音時雨 ～Regentropfen～

I should be able to follow Akiko singing "HOLLOW", but I always end up to read the Japanese translation instead. Not mentioning the Italian, I'm just bad at old English as well.

The point of bringing this song is, I'm now literally a hollow shell.
My mental state has been so unstable since this morning. If Haruka's new best albums can moe me to death, Akiko's news on her coming soon concept album then takes my spirit away.

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WOKASHI -- Akiko's first Japanese style concept album!

(I'm so glad that I checked twitter this morning or I'd miss it.)

The special website is using "Otoshimono" as the BGM. Interestingly, when I just got the news, that piece indeed went across my mind. I was wishing there's a vocal version for that since its release in the end of last year!
-- Although it remains a riddle whether it would be.

However, what "wokashi" may stand for? sweetie (お菓子)? grotesque unusual (おかしい)? or invasion (侵し)? or all together? (゜-゜;)

So far, <Akakakushi>, <Hiraitesanze> and <Class::CIEL_NOSURGE;> are of a pure Japanese style (are there more?), and I love these a lot! Simply think about a collection of such songs will carry me into the world of endless crimson, a.k.a. 朱隠し (´・ω・`).
Yet I hope (and believe) she doesn't include these songs as I want new works!

But the bad thing is, it's of the C88 release, which means much more trouble to buy it. ~_~
At least a small compensation, Akiko's CD jacket proved CATS >>> dogs!!

~~Japanese style, so there must be sou!!

>>> To reach for my lost spirit, time to turn on the switch of shoujo-ai imagination!
I've made up my mind earlier this afternoon, the keys will be hinamatsuri and wagashi, with (huge) variation~

Around 20 °C, cloudy with light showers! That is the summer I'd love!!

Sometimes even I myself don't understand what and how I think.
For example, my top 3 Yuri songs are:
- 梶浦由記 / Emily Bindiger - my long forgotten cloistered sleep
- 志方あきこ - 空蝉
- KOKIA - 大事なものは目蓋の裏
it may not be true for most others, but they indeed drive me into a super yuri mood -- and thus delusions begin to surge in my head~ °w°
if just I know why I have such reactions it would be even more superb!

Since I'm on this topic, I went to read the lyrics of Utsusemi again. And I think I got a (weak) linkage between this song and Zero 2 -Crimson Butterfly-'s theme song (especially when the word "utsuro" comes into my sight). No wonder the lyrics writer is Amano Tsuki~
or perhaps that's how this song belongs to a yuri song?!

Zero. With my crappy (rank E) playing skill, I had just completed the ghost list of 1 and 3 (while referring to various playing guides continuously). At least now I can fully focusing on a smooth playing experience and no need to worry about missing a flying-by ghost -- though I still need to complete 2 first, and seems I have to do another two rounds as some photos are difficulty limited -- I actually prefer the normal end but I want to play on nightmare.. u_u

Also, I dropped the plan to get PS3 versions of Zero 1-3, as they don't have Japanese voice included (wtf)!! Calling "Oneechan" is definitely cuter than "Mayu"! (つд⊂) But the benefit (?) is that I don't have to struggle with the ghost list, as I'm not dreaming for all S ranking in the missions. Impossible!

Being keeping using cameras recently (both in Zero series and in real life), I did a few basic comparisons today:

conclusion: apple is rubbish.
conclusion II: I want Sony's newest compact camera but eventually I decided to save money for more CD's/games. xD;;

Haruka's best collection box will be out in early August, and the CD jackets she posted on twitter had already moe-d me to death (so that's my spirit who is actually doing the writing right now).
Meanwhile, Annabel's new single will come out by the end of August. At first when I heard about the title 「夜の国」 I thought it's a new album (or at least a maxi). Such an attractive title should have more songs in it but the reality isn't always like what you expect... (￣д￣;)

-- No idea how long it had been, Opera Stable hasn't fixed the dead Ctrl+Tab and now I'm using the Developer version, and css from some pages are rendered weirdly..

The temperature finally decreased since last weekend's heat-up. Although I don't want to bring it up I have no choice here:
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あついかゆい、かゆい　うま…

Looked upon the sky with lots of cloud clusters, my mind was full of the desire of a downpour.
-- Actually, not a downpour, but it did rain a bit today.

There's no way I can love summer. With various flowers it's beautiful, but meanwhile, the bugs.. in another sense summer is the scariest season.
When it's hot, everything in my daily life goes off-key (literally off-key for some instruments) and collapses, which can be proven by the increased chance of bumping into this or that, and my head simply goes blank, or is overwhelmed by a huge mixture of all horror games I've done (earlier it was Silent Hill 0 plus Biohazard 4, and more recently with the addition of Zero -crimson butterfly-.. lol).

And I kept dreaming about to hide somewhere as my aestivation, probably in the Manor of Sleep: the snow, the complicated and maze-like design, and the cute ghost girls.. that's the most ideal place isn't it!

As it was too hot for me to make my brain work properly, I decided to spend the two 31°C days with Zero 3 -shisei no koe-.
Only after one round clear, I still didn't dare to challenge its hard mode. While I didn't remember much details, I ended up with 11 hours in total to clear the second time normal mode (my 1st time play was around 17 hours). From rank E to rand D, yet I lacked quite a lot of points to fully upgrade all the three cameras.. orz So later on I tried the missions, and failed hard. For most (95%) missions it couldn't be better than a miserable E rank, and I wanted to point out, the time of retry was much higher than Zero 1 or 2's missions. I don't mind if you make the S rank to be difficult to obtain, but at least let poorly-skilled players like me finish them without being frustrated: Mission 1-3, 6-4 and 8-1 really trapped me into despair that I wanted to punch the staff who designed such harsh missions on the face!
If Hunters are the trauma of Biohazard, the Stroller Grandma is the trauma of Zero 3!
-- So that I never dream for All-S-Rank in any of the Zero series (because I know it's impossible). ~_~

However, Zero series is definitely the most beautiful (and moe) horror game (especially Zero 2)! It's just normal if I scream while doing Biohazard of Silent Hill, but in case of Zero, I usually get so excited like "Mio and Mayu are so cute (with the dark yukata or the gothic lolita costume plus glasses °w°)", and this is probably why I tend to do Zero at late night without feeling tired (or stressed).
So if someone is weak at horror games but still wants to have a try, this will be the No. 1 recommendation.

Regardless how touching the ending is, I couldn't stop to poke in when Rei pushed the boat with Reika and Kaname's bodies: don't "read" the lyrics/poem, "sing" it! You have a nice voice and I believe you can stay on-key!

Next, I'll eventually do Zero 3 in Hard mode, (and Zero 2 in Nightmare mode).

Lemon is awesome. As I drank more water with lemon concentrate, my mug cup became just shiny clean as new. It works much more efficient than the regular dish soap, or toothpaste!