Original Saku

so hype! can't wait

Nice news, I'm gonna assume this means no new album this year? if so that's probably for the best. I think they need some time to properly write and plan their next full length, especially after the same-y and forgettable feeling of last years effort. We need the next evolution of their sound not more of the same shit that doesn't go anywhere new. please no more resting on your laurels guys I'm interested in hearing some of their older material rearranged here though, should be fun. waiting for a tracklist!

wow this looks pretty interesting, nice variety of bands too.

that build strike gundam and universe booster combo for the star build strike <3 Awesome shit, I wanna build one sometime as well. also that exia dark matter kit looks really sick, nice choice Here's my backlog at the moment... Way too many, but I'm addicted. My next kit will be the 00 riser, I've been putting it off for too long. the next custom build will probably be that hguc gyan you can see posed up on the first shelf, still brainstorming on the colors.

It's time. as promised here's the album for my first custom painted kit, along with commentary notes. http://imgur.com/a/zO2aw Really loved doing this build, definitely gonna start planning my next one soon!

about damn time

Over a month later and still plugging away at Persona 5, I'm at the 70 hour mark and it just keeps going and going. I seriously can't believe how long it's taking to beat this. It's not like I'm playing on hard or anything... just normal difficulty and I've not been stuck majorly against any boss so far. I don't remember P4 taking this long to beat, I guess they didn't spend nearly 10 years developing this game for nothing, it's fat as fuck. the game itself is amazing as shit, I'm loving it so much. that's it pretty much, I've put most of my other games on the back burner. I really want to beat P5 asap before I go back to playing Zelda and NieR Automata. There's no way I can let this game go unfinished XD It's funny though if this was a few years ago I probably would have already finished all three of those games by now... A job and multiple hobbies (anime, games, music, & gunpla) vying for your time really changes your perspective on time management.

So it's been a little while since I posted in here... I've still been building kits, maybe I'll take some pictures soon of a few. A lot has happened since my last post, mainly that I purchased a airbrush and have started my very first custom painted build. I've been working on a custom build of the 1/144 HG mobile reginlaze that I posted photos of here earlier. here's a look at my paint station so far. it's really tight, no like literally it's tiny as fuck, but it's getting the job done at the moment. Hopefully later this year I'll have a dedicated room/space for building and painting, as of right now I'm building/modifying in my bedroom next to my bed and PC and I'm painting in my bedroom's bathroom that I currently am not using as one. here's a sneak peak at the reginlaze So I've had my airbrush since early April, and I've been working on this build since shortly after, so I'm nearing the one month point. I've been learning and buying supplies as I go while trying new and scary techniques along the way. This picture is pretty much all the parts minus the frame (which is complete sans the final topcoat) all the painting is done on these parts, right now I'm just working on water slide decals and some detailing with panel wash and enamel paint for some added details. basically this custom build should be done really soon. will post pics when finished in the mean time, does anyone else here actively build gunpla? It doesn't have to be to the same extent that I've fallen victim to (lulz) but it'd be nice to get some other WIP photos and other discussion than just me in here.

I didn't even know that was possible... XD yes we need to do that asap. maybe the more technically inclined individuals on the staff can figure it out for us @Zeus @nostalgia

I think this is a pretty awesome idea, I would definitely be interested in checking out a weekly little lyric roundup/analysis. I personally love to find translated lyrics to my favorite songs when I can, that's one reason why anime songs are really dope, because more often than not fansubs also translate the the OP & ED themes. Sadly there doesn't seem to be a place or community on the web (as far as i know) that is built around the idea of doing lyric translation for Jmusic...

yes it did. a really nice surprise, and a surprisingly solid port. Sega <3

PERSONA 5!!! Fuck yeah, it feels good to be alive! what a fucking year 2017 is lit.

Lol found these while browsing Jake's old myspace. I'm pretty sure this is from the very first acen panel we did. Also more promotional images lol

Do yourself a favor and read the manga, ten times better than any of the adaptions. With that said, the movies are what I consider to be the best adaption of the series so far... the 90's series is good but a severely inaccurate adaption, and the newest series is just not really that good, horrible animation, shitty pacing, and skips a lot of key scenes.

91 Days Prohibition era mafioso revenge story, really dark and bloody and goes the extra mile in character development. perhaps the best thing about the show is it's a short series (12 episodes) and it has a definitive ending. Ajin Supernatural series about demi-humans. Has a lot of morality conflictions and goes into how demi-humans are treated in society. Dark and gory as fuck. Also It's CG animation so if you want something that looks a little different from the norm, that's a plus. Claymore Supernatural Fantasy with flesh eating demons called youma. Badass female protag with vengeance on the mind and a pension for bloddshed, very heavily inspired by Berserk (imo). Death Note It's hard to believe there are people who haven't heard of this show, but for the sake of new comers. Pretty much one of the most popular anime over here in the states. About a high schooler who finds a notebook called the death note, he soon finds out that any person who's name he writes down in this book will die mysteriously. With this power the protag decides to do good in the world and meat out "justice" as he see's fit, none the less there are other's with this power and a lot of mysterious surrounding the whole thing. Also there are demons, yes. Hands down one of the best psychological thriller series ever created, a must watch. Gantz Sci-fi series with a a lot of super natural elements. without spoiling too much, the main characters die but then are brought back to play in a "game" of sorts, along with other "dead" people. together they are forced to fight aliens and other sci-fi entities tot he death, if they are not victorious then they die for real. Deals heavily in psychological themes such as societal acceptance and what it truly means to want to die. Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Super natural horror mystery where... quite honestly shit just goes wrong over and over and over again for the main characters. Desperation and psychotic breakdowns, violence to the extreme, and psychological themes a plenty. Mousou Dairinin (Paranoia Agent) Possibly the weirdest series on this list. Goes into a lot of bizarre themes of paranoia and the the story can be a bit on the complicated side to follow if you're not paying extra close attention. Not gonna say anything about the actual plot because I feel it would lessen the experience when you watch it. Soukyuu no Fafner: Dead Aggressor Post apocalyptic mecha show with some serious shit going down. Hidden gem of the mecha genre in my opinion, very similar to Evangelion except you'll actually care when these characters die, and die they will, tons of them in fact, in horrifying and sick ways. Which is the problem, this show has A+ character development, you get so attached to characters but so many die that it hurts inside You want a dark mecha series with lots of gore and terrific plot? here you go. just what came to mind, that's all for now.

I've been Original Saku for 12+ years, so that's always been the same... but I dig up some stuff on my ancient photobucket account from 10 years ago... I'm pretty sure I used all of these in the very early years of TW, alos here's one that precedes this forum from myspace also a bonus gem from the the old days when Jake (Spike760) was heavily into advertising (spamming) the forum all over the place.

Ten years ago on this exact day my thirteen year old self was browsing myspace, like most kids my age back then did in their free time, when I came across a post on a Jrock group I frequented at the time. The post was by a "Jake" advertising a brand new Jrock forum that he and a friend created just earlier that day. At the time I was chomping at the bit for any new way to discover new Japanese rock music (VK in particular), I immediately registered and became the fourth member of that brand new empty forum. That forum's name was Tainted World and the Jake and friend in question were none other than Spike760 and Ito. Since that day I have had many ups and downs with this community for better and worse. I've discovered a thousand or more bands, talked with hundreds of people from all corners of the world, made dozens of friends and like minded acquaintances, and even made a few enemies as well. I have witnessed every drama thread/post/chat log that this forum has generated, participated in profound thought invoking discussions that have sprouted up in various topics over the course of a decade, and even was here to witness the almost catastrophic implosion of the site back in 2010-2011 that led to the current domain name. I became a moderator and for a time actually did my job quite well (LOL) this gave me a direct line to grow the community in other ways than just music, in those efforts I would like to believe that the anime and video game fans of the community found this place a little more accommodating and welcome. In ten years my musical taste has gone through multiple transformations that were no doubt in big part due to the people here in this community. I have grown as a person due to my time here, I've learned how to deal with life's unfortunate circumstances and how to cope when things go bad. This place has been a eternal sanctuary for me in my depressing and boredom filled times. I'm now twenty four years old and no longer the child I was when I came to this place, that in itself is a little sad, since my most fun and memorable moments were from those early years when I was still in middle and high school just trying to find a place I could fit in and kill some time. But one thing is for sure... This place is a second home for me, no matter how busy my life gets I know that I can come back here and just be myself and feel good about it. Ten years? I say that's not enough. I won't be satisfied until I can say I've been apart of this place for 20 years, what the hell fuck it. 30 years! Why not? WE CAN KEEP THE DREAM ALIVE AS LONG AS WE BELIEVE! ~ Saku

Kotaku is cancer as far as I'm concerned, stopped going there years ago. It's a bunch of clickbait-y circlejerk articles and a bunch of random shit they try to pass off as industry news, but really most of the time they're just grasping at straws trying to stay relevant. Also more on a personal note, whoever over there that does the anime REC articles, has really shite taste most of the time, in my opinion.