Posts in November 2006 News & Notes Category
November 20, 20069:20PM: Got 1 hour, 39 minutes into Zelda: Twilight Princess so far. Going to go back to it in a bit here.. played some of Wii Sports first. Pretty fun -- bet it'll be even better with more than just me playing. My mom did a bit of bowling and did pretty well :) Anyways, all you other people out there with Wiis, my Wii Number is 1627 8945 2353 9113. Register that in you address book and post your number in the comments and I'll add you to mine. Send me a message with your Mii character or something ;)
So... just strike out all that I said yesterday about not being able to get one ;) I won a Wii + Zelda: Twilight Princess this morning on eBay for a good price, and it just happened that the guy I won it from worked in the Student Learning Center, so he was able to deliver it to me right there. Small world, ain't it? Anyways, I'll be away from the Interweb for a while once I get home and get it all set up, so.... just be patient and I'll post something if I can drag myself away from Zelda ;)
RUMOR: School Days Anime in 2007? (via MOON PHASE)
MOON PHASE received a tip that a School Days anime is planned for next year, and that Asreed (SHUFFLE!) would be doing animation for it. It would seem pretty likely that a School Days anime will be coming sooner or later, but we'll have to see whether the staff information here is correct or not.
Manabi Straight Website Renewal, Airdate Set (Manabi Straight Official Website)
Manabi Straight will be starting on TV Tokyo on January 7 at 25:30. I still haven't checked out the manga yet. Hopefully ufotable can pull this one together better than Coyote...
...it was absolutely pointless. I, self-proclaimed Nintendo fanboy many times over, am not quite hardcore enough, it would seem. Anyways, it goes something like this...
Friday night, while I was at the local Wal-Mart I asked the nice lady in electronics what they were doing for the Wii launch. She gave me a ticket and explained that since the manager didn't want any trouble they were going to be doing a drawing for Wiis at midnight the next day, and that you needed to be present in order to claim one. I saw about 10 or 15 tickets already in the pot there. So, after that I called the Wal-Mart on the east side of town and heard it was first-come, first-serve. Headed over there about 6pm Saturday evening... already 20 or so people in line ＿|￣|○
So, enter plan B, head to the Wal-Mart over on this side of town for the Wii raffle at midnight where I had at least a chance of obtaining one. I arrived at about 11:30pm and immediately headed back to electronics, where a sign which wasn't there the day before was posted over the counter with the following (approximate, this is from memory):
Give21 ticket per customer. The drawing for Wiis (20) will be done at 10:00pm. Wiis will be drawn for and sold at 12:01am on Sunday Nov. 19
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I don't really have to point out that the last sentence contradicts the information in the previous sentence. The manager or whoever apparently decided to change the rules. Thank you very much... and I'll stop myself here before I go into a rant.
Move to plan C... which was pretty much hopeless after midnight as expected -- a small tent city at Best Buy, a full line at Circuit City, a full line at Target (with a few doing some shopping cart racing) ＿|￣|○
So... the Gamecube and DS launches were NOTHING like this. I'm certainly happy as a Nintendo fan that a lot of people have an interest in Wii... but now I don't know what I'm going to do to obtain a Wii in the next week (or two, or three, o(ry Friday morning would be near impossible, probably... maybe some store would get another shipment during the week, but probably not.... so I guess I'll end up with one after Christmas if it turns out to a hot item going for ridiculous prices on eBay. Oh well... my luck has always been very bad ＿|￣|○ I got one!
Anyways, sorry for the rant, I'm not happy about things. I hope those of y'all that did manage to get a Wii today will enjoy it ;) Back to the usual blogging later on today, I suppose, since I certainly won't be spending my time playing through Zelda: Twilight Princess... ＿|￣|○
How 'bout them Dawgs? I'm in a very good mood now since we somehow managed to beat Auburn today. Beat Georgia Tech in a couple of weeks and it'll turn out to be a decent season for all that's gone on -- losing 4 of our last 5 games before this week, and two of those to Kentucky and Vanderbilt, the bottom-feeders of the SEC.
Anyways, hope all of y'all in the states had a nice Veterans' Day today. Over in Japan 11/11 was PS3 mania time, though only for a few with such a low number of units available. Speaking of PS3, the local Target had a kiosk runnning with demos for NBA 07 and MotorStorm (and it was hooked up to an HDTV, 720p). I tried out MotorStorm for a bit -- pretty much your standard arcade-style racer. Controls were pretty easy -- L and R triggers for throttle and brake -- though it didn't seem like there were any options for motion control. Graphics were good, but not exactly mindblowing... the framerate wasn't very stable (and that wasn't just me, a few people who were watching made similar comments) and that's something I pretty much can't stand. Anyways, not much of an issue for me since it'll be a while before I even think of getting a PS3... any of y'all planning to get one this Friday?
Back on topic now, this day was very nice for another reason besides us winning -- it's my birthday (as you probably guessed from the post title). 25 years and still not out of school yet, but I do have a job now ;) Went out to eat with the family and have a cake and all, so it's been good. After that I stopped by GameStop to pick up something (Target would be next door):
Elite Beat Agents, the US sequel of sorts localization of Ouendan. I spent about two hours playing through the Normal difficulty -- the latter levels got pretty tough, especially the last one. The sense of humor and general insanity present in Ouendan is all here -- dog needs to go 400 miles to go back home, sea captain searches for sunken treasure (set to The Village People's "YMCA" for some reason), taxicab driver needs to rush a pregnant woman to the hospital, so on. There's also a more serious stage about a little girl who wants her father to come back for Christmas, set to a very nice cover of Chicago's "You're the Inspiration" ･ﾟ･(´Д⊂ヽ･ﾟ･ To get to the point, just get it already if you've got a DS, even if you did import Ouendan ;)
Anyways, I know I owe y'all a good bit of blogging, so I'd like to try and get everything I wanted to cover covered a bit in the next few days and start from where we're at for the shows I haven't yet blogged, like Sasami and Asatte no Houkou (watching the BS-i broadcast since it's widescreen. 2 weeks behind TBS) and Kanon (Uguu kawaii yo Uguu!). Also liking OtoBoku a lot so I might pick that one up, then maybe a bit on all the other KNEG-type anime, like Gift (I get the feeling I've seen this before somewhere... this Da Capo or something?), Happiness! (I'm sorry, but I'm not into characters like Jun-nyan.. Sumomo instead), and Yoakena (I have to say something about that "cabbage" in ep 3) since I've been keeping up with them.
Hard to believe it's already November. It's really starting to fell like fall has come around here -- it's cooling down, leaves have changed colors and look really nice... and the cloudy cold days with rain and an east wind like it'll probably be tomorrow are back. Oh well... My weekend went pretty well, except for us (UGA's football team) getting beat by Kentucky 24-20 and all. 4 losses in our past five games, and with Auburn and Georgia Tech coming up we'll probably end up 6-6 ＿|￣|○ There's always next year...
Anyways, forgot to post about this last week, but the Sunday before Halloween I was trying to be photographer (parents don't know how to work the digital camera) at the fall festival we put on at a mobile home park nearby. A few shots from it:
Think I took about 100 photos and only a few of those came out blurry, which is definitely better than usual for me. Japanese even came in handy with the one girl that had on the shirt with various random Japanese phrases (that mostly made sense!) on it there. Anyways, it was tiring to keep up with the kids running all over the place, but it was fun :)
Don't think there's anything else of note happening with me for now, so onto the news.
Futago Hime in Korea and Taiwan (Futago Hime Official Site)
Fushigiboshi no Futago Hime is now on air in Korea on Tooniverse as 신비한별의쌍둥이공주 (shinbi hanbyal ui ssangdung'i kongju). It will start in Taiwan in December on YOYO TV. If I could find some way to watch the Korean dub of it it'd be helpful since I don't have much to watch in Korean.
Aya Hirano Hospitalized (Aya Hirano Official Website, hat tip to BRAINSTORM)
Due to a sudden illness, Aya Hirano had to be hospitalized and cancel a talk and mini-live that was to be held yesterday at Waseda University. お大事に. Get well soon! :)
From the people that brought us MUSASHI comes... RGB Adventure (MOONPHASE)
I don't think it's a good sign when the home page of official site for the show is a page about investing in producing the show (^^;;) Then people who had no connection with the show at all are listed as being animation directors on the staff page... oh, now it's fixed.. Then there's the quality of ACC Production's previous work (from MUSASHI)... This might be fun to watch in a different kind of way. It starts on BS-i on November 19 at 9:30 and will run for 24 episodes.
PS3 Japanese TV Commercials (Gameaholic)
Here on the left side.... I certainly do like the date November 11th, but not because of PS3 ;) Anyways, these are better than that weirdo ps3 baby ad they showed in the US... I don't get it (^^;;) In comparison, here are Japanese TV commercials for the Wii.
