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    Gundam Build Fighters has everything I ever wanted in the next Gundam series. It's light hearted and full of fun that's a call back to all the older Gundam animes. It's nice seeing mobile suits from different universes fighting each other. Brilliant marketing strategy from Bandai/Sunrise since it's all about selling the toys. I've gotten sick of all these war orphans trying to be idealists and depressing war dramas.

     

    Gundam AGE had a good first arc. 2nd arc had wasted potential. 3rd arc is sooooooooo gawd awful! Kio Asuno is without a doubt THE worst gundam protagonist ever. He receives like the most overpowered mobile suit and pulls a Kira Yamato throughout the show after his meeting with just ONE emotional manipulative sickly vagan girl. His stupidity reaches new levels by shouting out in his intercom spamming his naivete of "LET'S UNDERSTAND EACH OTHER!!!" to the enemy. He feels more sympathy for the enemy rather than his grandpa who suffered so much loss. Makes complete sense, right? RIIIIIIGHT? Ugh... So many things wrong with this show, especially that last arc.

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    Also, Soukyuu no Fafner getting another season might not be as weird as I first assumed it was because after watching the latest installment (a movie) I UNDERSTAND EVEN LESS OF THE WHOLE DAMN THING. Japan and its depressing as hell, weird and messed up, filled with emo kids, mecha series.

     

    edit: Apparently I am in need of a new Gundam series that isn't as childish looking as AGE so I ended up rewatching SEED. Not a good idea. I HATE FLAY SO MUCH. SHE'S THE MOST ANNOYING ANIME CHARACTER I HAVE EVER SEEN IN ANY ANIME I HAVE EVER WATCHED.

    Fafner is pretty straightforward if you only paid attention. If you still don't understand much of the plot then you can read the reviews here. www.mahq.net/animation/fafner/fafner.htm

     

    As for Gundam, ever tried Gundam 00 or Gundam Unicorn?

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    I saw Thor 2 about a week back. Overall, I enjoyed it more than the first one. However, there are still a couple things annoy me just as the first movie. First and foremost, the romance between Jane and Thor still makes no sense to me. They met only twice and spent probably less than half a day total? 2nd is Jane being useless (again) playing the plot device role. Otherwise, whenever Loki is on screen, he made my day. :)

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    Sword Art Online. I'm too lazy to type how shitty this series is so I'll just leave this link here. http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw5uLXwBzBYJgClU8tCcFrN2H0q3WXL5F

     

    Dragonaut - The Resonance = DISGUSTINGLY HUGE BOOBS + EMO PROTAGONIST + LAUGHABLE ANGRY VILLAIN + SO MUCH STUPIDITY

     

    Dog & Scissors. I want my 6 hours back.

     

    Gundam SEED Destiny. FLASHBACKS, RECAPS, RECYCLED ANIMATION. Rinse and repeat until the series' end.

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    Xenogears is probably my top favorite game OST. It's got amazing haunting melodies that'll send shivers down your spine. Perfectly fitting to the game's scale of the plot. The composer is Yasunori Mitsuda, same guy who did Chrono Cross/Trigger and Xenosaga.

     

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    I used to be a hardcore gamer during PS2 era, but now I'm completly lost. How does everyone play their old games? Do you buy them again from the ps online store and play them on your ps3? Will you be able to do that on ps4 too? I've been thinking about upgrading my videogames at home but I'm just too scared to get anything new because I really want to be able to play the old goodies XD

    About PS4's releases, I'm highly disapointed. I went to a big gamefare here just 3 weeks ago and the PS4 corner was deadboring (IMO). But like mentioned Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts will probably be nice...

    You can still play ps1 games on the PS3 if you still have physical discs or buy them digitally in PSN store. PS4 however will not be able to play any discs from previous generations. As for PS4 games, launch titles from any consoles are expected to be mediocre because..... reasons. I'll leave this article here. http://www.extremetech.com/gaming/171008-ps4-reviews-are-in-why-do-most-launch-games-suck

    As far as hardware goes, there's nothing groundbreaking here. I call it PS3 ver. 2.0, just better specs really.

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    Gazette - Filth in the Beauty Single

    Nightmare - Naked Love Single

    Dir en grey - Drain Away Single

     

    Can't believe I spent around $20 on each these singles. Never buying CD singles again. Thank goodness for existence of digital retail.

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    Never liked Dir en grey's original version of Karasu. Anything before Gauze album is just painful to listen to.

     

    I can't stand Luna Sea's songs Precious, With Love, Crazy About You, Slave, and some of their older ones before Mother album.

     

    D'espairsRay's Yozora. Ugh.... sorry but this reeks too much fangirls.

     

    I don't bother memorizing names of the songs I don't like.

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    I came across from AnimeNewsNetwork about this issue and I think this editorial sums it up.

     

     

    You can find anime cover songs on iTunes pretty easily (and even some theme songs, albeit completely divorced from their anime of origin), but why are so few actual anime soundtracks on there? They're not even on the Japanese iTunes store, I checked.

     

    If there's one place where Japanese and American media are completely divergent, it's music. Japan's music industry is a bizarre, frustrating collection of old-school publishers, talent agencies, yakuza, talent agencies that act like yakuza, and all sorts of other characters that often don't play nice with each other, let alone foreign companies. They move slowly, don't adapt to internet culture well (or at all), and attach themselves onto inane rules that seem to have no basis in reality, and won't bend for anyone. It's one of many reasons why so few Japanese musical acts have ever hit outside of Asia.

     

    In the case of iTunes, its overwhelming success in the American market, and subsequently the rest of the world, was partially due to timing. Apple approached record labels when they were running scared. It was the peak of the Kazaa and Limewire age, music piracy was everywhere with seemingly no end in sight, and Apple's hot new iPod was making the playback of physical CDs completely irrelevant. With the record labels having had their legendary arrogance beaten out of them, Apple was able to negotiate an inordinate amount of control over pricing, availability, and usage of the files. Eventually, they were even able to get rid of DRM. Between Apple and later competition from Amazon and other companies, that very consumer-friendly model became the standard over the last decade.

    That little consumer revolution didn't really happen in Japan the same way it did here. Japan has had its issues with piracy, but it never completely took over the market like it did here. Japanese publishers relied more on collectors than casual music consumers, and simply didn't need a savior. While the iPod was popular (and the iPhone is VERY popular), some of the record labels, including the behemoth Sony Music Japan, held out and never put their songs on the service. Sony, of course, also has a floundering consumer electronics division, and likely didn't want to help another division's competition.

     

    And so, things haven't changed over there nearly as much. People still buy a LOT of CDs, and as evidence, there are still quite a few CD stores, including chains like Tower Records and HMV that have long since died out on this side of the Pacific. Japanese record labels and talent agencies still hold tightly onto business practices and rules that seem to ignore the very existence of the internet.

    Smaller Japanese music publishers publishers, however, have embraced new technology and have started selling their music online, on iTunes and other places. But those publishers are trying to promote their artists, and not the anime or game tie-ins that are used for promotion in Japan. As such, they're not really catering their offerings to Western otaku, and anime songs are incredibly hard to find. Given how much exposure Japanese artists get from American anime conventions one would think that they'd catch on sooner or later that THIS is their market, but I've always gotten the feeling that to the music industry over there, American otaku are an unfamiliar, confusing market that they really don't know how to approach, or even if it's worth the trouble.

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    I watched my GF play a lot of that games. She really enjoyed it, but it was one of the most anti-climactic JRPG endings ever. Like she seriously thought there was a lot more game left (took her about 40 hours).

    If you're talking about Tales of Xillia, there's a sequel out in Japan that'll soon get its outside release. Maybe that will fill gaps?

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