Arachnider's Toys Story

Review : Nendoroid no. 049 Exelica & Unit Set

2011-07-12T14:53:00.000+07:00

Note : I published this review in Tsuki Board yesterday (see here), but I copy-paste it to my own blog ^^ enjoy!

Hello, welcome to my 2nd figure review... and now I'm going to review about this thing...
the Nendoroid Exelica

ok, let's get to the box already:

(front view of the box)

(side view of the box.. showing some scenes from the game Triggerheart Exelica.. it's the same pic for both the right and the left side)

(top view of the box)

(bottom view of the box)

(back view of the box, with a great art of exelica, soaring in the sky ^^ I found the almost same thing with the box of Bandai's VF-27 Brera Stern's Lucifer [(mfc link)], where the back of the box also showing the almost same thing ^^ -->

let's see the content!

exelica comes with so many parts at the first look. she also comes bundled with her PS2 dvd game and an instruction manual..

(front view of the game box)

(back view of the game box)

(what's inside of the game box is the DVD game, and a book about the game..)

(nothing special inside this book.. actually this book only explains a little things about the gameplay and the characters of the game.. not really interesting)
I'll stop talking about the game or the content of the book, since we're reviewing the figure, not the game ^^

Exelica, like I've said before, come with so many parts, that makes her box unusually wide.. and her dvd game, makes her box thicker than the regular box of nendoroids..

but unfortunately, she's not carrying many parts. 3 faceplates (normal, serious and smiling face), 3 arms (2 left + 1 right), 4 legs (1 pair of standard legs, and one pair of leg with jet units), 2 additional weapons (in the form of independent flying unit), and her backpack.... in fact those massive numbers of parts are actually combined to be a single part, her backpack.. the backpack consists of 7 parts, which is assembled to a single part..

her backpack is the most impressive thing about this nendoroid, since this backpack's size is huge.. almost as the same height as the nendoroid itself... I'll let you see the size comparison later, in this review ^^

by the way, the design of her backpack alone reminds me of Aegis Gundam's Mobile Armor mode somehow ^^' (aegis gundam --> (ext link))

Exelica comes with 3 arms, like I said before.. 1 normal left arm, 1 normal right arm, and 1 bended left arm with a clenched hand...

you can actually disassemble the entire arms like this, to make a new arm, based on your creativity...

about the head, nothing really super special here... but exelica got a huge ribbon (iron ribbon?) which is removable, but will leave a hole at her head...

you can disassemble her head like any other nendoroids.. her faceplate is also compatible to many other nendoroids and vice versa...

but some nendoroids (like nendoroid konata izumi --> (mfc link) and nendoroid kagamiku --> (mfc link)) can't fit this nendoroid and vice versa...

now let's talk about her sexy legs... we got 2 pair of legs, the normal one, and the one she used in her "full armor" mode.. they're different in shape and design, but they're also different in size...

exelica almost gain some height, thanks to her new legs..

^ from this to this v

now, let's talk about her main interest, her backpack! her backpack needs some assembling... just snap-fitting things here and there.. you can learn how to assemble it from the instruction manual..

now let's see her action base / stand base / whatever you call it..
there're 3 parts of her action base.. a big white plate, and 2 white plastic sticks.. assemble them (just follow the instruction manual) and you're finished with action base like this -->

to connect exelica to the base, jam the iron pole of the action base to exelica's err.. hips.. (since it's not really sticking at her back..)

then jam the other side of the iron pole to the backpack unit... vala! you got your exelica in her perfecet mode!

some photos from all angles and with some original parts:

now about the bad things about exelica.. being a number 049 means she's a little bit old as a nendoroid... and GSC's quality control about nendoroid back then isn't quite good.. ok, exelica got a pearl-like paint and it's really beautiful, but the paint job itself isn't that good... there are some flaws here and there, even though nothing really big though.. but recently released nendoroids got some better paint job, compared to exelica..
I will post the picture about the paint flaw later and put them in this review..

the second bad things about exelica is her own action base.. why?
first of all, her action base is simply a white plate.. why don't GSC give some sculpts or some paint job to her base? even the bases of her additional weapons got some engravement...
then, her action base is unique, since you need this action base to attach her backpack.. without her action base, she can't use her great backpack.. but this action base itself, limit her movements and poses... however, you can use the new nendoroid action base to pose her more efficiently, like this

but you can't put her backpack that way.. and I think that's a big minus point for her pose-ability....

the great things about her is that her sculting is flawless! I don't see any flaw in her sculpt... and her color, despite having some bad paint job, her paint is actually great.. she's covered with some white-pearl paint and not to mention, her blue stripes are also shiny..

in my opinion, she's one of the greatest nendoroid on earth ^^
despite being too pricey for me, she's one of my favorite nendoroid...

some photos to make you understand how lovely is Exelica ^^"

I hope this review is useful for all of us ^^ thanks a lot for reading!

Review : Nendoroid no. 102 Kotobuki Tsumugi (K-On!)

2011-07-12T14:36:00.000+07:00

It's been a long time since I post something T_T ...
I'm having my holiday now, so I think it's ok if I post something here... hahaha
now, I'm going to make a review of a figure... please read it to your heart's content ^^

note: this is my 1st review of a figure, so pardon me for being stupid or anything else ^^" ok?
and also, I POST THIS REVIEW SOME TIMES AGO IN TSUKI BOARD (see here), but I want to add it to my own blog too ^^
PLEASE ENJOY ^^

Today I'll go with a review of NENDOROID NO. 102 KOTOBUKI TSUMUGI from the popular anime of K-On!

Mugi is an old nendoroid... released sometimes ago, but she's still one of the most beautiful nendoroid (in my opinion though ^^')

let's start with the box...
This is the front box... the box was made with the same theme as the other k-on nendoroids, now Mugi, with the purple color on it...

and nowadays, we have a bootleg version of this cute nendoroid.. so to make sure you don't buy the bootleg one, always look for this decal, applied on the front box of the nendoroid..

this also happened in many other nendoroids as well..

then, to the real thing!

Mugi's uniform is the same as Yui's and Mio's... While azunyan got red ribbon and ritsu got her jacket opened..

Nendoroid Kotobuki Tsumugi comes with some parts... it's not great in number, but it's ok ^^ since the main interest of this nendoroid is her faceplate ^^

now, if you look to the 3 faceplates, you'll see that the smiling one doesn't have any eyebrow..

because this nendoroid try to replicating the scene in Yui's dream, where Mugi take her eyebrows off and feed it to Yui... and it becomes one of her default pose in this nendoroid rendition..

the eyebrows come as decal, given inside the box...

I never opened and use the decal so just let it be there...

what I don't really understand and like from this nendoroid is this..

she comes with 4 extra arms where 2 of them are almost the same... why would GSC do that?

her extra arms needed to do such pose..

but you still can replace only the hands since the hands are replaceable..

and just like other nendoroids, her faceplate is compatible with the other nendoroids (except for some, which is I don't know since I don't have that many nendoroid...)

some pictures of Mugi herself ^^

I hope this review gonna be useful for all of us ^^
thanks a lot!

Nendoroid Madness In The Middle of Battlefield

2011-04-10T01:43:00.000+07:00

As you know from my previous posts, I was a SD gundam collector.. no, it's not that I stop collecting them now.. it's just that I add a new excitement in my figure collection..

this new excitement called "THE NENDOROID"

Ok, for you who don't really understand, what is nendoroid exactly?

Nendoroid (ねんどろいど^?) is a brand of small plastic figures, created by the Japanese Good Smile Company (ja:グッドスマイルカンパニー). Nendoroid figures are usually replicas of an anime or manga character and are commonly used as collectors items or toys. They are roughly 10 cm (4 in) in height, depending on the character they were made to look like. Normally they are made in a chibi or super deformed style, with a large head and smaller body to make them look cute. Their faces and body parts are movable and interchangeable, giving them a range of different expressions, postures and items to hold.

Nendoroid figures have been made based on characters from anime and manga series like Kannagi, Lucky Star, Death Note, Haruhi Suzumiya, Fate/stay night, Black Rock Shooter as well as characters from the synthesizer software Vocaloid along with games such as Touhou Project.

"Nendo" is Japanese for clay or plasticine.

^ that's wikipedia's answers for you..

yes, I'm currently collecting them, along with my SD gundams.. I'm not abandoning them (I still ordering the newest SD Sinanju & SD Wing Gundam Ver.Ka).. it's just that now I'm collecting nendoroid...

here some photos of my nendoroids ^^

and some photos with my new gundams.. all the SD Gundams from 00 series ^^

it's a bad case happened, but I broke my SD 00 Qan[T] 's GN sword V T_T (photo below)

btw, now I have a MFC / myfigurecollection account ^^

it's here !

all of my collections are registered there...

kindly visit my account there ^^

The 19th Diary : Deleting My Old Diaries...

2010-06-23T01:52:00.000+07:00

Ok, today I got nothing to do.. and for the result, I woke up in the morning at 09.30AM.. (usualy I wake up at 07.00AM)...

and when I have already woke up, I found my cell phone was receiving a message, from my friend, Agus... He said that he had already arrived in Surabaya from his trip to Bali...

then, I got an idea.. I'd like to ask him to go on a window shopping for some Gunplas... we are Gundam fans after all ^^ and he agreed.. so he dashed to my home with his motorcycle...

we also take Nico, my other friend with me... and so, we went to 3 malls, just to find cheap gundams ^^

and after that, we went home... nothing to be bought today (except for Agus, who got himself a BB Senshi SD Gundam Aegis, to be battled to my BB Senshi SD Strike Gundam + SWS..

ok, after everything done, I got my computer to look for Google's acceptance to my adsense account... but google turns me down... nothing sent to my e-mail address...

well, to be precise, google had already reject my offer to be his comrades in adsense program.. but I didn't really understand, why google rejects me... well, google had already sent me an e-mail that my account was disbanded because my site was in Indonesian language...

it's strange, because my blog's language had already changed to English, both for it's contents and the blogspot's language too..

well, actually I got some old posts that still in Indonesian.. I thought they were the source of the problem.. so I DELETED all of my Indonesian postings... T_T

ah, even though they were old things from back then, but I felt bad to delete them all... ok, Google AdSense, now there're no Indonesian-language-contents in my site.. so please, accept me.. T_T

there're nothing special this day.. but tomorrow will be a special day ^^ why? just see my next posting.. ok?

The 18th Diary : An Early Day for A Holdiay

2010-06-20T00:00:00.000+07:00

So today, I (forced) to wake up in this morning... Having a late sleep yesterday (I slept at 02.00 AM in the morning, yesterday), I couldn't really wake up today.. well, the time was still 05.00 AM!!!

but my father's rather-angry voice forced me to wake up, instead of hugging my lovely pillow...

and without changing clothes or whatsoever, I was forced to sit at the back of my car..

well, my whole family (Dad, Mom, and Sis) had already sat inside the car when I had being entered it.. and my Dad just drove the car away from our home...

(left) My Mom and (right) my Dad..
driving his lovely Honda CR-V in a not-so-fast speed.. the shaking background didn't indicate the speed of the car.. it's indicating how 'bumpy' the road here, in Surabaya - Indonesia.. -__-'

it turned out that my family wanted to look for a new land to buy... yes, my family wanted to build a new house for my parents' late days.. they wanted a good house to spend their old days there..

and why I have to take part in searching the land??

BECAUSE I'M AN ARCHITECT STUDENT OF MY UNIVERSITY.

yes, since I'm an architecture student, my parents want to borrow my skill and knowledge to do some "Site Analysis" at the site.... so they brought me up to the land, where they wanted to buy (in plan...)
but, there're some good points about waking up in the morning... in the (early) morning, you'll gonna miss the traffic jam for sure ^^'

actually this road above will 'roar' like crazy in the noon and in the afternoon.. full with a horde of vehicles... you can still see some mists here... a strange view for a trafficked-by-vehicles city...

after taking a short distance clean-road trip, we arrived at our land of mine... yes indeed we got a land already, but because I thought the site plan wasn't good, my parents come to think that they should sell it and buy another new one for their old times...

this is my land, owned by my family (I don't mean to be an arrogant man, really..) it looked nice, but if you saw where does it face, you'll now the bad point..

well, I don't want to mention about it any further... but maybe sometimes, I'll do some real site analysis for my land and I'll share it with all of you, dear readers..

after that, we went back home.. and everything goes out like a usual day..

but in the night, everything become so bright for me ^^

ok, after taking a confusion with the Google AdSense that I tried to learn, I came into conclusion that I've to buy a book that can gave me some info about AdSense, so I went to a nearby yet complete bookstore near my home... the TOGAMAS bookstore of Margorejo. It seemed that my parents wanted to do some shopping for the daily needs as well, so why not?

and after some search, I found a good book (from my point of view), discussing about Blogger and AdSense... well, I haven't read the book yet, but I'll read it ASAP...

this is that so called book.. I really want to learn about Blogging and using AdSense...

but the excitement was coming some hour later...

after the business in the bookstore had already done, we drove away to the supermarket, still located nearby my home.. as soon as we entered the supermarket, my parents went to the fresh fruits stall.. and I was running to the toy stall..

well, you wouldn't see Gundam or any anime-based toys here, in the supermarket, but Indonesian supermarket (I don't know if it's only in Indonesia or not...) tended to sell HOTWHEELS BASIC CARS at the toys stall... for me, it's a good chance for hunting..

I didn't really want to buy any Hotwheels actually, I just wanted to saw some Hotwheels, rather than watching fruits all over the place... so I started what I've always did when I found a horde of Hotwheels : HUNTING

nothing to hunt actually, just wanted to see some Hotwheels.. but accidentaly, I found a strange looking Hotwheels car with the Green Stripe at the right side of the box!
it's the TREASURE HUNTS SERIES!!!!

OW YEAH!!! SINCE 3 YEARS AGO, I'VE NEVER FOUND ANY TREASURE HUNTS IN MY OWN HUNTING!!!!!

wow! that's great!! the Treasure Hunts was a '69 Ford Torino Talladega... but the minus point was that the box's condition is a little bit bad.. maybe after being docked inside a cargo, it crashes out with the other boxes.. but WHO CARES? IT'S STILL A TREASURE HUNTS !!!

after counting up my money (which will be saved to buy a Gunpla, between Astarea Type F or an Overflag), I though that I still could afford to buy this rare thing.. but when my father saw me holding that tiny car, he told me that he'll pay for that..

wow!! I thanked my father for being so generous!! so I didn't wait any longer and put the so-called Treasure inside our trolley..

There goes my Treasure Hunts, along with the Strawberries, the papaya, and the fried oil ^^'

and after that, nothing happened, we were continuing our shopping and went home ASAP..
and back in my room, I posted this into my blog ^^ hahhaha
well, here a close up for my new Treasure Hunts:

still looks fantastic even now! Even I got it with a little bit-bad-box condition, the condition of the die cast itself is still in a perfect shape, as expected from a Treasure Hunts series..

ah, by the way, I intend to sell this Treasure Hunts actually... is there anybody want to buy this Treasure Hunts of '69 Ford Torino Talladega?? I do need a quick money for now, for I want to convert this into some money pump for purchasing a Gunpla ^^'

ah, also, I got 2 more new Hotwheels from my teacher's friend... I bought it for a high price though.. but it's fine with me, since I love these 2 so much:(above) Ferrari F50 - the first car in my dream since I was an 8 years-old boy

(above) Ferrari FXX - I've already had two Enzo Ferraris... so why not a FXX?

ah, these 2 ferraris are not for sale ^^

~ End of The 18th Diary~

Addicted to Gunpla ......

2010-06-18T00:25:00.000+07:00

Alright, Gunpla (Gundam Plamo --> Gundam Plastic Model) is my hobby since I were a little kid... but I was knowing nothing about Gundam years before...

everything started from the coming of my BB Senshi SD ZZ Gundam in my late posting.. and now I am completely into these things...

from my SD ZZ Gundam, I collected one by one and now my room is a horde of Gunpla, as you can see now...

My room after Gunplas are attacking it.. it's not the whole collection though..

alright.. those are my gunplas.. even my 15" TV isn't comparable to the box of the big scale 1/60 Gundam Exia ^^ it's indeed big... and my other Gundam boxes are just awesome in participating in the decoration for my room.. of course normal people won't do this, for I'm an OTAKU.. ^^

well, I got many Gundams to be told, but I don't think I can give it a review right away.. I haven't take a good photo shot for them ^^ and also, I haven't done 5 gundams... so there are still so many things to do ^^'

btw, here the list of my Gundams right now:
1. SD Wing Gundam

2. SD ZZ Gundam

3. SD Burning Gundam

4. SD Devil Gundam

5. SD Dendrobium

6. SD Neue Ziel

7. SD Wing Gundam Zero Custom

8. SD Strike Gundam + SWS + Skygrasper

9. SD Strike Freedom Gundam

10. SD Destiny Gundam

11. SD RX-78-2 Gundam Animation Color Ver.

12. SD 0 Gundam Type A.C.D

13. SD Exia Repair II

14. SD 00 Raiser

15. SD Unicorn

16. Gundam Exia 1/60 Scale Model

17. MG Wing Gundam Ver. Ka

18. SD White Base Gashapon

all the images are coming from http://www.1999.co.jp/eng and http://angolz.com
all of the reviews of the kits will coming up after these ruckus ^^'
still have many things to do.. ahhahah, but I'll explain them one in one...

The 17th Diary : A Long Days After The Rain and Rainbow

2010-06-18T00:02:00.000+07:00

It's been a long time since the last update.. well, I got pretty busy recently and I think everything messed up with me.. so I stop blogging for a moment...

well, now I have already ended my 2nd semester in my university life.. it was a simple yet complicated life... social attraction and many other things.... I got evolved from time to time (based on my best friend's perspective, of course..)

well, to be honest, I don't really enjoy my days in Architecture Department of Petra Christian University.... the tasks were a horde of pain in my ass... really.. it dealt me a lot of consequences, such as wasting money, maintaining relationships with others, and also wasting my time for my own happiness and hobbies....

and in my opinion, there are some things that you need to do in "the life in architecture" :

1. life in architecture would be so hard if you can't really adapt to the world... to be honest, I have to wear a mask of adaptation in order to smile in front of my classmates.... my close friends are excluded..

2. you should overcome the horde of tasks that will surround you, once you underestimate them..

3. you should know that SOME OF YOUR FRIENDS ARE SUCKS... well, friends are useful to entertain your loneliness, but sometimes their functions were limited for such things... sometimes, you can't rely your task on their back, because they can't do it..

4. you should take care of your health... Dad and Mom always say to me that health is priceless.. and indeed it does priceless now, when you facing with the deadline of your task... even if you got a really2 bad sickness, you can't got some help from your teach, because they were never really think about you...

5. Use your evil side to crush your enemies... useless people are rubbish... if they can't work, you better told it to your teach before he/she became a parasite for your score...

well, life in architecture is a shit.. but it's the life that we must face.. so keep your face up and stay strong, up until the final semester...

ah, btw, this is one of my result from my 2nd semester... what do you think? ^^
this is called SUN SMILE KINDERGARTEN.... a kindergarten design of my own.. what do you think? you can call me if you want to build this thing ^^ hahaha

~ End of The 17th Diary ~

The 16th Diary : A Perfect Toy For A Boy

2009-07-08T13:41:00.000+07:00

Ok, maybe some of you never know that I'm a Gundam Lover..

yes, Mobile Suit Gundam, an anime about Gundams (the robots...)

well maybe some of you will underestimate about Gundams, but it's not for me!!

I fell in love with Gundam for a long time ago.. and I want to collect the toys...

but because of the price, it's not easy to obtain them..

but now I got it!!

look!!!

this is MSZ-010 Gundam ZZ gunpla model kits

this gunpla is coming from BB Senshi Series..

although it's an old model, I love it so much!!

this toy is magnificent!! (not a toy!! this is a plastic model kits!!)

I spent about 1 and a half hour to make this Gundam to a real Gundam... (no painting.. I can't do that..)

actually, this Gundam can transform into a 3 pieces plane units, and you can combine those 3 into a big one warship!! but it's so hard to transform it into those planes!! T_T I' m afraid the plastic will worn off and broke...

so I stop to transform it.. even though MARTIN asked me to transform it, I refused it.. hehehe

and another one is my 7 years old SD Gundam... XXXG-001 W Wing Gundam, changing from his Bird Mode to his Mobile Suit Mode!!!

At the left side is the Bird Mode of the Wing Gundam, and in the right side is the Mobile Suit mode!!
Thank for DENNIS SUGANDA for this Gundam... This Wing Gundam was my birhtday present when I was a 6th Grader... thanks Dennis!!!!

btw, those Gunplas were all original model, made from the box, without no paint works...

I don't paint them because I don't know how to paint them.. I only love to make them and assemble those Gundams from parts to a real figure!!

anyone want to teach me how to paint them? will anyone teach me?

btw, my next Gundam will be a 00 Raiser Gundam (which was obtained by MARTIN BESALIEL WIJAYA, yesterday, together with Gundam Exia).. I love the ear parts of that Gundam... and also the GN-Drive, it's awesome.. hehehe

but the MOST WANTED GUNDAM for me now is...
RX 78 GP03D Dendrobium!!! the real HG version of Dendrobium is awesome!!! you can finish it in a really2 long time!! (my comrades told me that they made the Gundam in 5 months!!) and the size is unbearable!!! 1 meter!!!

I'm searching for Dendrobium BB SD Gundam version.. anyone has it and want to sell it?? please contact me!!

ow, but please sell it in a perfect condition, (in Indonesian, "blom dirakit")!!
at last, here some photos of my lovely Gundams!!

A Fierce battle between Gundams! heheehe!!

~End of The 16th Diary ~

The 15th Diary : When Love Changes Into Hatred

2009-06-28T13:05:00.000+07:00

for a long time, I don't give any posts to this blog..

it's because I don't know what to write, because there's nothing really important to write actually..

until now...

yes, this girl inflicted some damage to my brain, my soul, my honor, and my heart once again...
BETTY LIMANTORO...

everything begin today.. sometime ago... around 12.30 AM...

so, I opened my Facebook, looking for something funny to do and say hello to my friends, if possible...

after reaching my Facebook, I suddenly remembered my long-abandoned-Friendster account, which you can accessed from the link above..

so I opened it and looked around the comments or everything new.. actually there's nothing new.. but, I remembered a thing, that I've to answer Reza's comment some time ago.. (Reza is my friend, now studying in German)

so, I entered the friend lists.. and somehow, I found an interesting name (can't tell here, sorry... it's his/her privacy, I think..)

I forgot this name.. who is it? in my curiosity, I opened it.... and somehow, I remembered this account!!!

it's BETTY'S ELDER SISTER'S ACCOUNT!!!!

my heart beat so hard that I could hear it that time.. yes, I remembered about chatting with her some time ago, when I still in a relationship with Betty... She even told me to kiss Betty some time ago... and that's how the "Two Days Betty" Legend started...

enough with the explanation, continue with the story...

I felt an even greater curiosity to see Betty's photo (even though I've already had around 20 of them..), so I opened the photo menu, to see whether there're any photo of Betty or not, since I can't access Betty's account (she deleted me from her friend list..)

yes, I found many of them.. and somehow, I found a link, directing to Betty's Friendster account... I don't know how, but I pressed it.... and the web page directed to that account...

I couldn't do anything inside her account of course, but when I saw her shoutout, I found her Deviant Art Account...

and once again, you know... I clicked the link...

and there goes, her Deviant Art Account Page....

and from there I found new news about her.... and also I felt a craziness inside my heart..

looking at those pictures she made.... and her words on her Journals....

WHAT IN THE WORLD I'M THINKING!!!

I felt envy for her increasing ability in drawing digital art....

and I felt lost from a battle of honor and grace...

and the worst one, I felt the love and the hatred...

I've decided to forget her, but these things made me mad, and turned me out into a crazy man..

so I posted many status changes in my facebook account... I tried to told this thing to my friend, but the only one available at that time was STEPHEN GOLDEN KURNIAWAN....

I tried to contact him, but somehow he showed no interest in my words..

and you know what? in order to know her.. I do many crazy things..

ok, because she knew that I always use a name of Arachnider or Archi, I tried to change my account name..

yes, the account name of Deviant Art can not be changed.. so, I changed my age to 16, my country to Singapore, and my gender to female... and I changed my little name to Arcana, instead of Archi...

but still, I can't face tomorrow because I always wandered by the past...

so, I left alone inside my own gloomy face...
my love changes into hatred once again...
but my hatred never let myself to made a revenge...
and yet it is only give me a hurting result...
my honor faded...
left alone a dishonor, disgrace and disrespect
in my admiration to my skill and my love..
even though I honed my skills to my extent...
and sharpened my sword of love..
strengtenth my shield of confidence..
everthing shattered in front of her..
in front of her eyes, I couldn't do anything..
except crying and shouting..
waiting for another recovery.. I can only depend on time...

I hate myself for being so weak..
so selfish and so unskillable...
can't do anything in a state like this..
and I shall returned to my throne..
as the King of Losers...

and there goes my blog... so I posted this thing here...

and my Love, my Hatred, my Grace, my Honor... everything collapsed just because a blink of web page in my monitor screen...

yes, I'm doomed just because of this girl...

Mobile Suit Gundam 00 (Kidou Senshi Gundam 00)

2009-06-06T00:18:00.000+07:00

Ok, I'm a Gundam lover. even if I never watch the old Gundams series (such as Mobile Suit Gundam, Mobile Suit Gundam Z, Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ, Mobile Suit Gundam F-91, Mobile Suit Turn-A Gundam, Mobile Fighter G Gundam, Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Destiny, Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Destiny : Stargazer) I love Gundam!

a little bit history, why I love Gundam is probably becuase of the first Gundam series to be shown in Indonesia, Mobile Suit W Gundam, featuring the Wing Gundam and his comrades.. it's the first Gundam tv animation I've ever seen.. and I started to love it, and make a thorough search of information regarding everything related to Gundam..

ok, that's it... now we come to the main event, a preview of Mobile Suit Gundam 00 (In Japan, it's called Kidou Senshi Gundam 00, and read as "Double O")

Gundam 00 storyline doesn't put us in a different state of years.. no fictional Anno-Dommini years for this anime, unlike the others..

Gundam 00 story starts in 2307 AD.. in a fuel power crisis, humanity is searching toward a new energy source.. and they finnaly found another energy source, a solar power.. the solar power itself is only concentrating in a hi-tech device which is supported by three Orbital Elevators, located in 3 different state...

AEU (European)

UNION (Northern America)

HRL / Human Reform League (China, Russia, India)..

those 3 power blocks are closing their supply for other countries.. country that didn't joined them, can't get an access through the solar power, and that means a real pain in economical state and many things.. but those who goes under one of these 3 blocks, will be fully controlled by the capital, and that's a new-colonialism...

and this thing brought a war and rebbelion in many places in the world.. and war broke once again.. Humanity is once again try to solve things through a violenece...

and in order to stop the Humanity Tragedy, a group called "Celestial Being" is coming. their aim is to eradicate the wars and make an eternal peace. and they make their way by force, destroying every single military power or war by using 4 most powerful Mobile Suits at that time, yes, four of them are the Gundams!

the story shows us the Celestial Being's adventure through the wars..
but the real mainstream is located at the each people feeling toward the war... a new-found love, a gathering, a separation, a way of life.. many useful and precious things can be learned here..

but this Gundam is still having some similiarites in the other Gundam series... such as:

A more powerful human race, superior than the normal one (as in the old Gundam series, a Newtype and a normal human, in Gundam Seed, there're Natural and Coordinator, here you'll get a normal human and Innovator)
A powerful rival to the main character, who tried to fight even after being defeated for many times... (Amuro Ray VS Char Aznable, Heero Yuy VS Milliardo Peacecraft, and here you'll find Setsuna F Seiei VS Graham Aker)
The masked man!! (Char Aznable. Zechs Marquisse, here you'll have the Graham Aker in mask mode in the second season.. although it's not a full helmet-like mask, like the others..)
The coming of the 4 Gundams to Earth, impendeng many MS in an easy battle (such as the Operation Meteor of the Gundam Wing)
Setsuna F Seiei personality toward Marina Ismail's (you can see almost the same thing in Heero Yuy's and Relena Darlian's cases.. although Setsuna & Marina never show their love feeling towards each other so open, unlike Heero and Relena which ended up in loving each other..)

but the good point is, this Gundam story is not too over powered, just like the over powered Gundam in Gundam Seed Destiny.. many times, the Gundams were taken a heavy damage and their power can run out too.. unlike the "unthinkable" source of power shown in Gundam Seed Destiny...

and my score for this anime:
1. awesome graphics!!! the characters, the background, and the machines are really well made. a detail view of the machines is one of the best thing.
2. the seiyuu are great. there's no bad gap or voices or bad pronounciation. almost perfect.
3. the musics are awesome!!! almost all of them are my favourtie now!!
4. the storyline is a simple one, but the complexity of the story makes a great harmony, combined by the straight-forward storyline.. so, it's great.

FINAL SCORE = 4 OF 5 (GREAT! AN ANIME THAT YOU SHOULD WATCH! I RECCOMENDED THIS ANIME TO EVERYBODY!!)

I HOPE IN THE FUTURE, WE WON'T SEE A WAR LIKE THIS STORY SHOWN TO US.. AND I DO HOPE, THAT GUNDAM SERIES WILL BE MUCH MORE BETTER THAN TODAY!! LONG LIVE, GUNDAM!!!

Okami : The End !!!

2009-06-02T23:47:00.000+07:00

OKAMI AMATERASU STORY

actually I have already end the game in 2 days ago... it's indeed a good game after all!!

thx for Clover Studio to make such a good game..

capcom too, for distribute it (although I got the game distributed by a Piracy System..)

ok, after a great battle figthing 3 Devil Gates (which have to be beaten for 10 times each.. = 30 battles), I were ready to end the game..

crossing the bridge of rainbow, entering Ark of Yamato, separating with Issun, Discovering the truth of The Ark of Yamato, discovering the true identity of Waka, and fighting the 5 previous bosses again...

Oh yes, don't forget about how Amatersu and Waka was dancing out there before they went in The Ark of Yamato... heehehehhe

acutally I didn't think the 5 bosses got some power down, but they were really weak.. I actually got a full heathl and short time to destroy them.. yes, I got full bonus for each boss...

and the final battle reveals the entire story... fighting Yami, Ruler of Darkness... (a freakin' robot.. that's what came crossing my thought when I saw this boss..)

and we had to destroy this crazy thing for 5 times...

btw, just before the fifth battle, we had a scene, where Issun did his work as Celestial Envoy.. it's a really touching scene.. and my tears floweing again (damnit, recently I was really easy to cry when I see something touching...) but, the scene worth for it, my tears...

it was a really touching scene!!

and after a super easy boss battle, a scene show up.. followed by a credits view... the song of the credit view is good!!!

and that's the end!! well, I feel really relieved with the story.. and it was a good game..

well, a little thing about the 13 Constellations, I really love the Thunderstorm Brush Technique... the Tiger is really awesome... looks fierce and powerful!

in the end, I end the game with nothing missing... yes, I got everything completed, thx to the walkthrough that I had... sorry, I forgot the name of the writer, but it's really a great-sincerest thx to the man...

LONG LIVE OKAMI !!!!

Terminator Salvation

2009-06-02T00:01:00.000+07:00

TERMINATOR SALVATION

ok, I saw this film some days ago... about a week ago...

I saw this movie for 2 reasons:

I fell for it since I saw it's advertisement in TV.. I was really excited and I gave Martin a sms right after I saw the adv... for I'm a big fan of Terminator (although I hadn't see the 3rd movie "Rise of The Machine", and the "Sarah Connor Chronicle" was sucks... so I skip it..)
We have already planned to go for a walk in that day, so why not?

and actually I'm waiting for Arnold Swasanasegar... I mean Arnold Schwarzenegger to give some some actions... but, It's disappointing that I didn't see his name in the advertisement and in the posters... well, he's a Governor now, he's not an actor anymore... it looks like, his body has changed from the good shape as it was.. what do you expect from an old-ex-body-builder after all? but I still appreciate and honor him for his good movies!!!

and acutally it's a little disappointing too, when I saw it... it's just too easy to predict the storyline... and everything goes on in my mind... I have already knew the storyline since they show us about a guy who sold his body to Skynet...

after all, the CG is awesome... too awesome... and that was really different,compared to Termiantor 1 & 2... ok, I didn't blame the CG.. we talked about CG technologies, that means we talked about the time too, right? but it didn't fit my original imagination about the original Terminator film...

and when the "Big" one came, me and my friends shout together "Transformers!"... it's not a loud shout... we're in a cinema... but we did really shout those words.. Holy crap, I really mean it.. this "Big Terminator" was really look like "Transformers"... just look at it!!! damn, it got a heavy weaponary system, but indeed, a low speed and poor movement.. see the image below..

and not only that, we also got a "Bike Terminator".. how do I put it.... oh yes, a simple explanation... "A bike with dual machine guns at both sides of the bike". that's it.. not only that, in the film, John Connor hacked one of those "Bike Terminator" and use it as his own bike.. and he hacked it via USB.. wonder.. that damn Hi-Tech Skynet is still using USB 2.0 for their Terminator.. hehehe, not much evolution than today, I think... ^^'

and one more... a "worm-like Terminator"... it's not a worm.. it's lurking in the water an attack their prey (Human)... they attack physically... and it's considered as the weakest Terminator... maybe from its poor weaponary system and its size... look at the comparison below..

and what do you hope from a Hi-Tech machines, if it's not a FLYING MACHINE! although I think it's just too much, but indeed, the flying one is really needed... nothing special from this robot, just big, powerful and hi-speed... maybe it's a perfect one I think (other than that "Big-Slowpoke Terminator" I said earlier...) but about the picture, too bad, it didn't show us the frontal view...

the most impressive Terminator here is the T-800... (although the enemy in The Terminator 2: Judgement Day was a newer version, T-1000).. ok, T-800 is not that great.. I think, it's almost the same as the other Terminator, but the T-800 really gave me a big surprise, since it got the face of Arnold!!! unfortunately, I can't find any pics of it in internet...

Hey, Arnold!! (it's not a cartoon title!!!) yay, Arnold!!! he rules over there... until the hero wins (of course, they will)

and again, I give my score for this movie:
1. awesome CG!!! Nicely done!!!
2. an average acting from all of the actress... I can't find anything superb from their acting..
3. Music? do they really set a music for this movie? I didn't notice everything great from the music..
4. Storyline? average... predictale... too easy to read... just an action film...

FINAL SCORE = 3 OF 5 (AVERAGE... YOU CAN WATCH IT, BUT IT'S NOT A PAIN IF YOU MISS IT)

I HOPE IN THE FUTURE, THEY WILL GIVE A BETTER STORY FOR TERMINATOR 5 (IF IT DOES EXIST, OF COURSE)

Ongoing Tale? Keep It Up, Friend!!

2009-06-01T23:06:00.000+07:00

A wird title this time? I don't care.. hehehe..

this time, I write my post to my beloved friend... a friend who had already helped me a lot in past times..

and about the language, I think I will start to change my language in my blog to English, since everybody in the world can see my blog, it's better for me to use this international language..

and to fit what I've already wrote in my "About Me" column and the oter columns, I have to change the language, since I wrote them in English... hehehe

another reason to change it, because I think it's better for me to use my English more often, since I will no longer use my English a lot in my daily life... well, I don't have any English course again... and my school, I mean my university doesn't related to English that much... since I registered to enter the Architecture Technical..

not only that, after saw my friend's blog, which use English as it's language, I moved to use it too.. heheheh...

yes, the one that move me to use English was one of the best student to use English in my class.. her name is Priscilla Marietta.. and here is her blog.

and just like I said earlier, I write this post for her... she was a good friend of mine... although because of some things, we couldn't become closer... but she was a really helpful girl, I really mean it..

and Prsicilla is going to study aboard.. I don't know when will she leave, until I read her blog not so long ago...

wew... I don't know you'll go that fast! please, keep contacting me via my facebook, friendster, or my blog... ok?

I hope you read this post, it's a special one for you, just like the one I made for Tata the other day..

about the title, I'd like to give you a comment about your blog's title... "The Ongoing Tale"..

it looks like your own tale of life will continue on, right? keep it up, and don't lose your spirit... keep writing, will ya? I'll keep read it too, of course.. heehheh

please, don't forget me.. ehhehehe

and for the last thing, I'd like to give you my motto:
1. We do the best, God will take the rest.
2. Control your life. like you drive your car
3. God is in his heaven, all's right with the world

hope those things will be useful to you, though it's not that simple to understand.. hehehhe.. the second and the third requires some thoughts to make it logical..

ok, thanks for everything, my friend... GANBATTE !!! PRISCILLA!!!