A few months ago, a developer that was interested in starting a new project asked me for some background on dating sims. Back then, I answered that dating sims were pretty much a relic of the 90’s , [...]
Read the rest of this entry Entry meta

Kanojo ga Flag wo Oraretara is one of those shows where the punchline of every gag is obvious the moment the gag starts. There’s no point in knocking it for being predictable, because things don’t [...]
Read the rest of this entry Entry meta

One of the most important things to be able to do when thinking about complicated issues is to come up with good examples. Even if you can think of the most elegant abstract idea, if you can not think of an example for it, there is a good chance that there is something terribly wrong [...]
Read the rest of this entry Entry meta

Over the past several months, I have had the pleasure of reading through Akabesoft2′s g-senjou no maou, and though I had finished it several weeks ago, I haven’t quite been able to get it out of my mind. For an eroge, it is quite remarkable. Though I can hardly claim that my knowledge of the [...]
Read the rest of this entry Entry meta

It’s been a while since I’ve written something. I’ve been really busy for the most part, but part of the reason was the recent console release of Arcana Heart 3, which I just got a few weeks ago. Ironically though, it was my roommates who have been playing it the most, though I’ve been able [...]
Read the rest of this entry Entry meta

In the last entry in what seems to be a monthly series looking at fiction, I wrote an awful lot about what is an almost trivial notion. That is, we can believe almost all things that happen explicitly in a work to be true. This could have been expressed in a single line, and no [...]
Read the rest of this entry Entry meta

I often wonder when, if ever, I’ll completely grow out of my interest in anime. I don’t know how long I’ve been facing this feeling that most anime is really bad, shallow, and quite frankly a waste of time. Yet for every season where I feel like there’s nothing worth watching, I always find something [...]
Read the rest of this entry Entry meta

Over the past few years, I have noticed time and time again that among the shows that I find the most entertaining are those that I felt, at the same time, were incredibly stupid. Seitokai Yakuindomo was almost like this in that in general, I don’t find crude jokes funny at all. But I felt [...]
Read the rest of this entry Entry meta

Today saw the release of the English fan translation of G-Senjou no Maou, a game which I believe released 2 years ago or so. Not having kept up with this kind of thing for a while, I wasn’t even aware that another group had picked up the project after Asceai dropped it, or may have [...]
Read the rest of this entry Entry meta

It’s been several months since I posted the first story I worked on. I’ve worked on another one of the stories in the mean time, but since a translation was already released for that, I never made the effort to finalize it. Maybe I’ll work on it though. It’s interesting looking back, and fixing up [...]
Read the rest of this entry Entry meta