Yes, it’s finally here – for those of us that can understand Japanese. Final Fantasy XIII was released in Japan on the 17th of this month.

I was debating whether or not to order a copy from Play-Asia and play through the Japanese version, but I opted not to after watching a stream of the game. I didn’t want to miss out on the dialogue and plot, but too bad the North American version won’t include the Japanese voices.

The battle system looks like fun, with a lot of customization and paradigm shifts. Anyone here already playing the game?

March 9th couldn’t come any sooner.

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My pencil of choice is the Pentel Graph 1000 for Pro. I heard about it over at MegaTokyo ages ago.

I have been using my current Graph 1000 for around 3.5 years now, which is since the start of college. My previous one I used for 4 years throughout all of high school, but it got lost.

Unfortunately, this model is discontinued now and replaced with the Graph Gear 1000. I prefer the old version and I’ll probably pick up some spares when I find them.

But seriously, just shell out $20 and get yourself a mechanical pencil that can last you for a decade or longer.

It’s time for us students to take our finals. Mine are next week.

I should really start studying soon, but I get sleepy once I start reading textbooks. I have to build up motivation to go on a studying spree.

Good luck on finals everyone!

Or if you are already done, enjoy your break. =(

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I recently marathoned Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood to catch up, and it was epic. I like it more than the first series so far.

The image above shows two of the new characters that are from the country of Xing, aka China.

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I was chatting with my friends on Ventrilo and we started discussing the Japan trip we hope to go on some time next summer. The current group we have going is 5 of us: my brother, 3 friends, and myself.

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There seems to be a lot of chatter today on the anime blogosphere about Bandai’s announcement of a new Code Geass Project for 2010. I saw posts about this both on Sankaku Complex and zotaku.

While a Code Geass Project could mean many things, I hope this project is actually another season of Code Geass continuing from where R2 left off.

*SPOILER* Discussion below regarding Code Geass R2.

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I picked up Dragon Age: Origins for the PC during Black Friday and finally got around to playing it for a few hours tonight.

This game feels very similar to Neverwinter Nights and in some regards is WoW-like – especially when using WASD movement. My main character is an Elven Mage: I always choose to play the magic classes if possible.

The main storyline seems a bit stereotypical but that does not take away from the game. I have been a fan of BioWare games since Baldur’s Gate, and this is no exception.

I am looking forward to spending 100+ hours or whatever is needed to fully complete the game, and then messing around with the toolkit that allows users to create their own content.

As I was looking around on AniDB while writing my Winter season preview post, I saw that there will be a Fate/stay night TV remake consisting of 2 OVAs being released around the same time that the movie airs (1/23/2010).

There will be some new animation that includes a newly animated opening and also new ending theme songs.

I personally have not seen the Fate/stay night TV series in ages, so this will be a nice refresher.

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Durarara!!

This is the series I’m most looking forward to next season. It’s supposed to be a “distorted love story” based on a light novel series by Ryohgo Narita. He also wrote Baccano!, which was adapted into an anime and was highly enjoyable for me.

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As usual, I stayed home and just surfed online for deals during this year’s Black Friday.

From what I saw, the deals weren’t that hot and I’ve seen better ones throughout the year on Slickdeals.

So far I picked up a CPU/Motherboard combo over at Newegg and a 1 TB hard drive on Amazon. Need to find some more parts so I can build a decent budget system. Hopefully Cyber Monday will have some good deals.