Manhattan Love Story

Japanese title: マンハッタンラブストーリー
Number of episodes: 11

Some info:
1) D-Addicts Wiki
2) Official Site (Japanese)

Just by looking at the title, you might have some imagination on what it’d be about. Well, unfortunately, this is not set in Manhattan, nor related to the geographical place in any way, but rather it refers to the name of a cafe. The drama series is unique in its own ways, at least from the series I’ve watched before.

The presentation style is quite different, and one thing is that the main lead, also the owner of the cafe, “narrates” a lot in the sense that most of his lines are voiced over rather than actual speaking. This makes it harder to convey feelings etc with just facial expressions alone though from what we view we do hear dialogues along with it. Furthermore, the character is actually quite comical, so yeah it’s a pretty interesting and fun way to mould the main character.

Of course, a shop owner alone will not bring much content into the show, so there’s this group of customers who eventually end up his cafe for various reasons. And not surprisingly, to have the love story element, all of these people become involved in a rather complicated web of relationships in one way or anotherr. And the funniest thing is that each of the characters have their names beginning in sequential order of A,B,C…H. Haha. It can be quite fun seeing things mess up for no reason, or just being rather random, but the very same kind of thing can be the very reason the show becomes ridiculous and kind of lame at times. Haha, a double edged sword I guess, and also subject to the viewer’s preferences and discretion. Lol, oh well.

Although it may seem quite random and messy at times, there is actually quite some order in a way and it does show as the show goes on. It turns out to be a rather successful piece of work, even though I somehow find it not exactly being a mainstream kind of show. Haha. If you think you are able to handle a little absurdness and ridiculous moments, this series might prove to be an entertaining watch after all. Hic =P

[YouTube] KOVSH Superplay

Hmm, there’s this video of a 诸葛亮 1 credit playthrough of KOVSH. Recorded ‘live’ at a certain China arcade. Whoever is playing really got his credit worth. 1 credit play for like nearly 2 hours. Geez. 10 parts in total, each about 10mins, and there are some minor transitions to save a little time. Madness. And you can hear how many matches of KOF has been going on from the background noise. Lol.

His 诸葛亮 can combo like nobody’s business and is really comfortable with exploiting score as much as possible. I don’t know how he does it but I know that the movements require very fast input (even without the sounds of joystick and buttons).

His final score is 450,581,300 and obviously it could have been higher if it was a totally perfect play. But I guess the chances of that happening without any use of programming tools and playback editing is very low. Lol. All 诸葛亮 players should really learn from this. Geez. Enjoy~

Fighting Game Videos Vol. 51

Yosh, more videos coming your way.

A new CMV titled Fighting Legend.

More Scott combo clips:

KOF2000 Kyo

KOF2002 Angel

KOF2002 Orochi Chris

KIMI brings a short clip containing 2 KOF2001 combos which are powered by hex.

AlexS’ combos from CMV Planet Collision in full and without any covering by effects/graphics

Sry_Jacky’s first CMV: R.E.D. Part 1 has its audio muted, due to you know what

Finally, a new CMV by Fighting Heroes Team, titled Addition. It’s to welcome the addition of a couple of new members into this relatively new team that has been formed.

Beginning of the End

The end of the semester has finally begun (at least to me) since I’ve finished all my assignment deadlines and presentations required for the semester, which means it’s (technically) the time to begin revision and prepare for the final battle for the remaining 3 papers.

Let’s see, yesterday had our final CS3215 matter to clear, which was really the presentation that we prepared for on Sunday. Yep, going to school on a Sunday is something relatively new to me. Haha. Oh well, a lot of new things took place this semester. I suppose the presentation went kind of smoothly and the project in general should be in good shape for getting a good grade at the end when we see our result slips for the semester. Perhaps it might become a new grade that I can add to my list =) Thanks to everyone on the team. =D

After some waiting around and having lunch at Mac’s it was the time for the highlight of our post-3215 celebration, which was having dessert at Haagen Dazs, courtesy of 20% voucher from QY. Well, basically the voucher offsets the surcharges plus a little more. But that’s not the main point. Haha. At least can get to try the things there, which I normally wouldn’t go anyway (since not much special occasions anyway). There are various pictures of the stuff we ate on FB, so if you do have some way of viewing them, feel free to do so. Haha. The desserts are quite good, but it’s a little pricey to be having them on a remotely regular basis. I guess it was a nice and simple session enjoying the desserts while having some chatting. Quite a relaxing session actually, especially when it’s after all the assignment deadlines and a big module coming to a close.

Earlier today was to finish up the grading process of another of my assignments, and it surprisingly took longer than I had expected. Oh well. At least it’s really the final task out of the way before my exams. Also got back results from various assignments, labs and whatnot. Not exactly very desirable but I suppose I’ll still make it through the semester somewhat. Haha. Somehow, I’m either performing self-fulfilling prophecy or I’m getting better at gauging my results. Heh, the latter would be a better option to be honest, since that would mean some things like…

Oh well, it seems that my tchs gang of friends went ahead and watched Eva2.0 earlier today. Too bad I couldn’t join them due to school commitment mentioned above. Ah well, hope they enjoyed the show. I’ll probably be watching it on a later (where later is a vague term) date. See how. Not sure if it’s good either. Haha. Shall find out when I finally get to watch it.

As usual I kinda lost my inspiration to continue writing. Haha. Think I shall stop here. Meanwhile, I need to get into the mood of actually going through my notes and tutorials as a form of “revision”. Saturday isn’t that far away.

[YouTube] KOV2 Hardest+4 Playthrough 3

KUO continues with his KOV2 Hardest+4 mode 1 credit playthrough. This time he uses 貂蝉, got unlucky quite a number of times. Nearly cost him his 1 credit run and had to replay =P I wonder if he’ll end up doing the full roster. Haha.