Video Game Derby Round 2

This Week's Changes

• Switching form a daily to weekly format. Sitting down everyday to write is a bit difficult. Hopefully switching to a week format will make scheduling IRL (In real life) time easier.
• Instead of bringing in new games every week, I'll play more of the one's that have stayed in the race.
• I changed my mind out removing Conan from the list. Removing one per week, even if do to a purple ranking, is enough. Therefor, removing Tenchi saved Conan.
• From now on regularly going to use Japanese name order, ie: Last First, Ininose Ren, etc. I've been going back in forth a bit before, but I'll do this from now on
• For dating sims I'll try to at least one prospect's description each week.

 

Digimon Adventrue

Izzy's adventure took place in a factory in the middle of nowhere. The kids are still looking for people and the factory looks very promising. Izzy meanwhile is noticing that while his laptop battery is actully deap, it's still working. The group enters the factory and it's sort of a maze game finding the buttons to push to open the door and proceed.

Eventully there are two paths and Tai tells Izzy to pick one group to lead while he takes the other. Izzy's group makes it to a giant battery with strange writing inside. Izzy pulls out his computer to try and crack the language. There is a little bit of interaction between Izzy and Tentamon, where Tentamon comments how Izzy seems so happy, and Izzy responds he loves solving puzzles. He then looks a bit serious and we get half of a flashback of his parents deciding whether to tell him something or not (not stated), but then reality kicks in. The computer starts glowing and resonating, and Tentamon kind of glows and is very startled but dosen't evolve. Izzy figures out that computer language has tremendous effects on the world their in.

Tai's team meanwhile find an unconscious Andromon. Agumon tells you not to worry because Andromon's friendly, but once he wakes up he declares Tai's groups introuders and chases them. The two groups meet up and run to the roof where Andromon coroners them. Izzy somehow hacks Tentamon's data and makes him evolve and they battle and defeat Andromon. It turns out Andromon had a black gear in him making him go berserk. As thanks, Andromon show them the tunnel to the next part of the story. As the kids are about to leave however they get transported to yet another world.

There are digimon in it but something about them seems different. On top of that, the world is made up of green lines, like in virtualy reality things. Eventully the group are transported to the Digital world again, and Izzy discovers his computer sent them to the third world. While the kids think that was scary, the digimon seem excited about exploring it and the level is unlocked on the chapter page. It looks to be some kind of training level, and I shall investigate it further next week.

The interaction between Izzy and Tentamon has so far been the weakest I've seen. I guess while the other digimon where either making up for a trait that their partner needed (ie. Biyomon was sweet enough to put Sora at ease) or bring out their good traits (ie. Aguman following Tai's lead) Tentamon's interaction's with Izzy are a bit... bland. Tantamon's personality as far as I can make out, it that he has an accent, and while he occasionally makes a strange pose, it still doesn't seem like a personality trait. Maybe Izzy is just too well rounded a character to need his digimon to act as a foil, but I hope that Tentamon will be a bit more relevent as a character then as a fighting tool in the future.

 

Still enjoying this game so from #1 and green last week, it's still keeping a strong story in green.

Digimon Story: Lost Evolution

Besides quite a bit of level grinding now a whole lot happend this week. You meet up with a Devimon, which seems to be the Demidevimon from before now evolved.

You fight and this time wining gets you the black box. Devimon is still bitter about being abandoned and does not belive at all the tamers went missing at the same time. He leaves and you return to the base. You find that another base has given a distress call (I think?) and you're sent off there to investigate, it being said that your friends might be over there. Hiroyuki seems to have helped the digimon at the base with somekind of upgrade and I guess I'll see next week what that is.

A good grinding game to pass the time, but still a bit of an annoying story. Still yellow this week.

 

Ouran High School Host Club

The last day for Sayuri's love interest at school. The club is extra busy of course and interestingly we get to see some character development from the three regulars. They're concerned about both Haruhi ans Sayuri, although it doesn't seem they've put together that the two are troubled for the same reason. During customer time you get to pick which customer to sit with, and I've made a habit of picking Sakurazuka Kimiko, because I can recogize her Kanji, hill of Cherry Blossoms, the fastest. She seems to be a bit of a gentle worrier, so Haruhi convinces her that the reason Haruhi herself looks tiered is because she was up late studying. Sakurazuka makes Haruhi promise to go to bed early that night.

There is a character choise scene, and so Tamaki and Haruhi go off to go stalk Sayuri's crush. The reasoning was, they were probably having trouble coming up with a plan to get the two together, because they didn't know anything first hand about the dude. In the class room they get that Kyoya's report of him was on the mark. The go the the Kitchen next and after chatting with the cooks Mr.Crush leaves with a bag of food. This convinces Takami that he's lost all his money and is now begging for table scraps. Haruhi eventully gets Tamaki to follow after Mr.Crush, who left their sights quite a bit ago. The can't follow him up to the roof however and on his way back down they have no where to hide. Tamaki quickly demads they pretend to be lovers so their cover isn't blown. Haruhi starts to protest and says it's fine to just act normal, but Tamaki insists and with no time to argue Haruhi kind of uncomfortably stands there where Takaki looks into her eyes and strokes her chin, obviously enjoying himself. After some time passes Haruhi asks how much longer they have to stand like that, since their target already passed. Tamaki is startled and Haruhi takes the chance of not being silinced to point out that since she's dressed as a guy, it was more of a distraction then a discreet cover.

Having fun with the game. Last week was pretty much just a catchup so it's ranking was based on how good I remembered the game. I'm pleased to say that this week it's a stronger green. The Kanji also wasn't a problem like I remembered it to be, so I'm having no difficultly reading it.

Character of the Week:

Suou Tamaki 須王 環

President of the Host Club.

A half with a french mother, he is also the son of the school chairman.

Not only is he the original founder of the host club, within it he boasts the No.1 request rate. But because he's a narcissist, has the face of a moron, and for other reasons, the other club members sometimes mess with him. He calls himself the king of the host club, but nobody else calls him that.

 

Starry Sky -in Spring-

I didn't make any progress this week, so it's ranking remains the same as before, still green but time is making the green weaker. I think it's cute, but not all that deep so far.

Character of the week, From the booklet

Tomoe You 土萌 羊

Henrei Samuel Jean Aimee (French name)

Year: 2nd

Department: Astronomy

Blood type: O

Birthday: January 12th

Star Sign: Capricorn

Hight: 175 Cm

Weight: 58 Kg

 

"Being far away, our love might be fading away.

It can't be true.

Adding more love for you everyday,

With a bunch of piled thought for you,

I will come to pick up up someday"

He is a transfer student into Seigetsu High School's Astronomy Department. He's a very attractive half French, half Japanese man. Having meet the heroine as a child, they were reunited when he transferred into Saikai Academy

 

Detective Conan

Saved from the Junk heap becasue I changed the rules again, last week's last place did better this week.

Storry-wise, not much happened. But we finally see what our main characters are doing and get a bit into how this game is going to work. We meet the three kids that are Conan's elementry school friends along with another girl, and I unfortunately don't have her name, so I'm going to call her Ai, I think it was something like that. Normaly I have the booklet in the game cases with the character names in them, but I don't for this one. Anyway, Ai is a character I never got to in the Anime, but I know she's a scientist who was shrunk like Conan was. In her case she worked for the orginization and tried to use the drug to commit suiside. (I think they improsioned her before that?) Anyway, that makes her Conan's ex-adult ally. The natural elementry school kids are speculating who Onimaru might be and ask Conan and Ai's opinions. Both of them hold that it's hard to guess with just what's being reported on the news. Conan suspects however that Ai might know a bit more then she's telling the kids. We then go into some explation pages that used up my flashcards for the day, so I stoped about there. The game, however, has now introduced evidence folders and the ability to question people. Guess I'll try it out next week.

Gone from a long-winded off story to something I'm getting curious about. Conan moves from yellow to green!

 

Gakuen Hetalia

Once you've gotten past the initial start up Sechiles goes to sleep, and the next few days at school cutely run a bit like the Hetalia anime: short and punchy. The days are devided into three parts and you get to pick somewhere on school to go hang out. You can see a country at diffirent parts of the school and going there and doing their events increases their affection. I put before that you probably didn't need to see the anime to play the game, but now it's clear to me the game was designed for people who have. I started writing the next part explaining the in jokes but.... there are just too many. If you care you really should watch the anime. That being said, here's my run down of how my choices went:

Nobody:

Just trying out going somewhere with nobody, I went to the library. Sechiles tentativly asks if Canada is there (in joke is Canada is invisiable to people who don't know he's there, unless he's mistaken for America). Nothing happens and she leaves XD

Russia: I've kind of randomly decided to make Russia my primary target for now, but for this whole play through I don't currently have any one character in mind so I'll probably just around a great deal.

Event 1) Russia gets a letter in his locker that he can't read. He hands it to Sechiles, but she can't either. France comes in and declares it's a love letter! Although, he can't read it eaither. Sechiles goes to get Japan to help and finally he reveals it to be a curse. Russia dosen't understand why anyone would want to curse him, but appreciates Sechiles for helping him solve the mystery

Event 2) Seychelles walks up to Russia on the roof and starts to say hi but is shushed. Russia, as it turns out is spying on Lishtenstain and Switzerland. The two exchange some chatter as Lishtenstain gives Switzerland a handkerchief he forgot and the two leave. You comment that the two siblings get along really well and Russia starts to get depressed as he repeats that must be what having a normal relationship with your younger sister musts be like.

Germany:

Germany is in the hall and asks Japan if he finished the assinment for class yet. Japan says yes and asks Germany in turn. Germany says, "Of course! Is what I wanted to say. The truth is I haven't even started" It turns out he lent his dictionary to Italy and can't start the assignment without it. Japan offers his but Germany refuses because he knows Japan will need it to review. Seychelles lends hers to Germany and his affection increases. Greece then come in and tells Sechiles that she needs a dictionary for her assinment as well. Germany is unset that Seychelles tried to give him hers when she needed it and tries to give it back but Secheiles won't take it. Greece then resolves the issue by lending his dictionary in turn to Seychelles. Germany asks if in that case it would be less compicated if he just borrowed Greece's dictionary, to which Greece responds that the human heart is complicated, and Germany accepts that answer with a smile

Japan:

Japan is reading a book in the library when Seychelles comes in. She wants to talk to him, but he looks so busy she would feel bad for disturbing him. America then bounds in and starts talking loudly to Japan, much to Seychelles's disgust. The two see her however and invite her over, Seychelles asks what book Japan was reading and Japan shows her, convincing her to borrow it in the process. Japan's affection increases.

Character intro of the week, from the booklet

ロシア Russia

A young man with a big body and the heart of an honest young boy.

Because he speaks honestly and bluntly, he is becoming the comity's straight man. He's gentle, but also the type to easily misunderstand what's going on around him. It seems that he has sisters, but when the conversation turns to them his mood takes an about-face.

I enjoyed the change to the quicky format of the anime and keep hetalia a solid green. The regular otome format was alright for introducing the main character, but this allows players to see more of their favorites.

 

Ugly Duckling

Got through the new tenant's introductions. The first one,Icninose Ren, was condicending and rude, I explained that one last time. The second one, Kahara Masaki, was friendly and rude, and here that Kanji I can't read kept popping up so I can't tell exactly what it is he's saying, but he seems to be more thoughtless rude then the first guy. The third one, Tachibana Kennosuke, was not all that interested in dating (it's how he was introduced) and rudely said he didn't know they made womens' clothing in such large sizes. The forth, Kamishiro Ayato, was a well known play-boy who normally hits on every girl at school, and was rudely distant and polite. The last one, Fumaki Souta, was a first year who looks and acts much younger, the heroine was on edge by the time she got to him, but he was just friendly and they promised to play together sometime.

Since the last one, Fukami Souta, was the only one who wasn't a prick during the first meeting, I so far like him the best. Here's his discription from the Character booklet:

Academy's 3rd Most Popular: Sports Boy

Fumami Souta 深水 颯大 :1st Year

A young man who loves sports. For some reason, when around the heroine he's restless.

 

Last week I mentioned that while the Kanji was annoying, it didn't really cause any problems playing. This week I'm afraid it was and it really got in the way. I want to know what happens still, but unfortunately that means I'm moving it from #2 green to unplaceable purple. Sorry, something important is apparently being said, but I can't read it.

This Weeks End Rankings

1. Digimon Adventure
   
2. Ouran High School Host Club
   
3. Gakuen Hetalia
   
4. Detective Conan
   
5. Starry Sky In Spring
6. Digimon Story: Lost Evolution
   
7. Ugly Duckling
   

So this week ugly duckling drops out do to technical difficulties! A tough blow to such a promising looking premies. To top it off, Detective Conan, which looked to have lost last week, not only came back into the race but has jumped up two places! It's not looking good for Digimon Story, which has been in the yellow two weeks running. It had better pry another game has techical difficulties as well or it had better get its act together in the following week!

 

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Ugly Duckling Love Revolution and Shin Tenchi Muyo

Trying to get my sleep schedule back on track, I'm once again writing this the day after. I hope to get today's things done was well. If I do fall behind during the week however, I'll call the winner baced on which ones I did get to by that time. I'm on spring break right now so I can spend most of my time playing games at the moment, but once school starts up again shorter weeks may happen more often.

Neither of these went quite the way I thought they would, so they're both the first real surprises for me in the rankings for different reasons.

Ugly Ducking Love Revolution (DS)

I'm using the title the manga adopted when being translated into english, since that is where I recognized the game from and why I picked it up. I only read the first volume of the manga, and it was just a cute collection of day-to-day mini stories. The Japanese title is "Otometeki Koi Kakumei Raburebo" or roughly, "A Maidan-Like Love Revolution Love Revolution". Love Revolution is written both in traditional Japanese Kanji and in it's borrowed english Katakana incarnation, so yes, it really is "Love Revolution Love Revolution".

What made it stick out in my mind was it was a rare Otome story where they establish the heroine to not be pretty at all. She's fat, and her clothes don't play to that at all so this isn't some kind of fetish thing. She's got beady eyes. She's constantly thinking about either eating or dieting. That kind of feeling. And yet, it's very clear these five gorgeous guys (plus apparently a not gorgeous guy) all have crushes on her. I was curious about the "Why?" to try and find somemore backstory, since it's apparently assumed the reader has played the game. I was even curious enough to consider buying it off of play-asia, but I couldn't find it... Largely because the title is completly different. So when I saw the game this winter break(dirt cheap, even for Book Off) I picked it up without a second thought. I didn't expect all that much, but it had been a lingering question in my mind for, what, two, maybe three years? Never really sat down to play it until now.

Since this heroine is abnormally well developed (for this type of game at least), I'm reluctant to use the "You" I've been using when describing games like this so far, so I'll instead talk about what "the heroine" is doing.

I'm feeling some need to explain this.

Normally the number of traits are low so the player can relate to the character, and when they are given they're good traits that it's assumed the player would like to have. In Digimon Story (the DS one) you are some kind of quite leader type, so the people around you do all the talking and as the player you see the other characters respect your character's decisions. You get to figure out what they see in you by yourself. In Starry Sky you are gentle and a good listener and your hobby is looking at the stars. Two good traits and a common hobby with the prospective dudes. Even though the guys are really interested in you from the get go, when you all talk about your memories they are more about what the guys did or what the guys felt. You where there for them, but once again it's really left up to the player to imagine what it was you actually did. All you really know is that they appriceated it. Saying "you" in those cases makes sense to me, but in Ugly Ducking it's just... too explained. Like or dislike the her, she's a definite character, not a blank canvas of "you"ness.

Putting my ramblings aside. In the beginning...

We start off with the heroine's backstory and It's not one of tragedy and woe... exaclty...

When she was very young she was undisputedly cute. She apparently won some kind of Mrs. Japan cutest child ever contest. Everyday she would always hear how cute she was and she would get at least a car-load of presents from her admires. Her future seemed bright... except that she really let herself go. Apparently the issue was the presents were more often then not candy. To top it off her mother made candy for a living, and her dad would make some occasionally too. So she was a little girl who was given a mountain of candy everyday, and everybody always said how cute she looked eating it. One thing lead to another....

Flashforward to today, and our Heroine is about to start her second year of High Shool. What we see is her eating the biggest box of peeps I've ever seen. Look, she's impressed me for that. Have you ever tried to eat a large number of peeps? You can't eat more then 9 in one sitting. Normal people can't even eat nine. She's large now and reflecting on her past. It's unclear to me from the way she says it whether she blames herself or others for it, but it's clear she knows she isn't cute anymore. She actully seems to have a bit of a realistic streak to her. "People often say to me 'You've still got a good figure', but no matter how you look at it, that's a lie" She dosn't say this in a self-pity sort of way, but more in a "well, so it goes" sort of way.

We also get some more information about her circumstances now. She's living in an appartment owned by her dad an run by her older brother. It's only mildly hinted at now, but I know from the manga that said brother has a sister-complex and still thinks she's the cutest girl in the world. Aside from those two there have so far been only 2 other tenets in the building. This is apparently a more upscale set of appartments so the rent is a bit high. Today however they are getting 5 more, much to the relief and happiness of her dad. Her bother already greeted them and tells our heroine that she ought to go do the same.

Our Heroine sees them and starts to greet them by suddenly is stopped the unexpected feeling of an oncoming nose bleed. It turns out the five tenets are the most popular gorgeous guys at her school.

I'm calling them the "Fabulous Five" from now on.

The Fabulous Five all seem surprised to see her as well. She regains her composure and greets #1 (I'll learn his name later). He's the most popular boy at school. He's smart and cool, but with a mysterious aura that draws people to him. He also turns out to be a prick. Our Heroine stands there awkwardly with her hand outstretched, wondering why he's not making any move to shake it, when he tells her she's an eyesore, and she should remove her fat self from his presence and stop bothering him. Her reaction is a stunned muteness, but also she's clearly ticked off at him as well. She desides there that it dosen't matter how popular he is, he's a jerk and she takes a disliking to him. He never smiles

#2 Starts laughing and the heroine's irritation is changed to him. He apologizes but keeps a big grin on his face. He's also a second year but in a different class so our Heroine doesn't know much about him. He however says he's heard of her because she's famous.

Famous for what? I don't know, I was falling asleep at my desk so I called it a night there.

Personal game rating?

The grammar is fine but the sticking point here is the tiney, unfamilier Kanji. My vocabulary has expanded enough at this point it dosen't pose a problem most of the time, but it's still like driving along and getting a flat tire every ten miles or so and having to get out and change it. The story has enough twists I'm having trouble guessing the meaning form context, and the strokes are unclear enough that on one sentence I even just had to say, "I've spent 40 minutes trying to figure this Kanji out. It's time to move on". Really annoying when it happens, but not so bad it ruins the experince.

To my surprise I really am liking this story. Judging from the price of the game and, well, how bored I've gotten with some of the intros I've been going though ealier this week, I wasn't expecting much. This is the first game so far where I really want to know what's going to happen to the main character's development. That's a nice change of pace. Ugly Duckling Love Revolution gets a green flag from me. Time will tell if it can keep it once we get into the gameplay. It is an Otome game so when push comes to shove it's going to be her interaction with the guys that will make or break the game.

Shin Tenchi Muyo (Book)

These are three books giving backstory some backstory to the anime Tenchi Muyo and parts of its universe that were never explained in the anime itself. This was one of my first anime, and I kinda wanted to know more about it. The books came out in 1997 so I ordered them second hand off of Japan Amazon and got the three for 1 yen a pop. Plus shipping per item. I guess that's how that seller makes money. Anyway, a good deal for me.

As far as spoilers go... it's hard for me to say whether explaning what happens before the series starts counts as a spoiler. We don't get the same introduction to them as the character's in the show so it makes for a different experience but... well use your own judgement for this one. Continue at your own discretion.

Tenchi Muyo is what's refered to in the states Harem anime, a romantic comedy one male protagansist and multiple female suitors. Most of it's action takes place on or very close to earth, but all the women are aliens and they do go into space decently often. Though most of the show is about the romantic comedy part, there is an overall plot involving Tenchi, nice guy who's a bit unsure of how to act around girls, finding out he's 1/8 royal alien and that he's got a magical light saber and special abilities that could change the balance of power in the universe. Literally and politically. On word of the author, the original concept actually involved Tenchi getting a literal harem and marrying all of the women, each of whom are very powerful either physically or politically in one way or another in their own right. Didn't happen in the anime, but neither did he ever pick just one, although there where two main contenders. The anime came out in OVA format with massive breaks between the three sets. The first two where shown on Toonami as "Tenchi Muyo" while the third came out well after toonami ended. I haven't seen all of the third, but I know they added another woman in that one. Tenchi Muyo also had several spin offs including "Tenchi Universe" which restarts the story and puts more emphasis on outerspace and plot then the more romance oriented "Tenchi Muyo".

As a final note: while well known among American anime fans, it isn't well known in Japan. I have a few friends and aquantinces here who are rather into anime themselves, but so far not a single one has heard of Tenchi. Perhaps is is because this is just because I'm attending an all girls school and this anime is more aimed at guys, but I think it's name recognision in the USA is abnormally high do to it's apperance on Toonami. For most people my age that's where we first were introduced to anime.

Into the up-to-date book summary we go!

It's clear that this book is going to explain Azusa's back story. He's the father of two of the girls, and the king of Jurai, the most powerful planet in the universe. We start off with a more or less a retell of the final episode of the anime, where the suiter Azasa selected for his daughter Ayeka has a dual with Tenchi.

I'm really not very far in this so it'll actully be eaiser to a direct translation here. Please forgive my somewhat loose interpretation in some parts. This gets a bit difficult for me.

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The king of Jurai had been visiting the Masaki home for one week.

Strictly speaking, the visit had taken one week. The first princess of the planet Jurai's, Ayeka's, potential fiancé had been brought along but due to strange occurances that kept happening the work involving finalizing him had had to be done over 7 times, with a new interuption everyday. At that time Ayeka would say, "Father, about me, the thing is Tenchi..." and be met with the responce, "If this Tenchi-guy can win in a duel against my chosen man I'll give my blessing". These lines were said every time, so for this, Tenchi's 8th duel, it felt like tradition.

The audience always involved the same eight people and one animal, and this 8th time was the same

Jurai's King, Azusa

Jurai's first Queen, Funaho

Jurai's secod Queen, Misaki

Jurai's first prince, Masaki Katsuhito (Youshou)

Jurai's first princess, Ayeka

Jurai's second princess, Sasami

Former space pirate, Ryoko

Genies Scientist, Washu-chan

Living Spaceship, Ryo-ohki

The gorgeous women, who where at this moment gathered in Earth's solar system and who's aura had never been matched before, and who could be called a major pain in the neck, where all attracted to the nice guy and normal high school student (currently on hiatus) Tenchi Masaki and each (beautiful and rich) considered herself his suitor.

Ayeka was worried about Tenchi's well-being, "Tenchi is fighting for my sake", she thought, and the very idea gave her a happiness that bordered on ecstasy. On the other hand there was Ryoko, "Lose! Lose quickly! Lose on purpose! Lose without getting hurt! If you lose we'll send Ayeka back to Jurai. And Sasami will go back at the same time. Washu can just go where-ever. And you can take Mihoshi with you too" is what she wished to say from the bottem of her heart...but, she could feel Misaki's line of sight pointing right at her and she found herself rooting for Tenchi involuntarily. Not only did Ryoko understand that if Misaki got angry she should pull Ryoko's face until she cried while giving her the stink-eye, since this happened to her 8 times, she also understood that she would have the bill from her attack on Jurai 700 years prior thrust before her, since this had also happened 8 times.

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Ranking

Realistically, this book is doable for me, but the speed is often just one sentence an hour. This is something I've been trying to read for a while and the above translation is the total accumulation of my work so far. All I got done for Yesterday's was the last sentence, which in Japanese it looks like this:

美砂樹を怒らせると泣ながら頬を引っ張るわ投げるわ突き飛ばすわで、大変な目に遭うことは八回目だから魎呼にも分かってたし、七００年前に樹雷星を襲った時の請求書をつきつけられるのも八回目だから分かっていた。

So far that's the standard length of sentence for this book. For comparison here's a normal one from Ugly Duckling Revolution:

なんなの、この人たち。。。い、異様にイケメンばっかりだわ！後光がまぶしくて、よく見えない。。。！

It looks like once I get past the prolog the Tenchi sentences might shorten down, but I'm only two pages in and I've got quite a bit more to go.

As for as the story goes it definatly has my curiosity, even if it's just a recap. It's going into slightly more detail then they showed in the Anime, so it's not boreing.

So where do I put this?

I want to give the story a green, but the grammar difficultly level a red. So, weirdly, I think I've got to invent a new ranking for this category. This is purple. The meaning is this, I'm removing it from the derby as a normal contestent but I'll still add a few sentences here and there until my level improves significantly enough to look at the story at a decent speed. Perhaps it will come back in the future, so this is different then losing, but for the time being I can't rank it normally. This does not count as the game being removed for the week. The other contestents will be ranked in the derby as is normal and the lowest ranking there will still be the one to be removed.

Running Ranking

1. Digimon Adventure
2. Ugly Duckling Love Revolution
3. Starry Sky Portable -in Spring-
4. Hetalia Academy
5. Ouran High School Host Club
6. Digimon Story: Lost Evolution
7. Detective Conan

Shin Tenchi Muyo

My favorite word of the day was:

囁く, 私語く

[ささやく (sasayaku)]

to whisper, to murmur

From when the sweets were "whispering" to the main character in Ugly Duckling, tempting her.

Friday's set is Tokimeki Memorial: Girl's Side (1, DS) and Baka to Testo (PSP)

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