This week's loot (28th May 2017)

So I was in Kyoto last week and only just got round to uploading the Uzumasa Moe cafe photos I took. I'll probably get round to uploading other photos next week or something. Can't be bothered to do so now, at least.

I just finished reading Imouto Sae Ireba Ii #7. It should be noted that I started on #1 three days ago. This series is good.

I haven't been reading light novels a lot at all for the past few years- It's not that I lost interest or anything like that, it's just that I had a lot of books built up in my backlog that I never got around to reading and didn't feel it was appropriate to buy more when I hadn't read those, but ended up on this series purely on a whim and here we are. I'd been reading Hirasaka Yomi's stuff since around the time Haganai first started, going back to previous stuff like Nekuroma and Ranobe-bu as well, but I kind of got busy around the time #10 came out and though I did buy it and #11 never got round to reading them, or pretty much anything else since then (up till now the only Japanese novels I can recall reading in the past 2-3 years or so are Strange Fake and a couple of doujin releases by Kiduki).

But yeah I started this on a whim, and it was good, and it's got me wanting to read more and I went and grabbed the first three volumes of Eromanga-sensei and Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata (digital as usual, of course). I did ultimately end up reading all of Oreimo (Eromanga-sensei's Fushimi Tsukasa's previous series) and I've always loved Maruto Fumiaki's games.

If I do get round to catching up with those I'd been meaning to look into Date A Live (I loved the writer's debut series, Soukyuu no Karuma) ever since it started (which means that, yes, I've been procrastinating on that for six years). Also it turns out that two new volumes of Cop Craft completely managed to slip under my radar, and I STILL haven't gotten round to reading the latest volume of Seikai no Senki yet.

Unrelated: Thanks to all the reading I've been doing I still haven't finished that Barzam.

Uzumasa Moe Cafe

This week's loot (21st May 2017)

This and last week's loot (14th May 2017)

I cleared Dark Souls 3 again (starting from the beginning), Aoki Kakumei no Valkyria (picking up where I left off before which was at the beginning of the final chapter), and my first playthrough of Nier Automata in the past two weeks.

Not much to say about Dark Souls 3 at this point. It's good.

Valkyria has an interesting narrative- I like the way it's framed, and consider how they're not afraid to have people sit down at a table and talk non-stop for fifteen minutes with no action at all to be a good thing- but the story unfortunately has way too many problems and fizzles out at the end, and is ultimately unsatisfying.. And the gameplay is straight up just fucking bad.


The first playthrough of Nier Automata didn't do anything for me. I can tell that it's a good game, but I'm not just feeling that it's anything special so far. I haven't been spoiled on it but a lot of the praise I've heard goes on about how unique it is that the game and story changes with subsequent playthroughs as you work towards a true ending, which doesn't really seem all that special to me and honestly sounds more like ignorant people not knowing how common that gimmick is than anything the game itself actually accomplishes. The game is somewhat decent though. And also really fucking weird.

Somewhat related to that: I've taken to broadcasting stuff I'm playing on Twitch, mostly because it lets me record entire sessions to Youtube and doesn't fill up my PS4's hard drive, as opposed to the PS4 only letting you record up to 15 minutes at a time and holy shit I have no fucking space to install games anymore. I have pretty much the entirety of the latest Dark Souls 3 playthrough up on Youtube and am doing the same with Nier Automata. Just gameplay; I don't have a microphone and leave comments off.

In other news I'm supporting Galette on enty (been doing so as soon as I learned they were on there).

And yeah, I watched Guardians of the Galaxy 2 and the new Brave Witches thing. Guardians is definitely one of the better Marvel movies, and I always did like Eila and Sanya and so enjoyed the Brave Witches thing.

The trailer for the Prisma Ilya movie aired before Brave Witches. Prisma Ilya movie where Ilya is treated like a fucking extra and Kuro isn't even in the trailer because we need more Shirou? Sure, why not. Seriously though I'd take a fucking compilation movie over this.

Yurimate (2017)