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Isumi is awesome.
Ayumu-oujou-sama <3
2 nice episodes, but Hinagiku was nowhere to be seen…
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ps : this post is a good exemple of what the anime posts were supposed to look like at first… >_<
Il y a un RPG que tous les “puristes” s’accordent à qualifier de “pire RPG de tous les temps” : Legend of Foresia, ou Blaze & Blade hors-pays francophones, sorti en 98 sur PS1 et PC.
Mais bon, moi les puristes je leur chie dans le cou, Foresia est un de mes jeux cultes. Je l’ai kiffé dès les premières minutes, j’y ai même joué autant qu’un Final Fantasy, collecté 99 Ecus du Destin pour avoir la meilleure arme, et même, et ça je dois etre un des seuls au monde, fini le jeu.
C’est vrai que je dois avouer que si j’aime ce jeu, c’est peut-etre plus pour “ce qu’il aurait pu être” plutot que pour ce qu’il est vraiment. Foresia est un mix “parfait” entre l’action-RPG à la japonaise style Secret of Mana, et le RPG occidental non-linéaire style Baldur’s Gate et tous les jeux tirés de Dungeons & Dragons. En plus, il est jouable à 4 simultanément, et on peut créer son équipe librement parmi 16 persos stylés “manga”, répartis en 8 classes (guerrier, voleur, nain, magicien, etc) et des 2 sexes. Il possède aussi une excellente durée de vie, avec des donjons qui laissent apparaitre de nouveaux secrets une fois le niveau d’experience plus elevé.
Mais voilà, c’est sans compter sur un nombre hallucinant de défauts : 3D immonde, jouabilité atroce, impossibilté d’échanger des objets de l’inventaire entre les persos (autrement que par un systeme inutile d’enchères), seuls le(la) Guerrier(re) et le(la) Nain(e) peuvent survivre aux attaques d’un boss ou d’un monstre un peu trop fort, 3 blocs de sauvegardes par persos (donc 12 pour une partie !), et j’en passe… mais bon c’est ce qui fait son charme aussi.
Un autre détail amusant/consternant (rayez la mention inutile) : alors que de veritable chefs-d’oeuvre du RPG ne sont jamais arrivé en France (Final Fantasy 6, Chrono Trigger, et autres), ou bien beneficie d’une traduction déplorable (FF7) quand ils ne sont pas carrement laissés en anglais, Foresia lui beneficie d’une traduction française EXCEPTIONNELLE (et là je vanne pas ^^; ).
Lors de la création du personnage, à defaut de pouvoir modifier son physique, on peut choisir sa personnalité, et ça c’est totalement inédit dans un RPG. Et donc la traduction française rend très bien les 8 différents styles de language (Neutre, Courtois, Suranné, Enfantin, Excité, Flegmatique, Direct et Taciturne; à noter que le style “Excité” est un style caillera XD ), qui en plus diffèrent selon si le personnage est masculin ou féminin (oui avec les -e à la fin et tout, ceux qui ont la même experience que moi des jeux savent que c’est assez “exceptionnel” quand on compare avec les jeux de l’époque), ce qui nous donne 16 styles. Mieux encore, les PNJ aussi vous parlent en tenant compte de votre sexe et classe (mention spéciale au dernier boss qui a fait du gringue à ma guerrière avant le combat final).
Vraiment j’ai pris mon pied avec ce jeu.
Enfin bref, tout ça pour introduire la vidéo du jour : l’intro française du jeu, tout juste rippée par moi-même avec amour de mon propre jeu, et qui est “culte” à sa façon aussi grace à son magnifique doublage (mention spéciale pour le Guerrier).
Legend of Foresia – French Intro
Ok, c’est parti ! En route pour de nouvelles aventures !
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Short summary : A guy has to move in a old mansion where his sister is working as a maid. On the way, he dies when saving a blonde woman from an accident. He wakes up later in a morgue, resurrected by the blonde woman who granted him immortal life and made him her servant.
Watched the “last” episode yesterday. It was a decent show, though being kinda typical. The main guy sucked, but the girls were quite kick-ass (I guess it’s the new tendency nowadays, shows in which female characters are much cooler than the male characters). Also, I appreciated how the ambiance went totally different from an episode to another. Most of the episodes were either typical action or funny, while some episodes were very serious (like an episode highly influenced by Silent Hill).
There is just a thing that bugged me : what with all these “look forward to next season !” endings recently ? (yeah, I watched “last” episode of Kaze no Stigma a few days earlier)
Well, good thing if THERE IS actually more, not if they just leave the things like that. And I hope too that we won’t have to wait 4 or 5 years for a second season like Gunslinger Girl (and I’m still waiting my School Rumble third semester).
Hime-sama, the blonde princess who have fun slaying monsters with a chain-saw. This scene was particularly awesome. Hime rocks.
Hiro, pretty useless main guy.
Liza Wildman, hot-blooded half-werewolf biker, my favorite of the show. She fights with her big fluffy paws. <3
OMG LIZA WAIRUDOMAN IS HOT.
Flandre, the android child with awesome strength but no feelings. The two episodes that centered on her were great. fuga
Reiri-san, a cool vampire and quite an instigator who only acts in her own interest. She’s dubbed by Mamiko Noto, aka Yakumo from School Rumble.
Reiri-san wants Hime-sama. Well, Hime-sama’s blood, that is.
Liza gets her yuri too, first with a one-episode character.
Then, quite unexpectdly with Reiri-san. And the show suddenly became awesome.
Hime’s little sister, Sherwood-hime (awesome name XD ). The obligatory irritating ojou-sama. Well it was easy to predict that she would fall for the useless Hiro, but it was amusing regardless.
I was both LOL and WTF at this.
fuga
On a side note, the show got some awesome ED too.
October 1st, 2007. I’m still alive.
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Short summary : A guy is saved from drowning by a mermaid, and has to marry her now that he knows her true identity, as said in the Mermaids’ Rule. For making the things worse, the mermaid is from an “undersea” yakuza family, and her father is very protective.
Adapted from a manga by the same author as “My Name is Zushio”. If you ever read that piece of pure crazyness, well you can expect kinda the same crazyness and absurd humor here. Sure this anime is crazy, maybe a little too much I would dare to say. Sometime I feel exhausted after watching an episode of Seto.
That may be the only “bad point” of the show, if you can even call this a bad point. Except that, it’s your typical school love-comedy. Some funny moments, some fanservice, and some nice characters.
San, the heroine. Most of the time a nice and kind girl, but can unexpectedly go totally random over various things. She has also a very manly side. Dubbed by Haruko Momoi.
Runa, San’s rival. I found her so irritating in the beginning (well, I still think she’s somewhat irritating), but as I said before : characters who confess their love properly to the main guy get extra win points from me. Fight-o, Runa-chan.
‘Delicious’ Maki, the killer liliputian. A funny character, one of my favorite from the show. I wish there was a ‘human-sized Maki’ episode but since there is only one episode left, it will most likely never happen.
Mawari, the policeman’s daughter. Cute, short and bossy, my favorite character from the show. She also likes to act naughty with the class rep. She made me think of Haruhi at first.
The nameless, ignored and unlucky ‘Iinchou’ (class rep). You can’t help but want to support her… ’cause heh, iinchou are awesome.
Mawari with a ouendan uniform. As you might expect, she’s the type who is popular with girls, which makes even more win points for her.
Masa-san, pure GARness, with awesome voice and afro. A totally cool, reliable yet funny yakuza, I’m a fan. He’s the main guy’s first kiss. XD
The main guy’s mom, definitely the cutest of all the characters. Anime MILF, but sadly she doesn’t have so much screentime. She wants Masa-san (who doesn’t ?).
This time I will finish with a (not so) random pic :
Masa-san is real !
And he sells Yayoi x Iori doujins…
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Short summary : A somewhat asocial guy drinks by mistake a magic potion which transforms him into a sheep plush, and “forcibly” becomes the familiar of a beginner magical girl.
I was mostly looking forward to this show because the original game was designed by Noizi Ito, but sure this show is different of the image I had in mind. Well yeah, I did see all the magical girl thing in the CGs but 1) almost forgot about it cause Nadeshiko (Nako-chan) is mostly what I remembered from them, 2) eroge usually have more… “mature” story ?
Anyway, they did a good job at keeping the original design. As for the interest of the show, well I would say that it’s ok to watch it if you have some free time in your hands. This is mostly a Card Captor Sakura rip-off, and it’s 12 episodes long only, so if you’re not too demanding you can give it a try.
On a random note, I love the main theme that we hear throughout the serie in different versions.
Sumomo the magical girl, and the main character in his plush form. Her mission is to collect 7 star drops with this kind of big spoon. When I said it was a CCS rip-off…
First, you take Tsuruya-san… then, you mix with Nagato… and you have (somewhat) Nadeshiko. Is it… perfection ???
Long green-ish hair and from a rich family like Tsuruya-san, and with a kinda emotionless face like Nagato. As for her personality, she’s calm like Nagato and reliable like Tsuruya-san. She’s also very protective over the crybaby Sumomo, like Tsuruya-san is protective over the crybaby Mikuru. Well all these similarities are coincidental and can be found in lot of other characters though.
Another similar point with CCS : Nadeshiko is totally Tomoyo for Sumomo.
Nona, aka Asparas-san. A nice rival character. I immediately recognized Yuki Matsuoka as her seiyuu because the first thing you hear from Nona is her laughter (Matsuoka is Tsuruya-san’s seiyuu too).
Well the show has some good points that makes it different of CCS too, so that’s still enjoyable to watch.
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Encore un “classique” de la fin des 90’s dont je me suis souvenu recement.
J’aime particulierement l’instru, aux sonorités qu’on a pas l’habitude d’entendre dans un morceau français (c’est peut-être pour ça qu’elles sont plus connues aux States qu’en France).
Bon quand ça chante, pas de doute c’est français. Peut-être que ça serait mieux passé en anglais, mais ça reste encore largement écoutable je trouve.
Un des rares morceaux français qu’on puisse à mon avis véritablement qualifier de “R&B”, terme trop souvent galvaudé pour qualifier les morceaux Hip Hop un peu lent et sans insultes sur la police.
Et en plus elles chantent en boubou, c’est la classe.
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Short summary : Makoto, a shy guy, confesses his love for a girl who rides the same train as him, Kotonoha. But a short time after he started to date Kotonoha, he finally falls in love with Sekai, the girl classmate who helped him to confess his love, and eventually dates her in secret.
So, this is the anime adaptation of that infamous H-game with very depressing bad ends (suicides, murders…), and pathetic main character.
Indeed, Makoto is pathetic. Really, the most dumb and irritating main character EVER (like, the guy was reading a pr0n magazine in a shop when dating his girlfriend… WTF ?).
Also, I may not be a fan of Kotonoha (who is your typical big-breasted shy and plain girl), but the fact that everybody in the show treats her like shit just pisses me off, honestly. It’s so irritating that I actually WISH for a bad end to happen. Well, a Makoto bad end, that is. Kotonoha should just kill him and go for a happy yuri ending with Sekai.
I only have screenshots of my favorite character, Setsuna, Makoto and Sekai’s classmate. Well, she is also one of the characters who acts harshly towards Kotonoha, but she actually doesn’t think bad, and doesn’t know anything about what Makoto and Sekai are secretely plotting, so she can be forgiven. Setsuna is the kind of character who is funny while being cool and kinda emotionless. She also cares a lot for Sekai. She’s the main reason for me to watch this show, I noticed her already in some CGs from the game and was looking forward to see her in the anime too.
Really, I won’t tell you to watch it, you might be as irritated as me. Also, if you don’t like shows featuring yandere (sweet girls suddenly going psycho and murderous), or drama animes with bad end, you should definitly avoid this show.
Nice Boat !
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Another good point of Youtube is that you can just post a video you liked when you dunno what talking about.
And I feel like I should spam my blog while I still can (did I ever mention that I have to move to some indeterminated place next week ?).
So today, a video of Kagami-sama cleaning the streets of San Andreas of its evil Pikachus, with awesome musics (including Big Blue from F-Zero), voices from the anime, gangstah Doraemons and much more greatness.
The end is simply hilarious. Don’t ask me where to get this mod, I just don’t frikkin know.
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Short summary : A young girl moves in a new city, where she meets other children who are specialized in finding missing virtual pets, and will be kinda forced to join them.
I like this show a lot, but in fact I don’t really have so much things to say about it, and just noticed that I didn’t take many screenshots of it, though there are a lot of enjoyable moments. ‘Cause yeah, this show is really nice, in every way. Surely one of the best 2007 show.
Nice design, nice music, nice characters… everything is nice in this show. It’s calm and funny, with some interesting plot and drama too. If you like ‘iyashi-kei’ shows such as Haibane Renmei, you just have to watch it, if you aren’t already watching it. If you like action… well then this show is not for you.
The design really gives the same calm and peaceful feeling than a Ghibli movie.
Yasako insisting for the frightful Isako to become her friend makes my world a better place. Well, out of context it looks naughty, but in fact she used ‘shishou’ for ‘master’, not ‘goshujin-sama’ XD
Actually, Yasako may looks like your typical shy heroine, but she’s pretty silly and funny.
Again, it’s out of the context… I just can’t help myself to take that kind of screenshots.
Episode 12 was just genius from the beginning to the end. I haven’t ROFL’d like that while watching an anime since a long time. INTERPLANETARY WAR !
Sadly, fansub teams are kinda slow for working on this show. I should also mention on a random note that this show is the dream for meganekko lovers, because every characters in this show wear glasses.
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