Current mood:	satisfied
Current music:	Mermaid Melody songs

Don't do this again!
A reminder to myself:

When on ROM-downloading sprees, never, never, NEVER download catchy-looking Japanese games. They may lead to you desiring the anime upon which they are based.

This has just happened with a game I downloaded called "Mermaid Melody: Pichi Pichi Pitch", which looked interesting. The concept is great, in my opinion. It's a Game Boy Advance game that makes one think of DDR with the gameplay -- four arrows and the LR buttons, and a dancing avatar in the center. But it's so fun... Basically, you press the buttons when the arrows pass. How good you do determines how well the girl sings, and if she sings the words on-beat. If you do badly, she gets off-key, and it sounds horrible. But if you do well, it sounds great! The songs are all catchy, sugary J-pop faire, of course, but I like that kind of crap so it was all good.

So I Googled "Mermaid Melody" to see what the hell it was, and apparently it's (oh god) a Mahou Shoujo anime about a Mermaid princess, Luchia, who needs to get the Pearl Tear to succeed the throne. She also wants to find this boy, Kaito-kun, who she saved from a shipwreck. She finds him, and he has the Pearl Tear, which turns her into a -- get this -- Singing Magical Girl. And she has two friends. And they sing to defeat villans.

It sounds so incredibly horrible and cute and awful!

I MUST WATCH.

ps. Also, must see Prince of Tennis.