音時雨 ～Regentropfen～

I wish someone could tell me why lots of people love the seriously limited twitter over a fully customisable blog service. Most of my favorite artists have switched to twitter so there's no use of my rss reader. -- well, the point is, I don't like twitter and hardly check it so I feel like an outdated stalker.. (by the way I check my rss reader every day. -_-;;)

Anyway, today I'm not going to complain about twitter or other microblogging systems. Just, by chance (or destiny), I checked my twitter stalking list yesterday and entirely crashed my working mood. --although not really very hyper...

2014/10/1 - みとせのりこ (Mitose Noriko): Nostalgia

Oh yay, here comes the eroge theme song collection No. 3~ >///<

At the first glance, I thought that's a photo from Ali Project. ^^;
After "Centifolia" and "Mille-feuille", this time the key word is "Nostalgia". Too bad, not a new album at all. In brief, songs in this album are mostly from the 2000s' PC games, either original versions or new recordings. While looking at the tracklist, suddenly I got a weird (?) question: why the hell there are so many PC games that I've never heard about?! °A°
Although the previous "Mille-feuille" isn't bad, I'd more wish to see albums like "Centifolia" and "vierge automatique". But guess I shouldn't expect too much, she's having so much fun with lives (at least make some live DVD/CD's, it's such a waste if she doesn't (# ﾟДﾟ)!!).
Perhaps the only expectation is the last song: "哲学系彼女". The title sounds so moe literary~! It's not too long till its release, I'll see..

Second release, on the same day of Noriko's album, but sadly, no jacket available currently.
↓
Ciel nosurge Genometric Concert Vol.3~帝賜の詩~

Good job GUST, you've completely messed up my cognition toward Ar Nosurge and Ciel Nosurge.
what I know is Akiko is awesome than anyone else~
--and Shurelia and Ayatane are somehow involved in the game (Ayatane looks so different from A.T.1 though).

Since I care about only the music..
I think I saw yoko's name...
That was indeed a stronger impulse to me than the release itself (yes I know Akiko is there, not surprising at all)! "EXEC_METEMPSYCHOSIS/." was such a great song even across all hymmnos songs, so I do believe in this series yoko's work will be superb (and I'm happy not seeing Kizuki Minami--I just can't get used to her voice and singing style ~_~).
So, should we expect to see KOKIA's name in vol. 4 (ignore me if it's not supposed to exist at all)? *_*

Seems this year lacks good music, including Comiket, which used to capture my heart a lot (I miss the feeling when new albums come like in last August).

霜月はるか(Shimotsuki Haruka) etc. - canoue chronicle
(to be frank, I love their booklet design.)

One of my loves finally got something new, yet another best album...
And take a closer look, they included all the tracks from their last year release "最果ての塔". orz
I have no issue with that album itself, but what's the point to include the entire album while simply separating instrumental and vocal tracks into two different discs?
At least there're 3 new songs--although I can't stand with the last 3 tracks in the "instrumental disc". Too old RPG-ish!! xD;

My last line:
I don't really care about eroge song collection or best albums or this or that, can I request Cotton vol. 3? >_<

People's mind always changes, so does mine.
I thought I would never play more RPG's, but as the super sweet and most romantic August passed, I finally got trapped in the world of Ar Tonelico.

Music is the main dish of this series, I'm much more excited when a familiar hymmnos comes out. However, in [1], songs of hymmnos are less impressive in game, except PAJA. Apparently I was less impressed compared to [2], which has a more perfect unification (maybe I should use "synchronity") between the game itself and music. I was very happy with SUBLIMATION series during the final boss battle. It was a completely different experience from listening to those songs separately. Then, REPLEKIA is another shinning star (although I regretted miss-activating it during the DESPEDIA battle... ><). Surprisingly I did get all the 100 I.P.Ds~!

I played [1] and [2] in a row, and I like the graphics in [1] a lot (don't understand why most people dislike the pixel art). So it did take some time for me to get used to the overall graphic rendering in [2]. Regardless of the kinda weird pixel characters in [2], the song magic scenes are much better made. Here, I'd say I was glad to choose Croche at the end of Phase I--Her Lolipop Sweets is now my favourite choice!

見るたびに癒やされる～～

Now about the story. In [1], because I don't like Misya (really), I was with Orica all the time (her "BOE" is awesome). In [2], I guess most people who have played [1] would go with Jakuri (reason 1)! Reason 2, tsundere is never my love, and I don't like dorodere either. Reason 3, I can't refuse straight, long and black hair.. ._.
and reason 4, I love her face while saying "what a useless man"! xD


↓ the most superb conversation.


Probably the only other person who can be compared to her is Infel, as I love her puns.
↓ I believe Croche has been more or less affected~


Anyway, Croche's REPLEKIA+Lolipop and Jakuri's charming personality altogether have pushed Luca out of my heart--I haven't even used her since Jakuri's join, only Croche+Jakuri over and over.. xD;;

Last, I'd never know there's an "unreleased" song in A.T.2 until I actually played it. (The version in Harmonia pamphlet is toooo short so I extracted a longer looping version from the game -_-'').

P.S. Some people say one's personality can be inferred from character and route choices, so in my case,
A.T.1 permanent party: Lyner+Radolf+Ayatane+Orica;
A.T.2 permanent party: Croah+Shun+Jakuri+Croche.

What? I didn't mention A.T.3 at all?
――あんなエロゲー、遊ぶことはないでしょ？！　(# ﾟДﾟ)

～終わり～

The one I made yesterday isn't the last (piece before the end of August), today's is. Although I wanted to make something like a birthday party, due to lack of proper idea, I chose to resume the "vierge automatique" image series that I paused long time ago (last one was finished in 2013's January.. orz).

Maybe in this March they had similar amount of inspiration, but now Noriko has more pieces associated, and she is the real godmother.. (*ﾟ∀ﾟ).
Thinking about the reason behind, perhaps it's because Akiko tends to create colourful booklets, and thus takes all my own imagination away. Noriko, on the other hand, barely has various designs for her booklets, then leaves me plenty space to build my own world.
and I'm not blaming Noriko's booklet design~ (ﾉ∀`)ｱﾁｬｰ

Another reason (or maybe not), is that the nature of Noriko's songs are generally darker that can excite me easier--even though Akiko's songs are also dark enough to activate my brain, somehow I think Noriko is darker. (・・) (I can't forget that someone who went to her live said she introduced her next song as "it's a song about the downpour brings the end of the world.")

Anyway~ ⇩

cercueil blanc ～白の柩～

About the song itself, since the release of "vierge automatique", there're two versions of it: the original "Hard" version and the rearranged "Soft" version. To me, both are pretty and I have no special perference. I didn't think I paid extra attention for the final makeup, but it's funny that I've scattered those white petals everywhere (after checking the meaning of rose in different colours) and then took a glance at the booklet--it does say "white petals". Nice match~

Because of the song title, at first I used pure white for the dress, but I changed my mind quickly. Considering the colour I used yesterday, which was also pure white. No, using the same colour in a row isn't my style! Yet to make sure the overall image is not off the track, I went to check my booklet to see whether she (Noriko) mentioned things like a white dress. Good thing is, she didn't. So I re-dyed her dress to black happily, and added some purple for the ribbon~
Purple is nice, and it looks so mystic. As the colour of amethyst, I can't stop loving it and abuse spread it around.

This time, I also tried to faint the transparency of the outline to reduce the contrast between surrounding colours (especially the lighter ones) and its own strong black--Now I feel like I should redo the past works in this series in the future if I want to list them together.
Guess it'll be my next plan at the end of August before I continue more. ^^;

At last, I almost forgot. Now I've got the habit to ultilise my music playlist to record the total time I spent for each art work. For this one, the total time is nearly: ⇩

almost 4:44:44!!! ﾍ(ﾟ∀ﾟﾍ)ｱﾋｬ