Bata-kun no Atarashii Nikki/バタくんの新しい日記

Image from that Sagubooru site. =P

Hajimemashite! I am the most recent blogger to be added to THAT Animeblog: Bata-kun. I was added here because Impz wanted to be hit with my Zenkai Kiaidan. Ha ha ha! Seriously, I’m glad to help him and the rest of the crew any way I can.

Though my name slowly is being recognized by the anime blogging community, I have actually been holding a diary of some sort for four years. Besides THAT Animeblog, I run my personal blog, Bata-kun no Atarashii Nikki and I also have a tiny diary in my little personal site. You can check both sites in the About the Members section.

The reason I pretty much remained underground was because of the fact that lots of people know me as a gamer. Anyway, one of my all-time favorite series is “Justice Gakuen”. If that name does not ring a bell, “Justice Academy”, or better yet, “Rival Schools” and “Project Justice”.

For those that don’t know, “Justice Gakuen” is a fighting game series by Capcom that’s about to be a decade old later this year. You picked a team and you find out who has been wreaking havoc to all of the schools in Japan. (Obviously, the games take place in Tokyo because that’s where Sakura is from and you do see her in the first two games.) You travel to every school that has been attacked and of course, the source behind all of this madness is Mugen who is now dead. However, he did leave an impact on one of his sons, Hyou, as he did havoc himself.

Of course, Hyou’s brother Kyousuke, his cousin Batsu and his uncle Raizou made him think differently and Hyou became a different person. However, Mugen was furious over this and not only did he decide to give commands over Hyou again, he went out to hire two people to kill those traitors: Kurou and Yurika. Of course, Yurika was less eager than her younger brother, but her brother was too dedicated to this job.

What makes this series one of the most fun series out there is the fact that the game’s charm lies in its characters. Yes, some are dull in regards of fighting style, but at least the characters are interesting. Every school relates to each other. Taiyou, Gorin and Minami all have their link in Hinata, Natsu and Sakura. Gedou and Seijun hold a Kazama kid. There are many more links as well.

In regards of audio, yeah, the songs are not as memorable as those from “Street Fighter”, but they’re still that good. The first two games’ final theme song (the real trippy one) and Seijun’s theme song are some of my favorite songs ever. (I tell you, the final game has better rock music than any other game with a heavy rock soundtrack.) This is a very good series for hermits like myself because people like Ueda Yuuji-san and Orikasa Ai-san are here.

I still try to learn some new tactic in the series all the time. I try to create characters and even if I mess up, I still have fun. How many series can say this overall? Not many.

Go play a “Justice Gakuen” game if you haven’t done so. Yes, the series’s a school girl fan’s dream (or a nurse’s dream for some of you), but it’s fun. (I so can kill with Kyouko.) I know that the game can be too simplistic, but it works. (Maybe I can create a green hair loli for Impz? Ho ho ho!)

Unlike this winter, I’m going to watch a good amount of series in the spring. I’m watching “Oofuri“, as I’m a baseball fan. I’m also looking forward to “Hayate” seeing that it’s cute and “Gurren-Lagann” just because it has some cute girl named Youko.

I scratched off “Blue Dragon“. I don’t like the seiyuu changes and I was never a fan of Toriyama Akira-san’s art. “Devil May Cry“: why do I have a feeling that it’ll be horrid? I made a mistake in watching the “KoF” anime and I don’t want to make that same mistake here. (I probably drank some good sake to watch the “KoF” anime.)

When I heard about “Idolmaster Xenoglossia“, I wondered if making an anime about idols raising to the top is possible. It turned out to be much different. As much as I love the seiyuu here, I never liked seiyuu changes and I now question the direction of this anime. Animation-wise, it’s good, but for some reason, I can’t seem to catch on to this sci-fi move.

Whether or not I’ll scratch this off my list, I don’t know until the end of the month or so, but if I do, it’s a shame because I haven’t heard Sakurai Tomo-san’s name in like…well, forever and she was in the same boat as Shiratori Yuri-san. Oh, she’ll play as Azusa by the way who happens to be my favorite idol.

Well, there are my lists. If I do end up scratching off the “Imas” anime, that’s okay. I still have Sakurai-san’s older anime. Ha ha ha! I so need to do that soon.

I’m sure you heard about this already, but Danbooru was shut off and it’s been revived again. Sort of. It’s in the form of Sagubooru.

Whether or not this is the event of the year, I don’t know.

So, right now in Japan is Hina Matsuri no Hi and “Justice Gakuen” Akira’s birthday. Yes, I’d rather be the poor sap holding all of the things the girl bought and I definitely wouldn’t mind doing this for Akira. Ha ha ha! Ahem!

Anyway, I might as well give my best wishes to Akira, even though she’ll never get them. The closest task would be giving those wishes to Tezuka Chiharu-san or to Capcom. That’s it.

Spring is coming up and I figured that I should prepare for the season. Spring is my favorite season of the year now these days because of the honest temperature and this is weird coming from a guy born in July. Summer used to be my favorite season as a kid, but when I got older, summer didn’t do much for me and it still doesn’t because I don’t look forward to my birthdays anymore.

What I’m doing right now is looking over the various anime series that’ll appear later this month and the rest of spring. There’s that and I’m analyzing how far will the Giants go this season. It’s been around five years since they were last in the playoffs, but this year, that’ll change given the changes they conducted.

Unlike winter, spring will actually have a good amount of series to look forward to. The only way I won’t watch these series is if Media Factory is involved in any of them. So far, it seems like I’m watching no series with them involved.

Seeing that yakyuu is coming up in both America and Japan as well as Canada, I’m going to watch “Oofuri“. There’s that and I grew up with baseball as I mentioned earlier how far the Giants will go this season. I’m also looking forward to “Hayate” seeing that it’s cute and “Gurren-Lagann” just because it has some cute girl named Youko.

Up to this point, I scratched off my list “Blue Dragon“. I don’t like the seiyuu changes and I was never a fan of Toriyama Akira-san’s art. “Devil May Cry“: I have a feeling that it’ll be horrid, which is why I scratched that off my list. I made a mistake in watching the “KoF” anime and I don’t want to make that same mistake here.

When I heard about “Idolmaster Xenoglossia“, I wondered if making an anime about idols raising to the top is possible. It turned out to be much different. As much as I love the seiyuu here, I never liked seiyuu changes and I now question the direction of this anime. Chupiler seems to like some parts of this, but for some reason, I can’t seem to catch on to this sci-fi move.

Whether or not I’ll scratch this off my list, I don’t know until the end of the month or so, but if I do, it’s a shame because I haven’t heard Sakurai Tomo-san’s name in like…well, forever and she was in the same boat as Shiratori Yuri-san. Oh, she’ll play as Azusa by the way. Yeah and she’s my favorite idol.

I guess that’s that? Suggest me a series that I should watch in the upcoming spring. Mata ne.

Note of 15:12: Chupiler showed me an image that shows every series for this spring. Enjoy! Ha ha ha!

Image by Megane.

I’ve been piled with so much work, I am actually having trouble thinking about what I want to type here. Am I finally becoming a grandfather? Maybe.

I plan on being a freeter again. I never liked my current job mainly because I go Milpitas for nothing really. I didn’t mind having it for like the first couple of months or so, but that was only because I was still living in Milpitas. After that, I really was serious about getting a second job or better yet, a new job. I actually wanted to quit around the time I moved back here to San Jose, but some people said that I should stay for a year.

The rain, which I never liked over the years, has killed off my plans this week. I was supposed to go to Milpitas to talk with a family friend about some issue the day before yesterday. Even though it looks clear right now, I don’t want to be hit with unexpected rain.

Daylight Saving Time will start in less than two weeks. Whoever thought of this idea was drinking some good sake. I never liked DST because you lose an hour of sleep and you move an hour closer to school or in my case, work. Why can’t America be like the Philippines and not have DST?

Next week for sure (and this time, I am not going to joke around here), I will check all of last year’s entries as well as the entries of the first half or so of last month. I’m pretty sure some of them need fixing. When will I work on the other entries? I don’t know.

I forgot that tomorrow is March and I better start thinking about what series to watch this spring. There’s this one Gainax series with a girl named Youko, but I forgot its name right now. What I did not forget is the the fact that I will not miss this series. Other than that, there are not many series I can think of to watch this spring.

For some reason, outside of “Nodame Cantabile”, the winter series have not done much for me. I still haven’t watched “Nova”, even though there are people out there that don’t like it for some reason. (I’m just watching it for the seiyuu and not much else to be honest.) I may like Koyasu-san, but no one ever said that one seiyuu can hold a series together as this is the case in “Saint October”, I still don’t know if Hayashibara-san has a role in “Manabi” to make me watch it seriously and “Hidamari Sketch”, as cute as it is, is no “Azumanga Daiou”.

Oh. It is Chun Li’s birthday in Japan right now. While I do admit that I picked her the most in “Street Fighter II”, the percentage of times in which I picked her in any form of fighting game has dropped severely and it’s not because she barely young for the lack of a better word. It’s that she has changed so much, I can’t keep up with the changes anymore. Well, there’s that and I started using Sakura and Ibuki more.

I’m not going to mention her “SF II” form because she has always been a nightmare for opposing players for the most part. While she was good in the first “Zero” game, she got worse with every game that followed and it really showed in the final “Zero” game as well as “Upper”. It’s good that she came back in the final version of “III”, but outside of the Houyoku Sen, there’s not much else that impresses me about her. She’s a very good tournament character and she’s the only character I finished “Third Strike” with, but despite all of this, I never did fully grasp her. Yes, you have to rely on her normal moves more, but I’m one who loves to utilize special moves.

Seeing that I mentioned Ken earlier this month, I probably picked Ken more than Chun Li in “Third Strike”. What’s unusal about this is that rarely do I find myself in a “Street Fighter” game or any other Capcom game for that matter in which I pick Ken more than Chun Li. I take that back. Now, it’s so common for me to pick Ken over Chun Li in various games. This wasn’t the case back when I was still in elementary and middle school.

Well, here’s my best wishes to her. That did not sound right, but that’s okay. You’ll always be 18. Ha ha ha!

Added notes as of 12:03: the name of the Gainax series is called “Maikin Breakthrough Gurren-Lagann”. The link is here. Good that Rid was talking about this the whole time.

Before I forget, the site looks fine. There’s no need for me to talk to Maestro. So, yay.

Just wanted to say “Happy Birthday” to Natsu of “Justice Gakuen”, Nayu of “True Love Story” and Ken of “Street Fighter”. I did a stroll with Natsu in the final “JG” game and with Ken in “SFZ III”. I should listen to “Summer Days and Yet’s” soundtrack later today seeing that I don’t have a “TLS” game. Ha ha ha!

I don’t plan on doing anything special tomorrow on Valentine’s Day. To be honest, when I was younger, I hated Valentine’s Day. The reasons are that I had to create cards which I found to be silly and I can’t remember if this is true, but I believe that I nearly lost one of my old bags on a Valentine’s Day. Now these days, I just find it to be just another day. (Oh and thank goodness America does not have White Day.)

Tomorrow, I’ll most likely be working my way towards finishing the “Ai Yori Aoshi” anime series. I think that’s a good series to watch tomorrow. Of course, I’ll be finishing “Holmes” first because I actually am close to finishing that series unlike “Aiao”. “Aiao” has always been a series that chewed me up because I would always put the series on hold. Not only that, I didn’t finish the second season.

Oh well.

Hmmm.

I give points for effort, but I think I was spoiled thanks to Sakamoto Maaya-san (who is in this anime if you don’t know) a long time ago. Good old Sakamoto-san. I so act silly when I say that name. Kya ha ha! XD

Yeah, I crashed last night. I wasn’t able to make that second post yesterday, but oh well. I’m barely up, but I’ll make a second post later today. Maybe a third. That is if all goes well.

Last month, I made a post about why I deserved to win a copy of “Hellsing Ultimate’s” first volume. It turns out that I am one of the four winners. I forgot to mention that of those four winners, two of them get the special edition and I am one of those two people. Hee hee!

“Hellsing’s” not the only series involved in a contest I entered. There’s also a “Disgaea” one. Yes, I have heard that the anime was horrid, but the game was actually fun, even though I never got to finish it and that I sold it so that I could buy my Japanese PS2. I had to sell a bunch of games to get that PS2 now that I mentioned it.

Chupiler told me about a “Sentimental Graffiti” credit card, or rather a “Sentimental Graffiti II” actually, just recently. Here is the page. There’s also one of Rei from “Evangelion” and Ruri from “Nadesico”. I think I looked the page up after I told him that I would want a credit card with Puchiko. I don’t remember if Broccoli has one of Puchiko, but I remember that they did have credit cards of various characters, many of those from “Galaxy Angel”.

We also talked about some issue I don’t want to scar you with. Maybe. (Thanks to the site he showed me, I was unable to sleep at ease that night.) I will not say anymore about this issue.

I better mention two last notes before I head off to eat. One, this post really made me twitch for a bit. The other note is that I hope Maestro and Impz have speedy recoveries. I guess that’s all for now, seeing that I’m still barely up.

“I really only want cookies…or a green haired, neko mimi, loli plushie.” - Impz after being told on whether or not I should give Trappy-tan a cookie or a Zenkai Kiaidan for telling me to watch “Saint October”.

“Yes, she is kawaii. Sickeningly so. I want to be that cute, but it’s the amazing power of Japanese women to do WHATEVER they want and still be cute. They can wear ANYTHING, put their hair in ANY style…and they’re damnably cute. You know it’s true. Japanese women have special powers.” - Tashoku Kisune after she saw Mizuki Nana-san in the “Justice to Believe/アオイイロ” video.

I don’t know if one of those words in the second quote really is a word, but anyway, I started a silly “Quote of the Year” thing last year I believe. (I had thoughts prior, but I didn’t do any action until last year.) Last year, Undead Fred won the award by saying, “Speaks in strange code about voice actress-tan,” in regards of myself as we and other people were playing a “Say Something About the Last Poster” game at Maddoman no Kissaten. I just to let everyone know that I do not use “-tan” after a voice actress, unless she’s younger than me. That or if I’m too tired and act all kawaii by saying “-tan”.

I’m watching “Nodame Cantabile”, but I’m watching the raibu dorama version. I’m also watching “Ouran”. Yes, I’m slow, but who cares? I was reporting on “Pink Sweets” at the time anyway.

There’s a chance I’ll bring a post on Friday and that’ll be it for the rest of the month. Today, I’ll just do a fan art or two because I’ve been putting this activity off for a short while and I want to do some at ease. My art’s not terrific, but at least some people say that it’s better than what they can do.

Hmmm? I’m supposed to pick a quote now? It’s a bit too early, ne?

Note of 1/16: “damnably” is in fact a word. I looked it up myself. Ha ha ha!

The last few days, I’ve realized that I shot myself in the foot and I’m still going to be doing that. Why? Some time late last year (probably October), I preordered the new “Card Fighters Clash” game and that seemed like a good idea at first. After the game was released last month, some people don’t like the game at all and now, I’m starting to think about getting rid of my preorder.

Not bad enough? I plan on watching “Hidamari Sketch“. This is really great news until you realize that I’m now going to be watching three Friday series starting the day after tomorrow. The reasons why I can’t skip this series are that it’s based on a yonkoma (a thing I love), it’s a Shaft series and it’s being directed by Shinbou Akiyuki-san. Oh, it’s a TBS anime and I love watching TBS anime series.

I thought I’d have to watch a fourth Friday series next month, but thankfully, “Dancougar Nova’s” air time on the 15th of next month does not go past midnight and into Friday. I generally don’t watch these series because I am more of the comedy type of person, but since a couple of people I know of are really interested, I figured that I should watch it as well. Also, of the series I will be watching when next month comes around, this series will have the strongest seiyuu cast with Ikezawa Haruna-san and Kuwashima Houko-san leading the way as Aoi and Kurara respectively.

I was supposed to watch “Manabi Straight” the day before yesterday, but I unfortunately had to work the day before and late too. Oh and I can’t forget that I worked that day. Thankfully, this is a Monday anime. So, I don’t have to do any dropping of some sort. I might watch it later today, though I really hate catching up on series. At least it has Horie Yui-san, Nonaka Ai-san and Hirano Aya-chan as Manami, Mika and Mei respectively. Hayashibara Megumi-san (a name I felt like I haven’t heard in forever) sings some songs here, though I don’t know if she’s going to play as some character later on.

Right now, I’m going to fix this site, though I won’t do much. I have to do laundry and I still need to make that order I didn’t make last week. I so need to fix my car up, but I’ll do that on Sunday most likely. Oh and I am not going to bother playing the name game in regards of Kris Aquino’s baby because I already am frustrated with another game in the new “Yoshi’s Island” game. I am busy figuring out how to complete a certain level there.

I so need a doppleganger. Then, I can go back to sleep and watch more anime. Ha ha ha!

Uh, this will really be the last post of the month. My next entry should be three weeks from Saturday. Hopefully by then, I have caught up on sleep. Seeing that I’ll be gone for a while, I better say a special message before I end this entry.

誕生日おめでとうございます水樹さん！ ^^

Well, that’s that. I’m going to do what I have to do. じゃまたねみんなさん。

Notes of 14:10: this updating is a mess. I really want that “Jasugaku” (”Justice Gakuen”/”Jasutisu Gakuen” for those that don’t know) yonkoma book, but I am not having much luck finding this one Geese book for Chupiler or that yonkoma book. I forgot to mention that I saw some images of the Comiket of last month, but I forgot the links already. I really want to go back to sleep. –’

I better make this quick seeing that I’m in a rush of some sort. Uh, if you’re wondering why I placed up an entry all of a sudden, you can certainly blame this speech of Kotono from “Saint October” being worshipped. While we’re at it, I still could give that Impz a Zenkai Kiaidan, but I’m not evil. =P

Yes, I am watching “Saint October”. Yes, this series is fun, but by watching this series, this presents two problems. The first problem is that by watching this series, I’m already given two Friday series, the other being “Nodame Cantabile” which will air this Friday. (Yes, I know that both say that they’re Thursday series, but you have to remember that 25:55 and 24:45 [the air times of “Saint October” and “Nodame Cantabile” respectively] indicate that they’ll air on the following day, which happens to be Friday in this case.) If I pick up another Friday series, that spells a real grinding day. Oh and of course, the other problem is that I’m given more anime to watch for the year.

I probably will not enjoy this series as much as those that do. Outside of Koyasu Takehito-san, there are not many seiyuu here that I recognize, but that’s because I’m an old hermit who is used to the more experienced seiyuu. Also, there are some characters that gave me that “Huh?” look like that Tuxedo Kamen imitator. Other than what I said, it’s silly and it’s fun as I said in the last paragraph.

Well, that’s that. I still need to eat and tidy up seeing I have to go to various places today. I so want to go back to sleep now.