It’s rumored that the extra video in the secret ending of Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix is a trailer of the next Kingdom Hearts game, Birth By Sleep for the PSP. This rumor actually has some strong backing based on the various details revealed at the Tokyo Game Show.

Plot Synopsis quoted from Wikipedia:

Birth by Sleep focuses on the story of Keyblade masters before Sora from the original Kingdom Hearts game and is a prequel, taking place ten years before the original Kingdom Hearts. Nomura has stated that though there are three scenarios, there is not one singularly important scenario or character, but that the main theme is Ven’s identity. It is also believed to be connected to the unlockable trailers at the end of Kingdom Hearts II and Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix. The story revolves around three Keyblade apprentices in search of a missing Keyblade master, Master Xehanort, and his apprentice. Their disappearance foreshadows a great disaster. The game will take place entirely in Disney-themed worlds, both new and old, and will reflect the time difference between this game and the previous Kingdom Hearts games.

The basic translation of the video is;

“The sealed tale of the truth.”
“There is no such thing as coincidence in fate.”
“All the fates have been set.”
“After a long time, each fate…”
“Will await the awakening of a new tale.”

So what do you think of the concept for the next Kingdom Hearts game? Yay? Nay? I think it could be good, though it seems quite a bit darker than the other games so far. It apparently takes place entirely in Disney Worlds, so maybe I’m wrong; but the trailer didn’t really give me much of a Kingdom Hearts feel aside from the heart moon. Mind you, the second Kingdom Hearts was a little darker and realistic than the first and I preferred it, perhaps I might like a darker atmosphere in it. Maybe it could mean more screen time for the good old Pumpkin King.

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Translation:

Haikus are easy
But sometimes they don’t make sense
Refrigerator

Seleria over at Scrumptious wrote a post about a hilarious shirt on Threadless that I really wish there was a Japanese version of–pic very related.

What kind of Nerd Culture related things would you like to see on a T-Shirt?

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So, I started watching Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni Kai–I got through the first five episodes before figuring out that there was another season that came before this. Oops. Now I’ll have to go back and watch the previous season. It started out all light-hearted and then suddenly everyone was dead. I was a little confused when I looked it up a little further online to find stuff to write about on here and saw all these screenshots from what was apparently the real first five episodes and I didn’t recognize any of it. Why must animes have different names for different seasons? It’s confusing that way. >.> Read the rest of this entry »

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School Days was a very entertaining high-school life kind of show for about the first ten episodes, then everything went bad. Not in the sense that it sucked, but in the sense that the love was dead. The last two episodes were dark and violent, especially much the final episode. School Days was very much like Narutaru in that regard in that the story completely shifted to a dark and violent finale. I kind of expected it because of what I had heard about School Days reading about it on the internet, but I didn’t know exactly what was going to happen. Read the rest of this entry »

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I really started to dislike some aspects of the former layout, so I decided Nerd Culture needed an upgrade. I like this one much more than the last one, it should do great for awhile yet. If anyone has any thoughts or opinions on the new layout feel free to leave a comment. I’m always open on ideas for new features or designs.

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