Comiket, Day 3, around 3:05pm

And I got all I wanted from Comiket, flawlessly completed my mission for this Comiket.

This year’s Comiket saw an increase of 10K people compared to the last few years. Estimately 180,000 people attended just on Day 1. And I’m one of it.

Proud? Not really, Satisfying? Not really. But is it one of the best? HELL YES. Personally speaking of course. After running through crowds that broke the heavens, suffered myself from the heat for ongoing 4 hours with barely anything to cover myself from the heat – To get those stuff I wanted is like heading myself for a Touchdown in Amercian Football with a wall preventing me from passing. But still the mission is completed flawlessly…only some not quite.

Came back with sunburnt body and physicially tired body. That’s to be expected. Afterall Comiket is never meant to be fun. It’s war.

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I have a weak spot for cute things. I admit, though I don’t show.

This video is the VOCALOID rendition of the song “smooooch･∀･”, which is originally a song from Beatmania IIDX EMPRESS. I personally do not really play DJ Music games due to myself sucked at it big time, but I am fond with the videos and the song, and only to the extent of enjoy it. One such game would be EZ2DJ game series. Loved the song and the graphics, though the animation itself is debatable – Some are lovely, some are plain “meh”

Here’s the original rendition of the movie.

If you look around Nico, there is also Touhou version roaming around. But unlike Sankaku, I do not have the ability to embed videos from there, so a link will have to do for now. Hopefully you own an account at least to view them!

Touhou Version 1

Touhou Version 2 – Subterranian Animism

Enjoy some addictive music!

Come to think about it, there was a time where writting C75 reports seem to be a hassle thing. But given that I’m out of stressful times and currently left with quite a free time to write reports and etc. I guess a little report wouldn’t hurt. Especially when it comes to backlogs of entries that I need to clear. And C.I, he’s plain noisy about my reports, you’re all welcome to bash him up! With rage if you so desire!

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Here, have a Cow New Year Girls!

First of all, Happy New Year. Though 5 days late.

Considering that there aren’t many entries made, and this blog is still new. I am taking it easy and not too rush into writing many stuff as of yet. But an update never hurts.

IF there are any lack of updates, I blame my animation project that took me almost 80% of my free time – the remaining 20% would be free time : Recently hooked into a game called “Dissidia : Final Fantasy”, Kannagi (Marathoned it) Eat, and Sleep. Boring life I know. I never got to even enjoy my Japanese New Year, save that I actually stayed up to wait for 初日 (shonichi), which is basically the first sunrise in Japan. I did, and it was satisfying.

I know I am suppose to write a report about Comiket75, but to condense it and not make it TL;DR (it’s for my next entry), let’s just say that both the releases of doujins and the experience has been extremely satisfying. Though my regret was that I couldn’t get Nise’s new doujin on time. But I got my T2 Clannad doujin. So it’s all good. Better than C74, personally in my opinion.

If there is anyone who expects more entries from this blog, I promise that it will be somewhat satisfying this year as the anime announcement and it’s releases seems to be promising. I can’t promise to blog everything. But I’ll do whatever I can, 2008 has been great to me so far, so hopefully 2009 keeps it up.

また会おう！

Yes, for all of those who followed, he made a small rant about how his doujin works are getting strayed out of his original intention where people might know Touhou through spinoff doujins and, in this case, the upcoming anime from Maikaze; Not from his games.

But however, has he ever thought of the fact that with this superbly well done Touhou doujin anime here :

Part I

Part II

…might actually gave people around, who has no knowledge about the anime here, a big insight of how Touhou is ironically, done accordingly to what ZUN had done to his games in the past, and as well to actually trigger people to put attention to his games and more importantly, his creations? If I am ignorant of Touhou’s existence up till now : I would have look through Wiki, and try my hands on the game (using whatever method available), and get hooked with ZUN’s wonderfully created works of art here? In a way I’m not ignoring the existence of the his games. He just needs to be less selfish. People have their various ways of knowing works through any medias, it doesn’t have to be solely from his games.

However, I have my utmost respect for ZUN-sama for creating such a wonderful masterpiece. I just hope that he would just acknowledge the existence of the anime and eventually, since Touhou has grown so big that, sooner or later it will have to go commercial, he can’t control it forever. In a way, this is like how Type-Moon gone commercial. And they are smart.  God knows Kinoko Nasu might be sitting on his chair shaking legs counting money right now, enjoying his success and popularity?

It’s just a sooner or later thing now.

P/S : Maikaze, My very utmost respect for you. THIS CANNOT BE DOUJIN ANIME. GOOD LORD, HOW CAN THIS THING BE AN AMATEUR PIECE OF WORK?
P.P/S : Comiket 75 left both of my legs crippled. My legs died, but I enjoyed this much more than C74. Reports coming up soon.

I don’t care if this is late news, but this is awesome…

The news here

It might not feature every single character, but looking at the cover this is a MUST get because of the color usage used for this. Sounds promising as well – But what’s REALLY great : For a supposed doujin anime, they managed to get the SEIYUUS. Mai Nakahara as Reimu is damn unexpected for one. Rie Tanaka being Sakuya Izayoi is kind of understandable given her role as Suigintou in Rozen Maiden before. And with it, Touhou might go commercial. But whether it is a good news or not is still depending on how it will turn out in the end. But with the upcoming release of it – going to Comiket might worth SOMETHING after all!