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Questions are good things. They are there to get to know others and to find the common ground with each other, with the people we want to love. Well, I would think that the biggest thing I need to learn is to love myself. I think at least. I like lists, I make lists, mainly about anime and manga that I want to read and watch. And sometimes about American books too. My life does revolve around things that I consume. And I do not know if I am fine with that. I would like to fancy myself that I like philosophy, but in truth, I like the idea of philosophy. In the sense, philosophy means the love of knowledge, because we cannot know everything. So we need to start with things that we do not know, even though there are many famous figures in philosophy, I do not want to read from them. Because the biggest thing that I do not know if myself. And, as I am right now, I am more interested in filling the emptiness in me, if that makes sense. But I like questions. So, I went out and looked for que...
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Conversation starter?

Questions are good things. They are there to get to know others and to find the common ground with each other, with the people we want to love. Well, I would think that the biggest thing I need to learn is to love myself. I think at least. I like lists, I make lists, mainly about anime and manga that I want to read and watch. And sometimes about American books too. My life does revolve around things that I consume. And I do not know if I am fine with that. I would like to fancy myself that I like philosophy, but in truth, I like the idea of philosophy. In the sense, philosophy means the love of knowledge, because we cannot know everything. So we need to start with things that we do not know, even though there are many famous figures in philosophy, I do not want to read from them. Because the biggest thing that I do not know if myself. And, as I am right now, I am more interested in filling the emptiness in me, if that makes sense. But I like questions. So, I went out and looked for que...
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The Eyes of Sora - Chapter review [17-21] "All talk, no action"

Continuation of the chapter review. This is turning into quite the reading journal. [Part 1.] https://runawaysdaydreams.blogspot.com/2020/02/the-eyes-of-sora-chapter-review-1-6.html [Part 2.] https://runawaysdaydreams.blogspot.com/2020/03/the-eyes-of-sora-chapter-review-7-16-i.html Sadly as we go further, the more confusing things are getting. The author doesn't need to hold your hands, but there are problems when you are getting lost in the sea of explanations and info-dumping. The problem is that everyone here seemingly knows everything and the one who doesn't, meaning Kanghee, who is trying to uncover things is getting the least of the screen time. Because of this, when it comes to the supernatural we, the audience can't really fall in the same step with Sora. Interestingly, now that I think about it Mushishi had done this a little bit better. There we had followed Ginko, he knew everything but us, the audience wasn't lost. We weren't really held by the hand an...
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A Boy Who Fishes Dreams - review

Score: 8/10 "This one shot has won 3rd spot of Daewon manhwa contest, and thus the author has a high(er) chance of being employed by Issue magazine." (Source: Sura's Place) This is a one-shot made by Hannah-hye, serialized in Daiwon in 2012. ☾ The art is a little bit off, I can't really put my hands on it, but the characters are a little bit stiff looking. But this is something that can be accepted from someone who only has one worked credited to them yet - this may be the creator's first work. But there is a lot of potential in them, just by seeing how they are leading the story. The background is actually okay, the scenes are well set. ☾ The story is about two boys who are in employment in an illegal dream recording business. They are giving hope to people whit recording their dreams and playing it back to them via nanotechnology. This is a futuristic technology that was banned because of criminals using it to blackmail people, which I can see happening even tho...
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Sharpen Blade [app game][review]

Sharpen Blade was made by ZPLAY Games and it is an actually quite good and cute game. It is addicting, even though it is hard to talk about it or to give a proper review of it. The basic idea to it is that you are a blacksmith making weapons. You are making the same time of four weapons and then a key to unlock a treasure chest. The levels are usually bulked into fives, meaning that you go through four levels between keys, every key is the fifth in line. This gives a good structure to the game. It is easy to manage and making the swords is not frustrating. I would say that it is a little bit too easy seeing the costumers' threshold lever. I am usually used to a higher one, but I only had played through 50 levels, like I usually do. For that 50 levels, keeping the threshold there is a good decision, but I hadn't seen any change in difficulty as the game progresses. Rating:  ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ All in all, it is a well put together game that I can recommend. The buzzing does make my hand g...
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Chores! - Spring into Cleaning [app game review]

Rate:  ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ This game was made by Lion Studios and it is a beautiful game, the 3D graphics are really good. The problem that sometimes it is hard to control and get the game to do what you want to do. But it is easy to get bored off it. As it stands now it is a game that is in the middle, and it is hard to recommend. I think that giving it a try never bothered anyone, however, the ads can be troublesome. It is not well implemented and it often feels like I am watching more apps than I am playing the game. There are no levels, you do three yours then get paid. You need money for your bedroom (which is a great way to abuse your children, strip their room bare and made them work for their furniture, I would have made the kid spend money on things that children are interested in: candy, toys, comics, games, etc.). Before you can start, you need to watch an ad, then between each game, there is another ad, and you can multiply what you earn if you beg your mother and watch another a...
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Domino Smash [app game review] (* ￣︿￣)~Meh...

Rating:  ★ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ This game was meant to be relaxing, but it ends up boring me in a sense. There is no problem with the advertisement, I, however, felt other parts of the game implemented in really gimmicky and only being in the game because other games have it as well. Like collecting keys and getting to unlock new skins. There is no such need in this kind of game, or if it is, then it was implemented badly. You make one move per game, starting the ball, there is no other interaction and I am fine with that, that's what I had come for. It is nice to see bonus content, but it doesn't work here, sadly. It was made by Gismart. To be fair, I only had played it up until level 25. I can't recommend this app to others.
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Kawaii Home Design - Decor & Fashion Game - sneak peek review

Kawaii Home Design - Decor & Fashion Game is made by ONESOFT. I only played the tutorial, and I can see that this is a highly rated game, however, it is simply not for me. This game is not that beginner-friendly, and when it comes to making the rooms, there aren't that many chances to get started. The tutorial takes you on a spin, and it explains a lot of things, however, I can be really frustrating and fast. However, I won't leave a star review on this one, at least not on their page, I don't want to pull it down when I don't feel that my review would be useful, or my rating would be fair. I think that people who understand it and like it can enjoy it. There is content here, and I can recommend it. Rating:  ★ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
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Chichi to Hige Gorira to Watashi - manga review "Happily crying"

Score: 10/10 This story is not really for everyone, mainly because it is a slice of life story, full of funny little moments and it is not that dramatic. The drama is well balanced out with the comedy element making the characters sympathetic and nice. The story is not without its flaws, there are some things that I can't stand in it, however, these things are something that is never like in anything so I rarely take away points from a story for including these things. These are the implication that your happily ever after comes with marriage, however, this is how the characters are set up from day one, so I kind of saw it coming. Here, I can imagine that marriage is these characters happy ever after, and not something that is made into a universal truth. The characters are strongly written in that sense. "After losing her mother to a traffic accident, 5-year old tomboy Michiru finds a "suspicious person" moving into her home: her father's younger brother Kouji, ...
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Lock You Up - [Chapter review][1-9] "A real slow burn"

"Ordinary high school student Lu Qing Yu and the elegant university teaching assistant, Cheng Jing. Their encounters were definitely not by chance or just a coincidence. Due to their previous generation's old grudges and grievances had made them unable to live tranquility and peacefully. He, who took great pains and had ransacked his brain over trying to make the star fall from the sky, but was enthralled and mesmerized by the star instead; The other him who was ignorant, trusted him wholeheartedly and faithfully, staying completely oblivious to the fact that this was all just a trap meticulously and carefully designed especially for him..." - mangaupdates.com This manhua is still currently being translated, so I thought about doing some chapter reviews as I catch up with it. As I experienced it, it is a fast read and the plot doesn't pull any punches. Originally it is already completed with 93 chapters. The creators to Lock You Up are 2y and Wei Lan Shen Ye, who are ...
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Liebling! - Chapter review [18+ sexual content][1-6]

Liebling! is a manhwa written by Kim Nuruk, originally published on Toomics in 2018 and it is a still ongoing series that is being published and translated to English. The art is not something that I like, and the coloring is rather interesting. It often seems like every other manhwa's art style. I don't really like the bara art style, muscular men are not my niche. However, I will continue it. It is hard to recommend it, I would like to say that if you give it a try you will figure out if you like it by chapter 3 or not. Chapter 1 + 2 + 3 and kind of 4: The story is nothing that interesting, it is a classic "someone from the old world comes into our modern one" but this time it involves an older man, captain of the knights, Leopold. Leopold is serving Noah Sinsheim who is going to be the first King of the Romans from this bloodline, and he is getting married to Charlotte, who is considered a witch. Romance is in the air. However, Charlotte is being targetted by bloo...
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Modern Wizard Hunting Project - Chapter Review [1-5]

Modern Wizard Hunting Project was written by Luma and drawn by Xiyuer and it is an ongoing modern fantasy. There is little information that can be found about it as of now. "As a witch (male), our protagonist has lived for 168 years and chosen to remain far away from the humans, living on his own until now. Of course, he has never started a romantic relationship, but one day, a super handsome golden-haired male came to his workplace and randomly started to court him! How should this gloomy little wizard react?" - description from mangaupdate.com The art is fantastic, it is cute and beautiful! I can recommend it if you want to read about something nice and beautiful, the character designs are more on the bishounen side of things. It is more on the brighter side, it does surprise me how the coloring of these web manhuas' and manhwas' can use super bright colors. Sometimes the expressions can look strange, but for me, it is easy to get over it. This is definitely not a d...
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The Eyes of Sora - Chapter review [7-16]: "I am confused..."

Continuation of The Eyes of Sora reading that I am doing. This story is starting to turn out like a real slow burn. There is shounen-ai promised, but it is nowhere in sight right now. There are other elements like drama and tragedy that come in, the other genres that this is in and you can see it more rather than the shounen-ai aspect of it. There are some problems with understanding what is going on or how the writer leads the story. You kind of feel lost, but it is starting to build up towards something big. Score: 7/10 [Part 1.] https://runawaysdaydreams.blogspot.com/2020/02/the-eyes-of-sora-chapter-review-1-6.html Chapter 7 + 8 + 9: They are again talking about this idea that Sora's eyes see more and are special. Because of that, he will have more problems with the spirits. Jeongha doesn't want Sora doing anything behind his back, but Sora still decides to help Kanghee's friend. The chapters start to get a little bit tedious to read. Honestly, I am more interested in Je...
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100% Renewable Energy review "Just a short review..."

"Short film directed by Kubo Amika and sponsored by WWF Japan as part of their campaign to move Japan away from nuclear energy and towards the use of renewable energy." - myanimelist.net Score: 6/10 This was made in 2012 and it was classified as a special. I always hate to do something like this, but this animation sadly for me didn't really work. The message is really important, especially at a time like this, turning towards much more healthier energy is important, but I would have imagined something a little bit longer. The timing at these things is really important, things can fall or stand on them, especially when we are talking about advertising. Because this is an advertisement, at least messages like these come down to the people as such. Here we are advertising, trying to bring attention to green energy and to a better solution, it should have been longer. However, this was between Kubo Amika's first works, she has other short animations where she is listed a...
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My Coloring: 3D Pixel Art Diorama review "Surprisingly infuriating" o(≧口≦)o

This game looks promising at first glance. However, it becomes infuriating really quickly. This game was made by Buff Studio Co., Ltd. Let me explain. This is a game where you paint small figures pixel by pixel, it is really relaxing. The first ones are for free, then it comes to the point when you need to watch ads with every time you want to color your next model. The problem is that there are more ads in one diorama. Building in your ads is an art of its own, especially if you want to make your game free. But there is a better way than making you want to quit the game. And I can see that there is the heart in this game, even though that after a while the well-meaning messages that you get after completing a model are quite nice but they get on my mind after a while. They just seem empty in some strange way. Rating:  ★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆ Can I recommend this to others? Yes, I can't rate it high, but I think you should try it out. I deleted it since I had worries that it takes too much space...
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Rakshasa Li San [manhua review]

Rakshasa Li San was made by Liu Mu Qiao and it is a one-shot that had won 3rd place in an amateur contest on Kuaikan Manhua. It is a nice story about two men wandering around working around for small money. The art is fantastic and beautiful, the characters are well designed, even though, some of the side characters, who weren't put that much thought into looks strange from time to time, however, it doesn't affect the enjoyment of the manhua. They are invited in for a request from the lord of the Wei Manor, an arrogant man who believes he can get anything. And he wants something that our main characters have that is rumored that it cannot be bought by money. But the lord believes that he can have anything if he offers a price high enough. [Spoiler: The ending of this is satisfying. The Wei lord things that the man is the fabled Rakshasa Li San, who is traveling around under a false name, and has a demon that he keeps with him. This demon is the sick kid with albinism who loves ...
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