I usually wait for Kabitzin to take the lead on WP upgrades but as the amount of shouting and screaming on the relevant WP forum thread seemed less than usual, I decided to take the plunge. I was particularly worried that the upgrade would break my theme but, apparently, if it’s K2 RC1 then it’s a-okay. So far so good, though please let me know if you find anything wonky.
In other news, I’ve also made the switch from Spam Karma 2 to Akismet which I’m not pairing it with Bad Behavior since BB has locked Stripey out in the past. Which proves that it’s doing its job. LOL Anyway Akismet has a much higher false positive rate so, again, give me a shout if your comment has been eaten by mistake.
At last! My favourite background music track of the Lucky Star canon has finally been released. It first ran as Konata was giving her ‘intelligent and passionate’ briefing to Kagamin and Tsukasa in Episode 12 about how to go about buying doujins at Winter ComiKet. Thus, the track is appropriately entitled: ‘The Battle Ground of Ariake’. Absolutely love the drums, trumpets, and synthesizer layered upon each other and building up to a crescendo.
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Of the dozen, the Lucky Star Character Song Vol.002 featuring Kagami was my clear favourite. Really happy that Amazon.co.jp managed to get it to me within a week of my order (gushing post about Minorin’s Contact akan datang).
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I haven’t been particularly enthused about the preceding four compilation of Lucky Star BGMs (except for the marvellous Initial D parody tune ‘Gravity’, the *shock horror page expired* of ‘Gyaaaaaaaaa’ and the ‘Kore de Enya’ tune of Tsukasa’s sea shell misadventure in the third release) but this fifth release really put a smile on my face. Even the track titles were LOL.
The opening track of ‘Bun Guster’ (LOLOLOL), with its trumpets and two different types of drumbeats, was suitably triumphal and was in the background of some of my favourite scenes in the anime, such as in Ep 5 when Konata finds the rare item, Laevantein, in her game world and as she goes loot hunting at the winter ComiKet.
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Not being a tech person I tend to go yare yare, like Kagamin above, when WP announces yet another upgrade. But I was encouraged by how the Sea Slugs! WP 2.3 upgrade went relatively well; the final push came when I learnt from AnimeLife that the K2 RC1 didn’t break (no customizations except for the header CSS, link colour and list of allowable HTML in comments) and that ELA has been modified to cope with the new thingamajig. Have updated most of my plugins too (spoilers are now enclosed with [spoiler]text[/spoiler]). Do let me know if anything is wonky.
In any case, while searching for a screencap to accompany this post, I thought a bit about my favourite Lucky Star scenes and they were, in ascending order, (3) when Kagami lures Konata to her house using Tsukasa’s cookies (wait, that didn’t sound right :P), (2) Kagami’s horror turning into being happy for Konata at the cosplay cafe and (1) when Kagami was Konata’s Prince at the Haruhi Gekisou. I’m detecting a pattern here… ;)
