音時雨 ～Regentropfen～

The biggest news that broke my peaceful whole week and made me super upset:
BIOHAZARD 7 IS COMING IN NEXT JANUARY!!

But seems there is no way to play it in 3rd person view!
↑no need to explain...

To be fair,the ambience is good, reminding me Silent Hill 4 and Psycho-Break. I'd assume the "resident evil" written small below the main title is the subtitle, which made this sound like the final story of the entire series.. But still I can't say I like the song, to me it's really dumb and melody-less, although not atonal.
Regardless, this would be a "must-buy" as a main BIO, but now I'm still struggling whether I should...

--No PS3 version isn't an issue.

I almost got the impulse, however, a while later to get a PS4, after knowing the PS4 release of SIREN, in HD!
Yet again I'm re-considering on it, as I've just learned the English version of SIREN doesn't have the Japanese audio.
NO WAY I'd buy it then! At least until it comes out in PSN-JP...
Of course due to the same reason, I refused to buy Fatal Frame series on PS3.
I don't mind English subtitles, or even the reversed X and O buttons (honestly I do mind though), but I never can bear a non-Japanese sound field.
I'm of this type of OCD!
which sometimes saves me money and drag me into depression.

No SIREN 2 in PS2 archives, even in PSN-JP. 愛されてないね、このゲーム。
そりゃそうよ、人（とっくに永井さん）は頑張ってるのに!

Good games are those make you doing over times, and right now, while not being lost in the abandon village in SIREN, I'm re-doing Shadow Hearts for the 3rd time. Not comparable to Bio-series, but THIS IS A RPG, which I usually only do once (with a detailed completion guide)!

New discovery during German study: "schreiben" as in "transcription"!

"Akatsuki" is such an exciting song! I've been looping it over these days and figured out its main melody -- I'm so used to Akiko's modulation but still happy with that it's mostly in the 2-flat g minor (with the rest with 6 sharps, the same as COSMOFLIPS!).
-- I clarify I suddenly liked this song so much isn't because I'm playing too much KanColle!

As I suddenly got a strong impulse to learn Norsk, I would like to at least swallow the most important points in German. Really I was nearly "permanently" pausing it for years, but I decided to resume taking this chance with interest in Norsk, and must believe this time I can make it through.

However, flipping over die Vokabeln in my Deutsch book, I DON'T EVEN BELIEVE I KNOW SO MANY WORDS IN ENGLISH!!! lol

Yet, perhaps the biggest happiness recently in my warm-up overview, I eventually am able to spell "secretary" or "Sekretär"!! -- to make it simple, let me only use English here.
- Secretary = 秘書 = (literally) Secret + Write;
- Secretary -> "secret"."ary";
- so, the connection is obvious!
↑ and meanwhile I also got the idea why most programming languages use ";" as a separator. °ω°

I mentioned I was going to somewhere hot last time, but fortunately, it wasn't that hot as I thought. The rather dry weather was the life saver. If it was humid I'd definitely die in the air of over 30 °C!

Overall it was great (would be even better if I didn't keep falling asleep during the compacted "lectures"). Although listening to others' focuses can indeed open your view, the best experience has to be talking to people who know what you're doing. So that I did gain quite a lot, thanks the guy whose name I failed to catch at the very moment, but I'll figure out later.. ^^;

The happiest moment was to know my poster got an award! While I have to say it here (as I assure none of my fellows knows the existence of this place), I really didn't put much effort to make it. I got the overall framework in a few minutes, organised detailed contents over one evening, then took more or less 3 hours to draw the figures, spent 1 hour and half to get this or that fixed in someone's favour, and finally wrapped up everything, exported into PDF, dumped it to Staples in front of my apartment, rolled up and never ever thought about it again until the very day. Frankly, I never cared.
But I was pleased of course~ :3

おばまけ
Beautiful sunset on our way home, taken at the highway near Lethbridge.

Even though once there's something I want to write down I shall do it immediately before the exact mood drifts away, recently I kept being distracted and couldn't make it.
この点だけにおいてちゃんと謝るわ。 m(_ _)m

I bought my first French Press 2 weeks ago -- without knowing how it's called at that point -- and have been using it every day, for making my green tea.
Of course I know it's supposed for coffee! And indeed I've also done so too!
But the transparent green colour Looks better visually apparently.

So let me say it's an Asian mood with a blend of some French touch~

Speaking of a French sense...
I've claimed lots of ideas regarding to "Chromatique Magicians" back to the end of last year, when I finished "Petits Threes". I figured I wouldn't make it until after February, but never knew it's eventually out in the middle of May! What a slow pace I was in!
Thanks to it, now I finally created the folder "2016". ~_~

As I just said, Chromatique Magicians

Of special attention, this is my first piece done with Clip Studio Paint Pro! （*´▽｀*）

I attempted to use pure French for the title, simply because I like the spelling of "chromatique" over "chromatic"... BUT I don't know how todo it and I don't trust Google translation. I decided to blend this French spelling only.

The initial inspiration was Yuki Kajiura's "magician" from her "Kara no Kyoukai" OST, which is also my favourite piece among the whole series. Perhaps I "dissected" it first, and tried to match my girls with instruments used there: cello, violin, flute, and piano, which naturally guided me on the characters involved: Luminora, Fidelia, Teresha, and Arietta. However, since "these four" are there, there's no reason to also include Mihane too as a "silent vocal", at least for this time only (I really imagine her voice to be . . .)

And as usual I seriously lost while doing the background -- 修行はまだまだ足りんなぁ～せいぜい頑張ろうね！

↑でもさぁ、隠しすぎだろうね、ライナーノーツにならないよね、これ…

Whatever, I've spent a whole evening of last day to redo my next draft, and during this day I've made some progress~

inspired (initial draft done in early February, revised in middle March, and finalised yesterday!) by "tsukikage ni shizumu" composed by my girls' Godmother~~

今回は、華やかに行こうと思って、着物の柄にいろいろ試したんだ。次は背景の検討、ですね。
ちなみに三つ編みは艦娘の能代ちゃんに参考しました！

When this is done, I shall remaster my "Izayoi" as a counterpoint, with the exciting Clip studio!

Tomorrow I'm going to somewhere hot, hope it can go well.

and recently while watching someone playing FF10, I suddenly want to do some Shadow Hearts!