Hiroyuki Sawano Music Video "COLORs" animated by WIT Studio/TOHO annimation

Wondering if there is any movie/project linked to this.

Tonikawa: Over The Moon For You Season 2

 Looking forward to season 2 of Tonikawa, I rather enjoyed the romance story of our protagonist Nasa (not the space agency), and his wife Tsukasa who has a very mysterious past.  Judging from the scenes portrayed in the opening that Warerbrothers Anime has released we may finally find out about her past.

It's being streamed by Crunchyroll 🙄 starting in April.

Time for a new PC build?

Well, that gaming system that I built in 2015 and then upgraded in 2019 is finally showing its age. I may get some more life out of it with a new video card and an SSD upgrade, but seeing how I've got over 7 years out of the hardware I'm more than happy with the value I've received from it.

I'm trying to decide if I should go for a more "value-oriented" build or a "performance-oriented" build for the system.

Shared Components

• Case - Cooler Master Silencio S400 Micro-ATX Tower ~$90
• Power - Seasonic FOCUS GX-1000, 1000W 80+ Gold ~$200

Value-oriented build:

• CPU - Intel Core i5-13400 ~$240
• MB - ASRock B760M PG Riptide ~$150
• RAM - G.SKILL Ripjaws S5 Series 32GB DDR5 6400 (2 x 16GB) ~$120
• SSD - WD_BLACK SN850X NVMe M.2 2TB PCI-Express 4.0 x4 ~$160
• Video - MSI Ventus GeForce RTX 3060 12GB ~$370

Performance build:

• CPU - Intel Core i7-13700K ~$410
• MB - ASUS Prime Z790M-Plus ~$200
• RAM - 2x G.SKILL Trident Z5 RGB Series 32GB (2 x 16GB) DDR5 6400 ~$320
• SSD - WD_BLACK SN850X NVMe M.2 2TB PCI-Express 4.0 x4 ~$160
• HD - Seagate 5TB BarraCuda 5400 RPM SATA 6.0Gb/s 2.5" ~$120
• Cooler - Fractal Design Celsius+ S28 Prisma PWM ARGB 280mm ~$180
• Video - MSI Gaming GeForce RTX 4070 Ti 12GB ~$880

So the total cost for the value build would be $1300 or so and the performance money is almost no object is almost $2400 for all the components.  I think I'll end up going with a blend between the two, but the card I was looking for using, in that case, is the 3070 TI are hard to find and getting close to the price of the 4070 TI.

Maybe I'll go with an i5-13600K and just use my existing card (1070 OC) for the time being and plan for an upgrade sometime not long after I build the system.

A little bit of hype for Blue Protocol

It's finally looking like Blue Protocol will be releasing soon in Japan and it will be released later this year by Amazon Games in the west.  According to last developer livestream the network test with 50K participants will be later this month and after that the final Japanese release date will be announced.

There is a western site https://www.playblueprotocol.com/ and two trailers released by Amazon Games to help the hype along.

There is also a Japanese benchmark/character creator that has been released. I've downloaded it and while it doesn't offer as much character appearance customization, there will be a beauty shop in the game to allow additional modifications your character.