Phew, finally some rest. Am waiting for the results from Squeenix. Also, I sorted out my Sapporo pics (at long last!) but am lazy to post them up for now :P  Meanwhile, enjoy the following two openings and hopefully they will unlock some fun memories for you as they did for me.

A truly underrated anime. Hanbun no Tsuki ga Noboru Sora is a tragic but bittersweet story of two sick teenagers who met in a hospital. What I like about it is that almost the entire show is set in that hospital, so the imagery of being sick within a confined environment with bad news coming to you at any moment is conveyed rather powerfully.

On top of the OP’s great music, there are a lot of symbolic messages hidden in it as well. It may seem so normal, but the very image of the girl wearing a school uniform itself can be meaningful to those who have watched it. To those who prefer live action, there’s also the J-drama version.

One of the best PC game openings for me. My diploma multimedia project involved being in a make-believe company that makes game trailers, called Scream Interactive. The C is in a shape of a Pacman. Creative huh? Thief:The Dark Project was one of the team’s video editing demos.

Since then, I got hooked to the game. This is during the time when hiding-instead-of-attacking games were hot (MGS, anyone?). The game rocks too, both gameplay-wise and graphics-wise. Truly a masterpiece! Though, since my computer didn’t evolve at that time, I didn’t play the graphically-demanding sequels :P

I was thinking this blog gets a little lonely when I get busy. And indeed I’ve been busy these few days. So being the irresponsible blogger that I am, I do what I do best: share YouTube vids!

I came up with this ground-breaking idea with two intentions in mind:

+ To remind you of memorable anime and games that are not in your recent memory. Uh, you get what I mean right?

+ I encourage the whole lot of you who don’t know these anime and games to watch the OPs. It takes less than 5 minutes of your time. Judge them based on animation, pace, music, whatever… or just sit back and enjoy the show.

All in all, I’ll choose the more tasteful ones for everyone to enjoy. They’re not based on priority, just random picks, limited to the ones I actually watched and played.

One anime OP and game OP will be posted at least once a week, but I might do it more often. Who needs rules eh? Anyway, here we go!

Niea_7. A very unique slice-of-life setting of aliens living among humans in a laid-back rural neighbourhood. That’s the reason for its self-proclaimed “domestic poor animation” lol. Man, you gotta love that voice.

In my list of top 10 RPGs of all time. As normal as it may look, the scene at the very end where the 3 characters are overlooking a valley was one of my most memorable gaming moments ever.