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The first Moetama was an incredibly fun mix of a visual novel and a quiz game. You were presented with 50 increasingly hard logic based questions and for every 10 you completed you'd unlock a CG image. Moetama Z takes everything from the first and makes it better. Risa and Mimiko are back with more questions (60) and twice more CGs (12). Like the previous game, the questions can get pretty hard (especially to a Gaijin like me....) but now there's a difficulty selector and a hint system to help the player out.

Overall Moetama Z! is an awesome sequel to an already awesome game. Definitely recommended if you like a game that makes you think.

MANAM's Sakura Saki is a manga series about a highschool romance between two students named Yuuki and Saki. Chapter 5 picks up where the previous one left off with Saki staying over at Yuuki's house. They try to keep this secret but when they run into Yuriko, one of Saki's friends, at the convenience store they accidentally let their secret out.

Anyways pretty much everything from the previous volumes applies to this one. The art is good, the characters are charming and endearing and the story is good. There's quite a bit of both humor and drama; the perfect elements for a good highschool love comedy.

Anyways overall Sakura Saki is a great series and I'd definitely recommend everyone pick this volume up along with the rest of them.

MANAM's Sakura Saki is a Highschool Romance story about a Freshman named Yuuki. In volume 4 Yuuki and Saki become closer when they sit and talk together on a bench.

The art is, as usual, pretty good; nothing really has changed at all from the previous volumes style wise aside from some bonus color pages at the end of this volume. The story is starting to get more interesting at this point and I'm genuinely interested at what's going to happen next.

Overall I highly recommend Sakura Saki 4 to anyone whom enjoyed the previous volumes or is looking for a good romance manga.

Panel 100 is a long series of puzzle games where you are given a 60 minute time limit to rearrange a number of pieces in order to complete a picture. The difference between the volumes as far as I can tell is the picture you end up completing. I'd only really recommend this if you really like puzzles, and aren't in it for the art. Though given the cheap price it can't hurt to try it out.

Magical Trouble 1: Strength and Weakness is part 1 in a series of Visual Novels by catlocus. In it a guy named Takumi awakens to find a girl named Tina in his room (After she is somehow warped there in the introduction). In any case I won't spoil anything but the two of them end up having an interesting "adventure" of sorts involving another world, magic, etc...

Anyways, the character art in Magical Trouble is quite good; Tina is very cute to say the least (both during normal dialogue sequences and in CGs). The music is pretty good, a little better than the normal "stock music" that is heard in most VNs I think. Moving on the story is interesting and the characters are quite good. The dialogue can be quite entertaining at times (though a little difficult if your Japanese isn't that good).
The game will probably take a little under 2 hours to read all the way through (it's only part 1 of a series though so it will continue).

Overall I'd recommend Magical Trouble to anyone looking for a good, cheap, VN.

Moetama! is a quiz game with visual novel elements in which you answer questions in order to unlock CGs of the girls featured in the game (Risa and Mimiko) in Sukumizu (School Swimsuits)!!
To start out, the basic character designs of Risa and Mimiko are quite cute. Right from the beginning their dialog is entertaining (including a sarcastic comment about how you should play Love Pl*s if you want to hear your name read out). As for the quiz questions, they can be quite hard, especially if your Japanese isn't good. However if you get past them the CGs you win are very nice.

Overall I'd highly recommend this game to anyone proficient in Japanese and looking for a fun challenge with good rewards.

"Moe Moe Nymph's Moe Moe Cry Voice Collection" is a collection of sound clips wherein a "Fairy" says Moe repeatedly with different feelings put into them (whispering, happy, crying, angry, etc..). The concept is interesting and the voice of said "fairy" is very cute though I think actual talking might be cuter to be honest. Strangely enough I thought the best part was the free talk extra from the voice actress (Kagura Yui is her name I think).

Over all this sound collection is worth getting just for the cute voice, though maybe not the best one out there.

This illustration entitled "Wakeup Girl" is a 1280x1024 JPG which shows a picture of a young, blue haired girl sitting on a bed looking behind her. The girl is very cute and the overall quality of the image is great. No doubt about it; this looks great as a wallpaper.

The only problem really is that you only get 1 CG, though since the quality is so good I'd say it's pretty worth it. In any case I'd recommend this to anyone whose looking for a good wallpaper of a cute girl.

This is the Final I in Aishiro series. It contains Aishiro Firth Last Chapter 1. I enjoyed it. I love the art. The style of drawings are better in quality and similarity to the original characters of Bl*ach when compared to other doujinshi in my personal opinion. Now when it comes to reading the book, it is great as the words appear to be computer typed.

Quality of the images are excellent both jpeg and adobe acrobat document PDF format wise. And because of this, although some words and kanji are hard to make out because of their small sizes at hundred percent magnification, if I magnify them up to two hundred percent, I can see the details of the kanji characters enough to look it up dictionary. (If you are Japanese or are used to reading those characters, you won’t have a problem making them out. I just need really clear detailed resolution for kanji characters so I can look them up.) At two hundred percent magnification, graphic is still intact and wonderful. As for the plot line, it’s a continuation from the Aishiro collection III. It has pairing of Aizen and Hitsugaya. It may disturb some people because in a way, it could be considered shota. Unlike previous chapters in the series, there is no non-consensual sexual scene. I liked it overall.

Manam's Highschool Romance Doujin, Sakura Saki, continues with its 3rd volume. Here Aoi chan comes to terms with the fact that she likes Yuuki.

Like with the previous volumes the art is pretty good. Although I found it to be a little lacking before, the style has started to grow on me. The characters all look quite good. The story and dialogue is quite good, with a good mix of comedy and drama.

In all, Sakura Saki is a great choice of series to read, and volume 3 is a must buy if you already have 1 and 2.