WHY YOU SHOULD BUY
1. It has English Subs.
2. If you don’t have a Blu-ray player, you can now buy a PS3 now and play it(burns a bigger hole).
3. It comes with a Visual Chronicle Book(No idea what’s inside though).
4. Enjoy the awesome in HD.
5. It comes with the epilogue(I seriously doubt any good would come from this).

I have seen quite a number of people of complaining about the price but if you think of it, the price is quite reasonable if you do the calculations. My condolences to the people who bought the DVD Box Set. Perhaps I should get this as a VERY expensive Christmas present to myself…

PS: if you are reading this Stifler, are you gonna to pay another arm or leg to buy this Box Set?

Recently I was surfing the internet, minding my own business, and doing my daily routine which, unsurprisingly, means checking out some manga at onemanga.com. When suddenly this notice comes up on the home page stating that publishers suddenly, out of the blue, feel differently about scanlations and that onemanga.com would be shutting down- which happens to be my main source for all things manga. So I guess the only question that remains is WHAT THE $%$@ ARE THESE PUBLISHERS THINKING!?

The Argument (I think)

Well, I guess the publisher’s perspective is that they are bearing all the risk and cost of developing these franchises i.e manga, just to have them scanned and posted on the internet without proper distribution rights, or in other words,  without publishers earning a dime. So the idea is to rid the world of the scourge of scanlations so that publishers can legitimately license their works to respective territories and be properly compensated for their work. Because without which publishers would lose tons of “possible earnings” which will result in a domino effect of complete hysteria resulting in the end of manga as we know it. That pretty much sums up the oppositions argument. Oh and the fact that scanlation is a form of piracy, and the only pirates that are cool are the straw hats, the rest are obviously evil.

The Counter

Well, I should first like to point out that though it may appear that I’m pretty bias, being a manga reader and all, I completely understand where the publishers are coming from. I mean I’m kinda in the same industry myself, different product but same yin yang. So I will first begin with the disclaimer that publishers are entitled to all of their rights and to being compensated for their work. I truly believe that. The only problem is that the way there are going about attempting to reserve their rights and profit is absolutely 100% ridiculous. Here’s why: 1. Alienated your fan base is never a good thing, they are the reason why anyone overseas knows of you. 2. 95% of manga isn’t ever going to be license outside of Japan because it will never go over well with the general market. For instance, here in the good ol’ USA, manga has a very limited audience since most adults would never be seen caught dead with a manga, most teens for that matter also,  So unless your trying to license the most commercially viable manga possible i.e bleach, naruto, etc.. there’s no hope of actually getting licensed. So basically publishers will actually be prohibiting the “unlawful” distribution of manga that will never be disturbed outside of Japan-how unfair! 3. Let’s be real, we all know, hopefully, that all manga publishers recoup their profits through domestic distribution, serialization, selling volumes, and then making an anime to sell more volumes. The idea that publishers are actually counting on foreign distribution to recoup any losses is madness and a joke- if you can’t win at home, how are you gonna win overseas?

A Solution

I really believe there is a solution to all of this that can make both sides happy. I believe that publishers need to first know that their cult following fanbase is their number one asset when it comes to introducing new manga series to foreign territories. It behooves these publishers to cherish them and treat them well. Another thing that these publishers need to realize is that these fanatical cult status otakus are gonna get their new manga chapters, even if it means torrenting, creating proxy servers, or creating ingenious innovative ways to get their manga fix. And do you know why: 1. because otakus are addicted feigns who will stop act nothing to satisfy their lust- this includes me!!. 2. manga is big business for pirates!! For example, Onemanga.com was one the 1000 most visited sites until recently, in other words cha-ching.  The first step to the solution is to really understand this, because only then will the next step make sense; which is to create new means of distribution, via the internet, where content can be uploaded and profits can be obtained through advertising and subscriptions. Will this decrease the sell of volumes in foreign territories? Sure will! But I believe that can be recouped through more lucrative avenues like having wide spread content to premium content at a price or creating a larger consumer market through ease of access.

Conclusion

In the end of the day unless a meeting of the minds takes place through publishers and otakus, nothing will change and there will just be continued variance between the two groups. I believe crunchyroll.com has paved the way in showing a great example of what can happen when a meeting of the minds does take place. I for one know that nothing short of apocalyptic forces will stop me from reading my cherished manga. And I’m pretty sure I’m not alone- power to the people!

I AM G-MAN!!!!

Revamped!!

This isn’t something I just thought of today, in fact, I’ve been thinking about this for quite sometime; Riuva can be completely retuned and revamped with just of couple dedicated writers chiming in here and there. So, instead of just talking about it, I’m going to be about it. I, G-man, will be the first to spearhead new entries on Riuva starting with answering quite of bit of feedback I’ve been receiving from my posts and coming up with new weekly post for your viewing pleasure.
Now….

Before we kick this puppy off I’d just like to brief everyone on some tidbits about myself and my goals.

Question 1: Who are you?

Who am I!? Who am…I!!? Only the most super-duper, ultimate, ecstatic, fantastic, dramatic, eclectic, awesome otaku to ever grace the blogophere!! I eat, drink, sleep, and breathe anime and manga; this is the true way of otaku.

Question 2: What’s your deal?

I’m glad you asked. My deal is to bring some sophistication and depth to otakuism. Of course what this means is that I’ll offer penetrating insights to the nature and substance of both anime/manga and otakuism. Oftentimes individuals fail to see the depth and profound nature of the otaku culture and write it off as fantastical humbug for social outcast and dreamers. I really disagree with such an assessment and believe that anime/manga can, and does, warrant careful analyst and inspection because it is perhaps one of the last pure mediums of raw primal story telling. How do I know this? Well, it’s actually my job to analyze stories, read stories, create stories and recognize good stories.

Question 3: Oh yeah what makes a good story?

There’s actually many ways to go about explaining the nature and characteristic of story, especially good story. I won’t get into that now, but what I will say is that if you stay tuned I promise that by years end you’ll be able to wow your friends with in-depth analyst of story. Hmmmmm sounds good don’t it!?

Conclusion

Ok, let me rap this badboy up. My first real article will come out sometime before weeks end. What will be about it? Don’t know yet. We’re at the embryonic stages of a grand spanking new anime season, so I can do anything from anime series commentaries to something completely unrelated like host club culture. My only hope is that inspire my fellow riuva bloggers, or a new up and comers, to join me in this renewed vision. Yosh! Let’s research some unicultural visual arts!!!

I AM G-MAN!!!!!

Your help will be totally unappreciated and promptly forgotten. Thank you.

The songs mentioned below are those I have on my playlist (Those in brackets are the singles/albums that they come from):
Asriel - Gensou Rhapsodia (Nanji wo Terasu Oboro no  Aria)
Asriel - veladonna (Nanji wo Terasu Oboro no  Aria)
Girls Dead Monster - Crow Song (Crow Song)
Girls Dead Monster - Alchemy (Crow Song)
Girls Dead Monster - Thousand Enemies (Thousand Enemies)
Girls Dead Monster - Rain Song (Thousand Enemies)
Girls Dead Monster - Highest Life (Thousand Enemies)
Shoko Nakagawa - Ray of Light (Ray of Light)
Yousei Teikoku - Call my name. (Baptize)
SCANDAL - Shunkan no Sentimental (Shunkan no Sentimental)

A pretty small list eh.

Here’s a picture to keep you motivated to post something

Yeah, she’s a darn good cosplayer.

SAVE ME FROM CONTINUOUS LOOPING!!!

Obnoxious groups of smugs walking in packs with their huge ass DSLRs. Ego-brandishing eggheads flashing their oversized imaging devices around with an arsenal of unnecessary lenses that they bought just because a photography forum recommended them.

These are the upcoming bunch of photography wannabes who have absolutely no use for DSLRs, but just want one to look cool. Want to know where you can find most of them?

FETISH CLUBS ORGANISING MODEL SHOOTOUTS AND COSPLAY CONVENTIONS! Seriously, just take a look at the pictures they take. Imagine they were using not a giganormous chunk of cash, but a phone camera. Oooh, the pictures don’t look all that great anymore, eh? One has to know thy limits! Whipping out cash on something you have no idea of how to operate will not improve your photography skills!

But Lian! You’re a photography noob! They all cry out in defense.

How can you accuse us of being a bunch of superficially egoistical assholes, when you don’t even take decent photos!?

That, my friends, is the knowing of one’s limits! The epitome of such, if I might say. You don’t see me carrying around an enormous block of douche, do you?

Back to the topic here then. Most of us normal people who have the decency of knowing that it’s retarded to purchase DSLRs when you have no need for it will more than often be individuals who don’t really bother about the quality of their photos. Oh no, these are photos to be uploaded onto Facebook profiles! The humiliation! We’ve got our hands on a truckload of crappy pictures that only a thirteen-year-old would dare to display as his work.

I shall teach you the ways of PRETENSE and INABILITY!

Step 1: Take a photo. Any photo. For tutorial purposes, I have waved my phone about and randomly shot a picture.

Step 2: Turn it into grayscale in Photoshop.

Step 3: Drag the Contrast all the way to the max. Increase Brightness by 15.

Step 4: Use what I call the shaded corner layer

Step 5: Slap the layer on top of your grayscale picture!

Step 6: Reduce the layer opacity and.. HOLY PHOTONOMY! ART!

This is a depiction of the turmoils in my angsty teenage life as a churning heater fan. The world around me is boring and I am totally emo and sad, as shown By the black and white effect. The blurry photo was not due to shaky hands but was intended as a means to convey my over-exaggerated adolescent problems. I feel like the world is out to get me, so I totally vignetted the shit out of it.

You’ve just discovered the Way of Art.

Thanks to MSDNAA, I have a free Windows 7 key. So having this free key, I thought I would test it out. One thing good is, I don’t have to slipstream SATA drivers into it (I still have not tried doing it to a XP CD, I simply selected IDE in BIOS to simplify matters :3). Back to the topic, Comparing Windows 7 and XP, XP required more attention and more time to install, whereas Windows 7 is just a few clicks and of course having a better Installation GUI (I still kinda like the old blue screen with white text).

One big thing I really hate is, classic taskbar is GONE from windows 7!!! Call me traditional or whatever but I’m more productive with that (Talk about user friendly, Microsoft). Instead of having quickstart, they now have this PIN feature which I found it confusing, we all know if a program is running, it will be there in the taskbar but with this new interface, programs not running will also be there (Kinda like Quickstart). Another annoying thing is the show desktop(the one on the right, just beside the time) can’t be disabled not matter what, even though I have one sitting in quickstart.

Even my Razer Mamba is going tsun on Windows 7. I have no idea if it’s an isolated problem but I can’t even set macros on it and flashing firmware can’t be done on it too (I have to use my laptop which is on XP to do it >_>).

Moving on to the good points. Windows 7 does boot up faster than XP with both having the same startup programs. The biggest advantage it has over XP is probably the new Windows Update feature, which hunts latest drivers now for you, I didn’t have to even google for them.

The bottom line, if you are happy with Windows XP, don’t bother upgrading… for now. But for those using Vista, it’s a good time to upgrade.

EDIT: I have customized it to my needs, all these are complains, not pleas for help, but there’s simply no way of getting my classic Start Bar back(not unless I get some 3rd party apps). ;-;

Here are my guidelines when it comes to reading manga:

1. I am open to all genres except yaoi and yuri. I don’t mind shoujo as long as it’s not the retarded type.

2. I have a preference for sports, scifi, comedy and shounen. Romance is also ok, surprisingly but has to not be the really disgusting girly kind. But the annoying immature guy POV type is ok though, such as Suzuka. Detective, martial arts and even those aimed at kids are ok too. Considering one of my favourite current anime is Inazuma 11, which probably has a target demographic of kids 10 and under, I think I can handle kiddy things rather well.

3. I can read but do not particularly fancy harem and moe stuff. Actually, some elements of harem are ok but if the whole thing revolves around it then it’s just boring.

4. I have probably read most, if not all the manga that you have. I used to read only real manga on paper but recently have found it easier to just cheat and use onemanga. But strangely enough, not all the good manga are on manga websites like onemanga etc. Eden, for one, isn’t.

5. What I have not read are series older than Dragonball and Rurouni Kenshin, but these are pretty hard to find online or even offline.

6. I loooove LONG manga. I don’t understand why people love short ones, because if possible I would prefer manga not to end unless it really has to.

I’m probably going to read GS Mikami, City Hunter, Zatchbell (kid alert), H2 (stopped halfway in the past) and other Adachi series next. The good thing about manga is that there’s no hurry to read them, because they get better if all piled up and read at once. Do recommend me more, because I have lots of time now and anime doesn’t really run smoothly on my netbook.

Actually, it’s just that most of the current anime are pretty bad and so I alternate between manga and Heroes 3.

So far in my 3 months here in New Zealand, I have read from the start these:

Sports Manga

1.Captain Tsubasa and all the subsequent sequels – this one took me ages to finish, considering it has the original + Road to 2002 + Golden 23 and shit load of others. To put it simply, they all suck badly. I understand that the original series was written in 1980 when nobody in Japan had even heard of football, the 19 year old author had to make it a bit less technical and more hotblooded, as were the tastes in manga at that time. But the sequels are freakin’ horrible and don’t make sense at all, given that most of them were written in recent times and there are plenty of other football manga that are relatively realistic and still are exciting. The supermoves that Tsubasa and gang display are also lackluster compared to those of Inazuma 11, which is sort of adapted from Tsubasa anyway. Football is just not very suitable to mangarise, because of its low-scoring non-stop nature, unlike basketball and baseball.

2.Area no Kishi – this football series features the good old seemingly-talentless underdog, a strong talented older brother (with a big plot twist), the 2nd string versus first team battles, unorthodox training etc. In other words, it’s really quite the average clichéd sports series. The art is not bad though and believable football skills and tactics are used, so I rather enjoyed it. The bad part is the totally rubbish metaphors the characters keep using, like a striker is a “knight” and a playmaker is a “king”. Ooh, and the main character is totally a Pippo Inzaghi styled striker, which is rare in sports manga.

3.Kuroko no Basket – A very strange basketball series about a guy who has such a small sense of presence that nobody notices him so he gets to ghost around the court and spray passes unseen. In his middle school team which won all the trophies and was called the “generation of miracles”, there were 5 other guys and they all split up in high school. The manga chronicles Kuroko and teammates’ quest to beat all the schools that his old teammates went to. It’s quite over the top though, there’s a 3-point shooter who can shoot from the whole court 100% of the time and a bishounen who can copy everyone’s “moves”.

4.Daia no Ace – Out of all of these, probably the best new sports series I’ve read here. It won the Shogakukan prize for shounen category, which must mean something. So this country bumpkin guy who’s pretty hotblooded but shit at baseball gets scouted by the top school in the nation. Imagine Major’s Kaidou arc and this is basically it!! Except instead of Goro, put in a really funny rubberman pitcher. Still, I liked this the best.

5.Togashi Kaden – This was in shounen jump, but strangely ended after a few chapters. Word has it that there’ll be a continuation but I fail to see why it stopped in the first place. It’s basically Eyeshield 21 except it’s basketball and not American football. The same tiny cowardly guy who can run fast but with no skills works hard blah blah. Shit.

6.Go! Tenba Cheerleaders – Utter fanservice, with nipples and camel toe included. It’s about a team of high school cheerleaders who recruit the last male member of the ouendan, aka traditional Japanese shouty cheer squad, as a base. The male character looks totally and acts like the gay guy from Persona 4.

7.Smash! – A badminton (rare!) manga where an average but latently talented guy meets this selective mute, who’s even better than him at badminton and they all go to the same school and play the usual interhigh stuff etc blah blah. Is it just me or do all sports manga have the same plot?

8.Teppu – Arguably the most creative or different one here, Teppu is about MMA. The main girl is a super-talented tall girl who is really bored of everything because her sporting abilities are too good for everyone else. She’s really good at karate too and behaves like Hamyuts from Book of Bantorra. I.e. really arrogant, bloodthirsty and loves a challenge. But she meets these two Brazilian kids who beat the shit out of her in MMA, so she goes to a MMA gym to train. There’s only a few chapters out so far but it seems to be quite accurate at depicting reality, moves-wise.

9.Full Contact – It’s a karate series but there isn’t much action. Rather it’s mainly comedy, and a tsundere girl who is in love with the main loser character.

10.Inu Neko Jump – It’s a pretty strange manga actually. Supposedly about high jump and romance, it’s instead a bunch of incoherent subplots, fanservice and a sudden wtf ending that screams out “noob mangaka just kept his first series going on as long as he could until it got cut”. And that, is the complete truth.

Shounen Manga

Hitman Reborn – 283 chapters and ongoing. I read this because Bakuman referred to it and I wanted to not miss out on references. Reborn starts off as a gag slice-of-life but suddenly in just one chapter, the previously comedic characters with lame powers all had to do battle one-on-one with enemies and the story just turns into battle manga. The worst part is it totally follows every single shounen jump formula, from the exponential increase of characters, to the yuugioh-styled monster summoning. And after the recently concluded arc, which appeared to be the ending, it was proudly announced that Reborn was beginning a new epically long arc. Reborn basically is a bad Naruto, except you replace ninjas with mafia.

Sket Dance – Oh epic manga! This is by the former assistant of the Gintama author and as such, the art style, story and humour are identical to Gintama. Instead of the yorozuya, we have the sket dan, who do basically the same job as the former, except in a high school setting. Instead of the shinsengumi, there’s the student council. The members of Sket-dan are not unlike Gintama’s as well. That said, Sket Dance is still awesome and I laughed out loud till I rolled on the ground many times. There’s also a major plot twist somewhere in the middle that totally changes the characters’ behavior towards one another. I think someone who isn’t that well-versed in Japanese culture might find it hard to appreciate though.

Magic Ban Removal! Hyde and Closer – It’s like a total formulaic shounen aimed at 10 year olds. Closer is a loser whose grandpa is the number 1 magician in the world. Not the tricky type of magician, but the mana-consuming wizard kind. Enemies attack the boy because they think killing him will grant them superpowers, but he has a teddy bear Hyde who wields a giant chainsaw and protects him. Very generic, former enemies join the good side etc. Bad.

Pyuu to Fuku! Jaguar – This is written by the same guy who did Sexy Commando, one of the funniest series in the history of Shounen Jump. Unfortunately, Jaguar is not that funny. I think it needs an anime as well done as Sexy Commando’s for it to be funny. The characters are almost identical to SC too, with Jaguar replacing Masaru and some new guy replacing Fuumin.

Wild Life – I love animals and Wild Life is about a delinquent who becomes a vet doctor for a world-famous idealistic pet hospital. The author is good friends with Yakitate Japan’s and the main character often pops up in the Yakitate Japan manga and anime, and vice versa. WL is probably one of the best ones I’ve read these past few months and it also won the Shogakukan award. Some of the chapters are quite touching and some are really educational. Of course, everything’s really idealistic and simplified but that’s how manga is.

Lock On – A new manga in shounen jump about a photographer with special powers, it’s more a slice-of-life comedy so far but I totally expect it to morph into a battle manga if popularity is low. After all even Beelzebub is now a battle manga. Wtf.

Gamble Fish – This is nice too. It’s similar to Liar Game, the main character is a genius trickster/conman who transfers to a rich kid school and goes about raping people’s wallets and pride. But the school has a dark background and lots of challengers appear and he has to defeat them with his wits, in gambling. It’s quite crazy, to beat a magician girl, he used a chainsaw on his own finger such that the blood’ll stain the cards.

Detective Academy Q – This is quite old, and by the same writer as Kindaichi. Unfortunately Onemanga doesn’t seem to have the later chapters despite it being completed eons ago. I’ll have to go back home to continue reading it. I find Q to be the best detective series I’ve read, edging out Conan easily.

Hajimete no Aku – A shounen comedy starring a tsundere girl who meets her cousins, who are villains in the Japanese superhero style. You know, like Kamen Rider. So her cousins, particularly the guy who she ends up liking, are supposed to be evil but turn out to be quite nice people who just have “evil” as a job. It’s quite sweet and funny at times.

Deadman Wonderland – I didn’t check but I’m positive it’s drawn by the same artist who did the Eureka Seven manga. Anyway, there’s been an increasing number of manga who are written by writers and illustrated by artists, somewhat similar to the system that western comics have been using since the dawn of time. There are advantages, since good artists are sometimes horrible storytellers and good writers are often terrible at drawing and these talents would otherwise disappear without a partnership. DW is actually an atypical battle manga set in a futuristic Death Race-like world, where convicts are made to fight like dogs, but everyone has some blood-related power. The story’s quite good and full of twists, for a battle manga, and the fights don’t drag on at all. The fights are similar to Darker than Black’s, where a moment determines the outcome, rather than the half-year long borefests like Bleach’s.

Q and A – The new Adachi manga which is serialized monthly. Q and A isn’t that good, to be honest, so far. Adachi’s manga are all the same, just with a different sport or a twist and this one has track (running) and a dead brother’s ghost haunting the main character as the variation.

Majin Tantei Nougami Neuro – The anime does not do justice to this. Neuro is quite a dark manga for shounen jump, it started out as a bad murder mystery manga and then slowly morphed to some epic demon battle with superhumans made of pure evil, who murder hundreds of thousands of people per chapter.

Mirai Nikki – One of those deceptively dark manga that features kiddy killer girls. The main girl is a crazy yandere who puts Sekai and Rena to shame. I quite enjoyed MN and its perverseness and many character deaths. It’s quite famous already but for those who have yet to hear of it, a loser guy has a diary which suddenly becomes a future diary and can show exactly what’s going on around him except what’s going to happen to him. He has a stalker girl who has a similar diary except it only shows what he does every ten minutes. There are also 10 other people with such diaries, each with their own characteristics. The aim of the game is to murder everyone else and then become God.

Romance/Harem Manga

Ai Kora – It’s a bit like an unserious Love Hina. Main character is a guy who loves body parts, very specific ones eg blue eyes, vase-like waists etc. He by chance gets to live in a female dorm whose occupants each have one of his favourite parts and all fall in love with him. But he loves them all and standard harem situations arise. It’s a bit meh but just light reading to kill time.

Baka to Booing – Quite a bad manga about this loser (wow how come all the main characters are losers) who is obsessed with a small-time gravure idol with huge tits, who clumsily falls down a building and dies on him. She ends up comatose but her spirit pops out and is stuck to said loser, supposed hilarity and fanservice ensues.

Good Ending – This is rather similar in type to Suzuka and Kimi ni Iru Machi, in other words, the “wtf this guy is a loser but I once did that same shit when I was a teenager too” genre of romance manga. I stopped reading it because it was too difficult to stomach.
Mysterious Girlfriend X – It’s actually quite a strange manga, laden with fanservice yet clean at the same time. In the first chapter, a loser gets attached to a weird transfer student after secretly licking her saliva and feeling special bonding. Then they don’t actually do much in terms of actual dating but just keep doing saliva exchanges. It’s a comedy series that didn’t make me smile a single time throughout. That said, it’s interesting because of what the author does, he writes mini-essays in between chapters stating how he uses his manga, where no sex actually happens, to criticize modern society’s loss of morals.

Other Genres

Gokusen – I’m only up till chapter 40 but it’s not too bad. I’m sure everyone knows Gokusen already, just a jousei version of GTO.

The World is Mine - It’s what I would call “evil manga”, where the main characters stand on the side of evil rather than the usual good. The main characters are terrorists, random bombers, kidnappers, rapists and go on a crime spree with the police trying to catch them. There’s also a giant monster running loose in Japan killing lots of people, and these two factions sort of compete for newspaper headlines. The manga ended years ago but scans aren’t finished.

So that should be all, might have missed out some, but do recommend me any you think I might like!

Yeah, shit happens.

Back to the review, I shall start with Mariage -tribute to Fate-.

Track 1: disillusion [Fate/stay night GAME OP]
Nothing much said as it’s the same song as the Fate/stay night Anime OP, it sounds so much better than the Original Game OP.

Track 2: Days [Fate/stay night GAME ED]
This track sounds kinda a little too “Hatsune Miku” to me(kinda like machine) but Tainaka Sachi does pronounce the Engrish better than the Original Artist.

Track 3: Memory [Saber’s Image Song]
This song is pretty well executed by her, makes you think that she’s the Original Artist for it. She made the song kind of bittersweet.

Track 4: Over The Mountain [Rin’s Image Song]
For this, I prefer the Original. Tainaka Sachi kinda made this a little too upbeat, not a bad thing but feels weird to me.

Track 5: 桜咲いて(Sakura Saite) [Sakura’s Image Song]
This track sounds pretty smoothing, although it keeps reminding of the Good END of Heaven’s Feel, where Sakura waits and waits… *sobs

Track 6: hollow [Fate／hollow ataraxia OP]
The Original sounds better, Tainaka Sachi make the tempo too slow for my taste, especially the chorus part.

Track 7: 僕たちの未来 (Bokutachi no Mirai) [Fate/hollow ataraxia ED]
And again, she made the tempo too slow…

Track 8: 黄金の輝き (Ougon no Kagayaki) [Fate/stay night Realta Nua OP]
This song is supposed to be like きらめく涙は星に (Kirameku Namida wa Hoshi ni), I wonder why she chose to sing it slow again…

Track 9: Link [Fate/stay night Realta Nua ED]
This track is pretty upbeat, very refreshing after all the slow tempo songs.

Track 10: Alive [???]
It’s a song which makes you moeru? That’s the feeling I get.

Now for Voice ～辿りつく場所～,

Track 1: Voice ～辿りつく場所～ (Tadoritsuku Basho)
A very nice smoothing song. You should see the MV

Track 2: 素直になって (Sunao ni Natte)
A very upbeat song which makes you energized, good to hear it during boring mornings.

This is my first at writing a music review, so if anyone has any critics, feel free to comment. Before I go off, HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR EVERYONE!