but frankly I can't be fucking bothered anymore. The fandom is dead. Rest in peace. Still, we did get the Kud Wafter movie at last and it was pretty good, even if it was only fifty minutes long in the end.
In the wake of the Kamisama ni Natta Hi anime ending, I'd just like to say this.
Jun Maeda is a fucking hack.
Even Charlotte was better, for crying out loud! This anime just fucking sucked. The MC was bland and boring, too much time was wasted on him trying to woo this girl only to completely lose interest in her because he's apparently a pedophile lusting after a 12 year, he turns into a blithering idiot who repeatedly yells at a disabled and traumatised child and he even puts his hands on her. Pointless episodes that serve no purpose whatsoever. Just boring, boring, boring. Useless, pointless characters who actually make Yusa from Charlotte look important. Too much time spent meandering and taking way too long to get to the plot itself, and the way everything gets resolved is ridiculous. Right, Hina just suddenly gets over her trauma and wants to live with Yota, magically right as he's leaving. Bullshit. Everything is fucking bullshit.
I remember when the promo stuff was being released, I thought it was a post-apocalyptic story about a girl choosing to be with a boy during Earth's final days and thought it would be nice to have a break from the high school slice of life stuff for a change. Haha. How wrong I was, how so very wrong.
Maeda claimed this anime would be the saddest anime ever made. Bullshit. Nobody even fucking died! And Hina's syndrome that was supposed to kill her eventually is apparently not going to kill her after all? What the fuck? There's no explanation whatsoever. It's all so fucking stupid, oh my god.
Retire, Maeda. Please just retire, I beg you, stick to writing music. There's Heaven Burns Red, isn't there, but it's mobage not anime so it probably won't be a stinking pile of shit. Maeda really can't fucking do anime. How many times does he need to fail miserably before Aniplex realises it, FFS, they just keep getting worse and worse... don't let him do any more anime for crying out loud, I beg of you. He sucks at it. Just utterly sucks.
Maybe he's just getting worse... or maybe he wasn't that great to begin with? Nah. Air was amazing. Clannad was decent in its own right too. Kanon was good, as was One. Moon. wasn't bad either. His classic stuff was really something.
You know, I really loved Little Busters but nowdays it feels kinda... immature? Like I look back, and the comedy was good, but sometimes it feels... wait, that might be the fucking point, you know. They are literally reliving their childhood before Kyousuke reveals the SEKAI NO HIMITSU. And the routes are rather... discordant? But that's not Maeda's fault. It just feels like a mess, all those heroine routes thrown in there, kinda inconsistent... like you've got these calmer, more traditional stories... and then you've got CHILD ABUSE!!!1! and WAR!!!1!!!1! I dunno, I think I am not being all that clear.
To be honest, I feel like Maeda was a giant wuss for not sticking to the plan of having only Riki and Rin survive. Sure, I wanted everyone to live, but their dying and the two moving on would have been more meaningful and impactful in the long run, wouldn't it? "It's enough" should have got a proper ending, dammit. But sadly Maeda is a fucking wuss. Why write a story about helping people grow stronger to overcome the loss of their loved ones if they are just gonna up and save their loved ones anyway, right?
I still haven't even bought Little Busters on Switch. Well, I mean, it's forty fucking quid. That's too fucking much, sorry. I've bought this game three times now, I ain't doing it again at such a ridiculous price.
What was this entry about again? Meh. Jun Maeda is a washed up old has been, I guess. How sad to see him fall from grace yet again. Just stop embarrassing yourself and stop making anime, Maeda, it's pointless.
In the wake of the Kamisama ni Natta Hi anime ending, I'd just like to say this.
Jun Maeda is a fucking hack.
Even Charlotte was better, for crying out loud! This anime just fucking sucked. The MC was bland and boring, too much time was wasted on him trying to woo this girl only to completely lose interest in her because he's apparently a pedophile lusting after a 12 year, he turns into a blithering idiot who repeatedly yells at a disabled and traumatised child and he even puts his hands on her. Pointless episodes that serve no purpose whatsoever. Just boring, boring, boring. Useless, pointless characters who actually make Yusa from Charlotte look important. Too much time spent meandering and taking way too long to get to the plot itself, and the way everything gets resolved is ridiculous. Right, Hina just suddenly gets over her trauma and wants to live with Yota, magically right as he's leaving. Bullshit. Everything is fucking bullshit.
I remember when the promo stuff was being released, I thought it was a post-apocalyptic story about a girl choosing to be with a boy during Earth's final days and thought it would be nice to have a break from the high school slice of life stuff for a change. Haha. How wrong I was, how so very wrong.
Maeda claimed this anime would be the saddest anime ever made. Bullshit. Nobody even fucking died! And Hina's syndrome that was supposed to kill her eventually is apparently not going to kill her after all? What the fuck? There's no explanation whatsoever. It's all so fucking stupid, oh my god.
Retire, Maeda. Please just retire, I beg you, stick to writing music. There's Heaven Burns Red, isn't there, but it's mobage not anime so it probably won't be a stinking pile of shit. Maeda really can't fucking do anime. How many times does he need to fail miserably before Aniplex realises it, FFS, they just keep getting worse and worse... don't let him do any more anime for crying out loud, I beg of you. He sucks at it. Just utterly sucks.
Maybe he's just getting worse... or maybe he wasn't that great to begin with? Nah. Air was amazing. Clannad was decent in its own right too. Kanon was good, as was One. Moon. wasn't bad either. His classic stuff was really something.
You know, I really loved Little Busters but nowdays it feels kinda... immature? Like I look back, and the comedy was good, but sometimes it feels... wait, that might be the fucking point, you know. They are literally reliving their childhood before Kyousuke reveals the SEKAI NO HIMITSU. And the routes are rather... discordant? But that's not Maeda's fault. It just feels like a mess, all those heroine routes thrown in there, kinda inconsistent... like you've got these calmer, more traditional stories... and then you've got CHILD ABUSE!!!1! and WAR!!!1!!!1! I dunno, I think I am not being all that clear.
To be honest, I feel like Maeda was a giant wuss for not sticking to the plan of having only Riki and Rin survive. Sure, I wanted everyone to live, but their dying and the two moving on would have been more meaningful and impactful in the long run, wouldn't it? "It's enough" should have got a proper ending, dammit. But sadly Maeda is a fucking wuss. Why write a story about helping people grow stronger to overcome the loss of their loved ones if they are just gonna up and save their loved ones anyway, right?
I still haven't even bought Little Busters on Switch. Well, I mean, it's forty fucking quid. That's too fucking much, sorry. I've bought this game three times now, I ain't doing it again at such a ridiculous price.
What was this entry about again? Meh. Jun Maeda is a washed up old has been, I guess. How sad to see him fall from grace yet again. Just stop embarrassing yourself and stop making anime, Maeda, it's pointless.
Being productive
Sep. 14th, 2018 04:30 pmSometimes I listen to Sha La La Ecstasy while writing Little Busters smut. I know, I am a very strange individual indeed. It's not so bad as background music honestly, it's quite relaxing to listen to, but it just doesn't really seem like appropriate sex music at all. Is sex music supposed to conjure up images of relaxing by a fireplace? Because I'm not sure it is.
I have actually been in the mood for writing lately, can you believe it? It's a honest to god miracle. I've been so dull and unproductive over the past few years, it really blows...
Managed to hammer out some Kyousuke x Riki oneshots for slash100 prompts, and I'll be doing my best to fill the rest of them out. Fu fu fu... aww yeah. I'm gonna write and post so much Kyouriki fanfiction on AO3! \O/ And I'm not gonna bother with a chaptered prompt fic either, I'll post them all individually just to be super obnoxious~ Meh, not my fault the tag is so quiet.
It's kinda sad how nobody else has been writing and posting Kyouriki. The last time anyone other than me posted a Kyouriki fic was two years ago. Can you believe it? Well, I'm not gonna let the pairing just die out, I will keep Kyouriki well and alive, so there! I love Kyouriki so much <3 I want to write lots and lots of Kyouriki and you better believe I'm going to.
I'm tired of being unproductive. It's time to return to being the productive fanfic author I was once was. Yosh!
I think giving up alcohol and caffeine has really helped. Yup, gave both of them up. Almost eight months off caffeine and six months off alcohol. I feel pretty darn good. I used to be so depressed or tired or just plain lethargic all the time and the moods in which I could write came so rarely... it just kinda tapered off... now I feel totally invigorated. I definitely feel like writing more often now. Feels pretty good to get fic written.
I have actually been in the mood for writing lately, can you believe it? It's a honest to god miracle. I've been so dull and unproductive over the past few years, it really blows...
Managed to hammer out some Kyousuke x Riki oneshots for slash100 prompts, and I'll be doing my best to fill the rest of them out. Fu fu fu... aww yeah. I'm gonna write and post so much Kyouriki fanfiction on AO3! \O/ And I'm not gonna bother with a chaptered prompt fic either, I'll post them all individually just to be super obnoxious~ Meh, not my fault the tag is so quiet.
It's kinda sad how nobody else has been writing and posting Kyouriki. The last time anyone other than me posted a Kyouriki fic was two years ago. Can you believe it? Well, I'm not gonna let the pairing just die out, I will keep Kyouriki well and alive, so there! I love Kyouriki so much <3 I want to write lots and lots of Kyouriki and you better believe I'm going to.
I'm tired of being unproductive. It's time to return to being the productive fanfic author I was once was. Yosh!
I think giving up alcohol and caffeine has really helped. Yup, gave both of them up. Almost eight months off caffeine and six months off alcohol. I feel pretty darn good. I used to be so depressed or tired or just plain lethargic all the time and the moods in which I could write came so rarely... it just kinda tapered off... now I feel totally invigorated. I definitely feel like writing more often now. Feels pretty good to get fic written.
Summer Pockets
Jun. 29th, 2018 09:18 amHuh, Summer Pockets didn't get delayed. Shocking. So it's out in Japan now.
I don't think we'll see an English translation until 2021 at the earliest and yet I still think 2021 is insanely optimistic. Especially if Visual Arts commissions Sekai Project to work on the translation. They went back to them for Rewrite+ so yeah. I wonder who they had doing Angel Beats. Been three years since we heard it was at fifty percent and nothing since. Weird.
So, Summer Pockets, huh. It does look promising. Kamome is best girl, yes.
I kinda hope we don't get any cop outs this time around. Well, Maeda's not involved in the writing, so who knows, maybe we'll actually get cold, hard, brutal, permanent death for a change. Good grief. I'm such a sadist. Eh. But I'm just tired of cop outs at this point. I mean, I'm very happy we got to save everyone in Little Busters and all that, but I feel like it's getting really overdone. Even Charlotte couldn't just keep the imouto dead, though I guess we still had a character get killed off and stay dead.
Give me a brutal tragedy. Give me death :D
Happy endings are so overrated.
I just want to see no punches pulled for a change.
Hmm. Summer Pockets is supposed to be reminiscent of Air. Soooooo... oh boy. Then again, the reason Maeda isn't involved much is apparently because they didn't want it to be too much like Air. Well, we'll see, I guess.
Will Summer Pockets make me cry? I hope so.
It's tempting to acquire it and go at it with a machine translator, isn't it. And I'd probably want to listen to the music tracks beforehand... hmm, I wonder if anyone's uploaded the music yet. But... but... the emotional scenes! The impact! Isn't it best to hear songs for the first time in their relevant scenes?
*twitch* *twitch* I don't know how I'll be able to restrain myself.
I never did get down to reading the demo, did I? Nope. Maybe I should do that someday. Decide if reading with a machine translator is really a good idea after all. I managed okay with Angel Beats, though I only skimmed through Matsushita's route, never bothered reading anything else. I also read Holy Breaker with a machine translation and it was a bit difficult to understand but I think I kind of got the gist.
At least Google Translate's working with Translator Aggregator, though who knows how long that will last. Can't get Atlas to work anymore...
I don't think we'll see an English translation until 2021 at the earliest and yet I still think 2021 is insanely optimistic. Especially if Visual Arts commissions Sekai Project to work on the translation. They went back to them for Rewrite+ so yeah. I wonder who they had doing Angel Beats. Been three years since we heard it was at fifty percent and nothing since. Weird.
So, Summer Pockets, huh. It does look promising. Kamome is best girl, yes.
I kinda hope we don't get any cop outs this time around. Well, Maeda's not involved in the writing, so who knows, maybe we'll actually get cold, hard, brutal, permanent death for a change. Good grief. I'm such a sadist. Eh. But I'm just tired of cop outs at this point. I mean, I'm very happy we got to save everyone in Little Busters and all that, but I feel like it's getting really overdone. Even Charlotte couldn't just keep the imouto dead, though I guess we still had a character get killed off and stay dead.
Give me a brutal tragedy. Give me death :D
Happy endings are so overrated.
I just want to see no punches pulled for a change.
Hmm. Summer Pockets is supposed to be reminiscent of Air. Soooooo... oh boy. Then again, the reason Maeda isn't involved much is apparently because they didn't want it to be too much like Air. Well, we'll see, I guess.
Will Summer Pockets make me cry? I hope so.
It's tempting to acquire it and go at it with a machine translator, isn't it. And I'd probably want to listen to the music tracks beforehand... hmm, I wonder if anyone's uploaded the music yet. But... but... the emotional scenes! The impact! Isn't it best to hear songs for the first time in their relevant scenes?
*twitch* *twitch* I don't know how I'll be able to restrain myself.
I never did get down to reading the demo, did I? Nope. Maybe I should do that someday. Decide if reading with a machine translator is really a good idea after all. I managed okay with Angel Beats, though I only skimmed through Matsushita's route, never bothered reading anything else. I also read Holy Breaker with a machine translation and it was a bit difficult to understand but I think I kind of got the gist.
At least Google Translate's working with Translator Aggregator, though who knows how long that will last. Can't get Atlas to work anymore...
Kyouriki notes
Apr. 26th, 2018 07:54 amJust some notes I made while pondering on Kyouriki stuff to write:
Riki awoke to the smell of cooking.
riki and kyousuke eat pancakes together they are delicious butter and syrup mmm delicious pancakes so riki wakes up to kyousuke cooking pancakes and they have them together for breakfast simple enough
Have I ever written about Kyousuke erotically eating pocky? Maybe Riki joins in. Kyousuke and Riki eating pocky together, why not.
Do I ever think about anything other than food? But food is so good.
Kyousuke x Riki hurt/comfort fanfic? Who gets hurt and who does the comforting? I wonder. How does the hurt one get hurt in the first place? Good question.
pocky let's write about kyousuke and riki eating pocky together
Riki was reading a book. Maybe. Ugh, this is hopeless. He looked up at the sound of the door opening. Kyousuke walked into the room.
"Hey." Kyousuke waved a hand in greeting.
"Hey," Riki responded, setting the book aside. "What's up?" It was still early in the afternoon, usually everyone would come to hang out in the evening.
"Nothing much, I was just bored and thought I'd see what you were up to." Kyousuke sat on the bed next to him and pulled out a cardboard box from his jacket. "I've got some pocky."
"Uh huh."
Kyousuke opened the box up and withdrew a stick of pocky. What flavour? I dunno, let's just be boring and have it be chocolate.
Trying to bang out random scenes is hard, huh.
Kyousuke traced his fingers over Riki's bare chest, feeling the soft satin of his skin beneath the tips. Riki writhed beneath him, a smile gracing his lips.
Kyousuke looked into Riki's grey, brown I don't even know eyes. Brown? Right. Brown. I think. Brown-grey? Sigh. Anyway.
Riki half closed his eyes, a faint moan rumbling in his throat. Kyousuke lowered his head and pressed his lips against the side of Riki's neck, kissing him. Riki sighed and wriggled. Kyousuke ran his hands down Riki's squirming body.
Riki awoke to the smell of cooking.
riki and kyousuke eat pancakes together they are delicious butter and syrup mmm delicious pancakes so riki wakes up to kyousuke cooking pancakes and they have them together for breakfast simple enough
Have I ever written about Kyousuke erotically eating pocky? Maybe Riki joins in. Kyousuke and Riki eating pocky together, why not.
Do I ever think about anything other than food? But food is so good.
Kyousuke x Riki hurt/comfort fanfic? Who gets hurt and who does the comforting? I wonder. How does the hurt one get hurt in the first place? Good question.
pocky let's write about kyousuke and riki eating pocky together
Riki was reading a book. Maybe. Ugh, this is hopeless. He looked up at the sound of the door opening. Kyousuke walked into the room.
"Hey." Kyousuke waved a hand in greeting.
"Hey," Riki responded, setting the book aside. "What's up?" It was still early in the afternoon, usually everyone would come to hang out in the evening.
"Nothing much, I was just bored and thought I'd see what you were up to." Kyousuke sat on the bed next to him and pulled out a cardboard box from his jacket. "I've got some pocky."
"Uh huh."
Kyousuke opened the box up and withdrew a stick of pocky. What flavour? I dunno, let's just be boring and have it be chocolate.
Trying to bang out random scenes is hard, huh.
Kyousuke traced his fingers over Riki's bare chest, feeling the soft satin of his skin beneath the tips. Riki writhed beneath him, a smile gracing his lips.
Kyousuke looked into Riki's grey, brown I don't even know eyes. Brown? Right. Brown. I think. Brown-grey? Sigh. Anyway.
Riki half closed his eyes, a faint moan rumbling in his throat. Kyousuke lowered his head and pressed his lips against the side of Riki's neck, kissing him. Riki sighed and wriggled. Kyousuke ran his hands down Riki's squirming body.
I like to write lots of random and insane and fun little scenes and general nonsense that will never find its way onto actual fanfic sites. So I'm making a compilation post here to post them... folders are getting far too cluttered as it is. Random scenes that aren't necessarily insane or random can be found here too.
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Random Nonsense
Dec. 6th, 2017 07:39 pmEr yeah, basically what the subject says. Sometimes I like to just write lots of random shit for NaNoWriMo, rather than focus on a single work, which results in my writing a load of nonsense that will never be acceptable on fanfiction sites and I want to post it somewhere, so why not my Little Busters journal, I guess.
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Customs sucks
Dec. 6th, 2017 12:15 pmI just remembered that customs charges are a thing. Ga~n. I was actually considering going for anywhere round the G-I courses for the Kud Wafter international crowdfunding (because I am insane) but then I realised customs would bite me in the ass.
At least with the Clannad kickstarter, Sekai Project actually shipped stuff from a UK warehouse though I only pledged for a digital copy so it's not like I had to worry.
Oh, it's right there on the crowdfunding page.
Q: Are there extra shipping fees?
A: The price of all rewards includes international shipping. However, please note that depending on your country of residence, import taxes or other fees may be charged by your local government or postal service before delivery. Backers are responsible for any import taxes incurred.
Yep. :D; Never mind then~
Sigh. Sucks to live in a country with high import fees. Well, I'm supposed to be sensible with my money anyway. Can't fritter it away on anime goods.
Finished Little Busters English Edition yesterday, with completion of Saya route. Done the Baka Riki stuff too, that was pretty fun. In total, that took about 83 hours. Whew. Now I'm gonna take a nice long break from VN reading, my hands could really do with it.
At least with the Clannad kickstarter, Sekai Project actually shipped stuff from a UK warehouse though I only pledged for a digital copy so it's not like I had to worry.
Oh, it's right there on the crowdfunding page.
Q: Are there extra shipping fees?
A: The price of all rewards includes international shipping. However, please note that depending on your country of residence, import taxes or other fees may be charged by your local government or postal service before delivery. Backers are responsible for any import taxes incurred.
Yep. :D; Never mind then~
Sigh. Sucks to live in a country with high import fees. Well, I'm supposed to be sensible with my money anyway. Can't fritter it away on anime goods.
Finished Little Busters English Edition yesterday, with completion of Saya route. Done the Baka Riki stuff too, that was pretty fun. In total, that took about 83 hours. Whew. Now I'm gonna take a nice long break from VN reading, my hands could really do with it.
Little Busters finally came out on Steam on 1st November. Done Rin1, Mio, Komari and Kurugaya so far, now I'm taking a break before Haruka because i'm definitely pushing my hands and wrists to their limit. Even Little Busters is not worth worsening my RSI for. Time for a break. Getting a bit burned out now, I think... so a break is good.
I was thinking of actually writing for NaNoWriMo but, well. LOL. Playing LB took precedence so yeah. I even bought a refurbished Lenovo Thinkpad since it's got the best keyboard laptops have to offer... and it hasn't seen much use yet. Oh well.
Can't imagine how anyone can bear reading a visual novel on a tablet. Finding the right position to use a tablet in is tricky, and tablets are pretty much an ergonomic nightmare. Using Windows in tablet mode is an exercise in frustration too. I was almost considering getting an expensive tablet but... meh. There's a reason I only touch my Windows tablet or iPad once in a blue moon. I would rather use a desktop or laptop.
Something like a gooseneck would be nice, but apparently they don't handle larger tablets well. And what if I want to do some writing?
Oh well, reading Little Busters on a desktop is just fine. With a nice big monitor too~
I've made saves for scenes such as Rin wanting to kill Masato on a summer day in Tokyo or the riverside photo scene so I can read them again whenever. It's a pity scenes change or can only be seen once really... well, it seems you can wipe your save data easily enough with the Steam version, no having to uninstall and reinstall...
Now then, I really should try to write something... I haven't added anything new to AO3 since like 2016. Damn, this is a pretty bad slump I'm in.
I was thinking of actually writing for NaNoWriMo but, well. LOL. Playing LB took precedence so yeah. I even bought a refurbished Lenovo Thinkpad since it's got the best keyboard laptops have to offer... and it hasn't seen much use yet. Oh well.
Can't imagine how anyone can bear reading a visual novel on a tablet. Finding the right position to use a tablet in is tricky, and tablets are pretty much an ergonomic nightmare. Using Windows in tablet mode is an exercise in frustration too. I was almost considering getting an expensive tablet but... meh. There's a reason I only touch my Windows tablet or iPad once in a blue moon. I would rather use a desktop or laptop.
Something like a gooseneck would be nice, but apparently they don't handle larger tablets well. And what if I want to do some writing?
Oh well, reading Little Busters on a desktop is just fine. With a nice big monitor too~
I've made saves for scenes such as Rin wanting to kill Masato on a summer day in Tokyo or the riverside photo scene so I can read them again whenever. It's a pity scenes change or can only be seen once really... well, it seems you can wipe your save data easily enough with the Steam version, no having to uninstall and reinstall...
Now then, I really should try to write something... I haven't added anything new to AO3 since like 2016. Damn, this is a pretty bad slump I'm in.
Today is the 10th anniversary of Little Busters, yay~! \O/ Ten years ago today, my very favourite visual novel was released in Japan. I'm still waiting for the English Edition to be released on Steam... '.' By the end of August, huh? And here I was hoping it would be released earlier. Oh well, it will be so worth it when it's finally out!
Drinking champagne in celebration. Mmm, champagne is so good. Yum yum~ Nice to be able to celebrate uninterrupted. Ah, I remember the day I celebrated the fourth anniversary of my starting Little Busters (29th September) and I was going to watch a stream of the final episode of the Danganronpa 3 anime. I had already started on the champagne, the episode was literally just beginning... and my sister turned up to announce the 12 year old family dog (who had been taken in to the vet earlier) was dead, being put down.
... That sucked.
Anyway, let's not dwell on sad things. Today is a day of celebration! Yahoo! So, what have I been doing? Uh... drinking champagne, hugging my Kyousuke dakimakura and listening to Little Busters music. Yeah, real exciting. XD I love being able to drink champagne for frivolous stuff like this, heh. Being an adult is great. :3 Nobody outside of the Japanese fandom is really talking about the tenth anniversary. The fandom on Tumblr died a long time ago...
The Kud Wafter anime is going to have the other members of the Little Busters besides Riki and Kud in it, so that's awesome. Though it's still in crowdfunding right now, and we won't be seeing it until Fall 2019 at the earliest, so meh. Wonder if it will even reach the goal for a theatrical release. Hasn't reached 30 minute OVA goal yet but I'm sure it will. A 20 minute OVA would be disappointing, like what even would be the point? I just want more Kyousuke.
Kyousuke in summer uniform. Mmm. :p~ Kyousukeeeee...
Drinking champagne in celebration. Mmm, champagne is so good. Yum yum~ Nice to be able to celebrate uninterrupted. Ah, I remember the day I celebrated the fourth anniversary of my starting Little Busters (29th September) and I was going to watch a stream of the final episode of the Danganronpa 3 anime. I had already started on the champagne, the episode was literally just beginning... and my sister turned up to announce the 12 year old family dog (who had been taken in to the vet earlier) was dead, being put down.
... That sucked.
Anyway, let's not dwell on sad things. Today is a day of celebration! Yahoo! So, what have I been doing? Uh... drinking champagne, hugging my Kyousuke dakimakura and listening to Little Busters music. Yeah, real exciting. XD I love being able to drink champagne for frivolous stuff like this, heh. Being an adult is great. :3 Nobody outside of the Japanese fandom is really talking about the tenth anniversary. The fandom on Tumblr died a long time ago...
The Kud Wafter anime is going to have the other members of the Little Busters besides Riki and Kud in it, so that's awesome. Though it's still in crowdfunding right now, and we won't be seeing it until Fall 2019 at the earliest, so meh. Wonder if it will even reach the goal for a theatrical release. Hasn't reached 30 minute OVA goal yet but I'm sure it will. A 20 minute OVA would be disappointing, like what even would be the point? I just want more Kyousuke.
Kyousuke in summer uniform. Mmm. :p~ Kyousukeeeee...
:D
The PV for Kud Wafter came out today, and oh boy, am I excited for it! I believe these two images are all that is needed to explain why:
Oh yes, my precious babies, my beloved Natsume siblings are in it~ <3 Masato, Kengo, Haruka, Komari, Kurugaya, Mio, everyone got to appear in the PV.
The dorm flooding storyline is still there, so Riki rooms with Kud, Masato rooms with Kengo, much to Masato's dismay, and Kyousuke rooms with Rin. XD The Kud Wafter characters are all there too of course.
Haaah... I'm so happy. I'm going to get to see them all animated again... I'm so glad.
The crowdfunding is certainly going well. It started today and it's already at 16 out of 30 million. \O/ And VA is planning overseas funding too, so us gaijins might be able to help in some way. I hope it will be successful. ^.^ Dunno why anyone would want to see it fail at this point. I mean, it's going to have the rest of the Little Busters in it. Why wouldn't you want this?!
The PV for Kud Wafter came out today, and oh boy, am I excited for it! I believe these two images are all that is needed to explain why:
Oh yes, my precious babies, my beloved Natsume siblings are in it~ <3 Masato, Kengo, Haruka, Komari, Kurugaya, Mio, everyone got to appear in the PV.
The dorm flooding storyline is still there, so Riki rooms with Kud, Masato rooms with Kengo, much to Masato's dismay, and Kyousuke rooms with Rin. XD The Kud Wafter characters are all there too of course.
Haaah... I'm so happy. I'm going to get to see them all animated again... I'm so glad.
The crowdfunding is certainly going well. It started today and it's already at 16 out of 30 million. \O/ And VA is planning overseas funding too, so us gaijins might be able to help in some way. I hope it will be successful. ^.^ Dunno why anyone would want to see it fail at this point. I mean, it's going to have the rest of the Little Busters in it. Why wouldn't you want this?!
Rin concept sketch
Jul. 12th, 2017 03:54 pmSo, there are some news on the Kud Wafter anime. Suzuyu will be singing the opening song, apparently, which is a new song called Light a Way. Well, I guess people will be spared the horrors of One's Future. They showed some more concept sketches...
RIN-CHAAAAAAAAN. <3 And she's even in her summer uniform!
Now I just need to see Kyousuke and I'll explode with happiness.
They are working on a PV which I guess we'll see soon.
Hnnng... so excited... the thought of seeing everyone again... I don't care that it's lolicon pandering trash if I can just see all the Little Busters in motion and hear their voices once more... that's all I care about.
So much negativity over this. Yeah, Kud Wafter is shitty lolicon fanservice, but it's a new story and the other Busters are appearing, so it might not be outright garbage... meh, as long as Kyousuke is in it, I don't care.
RIN-CHAAAAAAAAN. <3 And she's even in her summer uniform!
Now I just need to see Kyousuke and I'll explode with happiness.
They are working on a PV which I guess we'll see soon.
Hnnng... so excited... the thought of seeing everyone again... I don't care that it's lolicon pandering trash if I can just see all the Little Busters in motion and hear their voices once more... that's all I care about.
So much negativity over this. Yeah, Kud Wafter is shitty lolicon fanservice, but it's a new story and the other Busters are appearing, so it might not be outright garbage... meh, as long as Kyousuke is in it, I don't care.
Kud Wafter ruminations
Jun. 30th, 2017 05:35 pmHaha, I can't believe people are seriously upset about JC Staff doing Kud Wafter. Even KyoAni can't turn shit into gold, you know. You can paint shit gold, cover it in glitter and tie it up with a fancy ribbon, but at the end of the day it's still shit so it doesn't matter who's animating it. Who cares how it looks if the story is garbage.
Fortunately, it looks like the Kud Wafter anime is getting an original Kud-centric story... which is a bit odd because then it's not really Kud Wafter, but Himuro's appearing, I'm sure the Arizuki sisters will be too, and that there will be plenty of Kanata and A-chan, besides the original VN didn't really even have much of a plot, so it's no big deal, is it?
Of course people are gonna be salty anyway, but who cares. If we're getting Masato and the rest of the Little Busters, JC Staff can do whatever the hell they want. Just give me more Kyousuke.
... yes, I'm aware the point of Kud Wafter is to pander to the lolicons, I mean, Kud's fanbase.
Perhaps this is a very deliberate move to draw in the Little Busters fans who don't particularly care about Kud or dislike Kud Wafter. Hmm, I see. Not a bad move at all. Well, I'm sure the crowdfunding will be a success. We're probably getting just one cour. Yeah, two cours seems way too optimistic. Especially considering Refrain was only one cour...
Got a release timeframe for Little Busters on Steam. By the end of August. Ha. Hahaha. Whatever. I've waited so long already, it doesn't matter. I can wait even longer. It's worth the wait. They are polishing the dictionary feature. Yup, we're getting a dictionary feature. Neat. VA are going to be posting some videos on their channel by someone playing it, so that's something to look forward to.
There's going to be plenty of new Little Busters merch released in July, huh. Nice. ... and I'm sure hardly any of it will be of Kyousuke, Riki, Masato or Kengo >_> Meh. Still, I'm excited to see what they put out. It's nice to get new Little Busters stuff. Maybe there will even be a new figure announcement (spoilers: the figure will be of Kud)
Fortunately, it looks like the Kud Wafter anime is getting an original Kud-centric story... which is a bit odd because then it's not really Kud Wafter, but Himuro's appearing, I'm sure the Arizuki sisters will be too, and that there will be plenty of Kanata and A-chan, besides the original VN didn't really even have much of a plot, so it's no big deal, is it?
Of course people are gonna be salty anyway, but who cares. If we're getting Masato and the rest of the Little Busters, JC Staff can do whatever the hell they want. Just give me more Kyousuke.
... yes, I'm aware the point of Kud Wafter is to pander to the lolicons, I mean, Kud's fanbase.
Perhaps this is a very deliberate move to draw in the Little Busters fans who don't particularly care about Kud or dislike Kud Wafter. Hmm, I see. Not a bad move at all. Well, I'm sure the crowdfunding will be a success. We're probably getting just one cour. Yeah, two cours seems way too optimistic. Especially considering Refrain was only one cour...
Got a release timeframe for Little Busters on Steam. By the end of August. Ha. Hahaha. Whatever. I've waited so long already, it doesn't matter. I can wait even longer. It's worth the wait. They are polishing the dictionary feature. Yup, we're getting a dictionary feature. Neat. VA are going to be posting some videos on their channel by someone playing it, so that's something to look forward to.
There's going to be plenty of new Little Busters merch released in July, huh. Nice. ... and I'm sure hardly any of it will be of Kyousuke, Riki, Masato or Kengo >_> Meh. Still, I'm excited to see what they put out. It's nice to get new Little Busters stuff. Maybe there will even be a new figure announcement (spoilers: the figure will be of Kud)
Kud Wafter news
Jun. 29th, 2017 01:44 pmGot some more news on the Kud Wafter anime. It's going to be done by JC Staff, and crowdfunded to boot. I'm sure it will have no problem being crowdfunded with the rabid lolicon fanbase Kud has. >_> Looks like Haruko Iizuka is back for the character designs. Good.
But the best thing?
Masato is in it! <3 Hell yes, this might mean we get to see all the other Little Busters. I'm so glad. <3
JC Staff had a tendency to stick all or some of the group in scenes where they weren't in the LB VN when making the anime. I must say, this is one instance where I am completely fine with them doing this. Take all the liberties you want, JC Staff, maybe you can actually save this from being shit like the original VN.
I just want to see my babies again. ;~;
There are actually people disappointed with them keeping JC Staff for Kud Wafter, lolwtf. Even the worst animation studio in the whole wide world couldn't possibly make Kud Wafter worse. Besides, at the very least, I want them to keep the character designs from the LB anime. Consistency and all that. It would be weird to see returning characters in a new style. I love the LB character designs too, so yeah.
Oh yeah, and we'll be getting more stuff for the Little Busters 10th anniversary, more merch and stuff. They are putting up a site for it on the 3rd July. Looking forward to seeing what we'll get. No Steam release date yet... maybe soon. '.'
But the best thing?
Masato is in it! <3 Hell yes, this might mean we get to see all the other Little Busters. I'm so glad. <3
JC Staff had a tendency to stick all or some of the group in scenes where they weren't in the LB VN when making the anime. I must say, this is one instance where I am completely fine with them doing this. Take all the liberties you want, JC Staff, maybe you can actually save this from being shit like the original VN.
I just want to see my babies again. ;~;
There are actually people disappointed with them keeping JC Staff for Kud Wafter, lolwtf. Even the worst animation studio in the whole wide world couldn't possibly make Kud Wafter worse. Besides, at the very least, I want them to keep the character designs from the LB anime. Consistency and all that. It would be weird to see returning characters in a new style. I love the LB character designs too, so yeah.
Oh yeah, and we'll be getting more stuff for the Little Busters 10th anniversary, more merch and stuff. They are putting up a site for it on the 3rd July. Looking forward to seeing what we'll get. No Steam release date yet... maybe soon. '.'
Little Busters release soon
Jun. 1st, 2017 07:29 amSo it's finally June.
Little Busters is... quite possibly coming out on Steam this month. It's gone through Greenlight and everything, now we're just waiting for an actual release date. 720px, overhauled engine, new features, touch support... aww yeah. <3 This is going to be good. It actually has a decent backlog now, not that one line at a time bullshit, and you can even rewind back to an earlier scene.
Heh heh. No more having to save scum battles, just rewind.
It would be pretty sweet to play it on a tablet especially with touch support. But. Um. Tablets are bad for the neck. Even if I have it propped up on a table, the angle is still... ehh. I really would prefer to be looking straight at a monitor instead of bending my head down. I've tried using a tablet lying down with it propped up on a cushion and that wore on my arms after a while.
Can't beat a good old fashioned computer setup for ergonomics. So, yeah, no tablets. Besides, running Steam on multiple devices is a bit of a pain apparently since you can only be logged in on one device at a time.
I'll just stick with the PC...
I've toyed with the idea of a touchscreen laptop, but I think it would be really tiring for my arm after a while.
So, when in June will Little Busters come out? '.' Not in the first two weeks, I'm guessing. Sigh. We've been waiting for so long...
Little Busters is... quite possibly coming out on Steam this month. It's gone through Greenlight and everything, now we're just waiting for an actual release date. 720px, overhauled engine, new features, touch support... aww yeah. <3 This is going to be good. It actually has a decent backlog now, not that one line at a time bullshit, and you can even rewind back to an earlier scene.
Heh heh. No more having to save scum battles, just rewind.
It would be pretty sweet to play it on a tablet especially with touch support. But. Um. Tablets are bad for the neck. Even if I have it propped up on a table, the angle is still... ehh. I really would prefer to be looking straight at a monitor instead of bending my head down. I've tried using a tablet lying down with it propped up on a cushion and that wore on my arms after a while.
Can't beat a good old fashioned computer setup for ergonomics. So, yeah, no tablets. Besides, running Steam on multiple devices is a bit of a pain apparently since you can only be logged in on one device at a time.
I'll just stick with the PC...
I've toyed with the idea of a touchscreen laptop, but I think it would be really tiring for my arm after a while.
So, when in June will Little Busters come out? '.' Not in the first two weeks, I'm guessing. Sigh. We've been waiting for so long...
Happy birthday, Kyousuke!
May. 3rd, 2017 03:51 pmAh, yes, it's midnight in Japan, so April 4th has begun and naturally that means it's time to start celebrating my husbando's birthday. By celebrating, I mean drinking champagne and blasting Boys Don't Cry from my computer speakers. Youtube repeat sites are the best.
And then I remember I actually have Little Busters music right on my hard drive. Well, whatever.
Happy birthday <3
(yeah, yeah, this isn't the first picture I've taken of my dakimakura with a glass of fizz. Meh.)
There's plenty of reason to celebrate, Kyousuke's birthday aside. Little Busters is finally progressing and is even on Steam Greenlight! \O/ And it's even had a lot of work done on it. It's not just a lazy dump of Perfect Edition in an advanced version of Reallive, nope. A new engine. Touch support. Improved backlog. Higher resolution graphics. It's essentially the console version for PC with touch support.
I'm so excited.
Screencapping LB is going to be even easier now. No more alt + print screen and pasting in Photoshop... I did try Greenshot out but, meh. And that touch support... sweet. I can probably use my Wacom tablet for that. I do have a Windows tablet, though I'd have to install Steam on that. Visual novel reading on a tablet's not so great ergonomically though... my neck and arms can attest to that.
Ahh, I'm so happy. An improved version of Little Busters... can't wait for it to be released~
It is a bit ridiculous to be doing the Steam Greenlight thing, isn't it? I mean they already got Tomoyo After and Harmonia through, shouldn't be any need to do it again. Oh well, hopefully it won't take long.
And then I remember I actually have Little Busters music right on my hard drive. Well, whatever.
Happy birthday <3
(yeah, yeah, this isn't the first picture I've taken of my dakimakura with a glass of fizz. Meh.)
There's plenty of reason to celebrate, Kyousuke's birthday aside. Little Busters is finally progressing and is even on Steam Greenlight! \O/ And it's even had a lot of work done on it. It's not just a lazy dump of Perfect Edition in an advanced version of Reallive, nope. A new engine. Touch support. Improved backlog. Higher resolution graphics. It's essentially the console version for PC with touch support.
I'm so excited.
Screencapping LB is going to be even easier now. No more alt + print screen and pasting in Photoshop... I did try Greenshot out but, meh. And that touch support... sweet. I can probably use my Wacom tablet for that. I do have a Windows tablet, though I'd have to install Steam on that. Visual novel reading on a tablet's not so great ergonomically though... my neck and arms can attest to that.
Ahh, I'm so happy. An improved version of Little Busters... can't wait for it to be released~
It is a bit ridiculous to be doing the Steam Greenlight thing, isn't it? I mean they already got Tomoyo After and Harmonia through, shouldn't be any need to do it again. Oh well, hopefully it won't take long.
