Bookshelf

[tamakun]

A little discussion with ravenworks on Twitter came up a couple of days ago, where he was musing about how Bookshelves are an interesting collection of a person's interests. As such, I thought it would be amusing to take pictures of my bookshelf so you can peruse it.

Feel free to ask me about any of the books I have on the shelf. And yes, feel free to ask about any books that don't have names on the spine or are blocked by the sheen. :)







...and these three are the second row of books on the top three levels:

Comments

[bridgeportcat.livejournal.com]

WONDER PROJECT J!

[tamakun.livejournal.com]

Way back when Wonder Project J2 had been released, I was all about finding the strange and obscure video games (and I still am). I had heard about Wonder Project J2 (http://membres.multimania.fr/wonderproject/) first, and if I remember correctly, I had found it and had a Japanese friend of kinnonyee helped me out a bit on some of the more difficult parts to understand.

I love that you never controlled Pino (or Josette) directly, but you taught them, and the final challenge of the game consisted of not even touching the controller and letting them run through their programming! The only problem I had with J2 was when she would start asking questions, with my complete lack of Japanese, I had to resort to walkthroughs (especially with the choose-your-own-adventure book in the game).

I was completely amused by some of the reactions you could get out of Pino and Josette, such as Pino trying to eat the ball (followed by the reaction when you whacked him over the head with a mallet).

I'm completely blanking on where I picked this up, but seeing that I see a sticker with English written on it, I get this feeling I grabbed it through eBay. ^^

Wait, did someone fan-translate (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFBn7yoUzDc&t=1m09s) the game? o.o And for J2 (http://www.seiyuu.info/wpj2/) as well! New project! A WONDER PROJECT!

[bridgeportcat.livejournal.com]

yeah, I played the fan translation a while back and loved it. Such a good game, and pino is a fantastic robot!

[ravenworks.livejournal.com]

A second vote for Wonder Project J, and, what's with the golden cassette :D

And I guess since neither of those are books- what's that Gorillaz book?

[tamakun.livejournal.com]

See above for Wonder Project J (and J2). :)

The Golden Cassette was from my college years - the head of the TV/Radio Broadcasting, Don Gray, had yearly awards to celebrate the "Bests Of", and I received that award for my editing skills (I believe I used Adobe Premiere for a one-minute advertising commercial for anime).

The Gorillaz book, Rise of the Ogre, is the story of how the Gorillaz came to be, told through the Gorillaz themselves. It has a lot of interviews with other musicians and lots of real-world locations, and lots of interviews and commentary. It covers everything up to their Demon Days release (so, up to about 2005). It's an amusing read but I never got through it all - considering it's got lots of pictures, it's also got lots of text. I should've brought this up to the cottage!