Anime

Instead of watching Kimi ni Todoke, I have been watching “Onii-sama e…” It’s an early 90’s series, so finding it was hard. I watched it as soon as I was able to get a copy. What made me watch the series is that I heard there are shoujo-ai hints in it. I have no other idea what it is about other than it’s set in an all-girls school. Thus, the shoujo-ai. The first two episodes were happy and drama-less although there already were appearances of seemingly weird characters. After that, it was all drama. Sometimes the drama goes overboard that it’s hard to bear. Save for Kaoru-no-Kimi and Nanako’s friend, everyone seems to want to die at some point.

The story started out slowly, but carefully showing the maturity of the characters. Being already in episode 31, I must say that Mariko who was selfish and childish at first has shown true maturity. It takes as much as a family problem and classroom incident to awaken her. Miya-sama is an example of someone whose looks can be deceiving. She always seems composed which earns her respect from juniors and seniors. Yet she’s a manipulating biatch. I expected that of her, but not the manipulating kind that would even abuse her power. She is also, in my opinion, the most dramatic character in the series. She hasn’t moved on from her “heartbreak” since she was 12 years old. I don’t even know what to say about what she did when her love didn’t show up in her party. She’s at an age when she can handle love matters by using her mind and not just with her heart.

My favorite character, so far, is Kaoru-no-Kimi. One should love life whether you’re sick or not. Instead of wasting energy in worrying with problems or dramas that can eventually be solved, just indulge in activities. Keeping self busy is good to divert from emotional stress. *sighs* I should remind myself often of that.

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Episode 13 almost drove me to tears because of Kazehaya and Sawako. XDDD; But I’ll save that for later. :P Review/rant starts at episode 11.

Episode 11
The sports fest is starting out good for Sawako’s class. Sawako should pursue playing soccer because she does have incredible speed… Unlikely of her character.



Sawako’s honesty about her feelings is doing her good. Most people find that hard to do and I say that in regards to real life. She understood quickly that she cannot support others especially if their special someone is special to her too. I like seeing Kurumi’s true side — mean and scheming. Her sweetness and kindness makes me wanna barf. How I wanna bitchslap her.

Other than seeing the true side of Kurumi, Kazehaya’s cute, shy, and selfish side is also seen. Very cute. How I want a boy like him. :P


Episode 12



The episode of Sawako’s “romantic” realization, proof of Kurumi’s schemes, and how Sanada seems like an older brother of Sawako. Kurumi may have planned something, but it’s backfiring as it’s helping the two. Hrhr~

I hate the cliffhanger though the next episode’s preview has helped me patiently wait. I’m so glad Kazehaya isn’t some weak guy. XD


Episode 13



HRHRHR~ I ♥ this episode. Kazehaya and Sawako would make a very cute couple. I understand why he would like Sawako. Her innocence is too appealing. If I were a guy, I would want her to be my girlfriend and protect her from all the impurities in the world. *rofl* Kidding aside, I’m crossing my fingers that nothing disastrous will come out of Yano and Chizuru’s confrontation to Kurumi. The reaction of Sawako is what I’m actually scared of. How would she take knowing the truth?

This is the episode I have been dreading — an episode that concerns Kurumizawa. She’s the cliche character who tries to be all cutesy and would do everything (not obviously evul) just so she could get the guy she likes. Of course, Sawako is oblivious to this because she’s blinded by Kurumizawa (her full surname) being very nice, caring, and friendly.



Sawako’s innocence on love makes her so pure, cute, and lovable. It’s cute when she speaks to Kazehaya of what she honestly feels. Most girls aren’t like that, so I’m guessing that’s why Kazehaya has grown fond of her. Plus that cute smile of hers.



I knew there’s something about that “Kurumi-chan”! I get this feeling she’s the one who made up the story of Sawako spreading bad things about Sawako’s two friends.

I’m back to watching anime after months! I hope I can keep this up.

Kimi ni Todoke is the story of Sawako who has mostly lived her school days alone. People kept their distance because people have misconceptions about her. Things are different now that she reached high school. She has friends which she claims to be due to the help of Kazehaya Shota.



The story of the anime is simple yet Sawako’s innocence on life and friendship makes it a sweet and touching one that you’ll be intrigued to see what happens in every episode. I either get teary-eyed or cry in almost all I’ve watched so far. Episode 5 is the best, imo. Sawako is entirely new to the feelings of happiness in being and having friends when, suddenly, she starts losing them due to rumors and assumptions. She decided to ignore her new friends so she wouldn’t hurt them further. That is actually a common scenario. The lack of communication is hard especially when you’re unsure whether they will believe in you or not.

I cried when Sawako realized that she forgot how she survived being alone. I felt that way just a few months back. I was not really alone like how Sawako was, but the primary source of my happiness left me. There is a huge difference between when you’re able to stay with the person you hold very dear to and when you can’t be with them anymore.

This is late, but it wouldn’t hurt to do some catching up. For the spring anime, these are the series I wanna get/watch (reference: The Scrumptious Anime Blog):



Hino Kahoko continues to improve her skills at the Seiso Academy participating in music competitions with the help of Lili, the music fairy, the students from the music department, and a new blond charming character. - ANN

Gotta see the first season then. D:




An original story revolving around a treasure will unite the two heroes from Monkey Punch and Gosho Aoyama’s manga stories for a “legendary match.” -ANN




Chi is a kitten who accidentally gets separated from her mother, and is unable to find her way home again. A boy and his family find Chi and give her a home, although all Chi wants is to return to her mother. -ANN




The story takes place on the planet Earthdash, where its inhabitants gaze on its moon and the technologically advanced lunar city of Mooneyes with awe. Dan JD, a boy living in Rollingtown on Earthdash’s surface, gets caught up in Bigfoot Basketball ? a fast-paced sport played with giant Bigfoot robots. -ANN




Oz Bezarius, heir to one of the duke houses, has just turned fifteen. At his coming-of-age ceremony, however, everything changes. He can discern, he’s cast into the prison known as the “Abyss”, only to be saved by a “chain” known as Alice, the bloodstained black rabbit. Thus starts his quest to find out what exactly happened, and how the organization known as “Pandor” fit into this picture.




The story follows four girls who try to rescue their high school’s light music club, even though they are all novices who cannot play instruments or read music. -ANN

I’ve seen up to episode 6. There’s only one who can’t play or read music. I guess ANN’s description needs updating.




In the American underworld, Mafia leaders are being killed one after another, with rumors of “Inferno” and the group’s top assasin “Phantom” circulating around them. A boy, traveling alone in America becomes involved in one of these incidents and unexpectedly encounters Phantom -moetron




In the story, Mimi Kitagami is a kind, level-headed girl who aims to be the best, coolest student council president of her high school class. However, three trouble-making boys are always causing her grief ? and she has a one-sided crush on one of the boys, Ushio T?j?. -ANN




Koh is a genius hitter, but has no knowledge of any other aspect of baseball. Aoba, a younger girl, is an adept pitcher and hitter. As he plays baseball, he tries to live up to the expectations of those who know his true talent, and cope with the tragedies and relationships he must deal with. -moetron




A remake of the first Fullmetal Alchemist series, following the manga more closely this time around.




A striking vision of Earth’s future from some of Japan’s foremost creative talents, SHANGRI-LA is a tale of greed and division vs. bravery and the human spirit. Set against the backdrop of a Tokyo cityscape turned into a teeming jungle by runaway global warming, with the elite living in the comfort of the tower city, Atlas, and the less-privileged masses struggling in the squalor in the jungle — only one girl, Kuniko Hojo, and her band of guerrillas can find a way to preserve the future for everyone.. - http://www.anime-shangri-la.jp/




Based on the science-fiction romance manga by the author of School Rumble Jin Kobayashi, whose story centers on a boy named Hajime Yasaka who meets an older high school girl named Sayoko “Arashi” Arashiyama in an old town coffee shop. “Arashi” happens to have a secret that Hajime learns one fateful summer vacation. -ANN




The manga’s story is set in a restaurant in Rome that the heroine Nicoletta visits from the countryside. Her parents divorced when she was young, so her grandparents raised her while her mother tried to remarry. Unfortunately for Nicoletta, her mother abandons her even after remarrying. Nicoletta goes to the restaurant that is now owned by the new husband of Nicoletta’s mother, and ends up apprenticing there among a kitchen staff of colorful characters. -ANN




3 months after the failed terrorist attack “Careless Monday”, Saki Morimi, a young woman in the USA on her graduation trip, runs into trouble outside of the White House. She is saved by Akira Takizawa, a mysterious naked man without his memory, owning only a gun and a mobile phone stored with 8.200 million yen -moetron.




Mizuki Kawashita’s original manga depicted many vignettes in the everyday lives of a junior high school girl named Ayumi and seven other junior high and high school girls. -ANN




Set in the 1950s, the critically acclaimed story centers around six junior delinquents and their mentor at the Shounan Special Reform School near Tokyo. The manga follows the boys’ lives during their time in the school and the years after they leave. -ANN

This is the summer anime lineup:



I will watch (by priority) Zan Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei, Bakemonogatari, Hetalia Axis Powers 2, Umineko no Naku Koro ni, and Winter Sonata. Thank gawd there are few that seem interesting for me in the summer season since there’s a lot I have to catch up in the previous season. @_@

Telepathy Shoujo Ran, from what I’ve watched so far, is about Ran who has telepathic powers (duh) who’s been using her powers to help solve mysteries. It is not clear yet why she doesn’t seem to know about her power in the start. Ran isn’t the only one who has telepathic powers though. She comes across this girl named Midori who, at first, was able to search her down. Midori had been looking for someone who has the same powers as her. She seemed evul and took advantage of their abilities that includes hurting others. But that changed when Ran, even though Midori was mean at her, didn’t have second thoughts to be friends with her. Midori only needed acceptance because she was hated by her parents. Rui, on the other hand, is a childhood friend of Ran. He doesn’t have telepathic powers like the two girls. What he’s capable of is to nullify Ran’s powers.



I’ve already seen episodes 1 to 5 of the series. So far so good. The first 2-3 episodes are about Ran’s encounter with Midori. They got along well and even discovered another person who has the same powers. Instead of being “friends” with that person, she becomes their enemy. They have been crossing paths with her. I don’t know yet if she’s still the case in the latest episode I’ve seen. Bah at cliffhangers. =_= I am eager to know the background of their powers especially Ran. She who wouldn’t have known about her power if it weren’t for Midori. Also, Ran’s powers seem stronger than Midori’s which is another I’m curious of.



The first few minutes I started watching the series, it gave this Card Captor Sakura feel. It’s all cutesy and kiddie-like then crimes or unnatural phenomenon happen around town. Very interesting, however, and the art is different from the usual anime so I’m watching it.

It’s been a while! I got busy due to a lot of things, but I’ll dwell on that next time. XD; Time to make some reviews/rants on random Keroro Gunsou episodes. I did a marathon on this anime, so I can’t and don’t have the time to do that per episode considering how long the series is already.

It’s time for the school health examinations and Keroro uses this opportunity to see who is worth recruiting for their Keron army. XD; Tamama does the eye check-up. He’s making the students read weird sentences and characters. Giroro is doing the ear check-up through determining where the war enemies are coming from. Kururu is doing the dental exams which is, of course, frightening. Keroro, on the other hand, is a female nurse just checking on each of them. Natsumi eventually finds out their plans and tries to catch them. The chasing caused a major ruckus that causes poor Fuyuki to get in the mess — almost the whole school body saw him in his underwear. Fuyuki is really pissed at Natsumi because of that. Since Keroro doesn’t want to be blamed too, he tries to let them make up through various competitions.

I always find it amusing to see Keroro and the rest of the frogs dressed up. Keroro as a female is always a winnar.



In the end, it wasn’t what happened at school that got Fuyuki mad. It’s because one of his occult magazines got thrown away. Unfortunately for Keroro, it was his fault as well as Giroro’s that the magazine is gone. XD;

Good thing the recap of the series is short. Some series devote a whole episode for that.



I didn’t think that the episode is about the anniversary of Ouka and Kyouka. The recap should have been a sign. *facepalms* I found Kyouka cute at first when she kept forcing Ouka to eat her bad-looking cake. She was even pouting and crying like a little girl. Oh wait, she _is_ a little girl, right? XDDD;



I can’t figure out if Hiratsuka is good or bad. She gives bad vibes, but she would help the Midarezaki family. I didn’t like her giving the wand to Kyouka that turns her into a “mahou shoujo.” @_@ That was annoying.

On a roll? Nah, just trying to catch up. XD;


Episode 12

The setting of this episode was set before the family formed; when Kyouka was still looking for the bureau. It’s another of those slightly unrelated to the protagonists. Not very informative even to Kyouka’s story, imo, even though she’s in it.



Oh well, the story is cute. Reminded me even of Chobits except that, instead of a robot, Katsura picks up a stray cat.



She’s not as cute as Chi though. I wish she is; somebody less annoying too. She could have talked right away since she knew how to instead of going Nyaa~n or Meow at first. >_> Rry, not cute. Her weird name proves her uncuteness (if there’s such word!). LOLz~ Calling her Cat is less than lacking creativity. Why say this story cute then? It’s because of the kiss in the ending. XD

I believed Katsura’s reason for being so depressed most of the time is because he did something worst than to fake being college student. D: Not much of a shocking news since he isn’t a bad person at all. There’s no wonder his professor didn’t take his confession heavily. Another thing, I doubt the police or guards that dressed up like soldiers in a mecha anime are unlikely to pick him up because of that “school crime” of his. *facepalm*



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Ahh, Hyouka’s first love… That didn’t seem like it in the end. Why are we back on the history of Hyouka again? Tsk.



I still think that Hyouka is a girl even though she, I mean, he looks like he’s got busts. @_@ I was kind of hoping this episode will prove the audience wrong and that he’s actually a girl. :O



This episode is full of ODD in it. It seems Hyouka can easily blend in the society. You know, living with normal people and they wouldn’t even question why he’s a robot. Same goes with Teika or probably even Gekka. Kiriko hung out with Hyouka as if he was a normal human; not even shocked or scared at their first meeting . They went to a carnival-like place that Ouka recommended that was full of people and things not normal. Kiriko was only surprised that such place exists. What normal and boring character… D: Well, I didn’t want her to go “Kyaaa!” or something

Kyouka was being childish again in this episode. More than usual. I liked how dominating she was. She did a lot of immature stuff, but still had sense. Now she’s like just another character that I think I’m beginning to dislike. DX



In the end, Hyouka didn’t like Kiriko but he probably just missed Kiriko’s sister who he lived with for a short while until he accidentally killed her. He hid the memory away. Seeing Kiriko slowly returned his memory that’s why he was having head pains imo. Dr. Gecko did some contribution to it too. He seems more evil than the saru professor.

The way this anime is going, it will probably take a while before it gets back right on track. I miss seeing them working together whether to help others or destroy things. LOLz

Episode 46



Otae and Ane caused a ruckus in a bar they both work in. The manager wasn’t too pleased. Other than that, Otae has been excessively doing her bodyguard duties by beating the crap out of the pervy customers. Ane’s also a problem with her leeching off too much money from her customers. The manager decides one of them should leave the bar in one month as the ruckus can’t go on forever. Whoever gets to stay will be decided the following day as to whoever can get the most sales.

Before the night ended while Ane was on her way home, Otae apologized to her. Ane didn’t expect that as she was looking forward to a showdown of some sorts. But, of course, Otae wasn’t that kind. XDDD; She only made up that drama and had Gintoki and Hasegawa go to the bar. She forced the two poor guys to order Dom Perignon to boost her sales. Ane, furious about this, called up Matsudaira. It could have been an easy win for her, but Gorilla showed up to help Otae. XDDD It became a battle of who-orders-the-most-Dom-Perignon. Gorilla’s money was wiped out a little later. Otae couldn’t accept this fact so she had him and the 2 other guys to get more money. Matsudaira was also running out of cash. Ane didn’t let this go easily too. She had him withdraw money from his bank. In the end, none of the girls were asked to leave. Good for them, but not for the guys. XD;

This episode also has the “Oshiete, sensei” segment. Gintoki teaches the viewers how to draw himself, Kagura, and Shinpachi. He says that Shinpachi is the basis for a lot of characters.

The episode’s funny as usual, but I really pity the guys for being used by the two wicked girls. Especially Gorilla! I wonder if Otae will ever really like him.

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I have a lot of catching up to do. D:



The family is on another vacation again in an unknown island. Pierre is with them too. While everybody was playing, a pink pirate ship arrives. They’re not the typical pirates though. They aren’t violent and aim to be loved by everyone. Ouka says that defeats the definition of a pirate. True that. They also sell fish which is why they are there because Pierre buys from them. He ordered a lot of mackerel… More than his refrigerator can take. So he makes sushi out of most of them. Gekka, such a glutton to sushi, eats them and never gives any to the rest of the family even one piece. When the family was arguing for the mackerel, a young girl speaks up, but she’s nowhere to be seen. Well, she was mistakenly placed with the mackerel; hidden underneath those fish. This girl is actually the captain of the pirate ship. Her name is Mujyakey, the daughter of cold-hearted pirate Growald.

Do Gone, another pirate, shows up. He used to be Growald’s right-hand man, but he betrayed them when Growald died. He’s now after the treasure map that Mujyakey has. During Mujyakey and Do Gone’s verbal fight, Kyouka took the map as she wants the treasure too. She was then taken away by Do Gone. Mujyakey and her crew go after Do Gone. Ouka and family went with them without even asking permission first.



They caught up with Do Gone with the help of a pair legs from Mujyakey’s ship. That was weird. XD; Do Gone unexpectedly shot them with canons when Mujyakey was climbing on a pole. Kyouka rescues her when she was falling, but that doesn’t come free. Kyouka was charging Mujyakey for 100YEN. Since she couldn’t pay, Kyouka takes over the ship as the captain! She orders the crew to fight back against Do Gone, almost destroying his ship. The ship that totally got destroyed was Mujyakey’s. Pink tentacles came from the ocean and brought it down. My guess would be those were Gekka’s. The crew along with Ouka’s family were swept into what seems to be an abandoned island. It’s also were Growald’s treasure is.

The search for the treasure went easily. Too bad, the treasure isn’t gold nor silver. :3 The path on treasure finding was to help Mujyakey realize her full potential as a pirate. Do Gone only helped her because he was asked by Growald before he died. It was so effective because finding out the gold and silver are hidden somewhere pissed Mujyakey off, revealing her true nature. Do Gone began to fear her as well as Ouka and the family.



I didn’t expect Kyouka to be scared of Mujyakey. I mean, she was just fighting on the previous episodes. Now she’s all scared. She’s the headstrong and brave character yet she’s being OOC. >_> I hope the next episode would be better — a motivating one.

Episode 43 (last part) and 44



Elizabeth has been kidnapped! The story was introduced after the main story of episode 43. Forgot to include that in the previous review/summary. Anyway, Elizabeth was kidnapped by Toyama Chintarou. He does anything he wants with no fright because he’s got money. Katsura asked the Yorozuya for help by bribing them with sweets/food. Then they ask for Sa-chan’s help by teaching them at least the basics of ninja. It wasn’t that easy to ask Sa-chan because she’s got excuses, but Gintoki’s bullying actually helped.

Before the actual training, Sa-chan made them wear ninja clothes. She told them they shouldn’t wear flashy clothes, so they won’t be easily seen. Yet the color of their clothes are too striking. XD; Shinpachi’s wearing a black-spotted white ninja suit, Gintoki’s all white, Katsura’s yellow, and Kagura’s red. Their first training is to buy porn magazine from a bookstore without getting noticed. Katsura would have done great if it weren’t for the curry he was carrying. Katsura came after, but didn’t get to buy the JUMP magazine (she’s still young to buy a porn mag *lol*) because she accidentally got dog poo on her clothes. Gintoki came next, but his camouflage failed. XD; Last was Shinpachi who was able to buy the magazine with no problems because his existence was unimportant. *rofl* Poor Shinpachi! XDDD;

The Goninja, as they call themselves, went to Toyama Chintarou’s to rescue Elizabeth after their training. They also had a hilarious introduction of each character like Shinpachi as Ninja Holstein.

Katsura attacked recklessly as soon as he saw Elizabeth. They undergo various traps similar to that of Takeshi’s Castle (that’s what we call it here in the Phils.). In the last trap, they would have to face the Shinobi-5 led by Hattori Zenzou. Goninja wins of course after going through nonsensical and hilarious figting. Elizabeth wasn’t returned to them though because she really wasn’t there in the first place. Toyama Chintarou only used an Elizabeth doll to lure out Katsura.

Is it just me or does Gintoki have bigger muscles here? He looks so… Manly with those muscles. He also looks cute and HOT wearing Sa-chan’s glasses. XD; I’m glad this is another funny episode because I can’t seem to take seeing drama in this series. Oh, I wonder where Elizabeth went. She only went missing because she and Katsura had a fight over soba.

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Before Ouka became a member of the government paranormal agency, it seems he’s part of some underground group that “raises grim reapers.” The entire episode isn’t about that though. Ouka went out without Kyouka knowledge. She was throwing a tantrum and all her children could do was watch. Yuuka though being an all-too-innocent girl mentioned that their Dad was dressed when he went out. Then Teika blurted out that they should keep quiet about the secret. This made Kyouka angrier than earlier and jealous because she thinks Ouka is cheating on her.

Ouka did go out, but to meet an old friend Shinigami. Kyouka chased after them. She had a short verbal argument with Shinigami then retreated because Ouka told her that her presence will only make things complicated. Poor Kyouka. Ouka seems to have matters to discuss with her Shinigami yet Shinigami is determined that they’re on a date.

Kyouka didn’t exactly go home. Instead, the kids and her came up with a plan to destroy the date. They also caused a ruckus in the amusement park, so Ouka and Shinigami were forced to go somewhere else. They find a creepy amusement named Slave War Amusement Park. They will go through a series of re-enactments of war and witness what’s like in the battlefield. Along the way, their train cart was destroyed and something or someone has been shooting at them. As Ouka thinks of a way to get out and asks Shinigami to throw a grenade to clear their way, Shinigami was possessed by someone called Odessa Ei. She wanted to directly attack Kyouka, but she freed Shinigami when an unknown voice told Odessa Ei to stop. She only did so for a little while — waiting for the right moment to attack or torture Kyouka.

Even though they were in danger, they still went to ride the ferris wheel. Only Shinigami and Ouka rode because Kyouka lost to Shinigami. During the ride, Shinigami must have sensed danger. She carried Ouka and jumped from their cart. Ouka thought it was double-suicide, but Shinigami only rescued Ouka from Odessa Ei who burned down the ferris wheel. D: A man named Suiar appeared to rescue the two.

That Suiar was the one who asked Odessa Ei to stop attacking. Kyouka demanded for answers to what she really is and why she was being attacked. Suire didn’t last long though. The body he was using broke down (it’s actually a robot). All of a sudden, everything around the park started moving. They were attacked again. They ran to the nearest haunted house. But Shinigami and Kyouka fell down in an underground dump to be drilled/shred into bits. They cooperated and was able to escape. Again, Odessa Ei used Shinigami’s body to kill Kyouka. Odessa Ei should have won. Thank goodness for Ouka for showing up at the last minute. He threw something wooden at Shinigami causing Odessa Ei to leave the body as well as her mask to fall off. Shinigami freaked out as she didn’t want to be seen without her mask because of her scar. She kept hitting the air with her sword and accidentally hit Ouka.

Kyouka got pissed and told Shinigami that her feelings for Ouka weren’t love… It’s that she doesn’t want to be hated by Ouka. Fortunately, Ouka wasn’t really killed. A part of his suit only tore off.

Odessa Ei and Suiar left finally. Odessa Ei sort of finally understood why Kyouka wanted to live in the human world.

Suiar gave a short background on Kyouka. She was formerly called Vanessa and was queen of the demon world. It’s not clear if she was driven away, but she made a wish to be human and seemed to be given the chance. Yet, her memories were erased so that people wouldn’t find out of the demon world. When she left, Odessa Ei was the successor. During her ruling, she was always compared to her charismatic sister. She thought it’s best to defeat Kyouka, so her people will start thinking she’s better.

I thought Odessa Ei would be some big time enemy, but when she just left in the end I thought otherwise. Shinigami would have been badass too with her mask (except she should change her “attire”). Since she’s not wearing it, she became all mushy and sweet. The ending was lame with Kyouka and her getting along. They were even blushing!

I totally neglected this series because of Keroro Gunsou.


Episode 05

Finally, the Midarezaki family HONEYMOON! Such a weird honeymoon, but it looks fun.

Kyouka had a runway made in front of their house (I wonder what happened to the neighbors? *lol*). XD The travel agency also acted like airport personnel to see the family off. The airplane was even custom-made for Kyouka. Must be nice to live that way, but I feel bad for all the people who have to be troubled for her.

The flight became a disaster because Kyouka tried to fly the plane causing it to crash to the water. They landed on an uninhabited island with the kids separated from their parents. First to arrive were Hyouka and Yuuka with Hyouka coming from the sky. He said that he checked around the area and that the others were unhurt. The four other kids arrived next. Gekka became what looked like a floater. XD And Ginka sat on Teika’s back while he paddled. XDDD They’re so cute! *roflmao* As soon as they arrived, Kyouka suddenly decided that it’s time to swim!

Teika and Yuuka play chase, Chika handcuffs Ginka to her as she will try to turn him into a man *lol*, Hyouka makes a sand castle, and Gekka is happily swimming. ^__^ After a long day of playing, they decided to search for a place to stay. It’s true what Ouka said — They shouldn’t have worn themselves out by playing without even knowing where to go right after especially on an uninhabited island.

But Kyouka has a pamphlet with directions how to get to the hotel. Weird. Hotel on an uninhabited island? They did find a hotel and Ouka finds this very suspicious. He is sure that Kyouka is behind this.

The hotel manger, Nishikura Akeru, shows them around and offers them exquisite food. Kyouka calls him Pierre though because of his attire — a white suit and a red bowtie. XD;;

After dinner, Ouka had a talk with Nishikura. He figures out that the bureau was troubled again by his wife into this vacation… And everything with it.

Unexpectedly, the hotel was invaded by some people… Or something! Hyouka goes to Ouka’s room to report what he knows about the situation. Ouka tells him not to kill, but to gather everyone and help protect the girls. He, on the other hand, will go to Kyouka’s room and punish her. He believes she’s the cause of this. But Kyouka is busying watching a romance-comedy anime. She can’t hear the noise and alarm because she’s wearing earphones (and an animal suit! SHE’S SO CUTE!!! HAHAHHA~). Anyway, they hear a scream so they ran out to the balcony. The monkies have taken Yuuka. Kyouka tries to attack, but was stopped by several monkies.

The family goes on a meeting to discuss the situation, but without Gekka. She had followed Yuuka and comforted her. She told her that it’s just a game. Kyouka uses her Cellphone skill to contact Yuuka. She sees that Yuuka’s treated nicely by the monkies. Kyouka tells her to try to search around for clues to determine her location. Yuuka walks around, finds a window, and she sees that she was brought to a floating island. Yuuka got frightened. She accidentally touched a Levistone — it’s a stone that is similar to what Hyouka has to make him fly. A voice tells Yuuka not to touch it then a room opens. Yuuka goes there and finds a monkey-looking old man.

The Levistone and an old man — it’s a hint that he’s somehow related to Hyouka.


Episode 06



The name of the professor is Saruwatari Inuhiko. He’s been living a lonely life on the floating island because people made fun of his looks. But he decided to live alone and make people of his. In the end, he admits to the truth that he needs to be with other humans… Someone who will take care of him. Thus the reason why the monkeys kidnapped Yuuka.

The professor may seem pitiful, but his actions make him otherwise. The rest of the family heads out to rescue Yuuka and Gekka. Kyouka comes up with a PARTY plan — Operation Feed the Scumbags. The first thing Inuhiko did was to stall the family, so that they wouldn’t be able to rescue Yuuka on time as he planned to turn her into a doll — somebody who will just obey his orders. The monkeys arrived, but they were the ones stalled. The party Kyouka planned was already on the go. Food and tables were served, there were dancers, and Pierre cooked nonstop. Then Kyouka told them she will give them more delicious food if they give her a crystal-looking blue thing. That thing Hyouka uses to levitate. It was also used for the island to float. The monkeys go back to the floating island to retrieve those. Because of the excitement, this caused the island to fall down. They panicked, but there was nothing else the monkeys can do. Hyouka took this opportunity to save Yuuka. As for what happened to the professor, he died. Before he did though, he came to understand how the monkeys care for him and that Hyouka was thankful that he was created.

There’s another happy ending for the Family Frenzy. I didn’t quite get their plan at first, but after seeing the outcome… Who can really resist free delicious food, huh? XD The really hilarious part was seeing Ouka, Teika, and Ginka dancing in a tube-style dress. Only Ginka was enjoying it.


Episode 07



The story in this episode isn’t related to any of the family members, but to a classmate of Yuuka. The classmate’s name is Tsubaki. She asked help from Yuuka because her brother Shuu who owns and cooks for a restaurant causes people to collapse when they eat his food. He’s known as an assassin chef. The chief of the neighborhood association had asked them to leave because people seemed to have been complaining about their food. Their father also visited them and told them they should stick to being assassins. He tells them they can’t even serve food that will not harm people.

The family arrives one night to test his food. They all praised his food, but there’s one who still collapsed — Chika. She regains consciousness though. She tells him that she understands now why people collapse with his food. So Kyouka decides to train him. This is for him to be of level to normal people. Shuu and Tsubaki’s mother is a good cook. Her recipes are very delicious and with Shuu’s strong strength (I guess?) for being an assassin, it’s too much for normal people to take.

I have nothing much to say about this episode. I wanted to see more about each member’s history. I wanna know more about Ginka.

Episode 02

It’s Yuuka’s first day at school. She was so nervous that she made a couple of mistakes which ended up her classmates laughing at her. Only one student seems to be concerned. At home, they’re all happy and excited as usual except Ouka, Teika and Hyouka. Kyouka wants to have the real deal wedding. Ouka thinks it isn’t necessary when it’s just for a job, but Kyouka insists because she finds it fun. Ginka was also game for it because he’s already thinking of what songs to sing. He plans on doing a Frenzy Sisters trio and that includes Teika and Hyouka.

A little later, Yuuka arrives home and finds them all busy talking about the wedding. Kyouka makes her fit various dresses. After deciding on a dress, Yuuka takes her leave and is about to go to her room when Teika tells her that there’s a faint smell of blood. He asks then if there’s anything wrong at school, but Yuuka tells him that he shouldn’t tell the others. She doesn’t want the ruin the mood of the family with her problems.

Yuuka goes off to school the following day. Teika and Hyouka watch her leave… It’s like they’re up to something. Ouka notices them. He tells Kyouka about this, but she tells him that they’re probably just practicing for the wedding as the Frenzy Sisters. XD

Hyouka bugged Yuuka, so that’s how they found out about the bullying. They rushed at the school to try and save her, but they couldn’t do anything. Hyouka explains that they are family yet not blood-related. Hyouka’s point is probably they will be asked about their relation with her. Even more so when they do not human. The two quickly rush to Yuuka as soon as the bullies left. They didn’t know that their father also followed.

After school, Yuuka has locked herself in her room. She left a note for her father in the refrigerator that tells of her feelings and that she wants the world to disappear. Everyone finds out about her problem and comforts her. To make her feel better, Kyouka planned a revenge and way for Yuuka to be accepted in her class. They made a short action skit with Gekka and Teika as the mean duo who suddenly attacks Yuuka’s classmates. Hyouka will act as the combat robot that Yuuka transforms into. XD Things almost went as planned (Ouka had to control all the action *lol*), but what matters is that Yuuka was finally accepted by her classmates. They even praised her for being strong.

Ouka and Kyouka pushed through with the wedding. It looked like a huge one and they had a number of guests. Probably most come from the Great Japanese Empire Paranormal Phenomena Bureau of Measures. :P

The bullying at school happens because of a certain girl. At this point, we don’t know her yet, but I’m sure we will soon. She ordered two of Yuuka’s classmates to bully her and even paid them to do it.


Episode 03



Poor Yuuka is still being bullied. It’s no thanks to her older sister who is angry at her for not staying in the Himemiya household anymore.

Yuuka was on her way to school, but she changed routes so that she wouldn’t have to encounter the bullies. In the other route, she finds her sister instead. She insists Yuuka to go back to Himemiya, but Yuuka of course doesn’t want to go back. She strangles her. Luckily, Ginka comes to the rescue. He scares Yuuka’s sister with a manly voice. XD; Yuuka’s sister was about to leave when she tells Ginka about where Yuuka comes from. Ginka is surprised. Looks like he and the Himemiya have some connection. Yuuka’s sister asks Ginka’s name. She was surprised when he told her… Much like Ginka when he found out hers. Her name btw is Himemiya Senko.

Later on, Ginka reveals that he was supposed to save Senko from the terrible household she lives in, but he didn’t. He feels bad for it especially when he’s living now with Yuuka.

It was already night time. Yuuka was still out. She’s getting beat up again by her classmates with Senko watching them. She’s even urging them to keep on beating her. Again, Ginka comes to the rescue. Senko laughs at him, but someone suddenly invaded her thoughts… Or something to that effect. We’re unsure who it is, but we know it isn’t Kyouka. Ginka can hear the things being said to Senko. There are water bubbles which I think is a hint. Is it Gekka doing this? Senko passes out.

Her terror doesn’t end there. Whoever it is, is invading her thoughts and scaring the heck out of her. She wakes up from her nightmare… This time, Kyouka’s threatening her. Ouka stops her and explains the situation to Senko. Kyouka then decides that they should fight against Himemiya as a way to save the 2 girls.

They infiltrated the promises with a surprise attack. It’s surprising that the Himemiya’s guards are too weak. XD; They should be the ones being beaten to shape them up.

They had Senko tested if she’s also a daughter of Enka. She isn’t really, but Kyouka cheated… Now she’s part of the Midarezaki family.


Episode 04

Chika, aka Senko, suggested to Kyouka to go out on a honeymoon on August 2. As that date is the traditional honeymoon date. This honeymoon will be different though because the whole family will go instead of only the married couple. Chika helps Kyouka look for an agency to book a trip and they were able to do on their 264th call — at the Sakurai Agency.

They visit the agency the following day to check what places the travel agent Chieri will suggest to them. It wasn’t a peaceful visit since Kyouka does like to make a “grand” entrance. Kyouka played around first before talking to Chieri. Things get messier because of the branch chief. He did some “tribal magic” and cursed the co-workers who always stand by Chieri. Kyouka, Chieri, and the other kids saw him by accident in his office dancing half naked. Kyouka thought it was some sort of welcoming gimmick for her.

The branch chief was then asked by Kyouka to accomodate them. He took this opportunity and kept Chieri out of his way. Ginka noticed something weird, I guess, so he and Chika followed Chieri and would rescue her everytime something seemingly accidental happens to her. But one time there were too late and Chieri was taken away by the cursed co-workers.

Kyouka and Yuuka asked for Chieri to discuss the trip, but the branch chief had other plans for them. He plans on doing everything even though evil so the sales will go to him. He shows this new device that will let their customers get a feel of the places they can go to. Kyouka played with it though until the machine went down. Then she got bored and told the branch chief they’ll be back after lunch. She also told him that what she wants to talk about is Mu.

During lunch, the branch chief cursed all the employees of the travel agency. He made them all help him to make sure he get the Midarezaki family to sign the contract. Kyouka and Chika made a loud entry again to the agency through the branch chief’s window. They see him again half-naked, but with a weirder costume.

He then shows them what they’re capable of. Kyouka almost gave up since everything she said they’re able to prove to her. But Chika didn’t want to just sign the contract without love or hard labor in planning. Then the other children arrive destroying almost everything. Ouka was also there, but to arrest the branch chief for illegal use of curses. XD;

Ginka was able to find Chieri, but she was still cursed. She takes Ginka as a hostage using a pointed stick. Ginka freaks out. The branch chief takes this opportunity to run away. But Kyouka throws Hyouka and Gekka to the branch chief, leaving him flat on the ground. XD;

Chieri snapped out of the curse and was surprised at what happened. Feeling bad about her attempt in hurting a customer, she said she isn’t fit for that job anymore. Kyouka scolds her, but to make her understand that quitting isn’t an option after all her hard work and that she should think about the customers who want to go on trips.

So far, nothing weird in this episode. I wish it’s another episode that will discuss about a character’s history. But I guess that’s too cliche and this series might end up getting boring.

A girl is being chased by the police for stealing fish. The number of police going after her is startling though because of a single fish. She was able to run away, but she lost her hold of the fish she stole. Her thievery doesn’t end there. She sees a fruit stand and grabs an apple. She was about to take a bite when a man suddenly stops her. Surprised by her cat tail and ears, he was even more surprised when she said she’s 20 years old. She looks like she’s only a grade schooler. Seems their meeting was no coincidence. Kyouka has been looking for the Great Japanese Empire Paranormal Phenomena Bureau of Measures and the guy (who introduced himself as Midarezaki Ouka) works there as a squad captain.

Ouka brings Kyouka there for her to meet the higher ups. He didn’t know that she was expected. He was then was assigned to a grave mission of saving the earth — by marrying Kyouka. XD He was very surprised, but he couldn’t resist. Not because he liked her, but he had no choice. He won’t be working only as a husband, but he would be looking after 5 children as well. Their next task is to look for them.

The children along with Kyouka are the children of Enka. A demon who lived thousands years ago who swore that his child will bring end to the world. That’s where Ouka comes in. He has to look after the children to make sure that nothing of such will happen. Fortunately, the episodes won’t be draggy with them looking for the children. They were all found in one day because, surprisingly, there are all within the area. They first found 4 children — a girl named Yuka, Gekka the jellyfish (or UMA as said by Kyouka *lol*), a robot named Hyouka, and a lion named Teika. After disastrous encounters and events, they went home to find another child. Ouka was relieved to see him because he thought there was someone he could talk to. But the son is actually gay.

Kyouka is hilarious! She has become my favorite character in this series even though her cat tail and ears are annoying. (Sorry, I dislike cats.) Her being frank, acting all high and mighty, and childlike at the same time is what makes her funny. She tries to act like a true mother even though she’s sometimes out of the line. (Who makes their children lick their parents’ shoes? *lol*) My favorite line of hers in this episode is (to Kyouka), “You obviously exist to play the loser role.”

Episode 41



So Gintoki tells Kagura to go back to her father. Kagura, shocked and left with no choice, does so. She wonders why Gintoki asked her to leave. Then there’s a short flashback about Kagura’s past with her family and the planet she came from. Her mother died while her father and brother were away working their asses off. Now it is understood why she came to Earth. In the airport, her father says how unkind of her friends to not see her off. Back at Yorozuya, Shinpachi freaks out when he found out Gintoki abandoned Kagura. He wanted to tell him how important the place is for her, but forgets it and quits.

Kagura was all gloomy in the plane. Her father was making a commotion as he badly needs to go to the toilet. The stewardess tries to stop him, but he charges through the doors and finds the baka-prince sitting on the toilet. XD While baka-oji is “busy”, his personal assistant is busy giving orders to those in charge of looking after the prince’s monstrous-looking pets. Accidentally, his assistant trips and knocks down a glass container where one of the prince’s pets are kept. Suddenly, that “pet” coming from the container grows huge and attacks the ship they’re all in (including Kagura and her father). Not only does it attack the ship, the monster goes to Shinpachi’s direction. (Shinpachi, climbing from very tall ladder, was there trying to stop Kagura from leaving Earth. Guards were after him even. *lol*)

Gintoki and their pet are doing some part-time work advertising a movie entitled Yakuza vs. Alien. But they were called by the movie manager and saw the live news on a monster attacking the Terminal. As soon as Gintoki sees Kagura fighting the monster alone, he rushes to the Terminal with Sadaharu. The monster was growing awfully huge, so it’s hard to tell how they will be able to defeat the monster.

Kagura is seen in the end of the episode lying on the ground w/ blood that seems to come from her stomach/front.

Cliffhanger!


Episode 42



This is the last part of this alien-attacks-the-Terminal story. Things doesn’t look very good for Umibouzu. He sees his daughter dragged by the alien. Gintoki arrives, exiting from a monster’s mouth. He was so near Kagura, yet he couldn’t reach out for her. And so, Kagura was quickly taken away. Umibouzu questioned Gintoki’s presence knowing he abandoned Kagura. Gintoki told him he’s not there to take away Kagura. He just doesn’t want her to die to some alien. Both of them give everything they got to kill the alien. Later on, the core of the alien drops off hanging from the bottom of the ship. It became so huge after taking lots of energy from the Terminal. On the core, they saw Kagura attached and then quickly sucked in. To add more to their problem, the Shogunate arrives with battleships. Gorilla (I forgot his name *lol*) tells him not to attack because there are civilians on the alien. But he doesn’t listen and presses the fire button of his ship’s cannon. On the other hand, Gintoki was able to free Kagura from the alien. She was on berserk mode though. He was able to wake her up by teasing her using her favorite snack. They were suddenly shot with the cannon, looking unprepared. But they were saved by Umibouzu and his extremely strong umbrella. @_@;

Man, Gintoki can be jerk sometimes, but I just like how he shows his care for others especially for Shinpachi and Kagura. He said that it’s odd how much he could advice and help others when he hasn’t experienced anything like having a family and caring parents. That’s actually applicable irl. Like to me, for example. I give advices to friends and acquaintances when I haven’t experienced their problems. I guess it’s because I’ve seen and learned a lot from other people’s experiences? Though when I’m in a pinch, I’m clueless on what to do.


Episode 43



Everybody believes Kagura left with her father, so now they’re looking for a new female heroine. Three females fight for that role — Catherine, Sa-chan, and Otae-san. Catherine gets disqualified most of the time because she’s not really the “every guy’s type.” It was creepy seeing her in a sailor-style school uniform. ^_^;;;

None of the girls win because they kept bickering and even threatening the guys as to who will win the new female heroine contest. Otae is hilarious, but with Sa-chan around, the episode gets funnier. XD Kagura shows up in the end and tells them that only she will be able to keep up with them. Which is true.

Haraken kept having dreams about Kana. His Aunt, concerned about him, had told him to have a thorough check-up at the hospital. The girls, on the other hand, are busy with other things. Yasako was supposed to start right away on her independent research, but got distracted when she saw Amasawa and her 2 underlings. Amasawa was going to capture another Illegal to complete whatever she’s trying to do. You know, I kind of understand her intentions — saving her brother simply put — but her method is confusing me. Why was she collecting those Illegals again? I mean, inside her body?

Yasako goes to the library to search online about kirabugs and its importance. While reading, she was startled when Haraken greets behind her. They went outside to talk about an obsolete space that she discovered from following Amasawa. Then she tells him about what Amasawa and her talked about in the hospital regarding her brother and the kirabugs. It seems Haraken gets an idea from that, but doesn’t tell it to Yasako. When Yasako was about to confess, as it seems to me, about something, Haraken cuts her off and tells her that they should check the next day the obsolete space. They didn’t get to meet the following day though since Haraken goes ahead of her. He searches frantically for Amasawa. He asks her 2 underlings, but they ran away from him. Things didn’t look too well with Amasawa when Haraken’s Aunt suddenly went to there to erase her encodes. The 2 underlings tried everything to chase the Satchii off. Only to no avail. During this chaos, Haraken finally sees Amasawa. He tells her that he wants to do a trade with her — his offer is that he’ll give her the access code to the Satchii if she will help him get to the other side. Yasako realizes that Haraken might have gone to the obsolete space without her since the obsolete space is near where Kanna died.

Wow, a lot (but nothing too complicated) happened in this episode. This took me days to figure out how to summarize the episode. It shouldn’t be too hard. I guess this episode wasn’t that interesting for me. The topless Haraken didn’t even make up for it. J/k! Anyway, Haraken is still obviously into Kanna. Whether he likes her or not, he believes that she is in danger. He plans on saving her by going to the other side. He must be thinking that if he takes back the what-seemed-like soul of Kanna to their normal world, Kanna would be alive and kicking again.

Yasako had a dream of 4-4-2-3 again, but the episode doesn’t revolve around that. Yasako and Fumie are left with finishing their research paper for the summer. Fumie wanted to finish it right away with what they only have. Yasako didn’t like the idea of just leaving it at that when they told Haraken they would help him. In the middle of their research discussion, Yasako gets a call from the hospital about her grandmother. Not only her grandmother created trouble in the hospital, she also became a patient when she was only visited a friend. The next scene is about the mystery guy with Haraken’s sister. He will be working in the same department as her but as a superior. So we get a hint that he’s not much of a mystery guy when he’s acquainted with her. :P

Yasako went back to the hospital to get the medicine her grandmother forgot. She suddenly hears voices similar to that when an obsolete space is nearby. She finds out it’s only Fumie’s little brother spying on Amasawa. Not only that, she sees the pictures of FUmie his Micet took including pictures of Yasako tripping or falling down a hole. XD She couldn’t The two end up watching Amasawa who was also in the hospital. Yasako sees a bed-ridden boy having the same scar with 4-4-2-3. She freaks out even more when she sees the room number Amasawa went in.

So we find out more about Amasawa’s past and her connection to 4-4-2-3. No wonder she’s a boyish biatch. XD

Episode 13


The episode is about Denpa who’s secretly raising an Illegal. His Illegal isn’t the dangerous type though. It’s rather afraid of humans except for Denpa. It likes him because he feeds it. Denpa named it Plesio. There used to be many of them, but they disappeared one by one until the last small one was left. It grew in time as it ate a lot. Plesios can only stay in dark places. Anything that’s light destroys their bodies. A little later in the episode, Denpa discovers that a building will be constructed where Plesio is living. So Denpa, Haraken, Fumie, and Yasako look for a place to relocate it. They did it at night, but because of many hurdles they didn’t get to arrive at the place they found for Plesio until dawn came. They try to hurry, but to no avail. Plesio saw factory chimneys that looked like his family. He desperately went to that factory, but the sun rose quickly. Poor Plesio. He was so cute even though he was all black and just curves. His shape is like how a kid would draw a dinosaur.

This is a really touching and sad episode. It’s hard to get attached to something whether it’s alive or not. We just have to accept the fact that nothing lasts forever, but memories do and that’s something we can forever keep in our hearts and minds.


Episode 14


More than half of this episode is a recap narrated by Fumie’s brother. He also shows us proofs of how his sister “abuses” him that he’s going to use to sue his siter when he becomes a policeman or lawyer. :P The rest of the episode is Haraken’s encounter with the mysterious guy who seems to be watching him and the other kids’ actions. He gives Haraken a warning about researching deeper on Illegals and whatnot. He also mentions to him about Dennou Coil.


Episode 15

Yasako goes at the other side of the Daikoku station to look for obsolote spaces, but ends up getting lost. Then three boys go after her as they had mistaken her to be Yuko Amasawa when one of them overhears Yasako’s mom call her Yuko. She ran away and was able to hide with the help of another 6th grader boy named Takeru. As they walk around the area, Yuko feels she has been there before. She tries to remember what happened to her at that place when she was little with the help of, once again, Takeru. He offered to help since he’s familiar with the place.

Yasako desperately runs through the place she thinks she’s been before. Then she discovers an obsolete space through Imago. But a lot of Kyuu-chan arrived and erased them before she was able to follow the fog along a street. Takeru also stopped her because he believes it’s dangerous if she goes any further.

It was already night time when Yasako arrived home. She takes a bath, thinks about Takeru and her mysterious past. Then the last scene is with Takeru on a phone call. He told whoever he was talking to that he met someone with Imago just like Kanna.

Man, some episodes get boring, but episodes like this deepen the mystery. The Kanna girl sure is interesting.

I’ve seen up to episode 20 of Dennou Coil. I should catch up on my summaries and reviews. -_-


Episode 11


Daichi plans to catch an Illegal so he could get a lot of metabugs. He came up with that idea after thinking about Isako’s activities. They got an Illegal with the help with Kyoko (Yasako’s younger sister). Daichi wouldn’t listen to Denpa who kept telling him that Illegals are dangerous. It was a very small fish yet it created a Space of its own. He fed the fish with random textures. It kept growing every time he feeds it. The fish grew so huge that it was already outside of his home and Spaces occupied in different parts of the town. Everybody was surprised. Tamako went out to find the culprit. She finds Daichi and arrests him for the trouble he made.

Denpa asks Fumie and Yasako to keep Daichi from being arrested. They didn’t know he was already caught. Megabaa, on the other hand, went to investigate. Tamako asked her for help. Before Megabaa agreed, she said Tamako should beg first. If Tamako does, she will forgive her for what happened 4 years ago. It wasn’t mentioned what happened 4 years ago unfortunately. Tamako agrees to this and bows her head. Megabaa accepted it and went to work on the metatag. Fumie snatches the metatag. She wouldn’t let Tamako have the metatag easily unless Tamako releases Daichi. Daichi was released as Tamako was left with no other choice. It doesn’t end there yet. Fumie tells Daichi to admit his defeat in their duel. Left with no other choice as well, Daichi bows his head and admits his defeat.

Even after the trouble Daichi caused, he hardly felt down. Though he was sad about the little fish he caught and fed.


Episode 12


Kyoko always hangs out with Daichi to search for an Illegal. The second time Daichi brought a sleeping Kyoko home, Kyoko suddenly kissed him. After that, the next scene is of a naked Daichi (twice actually; only his butt could be seen though) checking himself down there; wondering when his hair would grow and if it would grow on his face first. Denpa calls him. When Daichi wore his glasses to answer the call, he saw his face on the mirror and freaked out. He went into hiding after that. Denpa’s worried, but Fumie tells him that they’ll see each other on school anyway the following day.

Like what you see from the screenshots, Daichi suddenly has a beard. The children from their school are all shocked. A beard for his age isn’t actually normal, right? Daichi was in a daze, while Megabaa was having fun with his beard. Fumie, Yasako, Denpa, Haraken, and Megabaa investigate this with Megabaa’s newly invented extremely huge and weird microscope. They discover that the hairs are living Illegals. Kyoko then shows up while they were investigating. Yasako looks at her and sees she’s got the HIGE-looking ILLEGAL too! It was hilarious when they tried to keep away from Kyoko. XD Kyoko of course took advantage of their being scared. Denpa was the next victim. Everybody else grew beards too after a few hours including Densuke and Fumie’s slave. Yasako cried as she exclaims she can’t be a bride anymore. ^_^;;;

Megabaa took a closer look and discovered that the beard-looking Illegals are actually making their own civilization. Yasako communicates with them through another of Megabaa’s invention. She acts like their god as she teaches them what to do or not. As usual, not everything works out as she wanted for them. Eventually, the Illegals created weapons and fought with each other until a lot of them died. The children sent them off to Mr. Toma who’s bald, but the Illegals then left. They left a letter on Mr. Toma’s head. They explained they will find a promised land that is right for them.

This is somewhat a funny episode. You don’t normally see girls nor grandmothers with beards. XD

The beard-looking Illegals are like humans. As much as they had rules to follow, there are still people who against them. There are those who will create trouble or demand more. When things go against their wants or ideals, they start to fight which doesn’t result to anything good.

Episode 38


It’s still winter time in Gintama. Gintoki and Kagura are making an ice sculpture that doesn’t look decent for ‘public viewing’ as Shinpachi states. But Gintoki says it’s the Neo Armstrong Cyclone Jet Armstrong Cannon. Everybody seems to know about it, but each have different background stories. Poor Shinpachi is getting confused. ^_^;;;

Gintoki and Kagura destroy other people’s works because theirs are really crappy compared to them. In the end, all the people have a snowball fight and argue.

The second part of this episode is about a man who used to make fireworks. He’s so into them that he barely looked after his wife anymore. The Yorozuya was hired by the man’s son to look after him because he’s always escaping from their house. He was able to escape once. Gintoki followed him. The man was busy in a house creating more fireworks. He’s trying to be in touch with craft once more. Gintoki found out he’s not creating fireworks because he wants to do it again… He just wants his wife to see the fireworks once more.

After such a hilarious first part in this episode, the second part is actually touching. It might be bad for them to see how much the man wants to leave the house. They didn’t know that what he’s been doing is actually for his wife. He just won’t admit it. He kept saying he would be going out to meet his girlfriend/lover.

Episode 39


It’s an episode dedicated to Katsura.
Katsura is being chased by the Shinsengumi. Sougo kept shooting his bazooka, so Katsura ends up with an injured foot. He was saved by a woman with the name Ikumatsu who owns a ramen shop. He worked there temporarily while he waits for his foot to heal and for the Shinsengumi to lie low. That same day, Ikumatsu was bugged by 3 guys asking for money. Katsura, probably in return for the woman’s kindness, helped her by kicking them out. The bad guys though doesn’t let this pass. They kidnapped Ikumatsu. Katsura then noticed that something was wrong. The woman left a note about doing the groceries when the bike they use is still in front of the shop. He chased after them. He rescued Ikumatsu, but he had to escape because Sougo was already after him.

Not much of a hilarious episode, but it’s nice to see Katsura being nice than only think about fighting off the aliens. Poor Elizabeth was abandoned and tried to live on its own. I wonder if Elizabeth’s really what she looks like or is it just some costume? @_@


Episode 40


A new movie’s a huge hit in Edo. It’s YAKUZA VS ALIEN. ^_^;;; The title itself is already funny. Anyway, off-screen, an alien really has gone to Edo. An alien was first discovered in some place I can’t say what. It’s probably where aircrafts are being fixed, managed, etc. Luckily, this person who calls himself “Umi-bouzu” was there and killed it off, but he said that the real thing is somewhere in Edo and the technicians who saw him should report it right way to the police.

Kagura got a phone call from a scammer. The scammer impersonate’s a friend of a person he/she calls. They would ask for help by having money deposited to their account. Kagura doesn’t know this, so she runs of thinking Gintoki called her. Gintoki got out from the washroom after Kagura rushed out. Shinpachi showed him a warning on TV about this scammer until they thought Kagura might have fallen for that scam. So they also rushed out for her. Kagura was really in the bank, but instead of depositing money, she was swinging rice. Aside from the commotion she’s making, a man also in the bank was possessed by the alien. The alien was about to eat Kagura along with Gintoki and Shinpachi who was supposed to save her until the Umibouzu came and rescued them. It turned out he’s Kagura’s father.

He’s looking for her to bring her back home. Kagura doesn’t want to. It seems the father became a problem for the family as he always left them for his work. They fight each other. Kagura only stopped when Gintoki told her to go back home.

Kagura’s a main character in the series, so I know she’ll be back in case she does leave. The question is, would she be back right away or Gintoki and Shinpachi will have new adventures on their quest to get back Kagura? Can’t wait for the next episode!

Ooh, it’s Christmas time in this episode!
Gintoki goes out to buy meatbuns on a snowy night. He was talking to himself when he comes across Santa Claus and his reindeer. He doesn’t know who Santa Claus is and what he does, but after hearing their problem he offers them help. He finds them a cart instead of a sleigh because Santa’s sleigh is broken and he also gives the two a makeover. He made them wear those usual burglar clothes in anime (you know, black tights *lol*). They go to an area where the poor people live. Gintoki goes through a notebook with the children’s list of wishes. Santa told him to only look for those who want a kendama because that’s all he’s got. ^_^;; Since it was almost sunrise, they decided to give it to a girl wishing for it. But the girl saw them. She called for her mom as she thought they’re burglars. Her mom’s huge and strong! No wonder she wishes for a kind mom. Undoubtedly, they got beat up.

The sun was already rising, so they decided to just give a child who wishes for something very cheap. Like what everyone says, it’s better than nothing. ^_^;; So, Kagura’s the only one who wants the cheapest gift. She only wants meatbuns. Gintoki takes the two with him. Instead of just leaving the meatbuns there, they make fun of Kagura’s face. Their prank doesn’t go unpunished though. ^_^;;

It was funny seeing Santa Claus in black tights and tiptoeing. XD Santa should have checked what the majority of kids want. He bought a lot of kendama, but only very few wants them. He’s cheap, but it’s true that we shouldn’t wish for very expensive stuff or whatever things that may exceed our current lifestyle. Because we’ll end up wishing or wanting more.

The second part is set on New Year. Kagura, Otae, and Shinpachi are at home waiting for Gintoki. Gintoki, on the other hand, went out to buy a double issue of JUMP, but he confronts another guy who wants the issue too. They both pay at the counter as they tried to pry off the magazine from each other though each do not have enough money to pay for it. They both for that single magazine. They fought over it like kids. When they wanted to make an old woman hold the magazine for them, it ends up being thrown on top of a truck loaded with Justaways. They go through a lot of dangerous events as they chased the truck. Later on, they find out that they were arguing over the wrong magazine. ^_^;;;

The following review/summaries aren’t grammar-checked. Excuse all the misspellings and wrong grammar.

Episode 35

(No screenshots as I forgot to take them. Too engrossed in the episode.)

This episode starts with Gintoki, Otae, and Kagura arguing on how to make a proper recap of what is going on with Shinpachi. The rest of the story ends within 8 minutes in this episode.

The Shinsengumi superior was interrogated by Hijikata and Sougo. He was called a molester being without his police notebook and wallet for his identification. The two laugh at him when they read a card left by the cat-eared girl who took his belongings and calls herself “Mysterious Thief Cat’s Ear.” Shinpachi became a target of that thief as well. Since Gintoki and the two girls waited outside for Shinpachi and this thief, they noticed that the thief left Shinpachi. They chased after her and attacked her. They also find out that she loves to play with men’s feelings. Shinpachi saved her from her sister and Kagura, but he attacked her too.
The next story in this episode is about Kuriko, the daughter of the Shinsengumi superior (Matsudaira), who has a gangster-looking boyfriend. He wants to obliterate him because he doesn’t look good enough for his daughter. He comments on the guy’s piercings. He says that humans have a lot of holes already and there’s no need to add more. Matsudaira, Sougo, and Kondo follow the couple around a theme park. Hijikata is there too, but to keep an eye on the three. They were about to attack the guy to prevent the couple from kissing during their ferris wheel ride. Sougo had influenced the other two on this when he said that ferris wheel and kissing go together. Hijikata, suddenly calling himself Mayora 13, saves the guy from their attack. Kuriko develops a liking to him seeing how ‘cool’ he is.

The Shinsengumi guys never fails to amuse me. Sougo is just awesome while Kondo is so… Gullible.

Episode 36



A girl named Hanako works where Otae does although she’s been skipping work. Otae and another co-worker saw her on a bridge. Hanako was about to jump off the bridge. Otae tells her that she should be at a shallow part of the river if she wants to catch crayfish. Anyway, Otae kicks her to save her.
Gintoki, Shinpachi, and Kagura are busy at the Shimura dojo making hot pot. They were able to buy the ingredients they need since they finally got money. But the hot pot they made looks inedible. Kagura even adds Otae’s favorite Bargain Dash ice cream. Her way of ‘neutralizing’ the awful taste of the hot pot they made. Eventually, Gintoki and Shinpachi got beat up.

Hanako explains the situation over their awful hot pot meal. She joined this group of Dream Catcher worshipers. Their leader grants them their wishes. Hanako wanted to be a dancer and, out of desperatin, she uses the money she saved to buy a mole that will help her get her wish. Otae punishes her to put some sense in her head. The worshipers were easily fooled by their ‘leader’ by showing them the Dream Catcher stance much like Goku of Dragon Ball’s hame hame wave (or is it kame hame wave? *shrugs*) that will give them their wish. The better they do this, the bigger chances of getting their wish. It’s obviously a scam, but desperate people are easily swayed. Gintoki and Kagura joins in, but later admits they did that to be able to know more about the group leader’s motives and tricks.

They discover that the leader is paying a ninja to help with the wish-granting trick. Of course, they can only give those who wish for material things. Gintoki and the rest prove to the members the real motive of their leader and show the trick to them. The people were so mad that they demanded their money back and they either beat up or killed their former leader.

In real life, there are scams that people join in because they are led to believe that they will receive a huge sum of money. These scams are usually slightly-easy work. Much like those internet sites that offer payment when you click ads. I read others didn’t get their checks/cheques after they have done their part. Be wary of the things you do. You never know where or what you’ll end up.

I have seen episodes 4 to 11 (the last), but will still do my lamereviews per episode instead of just putting my thoughts on the whole series. I’m so late on this, I know. It’s just that I haven’t felt like blogging about anime lately. -_-


Episode 4 - Apology Man

This episode is about Hiroko’s boyfriend who works in a construction firm. He tries his best at his job, so that the workers wouldn’t get mad at him. He tried his best, but was then transferred to an office job with regards to sales. He suddenly regrets not being too serious with his work. He realized that he was afraid to take risks.

When I saw this episode, I felt the story would somehow revolve around him and Hiroko on how their work will affect their relationship. I thought it was already going to be bad for them in this episode, but aside from a canceled date nothing very bad happened.


Episode 5 - Turn-Around Man

Miyu’s dream is to be able to write a book with her favorite author. After she was able to land a contract for her favorite author, she found out from Hiroko that it would be Hiroko herself who would be in charge of her favorite author and not her. It frustrated her. She didn’t concentrate on the job she was reassigned to. When she complained to the chief, she was told that a second year like her wouldn’t be able to do that job and she has to do other tasks to gain more experience. She was able to fully concentrate after talking to her favorite author who admitted that she asked the chief to let Hiroko take in charge of her just so she could broaden her horizons.

It is true that if you stayed with one audience, they will eventually get tired of you. This type of thing does not only work with authors, but with others too. Like when you create homepages, you have to change your the look of your designs from time to time. I think that when you stick to something like that, you end up losing some of your creativity. Wanting to be creative means trying things you haven’t before. All right, this may already be out of the topic already, but I hope you guys get what I mean. It’s one of the lessons we get to learn in this series. :3


Episode 6 - Princess Man

One of the staff is ’somewhat’ thoroughly introduced in this episode. Yumi-chan, an editor, gives special scoops on a famous baseball player Shimura. Hiroko needs to interview him in her article Seven Samurai. She asks Yumi for help. She’s fine with it, but treated her coldly that was least expected by Hiroko. She rewrites her proposal to a shorter one after figuring out that Yumi does only have limited time with the baseball player. She goes to the field by herself to try to talk to Shimura herself, but the other reporters ignore her and even run over her. Yumi helps her up and introduces Hiroko to Shimura. Hiroko quickly explains her article to him and is finally granted permission. He says he can’t turn down a woman anyway.

Some of us may have met a Yumi-chan in one part of our lives. She’s the type of girl who uses her sexuality to get the job she wants. She claims there is nothing wrong with that. I did that before. Fyi, no, I didn’t sell my body to get what I want. Acting cute and sweet definitely got what I wanted. I was spoiled. This happened when our band was doing well with gigs. I met someone who handles productions and he gave us priority. He made us perform more songs than other bands. It was bad actually, but we enjoyed it. I had fun and I’m grateful. Yet I still feel guilty. I don’t know if Yumi feels guilty, but it’s true that if you want something real bad, you got to do everything you can to achieve or acquire it.


Episode 7 - Fussy Man

Hiroko is stressed with work and couldn’t get her gears working. She goes out for a short trip to the massage parlor, but, Shirakawa, the one who always assists her is on a day-off. Shirakawa is having troubles of her own too. They affect her work which make her worry more. She decides to quit her job and work on another place, but it doesn’t seem better. She told her boss that if they’re always pushed and stressed they wouldn’t be able to relieve the stresses of their customers.

It might have looked like a mistake to quit and move somewhere, but people irl do that, right? Once they find themselves too stressed and not happy with their work, they decide to move on to someplace else. I wish I could do that. Ha! Anyway, I thought this series will focus only on the staffers in Jidai. Seems like anyone Hiroko gets in contact with ends up having their own episode.

Episode 8 - Payoff Man

This is an interesting episode. I hate to admit that I was touched with the work Chiba goes through and how he reacted after Natsume thanked him for selling her books.

Natsume’s story that is being serialized in Jidai will be released into a book. Hiroko talked to Chiba in charged of its sales to print more than 20,000 copies of as she believes it will really sell out. But Chiba wouldn’t change his mind. They’re afraid that they might not be able to sell more than that anymore. Plus, he wouldn’t let feelings rule their decision on how many books they have to print. Chiba is an interesting character. I know that you have to tease customers or give them a ’sales talk’ just so they would buy your product, but he’s a great actor. I thought he reads 54, but he doesn’t and only acted like he does. Just so he could easily relate to their customers. Then it was shown why he’s like that after his experience on a book he sold and promoted with extreme eagerness. He worked hard especially when the girl who edited the book was his crush. Just when the sales topped, the girl said it was all thanks to the author. He realized that he did all that for nothing. He wanted to be praised. It was different for Natsume’s work though. When he got to read 54 and noticed how much people liked the story, he told his boss to print more than 20,000. He was aiming 50,000 like Hiroko asked. He ended up with 40,000, but it was better than just sticking to 20,000. More copies were printed as every bookstore quickly sold out Natsume’s book. It was amazing. During the celebration party on the huge sale of Natsume’s work, Natsume quickly thanked Chiba. She found out from Hiroko that Chiba had pressed his boss on printing 40,000 on the first publication. He cried. Surprised that the author took notice of him and his hard work.

All of us want to be thanked for something we do for other people. Big or small. Also, if others have done something for us, we shouldn’t forget to thank them. The thought really counts. You know, it gives this warm feeling that we don’t experience everyday.

Episode 9 - The Full-Fledged Hataraki Man

Hiroko was given an article where she is the chief editor. The title of the article this time is Fifty Samurai. She said she could do it, but she overworked herself. She got sick, but couldn’t rest until she’s able to finish this article. She was given more work when some of the people she gave parts to had to back out because they got sick or didn’t want to do it anymore (as far as I recall). When one of the people she had to interview died, things didn’t go out smoothly after. This person who died is Mimura who did something related to computers. He worked too hard which they say probably resulted to him being sick and ended up dying. So, yeah, working too hard doesn’t always mean we’ll get high rewards. Our body will also suffer. Too much is always bad. Anyway, following on Mimura’s way of working, when she got her article done, she thanked him in a whisper. I do not really recall what happened in this episode. I found it somewhat boring after the excitement from the previous episode.

Episode 10 - Not-Working Man

The last of the four ladies in the editorial section, Kaji is introduced in this episode. She’s like the very, very mature version of Yumi-chan. She doesn’t flirt, but she gives this vibe that makes you respect and like her at the same time. She doesn’t take advantage of her being a female. Hiroko seems out of it in this episode. All that was shown is her thinking about her job and how Kaji handles her work and of being a woman. Kaji has a lover who was in an accident. That’s what they thought. She didn’t falter after hearing of the accident although she smiled when she was told of the good news that her lover wasn’t in the accident. Anyway, Hiroko was very weird in this episode. It wasn’t very clear until episode 11…


Episode 11 - Even So, Hataraki Man

Not-so-good things happened to Hiroko. Aside from the stress in her job, her apartment gets flooded as water leaked from the ceiling. It was a busy time for her because no one can work at a home in such state. She wanted to stay at her boyfriend’s house for the meantime. Instead, her boyfriend tells her that they should just clean up her room and have the problem fixed asap. So they did, but the fixing will take about a week to finish.

Hiroko works very hard because she’s got passion for her work. One night, while working on an article, her boyfriend visits her by surprise. He was drunk. He tells her that when he looks at her, all he could see is his worthless self. That may hurt although he did say that it isn’t Hiroko’s fault. I believe so too. It’s probably because the guy doesn’t actually have the passion for the work he’s currently in. He wanted to work in the field, but ended up in sales. Well, I guess it’s hard to blame him entirely. One would feel insecure of your partner who’s successful and is enjoying work while you’re not. Then again, if you think positively, you wouldn’t feel that low of yourself. Not all good things happen quickly. You got to be patient and, at the same time, you have to work harder.

After writing all these down, I could say that this is a good series. I have never given the series much though until I did this lamereview. Oh, I apologize for any grammar errors. I may have missed some here and there. If you made it up to here, congratulations! I know most of you would have ignored this post seeing the length of it. XD; I would have added screenshots too so it wouldn’t be boring, but my Zoom Player wouldn’t let me.

Otsuu-chan’s fan club is quarreling in the train about the new female singer with cars and Otsuu-chan. Shinpachi, the captain of the fan club, isn’t happy about this and goes on a rage. Other than their quarrel, there’s another commotion going on in the train between a drunk man and a girl. When Shinpachi threw one of his members, he hit the drunk man thus saving the girl. The girl then thanks him for rescuing her. She shows then her cat ears. Shinpachi previously thought that cat ears are shit, his attitude and opinion of it turns into a 360 as he sees her. He fell in love with her. The story goes on like Densha Otoko. Shinpachi asks for advice in a chat/forum because he couldn’t rely on Gintoki for love adice. His first reply is from Fruits Punch Samurai who admits his name is Katsura. Aside from getting decent advices, those who replies to his posts quarrel online or makes fun of him. Then there’s one who gave him good advices. He thought it’s Gintoki when it was actually Sa-chan. Shinpachi gathers his courage and meets up with the girl with cat ears. His sister, Kagura-chan, and Gintoki follow them around. Poor Gintoki always gets beat up by the girls every time he tries to stop them.
Watching Gintama is a great stress-reliever. Though it makes me sad that when an episode’s over, I am back to ‘reality.’ Know what I mean?

The episode starts again with Yasako and another rumor she heard on the Net. She said that before glasses hit the market, the Nakatsu Crossroad was a mysterious place where many accidents occured. The statement is unrelated on the currents not until the part where she, Fumie, and Haraken went to Nakatsu Crossroads.

After Amasawa tried to burn down a Satchii, she disappears. Haraken is desynching and the others are terribly confused as to why there’s a Satchii in school. It was a hectic night for them with all the commotion that they got confused as to who won the game.

They all left the school the following morning. The Hackers Club met up with Isako to tell her that they won. Isako then says they lost because they didn’t get the glasses of the other team. Daichi ends up being rid of the club. Fumie, Yasako, and Haraken, on the other hand, were on the Nakatsu Crossroad to follow route Haraken discovered in his dream. They took a shortcut first, but decided to take the actual route when they didn’t find anything. When they did, they found an email with what looks like a password from Kanna.

With the help of her Grandma and after discovering that the password is actually what the letters show up if upside-down, they were able to access Kanna’s glasses. Yasako saw Kanna’s diary and read a part of it. The following day, she met up with Haraken who she apologized to for having read Kanna’s diary.

Haraken cried as he read. After that, he suddenly wanted to go to the route Kanna has on her diary, so they went to the Crossroads. Yasako tried to stop him. She told him that summer break just started and they could do that the following day. A mystery character took a picture of the two on the Crossroad. He wondered if the kids knew of the route.

That Isako character is such a know-it-all. I wish we will suddenly be given more background on this girl as I’m itching to punch my monitor everytime I see her. I want to know her goal and what’s all this Michiko-san about really. Argh~ Other than that, I’m all for the Yasako and Haraken pairing. This episode has proven that Yasako definitely likes Haraken. As for the mystery character, I hope he shows up and is introduced in the next episode.

I’ve been going through old posts in my Google Reader. I still have a long way to go. Anyway, found these in Danny’s very, very, very awesome blog. XD



I’ll be back to my regular anime/manga blogging _maybe_ later. :P

Toki wo Kakeru Shoujo (aka The Girl Who Leapt Through Time) is a very awesome anime. I can’t find the right words to describe how good this anime is. Now that I think about it, I should also get the manga and TV drama of this. ♥

The movie is about a girl who accidentally got the ability to leap through time. That’s pretty obvious, right? There’s nothinge exceptional about this girl whose name is Makoto. Well, not until she got the ability. Makoto, Chiaki, and Kousuke are close friends. They usually play baseball after school. One time, after doing after class chores, she went to their school’s Chemistry laboratory. There’s an extra room there. Makoto went in and checked because she heard someone in there. But the room was empty. In there, she found a walnut-shaped shiny thing. She was about to pick it up, but fell by surprise when she noticed someone get in the room. Her elbow hit the shiny thing (that looked like it hurt) and that’s when she got the ability to leap through time. She only found out at a later time that the shiny thing was the cause of it and her power is limited to the number of times she could use it. In the end, Makoto learned that time isn’t something to be taken for granted and to take control of. Time is precious. Once the opportunity is there, we should take or do it. She would sometimes go back in time and change things. Even so, is she sure that the outcome would be better than it should be? Or would it be worse? I like how the series ended. I wanted closure, but I’m somehow satisfied.
I wish I could add screenshots, but my players won’t let me take screenshots with MKV files. Boo~ Anyway, I apologize if this short review doesn’t give justice to the movie. It would be best if you watch the movie. I highly recommend it. For those in the Philippines, Cinemanila will show the movie on the 14th of August at 5PM.

Episode 8



“Kids that have fallen asleep with their glass on end up going to the other side.”

Yasako had a dream being on the mysterious staircase again. There was that, probably, male voice calling to her and telling her to be careful because she’s close to it. Whoever said that didn’t clearly say what that it was, but after she askined what 4423 means, a huge Illegal-looking thing was already behind her.

Amasawa’s busy on her plans in opening a hole on an obsolete space in school. She found out that Haraken’s Aunt is trailing her, so she also planned on making a diversion by using the Biology Club members to have a game of courage in the school grounds. The Hackers’ Club are then swamped with tasks for her. After a before-summer vacation speech for the school’s student body, Kanna’s mother talked to Haraken and gave him her daughter’s glasses. She tried to use it to find out what Kanna was doing before her death, but she couldn’t access it because it’s password-protected.

Yasako, Kyoko and a friend of theirs who’s also a member of the Biology Club (I forgot her name ^^;) went there ahead of Fumie. Haraken was there first and was awestruck when he saw Yasako in a kimono. Fumie arrived in late and Daichi’s obviously into her… Only that Fumie’s oblivious to that matter. The two other girls try to get the two together and the other girl tries to get Yasako and Haraken together. I’m so into the latter pairing. While the girls were busy talking about Fumie and Daichi, Haraken goes off and Yasako goes after him. They both saw an Illegal that’s actually Kuro. It is Kanna’s pet who got infected with an Illegal. It tries to get near Haraken and hands a stone to him. Unfortunately, it gets zapped by one of Satchii’s flying balls.

In the end of this episode, Daichi invites Fumie to the duel.

I think it’s not too bad to see some pairings develop in this series, but it might ruin the mood and plot of the anime. I guess I should be satisfied with the little hints between Yasako and Haraken. On the other hand, it might be too early to say that. I should have watched this series when it’s been completely subbed. *sighs* Every episode is like a cliffhanger to me. o_o I’m curious as to what that 4423, Michiko, and all those Illegals truly are. The ff. episode will be about the Biology Club’s friendship camp in school and the night when the duel will be held.



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There are new posts at Gunota Headlines about Gundam 00. For those who don’t know yet, Gundam 00’s official site has already the enemy MS profiles. I’m excited to watch this series. Hopefully I won’t be too busy by then. Another reason to be excited on Gundam 00 is Laruku’s Daybreak’s Bell that will be the anime’s first theme song. The single will be released on October 10. That’s good news for all you L’Arc~en~Ciel fans!

Episode 24



Kyouhei has gone missing after the incident in his home. Even though his mom doesn’t like him that much because of the nonstop calls, visitors, etc. for Kyouhei, Sunako had to even tell him that she doesn’t want to be near him anymore. Kyouhei ran away to somewhere unmentioned. He seems to get by from helping people and taking whatever hospitable offer they could give him. He also joins food eating contests in various restaurants and even became a leader of a gang that he made do community service. The other 3 boys ask Sunako-chan if anything happened when Kyouhei was home. She said she doesn’t know anything, but she starts feeling guilty. The boys found out that Kyouhei isn’t returning because a member from the gang said (from a TV show) that Kyouhei mentioned not having a home to go back to. They lecture Sunako and try to make a way for Kyouhei to come back with the help of an offer from the restaurant they used to work to. That restaurant will be covered on TV and they will use it to bring Kyouhei back. Sunako also helps out by making herself look dazzling. You should see how she does it. XD

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Both of these are old news. :P I intended to post this some time last week, but it slipped my mind.

Marimite season 4 is confirmed! YAY! This news is confirmed in the August issue of Cobalt. (Source: Canned Dogs). I hope the 3rd season is finished/subbed asap. :3 Does any of my online friends watch this series?
After Afro Samurai, Eric Calderon — producer of the aforementioned series — is going to make another Japan-US co-production animation titled The Five Killers. Read the news from Anime News Network; there is a picture of the five characters there that you should see. You can also visit Eric Calderon’s The Five Killers site. I’m going to watch this once its out. :3

Gintoki, Shinpachi, and Kagura try to fix their house. They ended up not fixing anything, but destroying the house further. Luckily, Sakamoto sent them a package. They didn’t have any idea what was in the package. They thought it was money. Before they opened it though, Gintoki read the included letter where Sakamoto wrote that getting a person’s name wrong is rude. But he keeps calling Gintoki as Kintoki.
Inside the parcel are 2 little men/aliens. They’re delivery carpenters paid by Sakamoto to fix the Yorozuya house. Their names are Unkei (the red guy) and Kaikei (the blue guy). Gintoki had motivated them to work on the house quickly by telling them a story about a famous carpenter named Mokichi. Everybody didn’t know Gintoki just made that story up. The Delivery Carpenters found out, but they still went ahead with the gang’s demands. They ended up having a castle that can float in the sky when the special button is pushed. The work was all in vain when a reporter pressed that button because he thought it was a doorbell.

Next episode is about Hermes — a girl with cat ears! Shinpachi has fallen in love other than Otsuu-chan. XD

Gundam Meister:




Character designs are by Kouga Yun. Loveless fans may have noticed this. Aside from that, Gundam 00 kind of give this Gundam Wing vibe. Plot- and character-wise. Setsuna F. Seiei, probably the main protagonist, has similar description and traits to Heero Yuy. :P Oh well, I’m going to watch this mainly because of the Gundams and Allelujah. Yes, Allelujah is my type. His hair’s similar to Trowa who’s one of my anime boys crushes of all time. XD This is the storyline taken from Gunota Headlines:

2307 AD.

As fossil fuels became exhausted, humanity found a new energy source to change their situation: A large-scale solar power system with three enormous orbiting elevators. However, only a few large countries and their allies reaped the benefits.

Three superpowers had ownership of the three orbiting elevators: The Union, based in the United States Of America, The People’s Reform League, made up of China, Russia, and India, and Europe’s AEU. The superpowers continue playing a large zero-sum game for their own dignity and respective prosperity. Even though it is the 24th century, humanity has yet to become one.

In this world where war has no end, a private militia appears advocating the eradication of war through force. Each possessing a mobile suit Gundam, they are Celestial Being. The armed intervention by the Gundams against all acts of war begins.

Doesn’t it really make you think of Gundam Wing? :P Well, I should expect it to better since its director is Mizushima Seiji, the director of FMA. The series will air on October 2007. It will be shown every Saturday 6PM, I think. Here’s the TV spot clip of Gundam 00.

Episode 4



Amasawa is new to the class, but is giving everyone a cold shoulder including Daichi who was asking her her to join his all-boys club. Daichi wouldn’t let that pass and makes a prank against her. It only backfires causing his system/glasses to overload. He won’t stop though until he teaches her a lesson. They’re just fighting against each other until the end of the episode. Amasawa is on a completely high and different level with Daichi. She’s able to operate even without using her hands. There was also a part when Amasawa and Yasako had a little talk about ‘friendship,’ but Amasawa can’t be taken in easily by mere words. Yasako should learn to talk back when confronted like that… She’s too weak-willed. Tsk, tsk.

Fumie also joined in the fight between Amasawa and Daichi. She was trying to gain information from Amasawa while she’s busy with the boys. She only got little information though. Fumie thinks it was useless, but Yasako was shocked when she saw it. Whatever that was, this ending doesn’t seem exciting unlike the previous episodes, although I’m curious to what Yasako saw.


Episode 5



So we’ve got a new character in the series. His name’s Haraken and is the president of the Biology Club. Three of them — Fumie, Haraken, and Yasako — are going on a trip to find out more about illegals, but it became a hunt for metabugs. Plans also changed when they found out that Daichi’s club and Amasawa will be going out on a metabug trip too. The Biology Club members follow them until they arrived at their destination — a bus graveyard. There are lots of metabugs, but Amasawa tells the boys that there are bigger ones around. They dig under fifteen buses. Amasawa had other plans though. She only used the boys to find the right spot for her to open a space and get an Illegal. Not everything goes in plan when 2 Satchiis arrives. This scares everyone causing a lot of mess. Fumie, Yasako, and Fumie’s brother get chased by a Satchii until Haraken saves them. Ooh, a major surprise (and cliffhanger)! One more thing that surprised me is Haraken’s VA. XD Remember Edward Elric? Yep, Haraken is voiced by Paku Romi. Ah, this makes me miss FMA. Haraken is absolutely the opposite of Elric though. He’s a quiet kid.
Anyway, back to the plot of this episode, Daichi realizes that Amasawa is an encoder! Instead of trying to beat her, he’s now an underling of hers. He wants to become an encoder as well. Let’s see if he can handle being someone under than being the boss. XD


Episode 6



Fumie and Asako try to find out his relation to the Satchiis in town. Fumie thinks he’s evil to have a pet like Satchii. Wht they didn’t know is that Haraken’s sister created Satchii that is used to eliminate Illegals or fix broken spaces. After much search, they come across Haraken and, well, just talks and asks him about Satchii & his relevance to them plus his research on Illegals.

I’m getting tired of the fact they always have to search for Kyoko. Yasako should sometimes let her mom know that she can’t bring or take out Kyoko with her because it’s dangerous outside. That’s already a pretty obvious reason. Tsk, I don’t want to see Kyoko in the next few episodes please. Densuke’s in danger too because of her.


Episode 7



Fumie and Yasako decides to help Haraken on his research about Illegals. They were already making plans when they were summoned by Mega-baa due to a case of a missing pet. Mega-baa told them that there’s a treasure and the secret is stored in the pet… 1/3 Would be given to them if they find it. Out of excitement and the need for money, they go out and look for it. The place where the hamster was last seen is also where Amasawa and the boys are doing some kind of Illegal-hunt. The boys don’t know about the hunt though. They were only asked to look after the encodes Amasawa did.

What I didn’t want to see happened in this episode again. Kyoko followed Fumie and Yasako because she thought they were out to play. Fumie then asked Kyoko to help them search for the pet hamster. She found it, but Yasako lost track of her. Amasawa was the one who found Yasako and both were trapped in Amasawa’s own trap. It was set up in case an Illegal tries to run away. They wanted to ask help from Kyoko, but she didn’t and was only trying to run away from an Illegal that Amasawa was able to lure out before all these happened.

There’s nothing good about this episode especially if it concerns Amasawa. I don’t like her character, I don’t like it when Daichi’s there, and all their fighting is just *yawns*. Kids fight. I hope something interesting comes up in the next episode. Like why is Amasawa an encoder and what was on her back that Yasako saw in one of the previous episodes?
Anyway, seems like the girls were fooled on the so-called treasure. They thought it was the kirabug because the pet owner said the treasure’s something shiny. It was actually her husband’s head.

Episode 28



Today, the most unlucky people are all you Virgos out there… Today you die! It’s Kondo’s unluckiest day ever! Matsudaira takes him to visit Tendoshun to the incident at Rengokukan. Although the Rengokukan’s motives are bad, it is supported by those. This wasn’t very good news for Kondo and their trip to Tendoshun didn’t give him to calm down for even just a minute.
The Yorozuya, Otose-san, and Otae-san among others make quick appearances in this episode. They’re not entirely related to the story anyways. Their quick appearances mean they just happen to be where Kondo, Matsudaira, and Sa-chan pass by. Kondo keeps getting pointed with a gun, beat up, shot at, etc. Tendoshun somehow forgave them for what happened at Rengokukan, but I don’t think they’ll be free if it happens again. So… I thought he survived the day, but I thought wrong. Kondo sees Otae-san with Kagura. He rushes to her, trips, and accidentally hits Otae-san’s head. It’s up to our imagination what would happen next. Hmm… Will this be the last time we’ll Kondo?

At episode 28, it’s good that the art and humor doesn’t degrade. I’m sure the humor won’t and I hope the art would stay the same. Other anime’s animation tend to suck once it’s past maybe 10 or so episodes.

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I watched this weeks ago, but didn’t get the time to blog about it. As much as I want to do a per-episode rant/review, I couldn’t. I’m too busy with school and I’ve been sleeping a lot lately. *blames the freakin’ weather* I’ll be skipping the per-episode reviews as I’m sure a majority of you have read them in other anime blogs or have watched the episodes already. What’s the point of this post then? Err, I’m not too sure. XD;

I’m glad I finished the TV series of PoT and caught up with the OVA. The art has improved a lot. *_* They look so shiny and HOT. Haha~ I wanna say pretty, but they’re all boys so I think HOT’s the right word. X3 It wasn’t disclosed why Ryoma went back to Japan just in time for the Nationals. Though, imo, it could be because he’s still young and it will take a lot to defeat all those foreign competitors. I mean, for his first time in the Open, defeating everyone is just crazy and impossible. At least they put a bit of realism in the story. The tennis teams from other schools are evil. Seemingly evil. They’re all like, “I’m going to crush you! RAWR!” My favorite episode, so far, is episode 7. *roflmao* Who wouldn’t love a filler episode like that? Only it was a bit gross seeing Coach Ryuzaki wearing bikini and her bouncing boobies.


Episode 11 is the when Tezuka beats Kabaji. Tezuka was in the advantage when it rained since most, if not usually, of the players are not used to playing under the rain. Is it just me or does Tezuka’s personality seem different? Next episode, we’ll probably be seeing Oishi and Kikumaru playing as a pair again. Atobe hasn’t played yet, right? I guess Ryoma will play against him then.
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I guess it’s time for me to get back to reviewing anime. I was planning on reviewing a lot of series, but time won’t permit me atm. It sucks having a board exam. But I’m sure it would be worth all the hard work once I pass it. :3

Anyway, I forgot how I got to know of Dennou Coil and what made me download the series. I have been itching to watch it ever since I got the subbed episodes. I was almost disappointed with the art. It doesn’t have the typical anime art we are familiar with. There are no bishies at this point, but I doubt there would be one in the succeeding episodes. But the art is not a big deal when the plot is interesting. I guess some of you who have seen it may find it boring, but for me it isn’t. It’s surprising to see the probability of technology advancing to that stage, yet people still live simply. The technology in the anime deals with cyberspace; of beings coming from the digital world. Viruses also exists. The security officials have created moving robot-like anti-viruses they call Satchii, yet are still buggy since they couldn’t differ real or clean beings from viruses. It’s impressive how shrines can’t be penetrated by these Satchii nor schools and residences. Well, people being targeted need a safe place anyway. I didn’t think this anime has a sci-fi theme because the OP gave me the impression that it’s war-related and depressing.
The protagonist in this anime is Yuko. She and her family just moved to Daikoku where her Grandma lives. Daikoku seems to be more technologically-advanced than her old hometown. On her first day there, she finally gets herself in trouble with an “illegal.” Her cyberpet Densuke gets tangled in it as well by accidentally getting to an obsolete Space. Well, he was found in the end, but his troubles doesn’t end there. Everything goes well for him in the third episode when an Illegal that infected him was finally removed. There was a girl who was trying to kidnap Densuke too… That really sucked, but I’m glad he was back at Yuko’s hands. :3 In the third episode, the girl who was after Densuke is actually Yuko’s classmate and they even have the same name.



You know, the only thing I don’t like in this anime is that pixel things they’re after makes me think there’s something wrong with the video. :S

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Episode 20


Three girls kidnapped Hiroshi-kun because they thought it is Kyouhei’s favorite after seeing him talking to it behind the bushes. Sunako went out to search for him. She didn’t go home for one night then later on was found on a dumpster. She didn’t take the time to eat nor drink the whole time she searched. After probably 2 days, the mannequin thieves sent a letter to Sunako of the whereabouts of her beloved Hiroshi-kun. She hurries there, but instead that she gets Hiroshi-kun right away, they ask her to bring Kyouhei to them first. They will have him kneel down, get him naked, they’ll caress him, and make him moan. She hardly hesitated when she answered, “I can’t do that.” It surprised everyone. She cried, ran away, and bumped into Kyouhei. Kyouhei then gave himself up, so he could get Hiroshi-kun. Fortunately, the girls passed out from his being TOO HOT, he left them and brought Hiroshi-kun with him.

I laughed out loud after watching the part when the girls said they wanted to do this and that to Hiroshi-kun. One of the girls seem to have a S&M fetish. XD I also want to do this and that to some men I know (I don’t have a S&M fetish, btw), but I wouldn’t go as far as they did. Also, I’m not that desperate… I can only do that in my dreams or in my imagination.
The production company are probably few on resources as the voices of the thieves are familiar. They sound like those Goth~ Goth~ Loli~ Loli~ girls. I guess that’s very expected when they could do that much to the animation.

Episode 21


Sunako’s dad visits the mansion after finding out that his daughter is staying with four boys. He was so angry that he was literally on fire. His entrance to the mansion is similar to Sunako’s. Kyouhei was very right on how something like that happened previously. Sunako’s Papa looked fierce and all, but he just loves her daughter too much. Seeing his daughter change as she grew up, she became distant and he felt hated. What he didn’t know is that she kept her distance because she didn’t want him to find out her hobbies or the things she likes. He faints at the sight of scary things. His visit concerns not only of Sunako and her staying with the boys, but of Kyouhei. Because, while on his way to the mansion, he overheard the Goth~ Goth~ Loli~ Loli~ girls talking about Sunako and Kyouhei’s actually-non-existent relationship. He became wary of him. Just like any father, he’s afraid he might not be good for his daughter. He kept his eye on him and even tested him. He liked him in the end though. In fact, he even asked him to look after Sunako. Sunako’s mom makes an appearance at the near-end of the episode. She drops by to pick up the ‘Papa.’ The boys were stunned by her prettiness _and_ her strength. If Sunako started acting like a true lady, she’ll be like her mother (also with the great strength — !!!) or maybe prettier.

Episode 22-23


Instead of futile attempts in turning Sunako into a true lady, it seems the story will focus on Kyouhei. This starts on episode 22. Kyouhei gets kidnapped this time. He’s taken by cult-looking people. Kyouhei was saved by Yuki. He was discovered in a cave and tied on a throne-like chair. o_o The cult-looking kidnappers are atually the store owners near his old home. He left that place because his mom got sick and tired of the endless phone calls, faxes, packages, etc. for Kyouhei. He tried his best to stop those only to get in trouble. He decided that to end his mom’s agony is to leave his home.

The kidnapping was headed by Kyouhei’s dad. His dad wasn’t sure of what happened, but he didn’t like it when he heard the things Kyouhei’s mom would say about wanting Kyouhei to disappear and such. For whatever reason, a mother shouldn’t say things like that to their children. She shouldn’t apologize if the sight of him still angers her. Stupid mother. I guess Sunako realized this because she’s treated differently by others (only opposite of how Kyouhei attracts attention) yet her mom wouldn’t be bothered by it. Sunako’s method of helping Kyouhei didn’t do much help and her after saying she doesn’t want to be with him is probably going to be a problem to their friends.

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I almost wanted to forget reviewing this episode even though I already finished watching it. It’s even the last episode of the series, but I should being a lazy ass and get this over with. XD

The school vice president is still after Yamaguchi; trying to find something to ruin her reputation, getting her fired, and aiming to become the next president (or something because I already forgot) of whatever it is that’s going to be erected on the school grounds after it gets demolished. His plan fails because her students and her ‘men’ back her up and the school president already knows her background.

(Please correct me if I’m wrong with my episode summary as I hardly recall what happened and I only skimmed through the episode.)

I was a bit hesitant to watch this series because I was given the idea of the show being similiar to GTO. The series is similar because both protagonists want to become teachers. Not only do they teach academic stuff, but also in real-life issues. The difference is that Yamaguchi is a daughter of the head of a yakuza while Onizuka isn’t. Of course there are differences with the art and the humor as well. GTO’s better at both, though it doesn’t mean Gokusen sucks. The art might turn you off, but it’s still an enjoyable series.

Animation: 3.5/5
Story: 3.5/5
Sound: 4/5
Character: 4/5
Enjoyment: 4/5

Fufufu~ I finished the Prince of Tennis tv series last Friday. Whew! After a long time, I finally managed to. I kept pushing it aside because I got tired from watching too many of the tennis tournaments. If you watch it straight from episode 1 to about 70+, the tournaments will really get to your nerves. It’s like watching Full Moon o Sagashite with a single song playing a number of times in every episode. Know what I mean? That’s forgiven anyway because a series with lots of boys would mean possible YAOI pairs.
When I watched from about episode 160 to the end, I kind of regretted not watching it earlier. The filler episodes are hilarious. I did mention this in my blog about the obvious hints of InuKai, TezuFuji, OishixKikumaru (or vice-versa), and my favorite pair TezuRyo. The yaoi fangirl in me is finally very satisfied with the series. *rofl* I enjoyed all the chibi, prince-of-various-sports, and other extra episodes. They were good enough to make one forget tennis for a little while. SD-Tezuka is so OOC XD And Oishi acting as the mother is extreme CRACK! I wasn’t very happy with the ending though because it sucks Ryoma wouldn’t be able to play in the Nationals. But, you know, the only fortunate thing for finishing watching the tv series just recently is that the National Chapter OAV is already showing. That means I would see right away what happened after Ryoma left for the US Open. I’d go on, but discussing about the OAV should go to a different post.

This is the longest anime I have ever seen. (I would say Ranma 1/2, but I’m pretty sure I missed a lot of its episodes or a season.) Prince of Tennis will be my first favorite sports anime in my list.

Animation: 4/5
Story: 4/5
Sound: 4/5
Character: 4/5
Enjoyment: 4.5/5

Oh, I have yet to see Ryoma grow a little bit. Even only a few centimeters maybe.
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I wouldn’t be making a per-episode rant/review since, a lot had already done that and you’ll probably ignore this post if still went on with it. Just to give my point-of-view on episodes 20-24, it certainly got better with the action scenes. Interesting how Alice becomes the strongest in the group, when she started out as a character that does nothing but BLAH-BLAH-BLAH. I could forgive that because I’ve seen her with her really kick-ass weapon. I didn’t think she was the kind of girl who would take the time to learn other weapons than the dagger-like thing she always brings with her. She would look cooler without the army coat.

There were episodes before these that were only fillers that could have been removed or easily summarized to short-fillers in the end of some episodes. This series could have been, at most, 16 episodes. But no, they had to make more than 20 episodes. I continued watching this series because Orland impressed me with his skills in the first episode. He got lamer and lamer by the episode. *bah* He went all EMO in the end. Sheesh~

All in all, I can’t say it’s a great ride with this series. The animation’s alright. The drawing sometimes look as if they were lazily worked on. I could give a high rating on music though. The bgm, I mean. The opening and closing songs aren’t really my type. The ending songs are really unexpected from such series. I guess the production thinks the anime is too dark and, to make it lighter, they have to make a happy-feeling ending video.
Animation: 3.5/5
Story: 3/5
Sound: 4/5
Character: 3/5
Enjoyment: 3/5

Okita shows the Yorozuya the Rengokukan. It’s an underground arena where, instead of ordinary fighting or wrestling, competitors will kill with swords or any other method. An upper official seems to be behind this that’s why the Shinsengumi isn’t doing anything about it. Kidoumaru is the strongest in the Rengokukan. A fighter like him in the arena is part of the ’show’ the higher ups planned for the Rengokukan. Okita asked the Yorozuya to do something about it, so that would close down. He requested to have Kidoumaru defeated. Pasta (Shinpachi) and Yama-san (Kagura) were against this. Gintoki gave in though for the pay. They went ahead with their job, spied on Kidoumaru, then they find out he adopted kids and took care of them in compensation for his evil deeds.

I was really looking forward to another episode of Gintama, only to be a bit disappointed with this. I was expecting something very hilarious, but the seriousness in this show is like 80% of the time. I hope the next episode would be better. Judging from the preview, it seems it would be… Yet it really is too early to say.

Episode 22



After some episodes, a new character is introduced. Her name’s Shimatsuya Sa-chan. It’s not stated clearly who she is and what she really does. When she suddenly fell through the roof of Yoruzuya, she decided to stay there and act as Gin-san’s wife. The Yoruzuya aren’t very happy, of course. Shinpachi wants to get rid of her asap, but Gintoki couldn’t find a way to do it. Sa-chan, on the other hand, thinks she’s got Gintoki at the palm of her hands. Sa-chan doesn’t seem to be a very bright girl, but she was able to fool Gintoki to go to Nezumiya and fight along with her.

This is a very hilarious episode. I guess you can fool your enemy by rubbing their heads especially when that enemy is an animal. XD

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Gawd, when I saw Hiroshi in a sexy pose, I thought I would puke. I can forgive the crappy animation because of all the hilarious things going on in this anime, but I can’t do so completely with Hiroshi being weird in the intro of every episode.

It’s Valentine’s Day. The boys dread the day because they know they will be followed by a huge crowd of girls. Whether outside or inside the school. What’s really funny in this episode is when the male teachers wanted to glomp Kyouhei. *rofl* XD Sunako ♥ chocolates. Haha~ She could have just asked the boys properly. She could have taken a few, right? Anyway, I don’t see a connection with Sunako loving chocos and becoming a lady. The series is already on its 19th episode (the subs that is) and there is still no progress with what the boys are supposed to do. Is it a hopeless case? I don’t think it is. I hope there will be some progress. I hope they would stop with the filler episodes and get on with the main plot of the anime. Although the filler episodes aren’t that bad. :P

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WTF. Bokura ga Ita just KILLED ME with the extreme drama. I find the series damn good. So good that I want more. I’m not satisfied with the open ending. They could have just included the last part of the 8th volume of the manga. The ending with Takahashi chasing the train then watching it leave on a cold, snowy winter day just made the anime more sad than it already was. It wasn’t even heart-warming, darnit. I wouldn’t mind the drama, but at least a semi-satisfying ending would it alright. *sighs*

Before I give my input on the characters and the story, I’d like to make a few comments with the animation. So far, the simplicity of the anime is a major point. I like it. It kind of gives this Kareshi Kanojo no Jijyo feeling to it. There are times though that the main characters would look sad. The part when Takahashi was waiting for Yano in front of the station. Takeuchi and Yano, at the same time, headed there… I thought it was Yano who got there first, but Takeuchi beat him to it. I was also confused by the voice because he sounded like Yano. I didn’t notice that the music at the near-end of the episodes changes. Some episodes weren’t that dramatic, but whenever those music would play, it really gives off this melancholic feeling.

Others weren’t happy with this series. But I think it’s a good series. It’s already in my favorites, btw. Yano isn’t the perfect guy than what he seemed to be in the first episode. He may be cold or rash with Nanami, but his choice of words when he’s being honest with his love for Nanami can make you melt. Takeuchi may be a good guy and he’s right about Yano being almost impossible to understand… But I still root for Yano and Nanami. He’s Nanami’s first boyfriend, so I could forgive her if she gets indecisive or get easily hurt/mad when she could easily talk it with Yano instead of just ignoring him. I saw how she matured through their high school years. I was surprised when told Takeuchi to stop being nice to her when she’s weak. That he was being unfair. He somewhat takes advantage of the situation when she and Yano fights. We know all he wants is to protect her, but he also knows his limit. He can’t force Nanami to like him when all she sees is Yano. I pity Nanami because she’s trying hard and Yano isn’t completely open with her. I know he’s right when he said that Nanami’s mentioning pointless things. I believe he would have eventually moved on and made Nana become a memory (even though he doesn’t believe in memories), if he and Nanami had led a normal, happy couple life. I guess Nanami just wants Yano to move on by facing the problem instead of trying to forget it. She’s afraid that Yano isn’t completely in love with her. Like Yano’s feelings still linger for Nana. Well, we did witness that in the anime. It couldn’t be helped anyways. Nana’s dead. He loved her. As much as he wanted to hate her, he couldn’t. She was his first love. I contradicted myself, didn’t I?

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Episode 17


Sunako locks herself most of the time in her roof to watch her horror movies and eat a lot of junkfood at the same time. This caused her to have lots of pimples and to gain wait. The pimples kind of gave me goosebumps. Noi gives her tips, but Sunako already went back to her room. She hardly cares for herself anyway. Then Ranmaru’s fiancee arrives. She plans to become a lady/woman/girl that Ranmaru will love. This episode is about beauty and Noi and Tamao (Ranmaru’s fiancee) becoming ideal for Takenaga and Ranmaru respectively.


Episode 18


The guys used a different tactic this time for turning Sunako into a lady. Their tactic is like a “If you can’t beat them, join them” thing. They were able to make Sunako wear a gothic dress after they told her that she’s out of place. She was hesitant, but when she wore it she fell in love with the feeling of wearing the dress. She was really into it that when she needed to buy food ingredients, she wore that. She got more attention this time. She didn’t realize that the more she’s trying to be different, the more she will just gain attention. Isn’t that what she hates? :P Sunako got into a trouble when she went with a kid who showed her his hideout. The people thought the kid was kidnapped by her. Kyouhei comes to rescue her once more. He wore a prince outfit, so it would seem they were just having a cosplay or a shooting. They think it was a bit of progress for getting Sunako to wear a dress. It sure was a progress. In the end, she said she didn’t mind wearing a dress once in a while.

Episode 18


I only have one screenshot for this episode because I was lazy to get screenshots and I ate while watching. XD

Gosh, I wish the rasta dude in the intro of this episode be a regular character. XD I can’t believe I’d see one in Gintama. I’m not a Rastafarian, but since I listen to reggae… Which is known for Rastafarians to listen to, I have developed some interest in them.
There’s a panty thief on the loose. One of the victims is Shinpachi’s sister. They ask for Gintoki’s help. The Shogunate police also helped because Chief Kondo likes Shinpachi’s sister. Chief Kondo was first accused of being the panty thief because he stalked Shinpachi’s sister too much. They went all out to capture the panty thief. To the point that they put landmines around the house of Shinpachi and his sister. They set it up yet they didn’t remember where they put it, so when they tried to chase the panty thief, they got into their own traps. The panty thief’s purpose, btw, is to bring hope to all the single men who couldn’t get girlfriends. Mostly really bad, ugly looking guys were shown as an example of these single men.


Episode 19


Hasegawa makes another appearance in this episode. He and Gintoki went to the beach to take on a hunt with a bounty. They didn’t know how much the bounty was, but they still went just to get money. It’s a huge fish that scared away people from the beach. The fish wasn’t there to scare the people though. It only wanted to play with the people. The person who put a bounty on the fish (he only gave souvenir shirts to the guys as their incentive when they catch the fish) made a business out of it.

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I watched this during finals and hell (when I worked on two Plumbing workouts) week/s. Actually, the last 2 weeks of last term got me wasted. I’m behind on Gintama, yet I don’t feel like skipping out summaries on those old episodes. I’m sure other anime blogs have already blogged about those old episodes and you’d rather skip reading this post, but I would still do the summaries. I’ve watched from episodes 11-21. The summaries in this post will only be up to episode 17. The rest will be posted soon.

I feel like no one’s visiting my blog. Aah… This is saddening.

Episode 11-12


The story continues after Shinpachi and Gintoki gets hit by a car. Gintoki is fine, but Shinpachi isn’t. He got a broken leg that made him a bit useless for the group. They meet in an old man in the hospital who asked them to look for a woman he was in love with when he was younger. It turns out that the woman is Otose-san. I wonder if she does remember the old man… Well, maybe she did. I couldn’t believe that the oh-pretty Ayano in her younger days is the same as the old Otose. She’s so hot-headed now.

The second story is about Catherine, Otose’s assitant in her snack shop. She worked there to support her family. Little did they know that the recent thievery happening around the area is caused by her. The Yorozuya finds out when they saw her leaving with their stuff (including Gintoki’s scooter). They didn’t let her escape. Kagura drove madly through the streets ruining a lot of structures, hitting cars… And accidentally falling to the water when they reached the pier.
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Episode 13


Hiroshi is starting to freak me out. Sunako becomes uber girly. Thanks to the mushroom Yuki got from the Goth~Loli girls. They were chanting/praying using those mushroom to transform them into girls that the boys will like. They were suddenly chased away by a dog that was interested with the mushrooms. The boys puked when they found out where they came from, but Sunako ate all of it. She transformed to somebody who’s more than a lady. They thought they’re free from paying rent. But, they got shy around her and so did she. Feeling uncomfortable, they wanted the old Sunako back. They did that things that Sunako hated, but nothing turned her back to normal. Seemingly, by the end of the day, Sunako turned back to normal. The “metamorphosis” didn’t last very long.

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For the new anime that started just this year, I decided to take a look in Les Miserables: Shoujo Cossette. (If anyone else can make a suggestion for other new anime, please tell me… I have no clue on what’s new and good.) The first episode shows Fantine (Cossette’s mother) and Cossette walking to some town looking for a place to stay and a job for Fantine. Several people have rejected Fantine because they didn’t have much money to pay for workers nor do they allow people with children to work. In the end, Fantine was forced to leave Cossette with a family that she paid in advance for her food and shelter. That’s what she thought though. The family who temporarily adopted her turned her into a maid. Instead of wearing her nice clothes, she was told to wear a worn out dress. As for Fantine, she made it to the next town and was able to get work.

She should have just taken Cossette with her. Leaving her with strangers is just NO. The family doesn’t even look trustworthy except the children.
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It sucks that my computer can’t take screencaps from mkv-format videos. I’m getting the mkv version of eclipse’s Pumpkin Scissors. The only thing I like it when it’s mkv is that I can skip the opening and ending parts.
I’m led to believe that the higher-ups of the army or the Empire are up to something. In episode 17, the Himmel drug that is being sold in the sewers is supplied by Silver Wheel. An underground group, it seems, that probably consists of rich people. I thought the long-haired guy who met up with the president of the sewers lines company was Alice’s fiance. After watching the recently-released episode 19, I realized how wrong I was. If he was it would be super cliche.
Episodes 18 and 19 are filler episodes. Episode 18 is cute though. Stekkin’s so childish. She should watch what she says or Mach’s will get hurt more. XD Episode 19 is somewhat serious. I’m not really interested about Alice’s engagement unless it’s part of a big happening. The fat guy in the ball is though… The people that the big guy spied on has something against/for him. I didn’t quite understand that part.

Episode 11: The Quiet Quickening

Section III was interviewed by a big time newspaper to let the people be aware of the tasks they’re assigned to. There were mixed reactions. Some were supportive. Some were not. Of course, it could happen that people’s dreams get shattered when you’ve been in a war for so long. Not many people believe they can restore happiness in everyone. Restoration is hard for them to do since out of desperation do people tend to more bad things. Alice gets kidnapped by Cecile, whose brother was killed for finding out information about the Invisible 9. He was supposed to publish his findings in the newspaper, but he died before he actually completed the article. When he was killed, his manuscript and memos were taken or disappeared. Cecile has a copy though. His brother made a copy, but divided it into 3. Cecile only has the first part it seems. They’re going to use Pumpkin Scissors to find the rest of the manuscript and have it published. They want the people to know what the army/government is up to. The squad searched for her as soon as they found out from Alice’s self-proclaimed fiance.

So far, this is an interesting episode next to episode 1. It takes a single episode per character just to introduce them. This is the second time that we get to see Alice’s self-proclaimed fiance. I call him since it is true and I’ve forgotten his name.

Episode 12: The Unseen Pain

This is the second and last part to the story in episode 11. Alice was released. She returned to their office and reported to their captain what her kidnappers’ intentions are. It seems that Dalton, the reporter who interviwed them previously, is also interested in the Invisible 9 after seeing the Door Knocker w/ Oland. He made contact with Dr. Colt. I remember he’s the father of tanks. He was paid a visit by the female scientist (if she really is). She killed him, I don’t know how, for finding out about the Invisible 9. Cecile’s friends sold the manuscript to Dalton causing them to get killed. Dalton was killed too. Alice and Oland encountered this assassin. Alice tried to get information from him, but he poisoned himself. The assassin seems to be one of the experiments of the female scientist.

The newspaper chief seems to be part of something, but we are not sure what. When he was presented by the copy of the manuscript then Dalton left to get the scoop completed, the chief had to talk to someone. I think that whoever he talked to must have caused Cecile’s friends to get killed. Also Dalton.

Being the said father of tanks, I didn’t think Dr. Colt was unaware of the turning humans into weapons experiment. I knew he was going to die at some point.

The boys are in another task. Sunako’s aunt called. She told them that Sunako should get an 80 in her math test or else they would start paying rent in full again. Takenaga found out that Sunako’s score in a math quiz is a 3, so they had to do something. Sunako wasn’t really into it. Kyouhei got mad at her; said she always ran from every problem she encounters. Kyouhei tried his best too just to prove to her that you can do achieve anything as long as you try your best. Sunako did study in the end. She also got a stomachache from Yuki’s disastrous cooking. Very impressive, yet she got her answers mixed up. She got another 3 then.
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The continuation of murdery mystery was solved by Sunako. The chef was behind the incident. But the problems didn’t end there. Sunako found out that the knife used still wasn’t found. So she was so determined and sneaked around which caused trouble for the other guests. Sayuri, the hostess who Ranmaru is very fond of, decided to get rid of what was causing the problem. That wasn’t the only case though. She blamed Sunako for getting her plans ruined — including the capture of the suspect. So she tricked her to an old warehouse. She set the place on fire. Good thing one of the female workers informed the guys that the hostess had a guest with her. Kyouhei saved her. The evidence was saved as well. The video camera that Sunako used to video in her search for clues/evidences was able to record the hostess confession of her plans. She also got to record the time when she called Sunako ugly. The boys weren’t a bit happy about this. Even Ranmaru defended Sunako.

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No screencaps because I got too engrossed in watching to take them. XD


Episode 8

This episode is about Kyouhei’s want for Nabe and eating it while in a kotatsu. He’s becoming a bit of a brat. Wanting this and wanting that. Making Sunako as if their maid. Poor Sunako The guys then suggested that if Kyouhei wants Nabe, he should accompany Sunako to the market. Things went great for them in the market. They got a lot of free or cheap food because they thought Sunako, the known creepy girl, finally got a boyfriend. They celebrated and cheered for them. It went that way at first, but girls suddenly came and all their needed ingredients for Nabe was stepped on or gone. Sunako got mad and left with hardly any penny left. Things got better in the end though. They got to eat nabe and they also got kotatsu which was handmade by Sunako.


Episode 9

Episode 9’s the first part of the murder mystery that happened in a hot spring resort where the gang was. Ranmaru was invited by the hostess there and was told to bring his friends along. That’s why they are there. The ping pong fight was funny. XD The starting background music reminded me of Prince of Tennis. And the moves… They named their moves! XDDD I didn’t think Sunako could be that good with ping-pong. Haha~ She could do anything just to get what she wants (they bet on a key to the safe where their travel expenses are kept). Something else happened between Sunako and Kyouhei, btw. They were charging into the ping-pong table and, since it was too fast that I didn’t get to see what happened to the net, they suddenly locked lips together! Haha~ XD Of course Sunako had another nosebleed and faint fit. Kyouhei then brought Sunako to her room. Ranmaru went with the hostess while the three (Noi was with them) went for karaoke. When Sunako suddenly woke up in the middle of the night, she finds Kyouhei in her room gazing out to the night sky. She stood beside him. A few minutes later, they saw Ranmaru running. Then a girl shrieks of their manager being dead. I guess Ranmaru and the hostess would become a suspect for this.

This episode is about how Pumpkin Scissors came to be. The longest members of the group are Captain and the one who takes care of Mercury. Oreld and then Machs joined. Then Alice came last among them until the corporal was recruited. Machs was different before he joined Section III (aka Pumpkin Scissors). He was removed from his section because he meddled with the plans of the Major which led him to realize that the major was corrupt. When Alice joined, Machs and Oreld barely listened to her orders, but everything changed when they were able to arrest the major from Mach’s previous section. Section III finally knew their identity. Alice gave their section a name as it is necessary to rally all of them together.

Alice old hairstyle is bad. Haha~ Pigtails? I wouldn’t have expected her to come from a highly respected family and with a HOT fiance if I’d seen her first with that kind of hairstyle. Mach’s too is kinda old-skool.

Watched this movie with my brother since I got him to watch the tv series before. Watching this series made me miss FMA. I watched this when I got all the subs and, I must say, it probably sucked watching this while it was still showing. Waiting for subs is sometimes an overkill. Anyway, I’m impressed with the animation on this movie. It’s still the same as the tv series, but the characters are older. Winry’s pretty and she seemed to have followed well from her grandma’s job. I wasn’t too happy with the ending. I am happy that he’s finally reconciled with his brother, but what’s with Edward’s attachment to the “normal” world & wanting to stay there? He could just stay where he came from and close the damn gate from that side. Seeing everything that he had left and the world he chose… I would say he made a wrong decision. It’s like he hasn’t escaped from any battle even though he’s finally done with his attempt to see his brother again.

I watched Saikano TV series thinking it was going to be some hardcore drama. But war stuff doesn’t get me sad or teary-eyed even a bit. The ending only had me a bit sad. I’m a sappy romantic. Haha~ The only thing that had me thinking was, “What happened to Shuji?” He was the only one left alive. o_o Even Chise who transformed into big fighting-plane like thing was only a spirit. (Correct me if I’m wrong.) I didn’t expect that it would be answered in this oav (well, it didn’t answer my question anyway), but it covers up some things about Chise’s becoming an ultimate-fighting weapon. She’s powerful yet she cannot control herself. Whatever that was planted in her seems to have a mind of its own that it attacks just about whoever attacks her… Even though she’s allies around her. -_- The first episode wasn’t that sad, but the second episode made me teary-eyed. She was afraid of what could happen to her. She didn’t want to fight anymore becuase she doesn’t have control of herself when she fights. She doesn’t want to kill more than she already has. And she just wanted to live normally with her boyfriend.

*bah* It’s raining so hard tonight. Eclipse is just in good timing with their release of episode 9. XD I had a Pumpkin Scissors marathon before dinner. I thought more information about Orland would be disclosed when Machs researched about him. So far, we get to know that 901’s known as the Invisible 9. They were made to fight against tanks, as their name ATT implies, since tanks are the ultimate weapon in war. Machs found out about Orland’s weapon when they visited to Dr. Colt to research a tank they got from Wolkins (the guy who targets people using a tank). I thought the series would revolve around Orland, but I think not anymore. One is because of the tank in question. When they tried to get information about it, some people had it destroyed. Then when they went to a feudal lord who keeps stocks of the supplies he gets instead of giving it to the people, they got rifles with no name/serials. Also, there’s something weird about Alice’s fiance. Speaking of her fiance, man, HE’S HOT. XDDD

Sorry, no screencaps. ^_^;;;

Episode 03

I didn’t realize I skipped this episode. No wonder I was still looking forward to that episode where Sunako turned into a graceful lady (temporarily) and there was supposed to be a party held by her Aunt. They were all starting to worry about Sunako since they were left with only a few days before the supposed party. Things went hectic when Kyouhei was kidnapped by guys from a host club it seems. Sunako and the gang dresses up, so they could easily get in the club and get Kyouhei back. Sunako was into this because he’s her prey. How else could she kill him if he’s gone, right? XD;


Episode 07



The head of National Boss Association from Kumagoroshi, Hanayashiki Hiromi, falls in love with Sunako. He wants a duel against Kyouhei, just so he could have her. Kyouhei was pretty much against it. He leaves him be. As usual, leaving him alone didn’t keep that huge Hanayashiki quiet. Hanayashiki becomes Sunako’s enemy when Hiroshi went missing and found it in their secret base/quarters/whatever you call it. ^^;; Hiroshi’s a fave of Sunako, isn’t it? She went berserk when she found it missing. Good thing she found it before one of Hanayashiki’s guys burned it.
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I would love to go into details about this show, but I’m going to save you from my crappy English and just say — WATCH GINTAMA! XDDD I’m glad to see more of Hijikata in the recent episodes including these two. In episode 9, Gin, Shinpachi and Kagura were talking with their minds. They even had this burped thing that doesn’t seem to have a connection with what they were talking about. XD I love how their eyes looked when they burped. I took screenshots of that, btw. Hehe~




Episode 10



A large dog was left behind Gin’s shop. Kagura decides to keep it, but Shinpachi and Gin were against it. They tried to give it to someone else while Kagura was taking a nap. Unluckily, they were found out. Poor Gin got thrown in the air by Kagura and falls head first in Sadaharu’s mouth.
Prince Hata visits Earth again. His previous visit was when he still had the pink octopus. This time he visits Earth to see the zoo. He wants to bring home a pet before he leaves and “kidnaps” Sadaharu after accidentally hitting it, Gin, and Shinpachi. The old geezer with the prince is stupid — he ties the dog on top of their car with Gin. >_>
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Episode 05




Episode 06




Episode 07

What happened to my screenshots!? They’re all just white.
Gin is in a pinch. Otose is asking for their monthly rent and he still couldn’t pay. He hasn’t even paid Kagura and Shinpachi either. Gin told Shinpachi to go out with Otose that it might help with their rent. XD A bit later, some government guys from the immigration bureau paid a visit Gin. They asked him, Shinpachi, and Kasuga to look for a pink Octopus which is a pet of Prince Hata. They didn’t want to do it, but changed their minds when they saw the generous amount of money they were going to get. They did find the pink Octopus. Although, they accidentally squashed it. The first one they saw was a look-alike… Not a definite look-alike, but it’s a woman with just pink hair. XD The woman’s eyes and the octopus’ look the same too.

Damn, I had some great screenshots from this episode. I wonder why my Zoom Player can’t take screenshots other than avi files.
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Started watching Pumpkin Scissors after Ultra Maniac. I’ve been watching too much comedy lately that I think it’s about time I watch something that isn’t. Pumkin Scissors is an army group that was formed as part of war relief efforts. After the emperor declared ceasefire after a very long time of war, many soldiers became rebels and peace isn’t completely restored yet. The first episode gives us a little view on Randel Orland — a 901-ATT soldier than everyone seems to be scared of. I only wonder why there are still a lot who doesn’t know him. Including Alice L. Mavin who is the lieutenant (is that right?) of Pumpkin Scissors. Heck, I don’t think anyone from their group is aware of the 901-ATT. Their first enemy in this episode is from 903-CTT. I think CTT means Chemical Tactics Troop. Correct me if I’m wrong.
In episode 2, they were assigned to a task of educating a noble. A viscount, I guess. I forgot. I didn’t take notes on this episode. Before they even got to the nobleman’s mansion, they already found out about the reason why they were called. Machs, Oreld, and Orland become the nobleman’s targets — it’s like a hunting game usually by those rich people, but he uses tanks as his weapon and people as his targets. The maids refuse to turn against him because they couldn’t point a gun to a noble. But Alice is actually a noble and they found out after she told them her background. They were pointing guns at her then. She made them realize that they can point a gun at a noble. Orland used his amazing fighting skills once more. He killed the person who assists the nobleman in his hunting. He almost killed the noble too, if Alice hadn’t stopped him.

I was a bit reluctant to watch this series because it seemed boring. I THOUGHT WRONG. Well, I think it’s still to early to say that. I hope it gets better and better.

What the-!? I didn’t know I haven’t made any posts from Gintama’s episode 4 to 6!? (If you’re wondering about episode 7, I did it on purpose to post episode 8 before it. Hehe~) Oh well, just screenshots for this episode til the 6th. ^_^;;;


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24-Hour Expose of the Out-of-Control Shinsengumi! *roflmao* This show makes me laugh til my cheeks start to hurt. XD The shinsengumi may be serious people, but they sure are made up of weird characters. While the shinsengumi are busy capturing those who want to infiltrate the government, Kondo is busy proposing to Otae — Shinpachi’s older sister. They’re not really boyfriend-girlfriend… Kondo’s just Otae’s customer in a bar. Everday he stalks her until Gin steps into the scene. Otae said Gin’s her fiance and all, so Kondo and him decides on a duel. Kondo is busy with such matters with the shinsengumi unaware of what he is up to. Hijikata thinks their captain is busy talking with the higher ups or practicing with his sword. Kondo and Gin goes on with their duel. Gin lends his wooden sword which is actually broken. In other words, he cheated so he would surely win. No wonder he was very late in their duel. He was busy cutting up the wooden sword!
Hijikata’s becoming my favorite character! XDDD You’d have to watch the show and _hear_ him to know why. This show is just pure humor. Pure nonsense… My Gintama posts will likely become nonsense as well. J/k! Fave word in this episode — LOLILOLILOLIED!
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Woo-hoo! Finished another series. I feel like I haven’t watched a good number of anime this year compared to the previous years. Anyway, the ending to this show is okay. I didn’t expect that Maya’s love would be the prince himself. I was thinking it would be an unintroduced character. The prince is very much charming. Seeing him react weirdly when Nina turned him down is kind of OOC or, should I say, unexpected. I thought he would react in a dignified manner. While the girls were still collecting the holy stones, I pitied Maya. She was so desperate. All the time I thought it was for her dad to consider black magic. But it was because she was in love with the prince all her life. She was desperate enough just so she could marry the prince. Fortunately for her, Nina told the prince everything. They got together in the end. It’s a bit sad to know that the gang was erased of Maya’s memories. It would have been good news for them. Though I couldn’t believe she went as far as doing something evil to get all the holy stones.

If you want something comedic and shoujo then this is the series. Watch it! XD Maya’s chameleon is so cute and Maya’s weird facial expressions are funny. Must see!
Animation: 4/5
Story: 3.5/5
Sound: 4/5
Character: 3.5/5
Enjoyment: 5/5

Episode 15



Nina goes back to Magic Kingdom during her summer break, but she goes back again because her grandpa’s been nagging her too much. Maya returns too to look for the holy stone which she located near Tsujiai’s family’s beach house. She confesses to him, so she could easily go to his place. (She first thought it was in his house.)

Tsujiai invites Ayu, Nina, and Kaji to his family’s beach house. They played volleyball, swam, went sunbathing… Then Tsujiai sees Maya going to his place. They argued because Tsujiai realized she wasn’t serious about her confession. He told her that she probably doesn’t have anyone she actually likes. Then she got mad, said that she does, and storms off.

Oh, Nina and Maya finds the holy stone, but Maya was the one who was able to get it.
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Episode 13



Another filler episode. Nina’s mom puts up a booth to sell some old stuff of theirs in the flea market. Nina, Ayu, Tsujiai, and Kaji help out. There was a vest that the girls sold to their homeroom teacher. It was the vest of Nina’s dad… That he meant to throw away! It’s a magic vest that will make you say what’s on your mind and will tighten if you lie.


Episode 14



Luna pays a visit to Maya to help her find the holy stone. Luna isn’t really like Maya. She’s gloomy, lonely, depressed, etc. She’s way pessimistic. While they were going around (no reason was told), they ran into the other 4 — Nina, Ayu, Tsujiai, and Kaji. Luna drops her bag to the ground by accident. Kaji picks this up and, whoa, Luna falls in love with him! Luna meant well though when she gives him various odd-looking gifts. Kaji thinks otherwise. Poor Luna… She got sort of dumped in the end. She walks away, depressed once more, and drops her bag again. Someone picks up the bag and hands it to her. ^_^; I’m sure you know what happened then.
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It’s finally the start of summer break. Ayu’s sad because she won’t be seeing Kaji for a while. Fortunately, she and Nina get invited by Kaji and Tsujiai for the midsummer fireworks festival. The night before the festival, Ayu panics because she doesn’t have a decent yukata. Nina helps her by magically creating a kimono for her. Things were going smoothly til she had a problem with the yukata. To save Ayu from going naked, Nina makes something for Ayu. It’s not something you’d want to be seen in. Other than that, Tsujiai finds out about Nina’s secret.
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Maya’s butler, Sebastian, arrives. Not such a good butler though. He’s so into housekeeping and taking care of Maya, but he’s very annoying. I love his get-up though. XD I forgot why Maya did a potion. I’m pretty sure it’s for something against Nina. Sebastain stole the potion. He felt sad because Maya isn’t giving him much attention he wants or was really shaken by the fact Maya doesn’t like him. I forget. ^_^; Anyways, he escapes to the libary. The potion was spilled accidentally on picture books. The most spilled on picture was a buffalo. The other were disappearing because the potion didn’t spill too much on them. Ayu and Nina try to “control” the buffalo. Tsujiai was about to find out. Nina kept him from entering the library. I feel bad for Tsujiai, but seeing his face squeezed on the door was really, really, really, super hilarious. XDDD Check the screenshots! The buffalo was then captured by Sebastian. Maya said he would be responsible if she were to cause any problems.
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Maya’s so pissed with Nina that she makes a cursed doll. Ayu’s the one who freaks out though since Nina found the doll really cute. Poor Ayu! She’s so scared that she wants to have the doll thrown away. Nina almost did that, but gave the doll to Tsujiai. The doll wanted to stay with him when she was asked to do poison Nina. I didn’t think cursed dolls could feel love. XD Oh, but she changes her mind after Hiro told her that she would be turned back to her original self if she doesn’t do what she’s told.

She planned on putting poison in the soup Nina’s mom making. Accidentally, she spills everything on it. Nina didn’t get poisoned though. She did. Luckily, it wasn’t a real poison. It only gives some kind of allergy. :P
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What happened in episode 9 again? Oh yeah, Yuta visits again to give Nina a clue to the holy stone. He pisses her off though and ends up helping Maya instead. The white holy stone (that is one out of five holy stones, I recall) was located in a festival/park. Maya and Yuta were the first to arrive there before Ayu and Nina did. Before Yuta helped Maya, they rode some rides. I didn’t expect to see Maya very scared as they rode the roller coaster. XD A little later, Nina and Maya tried to get the holy stone. I wonder who would have gotten the stone if Yuta didn’t cast a wind spell. Anyway, Nina sure got lucky. It’s in this episode that her magic level started to increase. It’s like a game.
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Pine, Plum, and Bamboo visit their older cousin, Nina, to help her look for the holy stone. The little kids freak out Mikami, the girls’ homeroom teacher, as they enter the human world thru it. The little kids weren’t much of a help after they tried to make something to help look for the holy stone. They had this thunderballs and their potion spilled to a robot made of blocks. Maya was at the scene too because she got mad when her dearest Lulu got hit with a thunderball. Nina does some magic to stop the ruckus, but it seems the principal really fixed everything.

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Matsukata Hiroko is an editor in the weekly Jidai magazine. She’s referred to as “Hataraki Man,” being that she works extremely above the normal when she’s on work mode. She makes it sure that she writes a great article. She won’t stop until it satisfies her. The first episode is like an introduction about her character. She’s got a boyfriend although they barely see each other, it seems due to work. (No sex for 3 months already even.) She gets to write an article about a minister. She’s very much pissed off because they shortened her interview time. But the minister’s secretary calls her and gives all the information she knows about him. Not very good information though. She writes this article and publishes it. She started getting threatening calls. The minister then accuses his secretary of all the things said about him. So as not to disclose her source, she writes another article.

Episode 2 is about Stakeout Man — Sugawara Fumiya. He’s a photographer for gossip columns in the magazine. His job is to get racy photos of an Olympic athlete and her coach (who’s got an afro and a sideburn *lol*). His first stakeout attempt is a failure. In his second, Hiroko goes with him. Mostly because she wants to find out why Sugawara dislikes her a lot. Sugawara doesn’t seem very friendly around with the girls. He finds them, I think, annoying. It’s probably because of the ladies he has dealt with in his work. Their stakeout wasn’t successful and Hiroko was still unclear of Sugawara’s attitude to her. Sugawara though was able to figure out why he dislikes Hiroko.

Ramen Man, episode 3 of Hataraki Man, is Kubo-chan. He helps Tanaka write an article about ramen which is supposedly for Hiroko to work on. She was so pissed that he had to continue to write about it. Hiroko dislikes him a lot for being so laid back and isn’t that much resourceful. For example, instead of looking for a ramen expert himself, he just asked Hiroko. In the end, Hiroko told him to talk to Kubo-chan. Kubo-chan’s work is more about food and erotica. I didn’t expect that Hiroko and him to be close. I mean, Kubo-chan looks like the type Hiroko would dislike. They’re close since they got in weekly Jidai at the same time and there isn’t much to worry about him when it comes to work-related information.

I’ll definitely watch the rest of this series. XD Even moreso after hearing Sugawara and confirming that Kazuya Nakai (he also did Mugen’s of Samurai Champloo) who voiced him. Based on ANN, this series will only have 11 episodes. Anyway, I like how realistic the story is… All of us get tired of all those magical, fighting, etc. type of anime, right? Hataraki Man sort of reminds me of Genshiken. Please don’t ask me why. Ahh, why are the good animes short?

Btw, I don’t think I’ll be able to post screencaps because I’m getting the HD version of this series from Arienai Fansubs.

Sunako has been sick for a week already and the guys don’t know what to do. The house is a complete mess — they couldn’t get to eat decent food, their belongings are everywhere, molds have formed in their bathroom, and they couldn’t get a bath — well, that’s just a few of the problems they’re having. They tried to cheer Sunako who, after finding out it was already November, got depressed. They thought she missed a birthday or something… They didn’t know it was halloween that she missed. Noi found out when she visited their place. She tried to do her best to fix their mess. Sadly, she wasn’t of a big help for them. When Sunako gave her a pumpkin to cheer Noi up, that’s when she found out about the halloween thing. They set up a late and small halloween party for her. Sunako was so happy about it that she locked herself with a pumpkin, Hiroshi, and the rest of her displays.

This episode isn’t as funny as the previous ones. I’m starting to get tired of seeing Sunako in SD form and, what, it’s just episode 6? When will her Aunt get back and hold a party? I wanna see Sunako all lady-like! *sniffles* There’s a part of that in the manga, right? I don’t want to see anymore filler episodes please. The guys should start working their butt offs in making Sunako all girly and pretty. XD
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Sunako was fooled to go to a photo shoot. It was easy because the setup was a haunted house. She was so excited and eager. They got her in easily, but they had a hard time getting her to wear a dress and putting make-up on. Sunako was discovered when the photographer saw her picture in a magazine. After they had her changed, the photographer got furious because she was no where near beautiful than he had expected. She suddenly did a chant or prayer to the ghosts and vampires. They freaked out. XD Even so, they continued to take pictures of her. Sunako got scared and ran away. They had to chase her. That’s when they discovered the boys. The first one they got to model was Yuki. I really lol-ed when the photographer shouted “きれい!” while watching him. XDDD He cried because he was forced to wear a dress again.

Things didn’t go well for them again especially when Yuki got mad at the photographer. The photographer called Sunako ugly and Yuki an asexual. They escaped with no worries, but the photographer was able to take a good picture of the gang. They got paid for it, but the money went to Sunako’s aunt as payment for the rent they still owe.

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Episode 4
This episode is about how Nina and Ayu met. Ayu was really freaked out at first and thought she was only dreaming. But after having witnessed green rock-like stuff bouncing around and Nina floating on a scooter, she had no other choice but to believe that Nina is from Magic Kingdom. Having a place simply named like that is actually unbelievable. One odd thing in this episode is when the class rep saw Nina performing a magic. I thought she was hiding behind a wall; somewhere out of view from the store. Anyways, having seen that, it seems this was also when and where it all started for the class rep to stalk Nina.
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From the all the episodes I’ve seen, this is the funniest. Really. The annoying, low-budget animation didn’t even bother me a bit. XD I thought this was already the episode where Sunako’s Aunt comes home to see if Sunako’s really turned to a lady. Well, that’s what I recall.

Kyouhei was almost lucky because the guys didn’t want a share in the money. Sunako didn’t want it either. But he lost everything due to the gas explosion that happened in the takoyaki ruckus he and those ugly guys created. Didn’t Kyouhei’s hair look longer than the first episode?

Yukinojo looked like Gash when he was crying and complaining why he’s the only one dressed as a girl. I really laughed out loud and it was about 4AM when I watched this episode. XDDD
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In episode 3, the students compete over how many tennis courts the girls or boys teams can use. The boys team is led by Tsujiai and the girls team by Ayu. Nina decides to help Ayu with her nervousness with competing against Tsujiai because she knows he’s really good at tennis. So, Nina does another magic thing and turns Ayu into a guy! The girls lose, of course, because Ayu isn’t used with a male’s body. Everything turned out well though because Tsujiai suggested that there should still be equal usage of the courts during practice. Before the day ended, Ayu was invited by Tetsushi and Tsujiai to a karaoke. On the day of the karaoke, Nina turns herself to a boy too while she hasn’t found a dispel for the magic Nina cast on Ayu. Things went a bit smoothly as she tried to keep girl from Tetsushi. That girl thought Ayu’s interested in her. After the karaoke and everyone was about to leave, the girl gives Ayu a kiss ON THE LIPS. XD There goes her first kiss.

This episode’s really cute and funny. I can’t find the right words to describe this episode. Heck, it’s hard to give a really detailed, enlightening, etc. comment about shoujo anime. Poor Ayu, she gave her first kiss to a girl. She should tell herself that the kiss isn’t counted. It was to a girl anyways.
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I decided I’d watch some semi-old anime as I wait for the rest of the newest series to get subbed.
Ultra Maniac is about a girl, whose name’s Nina, who came from the magic kingdom. She’s not that good of a mage and she still relies on her mini computer. Her close friend’s Ayu… There aren’t much going yet with the two episodes, so I can’t say much. Oh, before Nina could perform magic, she has to transform into her “magic kingdom clothes.” >_> I wonder why she has to go through that. Anyways, Ayu likes a schoolmate of hers. His name’s Kaji. Nina tried to get them together, but her magic sucks. (Rather cliche, don’t you think?) Then a childhood friend of Nina comes by for a visit. His name’s Yuta. The first he saw Ayu, he suddenly showed interest and asked her out. Ayu didn’t want to, but with the bouquet of roses raining on her, she she just agreed. It’s not like she wanted the roses. She just wanted him to stop. The date went good and, in the end, Ayu found out that Nina’s really the girl Yuta likes.
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This one’s hella funnier than the previous episode. I don’t recall the events happening in the manga, so I guess that was the reason I found this episode highly amusing. I watched it with my brother too. There are more nosebleedings in this episode. Sunako could have actually died from losing too much blood. XD Sunako sees Kyouhei taking a bath. Lucky her. XD Also, it’s her first day at school and she has already taken too much attention with her weird looks. She’s made enemies without her knowledge with the Ganguro girls and Goth-Loli group. Both are actually weirder than her.
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So I started watching this last night. I got episode 2, but will watch it after I post this. It’s not as funny as I thought it would be and maybe because I already read the manga. I haven’t followed the manga though for a long time. Shall do it soon. Anyways, the art is better than the manga. The manga art looks like sketches — like their hair looking more like just strands. The SDs are cute and funny, the boys are bishies as ever, and… Sunako’s Sunako. She’s got nice guy friends… Those types you’d keep in a biology lab. XD Hopefully the show gets better. Watching another comedy anime makes me miss Ouran High School Host Club. (Read more…)

I got busy with my computer fucking up, my room being a mess after the typhoon, and with my website being not accessible at my end. Grrr~ The good thing for me is my school schedule which is usually from 6 to 9PM. A schedule for lazy peeps like me. Though Mac isn’t too happy with it. It’s just for this term anyway, so we’ll have to deal with it for now. So, I watched the Ouran episodes in 2 sittings (or seatings?). XD Episodes 16-23 are hilarious! One of my favorite scenes is was during the practice of a stage play. She was singing and the Host Club peeping toms were so surprised, but their amazement didn’t last long when someone accidentally tripped and unplugged the radio. The music stopped, but Haruhi kept singing. Or more like mouthing the words of the song. XDDD There were more episodes about Kyouya this time compared to the earlier episodes. Mori probably’s the only one that wasn’t focused on too much. I love the episode where “Casanova-kun” wanted to be his apprentice (is this the right word?). XD Overall, Ouran High School Host Club is too cute and hilarious that I’m going to include it in one of my few favorite anime.
On to the screenshots!
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I was thinking of watching more Tenshi na Konamaiki, but I remembered I haven’t made my usual reviews/rants for Ouran High. XD;


Episode 9

The Host Club comes face to face with the Zuka club Of Lobelia High. One of the members of the Zuka Club saves Haruhi when she almost slipped from a banana peel. Haruhi was even surprised when her “savior” knew she is a girl. I can’t recall why or how, but the Zuka Club wanted Haruhi to join their club. They will even go as far as doing the paper works for her transfer. So the Host Club tries to do something, so their everdearest Haruhi will not leave them. XD

Lobelia High is an all-girls school and Zuka Club seems like the Host Club with having tons of fangirls over them, but with a more purpose like stage plays. Host Club’s just for the leisure of the girls in Ouran. It’s great that Haruhi didn’t leave the Host Club nor Ouran because the Zuka Club freaks me out. I wish they just made a Marimite spoof like Haruhi become more lady-like with Marimite characters look-alikes.


Episode 10

The Host Club decides to visit Haruhi’s place. Well, it was supposed to be Tamaki who would be the only one to visit, but due to some circumstances, the whole gang was suddenly invited. They also meet Haruhi’s father and they get to know more about him and Haruhi’s relationship.




Episode 11

Nekozawa’s sister mistook Tamaki as her brother. She’s scared of Nekozawa and she even called him a monster. They’re quite the opposites. Nekozawa cannot live in broad daylight while his sister is afraid of dark places. The Host club helps Nekozawa overcome his fear, but he was only able to get rid of it, only for a very short while, when he rescues her little sister from a cat.

This series is full of craziness. I couldn’t figure out what time this is actually taking. It’s like the aliens have brought the “future” in the “past.” If that didn’t make any sense, then forget it because I also don’t understand. But I see no need to comprehend this. Gintoki may say things with sense or he may seem serious, but things sometimes get worst for him and his comrades. In episode 3, it covers about Shinpachi’s encouter with Gintoki I forgot his name. I’m debating whether or not I should prioritize my download of this series. I’ll prolly go ahead with Jigoku Shoujo and Ergo Proxy first before this one.

Btw, ELIZABETH ROCKS! *rofl* J/k!

Watched the rest of the series in 2 sittings. I’m not too happy with how the series went because it’s kind of rushed. This season has the most less funny moments among the other series. Fumoffu is still the best. XD Do you have any idea who brought Chidori to Hong Kong? I thought the lady was just acting like Chidori… Like some sort of plan made up by the other SRTs after seeing the Chidori look-alike. The guy who was looking after Chidori when Sousuke left is weird. When they were attacked by Tessa’s brother, who’s another Whispered, the skin on his face was scraped. I didn’t pause to check it clearly, but that face seems like a mask. =_= Weird. Anyway, would there be another season of FMP?

XD Ouran High marathon!


Episode 03



I would love to have a photobook of the twins. Episode 3 is about Ouran High’s physical examination day. Tamaki’s really excited for Haruhi, but he’s suddenly reminded that Haruhi’s to remain known as male while she’s still paying her debt. Things were going smoothly, somehow, when Kyouya arranged a special doctor for her. But there was a doctor loitering around the campus; was even mistaken to be one of the doctors who would give the physical exam. He isn’t one of Kyouya’s hospital doctors. He was seen heading to the special doctor’s clinic were Haruhi is to have her physical examination. The hosts just got in time with Tamaki giving a strong kick at the doctor’s face.


Episode 04

In episode 4, the hosts were taken control by a female student — appoints herself the manager of the club — she’s very much into dating simulation games. She likes Kyouya being the one who resembles her favorite character in a game. When she found out about Kyouya’s true nature after trying to make a movie with the hosts as the cast, her attention turned to Haruhi. Because she’s very gentle although harsh w/ words. ^^;; I didn’t take any screenshots of this episode. It’s a “serious” episode; not as hilarious as the previous 3.


Episode 05



I ♥ ♥ ♥ the twins. XD Incest! Male twins even. So, yeah, they rock. Having their hair dyed w/ blue and pink reminds me of some characters I can hardly recall atm. Hmm… But they’re both evil. They would fool with the customers making them think that they’re right when they guess which is which. :P Haruhi gets them right though. I wonder why. The twins do have a world of their own even. Does Haruhi being able to identify them going to be trouble?


Episode 06

An elementary school boy wants to join the host club because he wants to please this girl he likes. He wants to do it that way because he doesn’t have much time w/ the girl leaving for Germany permanently. Tamaki was happy at first being called a genius and a king at the same time, but was disappointed at the boy when he found out he planned on using a host’s technique for a girl he likes. Tamaki decided to teach the boy the piano piece the girl is practicing. It’s by Mozart and is supposed to be played in duet. The boy did some host activities too. He did the party of being the “naughty” one. XD He took most of, if not all, Tamaki’s customers.


Episode 07



This episode is about Honey and Mori. Wow, it doesn’t show on their faces… Most specially Honey. He’s great in martial arts! For a small boy who likes to look cute… That’s unlikely to be expected.

Episode 08



About Tamaki and Haruhi this time. I thought they were going to get along well. Tamaki found out about Haruhi’s weakness. He should have told the guys and won the photogroups of Haruhi w/ long hair and in her grade school uniform. (They made a contest of whoever gets to know first of Haruhi’s weakness gets those prizes.) Instead, he ends up being known as having a SM fetish. They found him with Haruhi having a blindfold and earplugs and the guys thought they’re to perform SM. *sweatdrop*

Episode 1 Screenshots


Haruhi, with no other choice, joined Ouran HS’ Host Club. She got a huge debt of 8M because she accidentally broke a big decoration jar. She was stumped as to why such group exists in a prestigious school. The first she gets to closely encounter is Tamaki, of course, being the “King” of the club. The cool type goes next. He’s like Inui since he holds a lot of information about, probably, majority of the students in Ouran High.

I was thrilled finding out that Ouran High School Host Club will have an anime. Though I didn’t expect to be partly bored with it. Maybe because I’ve read the manga, so the silly scenes didn’t appeal to me anymore. The art is good too… Very colorful anime. I ain’t sure how to exactly describe it. One thing I didn’t remember when I watched these episodes was — did Haruhi look like much of a boy?
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This show is just so wrong. They could have made a proper sequel to Kimi ga Nozomu Eien since I liked that series (except for the ugly sex scene if you could even call it that!). Akane might have benefitted something from Gouda Jouji’s extreme optimistic attitude, but that sudden dramatic outburst of hers to Jouji was very unexpected. She might have reached her limit, yes, that is possible. Though it could have been more believable if she did it in an angry manner. I mean, Jouji’s annoying as heck. Jouji’s imagination — his conscience and the mecha stuff — are funny, but not as funny School Rumble. What an unfair comparison no? How things ended was somehow good. Akane falling in love with Jouji might make me destroy my monitor (or my dad’s monitor, for that matter, because I was using his computer at that time). It would prove that Akane’s weak and how much this OAV really sucks.

I don’t think I should blog here when I’m in a not-so-good mood.

I think this series has started to bore me. >_> I finished this one sitting (after installing CCCP that finally makes all the AVIs I downloaded working!). Jeda, Art, and the guy with an insect mask started to make better appearances on episode 19. They were mostly in the shadows in the previous episode/s. Kaoru goes on Nekomimi transformation that I think is rather odd and OOC of her. Kouhei undergoes serious training including climbing mountains without any ropes, safety gear or any support. Isn’t it crazy? I thought this was going to end up some loli-romance stuff. I’m glad it didn’t. I like lolicon, but I never got to appreciate the anime ones. The ending of Tsukuyomi ~Moon Phase~ is, err, okay. I can’t find the right word to describe it. The last episode only showed how everyone was doing. Oh, grandpa and Elfriede were alive. WTF. Then I thought there was something wrong with Kouhei’s grandpa, but it wasn’t properly explained. WTF (again). I was thinking of reading the manga. The anime though doesn’t give much reason for me to do so. Hazuki’s a vampire who doesn’t seem to be of much use — she kinda dragged everyone down & without Kouhei’s blood she’s almost helpless. I overestimated this show. -_- Watch this if you’ve got time to waste. The series would have been properly reviewed if it weren’t for the fact that it bore me; forcing myself to finish the series because I don’t usually stop watching when it’s almost ending.

I was happy to find out that there will be a second season to the uber hilarious mecha anime, Full Metal Panic! After seeing the first 4 episodes, I can’t say it beats the first season and Fumoffu (I can’t consider Fumoffu the second season because it’s like a filler). Yet. Seeing only 4 episodes doesn’t justify my opinion. Chidori is still violent as ever though it gets tiresome at some point. She does know about Sasuke’s “job,” right? She should learn to understand even a bit. I have no complaints about Sasuke. He’s so dense, it makes him cute. For the new villains, there’s something I really like about Gates. He’s so crazy in a very funny way. XD He was singing Ave Maria as his men killed off some country’s army. After a li’l while, when their enemies were all dead, he like goes, “What happened?” *rofl* Xia Yu Fan and Xia Yu Lan are good fanservice for yuri lovers. That embrace while being nude wouldn’t make this series shown on local channel here. It’s so INCEST and YURI for that matter. XD
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Thanks, pi3ce_of_cr4p, for trading this with me. XD I knew this is hentai, but I saw one wallpaper of this series and I was impressed with the art. I took the screenshots some time ago and just forgot to make a review. I can barely recall the storyline. I only remember that it’s about a war between the Tribe of Light and the Tribe of Darkness. The King of the Tribe of Darkness has a son who’s clumsy and can’t even fight. It’s not much of a trouble for the King because he has good fighters with him. One day, they were, I think, ambushed by the Tribe of Light. The son was brought to another place due to some incident that was unknown to them. None of them knew what happened to him. The son doesn’t even know where he had gone. He also lost his memories. 10 Years later, he seemed to have gotten to the Tribe of Light’s place. The King of the Tribe of Light was able to identify him. He gave him a new name and made him one of his knights.

Animation-wise, it’s pretty so-so… It reminded me of Slayers. There’s slight humor, which is good. But, even so, I find all hentai humorous. The sex scenes were okay. Nothing that grossed me out except for the rape scene done by the horse. It was really gross. I almost kicked my mom’s laptop from the sick sight of it. *bleh* It’s good that Words Worth has a storyline. There are other things going on aside from sex, sex, sex that is common is almost all hentai shows. When you watch this, though, it’s pretty obvious that they tried to put sex scenes in it. Like, for instance, the son, whose name I just recalled is Astral, is always put into an opportunity on being alone with a girl. Whether it’s those girls with bat wings or those “normal” girls.

Episode 17



Kouhei decides to study his grandfather’s art… Err, I don’t know what it’s called. Anyway, his grandfather disapproves of this. He wants to learn it because he wants to protect Hazuki instead of doing nothing or just having to run away with her. Grandpa, in the end, recommended Kouhei to go to Yayoi to learn their art. It’s good he had told him where to go and learn it because his death and Elfriede’s shocked me.

Elfriede and Grandpa are getting along very fine after she tells him about her past. If she wasn’t a vampire, it wouldn’t be freaky since they’ll be both _old_. Grandpa may know they could be okay together, but the people who are unaware of Elfriede’s true nature would be against it.
Damn, this episode’s ending is unexpected.


Episode 18



This episode’s cute. I can’t find the right word to describe it. But they really made something that would make the viewers happy because of the damn previous episode. 8 Months had passed and Kouhei is still training. So far, no vampires have gone to their whereabouts. The part where a monster was following Hazuki was hilarious. XD She looked like she was being chased by a sex maniac deformed into a purple monster. XD;

Mario died with barely doing anything, so now there are new enemies. There are still no HOT vamps? Seiji’s the only nice looking guy in this show.

Epsidoe 14



Hazuki and “Luna” seems to have merged. Elfriede has also proven that Hazuki/Luna is a “Perfect” Day Walker. Kouhei shows Hazuki/Luna how it is outside during daytime. There were times she’d act like Hazuki and Kouhei would think she returned to normal. What Elfriede said about Hazuki and Luna (the fake personality) merging together might be true.


Episode 15



Ever since her personalities “merged,” she’s become very sensitive. She started ignoring Kouhei after hearing from him that he’s no servant of hers and that he’s only obliged to be with her. Luna seemed to have forgotten that it was a full moon that night. Elfriede reminded her of that and, after finding out why she’s down, made a way for them to make up. Obviously, they make up and Kouhei offers his blood to her. The ff. day, Hazuki seemed to be back to her old self. His blood triggered her to return to normal.

Gawd, Tsukuyomi is turning Lolita-ish. Kouhei blushed because of Hazuki/Luna!? I like Lolita-ish love pairings, but I don’t think I can stomach the two. I don’t like them. I can’t even find a good pairing in this show. :P On the other hand, Elfriede is becoming funnier than how she was the first time her character was introduced. Then person she was able to suck blood from is hilarious. She doesn’t seem too surprised to find herself sleeping outside with birds around her.
Oi, I wanna see a HOT vampire. All I’ve seen from this show, so far, are oldies and female vampires.


Episode 16



This seems like a filler episode about Kouhei and Hazuki having some quality time together. In the end, Kouhe forgot about his photoshoot. He could have been in deep shit if it weren’t for his photograph of Hazuki that was used for the magazine cover. When are they going to reveal who the guy behind the pig mask is? I wish he’s a HOTTIE vamp.
Haiji vs. THE CROW! XD It’s been a while since I saw something very funny from this series. XDDD Hazuki certainly has nothing better to do than do stupid like picking on crows.

I watched Marimite ~Spring~ in two sittings. Hehe~ So I didn’t think of reviewing every episode would do me good. In other words, I was just lazy. XDDD

There’s nothing really special about Marimite ~Spring~. This is the continuation from the first season. In this season, it tells about the seniors’ graduation and how the girls, especially Shimako, copes up with not being with their elder sisters. Most of the episodes are about Yumi and Sachiko though. Everything has gone way more dramatic than the first season. It’s kinda boring in an interesting way. It’s also fun to watch all those yuri hints. It makes me wish for some fanservice. The characters I like are the seniors especially Sei. She reminds me of myself. XD Too bad there weren’t shown as much as before. Well, that was kinda expected being that they graduated from hs.

Anyways, here are some screencaps from the series. If you’re wondering where the screencaps of episodes 8-12 had gone, I don’t know either.
Episode 1

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The chairman of Shirokin is the principal’s brother who’s really, really tall. He visited the school as he plans to close the school. Yamaguchi overheard the conversation, so she butt in and made a contract — he will not close the school if the school becomes #1 in Japan academic or sports-wise. Later on, she finds out that the chairman only wants to build a new company on where the school stands. In the end, since the rest of what the teachers plan to help the school, they settle with boxing.

The boxing training is hilarious! Yamaguchi starts a boxing club with Shin as the captain and his friends as the members. She even got a trainer for them. His name’s Carlos who came from Mexico. In the end, the school still stands. They got to win because they did all means just to win. XDDD;
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Yamaguchi visits Shin at his home to find out why he’s quitting school. Because his father is a top officer of the police, their house has tight security. Yamaguchi was frightened at first. Of course, being in a “yakuza family.” She was able to talk to him and found out he was being confined because his dad wanted him to do something else than graduating from Shirokin.

This episode is full of drama. Yamaguchi argued with Shin’s dad and Shin was embarassed by his dad’s actions. He _is_ using his power to harm the people who was only trying to help Shin. My fave scene was when Yamaguchi sneaked in Shin’s house. She said their places should be the other way around since she was the one sneaking and peaking thru his terrace.

I don’t remember watching episode 17. I have this feeling it’s just another boring episode, so I won’t watch it anymore.

Episode 18
Real boring episode. I wish I just skipped this episode too. *bleh* It’s about the lotus and cherry blossom fires happening in Ueno. There are old stories about the presence of those in Ueno, yet I don’t understand if there’s some connection between those stories and Hikaru’s past life. She was brought in several places in the past. I don’t remember them happening during her previous life.


Episode 19
It gets interesting here somehow because the red-head guy’s appearance. I forgot his name, but he and Hikaru had this thing in the past. He mentioned he has been waiting for her for the longest time and he lives to make up for the wrong he has done (or somewhere along that). Another reason this episode is interesting is the white/guardian dog. It was turned back into stone, but it still gets money from the people. The money becomes donations though.

Episode 20
They all thought Tsuna’s going to get married. I think this is just some filler episode so Kintaro and Sadamitsu will have extra spotlight. This is a cute episode though and, at least, Hikaru was able to see/hug her brother.

Episode 21
Mansairaku and Hikaru go back to Ikebukuro of 200 years ago to look for Tsuna. I thought it was going to be the end for Tsuna… Like what happened in their previous life.


Episode 22
Hikaru’s memories of her past life awakened when she heard Mansairaku’s name. She’s going through some drama; wondering what are Mansairaku’s true intentions. She decides to leave Tokyo because she thinks she’s the cause of the problems happening in Tokyo. Hikaru leaves without her friends knowing where she’s going, but they figure out later on. They decide to help her in everything just because they want to.


Episode 23
I’m starting to dislike anime series with too much dialogue. XPPP Their search for the place is rather interesting to watch though. The art got better too. Hehe~ When time stopped and Hikaru and Manasairaku went back to the present, it was saddening. I dunno… The faces of the people and the strong earthquake… Hikaru had no choice, but to trust Mansairaku. Her drama was getting on my nerves. She cries too much. I liked her in her previous life.


Episode 24
This is the end of the Tokyo chapter. Mansairaku disappears and Tokyo is back to normal. I’m unsure of Hikaru’s friends even remember the incidents. Hikaru’s brother returns too. I thought he’d still be missing, but it’s as if they managed to make time better for them.

Episode 25
Special Arc 1 — This story is about Urabe’s encounter with Hikaru and the others thru Torakuma. It’s a nice story. I hate cats, but Torakuma’s cute. XDDD


Episoded 26
Special Arc 2? Err, about Mansairaku this time. Very boring, too much dialogue… I wouldn’t kept on watching this if I hadn’t reached the part when he met an old man in the park. I can’t believe he just died there while he was reading. So sad…

Whoa, Kinkel is, in truth, Elfriede’s father! I didn’t expect that because she said she wasn’t a vampire til recently. Kinkel surely did give them a rough time. Poor Grandpa and Seiji. Anyway, how come Hazuki wasn’t affected by the sunlight? These _important_ mysteries are still unsolved.

Episode 21


Another funny episode Hanai finds out about Harima’s baldness and is shocked (he’s assuming) that Tenma’s sister is taken by him. *sweatdrop* How did Harry become Halima? *rofl* So funny; random characters pop out of this show! XD

Midori is my favorite in this episode. He gets himself striked with a fork, pisses off the wrestling-addict foreign girl by squising a banana in front of her, but manages to hold her breast to find out her cup size. ^_^;


Episode 22


The most hilarious episode ever! XD The sports festival is more like a duel between 4C and 4D. The other classes surely didn’t put up a fight. The 4D class is full of weirdos including the 3 fatsos (one gained 30kg only for the horseback riding event) and the giant Tennouji. The 4-legged race is funny. Hahah~ Tenma’s so cute. Hanai and Harima were dragging her. XDDD


Episode 23


The end of the sports festival. 4C wins with a one-point lead.

Episode 24


Rumors suddenly spread that Sawachika and Harima like each other. Harima starts going crazy as he thinks Tenma’s sad over this. Well, that’s just what he thinks. In the end, everyone suddenly thought it was Tenma’s sister who’s going out with Harima. The matter wasn’t disclosed properly because Tenma’s sister (I forgot her name!) couldn’t tell the truth that she’s just helping him with his manga.


Episode 25


Harima was supposed to leave Japan, but he was stopped by the ship’s captain. He’s fortunate he was told to go back. Tenma asks him out to help her buy a gift for Karasuma. He tried to fool her by making her buy a lousy gift. Then he felt guilty and bad because she bought him a shirt as thanks. This is a really cute episode. Harima was very happy. Though the matter between him and Tenma’s sister is still unclear to Tenma.

Oi~ Karasuma plays the guitar!

Episode 26


The ending’s okay. I want a more proper ending though. Check out the rest of the screenshots I took from this episode. I captured the one with Karasuma smiling. He’s cute! Tenma’s got taste. XDDD
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I didn’t take much screenshots from the first episode to the 16th because I was lazy and I watched these straight. I wished they lengthened the Heian period because I like the old Hikaru rather than the new one. Although she’s more forward than her previous life, she’s kinda annoying. I like girls who does the guy’s job. Mulan-ish? She was sexier and prettier with the long hair. Artwise, ep. 1-13 are better. The story that goes on in the present isn’t interesting; more like boring. Please, I want action! I do not like war, but watching fights are better than all the drama.

Cream Lemon is a long hentai series. I’m not sure what it is exactly about, but I remember reading from one site that most episodes are just pointless. (PWP maybe. *lol*) Lilicious subbed the first of 2 episodes that has yuri content and, somehow, a plot. I watched this a few months ago. I watched it again a few weeks back for “rants” sake. I wonder if this is the Japanese’s impression of the girls in an exclusive school. It could be possible, but this is just bad. Would you really make out and go all the way in the chapel? Whatever. I’ll try to keep in mind that this is pure fiction. Anything goes. T_T So the girl is easy to get. Then this girl who seems to be the president of the student council isn’t as innocent and pure as she looks. The sex scenes are okay. The new tranferee is noisy as expected. That annoyed me, but one of her lines, “Ah! It’s going inside me!”, cracked me up. XD; I can’t imagine someone shouting that while having sex. (For the pinoys, imagine — “Ah… Pumapasok sa loob kooooooo~~!!!”) Egads.

It was already the subs turn to play, but when they were showing off their skills, the scene where the first set played were shown. I don’t know if the producers/animators wanted this episode to be over quickly and were recycling scenes, but these are easily noticed if you watch this anime simultaneously. In other things, the red-head Gyoran is really a cutie.

The old man unexpectedly went to a private conference among the intergalatic league team owners. He announced to them the pursuance of the Earth Team to join the league. Some members didn’t approve of this, but the “head” had given the old man a chance being that he helped in starting the league. The Earth Team is to compete against a minor.

The whole “galaxy” seems to have made a big fuss out of Earth Team’s determination in joining the league. They did great in defeating an underground team, but when Tono fought with an intergalactic league player, they seem to be a lot different from them. That alien had incredible speed! And that alien is red-head cutie.

I’m so happy that the match went on only for this episode. XD The Earth Team’s coach made the right decision to leave the youngsters. When the Smokey Queens changed players, the ball also did. It was lighter. DT made Cha-Che have a feel of the ball and Cha-Che knew she could handle the shooting then. They did a wonderful comeback and was able to score a lot of points ahead of Smokey Queens. Since the group won, they decided to take Lazuli (from Smokey Queens) to be part of Earth Team.

Minor complaints about the animation — Lazuli looks like Cha-Che when he was still young. Actually, a lot of the characters look like Cha-Che. XD Even Rose does. (Not that it matters a lot. *lol*) Also, when DT passed the ball to Cha-Che the ball to call for a time-out, the same scene was also on episode 6. I thought there was something wrong with my video player. They used the same scene for two episodes!

The Earth team goes to Smokey Queens’ home. (I wonder what planet it is.) Instead of placing a bet or disbanding the lost team, Lazuli (the human guy in Smokey Queens) chose to get Cha-Che if they lose. This is a tough decision for the owner (also Cha-Che’s grandfater), but this is the starting step for the Earth’s team. Ivan, Cha-Che, Tono, and the afro-guy are currently on bench as inexperienced players should watch the game and their opponents first. Tono wasn’t the least happy about this.



The stadium and the audience are terrifying. The support for the Smokey Queens can get the other team nervous is intimdating. There are no rules in the Underground basketball game. This has totally taken the other players by surprise. Except for Rose, shouldn’t he be aware of this? Why was he calling for a foul?

The two boys wonder who Ivan is really. He barely speaks, a slob, watches anime… He does things uncommon for an “adult.” Tono tells him off, even calling him an old man, but Ivan suddenly says, “Don’t call me old man. I’m only 15.” His size is like that of a gorilla, but he _is_ only 15. Wow. The team was then called for a meeting since Grandpa has decided to get them a match. It was a match against the Smokey Queens (aka Bloody Queens). It was a team in the Underground League. A betting league with NO rules.

When Smokey Queens was first shown I thought how “human” one of them looks like. It’s kind of odd for a human to play alongside with aliens.

The players are all gathered now. Tono just made a shameful and hilarious introduction of himself. I can’t wait to see how he plays seriously. One of the players has the same name as my brother. I must remember to joke him about it.


The last time I saw men wearing cycling shorts/spandex was in Gundam Wing. Actually, that was only Heero. Now I’m seeing them again. But they look like black body painting than clothing. Black body painting on that part of the body is still bad, don’t you think? Anyways, it seems Tono is now the PG. He is better than I thought he was.

The sports festival is near! The four girls have started making pompoms. Eri and Akira though were playing around — cut off a pompom as if it’s Akira new hairdo and while Eri was proudly posing for giving a wonderful “pompom-cut,” she accidentally cuts Harima’s beard. A good chunk of it. She tries to apologize, Harima takes advantage, but Eri still tries to apologize seriously. When Harima decides to grow his beard again he finds out Tenma prefers guys without beards. He quickly shaves his off. Wonder what Eri’s reaction is? XD

The second story is about Harima’s manga again. He was asked to have a friend check his current work, so it could be edited and proofed. By accident, Yakumo becomes his “friend editor.” In the third story, Hanai saw Yakumo and Harima together as they were discussing Harima’s manga. Hanai doesn’t know the latter, of course.

Itoko and Kyouko are bestfriends. Kyouko asks Itoko to be a nude model for her art display. Nishimoto Ganji is famous in class for important news such as Itoko’s nude modeling due to his networks. He has spread the word and even did a strategic meeting. He will once bring his 2-C classmates’ dreams and hopes come true. Nara makes a few seconds appearance as the Underling. In the second story, Yakumo was asked by Sarah to be the bride in the mock wedding. Hanai became the groom unexpectedly. When things were just about to start, Harima barges in and tries to fight for Yakumo. Actually, he doesn’t know that the Tsukamoto in the mock wedding was Yakumo and not Tenma. Can’t he spot the difference between the sisters? Which brings me to think he’s making the correct wish during the meteor shower. The meteor shower is the third part in this episode. It was very nice! Unfortunately, Hanai and Tenma missed it.

Uwaah~ There aren’t much to say about this episode except that we’ve seen a lot more about Imadori. He’s a true flirt, a pervert, and not totally manly. He’s still got a cute side to him though. He makes this Garfield-ish faces. It makes him look so cute! And he’s after Mikoto, the hard-to-get girl. XD He tries so bad to go out with her even though he makes the wrong moves. Kare-rin’s okay for him too. I think he’s better off with her. She will wrestle him if he two-times her or something.

I was thinking about the animals, how did Harima get them? How come they weren’t noticed earlier when he was still in his animal fortune telling job? At least his sister/cousin (I forgot) still cares about him. She took care of the animals while he was away and even after he ran away from home.

After that chaotic summer vacation, the guys and gals are back to school. Tenma is happy because she gets to see Karasuma again. Instead of realizing how much her relationship with Karasuma hasn’t stepped forward, she must think of getting herself more mature-like. She usually doesn’t act her age.

Another gloomy episode… *sighs* But there are still a few funny moments. It sucks that Hiromi and their editor-in-chief got involved in their problems. The Count bit them, shouldn’t they be forever under his control? Hazuki went on about returning Hiromi to normal. :P

Hazuki looked so cute when she was a baby and in that neko costume. XD She is still cute, but “annoyingly” cute. *sweatdrop*

You know, the story is sort of interesting, but the way they did the animation isn’t good. For example, in this episode, Hazuki and Kouhei were attacking Seiji. There were only still shots of Seiji’s head, while Hazuki and Kouhei were shouting. After a few seconds of every still shots were just black screens. I didn’t understand what was going on.

How unlikely of Kaoru to cause trouble.


Hazuki is trying to act like a big sister to the two girls or she’s just trying to make a good shot at Kouhei. It’s so out-of-the-blue that you’d think she’s up to something. A surprise? Not like anything’s _that_ surprising in the series. ^^v

Elfriede shouldn’t have tried to harm her master. She should have ran off to another country. She _is_ stupid to go against whatever-his-name-is. Not only did she make herself known as “stupid,” she will also be the cause for Kouhei’s future problems.

Episode 9



The opening video is… X___X A treat for the lolicons. Hazuki looks cute in the last part, so I guess it’s fine.

Elfriede’s wish to fight against Count Kinkel reminds me of Louis and Lestat. The “easy” way of being free from one’s master isn’t similar to the Vampre Chronicles though. The Vampire’s Lover has been brought up again and it’s a question of how and why Kouhei is. He’s lucky he doesn’t turn into a vampire though unlucky he could be a living supplier of blood for these female vamps. The series should introduce a HOT vampire. A little treat for the bishie lover in me. Nevermind those lolicons. XDD;

Let’s say Kouhei lives through his lung wound. Would he be able to live normally? :P Unlikely, don’t you think? Count Kinkel also found out that he’s a Vamp’s Lover. That thing might be spread around their kind and they will all go kill him. XDDD I like violent material, but the way Hazuki is all cute and neko-ish, the bad guys here just annoy me.


Episode 10



Hazuki is starting to feel bad about being a vampire; like a curse to everyone around her. Seiji had started to blame Hazuki for what happened to Kouhei. It’s something really fatal that even I might get mad it were to happen to my friend. What happened is rather unexpected. Young girls would usually act like a spoiled brat. Hazuki was completely the opposite. She remained calm and became a lot helpful to Kouhei and his family by giving her life energy to save him.

In the end, how a bite could save a life is beyond my expectation.

I must not do “compiled” episode ramblings. :P


Episode 12

The episode starts with a short 3-part stand about Tenma and Yakumo. There’s even an explanation about Tenma’s hairstyle. It reminds me of Parfait Tic where the protagonist had almost stopped styling her hair because of the love troubles she’s been having. *sweatdrop* With Tenma, her tied hair faces down when she’s sad or trouble and it’s tied real up when she’s happy.

In one scene, Nara looks like Tenma. Long-lost brother or cousin, maybe? haha~ Fun times in the beach. It’s summer now, just the right time to watch this episode… makes me envious! I also wanna go to the beach!




Episode 13

This is a really cute and funny episode! XD Mikoto and Imadori swam back to the beach! They have such nice friends, don’t they? Imadori seems an okay guy. I like his droopy eyes. His being flirty _is_ a turn off though.



Harima’s better off without the glasses. I bet Tenma will like him. It must be nice to be embraced by a nice-bodied man like him. XD Hanai and Suou’s 2nd grade story is so touching. Suou forgetting it is a proof that Tenma and her would truly make good friends.
(There were sunflowers! Reminds me of Samurai Champloo.)
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Tenma is so cute in her pink swimsuit. I think the only guy in the anime who sees her cuteness is Harima. Nara’s… Well… Getting there.


Harima’s best dumbass line –> I’m so happy I was born dumb.
*rofl* Anyways, he should have been forward about wanting to join the others to the beach. Tsukamoto had misunderstood him.
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Episode 9

*pulls hair* What the hell’s up with Harima!? He’s gotten depressed because of Karasuma and Tenma eating lunch together??? Oh dear… It didn’t occur to me that he’s the type to easily give up.




Episode 10

Harima needs an anti-depressant. He should be lucky that Tenma’s got friends who aren’t meanies. They’re actually telling him to go back to school! Anyways, I got so happy that Tenma finally got the chance to have a “curry” date with Karasuma! The “curry or me” thing was kind of a shocker.

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The players are all gathered now. Tono just made a shameful and hilarious introduction of himself. I can’t wait to see how he plays seriously. I can’t believe my brother is in here! XDDD J/k! J/k! The best shooter in the team’s name is Maru and so is my brother. Oh, I like the green-spiked hair guy.
The last time I saw men wearing cycling shorts/spandex was in Gundam Wing. Actually, that was only Heero. Now I’m seeing them again. But they look like black body painting than clothing. Haha~

Episode 10 - Hinoenma



It really sucks being compared with a friend. What happened between Tatsuta and Shiragiku and sort of understandable, but it’s such a one-sided story. There must be something that Shiragiku also feels towards Tatsuta. She must have kept