Brothers: a Tale of Two Sons.

System:  PSN/PS3



Bought:  Free on PSN for January



Started:  Feb 17th
Beat:  Feb 25th



Trophies:  12 of 12
                 No Plat.


Idea:  You play as two brothers, who have recently lost their mother and are now trying to get the cure for their fathers mystery ailment.

Thoughts:  Let me first say that the controls on this game were quite unique, at least to me. You control the older brother with the left stick and the younger with the right, of course if a person lacked any sort of coordination this would simply be a nightmare.
      It's a very short game, insanely even...if I had paid I believe the 15$ asking price I'd be a bit irritated. Some people say there's replay value, but eh...not really.  It's nice to look at and everything, but there's really nothing "different" to do to make you want to go through it again.
    The story is amazing and heartbreaking, I cried a little at the end and....yea...  I couldn't believe they ended it like that.  The music matches the game as well...  lets just say there's nothing to really complain about, but the length.. which even though short it got the job done nicely.

To the game..


       You start with the younger brother {Naiee}mourning his mother at her tombstone on a cliff overlooking the ocean, she apparently drowned and he was too weak/small to save her. In the background you hear some coughing and such and then the older brother {Nyaa} calls for the younger.  The two of them take him to the village doctor...
       The doctor tells/shows Nyaa what's needed to save their father and off on the adventure they go.  It's really strange how everyone just kinda points off in a direction like "Oh... It's just over there.."  when in fact it seems to be half way across the bloody world. Kind of a dangerous world too...
     Your first problem is actually in the village itself, there's a little shithead that keeps trying to block your path... you get him back for this however by opening a cage and letting a rowdy dog have it's way with him.
     Throughout the game different items or people will have different reactions when interacting with either the younger or older brother.  The younger being more playful or irritating and the older being more.. serious. Animals really seem to like Naiee better then his older brother as well..
     Once you finally get through the village and past a dog guarding what looks to be a hay field you come across, a Troll?  He aids the two in climbing through the mountains and once you reach a cave system you realize why that Troll looked so sad earlier.  Some other Trolls had taken his girlfriend!  You save her, battle the bad trolls then "Oh... It's over there.." away you go!
     Through forests, over mountains, through the air.  You save a man attempting to hang himself from a tree because his wife and child died when their house burnt down, climbing into the burnt house you bring him a music box and this seems to help him a little... No idea if he continues on after the two leave him but hey.. I'd like to think he did.
    Eventually you get to a Giants castle where you rescue a captive Griffin, the Griffin takes to the younger brother more so than the elder, but he allows the both of them to ride on his back until finally... he succumbs to his injuries and dies {sorta}.
     While navigating your way through a field of dead, giant warriors the two brothers come across a girl being sacrificed by some crazy looking tribe.  Saving her from the lot the three of you race off into the icy regions of the area...
     Maybe we should have let the girl die.

Nyaa seems to start liking this girl, Naiee seems to either just not like how close they are becoming or suspects something up and....there is.  She turns into a giant bloody spider... Yes.... A spider woman. Capturing the two boys at first, they escape and into battle they go. While Nyaa is pulling her legs off one by one {kinda mean} she impales him before she dies.
     Nyaa is injured badly, Naiee is helping his brother through the trails and to the end of their journey. It's a bit annoying that they were so close to their goal, after everything they had been through before it was this girl that tricked them and... finally at the Tree of Life.... Nyaa dies.  Naiee attempts to give his brother the liquid from the tree, but it's too late... he crys, he digs a gave for his brother and just as I thought he was going to have to walk back.   The presumed dead Griffin shows up...
      The Griffin carries Naiee back to his home, dropping him off on the shore he has to cross the river again.. facing his fear of the water he swims himself across the water.  During this part the controls start to become different... you use the older brothers left side along with the younger right...  It's as though the older brothers spirit is helping him across the river.
      Naiee gets the cure to the doctor that saves his father... the end of the game is the father and Naiee standing at that cliff from earlier, now with a tombstone for Nyaa there as well.  The father breaks down and crys....  The End.

Creepy Dream Sequence..

DMC: Devil May Cry

System:    PS3


Bought:  Free on PSN for January


Started:    Jan 13th
Beat:         Feb 3rd

Trophies:   30 of 59


Idea:  You play as Dante, a basic asshole.  No, I guess that's not the only thing he is. At first he's just a playboy bad ass until he meets Kat and then Vergil.  They introduce him to what he and the city he lives in really is.
     You end up jumping between realities and killing demons while attempting to free the city from a demon overlord and sort of trying to avenge your mother and father, who he killed/enslaved.

Thoughts:  It may be a good thing that I never played the first three or four games of this, this is a reboot and it's actually not very good.  The gameplay is fine, sort of reminding me of Darksiders, but damn the story is generic.
       Your main character Dante is a Nephillim, when he and his twin brother were very young their parents Eva {an Angel} and Sparda {a demon} were killed/enslaved by Mundus {King of the Demons}. While there Mundus only saw one of the boys so he believed there was just one Nephillim {Dante}.
      Present day, Dante has spent all his life hunted by demons without actually knowing why. He believes he lost his early memories to a bout of meningitis, one morning after taking two chicks home from a bar he meets Kat who warns him of a Hunter Demon that finds him and pulls him into Limbo.

Human Barbos.

     Kat "saves" him sorta and after explaining to him that she's a member of the rebel group "The Order" she brings him to meet with it's leader, Vergil.  Turns out Vergil is his twin brother that is dedicated to the task of releasing the city from the demons clutches.
       The demons, with Barbos being their semi-leader in the city is using an energy drink known as Virility to control the humans {the drink is actually made by a succubus}.  Dante's recruited to help with this task...




Ending:  Kat gets abducted by Barbos who also doesn't realize that there are two Nephillim and wants Dante to surrender himself for Kat. Vergil of course won't alllow this to happen so, they use the information that Dante learned earlier of Barbos girlfriend {whore?} being pregnant with his heir to their advantage. They go and kidnap her....
          Trade time.  During the trade, Lilith for Kat... Vergil shoots Lilith from behind and kills both she and the child.  This pisses off Barbos to no end...
      Back with Dante and Vergil, Kat helps them break into Barbos' tower for the final battle. Dante fighting his way through while Vergil is playing backup with the computery stuff and shutting down the demon gate. Demon gate shut down, Barbos dead and.......  *gasp*   Barbos isn't the final bad guy.
      With Barbos gone, Vergil has every intention to fill that void.  He'll be the new "nice" leader for the humans and the like since they need protection from the demons and all.  Dante doesn't like the idea and the two of them fight...
      Blah,Blah,Blah,  Dante wins and Vergil leaves... Kat's still with Dante and The End.



Character...

Kat -   A human that works closely with Vergil, he apparently "saved" her and has been teaching her to use her abilities. At the end it's pretty obvious that he really doesn't care a bit about her though and was basically just using her to get what he wanted.
       Anyways, she's really a sweet girl and seems to have worked her way into Dante's heart {kinda}. When she was younger, her adopted father would do bad things to her.... during the events she would try to put her mind elsewhere.. that lead to her being able to Astral project.
      Not much else is revealed about her, but she certainly has a soft spot for Vergil. Even after he reveals his true plans after Barbos' death.





Maybe I should eventually play the other DMCs, there is a collection out for the PS3.... If I ever get around to finishing all the God of Wars, I may just pick it up.  Maybe.   Dante in any form doesn't really spark my interest much.

Odds I will ever Plat this?  0%.   I am in no way up for the task of playing this game through five more time. Glad it was free, if I had bought it...I probably would kick myself.

Haha.

Ponyo

How:  Netflix Rental

Grade:   C-


Thoughts:   This was probably the third time I attempted to watch this movie, the first being before it was released dub and the second while it was on TV while dubbed.  Having such a familiar voice in the movie that is Liam Neeson kind of hurt it for me. {I will find you, and I will kill you.}
        Anyways, I did watch it in both and I do prefer the sub over all. Now, to the movie itself..

A little boy Sousuke is playing outside his house, near the beach and finds a strange looking goldfish... he puts her in a bucket and brings her home.  This is no ordinary goldfish though, she's the daughter of the sea goddess  "Granmammare" and a sea wizard Fujimoto.
     While with Sousuke she licks a cut on his hand, healing it in the process but... apparently since she sampled that human blood she can... magically start turning into a human.  This of course starts to occur after Fujimoto steals her back from Sousuke. He attempts to lock her into the goldfish form, but with the help of her goldfish siblings she escapes and goes back to Sousuke.
     Apparently, Ponyo using her powers to turn into a human form and such has created some sort of.... event.  A huge storm forms and floods the entire island that Sousuke lives on...

Goldfish!

Blah.

I don't actually want to write anymore on this one, the movie didn't really leave any great impression on me. In the end Ponyo looses her goldfish powers and becomes a human, to live with Sousuke who she loves{?}.
    Sousuke's father who works on a fishing boat or something gets home safe and all is happy... save for maybe Fujimoto who looses his daughter.
    Meh.

Ponyo does have a strange addiction to ham, which I found a little amusing...

 

January ~ It's Winter.

Let me start out by saying... It's fucking cold.  It shouldn't be this cold, I know it's winter and all, but come on....  This is Kentucky not Maine.  Temps not going above 20 during the day is something that just should not happen in Kentucky, ever...
       January Sucks, Winter Sucks.  Hope the bugs die at least...


Now on the spending side of things, I didn't do that bad this month... Only two things.

Finding Nemo DVD/BluRay Combo Pack- I've had this movie on my DVR for ages now, have watched it multiple times and finally caved in and bought it.

Ruin Explorers-  Found it used at Half Priced Books, it's a fun little show that I had watched a long time ago on VHS.  Maiden Japan has recently re-released it, but this is the ADV release.













Network Purchases;   There went that free five dollars from last month, they had a pretty nice sale and I grabbed Puppeteer. I was going to go for Rain, but I figured that may actually come free eventually... of course with my luck it will be Puppeteer that comes free.  Oh well.

It was a pretty good month in the free game world...


DMC: Devil May Cry;  Have never played the original DMC games, but I was always curious about this one. People say it's really bad....Eh.  Free is a perfect way to try it!

Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons;  Had been thinking about buying this game back when it was first released, now I'm glad I waited.  From what I've seen in the reviews it should be really good....

BioShock Infinite; I do not have much hope for this game, but it's in my download list.  Will try it.... someday.


Finding Nemo Combo Pack-         23.00
Ruin Explorers-                   5.00
Puppeteer -                       2.00


Total:                           30.00


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
Shadow of the Colossus
Dragons Dogma Dark Arisen
ibb & obb
Borderlands 2
DMC: Devil May Cry
Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons
BioShock Infinite

Sword Art Online 1 thru 14

Thoughts;  I was really late to this boat, the anime didn't seem all that interesting to me when it was first aired back in 2012.  Ooo, Wow.  You're stuck in a game.  *eye roll*  After watching part of Log Horizon however, I decided to give this one a shot too... if not just for a comparison.
        The only part I like more about SAO so far is, the fact if you die in game you die IRL as well. It gives it more edge... more need to survive... Not that the main character Kirito really ever has any major OMG moments.  He's extremely over powered in the game... Sure, he was a beta so he knew where to level better than most, but really... for a solo player he is extremely over powered.
       As for Asuna, I like her....her character is cool and she's not so overly powered that it seems unrealistic. Well, before she started getting with Kirito...  after she's turned into a goob kinda.
     The ending was really lame, I wasn't expecting the SAO part of the show to end while they were on the 75th floor.  Of course, I don't think I could stand watching Kirito and Asuna play house for another 10+ episodes either.  Uhg.
    Also, what's with all the Yui love?  Oh goody, Kirito and Asunas love and happiness summoned her there or whatever.. it was like they had a daughter all the sudden.  Oye.  What this show could have been..
I'm not even sure if I want to continue on after 14...
    I want to say the "Final Battle" was epic and all, but it wasn't.  Asuna dies like the flake she becomes and Kirito goes god mod on the guy..  I'll admit I was actually sort of surprised that Heathcliff was really the creator in a game disguise... I guess it really is no fun just watching people play a game.
    For a few years...

Breakdown....


Episode 1 -  Introductions and what's happening, the game has just been fully released with 10,000 units sold. Players are logging in and enjoying the game and such, after some time they start to notice that they can't log out.  A glitch maybe?
      Kirito, our main character and beta player has just met Klein a newbie who came from another game and is waiting for his guild mates from that game to log on in SAO.  Kirito shows him the ropes for a bit, but goes off by himself once Kayaba shows up and tells them what's going on.
     They must clear the game to leave the game, 100 Floors of the tower.  One month goes by, 2,000 people are killed and not even the first floor has been cleared.

Episode 2  -  Kirito meets with other players to go take out the first floor boss, he meets and teams up with Asuna {a pretty girl!} to go into this mission.  There's a bunch of player hate for the beta people because they know more about the game and have been taking the good quests and leveling quicker then the others. Just not helping the lower ranks in general...
     After the boss is defeated, Kirito gets the special last hit item and comes forward as a beta player and brings the hate on himself by admitting to be a "Beater" or a beta cheater.  Asuna and he part, he tells her that she should join a good guild if she finds one..

Episodes 3 -  It's four months in now, players have finally organized enough to form powerful guilds to slowly start clearing the tower.  Kirito joins a low level guild while concealing the fact that he's level 40, he makes some friends and has some fun, but that all comes to an end when they accidentally stumble into a trap room.
     Uber monsters show up and kill most the guild, then the leader type person who wasn't there at the time blames Kirito and kills himself.

Episode 4 - In his wandering, Kirito happens by a Beast Tamer named Sillica. Her familier dragon Pina had just been killed trying to protect her from a monster type and Kirito offers to help her get the item that can rezz her.
          Sillica is cute and small, people tend to keep her around because of this. She's kind of like a mascot and this drives her insane...or makes her angry.  Anyways, on their journey to get this Pneuma Flower they run into a player that she had been partied with earlier.
         Rosalia, a member of the orange player guild known as Titan's Hand shows up with a few of her guild members to take the flower away from Sillica.  Kirito of course steps in and beats their ass.
       Back in town, Sillica revives her pet and Kirito goes back to the front lines.

Episodes 5  & 6 -   Asuna is back!   She's now the Vice Commander of the Knights of Blood Oath guild and one of the people who have been clearing the tower. Anyways, she and Kirito meet up and have a date of sorts...well...not really...they relax some in the grass.
    A mystery is brewing,  while in town a man is somehow killed. Long story short, more people "die" when it's just their armor "breaking" and them teleporting away.  Turns out there's just a bunch of guild drama that Kirito and Asuna stuck their nose into....not their guilds by the way.

Episode 7 -  Enter Lisbeth or "Liz", Asuna's friend and skilled blacksmith. Seems Asuna referred Kirito to her and he shows up wanting a sword better then the one he owned.  She doesn't have the materials to make a better sword then what he has so, the two of them go on a little adventure to get what's needed.  Dragons and a bet of danger later and she has a huge crush on him... only to be squished down when Asuna shows up and she realizes he's the one that Asuna likes.  Tada.

Episodes 8 & 9 -  Asuna can cook, really, really well. Kirito brings her a high leveled rabbit type creature to cook and she makes him a meal.   Then the two of them go on a date of sorts, on the 74th floor.  This is only after Kirito beats up her "bodyguard" that objected to her going off with some weirdo... talk about over protective.
         On the 74th floor the two of them find the boss room, this is a big mean boss and the two of them turn tail and run... quickly.  After their retreat they run into the guild "The Army" hunting on the floor and they go to the boss room despite Kirito and Asune warning them against it.
     Oh yea, Klein and his friends are there too.  After realizing the Army was trying to defeat the floor boss the three of them run in to try to save the under leveled guild.  Long story short, things get very bad and Kirito has to show off his new....unique skill.   He's a dual blade, apparently the only one in the game at the moment and the word of this spreads like wildfire. He beats the boss basically by himself... Yey! OP.
    Now, Asuna wants to take a LOA from her guild to party {date} with Kirito more but her guilds leader Heathcliff will have none of that... Unless Kirito can defeat him.

Episode 10-  Kirito fights Heathcliff and looses, amazingly.  Kirito is forced to join the Blood Oath guild or whatever it's called and during his training time or whatever Asuna's bodyguard from the other episode try to kill him and ends up killing one of the other Blood Oath members.    Time to get Boring, Kirito and Asuna leave to live together in a cabin.

Uhg, Die Please.

Episodes 11 and 12 -  Asuna has turned into loving wifey type and Kirito the husband type, then a little girl shows up to be the child type.   Uhg.  The little girl is Yui at first they think she's a really young player, but it turns out she some sort of computer program that has lost it's way or some crap.
       People love her, but she's annoying.   This whole part of the show is annoying and starts the downward spiral that turns this series into crap.

Episodes 13 & 14 -   There's a relatively nice part about an old man fishing and a giant monster fish, then the episodes just start to suck again.
       75th Floor Battle,  Asuna and Kirito are called back to the front line to help with the boss battle. With Heathcliff and other players they defeat the boss... and Kirito realizes something.  Heathcliff is an immortal object just like Yui was... He's not a computer program though... He's the creator of the game Akihiko Kayaba!
       Lots of talking, some fighting, Asuna "dies" and Kirito breaks the game and "kills" Heathcliff.  They have beat the game!  The world is crumbling and players are finally able to "log out".... at least the players that are still alive...
      Since they both kinda died, Asuna and Kirito are the last people out of the game.  They have a little chat and share with each other their real names..  Asuna Yuuki and Kazuto Kirigaya.  Awakening in the real world... Kazuto in the hospital, frail and weak from his years in the game slowly and carefully sets off to find Asuna.


Will I ever go past 14?  Probably. When?  No idea.

Really, this is all I am going to type about this show for now. It's just....No. 

December ~ It Was a Long Month.

Ever year December is pretty bad.  Not only do I buy stuff for people, but there are sales on Anime and Games that are difficult not to take advantage of...

Though, honestly.... I don't think I did very bad on holding back this year... On self spending that is.

Here it goes....



Mushishi The Complete Series S.A.V.E Edition:  This was streaming on Netflix for ages, but I never really watched much of it..a couple episodes. I liked it, it's the type of show I tend to watch and all so I finally decided to just buy it.
      This also marked my first S.A.V.E. Edition of an Anime, I was really surprised when I received it. The case it comes in is really nice as far as what Anime companies have been using recently. Looks like all the normal Mushishi DVDs in one case.  The green bar on the side is of course, Ugly.  That can be changed just by taking the cover off and flipping it over.
    Even with the green side bar, I found this release to be much more impressive then Sentai's BluRay.






Ghost Hunt S.A.V.E. Edition  & Corpse Princess S.A.V.E. Edition:  After having liked the Mushishi's S.A.V.E. release so much. I decided to order these two from the RightStuf sale, at first the order was quite a bit...larger.  Just these two were both OOS at the time so they ended up coming in a second package...  The first package has apparently been lost in the mail.  Uhg.
      Ghost Hunt, I know I love. I've watched it a few times all ready either via Netflix or Fansubs.  Corpse Princess, I've never seen before and honestly have no idea what it's about.  I guess that's my total "blind buy" for the season.

Playstation Plus 1 Year:  I ordered this from Walmart around Black Friday, I needed it anyway and I knew it wouldn't get any cheaper.  Walmart is an odd duck though, they sell the cards online.. one would think they'd just EMail you the code.
     Nope, it came in a bubble mailer.

 
 Banana Ninja Minion:  Okay, this was really just a random buy....I saw it at Walmart, just sitting there all cute and stuff.  Decided to give him a good home, before they were all sold out.
     Good thing I did at the time too, went back a couple days later and all the Minions were gone!

Mushishi-                       16.54
RightStuf-                      33.57
Playstation Plus-               29.96
Minion-                          8.00


Total:                           88.07



Network Purchases; Nothing really, I did a free month of Music Unlimited to get 5 Dollars for my virtual wallet.  Other then that, there was no real activity on the Network side of things.


Borderlands 2:  The only "free" game this month worth the trouble, maybe.  With the PS4 being released it made it a bit of a dead month for anything PS3.  Anyways, I haven't downloaded it yet but... I'm sure I will get around to it.

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
Shadow of the Colossus
Dragons Dogma Dark Arisen
ibb & obb
Borderlands 2

Silver Spoon

Episodes:    11

How:   CrunchyRoll

Grade:    A

Summary:  {From MAL}  Yugo Hachiken dreams of life separated from his family, so he takes the initiative by enrolling in an agriculture school. He thinks, with his talent in studying, no problems will arise no matter what kind of school he attends. He is proven wrong very quickly. Raised as a city boy, he is forced to uncover the inconvenient truth about agricultural life. Enjoy the story of Hachiken, as he tries to keep up with his new friends, farmers' heirs, who are already accustomed to the harsh world of farming. With no clear goals or understanding of farming life, how will Hachiken survive this new, cruel reality? The story of a sweat, tear, and mud-stained youth begins!



Thoughts:   This was a happy accident, an Anime about Farm life.  Never in a million years would I think I'd enjoy a show about raising farm animals and stuff, but here we are. The show has an excellent mix of drama, comedy and well.... live stock.
    In a way, I kind of wish I went to this type of school when I was in school. haha, waking up at 5 AM would have been a bit irritating at times, but... taking care of the animals looks like a lot of fun and great exercise I'd imagine.
     I spent most the show wondering why Hachiken was even at this High School, but when the older brother shows up and more of his background is established it really started to make sense.
     Glad there's a second season.


Who we have...

Mains.


Yugo Hachiken-  He may be the most lovable main character I've ever seen, the shock he exhibits with some of the ways of agriculture/farming is beyond amusing and sometimes a little sad.  Hachiken only goes to agricultural school because he wants to get away from his parents, his father is a bit of a butt head from what I've seen in the later episodes.  Making it where he doesn't even want to go home over Summer break.
      Since he has a bit of a crush on Aki, he joins the Equestrian Club even though he seems to be scared of horses at first.  Slowly he warms up to them and vise versa.  His relationship with the other students is really quite good, no one seems to dislike him and they really consider him someone they can talk to.
       Throughout the show though, he starts to realize that he has no goal in live.  Most if not all the students at this school are from farm families where they will be helping and eventually taking over for their parents. Hachiken needs to find some sort of passion in life....
     Early in the show, while visiting the pigs he falls in love with the runt of the litter.  Everyone told him not to name any of the baby pigs but... he couldn't help it.  He takes "Pork Bowl" under his wing and is constantly worried about him getting enough food...  in the end he makes sure Pork Bowl reaches an optimal weight to get a good price at market.... tearfully he ends up purchasing Pork Bowl {with the money he made over the Summer at Aki's} and makes food out of him.
     He sends some of the Bacon home to his parents, other parts to Mikage and Komaba's family and the rest is eaten by students and teachers, some for free and some purchased.

Aki Mikage-  The love interest, her family runs a small cow and horse farm specializing in Ban'ei race horses. Being the only child she's set in line to inherit the farm, but she isn't really sure she wants to. Of course, she can't tell her family this.
       She's the reason Hachiken joins the Equestrian Club, she absolutely loves horses and talks quite poetically about them.
      During the Summer break she takes Hachiken home with her to help out on their farm, for the most part he does quite well until he accidentally doesn't secure the hose to the milking machine and they loose quite a bit of milk.
      Her family is quite nice and caring, nothing like what Hachiken is use to and her grandmother may be the most amusing person on the show. Too bad she's not there more..


Ichiro Komaba-  The quiet, childhood friend of Aki.  They grew up on farms not far from each other and are quite close, this is a bit of a hot button of jealousy for Hachiken.
        Komaba helps his mother and younger, twin sisters run their small Dairy Farm when at home.  His father passed away several years ago and it's really very difficult for his mother to get by.  Komaba's hope is to become a pro-baseball player and improve the family farm.  Will this happen? I hope so.  It's looking pretty good in the first season seeing he is just a freshman and is all ready starting pitcher on the schools team.

Others....


Tamako Inada-  I love this girl, she's amusing and extremely driven.   She's also one of the only "fat" girls I've ever seen in an Anime, she's skinny for a few episodes after Summer break citing the sweating from the heat, but after the summer festival she's back at her Egg Shaped Weight!
      She too is a first year student in the dairy farming program,  she's actually rather scary obsessive about the bottom line.  Specializing in accounting and micro transactions, it's seen while Hachiken is visiting her family's mega farm that she's bent on taking over the business even before her parents want to relinquish it. Saying her parents aren't running it optimally...

Shingo Hachiken-  Yugo's older brother and once "golden child" to his parents, he was what Yugo can possibly never be.  Shingo was accepted to the University of Tokyo, the most prestigious University in all Japan...  Once accepted however he decided that was enough for him.   It made his fathers dream of having a child accepted there come true and....now he wanted to follow his own dream.  Becoming a Chef!
     It seems he has a superb since of taste, but he can't cook worth a damn.  Wandering about he finds Yugo on his parents behest {maybe?} while he's working at the Mikage farm.  Trying to be nice he nearly kills Mikage's family with his cooking and then again the students at the school during the Summer festival.
     He and Yugo don't really get along or at least it's sort of one sided, Yugo hates him and he tries to be a friendly older brother.

Pork Bowl-   Hachiken's Pig, he was the runt of the litter and was always pushed aside during meals... even when he was a baby pig he was forced to take the last teat.  He accepted his sad way of life,but Hachiken never could and always attempted to get him to fight for more food... and failed.
       In the end, he ended up a happy, fat piggy.....and then bacon and other pork  products for the school.  Poor Pork Bowl.






The End;  It wasn't really an end, there's a second season soon which is really good since it really leaves you wanting more.  Komaba gets to start in the baseball game even though he's a first year, Mikage actually admits to not being completely certain about wanting to inherit the family farm; at least the way it is now and Hachiken...well...he's still Hachiken.
    I'll miss poor little Pork Bowl, I bet he made some tasty bacon....Oh that sounds demented.  I'm really not sure if I could raise a pig just to slaughter and eat it.  At least they didn't show the slaughtering process of Pork Bowl.