Kodaka has a lot of serious issues, which apparently made some people filled with rage…
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Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai NEXT – Episode 11 – Rika’s Shining Moment and Kodaka’s Shameless Denial
Genkai Totsuki Monster Monpiece – First Impressions – A Cute and Fanservicy Monster Girl Trading Card Game
For a while now, there has been a good amount of criticism surrounding Idea Factory/Compile Heart games. They have a bad reputation of having overly complicated gameplay, needless grinding among other things. While the first Neptunia game had a lot of bugs, at least I heard that they improved the gameplay in the sequels. Now with the Playstation Vita, I think they kind of learned their lesson with Genkai Totsuki Monster Monpiece (限界凸騎モンスターモンピース, lit: Unlikely Knight: Monster Monpiece), which sold over 50,000 in retail and download. With that, I would like to share some experiences of playing it after getting through the first Chapter and a part of the next one. (Image Source)
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Tamako Market – Episode 11 – Tamako’s Anxiety Attack
Isn’t Choi going too far with the princess thing? I think so.
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Little Busters – Episode 23 – Despair and Hope
Kud probably made the wrong decision… or did she?
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Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sakunai NEXT – Episode 10 – Rika and the Cold Hard Truth about Kodaka
Rika finally spills out the truth about Kodaka…
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Chikorita Cast – Episode 3 – Google killed Google Reader! How dare they!
Sadly, the black smoke has come. Google decided to say “Sayanora” to Google Reader, a web application that allows people to subscribe and read people’s blogs through RSS feeds in one place. I think the decision is very idiotic and just will make people hate Google more, especially the crap they pulled with Google Images taking 60-80% of the traffic away from blogger’s websites.
Because I felt strongly about this issue, I decided to make another video podcast showing people how to use other applications to follow Anime Blogs. These solutions are Wordpess.com Reader, Feedly, Vienna (for Mac users) and RSS Bandit (for Windows users). I didn’t mention other clients since they cost money, but if you are using Reeder, they plan to make it Google Reader independent in the next update, so check out for that. So enjoy and feel free suggest other topics I should focus on in future podcasts. (Image Source)
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Tamako Market – Episode 10 – Midori’s Inspiration Issues and Choi’s Big Reveal
Midori has… issues.
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Little Busters – Episode 22 – Saving the Dream
As the situation worsens, Kud begins to lose hope.
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Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai NEXT – Episode 9 – Sena’s Childhood Friend Secret
Yozora finds out the cold truth about Sena… She is also a childhood friend of Kodaka!
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Tamako Market – Episode 9 – Anko’s Uneasiness and Family Resemblance
Anko looks a bit down. I wonder what is bothering her?
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Papa no Iukoto o Kikinasai – OVA – Family Bonding at a Hot Spring
Hina won a family trip to a hot spring? You know what this means… FANSERVICE!
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Little Busters – Episode 21 – The Unexpected Tragedy
Kud’s mother may look cute, but…
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Let’s Play Atelier Meruru – Episode 7 and 8
This is probably the longest episodes I uploaded pretty recently as I usually cut a lot of the requests and bring it down to 50-55 minutes. However, I left some battles in since I want to show off what young Rorona can do. Apparently, she becomes pretty powerful once you give her the most powerful weapon. As you see in the video, her attacks kind of make her look like a magical girl.
As for Episode 9 and 10, I’m rerecording the commentary, so you may notice a noticeable quality increase in the next two episodes. After I finish uploading those episodes, hopefully Spring Break will come so I can record more. Aside from that, the Playstation Vita version of this game releases in about three weeks, so I will be playing that once I beat Tales of Hearts R. (Image Source)
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Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai NEXT – Episode 8 – Arguing over the Past
The club decides to do a movie. Meanwhile, drama ensues as Yozora and Sena hits a fever pitch over a certain issue with the past.
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Tamako Market – Episode 8 – Dera’s Forced and Pointless Dieting
Is Dera a bit too plump? Choi thinks so!
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Chikorita Cast – Episode 2 – State of the AniBlogosphere (AniBlog Tourney Edition)
It has been a while since I did a podcast, but it’s finally alive, for now at least. Since I don’t feel like writing about this subject in written form again, I’m doing it in video podcast form. Also, I got a new microphone, which is another reason I want to record one. However, I’m not perfect because I don’t make podcasts on a frequent basis.
In this episode, I will analyze some data I gathered about the state of blogging in the Aniblogosphere. The contains all the blogs participated in the first round with a few dead ones in the second round. So enjoy and feel free suggest other topics I should focus on in future podcasts.
Also, all the data that I compiled is here in PDF form. (Image Source)
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Little Busters – Episode 20 – Rin’s Love Advice
Rin is actually helping a boy to hook up with her rival, Sasami? I thought they were archrivals?
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The Many Reasons Why I Keep Watching Anime
Although I shared my reasons why I blog about Anime almost two years ago, I never wrote about why I still watch Anime. Since Kai shared his thoughts about why he continues to watch Anime, I became interested in writing about it since it’s a rather diverse medium. (Image Source)
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Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai NEXT – Episode 7 – Shopping Sprees and Kobato’s Birthday
It’s Kobato’s birthday, so time to buy her some presents!
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Tamako Market – Episode 7 – Choi Arrival and Dera’s Divine Punishment
Uh oh, Dera is in big trouble now!
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Thoughts about Tales of Series and Tales of Hearts Demo
In the past, I have played various Japanese RPGs such as Final Fantasy and Pokémon (excluding the Atelier games I played recently). Of course, there is one other RPG series that is popular with the Anime fandom and it’s the Tales of Series. (Image Source)
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Little Busters – Episode 19 – Kud’s Difficulties
Although Kud is adorable, I still felt bad for her.
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Chikorita157’s Anime Blog turns 4 Years Old – Humble Thoughts
Believe it or not, my 3rd year of blogging was a pretty good year. While I didn’t win the 2nd Aniblog Tournament, at least my match came a bit closer compared to the first one that happened in 2010. In addition, I explored other means of content besides writing episodic and editorial posts. Aside from that, there were some real life events such as Hurricane Sandy, which prevented me from blogging for a few days. Despite the difficulties I face while more Anime blogs died in the past year, I pushed on and now have reach the fourth year of blogging.
Since I reached my fourth year of blogging, where do I go from here since I don’t show any sign of dying anytime soon? Well, I’m pretty much doing more of the same since I’m satisfied by how things are going now. On the other hand, with Grad School is on the horizon, I might have to adjust what I blog and probably stick to weekly editorials and stuff. When the time comes, I will figure it, but it all comes down to proper time management.
With that, I thank all my friends, followers and readers who supported me for all these years. Let’s make the fifth year a strong one!
Raw Statistics: 1140 posts, 2655 Comments, 54 Completed Series (No visitors/page views statistics as Piwik sort of broke on me). (Image Source)
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Let’s Play Atelier Meruru – Episode 4, 5 & 6
If you might be wondering why I delayed the third post for this Let’s Play, it’s an unexpected one. I realized recently that I didn’t record enough episodes up until Spring Break, which starts on March 17. The bad news is that, I have to delay Episode 9 and 10 because I need to re-record some parts of the commentary that got messed up. Even so, I bought a better microphone yesterday, which is a Blue Snowball since there was a good deal on it. Hopefully, that will sound better than the crappy internal mic I was using from my previous recordings.
As for the episodes’ content, I’m getting a bit deeper into the game. Basically, I completed my first year of developing while having new people to accompany me on adventures. Of course, there is a special surprise in Episode 6, but I won’t spoil it since it’s cute. (Image Source)
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