As I announce earlier this day, the second part of my Saki playthrough of Tokimeki Memorial Tokkae Dama is now subbed. Now you can see in English Saki's cute Good Ending in this game ! :p

You can find this vid, as well as the first part of the playthrough (which is subbed as well) in my Youtube Account.

I hope you'll enjoy both the vid and the sub ! ;)

This is probably where LittleKuriboh found his inspiration for his famous "Screw the Rules" line, lol XD
And you've got a female version of Inui (from Prince of Tennis) inside as well. XD


I also posted, among all the new vid, a full storyline playthrough of Tokimeki Memorial Taisen Tokkae Dama, a rather unknown but fun Puzzle Game. Check this, and all the vids, at my Youtube Account.

I'm working on subbing the Tokkae Dama playthrough, and this far I completed the first part. Second part will hopefully come later in this day. I hope these subs will allow you to enjoy the viewing of the vid even more. ;)

In one of my comments of the previous post, I misused a term and unvoluntary offended one of my LJ friends. I'm really, sincerely sorry for this, I didn't intended at all to do this.

I'd like to remind you that I'm not a native English speaker, and although I'm fluent enough to hold conversations, I make (lots of) mistakes.

So if you ever see me misuse a term, it's without a doubt unvoluntary. So please, don't be offended, and don't hesitate telling me, so I can correct myself for the future.

We can all agree it's through trial and error, that you learn to master a language. And I'm making all efforts to master them, both English and Japanese.

Thanks in advance, everyone. :)

TORADORA IS OVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEER T___________T

The final episode of the anime has aired in Japan early morning of yesterday, heck you could be sure I haven't missed this. And this episode was a perfect closure for this EXCELLENT anime.

I enjoyed Toradora through and through, and it makes me a bit sad it's now over. I'm not a fan of anime for starters (I'm more a manga fan), so getting me to be this attached to an anime is quite a feast. So everyone, please, I urge you : get at least a look at it. I'm confident in saying that you won't be disappointed.


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On another matter, I finished recently building my new team for Double Battles at Pokémon Diamond (or at least a beta of it, as I may change two of its members, depending on how the team fares). I think it's stronger than my former one, but I'm not totally sure, I need to test it against a variety of opponents.

If you're interested in battling me, please comment in this topic. :p
My FC : Sety / 3222 8035 2300 (It's my Diamond FC, BTW)

Rules :
* Double battle, 6 vs 6, Lv. 100
* OU (so no Uber, Garchomp included)
* Species Clause
* Sleep Clause
* Item Clause (AKA no two Pokemon may hold the same item, Leftovers included)
* Evasion Clause (AKA no stupid shit like Double Team, Minimize, or Bright Powder)
* OHKO moves Clause (AKA no OHKO moves whatsoever : Guillotine, Sheer Cold, Fissure and Horn Drill are forbidden)
* No Dark Void (that move is cheap, and it has the potential to violate Sleep Clause as well)


It's very probable I'll record on camera my battles with you and post them on Youtube. If you don't want me to post them, please tell me. ;)

To my fellow Serenes members among my LJ Friends (like TheEnd, Vincent, Manna), and frequent Serenes guests (thinking of Jyosua, notably) :

Are Serenes' board up again, or it is still on "The site will be going down again for some maintenance. This should be the last time it's going down" mode for you ?

Asking especially this, because I have a Pokémon Wi-Fi Tournament battle with Doom_Dragon_103 this week-end, and at this rate, we'll miss it, since I don't have any other way to contact him. :/



And on another note, TV Tropes is a real time-killer. It has so many and so funny contents, I love it, and yet can't finish reading it (already spent a basically FULL day, and still very far from having read everything.) O_O

Wow, it's been about two weeks since my last update, sorry everyone :(
And during that time, quite a few things happened.

Indeed, first, on the Saturday of two weeks ago, I went to Tôkyô's Pokémon center to get the Onemuri Pikachu on my two Japanese Platinum carts, which I successfully did. :D

I also took the opportunity to take video shots of the Pokémon Center and its surrounding, and compiled them in two videos I posted on my Youtube Account. So if you want to see how it looks like, don't hesitate checking them out. ;)


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Then, 3 days ago, I went to visit Shibuya district. It was an interesting visit, and I'm glad I haven't restricted myself to the train station zone, as there wasn't very interesting things to see aside from a couple music instruments shops. When exploring the district, I went to discover more lively zones, with lots of shops and amusement centers, as well as restaurants. :p

And by total chance, I discovered a Book-Off store, where I FINALLY found 2 of the last remaining games in the list of those I wanted before I went to Japan : Jikkyou Oshaberi Parodius (PS1), and Tokimeki Memorial Taisen Tokkaedama !! :D
I'll post some shots of Shibuya and of the games next week. ;)


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And finally, today...

I FINALLY COMPLETED MY MODEST HP ELECTRIC EEVEE BREEDING PROJECT. ~o~ ~o~ ~o~
Check out this beast my Emerald cart produced :

HP : 29
ATT : 31
DEF : 27
SPA : 30
SPD : 31
SPe : 31

Hidden Power Electric 69 !!!!!


Ok, it's not a flawless HP Electric (aka 70), due to the HP IV... But this HP IV is a Life Orb magic number, so I think the trade off is worth it, since it allows me to use the Life Orb in an optimal manner, if I want attack flexibility and thus don't want to use Choice Specs. :p

And to top off this wonderfulness, as this Eevee is the child of a new Eevee father I bred after being bored of my Competitive Advance Vaporeon who only has Wish as an Egg Move, and has 31 IV in Spe Att and 30 in Spe Def, which doesn't help in getting HP Electric and HP Grass (for a max Speed HP Elecrtic and Grass, you need 30 in Spe Att and 31 in Spe Def)...

It comes with 4 Egg Moves : Wish, Curse, Tickle, and Charm ! :D



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So yep, lots of happenings there. I'm back, everyone. :p

Ok guys, my Emerald cart seems to be on steroids currently.

Yesterday, I succeeded in breeding a downright awesome HP Grass Modest Eevee...
And today, guess what ?

As today, the Battle Point Gambler at the Battle Frontier was set on Single Battle Tower, a thing I'm good at (but not as much as Double Battle Tower, where my team is very strong and plows through the opponents). Since I'm in dire need of BPs due to having used a lot of them on the past months, I paused my breeding session and went for gaining a few BPs.

I did a few rounds, then saved and shut off the game for going to eat. Later, I decided to go for some more rounds, and while I was picking up my 3 Pokés in my Box for the battles, I fortuitously checked the stats of my Dragon Dance Salamence...

... And I see the "PokéRus" marker on him.

I immediately check out all my Pokés in my boxes, and see that 3 of them are infected : Salamence, Vaporeon, and Snorlax, the EXACT three I used in my Battle Tower rounds.

Sole explanation, as I haven't used them outside of Battle Tower : one of them caught the virus during one of the Battle Tower sessions. I knew you could get PokéRus in the wild, but I sincerly didn't knew it could be gotten through the Battle Frontier attractions. O_O


But this is ABSOLUTELY AWESOME.
Because it's the first time in my Pokémon games I get PokéRus the normal way (aka without someone trading it to me), and because now, I won't be forced to rely on Diamond to do fast EV-trainings !! ~o~

Everyone, maybe you know that I'm currently trying to breed an awesome and powerful Hidden Power Electric Modest Eevee (with Wish as an Egg Move) ?

Well, I just got an ABSOLUTELY awesome Modest Eevee. The twist ? For ONE IV HP, I missed the Hidden Power Electric and got Hidden Power Grass instead !!!

But this Eevee still is LEAGUES better than Baldo, the very good Hidden Power Grass Eevee I distributed in Pokéwifi and Serenes Forest's Giveaways. See for yourself :

My new awesome Eevee IVs :

HP : 24
ATT : 31
DEF : 31
SPA : 30
SPD : 31
SPE : 31

Hidden Power Grass 69 !,


when Baldo's IVs were :

HP : 20
ATT : 31
DEF : 28
SPA : 30
SPD : 15
SPE : 31

Hidden Power Grass 66.


If ONLY it had one less HP IV, aka 23... It would have had Hidden Power Electric 70 ! T_T
And even if it was one more HP IV, it would have been Hidden Power Electric 69...


But I'm still ultra-happy. This Eevee is still my best Modest one BY FAR, and it's FEMALE to boot !!

And since her mother was Baldo, now I have a better chance to get the Hidden Power Electric Modest Eevee, as I can use this new Eevee as a mother instead ! :D
So not everything is lost, in fact, I'd say my chances went majorly up ! ~o~


Now I'm going to bed. I'm sleepy. :p

First and foremost, thanks to everyone who cheered me up. You're really nice. ~o~


Remember when I talked about the games and goods I bought recently ? :)
Well, it took a long time, but finally here are the photos of them ! ;)


First, the games :

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Now, on to the goodies.

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I hate not being able to help people. Seriously.

Several online people are currently having personnal problem (won't name them to avoid embarassing them), and I'm at a total loss of words... I can't succeed in pulling out good enough words to confort then. And I fuckin' HATE that.

Don't worry, I'm not in depressive mood myself, far from it. On the contrary, I'm currently in a too good mood to be able to fully emphazise with them, and thus being able to show them a sunnier side of life. Damn it, how I hate this situation, it's like I'm letting them down, even if I really don't want to. :(

From sacae :

1. Reply to this post and I'll assign you a letter.
2. List (and upload, if you feel like it) 5 songs that start with that letter.
3. Post them to your journal with these instructions.

Manna assigned me with the letter "M", so here goes :

1) My Friend ~ ZARD
(Yeah, I have no shame reposting the Toradora! MAD. That song and that MAD are just THAT awesome. ~o~)

2) Motto ! MOTTO ! Tokimeki ~ Mami Kingetsu
(I prefer the OAV rendition of this song over the original version displayed here, but can't find it on Youtube. Oh well.)

3) Melissa ~ Porno Graffiti
(Am I the only one who thinks that "Rewrite", FullMetal Alchemist's 4th OP song, sucks MAJOR ass and is overrated to death, and that Melissa is by far the best OP of this series ? :/ )

4) Moete Hero ~ Hiroyuki Okita
(Oh, Captain Tsubasa... One of my best childhood memories. ~o~)

5) Mon fils, ma bataille ~ Daniel Balavoine
(A sad and moving song in French about a battle for child custody between a singer and its ex-wife who went away, sung by my favourite French singer.
I took some time, and translated the lyrics in English so you can understand the song, but I fear my translantion skills aren't living to the wonderfulness of the song. :/ )

( Original lyrics : )

( Translated lyrics : )


So here, 5 of my fave song starting with the letter "M". :p

After all this time and this pain Soft-Resetting for it. I finally got it this night.

Yes.
YES.
YES !
YEEEEES !!! ~o~ ~o~ ~o~


Behold, my Platinum 2 Pokemon Center Eevee wonderful stats :

HP : 29
ATT : 29
DEF : 18
SPA : 26
SPD : 31
SPE : 31

Hidden Power Grass 68 !!!


Defense could have been better, as well as Special Attack, but I won't complain.

Definitely better than my first Eevee, and definitely Trophy Case Pokémon for my future Pokémon trade thread at Smogon (when I'll subscribe there), if I can get it AR cloned in at least 24 copies by someone reliable there.


Ashton says it better than I :
"I'm so HAPPYYYYYYYYYYYY !!!" ~o~ ~o~ ~o~

I dunno why, but for some reason, my Ares avatar (which is also my default avi) got replaced by an anime icon I've never seen before. Had to delete that icon, and reupload the Ares avi to get things back to normal. Weird.

This Toradora! MAD, and the song used for it, "My Friend" by ZARD, are so beautiful~~~ Don't you agree ?

(And HERE is the lyrics and translation of the song, so you can fully appreciate the wonderfulness of it.)


Can't believe Izumi Sakai, the heart and soul of ZARD, already died two years ago... Time sure flows too quickly. And for me, she's like Daniel Balavoine, my favourite French singer : a wonderful singer who died too early. Such a pity. T_T

And by god, please watch Toradora! if you get the chance to. Easily a strong contender for both best anime of 2008, and best anime of the beginning of 2009.


And I will work on the pics of my goods during the afternoon, after I had lunch. Promise.

Wooooo, it's been a freaking while since I last updated my LJ. :/

Most of the blame goes to Fujimori Nuts' Volume 1 Stage 6 translation. The scans' edit of that page took a long time, especially since I was forced to work with shitty Paint Shop Pro, since I lost Ulead Photo Express in my last hard drive formatting (and its Installation CD is currently at my home in France).

But now that the scanlation is finally done, I'm back with full force ! :p


Last week, I went in another game and manga shopping spree around the area I live, and found a LOT of excellent games and manga at a very little price. I will for now keep the secret on what are those titles, and take photos of them and publish them on an another post tomorrow Sunday or Monday. :p

(That being said, you're free to try and guess what are said titles. Would be interesting to see if some of you are psychics. :D )


On the week to come, I plan to go to again to the Pokémon Center. This time, it's to get the special Onemuri Pikachu on both my Japanese Platinum carts. It would be wondeful if the nice IV Hidden Power Grass Eevee would show up, so I could go further in my second cart and be ready for Hidden Power testing for the Pikachu, as for what I've read, it's Level 50, so no way for a puny Level 5 enemy Poké to survive a hit. :/

This time, it's stolen from amanohashi.

And I just couldn't resist doing it, as I made long ago a 12 fave chars from any fandoms, under the scope of the 12 Crusaders of Fire Emblem 4. :p

(Even though it changed a little bit recently, with Misty of Pokémon being kicked out by Ami Kawashima of Toradora!, who also kicked out Kurogane of the Top 5. :p)


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Er, re-reading this, it seems question 12 is missing. Is this normal, Marcus ? And, if you could clarify question 24, that would be great, too.

Stolen from sailorvfan10.

Do YOU remember the 90s??

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Ok. So most of this list's options are U.S. based, so they not always fit with France's culture at the time (for example, cartoon-wise in France, the 90s were the reign of the Club Dorothée and Récré A2, with Captain Tsubasa, Dragon Ball, Saint Seiya, Sailor Moon, Fly (AKA Dragon Quest : Dai's Great Adventure), and lots of other Japanese anime as the pillars of the shows, with a few U.S. and Europe cartoons in tow such as Sonic the Hedgehog, Carlos, Widget...), but a good chunk of things were in common on both countries, so I guess I passed the test there. :D

After getting those two Special Eevees (I got my hand on a second Platinum cart, and got a second Eevee I'm currently soft-resetting to get it with Hidden Power Grass), me thinks I will soon take a new trip to Tôkyô's Pokémon Center, everyone. :p

Indeed, according to this page of the official Japanese Pokémon site, a special series of goods based on the theme : "Sleeping Pikachu" (Onemuri Pikachu) will be put on sale on all Pokémon Centers of Japan from February 7th to March 15th.

And, during that time, a special Pikachu will distributed in those Pokémon Centers !
Its moveset is, according to the site :

* Rest
* Sleep Talk
* Snore
* Yawn,

Yawn being a move Pikachu can't learn naturally in the game.

First the Eevee and the Darkrai, and now this Pikachu and eventually Shaymin... That's for sure a lot of Event Pokémon I can get my hands to thanks to that trip. :p

That bastard Bush is yet again screwing us, with that last dirty trick he pulls out just before leaving presidency : because we in Europe don't want his shitty hormoned beef (which, according to European studies in 2003, can contain health hazards), he decided taxing on a 300% rate the Roquefort exports.

You just can't stomach when we're right and saying "no" to some of the things you want, huh, Bush ? >:(

I'm so sorry for you, my U.S. friends... Your President really has done everything in his power to ruin the reputation of your country during his exercise of power. :(

And to think that I actually hate eating cheese... :/

So, I see Tokyo MX is re-airing Gundam SEED, at the former airing time of SD Gundam, aka Tuesday 10:30 PM. Heh, I saw some (Japanese with French subtitles) episodes of it before, and didn't found this anime exciting at all, so yeah. :/

But a thing I will ALWAYS find hilarious is how the US dub censored it, for the few sequences of it I've seen. Disco Gun FTW. XD