Despite what I said in the first sentence, Zero no Tsukaima: Futatsuki no Kishi‘s fourth episode did not interest me as much as it did to all the other fans (Well, at least the ones I read at AnimeSuki.) I find the entire episode just sort of random (And not the type I like) and is just fanservice, fanservice, and more fanservice. I mean seriously, what happened to my Siesta?! D:

Anyway, the episode starts with another Louise x Saito KO scenario, where Saito accidentally (Man, he’s really starting to turn away from traits of Yuuji now) layed his hands on top of Louise’s breasts and mumbled “Nothing”, which of course pisses off Louise and starts another morning mess. This time, though, it’s interrupted by Louise’s eldest sister, Eleonore-neesama. She tells her to start packing up and they are off to go back to her home, and apparently dragged Siesta along for some weird reason. (Which I believed the reason is shown in the novel and apparently they just made her come for that Louise x Siesta action later and to show her comeback.)

During the trip, Siesta and Saito sits in one carriage, which of course pisses Louise off while she sits with her sister. And after another accident, Louise blows up the carriage with her magic, which then leaves Saito and Siesta in burned marks and whatnot.

The accident.

We then see Louise’s house – which is a gigantic mansion, by the way – and sees them greeted by several maids, butlers, and lastly, Louise’s second eldest sister, Cattleya. (With abnormally big breasts, as shown in the screencap below.)

After a short exchange of conversation, they proceed to dinner with their mother. (Saito apparently does not get any treat, sadly.) Eleonore suddenly asks their mother to tell Louise to come back home and become a bride already, which then Louise counters by telling her that she has been a big help to the Queen and that Eleonore should wed before she does. This pisses off Eleonore as she was apparently dumped (Canceled and so I assumed she is) by some noble, and so they start to quarrel, which is shortly interrupted by their mother and told that Louise’s future will be decided once their father returns home tomorrow. This of course surprises Saito like last time, and leaves him puzzled since he couldn’t talk to Louise about this at all.

…I swear, I am seeing a Margery Daw right here.

At night, Siesta looks in her mirror, and then slowly at her breasts, and then expresses a sign of victory for her “size”. (Ahh, they turned her into a Kazumi. ;___;) She then sneaks in to Saito’s room. (AHHH WHERE IS MY LOVELY INNOCENT SIESTA) After that, we see Cattleya and Louise in bed (Sleeping, obviously. >_>), which then Cattleya asks Louise does she love somebody. Louise simply blushes and says no, and then Cattleya asks her about the boy (aka. Saito). Louise simply says he is just her tsukaima and she doesn’t love him, which then Cattleya says “Ah, who says about love?”, which then leave Louise saying “Chi-neesama, I hate you.” in a cute voice. Cattleya then tells Louise to go “the place where she belongs”, which is where Saito is. Louise sneaks out with her bedsheet on top of her and covering her, and then goes to Saito’s room, countlessly rehearsing her excuse for going to his room. She then goes to his bed (With Siesta in it), and apparently “kissed” somebody – not Saito, obviously…

…4chan is going to have so many Siesta x Louise pictures now.

…Which then causes the two to get up, and then Louise asks why is Siesta here, only to get a reply that “Saito … Saito-san tells me to come here!” (What a Yoshida – but again Siesta’s cute face when saying it heals the damage it caused. XDD;) Which then leaves Louise in complete shock.

…Oh goodie, Haruhiism is coming back to me again.

When I first saw the torrent available for download at t***to**o, I was reluctant to download it. So far almost every single anime-adapted song bands’ live concerts either sound like utter crap or barely above average, with some few exceptions. Especially after viewing the 5 minutes preview up at the official site (Which sounds horribly off-key to me for some reason), I was thinking, “Maybe I should just not download this and keep on dreaming my Aya-chan singing in her godly voice.” But again, Haruhiism gave in and so I clicked on it and waited for a day for it to finish anyway.

Needless to say, I was terribly wrong at it being horrible. It was excellent. No, I think that isn’t enough. It’s Haruhiastic.

The concert (I have only watch Part B so far since I have absolutely not a clue what they are talking about in Part A with my little Japanese knowledge) starts out with our cute Yuuko, with her hit song from the very first episode, Koi no Mikuru Deisetsu. Obviously, it was horrible, since she was meant to sing it as horrible as Mikuru was supposedly to in the anime itself. (Although I believe she outdid the horrible-ness a bit more than she should have. My ears were dying when she was singing that last high key note. <___<;) Our very next song is nonetheless the opening to the anime itself, Bouken Deshou Deshou? by our very own Aya-chan. Sure she sings it a bit lower than the one on the CD (Honestly, who can sing exactly like the CD these nowadays?), but she pretty much hit all the right keys to me. Some people on the internet was complaining how bad it sounds compare to the original, but I personally found no problem with it. It was a very-well performed song indeed.

Next up is of course, Minori-san, singing one of my favorite song, Yuki, Muon, Madobe Nite. The part itself in the beginning was creeping me out though – Minori-san was doing these weird-alien-like hand movements that I found completely unfitting to the song itself. (Sure Yuki is an alien, but I did not find any of the hand movement necessary.) Nonethlessly, she sang very well, except a tiny mistake in the beginning. (Started the first chorus around 2 seconds earlier). But I don’t blame her, especially since she was in front of thousands of crazy otakus and SOS fans.

Next up is – Continue reading once I finish this portion after getting some sleep ORZ.

To something like this.

With some simple programs (All are free except one) and some RAM usage.

First of all, to prove to you that this is indeed a Windows XP (Not that crappy Vista OS, no sir!) computer, here’s the proof from the Properties of “My Computer”:

As you can see, it’s my good o’ Windows XP Service Pack 2 that I have been using over the past 5 years. Now, onto the customizing!

First of all, these programs are used for your desktop to look exactly or about the same as my desktop:

Yz Dock - the essential part of having a Macintosh alike dock as seen on my desktop. (There are also substitutes such as Rocket Launcher and ObjectDock, but I prefer Yz Dock for its simpleness and user-friendliness.)

Windows Sidebar – sadly, I cannot provide a link to this Vista-ported program for it is illegal to have this without having Vista. You can, however, get Thoosje’s sidebar as a substitute if you want. You’ll have to google around for the one I have, however. (Hint: Use VAIO + Sidebar~)

Vista Transformation Pack 7 – Despite some people’s complaints for Windows X’s work, I’ve love his transformation pack. It’s a quick and easy installation pack that gives your XP a brand new Vista-like look with extremely user-friendly options. Best of all, it has a recovery mode, and so in case your computer gets in a mess, you can still probably fix it up. I would still caution you to use this carefully and back up your MOST IMPORTANT files before using this in case anything goes completely out of control.

Avedesk – A simple desktop utility that gives you the ability to have large and nice icons on your desktop, like the ones you see. Also it has some more features such as RSS feed, calendar and others as long as you can find the addons – a pretty good free application.

WindowBlinds – Pretty much the most important and least important (No, I am not contradicting myself) program, depending on if you are a fan of extreme eye-candy or not. This gives you the ability of having the infamous Aero effect – where you would have a transparent border around your Windows, looking like the one from Vista. Be warn that you need some great RAM and Video card power for this, and so if you don’t need the eye candy, don’t use it. Also, Aero effect is only available to the purchased version.

You should get all the installation files before following this guide so you don’t have to running around the internet getting the files everytime you see I use a new program.

Anyway, the first program you should install is the Vista Transformation Pack 7, since this modifies the system files. This really is self-explanatory and the official site itself has a guide of installation, and so I won’t talk much about this. Basically, once you start the installer and clicked “OK” numerous times, you can start selecting what programs and changes you want to make to your PC. I suggest Manual mode as you have a bigger variety of things you want to use or not use – for example the ugly boot screen. After some setup, your screen should then look something similar of this:

Your system should look very Vista-ish then and shouldn’t lag much; if it does, try uninstalling some third-party programs. (The only ones I recommend having are VisualToolTip, ViStart and Thoosje’s sidebar if you do not have Windows Sidebar installed.)

Next up is Y’z Dock. Simply download the .zip files and then extract them somewhere to your liking. (I personally made it so all the files are in C:\Program Files\Yz Dock). After that, simply double click on Yz dock.exe -you’ll be presented with the default version of Yz Dock, with some default applications and shortcuts.

It should look like something really similar to the original Macintosh dock itself.After that, you can start customizing it – by deleting the shortcuts you don’t need and add the ones you do need. Yz Dock is great as it provides complete drag and drop – you simply drag the icons out of the dock to delete them, and you simply drag a shortcut (or a folder/file; it will automatically create the shortcut linking to that folder/file) to the doc to add one. Simple as that. Right-clicking on it will give you all of its basic context menu options, including a “Property of Dock Item” option that shows up as a screen like this:

Which allows you to customize its name, shortcut property and best of all, its icons. Yz Dock supports any size of square icons that’s in .png or .ico format and resizes them fairly well, making you able to put your favorite high quality icons in it. As you can see before, I’ve put around 12 icons of anime-related characters by using this method, instead of seeing an ugly folder icon.

Anyway, read on for more details.