2010

Thinking back on 2010, Lately it's been sucky, but when I think about it it really wasn't that bad of a year...
I've had the greatest experience of my life, going to Japan, enjoying the summer comiket, Akihabara, Maid Café. I've also had good time with Elisa, even if it did not last long. Anime north was great, G-anime sucked but oh well, what do you expect...

This year was bad on the love side, I mean I did have good time with Elisa, but it was at the start of the year, since then everything went bad...
It was mainly a bad political year in the land of the Quebec's Anime community. Lot's of hypocrisy, lots of lie, lots of useless and baseless little wars... I just don't give a shit about that anymore.

Made good friends, and good enemy...
Lots of good music got released, lots of crappy games too.
Lot's of awesome Anime, and the best Anime movie of all time.
I guess I'm complaining for nothing,
Let's all hope for an even better 2011! (Japan again I hope :D)

Very late review of 'Endless Seeker'

Here is my (Very Late) Review of SOUND HOLIC's C78 release, featuring 709sec. "Endless Seeker".

So, for those who did not know, 709sec has been the main male vocalist for SOUND HOLIC for a while already, so why does it say feat, 709sec.? Because he was the one who arranged every songs on the album.

This release is a Touhou Arrange release, and is very metallical in nature, in good old SOUND HOLIC fashion. If you liked "Phantom Dreamer" and "Metallical Astronomy", this album is for you.

I was in line for 1:30 during comiket to get my hands on this album, and it was totally worth it. It's the album I've listened to the most since that. Every song on this album is a hit. The album start strong with a remix of a song from a previous album (Night Bird from 永 -TOKOSHIE- ) called "Night Bird EX". This remix takes an already pretty good song and put it up there in my all time favourite songs. It is actually my favourite song on an album filled with excellent songs. While it can be said for most of the album, I think that this song is almost guilty by itself of giving me that urge I got recently of wanting to buy a Drum. Ken☆Ken's Drumming and abuse of the hi-hat gives me orgasm from my ear.
709Sec.'s Engrish is as awesome as ever. I don't think anyone else than him could misspell stuff like this and make it sound so epic.

It would be very long to tell about every song of the album since they are all pretty much awesome songs. The only song that is not 5 starred in my iTunes from this album right now is "Aura Ole" which is still a very good song, just not as incredible as the others.

I will however talk about "FIRE FLOWER" since it was the song from the PV released for this album that you can watch here:


While the PV isn't that impressive animation wise, the drawing are really nice. But this is a musical review so what we want to know is: Is the song good, and does it represent the album accurately?
Yes to both question, While not the best song on the album according to my taste, the drum, voice and general melody and performance of the song is all top-notch. This time 709Sec. sings half in Japanese and half English, so there's less Engrish in the song, except for the 'rap' part of the song. The drum is very powerful in the song and so is the guitar. the way 709Sec. shout 'FIRE FLOWER' is pretty epic tough, so if sometime you ear me shout this for no reason, I'm not thinking about Mario's fire flower, but about this song or Mokou.

While almost every song on this album is awesome (I have never given so many 5 stars on an album before) as a whole, there isn't a sense of unity in the album, and that would be the only negative point to the album.
so it gets 9.5/10
It really is a must listen.
You can ear the cross fade here: http://www.sound-holic.com/mp3/SDHC_CF_Demo21.mp3
See the website for the album here: http://www.sound-holic.com/_c78_list.html
and listen to the PV above.

君の美術館(Kimino-Museum) - Viator de memoria - Episode I -

This is one of the album I could not get my hand on during Comiket. It was sold out when I got to Kimino-museum's table. It took a while before it got out on the interwebs, but since I've downloaded it I can't stop listening to it. I'm clearly gonna get it, whatever it takes.
So here comes my first CD review from C78 (yeah im late) and also my first review on anything for a while, other should be coming eventually I guess, but probably only after Halloween since I've got to work hard on my costume!

First thing, Viator de memoria, while being sold at C78, by a Circle who does Touhou arrange, is not a Touhou arrange. It's an Original album, containing it's own world and own story. And it's pretty important since the album is a story told to the listener. I don't understand japanese that much so far, but from what I got by listening to it over and over again, the story is about a girl who buy a watch from a shop, and the watch contain the memories of other people, who apparently had a tragedy, and a love triangle.

This story driven album is strong in emotions, and even if you do not understand japanese, the performance of the musical genius that are Kimino-museum will make you feel these emotions, The singer are just perfect, the harmony created by the singers, singing different verse, all at the same time, conveying different feelings, It's just wonderful. The lead singer, Cherose, is simply as it's best, delivering a strong performance, full of emotions. Most people ignore this but Cherose suffer from asthma, it's not written anywhere, I was ust witness to it while I was seing them live, between songs he had to use an inhalator. This doesn't stop him from singing long and powerful notes full of emotion.

fi-fy and 723 playing Eris and Ceres and also giving a wonderful performance and often sing together to create an astonishing harmony. I'm personally a big fan of fi-fy since I saw her live, she's just so cute, and her voice if so nice. Her performance on this album is up to my expectation, and actually has even made me a greater fan of her... however, I didn't really care about 723 before this, now I'm also a fan of her.

This album carry a mood with it. There is a lot of piano, and even if it's not a fast beat, the drum is always there to intensify the mood. PHEVOTT (piano, guitar and accordion) composed the music from the album and did a wonderful job, especially with the vocal harmony wich is the strongest point of the album.

The only negativ point I see with that album is that it is a little short, and the story is unfinished at the end... that's why it's episode 1. I want to ear episode 2 already!

10/10

You can listen to a preview of the album here: http://www.kimino-museum.com/memoria_ep1/demo_memoria_cf.mp3

The information page for the album is here: http://www.kimino-museum.com/memoria_ep1/
and the website of Kimino-Museum is here: http://www.kimino-museum.com/

Comiket day 3

More picture added, cosplay only this time, I only went 2 hours, the sun was burning me too much. I also went back to Akihabara, and bought one of the CD I couldnt get on Day 2.

It's my last day. Tomorow I take the plane back to Quebec. I don't want to, but oh well. I loved my trip, and I will surely come back... many times!

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J'ai ajouter plus de photo, du cosplay seulement cette foi, et je n'y suis aller que 2 heures, le soleile me brulais trop. Je suis aussi retourné a Akihabara, et j'ai acheter une des CD que je n'avais pas trouvé au jour 2.

C'Est ma derniere journée en terre nippone, demain je reprend l'avion pour québec. Je ne veut pas mais bon... j'ai adoré mon voyage et je compte bien revenir... plusieurs fois!

Insanity day 2

Sincèrement, ya aucun mot pour décrire le comiket, le vrai, le samedi, la fin de semaine. Imaginer la foule au show sur les pleins le plus populaire, faites x3 ou 4, mais en plus civilisé. rajouter a sa l'humidité accablante du japon, la sueur qui coule de partout. Sa vous donne une idée de l'ambiance. C'est vraiment fou.

Mais j'ai survécu, meme si j'ai passer proche de m'évanouir une foi.
Et j'ai réussi a parlé a Miko! et je lui ai dit que sa voie étais la plus belle au monde! Elle est tellement cute irl, sa voie est tellement belle, KKKKKKKKKAAAAAAAWWWWWWAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIII.
D'ailleurs c'est apres sa que j'ai faillit m'évanouir, mais c'est pas relier, c juste a cause de déshydratation :P

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Realy, there's no word to describe Comiket, the real one, saturday. Imagine the biggest crowd you've seen at any live event you've been, now add 3 more times as much, but more controlled. Add to this the humidity of japan, and the sweat from everyone. It might give you a little idea of what it looks like. It's really insane.

But I survived! Even if I almost fainted once.
And I was able to speak with Miko! And I told her she has the most beautiful voice in the world! She's so freakingly cute IRL, and her voice really is beautiful! KKKKKKKAAAAAAAWWWWWAAAAAIIIIIII!!!!!
Actually, it's just after that that I almost fainted, but it was not related, it was because of dehydration.

Comiket day 1

Comiket is awesome, today was probably Yaoi day tough, so lots of yoai doujinshi. I uploaded the pictures, but we got there kind of late so you wont see the super long waiting line... tomorrow tough i'm taking the first train so I will live this waiting line!

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Le Comiket est vraiment géniale! Malheureusement, aujourd'hui devais probablement etre la journée Yaoi, alors un peu trop de Doujinshi yaoi.  J'ai uploader les photos, mais nous sommes arriver asser tard alors vous ne verrez pas les photo de la super longe file d'atente. Demain cependant, j'y vais au premier train et je vais vivre cette file d'atente!