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  1. Eudemon
    昨天无聊浏览中介看看有没啥网站可以购买广告位的...
    结果中病毒了, 全屏的warning, 连system manager都不能打开
    无奈只好log off然后等后台程式关得差不多的时候点取消
    于是马上跑了两个杀毒程序...结果还是没成功
    因为不想乱搞registry的文件..果断重装(当然是保留文件那个),把boot option设置为DISC优先
    于是意想不到的意外发生了!
    结果format drive之后卡在reinstall里,一直维持在0%不动...等了一个下午还是一样结果...
    没办法只能重新跑,结果理所当然地不能正常开机..
    重新安装系统后打开一看...
    呵呵呵...哈哈哈哈...哈哈哈哈!!!...
    我所有资料, 文件, 网站程式, 编程, 歌...等等..全没了!! (要是知道就会事先备份一下)
    哈哈哈啊哈哈.....哈哈哈哈!! (有句话说的真对, 人遇到非常震惊的大事之后结果会大笑...)
  2. Eudemon
    After years and generations of surface pro 2 and pro 4, I am finally switched! (note, this is early review, will update as I use the device more and more
    Recently picked up this https://www.bestbuy.com/site/hp-spectre-x360-2-in-1-13-3-uhd-touch-screen-laptop-intel-core-i7-16gb-memory-512gb-solid-state-drive-poseidon-blue/6301163.p?skuId=6301163
     
    before you say anything, yes I know it does not have a dedicated GPU, but I already have a stationary PC that's powerful enough for gaming, this is used for portable work and entertainment
     

    I got the 512G, 16G ram, i7 version, not going to list all the spec as you can view from the link above
    Pro:
    best in class keyboard on laptop color accurate 4k bright screen long lasting battery life very light (about 1.2kg) and premium build (yes it can definitely turn some eyeballs) Con:
    Trackpad (using synaptic driver, it is been the biggest complain in the past few generations and I am surprised HP still hasn't switched over to Windows precision driver) The bigger than modern top bottom bezel, this is purposely designed this way for gripping since this is 2 in 1, but in my case I don't use the screen veridically  


    Surface pro 4, Mac book pro (use for work), spectre x360
     
    and if you ask why I need a 2 in 1 ? this is the answer (GalGame!)

     
    I briefly owned  Lenovo Yoga C930 before this one, the biggest issue that caused me to return C930 is their screen panel has a warm tone
    which I heard it is good for displaying asian skin color, but I didn't like that, and did different color profile and calibration which did not work
     
    lastly, here is some pictures taken from my new work place (Time Square)


  3. Eudemon
    went to library study for finals yesterday
    bought tolove ru complete manga on the way back :P
    This manga right now has a new series, will grab it later too

  4. Eudemon
    Originally from a light novel

    General ★★★★★
    Majority of the scene plays took place in VRMMORPG (Virtual Reality Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game)
    The first thing I have to say about this Anime is the world setting is definitely fantastic. (´・ω・`)
    The fighting system broke the traditional scenes with the MMO setting
    For example, battle in regular anime, if the main character's heart is stabbed, or if the body opens up a big wound
    it will definitely weaken him, and in most cases the end of the fight (in real life: death)
    but Sword Art Online (SAO) as a game can represent this element in HP, brings battle into its full potential
    and they don't just limit on this one factor, e.g when their hand is cut they lose it (although it can be restored later if the character still alive)
    also weapons, armors and food, even pets are breakable.
    not to mention potions, skills, poisons like paralysis that often used by the cheaters in the Anime
    together they bring battle into next level
    Story ★★★★★
    If you have read my other reviews, you know I don't write plot summaries
    in fact I avoid to tell the plot story as much as possible, so that those who haven't watch it yet won't be spoiled
    while my review is focusing on the details and important elements that made up the show hoping it can also give those who already watched it a meditation (・ω<)
    The 25 episode length definitely didn't give the animator enough time for fillers
    Course of events seems bit rush, especially the first part of the anime when they try to clear the world of sword art online
    It quickly skipped through many floors leaves viewer a bit empty feeling
    Other than beating the game, the most important scenes of part one no doubt is the love chemistry between our main char Kirito and Asuna !! (≧∇≦)/
    The love scenes of them falling in love and getting married at first is heart touching and later sadden the viewers when they got separated
    which makes me feel deeper connected to the character's feeling as Kirito later returned back to MMO Alfheim to rescue Asuna
    P.S. the way I watch anime (in this case I finished it in 3 days) has boosted up my feeling since my plot memories are still fresh
    The most important moment in my opinion is when the raider team was having trouble with a boss
    and both of them were called back to front-line after a short vacation, when Kirito heard about the danger of the boss they were about to face
    He wanted Asuna to stay in the base and await for his return, but she refused and replied
    "If I stayed, waited, and if you didn't come back, I would suicide"
    These lines really moved me
    Setting ★★★★★
    So I decided to rework the structure of my reviews, now I will include a rating and talk on the leading element of the Anime
    In sword art online, I think the most appealing factor is their setting
    Although as a computer science major, I feel a little awkward when Akihiko (the scientist behind the game)
    who locked up all ten thousand players and give them death penalty by sending strong signal to the brain for dying in game or disconnect from the server
    the reason is, being a crime in this large scale should bring international top computer pro to hack into the server
    or track down the source and disable that functionality locally
    Apart from the things I have already mentioned above
    The makers really made very good use of the setting of the world of game
    PK (player killing), item, party, guild, boss, level etc system
    These elements are indispensable and bring more color into the show that created many different user types like
    the bads: guilds that focus on killing other players for their money and items, cheaters who try to force players who fell asleep in the public into dual
    the neutral: players who have adapted to the life style of the game and want to live a normal life there
    the goods: the raider team which both our main characters are in, who try to complete the game so that everyone can be released from this world
    and the smiths who work hard making/fixing weapon and armor to support those in the front-line
    The contrast of Asuna being the guild raider team captain who known as Senko(閃光) Asuna in the first game
    and later being imprison in a cage like a bird who has no strength to fight is a quite interesting concept
    And I think most of you would agree that the setting and story of first game is better than the second game
    almost forgot to mention, going back to the marriage system, they even have kid, yes "KID!!" キタ━━━━(゚∀゚)━━━━!!
    The creation of the AI (artificial intelligence)program Yui and she considering Kirito and Asuna to be her papa and mama bring many joys to the Anime
    P.S In sword art online, I was exciting to see the society and their friends' reactions when they both get married but that never happened
    this is one of the pity for a rushed series
    Design / CG ★★★★★
    Here comes another change I did for this review and will continue to be (hopefully, positively) for the future reviews
    Since a good design needs good CG to maintain, and same for the reverse case
    also these two elements are very close related, I have decided to put them together to talk about it
    It's very easy to notice the main character's change of cloth/armor as he advanced through the dungeons
    With the fabulous look of costume, weapons, united guild costumes, number of monster designs and beautiful environments
    together with the awesome CG to bring them all alive, no doubt they deserve full star rating (・∀・)モエッ
    I personally love watching the scenes where Asuna sticks to Kirito in bed (FFF tan(misery sound echo in the air): burn! burn! BURN!
    Music / Sound ★★★★★
    Despite there ain't many memorable BGMs, the sound effects (especially battle sounds) has filled this small vacancy
    The OP/ED songs are very nice too
    OP 1 crossing field by LISA
    ED 1 Yume Sekai (ユメセカイ) by Tomatsu Haruka (戸松 遥)
    OP 2 Innocence by Eir Aoi 藍井 エイル
    ED 2 Overfly by Luna Haruna 春奈るな
    P.S 戸松遥 does the voice for Asuna (she is one of the people that I like who keeps the jobs of CV and singer, after Mizuki Nana (水樹 奈々)
    End:
    This is the longest review I have ever written, hope you enjoy it (-ω☆)キラリ
    below are sub'ed and raw anime torrents
    http://eudemon.org/topic/2374-raweng-sword-art-online-tv-rip-720p-complete/
  5. Eudemon
    This is just my review of recent personal owned HD800, HE-400i, AD900X
    Since I have owned many other headphones currently and in the past, I feel that I should have a good taste of the audio world
     

    My desktop setup: P1 > M8 > VA2
    This is the SMSL stack consists of power supply, DAC and AMP
     

    Sennheiser HD800 was widely regarded as world's best consumer headphone when it was released
    Til today it is still considered by many, the best dynamic headphone in the world
    Sennheiser is known for making legendary audiophile headphones like HD600 and HD650
    despite those two being over 20 years old, many still recommend them as one of the best entry level
     
    Now back to the HD800 impressions
    The sound is crystal clear and accurate, use it to listen to music I have been listening for many time before and I would notice some details that I have never heard before
    Being a neutral headphone, suitable for almost any type of music
    No matter low, mid or treble, the headphone outputs amazing sound from whatever you throw at it
    This is very AMP picky headphone for very good reason, because it will show every single detail so having a bad source will give you same result (also poor recording as well)
    And I was skeptical when people told me you can hear the differences in bad recording VS master recording, I sincerely believe it now after listened to this phone
    even though you can drive it with your smartphone,but to get the best performance out of this pair of cans, you will need a dedicated setup
     

    HD800 A/B compare against HE-400i (It is not a fair comparison, more like if you upgrade here is the main difference you will get)
    First thing I noticed is HD800 opens up a huge sound-stage
    Despite both headphones are fully open back design, meaning if I talk to someone while having them on my head, I would be able to hear every single word like I am not wearing anything at all
    So in comparison, the HE400i sounds narrow
    both headphones have great charity but unlike the HE400i
    HD800 has very bright and energetic vocal
    In comparison, when female vocals reach their highest point, that impact is missing in the HE400i, while it is well presented in the HD800
    at high frequency it might be little piercing for some but it all comes down to personal preference
    In regard to this, I have to talk a little bit about myself, I love Japanese Anime and the shows are very much female voice centered
    when I watch anime with HD800, those brightness piercing female voices sound extremely satisfying
     
    At comfort stage, HD800 is little lighter than HE400i in terms of weight
    However when I put it on my head, the comfort level is not just a little
    this is due to overall design of HD800 that evenly distributes its weight with headband and earpads
    it doesn't have the huge clamping force like HE400i
    Normally with other phones, you eye glasses bands with be pushed against your head and fixed at one location
    but due to the large ear cup and small clamp force, I am able to adjust my glasses with them on, however the small force still present
    If I wasn't wearing glasses, I would totally feel like the headphone melts on my head
    In terms of dimension, even though both are full size headphone, but HD800 ear cups are wider and longer than the HE400i
    When I try to watch Anime while laying my back against the back of my bed with resting pillow, I often find the HD800 hitting the pillow
     
    For those of you interested in major change between the HD800 and newly released HD800S at the whopping price tag of $1799 (other than the color of course)
    1, the HD800S smooths out the somewhat piercing sound in the treble area
    2, Improvement over bass
     
    Some example tracks:
    虹の音 - 藍井エイル | Shirushi - LiSA : not sure if I can describe well, if you have heard both sounds, you would know the first song has a climax (high point) and there are two for the latter song, they sound very clear but not over piercing, HD800 reaches that highest treble at the exact right point before gets annoying
    My Treasure - 茅原実里 solo sounded as her voice bounce back in space
    So in the end, my favorite female vocal tracks sound very much alive and lovely satisfying
     

    Hifiman HE400i People would think entry level planar magnetic headphone is already mid-gear in audiophile headphones
    This is somewhat not true, at least to this date, Fostex has some sub 300 level planar cans that are beloved by modding community, although you can't find anything planar lower than that, that's why I said "somewhat", the price level is subjective after all
     
    HE400i A/B compare against AD900X
    Again, like the previous one, this is not very fair comparison because their price point is at different level
    The first thing I noticed is the big improvements over the low and mid range
    due to this sound signature, it is very good at genres like rock, jazz and male vocals
    Being a planar headphone, BASS of HE400i is in a huge lead does not come as surprise to me
    However, in contrast to the above difference, the highs of HE400i do not wow me
    It has very good clarity, but the female vocals sound flat, there is not particular bright point
    The sound stage is tight, especially after tried HD800
    In terms of comfort, I think the AD900X wins here by being a much lighter headphone
    as I didn't feel any clamp force from the pads
     

    Audio Technica AD900X is probably the best value phone at its price point
    Due to Japan's pop and Anime culture, most of the Japanese headphones I have heard have done a wonderful job on trebles
    Among all those Japanese headphone companies, Audio Technica still stands out to be the top in regard to special tuning for female vocals
     
    Like the HE400i, the AD900X is particular good at certain genre of music (e.g Anime, female vocal, Orchestra)
    Due to the nature of open back design, AD900X lacks bass
    The highs sound fun, but low and mid are medieval core
    Because the nature of its sound signature, AD900X can be little fatiguing when listen over long period of time
    In terms of comfort, I think the self adjusting headband has done an amazing job
    The headphone feels plastic, but it is understandable for this price range
    I don't recall I have notice any big difference in how large the sound space is between the HE400i and AD900X
    In other words, AD900X has very wide sound stage as one of the selling points for its price
     

    In the end, I have settled with my HD800, is it worth? you might ask
    All I can tell you is, this picture summarized my feeling when I put the cans on

     
    I am planing to purchase desktop VR, can't wait to combo it with the HD800
  6. Eudemon
    This is a collection of around 3 weeks daily
    no wait, i wasn't being lazy, i have been working my ass off since the vacation (cough)
    so here we go

    A Christmas event (karaoke) me and like 14 of my friends have been preparing for quite a while
    unfortunately, i didn't get to go because the night before i had a sore throat, and the next day a cold that kept me in bed
    TES, according to the pictures, they had a gift share, and this is what i wasn't able to give out

    the direct translation of the text i wrote literary means to throw away your dignity
    meaning to be open, like 'really OPEN' (´・ω・`)
    and yes, little while before, the dog i took care of as for like a part-time job
    I guess you don't wanna open this blog post and the first thing you see is my face so i moved the order for this one
    anyways, i wasn't able to continue dog host because my dad was pissed about floor being scratched by their nails (´;ω;`)

    too bad for the products i bought for taking care of dogs, cause i thought i was gonna able to continue it
    the reason why i started this is i can able to continue programming for the site while earning some cash to keep the site running
    and also, because i love dogs
    however, in the end i gave these products for free to my first client

    if you were to ask me "you want coffee or tea?" i would definitely say tea
    me liking tea has been decades but only recently i purchased full equipment to be a 'real tea drinker' (イェー~)

    from left to right: green, black and oolong tea

    due to last time i didn't go, so i organized another karaoke
    let's start off where we had lunch -> 回転寿司!rotating sushi (a very popular sushi serving method in Japan, but very hard to find it in America, even-though we do have tons of sushi restaurants)
    so basically you can pick up whatever you want from the rotating platform, and the price will be counted by the number and color your disks
    of course you can order things directly from the waiter like regular restaurants

    day view of manhattan

    just a demonstration of one of the pages from the karaoke book, you may be able to see the page number if you enlarge the image
    they have two books (japanese) like this, total thousands of pages
    unlike some modern ktv places that have digital touch machine where you can easily navigate and find songs with other useful settings
    this place still uses the traditional (although not that old) way where you have to find song off the book and enter the number yourself
    the reason why we came here is this is the only place we can find tons of Jap songs (as it's opened by Japanese people) _(:3 ⌒゙)_

    night view of manhattan

    supper -> カツ丼 (breaded pork on rice) (in-front of me is udon)

    just a day ago, we went to play badminton
    lunched at a north korean style hot pot place I usually go
    --> (playing badminton) for 5 hours -->
    ever since the winter break started, i have been staying home programming for our site
    so the lack of doing sport resulted me next day muscle aches (although same thing has been said by the six that went with me)

    lastly, dinnered at a BBQ place, plus one friend that bumped in later, 8 of us had to squeeze into one table
    and we were battling for cooking spaces, but it was fun

    almost forgot to mention, i wrote 2 free plugins(scripts) recently
    not a bad download amount for couple days in one site since release (consider it took more than 1 day to be approved)
    and i'm quite glad since some of them replied my support topic and thanked me for my work (´・ω・`)
  7. Eudemon
    Due Defect unit of my previous setup, decided to pull the trigger on this upgrade (also small treat for myself for the new job)
     
    Here are just some day one impressions
    When talk about tube amps, people generally say they are warm and smooth, it gives me an impression that it is best for midrange frequency
    You know me, I like Japanese music and Anime, it is full of female vocals
    they are very rich in the high frequency spectrum, to the point sometimes even piercing trebles
    For that reason I was hesitating for not picking a solid state amp, after hear numerous good things about Schiit products I decided to give it a try
    The Valhalla is not tubey at all, neutral, it preserves the brightness of my HD800
    Of course early input means it hasn't completely burn-in yet, but as of now it suits me very well and I don't need any tube rolling
     
    As for the Bifrost, there is not much to talk about other than delivers cristal clear details,  very good sense of sound stage
    note that this setup has high amount of output, and it is designed specifically for high impedance headphone like my HD800 (600 ohm)

    And I forgot to mention the DAC and AMP are all made in USA while the headphone is hand made in Germany
     
     
    Down for some photos





  8. Eudemon
    Today was a busy day, woke up early in the morning
    spent whole day doing presentation and exam plus my boss' "come to work" email spam, was about to head home and noticed car key was lost
    so I spent another hour running around the campus where I've been and asking the security guards, finally found it
    thank you so much to the anonymous person who turned it in (/ω\)
    btw this is my second time this year lost and found my key, the first time was dropped in the snow where I spent two hours to dig it out
    今天很忙, 大清早起来
    一整天在做演讲稿跟考试加上我老板的夺魂工作邮件, 当我要回家的时候发现车钥匙弄丢了
    于是又花了一个多小时走遍校园我呆过的地方,跟询问保安,最后终于找到了
    非常感谢那位陌生同学把钥匙交给保安
    附带一提,这已经是我今年第二次弄丢钥匙了,第一次是弄丢在雪地后来花了两个小时给挖出来OTL
  9. Eudemon
    Legend Proof and deck list plus win-rate against all class graph: http://imgur.com/a/VYC90 (all games are recorded in ranked)
    According to the record, it took me total 300+ games to reach legend (-_-)/~~~ピシー!ピシー!
    Just to clarify, I did not make the deck myself
    Warrior deck credit to Sjow's original deck
    Druid deck credit to neviilz2 made that post just couple days ago
    So why only showing 29 cards?
    Yes, I find most people post complete decks
    I think this can create a completed figure for the players trying out new deck and they maybe scared to modify them
    guides on how to mulligan is all over the internet so I'm not going to talk about them
    but I'm going to show you card choices based on current meta due to time shift
    that's why I leave 1 slot for you to adjust, and it is easy to understand
    but when to tech cards in/out?
    I switch cards base on the opponents I see at the time when I play
    for example, I play 8 games in the afternoon, 5+ of them are aggro face rush, I will tech in aggro counter cards
    and then at night, I find 5+ of them are control style, then I will tech in e.g black knight
    the key is find the right card that can help you beat most decks you see at the time when you play, not try to win all of them
    to find out which one is the right card to swap, see below
    Let's start with warrior (got me from all the way to rank 2): deck / win-rate
    when facing a lot mech heavy decks e.g mech mage, mech druid - add mind control tech or second brawl
    to better understand the card choice, let's look at their objective, in this case is to flood the board with minions that are not cheap enough to be removable by whirlwinds
    when facing a lot hunters / zoo / paladin / most aggro deck - add whirlwind
    creepers, muster for battles, imps, all the 2/1s, snakes
    when facing a lot warrior / handlock - add second big game hunter
    eh... kind of obvious
    when facing a lot control-ish / midrange decks / especially druid - add black knight, considerable swap iron juggernaut with sylvanas
    black knight chop chop (゚Д゚)ノ
    bad match ups: priest, mech mage
    Now let's talk about druid (got me from rank 2 to legend): deck / win-rate
    when facing a lot of mech heavy decks / paladin / zoo / hunter / shaman - add second mind control tech
    the nature of this deck is taunt up and have your opponent to do the trading instead of pointing your face
    these flood the board type of deck is basically free minion for you to grab
    plus it is not bad against others as well, I find a lot of people overlooked the second one (*´ω`)
    when facing a lot warrior / handlock - same
    the rest - add black knight
    since now a lot of people carry it due to rise of druid
    even it is not druid, belcher is more than good enough, and chopping a giant is the dream \(゜ロ\)(/ロ゜)/
    this card is also very important when playing against
    you always want to drop your cheaper cost taunt first to bait out black knight to save your ancient of war
    why no dr.boom in this deck?
    this card is certainly a very popular choice nowadays for most decks, therefore the increased number of big game hunters
    if you look back at this deck, we have no card that is above 7 damage, so screw bgh haha, jk
    back match ups: freeze mage, handlock, the summon a lot of copy mage from echo and duplicate (don't know the exact name, it is not really miling tho)
    again, I encourage you to modify your deck to better adapt to the environment
    there are numerous tools that can help you track your games, the one I'm using the hearthstone deck tracker
    you can look back at the record to see what kinds of decks you're facing the most to adjust your cards
    My stream: http://www.twitch.tv/eudemon
    I don't have webcam right now, but I plan to adding one in the future
    for now you may enjoy my play and my anime music collection (*'ω'*)
    Good luck on the climb!
  10. Eudemon
    Let me just quickly summarize the last few episodes
    setting is the same virtual game world
    Our main character "Asuna" met a girl named "Yuuki" through a dual and helped her clear a dungeon boss with her friends
    When Asuna got denied further communication from Yuuki, she found out Yuuki has final stage aid and have been in bed for 3 whole years
    Since then, Asuna used the terminal machine made by Kirigaya
    to let Yuuki enjoy the real world, everyday Asuna carried it to transferred vision and sound between Yuuki
    in the end, Yuuki lived through the full 3 months of life that have been announced
    now, I really want to talk about the connection between the 3rd ED song and the plot
    the name of the song is "シルシ" which means "sign/proof" I can't think of any better word due to my poor English
    the first person word used in the lyrics is "ボク" which is also what Yuuki used to call herself
    "ボクが生きたシルシ" translates to: the proof/sign of my living
    there are two signs/proofs of Yuuki has lived in this world we can tell from the plot
    first, the reason why she wanted to clear the boss is to have her and her friend's name listed in the huge stone board
    second, her original sword skill - "mother's rosario" that was gifted to Asuna
    流れてく時間(とき)は容赦無く いつかボクらをさらってくから - the flowing of time will eventually tear us apart with no mercy
    represents her disease is taking her life away as time passes
    this one is pretty straight forward to understand, there are other parts of the lyrics also link to the story and I'm not gonna talk about all
    when I first listened to the song I was only enjoying the melody but once I knew the story
    this feel carried out by this synergy between the plot and the lyrics has stunned me
    I love songs that have connections to the stories, in this case I think it is very nicely done
    here is a link to full lyrics if anyone interested - http://eudemon.org/lyrics.html/_/%E3%82%B7%E3%83%AB%E3%82%B7-r186
  11. Eudemon
    Went to the cinema last week with friends to watch this awesome movie

    while the a lot of content of the movie has not much to say, it is those irregular type of storyline, where you can't really tell what happened at every detail
    but I can tell you, the story itself gave me a big impact

    the story is a continuation from the last two movies or the Anime series (since they are almost identical)
    =============spoil part============================
    the plot starts after Madoka changed the theory of the universe where soul gems will disappear in the end instead of turning every magical girls into witches, Homura calls this phenomenon "haname madoka"

    Incubators, however, wanted to observe this phenomenon, homura who appeared to be the only one who knows about this, when her soul gem is about to disappear, they isolated it from all matters
    ultimately, their final objective is to capture and have control over "haname madoka"

    on the other hand, Homura created a completely clone of the city where she met Madoka within the seal
    of course with her being existed in that city (since being able to see Madoka once again is her wish)
    after found out Incubators' conspiracy, she forced herself to turn into a witch, wanted to forever be locked in that isolated space being a witch so that she could protect Madoka

    her friends who have been lured into that seal, after knowing the truth, broke the enchantment so that "haname madoka" could reach her (those who have been captured by the isolated space including madoka's family and her teacher, and a new character "bebe")

    here comes a turning point, when everyone thought this was going to be a happy end right there
    Homura held the hands of Madoka who reached out to her, and again, like what Madoka did, changed the theory of the universe, but turning herself into "evil"
    =============spoil part end=============================
    These changes of mind scenes in plot really creates a big impact to the audiences

    As for the music, I have noticed that they have arranged few old BGMs
    and the songs are awesome, expecially the ending song (君の銀の庭 by kalafina)
    as I listen to this song right now, all the scenes come back to me in my head (memories, whoa)

    Here is the sad part, Homura's ending is so that Madoka will not be forever alone and will not be forgotten by everyone
    and Madoka's ending was to end Homura's forever loop of trying to save Madoka
    Both of them tried to save each other, but both endings, sadly, they can not be together

    Conclusion: still a sad story
  12. Eudemon
    変ゼミ
    Originally from a manga
    also known as Abnormal Physiology Seminar

    General ★★☆☆☆
    The length of the TV anime is only half of regular anime
    The OVA tend to get better in over-all quality, but in general, I won't recommend this to anyone
    It almost made me quit watching it, but after a long time I finally finished it
    Story ★★☆☆☆
    Not a story type series, instead focus on short length pervert activities
    You can still follow up even you don't watch the episodes in order
    Hentai ★★★★★
    Well, if you favorite this type of topic, there you go
    Music ★☆☆☆☆
    No BGM (or none I can recall)
    OP/ED no good, I think the maker spent too much energy to show off CV moe points
    Design ★★☆☆☆
    Drawing style trend to a bit fatty (not that I'm racist, this style is definitely not my favor)
    Plot
  13. Eudemon
    today after a doctor appointment, went to the bookstores in the city
    It seems like due to Japanese yen price drop or whatever reason, magazines and some books have price reduced by 15%
    so I went to check the latest release of Dengeki(電撃) G'S like usual and found that each one has a note under the plastic wrapper
    it prints "The attached figure can not be sold in the US due to law restriction"
    unfortunately the store doesn't allow photo taking, else I would take a picture
    here is this issue's image taken from their site

    now, I can guess the reason why it can't be sold in the US is not because it is a little buster's naked figure
    but the naked figure looks like a child
    (you probably know the majority Japanese drawing styles make characters look like low age range (especially genre: loli) which caused quite some problems with other nations (we being one of them) who take child rights seriously)
    anyhow, even the store drop the price for this particular magazine for 20%, I still didn't buy it (see how important the attached gift is for magazine buyers)

    Dinner: ramen + beer (because they have a special price when purchased with ramen) + nikuman (肉まん)

    here are the stuff I bought today
  14. Eudemon
    星を追う子ども
    Title in English is translated "Children who chase lost voices"

    General ★★★★★
    was debating between 4 and 5, maybe i should make a 4.5 lol
    while i was reading the staff list in the end, i noticed Makoto Shinkai (Director) pop up in multiple sections
    hard worker hey, his works are really decent and meaningful
    Story ★★★★★
    The story is pushed by the nostalgia of living people to those who passed away
    Character&Creature Design ★★★☆☆
    For characters, I guess it is more toward public(the masses), people who used to watch Anime may feel it's not detail enough
    For creatures, well, fair..
    CG ★★★★★
    Just like any other makoto's work, the CG is incredibly good
    Easy to follow through, pretty well done for the length of a movie
    Music ★★★★☆
    BGM good, but not incredibly noticeable
    The ending song is pretty decent as well - "Hello Goodbye & Hello" by Anri Kumaki
    The lyrics of the song is also pretty matching the story
    Plot
  15. Eudemon
    听闻花木兰决定代替自己从军,老父泪流满面。
    “可是女儿,拉壮丁的那些家伙也不是白痴,他们如何会看不出你是女儿身?”
    “爹爹放心,我自有办法。”
    不久那些人来了,
    刚进门就看到花木兰拿手指戳着两颊说:“欢迎大哥哥么么哒~”
    “喔喔!这么可爱一定是男孩子!”
    于是花木兰被带走了。。
  16. Eudemon
    Originally from a light novel


    General ★★★★★
    Recommend to those who like me love war genre and battle strategies
    The anime sometimes popup some event image as mentioned by our main char(monkey) are from the game Nobunaga no yabou (did Koei(the game maker) dropped some money into it for advertise? I don't know)
    the wars make my heart pounding and wanting to play the game again (yes I have killed some great deal of time with it before, it also taught me a lot of sengoko histories) unfortunately it's been sometimes since previous version, no new work yet (sob
    Story ★★★★★
    Unique and interesting course of events while respecting the historical ending of the Japanese Sengoku era
    However, our main char who is from the future, and in favor of Nobuna he prevented some bad events from happening, e.g rescue of Saitou. his move should slightly change the history as we later started seeing some unique events
    Most famous characters get female forms in the anime and eventually turn into a pattern when you see a cute enemy, then you know she is gonna turn into our side (or our main char's harem?)
    Design ★★★★★
    Another thing I love is the illustration and design done by Miyama zero (one of my favorite artists)
    Fabulous costumes, character designs and art style
    CG ★★★★★
    Very nice graphic to set off battle scenes, costumes
    as well as keeping the art style with detailed motions
    Music ★★★★★
    Awesome song and BGMs
    OP - "Link" by Aimi
    and ED - "Hikari" by Mizuta Makino
    Just by looking at the enemies that are still there, there is a lot of room for new season
    and I will be glad to see if there is one coming
  17. Eudemon
    I got a call few days ago from one of the bookstores I usually go to
    said they will be closing down the store so all manga are on sale now (hard to do business these days hey
    btw the sale is 30% off everything
    So today after exam I went to buy a camera that I wanted for a while and the bookstore (they import Taiwanese edition manga)
    new Camera test

    Bakuman 1~16
    Sakura Hime Kaden 1~5,7 missing 6 (added to my missing list lol)
    Also asked them to keep the One Piece complete volumes (up until now), probably gonna go grab them tomorrow and maybe something else too
    I will post an update tomorrow
    this is my current bookshelf (two layered books)

  18. Eudemon
    Some of my friends are organizing an event to bring figures out for picture taking
    which is going to happen very soon, by then I will have more photos available but the main issue is this figure is huge (the biggest one in my collection)
    and as well as my other figures
    P.S. should have received this figure a week ago, but due to miss delivery and I just found the notice today so.. (ノ´∀`*)
    anyways here comes the photos

    The post office lady said: "This package comes from Japan, a surprise present hey"
    true that, my friend bought this for me as a gift (thank you friend (*´ω`*)


    Compare with the TV at the back (showing my website)





    Just some other figures I have



    I will take some photos of my room some other time, since it does not relate to this topic
    In conclusion, The figure is very well made (the second most expensive one I have atm)
    and features 2 different bows, the arrow and wings came separately, you can to put them on
    the right hand is rotatable too (provide different shooting angles? (´・ω・`)
    At last, staying home, cook for myself
    here is a picture of my lunch

    fan service?!

  19. Eudemon
    还记得之前说的漫画店关门的事么
    前不久收到个电话说有新店开张(原来我的会员资料被卖出去了!)
    于是今天去上课顺便去看了一下, 貌似OK
    买了3本书, 顺便又入了个会员
    (咦? 好像又跳坑了..? 算了)

  20. Eudemon
    Recommended!
    General ★★★★★
    Originally from a light novel
    Fight Scenes ★★★★★
    my first impression of the anime is the fight style so special
    unlike many other anime's fight scenes, you will never get tired of watching this
    each character has one or more unique fighting systems, for example: dance system, enshrine, lance, money etc...
    some have mouse, summons like mare, slime?, Qgirls etc...
    and special weapon types call Taizai Buso and Shinkaku Buso
    here are my top 3 fights

    Aoi Kimi (Dance system) VS Honda Futayo (Lance system)
    this is the first anime i've ever seen uses a "dance" in fight
    the DJ version of passing song rocks > <
    with Futayo using Shinkaku Buso: Tonbokiri <-- don't you think this name is so cool! Ton-Bo-KiRi

    Oriotorai Makiko VS Student Group
    well, this is the first episode, basically show the diversity of their fighting systems
    Oritorai is the class' homeroom teacher, well skilled to where she is called a "real amazon"

    Kazuno VS Musashi
    kazuno (servant of the Honda family, with Honda wife's soul?) - A robot that has antlers on the head
    has unique skill of control gravitation force

    Design ★★★★☆
    Best pet - Asama Tomo's mouse (cute post: applaud)
    Graphic ★★★★★
    A graphic that catches up their fights
    Music ★★★★★
    Definitely love the background soundtrack by Tatsuya Katou (i went search for music work done by this guy cause of this anime)
    also the ending theme song (the one that starts with mouses) is very good too
    Story ★★★★☆
    If you haven't watch this anime yet, i recommend read the light novel first
    or prepare to get lost XD
    That's the end of my review, see you guys on second season
    Plot:
  21. Eudemon
    Title translated into English would be:
    "Bunny drop"
    Originally from manga, has an Anime
    General ★★★★☆

    Story ★★★★☆
    A recommend for those who like warm movie
    Being a movie, there are a lot of scenes got cutoff, I think the length of a movie is too short to tell the warmth of this work
    That's why I like the Anime better
    Music ★★★☆☆
    The insert song really sucks
    They use the same ending song in the movie as for the Anime, quite an aftertaste
    It is a good song, especially the lyrics
    Plot
  22. Eudemon
    Story ★★★★★
    The story involves reenact human history, yes the same stuff as on our textbook
    therefore we know how it happens and ends, but the ways they are done by the Anime is very imaginative and surprising
    For example, the fight scenes of main battle in the second season - reenactment of the Invincible Fleet Naval War: Musashi as mercenary of England VS Blessing fleet of Tres Espana
    P.S pretty funny for Toori (main char) running around naked most of the time (even in International Meeting with national leaders)

    General ★★★★★
    Again, excellent battle system
    Just like the first season, fast moving plot
    Although again, the story setting is very hard to understand unless you read the novel or do some research
    BUT, very very informative

    Design ★★★★★
    Fabulous weapon designs merge from historical items for instances: Excalibur from England, San Martin from Spain (Tres Espana)
    and beautiful yet cool character costumes

    CG ★★★★★
    Nicely done CG to enhance the battle system

    Music ★★★★★
    Absolutely awesome BGMs, as of now total 2 OST releases together containing 4 CDs total almost hundred sound tracks
    Most, yes I mean most of them are stunning!
    Plus I don't really like the OP but the 2 EDs are above average
  23. Eudemon
    This is two weeks delayed post, as I'm just too busy with school and works












    here is the spec
    1 x HP Pavilion 23xi Silver / Black 23" 7ms HDMI Widescreen LED Backlight LCD Monitor, IPS Panel 250 cd/m2 10,000,000:1
    1 x Thermaltake Overseer RX-I VN700M1W2N Black Steel / Plastic ATX Full Tower Computer Case
    1 x Intel Core i7-4770K Haswell 3.5GHz LGA 1150 84W Quad-Core Desktop Processor Intel HD Graphics BX80646I74770K
    1 x ASUS GTX760-DC2OC-2GD5 GeForce GTX 760 2GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card
    1 x MSI Z87-GD65 Gaming LGA 1150 Intel Z87 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Extreme OC High Performance Triple CFX/ SLI Intel Motherboard
    1 x Microsoft Windows 8 Professional 64-bit (Full Version) - OEM
    1 x G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model F3-12800CL10D-16GBXL
    1 x SAMSUNG 840 Pro Series MZ-7PD128BW 2.5" 128GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)
    1 x CORSAIR HX Series HX750 750W ATX12V 2.3 / EPS12V 2.91 SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS GOLD Certified Modular Active PFC Power Supply New 4th Gen CPU Certified Haswell Ready
    1 x LG Black 14X BD-R 2X BD-RE 16X DVD+R 5X DVD-RAM 12X BD-ROM 4MB Cache SATA BDXL Blu-ray Burner, Bare Drive, 3D Play Back (WH14NS40) - OEM - OEM
    1 x Seagate Barracuda ST1000DM003 1TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive - OEM
    1 x Logitech S-150 1.2 Watts 2.0 Digital USB Speakers - OEM
    1 x COOLER MASTER Hyper 212 EVO RR-212E-20PK-R2
    1 x Intel EXPI9301CTBLK Network Adapter 10/ 100/ 1000M
    some stuff, like my mouse and keyboard are from my previous PC (not included)
    keep thinking that I forgot something... well
  24. Eudemon
    So today is the first day of classes of fall
    Looking back to the things I have done in the summer, hmm
    Basically: work, website, dentist and some game time
    (You may wonder how dentist can consume that much time, the answer is, I got two root canals and bunch other treatments
    which cost me like 15+ visits to the dentist, and still haven't finished yet, sob sob)
    Follow by the school start now I have to be a full time student with two part time jobs
    Which is going to be pretty hard for me, hmm
    Recent purchases? It's been a while since my last update, of course I have bought bunch stuff but they all scattered with my other collections, can't find them lol
    Below are images of the new car that my parents bought: Toyota RAV4 XLE 2013




    and here is their old car, which eventually become mine now: Toyota Corolla (I think it's a 2000 build, old hey)




  25. Eudemon
    要是进入太细节估计会变很长文,我就说说一些比较明显的缺点跟优点吧




    先说说Sennheiser
    缺点:
    边缘的金属跟耳罩之间的间隙,要是有风吹过会有摩擦音
    因为耳机宽度是刚好适合人耳的,带眼镜会轻压到边框
    高音不是非常清晰,没有中低音那么稳定
    优点:
    整体来说driver大概是200~300美金价位,这款耳机的官方报价是350,最近已经降到250左右
    音色相对非常平衡,适合众多genre
    外观是我见过的耳机里面(open back除外),设计最好的
    作为一个overear类型的便携式耳机只有190g也是非常适合带出去使用
    可以折叠跟调整的部位很多,适合各种人,耳罩往后斜虽然可以解决眼镜边缘的问题但是同时会导致部分声音在耳朵后方
    在买这个之前我跟铁三角的MSR7比较了很久,最终因为后者的舒适问题(重量跟压力点)选择了这个




    Audio-Technica
    缺点:
    外壳部分的形状不适合小耳朵的人,带着会压到耳朵canal导致发红跟痛
    耳机跟线非常敏感,摩擦到衣服跟在部分器械使用会有噪音
    BASS等中音表现不太好
    优点:
    一般你问懂耳机的人,说你喜欢听日本歌,他们都会向你推荐铁三角
    音质比较偏高音,特别是女主唱表现非常好(固定genre爱好者)
    内耳用的耳塞可以拆换,有4个size,找到合适的话对隔音效果也不错
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