Thursday 29 January 2009

Kamen Rider Kiva Screencaps #17

Spoiler! This episode and #18 is so cool!!! Otoya and Jirou battling out on pool is the most funniest thing I ever came across and more! Reveal under the cut!


Episode 17
Lesson: My Way
(23 screencaps)

Ramon, Rikki and Jirou are with Wataru in Castle Doran. Look at that bed full of roses!! How many bushes of roses did they use??!

Kamen Rider Kiva Screencaps #16

Unfortunately, Dai-chan is not forever good; continuation from #15....Reveal post and read more.


Episode 16
Player: Heartless rules
(24 screencaps)

Rook still holds power over Jirou in both eras.

Kamen Rider Kiva Screencaps #15

Here comes the screencaps! It introduces a new evil guy. Every Kamen Rider has a theme for an enemy too; for Kiva, it is Checkmate 4. As always....everything is a huge spoiler for Kiva! Don't read it unless you want to be spoiled.



Episode 15
Rebirth: Checkmate 4
( 23 screencaps)



Kamen Rider Kiva Screencaps #14

Oh man! It has been ages since I have done this! No matter...I will just do a Kiva spam!!! Will release many episode screencaps! Please check them out! I will write less lol.
This episode introduces the last monster of the monster squad. So far we have seen the wolf and the merman.


Episode 14
Majestic: Shocking purple eye
(24 screencaps)
Otoya is alive. He's still doing well for someone who used IXA.

Maybe not...


Sunday 18 January 2009

魔法生活王 - jelly drinks

I can't tell you how much I drink Pearl Milk Tea time and time again!! This is the perfect opportunity for me to make such a drink!!

There was a recipe for using marshmallows to make a type of sticky sweet/ice-cream dessert but I don't think it works well....and therefore, managed to throw the piece of paper where I wrote my recipe into the garbage! Aww!

If you like jelly in your drink then here is an easy way to help you to make one at home without having to pay $5 for a drink! Jump under the cut.

Ingredients:
Juice - 4 Tbsp
Agar Agar Powder - half Tbsp

Equipment:
Bottle for juice storage
Big Tub of Ice cubes + Water + Salt

Bottle of 350- 600ml of clear juice works really well; whatever you prefer. The ingredients: juice and agar agar powder are scooped into a bowl and microwaved for 1 minute. It comes out of the microwave a little gooey. But that is ok, because once you pour the gooey mixture into the bottle of juice, it starts to coagulate and become cloudy little bits of jelly haha. SHAKE IT vigorously, and do a little shake dance.

Make sure that the tub of ice cubes +water with salt is prepared (salt lowers the temperature of the ice). Then, in the tub, place the bottle and keep on twisting and turning in the tub vigorously again. This is so that the jelly solidifies a lot more as room temperature juice will do no good, plus you will chill the drink so it works well for both the juice and the jelly.

Then you can serve it up!!

Friday night's program was just about how to get instantly cold ice; especially at a party where you run out of ice so quickly. They used aluminum cups on and aluminum sheet-covered tray and it freezes within 15 minutes! Certainly quite fast...though we just used a small plastic bag and fill it up with water, and let it freeze for 2 hours or so and we get a huge block of ice!

Friday 16 January 2009

Vampire Knight + Still Doll

!Updated post here*~ Comments are appreciated~

Vampire Knight is a vampire manga that has been turned into an anime series. It is about a young girl called Yuuki Cross and Zero Kirryu who attend Cross Academy. The academy is dedicated to two classes. Day class - humans and Night class - vampires. It is up to Yuuki and Zero to protect the humans from getting bitten by the vampires and ward off the vampires. They are the only humans to know that the academy consists of both humans and vampires.

Main Characters of the Manga/Anime

The purpose of this academy is to bring harmony between humans and vampires as both groups had a horrific past and feud for centuries. Yuuki & Zero learned how to fight too!

Kaname Kuran is the dorm leader, group leader and representative of the vampires in the Night Class. He is much respected among the vampires.

It is a romance, action and slightly mysterious as you start to uncover the secrets behind the rules and regulations of order among vampires and the different types of vampires.

Vampire Knight Anime.



It is quite a different world with vampiric creatures and like no other! Not like a total western or eastern copy. It has a unique style....but then again this is the first vampiric story that I have come across so I might be wrong. Plus the vampires in this story are not immortal and they age.

OK I don't want to reveal too much but pictures are shown so you can get the general idea. You can read this manga ONEMANGA, the link on the right hand side.

Remember Kanon Wakeshima??? I have uploaded her song Still Doll to my CMO (right hand side). She sings and plays cello in this piece of soundtrack!! Listen Carefully. Here are her lyrics in Japanese and English!


Japanese Romanji


Hi Miss Alice.
Anata garasu no me de
Donna yume wo
Mirareru no?
Miirareru no?
Mata atashi
Kokoro ga sakete
Nagarederu
Tsukurotta
Sukima ni sasaru
Kioku-tachi


Hi Miss Alice.
Anata kajitsu no kuchi de
Dare ni ai o
Nagete iru no?
Nageite iru no?
Mou atashi
Kotoba o tsumugu
Shita no netsu
Samekitte
Mederu o-uta mo
Utaenai


Still, you do not answer.



Japanese


Hi Miss Alice.
あなた 硝子の眼で
どんな夢を
見られるの?
魅入られるの?
またあたし
こころが裂けて
流れ出る
繕った
隙間に刺さる
記憶たち


Hi Miss Alice.
あなた 果実の口で
誰に愛を
投げているの?
嘆いているの?
もうあたし
言葉を紡ぐ
舌の熱
冷め切って
愛でるお歌も
歌えない
Still, you do not answer.


English translation


Hi Miss Alice.
With glass eyes
What kind of a dream
Are you able to see?
Are you entranced by?
Again for me
My heart tears apart
And flows out
Memories
Pierce into
The mended crevice


Hi Miss Alice.
With a fruitful mouth
To whom are you
Throwing love at?
Grieving love at?
I'm already
Spinning words
The warmth of my tongue
Completely cools
And I can't sing
The song that I adore


Still, you do not answer.


Come to think of it, how come this song's meaning just doesn't fit in to the vampire manga/anime? I am so lost....ahaha it is quite the depressing and creepy song.




Lastly, being a cello player myself, I particularly like this image. Hope you do as well~



Current Mood: Listening to Music

Wednesday 14 January 2009

Marvel Ultimate Alliance

Here it is! The awaited Marvel Ultimate Alliance game review (though it really is my personal opinion). Marvel is going strong!! With its combined universe and many of your favourite super heroes and ones that my generation has never really come across yet heard before are here!!! My favourite part of the game is that you are in a team of 4 and it is a brawl! I love brawls...hey don't ask me why I am so violent for a girl but I just am! You can rotate and play whichever character you want to even though you are in a team of 4!

During a scene to the next team mission

You can unlock suits, unlock special characters, collect armour and improve your characters, enhance special moves and enhance special qualities of your characters.

There are 4 suits to unlock for each character:
the last suit being the one that you can only lock from a comic mission (only one character instead of a team) but you need to be able to access the comic mission by collecting it in the team missions themselves.


The characters that I spent the most time on and saw to the end are Captain America, Thor (Beta Bill Ray), Ghost Rider and Human Torch.

Jump under the cut to read more about character profiles, good + bad points of the game and more pictures!

Thursday 8 January 2009

Kamen Rider Kiva Screencaps #13

Oh I can't believe it but I have little to say about this episode haha but yet again, it is a continuation into the next one again.

This time, Otoya is trying to defeat the Bakemono Jiro so that he doesn't harm Yuri! Reveal more under the cut.

Episode 13
Incomplete: Daddy fight
(14 screencaps)



Kengo and Wataru becoming the best of friends

Wednesday 7 January 2009

Kamen Rider Kiva Screencaps #12

OHH!! This is the time where Kiva and IXA fight along with Otoya & Yuri's first date plus the reason why IXA is used by Jiro surfaces. I honestly felt that the date was tremendously humorous.

Its all under the cut.


Episode 12
First live show: Gold speed
(26 screencaps)


Is this the end of Kiva?

Monday 5 January 2009

Kamen Rider Kiva Screencaps #11

Episode 11 is a time of remembrance and avenging for someone's death. It also introduces the IXA suit that was firstly created by Wonderful Aozora Organisation.

Continue over the cut. Enjoy.


Episode 11
Rolling Stone: Dream door
(22 screencaps)


Kamen Rider Kiva Screencaps #10

Wataru's violin teacher!!! What is going to become of him?? Continuation from episode 9. Since I now have 2 blogs, I am just going to shrink my pictures so in the end, when I have finished these screencaps, I will not have to

Reveal under the cut. Spoilers ahead! IXA's finishing move is captured!


Episode 10
Dance of the Swords: Melody of glass
(21 screencaps)


Wataru protecting his violin teacher from Nago-IXA

Sunday 4 January 2009

Kamen Rider Kiva Screencaps #09

Episode 9 tells the tale of a Fangire who knew Otoya and is teaching Wataru how to make the violin. I honestly liked this episode, it was hilariously funny, and another Kamen Rider emerges! Also, there is an additional member in the Wonderful Aozora Organisation funnily enough. Why? Because he is half good and half bad. Reveal more under the cut if you don't mind me rambling on.

Reveal more under the cut if you are prepared for spoilers...Comments are always appreciated~


Episode 9
Reverberation: IXA on
( 25 screencaps)

Wataru is given up on trying to find the right colour to match the father's violin colour.

Friday 2 January 2009

Kamen Rider Kiva Screencaps #08

Continuation from episode 7, this episode is epic!! Not only is Otoya challenged in coffee drinking, there is a new monster, and a Fangire by far the most deadliest, but will Jiro be caught for taking the lives of innocents?! There are major spoilers!!


Episode 8
Soul: Dragon Castle, Awaken
(24 screencaps)

This is what happens when you drink too much coffee and hate it!!! HAHA


Lunar 2 - Eternal Blue completed

Finally!! I have finished Lunar 2!! This RPG (role playing game much like final fantasy for example) game honestly took a long time.

46 hours of hard training and reaching level 76 is how I had finish this game! hahaha I was a little bit reluctant to finish this game because the training went on for probably half of the time. I started training very hard from Level 41...you can imagine how many hours put into that to reach up to 76! Obviously, this is a much longer game compared to the prequel Silver Star Story where I managed to finish the first one in 27 hours.

SO anyway, even for a playstation which was the beginning of 3D games you could say, Lunar 2 adopted a modest graphical design whereby also keeping it original to the first game on Gameboy Advance yet develops anime scenes to better off enhance the atmosphere in the game. Therefore, you better watch the scenes and it won't repeat for you again!! The only downfall to this game might I have to say is that the whole thing is in English. The battle voices, the scenes were painfully heard haha sad...I know. My Japanese is not good to read or listen to this story so I had to play this game in English. It really is a pity! I wished that it wasn't dubbed but subtitles are placed instead.
















L: Solving puzzles
R: Scene about the corrupted Goddess

The graphics are cartoon-like and the characters can travel diagonal, yet the camera angle is only directed above them. So again, it is not 3D, but I have enjoyed it at this level because I can't really appreciate stiff 3D characters in most playstation games haha or blurred visions for that matter of a fact.















L: Fighting the White dragon
R: All dragons join forces to defeat the stirring evil

If a character dies during a battle against monsters, once you have defeated them, they will still be alive but with only 1 health. Just heal them fully. The downside to it is that they do not gain experience from fighting those monsters or even bosses so make sure that in order to gain a lot of experience, quickly revive them during battle and keep healing. I think that this concept is quite fair in the game as some other games need you to travel back to cities or towns just to revive them. Also, to clear things up, Luna is an extra character in the game and proves to be useful at times.
















L: Towards the ending, getting ready to face Zophar; the ultimate boss. Don't know why he is like a cross-dresser. Made me squirm haha.
R: Zophar had 4 different forms! Was difficult to beat him at level 53! Should've aimed for 55 lol.

From here on out under the cut, these are ending spoilers!! Do not reveal if you are still playing this or wanting to play it (actually, people would have already played it since playstation is really old)! Unless you have played it or don't care, view it fully at your leisure.

Enjoy!

Thursday 1 January 2009

Kamen Rider Kiva #07 Screencaps

The episodes carry on revealing tons of surprises for you to enjoy! *The next one definitely is overwhelming!* I don't know how I can keep up with this and I don't know if I ever want to let the series end!!!

This time, there is a touching story behind this even though it is about a certain Fangire. From here on, you start to wonder if the Fangire do harbour feelings like regular human beings. Also, love interests develops as the all well-known Playboy Otoya goes for someone he can't get! haha

I better hurry and catch up with these because Kamen Rider Decade is going to be broadcasted on January 25th! Doesn't leave me much time to finish this! And I am still watching Kiva! hahaha

Reveal more under the jump.
Comments are sweet~

Episode 7
Song of Praise: A three star full course in darkness
(23 screencaps)

Fangire - is sad to have lost his butler (also fangire).

Trying to catch Yuri's eye by being hilariously funny (& fake - you'll see what I mean).