This could be dangerous.

Flavor: Mild

The end of the Junjou Terrorist introductory arc. Didn’t like it as much as last’s week episode since it was a bit more serious and less funny, though I guess the drama moments weren’t nearly as annoying as the ones from Junjou Egoist IMO.

Anyways, everything that happened on this last part of the story can be summarized in “Miyagi reminisces about his past relationship with his female teacher who eventually died because of an illness” and “Shinobu remains a forceful uke”. My favorite scene was when Miyagi asked Hiroki for some advice and when he began talking to him about his current situation through a “what-if” scenario, Hiro noticed it sounded awfully similar to what Nowaki and him had experienced before. Then Miyagi told him something like “But what if we aren’t talking about a girl, but a GUY instead?” and that’s when Hiro totally freaked out because he really thought he was trying to make fun of him or something.

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Flavor: Sweet

Well, I must say this episode was actually quite good, and I think what really made it so great was that it was mainly focused on Yume (Otome still played an important role this week, but still). I never imagined I’d end up liking Yume’s character this much, and for once I’m gonna give props to the studio behind the series and the game’s script writers for accomplishing something that seemed impossible to achieve.

Err, anyways, what looked like the last episode of the season started with Yume asking Yoshiyuki for a date. The next morning, when Yoshiyuki and Yume were heading together to school they met up with some of their friends. Yume is suddenly shocked to find out that none of them is able to see Yoshiyuki anymore, so she decides to tell him that they should just skip school and instead begin with what they had promised to do on this day.

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Well, almost.

I don’t know why, but lately I’ve been pretty crazy about the Higurashi no Naku Koro ni series. Like, suddenly, for some reason I began listening to a lot of Drama CDs and started reading all the manga chapters I could find, and even though I’ve watched both seasons of the TV adaptation I haven’t really gotten tired of reading/hearing the same stories again.

Anyways, now that there’s only a week left until the release of the first game from the Higurashi Kizuna series (which includes the first three question arcs as well as an original arc based on the Onisarashi-hen manga), I’m pretty excited and I’ve been checking the official website daily looking for new videos and updates since I can’t really wait. So, today, it looks like the site got a redesign… and now you can play an online demo of the scene where Rena yells USO DA! for the first time, like seen above. Hurray.

Oh noes, it’s finally here!

Flavor: Sweet

I guess I don’t really have much to say about this episode other than everything was done just like how it was supposed to… although the first part seemed to drag out a lot and it had a bunch more of “omg there’s something wrong with Himawari!” hints which made me believe the people behind this thought we were stupid or something. Seriously, we already know that everything that Himawari touches gets covered with some kind of dark and glowy energy which causes bad things to happen… you don’t really need to bring Kohane out of her fake happy life with her psycho mother just so she could tells us that!

Anyways, everything was pretty boring until it got to the scene where Watanuki almost dies partly because of Himawari’s evil aura and partly because of his own stupidity. *shrugs* Overall, I suppose it wasn’t really something all that spectacular or exciting… but it was still good and I really liked it. If I had seen this before reading this arc on the manga, I probably would have been pretty shocked to see all of this happening… even with all the millions of clues they had given us so far. I dunno… something about having one of my favorite characters and blood on the same place just doesn’t go well with me.

Next episode: This arc isn’t over yet!

Haha, oh boy.

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Well, after a few hours of gameplay, I’ve managed to complete this little Nintendo DS game called Cooking Mama 2: Dinner with Friends (which is actually the third one on the series since a sequel for the Wii came out before this one), and now I guess I can safely this: if you really enjoy cooking… avoid these kind of games!

At first, it feels like it’s gonna be a lot of fun since you’ll be able to cook a lot of different international dishes and stuff, but the truth is that most of the time you’ll find yourself feeling either tired of doing the same things over and over again, or annoyed at how the food always ends up looking like total crap no matter how well or badly you did on the minigames.

Also, Mama seems to think that pounding my own hand while making mochi is reason enough to give me a silver medal… even if I managed to complete the minigame on time. Maybe a little blood fell into the rice without me noticing and that ruined the whole dish, or maybe Mama is actually judging my levels of stupidity, but I don’t really care anymore since I’m finally done with this game.

Whatever. I think it’s about time for me to move on to better stuff… or at least better games (like the upcoming Higurashi no Naku Koro ni DS remake or that one JP-only game that’s actually like a recipe book and it shows you how to cook for real).