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It actually didn't feel that bad getting up this morning but it was really dark which was strange. I didn't really feel that sleepy even though I only ended up having about 5 hours of sleep (which I guess is okay) but as soon as we were sitting in the lecture theatre listening to the orientation speech thing I felt SO tired and I got really close to falling asleep several times. And then I was thinking "I better go to bed earlier tonight or I won't be able to get up for more orientation tomorrow ==".

And yet it's now 10:30 (which is early for some, and late for others) and I have to get up at 6... So much for my plan to sleep early. And I guess 6am isn't too bad. Orientation was actually alright I guess. Though they did talk a bit too much about unnecessary things (no offence). I ended up leaving like an hour earlier though cause I saw Cissy, Danashi and Michael and I was like "bye orientation, I'm going to go hang" :D

However I did feel bad for leaving early because maybe I missed out on something important :/ And also if I went all that way for orientation, shouldn't I have finished what I started? Oh well too late now. So yay I was able to finish at a decent time. Unlike tomorrow where I only get to leave uni at 5:30 or even later (if there's a crap tonne of traffic). Argh so conflicted I seriously feel like ditching it because I don't think we'll get told anything worthwhile and it's so tempting to stay at home but I should probably go T_T

Ugh last day of summer and what's the weather? Cloudy, windy and rainy. Gross. Even though I knew it would be crappy weather, I refused to take a jumper with me (it's like some sort of childish defiance against the weather - like "screw you, I'm not giving in to you") and at the end I ended up getting pretty cold walking through the rain (yes, I was using an umbrella).

Unfortunately the result of that is I got a retarded runny nose again :/ I've been blowing it non-stop since I got home. Oh and today was actually a decent day but then unfortunately it got ruined by this stupid person. I have the most craptastic luck because I really did not want to see them but just as I leave bam there they are == Ugh and that person always does and says thoughtless, selfish things and today it just pissed me off like freaking hell. I remember I was really going to go into a lengthy rant about that when I got back.

Luckily, when I got back home I read, watched futurama and went out grocery shopping (the only kind of shopping that's enjoyable) with dad :) It's weird to go late night shopping on a Thursday because we never do that but I'm busy this weekend so there's no time. I went to buy some alcohol today with dad. It was my first time and the guy didn't ask for my ID (which I didn't have anyway). When we got home it was already 9:30 or so and I made my dad a drink, the only kind that I like and can stand lol. I'll make more when I get a shaker.

I feel sad because now it's almost 11 and I feel like I haven't had much time at home today. On top of that, I found a whole page of youtube videos I want to watch right now but no time why :( Someone put more hours into a day please. Also how will I survive being outdoors for 8 hours tomorrow with stormy rainy weather.

EDIT: Also bought some ice-cream (will probably be the last for now) to mourn the last day of summer. I just realised that everyone's offline probably because of the foam party. I'm not even going to comment on what I think of that party.

In order to fully cherish my last free day I didn't get up until 10:30 even though I woke up at 8:30, 9 and 10. Well I guess it only really counts as a "free" day if we disregard the fact I had to work tonight :/ Argh I'm going to miss the times I got to stay at home having no life :'(

Whyyy do I have to go to uni tomorrow for 7 hours of orientation == Can someone please tell me how on earth there is 7 hours worth of stuff to show/tell? I'm going to have to get up at the same time I did when I went to high school so I guess it won't be that bad getting up because it will just be my old routine. Though I could technically get up a bit later but then maybe my sister won't make it to school on time.

Argh I would so ditch my two days of orientation but then that would probably mean me getting lost big time during the first week of uni. Also, why is everyone going crazy about freebies? Sure I love freebies but I don't think I'm going to go out of my way to collect anything from uni cause I know I won't use it and sooner or later mum and dad will tell me throw it out cause it's just wasting space :/

Nooo I have to work extra on Saturday but I guess it doesn't matter cause I wasn't going to do anything else that day. I'm sure there was more to say but I don't remember. Ugh I'm just too pooped to finish the summary I started yesterday. I was supposed to finish it yesterday, then practically fell asleep at the keyboard so I was going to do it today but now I'm just too tired again. I suspect the same thing will happen tomorrow. And Friday.

god this person just screwed up my order and gave me peanut flavour instead. I didn't freaking realise until after I took a mouthful.

Now my throat feels really funny and all I can think of is **** am I going to die.

Started to feel depressed because the long, blissful holidays are ending :( My relationship with holidays has been weird. I used to love them in primary school but then in high school I kind of disliked them (don't kill me) because I was always really unproductive and also because I got bored a lot.

I feel like time has passed both fast and slow since our holidays began in November. Like some events felt like they were agessss ago but others feel like they only just happened. I really don't want to go to uni because I bet I'll still be stuck in holiday mode T_T 

And you know, I feel like these last three weeks of holiday (this week and the past two) have made me appreciate these holidays more (as well as long for more holidays rather than uni). Up until the last three weeks I didn't really do much but stay at home and occasionally go out but since two weeks ago, everyday has been packed :/ It's all a combination of work, driving, learning retarded stuff in the city (don't ask) and the occasional outing.

Man where did my holidays goooo T_T When I'm busy everyday it just makes me want a nice quiet day doing nothing at home... Which is what I basically did the whole of the holidays up until a few weeks ago. I also remember complaining that that was boring as hell but nooo I take it back, boring holidays please come back :( 

So not looking forward to this week because tomorrow I have to go all the way to usyd to pick up my stupid id card and that's it == And then Thursday and Friday is orientation and I am SO not looking forward to that. I mean my faculty orientation is 9 to 5 on Thursday and 8 to 5 on Friday. How the hell am I supposed to get there at 8?! I'm going to have to get up at the crack of dawn == Why is my faculty orientation so long fml seriously. I looked at the others and they only have like 1 to 3 hours (depending on which faculty) which means they can just go home afterwards while I'm still stuck doing orientation T_T

Ugh but you know what I'll miss the most? The fact that I get to sleep-in :( For the last two weeks or so I've had to get up at 8am pretty much everyday due to various reasons like work, places to go, errands to run, or just generally doing things (once again don't ask). I haven't had a sleep-in for quite some time now and they'll be impossible when uni starts D;

I also don't appreciate the fact that for the last couple of weekends my dad has been coming into my room at 6 or 7am to wake me up to go driving T_T Normally I just mentally sigh to myself and just get up and go but this Saturday when he came to wake me up I just couldn't do it. The day before I had work and I also had work that day so I was just so damn tired and also told him the night before I wasn't up for it but he still came in and ruined my sleep :( I seriously just could not get up and just basically rolled over and was like "noooo I can't do it" and dad did the whole "aiyaaaaa why are you so lazy" thing. 

Argh I only get one more chance to sleep-in before uni starts sob. Monday, Thursday and Friday I have to get up early to get to uni for orientation. Tuesday I have to go do something in the city. Saturday is work and Sunday is the day before uni so I bet dad will wake me up early just for the sake of it and/or take me to go driving. Oh Wednesday you're the only day I have left :(

Takuto is the hacker of the group and gathers intelligence, disables security alarms etc. He has a really foul mouth and is always insulting the MC but he's also a tsundere, extremely tsundere ~(❁´◡`❁)~ Since he's the hacker, he's not as active as the others when they're on their missions (to steal stuff) but rather, he stays in the van and helps out the others while hacking, watching over the situation blah. One of the running gags of this game is that he chokes on everything he eats or drinks xD Oh and on his profile, it says his day job is "engineer" but I'm pretty sure in-game it says he works for a big IT company. Eh, either or.
Kenshi is supposedly the "sniper" of the group though I swear they never shoot anyone or anything... Cause they're not out to harm, they just want to put art back in its rightful place. Anyway he's the kind older brother type and his day job is being a firefighter. I think he tends to help out the MC when Riki and Takuto bully her xD

Hiro's the youngest and is an art student. It says his IQ is 180 and he has a talent for disguise. Unfortunately he also likes to toy with women like Riki :/ He speaks in 80's slang a lot which is quite funny only when I pick up on it xD Yeah, I don't know 80's slang. He also speaks like every language which comes quite in handy in his route.



Took me forever to find a cg of boss orz. His name is Atsumu which most people (players) forget because every character always refers to him as the boss. He doesn't actually go on any of the missions but instead tells people what to do pretty much... He's laidback and loves fortune telling which is exactly like Kuni xD His day job is running the bar Le Renard Noir.



Last but not least, the guy you didn't meet in the prologue! He's Tatsuro and he's not part of the Black Foxes but is instead a detective working on catching and arresting them for their crimes. He's also your friend Ranko's older brother and happens to be the MC's "first love" :/ (That just means she liked him but they didn't go out). The MC has trouble keeping things from him since she's not good at lying and they were also childhood friends.

EDIT: Wait actually we met him like once after the burglary at the museum where he questions the MC if she saw any of the Black Foxes. Fail memory is fail.

This game comes from the makers of mfw and it actually comes pretty close to being my favourite Voltage game (the company that made these games) though I think in my heart mfw will always be my utmost favourite since it was the first one of their games I played plus I just love the hilarious gang so much.

First off, the english title is actually pretty much the same as the Japanese one for once. It's called 怪盗X恋の予告状 (kaitō x koi no yokokujō) in Japanese which translates as "a love notice/letter from a mysterious thief x" or something like that...

So I've actually played all the routes in this one but I'll only be making a quick summary of everyone's route this time. Hopefully a much shorter one than the one I did for mfw since that was very time consuming. I'm pretty sure I'll be able to make it much shorter this time since I actually can't remember all the minor details of everyone's routes orz Poor memory lol. Unless I play it again but I probably don't have that much time. In any case, this game has a lot of funny parts so rather than summaries let's put up more retarded stuff lol.

So first up, some plain old boring text because background story time (prologue) sorry. It starts with the MC having a dream about her great-grandfather who died when she was five. He doesn't say much but calls out to her and she's like "Who's that? Their voice sounds familiar... is it gramps?" Anyway she then wakes up  and decides to put on this ring her great-grandfather once gave her. She then goes off to work and in this game the MC works as a curator in an art museum.

After her shift she stays behind to look at a new exhibit (a tiara or something) and suddenly the security alarm goes off and she runs into two thieves who are stealing a painting.





So here you meet the first two of the main characters, Riki (on the left) and Kenshi (right). Unfortunately while MC chases them she runs smack bang into a statue and it starts to topple over and is about to fall on her but luckily Riki holds it up. Kenshi ruffles her hair and tells her to be careful and she retorts that if they're that nice to help her out and care why don't they just return the painting? But they laugh it off and run away xD Oh and just so you know the MC doesn't know their names... it's just written onscreen for the player I guess.

So after the run in with the thieves, she meets up with her friend Ranko (oh my god the MC has a female friend in this game... though she's kind of annoying ==) who's a journalist and she says "aww man if only you saw their faces I would have had the scoop of the century!" But unfortunately she didn't see their faces since it was so dark.

The MC and her friend Ranko are at a bar and they're talking about the thieves that broke into the museum that MC works at. The thieves are a group called "the black foxes" and they're known as noble thieves amongst the town people(?) because they steal works of art and return it to their rightful owners. However the MC doesn't agree with this and says that regardless, stealing is a crime and they're criminals and not "noble thieves."




He's still holding the grudge against you for stealing his pork noodles xD Seriously, don't get in the way of Takuto and his pork noodles. Anyway here's the same scene as above but in the Japanese version. Personally I find the Japanese more funny only because it has a certain "feel" to it that gets lost in the translation even though what they say is basically the same. I don't know to put it, it's more like the way it's said?

Second picture: 「...osse-yo, jājāmen onna」 (I would have translated this as "you're late, pork noodle girl" since "osse-yo" sounds like "you're late" to me but they translated it as "shut up"?)

You also meet the boss of the Black Foxes who MC thinks looks really lazy xD Doesn't that remind you of her impression of Kuni?

Ugh I'm so sad, I happen to sit in the one spot in my house that's what I call the "black hole." I call it the black hole because the place where I sit to use my laptop (and sometimes ipod touch) experiences internet/wifi connection problems sooo often (though it seems to happen a lot more now than before) and basically everyone else can connect fine but me == Ugh first world problems. 

But seriously it's so annoying especially if I want to do some quick research or if I'm in the middle of something and then BAM internet dies great thanks. And the only way to solve it is to restart the modem which is annoying because everyone else's is fine but mine == And yes I know you will probably say "just move somewhere else" but this is my beloved spot :( It's just unfortunate that the stupid black hole is here (it didn't always used to be like this). 

And wow you can really feel how crap iphones are compared to the ipod touch. Basically if I'm not what I deem "pretty close" to the modem, the wifi doesn't work on my iphone but ipod touch works pretty much every time even if it's the same spot that doesn't work for the iphone. Trust me, that's pretty annoying. But now even the ipod touch is starting to not work in the black hole which makes me sad sigh.

Oh and on Monday I caught something retarded because my throat was slightly sore (but only for that day) and ever since that day up until now (and it's probably still going to continue for a while) I've had this stupid runny nose that requires me to blow it like every 5 minutes, though there are times when it's not that bad. But seriously did I just get sick in summer? How could I... Summer is supposed to be my safe season where I don't get sick == And I don't even know if this is sick because my body feels fine (like it's not tired or anything) and whenever I catch a cold I don't get runny noses I just cough non-stop. So what is this...

Anyway I'll be moving on to the next game soon and I also have a backlog of updates to upload and since I'm late with that it's probably meaningless since updates should be put up shortly after it comes out if that makes sense...

Oh well here's an update from today!





I don't know if you remember (or read it) but I once wrote about how I loved how this company probably prioritises/is biased toward Yamato because his stuff (almost?) always comes out first. Well my hunch is that Ren is their next bias (coincidentally I think those two are the most popular characters out of mfw). I say that because look how Ren's sequel came out before Saeki's did. Wow man that's slack to Saeki o_o

Anyways Takao's seuqel came out today and I probably won't get to play it any time soon because if you didn't know already, otome games as a hobby is pretty costly (ಥДಥ)

Okay I don't get why when you upload videos to blogger it has that weird "google video" bar thing at the bottom... can't you just upload it like a "normal" video T_T

Hmm... I wonder why in the english version of the ad they translate it as "sexy scriptwriter Saeki" but in the Japanese one it says "ドS脚本家佐伯" which means "sadistic scriptwriter Saeki" o.O

oh and that last audio clip comes from the "hitsuji de oyasumi" series (羊でお休み） which means "sleep by counting sheep." I cut it so you can't hear it but later on they start counting sheep for you and they talk about random stuff and it's actually quite soothing. I mean when I first posted that and I was listening to it (to check if it worked) I felt like I was going to fall asleep on my laptop (then again it was already quite late). 

I'm sure I had more to say but I forgot...

What the freaking hell why does blogger always like screwing me over. How it looks when you type it up is completely different to when it's "published." And I can't fix it. Why do you always do this to me late at night blogger. Screw you, seriously screw you ==

Ugh I had sooo much I wanted to do tonight and yet I hardly got anything done in the last two hours (too many setbacks). Ugh life what is happening, where is all my time going. 

 EDIT; ARGH SCREW YOU BLOGGER I WILL DEAL WITH YOU TOMORROW (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻

You know what I don't get? Who translates game titles from Japanese to English... Cause I understand the titles can be completely different but for some reason, I just expect the title to be the "english translation" of the Japanese :/

Anyway, in  Japanese my forged wedding is called 誓いのキスは突然に (chikai no kisu wa totsuzen ni) which literally translates to something like "A sudden kiss of oath" and as you can see, that is no where close to "my forged wedding." o_o

Oh well, enjoy these commercials I found for the game:




And here's my translation if you're interested. Sorry if it doesn't make sense at times. I find sometimes it loses "the feeling" when you translate from one language to another :/ I can't really explain it. I also find I have difficulty translating stuff to English because I don't really translate it in my head anymore and just kind of understand it in Japanese T_T Anyway here we go (note: may be kind of a bit too literal?)

病める時も時も健やかなる時も
itameru toki mo sukoyakanaru toki mo
In times of sickness and in times of health

生涯の伴侶として誓いますか？
shougai no hanryo to shite chikaimasu ka?
Do you take this man to be your husband until death (do you part)?

はい、誓います。
hai, chikaimasu.
Yes, I do.

でも。。。
demo...
But…

この結婚、実は
kono kekkon, jitsu wa
Truthfully, this wedding…

プロポーズされたのは
puropo-zu sareta no wa
The one who proposed

出会ったばかりの男性
deatta bakari no dansei
is a man you just met

ただし。。。それは
tadashi... sore wa
But… 

人助けに頼まれた
hitodasuke ni tanomareta
as a favour (lit. asked for an act of mercy)

妻のフリ！？
tsuma no furi!?
you have to pretend to be his wife?!

イジワル高校教師大和
ijiwaru kōkō kyoushi yamato
Bossy/mean high school teacher, Yamato

ドS脚本家佐伯
do-S kyakuhonka saeki
Sadistic scriptwriter, Saeki

あなたの選択次第で
anata no sentaku shidai de
Depending on your choices

新婚生活が変わる！！
shinkon seikatsu ga kawaru!!
Your newly-wed life will change!!

ベッドひとつしかないよ
beddo hitotsu shikanai yo
I only have one bed

夫婦なんだから
fūfu nan dakara
Because we’re a married couple

ドキドキしちゃだめだろ？
dokidoki shicha dame daro?
Isn’t it wrong for you to be nervous? (lit. heart beating fast)

ニセモノなのに
nisemono nano ni
Even though it’s a sham/lie

夫婦の仲は深まるばかり
Fūfu no naka wa fukamaru bakari
Your relationship (as a “husband and wife”) only becomes deeper

いってらっしゃいのチューは？
itterasshai no chu wa?
Where’s my goodbye kiss?

続きは。。。また今夜な
tsuzuki wa... mata konya na
We’ll continue… later tonight

しかし
Shikashi
But

幸せな時間は
shiawase na jikan wa
The time of happiness

長くは続かない
nagaku wa tsuzukanai
cannot continue forever

どういうことだ？
dou iu koto da?
What is the meaning of this?

お前たち。。。
omaetachi...
you guys… 

結婚していない？
kekkon shite inai?
Aren’t married?

私たちを。。。騙していたのか?
watashitachi wo... damashite ita no ka?
So you were… tricking us?

違うんだ！
chigaun da!
That’s wrong!

最初はふりだった
saisho wa furi datta
At the beginning, we were pretending

けれど
keredo
but

今は彼女を心から
ima wa kanojo wo kokoro kara
now I sincerely love her

偽りから始まる
itsuwari kara hajimaru
It started as a lie

本物の恋
hon mono no koi
but became real love

誓いのキスは突然に
chikai no kisu wa totsuzen ni
A sudden kiss of oath

今から妻
ima kara tsuma　
From now on

始めてみませんか？
hajimete mimasen ka?
Would you like to (try and) be my wife?



Gosh that was a lot of text. I find it weird that it mainly focuses on Yamato and Saeki (except the beginning and end where Takao finally gets his "kiss of oath" lol) and like only once was Ren in it. Yuta and Kuni were like non-existent o_o And Kuni's not even in the "poster" (or so that's what I call it, don't ask me why) --it's the same as the part at the beginning of the video



See? No Kuni. Anyway here's another video in which it's animated. I find it a little creepy that their hair and eyes are randomly moving lol. Also many people went crazy when they saw this video because they heard Yamato's "voice" and they assumed they were introducing a "voiced" game and people were like "omg can't wait to hear Ren's voice" etc. At first I was like what they have voices now o_o Then I realised it was just for the purpose of the ad cause otherwise the game would cost a lot more because they would have to hire voice actors to read all the lines. So yeah guys, it's just for the ad not the game...

Translation under the video...



  

It actually didn't feel that bad getting up this morning but it was really dark which was strange. I didn't really feel that sleepy even though I only ended up having about 5 hours of sleep (which I guess is okay) but as soon as we were sitting in the lecture theatre listening to the orientation speech thing I felt SO tired and I got really close to falling asleep several times. And then I was thinking "I better go to bed earlier tonight or I won't be able to get up for more orientation tomorrow ==".

And yet it's now 10:30 (which is early for some, and late for others) and I have to get up at 6... So much for my plan to sleep early. And I guess 6am isn't too bad. Orientation was actually alright I guess. Though they did talk a bit too much about unnecessary things (no offence). I ended up leaving like an hour earlier though cause I saw Cissy, Danashi and Michael and I was like "bye orientation, I'm going to go hang" :D

However I did feel bad for leaving early because maybe I missed out on something important :/ And also if I went all that way for orientation, shouldn't I have finished what I started? Oh well too late now. So yay I was able to finish at a decent time. Unlike tomorrow where I only get to leave uni at 5:30 or even later (if there's a crap tonne of traffic). Argh so conflicted I seriously feel like ditching it because I don't think we'll get told anything worthwhile and it's so tempting to stay at home but I should probably go T_T

Ugh last day of summer and what's the weather? Cloudy, windy and rainy. Gross. Even though I knew it would be crappy weather, I refused to take a jumper with me (it's like some sort of childish defiance against the weather - like "screw you, I'm not giving in to you") and at the end I ended up getting pretty cold walking through the rain (yes, I was using an umbrella).

Unfortunately the result of that is I got a retarded runny nose again :/ I've been blowing it non-stop since I got home. Oh and today was actually a decent day but then unfortunately it got ruined by this stupid person. I have the most craptastic luck because I really did not want to see them but just as I leave bam there they are == Ugh and that person always does and says thoughtless, selfish things and today it just pissed me off like freaking hell. I remember I was really going to go into a lengthy rant about that when I got back.

Luckily, when I got back home I read, watched futurama and went out grocery shopping (the only kind of shopping that's enjoyable) with dad :) It's weird to go late night shopping on a Thursday because we never do that but I'm busy this weekend so there's no time. I went to buy some alcohol today with dad. It was my first time and the guy didn't ask for my ID (which I didn't have anyway). When we got home it was already 9:30 or so and I made my dad a drink, the only kind that I like and can stand lol. I'll make more when I get a shaker.

I feel sad because now it's almost 11 and I feel like I haven't had much time at home today. On top of that, I found a whole page of youtube videos I want to watch right now but no time why :( Someone put more hours into a day please. Also how will I survive being outdoors for 8 hours tomorrow with stormy rainy weather.

EDIT: Also bought some ice-cream (will probably be the last for now) to mourn the last day of summer. I just realised that everyone's offline probably because of the foam party. I'm not even going to comment on what I think of that party.

In order to fully cherish my last free day I didn't get up until 10:30 even though I woke up at 8:30, 9 and 10. Well I guess it only really counts as a "free" day if we disregard the fact I had to work tonight :/ Argh I'm going to miss the times I got to stay at home having no life :'(

Whyyy do I have to go to uni tomorrow for 7 hours of orientation == Can someone please tell me how on earth there is 7 hours worth of stuff to show/tell? I'm going to have to get up at the same time I did when I went to high school so I guess it won't be that bad getting up because it will just be my old routine. Though I could technically get up a bit later but then maybe my sister won't make it to school on time.

Argh I would so ditch my two days of orientation but then that would probably mean me getting lost big time during the first week of uni. Also, why is everyone going crazy about freebies? Sure I love freebies but I don't think I'm going to go out of my way to collect anything from uni cause I know I won't use it and sooner or later mum and dad will tell me throw it out cause it's just wasting space :/

Nooo I have to work extra on Saturday but I guess it doesn't matter cause I wasn't going to do anything else that day. I'm sure there was more to say but I don't remember. Ugh I'm just too pooped to finish the summary I started yesterday. I was supposed to finish it yesterday, then practically fell asleep at the keyboard so I was going to do it today but now I'm just too tired again. I suspect the same thing will happen tomorrow. And Friday.

god this person just screwed up my order and gave me peanut flavour instead. I didn't freaking realise until after I took a mouthful.

Now my throat feels really funny and all I can think of is **** am I going to die.

Started to feel depressed because the long, blissful holidays are ending :( My relationship with holidays has been weird. I used to love them in primary school but then in high school I kind of disliked them (don't kill me) because I was always really unproductive and also because I got bored a lot.

I feel like time has passed both fast and slow since our holidays began in November. Like some events felt like they were agessss ago but others feel like they only just happened. I really don't want to go to uni because I bet I'll still be stuck in holiday mode T_T 

And you know, I feel like these last three weeks of holiday (this week and the past two) have made me appreciate these holidays more (as well as long for more holidays rather than uni). Up until the last three weeks I didn't really do much but stay at home and occasionally go out but since two weeks ago, everyday has been packed :/ It's all a combination of work, driving, learning retarded stuff in the city (don't ask) and the occasional outing.

Man where did my holidays goooo T_T When I'm busy everyday it just makes me want a nice quiet day doing nothing at home... Which is what I basically did the whole of the holidays up until a few weeks ago. I also remember complaining that that was boring as hell but nooo I take it back, boring holidays please come back :( 

So not looking forward to this week because tomorrow I have to go all the way to usyd to pick up my stupid id card and that's it == And then Thursday and Friday is orientation and I am SO not looking forward to that. I mean my faculty orientation is 9 to 5 on Thursday and 8 to 5 on Friday. How the hell am I supposed to get there at 8?! I'm going to have to get up at the crack of dawn == Why is my faculty orientation so long fml seriously. I looked at the others and they only have like 1 to 3 hours (depending on which faculty) which means they can just go home afterwards while I'm still stuck doing orientation T_T

Ugh but you know what I'll miss the most? The fact that I get to sleep-in :( For the last two weeks or so I've had to get up at 8am pretty much everyday due to various reasons like work, places to go, errands to run, or just generally doing things (once again don't ask). I haven't had a sleep-in for quite some time now and they'll be impossible when uni starts D;

I also don't appreciate the fact that for the last couple of weekends my dad has been coming into my room at 6 or 7am to wake me up to go driving T_T Normally I just mentally sigh to myself and just get up and go but this Saturday when he came to wake me up I just couldn't do it. The day before I had work and I also had work that day so I was just so damn tired and also told him the night before I wasn't up for it but he still came in and ruined my sleep :( I seriously just could not get up and just basically rolled over and was like "noooo I can't do it" and dad did the whole "aiyaaaaa why are you so lazy" thing. 

Argh I only get one more chance to sleep-in before uni starts sob. Monday, Thursday and Friday I have to get up early to get to uni for orientation. Tuesday I have to go do something in the city. Saturday is work and Sunday is the day before uni so I bet dad will wake me up early just for the sake of it and/or take me to go driving. Oh Wednesday you're the only day I have left :(

Takuto is the hacker of the group and gathers intelligence, disables security alarms etc. He has a really foul mouth and is always insulting the MC but he's also a tsundere, extremely tsundere ~(❁´◡`❁)~ Since he's the hacker, he's not as active as the others when they're on their missions (to steal stuff) but rather, he stays in the van and helps out the others while hacking, watching over the situation blah. One of the running gags of this game is that he chokes on everything he eats or drinks xD Oh and on his profile, it says his day job is "engineer" but I'm pretty sure in-game it says he works for a big IT company. Eh, either or.
Kenshi is supposedly the "sniper" of the group though I swear they never shoot anyone or anything... Cause they're not out to harm, they just want to put art back in its rightful place. Anyway he's the kind older brother type and his day job is being a firefighter. I think he tends to help out the MC when Riki and Takuto bully her xD

Hiro's the youngest and is an art student. It says his IQ is 180 and he has a talent for disguise. Unfortunately he also likes to toy with women like Riki :/ He speaks in 80's slang a lot which is quite funny only when I pick up on it xD Yeah, I don't know 80's slang. He also speaks like every language which comes quite in handy in his route.



Took me forever to find a cg of boss orz. His name is Atsumu which most people (players) forget because every character always refers to him as the boss. He doesn't actually go on any of the missions but instead tells people what to do pretty much... He's laidback and loves fortune telling which is exactly like Kuni xD His day job is running the bar Le Renard Noir.



Last but not least, the guy you didn't meet in the prologue! He's Tatsuro and he's not part of the Black Foxes but is instead a detective working on catching and arresting them for their crimes. He's also your friend Ranko's older brother and happens to be the MC's "first love" :/ (That just means she liked him but they didn't go out). The MC has trouble keeping things from him since she's not good at lying and they were also childhood friends.

EDIT: Wait actually we met him like once after the burglary at the museum where he questions the MC if she saw any of the Black Foxes. Fail memory is fail.

This game comes from the makers of mfw and it actually comes pretty close to being my favourite Voltage game (the company that made these games) though I think in my heart mfw will always be my utmost favourite since it was the first one of their games I played plus I just love the hilarious gang so much.

First off, the english title is actually pretty much the same as the Japanese one for once. It's called 怪盗X恋の予告状 (kaitō x koi no yokokujō) in Japanese which translates as "a love notice/letter from a mysterious thief x" or something like that...

So I've actually played all the routes in this one but I'll only be making a quick summary of everyone's route this time. Hopefully a much shorter one than the one I did for mfw since that was very time consuming. I'm pretty sure I'll be able to make it much shorter this time since I actually can't remember all the minor details of everyone's routes orz Poor memory lol. Unless I play it again but I probably don't have that much time. In any case, this game has a lot of funny parts so rather than summaries let's put up more retarded stuff lol.

So first up, some plain old boring text because background story time (prologue) sorry. It starts with the MC having a dream about her great-grandfather who died when she was five. He doesn't say much but calls out to her and she's like "Who's that? Their voice sounds familiar... is it gramps?" Anyway she then wakes up  and decides to put on this ring her great-grandfather once gave her. She then goes off to work and in this game the MC works as a curator in an art museum.

After her shift she stays behind to look at a new exhibit (a tiara or something) and suddenly the security alarm goes off and she runs into two thieves who are stealing a painting.





So here you meet the first two of the main characters, Riki (on the left) and Kenshi (right). Unfortunately while MC chases them she runs smack bang into a statue and it starts to topple over and is about to fall on her but luckily Riki holds it up. Kenshi ruffles her hair and tells her to be careful and she retorts that if they're that nice to help her out and care why don't they just return the painting? But they laugh it off and run away xD Oh and just so you know the MC doesn't know their names... it's just written onscreen for the player I guess.

So after the run in with the thieves, she meets up with her friend Ranko (oh my god the MC has a female friend in this game... though she's kind of annoying ==) who's a journalist and she says "aww man if only you saw their faces I would have had the scoop of the century!" But unfortunately she didn't see their faces since it was so dark.

The MC and her friend Ranko are at a bar and they're talking about the thieves that broke into the museum that MC works at. The thieves are a group called "the black foxes" and they're known as noble thieves amongst the town people(?) because they steal works of art and return it to their rightful owners. However the MC doesn't agree with this and says that regardless, stealing is a crime and they're criminals and not "noble thieves."




He's still holding the grudge against you for stealing his pork noodles xD Seriously, don't get in the way of Takuto and his pork noodles. Anyway here's the same scene as above but in the Japanese version. Personally I find the Japanese more funny only because it has a certain "feel" to it that gets lost in the translation even though what they say is basically the same. I don't know to put it, it's more like the way it's said?

Second picture: 「...osse-yo, jājāmen onna」 (I would have translated this as "you're late, pork noodle girl" since "osse-yo" sounds like "you're late" to me but they translated it as "shut up"?)

You also meet the boss of the Black Foxes who MC thinks looks really lazy xD Doesn't that remind you of her impression of Kuni?

Ugh I'm so sad, I happen to sit in the one spot in my house that's what I call the "black hole." I call it the black hole because the place where I sit to use my laptop (and sometimes ipod touch) experiences internet/wifi connection problems sooo often (though it seems to happen a lot more now than before) and basically everyone else can connect fine but me == Ugh first world problems. 

But seriously it's so annoying especially if I want to do some quick research or if I'm in the middle of something and then BAM internet dies great thanks. And the only way to solve it is to restart the modem which is annoying because everyone else's is fine but mine == And yes I know you will probably say "just move somewhere else" but this is my beloved spot :( It's just unfortunate that the stupid black hole is here (it didn't always used to be like this). 

And wow you can really feel how crap iphones are compared to the ipod touch. Basically if I'm not what I deem "pretty close" to the modem, the wifi doesn't work on my iphone but ipod touch works pretty much every time even if it's the same spot that doesn't work for the iphone. Trust me, that's pretty annoying. But now even the ipod touch is starting to not work in the black hole which makes me sad sigh.

Oh and on Monday I caught something retarded because my throat was slightly sore (but only for that day) and ever since that day up until now (and it's probably still going to continue for a while) I've had this stupid runny nose that requires me to blow it like every 5 minutes, though there are times when it's not that bad. But seriously did I just get sick in summer? How could I... Summer is supposed to be my safe season where I don't get sick == And I don't even know if this is sick because my body feels fine (like it's not tired or anything) and whenever I catch a cold I don't get runny noses I just cough non-stop. So what is this...

Anyway I'll be moving on to the next game soon and I also have a backlog of updates to upload and since I'm late with that it's probably meaningless since updates should be put up shortly after it comes out if that makes sense...

Oh well here's an update from today!





I don't know if you remember (or read it) but I once wrote about how I loved how this company probably prioritises/is biased toward Yamato because his stuff (almost?) always comes out first. Well my hunch is that Ren is their next bias (coincidentally I think those two are the most popular characters out of mfw). I say that because look how Ren's sequel came out before Saeki's did. Wow man that's slack to Saeki o_o

Anyways Takao's seuqel came out today and I probably won't get to play it any time soon because if you didn't know already, otome games as a hobby is pretty costly (ಥДಥ)

Okay I don't get why when you upload videos to blogger it has that weird "google video" bar thing at the bottom... can't you just upload it like a "normal" video T_T

Hmm... I wonder why in the english version of the ad they translate it as "sexy scriptwriter Saeki" but in the Japanese one it says "ドS脚本家佐伯" which means "sadistic scriptwriter Saeki" o.O

oh and that last audio clip comes from the "hitsuji de oyasumi" series (羊でお休み） which means "sleep by counting sheep." I cut it so you can't hear it but later on they start counting sheep for you and they talk about random stuff and it's actually quite soothing. I mean when I first posted that and I was listening to it (to check if it worked) I felt like I was going to fall asleep on my laptop (then again it was already quite late). 

I'm sure I had more to say but I forgot...

What the freaking hell why does blogger always like screwing me over. How it looks when you type it up is completely different to when it's "published." And I can't fix it. Why do you always do this to me late at night blogger. Screw you, seriously screw you ==

Ugh I had sooo much I wanted to do tonight and yet I hardly got anything done in the last two hours (too many setbacks). Ugh life what is happening, where is all my time going. 

 EDIT; ARGH SCREW YOU BLOGGER I WILL DEAL WITH YOU TOMORROW (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻

You know what I don't get? Who translates game titles from Japanese to English... Cause I understand the titles can be completely different but for some reason, I just expect the title to be the "english translation" of the Japanese :/

Anyway, in  Japanese my forged wedding is called 誓いのキスは突然に (chikai no kisu wa totsuzen ni) which literally translates to something like "A sudden kiss of oath" and as you can see, that is no where close to "my forged wedding." o_o

Oh well, enjoy these commercials I found for the game:




And here's my translation if you're interested. Sorry if it doesn't make sense at times. I find sometimes it loses "the feeling" when you translate from one language to another :/ I can't really explain it. I also find I have difficulty translating stuff to English because I don't really translate it in my head anymore and just kind of understand it in Japanese T_T Anyway here we go (note: may be kind of a bit too literal?)

病める時も時も健やかなる時も
itameru toki mo sukoyakanaru toki mo
In times of sickness and in times of health

生涯の伴侶として誓いますか？
shougai no hanryo to shite chikaimasu ka?
Do you take this man to be your husband until death (do you part)?

はい、誓います。
hai, chikaimasu.
Yes, I do.

でも。。。
demo...
But…

この結婚、実は
kono kekkon, jitsu wa
Truthfully, this wedding…

プロポーズされたのは
puropo-zu sareta no wa
The one who proposed

出会ったばかりの男性
deatta bakari no dansei
is a man you just met

ただし。。。それは
tadashi... sore wa
But… 

人助けに頼まれた
hitodasuke ni tanomareta
as a favour (lit. asked for an act of mercy)

妻のフリ！？
tsuma no furi!?
you have to pretend to be his wife?!

イジワル高校教師大和
ijiwaru kōkō kyoushi yamato
Bossy/mean high school teacher, Yamato

ドS脚本家佐伯
do-S kyakuhonka saeki
Sadistic scriptwriter, Saeki

あなたの選択次第で
anata no sentaku shidai de
Depending on your choices

新婚生活が変わる！！
shinkon seikatsu ga kawaru!!
Your newly-wed life will change!!

ベッドひとつしかないよ
beddo hitotsu shikanai yo
I only have one bed

夫婦なんだから
fūfu nan dakara
Because we’re a married couple

ドキドキしちゃだめだろ？
dokidoki shicha dame daro?
Isn’t it wrong for you to be nervous? (lit. heart beating fast)

ニセモノなのに
nisemono nano ni
Even though it’s a sham/lie

夫婦の仲は深まるばかり
Fūfu no naka wa fukamaru bakari
Your relationship (as a “husband and wife”) only becomes deeper

いってらっしゃいのチューは？
itterasshai no chu wa?
Where’s my goodbye kiss?

続きは。。。また今夜な
tsuzuki wa... mata konya na
We’ll continue… later tonight

しかし
Shikashi
But

幸せな時間は
shiawase na jikan wa
The time of happiness

長くは続かない
nagaku wa tsuzukanai
cannot continue forever

どういうことだ？
dou iu koto da?
What is the meaning of this?

お前たち。。。
omaetachi...
you guys… 

結婚していない？
kekkon shite inai?
Aren’t married?

私たちを。。。騙していたのか?
watashitachi wo... damashite ita no ka?
So you were… tricking us?

違うんだ！
chigaun da!
That’s wrong!

最初はふりだった
saisho wa furi datta
At the beginning, we were pretending

けれど
keredo
but

今は彼女を心から
ima wa kanojo wo kokoro kara
now I sincerely love her

偽りから始まる
itsuwari kara hajimaru
It started as a lie

本物の恋
hon mono no koi
but became real love

誓いのキスは突然に
chikai no kisu wa totsuzen ni
A sudden kiss of oath

今から妻
ima kara tsuma　
From now on

始めてみませんか？
hajimete mimasen ka?
Would you like to (try and) be my wife?



Gosh that was a lot of text. I find it weird that it mainly focuses on Yamato and Saeki (except the beginning and end where Takao finally gets his "kiss of oath" lol) and like only once was Ren in it. Yuta and Kuni were like non-existent o_o And Kuni's not even in the "poster" (or so that's what I call it, don't ask me why) --it's the same as the part at the beginning of the video



See? No Kuni. Anyway here's another video in which it's animated. I find it a little creepy that their hair and eyes are randomly moving lol. Also many people went crazy when they saw this video because they heard Yamato's "voice" and they assumed they were introducing a "voiced" game and people were like "omg can't wait to hear Ren's voice" etc. At first I was like what they have voices now o_o Then I realised it was just for the purpose of the ad cause otherwise the game would cost a lot more because they would have to hire voice actors to read all the lines. So yeah guys, it's just for the ad not the game...

Translation under the video...



  

 Mini Guide and Tips for Japan (and Korea) - 500th post! 
 June 29th - Sydney to Seoul 
 June 30th - Myeong-dong and Jung-gu 
 July 1st - Itaewon and Jung-gu (again) 
 July 2nd - Apgujeong Rodeo, Gangnam, Yongsan 
 July 3rd - Hongdae, D-Cube City and Yongsan 
 July 4th - last day in Korea. Dongdaemun Markets, Doota and back to our beloved Myeongdong 
 /post break/ What to buy from each Korean brand 
 July 5th - Leaving Seoul for Tokyo (Akihabara) 
 July 6th - Harajuku 
 July 7th - Ginza, Tokyo Station and Marunouchi 
 July 8th – Shinjuku 
 July 9th - Ikebukuro (Sunshine City) and Shinjuku 
 July 10th - Shibuya and Asakusa 
 July 11th - Shinjuku and Odaiba 
 July 12th - Akihabara and Roppongi/Minato 
 July 13th - Mt. Fuji and Kawaguchi 
 July 14th - Kawaguchiko and Harajuku 
 July 15th - Osaka and Tempozan 
 July 16th - Universal Studios Japan 
 July 17th - Namba (Dōtonbori), Shinsaibashi, Tennōji Park then all the way to Kyoto (Gion) 
 July 18th (last day in Osaka) - Osaka Castle, Spa World, Umeda 
 July 19th - Hiroshima and Miyajima 
 July 20th - Hiroshima --> Kyoto 
 July 21st - Arashiyama Area and North-west Kyoto (Ryōan-ji and Kinkaku-ji) 
 July 22nd - Kyoto -> Nara and Osaka (NARUTO EXHIBITION!!) 
 July 23rd - Kyoto back to Tokyo 
 July 24th - Yokohama (Minato Mirai 21)  
 July 25th and 26th (END) - Tokyo -> Seoul -> HOME 

✮ Foster kittens
✮ Clean out closet
✮ Make LOTS of ice-cream
✮ Bake + Cook (and use the molds and kits I bought from Japan)
✮ Study Japanese (JLPT N2 level)
✮ Learn basic Korean sentence structures
✮ Play Dousei Kareshi (~50 hours right there, what with my slow Japanese reading speed)
✮ Finishing playing Naruto Shippuden Ultimate Ninja Storm Revolution
✮ Buy Naruto -The Last- Movie DVD and then rewatch it
✮ Start applying for things……..
✮ Invite people over to drink the endless amounts of tea I have
✮ Make things with the alcohol and liquor stash I have (lol)

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