Loujiana Mama - Italian Restaurant, Takashi-Ten, Toyohashi City

If you happen to visit Toyohashi city in Japan, i want to recommend you to come and visit this restaurant. Loujiana Mama is an Italian restaurant, that have a lot of special menu. Compared to other Italian Restaurant in Japan, Loujiana Mama is a little bit pricey i think. For one menu for spaghetti it costs around 1000 ~ 1200 yen. If you go here with your friends, you can choose group menu. You will get, salad, spaghetti, cheese fondue, pizza, dessert and a glass of wine. It will cost around 6500 yen for that menu. For the taste, i really like arabiata spaghetti. The other spaghetti menu also delicious. And cheese fondue will melt in your mouth. The service also so good, the manager so cheerful. She make the atmosphere really good. This place open on Tuesday to Sunday. Only Monday they close the shop. Dinner from 6 pm to 10 pm. I really recommend to eat dinner here.

WinterStarcraft - Angry Coach

If you like Starcraft II, you might also like this channel called WinterStarcraft on Youtube.  He is a grandmaster ranked player, and he regularly stream on Twitch and post some of his games and casts on Youtube.

And, my favorite topics is Angry Coach, where viewers can upload their replays and have it analyzed, or to be precise, roasted. He'll scream and get angry at almost every small detail in an amusing way, that we can learn many things while also having fun.

I know I am even not as good as people who posted their replays, but I know when they do something wrong (it is always easier being a commentator), and when Winter stop talking and rewind his replays, many times, I just lost it.

Winter Disappointed

On the screenshot above, the player just threw his unit onto its death just like that and we can see Winter's disappointment.

If you have free times, just relax and watch his videos. It's right there, just search it.

Starcraft II - Serral vs INnoVation - IEM Katowice 2019 - Commentary From a Cast

This is another commentary from one of my favorite Youtube channel, Lowko. You can check the video here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzjCKHA3Zc0
As the title suggest, this is also a game of Serral. I am a little bias, for I also played Zerg, and he is one of the best player at the moment.

This game is played in Automaton LE, a small map in my opinion. Whenever I played in this map, the game ended in like less than 20 minutes or so, where I just rally my roaches to the enemy's bases and overrun them. One of the time I also got massed ghost where I haven't yet solve the problem.

Enough with my game. In this replay, we could see where INnoVation was dictating the rhythm since the early game where he sniped some of Serral's queens. It may not have been an economic disadvantage, but it surely poke Serral's balance. The game quickly transition into late game scenario with Serral going into double spire to produce his broodlords while simultaneously upgrading his air weapon, while INnoVation scanned the spires and reacted by making ghosts.

The game's army composition went into Serral with mainly broodlords and corruptor, with a couple of infestors, some vipers, and the rest of the army using zerglings and hydras. On INnoVation side, we have mass vikings, mass liberators and ghosts, with marines, marauders, medivacs here and there. 

The dance was crazy, like all normal human being, they have the same set of two eyes, one right and one left hand, two ears. They were also using only one screen. But it seems like they have many screens at a time. When I was a child, I thought if we can atteck them, preferably on the side with mostly workers, our opponent will have to shift their attention toward the base. Right? It is, on Bronze League Heroes level. However, on professional point of view, they would just need some seconds, might be split seconds to handle with the aggression. In this game, with that many spellcasters, they control all of their units at one time.

INnoVation, using his ghosts, constantly using nukes on the southeastern part of the map, to zone Serral's army, because of the slow moving broodlords. There were many nice fungals and snipes all over the battles. Zoning with nukes were also done numerous time by INnoVation. Then, whenever Serral had taken his northwest base, INnoVation just went and burned that base over and over again. Until they have mined out all of the best, but INnoVation get a portion from Serral's part of the map and Serral broke down from the constant pressure after 40 minutes long game.

reference:
1. https://liquipedia.net/starcraft2/INnoVation
2. https://www.intelextrememasters.com/season-13/katowice/starcraft-ll-results/#?matchday=1

Starcraft II - Serral vs SoO - IEM Katowice 2019 - Commentary of a Commentary

This is a commentary of a first person breakdown by WinterStarcraft. It is a best of 5 series which if I quote Winter's post
"... The world champion takes on the best loser in the history of Starcraft 2."
for Serral was a world champion from World Championship Series (WCS) 2018 and SoO was the player with most second place in the Global Starcraft II League (GSL).

You can watch it here,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgrgC40gOBk
or just read my commentary, for the video was more than 1 hour long. But if you also like Starcraft II and Zerg as I am, you might also want to watch it.

The first game was won by Serral with his Nydus network play as SoO wasn't really prepared for such. He got overwhelmed throughout the map.
In the second game, as Serral realized that he was behind in economy and upgrades, he was trying to use the Nydus once more, but by doing that, in a split second he got his attention divided and SoO just take the chance to obliterate Serral's army.
Jump to the fourth game, Serral went with more hatcheries, and with bigger economy, he didn't have to trade as efficiently, an by the number, he overrun SoO's bases.
In the last game, Winter pointed out that with Serral not taking the +2 ranged upgrade, the advantage behind the roaches' number just won't do, and it makes SoO took the game, and his 1st place in the IEM Katowice 2019. It wasn't the grand final, but this game was arguably the best ZvZ game.

Now, let's talk about the third game. This game last for about 28 minutes, while ZvZ usually takes place in less than 15 minutes, let alone a professional match-up. Sometimes it does, but this game is just different, because if the game went that long, it would be a macro game with hive tech, with both sides using viper, broodlord, ultralisk and such. However, in this game, the constant pressure from both sides make it impossible to advance to such tech.

The first thing that made Winter raised his eyebrows was when Serral lost his lings to SoO's banelings. It doesn't seem much, but the snowball just keep on getting bigger. On that point, Serral couldn't just take the chance to leave his base defenseless, ($150,000 was at stake) making him produce lings thus the larvas couldn't be morphed into more economy producing drones. From then on, roaches started to pop out, leaving the lings outside the equation. After that, constant pressure comes from SoO. Using roaches and ravagers, both of the players dance with their corrosive biles. At the first half, Serral has more map control with his more spread out overlords and overseer, but SoO deny it using some mutas. Serral hold his ground producing hydras. I thought the position was in favor of SoO, but that cannot be said if we see the supply count. for it was almost even all the time. Towards the end, Serral did produce some vipers, and the blinding cloud was quite hurting SoO, but blinding clouds don't stop ravagers from landing their biles. In the end, both player have it till the last roaches alive. When SoO has 3 and Serral has none, he realized that it was a gg. With more than 500 roaches dead. A beautiful game.

If you wan't, the highlight of the third game from SC2HL, it was only 14 minutes,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwaNFZSbSLE


References:
1. https://liquipedia.net/starcraft2/2018_WCS_Global_Finals
2. https://www.intelextrememasters.com/season-13/katowice/starcraft-ll-results/#?matchday=1
3. https://liquipedia.net/starcraft2/SoO#Trivia

Erased - Comic, Anime, Movie commentary

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erased_(manga)#/media/File:Boku_Dake_ga_Inai_Machi_vol1.jpg

I watched the anime when it aired on the beginning of 2016. It was a story about time lapse, about child abuse, abduction, and its background was in Hokkaido.

The main protagonist, Fujinuma Satoru has the ability to went back through time if there is something not right. He called the ability 'revival'. The first episode shows him stops a truck before it crashed a boy crossing over a street. In the manga, he also went to an abandoned building where he catch a child from falling down the building. Before he could change the fate of those around him, he was repeatedly went back about five minutes or so.

The story unfold when He found his mother dead in his apartment. He was one of the suspect. When he tried to run from the police, the revival was triggered and he went back... To his elementary school. With this chain of event, Fujinuma knows that the murder of her mother's has something to do with child abduction case from years ago.

It's not that hard to guess the culprit, but this idea of time travel is really intriguing. I watched the anime then the live action movie where they need to alter appearance of some characters - there is this friend of Fujinuma, Sugita Hiromi which is a boy, but looks like a girl who also fall victim to the chain killer - to fit the story into a 2 hours movie.

The main heroin, the girl in the cover named Hinazuki Kayo, has a tragic back story with an abusing mother. She hates being home. When asked to write a short piece, she wrote about herself, being in a small island, alone. Where there is no one, no classmates, no teachers, no mom. Whenever she wants to climb a tree, she'll climb, whenever she wants to swim in the ocean, she'll swim. Even though she disappear from a city, nothing will change anyway. The piece really have me there.

In the anime, Fujinuma was paralyzed after his confrontation with the killer, whereas it wasn't that clear for me about what had just happened in the movie, I think it was the same anyway.

It was a great series, I really recommend it. On Netflix, you can find the anime, the live action movie, and the live action series.