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I guess that all of you have played Piano Concerto No.1 Anti-Ares in Beatmania IIDX11 or other version of BM IIDX. It’s level of difficulty 8 on another may be to difficult to some and easy for others.

But have you ever imagined that this score was actually composed for the piano? That’s not seven/fourteen keys and a turntable.See how this young Japanese pianist tried his best on this concerto.

Click here to view the video => Piano Concerto No.1 Anti-Ares

A friend of mine was working on ITG3 theme and asked me if I could try to draw Gwen for his theme. I already draw the animated Gwen on select game mode screen. But drawing something high-res that would really look good that is out of question for me. But anyway the picture is here and you can judge it by yourself.

This day I felt so bad I couldn’t do anything else than just cry. I was so deeply in a depression that I didn’t know how to get out of it.

I wanted to play BeatMania so badly but I couldn’t (not the reason of the depression). A pen and a paper saved me (kind of) from this desperate state of mind.

I started to draw some sketch of a female and then I started to give it more life and shape. Slowly I drew a human Xia from Happy Sky. After that I thought that a background would be nice, so I tried my best on a BeatMania IIDX arcade but I failed badly.

Here is the colored version of my Xia. Partly done in vector partly drawn with a tablet.

We were at Rubbinnex’s place in Cham, Germany. We played all the music games we could (BeatMania, Pop’n Music, In The Groove, Pump it Up…). After two days of intensive playing (note that I played songs like Healing Vision some 11 footer version, Air, Dokupenda or how the hell it is spelled and some other killers I couldn’t clear) we started playing Pump it up.

We played easier songs at first but later on they told me to show them how more difficult songs are played. After some twelves (and everything from yesterday and the day before yesterday) I was so tired that I had to lie down…

Someone took this photo…

Today or yesterday someone started a “game” on the dutch Dance Dance Revolution Netherlands Forum.
Each participant in this game has to write a short story using the names of Dance Dance Revolution songs. This is my story:

Since my graduation in 1998 I have a bad luck in love. At the summer Matsuri Japan at the end of the century. I met My Summer Love, Mr. Wonderful. He was calling me Senorita as we danced to a latino-american music in the heat of the night. After several hours spent together he asked me if I wouldn’t like to spend the next day with him. I’m naive person so I started to believe in miracles. Could this Mr. Wonderful be my Petit Love?
I agreed. Next night was wonderful. But several days later he has broken my heart. I arrived a bit earlier to our date and I’ve seen him flirting with other girls - Bad Girls for me. I couldn’t stand this attitude (no one can share my love!) and I decided to leave him alone and I went home, to a small house in a dead end. At night it’s quite dark there but tonight I was glad for it. I stayed outside for a while and I was looking to the sky. It only took a minute and I saw a shooting star which made me completely forget the anger which was still in my heart. What a miracle I thought. Even though the anger passed, I still felt a pain so deep buried in my heart. That night I have dreamed a dream. In that dream I met a handsome young man, who was actually a film superstar. His name was Tsugaru and he was living in America. We were at a one party. He came to me and I told him ‘I’m in a mood for dancing’ and he replied: ‘ follow me,’ and we danced the whole night. When I dream this dream, I always fall in love with him. I just can’t stop falling in love with my sweet darlin’ - Mr. T. It is true, that it’s highly impossible that this would actually happen. From time to time I feel… down. Tears start coming out of my eyes. I try to remember some joyful memories, but I don’t have so many. So I recall this dream. It’s a sort of healing vision.

This year I decided to finally get rid of my depressions. I went out several times with my friends. My closest friend Sakura told me: Come with me, I will show you something, which will help you. She took me to the arcades and introduced me a game a cool game called Dance Dance Revolution. I never thought someone could be dancing all alone a whole night (and spent so much money^_~). After that night Sakura told me: “I would never let you down, you know it, don’t you?”.
Now when I’m depressed I just go to the arcades and I play my favorite song “Butterfly“.