Heaven Burns Haphazard:

I'm not Japanese and I don't game on smartphones so I'll never get to play this key game, but I can at least listen to its soundtrack.  I tried out the instrumental portion of the soundtrack and it was okay but nothing special.  I suspect the songs weren't actually by Jun Maeda but some subordinate.  Then I tried to corner all the vocal songs I could locate, which was ten.  Maybe there are more, maybe the ten I found aren't even the best songs from the game, there was no centralized resource that purported to include the entire soundtrack, so the situation is really haphazard.  I'm not even sure that the versions of the song I downloaded are properly the official versions.  Some might be longer than they're supposed to be, or for all I know some are shorter.

All I know is the music I ended up with by Jun Maeda was really good.  These ten songs are what you'd expect from Jun Maeda.  It's more rock-music than his usual, along the same lines as Angel Beats, but I guess that fits the action game mood.  It's too soon to give these songs a rating, before I can enter them into my music hall of fame I need to properly assimilate them via my 100 listen system.

I've been eagerly awaiting Heaven Burns Red for a long time now.  I wish I could play the game, the trailer looked magnificent, but this is the closest I can get to that.  I'll enjoy the soundtrack while re-reading Negima.

Biathlon is the most fun sport in the Winter Olympics.  I can't get enough of watching both the men and the women push themselves to their absolute limits skiing and then switching to ice-cold stable shooters hitting targets infinitely far away and then getting back on the skis again.  The amount of talent and effort these sportsmen show is beyond any other sport.  And the obvious martial valor of the sport makes it quite clear which country's army is prepared to fight and which would fold immediately if it actually came to violence.  The Russians are generally on the podium in biathlon, and the Americans are nowhere to be found.  It's thanks to biathlon Russia is still ahead of America in the medal count.  Meanwhile America is getting medals in stupid joke sports like 'monobob.'  Who the hell has ever heard of monobob?