Yesterday was my birthday.

I got some silly drama CDs and some yarn. And sushi.

I'm not going to talk too much about the Tales of Legendia drama CDs, but I'm glad they were gag CDs, because serious CDs based on Tales games have a tendency to be horribly boring. Though I certainly wouldn't let a kid listen to them(especially not the first one, with the frequent appearance of Moses Jr. and all) It's also nice that the second CD has the missing tracks from the soundtrack. Heh heh. I think they were about as good as that Tales of Phantasia gag CD, but even more tasteless(but in a funny way!) My only complaints are that 1) Mimmy Bread is really damn annoying and I can't understand why anybody would find her funny(granted, this was true in the game as well), and 2) As with most boy characters with female voice actors, without the benefit of video I needed to suspend my disbelief about Jay being a boy. ^^;; Because it's one thing having the girly voiced boy in game, and another to have said character's voice broadcast directly into your eardrums! Granted, I do like Jay's voice, and I think it suits him(it actually looks like it should be coming out of him, unlike with his English voice), but...well...in the emotional scenes he really sounds like a lady! I remember having the same problem with Tobi in Noein(who shares a seiyuu with Jay and sounds exactly like him). Granted, if they were really girls, everybody would say that they sounded too boyish!

Wow...didn't I just say I wasn't going to talk a lot about that CD?

Well, there are a lot of girly-voiced males Tales characters who sound weirder than Jay, though! Like Ion, and Synch, and Ion... Mao didn't even remotely sound like a boy.

I finished Persona 3 a few days ago.

( My verdict? )