Beat & Beat Thursday

Now that Rinko has dropped her ego and switched to bass, things are going much more smoothly for "In The Rye" during the rehearsals in the "Seishun No. 1 Page" story. The Library girls are actually making music rather than arguing or being emo.

Here's a cute shot of Rinko-chan when she met me at school at the start of the day...

And a similar shot in the same location, when she was waiting to walk me home in the afternoon. I think the dark blue winter uniform looks really nice on Rinko.

For our quick meet-up at the Coffee Shop tonight, Rinko wore an off-white variation of the "Beat & Beat" sweater she'd worn yesterday.

Super-Busy Wednesday

Today was just a super-busy day in Towano. First of all, in the "Seishun No. 1 Page", things are not happy in band camp. Rinko started off the session still trying to hog the spotlight by playing lead guitar (when there's another girl in the band who actually plays better).

After the rehearsal broke down, Rinko went up to the school roof with me to talk things over. And then she agreed to switch over to bass and let the other girl play lead guitar. Go figure.

Here she is the middle of her big apology speech...

And here, after she decided to switch over and play the Fender bass. I love the amount of detail in this game - note that the bass guitar has four strings (like a real bass) instead of six.

Lunchtime found Rink with yet another boxed lunch for me. It looked really delicious. You see how much she spoils me?

And she walked home with me after school again, too. If you've never played New LovePlus before, you might think these everyday events could get boring...but they actually don't. It's always a pleasant surprise when your girlfriend is there waiting for you, and it never fails to lift my spirits if I've been having a crappy day (which has been the case a lot lately).

At night it was raining, and Rinko brightened up the scene with a colourful green sweater.

Wow, such a full day! It's hard to believe that I've only been playing this new game (continuation?) with Rinko for two weeks now, because it feels like so much longer. Really, I've been playing with her since last March.

Tuesday

Today was a busy day, starting out with a long but interesting episode of Rinko's "Seishun No. 1 Page" story. Rinko and her band ("In The Rye") are starting to rehearse for their first live performance at the Live House. The most obvious thing you'll notice in these shots is the change-over to winter school uniforms in Towano today (the 1st of October). These uniforms are dark blue with long sleeves.

In the proper game it was raining, so Rinko was waiting to meet me with her umbrella and walk me to school.

Luckily the showers had cleared up and there were blue skies by lunchtime, so Rink had lunch with me on the school roof. She'd made another bento for lunch...without the cute face this time.

She even shared some of her bento with me. How cute!

And this afternoon, she walked me home from school as well. I really can't get enough of Rinko-chan with this new hairstyle. I'm going to let her keep it for as long as possible.

Here's an extreme close-up:

Now that it's Autumn, the trees at the Shrine have bright orange leaves - and there are a lot of falling leaves, too. It's very romantic.

I've booked a date for Rinko at the Zoo this Sunday at 3:00 pm. Oh yeah, and I finally reached Level 4 in the 3DS game today. Yay!

In my DS game with Manaka, I finally went to the Shopping Mall and bought a gift for her birthday, which is coming up this Saturday. I bought her a pretty formal dress, so I hope she likes it. I've been playing with the orange Manaka for almost a week now, and I'm enjoying the old game with the English patch very much.