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Digest Vol. 30 – No news?

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When I realized it, this week has passed and there’s no interesting news. I guess everyone was busy catching up from all the holidays and events.

Managed to clear Aya route of Delivara. I expect to finish the whole thing next week or maybe even tomorrow since it’ll be another holiday.

Still not sure what to play after finishing it. Considered Quintuple Splash but that’d mean I’m playing two Parasol games in a row which is something I tend to avoid. Parasol doesn’t quite excel in story isn’t helping either. As last few games I’ve been playing are all relatively light in nature, and thus I’m considering something more serious. Current candidates are:

  • Natsu no Iro no Nostalgia
  • One of minori games
  • Satsukoi
  • Kimi e Okuru, Sora no Hana (almost forgotten, lol)

Or something short-ish like the doujin Christmas Trickstar. I’ll call help from dice.

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All right, there we go.

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Digest Vol. 29 – Frozen Dead (part 2)

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Top image queue ran out (it was one, heh). As everyone is busy new year-ing, there doesn’t seem to be much on news front. Well, there are quite a few anime announcements and perhaps some from Denkigai. I don’t really cover anime here and the eroge ones are still too few information. Sagaplanets new game is still just silhouette and ALcot’s… well, it’s ALcot Honeycomb and the illustration doesn’t quite interest me just yet.

Winter sure is cold. Especially when queuing outside for hours. Blanket did help but only until the entry queue starts moving. Afterwards it’s impossible to use with all walking and stuff. Winter sucks.

Heavily distracted by Comiket and barely managed to finish Koikake. Yay. The last two stories are quite good. I cried a bit during Yui’s route and sufficiently intrigued on Last Episode that I cleared it in single run. Overall good game with some good stories and great soundtracks. Funny I initially liked Yui most and then liked Rinka as well but ended up liking Ayane most. Sorry Yui, you’re cute but Ayane is the best after all.

Onward to Delivara. Four routes left and currently at first Aya h-scene. I seem to be heavily distracted during h-scenes. And Parasol’s h-scenes being stupid long doesn’t help either.

And here’s some stats for 2015:

  • Games bought, bolded means completed:
    • Moonstone – Natsu no Iro no Nostalgia
    • Whirlpool – Kujiragami no Tearstilla
    • MintCube – Amakoi Syrups
    • minori – Soreyorino Prologue
    • Yuzusoft – Sanoba Witch
    • Giga – Shirogane x Spirits!
    • Saga Planets – Hanasaki Workspring
    • Purple Software – Chrono Clock
    • Insync – Mousou Complete!
    • Nanawind – Alia’s Carnival! Flowering Sky
    • Peassoft – Chuunibyou na Kanojo no Love Equation
    • ALcot – Loverec
    • feng – Imouto no Seiiki
    • Makura – Sakura no uta
    • Us:track – Koi-Kakeru Shin-Ai Kanojo
    • GLace – Ama no Sora Retrospect
    • Hulotte – Yome sagashi ga hakadori sugite yabai
    • Chelseasoft – Sora koi
    • Clearrave Nyan Nyan – JK Trouble Main”s
    • Parasol – Quintuple Splash
    • Cigalette Soft – Christmas Trickstar
  • Total bought: 21
  • Total played: 10

Almost 50%! That’s not too shabby considering I played some leftover from 2014 as well.

Non-2015 releases:

  • Bought, with bolded means completed:
    • ALcot – Osananajimi wa Daitouryou My girlfriend is the PRESIDENT.
    • ALcot – Osananajimi wa Daitouryou My girlfriend is the PRESIDENT. Fandisc
    • ALcot – Oni Gokko!
    • ALcot – Oni Gokko! Fan Disc
    • ALcot – Naka no Hito nado inai! Tokyo Hero Project
    • Cabbit – Kimi e Okuru, Sora no Hana
    • Parasol – Yumekoi
    • Saga Planets – Karumaruka Circle
    • minori – Supipara Prologue
    • minori – Supipara
    • minori – 12 no Tsuki no Eve
    • Qoobrand – Majo Koi Nikki
    • Marmalade – Koiiro Marriage
    • minori – Natsuzora no Perseus
    • Whirlpool – Magicalic Sky High
    • Cube – Kurano-kun Chi no Futago Jijou
    • Lapis lazuli – Izayoi no Fortuna / Main
    • Nanawind – Alia’s Carnival
    • Parasol – Magicarat Radiant
    • Parasol – Deripara
    • minori – eden* PLUS+MOSAIC
    • Cabbit – Midori no Umi
    • ALcot Honeycomb – Aete Mushi Suru Kimi to no Mirai
    • ALcot Honeycomb – Satsukoi
    • SkyFish Poco, Cabbit – Nyan café macchiato
    • Hulotte – Imouto no Okage de Motesugite Yabai
    • Hulotte – Kanae to Meguri to no Sono Ato ga Ichalove Sugite Yabai
    • Makura – Himawari no Kyoukai to Nagai Natsuyasumi
    • Cube – Koisuru Kanojo no Bukiyou na Butai
  • Total bought: 29 (whoops)
  • Total completed: 1 (whoops)

…whoops. Probably shouldn’t have done this.

In total thus far:

  • Purchased: 59
  • Completed: 19 (32%)

Not too bad, I guess? And hopefully will be slightly faster this year and less piling up even more backlogs considering I’ve done them last year. There are still some left but I figured they can wait much later…

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Digest Vol. 28 – Frozen Dead (part 1)

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Tarareba. Should or should not I? Practically speaking, I probably should not.

And maybe just get its Denkigai tapestry and buy the game much later (after clearing current backlogs) for cheap.

Denkigai Matsuri 2015 Winter has just passed. It was cold. Especially for those queuing for KeroQ/Makura booth. I was one of them. It was cold. At least they have enough in stock despite not placing any kind of limit on how many one can buy at once. Doesn’t help speeding up the line and it’s not like people can just buy everything from them. Good majority of their stuff are hug pillow covers and the blanket costs the same as well. And I found out I barely had enough cash when I was there. And it was cold.

The rest are pretty much as planned with exception of Saga Planets stuff. Their stuff were gone within an hour and I was stuck at Makura for much longer than that. Pikatto Anime as guessed are selling the new tapestries and stuff as well. At least the online order has Karory signing event ticket (I think) and the difference isn’t too bad. Gotta embrace the 1000 JPY additional cost I inflicted on myself for Curtain Damashii stuff at Comiket.

Denkigai event reports by Dengeki Hime.

Blanket plan worked well (at least during the initial wait time) and will continue doing that for Comiket first day (I’m using circle pass for last day). By blanket plan I mean “bring a blanket and cover myself in it”. Simple and actually effective as long sitting down and not minding the blanket getting a bit dirty.

Comiket next week. I hate events. Especially in winter.

On eroge side, I managed to finish Yomeyaba. The harem route is slightly lacking though. I guess that’s the extent of not-nukige? (how is it not nukige anyway?)

Now back to Koikake before continuing Delivara and finally starting Quintuple Splash. Normally I’d finish this Koikake (one main route, one final route(?)) within a week but with incoming Comiket I’m not sure if it’ll happen.

I managed to avoid getting Koikake Yui hug pillow cover. Maybe (last decision before end of this month).

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Digest Vol. 27 – Quiet Week

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No header image this week because I cbf figuring out what to use. Should just start collecting them when they’re released and queue to use them one by one.

Still going through Yomeyaba. Finished all main routes and Kirino’s route. Now heading through two sub routes and then finally harem route. Sad but the two main heroines are actually on lower list than the sub heroines for me. Kirino’s route was quite good. Nanaka’s is still the best.

At this rate I should finish the whole thing soon-ish and then continue to Koikake. And then Delivara… or maybe Quintuple Splash first.

On unrelated news, I blew up my budget. And thus thinking of cancelling getting Maitetsu. I’ll probably regret it but at least that will save me quite a lot and buy me a month time since there’s nothing else for March for me. I need it because I won’t be able to play eroges for about a month due to various reasons. I’ll also drop some other plans as well mainly so I can start actually catching up. I’ve backlogged pretty badly. I mean, I’ve been backlogged for a long time but I just couldn’t catch up at all this last few months. Playing a bit too much other game didn’t help either and upcoming winter event will slow things down even more for the last week of this year. Next week is pretty much calm before storm… and I still hate events. Mainly the early wake up, and even more in winter which is not only tiring but also stupid cold.

Quite a few new release announcements next week.

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Digest Vol. 25 – Chikotam \o/

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Natsu-iro Kokoro Log - Cutes everywhere

Natsu-iro Kokoro Log – Cutes everywhere

Two weekends, two Yomeyaba routes (Kanna and Serika). Three main routes, one harem route, and two mini-routes left, I think. Story is okay-ish with Nanaka-senpai being the best and unfortunately I still don’t quite like one-eye-covered style of Serika.

The soundtrack reminds me of Your Diary. Well, same composer after all.

At this rate I’ll need at least another week or two to finish the rest which hopefully enough for next eroge release day (December 18th). Ideally I should finish this by next weekend and finish Koikake afterwards.

…which then will be followed by JK Trouble Main”s or just try finishing up Delivara since I’m not sure one week is enough to finish the former and I kinda want to prioritize Quintuple Splash.

Denkigai official items pre-order has been started! My current list:

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Digest Vol. 24 – Pauses

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Dal Segno. This would mark my first foray into Circus' series. The actual game, not just anime series.

Dal Segno. This would mark my first foray into Circus’ series. The actual game, not just anime series.

As guessed last week, I wasn’t be able to finish Delivara on time (not even finished a single route) so I just pause the whole thing again and start on Yomeyaba. Now I have two unfinished games behind. Great.

Nanaka-senpai the best btw <3

K-Books usual seasonal goods pre-order went a bit error-y because they’re using a new system.

Ended up purchasing all Yomeyaba store bonuses as well. My balance for this month look pretty bad.

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Digest Vol. 22 – To the Bin

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…the fine-grained budget, that is. I found I mess up the numbers a bit too much, be it for the past or the future and figured out might as well use simplest budgeting method – count up essentials, figure out how much to save, and spend up the rest. Failure in any months doesn’t carry over to next month apart of for saving amount consideration.

Quintuple Splash. Why is not Chikotam (屮゜Д゜)屮

Quintuple Splash. Why is not Chikotam (屮゜Д゜)屮

Slowed down eroge because of various reasons I’m not even sure what. Finished Rinka’s route and now going through Yui’s.

Planning to play Delivara next because of various reasons.

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Digest Vol. 21 – Stuff

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Back to the… Tamasato?

Still going through with Koikake. Finished Sena and Ayane’s route. Currently at Rinka. Should be done within this week and then continue to, I don’t know, probably Sakura no Uta. But it seems to be pretty long and I’m running out of hug pillow cover which game I played. So it’s either that or another game of which I have pillow cover.

Ended up spending most of my random crap budget this first week of the month. Doesn’t help I ended up needing to upgrade my graphics card from Radeon 5450 to something less crap. Still crap though.

I also pre-ordered all February stuff and getting second copy of Yomeyaba. Later this month I’ll also pre-order minori’s Tsuminohi and Date a Live Movie BD. Welp.

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Digest Vol. 20 – All the Games

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Maitetsu. Trains and lolis. What can go wrong?

Maitetsu. Trains and lolis. What can go wrong?

…I forgot to publish this last night.

I managed to finish Chrono Clock this Friday. It’s overall pretty good though probably can use more Kuro hscenes.

That said, I noticed I’ve been playing too much eroge with fantasy elements lately. From Alia’s Carnival and its fandisc, Mousou Complete!, and then Chrono Clock. The only short pause was playing Imouto no Seiiki which took few days.

So I decided to take another break by playing Koi-Kakeru Shin-Ai Kanojo. So far seems to be a fairly simple business.

Still on Koikake, I didn’t plan for any additional bonus besides the one that comes with the game itself. I’m doing a light watch on YJA though – for any chance of cheaper bonuses. So far I got none :D I ended up getting everything as originally (not) planned. Costed slightly more than I expected.

Glace’s Amatoro, on other hand, still trying to get Medio CD bonus. The outlook seems to be pretty expensive at 3000 JPY range. Getchu CD is on the way.

As mentioned from previous post, I’ll probably drop Ensemble’s Koikata after all considering all my backlogs and illustrator. Hulotte’s Yomeyaba is still on course and barring any sudden insanity, I’ll just get my currently preordered one (Trader) and Getchu and maybe official store if it’s interesting enough. It’s Hulotte so I’m expecting at least two more double suede tapestries in following quarters.

For December, I’m getting Parasol’s Quintuple Splash from official store as originally planned and perhaps the drama CDs. No plan for Sorakoi besides Trader.

Still waiting on more details on Omokage Rail Back bonuses though at this point I suspect I’ll just go ahead with Goodwill and YJA the rest of stuff. Or maybe not. It’ll be one devastating month if I try getting everything. I’m aiming Nekoto and Moeri for Mamiya-kun related bonuses – I’m counting four stores and for some reason are all tapestries.

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Digest Vol. 19 – Money (and time) be where

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World Election. Or in katakana, Wa-rudo erekushon.

Finished three routes of Chrono Clock (Makoto, Michiru, and Misaki) including the hscenes. Failing at concentrating this week and wasted by spending too much time on rearranging and cleaning room.

Plan for November is at least Hulotte’s Yomeyaba. I’m still not sure if I should go ahead with Koikata but considering what I have this month (three), my backlogs (craploads), and my current spending rate, I probably have to skip it. Doesn’t help that the illustrator, Kimishima Ao, is also doing Koikake, making it kind of redundant and she/he isn’t even on my watch list.

December release is also looking pretty confusing with at least Chelsea Soft’s Sorakoi and Parasol’s Quintuple Splash. Originally also planned for Onii-chan Teacher but considering I don’t even really half of the character and considering my backlog (as usual), I’ll probably ended up skipping it. But then there’s Ammolite’s new game, Onii-chan, oshiete… which looks kind of interesting. At least that one is single route and costs like 3000 jpy. So I may do end up getting it. There’s also Clearrave Nyan Nyan’s JK Trouble and Mains which is drawn by K-Ko (the same one doing Onii-chan Teacher) and animated and stuff. I don’t know :D

January looks pretty safe so far with just Giga/kinokonomi release. May or may not getting it. Currently at 70% no mainly because of February releases and just plain saving.

February! Whirlpool’s World Election and Haikuo’s Omokage Rail Back are on 99% though I’m still considering if I’ll get the whole thing™ (read: all relevant store bonuses). It doesn’t help I’m getting the expensive version of Omokage Rail Back with hug pillow cover and stuff. And talking about February, I still haven’t started on this year’s February :(

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Digest Vol. 18 – Fool

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Sakura no uta - She's probably the only character I like design-wise.

Sakura no uta – She’s probably the only character I like design-wise.

Ended up getting three new games this month instead of one. Also I think I’ll end up playing the Himawari one as well one day™.

Finished Alia’s Carnival! Flowering Sky. The extra routes are unexpectedly long. Pretty good though and gives some additional answers to Asuha’s extra route. Quite over the top though and I think some of the details went through my head. The other extra route has h-cg of Inori and sadly gave false hope :( Waiting for the appends they’ll be releasing later.

Started Chrono Clock and it’s pretty good so far. Finished Makoto’s route. Felt a bit short. Not checked the h-scenes yet though. Currently at Michiru’s.

Still hoping to finish this before Friday (90% chance of not happening).

Links and photos after the break as usual.

Update: added link to Inugami Kira’s new tapestry.

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Digest Vol. 16 – Autumn

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JK Trouble & Main'sOriginally planned to go to Sunshine Creation but due to Suruga-Ya thinks it’s funny restocking one of tapestry I’ve been looking for with sufficiently high price, I canceled the plan. And played eroge instead (nothing new).

Still going with Flowering Sky, finished Asuha and Shiina. Now going through Karin (halfway-ish, I guess?). And then Tsukuyomi and Shiho. And then check out the rest of additional stories. Hopefully will be done before end of next week and then followed by Chrono Clock.

On unrelated note, I’ve published list of my stuff (currently tapestries, hug pillow covers, and eroges). Check them here. I’m still completing up the data though.

Not much news this week. Links and photos after the break as usual.

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Digest Vol. 15 – Holiday is over.

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sorakoi-720x320-1I forgot to mention in last post but it was Silver Week this week with holidays from Monday to Wednesday, allowing me to immerse myself in eroge. And finished Mousou Complete! Woo \o/

With this, I’m only two games away from February releases.

Onward to Flowering Sky. …finished Yumi’s route already. Now going through Asuha’s route. At this rate I might really be able to start February games in October? We’ll see.

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Digest Vol. 14

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Nanaka > *February next year is looking scary again. I haven’t even touched any of this year’s February releases ;_; That said, this December is also looking pretty bad with at least three games in my list.

Talking about releases, I’m not getting anything this month. Originally there’s Ama no Sora Retrospect but it got delayed to next month making this month empty and two for next month.

As mentioned last week, I started on Mousou! Complete and due to many distractions, I haven’t finished any one route though I believe I’m almost done with Kukuko’s.The story is quite good drama-wise though unfortunately it’s the type I don’t quite like. Hopefully the protagonist will act a bit better on other routes.

Unfortunately the CG is hit and miss and the game itself contains quite a few bugs and helplessly feels cheap. Thankfully there’s no problem with Chiitrans unlike some other kirikiri2 based games.

Links and (nonexistent) photos after the break.

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Digest Vol. 6

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For once I start with blank post instead of copying off old one. Not like there’s much to copy anyway. Returned from trip and arrived with loads of stuff I ordered arrived. More next week as I sent some to office instead. Or more like I accidentally sent some to home and used up some delivery boxes for days. That what I thought. Turned out the flight was delayed for an hour and thus I missed the last train. Since I’m waiting for 4 hours for the first train, might as well finish this post without photo of new stuffs and post them at next digest.

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