Valkyria Chronicles is an impressively good game. Hailed as one of Sega's masterpieces from the last Gen , the game is truly deserving of the critical acclaim it received. The games is unique in almost every category, gameplay, story, art. In terms of Story , Valkyria Chronicles doesn't blindly jump into the game, but it talks also about the cost of war, which is rare in any game. The story is majorly about welkin and his squad 7 militia who are made up of common folk, this is a story of a man who is a teacher, but rises up to become the hero who saved the nation from its time of crisis. Throughout the story we're treated through a whirlwind of emotions constantly reminding us that War isn't won be battle hardened super soldiers, but by normal citizens who have put their lives on the line to defend the ones they love. In terms of the game's graphics, the beautifully cell shaded characters and narration of the story through the pages of a book gives it an extremely...

10 years ago, I came across an anime which was the most unique show I had ever seen. The show was called spice and wolf, an anime which talked about medivial economics, strategy, politics and among others. With its fantasy twist and an unusual main cast ( Wolf God and Merchant guy), I was immediately in love with the show. I even made a post on the blog about it. http://stupidsamasblog.blogspot.in/2009/09/spice-and-wolf.html?m=1 The show spanned two seasons and OVAs , but unfortunately nothing more was made. The novel on the other hand kept going strongly until it wrapped up recently. So, finally after all these years I have decided to go back to the story and live it to the fullest. 18 full volumes! Dear Holo, I hope it's worth it :)

The Rising of the Shield Hero (盾の勇者の成り上がり Tate no Yuusha no Nariagari) I have never particularly read much light novels before. Or perhaps an official translation at least. My previous attempt never really got me into the genre. So, back in November in a whim I picked up the first volume of " The rising of the shield hero" . I wasn't sure what I was getting into, but for the most...I am glad I did. Light novels have a certain peculiarity to them. They spin, great complex stories, but at the same times isn't too verbose about it's story. This is probably what made me read through all the officially translated 9 volumes available out . The premise iself isn't the most orginal , basically normal guys get summoned as heroes to this Fantasy world which also plays out like an RPG... Sounds like  SAO, eh?  Well, that's where the similarity ends. The protagonist , a.k.a The shield hero, gets framed for rape gets o...

When was the last time I actually shed tears after watching an anime???I guess that was 3 years back when I watched Clannad.In the last 3 years I haven't come across any new anime that would actually leave the same the effect of emoness as clannad.That was until I came across Ano Hana.A 11 episode anime that aired in the spring of 2011,Ano Hana turns out to be the best anime on friendship I've ever seen till date.And yes it even goes past Angel Beats in that category.The anime potrays the feelings of all the characters so beautifully that it probably supercedes the type I have seen in any anime till date.The OP/ED themes are probably the best in the entire season.The ED especially matches the mood of the anime perfectly,and the parts in where it plays as a background music breings out the true emotions of the scenes.The story becomes more and more engaing as the series progresses and towards the end of the anime,I was literally in tears... STORY: 9/10 ANIMATION:8/10

I could probably give a 100  reasons as to why I love Kalafina .This J-pop band remains my personal favorite even though it's popularity can't be compared to mainstream artists like Perfume,Utada hikaru etc.... The live DVD is something that I have been waiting for,ever since it was announced a few months..Thanks to some decent pirate the live's up for download on torrent..^_^ http://nyaatorrents.org/?page=download&tid=180147 P.S Keiko is my waifu.... :P

The 12th of December saw the Birth of the first official anime club of Kolkata.After nearly a month of haggling with the dates on Facebook,we finally managed to choose a date to have our first meet.Many had decided to attend,but some pulled out later with the Facebook event page showed only 7 people attending!Nevertheless we decided to carry on on hold the meet as scheduled.The meet was held on a lazy sunday afternoon at a well known mall Kolkata i.e South City.I arrived there a good half an hour early and made my way to the food court where the meet was supposed to be held.After a bit of searching ,I found the KAC members seated near the KFC outlet.Our club president Nia(Nyaa~Chan as we fondly call her ^_^),was the first to recognise me and I soon enough I found myself seated among a small and dedicated otakuish group.10 mins later and after the arrival of a few more members  we started off our meet dot on time.."Introductions Please" ,as Nia said,and I was the first one to ...

There aren't really too many private trackers out there which cater to jpop music,mostly except for Jpopsuki.The private tracker supposedly has more than a 100,000 members,the only problem being the tracker is closed for registrations most of the time,and by most of the time I mean it's barely open at all!!Registrations open once a year only for 3-4 days around the 9-10th of sep.Other than that new users can only sign up through invites...well the problem is that most of the users who have a few invites to share are mostly faggish and extremely annoying!!!There was this guy who pissed me off to such an extent that I seriously felt like running him over with a steam roller...most of the fucktards act like they own a million dollar lottery ticket which just hit the jackpot..well fuck em'..enough of my rant..if anyone ever feels like inviting me then send me an invite at gandharaj@gmail.com...I might even be obliged!