Rincchi's Lair

Huh, 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...

 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.

: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?!

So 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...

Kud Wafter anime is real.

Apparently VisualArt's are financially planning a Kud Wafter anime. Hahaha... even though we never got a Tomoyo After anime, we're getting a Kud Wafter anime. Wow. I'm not really sure what to think. I'm sure it will sell well, being the lolicon pandering trash that it is, and goodness knows they need to recover their losses after the dismal failure that was the Rewrite anime adaptation. Oh yeah, Terra's starting soon, isn't it? We'll see how that goes...

Anyway, Kud Wafter anime... maybe it will be JC Staff again. If they bring back Haruko Iizuka, then great. I love her character designs. More cute Riki, hell yes <3

If we could have actual cameos of the other Little Busters, maybe even a scene with everyone before they leave for summer vacation... I would be seriously happy. But I shouldn't get my hopes up too much.

Anyway, I guess we finally got some news about Little Busters on Steam. About damn time. Apparently Vava hopes to release it in the spring. Interestingly, it seems that Prototype is involved. They are responsible for the console ports of the VN. Which might mean... HD assets?! Will we be able to play the VN in glorious high res graphics? Hell yes, this better be true. Releasing Little Busters in 800 x 600 resolution would be a serious mistake, especially with Clannad being HD, and the future releases of Angel Beats and Rewrite+ which are also high res. Seriously, Little Busters deserves better than an 800x600 release.

English Little Busters for Vita could also be possible, considering English Clannad's also being released for it. Converted Edition on PSP seriously triggers my RSI, but maybe it would be easier on Vita, with it having touchscreen and everything.

HD graphics for PC... please let this be true... I would be so happy.

Oh my god, people can be so stupid. This is one of those moments when I'm sad I don't have a facepalm icon. Did nobody ever facepalm at any point during the anime? And why does Chrome call facepalm a typo? If you ask me, it's a perfectly legitimate word. Who cares if it's probably not in the dictionary yet. I'm too lazy to go check.

Anyway, there's some idiotic rumour circulating about the Clannad anime. See, Clannad has a booth at this Anime Japan expo. What else are there booths for? A lot of things... including Little Busters, Rewrite and Angel Beats. Yeah. >_> In spite of that, people are utterly convinced that it means there will be something new for the Clannad anime announced next year. LOL.

The most likely explanation for this is that Visual Arts' just wants to sell more dangos, and maybe some other Clannad goods. KyoAni and Key is long dead, and Hinoue Itaru has left VA, so it's very unlikely we'll actually get anything new for Clannad, let alone an anime. Good grief, people. -_-

Little Busters still has no Steam release date. ;~; Ugh... what's the hold up? What's taking them so long, I wonder... is it at least going to be released before Christmas? ._.

Are we getting anything new for Little Busters? I'd like to think EX being broadcast on Nico Nico and it being included in the expo means something, but who knows. Just gotta wait. Meh. I'm tired of waiting. '.'

It's just so silly to get wound up about Clannad, when literally the only news are that it has a booth at an anime expo, an expo that has other Key works included. I look forward to the flood of salty tears when it turns out the booth is only there to sell dango plushies...

Meh, I'm bored. Maybe I should actually try being productive. Haha, yeah right. I've been reading Clannad... just got Nagisa's route left to do before After Story is unlocked. Kinda annoyed at all the homo jokes... every time it's brought up, it's treated as creepy or weird or a joke, ugh. Little Busters was much better with how it treated the subject. Not perfect though... perfect would be having an actual Kyousuke route with Riki and Kyousuke becoming a couple. Still, there was plenty of subtext in Little Busters.

It would be nice to have an actual place for Little Busters fans to chat, but... eh. I don't really care much for hanging out with the Key fandom in general (and even they hardly ever talk about Little Busters, it's always Rewrite this and Rewrite that...). Tumblr's not so bad (as long as you're careful about where you tread...) and the Little Busters fandom there is decent, but Tumblr doesn't work so well as a forum. It really is a blogging platform after all.

Meh. It's only half past ten... I should get off my lazy ass and do something. Maybe do some vacuuming. When did I last vacuum my house? ... Good question. >_> I keep thinking about that half drunk bottle of sparkling wine in my fridge too, which I started last night. No, bad self, no drinking until twelve at the earliest. Don't act like an alcoholic...

There are no new Little Busters goods in the Visual Arts sale at Comiket... well, it's all lewd crap so who cares... there's a new Kud dakimakura being sold by a different company though. Ugh. Why does Kud have to be so heavily sexualized... she's the youngest of the group and looks it too. Fricking pedophiles... Kud fans are the scourge of the Little Busters fandom.

... why did Kud have to be the one to get the spin off... right, because she's popular. I like Kud but I find her popularity annoying. I have issues...

Okay, enough rambling, I'm gonna try and actually get something done.

It's October, huh? I feel like being productive this month. \O/

Okay, I'm going to restart the dreams fic. The same thing I've started over too many times to count. I've completely dropped the Corpse Party style idea, it's just too... ehh. Writing about people getting chased by scary things and dying in various ways gets old pretty fast, I find. If I don't enjoy writing it, people aren't going to enjoy reading it.

For now, let's just focus on the nightmares part. Then I'll figure how the heck they even got there. Dream worlds hold so much potential~ Of course it's a dream world, what else would it be? Someone with some kind of grudge against the Little Busters made it. Maybe. They died and it sucked so they took it out on the Little Busters.

Halloween is at the end of the month, so let's try to get it done by then and upload it for Halloween. I really need to get the damn thing done and finally lay that pesky plotbunny to rest.

November is the month after that. I feel like I want to write something and break the curse of NaNoWriMo. Everything I've written since 2004 has been shit or me cheating and combining word counts from multiple stories. >_> Lately, I've just not been doing anything for NaNo. I want to see if I can finally break the NaNo curse. Of course, I'd need to actually think up a plot first.

Feeling emo and feeling like a fandom outcast again, yippee~

I don't know why, I haven't done anything that would make me an actual outcast. The pairings I like are pretty normal. I write nice, normal fanfiction. ... I'm actually wondering if it's really okay to post bad porn on AO3, ahahaha ^^; Yeah, I know, I'm allowed to post whatever the hell I want but I just kinda imagine people in the Little Busters fandom recoiling at the sight of porn on the AO3 tag. Especially bad porn.

Well, it would be understandable to be cringing at bad porn.

I absolutely won't post non-con on there. If I ever feel like doing it, I'll just imagine a crying Komari. ... I absolutely do not mix up the words 'no-con' and 'non-con' sometimes, nope. x_x

Komari's H-scene though... *shudder* Why, oh why, did it have to take place when Komari had her breakdown. WTF. What the hell were they thinking?

Haruka's isn't much better. It takes place while she's depressed over family stuff, but at least she's sane during it. I think.

Rin having an H scene is also terrible. I mean, she's so innocent and clueless about love. For Rin to actually have sex just feels so, so wrong on so many levels.

What was I talking about again?

Eh, I don't know. It's just difficult to put into words. I just got most of it off of my chest on my "secret" Twitter. The one I made to say stuff I feel like I can't say on my main Twitter...

Probably better not to elaborate too much here anyway. So... yeah. It's just feeling like I don't quite fit in in certain places, like Twitter, that's all. Meh, I just have issues, that's all.

Anime Expo next month, huh? Maybe Sekai Project will announce a localization of Little Busters. I am so ready to throw money at a Little Busters kickstarter. COME AT ME.

You know, one problem I have with prompt tables is sometimes they are a bit dark...? Like they'll have themes such as Kill, Death or Choke... yeah, yeah, I know, you're usually free to interpret and use the word however you want. Heck, sometimes I resort to merely mentioning the word in the narrative.

Well, as long as they aren't throwing out themes like 'r***' or 'i*****', I shouldn't be complaining... why did I have to write those two words together in a sentence. T_T ... Ended up censoring them. I don't want to see such words on my happy fun Little Busters blog. I love fun and happiness \O/

Sometimes I act like Komari and go 'Uwaaaaahn, scaryyyyy'... yes, I occasionally act like anime characters in my head, is that a bad thing? Hmm, I've hardly done anything with komari.moe, that's kind of sad, isn't it? But I want to work on ficlets... I'm feeling so productive all of a sudden for some reason.

I blame the weather. Bad weather makes me...

Hold on, why am I writing in here instead of writing fic?! Bad self, bad. Get back to the Google Drive tab. >_>

EDIT: I ended up working on komari.moe instead, whoops. Oh well, better than doing nothing.