just for your info, for those who are interested of cos... the STCC (Singapore Toys, Games and Comics Convention) date for this year is already up on their web:

http://www.singaporetgcc.com/

XDDD cant wait for the coscon in it too...

AFA's date this year has not yet been confirmed since their webbie is not up yet but it should be around the same days like 21st and 22nd Nov...

Cosfest is coming round soon too and the dates should be 4th and 5th July and i'm already looking forward to it =)

AFA and Cosfest's day are just blind guesses so they might be wrong =X

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Pandora Hearts 4

Oz wakes up to find Break, Raven and Sharon before him. Oz was reminded of the fake Sharon he saw in the Abyss but they reassure him that he was now back to the original world. Oz asks them what was the Abyss as it had really existed but Break first wanted to know what had happened to Oz there. Oz tells them everything including Alice which they knew as well that it was due to Alice's power that Oz was able to escape from the Abyss. After hearing that Oz had made a contract with Alice, Break attempts to arrest him. He tells Oz that he was a illegal contractor and they, who belonged to the Pandora organisation, have to arrest him since they are the ones investigating the Abyss. Break continue to tell Oz that they are always looking for people like them as making a contract with a chain is dangerous. When Oz was being led to the car, Alice takes over Oz's body and threatens Break to let them go by taking Sharon hostage. However, Break knocked the knife off Oz's hand and activated a restriction spell once Sharon got freed from Oz's hand. Break continues to use his rod and knock Alice off Oz's body. Break was surprise to see Alice in that form as records say of her as a large black rabbit. Alice tells Break that her goal in the real world was to collect back her memory fragments that have disppeared into the real world. Oz knows that Break wanted something from him and therefore wanted to rescue him from the Abyss as well. Break admires Oz's thinking and let the both of them go but the pocket watch Oz was carrying opened the tunnel to the Abyss and a chain managed to get out. Raven releases Alice's power which allows her to easily destroy the chain. When Alice and Oz went to touch the pocket watch, the same dream that Oz saw appeared again in everyone's mind. Someone then told Oz that he was a memory fragment of Alice and by helping Alice gain back her memories, he will find the answer. Break then request that Alice and Oz to join Pandora to assist them in investigating the group of people who threw Oz down into the Abyss and in return Alice will be able to use their intelligence to find her memories.

*the black rabbit just looks wierd in Alice's clothes... maybe it would be better if she could use her scythe and chains in her human form? after i hear about them talking about some lost fragments of memories, it kinda reminded me of tsubasa chronicles... just that now the memories gain a life in the world just like Oz himself... maybe Gil and the others really did die since Break somehow seem like asking Oz not to return to his home... i'm loving the melodies used in Pandora hearts... they're so "elegant"... =X*

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Chrome Shelled Regios 16

Zuellni runs off again and the workers have to find Nina to help stop Zuellni. Meanwhile in Grendan, Leerin is preparing to go to Zuellni to find Layfon since Layfon will most unlikely be able to return to Grendan again. Layfon was sent to hospital after getting injured from the collapse and had to go under an operation which lies on the the day of an inter-platoon match between the 1st platoon and 17rh platoon. It meant that Layfon would be unable to participate in it but Nina did not forfeit the match and begins training herself to become stronger to win the match without Layfon. Sharnid goes off to find Shena and tells her that she could come and join the 17th platoon for the inter-platoon match and that it was not just to substitute Layfon. Sharnid tells her that he still holds on to the vow that the three of them made although their relationships are now broken. Layfon also receives a message from the chairman that there are filth monsters again for Layfon to take care of. The inter-platoon match begins and Nina was made the bait while the others will go cover Sharnid for him to get to a sniping point. The 1st platoon manage to see through their plan and Nina was quickly faced by only 2 person. Sharnid's side was however faced by the rest of the platoon. Nina then came face to face with the captain of the 1st platoon and was defeated quickly before Sharnid even got to the sniping point. Layfon leaves right after his operation and discover that he will be working with Haia and the others to exterminate the filth monsters. The chairman tells Layfon that Zuellni is now on a rampage which had likely caused the collapse that injured Layfon. Haia suggests that it was due to the influence of the Haikizoku. Shena was pissed that they had lost the match and Nina was then told that Layfon had a message for her. Meanwhile, Leerin's father passes to Leerin something which he hopes that she will pass it to Layfon.

*... so the 17th platoon loses without Layfon... hopefully Nina gets stronger or the 17th platoon may be a real goner if Layfon leaves or something. Leerin seems to be meeting with Layfon real soon, maybe in a few more epis or so and her father passed to her something which i think is a dite that looks real cool. A katana, probably... next week shall be the fight between the flith monsters and i think Leerin might appear there, Layfon saves her and Nina comes by as she had received the message... seems likely though... =P*

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Chrome Shelled Regios 15

Nina tells the platoon that they will be having a training camp that did not involve the president in any way of getting the budget. It was revealed that Meishen and the others had helped them in the budget in return for photos to be taken of them during training. Meishen will take care of the food while Naruki will be helping out for the platoon's training. Layfon requests to help Meishen in the cooking and was spied on by Felli who wanted to know their conversation. Nina joins her as well and spied on them from the outside. Sharnid then comes by and shows them a tool to remove the skin of the potatoes easily and led to Nina and Felli eyeing for it. Nina won however but Layfon had already finished helping. The training begins and Nina suggest that the match would be Layfon against everyone else. Naruki opposes it at first as she felt that it would be unfair but Sharnid tells her that she would get it once the match starts. And so the match begins and Naruki will be their decoy and Felli will support Nina. Layfon waits at the flag until the time was right and he disappears. He appears behind Naruki and easily sweeps her up. Layfon then advances to Sharnid which he dodges every single bullet that Sharnid shoots. Layfon goes to confront Nina but Naruki gets back up but was yet again swept up. The match then ends with Sharnid's signal with Layfon as the winner. At Grendan, the queen was told that Leerin could be a person who might be related to her since Grendan appeared in front of her but the queen kills the servant off even before she reveals Leerin's identity. Meishen feels that she needs to know more about Layfon and the others agrees to help her. Layfon goes out at night to meet with Meishen and talks to her that he was a monster due to their monstrous kei. He continues to say that that was why people are afraid of them. Meishen however tells him that she was not afraid when the place where they are at suddenly collapses. Layfon quickly grabs Meishen and ran to avoid the danger but in the end he was injured trying to protect Meishen. Luckily for them, Felli had found them and Layfon blacked out soon after.

*it was amusing to see how Felli and Nina actually wanted to spy on Meishen and Layfon... and sadly Felli lost to Nina on their small duel =D Layfon is just too strong... 4v1 and still won, WOW he could just go and create his own platoon with only himself as the member. it seems like Layfon will still be recovering in the next epi and the 17th platoon would have to fight without Layfon, that could be a downfall for the platoon unless they had somehow toughened their skills. now it also seems like Leerin could be a sister or some sort to the queen since Grendan appeared in front of her as well. too bad the servant died before we get to know the truth, seems like she was unhappy to know it too... =X*

K-ON! 4

Mio discovers a recording of the previous K-ON! band of the school and was greatly motivated not to lose to them. Yui was still having problems with her guitar chords and Mio comes in and declare that they will be having a training camp at Tsumugi's villa. The school festival was coming up already and Mio wanted the band to perform live during the event. Apparently Yui almost overslept but she managed to catch up with the train and they were all trilled to find out that Tsumugi's villa was near the ocean. Just when Mio wanted to start practising, she tells Tsumugi that she was worried for the band but Tsumugi tells her that it will be alright for them. Yui and Ritsu then comes in to invite them to go and play. When Tsumugi leaves to enjoy herself, Mio reluctantly follows them as well. The four of them started to have fun on the beach with Tsumugi creating a marvelous structure of a castle from sand and Mio enjoying herself on the rocks till she saw the barnacles and got all scared and even screamed when Ritsu tells her that barnacles will grow on her legs. Apparently they were enjoying themselves so much that Mio almost forgot their training. Mio then had to wake Ritsu and Yui using her bass and even had to scare Ritsu that she was growing fat to make her play her drums. Ritsu suggests again that they should run a maid cafe and thinks about Mio doing all those moe-expressions and causes her head to get wacked by the embarassed Mio. Late that night, Mio let everyone hear the recording and the music was great until the singing which made Mio try and forget what she had heard. Yui later shows the others that she knew how to play the exact same tune in the recoding and everyone was surprised by it. Mio then realises that she had worried too much for the band. They return from the villa and Ritsu went to show Mio the photos which made her take a violent step after seeing that her sleeping face was captured by Ritsu. The band now continues to move on to the goal of Budokan...

*lots of Mio's moe expressions this epi and it was amazing to see how Ritsu manage to scare Mio so easily... Yui seems to have a large improvement in her guitar skills as well just that she still twist her fingers after trying to express some of the guitar chords. time is flying fast in the series and summer break was soon over, which means that they would be doing a live in the school festival which may be in a few more epis... hopefully this great series isnt a short one =) (moe~ moe~ kyun! XDDD)*

Shangri-La 3

Kuniko learns from the old lady that her mother had previously lived in Atlas but before she was able to ask more questions, Kuniko's friends took her away to the farewell party of Miko. At the farewell party, Miko tells Kuniko that she would love to taste all the food at Atlas but her main aim was to revive the bar that Momoko and her had set up before. Momoko then hands her the signboard and Miko gets ready to leave for Atlas. Takehiko and some other Metal-age members raided an Atlas train and manage to steal their good which consists of ham and chocolates. They were giving it out to the people of Duomo when a group of people came in and attempt to stop them. They wanted Metal-age to leave Duomo as they felt that it was because of them that the military had attacked them and they will be labelled as terrorists as well. They were also afraid of not being able to get selected in the Atlas lottery to go into Atlas. Kuniko then tell Momoko that she wanted to go and have a look at Atlas and feels that only when she uses her own eyes and see Atlas, she might be able to see if everyone would be happy if they went to Atlas. Takehiko gives Momoko and Kuniko an Atlas pass that were made by the elders and they prepare to get themselves into Atlas by dressing up as workers. Everything went smoothly until Kuniko's pass did not work fine and they had run from the attackers. Meanwhile, Miko was brought to the palace where her belongings were all burnt and had to serve under Mikuni. While they were crossing a bridge, Kuniko looks at the outside and saw how small Duomo was and how large things were in Atlas. She was stunned and had to make Takehiko go and pick her up. An Atlas quake then begins and they took the chance to escape. Kuniko still pesters Momoko for an explanation why everything is so huge in Atlas as compared to Duomo and she thinks that "if only everyone could live in Atlas"

*so now Kuniko realises that everything was so different in Duomo as compared to Atlas. it must have taken a great hit on Kuniko when she realised how small a place was where everyone was living in. it seems that those who had won the Atlas lottery would be made to serve under Mikuni and are not really transferred to Atlas at all. it also seems that now Kuniko might wish to try and bring everyone into Atlas and the little girl who was hacking using MEDUSA now finds that someone else had a similar system that was able to disrupt the carbon emission rates too...*

Eden of The East 3

The two of them finally reach Akira's old house and somehow Akira knew which key was to be used to open the door. A dog greeted Akira happily after seeing him and Saki tells Akira that this was definitely Akira's home since the dog seemed to know him. Kondo reaches the place where Akira lives and goes off to find him. Akira and Saki follows the dog and he wonders why he was living in a shopping mall. Akira walks to the window and find words scribbled on the walls asking him to die. He realises that it was the exact same place where a photo was taken with him similing back at his home in America. Akira becomes more and more curious about what he had done in the past. The dog brings them to a room which was probably Akira's room. Saki suggests that maybe Akira was the manager and Akira asks her if she had any movie she wanted to watch. Akira then asks Juiz for the movie that Saki wanted to watch. Kondo was able to find Akira and Akira knows that he was looking for him through the cameras. Kondo walks up to him and punches him, taking his phone away. Kondo tells Akira that each of them started out with 10 million but that was not enough to save the country. He continues to say that when the value of the noblesse phone reaches zero, a supporter will come and kill the owner. Kondo was unable to use the phone he took from Akira as it uses fingerprint authentication and Akira uses the police pass he took from Kondo in exchange to see him. Kondo was however stabbed before Akira finds him and when he did, Kondo tells him that he should go and look for the other selecaos like them but they might not want to see him since he was the one who had grouped people up to make sure the missle kills them. Akira was shocked to learn the truth and leaves Kondo behind after hearing the sound of the police.

*almost everything was revealed in this epi, about the selecaos who are people forced to play some sort of game which we don't know yet and when the money in the noblesse runs out, the owner will die and we still know nothing about Juiz yet... anyway, Akira really seemed like a ruthless person in the past which i think he was trying to cause a missle which does not kill anyone to kill people. it seems to me that a possible ending would be Akira using up all his money to either save Saki or the country before dying at the end... of cos i wouldnt want that ending but it seems to be a possible one =X*

apologies for the delay of flights this week as i have a bunch of tests crammed up again this week as well and my exams are coming soon, so during the exam period there will likely be a delay of flights for about 2 weeks =X the flights delayed this week shld be coming up next week if everything goes as planned =)

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Pandora Hearts 3

Oz tries to get out from the Abyss but everywhere he ran, he would always see the same scenery over and over again. Oz then accidentally step onto a toy which was alive and talking, telling Oz that he seems like a tasty meal. Oz manages to run away from the toy with the help of an umbrella but meets a larger toy which Oz was then cornered. The girl appears to save Oz with her chains and easily destroy the toy which she calls a Trump. After Oz regains consciousness from her kick, he finds out that she does not remember attempting to kill him before. The girl explains to Oz that the living beings that are born in the Abyss are called Chains and the weakest one was called the Trump like the toy which attacked Oz before. She also reveals to Oz that her real name was Alice and he was allowed to call her with that name. Alice then tells Oz that she had saved him for her own purpose and asks Oz to sign a contract with her so that the both of them would be able to escape from the Abyss. Before Oz reaches for her hand, Oz was teleported away and he sees Sharon in front of him. She tells him that Alice will kill him after he sign the contract with him and Alice was a bad guy since she had tried to kill him once. Oz was puzzled by the fact that Sharon knew about all those and she revert back to the form of a Chain. Oz was caught by it but Alice appears to save him yet again and gets caught instead. After Alice got eaten by that Chain, Oz went all out to try and save her, without knowing why he had chose to do that. But Oz believes that since Alice had saved him so many times before, he will not let her die like this. Oz goes into the Chain's mouth and finds Alice and signs a contract with her. Alice's seal of her power disappears and she thanks Oz before taking over his body. Alice then uses her power and sends Oz out of the Abyss with her finally acquired a body of her own.

*this series is getting great and it seems to be closer and closer to Alice in the wonderland... somehow the Abyss seem like the wonderland. hopefully Alice is a good character instead of a bad guy and her goals in the real world was still unknown... she does not seem to be a bad person and Oz does not feel that way too. all the other chains look quite toy-ish except her, i wonder why...*

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Asura Cryin' 3

Tomo runs off to get the white suitcase after seeing how Misao disappeared trying to protect him. He meets Shuri in his house who asks him to join the science club in return for her to teach him how to use the Asura Machina but Tomo declines her offer. She continues to follow him and warns him of the danger of opening the box without Misao. Reishirou was then reminded of the past where he was trying to transport the white suitcases with his sister and Aine when a monster attacked their boat and Aine was trapped under the helicopter rubble and was losing her life. Tomo returns and Aine confronts him, telling him to just go along with Reishirou but Tomo only wants to know where Kanade is. Aine tells him and Tomo runs off to find her. Kanade was held in trial by Reishirou and his men and they were all calling Kanade an Akuma and that she will be sent back to hell. Tomo then rushes in with his whie suitcase, telling everyone to stop moving or he will open the white suitcase. Reishirou does not care about it and treat it as a chance to get rid of Tomo and Kanade together. Tomo opens the white suitcase but only application forms for the science club falls out from it. Tomo and Kanade takes the chance to run away and meets Shuri again. This time, they sign up for the club and Shuri protects them from Reishirou's Hisui. Reishirou had revived Aine by resonating her with the Asura Machina which now allows her to stay by Reishirou's side once again. The three of them then starts running away from Hisui but it was no good and they were all cornered. Just when Hisui was landing a blow on Tomo and Kanade, Tomo was brought into a dream where he sees Misao again and his Asura Machina, Kurogane. Hisui tries to fuse Kurogane but to no avail and Kurogane was too strong. It easily breaks off Hisui's armour and reveals Aine in the middle of Hisui. Tomo then finally understand about the projected existence acting as a sacrifice for the Asura Machina. Seeing that Kurogane was about to finish Hisui and Aine off, Tomo calls out to Misao to stop Kurogane. Kurogane then stops moving and disappears with Aine being unharmed and Misao returns to Tomo's side. Reishirou then tells Tomo that he will continue to track them and thanks him for saving Aine. Tomo then thinks that since Misao is not really dead, like Aine, there might be a way to save Misao after all.

*kurogane's darn cool, although it seems to have quite a large body... hisui just seems too skinny to be able to tank the large kurogane. so Shuri is not really a human since she can bring out weapons from under her flesh which makes me think that she was most probably a cyborg. much things have been talked about Tomo's brother but we have not seen him yet and his Asura Machina. i think that the story might progress to a point where Tomo will fight with his brother using their Asura Machinas and the series ends?....*

Eden of The East 2

On the plane, Akira asks Saki about the scars left by the missle attack they previously saw on the news and Akira also asks Saki about Careless Monday. On the news at the airport, Saki was surprised to see that a missle attack actually killed someone as no one has died before from the missle attacks. Akira later discover that his phone actually has a huge amount of credit and Juiz tells him that he would be able to ask Juiz to do whatever he orders. Akira tries it out by first getting himself and Saki out of the crowded airport. Akira then reveals to Saki that he has lost all his memory about himself and he was now going to his residence to try and find out more about himself. Akira later returns again to find Saki as he did not know how to get to his residence. On the monorail, Saki shows him that his residence was near a hole from Careless Monday and might already been gone. Saki explains to Akira about Careless Monday where unknown attacks flew and attacked using missles but no one was ever hurt in the missle attacks. On police officer was looking for Akira and tracks him down. He meets Akira at the station but did not detain him at all. While waiting for the boat to his residence, Akira talks to Saki about their past and Akira was able to remember the other things like the things he did when he was very young. The boat then arrives and when the boat was leaving, Akira reaches out his hand and Saki grabs on. The police officer discovers that Akira had once bought a brainwashing program and then people came to find him for his debt. On the boat, Saki shows Akira all the photos she had taken with the landmarks and Akira takes a picture of the both of them. The police officer finally gets irritated with the two guys who were chasing him for his debts and called Juiz to kill them off. He raises up his hand to one of their heads and said "bang" and that guy's head got blasted by a bullet. The other guy suffered the same fate as well and even an eye-witness was killed as well.

*wow... the show is getting great with some of the mysteries getting unveiled. Juiz seems to be a mysterious program or maybe a supercomputer since it can like summon its people to do the job required of their contractors or some sort. Akira seems to be a wierd character too in the past, maybe, since he had purchased a brainwashing program before which might mean that he had did something in the past and wants to forget it all... hopefully the series gets better and better as it goes on =)*