Trap..Not. TRAP!!!

Recently i begin to explore the world of TRAP!! in anime culture. I don’t know why, but i found it to be a somewhat fascinating..uh, phenomenon. Then it got me thinking on why the concept of a male character disguise as a female character is so popular. I thank/blame danbooru for enlightening me for introducing me to the wonderful of trap!!.

Truth be told, the first trap!! character i discovered was Jun from the anime/eroge Happiness!!. And yes, i thought he was a she at first. After that, i discovered a flurry of Trap!! characters such as Mizuho Miyanokouji from Otome wa Boku ni Koishiteru and those three blokes from princess princess.

So now i wonder why the fascination with TRAP!! characters. Is it some yearning inside male for femininity? or is it that some bloke who is gayish inside and ashamed of it, prefer male characters who are somewhat feminine and fulfil the criteria of having both male and female quality? i don’t know. But hey, everybody have their own taste..

As for me…ok, Jun is cute. But sure as hell i’m not gay. I am secure in my masculinity.

GAmePAtch Shuffle!

Most likely most you folk are aware of Shuffle! game or anime, produce by The goof folks at Navel. Aside from Shuffle!,  they also produce game such as Tick Tack! and Really? Really! ( To read the review for these game’s, head over to Visual-Novels, where you can find excellent reviews for the game mention). Welll, a group of enterprising,uh, folks are translating the shuffle! game. And what i’ve seen so far, they doing a fine job. What they aiming for is a total translation of the game. Which is fine with folks like me who couldn’t read japanese worth a damn.

For the omoment, they release an alpha patch, which covers the first 3 days of gameplay. Download the patch to see if you have any problem running the game with the patch installed. They are also in the midst of translating the game Tick Tack! into english as well. No patch for Tick Tack! though at the moment. Kudos for gamePatch, really. They have to translate bazillion of japanese lines, translate them and re-insert the whole bloody thing into the game back. Who could not admire such work they doing.

So, head over to GamePatch. Join the forum while you’re there. Got a bunch of fun lovin’ people there. And a loli army as well . But be warned. Spammers beware, the moderator is somewhat strict. Its understandable because in the last incarnation of the site, there was  a great spam war, and things got wee bit out of control. So please be considerate and keep the spam to a minimum, eh?