I went to Emerald City Comic Con on March 13-14, and Sakura Con on April 2-4, and completely failed to make any mention of it in this LJ. Sorry for the fail, but I'm remedying that right now.

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( Emerald City Comic Con )

There may be one or two of you who know that, aside from this account and my personal LJ account, I also have an account called sakirants, which I use for babbling about various fandom-related things that I think a few people besides me consider funny. It occurred to me recently that that's kind of, you know, stupid, and keeping track of three accounts is ( Read more... )

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I freely admit that I worship Hayao Miyazaki, and as far as I'm concerned, he can do no wrong. This may or may not make my opinion on his movies biased.

You probably won't be surprised when I tell you I loved this movie. Miyazaki's characters are always so real and human, and I inevitably end up adoring every one of them. I was touched by Sosuke ( Read more... )

STAR OCEAN: THE LAST HOPE!!! "Humanity's second chance may be it's last" - except that this is a prequel to the other games, so we know that's not true.

In all seriousness, though, the game's a lot more fun once it actually gets started. I mean, it's still ugly and cliched, but the battle system is entertaining, and I'm a sucker for item ( Read more... )

Forty-five minutes. Forty-fucking-five minutes of cutscenes and tutorials before I had the chance to do anything at all. I was optimistically open-minded for the first five minutes or so, but after that I started to want to kill something. The Unskippable video for this game could have been a lot longer than it was, because that video stops as soon ( Read more... )

I recently started playing Super Mario World for the first time in years, and let me just say it is glorious. However, I must point this out: The point of this game is saving the variously colored incarnations of Yoshi, right? Peach is not nearly as important. So how do you justify the enormous number of Yoshis I'm throwing off cliffs and into pits ( Read more... )

Holy crap, the Prince and Elika are so fucking cute together I can't even describe it. Well, I guess I can try.

Prince:   Wanna play a game?
Elika:      : |
Prince:   :D
Elika:      : |
Prince:   :D
Elika:      ...Okay.

They've made me laugh so many, many times while I played this game, and genuinely funny games are, unfortunately, few and far between. ( Read more... )

I may die. I have never known an anime to make me so happy and so miserable at once. Ahiru’s a duck forever and ever and sad but Fakir still loves her anyway and Fakir makes the end of the story good and not fucking depressing like Drosselmeyer would’ve had it. And Mytho loves Rue and Rue loves Mytho and they’re going to be happy together, which ( Read more... )

Just reached the part in which Fakir is learning to use his super special abilities, and generic black-hooded villains are planning his demise, or something similar. They’re sure packing in a hell of a lot of plot for this show. Most shoujo series tend to go “fillerfillerfillerfiller OH NO! We’re almost at the end and we need a climax!” but ( Read more... )