Liz and the Blue Bird – Newtype Interview with Tanezaki Atsumi & Toyama Nao

Commission for takasakinozomi from twitter!

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The one girl who’s special to me.

Liz and the Blue Bird tells about the sequel of Mizore and Nozomi’s story.
Oumae Kumiko and Tanaka Asuka: known as the two euphonists featured as main spotlight in the movie Sound! Euphonium: Todoketai Melody, but the series doesn’t end there – as Liz and the Blue Bird takes place in Kitauji High School’s concert band club once more. This time, the main characters are the flutist Kasaki Nozomi and the oboist Yoroizuka Mizore. The continuation of their initial story that was largely featured in TV series Sound! Euphonium 2 will be portrayed through a different lens in this brand new movie. Brought to everyone by director Yamada Naoko, script writer Yoshida Reiko, character designer Nishiya Futoshi, music composer Ushio Kensuke, and staffs from the well-renowned movie A Silent Voice is a new world of the Euphonium universe. The melody that their youth chimes is still something yet unbeknownst to most…

SINoALICE: Gretel – Book 4 Fusion Arc Chapter 1-4 Translation

Merry christmas and enjoy!

Diverse System’s Monochrome Series: Noir Specular – English Translation

Another translation of Diverse System’s Monochrome Series! This short story is one of the short stories bundled with their 2nd album of the trilogy, AD PIANO V: Noir. It’s the direct continuation of this story, and it’s also longer with more contents and lores! Please enjoy.

SINoALICE: Briar Rose – Book 4 Fusion Arc Chapter 1-4 Translation

Done to celebrate release of SINoALICE’s latest story arc: book 4; fusion arc! Contains complete translation of Briar Rose’s chapter 1~4 in fusion arc, including the cross-story chapter between her and Alice. Enjoy.

(NOTE: Will eventually add the in-battle dialogues translation when I have the time to replay the battles.)

Diverse System’s Monochrome Series: Inside of Monochrome Artbook – Character Profiles Translation

Translation of the character profiles of the Monochrome series, as what I had promised here. They’re all very short and you can find them at the official site here(except for the mysterious girl’s profile getting blacked out). Enjoy!

Diverse System’s Monochrome Series: Inside of Monochrome Artbook – Story Translation

Hello! Lately I’ve been listening to more Diverse System, and this one album series in particular piqued my interest; well mainly due to Feryquitous being the main composer and producer for this! It’s pretty rare as well having a circle like Diverse System doing a story series with their albums.

The monochrome series is comprised into a trilogy: AD: PIANO IV Monochrome, AD: PIANO V Noir, and AD: PIANO VI Punishment. The translation below, however; doesn’t come from any of the album – it’s from a separate artbook of AD: PIANO IV titled Inside of Monochrome. The artbook has a lot of arts and also written stories within them, and this post contains translation of all the pages with featured stories. There’s also a character profile, which I may translate separately later(done; now here!). You can also check the artbook’s official site here.

Enjoy!

Mirai Radio to Jinkou-bato – Review & Thoughts

First of all, merry christmas & advanced happy new year! At least I can drop in a blog post before the year changes… phew. I’ve been too busy only playing mobages beside uni stuffs instead of reading VNs, whoops… hopefully that’ll change next year, lol.

Title: 未来ラジオと人工鳩(Mirai Radio to Jinkou-bato)
Company: Laplacian
Release Date: August 31st, 2017
Length/Estimated Time of Playing: 10~15 Hours
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Summary: Enter Sora, the technician protagonist, in a future where radio wave no longer exists because the “artificial pigeon” devours them. He is also an airplane crash survivor in which he lost both his parents at – in which it was also the day when artificial pigeons started to devour waves, and he dreams of destroying the them in order to attain back the old world before they appeared and ruined a lot of people’s lives. With this, he created a “radio” with the tools his father left behind and started his radio broadcast. But suddenly, at the same time; he also started receiving mysterious broadcasts from the “future”…

Un:BIRTHDAY SONG – Review & Thoughts

A fandisc of the original series titled Re:Birthday Song. It’s an otome game from honeybee(The Starry Sky series, Dynamic Chord, etc), and I wasn’t really expecting something “ground-breaking” even though it’s a plot-heavy game(or at least that’s how they tried to present themselves…) based on my pure judgment of the original game which I have lots of mixed feelings in, but the final “true” route in particular exceeded my expectation and by all means was this better than the original series. Let’s get into it, then.

Title: Un:BIRTHDAY SONG ～愛を唄う死神～(Un:BIRTHDAY SONG ~Ai wo Utau Shinigami~)
Company: Honeybee
Release Date: March 27th, 2015
Length/Estimated Time of Playing: 10~15 Hours
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Summary: you play as a highschool girl called Kanno Hotori, who has 2 shinigamis called Zen and Rikka visiting her then telling her that she’s going to die in 30 days – 25th of December. Before she dies, Zen and Rikka want to make sure that she’s able to pass on without any regret so that she won’t end up in the Netherworld – where dead souls left with regret end up in. She tells them that her only wish is to confess to her crush Shizuru, and so begins the days where Zen and Rikka would help her with her confession.

Mobage Review: Innocent Bane

Innocent Bane is a turn-based strategy action RPG by Fingar Studio Inc. It was a mobile game that originally opened its first service on DMM(japanese), but unfortunately shut down after around 5 months(yes, not even a year…) of service. However, after failing their attempt to enter JP service, they started over again from scratch and decided to bring the game to global audiences.

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I’ve been playing this game for around a month, and I have to say that I’m quite pleased with the experience it’s giving me! It’s certainly different from those mobile games that get boring in just one or two playthroughs; and it’s even better when the co-op system is very engaging. Do note that we’ll be talking about the global version from Fingar, not the japanese one from DMM.

More will be discussed below.

Karenai Sekai to Owaru Hana – Review & Thoughts

Just don’t expect too much from a middle-priced game – that’s what this VN had taught me.

Title: 枯れない世界と終わる花(Karenai Sekai to Owaru Hana)
Company: Sweet & Tea
Release Date: November 25th, 2016
Length/Estimated Time of Playing: 10~15 Hours
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Summary: Shou, our protagonist, begins his journey together with Ren – a girl whom he met on his way – to the beautiful town where forgotten promises were lost. There he meets the three sisters Haru, Yukina and Kotose; the “death angels” granted the power to turn a soul into “flowers” by God – in order for them to be able to keep living. Shou then swears to protect them no matter what it costs – what does he know about them? And what drives him to do so?