Saturday, October 13, 2007

週末よ!

もう金曜日です、週末を始めます。今週、私はProbablityの試験をしました, ちょっと難しいです。来週もう一試験をします、日本語の試験です。ベクマンさん、この日曜日もいっしょに勉強しませんか?
えーと、明日は土曜日ですね。私はChinatownへいきます、Dimsumを食べたいから。

じゃ今もう午前二時です(もう土曜日ですね。。)、そしで今日はここまで、わたしはちょっと眠たい。

おやすみなさい。

Friday, October 12, 2007

Fate/Stay night as promised

Genre: Fantasy, Magic
Plot Summary from Anime News Network:
Shirou Emiya lost his parents in a fire when he was young and was later adopted by a sorceror by the name of Kiritsugu Emiya. Although he was full of admiration for his adopted father and yearns to become an ally of ju
stice, Shirou has limited powers and was unable to become a strong sorceror like his father. That is until one fateful day, he was drawn into the Holy Grail War and had to summon a female "Servant" known as Saber in order to protect himself. It turns out that the Holy Grail War involves a series of battles among powerful sorcerors to fight for the possession of a relic that will grant one's wishes, the Holy Grail. There are altogether seven "Masters" who can summon their respective "Servants" from different classes known as Saber, Archer, Rider, Berserker, Lancer, Caster and Assasin. These "Servants" have to hide their names in order not to reveal their weaknesses to the enemies. The story revolves around Shirou and his entanglement in the Holy Grail War.


Commentary:
If graphic quality is your primary concern when choosing an anime to watch, then you've found the right show. Originally an adult game (graphical novel) by Typemoon has beed modified into a PG friendly 24 episode TV series, while maintaining the graphic quality of the game.
The story is somewhat strange yet the first three episodes makes a pretty good attempt at summarizing the key points. I do have some complaints in the attempt to establish character relationships. Because of this, the story seemed choppy and jumpy at points, and the viewer is left to guess the motives for the characters' actions.

Characters:
Tosaka Rin: The first picture on this page shows a chibi version of Rin. She is definitely my favorite character in this show, I just love her hair ^^~.

Archer: Rin's servant. See if you can figure out his real identity by the end of the show w/o wiki.

Emiya Shirou: Main character of the show. Having little to no magical abilities, he gets a good amount of teasing from Rin.

Saber: Shirou's servant, probably the most confusing character once her identity is revealed.

Music:

The two notable music theme are the first opening and closing theme. the ending theme is posted in my last blog entry. The opening theme "disillusion" by Sachi Tainaka is a very nice remix of the game theme (See music video at the end of the blog entry)

Overall:

honestly, the only thing that kept me watching until the last episode was the amazing graphic of this anime. Plot is somewhat mediocre, lack of real emotional peak moments (or rather lack of build up to them).


P.S. あの人は男じゃありません,女ですよ。名前は Saber です。

Monday, October 08, 2007

Random

hmm, seems like my computer doesn't like Japanese too much, the Japanese typing system wont output Japanese for me. So until that problem is fixed, I'll be typing in English I guess. Omedetou to Talor-san for getting last week's Brain Teaser. The trick the the problem is rather easy:

1
one 1 (hence 11)
two 1 (hence 21)
one 2 one 1 (hence 1211)

e
t
c
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yup just read the numbers out.


anyways, This week's question (requiring a little more mathematical knowledge): can the average of two consecutive primes be prime?

Furthermore I'll be writing an entry on Fate/Stay Night later this week, and as a sneak peak to that, here's the ending theme of the series.stay tuned!