Starry☆Sky ~in Winter~

Starring Tsukiko and her adventures with the student council bishies—Kazuki, Hayato and Tsubasa. The main plot revolves around them preparing for school festivals, events and elections. Not as much angst as Autumn, but each character has their own not so happy past. 

The most amazing side character also appears in Winter—Ooshirou Shirogane, voiced by Suwabe Junichi. He already looks too awesome to be an uncapturable character but fret not, cos he has a route in After Winter, and it’s a super awesome one, from what I’ve read!

The opening song, Grayed out, is sung by Nakamura Yuuichi and it’s my favourite starry sky song out of the 4 seasons XD

Shiranui Kazuki, Aries, CV: Nakamura Yuuichi

Kazuki kaichou~ I love you the most, no matter what I say during your route, you’ll always be my favourite okie? Before playing the game, I was instantly attracted to Kazuki from the opening sequence alone, because of his glasses. He looked so charming and serious writing away at the desk wearing a pair of glasses.

A strong headed guy who goes around dragging and appointing students, namely Hayato, Tsukiko and Tsubasa (the following year) into the student council on the very first day they step into school, he’s extremely charismatic and capable. Kazuki fools around pretty often, and takes a particular interest in Tsubasa and his fail experiments. He’s good friends with Homare and Ooshirou and was retained during his first year, making him 2 years older than Tsukiko. The mystery behind his retain will be revealed during the route.

Throughout the game, Kazuki teases Tsukiko when she blushes at the things he says, asking if she has been mesmerized by him. She says no of course, but I always get charmed by him when he says stuff like that XD One of the cutest scenarios happens early in the game when his lips crack while laughing, Tsukiko asks him to bend down so that she could apply lip balm for him. He complies and after the lip balm has been applied, he continues bending and asks “Is it alright for me to kiss you?” Tsukiko gets all flustered but I was totally screaming in my head “YES, KAZUKI, PLEASE DO!” but he bursts out laughing saying it was just a joke and splits his lips again XD

Another time, Tsukiko almost falls in the snow but Kazuki catches hold of her just in time. Unfortunately his hand ends up on her chest and Tsukiko goes into a blushing fit. Kazuki casually says “Oh sorry! It’s so flat that I didn’t even notice!” silly old man XD Tsukiko starts to fall in love with Kazuki (as I do) and worries about little things like indirect kisses when they share a drink. Kazuki, on his part, does more than his share to lead her on, hugging Tsukiko from the back to keep her warm not just once, but twice, saying things like “I’ll never let you go”.

Tsukiko wonders if she has met Kazuki before entering the school, because she occasionally gets a sense of déjà vu when she’s with him but Kazuki denies it every time. Tsukiko gets the feeling that she has been saved by Kazuki before but nothing concrete comes to mind.

Kazuki brings Tsukiko to the male dorm roof top and they sit on a comfy couch with a good view of the school. He tells her about Tsubasa’s late grandfather who was a teacher he respected tremendously. Kazuki has the ability to predict the future and it was Tsubasa’s late grandfather who suggested to Kazuki’s father to enroll Kazuki into this astronomy school to learn to better control his powers. Kazuki had also promised this teacher to help make the school a lively place for when Tsubasa enrolls here. This explains Kazuki’s special interest in Tsubasa (Kazuki’s so sweet T___T) Tsukiko wants to know why he was retained a year but Kazuki jokingly avoids answering it, piping her curiosity even more.

She asks Ooshirou and after bribing him with a random handphone strap she found on the floor and he answers her question. I loved this part a lot because it was like reading a mystery novel, narrated by Suwabe’s sexy voice.  Ooshirou was quite the delinquent in his first year, and Kazuki tried to help Ooshirou change his way of life. Through this, they became close. Once when Ooshirou was sitting at a classroom balcony, he was accidentally pushed by another student and was about to fall off. However, Kazuki appeared in the nick of time and pulled Ooshirou back into the classroom, falling off the balcony himself instead. He was hospitalized for two months and had to be retained. Ooshirou also retained a year, due to his high truant rate.

Tsukiko catches Kazuki sleeping in the student council room couch one night with his glasses 8D Kazuki admits to joining the student council to feel needed by people. Kazuki hugs Tsukiko suddenly and tells her to graduate from him despite Tsukiko wanting to stay by his side. Tsukiko is confused (as I am L)

Once again, in exchange for a handphone strap, Ooshirou tells Tsukiko that Kazuki’s parents died in an accident when he was very young and Kazuki has been living with his uncle who is a shrine owner ever since. Kazuki feels really guilty because he had predicted the accident but didn’ do anything then because he had not understood his abilities. Still, the catch for changing the future events was that the misfortune would be directed onto Kazuki himself. Due to this, Kazuki has been trying his best to prevent misfortune from falling onto people, at the same time, not allowing people to get close to him because he doesn’t want their gratitude.

Kazuki asks Tsukiko to view the stars together. (Here they put the pre-moniter kiss CG but he doesn’t kiss her URGH) She confesses!!! Way to go Tsukiko! Kazuki sighs and says that he only sees her as a sister, a junior but not as a lover. (LIES!!) Tsukiko then asks him not to hug her, not to try to kiss her, and to stop it with the actions which lead her on. She leaves the male dorm L

At the end of the valentines’ day event the next day, Tsukiko attempts to give the chocolate containing her feelings to Kazuki but is firmly rejected. It was quite a heart breaking process and in the end, she gives them to Ooshirou instead. After that, Ooshirou gives them to Kazuki, who was ranting to himself about not being able to accept the chocolate much as he really wished to.

The next day Kazuki catches Tsukiko hesitating in front of the student council door and she gets so embarrassed that she runs away. Kazuki gives chase and the two of them continue running and chasing for quite some time until Tsukiko trips at the stairs and falls. Kazuki catches up and cusions her fall LOL However he faints after they finally reach the student council room.  After this event, Tsukiko finds it slightly easier to be around Kazuki because she feels happy just to see him well and smiling.

Tsukiko goes retrieve some documents from a deserted room by herself while the three guys are out patrolling. Unfortunately she gets locked in with the lights off and is paralyses with fear due to a past experience. Kazuki rushes there to rescue her after realizing that she isn’t around and receiving a tip off from Ooshirou. Tsukiko vaguely hears his voice before losing consciousness.

This incident causes Tsukiko to have a dream which brings back her memories with Kazuki when they were both young. Another childhood friend has appeared! O_O A similar incident had happened in the past where Tsukiko was trapped in the dark by a bunch of guys who wanted to get back at Kazuki. Kazuki had arrived too late which resulted in Tsukiko’s phobia for the dark and enclosed areas. She also had a high fever. To prevent her from recalling unpleasant memories, he repeatedly told her to forget about him and all they had experienced together in her half conscious state and apparently it worked (how did he do it O_o)

Tsukiko and Kazuki both wake up from the same dream. She starts crying and holds his hands tightly. She assures Kazuki that she will always stay by his side, so it’s ok for him to say that he loves her. (what kind of warped logic is this O_o) He doesn’t want her to remember because remembering him would also bring back bad memories of being locked in a dark room. Tsukiko insists that it’s better this way and Kazuki bashfully asks if she really thinks that he’s good (for her). –melts- and then they kiss many many times LOL

Kazuki meets Tsukiko the next day and tells her that he wants to visit his parents grave, and discuss with his uncle his plans after graduation which will take place really soon. He asks her to wait for him. When he comes back, he tells her that he wants to go to university abroad, to explore the world and see what the future holds for him. Tsukiko very graciously wishes him well and asks him to think of her occasionally and to never let her go.

Best ending: Five years after Tsukiko’s graduation, she marries Kazuki. Very nice CG of them cutting the cake cos I see the spring and summer guys XDXD Kazuki insists on being fed by Tsukiko but she gets so embarrassed that she wildly thrusts the cake in the direction of his mouth and gets it all over his face LOL then he asks her to clean the cream off his face using her mouth. HAIYO kazuki XDXD 

Ending 2: Kazuki goes on a date with Tsukiko wearing his school uniform even though he has already graduated because she wants to have a school uniform date. He feels very embarrassed and things get worse then Ooshirou catches them. Now Ooshirou thinks that Kazuki has been retained for yet another year XDXD

Ending 3: On the day of Tsukiko’s graduation, Kazuki comes to see her and she runs into his arms. （*´▽｀*）She gets too emotional after graduating and starts crying, and Kazuki kisses her many many. (❁´◡`❁)*✲ﾟ* ohohoho

Ending 4: Kazuki comes back to visit a few months after graduation. He tries to kiss Tsukiko at the school gate but she keeps dodging, out of embarrassment. Then when they’re finally alone, she tries to get away saying that she has student council duties but Kazuki says her duty is to properly take care of the ex president XD then Tsukiko gives in to a kiss not long later. Omg youkyan your voice~~

I kept thinking throughout the route when Kazuki does such ridiculously affectionate things, if he knows what effects they are having on Tsukiko. One moment he seems so sweet and loving, yet the next moment the affection he shows seems to be of that for a sister, not a lover. And then he rejects her so firmly -__- He’s just contradicting himself, not convincing! Good thing Tsukiko persisted, though Kazuki made it really hard.

I guess the reason why I love Kazuki so much is because I can see that he’s a family oriented guy, and yet he talks about experiencing the world and is ambitious. This are very good qualities, but only if he prioritizes family over ambition ahaha.

Hayato Aozora, Virgo, CV: Hirakawa Daisuke

Oh gosh Hirarin.. You drive me nuts with your gentle voice. But I prefer Youkyan’s voice, sorry ^_^ Hayato looks too prim and proper for my liking but he has a very pretty face. I just wish he had more expressions and actions sprites like Tsubasa, and get rid of the gay postures -_-

Appropriately named ‘boss’ by Ooshirou, Hayato frequently gets Kazuki and Tsubasa under his control by brandishing his deadly weapon—the black chalk board which he threatens to run his nails across when those two get out of hand. Tsukiko, of course, gets ear plugs prepared by Hayato.

After the Christmas event, all that talk about student council elections start surfacing which puts Hayato under great pressure. He feels that he isn’t capable of fulfilling the expectations that everyone, especially Kazuki is placing on him. Hayato comes from a family of distinguished pianists. He seems to be the weakest pianist amongst his siblings, despite his love for music and dedication to the instrument. Because of this, Hayato’s parents have always ignored him (POOR BOY T_T)  He did intend to run for president, but it was solely for the sake of improving his status in the eyes of his family. He had dropped the idea because he feels that he will never be able to do as good a job as Kazuki did.

Hayato makes himself very clear regarding his dislike of people imposing their expectations on him. If I were Tsukiko, I would feel really bad about bothering him about it but no, she doesn’t give up and bugs him every day at the piano room until he pushes her against the wall and asks if she could shut her mouth for a bit (in a calm voice) O_O he continues saying very accusing stuff and even shouts at her before leaving the room. What happened to my gentle and polite boy T_T

Tsukiko’s persistence comes into play and she goes find him once again the next day Hayato sneers at her for assuming that she understands him and as Tsukiko tries to convey her confidence in Hayato’s abilities, it becomes a confession! I was all O_O and applauding her courage. I guess Hayato was too shocked to reply properly and Tsukiko leaves the room. 

On the final day of the election form submission, Hayato does a bit of rolling about in the snow and finally realizes that he wants to stay with Tsukiko and Tsubasa in the student council and become the president to protect what Kazuki has done so far. It was after a lot of emoing in the snow and internal struggle that Hayato realized this was what he really wanted.

On election day, the other opponent backs out lol and Hayato makes his election speech. He wins the elections of course and during his thank you speech after being elected, Hayato openly confesses to Tsukiko on stage and asks for her reply –screams- I couldn’t believe my eyes when this happened, I love Hayato so much for doing that! So cool~~~ (´ ▽｀).。ｏ♡ I’m all yours, Hayato.

Tsukiko says yes, of course I’d personally hammer her if she said anything other than yes. The school cheers and Hayato gives a smiling warning that Tsukiko belongs to him and no one is allowed to make any advances on her XD After he gets off stage while clearing up, he pulls Tsukiko aside and kisses her ♥（ﾉ´∀`）

It’s all lovey dovey after that and gosh Hayato you kissing maniac! The guys are getting increasingly bolder with each season. I remember in Spring, the guys politely ask Tsukiko to close her eyes and ask if they can come closer and all but Hayato goes straight for the lips and smile at Tsukiko’s flustered reactions after that. More than three times! He also brings up ‘punishment’ very easily. Kyaaha XD but yea I’m not complaining. 

Hayato agrees to perform a piano piece for an upcoming concert organized by the music club and Tsukiko accompanies him every day as he practices ^_^ The performance went really well and Hayato receives the attention of some reporters which he attributes to his relation with his musical family and thinks nothing of it.

Valentine event, unlike in Kazuki’s route, Tsukiko presents her chocolate to Hayato at the end of the day. He happily accepts it and forces asks her to feed him a piece using her mouth. It’s a clichéd idea but quite sweet because of the way he initiates it XD What I couldn’t stand was the CG which just had an additional piece of chocolate hanging out of his mouth -___- STOP IT! He looks like a dog! I’d rather have no CG -_-

Things start to change after Hayato speaks to his elder sister who comes to the school specially to meet Hayato. He disappears for the rest of the day and only leaves a message with Kazuki that he will not be able to come to school. When Hayato finally calls Tsukiko at night, he apologises and says that he will not be able to come back to school for the time being, citing family problems as the reason.

Tsukiko is surprised to see Hayato in the student council room because he had not been answering phone calls the past days. Hayato tells her that he has been offered a place in Italy to study music because his performance had attracted the attention of a famous composer who had already approached his parents for approval. His parents have also agreed. So Hayato has decided to drop out of school to become a pianist. O_O Tsukiko refuses to believe that it is what he truly wants. Hayato admits that he’s choosing to do this because it’s the only way his parents will ever acknowledge him, now that the opportunity has presented itself, he does not want to let it go by. Hayato asks Tsukiko to treat it as if nothing had ever happened between them. (´Д｀。) Noooooo

The next day, Hayato disappears right after lessons and Tsukiko is unable to find him anywhere. Later that night, she receives a call from Hayato who says that he has submitted his leaving school form to Kazuki and informed him of his decision. Tsukiko is unable to change his mind even after meeting him again in the student council room. Kazuki steps in with his ‘men talk’ on the roof top and finally manages to convince Hayato that what he wants is right here in the school d=(´▽｀)=b  Nui nui saa!!!

Hayato asks to meet Tsukiko the next morning and holds her hand the entire time while confronting his elder sister and brother who have come to fetch him home. His sister is furious but the brother is more understanding and they return without Hayato (Y)

Best Ending: They get married. Hayato stares at Tsukiko in the wedding gown as she falls asleep LOL and does a monologue.

Ending 2: Hayato wakes Tsukiko up with a kiss as punishment for falling asleep when he plays the piano (she does that a lot).

Ending 3: Hayato hands over the president position to…… Tsubasa! XD Tsukiko becomes too nervous when Hayato comes too close and she says some stuff which sounds like she’s getting married to Hayato. This causes him to laugh like a mad man.

Ending 4: Kazuki visits during golden week :D Hayato kinda neglects him due to the enormous work load so Kazuki teams up with Tsubasa to flirt with Tsukiko to make him jealous. It doesn’t work but Hayato comes over to save his lover anyway XDXD kyaaa he isn’t worried, but he tells them to stop teasing Tsukiko XD

I honestly enjoyed Hayato’s route very very much as you can tell from my writing. It’s the kind of romance I would like to experience in school, with all of its ups and downs. Hayato’s problems are very real, though slightly exaggerated.

Amaha Tsubasa, Aquarius, CV: Suzumura Kenichi

Tsubasa was appointed as the student council treasurer on his 1^st day at school by Kazuki and he joins willingly after being bribed with resources and money for his experiments. Though nothing productive seems to come out from his experiments other than smoke and explosions XD

Although he’s the youngest (one year younger than Tsukiko) Tsubasa is one of the tallest Starry sky characters, at 185cm, same as Homare, kyaaha XD I like his character design, with the pin up fringe, purple hair and such a cheerful face! Was actually thinking of going after him first, but that was before I heard Kazuki’s voice.

Much to my surprise, Tsubasa makes a lot of moves on Tsukiko right from the start O_O it was unexpected because he’s supposed to be the innocent and childish kind of character. Then I realized that it was his innocence that propelled him to express his desires so directly.

 LOL.. just... someone please call the hospital

It seems that he falls in love with Tsukiko really early in the game but doesn’t know it. He tells Tsukiko that he doesn’t know why his heart beat accelerates whenever he sees her and wants to be with her even though he has never felt that way with other people before. Then he asks Tsukiko how she feels when she’s with him. O_o They hold hands and look at the stars. Well well well youngsters these days sure are open minded.  

Tsukiko slowly realizes that Tsubasa is actually a very lonely boy, beneath all that hyper activeness and cheerful demeanor.

They start to get all 暧昧-ish eg putting their hands on each others’ faces to keep each other warm on Christmas eve -_- When the student council stays over in school for the new year, Tsukiko wakes up in the middle of the night and allows Tsubasa to hug her to sleep when he asks. Tsk tsk there has to be a limit to his innocence right!? Yes, it’s only possible because this is a game.

Tsubasa was really close to his late grandfather who was also a little bit of an inventor. However, after his gramps passed away, Tsubasa got so afraid that everything he treasured would leave him one day so he tried not to get close to anyone, for fear of the pain of losing them. His principle goes like this ‘do not get used to happiness, because once you’ve experienced it, you will crave more. Since all good things come to an end, the loneliness at that time will become unbearable.’  What a twisted logic… Tsubasa was never too close to his grandmother and left the house to stay at the dormitory after his grandfather passed away, he has never returned home since school started.

Tsukiko discovers that Tsubasa doesn’t have friends outside the student council and asks if he gets lonely. Tsubasa gives a twisted reply in accordance to his strange logic as mentioned above. For the same reason he also starts to distance himself from the student council because he has unconsciously gotten used to being so happy when hanging out with Kazuki, Hayato and Tsukiko.. He wouldn’t have minded if this were to continue, but Kazuki was going graduate, and it just wouldn’t be the same without Kazuki. 

Tsubasa makes a decision to quit the student council O_O and he stops going to the student council room.

Tsukiko meets Tsubasa in the student council room one night and sees that his hair is damp. It appears that a pile of snow fell onto his head as he was walking below a tree on the way to the room to get his belongings. Since it’s the middle of winter, Tsubasa instantly falls sick with fever with his wet hair and Tsukiko drags him to the sofa to dry his hair. He starts emoing again when Tsukiko asks if he really has to leave the council. Poor baby.. he sounded to sad and sick during that scene T ^T After that, Tsukiko receives news from Kazuki that Tsubasa will continue with the student council. Yay =D

So after all that hoo-ha, Hayato runs for president. Still, something seems wrong, Tsubasa has cheered up, but something is still troubling him. He asks Tsukiko while the view the stars a night before the elections if she has fallen in love. Then he repeats some stuff about what his grandpa has told him about love and says that he doesn’t mind searching for it, if it’s together with Tsukiko. Wha? Tsubasa, don’t get what you’re saying at  all LOL ( On the day of the elections, Tsubasa goes missing! They leave while Hayato gives his election speech to look for Tsubasa HAHA poor Hayato!!!! They find Tsubasa at a corner the rooftop garden and the first thing he says is “Don’t come over here!”

O_O you committing suicide, Tsubasa?

He got cowardly again and once again, decided that he won’t stay here (referring to the student council or the school, I have no idea) anymore due to his twisted logic. Tsukiko goes over anyway and tells him that she’s also very afraid of losing him. Finally, her words get through to him and under Kazuki and Hayato’s encouragement, he tells Tsukiko that he wants her to be with him. Of course she agrees and they start going out. Things become quite sweet here, because all that暧昧 is gone.

The student council finds out that it’s Tsubasa’s birthday and quickly prepares a surprise celebration. When they’re alone,Tsukiko feels bad for not preparing a gift and Tsubasa says wants a kiss from Tsukiko and he gets it ^^ Then he keeps kissing her! Wahhhh XD you kissing fanatic you! Stop saying such sexy stuff XD

For valentine’s day, Tsubasa gets chocolate from Tsukiko and gobbles them up. Being the child he is, he gets chocolate at the side of his mouth and it only appears when Tsubasa insists on sharing the chocolate through a kiss since he got ahead of himself and finished all the chocolate. It’s a silly looking CG, but slightly better than Hayato’s =X I’m just so glad they didn’t make one for Kazuki, I would have cried in anguish. So I was sighing in relief when Tsukiko cleaned off the chocolate on his face using her fingers and not her mouth but the next moment, he licks it off her fingers. LOL

Tsukiko finds Tsubasa stoning in his classroom instead of going for student council activities. He tells her that his grandmother had collapsed and is receiving treatment at a hospital. Through a phone call, his grandma kept telling him not to come visit her and that she’s alright. He’s worried and doesn’t know what to do. Tsukiko listens to him and after a while, Tsubasa says that he feels much better and is alright. He asks Tsukiko not to tell the rest.

Of course, things are never that simple and Tsubasa starts starving himself, because he simply has no appetite and forgets to take his meals. He doesn’t even remember when he stopped eating and he couldn’t even finish eating a rice ball that Tsukiko made for him. TSUBASA MY POOR BABY! Don’t do this to yourself please T__T Tsukiko is deeply concerned and makes it a point to eat with him but his poor appetite affects her too and she starts eating less and less. Both of them nag at each other to eat more but obviously they are totally not convincing. Lol

Tsukiko almost faints on the way to class and Kazuki catches her. He asks if she has been eating properly because she seems to have lost weight. T__T this is why I love you, Kazuki. Kazuki brings Tsukiko to the student council room where she spills everything. Just as she was about to cry, Kazuki says women should only cry in front of the man they love awww XD (okie sorry back to Tsubasa)

Kazuki comes back with a… yakisoba bread I think and tells her to eat up while he drags Tsubasa out of class and holds the ‘men talk’ with Tsubasa on the roof top garden during which Tsubasa gets punched XD It works! Tsubasa decides that he needs to be a lot stronger, to protect and not let the people whom he cares for worry. He also laughs his ‘nuhahaha’ laugh after a long time. Tsubasa runs back to the student council room to find Tsukiko and his clip drops off so his fringe is all over his face kya!~ XD

Tsukiko: This is Tsubasa.. right? LOL

Best ending: Tsubasa and Tsukiko move to America after he proposes to her. They return to Japan to get married and Tsubasa is stunned by how beautiful Tsukiko is in the wedding gown on the day of the wedding. XD nothing much happens

Ending 2: Kazuki comes back to visit during the golden week holidays and he reprimands Tsubasa for always sticking to Tsukiko so closely XD Hayato says that Tsubasa gets very possessive of Tsukiko and this inspires Kazuki to deliberately come close to her. Tsubasa’s all like “YOU’RE TOO CLOSE” then he drags Tsukiko to an empty classroom and kisses her many many \(^o^)/

Ending 3: Tsubasa tells Tsukiko that he wants to further his studies in America after graduation, to build a huge spaceship and his first passenger will be Tsukiko XD Azusa will then be the astronaut. He even suggests having their honeymoon in space XD Tsukiko tells Tsubasa that she wants to continue learning about the stars cos she wants to show their beauty to people and also to view the stars with Tsubasa forever. Ehh Tsukiko, that isn’t technically a job but nvm..

Ending 4: Tsukiko attends Tsubasa’s graduation ceremony with Hayato and Kazuki. Tsubasa will be leaving for America with Azusa after graduation and Kazuki offers a listening ear to Tsukiko’s laments if she ever needs to rant. Just then Tsubasa comes out and thanks everyone for coming. It ends up with him crying in Tsukiko’s arms LOL zoomed in version of the crying sprite!

Whooo quite a long route! It was actually my least favourite out of the winter guys but my heart totally went out to Tsubasa when he starved himself T_T It’s not that he doesn’t want to eat, but there’s just no appetite.. I’ve been through this myself and it’s not as torturous as it seems, just that the body becomes so thin when you finally realise what’s happening ): For the romance part.. no comments haha I personally found it not as appealing as Kazuki’s or Hayato’s. But Tsubasa gets the nicest CGs XD

You've got to reply your email!

Gaaahh thousand word rant essay coming up. Updated

Not the first time there's a mistake in communication.

First time

Smsed me early in the morning (which woke me up) to say that there's a typo and that time for the  class was 1.30pm-4.30pm. Initially it was stated that class was 3-5pm. So I quickly cancelled my meeting with the Kurapika wig seller. I thought that it was strange that my 2 hour lesson was changed to 3 hours so I replied to confirm. After a few smses with her very broken replies (maybe she was busy and couldnt type properly, I dunno) I realised that she smsed the wrong person and it has nothing to do with me at all. Really lucky I was sharp enough to notice the discrepancy if not I would have really shown up at the wrong CC at the wrong time -__- 

She didn't apologise nor did she admit her mistake. Maybe I was being very petty because I was woken up at 8am and I had to delay my kura wig for nothing URGH but I really hated the feeling that it seemed to be my fault for being confused while she didn't even realise she was the one who made the blunder. So I told her nicely in the last sms that she smsed the wrong person and ended it with a smiley. 

Today

There was no indication under my name that I have any more classes after today's class of 4 at an east side CC. And I really heaved a sigh of relief that I no longer have to haul that crazy mountain of things and travel across Singapore.
Her email update came in at 11pm, again, LUCKILY I looked at tomorrow's class listing and just imagine my reaction when I see my class name and that there are close to 20 students registered.

O_O WTH The class has been confirmed but she didn't update anything under my name. Warao imagine if the kids turn up tmr  at yet another East side CC and I was still playing games/sleeping at home when the CC calls her and when she calls and screams at me.

I'm out of worksheets, plastic bags, milk, red food coloring and peanut butter. Worst of all, I've lost my voice. My fault entirely for eating too much chocolate and not drinking enough water and the terrible weather.

So it's not her fault that I lose my voice, but things are so last minute! Super lucky the class is in the afternoon if not I will cry because unlike the stuff which can be obtained at a 24 hour ntuc, no photocopying shops are 24 hour or open so early in the morning. 

So I immediately sent an email, and when there was no reply, I smsed her too. Took her super long to reply sia, I even smsed the other person in charge before she replied with the corrected schedule -_- much to the annoyance of the person who was assigned as my helper i'm sure. 

General rants, because i'm a pampered princess ok. 

Not worth the money i'm being paid. I was earning much more easy money selling stockings. Sure, it's more 'meaningful' but it doesn't amount to anything either. It is ridiculous that I have to lug around a bulky bread toaster to every lesson. I can understand the need to carry the ingredients (which are quite heavy already) but a freaking bread toaster is pushing my limits. It's only proper to request the class to be held in the kitchen or home craft room where the CC provides a toaster or a kettle (my other trainer friend has to carry that around) Carrying 3 large heavy bags and walking a lot.... I've never done such hard labour so consistently before. The $5 transport fees cover shit. 

Anyways my last class is tomorrow. My helper will do the talking and shouting. I look forward to the day where I return all the materials and stupid bread toaster to them, and of course, when I get my pay and money for all the things i've had to buy for class.

Okies.. i'm feeling more calm now. In a way, i guess this counts as a summary of the job, which I tend to write after I finish a job. Not my worst job experience, but it ranks among the last 3 definitely. 

Update: Managed to buy all my materials in the morning, but was unable to find a photocopying shop so I was planning to ask the staff at the CC to photocopy the worksheets. When I stepped out of the MRT station after standing for more than half an hour and feeling super unwell on the train, I received a call from my helper who told me that the staff at the CC says that the class was already cancelled a few days ago. Things started to fall in place.... I walked to the CC anyways and traumatized my helper and the staff with my voice. Was actually quite relieved that class was cancelled despite my wasted trip. Because such a large class really isn't easy to manage. So I smsed my boss and went home. Received an apology and assurance that I will still be paid for today's lesson :)

More Dramatical Murder feels

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JANICE!!!!! MISS YOU SO MUCH AND CAN'T WAIT TO SEE YOU~~

Part 1, Part 3

I'm half way through Dramatical murder (: more specifically, nearing the end of Mink's route and it's on all auto without me even bothering to read because I find that there are too many parts which don't reveal more about Mink or contribute to the main plot. 

Now Mink.. this guy is a special one. I don't believe he was meant as character to be romanced, but rather, his purpose is to bring out more of the main plot and the secret behind Platinum jail. Too much raep in the route and despite very subtle hints here and there, i'm quite sure there is not a single bit of romantic feeling between Mink and Aoba. None at all. Still, I don't dislike Mink's character cos it was developed well. 

Two more routes and I will take the time to type all my feels for the game in chinese so I can earn more points on the forum. Go me! Or I should start now! heyy that's a good idea. Saves time too.

Discovered some very nice awesome songs this afternoon and was playing them in loop, even during game play and it had a very funny effect LOL makes the route seem all romantic during an exciting part hahaha I was amused to no ends. Every time Mink appears wearing his gruff look, dread locks and all, I almost expect him to act all tsun and embrace Aoba because of that soothing guitar strumming and emotional singing as the back ground music LOL 

'I can show you the world~ Shining, shimmering, splendid-- on my magic motorbike.'

His good ending was pretty nice (: it might actually be the start of something romantic between Mink and Aoba. Then again, it might be the music i'm playing HAHAHA 

Next, I'll fan girl about Noiz, my precious dear baby who's only 19 but sounds so irresistably sexy and during the scenes ^///^ ... well just extremely sexy. He carries a handkerchief with him and gave Aoba a goodbye kiss and did all kinds of cute stuff in that deadpan face and voice. KYAAAAA~~ Hino Satoshi san, you've earned yourself a new fan because of your awesome voice.

This is my wallpaper right now and I love it!!!

I could actually hear the change in Noiz's voice as the route progressed.... From emotionless to gentle, thankful, bashful, teasing (Y) He's my 2nd fave after Aoba (but i've not played Clear or Ren yet, so it might change :D) Noiz made me spazz so much with his voice, I don't know why exactly... maybe cause it's so low but he's only 19, and when he mumbles omg! 

OKOK moving on to real life stuff haha met up with the Ys and had a fun fun fun night! The dessert was so delicious, I'm definitely going back again. Also laughed a lot at the things everyone had to share, esp Fei's how-school-evening-hi admirer. And his spy fly LOL 

To the Ys: I'm a bit apologetic for boring you guys with my anime/games posts, as in really XD but I love writing about them and it's a lot of fun to blog about. I might create a separate blog for all my otome and anime posts, but for now (in fact, since a long time ago), you'll have to just bear with my ramblings and just admire the pictures =D try to read if you have the time alright? 

DRAMAtical Murder feels

Part 2, Part 3

Camp dry run, work, concert, outings

Was supposed to be getting ample rest, with no reason not to because work isn't scheduled on regular days and I'm trying to improve my complexion through sleep as much as possible before cosfest..... but I discovered a beautiful game called DRAMAtical Murder (DMMd). I've seen the name thrown around, and spied the banner a few times here and there but paid no attention becasue I got it mixed up with Drastic Killer which i've seen the game play of and was not interested.

Then I just had to click on a blog who's latest post was on DMMd and started reading it. With just a few CGs, I was so itching to play it; a really bad itch. Mainly because of Aoba's face. 

If there's really such a thing called love at first sight, this is the closest I've come in experiencing it in a long while (last time was in acsi hahahaha rmb rn?) I still hesitated quite abit... all things considered, DMMd is a relatively new game-- so there's no translation patch, and it's R18, but most of all.... it's a yaoi game from Nitro+Chiral. Took me 1 full day to come to a decision. I threw my self imposed restriction on yaoi to the wind, and even downloaded Lamento-beyond the void- in the process. Another addition to my crazy horde of games. 

Wrote mini chinese essays Posted on the forum and got enough points to obtain the files. Contrary to Lamento, DMMd was a pain to install but with the power of dunno what (love? lol), I succeeded and even managed set up the million and one softwares to hook the game text for translation. Before some kind soul on tumblr pointed out, I was using an incompatible software which displays chunks of english text before they even appear in the game.

Well to cut the long story short, I'm quite tired and currently on my second route after finishing Koujaku yesterday night at 1am. 

This is my current wallpaper, it's a full screen shot and I flipped the picture so Aoba won't be blocked by all my folders and whatnots (so he's fly-kicking them actually)

The plot is strong, and Aoba is so sexy. It's easy to imagine him as a female, so I just go about playing the game thinking that way to keep any sudden bouts of disgust at bay shot 

Aoba... Gosh he was so alluring in this scene. His voice, that expression... aksjdhaksfhalrlfkjlasef 

There's nothing H going on here, it's a dream like state where Koujaku asks Aoba if he could hug him, touch him, kiss him (think in a clean sense please X_X) to which Aoba replies "iiyo~" so serenely. He keeps repeating "it's ok" in that soothing voice while the scene zooms in on their hands, their faces, Aoba's smile, his eyes, Koujaku's eyes.... 

I love how DMMd makes use of the CGs to tell the story, it's so seamlessly incorporated. I won't be blogging in depth about this game, but will be sharing some beautiful CGs (:

Finished typing up my post for Starry Sky in winter, but missing 2 endings for Tsubasa and the memory routes... soon I guess =X 

Meeting the YYYYYs for dinner this friday! But I have work before that and will be carrying a truckload of things to the dinner... how arh.

Ijiwaru My Master

Cut the game part from previous post to make an updated one with CGs :D

Playing Ijiwaru my master and it's a total eye opener. My first ever R18 otome game and.. wow! Fully voiced, including the female character (cos in the otome games I've played so far, the female protagonist isn't voiced) with very nice bg music. The art is mostly pleasant and the characters (mostly) grow on you. The first male character to appear was Homura, a popular and good looking junior in school and I got all excited when I realised it was Hirarin's voice! Unfortunately..... his routes are only unlocked after completing some other endings which I will eventually get to cos i'm planning to save him for the last. Checked the seiyuu cast and it's pretty impressive~

This is also the recommended order I think:

Leon: Takuma Terashima (I've got my eyes on him on tumblr)
Eins: Daisuke Kishio (hmmp glomps)
Delta: Ohkawa Tohru
Evans: Ono Daisuke (XD)
Luca: Hamada Kenji
Homura/Franz: Hirakawa Daisuke (My ears are always ready for you~)

In order of my game play-- Leon, Luca, Evans, Delta, Eins, Homura.

I was pretty pissed off with Leon because that guy seriously has attitude problems. Self centered, pampared, shouts at people and is really as the game says-- ijiwaru ie really mean. But my soft soft heart actually opened up to him once he became nice and loving. Leon actually sang a lullaby which was very sweet, to cheer Kurumi up when she was home sick. Good job Terashima, he sings well XD As the game progressed, I came to the conclusion that the poor boy was just feeling so lonely T__T Leon sama, i will stay by your side!

Instead of moving on to Eins, I jumped to Luca because he was absolutely adorable omg.... Who can resist that character design?!

Tell me he isn't cute?!

He's the brawns but no brains kind of character but is so innocent and so cute! Luca is a demon with a split personality which comes out only at night. Despite the annoyingly slow speech, I love Day Luca soooo much more than the night one, even though the Night Luca was incredibly sexy. The first two endings are centered around Night Luca and I realised my love for Day Luca when I was so disappointed that the game was going in the Night Luca direction lolol that the way Day Luca was treated in those first 2 endings were so sad I felt like crying for him even though it's supposed to be a happy ending.

Then I realised that endings 3 and 4 were for Day Luca and I brightened up immediately ahaha. They didn't disappoint (Y)

After playing Evans, he became my least favourite character at that point in time because it was too sudden when he declared his love for Kurumi, there was too little building up events (or maybe they just didn't reach me) and he's a yandere character gawwddd... Didn't realise it until Evans told Kurumi that he'd kill her if she got too close to Delta or sth. Am I slow or was there completely no hints until that scene?

Knowing that it's the bad ending, I went for it before the good ending because it branches out to the second normal ending. Oh my.. of all the games I've played, this bad ending is the worst. As in, it's the most nasty one-- Evans just lost interest in Kurumi after Delta completed his research on human beings, and kept her chained up in her room, visiting just occasionally Even the good ending failed to win Evans back. Ono D sounds very different here, I was unable to tell that it's him until I did a check. I am impressed 8D

I feel that Evans had the hottest scenes, minus the raep.

Delta...... considering he's one of the 2 main guys together with Leon, his routes are not bad, but a little disappointing. I rank Delta above Leon though! Robo-chan was freaking adorable and he/she (she I guess) is one of the reasons why I prefer Delto to Leon because I go aawwwwww~ whenever Robo-chan speaks. Omg so cute, the voice, the things Robo-chan says XD glomps.

That's Robo-chan between Delta and Kurumi XD I think Kurumi looks really happy here

Didn't quite like Delta's obsession with science and dolls.. it's too geekish and the context scares me... Given the kind of game this is, every time Kurumi visits his lab room, I feel so scared for her. Evans was nice in Delta's route ahaha silly guy why wasn't he nicer in his own?

It's official that my least favourite character in the game is Eins, or should I say.. I dislike him. It's not that his route was less interesting when compared to the other guys, but I really didn't like the route. Was meshing the keyboard to get through the rest of the route after a certain scene. Kurumi is one dumb girl, I don't care if it's true love or what.. Eins is such a fake gentleman, even Kishio's voice and Luca's appearance didn't do much for him. My dislike appeared early in the route when he showed his mean side beneath the gentle facade.

Touch what touch.. tch 

Unlike Evans, I'm not the least bit happy with the resolution after he did the unforgivable. Wth.. he just  treated her as if nothing had happened, and what made me so mad was that Kurumi acted the same way! -flips laptop-

And finally~~ Homura kun ^_^ I actually digressed and replayed Luca's route because Luca appeared for quite a bit in Homura's route.

In the demon world, Homura is called Franz and he's the direct opposite of Homura. Franz was so cold to Kurumi and so mean to her, telling her to GTFO of his house almost every day. T ^T He also did a lot of bad stuff, and the first time a H scene appeared, I was so scared I didn't dare to continue reading. I thought I was desensitized after getting through all the other scenes for the other guys but it was especially scary for Franz cos of his character BGM which is.... so scarweee

( p_q) and Hirarin's voice... I'm too used to hearing him sounding gentle and smiley, so when he uses his seme voice to sound fierce, I cower in fear T_T

Every time I see this I go "omg homura why is your arm broken and in a sling?" then I realise it's just the uniform... haha

Anyway, even though Kurumi acts too nice after all the nasty stuff, I feel that it's not as bad as during Eins's route (or maybe it's just me being biased) because Franz was mean to her all the way while Eins was two faced, and the reason which triggered his terrible behavior was so sosososo bad. Lol i'm starting to sound like this:

I'm not saying that Franz's reason was justifiable because raep is never correct... Argh so hard to explain my feels... let's just say that i'm biased towards Franz =X

New vocab guys, repeat after me: Tsunshun- acts nasty but feels really apologetic inside. 

To wrap Franz/Homura up, I enjoyed the voice acting tremendously, the route itself was alright, above average XD One thing though.. I wish Hirarin didn't switch to his uke voice during the scenes and just continued using his sexy low voice. The only time I heard him use his seme voice consistently was in Diabolik lovers: Raito wahaha.

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And so i've come to the end of the game, missing 1 scene from Leon (no idea which D:) and thus also missing the bonus CG for the masters with Kurumi. Judging from the bonus CG for the rest of the characters with Kurumi, i figure I won't be dying to retrieve the missing bonus CG so it's fine..

In order of preference: 8D Luca, =D Homura, =) Delta, :) Leon, :l Evans, :S Eins. 

Looking back, Leon and Luca were the only ones who did everything with Kurumi's consent, wah, I wasn't expecting that for Leon. The rest of the characters all had some nasty scenes =( I don't think I'd be going out of my way to play another game of this kind soon, but Iwajiru my master was a pretty good play. 

How's life again

Hello people!!!

I've been getting a taste of how my working life after graduation will be like-- Work, go home for dinner, anime/manga/game all night, sleep. Repeat cycle. And sometimes i'll go for out dinner with friends or watch concerts. 

Sounds quite unhappening but ahaha ahahaha I quite like this life XD 

Anyways the picture has nothing much to do with this post, just that I was reading the Fairy Tail and Rave crossover a while back and felt such a strong sense of nostalgia when Haru popped up that I took a screen shot =D Sadly though, out of all my anime DVDs, the first one I would get rid of would be Rave because there's no way i'd ever re-watch it. 

This holiday, I've rewatched Basilisk, Durarara, love love these 2 series soooo much, and finished watching Toradora as well as Inu X Boku SS for the first time. Good exposure I guess, but i won't be touching them again. Currently I'm just leisurely re-watching Gintama and playing my games in between. Completed 1 ending for Homura (Hirarin's seme voice unnng XD) I totally need to get back to finish up Tsubasa in Starry Sky winter and bloody call........ and I have a thousand and one untouched games in my hdd, it's shocking! Maybe they'll last me till next summer holidays hehehe

I've decided to take Japanese 1 next semester =D