GNA Chronicles: May

Hey home skillets, this has been filled with so much geekery and yet I've had so little time to partake. I have a feeling that this wont change in the next week or two as I have two events to go, but best believe these events are going to be awesome. I'm really excited to check them out; you'll hear more about them later! Here's my GNA Chronicles for May.

Video Games
Rune Factory 4

This game is soooooooo good. It has pretty much all of the video game genres I like in one from farming sim to elements of Pokemon and RPG goodness. I actually stopped playing it to give Story of Seasons a go. Now I want to stop SOS and got back to Rune Factory. I'm gonna hold off a little longer because I feel like I haven't put enough time into SOS. 

Story of Seasons

A few of you know that I have been waiting for this game to come out for awhile. While I have enjoyed the game so far, the prologue is dragging a little too long for me. I believe I'm on the last day and will get my farm soon. But I've actually taken a break from playing. I need to pick it back up >_< I bought Boba Witcher 3 yesterday, so I'll most likely resume this game tonight while he plays.

Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate

Not too much to report on this game right now. I've heard great things about the Monster Hunter series, so I decided to give it a go.

Anime
Ore Monogatari
I blame Tiffany for getting me addicted to this sugary goodness of an anime. This anime, oh man this anime has drop kicked my in my feels it's soooooo good! It follows the story of Takeo Goda's first love. I really love all the characters, and it's great to see someone's first love blossom. The unconventional story line is amazing. It's also really hilarious! I remember hearing about seeing art from the manga prior to watching and really didn't pay it any attention. The need to watch it was so bad that ya girl signed up for Cruncyroll which to be honest I should have done a long time ago. We also watched an episode of Gekkan Shojo Nozaki kun and The Rose of Versailles after we binge watched Ore Mono.

Comic Books

Jem and the Holograms
I decided to pick this up on Memorial Day because I am a huge fan of the cartoon. This comic is amazing and I read all three in one day. I can't wait for the next comic to come out. Everything about it is really good. I wish I could actually hear the songs because the lyrics are awesome. I wonder if they'll actually make the songs and provide links to them. I recently bought the first trade of the Bee and Puppycat comic and they was a story in there about a music box. They added QR codes for each music box that would take you to a link for the song on YouTube.

Cartoons

Steven Universe
Tiffany is also to blame for this one haha This show is so amazing. It's often on my Tumblr dash, and I hadn't paid it any attention. I really should have watched it a lot sooner. The characters are amazing, and I'm really excited to catch up.

TV Shows

Daredevil
Netflix is winning with their original shows. Their take on Daredevil is amazing; I love the main actor and remember watching him in Stardust. Boba and I haven't finished it yet, but we plan on finishing it soon.

That's it for me! I'm gonna enjoy the rest of this day, and I hope you all do as well^^

My First Sakura Matsuri | Cherry Blossom Love

I hope everyone is enjoying the warm weather! I attended my first Sakura Matsuri at the Brooklyn Botanical garden with Tiffany. I only attended on Saturday, but next year depending on the events I would love to go both days. Geek Girl Brunch was holding a Lolita themed brunch where we brought on our food. The weather started out a little chilly, but gradually warmed up as the day went on.

I decided to spend the weekend with Tiffany. It's also nice to kick it with her and relax at her crib. We got up and helped each other get our coords on. For some reason I always hate pulling things like dresses and tight garments over my head lol It's like I'll always panic a tiny bit midway through like I'm gonna get stuck lmbo Been doing it since I was a kid lol Tiff always thinks it's funny because it's the second time she's seen me do it haha One day I'll master it!

Our journey was very interesting compared to the last time we wore Lolita together for the Novala Takemoto meet up at Baby. It was a lot more positive not that we cared either way haha A lot of people gave us nice compliments. I had a few older black women tell me they thought I looked really nice. We did receive interesting comments, too haha A guy asked if we were attending a tea party, a lady walked past us telling us we were in the Parasol Society. It's interesting having people talk about you when you're right in front of them. It's like uhhh I'm right here lol

We arrived right on time at 10 for the meet up. Geek Girl Brunch was giving away a few free tickets, and Tiff was able to win one :)

Tif's coord

I really love her Innocent World dress! I checked out there website and I love pretty much everything they have. I'm hoping to buy a dress from them to make a country Lolita coord with me being a Southern girl and all. I gotta represent!

My coord

It was the first time I wore my coord from my lucky pack from Baby. I like everything, but I'm not  a big fan of the blouse. I'll be looking for a new blouse at AnimeNEXT to replace it. I'm also hoping to buy a new dress while I'm there^^

Board Games for the Birthday Boy| Boba's Bday Celebration

Boba had his birthday last month, and I organized a day of fun. We both happened to be off that day, so we got to spend his whole birthday together^^ Work was really stressful that week, and I'm happy that I was able to gather our friends together for an event. I felt like I didn't do enough for his birthday last year, so this time I wanted to make sure that he had a great time.

First we decided to hit up a store that has Magic the Gathering tournaments as well Magic decks and other board and card games. They even had the deck that I had been searching for for awhile. It was the Fate Reforged White/Red deck, and I also bought the Red/Black Dragons of Tarkir deck. I really loved this block of Magic. I'm excited to see what the theme of the next block will be^^

That night I had made a reservation at The Uncommons at 10 PM till closing. I had visited the game cafe before during my second Geek Girl Brunch and thought Boba would love it. I invited a few of our friends to play games with us. We took a nap and headed to the game cafe and meet our friends. Luckily, they have serve food, so Boba ordered an iced coffee to give him some perk, but I could see an adorable energetic gleam in his eyes. He looked so excited^^

The gang

We played a bunch of games and friendships were tested lol I found how petty them tricks were during Uno. Uno always ruins friendships!

Boba delivering Xander some bad news. Jason's just happy it's not him haha

Escape from the Walled City| Real Escape Game's Attack on Titan event

Hey shawty! Last month I had the chance to attend Real Escape Game's Attack on Titan themed game called Escape from the Walled City. Being a huge Shingeki no Kyojin fan I jumped at the chance to go. I hit up my friend Alex and asked him if he would be interested. He watched the entire season one of the show before we all went haha. His brother is also a fan of the show and came along. The three of us had a blast!

It was all of our first time heading out to Staten Island, so we decided to meet up at South Ferry. We were surprised to learn that the ferry was free. I figured that it would cost something because you have to pay for pretty much any other other form of transportation in NYC. It was such a nice peaceful ride across the water. It took us about thirty minutes to get there.

I'm so happy that I finally got a chance to take a ferry. I live in NJ and there's a ferry here that will take me into the city. I don't end up using it because the bus is cheaper. I haven't been on a ferry since I was a kid, and I don't even remember it. It was such a nice smooth ride, I would definitely do it again!

 The three of us ready to give our hearts!

The event was held at a stadium about a five minute walk from the ferry station. It was easy to figure out where to go, all you needed to do was follow the folks wearing AOT merch and you were set. There were some awesome cosplayers! I loved that the organizers of the event encouraged cosplay.

The first thing I noticed when I went in was how large the stadium was and the cut outs of the different characters from the show. I believe it was the actual height of the characters, too. Levi was super tiny, I think he was a little shorter than me and I am short as a mug.

We spied the huge Eren prop at the back of the stadium and figured that would be our end goal. We were right^^ I really loved how the used the whole stadium for the game. There were parts where we were running up the stairs and using the area behind the stadium.

We were given two sheets of paper with a crossword on it. We lined up and the initiation scene for the Survey Corps played. A man came out dressed in the Survey Corps uniform and let us know there was a breach in the wall and titans were invading the city. We were given our mission, asked to salute, and urgently dismissed to fend off the enemy and wake up Titan Eren.

We received more items to help decipher the puzzles as the game went on. There were three steps to the game, and we completed all of the steps and got stuck at the very last puzzle. We almost won! I was surprised at how much many puzzles were in the game. There were a lot and there were different kinds, too; I was really impressed! Some of them were quite hard and it was amazing how me, Alex, and his brother worked together. They were awesome teammates and it was interesting how each one of us would pick up on a different aspect of the puzzle. When we combined our thoughts together we would get the correct answer! The event was an hour and a half and we ran our butts of solving the puzzles. I would definitely go to another one of their escape games in the future^^ Thanks for reading!

Recent GETS: Sailor Moon Edition

Hey everyone, I'm happy to say that I've been treating myself for the last few weeks and my items arrived! I'm hoping to buy a new Lolita dress soon fingers crossed! I finally sat down and watched the original Sailor Moon and I am loving it so far. I haven't met any of the other senshi yet, but I believe Sailor Mercury will show up in the next episode.

Sailor Mercury dust plug

Complex Wish

I've been told by a few of my friends that I would most likely be Sailor Mercury out of all the senshi. I've been wanting to get a cellphone charm or dust plug for my phone for awhile and figured this would be a good character to get. I found out about this store when I went to the Ghibli brunch for Geek Girl Brunch. One of the girls at the brunch got the cutest Howl's Moving Castle dust plug that I later bought with the Sailor Mercury one.

My next purchases came from J List in the adorable bag below. I've been wanting to purchase from this website for a long time, and I'm happy that I finally did. I really enjoyed their customer service. One of my items had to be backordered, and they kept in contact with me through out the whole process.

 The adorable bag my order came in

I'm so excited to try this Sailor Moon eyeliner. I heard that it's similar to Dolly Wink, so I can only imagine it'll work great. It'll also be my first liquid eyeliner^^ 

I bought a strong charger for my phone. These chargers you pre-charge and then can plug them into your phone when you need a charge on the go. My previous charger was really cute, but had the strength of 2600mAh and would only give me one charge. This charger has twice the strength and has an LED so I can see how much charge I have left. My current phone is my first smartphone so I never thought about how much I would be on it. Also, most people in the NYC area don't drive, so you don't have a car charger as an option. It's lightweight and super cute. It also already came with a charge :)

I may have made a fatal mistake today by signing up for Crunchyroll. Blame it all on Ore Monogatari aka My Love Story. That show is SO good and addictive! I watched the first three episodes with Tiff and was immediately hooked. I went on Crunchyroll today to watch the latest one but couldn't because I wasn't a member. I figured I'd sign up so I can watch it the same time it comes out in Japan^^ The one thing that's amazing about Crunchyroll is that it's super cheap and has anime, Asian dramas, and manga on it. So I will def get a lot of use out of my account, Boba probably will too haha If you like the shoujo genre, give My Love Story a try! Night!