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some of those games are pretty good, i just thought wow, overload! hitman is a good stealth and logic type game. it's like a puzzle. silent hill games are very scary.

that's a lot of games to recomend dude. I only recommended shadow of the colossus because it has won awards, is pretty unique and is considered by many to be the greatest game in the past ten years. besides that, I CERTAINLY wouldn't rate red faction 2 or shinobi.

awesome stuff kenji! another game i highly recommend is shadow of the colossus.

i didn't like paparazzi. I actually prefer poker face but only because of the firt time i saw it performed on the paul ogrady show. it was amazing because she did a bit on the piano before the song started proper.

as soon as the software creator get's his butt in gear, it'll be sorted. also the tab in hte forum for the wiki should be functional once that programmer sorts it out. it's annoying because on his site he says he is stuck on the skin. we don't even use the ipbwiki skin. I don't see why he can't release a beta with all features apart from the skin working.

whatever happened to courtesy? edit: it's something to do with natsumikan using kivaara to become the yellow kamen rider - DEPEND. and there is talk of her using fuestles to call the cyan, magenta and black kamen riders like kiva summons teh arms monsters. and of course teh cyan magenta and black riders are shown to be diend, decade and kuuga. this would be her final form ride. where you see FFR is final form ride, so it looks like the final form ride is a pyramid? I'm not sure, I read bits and pieces but the yellow writing is giving me a headache

i already said, december the 12 is a roadshow. unless the roadshow is the same as the film.

that was really interesting I always fascinated with korean as to me it sounds phonetically, like a mix between japanese and chinese. it's not my kind of music though, but i look forward to see some more I decided to post one in return. this song that makes me feel very emotional. I don't know how popular these guys are worldwide.

12 of december oops, if i read properly i see it says road show is on 12 december. toku warrior, i don't think it says when the movie is going to show, at least i am being careful not to spoil the episode for myself so I could be wrong.

kenji, you are my hero!! katamari damacy is pure awesomeness!

oh well, I guess I don't need to ever bother watching blade now then. a shame it was next on my list. I guess i'll find something else that I don't already know the end to. of all the people that could give a major plot destroying spoiler, i really never expected this.

because they're silly

i had some issues with the business classes. travel was proving costly. i want to try and email them and see if they can subsidise the travel somehow. but before i do that i want to see how i am going to get funding. I've still not heard back from hte people i have contacted. I don't feel very enthusiastic about it considering how i've had no responses. it's hard to get motivated these days. I've started working with the halflife 2 development kit. I want to improve my knowledge and skills with game development. I want to reinforce what i enjoy doing, what i enjoy creating. if i can produce some good game mods, I have a better chance of getting the attention of development houses. I've joined a game development community online. I do enjoy talking about game development. talking about game systems, design elements etc.

I'm gonna say ryuki, but there's probably more recent. ryuki wasn't even based on who is getting more powerful. in some ways, getting more powerful was viewed as a bad thing in Ryuki. 'becoming a hero' was certainly the worst thing! i mean, it turned toujou into a total psycho. so in the end, defeating the enemy, came about through sacrifice. and of course, gaining more power came with dire consequences. Asakura gained more monster but in turn, had to feed them more to prevent them attacking HIM.

yeah there are a lot of them and there is so much to be said!

i know that there's no argument about wataru, but something crossed my mind while reading that nobody mentioned and i wish to voice it. As I'm watching Ryuki again, i notice the very strong characters in it, a particular character, toujou sticks out quite prominently. he is seem to represent an Otaku, but he represents how a lot of japanese actually see an otaku, as a dangerous, untrustworthy person. Even when considering Asakura, I feel that Toujou is a far more dangerous person. (quite similar to ichi the killer) Wataru seems to be a counter for what they did with that character. I think this is quite powerful.. even if they did not do a good job of showing the character, i think their choice was noble because they painted all otaku with a bad light. in wataru, there was redemption and understanding for those kind of shut-in. okay, now I got that off my chest, I can concentrate on looking at your discussion about teh way they put across the story. I think toku warrior has laid out a good overview of how the characters have developed. thiking back, i do not have a lot of love for the kiva series. i haven't really analyzed it too much, but it could well be because of weak story telling. oh, toku warrior, when tales said the weapons come from the sky, I think he was using it as a metaphor. I believe tales is referring to the writers using a sort of deus ex machina.

but think about it, wataru is a representation of a real person. perhaps a represetation of what a lot of the target audience could be. sometimes the heroism of past riders could be considered unrealistic.. and people can't relate to it. but wataru not being able to cope with the loss of this person, i would say is showing a bit of reality as opposed to a altruistic and yet fake character. would you agree? along with a lot of tv nowadays, it's no longer about fantasy and escapism, it's also about combatting everyday issues and to help the viewer view their own life in a different perspective. so they simply can't make the tv like they used to. people wouldn't watch it. wataru was a very interesting character IMO. he wasn't 2 dimensional, he actually had depth and wasn't totally predictable. not like 2 dimensional fake characters like tsukasa and tendou. whilst entertaining, they just aren't believeable. that's why in kabuto, I think the main protagonist was actually kagami, and in DCD I think the main protagonist is actually yuusuke. even in masked rider kiva, you have some questioning over who is actually the main character. all the characters are pretty interesting, you even have your masculine character taking up a very dominant role in Jirou.

it was said that this series wasn't very good a while back. is it good now? would you say it started weak and become strong? it looks pretty good from that video. I love Masked Rider Ryuki so I am always interested.

wow that site is very amazing! I like it a lot! I just had a little look at some super sentai pages. good stuff.

i understand this.. the riders are reflecting upon the youth rather than on the men. do you think this is possibly a result of the changes in japanese culture though? because i remember a episode in keitai sousakan 7 where keita's dad is complaining about politics and how japan is changing. it may be difficult for us to judge since the majority of us are not within japanese society and do not know how it is behaving.

this is interesting actually.. in the past, in japanese society, the men were in a much more powerful role. it's almost like our western society, men used to be more macho, but these days, men are losing their masculinity. in some ways this may be good or in some ways bad. one thing i have noticed is... i have to be careful what i say... let us say that the women seem to be more submissive in some certain japanese media. i find it very degrading to see women behave/treated this way. i think that as time is going on, this is going to change too, but this is an area where it is more apparent to me. the point is, the men are more powerful in this respect and that i think perhaps japan is going through hte same revolution that the west went through in terms of women becoming stronger and men becoming weaker in other areas such as kamen rider. perhaps in time we will see the balance change and men will regain their masculinity in these roles.

oh dear, well would screenshots be better?

I got a reply from Lycanthrope. I thought a couple of parts are a little unclear so I asked him to write in japanese. also, I asked him if he could provide a link of where japanese fans are discussing this.