| 4:37am | Sakashiki hito ni miru kokoro non-spoiler review. | | | | You can’t play serious games all the time Light’s Sakashiki hito ni miru kokoro is a cheap but fun visual novel that fills a few empty hours and I happened to like. So a short review of it. |
| 1:26am | Bungaku Shoujo, manga preview | | | | Previously I had mentioned that the light novel series I loved so much was being serialized as a manga. Well, the first preview bits have started appearing on the Internet. |
| 2:39am | Lyrics - Narcissu Side 2nd - Narcissus - Singable ver. | | | | The full lyrics of the song “Narcissus” translated in a (hopefully) singable form. Created for the Narcissus Side 2nd full translation project, and since the micro-test came out, there’s no particular need to keep it under wraps. |
| 6:45am | Release - Narcissu2 Micro Test | | | | Today, May 16, 2008, marks the 1 year anniversary of the Japanese release of Narcissu Side 2nd. Since that day, Haeleth and I have been working on the translation project; days, nights, weekends, whenever we had time. I can’t speak for Haeleth of course, but I know that I’ve spent more than... |
| 6:10am | Dictionaries of Japanese Grammar | | | | Wandering through the reference sections of bookstores out of habit pays off; the latest and final volume of the Makino and Tsutui’s Japanese Grammar dictionaries, “A Dictionary of Advanced Japanese Grammar” had just come out 2 weeks ago on April 25! |
| 2:38am | Off Topic - Hanami in Brooklyn 2008 | | | | Once every few months, it’s nice to leave the house and walk around the city. Right now, about half the cherry trees in the Brooklyn Botanical Garden have reached full blooming. So armed with my dinky camera, I spent a day out under the clouds and petals. |
| 9:26pm | Bungaku Shoujo, manga serialization announced. | | | | My current favorite series of light novels, Bungaku Shoujo by Mizuki Nomura will now be a manga series! I got a bit excited and wrote up a somewhat long description of the series |
| 3:48am | Same forum, new home | | | | The Gemot, probably the largest forum community of Japanese-to-English visual novel fans, translators, engine hackers there is on the Internet, has moved to a new home. Enter, gemot-cubed! |
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