Distant Worlds: music from Final Fantasy will be in Toronto

For those who live in Toronto and nearby area and an avid Final Fantasy series or even a fan of Nobue Uematsu, you may want to mark your calendar on November 27th, 2010 as Distant Worlds: music from Final Fantasy symphony concert world tour will perform at Sony Centre for the Performing Arts this year in Downtown Toronto. For those who live outside Canada, check out their upcoming events as they may come to your cities.

Ticket can be booked from ticketmaster.ca and it ranges from $35 to $125 depending where the seats are located.

Ticket price by seats:

• ORCHESTRA : CA $83.50 – CA $123.50
• MEZZANINE : CA $98.50
• BALCONY: CA $35.00 – CA $83.50

My friends who happened to attend Dear Friends concert couple years ago told me that they really enjoyed it and it’s totally  worth every penny spent ^^;;.

Here is the full list of songs. They are in no particular order and it may be subjected to change. I am hoping that they can add more theme songs from FFXI since that’s probably the longest Final Fantasy game that I’ve ever played.

1. FINAL FANTASY series: Main Theme

Main Theme

Swing de Chocobo (the theme song that keeps me company while I am doing a mini game of Chocobo digging ^^;;)

2. FINAL FANTASY I-III: Medley

3. FINAL FANTASY IV: Theme of Love

4. FINAL FANTASY V: Dear Friends

5. FINAL FANTASY VI: Opera “Maria and Draco”

6. FINAL FANTASY VII: One-Winged Angel, Opening – Bombing Mission, Aerith’s Theme

One-Winged Angel

Opening – Bombing Mission

Aerith’s Theme (is this everyone’s favourite ? )

7. FINAL FANTASY VIII: Liberi Fatali, Fisherman’s Horizon, Love Grows, Don’t be Afraid

Liberi Fatali

Fisherman’s Horizon

Love Grows

Don’t be Afraid (FFVIII battle theme song if I am not mistaken)

8. FINAL FANTASY IX: Vamo’ alla Flamenco (lol reminds me of funny scene in FFIX. See the youtube video to refresh your memory)

9. FINAL FANTASY X: To Zanarkand (never play FFX but I enjoy this song a lot)

10. FINAL FANTASY XI: Memoro de la Stono – Distant Worlds (This is the theme song from the final cs in Chains of Promethia(CoP) Expansion pack. It reminds me of  staying late until like 4am in the morning and tried to beat those ridiculously hard CoP missions (SE made them easy afterward ^^;;)

Ronfaure (not part of their list but it was played during some of Distant Worlds concert)

It’s hard to believe that a game series like Final Fantasy lasts as long as FFXIV but with high quality music composed by maestro Nobuo Uematsu, it becomes one of the appealing factor to all major Final Fantasy branding (with some exception of course as he is not involved in FFXIII in order to work FFXIV). Gameplay, Music/Theme songs and Storyline become what defines a good RPG is.

Listening those songs bring back those memories playing those games. I still remembered how I used to play FFVII and FFVIII while my parents weren’t at home, otherwise, they would have told me to stop ^^. Or all those good time staying up late with fellow linkshell (guild) members doing CoP missions. We were waiting for our 2-hr ability (a special ability for a job that can be only be used once every 2 hour) to cool down in order to give the mission another try.

If this concert happens to be around your neighbourhood, will you go regardless ticket price ? and even if you are not a FF fan, will you still go ?

Broken Figures :(

My figure wall shelves that I bought from IKEA fell down couple days ago. 2 of my figures become a victim and part of the figures broke -_-;;. Those two are Queen’s Gate Alice and Asa Shigure. Queen’s Gate Alice is one of my rare figure since it’s hard to get another one with reasonable price, on the other hand,  Asa Shigure is my favourite character from Shuffle!

For Alice, her tail broke , since she fell from quite a height and fortunately, her tail is the only thing that’s broken.

Does anyone have experiences in fixing broken figures ? I am thinking to glue them back together but highly doubt she will ever look the same as before.

I had 2 shelves in my living room and put them above my tv. Luckily enough, my tv is not close to the wall so there’s some space between the wall and the tv, hence why, the two fallen shelves didn’t hit my TV. Otherwise, I am so gonna very cry if my tv breaks since I spend most of my time in my living room, in front of my tv.

The top shelf fell down first and it hit the bottom shelf. Even though the two weren’t that far apart , but, the force was enough to cause the bottom shelf to fall down also 😦

My guess was that the bolts are not long enough to support the weight of the shelf and not to mention, the wall is not exactly made from bricks -_-;;. I only put 4 figures per shelf so all of them shouldn’t be that heavy.

For Asa Shigure, her was detached from her hand -_-. I like this figure a lot since she is my favourite character in Shuffle! and I did a nice out door photoshoot last year with her.

She may be easier to fix than Alice but you never know since I have no idea where to start other than buying a glue.

Anyone knows what kind of glue/tools should I use ? what brand  and where to get it (in Toronto, Canada) ?

If anyone has any tips and tricks on how to fix broken figures, please let me know >.<

Buying another Asa figure is not really an option since she is most likely out of stock everywhere and even if she is in stock, she is probably overpriced.

Does any of your figures break ? how did it happen ? did you buy a new one or did you attempt to fix it ?

March Toronto Anime Convention 2010

An overdue post about March Toronto Anime Convention which was happening on March 20-21, 2010. It was held by the same people who held annual Fan Expo on August and December Toronto Anime Convention (DTAC).

MTAC, DTAC and Fan Expo are always held at Metro Toronto Convention Center at Front Street West.

As I arrived at the location of MTAC, I was greeted by fellow otaku cosplayed as Kinoshita Hideyoshi. He is no other than Rin from koiaichaku.com. Awesome cosplay ^^b. It’s nicely done.

Since it’s a small convention, there weren’t many cosplayers that caught my eyes, however, there’s no way I would miss C.C.

Saw this another nice cosplay of Yuna from FFX-2 and Link.

One of my favourite cosplay during MTAC 2010. The guy from Left 4 Dead game. Does anyone L4D or L4D 2 ?

Crowds at March Toronto Anime Convention 2010

Taokaka from BlazBlue game. Very nice cosplay.

Rin owned everyone in “Anime that tune” (well not really, since the girl beside him was only 4 points behind), although, he couldn’t remember the ED of King of Bandit, Jing.

Another round of “Anime that Tune” game. Bridget decided to participate but the guy in the middle won.

Final round, the girl in the middle knows a lot so no surprise that she won this round.

My favourite Allen from D.Gray-man cosplayer that I always see in most anime conventions around Toronto. I saw him last year at MTAC 2009.

Megurine Luka from Vocaloid. I saw her at Anime North last year and her cosplay is always great.

Dealer room is always crowded. When’s ever not crowded anyways ^^?

Lacus Clyne in kimono. So kawaii….. ^^

It wouldn’t be anime convention without Chii from Chobits ^^, would it ?

Double Kinoshita Hideyoshi? Which one is the real one ?

Name this character ^^:;. I don’t play enough Zelda games >.<

Name these characters. I have no idea which series they are from. Beatrice and Battler Ushiromiya from Umineko no Naku Koro Ni (Credit to Katakara).

Thoughts

MTAC and DTAC are always a small convention but it’s always a great reason to cosplay for those who enjoys cosplaying and for me, I was just glad that I was finally able to go out of my place and not working. Working for 3 straight weekends was very tiring and not to mentioned homeworks and quizzes so it was a great way to relax and refresh my self up.

Claymore Chapter 102 : The Akuma that Swooped Down

Claymore chapter 102 has come upon us. Scanlation was slightly late than usual on onemanga.com but rest assured, it’s here and everyone is happy ^^. Continuing from previous chapter, Dietrich appears before Cynthia and Uma. Even though she was a single digit warrior, I was thinking that she would not be much help fighting those opponents since they are just too many of them.

Well…. being a smart girl that she is, she brings the whole troop of Abyssal Eaters along with her unexpectedly.

They both seem to be evenly match at first but Abyssal Eaters have the upper hand later on from the look of it. Theirs’ regeneration ability is second to none in my opinion which gives them an advantage in this major brawl.

Despite losing its lower body parts, it can still regenerate as if it was nothing. Who would have though that abyssal eaters turned out to be useful. It’s mystery how Dietrich managed to lure them here because she said that they lost track of a scent and these abyssal eaters don’t differentiate between friends and foes. They just destroy everything on their path. So anyone has theory how she managed to lure them ?

In addition, abyssal eaters are immune to parasites and they cannot be taken over by those spears.

Abyssal eaters ignore those spears embedded on their body and keep eating since their consciousness was taken away from them and they are free to eat anything they want. In a sense, they only have an intense hunger for the target. How did Dietrich manage to remove their consciousness ? It would not be an easy task considering abyssal eaters are just some wild animals and she mentioned that she got demoted because she failed her last mission so I highly doubt that the organization gave her the ability to control these abyssal eaters.

Removing their consciousness disables  the limiter in place on the abyssal eaters. Having a consciousness apparently is a weakness.

Meanwhile, Deneve still desperately tries to escape from Priscilla since all those spears don’t seem to slow her down. She has no choice other than to give Claire to Helen so she concentrates on Priscilla. Winning is not an option here so best she can do is to slow her down and let Clare and Helen escape.

Taking advantage of the Destroyer’s creatures, she slashes them in attempt to slow Priscilla down with those spears but resistance is futile.

Priscilla goes ahead and nothing is stopping her.

Deneve and Helen argue with each other as Helen refuses to run away with Clare as she would rather die together with Deneve than running away.

When all hope seems to fade away, unexpected reinforcement comes at right moment to aid Deneve and Helen. It was not exactly a reinforcement since it’s just Dauff going berserk at Priscilla since she killed Riful

Dauff keeps pounding on Riful in attempt to release him for his grieve of losing Riful.

Priscilla does not stay quiet for long. With one swing, Dauff right arm tears apart.

It’s been a while since she saw Priscilla awakened form (since her fight with Teresa I believe). She is pissed since everyone is getting on her way. I should be interesting to see the full power of awakened Priscilla.

Thoughts

To be honest, I didn’t expect that Abyssal eaters would come to help since when I saw Dietrich in the last chapter, I was expecting those three would run away and somehow managed to survive with the help Dietrich. Now with the help of Abyssal eaters, they are just waiting until those two groups are done fighting then just cleans whatever left over. One point still remains a mystery on how Dietrich manages to control those Abyssal eaters and removes the limiter.

Meanwhile, we may finally be to see the full extend of Priscilla’s strength in the next chapter since throughout the story, she rarely appears in her awakened form. On the other hand, Clare, Deneve and Helen’s chance to survive is going down a hill.

Claymore chapter 102 is available at onemanga.com