Asuna is a clumsy spacenoid, from Zeon, attending Ecole du Ciel, a Federation mobile suit academy. She’s a pretty normal girl. She has some friends, worries about her small breast size (don’t worry about those, Asuna, they’re cute as is!) and a crush. Pretty normal, except for one key difference, her father is the infamous Professor Elmarit of the Zeon Defense Academy. During the One Year War, her father made Asuna use many mobile suit simulators to train her (for something that we don’t know, although it is probably newtype related.)

Top: Slayers novel no. 3.
Left-to-Right: Mahoromatic Vol. 8, Mobile Suit Gundam: Ecole du Ciel, Kamichama Karin Vol. 3.

Left-to-Right Top: Oh! My Goddess Vol. 21, OMG Vol. 22, Galaxy Angel Beta Vol. 2.
Bottom: Tsukuyomi: Moon Phase Vol. 2, Negima! Vol. 9, Sakura Taisen Vol. 2.

I’ll write about some of the manga later. I don’t want the post to be too long.

P.S. Sorry about the poor picture quality. I don’t have a digital camera so I had to make use of the built-in camera in my cellphone.

Microsoft released Beta 2 for Microsoft Office 2007 today. The download for it is here. You need to have XP SP2 or Server 2003 (or the Vista Beta) to install Office 2007.

Here’s a name you might have heard before: Okama. He’s done work as a character designer for a couple of newer anime series including Aim for the Top 2, Himawari, and Getsumen To Heiki Mina. He’s also worked on:

• Cloth Road
• Wings of Rean
• Garasu no Kantai

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The newest trailer for Persona 3 for the PS2. I hope I’m not the only Westerner hyped for this game. From the looks of the trailer, the game should be quite… depressing and SMT-like (understandable since the Persona series is a spin-off from the Megami Tensei series.) It seems like the main characters transform into their demon-forms by shooting themselves in the head….yah.

Anyway, Persona 3 looks to be a very interesting RPG (with no random encounters.) For those interested, I suggest taking a peek at the Persona 3 previews at GameSpot and IGN.

IE Tab

If only I wasn’t a month to late for this to actually be new. IE tab lets you render pages using the IE engine while you are still using Firefox. No more having to switch back to IE to use Windows Update or not being able to properly display websites in Firefox that do not follow the W3c web standards.

Another convenient add-on for Firefox is the Session Save. It allows you to (wait for it) save your Firefox sessions. Also, if Firefox crashes, it will give you the option to restore your previous session without you having to save it. Very convenient. Wish I had it before.

Btw, for stubborn IE users that do not want to switch to Firefox, I recommend getting the IE 7 beta. It atleast supports tabbed browsing and it’s not too unstable.

If you’re an adventurous Firefox user, I recommend helping out Mozilla and trying out the Firefox 2 Alpha 2, also called the Bon (as in good) Echo Alpha 2.

Among recent, less respectable iterations of the Gundam franchise (namely SEED, SEED Destiny, SEED anything,) I thought it would be nice to look back upon one of Gundam’s best series: Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam which, by some odd chance, I just finished.

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Here’s another good artist for you guys: Jason.  He’s an artist that used to work with Squaresoft (now SquareEnix.)  He worked as a monster and character designer for a few of their games.  Here a list of the games he has worked on:

• BAHAMUT LAGOON
• FINAL FANTASY7
• PARASITE EVE
• FINAL FANTASY9

Currently, he’s a freelance artist.  He seems to do a lot of design for TCG (mainly the illustrations on the cards.)

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