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Welp, first off - illness update. Mostly better, went to my Tuesday evening class and managed to make it into work for a couple of hours today. Met the bevy of new fellow workstudies, and found that despite classes being cancelled all day for convocation FOR THE PAST FIVE YEARS, for today's convocation they were only cancelled until 11:30. So I missed my second Philosophy class...meh, I'll catch up a bit later.
In completely unrelated news, the first GetBackers DVD arrived yesterday. Pretty nice, actually, though I haven't had a chance to check out any of the extras aside from the clean opening/closing sequences.
( A short review of the dub )
My mom watched the first couple of episodes with me - she didn't much like it. But notably, about ten seconds into the opening theme, she turned to me and said, "So, these two guys are in love with each other?" XD
I hemmed and hawed, but ended up basically saying, "Well, yeah, though they don't come right out and say it." To be honest, I thought it might at least take part of the first episode to figure it out, though. Though I suppose with them looking all soulfully at each other (well, Ginji looking soulful and Ban looking like "OMFG TARD BUT CUTE") while the schmoopy song subtitles are displaying, it's not really subtle. (To quote Giles from Buffy, "I believe the subtext here is rapidly becoming text.")
I got another package today - the Phantom Brave strategy guide from DoubleJump. (And dammit, I want that game NOW. Give me my N1 fix, bastards!) It's actually quite nice - 243 pages, so it's quite a bit thicker than most strategy guides. In terms of size, though, it's smaller - about the size of a manga volume, actually.
It's clearly patterned after a lot of the Japanese strategy guides, in terms of depth and design - it reminds me of my Star Ocean Perfect guides - but I don't think there's anyone out there who'd consider that a bad thing, given some of the crap American strategy guide publishers have put out - Bradygames and their crappy Final Fantasy IX "guide", in which every other word was "check PlayOnline!!1!", being the main culprit, but Prima's strategy guides aren't much better (*cough*La Pucelle*cough*). After seeing DoubleJump's Disgaea strategy guide, though, which is really quite good (and is available for free download in PDF format from their site), I'm not worried about the strategy part - they go pretty in-depth with their guides. The only problem I've seen so far is that at times the yellow bubble font that they use for headings gets reduced so small (due to the small book size) that it becomes nigh-unreadable.
(And FYI for all you Megaten fans: these are the folks doing the Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne guide - which is apparently going to be very similar, only thicker - so it's good to know that they do quality work.)
They printed the spoilers section upside down so people wouldn't be tempted, so I (of course) immediately made a beeline for that so that I could see what characters are returning from previous N1 games. ( Avast, thar be spoilars within )
PB the game looks cool as well, though, and I can't wait for it to get here. You've got to love a game with the special move "Body Swing," in which you pick up a dead body (ally or enemy) and beat your opponents with it. XD
In completely unrelated news, the first GetBackers DVD arrived yesterday. Pretty nice, actually, though I haven't had a chance to check out any of the extras aside from the clean opening/closing sequences.
( A short review of the dub )
My mom watched the first couple of episodes with me - she didn't much like it. But notably, about ten seconds into the opening theme, she turned to me and said, "So, these two guys are in love with each other?" XD
I hemmed and hawed, but ended up basically saying, "Well, yeah, though they don't come right out and say it." To be honest, I thought it might at least take part of the first episode to figure it out, though. Though I suppose with them looking all soulfully at each other (well, Ginji looking soulful and Ban looking like "OMFG TARD BUT CUTE") while the schmoopy song subtitles are displaying, it's not really subtle. (To quote Giles from Buffy, "I believe the subtext here is rapidly becoming text.")
I got another package today - the Phantom Brave strategy guide from DoubleJump. (And dammit, I want that game NOW. Give me my N1 fix, bastards!) It's actually quite nice - 243 pages, so it's quite a bit thicker than most strategy guides. In terms of size, though, it's smaller - about the size of a manga volume, actually.
It's clearly patterned after a lot of the Japanese strategy guides, in terms of depth and design - it reminds me of my Star Ocean Perfect guides - but I don't think there's anyone out there who'd consider that a bad thing, given some of the crap American strategy guide publishers have put out - Bradygames and their crappy Final Fantasy IX "guide", in which every other word was "check PlayOnline!!1!", being the main culprit, but Prima's strategy guides aren't much better (*cough*La Pucelle*cough*). After seeing DoubleJump's Disgaea strategy guide, though, which is really quite good (and is available for free download in PDF format from their site), I'm not worried about the strategy part - they go pretty in-depth with their guides. The only problem I've seen so far is that at times the yellow bubble font that they use for headings gets reduced so small (due to the small book size) that it becomes nigh-unreadable.
(And FYI for all you Megaten fans: these are the folks doing the Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne guide - which is apparently going to be very similar, only thicker - so it's good to know that they do quality work.)
They printed the spoilers section upside down so people wouldn't be tempted, so I (of course) immediately made a beeline for that so that I could see what characters are returning from previous N1 games. ( Avast, thar be spoilars within )
PB the game looks cool as well, though, and I can't wait for it to get here. You've got to love a game with the special move "Body Swing," in which you pick up a dead body (ally or enemy) and beat your opponents with it. XD
