Witch Cafe

It was broadcasting on TV yesterday.
I watched this film too much but I've not ever noticed that some characters' "We can't stop after moving." and Nausica's work(she could stop IT) are massage to us. I have to admit I haven't watched it carefully.....(sigh)

So this film tells us our fatality is decided by "what we don't do"(what we stop) but not what we do. We mankind got numerous inventions but did we stop something? Slavery? Kinda.
In Princess Mononoke, protagonist also stopped anger of a giant god by stopping people's desire...at that moment. But that ending also suggests their situation hasn't changed at all. Their village still needs woods to make firearms in order to protect themselves. They will continue to destroy forests. It's the same as our world.

Recently I saw a news "Authority is investigating comp-gacha"
Comp-gacha??? This was a new word to me.
At first, (According to Mr.google) it means Complete Gacha-gacha games.
The meaning of Gacha(Gacha-gacha) was originally Capsule Toy in English but it also means lottery-like elements in mobile phone (online) games now.

Complete gacha is a kind of lottely elements that you can get rare prizes(or can achieve something special) if you gather some prizes by the lottery.

What the problem is?
Generally, lottely itself in online games is no problem (though I don't know the laws well)
We can guesss or feel how many times we need to bet to win in common lettery. But complete-gacha system seems to be hard to understand and we tend to forget how much money we need. Especially, children is just dupe. This is why the authority is investigating if this systme is against laws and regulations.

This investigation may affect the business of mobile phone games. But it won't ruin all of lottely-like online games because lottery itself is legal and companies must make their own voluntary restraints to protect their market.

Oh, It reminds me of one case. Japanese RPGs often have casino in their game world.(I have no idea what generated this tendency....) I think casino in Pokemon was censored in some EU countries.


Hmmm, so this is a talk about the boundary between legal and illegal. It's difficult to decide. I spend so much money for a card game of yuyu-hakusho(I still have the cards!). Yugioh, Pokemon, trading cards are absolutery legal but it has a lottery element. We can't ban all of these stuff. To companies, this is a tasty business.

But we shouldn't forget this. Nothing is more dangerous than a little distorted legal acts.

No.1
Ending of "Tales of Phantasia"
When I was told what the villain(Dhaos) was fighting for, my idea of good and evil was changed. It was the saddest ending in my experience.


No.2
Ending of "Illusion Of Gaia"
This game taught me that romance is no bad for video games. Young guys. Parting. Promise. And love!! By the way, my another favorite scene is the moment Will was shown future of the world(many buildings in a city). He says that world is uncanny. World must has blue river, brown ground, and green forest. But a soul says it's the same world. "Stream of river changes to stream of cars, and woods changes to buildings. That's just it. We are happy as long as we think we are happy no matter what world we are in."


No.3
Last scene of Gray Fox in MGS.
"Snake. We're not tools of the government or anyone else. Fighting was the only thing... the only thing I was good at, but... at least I always fought for what I believed in."


No.4
Ending of Super Metroid.
This is the first time I was attached to a grotesque monster(No. Not the mother brain).
I haven't ever seen lovely monsters besides him.


No.5
Aerith's THAT scene.
This is not my NO.1 because I knew this when I was reading a video game magazine. Damned spoiler!!! But it has taken a few years from the release when I started to play FF7. I had knew it but even I was shocked when I really saw that scene.
And I was one of them who were cheated by the rumors that there is a hidden way you can avoid that.

It's been a long time. Yeah. Too long!
I think there are 3 kings of hiatus.
1. Hagi(the author)
2. Togashi(Hunter X Hunter)
3. Hiroe(Black Lagoon)

Saiyuki is also on hiatus but she is fighting against a terrible disease.
Recently Togashi continuously drew his work for 30 weeks and went to hiatus this week. This is a great record to him (really).

Well, Hagi and Togashi both have children(I don't know Hiroe's situation). So I understand they want to use their time for family. And their works is sold very much. There is no reason they have to work seriously.
There is a joke that editors have their mangaka(who is becoming rich) use money to keep them poor!
Sounds terrible? Yes. But most people don't do hard work when they're satisfied with good family and good income.(I guess this is why many famous mangaka can't make great 2nd work)

I bought it!



Comic too!!

It's been 3 or 4 years since I bought the last video game.
First of all, I'm very satisfied with this game.
(I complain graphics and lack of variety of moves, though).
I know many complaints like "This is no video game" or "It's too short" or "It's too repetitive".

I guess they must had expected games like BAYONETTA.
This is an action-like shooter-like anime-like race-like game.
Many "To be continued" and previous notes are just like watching anime.
(Some parts reminds me of Naruto and Scryed).
I don't know what genre is correct but I felt that developers made many efforts to amuse us. Many worked to me.

Some says it's too short(you can beat it within 6 hours). But this length is suitable to me. I don't(can't) play games for long time. Am I aged? Ahhhhh. Maybe.

BUT even I agree the ENDING is another TO BE CONTINUED.
They should rename this game as "Asura's Wrath 0.5".(Laugh)
However, I don't think this is "bad". There is no rules like games must finish at last. "Back To The Future" also had To Be Continued.
OK! It depends on. And it's natural some gamers gets angry. But it also surprised you, right?
To some, multiple ending is as bad as "To be continued".
But there is no rules. That's why video games are fun.
Extremely, it's ok that a video game which never end.

This is just my imagination but the mysterious villain appeared at last may be an western(christian) god. It'd be obviously an angel if the blonde person has wings and a ring on head. "Eastern myth meets western myth at last. War of gods begins now. To be continued..." Pretty good, isn't it? But it would cause some arguments.


BY THE WAY, I surprised that Kugimiya Rie's voice was left in English version too. This is because this character(a girl) speaks unknown language so they don't have to dub it(Did you think they were speaking Japanese?). Interesting. In Japanese version, she and Mithra were both acted by Kugimiya to emphasis that she reminds Asura of his daughter. But it is enough by the face? Yes.

My questions for translation.
1.Why didn't they translate shinkoku? "Gods country" is bad? I know religious issues are risky but Gods Eater(God Eater in Japan) was OK, wasn't it?
2.Augus's line "wine" is weird. They are drinking sake.



Q and A.

Q. Why does Wayzen shout "Furikara Fudo uchiiiiii!!" when he attacks?

A. Ummmm, it's just like Shoryuken. I too wonder why Japanese characters shout names of their move.

Q. What is "Messatsu" Deus shouts around the last part?

A. Exterminate in English.

Q. What does Hamaya(the bombshells) means?

A. Break-evilness-arrow. Hama is an buddism term, I think. Japanese shrines sell Hamaya as talisman at new year's time.


There are many buddism terms in this game. I don't know them in detail. They left many Japanese words but I think they can translate and give them cool names in English.