Author Archives: DarkMirage

Level E — Episode 5

Posted on February 8, 2011 by DarkMirage

Level E is an amazing underhyped show. It’s Men in Black with Japanese comedy and self parody. You have to wonder why it took them 15 years to adapt the original into anime.

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Eight Tsundere Lines to Win a Man’s Heart

Posted on February 6, 2011 by DarkMirage

The classic tsundere hair flick Following my recent review of the so-wrong-yet-so-right tsuncest (yes I just made that up) PSP game OreImo, this article from Otome Sugoren seems timely. Of course, I do not personally read what appears to be … Continue reading →

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Ore no Imouto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai Portable

Posted on February 1, 2011 by DarkMirage

So I finished the new Ore no Imouto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai game for PSP. Well, I didn’t 100% it but I saw all the “true” endings except for Manami’s and that’s good enough. It’s not a … Continue reading →

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Next Generation PlayStation Portable

Posted on January 27, 2011 by DarkMirage

Sony just announced PSP2. Dubbed the Next Generation PlayStation Portable (NGP), it looks like a slightly-tweaked version of the original PSP design. The most obvious change is the inclusion of two analogue sticks — actual analogue sticks similar to the … Continue reading →

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Puella Magi Madoka Magica

Posted on January 22, 2011 by DarkMirage

If anime were a religion, magical girls would be one of its Five Pillars, along with shounen battle, love comedy, mecha and sports. Friendship, courage and cuteness are the fundamentals of the classic mahou shoujo. Implied yuri and teenage angst … Continue reading →

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Maaya Sakamoto – Utsukushii Hito

Posted on January 16, 2011 by DarkMirage

Maaya’s latest album You can’t catch me was just released a few days ago. The best song in the new album is by far Utsukushii Hito, a collaboration with Yoko Kanno for the Kentoushi Fune Saigen Project at last year’s … Continue reading →

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Valkyria Chronicles 2

Posted on January 13, 2011 by DarkMirage

With the release date of Valkyria Chronicles 3 for PSP less than two weeks away, I figure this is the perfect time (by my usual standard of procrastination) for me to write up my thoughts on VC2, a game which … Continue reading →

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PS3 Completely Cracked

Posted on January 6, 2011 by DarkMirage

PS3 cracked wide open Lots of exciting things happened in the PS3 scene the past few days. The aftermath is that the entire PS3 encryption scheme has been irrevocably cracked and broken, with no possibility of a firmware fix, due … Continue reading →

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Happy New Year 2011

Posted on January 1, 2011 by DarkMirage

あけましておめでとうございます！ Happy new year! Actually by my timezone it’s already almost the end of the first day of 2011 (actually exactly 1 minute left), but a huge chunk of my day mysteriously disappeared in a time slip, so I can … Continue reading →

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Ore no Imouto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai

Posted on December 23, 2010 by DarkMirage

There is no way my post title is so long. Ore no Imouto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai, or OreImo as it is commonly abbreviated, is an interesting twist of the quintessential tsundere anime genre popularized by titles … Continue reading →

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Incoming Haruhi-related Announcement

Posted on December 19, 2010 by DarkMirage

I’ve been following Kadokawa Shoten CEO Shinichirou Inoue’s Twitter feed for a while mainly due to Bill 156. Today, he posted a tweet saying that a huge announcement for Suzumiya Haruhi will be published in the next issue of Kadokawa’s … Continue reading →

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The Legend of the Legendary Heroes

Posted on December 18, 2010 by DarkMirage

This is what I watched 24 episodes for One a upon a time, in an oriental archipelago far far away, a wise sensei of the literary arts told his students, “Foreshadowing can be used to masterfully hint at the future … Continue reading →

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