The choice between life or death- Sword Art Online

Surprisingly, my little thing about time travel had gotten a little more attention than I expected, so I figure I'll do another piece. If you have been following anime for the past 2 months or so, you'll undoubtedly have heard of "Sword Art Online", an anime about a Virtual Reality MMORPG that trapped 10,000 players, and the only way to escape is to clear the game.

The first two episodes managed to piqued my interest enough to read the light novel behind the anime. Allow me to jump on the bandwagon about how awesome this story is, but at the same time, allow me to say as well how poorly the anime adaptation has been so far. Each sidestory arc so far has been terribly rushed, almost to the point of F/SN the movie level. Unfortunate for those who watch anime only as the Light Novel is actually quite entertaining.

Now, onto the main point of this post: What if you were one of the 10k players trapped? What if you were trapped in a game you cannot exit, and the only way to escape is for at least one person to clear it? What would you do? What role will you play?

Tenchou's Journal #?? What are we on again?

What? What happened? It seems as though I have traveled five months into the future...

Let's just say a shit ton of things happened, but nothing relevant to blogging at all. That said, I think it's time for me to get back to what I do best- typing up a storm about nothing!

Aside from the 1.5 months I spent dreading life as accountant thanks to tax season, a lot of random stuff happened here and there, and of course, TERA Online happened. So free time has been reduced to zero everyday of the week. It kinda sucks, as the stack of unplayed games beside my PS3 seems to grow every month without fail, with no prospect of anyone clearing them anytime soon. (-_-)

Now...where do i start...

Tenchou's journal #9- A crossroad

I have slacked off LONG enough, I think it’s time for another Tenchou’s update!

First, I would just like to comment on how successful the Internet Blackout Day was. The interweb as a whole has successfully brought the much-needed attention to this, for a lack of better words, retarded legislation from a bunch of white-collar 1% lobbyists. Now that SOPA has been shelved indefinitely, we can finally breathe easy as we avoided the latest round of shenanigans. That said, MEGAUPLOAD and all it’s affiliates were shutdown just one day after, likely a retaliation to the anti-SOPA movement, so unfortunately we are now down a valuable download source.

Now onto this post’s agenda:

1. NYC
2. Star Wars: The Old Republic
3. Upcoming Releases
4. Anime
5. Others

TODAY, WE FIGHT!

Tenchou's journal #8- Start of a new journey.

Just a small update, because well, that's all I have time for. My novel is currently out on queries with several agents, got back three form rejections so far, nothing big. Starting tomorrow however, I will be journeying to the world of awesomeness in the Star War Universe. Jumping from my fictional world in my novel to George Lucas' world means I will have very little free time for awhile. I will (I promise) post some screenshots of my character progression, as well as some small tips or interesting findings from time to time.

Stay classy readers, and if you are playing SWTOR as well, I will likely be on Anchorhead (PvP East), and I will post my IGN and confirm server after I make my character.

Tenchou's journal #7- Erm, I'm open for business!

Short post, tired, no time. Just want to say: "My manuscript is now open for submission!" Yay!

You will hear back here as I do more...right now I'm too damned tired, curse you SW:TOR and work!

Tenchou's journal #6- Where to start?

Let's just say I had quite a week, in a good way. As you can see above, I got my copy of Fate/Extra for the PSP. At the bottom of this post will be more pictures I took of the Limited Edition, which by the way is really well-done considering the embarrassment of a limited edition Akysys had for Agarest Zero.

Here's the line-up for this week's journal:
1. The awesome concert I went to.
2. The awesome new CD the person I saw just released.
2. The awesome beta I got into.
3. Update on my novel, REAPER'S FAREWELL.
4. Anime One-Liners.
5. Fate/Extra

Tenchou's journal #5- Renewed resolve!

Almost two weeks since my last post! If anyone caught Blizzcon (through stream/live): how awesome was the show? Foo Fighters put up a pretty darn good concert at the end, but the real thriller were the tournaments. Despite some downers (ZvT close rush distance spawns not once but twice? Trololololol), both the GSL finals and the Blizzcon finals certainly delivered. MMA vs MVP showed some really interesting TvT that involved more than just map control leap frogging, and the grand finals had some epic games that I do not wish to spoil here. Even though Sen did not win Blizzcon, he's now definitely one of my favorite with his solid style play (although...he was basically outplayed by MVP...foreigners still have a way to go against these Koreans).

Just like the title stated, I have finally renewed my resolve on polishing my novel. It's been "completed" for almost three months now but I'm still only 40% or so in editing. I can blame the slow progress on my job but ultimately I have slacked off tremendously thanks to both fatigue and boredom (seriously, re-reading your own story over and over again, even if you love it, gets boring). I swear it won't be long before I finish editing, gonna pick up the pace!

Anime wise...I don't have to time to do reviews...but, let me do some quick one-liners:

Mirai Nikki- Still fucking awesome.

Gundam Age- You can call it Gundam Under-age, I call it Deus Ex-Machina, or Gundam Are-You-Fucking-Kidding-Me.

Persona 4- I take back what I said last time, production value had gone way up since first episode!

Ben-To- This show gets better and better, how can a dumb premise like this produce such an awesome show?

Working!!- Not as funny as first season, but still very much enjoyable.

Boku wa Tomodoachi Ga Sukunai- I am loving the fan-service, and a side-dish of plot doesn't hurt.

Maji de Watashi ni Koi Shinasai- Just as I predicted, mindless ecchi fun with stripped down story, sad panda is sad.

Guilty Crown- Next "best-show-of-the-season" in the making?

Phi Brain- Hating the art, decent story.

Maken Ki- Pointless censoring is a bitch isn't it?

I promise to deliver a more in-depth review mid-season or so...after my editing.

Stay classy, readers!

Tenchou's journal #4- Still hauling along

This week will be short. Firstly, I don't have too much to say this week. Second, I'm watching the GSL Oct finals as I type this. You should definitely check it out if you are a SC2 fan. My inner nerdiness is bursting out like no other, but hell, I really don't care at the moment.

Also, if you have not heard, Blizzcon is where Foo Fighters will be playing next, tomorrow! I bought a Virtual Ticket for Blizzcon just for this (and GSL finals), so hell yes I am going to enjoy this!

I have some anime updates...but I'll wait till tomorrow to update this. Go watch GSL nao!

Tenchou's journal #3- Pressure mounting

It’s been awhile since I last made a post. Life never quite work out the way you planned and the last few weeks have been anything but enjoyable for me. Tenchou, however, knows things will improve for the better. With that out of the way, let’s take a quick look on some of the stuff I’m going to cover:

Fan service screencap apology!

1) Steve Job’s passing- biggest recent news, have to cover it.
2) iPhone4s- normally I can’t give a rat’s ass about any Apple product, but for once in my life I’m going to defend an Apple product. You will never see this again.
3) Upcoming games- One Piece Musou
4) The fall anime season!
5) Latest update on THE DEPARTURE
6) Rant on my current job (The usual)
7) Some life updates..?

Steins Gate and the theory of time travel

It's rare for an anime to compel me to type @ 12:30 am when I have work the next morning, but after reading a bit on AnimeSuki I felt the need to at least blog about my thoughts on the whole time travel theory. First, note that this is my theory and not of 5pb/nitro+, so I may very well be dead wrong and am open to disagreement. Second, this is an extremely spoiler heavy post. Do not, and I repeat, do not read on unless you have seen Steins Gate up till episode 23, or you'll be wasting an amazing anime.

Now that you have been warned, read on...

Tenchou's journal #2- I hate working

Long time no see, here's the second entry of tenchou's journal! I know, it's been awhile, but I've been swarmed with work, both professionally and err..un-professionally? Cut me some slack!

Tenchou's journal #1

I have decided to do some of my general blogging under this format instead of separating them into different post...it just looks cleaner and since I don't have too much to say about each topic, it just make more sense.

Another update...it's like a monthly ritual.

Another month has pretty much rotted away for me, and the process of putting my life back together has been a slow one indeed. This post is more about me than anime/games/sex/girls/music, but it does have to do with the above as that's pretty much all I really care about at this moment.  

Wall-o-text warning!

Welcome back PSN!

PSN has resumed full capacity today in NA with the re-opening of the PSN Store. As quickly as it went up my wallet is now missing $15 from new DLC for DW7, BB:CS and Dissidia 2, but all is good as PSN is now back and running. I do have one quick complain though: Costume DLCs for DW7 were free in Japan, yet they cost $1 here in NA, pretty underhand bullshit if you ask me, but nothing I could really do as I really do want some new costumes for some of the characters...damn you Koei!

This is Japan, at it's finest?

Now for something else completely different- Snacks. We all know Japan as a little bit of a weird country. Please don’t get me wrong, I love Japan and all its greatness, but I am also aware that sometimes, just sometimes, they come up with some weird, wacky stuff that shouldn’t exist. Below is one of these products; I’m sure you have see or eaten a Kit-Kat before, the chocolate waffle awesomeness most of us love. Now imagine, all that same waffle, layered between them is now white chocolate instead, cover in a rich, creamy layer of…….Cheese.

Tenchou's going to see Foo Fighters!

To continue from last post’s rave about the Foo Fighters- I have in my possession, three tickets to Foo Fighters! Sorry guys these are not for sale…but man was my eyes glowing when I saw these came in the mail!

Tenchou's a liar!

Am I bad at keeping my words or what? So much for all those reviews in three weeks time huh? I’m definitely all messed up again by RO and other games, and being out of work for so long definitely didn’t help my motivation. Truth be told, maybe I’m just being terribly lazy. At any rate, I apologize for the delay and will definitely try to get this blog back on track.

Tenchou's blog update!

Okay, I have gone more than half a month without making a single post and my episode reviews have stopped completely. I'm not dead...yet, but a combination of things during March really took a lot of my time and thus my blogging, as well as my novel writing, had been severely delayed.

Massive Earthquake hits Japan, death toll rising

So I woke up this morning only to find that one of my favorite countries struck by a devastating 8.9 magnitude Earthquake, the largest in Japan in 140 years. To be precise, the Earthquake occurred outside of northern Japan and caused a 32 feet Tsunami to wreak havoc in Sendai. So far the death count is expected to exceed 1,000 and continue to rise. My most sincere wishes goes out to those affected by this unfortunate disaster.

I refrained from posting any images since it may be disturbing to certain readers, but you can read more about it @ National Post .