The End of Full Metal Panic

Full Metal Panic , the light novel has been ongoing for 12 years and ended lately in i think October this year. If you guy has never heard of Full Metal Panic then you should really at least look for its manga, its one of those few long story and set in a very big world setting kind of manga, carefully plan and written storyline.

so for some introduction, Full Metal Panic set in a parallel world, based upon actual world events around the late 20th century to the early 21st century. The story begins in Hei Sei 10 (1998 AD), where the Cold War has yet to end. China has split into a north and south, with Hong Kong being split much like Berlin. The main story develops its characters carefully, and is the shadow or "unusual" events of the protagonist's life. These stories feature the mercenary group Mithril, their mobile base/submarine, called the TDD-1 Tuatha De Danaan, giant humanoid powered suits called Arm Slaves, and the various missions to which Sosuke Sagura is assigned. A highlight of the series is a serious and semi-realistic view of humanoid robotic weapons on the battlefield. The Arm Slave has significant consideration in its portrayal, with explanations given for its power source, operations, maintenance and pilot user interface. The existence of such advanced weaponry and equipment is explained through Black Technology. Then the story develop when Sakura Sosuge the protagonist is assigned to be the bodyguard of Kaname Chidori, the heroin of the light novel, how from a don't know anything man become a caring man, how he learn that he just a normal teenager, who deserve a real life beside mission and battle.

i like how each character in the novel has his/her own back story, that way the reader would develop a more deepen relationship as they read along the book, i must the character i like the most would be Melissa Mao, how she become the Leader of those two little troublemaker , Mao i salute you, she is just so strong in front yet tender in the back. So by not trying to spoil the story, i like the ending a lot, it is a very good ending, big thanks to Shoji Gatoh sensei for writing this good novel. For myself i like how anime mix the element of comedy and action perfectly while they are executing the storyline, for this one i must say it hit my taste, there are few touching moment in it too, especially how i like Sosuke said :" i want to be just Sagura Sosuke, a man without guns , without AS , just go to school everyday , and be with you, Kaname." The line is so memorable... this could as well be any war-worn soldier voice deep insider their heart.

So, you people who didn't watch this or read this good novel ? I demand you go show some support for it, it worth your time and you will never regret it, you might even come thanks me later, there are 3 seasons of anime and 13 volumes of manga released for it. Do go look for it on the net , download it , anyway you can get it. It is a really good novel based anime, i would give it 5 STARS~!!!

New law to end illegal downloading of music and movies *ya right,pffft*

" The Star
by STEVEN PATRICK

KUALA LUMPUR: The free-and-easy days of illegal downloading of music and movies may soon be over. A proposed new law will enable Internet Service Providers (ISP) to suspend or terminate the Internet accounts of P2P (peer-to-peer) users.

This new law called the ISP Liability act, will be tabled in Parliament next month, according to Recording Industry Association of Malaysia (RIM) chairman Norman Halim.

RIM has been lobbying the Government for an ISP Liability act for the past 5 years as illegal online downloads have been cannibalising the legitimate sales of music, worldwide.

“The act makes the ISPs responsible for curbing online piracy. The ISPs will be fined if they don’t take action against illegal downloaders. The ISPs have the technology to track P2P users,” said Norman.

However, he said that the fine amount had yet to be determined.

ISPs will send two warning letters to illegal downloaders. Should the downloaders still persist, the Internet access will be suspended or even terminated.

“Other countries that have such an act have seen their respective music industries recover. One good example would be South Korea,” he said. "

Taken from Star Paper , our government is finding a new way to fight what so called "piracy", this is just plain foolishness at practice here , so you thought piracy will be reduce because of u stop people from torrenting ? Sadly to say that , ya it will for awhile, then people will just find a new way to do the pirating . Don't blind yourself with the fact of what other people say , the problem of piracy has been there for years, stopping us from torrenting is not going to halt this. Even before the time of torrenting become common, there are piracy, when there are still cassettes and VCR s, it obtain from other sources rather downloading it from internet, even if you do manage to stop us from torrenting, we consumer will just switch to another ways to obtain it. Open your eyes, my beloved government, its not moral, that we don't buy original movie and song, don't just wear your sleek suit and sit at your office and say we need people to buy original, use original, the problem start from the so-called ORIGINAL stuff, walk to the shop and see what they did !

Don't even get me started on those shop, there is one shop in PM shopping mall (Penang people will know which am i talking about), this shop start as a small shop that sell pirated VCD /DVD then they decided they had earn enough, so they switch to selling original disc. Ya, may be on first look it is as if they are selling original, on second glance, you will find that so called original , just another piece of piracy they downloaded from the internet a.k.a torrent it , then burn it to DVD , slap a original sticker on it and waaalaaa , original DVD straight from the net, cost? Do you really want to know? Profit? Hell, i bet the boss is laughing so hard that they can't even stop but do you care no.... as long as there are taxes put into your hand then you are satisfy and justify, the quality? who cares? Take anime original DVD for example, when there are already ready make subtitles for them , they still can copy it wrongly. The package design? Doujinshi work, stealing other people work and stick it on your own profit is still consider piracy you know. Do they care? no yet again...why ? As long as there are taxes paid, who cares? This is just shameless, shameless act of our Malaysian so called protect the ORIGINAL. How do you protect it when you can't even differentiate what is or what not? You know what will happend if i buy one of these and send it to Japan , or i just post it on a Japan forum? Shame on you and over your Protect Original Act ...

Mr Norman Halim, you say by preventing torrenting can save your Music Industries , when i mean your, ya i mean those Malays one, this statement only works when there are a music industries to save at all, look at the TVs, flip through the channel, seen any Malay artist song playing ? any commercial ? Got of course, i can count it using my fingers, even the government channel TV2 don't do any of that too, they just keep repeating our beloved Dato P Ramlee, admit it man , your music industries died with him, if you want to save your industries, start filtering the capabilities of your singers.

In conclusion, do what you might, we still wont be buying any original, then lets all the industries died altogether, only by then you will see your mistakes, i will buy it when i think it worth it, as for Malaysian music industries? I wont give you a penny, you can go f**k yourself~!!!

New Updates coming soon...

After disappearing for 2 months or more , cant be too sure =.= . Some new review and interesting anime updates coming soon . Here is a head up what will be coming next , Need for Speed : Hot Pursuit 3 PC version game review , Kotobukiya's 1:1 Xentex Pest-X San review , some peronal updates as well. Do look forward , tanoshini ne~!!!

The graduation of K-ON

Look like K-On is nearly its end d , so they are going to graduate d, K-ON will live on in Azusa hand and in our heart, Kyo Ani really did a great job in last few episode, it touch the heart of everyone, it really remind us of our old precious time in high school, how you used to laugh and enjoy ourself around our frenz... I really hope i can relive my high school day again... Kyo Ani gib us another of ur masterpiece, it would be so boring without your anime in coming season... K-ON live 4eve~!!!

I had returned in anger~~!!!

Hey Guys, i am back after missing quite a while, when i am missing all this time, i bought a Kotobukiya's 1/1 Hoi Hoi San, which the quality is nt at the top but nt too shabby also.

Today, i am pissed because of our great ISP (Internet Services Provider), the "almighty" Telekom Malaysia. Yes, they are so mighty, that they decide to start throttling P2P connection to the max. I dunno any of you experience this, Your Xunlei and PPS never go beyond 20Kbps since last Wednesday, if you are facing ths issue, trouble no further, congrats you have been throttled.

I know what are you going to say, yes i know they started throttling the speed of P2P connection since the year 2006 but they never manage to throttle Xunlei. Since last Wednesday, they manage to do it, they even being an ass throttling PPS (a P2P player). It is rumor that they are throttling it at certain time, after 12am you get a full speed as usual, it is unsure that what time they start to throttle at the morning. Yes, that beats the purpose of PPS, they could have un-throttle it earlier isn't it?

They need to understand their is not that good from the start, their bandwidth is not top class if i may say it not even pass satisfaction level, their fee is top class alright, and their customer services seem does not has any computer knowledge, damn if i am going to bitch about them the list goes in, you get the ideas, now they start throttling every living P2P apps out there. Did they really expect us to only use 4Mps of line to check mail, facebook and FTP download? What are they? Caveman? Hell~!!! this is the era of P2P, they are stepping backward.

See, My beloved government, this is what happen when a company dominate a service at your country, they don't give shit about the quality of their service, they just trying to find ways to make more money.

Last of all, all i want say is GO SCREW YOURSELVE STREAMYX, WE DON'T NEED YOUR RUBBISH CONNECTION, WE NEED TO KEEP OUR COUNTRY CLEAN.

Figma Black Rock Shooter

This Saturday i am going to Robot Master to pre-order this one, it look so cool. the main character from Hatsune Miku's Black Rock Shooter MV. BTW, they are going release an anime too based on this character.

Sora no Wota... Voice of the Sky

Amazing grace i fall in love with u....

Wow...the January Shin-ban anime Sora no Woto finally come to its end d, i must say it is a good anime. It is the story about the daily life of 1121 squad, it seem boring at the start but at ep.11 it take a turn, when they rescues a Rome solider from the borders. The anime has very good drawing, the color usage is very brilliant, you can see from the anime, when chaos ensues, all the color become grayish, after the chaos end all the color go back to a very colorful scheme. If you looking for a full-set anime to watch i recommend you this one.

Miku Virtual Concert the making of clip....

this is how they put the concert together, is simpley amazing just simply amazing~!!!!

Good Smile Company's Hatsune Miku VN02 mix

look at this~~~!!! Hatsune Miku futuristic looks~~~!!!! this is juz so freaking coolz, the green part of the figure might look solid painted but it is actually transparent looking, it is so awesome, man gotta have this, but it cost RM500++....

Battlefield : Bad Company 2

Finally, i finished Battlefield: Bad Company 2 last night, i must say the game is quite good. Before i start my review, i must remind you this review is based on single player campaign only, gaming experience may change during online game play . Again the review will be base on story, visual, audio, control, game play.

Developer: EA Digital Illusions CE

Publisher : Electronic Arts

Platforms : Playstation 3, Xbox 360, PC

Story: 2/5 !!!SPOILER WARNING!!!

The game begin on an unnamed WW2 island, just before the drop of atomic bombs on Japan, US sent in a four man commando to retrieve a defector, who has information on a ultimate weapon which might possess by Japan. In the end of the chapter, you get a glimpse of the power of this Yami no Buuki (weapon of darkness). The time revert back to present time, the four protagonist from the last Bad Company game is send to retrieve an agent, who believe to be captured by the Russian (Russian again?!). After rescuing the agent, the team is send to search for the missing part of the weapon. So far the story is just not that good, its just another one of those Hollywood story, where the hero, which in this case heroes, send to investigate something and found out some one has that something and decide to destroy America with it, then heroes decide to play heroes and go to stop them and loses some one in the process. Anyhow, the story is not really the charming point of the game.

Visual: 3/5

The graphic itself is just amazing, the game take place in many places, such as jungle, snowy mountain, slump and some few more places. All of this places is rendered in full scale, which mean if there are enemies standing far away across the map, if you have a gun with a scope you can shoot him without noticing the others. The part which they did really great is the jungle, it really make you feel you are in the jungle together with the perfect sound effect. Below is a screen shot on the game on a Nvidia Geforce9600 GT card on medium setting, One can get a medium setting on a 9600GT card with a effect like this which is really good. Set beside the good part, there is few weak point too, the model of the gun doesn't look that good, it doesn't really give people this thing is make out of steel feeling. Another part would be, the movement of the enemy, i must say it looks rather stiff compare to another one of it competitor out there (you know which one i mean), as example when they are hit by grenade they didn't even get blown away, they just drop dead at the same spot, is it really so troublesome just to put in rag doll physic into them?

"this how detail the jungle looks,see the distance mountain? you can climb up to it."

Audio: 4/5

Wow, i must admit the game really really shine in the audio part, the most successful of the game, i think come from the unbelievably good sound effect, when you first start playing you will notice that you has different gun firing sound, one is indoor, another is outdoor. For indoor, u can hear the echo of your gunfire, and the drop of your empty bullet case, each sound come with a different echo. if you in an open area, i mean real open area like a field, u can hear the other kind of echo of your gun fire, u can hear that the sound just echo back to you so naturally, there is one sound effect i really like, which is the 50 caliber sniper, after each shot, it need to eject empty bullet case manually by it user, the interesting part is if u change magazine before last shot is make meaning there is still one bullet left in the barrel, pay attention to the sound when the bullet, you can hear there are 2 different of the cse droping one is empty case another one is the live case meaning there is still bullet in it. the development team really put a lot of effort into making the sound as real as possible, two thumbs up for the development team~~~!!!

Control: 3.5/5

Not much to say about the control thou, just the usual First Person Shooter game control but for those who play Call of Duty 6 lately will find the "throw grenade" button a bit off, it is on "f" key rather than the "g" key. that really a big deal, since most of the button is mapped perfectly, the game also give clear command on which key do which function, so all is cool even the game itself has a lot of transports , but the control for the transports are almost all the same, so i bet you won't get confuse that easy. Oh, before i forgot, you can't prone in this game, how can you can't prone in a military shooter game, because that the fact you can't prone, it really make you more vulnerable to enemy gun fire, which is really stupid. Lastly, if you don't really have a good mouse like me, you might also want to remap your melee to another key, rather than the default middle mouse button because every time i want to melee enemy but instead i accidentally swap my weapon.

"one of the transport in the game, Patrol Boats"

Game play: 3.5/5

The game provide variety of game play, you want to sneak up on people? It got it. You want to ride different kind of transport? It got it. You want intense shooting? surely it has it too. The game does has a lot of good moment, you shoot and drive and even skydive in a few scene. For the one who play the game first time, the game has excellent physic engine, all the houses or walls you see in this game is destructible, if you think you are safe hiding behind the wall and sniping the hell out of your enemy, the next thing you know you would be staring straight at the ceiling, chances are another one of your enemy fire a RPG (Rocket Propel Grenade) straight at the wall that you are hiding behind, ya you heard it right, straight to the wall where you are hiding, and you are blown away dead, even gun fire might some lighter cover such as wood but i want to complain that the concrete in this game is too soft, it just too easily breakable by just using a machine gun, it just break too fast. Although the map is rendered rather big but the downside is, you can free roam the map anywhere you like because if you walk to far away you get a "leaving mission area" count down timer, if you didn't go back the route in time, you will freaking self-destruct(in-game they say you get hit by mortar, how convenient), some time you just wander too far out and can't get back in in-time, then you have to restart from the last checkpoint again and this game has too few checkpoint, you will know what i mean.

"Boom!!! the wall is gone"

The good part of the game play is where they mock the s**t out of Call of Duty 6, this is more like an Easter eggs, this is for you to discover then.

Final Verdict: 3.5/5

"Shoot Zkhav...ohhh i mean Kirilenko"

Overall, Bad Company 2 is a freaking good game, a lot of fun but to take away a few point is that the game is just so short, you can almost finish it under 4 hour, guess now-a-day is hard to find a long play time game. Just don't compare it to Call of Duty 6 anymore, they both shine it their own way.

The Coming review...

The next review is coming... is about the heat of game of the month....Battlefield: Bad Company 2, please do look foward to it.

What the =.=

CLAMP really has a thing on recycling their character, in the last few episode of Kobato, they had recycle Black Mokona and Watanuki. In the new episde, see who they decide to threw in?
Syaoran, Fey, Kurogane and White Mokona from Tsubasa Chronicle. Yeah CLAMP~!!!

" That was the same recation when i saw them"

At one part of the anime, they say Kurogane sound and Yuruigi voice sound similar, well they does have the same CV don't they...

My Revoltech Figurines

Yo minasan, tata i ma... finally i has some spare time to attend to this blog again, so a long seperation a new review, this review will focus on Revoltech figurine i juz bought over last Chinese New Year, mainly is a Black Saber or better known as Saber Alter.

"Saber Alter box set and accessories"

Lets start with some back story of Saber Alter, she first appear at the end part of Fate/ Heaven's Feel, Saber appear as Saber Alter in front of Shinji, who appear to be controled by corrupted Sakura in a attempt to kill Shinji but in the end she regain conciouness and beg Shinji to kill herself, after that she never did appear again.(aaaaah man, i think she look coolz, gib her more airtime pls).

"Saber Alter, the glow i edit it Photoshop"

Ok, enough with the back story, so let start with the review. I bought the figurine at Robot Master which located at fourth floor Queensbay, it cost me RM90, well considering it is a old figurine, i still think it is quite expensive, anyhow i have been looking for it for a long time, so it worth it.

Revoltech has make a named out of their figurines joints, it is famous of their famous posing ability, which the Reovltech joint did a great work here, their joint is design to lock in place when you pose the figurine, the design might be good at posing, on the other way round, it limit the posing posibility of the figurine quite a lot too comparing to Figma one.
The packet come with a stand, one alternate face, two weapons, one is the orginal Excalibur, another one is the Dark Excalibur. and lastly the figurine of Saber Alter.

Let's start with Saber Alter figurine, it has about 12 movable joints, located at neck, shoulder, arm, waits, bottom, knee cap and ankle. The important part is, this time they make the joint in the neck smaller because of this, the neck look better than the Saber they released few month ago before Saber Alter, the first time i bought Saber i didn't even the neck but after going home and unboxing it, then i realise that why it is look so weird, the neck is juz too thick. Come to the details of the figurine, the hair just look almost like Saber so not much of a differ here, the color has been tone down to a lighter one, to suit the feel of its anime counter part. ( Passer By A : "aren't Saber Alter does have a lighter hair color?" =.=).

As for the face, it come with exchangeable face, one is the usual look, another one is come with a eye patch that cover both of Saber Alter eye, the mask is wear when Saber Alter fight, both of the face provide much detail and very well done, especially the one with mask, the red strips over the mask is well painted, and follow as closely as possible to the anime one.

The body part is well sculpture, the paint they use contain some sparkle in it, this way it make the black stand out a lot since whole body until to the lower part is black. The part i liked the most where they used double joint at the side of the gown, it make the gown more flexible when posing the figurine.

"The fight scene in Unlimited Code(just kidding)"

Overally, i really like it not much to be crictize on it but if you really want to crictize it then it will be the foot, they really make it too big although it look nice, it just too big, i think it can not be help then since the figure look so big itself, it need a big foot to balance it, i guess it cant be help then.

Final Verdict:
A must have for the fans, it does not cost much for a figurine build as good as this. If you want to get this one you might as well pick up Saber too.

My return is secure...

Kodomo Taji...mate dajo...i'll be back*thumb up*