One of my favorite doujin artists is a fellow by the name of Urotan (うろたん). I recently came across his latest doujin on FAKKU, a Strike Witches hentai book by the name of Milkie Strike. It pretty much embodies two of Urotan’s three loves (loli and bukkake, the third unrepresented one being big breasts).

This project is really reminding me how many kanji I really don’t know. I think I’ve had to look up almost every kanji used (thank god for Jim Breen’s website and the multi-radical section.) I think looking up the kanji took more time than the actually translating.

The other problem is, even though I probably do have enough grammar skills to translate the title, my vocabulary leaves something to be desired…. Well, by something I mean a lot of somethings… My vocabulary plainly sucks. At least, while doing this, I should learn lots of new words (probably not the best words to learn, but whatever.) As a result, my translations are probably somewhat off, at least for the beginning monologue.

Anyway, I’m not sure what I should do with this once I’m done. I probably suck at editing, so the likelihood of me editing the translated text into the doujin is pretty slim. Maybe I’ll just upload the RAW + a rtf file with the translations somewhere on this site. I shouldn’t really worry about it right now, since it’s obviously going to take a while going at the rate I’m going at..

Atlus finally got the preorder bonuses to Amazon, which means they could finally get the bonuses to the unhappy preorderers such as I. It was kinda worth the wait. Because of it, we don’t have to deal with the material being bent to conform with the DS box.

This makes me wish Romantic Fool did more art for games… and more art non-featuring the creepy, injured one-eyed girl. I rather like his art featuring …uh… melons instead, if you know what I mean. Anyway, feel free to take a peek at the melon filled mini-poster below, as well as the reversible cover for the game.

Romantic Fool

You all might as well be trying the demo for the DJ Max Portable 2. For those who have never heard of the DJ Max series, you can think of it like Beatmania or something. The demo is actually pretty freakin hard XD. Took me about 3-4 days to beat the demo, which is only about half of one of the songs… It’s actually deceptively hard, since it’s only in 5 button mode…

You can get the demo, and find out how to install it, here. Yea, it was released over a year ago, but oh well. You can see an interview PM Studios did with Siliconera about DJ Max Fever here.

Image courtesy of Moai

My PS3 is dying. No two if and or buts about it. I’ve been experiencing graphical glitches and auto-shutdowns for a while now, but I was able to stomach it. Now, it’s gotten so bad that some games just up and freeze during gameplay. I made the call to SCEA and I’m sending it in for repairs, quite possibly never seeing the same unit again.

Farewell, my 60GB PS3. I will miss you and your backwards compatibility (I god, I hope that they can fix you, or at least send one of those 80GB units with BW compatibility.) You were a good soldier.

EDIT: I guess this means more manga posts from now on, amirite?

Well, after playing episode 7 and watching the preview for episode 8, I can now safely say two things: this game is getting pretty scary and I have no idea what is going on anymore. Unlike most of the other episodes, this episode is purely confined to Howard Wright’s perspective. I’m still wondering how he stays alive…. The rest of the post is full of spoilers.

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I got the whole pack of 12 episodes of Siren when they first came out and finally finished up to episode 6. This game is pretty creepy. Not in the way most horror movies are, where they try to scare you using loud sudden noises and actions. It’s more of the fact that you’re powerless/weaponless for a good part of the game and that the Shibito can easily kill you. That, plus the somewhat creepy heartbeat feeling coming form the Dual Shock 3.

One of the things I really like about this game is its presentation. It seems like it is some kind of TV series. At the end of each episode, there’s always a TV-esque, next episode preview shown. This is kinda fitting because part of the cast was intending to record footage for some TV show in whatever village they are in.

Another nice touch is the archive. As you go along the story, you may get access to stuff such as certain IDs (from colleges usually) or the voicemail from a cellphone. The game more or less starts you out without any sort of backstory, which is somewhat confusing. I actually don’t know what’s up with the Shibito, either. I’m sure all of that is explained later. The archive, though, does explain why a great deal of the characters are in the town in the first place.

I won’t do an episode summary for each of these episodes, mainly because I don’t remember clearly what was in all of them. I’ll start doing mini-summaries for each of the episodes starting with Episode 7. Those will contain spoilers, so I would express caution when reading them.