Riuva : Research Institute for Unicultural Visual Arts

Well, well, well, what do we have here? A chance to win big prizes, that’s what. Basically, for every 30 bucks spent at KKnM, you get to cast one vote. At the end of the contest, a lucky draw from the winning side determines the recipients of the prizes. I think the best food is neither, but rather Cajun Chicken from Botak Jones.

Read more from the site itself. Kurogane will love one of the prizes of free Megami megazines for six months.

Now that the Premiership has concluded for the season, we must make a team of the season post! Unlike most other people, who just blindly slot the Ronaldos, Rooneys and Fabre-Gases in like a hapless fanboy, we here at Riuva have true taste in sweaty men. Our criteria for the dream team includes not only skills, but also personality, legacies and other stuff like funny websites.

I can imagine plenty of eye rolling here, like fellow writer Kokanaden exclaiming "Where is my favourite player Ronaldo? He is so slick and handsome like a Red Devil!" But no, I shall explain.

I seriously have mixed feelings about Gacha=Gacha, what is allegedly Singapore’s first anime. In the first place, what is anime? If the standard one is used, it is "animation from Japan or by Japanese staff". See, if a bunch of Americans draw a cartoon with anime-style character designs, is it then considered an anime? Some say yes, others reject it. It’s the same argument that manga has.

Going beyond this pedantic, relatively unimportant point that most people seem to go in circles about, I watched episode 1 of the show, a 2 minute long episode. I did not have high hopes, but neither did I expect too little. Surely a developed first world country (in terms of infrastructure at least) would be able to churn out something viewable right? Alas, good things in Singapore are always government-linked and Gacha=Gacha is sadly not, being the brainchild of 77 Star Pte Ltd, a Japanese company which has set up shop here.

The rather lengthy title drives home the fact that wallpapers, on the computer, are serious business. Why, you say? Why can’t you have a large picture of a undressed Shana with a cucumber up her birth canal, you say? Sure, you could, but that would lead to certain undesirably side effects in the trifling object we normally call "life". Effects which involve cold metal bars or eternal solitude.

Let’s first look at a few important points.

1. Wallpapers are the image that serves as a background for this "desktop", which most computers come with. If you do not appear to have one, then a) turn on your monitor or b) clear your icons.