A regular day in the world of Lycee...

Spring cherry blossoms flutter softly in the afternoon wind, as students file cheerfully out of the school courtyard. White skies spotted with blue clouds complete the end of a perfect day. And so it begins...

A small white-haired girl walks against the flow of students leaving; a simple purple garb among red & pink uniforms. Standing in front of a particularly slow-moving school girl, she politely asks. "You are Kamishigi Akari, correct?"

"Yes, that's me." Akari politely bows.

The small girl claps her hands together triumphantly, and smirks. "Eheh... that's great!"

The schoolyard is almost empty now. Almost to emphasize the void, the skies fill with dark and dreary shadows as black mist creeps across the ground. Lifting a single finger to point at the confused student, the child's voice triumphantly commands:

"I can sense your magi powers, and I dislike competition in the Holy Grail War. You won't escape today; BERSERKER! GO!!"

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UPDATE [11/25/08]: Revised script can be found here.

While pondering a means by which I could enjoy Key's latest work, Little Busters, with my limited Japanese language ability, I discovered a lack of resources available to assist low-intermediate readers. Machine translation does naught to improve one's interpretation skill (except perhaps of "Engrish"), and those with literate reading capability don't require aids.

Thus, I have hacked together what is essentially a glorified (if even that) macro for automating the transferal of text from AGTH to Wakan and Firefox (rikaichan). All the software required to implement it is freely available on the internet. It's very simple, essentially shuffling clipboard contents around, but I hadn't really seen any discussion regarding this sort of technique in the usual places.

More details after the jump:

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Continuing the recent trend of content in the form of posting random videos that I find to be amsuing:

Footage from Lucky Star Episode 16, with a segment dubbed from an animated film called My Life as McDull. Doubly hilarious if you understand cantonese! Everytime I hear 魚香茄子 I start to salivate :D~

Found this on a random Japanese uploader, and cleaned it up a bit (key signatures! yay). It's a piano version for the niconico medley~

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The unofficial Nico Video anthem? 30+ songs popularized by memes, mixed together. Catchy? Excessively so!

EDIT: isaji ver. as found on youtube:

Romaji lyrics and Karaoke version:

Romaji Lyrics (opens in new window)

(I wish I drew this :P)

Finally finished one of many side projects; this particular one I've been hacking away at intermittently for almost 2 years ^^;

It's a transcription of "yoake no sora, chiisana negai" (Dawn's sky, a small wish). The song is an arrange of Perfect Cherry Blossom's 2nd stage theme, from the Touhou piano CD "Reverie". Enjoy! I lack a proper piano, so the MP3 is purely software generated. I might submit this to josh's anime sheet music collection since he loves submissions~

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