Unboxing Caster Fate/Extra CCC SEGA Prize

"I need to carefully stretch her leg a little to put it inside the hole"

Hello guys!
It's been a while (months!) since my last post. I'm so very sorry for that. Laziness kicked in, got new plaything (3DS), tons of anime to watch; between all that, squeezing in writing a blog post is really though.

Not so long ago I read an article about procrastination and how to handle it. I somewhat decided to follow it's suggestion for this blog. I'll make a promise here up front, "I'll post at least 1 new blog post each week." There. This means that every week there will be at least 1 new post in this blog, whether you like it or not. I do hope I could post more than 1 post a week though.

Anyway, not so long ago I got my Caster SEGA Prize Figure. When I wanted to open it, I thought, "Well, I've never did any unboxing post before. That could be a nice thing for my blog." So here it is! I decided to take pictures and documented my unboxing of this very cute figure.

A little introduction of the character seems like a good place to start. I'll try my best to avoid spoiler. Caster is a heroic spirit summoned to 'caster' class in a fake-or-something (can't remember and can't be bothered to google it) Holy Grail War. The event is told in a PSP game called Fate/Extra. The game also have special edition called 'Fate/Extra CCC' which also in PSP. As you can see from the name, the game is one of the ever-growing Fate series. Caster's outfit in this figure is the alternate outfit (iirc) in the Fate/Extra CCC.

It's annoying how all the people in my facebook commenting ONLY on her melons.

The photos are taken with my 5MP phone camera (I don't have a camera :( ), which is a Lenovo S560. Please pardon the quality orz. Some of the photo have been digitally processed to present it as accurate OR as pretty as possible.

Why Twitch Plays Pokemon Crystal Had Huge Drops in Viewers Number?

TPP start as a niche entertainment....

Even though the title ends with a question mark, I'm not asking question here.
But, before we start, let me give brief introduction on Twitch Plays Pokemon (from here on will be written as TPP).

Twitch is an online service to stream game related video live so people can watch it. In the middle of February 2014, a streamer from Australia started a stream unlike any ordinary stream. This stream played Pokemon Red via emulator on PC and have a unique twist. It's controlled by the viewer. The game is played by typing the buttons on the chat system (ie. 'up', 'a', 'start' etc.). This is basically a lot of people playing 1 Pokemon game in one gameboy at the same time. Imagine the chaos when thousands of people suddenly interested in this thing! Yup, the chaos was really chaotic. Red, the Player Character, were walking in circle, checking pokedex again and again, searching through his bag repeatedly, all because he was controlled by thousands of player. In addition to that, each input had a 20 seconds delay by design. It was so chaotic that Red looks like played by an incompetent toddler playing with his gameboy upside down to the point the streamer added a new mode called Democracy where the game will choose most inputted input instead of pick all the input (this called as Anarchy Mode). But, amazingly enough, the people, called Hive Minds, able to do it quite well, albeit the long time they needed to do a lot of stuff. The game swayed between Anarchy and Democracy according to the command inputted. Most people agree Anarchy is better but Democracy is needed on task that need high level of precision. Many gaming websites posted articles about TPP and gave it amazing coverage. Supported by amazing fan arts and fan created lores and memes, the viewers were a whooping 90k at one point! It had a stable viewers number until Red get into the Hall of Fame and roll the credits on March 1st, 2014.

This is what TPP looks like. This was taken earlier today when we beat Lance of the Elite Four in Pokemon Crystal.

That's some brief explanation. What I want to talk here is about the declining number of viewers lately from around 100k at it's peak to 'just' 10k by the time I write this. Please note that 10k is still a HUGE number of viewers. But still, the number of viewers drops so significantly that a lot of people are saying 'TPP is dead', 'This stream is dying', etc. What probably the cause? What happened that makes a lot of viewers leave the stream?

My theory is this. It's not 'WTF?! We have only 10k viewers!!' but in reality it was 'WTF?! We got 100k viewers!!'. Did you said 'huh?!' ? What I want to say is that the anomaly is not we have only 10k viewers, but it is really weird (and awesome) that we have 100k viewers.

Mikakunin, Hiatus, and Stuff

Hi, all!! It's been a while since my last post. Well, to be frank, I just want to give a kind of gap between the last post about Bima and new post that not related to fansub at all.

In any case, now this blog is back for personal use again! DBX-Sub will be using a different blog for our release, if we have something that is....

So!!
Last season anime was quite a blast. I enjoyed a lot of them. Noucome, Log Horizon, Samurai Flamenco, Strike The Blood, Golden Time, and of course, Miss Monochrome. I did try several other titles, but just didn't manage to keep up with the schedule. Thanks partly to my 2 weeks trip to Japan last December (more on that on another post).

As for this season, I'm already have my eyes on the second season of Seitokai Yakuindomo, Pupa, and Mikakunin de Shinkoukei. I obviously will look into other titles, but for now I need to get rid of my mountainous backlogs.

Right now, I want to talk about this Mikakunin stuff.

Basically, that one video sold me the show. When I saw that video, I was adamant to watch it.

And so after watching 3 eps back-to-back, I'm surprised at how adorable Mikakunin is. There are a lot of cute moment that just begging to be made into gif. Even the OP song is so fluffy and become victim to my gif attack.