B Gata H Kei

Episodes:  12
How:   Netflix {Stream}

Grade:  C

Summary: Yamada, first name withheld, is a 15-year-old girl who has just entered Takizawa High School. Easily considered exceptionally beautiful, she has only one problem with her own body, she thinks her vagina looks weird and is very self-conscious about it. 

Upon entering high school, her dream was to have casual sex with 100 men but therein lies the problem, she believes an experienced partner will tease her about the way her vagina looks or simply the fact that she's a virgin. She stumbles upon the solution in the form of Kosuda Takashi, a fellow virgin, whom she believes will help ease the transition to more experienced partners.

There's only one small problem, Yamada doesn't know anything about sex or the ancient art of seduction, meaning her quest to conquer Kosuda will be a difficult one. 



Thoughts:  What the hell did I just watch?  I'm kind of surprised that Netflix put this up on stream, although most of it is pretty harmless romcom. The final episode was a bit more..."edgey" .  I guess that's why it's rated TV-MA.
     The show starts off with Yamada trying to find 100 fuck buddies basically and turns into her finding her first love, romantic rival and apparently an arch enemy.  It's almost identical to most other school life, romance comedies save for that one underlying factor.. Yamada doesn't want to fall in love, she just wants to have sex with 100 men.
    Does this happen?  Not even close.  She's really not even a likable character for most of the series, she's just the snoddy, hot chick in school, showing small pieces of likableness here and there. I'm still not quite sure why Yamada was so popular, other then the fact she's hot.  At least she's openly bitchy though, Kanejou is a fake nice, popular girl...
    Oh well, I made it through the entire series which was actually quite the feat.. Of course that may have had something to do with the fact that I switched to watching it subbed on the computer, from having watched eight of the twelve episodes dubbed... it was a breath of fresh air to get the Japanese voices.  The Dub was just too Americanized.



Who we have...


Yamada:   The lead female, she's attempting to have sex with 100 men!  She's a sex fiend and a virgin all at the same time;  having the drive to set out on the sex mission, but not the.... skill set. She seems to think her lady parts look wrong so, she wanted to find an obviously inexperienced male to be her first.
    Of course, teenage emotions get in her way.  Instead of a casual sex partner she ends up falling in love with her cherry boy.  It takes all of the 12 episodes for her to completely realize that yes... she likes this guy and that the two of them don't have to just jump into bed and do it.
     Personality wise, she is severely lacking.... she's an uptight bitch for the most part.  Deep down though she is really a kind, sweet girl who is just a little confused about stuff.  I'll admit her antics are quite amusing though...

One of the Few Sweet Moments.

Kosuda Takashi:  The poor, clueless, cherry boy that Yamada chooses to loose her virginity to. He's a "good guy", a gentleman really... just...clueless.   He's really good with photography and likes to take pictures of scenery more so then people, he does take some pictures of Yamada though.
    He lives with his older sister and.... has a fear of heights that leads to some awkward breast grabbing on a giant slide at a water park.  About midway through he knows that he's fallen for Yamada and of course has no idea that his childhood friend  Miyano has the hots for him.

Miharu Takeshita:  Yamada's large breasted best friend, she's normally the voice of reason even though it falls on deaf ears.   She seems to be in a committed relationship that she hasn't really given Yamada much or any information about.   Her boyfriend kinda of feels sorry for her due to having to put up with Yamada and he has on more then one occasion gave Kosuda advice...

Mayu Miyano:   Kosuda's childhood friend, next
door neighbor and just all around sweet girl. She's not so secretly in love with Kosuda, everyone but him seems to realize this and Yamada actually feels threatened by the relatively plain looking, large chested girl. She is however the perfect wife, she can cook and take care of a man... sadly she's just too timid to really act on her desires.
       During the end of the series, at Kyoka's Christmas party she gets lost in Kyoka's mansion and ends up in her... Brother Love Room.   Of course she's a bit naive so she really doesn't seem to think much of the room...


Kyoka Kanejou:   A rich, beautiful, seemingly kind girl who transfers into Yamada's school from America. On her first appearance she looses a pageant to Yamada and becomes extremely obsessed with crushing her.
       She's really a bit psycho, and at her house she has a secret room fully devoted to her older brother. Who she loves...deeply....more then anything.  To the maids disapproval....

Keiichi Kanejou:    Kyoka's older brother, he doesn't show up till late in the series and of course... when he does... He falls for Yamada.   He's hot, says he's still a virgin {may actually be since his sister is a psycho} and asked Yamada on a date... right in front of Kosuda {rude}.  Of course she adamantly denies him and he's still after her... much to his sisters dismay.

The Ero-Gami;  Yamada, Miyano and Kosuda all have their very own Lust Gods.  No one can see them, but they are there to guide their humans to the glory of sex. Well, not Miyano's she seems to be just as innocent as the real Miyano.
      Kosuda's may be the most amusing, certainly when he's put in place of his penis in a few scenes.

The End:  Noone got laid, well...other then Takeshita maybe. Yamada and Kosuda seem to finally be a "couple", the parts with Kosuda in the hospital and Yamada playing nurse were probably the best parts of the show.  Well, when the bed at the Love Hotel went berserk and threw Kosuda off breaking his leg right before they did the deed was also quite amusing...  haha.
      Kyoka still has it out for Yamada, even more so now that her brother wants to loose his V-Card to her. I kind of wished that Keiichi would meet Mayu and the two of them would hit it off.. This would leave Kyoka with noone but.. That doesn't really matter.

Misato and Keiichi

Favorite Character;  Mami Misato -  The small build, tiny busted loud class mate.  She's always out to get an attractive guy even though most...all of the males in the show pretty much ignore her. She's extremely amusing when she's on the screen and spent a good portion of the Christmas Party episode riding around on Keiichi's back...
        She sort of gets him to agree to marry her, even files the papers but... then gets into quite a bit of trouble.

Machinarium

System:  PSN/PS3

Bought:     Jan.  24th 2013

Started{1st}:  January 28th
Started{2nd}: October 15th
Beat:    October 21st

Trophies:  12 of 12
          No Plat.   :(

Idea:   You're a little robot that was dumped in the land field, after putting yourself back together you set off on your own to save the world!{girl!}.
      These three thug robots have been harassing the other robots of the city in random ways and they are planning to blow up a tower. By solving sometimes very irritating puzzles you slowly take apart their grande scheme and...disable the bomb.

Thoughts:   I'll admit it, I used some online help for some of the more irritating puzzles in this game. The little arcade games and the tic-tac-toe game were my favorite parts, the stupid clock things were a bit annoying.
    When you stand around for to long your little robot has bubble memories of certain situations, like when the thug robots picked on him and the time he spent with the girl-bot. Those were pretty cute...


The End:  The game was good..... for the most part the puzzles were more fun than irritating and there was a story behind all the puzzles.  The little robot defuses the bomb, flushes the badies, saves the girl and then the two of them steal a aircraft of some sort and take off!
      During the credits, it looks like the aircraft crashes and two flying bots rescue and chopper off with them.

I guess it's a happy ending?

Assassin's Creed Brotherhood

System:   PS3

Bought:   July 2013

Started:   September 8th 2013
Beat:       October 6th 2013

Trophies:  22 out of  51

Idea:   Same idea as the first two, the AC Gang is on the run from Abstergo and end up of all places.. the current time Auditore Villa. It's the ruins of the once beautiful house of course, but with a little work they get electricity and are back up and running.
      Desmond is still going into the Animus as Ezio, still trying to find where the hell they put the Apple of Eden. It starts up just where the second game left off with Ezio walking out of the Tomb after talking with Minerva, confused he saunters his way back to the Villa.
      Why did Ezio leave Rodrigo alive?  Uhg.
     Once back at the Villa, dreams of retirement are quickly squelched. After being scolded by Machiavelli for not killing Rodrigo, Ezio turns his attention to...finer things.  He's totally caught with his pants down {off} when Cesare Borgia shows up with his army{?}, the villa is basically destroyed,  Uncle Mario is killed by Cesare and the Apple is taken. {You also loose all the toys/money you got from AC2}.
    Ezio escapes with his life {barely} and as the doctor says.... Maybe he's getting too old for this.


Thoughts:  It's basically on the same level as AC2, with the exception of the stupid shop quests and the online stuff.  There's no way I am ever getting the plat for this game due to the online trophies, but that's okay.
      The story was pretty much the normal, Templars become a nuisance and you kill them all. More places to hop around, more towers to climb, more annoying things to gather.. Same old, Same old.
     The best part?  Probably being able to recruit other Assassins and the ability to summon them whenever you feel like it {within reason}.
   

Ending:   WTF, I knew it'd be open ended to continue onto Revalations and due to spoilers online I knew Lucy was going to get stabbed.  Didn't quite think Minerva was going to spout some gibberish as you hop around and THEN Minerva pretty much forces you to stab her...
    Okay.   Who is this "she" that Minerva kept babbling about?  Anyways, Yes Desmond and his band of Assassins make their way to Juno's Temple or whatever and they get the Apple of Eden. Yey!

Ezio's Ending;  He wipes out all the Borgia and becomes the "Mentor" for the Italian Assassins, he also gets to use the Apple of Eden which was actually quite fun just zapping the crap out of all the bad guys! Of course there's no real "end" to this either... It just stops after he finishes of Cesare and puts the Apple in the Temple of Juno.
       Best thing to happen during Brotherhood?  Claudia becomes an Assassin! Yey! I like Ezio's sister much more then I like Ezio. Too bad you never see her do a hell of a lot... Just run the Brothel.

September ~ You Went By Too Fast.

This was a really boring month. Which I guess is a good thing, it sped by though... I don't really even remember September.

Do I remember what I bought though?  Yep!

Sailor Moon Voume 7 -  Maybe I should have waited for later in October and just bought the second box set for the Manga, but... I figure if I'm careful I can actually get each volume cheaper then the box set as a whole.
      Plus, the box doesn't look that great and the last box the cardboard was a bit flimsy.  I don't really store Manga in a way that the box would even be useful.













Sailor Moon; Short Stories 1 -  Well, It's Sailor Moon.  Despite having no desire to involve myself with
the Sailor V Manga set, These Short Story books looked a bit more interesting.
     Although I was on the fence about this one, it has Chibi Usa and ChibiChibi on the cover so... I figured it'd be all about Chibi Usa.  I was right, it was mainly small stories about Chibi Usa and for some reason ChibiChibi isn't involved in a single story in the book.  Uhg.
      Here's hoping the second book is better.







Star Trek Into Darkness BluRay/DVD Combo & Star Trek BluRay-  Walmart you amaze me sometimes, it's like you can read my mind.  We got the first Star Trek before we had a BluRay player so, it was DVD only.  Walmart, for some amazing reason bundled the newest movies combo back with the older movies BluRay.
     Awful Price?  Nope.  It was the same price as the Combo Pack alone.  Yey!

Network Purchases: Nothing!  This is a dead month a very dead month.


ICO;  This is a prime example of expecting too much out of a game and then being extremely disappointed. Not sure why I was expecting amazing, but it certainly isn't that great.  It is pretty though.


Resident Evil Chronicles HD Collection;  There were two games here, I only let one of them download and I really can't remember which one it was. Didn't expect much from this game and that's what I got, the controls are rather frustrating.
      Only played it for maybe an hour, may try for more at a later date.


Galaga Legions DX;   This looks like an arcade game, it probably was an arcade game at one point in it's life. Shooting little space invader things with a tiny space ship.... This is oddly addictive.


Sailor Moon 7 -                                7.38
Sailor Moon Short Stories-                     5.82
Star Treks -                                  21.00


Total:                                        34.20

Free Games {The Growing List}

Ratchet and Clank: All 4 One
Darksiders
InFAMOUS 2
Quantum Conundrum
Closure
Joe Danger 2: The Movie
Spec. Ops: The Line
The Cave
MALICIOUS
Labyrinth Legends
Sleeping Dogs
Knytt Underground
Pinball Arcade
Saints Row: The Third
Deus Ex Human Revolution
Uncharted 3
Little Big Planet Karting
Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee HD
Runner 2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien
Hitman Absolution
ICO
Resident Evil Chronicles HD Collection
Galga Legions DX

Last Rebellion

System:   PS3

Bought:   2012


Started:  Sept. 16th  2013
Beat:      Sept 18th 2013


Trophies:   19 out of 19


Idea:   The game takes place in the world of Junovald, a world where one of the Gods {Formival} has decided to make it where monsters just don't die. On the verge of death, the monsters souls leave their bodies and kind of mutate into meaner, stronger monsters.  This cycle can only be broken by one set up..
       Blades and Sealers, the Goddess Meitilia's answer to her counter parts dabbles. Blades can kill these beasts and then a Sealer can "seal" their souls to prevent them from resurrecting.
       You play as Nine, a reluctant Blade that was adopted by the King of the Country. One day the King brings a strange statuesque object into the castle, soon after Nine's adopted brother{Alfred} kills the King and then kills Nine as well.
       Then there is Aisha, a sealer of great power who Nine had just met before his quick demise. Oddly, she was there for Alfreds murders but he didn't touch her. Anyways, she uses a forbidden Sealer spell{Freyavalmis} to bring Nine back to life...sort of.
      Nine and Aisha are using the same body, when one is out in the real world the other is in the Vamino Room.  They can "switch out" anytime they like, always know what the other is doing and can talk to each other {even though it looks like you're talking to yourself}.
    So, Nine and Aisha set off to stop Alfred from doing whatever it is he's planning to.

Characters....

Nine Asfel;  A sarcastic little asshole that is always speaking his mind and seems to care about basically nothing, He's a very powerful Blade, but he hates Blades and Sealers.
       Reason for the Sealer hate is apparently that they are too self sacrificing and he hates that. By the end of the game though, I think he really has feelings for Aisha.

Aisha Romadine;  An extremely powerful Sealer, it's not known till much later but... her powers before casting the Forbidden spell were so strong that she couldn't control them.  She accidentally "sealed" a lot of peoples souls at one point and was the cause for the Sealer/Blade Wars many years ago.
       People wanted her dead.

Sephie Enis;  A sealer girl with catish ears and tail, Nine/Aisha find her in the laboratory that the bad guys were killing Sealers in.  At first she thinks Nine is her "Daddy", he apparently smells like him.  Later it's found out that he "smells" like him because Sephie's father is one of the innocent people that Aisha had sealed.. many years ago.

So Adorable & Irritating.

Jacob Wybrim;  An older man, he was once a Blade and is now an inventor of sorts. He's the one who made the Vandred...


Alfred Formilio;  The son of the ex-king and Nine's adopted brother, he's a Blade just like Nine but... he's nowhere near as powerful.
        One day his father allows him to go into battle with his Sealer, Milly.  The two of them were in love, it's said that she's the one that dies but....really... He must have.  Milly casts the Freyavalmis spell and saves his life, but she's not strong enough to last all that long and ends up dying.
      This pretty much made Alfred go nutty and he decides with the help of some freaky guy to resurrect Milly.

Azelride Lorvin;  The current King of the country, Nine and Alfreds "dad". He dies in the beginning of the game, but his body goes missing. Turns out he is actually the Final Boss, not much of one but he is...
      He wanted Alfred or Nine to destroy the barriers that he himself had created, not really expecting Nine to be the one to live of course... Now the King is uber strong and the final battle ensues.
      Back again, the King really wasn't evil. Apparently he was just using his body to draw up Formival's power and when his body is destroyed the power goes...somewhere.
   

Thoughts:  This game wasn't....terrible.  It was extremely easy though and the story line was mediocre. I did enjoy the battles though, having to hit each monsters body part in a certain order to get max damage and gain max exp was actually really fun.  Addicting even.   That's probably why I over leveled and some parts of the game were just a breeze.
       The only irritating monster in the game was, I believe... Orange 4.  The status Ailments were a real pain in the ass and the battle went on forever, I probably just did it wrong and there was some easy way to off it but yea..
      All and all, the game cost like 10 Dollars. I got to kill Prinny's and got a really easy Platinum Trophy out of it.


The End:   I shouldn't say it was disappointing since I wasn't really expecting much to begin with, but it was. You only get a vague feel to what happened after you defeat Alfred and the King.  It doesn't even say if Nine becomes the King or that helper of the King does..
       After the credits it does show that Sephie is still with Jacob, she smells "Daddy Wannabe"... Then says that everyone says he's "gone".  Which I figure to mean he went exploring or something though he could be dead. No idea.
      Then it shows Aisha right after she had cast the Freyavalmis spell to save Nine, wondering why she'd do that with someone she had just met.. My guess is she was lonely.  The other Kingdom had her locked up alone for so long that she just didn't want to be alone anymore.
       Are they dead? Not sure. Doubt it.  Are they still together? Probably.  Will never know what exactly happened since the game did so poorly.

   The funnest part of this whole game is the end, hunting the Oranges and Prinnys.  ^_^   The names for the Trophies themselves are quite amusing too, maybe the most amusing I've seen so far.

Azumanga Daioh

Episodes:  26

How:  DVD  {Owned}

Grade:    A

Summary: Azumanga Daioh is about high school life through the eyes of six girls with unusual personalities: Chiyo (the 10-year-old genius), Osaka (the resident airhead), Sakaki (the shy one prone to cat bites), Tomo (the loose cannon), Yomi (the short-tempered one) and Kagura (the resident jock).

Thoughts:  I attempted to watch this show years ago and couldn't even get through the first episode, it bored me to tears.  Now, I'm not sure why... maybe my preference has changed and I like more casual and unusually amusing shows.
      Azumanga is of course a slice of life type show and it surrounds just one group of girls and a few teachers within the school, there's nothing all that magical about it {other than Chiyo's father?}and there's no fighting and really no fanservice either.
     It's just, life...for these girls.  An amusing life but still...

Who we have....


Chiyo Mihama- A 10 year old in High School, at least at the start of the show. I suppose by the end she's... 12 or 13.  She's obviously incredibly smart to have skipped from 5th grade all the way up to tenth, which of course is a bit of a running joke in the series. Seeing she's smarter then most the older students and she's just so tiny...
         Her family is also quite rich, though you never actually see her parents in the series {not counting the strange Chiyo's Father floating around.}  It's Chiyo's summer house that they spend their breaks at, including the teachers oddly.
     Her only true disadvantage is her size, making her other unconfident in the sports and physical activity area.
      At the end of the series she's the only one not taking the college entrance exams, deciding to go abroad to America where they are a little more tolerant of such a young person going into Colleges.

Tomo Takino-   The annoying, overly energetic yet lazy academically girl.  She's been best friends with Yomi since grade school and loves to irritate her. If she's on the screen she's usually doing something to cause some sort of ruckus.
    Apparently, she's not a total moron though.  For High School Entrance exams she wanted to get intot he same HS as Yomi and did.  I really think Yomi telling her she couldn't do it was what fueled her to actually do it however....  after being accepted she went back to her Knucklehead Ways.

Ayumu Kasuga/Osaka-  I love this character, she transferred in from Osaka and figuring that she'd act like a normal Osakan, Tomo nicknamed her "Osaka" which really stuck.. Even to the point of her teachers calling her it and it was in the official sheets for the school.
     Seeing as I watched the show with an English Dub, her dub actress gave her a slow, southern type sound which made her quite amusing.   She's a bit dense when it comes to pretty much everything and is a member of the "Bonkuras" or "Knuckleheads".
     Somehow, she did pass an entrance exam and get into a college.

Koyomi Mizuhara-  Yomi for short, she's been friends with Tomo since grade school and is pretty much her exact opposite.  Smart, calm...not really annoying.   She does seem to get a little annoyed that Chiyo scores better grades then her and at the end of the series has to wait the longest to see if she gets into any of her college picks.
       Yomi also has a bit of a body image problem and is constantly dieting...then falling off her diet... Tomo kind of pokes fun at this throughout the show.

Sakaki-  The mature looking one, tall and well endowed she's incredible with athletics {though she's not in any clubs} and apparently not so bad with academics either.  With her attitude rather distant most the time the fact she LOVES cute things is lost on most people.
      She's always trying to pet this stray cat, but it keeps biting her.. she's also absolutely in love with Chiyo's dog Mr Tadakichi.  It's not until near the end of the series when Sakaki finally gets a cat that likes her, an Iriomote cat gets attached to her while on the class trip to Okinawa.
     At the end of the series she decides to go to school to become a Veterinarian and since she's moving out of her parents house she can actually keep some pets.

Kagura-   She joins the main class in the 2nd year, only being shown a little during the 1st.  She seems to have been brought over so that Yukari's class would have a better chance during the Athletic contest during the year.
    She's on the schools swim team, is very athletic and has some sort of one sided rivalry going on with Sakaki.  Who tends to beat her at most everything without even trying.


Minamo Kurosawa/Nyamo- She's the gym teacher and in many ways she's the "Yomi" in the best friend relationship with Yukari {who is the "Tomo"}.  The students really seem to like her and Yukari seems a bit jealous by this.
    In one episode, during the summer beach house events she gets drunk and tells the girls about sex. Most of the girls are quite impressed by this but.. poor little Chiyo may be scared for life.

Yukari Tanizaki-  The girls homeroom and English teacher, she's a bit of a....nutjob. Yep, she's just a freaking lunatic sometimes.  She's best friends with the gym teacher Nyamo and likes to freeload off her.



The End:   The girls all get into college and I'm not really sure what the teachers end up doing, That's pretty much all there is to say about that.  Oh, They also ALL get to go to the amusement park together seeing that Yomi missed the last time due to being ill.

-Other Stuff-

The only male that really shows up in the series is Kimura, an eccentric teacher that is a bit of a pervert. Always trying to peek at the girls in the swimsuits or any other revealing outfit.  He also has some strange hangup on Kaorin.

Kaori-  Called Kaorin by her friends and the perv Kimura, she has a very strange infatuation with Sakaki. It's although she's in love with her, but Sakaki doesn't even notice.

Chiyo's Father- Although he's never seen in the series, Sakaki had a dream that he was an odd looking flying cat alien.

Chiyo's Hair-  Osaka has many dreams about Chiyo's pigtails and that they have the power to make people fly. Also, that they are controlling Chiyo and if you take them off she dies.

Dragon Fantasy Book 1

System:  PS3

Bought:  August 28th

Started:   August 28th
Beat:   September 6th

Trophies:  12 out of 12

Idea:  This is an "old school" RPG, random battles and irritating dungeons.  It's broken down into three "Chapters" and the "Intermission",  the chapters revolve around a certain character and the stories play off one another.
       Chapter 1; I'd say it's the main chapter that follows Ogden, he use to be a major hero that saved the princess at the cost of his hair. Now?  Just one of the Queens Knights.  During a ceremony where the Queen was passing the kingdom to her son {Prince Marion}, a dark knight shows up out of nowhere and kidnaps the prince.
        Ogden attempts to fight the Dark Knight, but gets his butt kicked... he's then ported off to another place and the adventures start.  Over the few hours that the chapter lasts Ogden meets pirates, gathers an armor set, regains his hero status by saving the prince and defeating the dark lord. Yey!

        Chapter 2; "The Heir Apparent"  This chapter follows Prince Anders, Marion's brothers. After his brother is kidnapped and a plague overtakes the castle he and a couple guards set off to find a strange Artifact. {I forgot the name}.

         Chapter 3;  "Operation Desert Plunder" Centers around Jerald and Ramona and really has the worse ending of the three chapters. Ramona is Jeralds niece and the two of them are trying to find a way out of the desert kingdom of Sandheim.
       The two of them need 20k to buy a passport to get out of the Kingdom, once they finally save up the money the guards and "king" are assholes and won't let you go.  That and of course the fact their demons of some sort...
       Oh, yea... Jerald gets a hold of the artifact that Anders had sent out and apparently developed some sort of uber powers.

        Intermission;  This was actually a bit dumb, but that's okay....Many of the characters from the other chapters are present and they are somehow knocked into what seems to be an RPG...  It was just... odd.
      The ending was cute though, once the sleeping guy wakes up he / commands them all back to their own world.

Thoughts:  This game was very, basic...the script was rather amusing in the beginning but.... it did start to drag a little.  I probably won't be buying the second one unless{until} there's a price drop like this one had {2.50}.
       It was a nice little jaunt to take my mind off all the Assassin Creed stuff I had been playing before.


The End:  It's in the air really, Prince saved, artifact found, but with the third chapter you aren't really sure what happens.  Did the guy destroy all the bad guys or not? Who knows.  It will probably be continued in Dragon Fantasy Book 2.....