Just wanting to get on here real quick and say how frustrated I am with things involving this website. But if someone actually cared, I wouldn’t be so frustrated!
So, in turn I’ll be heading to Indianapolis to watch the streaking Indiana Pacers battle the New York Knicks at Conseco Fieldhouse. The Pacers look to improve upon their first 5 game win streak since April of 2005, as they shoot for 6 tonight! The Pacers started the season dropping their first 3 games, but since their last win over the Knicks, they have been looking like a team we haven’t had in a while. Tip-off is at 7:00PM EST. I’m really looking forward to tonight’s game, as I expect Roy Hibbert and Dahntey Jones to have killer games once again, as we beat the Knicks for a second time in two weeks.
Yes, that’s not anime, but I need to go out and enjoy myself, so sports is how I do that!
Ja ne!
November 18, 2009
Quick Entry for Wednesday, November 18, 2009.
November 17, 2009
Anime Courtyard Radio Update: Over An Hour of New Music Added.
New songs added today 11/17/2009:
Carry Me Away by Kagami Seira from Kaiba
Never by Kagami Seira from Kaiba
Light of Dawn by Annabel from Tatakau Shisho -The Book of Bantorra
Wonder Wind by ELISA from Hayate no Gotoku!! (op 1)
Tomare! by Hirano Aya, Chihara Minori, and Gotou Yuuko from Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu S2
LET IT OUT by Fukuhara Miho from Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (ed 2)
Treasure by Honda Mirako, Saito Yuka, Togashi Misuzu, and Horinaka Yuki from Seitokai no Ichizon
Chikaigoto ~Sukoshi Dake Mou Ichido~ by IKU from To Aru Majutsu no Index (ed 2)
One Way Ryou Omoi by Inoue Mirana and Nakajima Megumi from Kampfer
WANTED! for the love by Kitamura Eri, Katou Emiri, Gotou Saori, Makino Yui, and Chihara Minori fomr Needless (ed 2)
Holy Night by Kugumiya Rie and Kitamura Eri from Toradora! (“ed 3″)
Sekka no Shinwa -in X’mas mix- by KOTOKO
Iki wo Shiteru Kanjiteiru by Iijima Mari, Fire Bomber (Fukuyama Yoshiki, Kajiura Chie), May’n, and Nakajima Megumi
Magic Number by Sakamoto Maaya from Kobato
Depends On You by Ayumi Hamasaki from Thousand Arms
Yakusoku wa Iranai by Sakamoto Maaya from The Vision of Escaflowne
Tsukiakari no Michishirube by Stereopony from Darker Than Black -Ryuusei no Gemini-
Bye Bye with COLDFEET by Kagami Seira
Still looking to add a lot more in the upcoming weeks. Please help suggest and request music!
Ja ne!
November 14, 2009
A Kingdom for Keflings coming out for PC

Hello gaming lovers, many of you may have played this title from the Xbox Live Marketplace, one of the popular games letting you use your avatar or a giant to have lil fellas build towns for you, well now the fun is coming over to the PC.
Our contact at Ninjabee Games tell us this will not be a Windows Live release and will not make use of the avatars just the giants, this will be a digital download but no information has been released of the portals offering the game.
Orem, Utah – Nov. 13, 2009 – NinjaBee, a division of Wahoo Studios and a leading independent video games developer, has announced its award-winning Xbox LIVE® Arcade title, A Kingdom for Keflings, is coming to PC.
“Bringing A Kingdom for Keflings to the PC audience has been a priority for us.†said Brent Fox, NinjaBee’s Art Director. “It’s been a runaway hit on XLA and we are offering the same, high-quality game on the PC. We are proud and we’re excited to finally make it available to so many of those who haven’t been able to play before.â€
The popular, innovative city-building game originally arrived on Xbox LIVE Arcade on Nov. 19, 2008 and a year later remains among the downloadable service’s most downloaded titles. Featuring a light-hearted, play-at-your-own-pace style of gameplay with beautiful visuals and catchy, frolicsome music, A Kingdom for Keflings offers players a relaxing, fun experience that is unexpectedly addictive. A Kingdom for Keflings was voted the 2008 Xbox LIVE Arcade Award-winner for Best Family Game
No official release date has been announced
At this time that is all, thanks for reading and KEEP GAMING!
~Mario
New Music Being Added, Possible Forum Switch.
Just a real quick update here. Been pondering all morning about what should be done with the site, what could make it more attractive, what would draw people in, what exactly is Anime Courtyard? My initial goal for Anime Courtyard was to be a nice anime commuinty, where people could come, and talk about what they love, and hate in anime, ect. I feel that over the last several months, that goal has been forgotten, and abandoned. I still really want to have a nice community, with lots of people to talk with, and share with. But at the same time, I also want to have a website to go along with it. Only problem there is, what does the website need to have? I’ve posted on the Facebook group page, a topic of What can Anime Courtyard do? But alas, we have members on there, but no one cared to share an opinion. So, what we have is a webpage, with some neat pictures, a blog, a forum, anime radio, and an about us page. My thought is, why do we have people on the forums, but no one posts? What’s the purpose of being a lurker when there’s not much to lurk? Help us! xD
So, with that in mind, I need to discuss this with mario, but may possibly switch our forum software. I personally hate phpbb… it is, I don’t know… I do not like it. But like I said, need to discuss it. On the other hand of this topic that I got away from, monday evening I should have new music up on the shoutcast station. If you have any suggestions, or requests, let us know! as of right now, I look to add at least 10 new songs. (Mind you, my upstream connection isn’t the greatest on the planet D; )
Songs that may possibly get added are as follows:
Carry Me Away by Kagami Seira from Kaiba
Never by Kagami Seira from Kaiba
Light of Dawn by Annabel from Tatakau Shisho -The Book of Bantorra
Wonder Wind by ELISA from Hayate no Gotoku!! (op 1)
Tomare! by Hirano Aya, Chihara Minori, and Gotou Yuuko from Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu S2
LET IT OUT by Fukuhara Miho from Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (ed 2)
Treasure by Honda Mirako, Saito Yuka, Togashi Misuzu, and Horinaka Yuki from Seitokai no Ichizon
Chikaigoto ~Sukoshi Dake Mou Ichido~ by IKU from To Aru Majutsu no Index (ed 2)
One Way Ryou Omoi by Inoue Mirana and Nakajima Megumi from Kampfer
WANTED! for the love by Kitamura Eri, Katou Emiri, Gotou Saori, Makino Yui, and Chihara Minori fomr Needless (ed 2)
Holy Night by Kugumiya Rie and Kitamura Eri from Toradora! (“ed 3″)
Sekka no Shinwa -in X’mas mix- by KOTOKO
Okay, so that was 12, but still. We’re going to be adding in slowly as well, some Christmas music, as it is closing in on the fun Holiday season, so if you can help us with these pieces, that’d be greatly appreciated. For now, that’s all I have as I need to get ready for work here shortly. But stay tuned, cause we never know what the future may hold!
Ja ne!
November 13, 2009
Kämpfer Episode 7: After Thoughts

Okay, after watching Kämpfer eps. 7, my thoughts have changed a little on the show. Let me just say after watching the first 6 episodes, I couldn’t really get a grasp of a possible plot, other than it being Guy can turn into a Kämpfer that so happens to have to be a girl, guy’s crush falls for the female self, and it’s almost borderline hentai/yuri/harem fun fun with some action-type school life yatta! So yea, there were some perk-ups of possible plot that have come up, but nothing major. So in episode 7, the girls spend a day at Rank… er… I mean Sakura’s house with all the Entrails Animals. Right right, fun fun. They start with a plotted game by Ranka… I mean Sakura so she can get the chance to “kiss” Natsuru, which fails epically, and she never gets the chance. After so, she proceeds to show off her Entrails Animals collection to the girls, which I find myself to be rather disturbing that she has such a collection… but none-the-less. After so, Natsuru’s childhood friend Mikoto drops by after searching the entire country for Natsuru, just to bring him/her some curry. So during dinner, the point of the evening is brought to light to Akane that Natsuru promised Ranka… Sakura that she/he/it/ugh would spend the night there, and she’s not very happy about it. During which Shizuku proceeds to dump curry on Natsuru’s head, forcing her to take a shower, to Sakura’s enjoyment. As Natsuru prepares for the shower, he realizes he had never taken a shower in his female form, and becomes rather embarrassed, and also the fact that Sakura keeps trying to peak in on him/her to maybe catch her naked. After finally deciding to get in the shower as his female self… he realizes just how big of boobs he has as his female self. Don’t know why this is so relevant, or why it took him that long to realize it… but they made a point to make sure you know. During the middle of his/her shower, sakura decides to sneak in and prepares to undress, where as she’s interrupted by Akane and explains that she’s just going to wash Natsuru’s back. Not happy with this Akane tries to talk her out of it, but to no avail as Sakura really plans to do it. In the middle of their little arguement, Mikoto jumps in prepared to do the “dirty work” as she really wants to get a peak at Natsuru’s “huge tits.” Yet again they make that an emphasis. After all that, the plan is for bed, where there are futons set up, and another argument starts as to who would sleep next to Natsuru. In the end, Natsuru ends up sleeping, alone in the Entrails Animals room… talk about disturbing… In the process of trying to fall asleep, Natsuru starts thinking about “how cute” Sakura was all throughout the day, and transforms back into a boy. In the middle of his little panic, enters Sakura to sneak into his futon. As he tries to distance himself from her so she doesn’t find out about him being a male at that time, she decides to be a little forceful.

As she begins to really feel him, she doesn’t notice I guess when she around his crotch, but she notices the shorter hair, and is a little confused. Then enters the queen of vulgairty, Hocchan (Akane)!

I’m not sure if I’ll be able to watch Toradora! and think of Minorin the same again thanks to Horie Yui’s role in Kämpfer. I kid. But yes, very vulgar, very violent. Then enters the possible lead to a plot! A white bracelet Kämpfer bust through the window, trying to fight Natsuru and Akane, but is ran off by Shizuku. After all that, the episode is pretty much over, and we are left to ponder what is to come, as the episode 8 preview really doesn’t display anything concerning this white Kämpfer… just that there’s going to be another date. Oh boy! . . . I want some plot action. Don’t get me wrong, the series cracks me up, probably more so from how far out there it is, but none-the-less, I still really enjoy it, and hoe to see some more plot development that could be there.
Thanks for reading!
November 13, 2009
Hmm… I don’t really know what to write about… but I’ll put something down. Getting ready to catch up on the latest episode of Kimi ni Todoke, but before I do that, guess I should blog, lol. I got my shelves put up last night (11/11/2009) and filled them with some of my figures and such earlier today. I’d have to day… I can’t believe I almost have them full! But then again, I did space out several of the figures. I just have too much crap. Ah yay, YELLOW ALERT from Trigun just started playing.
That makes me happy… Umm… let’s see, yea, from the shelving, I am having some nice back spasms. The area I got to work with, was at times very cramped, plus having to put all my weight and force into the drill just to get the screws into the studs… it was such a pain. Took 4 hours just to get the blasted things up. But, now, they’re up, and awaiting phase 2 of my room project, which would be painting. Can’t wait to do that! (SARCASM, HA!) Now, on to other business type-stuff. I’m going to be uploading more music to the shoutcast server, so we can hopefully have more than 8.5 hours worth of music going. Any suggestions or request, please, please, lend them to us! Either email us at animecourtyad@gmail.com (Yea, webhost is still being lame) or post on the forums, posting’s not that hard, now is it? D; Let’s see what else… nothing much else I suppose, so uh… yea. Join the forums, post, share, listen to Anime Courtyard Radio, and tell your friends! Also! Suggestions of things you’d like to see on the site would be a great help! Thanks for reading my poor excuse for blogging! Oyasumi nasai.
November 9, 2009
Recent Email Issue – Anime Courtyard Forums
Recently here at the Anime Courtyard forums, we have been dealing with quite a pain of a problem concerning Email verifications. We would like to apologize for it seems the local server email that we were using, administration@animecourtyard.com can not send out emails, and if it did, it usually went to the spam folder. We believe this may be linked to an issue with our webhost, and we will continue to look into it. For the time being however, we are using a temporary fix. For the time being, verification emails, and such will be arriving from AnimeCourtyard@gmail.com. Yet again, we apologize for any, and all inconveniences this may have caused.
November 6, 2009
Watch Japanese TV – KeyholeTV
Hello anime lovers, searching for japanese tv streaming and ways to watch japanese tv from my pc stumbled across a small app called KeyholeTV, this is a test program by the Japan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs and carry a variety of japanese stations.
If you are interested in watching anime or shows from japan and/or are trying to learn the language this is a little (and free) app i am sure you will find useful to improve your japanese, so what can we expect from KeyholeTV?

A good amount of Radio and TV stations are in the program broadcasting 24 hours a day or just part of the same, with the exception of NHK (except for his radio stations), some of the channels you will find are TBS, TV Tokyo, TV Asahi, and Fuji TV (at this time my favorite is Tokyo TV for the amount of anime)
Lineups for the channels may change as this is a test program so you are warned, the video quality is nothing to brag about but hey it’s free, resize the window to a Youtube-like size and quality will not be perfect but is enjoyable enough (hehe watching Keroro Gunsou now)
You can download this dandy litle app here: http://www.v2p.jp/video/ as well a fix for the same, we will add this to the learning japanese resourses in our forums, as we find streaming URL’s and apps to watch japanese tv from your PC be sure we will post it here, thanks for reading and KEEP DREAMING!
~Mario
November 5, 2009
Halo Waypoint Impressions (Mario)
Hello gaming lovers, i bet many of you are screaming “oh noes another Halo Waypoint blog, RUN FOR YOUR POPPERS” but hey relax even being aproved to be a beta tester i live in mexico and could not check this for myself until today but THAT is a rant for a different post, let’s focus and talk of Halo Waypoint shall we?
you can find Halo Waypoint in your Games Marketplace free of charge, this is available for Gold members and for a limited time for Silver members as well (if you dont have gold, hurry GET IT NAO!)

First impressions:
Graphically speaking the designs are excelent giving a feel of the spartan visor from the game with a more military twist to it, with this said we have 2 areas to explore “Intel” and “Career” which i will explain next.
Intel:
Here you can see news and updates around the Halo world, every monday you will get an update for what’s coming that week, this include interviews, videos and more, probably the most exiting for me is the addition of the long awaited Halo Legends anime that will be broadcasted every saturday straight into your 360 via Halo Waypoint (every saturday an episode to be available for 24 hours, this of course free of charge for you the Halo fans)
in the bottom left you can see how many of your friends are playing Halo 3, nothing fancy but is good addition i believe.
Career:
this is something many will love, especially as you will get free rewards for your avatar as you unlock new achievements in Halo 3, Halo Wars and Halo 3: ODST. the very first time you log into Halo Waypoint you will obtain a free Monitor for your avatar (i cant say more but… LOVE IT!) as you unlock achievements these are turned into milestones, and Waypoint Awards are obtained everytime you reach a new milestone, obtaining more avatar awards.

Waypoint awards are divided into categories and tiers to show your area of expertise in the many Halo games, this is interesting for so many competitive players out there (yeah i know you are one of them >:] )
Halo Legends:
Starting this saturday, november 7th the premiere of the very first episode of the Halo anime will be available for 24 hours via Halo Waypoint, we will obtain a new episode every saturday, this is by far what have me more
if you have been following the news of this anime you may know the quality and time devoted to this, something any Halo fan cant miss (you bet i wont)

The companies involved in the different Halo Legends are: Bones, Casio Entertainment, Production I.G., Studio4 C and Toei Animation and directed by Shinji Aramaki (Appleseed), if you remember The Animatrix, Halo Legends is supposed to follow a similar format with short stories about the Halo universe (not just aorund Master Chief) i myself cant wait to see the story of The Arbiter.
Final Comments:
If you are not a fan of the Halo universe definitely this is not for you, as may be a fansy RSS feed service at most.. highly recommended for Halo fans,
We in Anime Courtyard will be posting our thoughts of the episodes every saturday, i wish i could give you a more in-depth review of Halo Waypoint but i really wanted to post about it while the hype is fresh, thanks for reading and KEEP GAMING!
~Mario


