Friday, August 30, 2024

Reiyouki Sentai Seitenger 1.2

On the other hand, an even younger man (just two years younger than Shuichi) having short but thick black hair and a skinny body built---which was also obvious in his features---was sitting on a big boulder near the town's famous lake. This lake, however, was located just below the cliff where Hiwara Shuichi was standing. The teenage boy was armed with his trusty guitar, notebook, and pen. And what else was there to do with those things?

That's right. Hoshiyama Itsuki---despite the stoic look laced with disinterest he always showed to people---was one of the upcoming stars in musical composition. Well, many people said that he took after his mother who was one of the best composers of her time. And up to now, he wanted to live up to it. After all, it was one of the few ways to remind him of his dead parents who were both raised with music around them and had made them famous even now that they weren't residing in the world of living anymore.

The composition that he was currently working on was another that bothered him a lot of times. The lake he was looking at was one of the places where he could see a mysterious girl calling for help. Well, he only saw her in dreams. And in those dreams, his sister Erika was there as well, assuring the mysterious girl that everything was going to be okay. Weird enough, Itsuki could feel that his sister had spoken those words to someone before. But he couldn't tell when and where.

The continuous ringing of his phone snapped him out of his trance. He took the phone out of his pocket and immediately opened it as soon as he saw the name of the person calling now on the screen.

Wednesday, August 28, 2024

Naga/Hammie (Kyuranger): Light To Reach Your Heart

 


Don't lose that smile. Don't lose the light that I can use to reach your heart… — Florence Joyce

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This time, Hammie knew she had to choose to be happy, as hard as it sounded. Why hard, you say? That choice would actually mean she had to leave everyone. Every person that had changed her life. Each and every one she cared about.


Yes, the crisis was over. Her teacher was saved and the enemies were defeated. But it doesn’t erase the fact that she fought her friends to achieve that one crucial goal. It doesn’t diminish the truth that she ended up hurting them for it.


Monday, August 26, 2024

Reiyouki Sentai Seitenger 1.1

RECORD #1: AWAKENING OF THE NEW VESSELS

For the past 5,000 years since the last great battle, there was a force that traveled through space and time to ensure the world's safety from an inevitable danger and destruction. The humans didn't know anything about it. Or at least, most of them didn't know.

Only a few selected individuals knew the truth about those chosen to defend the world. It was a hard task but in the end, those chosen people left the world with the knowledge that the world will continue their lives safe from harm.

But there is still the fear that a certain person's soul had carried in each of her reincarnations for the past 5,000 years. She knew right before her death that the battle will not be over by just sealing the dark force that once threatened to destroy the world. Their battle will only be over once the dark force had all been destroyed completely.

In the present times, her fear had begun to come to life.

Saturday, August 24, 2024

Reiyouki Sentai Seitenger - Background Story

Five thousand years ago, there was an organization called the Dark Shadow Defenders who gathered evil witches, alchemists, sorcerers, wizards, swordmasters, and mages from all over the world to bring about the destruction of Earth and make it their planet that ran according to their rules and codes of conduct. The most powerful guardians of the world residing in a magical realm called The Hundred Heavens, the Heavenly Spirit Guardians of Fire, Water, Earth, Wind, and Light, had gathered together and summoned the chosen maiden born and blessed with the powers coming from the rare Celestial Five Lights Shower. This chosen maiden was to become the most powerful warrior of all by accepting to be a special vessel of all the five Heavenly Spirit Guardians' holy powers, combined with the Light of Hope exclusively existing in her heart, which allowed her to become what the ancients would call as the Priestess of Life.

With the help of the Heavenly Spirit Guardians, she defeated the forces of the Dark Shadow Defenders and sealed them in the darkest and deepest magical dimension of the Earth, only known as the Tareus Dimension. But upon doing so, the Heavenly Spirit Guardians didn't realize that sealing them and ensuring their security resulted in the death of the Priestess of Life. It appeared that she used the entirety of her life force to seal the enemies. Soon after, her soul, along with the remnants of her powers, traveled through space and time to make sure that the seal wasn't broken. The Heavenly Spirit Guardians concluded that their battle might not be over as they hoped it would be. With that terrifying conclusion, they decided to send large parts of their powers to accompany the wandering soul of the Priestess of Life in completing the immense task, passing the soul and the Heavenly Spirit Guardians' powers on from one human incarnation to another.

In the present day, an innocent child's prank inevitably caused one of the five Tarean seals to be broken. Now armed with an even more powerful evil force, the released Dark Shadow Defenders (collectively known as Tareans) decided to continue the halted plan of destroying Earth once again. But the Priestess of Life had already anticipated this moment long before her immediate death. Chosen by the soul of the Priestess of Life and bearing the mystical powers of the 5 Heavenly Spirit Guardians, chosen people must fulfill an ancient mission of obliterating the destructive forces of darkness once and for all before the feared ultimate annihilation of the world becomes a reality.

Joining forces to do the task of saving the world was biker Hiwara Shuichi, photographer Mizuhashi Eichirou, composer Hoshiyama Itsuki together with his pianist sister Erika, and archer Fuumiya Misae. It wasn't long before they accepted their duties as Seitengers. Later on, a traveling novelist named Tennouji Helen joins the team. Accompanying them in their journeys and mission are historian-cum-restaurant chef and owner Mizuhashi Hideoki (Eichirou's father), book store owner Kinmura Nanami and her son Akira (Eichirou's aunt and cousin in the second degree of consanguinity respectively), amateur photographer Tsukimori Kanako (Eichirou's childhood friend) along with her cousin Takeda Natsume and her father Tsukimori Genma, Shuichi's best friend Raisaki Amuro, Amuro's former politician father Raisaki Shotaro, Misae's senpai Furukawa Nika, Misae's childhood friend and butler-in-training Kanagi Haru, Helen's writing mentor/guardian Kuraki Makoto, and Helen's editor/older sister figure Asakura Minako.

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I started writing this way back in 2017-2018 (or to be more specific, around the last quarter of 2017 to the 1st quarter of 2018) and I remember that Kyuranger inspired me to start this, followed by Kyoryuger. Those two series made me decide to write something like this for the first time. At first, I was posting them here in their narrated versions. But then I thought that it's better if those narrations would come alive once  I put on actions and dialogues, and so it went longer than I thought it should be.

In any case, I would appreciate it if you leave comments/reviews here for me to know how I should approach writing this story.

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Thursday, August 15, 2024

Beast Knights 23 - Seventh

Standard disclaimer applies. You are warned that the characters might not be in their usual selves (in other words, possible OOCness).

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Chapter 23 - Seventh

The seventh Beast Spirit? The other Mazoku looked at each other as they recalled the things that Yozak once mentioned to them before they left Shin Makoku to head to Esovia.

"So it did exist… even back then…" Günter uttered as he and the others continued to listen to the conversation happening in front of them.

Sunday, August 11, 2024

this could still be considered a progress


Ten days have already passed since my birth month started. But here I am, still unable to do a daily blog post. It's actually one of the things I said I'd do since last month if I truly wanted to make any progress in any of my writings.

I was able to do so with the 27th of July as my starting point. It's only been two weeks, I know. But I'm still happy with all the progress I've made. And it's crazy! Now I've just started doing a daily update on 2 of the fanfics posted on FFN. Well, it's only been two days since I did that. So maybe I shouldn't fully celebrate fully just yet.

Thursday, August 8, 2024

Beast Knights 22 - Shinou And The Knights

Standard disclaimer applies. You are warned that the characters might not be in their usual selves (in other words, possible OOCness).

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Chapter 22 - Shinou And The Knights

All three female Beast Knights could only stare in shock at the regal man standing not far from them. Yuri and the others managed to block the view from the other priestesses and the female soldiers who were outside the moment the door heading to the shrine opened.

"What does this mean?" Chie could only ask as her gaze remained at the first Maoh of Shin Makoku.

Monday, August 5, 2024

【silent vlog】my thoughts as a writer


Not all writers are the same. Not all writers can achieve the aesthetic style corner for them to write on. I'm one of the lazy types to clean my writing space. But that doesn't mean I can't write in this mess. In my case, all I have to do is push through regardless of the state of my writing space.

Sunday, August 4, 2024

journal entry #1746

Did the laundry on a Sunday since they took advantage of the fact that TP is here. It's her forced day-off. My first sister and her son left today since they had to go back. Continued putting lines on that second notebook. But I keep feeling tired so I didn't get to do that much. I ended up cooking champorado, even though Mama was supposed to do that. Managed to write another chapter of IHOTY today, and it was another special chapter. Crazy! Hmmm... What else? I might have to delete My Love Mix-up from my phone for now since I couldn't focus on watching any dramas at the moment. But I could bring it back later on. We'll still see.

Saturday, August 3, 2024

【silent vlog】some of the many things i want to do


Things I filmed this one particular day were just random. Yup, just trees, some flowers and me walking. But I'd like filming these particular subjects when I don't want to film my day that could be repetitive in more ways than one. This way, I can just talk about certain internal topics that sometimes, might take me a long time before I could get deeper insights and proper answers.

Friday, August 2, 2024

journal entry #1744

  • TP's day-off. Or rather, forced day-off. I mean, seriously, management? 😕
  • Went out to buy some stuff in the market.
  • More Kalyeserye episodes marathon. They're still fun to watch.
  • Wrote and posted an update of IHOTY on Dreame. It's an actual chapter, not a side story.
  • Feeling really sleepy most of the day. Was it because of the rain?

Thursday, August 1, 2024

【silent vlog】being productive even in the mess


It's been a while since I posted any video here. You could say I got discouraged before. But now... let me face this with a new mindset when it comes to uploading videos on Youtube. Let me do it... even when no one's watching.