Archive for August, 2008

For those who have been reading Lyrical Spark! for a while now, you know that it originally started as my blog for elementary Japanese. This year however I decided to keep my class blog separate but at the end of the year, Lyrical Spark will probably end up cannibalizing it so that I don’t have to maintain two blogs. For those with Japanese language knowledge, please visit my class blog to help me practice.
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YAY! It’s been a whole year since our virtual singing idol made her debut and started one of the coolest otaku crazes in recent memory. I’ve tried playing with the Vocaloid 2 software but my lack of musical composition training means I can’t participate in the fun of making new songs for Miku. Still I really appreciate the love that everyone else puts into their Miku songs and videos and hope to see many more cute songs to come. Until then I have my Good Smile Miku on pre-order so barring some crazy Japanese homework I may get, I’ll make a post about that as soon as I get it.
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After playing TH11, I’ve decided that it features some of the weirdest-looking characters in Touhou yet, so I had to draw my own versions.

Time for my first real figure post ever! Today i will be presenting my three Snow Strawberry iDOLM@STER Frauleins.

Everyone seems to be familiar with Max Factory’s line of articulate Figmas yet I rarely hear about Kaiyodo’s posable alternatives. Since I own three Fraulein’s and have had experience with Figmas, I’ll be making comparison’s between the two figure lines throughout this post. Anyway, on to the iDOLM@STERs.
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Since I’m still on my yuri high after watching Marimite, I felt like romanizing the lyrics to the very relevant song Yuri ga Suki da to Sakebitai. Unfortunately my rusty Japanese sucks so I can’t provide a decent translation for the song at this time. Enjoy this wonderful song anyways:
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