音時雨 ～Regentropfen～

↑今回のタイトルはあっさりで決めた！

- Can you change your iris colour?
- Yes of course, in the 2D world!

In the past a few weeks, I had just realised a serious problem, that none of my girls has the blue eye colour! °A°
This shall not be allowed. Although I had forgotten how I decided the final palette, maybe 10 years ago, and regardless I had undergone a (sort of) style-change 3 years ago, I need another revolution, solely for the eye colours.

In the real world, eye colour isn't of the first things I'd notice. Never, that I can't even tell my colleagues' eye colours. Real people have no fun -- bearing with an otaku's heart. But in the imaginary side, you have endless choices with combinations between hair/eye colours, so why not take more time and find the most colourful versions? I think I was possessed since seeing Ciel's pretty blue eye, and liked the staff's colouring work. So much possessed that I eventually updated my colouring pre-sets.

↓ Only many were changed, and now I have the blue~ Though I don't believe this is the final version, especially for those I haven't tested using my past works.

I'm glad that this was made before I finishing up the second inspiration from "kinema mosaic", and I also edited the earlier piece "revive -remake-" (which made it the 3rd time of editing.). However, after that, I lost my intention to continue fixing works even those came in this year (literally only 1 needs fixing, but involving 2 characters, so, maybe later...).

あの子だけをここまでやってて、他の子たちはどうかお許しを！！ >///<
だって、あの子の色だけはキレイな青なんですから☆

Continuing from last section, surprisingly it only took me about a month to finish the second "kinema mosaic" inspiration:

色硝子の裏側に乙女たちの音合わせ
Literally as "Maidens' tuning behind the stained glass".

Really I'm using more and more text while naming my drawings. No wonder whose habit I got it from. -_-''

Am I still supposed to write some liner notes?
Obviously, and repeated for the third time in this entry, that the inspiration was Mitose Noriko's "Kinema Mosaic", as the second work, after May 2014.

There is something special in this song, not only the gorgeous string overlays, but also all its flats and sharps. Musically it's driving my fingers nuts, and visually it keeps giving me blur, vague and abstract ideas. The last time inspiration was merely a warm-up, to have a quick touch with dim light and interior of an antiquely decorated room. This time, one was not to mimic the previous work too much, and two was I had no clue on what kind of background I was going to draw, I had a simpler overall design. Originally I even placed a few candles but I took them away because I was lazy I'm no good at rendering light effects. I ever thought about to put something on the floor, but replaced with a tiled pattern, as if I did, the only thing I'd leave there would be some shining stuff... but I never meant to draw a secret ritual! lol

One thing I didn't expect was, stained glass appeared in both works! Purely out of coincidence, but doesn't it mean it's a symbol while dealing with Taishou-Romance? （ ﾟ∀ﾟ ） Like just said, the big problem was still the light effect through a piece of coloured glass. I did put many efforts to render the shadow on the ground, but, maybe it's not what one would see in reality. So just don't be picky and focus too much on the details.. xD;

No need to have many words about the characters -- following the standard settings.
A major change in mind was, originally I wished to use military uniforms, it would be hard to tell since the instruments would hide many featuring parts, and thus I didn't go further.

-- Plus, I wonder whether that's a great coincidence that I listened binaria's "花紺青" at the same night!
And Piccolo is staring at a bug on the wall, hiding behind my monitor. ( ﾟДﾟ)ｻﾜﾘﾃｪｪ

Maybe I've mentioned previously, that Akiko's C92 preview didn't stimulate my mind too much, so I guess, the next one would be a remake. I've forgotten why I picked up "revive" as my first remake, but right now, I don't know which one I shall work with. What I've decided is, I won't remake anything that's done after I began using ClipStudio, so timely no touch after "chromatique magicians". And I myself do prefer choose earlier more shitty works as it's fun to have a big difference. The current issue is, I'm more enjoying drawing multiple characters, but before I didn't.
Another possible way is to reassemble and remake, as long as they can be joined in smooth.

This span does give me sometime to enjoy Shin-Yomawari though. I'm never used to it's "R" key for running system, which is so different from other games that use the "X" key. My death count does get increased many times because of this..
But I won't complain too much for this. Most of my attention is in how much evil NipponIchi had put inside the game. Comparing with Yomawari, this one definitely has more evil and more jumping scares (and more traps that the mansion made me believing I was in Sen's fortress). Although both had showed its negative aura since the tutorial... not bad though!

The story is almost like parallel to Yomawari, and it becomes the most obvious since the end of chapter 4. Personally I like chapter 5, the giant crab-ish monster that blocks the way, my favourite monster~（*´▽｀*）

８／２１　ピンホールから見たミニサイズの部分食

I still think Shikata Akiko's "Umineko" song is the best for (total) solar eclipse viewing!

８／２８　ピンクの夕空と薄明光線(ほとんど撮れなかったが)

Speaking of the just past total solar eclipse, I deeply love this shot taken by KAGAYA♥

↑タイトルは結構適当ですけど…

Last Thursday (or Friday), I eventually realised that comiket was going to be coming day. Wasn't it usually at the end of August? Did it change recently or just because my memory got some problem and messed up?

But, since Haruka had her new high quality canoe release as usual, and Akiko's preview of the coming album "Ayashi" (although the orgel track isn't as delicious as I'd expect), I'm fine with it.
Speaking of Haruka's canoe unit, I'm assuming they're making a long story through all these albums, but sadly, I never paid much attention -- I might if they're in one single album though -- I just can't stay focused. In this sense, a concept album suits me much better. Then it comes to "Ayashi". Be frank, it's not that impressive compared to when I fist listened to the "wokashi" preview. There's somthing not enough.

Or is that my sense in music starting to fade out...?

No, you won't know how much I got hyped when I looped "The for kings" or "Knight Artorias" on the train for weeks. Great feelings indeed, which also made me changing files of my player the first time since the end of last December.
Although right in these days, I've been switched to loop "Lacrimosa" (yet once again I failed to finish their 3rd and 4th albums). The sense retains sharp.

Back to the "something".
It must be the dark aura hidden in the depth. The exact reason stopped me catching up with Kalafina, which immediately attracted me through the overlaying thick darkness. Naturally I always wish for it, and so shall I be the same this time. To me, the first impression from the title "Ayashi" was, that could be an excellent counterpart to "wokashi", but still there will be some dark songs. It has to be!
Even more ideally, could "かくれんぼ" be turned into a full vocal version, like "オトシモノ"? (*´∀｀)

However, due to the lack of dark touch, my motivation was totally quenched for imagine something new. So I can stay at ease and finish staining the coloured glass I made for "Kinema Mosaic" 2nd! I got 80% done in an unexpected quick speed within two days only, but suddenly this was suspended again, because I with all my capriciousness wanted a decent score of this song itself. I tried to search online, and had absolutely no luck.
Which meant I had no choice but to get one myself. Not being confident, but this was something I can somewhat handle, at a certain level. I didn't think doing this before, simply because the piece as a whole "scares" me. When >2 strings mix up, to me it seems impossible to split out each single melody line easily.

What's different about this piece, was also the key, with so many temporary sharps or flats. Although I myself put 2 flats and assumed it's a G minor, who knows what the true key it might be? (つд⊂)
The digital tunes never sound good, well, at least I said "decent", so it made me feeling less stressed out for "forgetting" the so artistic interlude part. My attempt told me I can't work it out, unless I spend much more time which I didn't want to. Moreover, sometimes I made the chords up just to make the overall thing sounds richer.. << No way I'm going back.
However, better than nothing. If someday, they decide to publish the original score, I'll definitely buy it!
Together at the same time, I considered to get a decent duet arrange for "serenato", but soon I dropped the plan.
↑こんなことは、「愛」がなければできない！

Summer brings up horror!
But, regardless of season, as long as it's horror I'd love to see☆

↑I wonder if I'm the only fool who didn't realise you could turn the screen around? ← Apparently I never realised what the so-called "360° video" means..

Hopefully this time I can get to play it longer. Such type of games only give you the best experience at the first round after all. Still, I'm going to play it, unfortunately (not ready for PS4 yet). Just hope they don't kill a cat in the introduction. -_-||

I was planning to write this journal back to last Sunday, but...
who would expect that Kuroshitsuji hacked into my mind and I'm still pretty off-track..!!
I'll allow this since the last time I got so burnt up for an anime was 2 or 3 years ago, with Steins;Gate. However, since the end of last summer, my progress in playing its original game never proceeded. I didn't make it a sort of belief. Simply, I'd like to retain things stay uniformed on my mind. If the first encounter was an anime, then it's getting a bit hard for me to accept other types of media. Although it's not an absolute, shall it never go across the border -- no live action, musical, etc.
There's no fun to transform a perfect 2D imagination into the real 3D, but not vice versa. ^^;

There're always things you'll never understand. Such as UTF8 rendering between Perl/CGI, HTML form submission and storing in database files. Even though everything stored in SQL was using UTF8, I kept getting problems about improperly displayed characters, especially the degree sign ° and German umlauts. Although I expected Japanese characters might cause a bigger problem, it wasn't the case. Which is good, looking at a full screen of weird symbols is never a pleasant experience.

I brought this up, simply because I was playing around with them again. Also because of this issue, I'd considered for so many times to completely convert to use PHP. My hunch was it's going to be hard, if not impossible. I'm very aware of its fitfulness with web stuff, but I'm not comfortable at all with PHP, especially while dealing with "undef" strings, and I'm not used to while calling specific piece of data from complex structure (the very annoying "quoting" of every key name -_-'').

So, as a faithful Larry Wall follower, I'm happy that DBI has got it ready for an expected smooth transfer from MySQL to SQLite. Note, it's not because I don't like MySQL. It's very easy to use and fully manageable, however, since my stuff isn't big at all, I'd be very glad to store all my data into a single file, so it becomes portable all the time. (Yet, I'm not planning to write my journals directly with that.. ^^;)

The whole progress indeed was a quick one. I like how DBI served as a wrapper and thus no many edits were needed. Essentially, all checks I needed to do was minor variations between SQL statements. But there are surely something I don't understand well. I can't use "show tables" or "describe table", and I still haven't figured out the correct statement to achieve the same in SQLite. Also, while doing "insert into table", "set xxx=?" doesn't work, and I have to use the more tedious (?) "values(?,?)".

Whatever, the transfer is done. Sometimes there is a need of "encode('UTF-8',$string)" for showing all text correctly. But when I check back contents stored in the SQLite file, everything looks perfect. This means all character issue must be from the crosstalk outside of the original data, which also means I don't need to worry about anything in my submission form at all. If something behaves weirdly, ask "Encode"~

There's more than one way to do it, so what I've done makes sense! ( ˘ω˘)

Plus, with this chance, I also rewrote my css, including splitting out a separate css file for only colour related settings. I perhaps won't change the design layout so frequently, but I do with colours! Moreover, now the main theme is (supposed to be) based on my recent artwork -- maybe someday I shall switch to use my previous "lantern" background for a while, and for fun!

Since this week's big cleaning of my laptop, a few more keys were behaving weirdly after the 90% dead "D", 50% dead "R": "Down" is 85% not working, and "W" sometimes gives two characters in a row.
Great. At least the fan itself is fairly quiet till now. The keyboard isn't the most essential part after all.

50 Shades of grey.
When I first saw this, I wondered "Why it's worth posting? Isn't that true? This would be my first impression too." But later I learned it was the title of a horribly rated film. ^^;
However, I mentioned it just because of now I'm moving on to the main topic.

『星輝夜のための舟唄 -barcarolle for a radiant starry night-』
Overlaying variations of dark blue and pink means a calm night with dancing sakura petals~

Processing notes:
- It was the one inspired by Akiko's "Kagaya (or whatever its pronunciation is)" from album "Wokashi". The initial motivation was... perhaps looping it for a whole morning.
- The title that didn't really take too much time to decide. I think I've sort of wanted to use the word "barcarolle" right after drawing the draft.
- Although strings were largely used in the arrangement, I didn't mean to depict everything in detail, so only the most (?) featuring instruments : flute and sou (plus vocal of course) were involved. While the three impressive words before taking a closer look at the lyrics were: wind, flower and star, there was no more reason to include more characters.
- The think of props, mainly the boat, was indeed a hard attempt. Even after finishing it I still feel a flower boat ... -ish thing may look a little mismatched, doesn't it?
- Unusually, the entire make up of the background was firmly determined with the draft. Therefore it went faster than expected. Need to mention, the background was originally patched up from various photos I found via google image: The galaxy sky, the lake with sakura trees beside, and the foreground tree.
- The backgrounding was indeed fun too. And I learned a bit more on rendering night sky and water surface, not good at the light-shadow effects though. (I liked to smear around the sky to smoothing different shades~) Also I dotted EVERY SINGLE STAR in the sky, WITHOUT duplication.. -_-''
- Patterns of clothing and background were largely done using my Surface~ :3
- At first there was no flying petals, but eventually I added them in. But since it was the last and also kind of additional step, I got lazy and used its built-in decoration tool -- good thing was flying petals are a common element and was ready to use!

Two month one piece, which is current progress since about 2 years ago. Regardless I do have so many inspirations or even vague ideas, becoming a gamer is eating up lots of my leisure time which slowed down this side. Now doing my 5th run of Dark Souls... Seriously poisoned! @@;;
Next, finally I can move on to the long wish: "kinema mosaic" again! \(T)/

べ、別に私はなんのネタもなくて書かなかったわけじゃないよぉ‥ただダクソにハマりすぎて何かを書くチャンスさえ奪われてしまったので…
はい、すみませんでした！
反省しますぅ…(つд⊂)
ダークソウルまさに神ゲー！！←反省する気なし‥

そして…↓

こいつもサマーセール中！なんと半額だけでＤＬＣ入れ済み！！
ほしいわ、プレステ4今持ってなくても（いつか持つんだからね、サイコブレ2も必ずやろうと決めたし）。アマゾンで中古のコピーでさえこれより高そうだし。
まだ一週間なので、ちゃんと考えないとっ！
ちなみにソウルシリーズの2、3は（少なくとも今は）プレイ予定なし、理由はよく分かりません～(・ω・｀)

ではでは～少しずつ「この前」の私に戻りましょう～
だから音楽の話をしましょう～

１．麻枝准さんの新しいラブソングプロジェクト
試聴です： https://youtu.be/wkkT6503KLc
あんまり気に入らないから動画の埋め込みなし

新しい歌い手さん起用には別にいいけど、あの人の声、全然アウトです！どうしても私の受け入れる程度ではない。ただ書き込みの曲を歌いだすだけじゃん。固い、味も薄い。中途半端な感じで、印象的なものは音が終わったら何も残していない。
無理だと知っていても個人的にはこの新しい歌い手さんはAnnabelさんにやらせてほしい!!>_<
叶わぬ夢のせいで、今度このアルバムはスルー確認です。
本当にすみません、麻枝さんの曲は悪くないよ！｡･ﾟ･(ﾉД`)･ﾟ･｡

２．やはり最近のテーマであるダクソに戻ります♥
全3作のサントラはみんな聴いてた、でも一番気にいるのは本編をやった「1」です、もちろん。
ダクソのサントラは基本的に大規模のオーケストラと混声合唱の曲が多いです。この点だけで素晴らしい。だって、まあ、きっと私の普段聴いてる曲のスタイルとも関係あるけど、こんなゴージャスな編曲はあまり聞いてられない。雰囲気も超ぴったり（残念ながら、本番ボス戦にはゆっくり聴けない、すぐに死んだり緊張しすぎて集中できなったりので）→電車や町中歩きながらこれら聞いたらなんか「変な」感覚が…(；´∀｀)

混声だけでなく、以前にはもう言ったと思ったが、私はとっくにバスが好き。あの「信頼感のある重厚な発声」（wikipediaより）にたまらない。それ以外、私の心を捕まえたのは、多く使われたティンパニです。今改めて考えて、ほかの作曲家さんたち、例えば川井憲次さん、もこれらをよく編曲しているので‥
だから大好きだよ！！ヽ(ﾟ∀ﾟ)ﾉ ﾊﾟｯ☆

そうそう、ほとんど言い忘れた！みんなすごいけど、しいて言えば一番気にいるのは「Knight Artorias」です。ええそうよ、長い苦戦中だんだん味わいだしたので～（オンスモもより偉く苦戦したがBGMの素晴らしさを間もなく気づいたので除外。＾＾；）

これで、最後の話題はちょうど今日起きたこと。
今メインに使っているノートパソコンだけど、長時間使われるので冷却ファンはよくうるさくなっている。流石に熱暴走にはないけど、うんざりしすぎてもう我慢の限界です。
前にもこんな調子になったら本体を「簡単な」お掃除をした。けどね、ハードの組み立てには分からなくて「危険そうな」試しは抑えていて、なかなか中に隠れてる冷却ファンに届けない。
本当にだめだったら新しいやつに変えるしかない。が、このノートちゃんはよほど性能高い、バッテリー以外はなんでもできる！とずっと信じているから割愛できません。せめてもう5年使わせて！！

だから、奇想でもないが、この動画を見つけた。

なるほどなるほど。ここから本体を開けられるなんて知らなかった！
たまたま大胆で行こうかなぁ。万が一、私にはまだSurface 3があるし…

そして、私はやったｗｗ

目的は冷却ファンの露出だけ。パーツを外すにはそれほど難しくない。
しかしっ！
ちょうどいいサイズのドライバーがない！
仕方ない、この手で強引に回すしかない！|||дﾟ)#

死角まで開けて、およそ6年半の塵をようやく追い払った私は、指が痛い。
強引すぎたのかな。でもノートちゃんがすっごく静かになった！
結果としては悪くない。
めでたしめでたし～

終わり～( ˘ω˘)

In the following week, it seems to be near 30°C everyday.
Not a good thing at all, I feel I'm melting down. Due to it, my timezone is getting weird. But, that's why I'm having my own 27-hour custom time display...
Summer should not exist... u_u

In the past month, I know I'm too deep in the world of dark souls, and eventually, I became the dark lord on this Monday. Before the last boss, which wasn't that a big trouble, I sort of "gave up" on the DLC boss Manus and hit him down far away outside with my +5 lighting longbow... I'd never say I'm getting any better in this, but I'm much more confident with the world map, as I've died so many times and thus the map naturally embedded into my mind. Beating Gywn without parry -- impossible for someone who barely parried throughout the entire gameplay -- I kited him around the stalactite-ish rock and achieved victory soon within 3 retries. This made me satisfied and also stimulated my mind of "to return to the normal". But it didn't mean I stopped. I just entered the second round, and was quite pleasant with my current weapons, the sharp lifehunt scythe, which didn't make me feeling too bad in a harder mode -- I'm not that skilful enough to handle the dragonslayer spear with no flaw, I apologise.
So in the next morning, I with a rather excited voice holding my Piccolo and saying aloud: "I'm gonna be normal again since today!" But still he didn't like people holding him and quickly slid away. ^^;

Sometimes there's a melody lingering in my head but I just can't recall its name. Like yesterday, when I evenually recognised another piece that had been drifting over weeks. "Scenda Amor, scenda Imeneo", the last chorus from Idomeneo. But it's so strange that I could even remember any other piece of melody from it, as mainly my focus on this opera is the aria that Akiko covered in Shadow Hearts 3...

だから今日から、この七夕のきっかけで、「普通」に戻ろう。未完成の「輝夜」イメージ、もう二度とやり直したくないドイツ語、頭の深くに沈んでする「企画」、そして…あれこれ、全てが私を待っている。でも、行動を行わないと始まらなくて続きもできないんだよ。
知ってるのこれぐらい。
だから、
私なりの時間を、今こそ紡ぎ出し直そう。

私なり絶対にできる（やる気マンマン）！

ちなみに…
リリィちゃんかわいいよぉぉ～～！！　（*´▽｀*）

最後に、遅れてる七夕のお祈り――
ダブルストップをうまく弾けますように！

時間だけはみんなに平等たるもの、だから早くても遅くても、あくまでは何ひとつも変えられない。それより、自分なりの行き方を見つけ出すのは、自分という存在を確かめ、時間の流れを大事に実感できる。

こんなにあれこれ書くことも、この時間が「通した」印を残せるので、今日の私もまた、自分なりの速さで頭のなかに積んでいる記憶を整理し、文字列に変換する！
激昂し過ぎるかな‥とりあえず始めよう～(´・ω・`)

3 days ago, I tried to unlock my Arc's bootloader. But it seemed not working, because the device itself is from a carrier. I don't want to pay whatever $$ that's required nor send it to the manifacture either. So I had to stay with ICS 4.0.4, until Arc is physically damaged or having a battery death.
Later I got a check on amazon, that in general Xperia not-so-new devices cost about $300, and Lumia series is usually lower than it, while Apple stuff is higher. Still, it's not saying anything about the bootloader (of course, not that many people would even care...).
Thus I asked on the product page, with little hope finding the answer. I began to wonder how many people are at least sort of geeks. Out of 4 answers I received (fairly quick response, it's my first time asking there any way), only 1 looked reasonable. And it also began to make sense, that why geek is a category that only fits a small amount of people.

It's getting off again.. ↓
Maybe a Windows phone can be my next choice, since I never really care about apps, which always have lots of ads.
However, it's not going to happen right now. I Arc is still fine (although I thought I almost killed it at that night). Or who knows if there's another way to force unlock it!

Psycho Break is going to have #2!
First I thought it's just rumours, but with the recent E3, I believe it's true, it's going to happen!

So, my first impression was: is it Zero?!
No wonder, there's a camera in front of his (= Seb?) face in the background, plus the screen shot (?) beside the text, that he's shooting a (old styled) camera-monster.
Also from the description, I feel it's going to be another Silent Hill 1. A father looks for the daughter, in a different "dimension".
Interesting. I'm really excited, even without knowing what roll the camera would play.

Reminder to myself, that I need to finish the DLC sometime, in order to have a more complete idea about the main plot (as the official DLC info claims).

Time to get a PS4, I've found a reason.

Although recently I'm enjoying my PS3 pretty much.
Yesterday I was not that surprised that I passed the 4 kings without "so many" tries, that I spent a whole week beating Ornstein and Smough after all!
It was so tough that I had to take a photo as a souvenir.

Black sorcerer series, I had no other choice as it's the lightest one to let me doing fast rolling.
First I was going to beat Smough second as he's slower, but I got upset because of his bulldozer plus butt-press were way too scary to me. Thus I switched to Ornstein as the second. It wasn't much easier either. But there's another reason behind. The world serpent thinks Smough's soul only is worth $1... not to mention I myself won't have a chance to hold his huge hammer after crafting the special demon weapon. Ornstein's spear looks so cool that I can't resist. I levelled up merely for taking that with single hand -- hope I'm not wasting my points.

In another search about the duo, I found this..

↓ Which explained why searching solely "Ornstein" will give you a related tag "Pikachu". xD;;

Catime: Piccolo likes KanColle too! :3