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I've updated the font in the speech bubble to something more suitable. Also trying out one of the Touhou images.

To actually have the CEO of Japanese VN publisher VisualArt's pledging his support for this project is amazing in my opinion.

Many of the music shops and big stores in Japan stocked Vocaloid singles and albums, they really are like divas there. Naturally I bought quite a few. I'll take some photos and post them here this weekend. Edit: As promoised, here's a photo of some of my Vocaloid CDs. @Rin

I drink tea now using my Hatsune Miku vocaloid mug.

Those are all very amusing. Might be worthwhile making a tutorial on how to create these at some point.

Agree, these newer arcs have too much dialogue at the start. I miss Gun Gale Online. On the bright side though it's nice to see Asuna getting more focus again.

Alright, will start it towards the end of this month as there are a few galleries I want to finish first.

I really like your examples. Oh yes of course, how could I forget. Not to mention of course the likely usage of senpai and/or onee-chan.

I used to use one called Winamp before they were bought out by Radionomy. I loved Winamp because it was so customisable in appearance and had a solid library system. Development seems to be pretty slow... which is unfortunate as I really liked it for the Gracenote integration (auto-tag song metadata based on audio data). These days I'm using foobar2000. Nowhere near as nice looking but I need FLAC support as I make a local copy of my audio anime/Vocaloid CDs in that format.

Yes, actually I do have a blue violet version! You get to see it for one of the minisites when the revamp is done -- Bump! Since the Anime Forums revamp, I still managed to retain some blue even though we're on a dark layout.

Lolis facing off against other schools in sensha-do tank battles. Very entertaining and as you'd expect, nice attention to detail with tanks. I haven't seen any sports anime myself. Any recommendations?

Episode 05 had some good action, learned more about Emiya's past. And another servant making her first appearance. Oh Rin and Emiya just be best friends already.

...you got me there @drill. Sorry Inori-chan, but IE doesn't have bookmark sync for my non-Windows smartphone. :'( Would be cool to see similar anime character style adaptations for the other browsers.

Since we're going on about eggs... scrambled eggs are my absolute favourite, though it's definitely more time consuming. Also riskier if you get the milk ratio wrong, too much will make it watery. And too little will make it not as nice.

So what's the difference between a loli and moe anime character? Moe characters I'm not 100% sure but I think both tend to be young characters, though moe characters tend to make you go "Awwhh" a lot more... maybe feelings of a character being innocent and klutzy but youthful with the best of intentions. Yui Hirasawa from K-ON!! Rikka Takansahi from Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai (maybe?) Loli characters Whereas loli characters I tend to think more of being cute too but not quite evoking the same feeling. Just cute, but not enough to make you go "Awwh." Supernatural, fantasy or sci-fi young characters come to mind, though not always the case. Ram and Rom from Hyperdimension Neptunia Animation Iona (I-401) from Arpeggio of Blue Steel -Ars Nova- Discuss, and feel free to correct me.

Absolutely! I reckon Clannad and slice of life anime in general are good for picking up Japanese as the seiyuu have more useful phrases you're likely to use in Japan, as opposed to say a mecha anime title. I know the feeling Pokii-san. When I was in school I had the option to choose Indonesian or German. I chose German which was OK, but I haven't really had the opportunity to speak it since then. @drill, @Pokii - I'm thinking of a crazy project that might be fun. At the end of each basic Japanese topic I learn there are a list of revision vocabulary words and phrases... I was thinking of making some anime screenshot flash cards of them. What do you think? much more likely to remember pictures than romaji alone.

Looking at my old post I finally got around to pruning almost all the icons on my desktop and moving the important ones into my Dropbox. Took the opportunity to change my wallpaper to Inori Aizawa, that Internet Explorer mascot.

Depends on the case, if you're using those really bulky ones with the rubber exoskeltons then they'll definitely absorb the impact on even the most harshest drops. But the screen is usually still exposed so depends on the angle of the drop. Either way, I'm sure you'd agree it's best to avoid dropping your phone in the first place where possible. --- On another note I've gone back to iOS with a new iPhone 6 plus. Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai wallpaper.

Thanks for sharing that @drill, I'm sure many people will find that useful. I don't watch YouTube videos very often, though the Auto HD feature on that extension definitely sounds like a big time saver. Almost every video I manually have to switch the quality because it insists my connection can only support 480p.