Sanya no Tsukaima

Uppfinnarn — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 17:05:11 +0000

NOTE: This is based on an in-joke from the #fluffy channel on irc.synirc.net. If you’re not familiar with the users TheJD, Sanya-nya, dango and Phlebas from there this post will probably make even less sense than intended. And no, this game does not actually exist.

Sanya no Tsukaima (“Sanya’s Familiar”) is the latest Visual Novel from Nitro+, a company famous for their completely messed-up storylines (as in, morally wrong, mindshrew-y or just plain incomprehensible until the third playthrough), Bad Ends [...]

Review of K-ON!

Uppfinnarn — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 11:06:14 +0000

“After School Tea Time will always be… After School!” — Yui

(Note: This is about both the seasons, K-ON! and K-ON!!)

Moé Slice of Life-animes revolving around a bunch of cute girls doing cute things have started to become quite a trend lately. Some are really good, like Azumanga Daioh and Lucky Star. But they tend to drown in a sea of mediocracy, much like what has happened to the Seinen genre. But K-ON actually stands out more than [...]

Fall Season 2010

Uppfinnarn — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 12:55:34 +0000

With the Fall Season here, there are a ton of First Glances to write. But to increase readability, I’ve merged those posts into one. As you can see, this season not as good as the last one – even with the long-awaited Index 2 – but has a lot more unique shows. Now, let’s start with…

Toaru Majutsu no Index II

Yess! It’s finally here! The long-awaited continuation of

Review of School Days

Uppfinnarn — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 08:49:21 +0000

School Days is a short manga (12 chapters), that despite it’s length manages to deliver feelings in a way that is on par with Clannad ~After Story~. And it’s not happy feelings either. The title might suggest that it’s some happy love story of some sort. That is about the opposite of what it actually is. It’s a Love Triangle ending in a tragedy. Jealousy driving people to do horrible things out of desperation.

Simple plot: Makoto [...]

Negima: Chapter 299

Uppfinnarn — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 10:42:58 +0000

“Epic Badasness” would be the most appropriate word to describe this chapter.

Fate is pissed off at Negi because he has a better idea than his idea of destroying the world. N0 one believes this, and I actually started doubting it even more when Negi mentioned that it involved the Class Rep… How exactly could an annoying blonde shoutacon help saving anything?

Anyways, Zazie’s Sister raises again from the rubble she was buried under [...]

Running Visual Novels on a Mac

Uppfinnarn — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 13:13:35 +0000

I just got the Visual Novel game Little Busters! working on my Macbook through Wine. However, since the process was far from easy, I thought I’d share how I did in case someone else wants to play Visual Novels too. Note that this guide is made for Key/Visual Art’s Visual Novels, like Clannad, Kanon, Air, Little Busters, etc. and other game makers’ games may not work at all. You should check them up in this database before trying to [...]

Review of Lucky Star

Uppfinnarn — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 07:48:10 +0000

Lucky Star can be described with two words: Epic Randomness. It’s 8 hours of hilarious random, character-driven, top-class humor. There’s essentially no plot, zero character growth, a ton of references to other Animes and the entire show just oozes of quality. The so-called story centers around Konata Izumi, who is something as uncommon as a female otaku and too lazy to study despite she is pretty smart, and her life. That’s the entire story, did you expect something [...]

First Glance of Kimi no Iru Machi

Uppfinnarn — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 17:42:52 +0000

Haruto and Yuzuki

Kimi no Iru Machi (A Town Where You Live) first seems to be just an ordinary love story-manga. A well-made one, but still nothing out of the ordinary. However, just like Clannad, that’s just on the surface – give it a chance, and you won’t regret it.

The story centers around a guy named Haruto Kirishima, who is living a fairly ordinary life until a girl named Yuzuki Eba turns up who will live in his [...]

Summer Shows 2010

Uppfinnarn — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 08:47:51 +0000

Instead of writing separate posts for each First Glance this season, I’ll write them all in a single post since it gets less crowded that way. I might also mention that since I don’t have much time to write during summer (normally I write on my phone on the bus, but during summer I mostly bike) I’ll be taking a break from the Mahou Sensei Negima! coverage and my Fairy Tail coverage won’t start until autumn when school starts again.

Ookami-san [...]

Review of Angel Beats!

Uppfinnarn — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 10:13:26 +0000

Angel Beats! was definitely the best show of the Spring Season. Anyone surprised considering this s a Key series? Would the makers of Clannad, Clannad ~After Story~, Kanon and Air do something that isn’t the best show of any season? It hasn’t happened yet!

Yuzuru Otonashi wakes [...]

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