Love and Berry: Dress Up and Dance! is an arcade game available exclusively at Q Power Station. My 3-year old daughter Keirra is sooo crazy about this.

One game costs 28 pesos. Swiping your power card on the terminal activates the game and a fashion magic card is dispensed. You can get either a Hair and Make-Up card, Dress Up Card, Footwear Card, or Special Item Card (the rarest of all). The player chooses either Love (brown-haired girl) or Berry (black-haired girl) as her character and proceeds to swipe the fashion magic cards she has on hand to dress up Love and Berry for the venue of choice. You can go to the seaside, the disco, the ball, fashion street, street court... but you have to dress appropriately to get max points. After dressing up, you get to dance in your chosen venue by pressing the buttons in time to the beat of the music.

It's a very simple game but the graphics are very pretty and anime-sque. My daughter loves collecting the cards and dressing up Love and Berry in the arcade. The down sides to this are you can't play at home (although in Japan there is a Nintendo DS version which has a peripheral which reads the fashion magic cards) and the game does cost 28 pesos a pop.

So kikay... :D

   Rurouni Kenshin's Shishio Makoto is my all-time favorite anime character, even if I did name my son Kenshin. Naming him Shishio would surely elicit ridicule in school because Shishio is just too exotic a name for the Philippine society. I did consider naming him Soujirou though, after Shishio's prodigy Soujirou Seta who is my 2nd fave. In the end Kenshin won because it was the easiest to spell and pronounce.

   Shishio Makoto's mantra has always been "Survival of the fittest, the strong shall live and the weak shall die." I share his belief. There is no place in this harsh world for the weak. It just suddenly occured to me today. I don't know why. Perhaps it is because I feel it is applicable in my daily life somehow.

 

 

 

 

I'm now finalizing the payment details for my website. It's the last hurrah so to speak. Can't really complain though it was fun while it lasted, it brought me a lot more than just extra cash there was also more than a mere 15 minutes of fame in the online anime circuit, and I even got quoted in several American anime DVD covers, boxes, and stores. I had somehow proved to myself I could make something out of nothing.

I will divulge the rest of the new ownership details when the deal is sealed. I'll probably write a goodbye letter and an endorsement for the new owner...

Maybe next time I'll start a website about baby products or toys or whatever... I don't know. I'm definitely not gonna put up any more adult content though, even if sex does sell. I think I've seen one to many hentai anime and played one too many bishoujo games. I'll probably pass on my vast collection of original anime DVDs to my children. I even have a Fushigi Yuugi limited edition boxed set autographed by Yuu Watase herself... that should be worth a lot when my children are old enough to understand the anime.

As one of my friends said, it's like the end of an era. My husband told me I told him long ago that I would never get tired of anime, of reviewing, and of maintaining my site. Seems I was wrong.

I'm still nuts over video games though, but a video game review site is out of the question!!!

Since 1999 I've been working on anime reviews at my site Animetric.com. I eventually added hentai anime and bishoujo games, and I have more than 450 reviews online at present.

Lately though I can't bring myself to watch any type of anime much less play bishoujo games. I get pissed off every time my monthly server bill arrives. My interests have shifted, and my time is now divided differently. It's definitely time to let go.

Thus I've posted a "for sale" sign on my site's main page. So far the site has supported itself and even earned some cash for me over the years through affiliate programs, but as things go, if things continue as they are -- me not updating and all, it's gonna die.

Hopefully someone will pick it up and continue the work I've started. So far I have a couple of serious offers and maybe soon it will be sold... seriously though, it's like raising a child and letting it go.