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Honkai Impact 3 Review

Game Review : Honkai Impact 3 SEA

Halo gaes, sudah lama sekali gua nggak posting game review di Intion ini. Game terakhir yang gua review kalo nggak salah yaitu Hunie Pop, bagi yang belum baca silakhan klik di sini (review in english).

Sekarang gua mau review game yang nggak kalah "Sexist". Well, meskipun nggak semesum Hunie Pop, Honkai Impact 3 yang baru release server SEA (South East Asia and completely not China! yet) beberapa minggu lalu juga punya poin-poin sebesar dada Jessie yang akan kita bahas di post ini.

Sejak awal announcement mengenai game ini, gua langsung samber pre registrasi dan mulai bisa main satu hari setelah hari release. Baru satu hari, orang-orang yang banyak migrasi dari server-server pendahulu sudah berada di atas. Duduk di tahta top player. Nggak sedikit juga yang sudah pakai karakter kelas A, atau bahkan S walaupun baru satu, dua hari release.

Salah satu trik yang gua pelajari dari orang-orang hardcore ini untuk dapet "head start" yaitu dengan reroll gacha. Pertama-tama, login dengan akun guest, jangan pakai akun facebook. Main story, ikutin tutorialnya (tutorial game mobile itu super nyebelin, super babysitting) sampai poin kita diizinkan untuk mengadu nasib (gacha). Gacha pertama, kita diberikan tiket gratis, dan karena kita sudah menyelesaikan beberapa story dungeon, ada beberapa achievements berhadiah crystal yang bisa kita claim. Menggunakan tiket gratis dan suntikkan crystal di awal, orang-orang hardcore ini melakukan gacha sambil berdo'a. Begitu mendapat karakter yang diinginkan, silakhan bind akunnya ke akun facebook. Kalau belum, silakhan logout, dan login lagi sebagai guest, dan ulang lagi proses sebelumnya. Selamat mengulang.

Masuk ke reviewnya, overall score untuk Honkai Impact 3, sebagai mobile game, gua berikan score 3.6 / 4 Thumbs. Mengingat score google play juga masih tinggi.

Beberapa poin yang ingin gua bahas yaitu :

Karakter yang diperkenalkan di sini cukup menarik. Tipikal harem seperti biasa, yaitu semua karakter perempuan punya spesifikasi masing-masing (Tsundere, Kuudere, Deredere, dll.). Karakter favorit gua yaitu Mei Raiden, khususnya Lightning Empress. Bukan cuma sekadar dere dere nya aja, tapi setiap karakter juga berbeda fighting style nya. Contoh, pertama kita akan diperkenalkan pada Kiana Kaslana, yaitu cewek tsundere pengguna dual pistol tapi pistolnya nggak dipake sama sekali. Kedua kita akan dikenalkan dengan Mei, yaitu ninja yang gerakannya superswift. Tergantung selera masing-masing player, karakter favorit setiap orang bisa berbeda-beda.

Dungeon yang dibagi jadi tiga, dungeon Extra, Story, dan Event. Masih dibagi lagi jadi dungeon co op dan singleplayer. Pembagian begini jadi lebih mudah untuk navigasi, jadi ketika kita mau main dungeon, semua sudah dikelompokkan dalam kategori "Attack". Ada beberapa game mobile yang dungeonnya terpisah satu sama lain, jadi untuk yang belum paham mesti bingung navigasinya.

Co op, fitur co op yang dihadirkan dalam game ini bisa jadi ajang pamer karakter. Di fitur ini juga gua ketemu orang-orang yang sudah bergelimang karakter kelas A dan S. Kekurangan di fitur ini yaitu nggak ada chat, jadi agak sulit untuk komunikasi satu sama lain, terutama soal komposisi tim yang cuma terdiri dari 3 orang. Kekurangan lainnya menurut gua yaitu access limit nya. Untuk bisa main co op kita harus punya entry pass yang dijatah per hari, dan itu gua rasa akan menghilangkan 'replay value' untuk akun-akun yang sudah bersandar di puncak rantai makanan.

Interactive menu dengan segala animasinya, dan terutama karakter yang memberikan respon ketika kita sentuh, dan respon yang diberikan berbeda untuk setiap bagian tubuh yang disentuh dan tingkat love nya. Ketika stamina habis, koin habis, dan crystal habis untuk berjudi, kita bisa menghibur diri dengan menyentuh karakter di bagian-bagian yang tidak akan pernah bisa kita sentuh di dunia nyata(?).

Base, di dalam game ada yang namanya base, fungsinya untuk memeberikan kita penghasilan koin pasif, dan tentu ada juga adventure dimana kita bisa assign karakter-karakter yang nggak dipakai di tim utama untuk pergi mencari resources. Satu hal yang gua bingung, di sini ada option untuk give like, atau commend base orang lain. Masalahnya, base orang dan base kita nggak ada bedanya(?) cuma berbeda level saja, selain itu semua kurang lebih sama persis. Gua nggak tau kalau di server lainnya yang sudah lebih advanced, mungkin ada fitur untuk mendekorasi base? Jadi kita punya alasan solid untuk like base orang lain.

Screenshot yang masih kurang banget kualitasnya. Game fast paced begini memang susah kalau kita mau ambil screenshot pas momen-momen yang mantap. Contoh kita baru ngekill satu musuh dan Mei Raiden membuat pose yang sangat keren gua pengen pamer ke facebook, tapi sayangnya kualitas screenshotnya masih kurang bagus. Gua punya beberapa contoh screenshot ketika lagi di dungeon, masalahnya di sini yaitu nggak ada fitur zoom in, atau semacamnya jadi bisa lebih jelas kelihatan karakternya.

Armada, game online tentu nggak komplit tanpa fitur guild, clan, squad, atau apa lah namanya yang fungsinya mengumpulkan beberapa player dalam satu grup. Fungsi aramada di sini, kita bisa unlock armada shop, ada juga hangaar untuk boss invasion bersama rekan seperjuangan, commission untuk reward-reward kecil, dan treasury untuk request item yang kita perlu ke member lain. Selain itu gua masih belum menemukan fungsi lain. Mungkin bisa ditambah fitu seperti Armada skill? Jadi join dengan satu armada bisa memberikan keuntungan yang signifikan selain sekadar reward berupa materi.

Terakhir, berhubung gua juga main Honkai Impact, dan sedang panas-panasnya, akan sangat menyenangkan jika ada temennya. Kebetulan armada gua, Kunoichi sedang ada lowongan kosong, butuh player yang aktif. Level nggak masalah, yang penting aktif, jadi seeU in game.

Kalo lu suka main game mobile, mungkin lu bakal suka game satu ini.

TOP 3 TWIN SERIES

Copy & Paste Series

Anime Series Overlapping Each Other

So as the title says, this post will be talking about anime series that are overlapping each other, or what I like to call "Twin Series". These series are basically the same story with different characters, and it's just annoying to look at how people have lost creativity. However, it's also kinda fun seeing these twin series competing with each other to be the more popular one.

Copying is not wrong, a great somebody told me that "Inspiration didn't just come out of nowhere, it came from something that's already been made". In this case, anime series trying to become popular, trying to swim to the surface inspired by more popular series in the same genre. A good example of good copying, is SAO and Log Horizon. Both of them talk about MMORPG, and both of them had main characters stuck inside the game. At first glance, it does look like Log Horizon is trying to copy SAO to the core. But if you actually watch the series, you'll find that Log Horizon is not really the same like SAO, so does the other series like Accel World, Overlord, etc.

Another example of good copying is Koutetsujou no Kabaneri. It's obvious that this series is pretty similar to Shingeki no Kyojin. However, KnK has their own unique universe in which instead of giant humanoid creature, the use Kabaneri as the enemy. In SnK, only a group of chosen people who're allowed to go outside the wall, and they're even equipped with maneuver gears while in KnK they use the Koutetsujou, a impenetrable steam train. They're both telling the story about human race survival, and even starting with the exact same story.

Do you get it now? It's basically "You can copy my homework, just change some things a little bit".

Now onto the list :

1. Rakudai Kishi no Cavalry vs Gakusen Toshi Asterisk

This one has the same start, same harem style, same school fighting concept, same tournament concept, and so on. In my opinion, RKnC is obviously better, but for some reason it's really underrated so the twin counterpart got a second season instead (I don't know why). The only difference I can find between them is that Gakusen Toshi Asterisk is progressing in faster pace compared to the twin counterpart.

2. Saijaku Muhai no Bahamut vs Masou Gakuen HxH

Now these are some boobs. Both of them talk about mecha and both of them starting with Infinity Stratos start in where the main guy enters girls only school in a world of girls only system. This guy is a special guy cause he is the only one who can operate the mecha like girls, and also he has a special connection/position in the academy. Like a big sister who's the headmaster or something.

3. Shokomeza vs Saekano

These are basically the exact same anime. Majority of people agreed that Saekano is better, but I can't really tell because apparently I watched Shokomeza first and I didn't even finished watching it. When I started Saekano, it really piss me off how these series have the exact same story. Saekano got second season though, so if you want to watch, I suggest watch Saekano first.

So those are the twin series that are similar to each other. Do you know some more twin series? let me know in the comment, also, which one of these twins do you prefer? Is your opinion go with the majority of people or are you standing by yourself?

If you like top x posts like this, you may also like this Top 5 Waifu!

THE PRINCE AND THE PRINCESS LIVE HAPPILY EVER AFTER

How Romance Story Should Be VS How It Actually Is

Romance : Expectation vs Reality

Quick announcement, I didn't make a post in the past few weeks cause I'm actually working on a project with some friends to create Intion's YouTube channel. We gonna be doing anime reviews and stuffs there so stay tuned if you're interested to see Intion's posts in video.

So back to topic, the reason I suddenly write something like this, is because I just read ReLife up to chapter 205. It wasn't bad, I love chapter 197, if you haven't read it, I suggest opening a new tab and read it right now side by side with this post.

However, just as good as it is, it's also quite frustrating knowing that this series is progressing in a very slow pace. I'm guessing at this rate, they will end during the climax in reader's heart, that is when both test subjects go back to their life and then accidentally or purposefully meet up at some point, eye-to-eye contact, and then the series ended. Classic, really classic. Wanna know which series do exactly the same ending? Kimi no Na wa, Angel Beats, Ano Natsu de Matteru, and many more that I couldn't think of.

To be completely honest, there's nothing wrong with using that cliche as ending. It's just doesn't feel right when you desperately extend a story by adding some more chapters of the characters loitering around, going back and forth, no progression at all just because you have to meet the quota with the ending you want for the story. If the story ends at one point then just end it there. If there's still some quota left, make some extra chapters or something, or just change the ending into something that will work better with given amount of chapters.

I'm talking like I understand anything behind the scene here, but I assure you I don't. I'm just a fellow story writer that got irritated seeing a story like this. So I did some research, and I finally found where this Rom-pocalypse started.

Have you ever heard the sentence "And so, the prince and the princess live happily ever after... "?

That, is the root of all these no-story-after-life things. This sentence is mostly used to end a story, an ancient story like The Beauty and The Beast, Cinderella, etc.

How is this sentence related to today romance anime?

The answer is simple. This powerful sentence gives the author a freedom to not developing the story anymore, they don't have to think about the characters, don't have to think about progression, and so on. This sentence simply put an end that everybody wants, a happy ending to a romance story, and let the author take a leave from the series.

Of course they don't simply say the sentence out loud in the end of a series. They camouflage it into something more acceptable for people. Example #1, Angel Beats. [Spoiler Alert] The end of Angel Beats is basically Kanade and the main guy left in the void while everybody else has already reincarnating. Apparently, Kanade also reincarnate just when the main guy hugged her and that is so sad. However, by happy ending rule, there's an epilogue in where Kanade and the main guy reunited in the real world. It ended when Kanade was about to reach out to the main guy's hand and POOF! That's the "Ever after" sentence.

Still not convinced yet? Example #2 Charlotte. [Spoiler Alert] After going through hard times, collecting power throughout the entire world, the main guy has to be satisfied with a group video. Damn, what a bummer. I mean let's be honest, it'd be nice if the author put an epilogue in where the main guy and the girl together since the romance happened at the end part of the series.

Do you get what I'm saying this whole time? These are endings that gives us a glimpse of what happy ending the characters have when the story ends. Just a piece of it, no more.

Now another good example is Stens: Gate. [Spoiler Alert] The end of Steins: Gate we can see Kyouma encountered Kurisu on his way, and then he acted as if it's a "Unmei no Deai". At this point, the series ended, it is indeed an "Ever After" ending, but apparently they released a Steins: Gate movie that takes time after the main series in which Kyouma and Kurisu already going out together so that's fine. I said that is fine, then the others should be fine too right? Since they might be making another season or movie in the future. Well maybe, but have you seen season 2 of Angel Beats or Ano Natsu de Matteru? Nope.

Another example is from manga, Hadi Girl, my favorite manga back then, ended with 30 or so chapters. After finally being able to confess to the she likes, they ended right when they were about to accidentally kiss each other's lips. So cute yet so annoying.

Final words, there is nothing wrong in simply using "Ever After" ending. That being said, don't go ahead and forcefully extend the chapters of your story to meet the quota and then end it with an "Ever After" while you just loitering around with no progression for 20 chapters. Hadi Girl ended like that cause of the chapters limit, but it's a good time to end use "Ever After" ending and not drawing random chapters where the main couple don't even interact with each other. If, for some reason you really want to use that, then pull a Clannad, or a Tasogare Otome x Amnesia in where the couple become official early and have some after story before it actually ends.

If you're interested in romance manga, check out my scruffy Ano Natsu de Matteru Review!

TSUREDURE BEST GRILL!

Top 5 Tsurezure Children Best Girl

Tsurezure Children

What's up? I'm back from the dead, and I'll tell you how did I go back from being dead.

The answer is one series. Tsuredure Children. This series is a savior above Jesus for me. The first time I saw the manga series, I actually saw an angel descending from the sky... tears flowing down my cheek when I read the stories of idle teenagers. Its just simply beautiful.

But that's the story for another day, this is not a review, this is a top 5 and as we all now, Tsuredure Children consists of many many young couples in the series. That means there's a lot of girls and waifu material in that series. As per usual rules since Nisekoi, we have to vote for the best grill in the series and here we go :

5. Ryouko Kaji

'Sup? Your waifu got last? Well thats normal since Ryouko is basically just your typical tsundere girl in a romance anime. However, Masafumi is the one who actually brings her score up by spicing their relationship. Although I wont deny that she is cute, but she's flat and again, you can find tsundere anywhere in the anime universe.

4. Fuyumi Toda

She's actually on par with the #1 position, she has a unique personality and that's being very dry like a dried fish. Its just so funny seeing this awkward couple doing couple stuffs, and its very sweet seeing she's for once actually being lovey dovey like that one time in the manga.

3. Yuki Minagawa

Being on the attack, Minagawa is a girl who loves to play around with Furuya's feeling. However being a man he is, he returned her feelings and started going out. They're really cute and Minagawa is a good example of a female attacker in a romance series. She did play around but she has a good "pull out" sense to make Furuya admitted his feelings.

2. Patricia Caulfield

Patricia is an airhead. She act by her nature. The author even described her with "her thought process is a mystery". She is an exchange student from America, and everything she's done is just simply funny cause they're spontaneous and stupid. One thing for sure though, she has huge boobs and those are admired by basically every female in the series. Another thing is that her 'sushi' thingy. Do you know what 'sushi' actually means for Patty? comment below (please).

1. Ayaka Kamine

Kamine is simply cute, beautiful, and every single word to describe perfection. She actually very similar to my real life girlfriend. She's very doting towards Gouda, like a spoiled child she is, never back down asking to held hands, hug, kiss, ask Gouda to come over to her room during field trip, and so on. You can see that she really loves Gouda from the bottom for her heart. Gouda on the other hand, also a man-at-arms and never back down on being lovey dovey with Kamine.


Overall, this are Intion's top 5 best grill in Tsurezure Children. Tell us about your best grills in the comment below. If you like this post, you might also like Top 5 Kancolle Shipfus!

SHINGEKI NO KYOJIN COPY???

Anime Review : Koutetsujou no Kabaneri

Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress

 

Koutetsujou no Kabaneri (2016) by Wit Studio. One thing about this anime, it certainly has hype. It definitely came wit a hype among otakus and cosplayers. Though it wasnt a big one, but whatever.

So I started watching this series like two months ago, and a few minutes into the first episode, I concluded the whole series... "It's fucking Attack on Titan."

Truthfully speaking though, the concept really close to the so hyped anime Attack on Titan. The first episode even basically just the exact same progress as AoT and that's really disappointing but hey, it's 2017, nobody has original idea anymore, they need source of inspiration, they need reference. Well at least don't freakin' copy it.

But real talk, after that AoT prolog, everything is different so DON'T WORRY, YOU'RE NOT WATCHING 'THAT' ANIME.

My personal favorite moment is during the first attack on kabane, everyone's panicking, running to safe place somewhere. There's a little girl, about to run away, her mother is waiting in front of the house, but she's busy picking toys to bring with her, that was cute. She was just picking toys to bring with her like normal kids and when she's done her mother got eaten by a titan--I mean kabane. Kinda like Eren's mom huh?

Anyway, aside from the first episode, the rest of the series is fine. I freakin love the concept of the deffensive survival thingies and transporting with basically train fortress, that is just freakin cool and they deliver it very well compared to AoT I think so I'm gonna give this series a score of 3.6/4 Thumbs. It was fine and good to watch, recommended for beginners aswell.

Now onto the characters review, what's good about this anime is that they don't give any surnames for their characters which a unique idea not implemented on every anime, especially AoT.

Character Review

Ikoma, voiced by Tasuku Hatanaka. I like his passion and Eren-like personality. I found it kinda annoying that he's relying more on his gun instead of his cool kabaneri power. But at least he's not Eren. I love how Ikoma's character progression from the beginning to the end, he got a lot of progression which is cool. So in my opinion, this guy worth an A in my book.

Mumei, voiced by Sayaka Senbongi. The cosbait, waifu bait, fap bait, etc, etc. Seriously I have lost count of how many cosplayers are cosplaying her, not counting those who don't watch the series at all. One thing about this girl is she's cute when she's not in her fighting uniform, it's like several seconds in the first episode and then she's done. What I don't like about Mumei is the fact that this character is having a degression. Like the first several episodes she looked really sure of what she's doing, really confident about everything until at some point she started to confuse everything. The reason I call it a degression is because she didn't get the confident she had in the beginning at the end of the series which is sucks. This girl desserves a B in my book.







So that was my Koutetsujou no Kabaneri review, let me know in the comment below if Mumei is your waifu and you feel offended cause your waifu is a trash.
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Just kidding, share this review to those who JUST FINISHED WATCHING the series to avoid spoilers.

Lo Bukan Lo Kalo lagi Laper

Anime Review : Ben-To

Ben-To

 

 

Bento (2011) by David Production. Anime ini bener-bener bagus! Scene fightingnya well animated, jelas sih, namanya genre nya aja martial arts. Hal yang menarik dari anime satu ini yaitu konsep bertanding untuk memperebutkan Bento (bekal) setengah harga. Anak kos, anak rantau direkomendasikan untuk nonton nih anime, pasti feels nya kerasa. Awalnya emang bisa dibilang konyol karena berantem cuma untuk rebutin makanan, dan itu mengingatkan pada sebuah iklan yang cukup viral dengan tagline nya "Lo bukan lo kalo lagi laper.". Semua pasti tau iklan apa itu... yap, iklan sneakers. Anyway, ada waifu baru di sini, dan sangat potensial. Tapi dari semua karakter perempuan yang ada di series nya, yang paling mencolok yaitu Sen Yarizui dan Shaga Ayame. Nanti gua kasih tau siapa waifu baru gua, tapi untuk sekarang gua akan sebutkan kelemahannya. Kelemahan pertama yang paling mencolok yaitu scene yuri. Nantinya akan ada scene yuri + incest yang overdose, padahal genre nya nggak menyebutkan yuri. Kedua yaitu episode yang terlalu pendek. Ya, mereka mengakhiri series nya dengan baik, tapi meninggalkan tanda tanya besar antara hubungan Satou Yoh dengan Sen Yarizui, well, romance memang bukan genre nya juga sih. Sayangnya anime ini underrated, entah kenapa, padahal bagus, mungkin kalo mereka mengurangi adegan yuri nya atau menambahkan tag yuri ke genre nya, anime ini jadi lebih mudah dicapai. Overall score untuk Bento : 3.5/4 Thumbs.

Character Review

 

Sen Yarizui, disuarai oleh Mariya Ise. *suara drum* daaaan inilah waifu baru gua, Sen Yarizui!!!
Ehm, mungkin banyak yang milih Shaga sebagai waifu, tapi nggak, yang nemplok di hati gua yaitu Sen. Kenapa? Pertama, Sen itu cool, calm, collected. Dia menghadapi masalah dengan tenang dan cool. Dua, dia badass. Sen itu kuat, karena itu dia termasuk serigala yang dapat julukan "Ice Witch". Tiga, clumsy. Meskipun cool, calm, collected, rupanya Sen punya sisi clumsy atau ceroboh juga, karena itu dia diberi julukan Ice witch. Empat, jelas, bodynya AAA. Perkembangan karakter slow, ngga begitu terlihat, mungkin karena karakter dasarnya yang melekat dan pakem, tapi pada akhirnya dia terbuka juga kok. Score untuk Sen : A

Satou Yoh, disuarai oleh Hiro Shimono. Pertama-tama, karakter Satou itu memang bagus. Lucu, ceroboh, bodoh, dll. tapi jangan terkecoh dengan karakter badutnya, Satou ini ternyata kuat. Kuat serupa dengan Sen. Awalnya gua ngga menduga kalau orang ini ternyata bisa ngalahin musuh dengan mudah seperti senpai-nya, Sen. Perkembangan Satou dari awal sampai akhir, mungkin yang paling mencolok adalah sisi gay nya. Yup, semakin ke belakang Satou jadi makin gay (spoiler). Score untuk Satou Yoh : B-









Shaga Ayame, disuarai Emiri Katou. Shaga salah satu karakter favorit gua, apalagi VA nya juga ngisi karakter-karakter favorit gua dari series lain. Tapi sayang ngga cukup screen time untuk Shaga supaya jadi waifu gua. Selain itu juga, ada satu hal penting yang mengurangi poin Shaga di mata gua, yaitu baju renang. Di sepisode berapa (lupa), ketika semua ke kolam berenang, jelas ada fanservice dong, di sana kita punya dua primadona, Sen dan Shaga. Ketika gua lihat baju renangnya Sen, "oh yeah!!", namun ketika gua lihat baju renang Shaga, ah biasa aja. Anyway, Shaga termasuk serigala kuat yang punya julukan, dan kekuatannya setara dengan Sen. Perkembangan karakter, gua suka ketika Shaga tau kalo Satou suka sama Sen. Jarang ada rival yang bisa bikin gua ikut rasain kehilangan, dan Shaga termasuk salah satu yang dapat bikin gua merasaakn kehilangan juga. Penanaman karakter terhadap penontonnya bagus. Score untuk Shaga : A


Hana Oshiroi, disuarai Aoi Yuuki. Karakter satu ini gua punya mixed feelings. Satu sisi gua ngga suka hardcore fujoshi nya yang main-mainin karakter utama sehingga jadi yaoi. Tapi di sisi lain ngga bisa dipungkiri kalo dia lucu. Cara dia menggunakan narasi third person untuk membuat pertarungan sengit Satou jadi pertarungan di ranjang dengan laki-laki lain ngga bisa dipungkiri memang lucu. Perkembangan karakter, rasanya ngga terlalu mencolok selain dia menemukan jati dirinya, yaitu penulis cerita yaoi Satou. Score untuk Oshiroi : B

Yup, jadi itu dia review untuk Ben-to, anime ini direkomendasikan untuk yang nyari anime fighting, comedy atau bahkan yuri. Kalau ada pendapat silakhan dikomen, dan jangan lupa share ke temen otaku yang masih baru.

Top 5 Paladins Champions Who Don't Require Skill

Paladins Champions for Beginners

Easy to Play Champions

 

 

Okay so before you're flaming on me, I will admit it that the title is obviously a clickbait. I am currently studying the art of clickbaiting to gain more views. Don't worry, I will put boobs on the thumbnail as well.

So hold your horses, I did say that these champions don't need skill to play with, but what I actually mean is that these champions are perfect for beginners to master before trying out other champions.

First thing first, I love Paladins, and I've been playing it for like, 3 weeks now. If for some reason you want to see my noobness in the game, go and add Axahito as your friend.

Now let's get into the list

1. Tyra

 

 

Don't flame me because I put your bae on the list, the first one on top of that. The reason is, Tyra really one easy champion to play with. Her Q skill throws a freakin molotov and create a puddle of fire that every enemy will try to avoid. This is perfect for beginners who just log on to Paladins  by Hi-Rez. Her F is basically a tank killer which is again, good for beginners. The only downside she has is the fact that she doesn't have any movement skill execpt for her ultimate skill which gives her 40% attack and movement speed, also her rifle will not consume ammo. All you have to do is just pick one nice and comfy spot, then start throwing nades and molotov from that spot. If you're playing in casual mode at least, I'm pretty sure the enemy team won't bother killing you as Tyra cause they don't care. It's just the matter of how good you're to utilize your enemy's ignorance.

Now you may disagree with me, but whatever man, it's my opinion, and of course you have your own opinion as well.

2. Ruckus

 

 

"What?? But Ruckus requires skill to play! Skill to use a good timing for shield, skill to jump around, skill-bla,blabla...."

Okay, I get it. But there's one thing that makes it really easy to use Ruckus. No need to aim. Ruckus has big guns, especially his ulti. With those guns it doesn't even matter wether you're aiming on one enemy or multiple enemies cause you don't have to worry about ammo and stuff. You do need to have a good timing skill to time Ruckus's shield though. Also, Ruckus is good for beginners to learn roles of the game. Like front line, support, flank, etc. With Ruckus, either themselves or their teammates will force them to stay on the point and doing his job.

3. Viktor

 

 

Now who doesn't know this guy? You've seen him in the tutorial so it doesn't even matter anymore, you already know how to play him. Viktor is also typical classic soldier you usually play in games like Call of Duty and Battlefield, it should be difficult to go wrong with Viktor.

4. Skye

 

 

Now if you know me you know that Skye is my bae. I do love Skye, and mainly because her physical appearance.Skye is easy to play and you will be able to kill a lot if you know your role. If you're playing on casual mode, it should be fine using Skye, just play around with your right click and your F, you should be fine. The problem with beginners is they tend to play Skye in the front line. That's completely wrong, unless you are the only one alive in your team and really need to hold the point from the enemy team. But if that's not the situation, then you should go to the back line of the enemy's team and kill their damage dealers.

Kinessa should be your primary target since she's easy to kill and could be dangerous if you let her alive. Other targets should be Viktor, Tyra, theis healers, flankers and finally tanks. Those go in order.

Also, as Skye, when you're invisible, don't try to fight a fight that you can't win. Sometimes maybe you ran into someone while invis-ing to the back line of enemy's team, and they start shooting at you. Depending on who you're facing, but I suggest just stay away. Skye's invis wont gone unless you attack or the duration ends, so it will take a second for you to go invis again after whoever ran into you saw you.

5. Torvald

 

 

Two reasons. One, "wait for my ulti.", and two "I don't know who else to add."


So yeah, those are 5 champions that are easy to play with and recommended for beginners in Paladins. I'm not saying that these champions are shit, or should be nerf-ed or something like that, no. They exist to help beginners getting into the game getting familiar to Paladins meta or some shit. These champions are easy to play, IMHO, but maybe not for you. So leave a comment who's the easiest champion to play, and share this post to your newbie Paladins friend.

*Note : Skye is bae

Hyakku Monogatari [ENGLISH]

100 WAIFU Stories

Hyakku Waifu Monogatari

Uhh... yeah, don't ask me why updating the damn blog now of all time.

This is just a new series I want to start, called 100 WAIFU Stories, in style of 100 Ghost Stories (Hyakku Mongogatari).

For those who don't know, Hyakku Monogatari is Japanese game where you light up one hundred candles in a dark room. You sit forming a circle with your friends, and take turns to tell ghost stories. Each time a story is finished, a candle should be blown. Keep that up until you reach the 100th story. Once the last candle's off, a yokai (ghost) will show up.

So come along and play with me to tell a story about how you meet your waifu, if we're lucky, maybe a waifu will show up once we reach the 100th story. If you're interested to participate, send me a story with the following provisions :

1. Your waifu shall not be the same waifu whose story's already been told before (no same waifu).
2. Use english for your story.

Send your story via e-mail to akahito19eternity@gmail.com

With that being said, I'm gonna tell the first story about how I met my waifu.

Mai's Boob Fondling

2016, the year of hype. Anime, games, technology, like every aspect of my life got all the hype. During winter, there's a certain anime that everyone was talking about, and it started filling up my facebook timeline. As usual, this made me uncomfortable seeing a bunch of cute girls and boner-making gifs flying around.

So once it's finished airing, and all episodes are up, I went ahead and watch it. As you guess, it's called Musaigen no Phantom World (Myriad Colors of Phantom World).

What actually brought me to watch this Godforsaken series is because pictures and gifs of my pretty recent waifu, Mai Kawakami. You see the urban gif that shows Mai during her martial art attack preparation, it got mee too like Hestia's semi nude pics got me to watch Danmachi.

Anyway, so off to the anime, started from episode 1.

The music...

The Colors...

And the part that makes me fall in love right away with Mai....

The boing...

So if you watched Phantom World, the opening starts off with a music, Naked Dive by Screen mode. During the early beat, it showed a various asset of the main girls in the damn harem. There's Mai, Reina, Koito and Kurumi. Each of them has a different asset, Mai with her boobs, Reina with her booty, Koito with her legs and Kurumi is a loli.

What makes me fall in love with Mai is not only because she's extremely beautiful, she has a very beautiful beautiful marks under her eyes, but also that during the op, her boobs bounced in rhyme with the song beat. Well, of course the other's also rhyme with the song, but Mai's is special cause she;s the first one showed up. Like, "hey we should bring people in, let's put a boobs as the very first thing people see in the damn opening." and that workd. For me at least.

Well, she's not actually fondling her boobs, she's just massaging her body to unleash some kind of energy inside her body and apparently it's a thing from china.

So yeah, as the urban legend said, once you see that gif of Mai fondling her body preparing for martial art attack, you'll be sucked in to watch the damn series. Be careful for boners...

Alright so that was my stupid ass story about how I met and fall in love with Mai Kawakami. It might be not as interesting as you guys's stories, so that's why I asked for your story, if you want to join the game and meet a waifu, send me your waifu story.

You're Not You When You're Hungry [ENGLISH]

Anime Review : Ben-To

Ben-To

Ben-To (2011) by David Production. This series is freakin' AWESOME. The fighting scenes are very well animated, obviously, it's a martial arts anime. But still, very awesome. The concept of fighting over half-price convinience store bento is just laughable at first, but as you progress with the story, this is something really serious apparently. Not only saving highschooler's pocket and stomach, the fighting over half priced convinience store bento resembles the 'try hard to achieve' concept, but with bento, it's somehow become comedy. I actually really like the story progression, execpt the overdosed lesbians and crossdressing in the series. I don't know what the author was thinking, but honestly, those lesbian and gay actions should be reduced (though there will be no season 2 since the series itself is not so popular). Anyway, I found a new waifu in this series which makes me think about a certain post on this blog that I haven't updated for 3 weeks but that's beside the point. So many of you guys made Shaga Ayame, the MC's cousin as waifu. To me, she's indeed a potential one. But my choice is Sen Yarizui, the Ice Witch. She's just so beautiful, and strong, and sexy too, just everything you might need. Oh yeah, she's kinda similar to Mai Kawakami. Anyway, this one is base off a light novel, and not that many anime adaptation from a LN is good like this one, so that's a plus. Fanservice is well managed, though the yuri actions are a bit too much. What lacking from this series is too few episodes and a slight romance/drama that doesn't work out. I didn't think that this anime will have a slight chance romance in the story between MC and one of the girls. I really hope they worked out on the LN though. If only they worked out in the anime, it would be awesome, and I'll definitely put this under the 'Legendary Series' category. AND if they reduce the yuri and yaoi actions, I'll give a 4/4. But too bad they didnt, so Overall score is : 3.5 / 4 Thumbs.

Character Review

You Satou, voiced by Shimono Hiro. He is the main character and typical of the idiot one. But honestly, I'm really glad this series is not a harem because the MC will not won anything in the end because harem male leads are pathetic. He's just too damn unlucky hero, but for some reason really strong in the battlefield. Score : A.

Sen Yarizui, voiced by Ise Mariya. As I said, new waifu. She's kinda resembles Ouka from Koko no Uwasa ga El Palacio, it's my current favorite manga and Mai Kawakami from phantom world. But, when Ouka and Mai have a cheerful personality, Sen on the other side posses kinda gloomy and serious personality. Her eyes ir really sharp I love it. She's also strong but unexpectedly clumsy which made her got the title 'Ice Witch'. Sen is also a really caring senpai, plus point for waifu review. Score : A.

Hana Oshiroi, voiced by Yuuki Aoi. I don't like her fujoshi personality. I like how she put comedies throughout the series by somehow narrating stuff, but leading to fujoshi's point of view, that's just oo much. Score : B.

Shaga Ayame, voiced by Katou Emiri. She's the potential waifu that most people will pick. I personally like her too, and she likes the MC which is good. But my policy is to only get one waifu in every series, so that was a really hard decision to choose between Shaga and Sen. But I made up my mind and choose Sen as my new waifu. Sorry, Shaga. Score : A-.

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Light Novel? OK, Anime? NO

Anime Review : Hai to Gensou no Grimgar

Hai to Gensou no Grimgar

Hai to Gensou no Grimgar (2016) by A - 1 Pictures. Hmm, gua belum cek dengan pasti LN-nya, tapi entah kenapa gua bisa yakin kalo pengantaran novelnya jelek. Kenapa? Kalo penulis mungkin ngerti, ketika novel dibuat jadi animasi itu kan harus dibayangkan dulu seperti apa scene-nya, karakternya, dll. Dalam Grimgar, art nya bagus, unique, tapi sayangnya animasi yang ditampilin di anime nya itu banyak yang nggak perlu. Maksudnya ya karena pengantaran novelnya jelek, jadi ketika dianimasikan jadi bingung bagian mana yang perlu dianimasikan dan bagian mana yang nggak. 12 episode itu nggak panjang, dan animatornya harus menyesuaikan LN untuk dijadikan animasi, tapi dalam kasus Grimgar (dan beberapa anime lain), mereka maksa masukin hal-hal yang nggak perlu dianimasikan ke dalam animenya, mungkin untuk menuhin durasi. Gua nggak bisa sebutin contohnya karena males, tapi kalo diperhatiin pasti ada kok scene yang rasanya nggak perlu dianimasikan. Tapi nggak selamanya animasinya buruk, scene fightingnya bagus, special effectnya bagus, cuma itu tadi, packagingnya yang dipaksa. Gua tadi bilang pengantaran LN-nya jelek, tapi gua 100% yakin kalo Hai to Gensou no Grimgar itu jauh lebih bagus kalo dikonsumsi sebagai Light Novel daripada anime. Gua sebenarnya kurang yakin juga apa ini serial animasi atau AMV karena jumlah soundtrack yang gua ga bisa dan ga mau ngitung. Setiap episode deh, pasti ada soundtrack baru lagi. Kekurangan lainnya lagi yaitu di Manato. Siapa yang nangis ketika [SPOILER] Manato mati? Gua sih nggak. Manato mati di awal, dan kalo bagi gua, feelingnya belom kerasa. Mereka dengan nggak jelas masuk ke Grimgar, tiba-tiba jadi temen baik dan tiba-tiba mati satu. Kalo bagi para tokoh mungkin ia feelingnya masuk, tapi bagi penonton mungkin nggak, karena durasinya masih pendek, dan lagi nggak banyak juga scene yang emosional tentang Manato selain melalui PoV MC nya, karena gua yakin novelnya pake First Person. Dunia Grimgar masih abu-abu, nggak jelas, tiba-tiba begini, tau-tau begitu, mungkin di LN-nya di kemudian volume dijelaskan, tapi nggak ada waktu untuk menjelaskan di animenya. Gua asumsikan ini adalah salah satu cerita yang mengadopsi SAO, dan mencoba bikin atmosfir RPG. Tapi sayangnya, SAO itu jelas dunia RPG nya, sementara Grimgar seperti gua bilang, masih abu-abu dan nggak ada cukup episode untuk menjelaskan. Haruskah level kecil ngelawan goblin? Katanya goblin paling lemah, kok susah amat lawannya? Siapa aja yang masuk ke Grimgar? Apa orang-orang yang lain itu player juga atau cuma NPC? Terlalu banyak pertanyaan, terlalu sedikit episode. Score untuk Hai to Gensou no Grimgar : 2.6 / 4 Thumbs.

Character Review

Manato, voiced by Shimazaki Nobunaga. Karakter yang terlalu diworship. Itu aja, personality-nya ok, tapi sebenarnya gua menaruh kecurigaan sama orang ini dari awal, gua emang nggak suka karakter yang baiknya keterlaluan, termasuk karakter utama. Untung matinya cepet. Score : B.

Haruhiro, voiced by Hosoya Yoshimasa. Nggak jarang MC yang memilih jadi rogue dari awal. Haruhiro jadi thief, unsuer RPG nya sudah dikeluarkan dari awal, tapi mereka (penulis) nggak mau jujur kalo ini sbenernya game RPG. Seenggaknya berikan penjelasan sedikit tentang Grimgar di awal, masalah di sini yaitu sudut pandangnya Haruhiro. LN nya ngambil sudut pandang pasti dari Haruhiro (mayoritas), jadi apa yang diketahui sama Haruhiro, ya itulah yang dikasih liat ke penonton. Sebagai MC, okelah gua nggak banyak protes, Haruhiro juga OK kok, nggak lemah-lemah amat, indecisive itu sudah jadi ciri khas semua MC, kemudian terlalu baik juga nggak, bodoh mungkin iya. Score : A-.

Ranta, voiced by Yohino Hiroyuki. Karakter badut, tapi payah. Bukan kemampuan bertarungnya, tapi jokesnya. Ini salah satu kelemahan Hai to Gensou no Grimgar yang mau gua bahas di Ranta, yaitu bad jokes placement. Penempatan joke yang nggak tepat timingnya akhirnya cuma makan durasi. Score : B.

Yume, voiced by Komatsu Mikako. Perempuan ini alasan gua ganti judul Hai to Gensou no Grimgar jadi Grimgar : Pussies Grouped Together to Fight other Pussies + Ass and Boobs Edition! Lagi-lagi, kelemahan dari anime ini yaitu kebanyakan fanservice yang nggak perlu, apalagi mengingat genrenya. Mungkin gua ngerti, maksud dari penempatan fanservice di awal-awal itu untuk menarik penonton, tapi sayang bagi gua itu mengganggu. Sebagai genre Action, Adventure Grimgar menyuguhkan fanservice yang overdose, mending dibuat jadi Ecchi sekalian gitu. Alasan gua ngebahas ini di Yume adalah karena Yume salah satu kontributornya. Kalo personality wise, Yume harusnya jadi salah satu karakter favorite gua, dua juga yang bikin gua mengira kalo bakal ada romance, namun kenyataannya nggak. Oh ya, [SPOILER] ada Kirito x Asuna resemblance di sini antara Haruhiro dan Yume, dan yang gua maksud bener-bener Kirito x Asuna resemblance. Tau pas mereka ngelawan bos pertama di SAO? Selamat datang kembali. Score : A-.

Shihoru, voiced by Terui Haruka. Ini dia primadonyanya Grimgar, mungkin kalo nggak ada dia jadi sedikit yang nonton. Penyumbang fanservice juga, tapi nggak diberikan spotlight, bahkan ketika Manato mati, padahal semua tau kalo dia suka sama Manato. Score : B.

Merry, voiced by Anzai Chika. Waktu Merry pertama dateng, dia bertindak profesional dengan nggak mengobati luka-luka kecil. Itu tindakan profesional untuk menghemat mana, tapi karakter-karakter bloon lainnya maksa dia untuk bertindak seperti 'mantan' mereka, Manato. Masa lalunya Merry juga pahit, jadi wajar kalo dia mengantisipasi itu terulang lagi, dan pastinya trauma ada. Proses Haruhiro melunakkan Merry gua bisa kasih jari kelingking lah, tapi nggak jempol (setidaknya bukan jari tengah). Score : A-.

Moguzo, voiced by Ochiai Fukushi. Karakter favorit gua karena bakatnya ngukir figure dari kayu. Nggak banyak peran, tapi ikut jadi karakter utama. Gua nggak bisa bilang banyak sih karena dia sendiri nggak banyak spotlight, tapi yang jelas dia karakter favorit gua karena tindakannya yang logis, nggak emosional. Score : A-.

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