Posted by reim at 10:01 AM on December 1, 2004 .
There's no kanji, so I'm not so sure. But while looking for information about Tsukiyomi no Mikoto, found a link to this Tsukiyomi Bridge. The name is probably the same as the one used for the title of 月詠~Moon Phase~. Also it's related to a poem.
Posted by reim at 12:09 PM on December 3, 2004 in Kakyuusei 2 .
Kazuki-sensei's episode ! and she doesn't seem to change much since she's a child. Seems like she's kind of envious on Chiho's otona-ppoi body :D
Kazuki sensei don't like summer festival, so Chiho told her not to run away from something she don't like, because at middle school, Chiho is also a kanazuchi (sink like a hammer).
Actually, she don't like festival because when she's a kid, she played hide and seek, but her friends left her alone and in fear. While in the other place, Fumi is chasing Kishida to the festival.
Jin : tokorode... minna yukata de iku no ka ?
After looking like he's thinking of something really serious. Even Nozomu pulled out a fish from the place that weren't supposed to be any fish living in it. The plan is, leave Tamaki and Rouma together. Sub-plan is, get together alone with Jin, for Chiho.
Well, finally, Tama does realize her feeling for Rouma and break up with her boyfriend. Just now, how with the other side. Next, there's still two or three students from another school. Horiide Mika would be the star at next episode.
Quality for animation, seems like episode 8 and 9 is the point where the animation quality starts to change.
Sawamura Kazuki.
4th Year at University, currently in teaching practise.
147 Cm, 76(less than A) 52 80.
August 23th. Blood type A.
Hobby is billiard and don't like someone to say she looks like an elementary school student.
Err... did't expect that billiard hobby ^^;
Posted by reim at 12:57 PM on December 3, 2004 in To Heart ~remember my Memories~ .
Nagase, Hiro and Multi went to... Oosaka (IINM) to visit Aihara's grave. There, they met Nagase Yuusuke, Aihara's boyfriend. He's a painter, and most in his gallery are abstract picture, except one that pictured Aihara and Feel together. He was worried, because everytime, Aihara is always in the lab with Feel. Seeing her dream of a maid robot with feeling made her gave less attention to other things. Hiro said that his feeling must have reached her, because Aihara looks smiling.
Then, Akari who's depressed also went to that city. She met Hiro and get more depressed. They also went to Yuusuke's gallery, and there, Akari think that the girl in that picture, is she really happy.
Not really much screencaps for this, I'm watching while eating a bowl of leaves. But the story is heading to the problem about Akari wanting an answer from Hiro, which is more important, Multi, or her, because all the time she can bear it that Hiro is kind to everyone, because she think Hiro think of her as a special person. But when he decided his future, she became anxious.
Posted by reim at 01:49 PM on December 3, 2004 in School Rumble .
Five minutes and fifty three seconds of intro before the opening. Quite long for a 23 minutes program, although the longest I ever saw is about 20 minutes before the opening theme. Then at the sponsor screen, from the picture collection, Anegasaki Tae (or for now, known as Oneesan) looks a lot like Kitagawa from Sensei no Ojikan.
Harima give up on his love, so he just want to at least get his dream of being a mangaka. He respected Nijou sensei, a mangaka also. But when knowing that the person is Karasuma, it's like the whole world is becoming his enemy, love and dream, he lost everything. This is when a lady came and rescued him.
Oneesan, Anegasaki Tae.
On Tenma's side, she's trying to cook curry for lunch. Because love is important, she refused Yakumo's help (other than the emergency rescue). Result are horrible of course, not even Iori want to eat it.
The three parts is kind of unproportionated IMO, this time. But next week, seems like there'll be extra story in the Shining Wizard story.
Posted by reim at 06:36 PM on December 5, 2004 in Futa Koi .
Eh ? Sara is the younger one ?
Nozomu is worried that Soujuu is not coming to the shrine again. But he met Soujuu at the department store, and they had a talk together. Soujuu told about her and Sara, that Sara want her to be an artist because Sara is not good at drawing. Sara gave her a box of pastel, and it's her treasure.
On their way back, Nozomu invited Soujuu to the festival. Soujuu is fine, Sara is not, especially because she's afraid of ghost and the theme of Nozomu's class is horror cafe. She kept screaming to everyone about the place is too dark and unhealthy, and how ridiculous everyone is dressing. So much that Nozomu had to take them out and see the festival before all their customer go away.
Soujuu, who's worried about having to leave the town collapsed after drawing Sumireko and Kaoruko. Nozomu, who noticed that one of the pastel is missing imedieatly look for it, to the place where they'll burn the sets for festival at the closing ceremony as a gratitude.
Futa Koi (written in katakana) will be played probably next spring. Hope it'll be like Happy Lessons instead of SisPri, besides, the plot in both series are better. Later, maybe they can made the epilogue OVA for this, like Happy Lessons the final.
Posted by reim at 06:38 PM on December 5, 2004 in Rozen Maiden .
Suiseiseki likes to hit her sister. This part of the story is really different from the manga, and why did Suigintou want Renpica and Sui Dream instead ? Maybe she figured out that she won't be able to get help from that twins to kill all human then.
Suigintou somehow got control in that ojiisan's dream, and she also got Renpica, Souseiseki's spirit. Shinku told Jun to escape with the twins, and because the gate of dream is closed, they run to the world's branch. The world tree is the root of all dreams. Imagine, the tree from Jack and the Beanstalk. All dream trees are born as siblings steming from the world tree.
If dream is a shape of our sub-conscious mind, this world tree might picture that concept of a collective unconsciousness, but psychology and philosophy is not my field so let it stops right there.
To sum it up, since Jun want a simple explanation, it's totally a different level from chibi-ningen's tree. (chibi ningen = Jun).
Maybe because of looking for a way out, they went to obaachan's dream, a white dream, meaning an empty heart. Suiseiseki aggreed to help, so Jun have to start smelling where the tree is. Inside, they meet the spirit of Kazuki, who don't want them to find the tree, because there his mother can be happy. He didn't think of his father, until Jun told him that he can't just hide from reality. So he helped Shinku and Hina out, in place of asking them to tell his parents that he'll always be with them.
Suigintou got Renpica, and managed to force Suiseiseki to gave her spirits. Now, where did Rozen get seven of those kind of creature for his doll's servant anyway ?
In short, I like the anime version of Souseiseki, but don't like the anime version of Suigintou. As with most titles this season, the drawing quality starts to change inconsistently also, production budget thing perhaps.
Seems like next episode would be the doll's bath episode, when Jun blushed seeing Shinku in more revealing attire. And then the rest of episode 11 to 13 would be respectively, cliffhanger when Suigintou pulled of Shinku's arm, Jun made an oath to the other doll and get the hand, and last, he fixed that broken arm then gave Suigintou a punch on the face. *bitter laugh* if that's true, episode 12 would be bitter tasted.
The title is Abschied / Betsuri / Sepparation.
Posted by reim at 08:24 AM on December 6, 2004 in Kannazuki no Miko .
The sun called Ame no Murakumo, the moon got raped by Orochi and Souma, he want another sword.
The anime version of Ame no Murakumo when it showed up as a shilouette in the opening still looks like a sword, but now the white colour is shown, it turns out that the sword looks like a space shuttle. Which do you think is better ? the design in anime or the manga ?
So what happened to the Orochi is told a bit. Ranging from the most rational to the most out of place. Reiko is not much of a successful mangaka. Korona is almost the same, they lost their dream, she was raped, probably by someone offering her a carreer as idol. Then, Miyako and Girochi is victim of war, people left by their god and the whole world is cruel to them. Nekoko... didn't really understand, probably some mad scientist found a chou-moe girl and tried to do strange experiment to change her, to have the cat tail and neko-mimi.
That's much of the first half, second is the night of dream between Himeko and Chikane. She returned and they have the happy time together. Next morning, she just walked away. But it's different from what I expected when seeing the spoiler screencaps before, I thought it'll be somehow like when Izanami and Izanagi parted in the land of the dead.
Posted by reim at 08:17 AM on December 7, 2004 in Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha .
Umm... reasoning for oni baba. Seems like she'll need those seeds to restore a universe she destroyed in research accident (not really sure).
Alf reached her limit, although maybe less than Chikane-chan (Kannazuki no Miko) who holds out her sexual frustration for nine whole episodes before she snaps off. She fight and defeated by Preshia, then runaway. Like those seeds, seems like lost objects in that inter-dimension space fell to Nanoha's world. Like Juno's case, Arisa found her and take Alf to her home, which contrary to Suzuka, she kept dogs instead of cats (not that much tho').
For rest, Nanoha and Juno should go back to home and meet her family and friends. Lindy came also, and somehow, she quickly get very close to Momoko and has talk between mothers ^^;
It's like after fight with a boss, then suddenly someything happened. This is the last rest and preparation before entering the final stage and fight the final boss (then the final final boss). And that final fight would be that I bet all I won this time, you follow or not ?
Not like I get lot of comment of visitor here, but anyone knows about the theme of the game's story ? and that Yasashii Kaze ni Nare.
Posted by reim at 05:02 PM on December 7, 2004 in Kannazuki no Miko .
This is placed between episode 5 and 6, which is, after Souma fights with Tsubasa. The story, Himeko's school is having a festival. They also perform a drama, with Souma as the prince and Chikane as the princess. But, of course both want to be the prince and Himeko who's placed as backstage staff as their princess.
Chikane is happy, she had her training with Himeko that she loved. They even switched role, and taken in the athmosphere, Chikane mistakenly called Himeko instead of princess. Himeko also gets all doki doki suru. The only problem Chikane get is that Otowa kept coming in at the most romantic moments to disturb them. While Souma, his training partner is Yukihito Who's playing as the evil witch and sounds a lot like Mika-sensei (Sensei no Ojikan, same seiyuu) trying to play horror part in a play, not scary, funny. ^^;
Another invited are Reiko, for a signing session because her manga will ba made into an anime. and Korona is also invited for a concert. Girochi and Nekoko want to go also, but of course, Miyako told them not to do anything stupid. They went there anyway, when Girochi came, everyone saw a trouble maker. Poor Girochi, and he tried his best not to kill anyone. "Koroshitee na... minna koroshitee na..." Nekoko, she jump from one food stall to another and of course, she has no money so she just shot everyone with tranquilizer afterward.
Girochi : urusee na. omae ni kiiteneen da yo 69i
Korona : 68 yo ! nantoieba wakaru no yo ?
Girochi : khi... taishita gan ne ya. Anime ga hitoshita okage de tsuide ni orettandarou ka ?
Girochi : dare mo omae wa nanka mitenee ya. Omae mite no wa na... i... i...
Nekoko : nan nya no ?
Reiko : Ippatsu ya
Girochi : ah sou, sore da !
Korona : omaera... BUKKOROSU !
Girochi : Ah yattemirou 69i, buttobashi wa ore itte yaru
Reiko : Jinsei ni White, kaketeiru
[Fighting voice]
[thunder voice]
Miyako : iwanakatta kashira ? katte na mane wa shinaide
Not sure about those lines, I still missed a lot in listening. Apparently that 68 in Oricon chart is from one anime song she sung only, and not like anyone is watching.
To save Himeko who's being bullied, Chikane called Himeko out and gave her a ticket for Reiko's signing session. Her answer after her fans talk a lot about her works are simple as "Doumo arigatou, tsugi no hito." like a tape. When Himeko said how she likes Reiko's works, she answered simple, "atashi wa kirai, sumannai. Tsugi no hito."
Ko-chin (Korona, pet name from Nekoko) is annoyed by peoples talking about her as an incompetent idol, and that she's dumped by the producer who gave her idol carreer. So she decided to take a move. She attacked Himeko, and tried seducing Souma to return to Orochi, or maybe more to date her instead. But she does agree with me, Himeko looks like a thrown away puppy. Souma don't know much about woman that he likes that kind of girl ^^;
Ikusen ikuman, iya, tatoe sono kazu ga manten no honshu wo shinobou to, watashi wa anata no miushinau hazu ga nai. Kanarazu watashi wa anata ni dakishimete miseru.
That's the line the prince said at the climax, when the witch creates copies of the princess. Korona did the same, and Souma can't find the real Himeko. Girochi, seeing that scene, starts trying to destroy all the fake. Ironically, Chikane can find Himeko and embraced her there.
Extra stages are, comedy tracks with the Orochi heads, especially Tsubasa who screams hysterically. ^^;
Last track is about Watashi no Bremen Love, Reiko's manga. Himeko is telling about the manga to Chikane. Chikane isn't really interested in manga, until Himeko came to the place where the heroine, Alice is having a kokuhaku with her friend, the princess of Bremen. Both are girls of course, which is why Chikane is interested.
Kuon no toki nagaretemo, futari no chikai wa kawaranai. Ano sora ni kagayaki tsuki no youni, futari no michi wo terasu tsuzukeru. Itsumademo, dokomademo, sekai ga mijin no sunatte nattemo, kono ai wa owaranai. Aishite imasu, zutto anata wo aishiteimasu.
Hearing that, Chikane is all blushing ^^ She even asked Himeko to repeat the last line for her.
Iie, zettai ni konaide kudasai. Kagi wa akemasen. Keitai mo mado kara sutemasu kara.
That's how Reiko handle her editor who asked her to do editing on her manga. Seems like there are protest from fans, one even can't eat anymore because of the shock. Ah, and the anime will be made also.
Mangaka's answer to her editor when he said he'll come to talk about her works. The anime of Watashi no Bremen Love is going to be made and there's some questionable material in it, I think suddenly the story become full of despair. She done the editing once and refused to do another fix, even if there are protest from the reader and the anime production staff. A kid even can't eat because of the shock. She doesn't care.
Going to check this part again later.
Miyako's confession box. First is Otowa, confessing about how she want to kill Himeko who's always close to Chikane. Miyako's answer : killing is our job.
Korona came and starts bitching about how everyone never appreciate her. Miyako's answer : go back to your village.
Himeko came to tell about her problem. Miyako keep asking her to keep it short, and final answer : urusai.
Chikane came, asking if Himeko came there and talk a lot about how wonderful Himeko is. Miyako's answer : no, she's not here.
Yukihito came talking about Souma's date. Miyako's answer : this is not a chat line.
Reiko came. Miyako's answer : this is not working place's sofa.
Nekoko came asking for candy. Miyako's answer : is this a sweets shop ?
Makoto came. Miyako's answer : this is all for today.
Tsubasa came, asking about Souma. Miyako gets all love love mode.
Girochi came, talking about her sister and how she likes Himeko. Miyako's not answering, she gets physical.
Posted by reim at 09:04 PM on December 8, 2004 in To Heart ~remember my Memories~ .
From last time, Hiroyuki and Akari's relationship is breaking up. At school, they starts being cold to each others, like the coming winter. But in winter, there's Christmast party, the all happy Lemmy invites everyone to come to her party at weekend before the winter vacation.
Shiho is worried, about Lemmy suddenly asking everyone for party, especially because Hiro and Akari is not in good term with each others. Lemmy doesn't really feel troubled, she think it's a good chance for everyone.
Well, the one who's worried is not just Shiho, Nagase also worried about Multi and Hiroyuki who became too close. Multi asked about how she can help Hiro and Akari, because remembering them like that troubled her.
Anyway, party starts ! with explosive greeting. Hiro doesn't came, but Multi came. She want to talk to Akari, about how she want both of them to be happy. Eventually, both get along well, knowing they loved Hiroyuki and would accept who he choose.
In other place, Lemmy let Hiro in the park. Remember about "last chance" ? It's actually her's. She used to play with Hiro when younger (but her hair is black, probably to hide that she's a foreigner). She want to go back to America and asked if Hiroyuki want to go with her, if he feel that his burden is too much and want to just throw it away to start again.
She changed a lot doesn't she ?
Back to Multi and Akari, seems like she got a conflict, because she tried to pull back for Akari. She collapsed. Nagase also found out something in the corner of Aihara's research note on HMX-11.
Akari told Hiro to just go with Multi, and we have three episodes left to finish this ?
Nice episode for Lemmy, although I'd still prefer more story for her. This is more like trying to give a special episode for a character. Well, give at least two or three. But that would mean not enough time for the main plot ?
PS : why does Lemmy's mother called her Elle ?
Posted by reim at 09:05 PM on December 8, 2004 in Kakyuusei 2 .
Rouma and Tamaki still didn't realize each other's feeling. Same with Chiho who said Tama is donkan, she still don't know the feeling Rouma's boyfriend has for her.
New girl this time, Horiide Mika, a street musician. She performed a song that fascinated everyone, including the girl charmer. A song by the girl who loved Kishida in the past and know about his secret. Mika herself don't like it, she said she has no talent and that's not her song. That seems to be her problem also, she can't make her own song and always influenced by her mother's.
Listening to her song, Rouma become a fan and always wait for her. From a student in Mika's school (Ooyama Eiko), a permanent SD mode chara, he knew that Mika hasn't gone to school for long. When Rouma asked her to just sing her feeling, she run away.
Things happened. Chiho seems to finally accept that karate guy's kokuhaku. Jin is... having a feeling for Tama ? *look back at To Heart* Mika also finally sing her own song, and even if her audience all walked away saying that her previous song is better, she seems satisfied.
Posted by reim at 09:58 PM on December 9, 2004 in W ~Wish~ .
I realized that I forgot reading last month's installment of Kamichama Karin in Nakayoshi (local published version) and now this, forgot episode 9 of Princess Hour also.
Since their parent's colleague came, Senna locked herself in her room and refused to talk. Then, Junna found the tablet the man from university is coming to ask for. Also behind it is the photo album of their childhood. There's picture of Junna and his mother (who looks like Kuga Natsuki's mother from Mai HiME). Everything looks so normal, except, there's no Senna in it. Instead, there's a lot of picture of Haruhi, who's supposed to be his osananajimi, a lot more than the picture of Senna who's his twin sister (photo count : 0)
Shoujiki ne, the scene and background music when he flipped that album gave me a shiver. Don't know, there are horror movies that's scarier, but I somehow... yes, it's scary.
Junna somehow found himself in front of Haruhi's house. He asked her about what actually happened. Haruhi hesitated, until Tomo appeared and told him, he and Senna are peoples without past. Haruhi is Junna's true sister.
Posted by reim at 10:00 PM on December 9, 2004 in W ~Wish~ .
As the secret is being revealed, something happened to the city. Probably because Junna is fighting the tablet's power. The city is covered by mist, and peoples are lost in their way, when entering the mist, they suddenly came out at different place. Inside, there's also a white ghost.
In the confusion about which is true and false, Junna finally runs to someone, Tomo, who promised even if anything happened, she'll wait for Junna at the top of their school, she'll be watching everything. Tomo is the guardian of time, and she brings Junna back to the beginning of it all, to let him choose again, what future he wanted for.
The characters on the dial, IINM, it's the early form of kanji letters. If that's true, not really something used often isn't it. Also it does fit the place of excavation.
Posted by reim at 10:01 PM on December 9, 2004 in Φnal Approach .
Emiho's brother came and asked Ryou to break up and forget about Emiho.
Well, this is that Ryou. With the help of Shizuka's intelligence resource, he planned an operation to rescue Emiho from her decided fiancee, a totally annoying made to be hate Amerika-jin. But... one thing, might be just me, but the voice of Emiho sounds more like Tamura Yukari rather than Takahashi Chiaki. ^^;
Like shooting star, Ryou and Shizuka come for the rescue. She knocked out the annoying guy with sexi-swimsuit charm, and then changed to soldier girl armed with pink bomb bazooka. After that, MiB vs six-packed sailors with funny English accented Japanese.
That's it for the 9th episode, and also probably concluded Emiho's story from the manga. I'm still hoping though, that it could end with Emiho's instead of Shizuka's.
And this week's "Tsuzuku"
Posted by reim at 10:05 PM on December 9, 2004 in Φnal Approach .
Shizuka's father, somewhat looks like the villain from Inspector Gadget and face that... I can't remember, is giving her a week deadline to give result if she'll marry with some stranger (that's Ryou) or not. If not, she had to come back home.
Also, her grandfather, chief of the R.T.P Corp and the one who arranged her engagement collapsed. Ryou want her to go back for her grandfather, but she insist on continuing the plan to marry Ryou, so her grandfather's plan can be successful.
They come to the conclusion, Ryou don't want to marry, for a week they'll act as if nothing is wrong and then, Shizuka must go home.
Like W Wish, the main plot starts rolling now.
Posted by reim at 11:53 AM on December 13, 2004 in School Rumble .
Oneechan kara no oshirase.
First is fast, Miko, who sprained her wrist is worried about test, so she pray to god that she can do the test and get to the same university as the person she likes, Asou. Still don't really understand if that's Harima, or just the god looks awfully like Harima.
Second is kare sakusen by Takano. The plan is going to curry restaurant together. But Fuyuki (who's dragged by Akira) suddenly feel sick. Eri had to go back home early, Miko has a diet and Takano must fulfil her late grandmother's will to not eat curry. As much as some might sounds nonsense, Tenma believed and Karasuma doesn't care.
Second story is about Harima's fortune telling. Eri came to ask if her father likes beef stew or curry better. Answer : Gero~ (frog -> human language translation : curry).
Karasuma and Tenma came, asking for romance fortune telling. While Harima is having inner struggle, Karasuma screwed up by saying he likes curry more than Tenma. He even tell Harima to chase for Tenma if he wanted to, because he can't not go... to the curry shop.
He somehow mistakenly confessed to Eri, everything is going good (somehow) until Oneechan came ^^;
Posted by reim at 12:04 PM on December 13, 2004 in Futa Koi .
Nozomu is confused, which pair he had to choose, while right in front of him, he already have to think up what his own feeling to each individual of them.
Between Kaoruko and Sumireko... somehow I prefer Nozomu with Sumireko. Some maybe that it's a peaceful result (?). Only how would Kaoruko feel, this arrangement sounds like she'll be with Yuuya but thinking of Nozomu, kind of giving burden to everyone.
I like Sumireko more, maybe because she's lacking of something (not the ponytail) than Kaoruko, and I like her thoughtfulness. Sara and Soujuu is cute also, with interesting character, but I feel like putting them on overall chara fave.
Posted by reim at 01:00 PM on December 13, 2004 in Rozen Maiden .
The dolls' bath episode. But before that, Suigintou came into Shinku's dream, giving her invitation for their fight in Alice Game. For Suigintou, if she wins, then the rest of the dolls are those that can't really fight as much as Shinku. While if Shinku wins, then Shinku would be glad also that one trouble is gone.
Different with the manga version is, in manga, this happened before they finish with Souseiseki's story.
Jun feels weird, because Shinku is so quiet. Usually, since the morning she'll be bossing them around. Bad premonition, Suiseiseki came, same way as before only with higher speed. Souseiseki also came, but unlike her sister, she take low altitude flight and crashed on that guy who want to kokuhaku to Nori. Starting to believe that Jun bought the dolls to curse him for approaching his sister.
Nori asked Jun to help her doing drama practice. He helped, after Shinku asked him also. She's helping in a play, performing Snow White, and Nori's role is the... narrator. Hina as a really happy dwarf, Souseiseki as a dwarf that has a forced laugh. Shinku is the princess. Suiseiseki has the most fitting role, evil stepmother *laugh*
Hina : kowai...
Shinku : great acting
Jun : no, I think that's not acting
Starts to seem that Jun does has a really deep feeling towards Shinku doesn't he, because if it's Shinku asking, he would do it. Not to mention that blushing when the prince had to kiss the princess ^^
Well... he's excited when seeing the dolls in their underwear, and more strangely, he sees much of their joints, which is the most inhuman part. Well... he said that it's because he almost forgot that they're dolls, but still it's kind of strange.
Watch the cup :D
While fixing Shinku's dress, they talked about what happpened if their spring runs out. The doll would feel sleepy, and then sleeps, a really deep sleep. Wether they'll awaken, or never will. Jun likes it, because when he woke up, nobody would know about him anymore. But Shinku thinks that, even if Rozen Maiden has to fight, they still want to be awaken, because lots of thing can be seen and they can get closer to their father.
Girl with different dress does change don't they, like in yesterday;s cosplay party, and Shinku also, she looked so different when wearing just Jun's sweater.
A hope, please don't let Rozen be Geppetto !
Posted by reim at 10:24 PM on December 14, 2004 in Rozen Maiden .
From Birz magazine 2005-01, this month's. Still hasn't read all, or rather, hasn't understand it all, after all, no furigana ^^;
After the twins' story arc, a new doll came and her name is Kanaria (written: kane (gold), ito (string), suzume (sparrow), the most intellectual among the sisters. She had her geist, named Pizzicato. Seems like she's eager to finish Alice Game also, though seems like she'll be exponentially less threat compared to Suigintou (atari mae no koto)
Tomoe came and they talked about lots of things. Suiseiseki is afraid of Tomoe at first, but she soften up, especially after Shinku told her Tomoe is Hina's previous master and see them both happy. Tomoe does accidentally mentioned about Souseiseki, so Shinku melt down the sad athmosphere a bit by hitting Jun with Tomoe's kendo sword.
The dolls left them to talk have talk between humans. Tomoe mentioned that Jun has changed, now they can talk together again. But Tomoe herself felt that she didn't change at all, since Hina left, she's back to her daily life again. A lot of thing she didn't want to, such as being the class representative, but she can't refuse, she can't say her own thoughts to everyone else.
Okay, out of that, Suigintou doesn't seem so happy even after she has Souseiseki's Rosa Mystica. We see a bit of her relationship to a girl that might be her master. That girl is staying in the hospital, doesn't seem so well, and reminds me a lot of Kara no Kyoukai's Fujyou Kirie. Suigintou likes her singing, but also looked sad listening it.
By the way, the name of the spirits are from perfumes. But searching for it is a hell, can't found anything. Those that I found so far are :
Actually for Shinku's ghost, there's a phrase, "Holly Hobby doll". And I am so suspecting that Suigintou's Meimei is made by Shiseido.
Suigintou, Jinkou Seirei Collector ni Tenshin (wara)
(Suigintou, turning into artificial-ghost collector (laugh)
Agree ! *laugh*
Posted by reim at 10:25 PM on December 14, 2004 in Kannazuki no Miko .
My theory for the miko, the one in red are destined for bloodbath. So if there's the next Kannazuki no Miko, maybe it'll be the moon stabs the sun again.
Really, superpower countries, why make ICBMs when one arrow is all it takes to kill all the living on this planet ?
The summary, Souma tagged along with Himeko to the dance party, in Chikane's back seat also. She's not so happy, so the Orochi fight with Ame no Murakumo. Difference in power is clear enough, same as when the Orochi's war gods gattai and... far superior battle capacity so far.
Anata ga suki.
Anata no hitomi ga suki, haru no ginga no youni kirameku hitomi ga haru no hizashi no youna yasashii manazashi ga suki.
Anata no kami ga suki, soyokaze hirameku Silk no youna, sarasara no kami ga suki.
Anata no kuchibiru ga suki, mizu no youna kuchizuke wo kureru, setsunai toiki wo kikasete kureru, ga suki.
Anata no koe ga suki, takakute amai kokoro ni shimitai ga sumikita koe ga suki.
Anata no karada ga suki, dakishimeru to oreteshimai souna kajya na koushi ga, utsukute, demo katachi yoi mune ga kazaneta hada kara tsutawate kuru nukumori ga suki.
Demo, ichiban suki na no wa, anata no kokoro, morokute kizutsuki yasui, demo dokomademo jyunsui de utsukushii, dare mo semetari shinai, subete wo yurusu, yasashisa ni michi ga tamashii ga suki yo, daisuki.
Anata no itoshiku subete tamaranai no, anata igai na mono wa mou nanka nani mo iranai, tada anata dake ga hoshii...
Hueeh... the longest yuri love confession I've heard, but although a bit freaky, loved the words, at least those I managed to understand. Really, romantic, although someone might think of it as really really scary ^^;
Kono scene wa, nanka iya na yokan.
Posted by reim at 07:04 AM on December 15, 2004 .
New season is starting next year as many ended on Christmast Eve (intended thing I guess).
From this season may be School Rumble, up to this week they've reached... maybe around chapter 30s from the newest 111. And here's the list of new anime I might watch.
And that made it... roughly nine, a bit less than this season, not really a bad thing. Might add Xenosaga animation, Magical Kanan and Binchou-tan, but don't have enough interest for those. The one with (*) mark are the one I think I'll try taking screencaps of.
Posted by reim at 08:39 PM on December 15, 2004 in Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha .
The duel between Fate and Nanoha, powerful and beautifully coreographed, plus some effects made it feel like tokusatsu instead of anime :P And talking about powerful, Fate's all out Photon Lancer and Nanoha's Divine Buster variation, Starlight Breaker has the most powerful scene IMO, well, it's kind of saishuu waza isn't it. And rather than DBZ, the time they're shooting at each other looks more like Macross Plus, less speed and projectiles only.
A thought, if she actually fall that high to the water, Fate and Nanoha would at least broke some ribs shouldn't they ?
Pleshia, dissappointed by the failure take back the seeds collected by Fate and damaged Bardische. Back at Ashura, the management department sent their officers to capture Preshia, but they failed. She told everything about Fate, and her daughter Alicia. She hated the doll she made because no matter what she can never replaced her lost daughter. That's the reason for Preshia to collect the seed, to open the way for her to the lost capital of Lostlogia, Alhazard.
Seems like at the final episode finally the question about why Chrono and his mother's relationship is like that would be answered. He seems to be the one that's disagreed the most to Pleshia's idea of taking back her lost past.
Pleshia, before and after.
The one minute laugh Momotato mentioned, not really as much as I imagined, but enough to imagine the voice actress used external pump to help supplying air to her lung ^^;
By the way, could Alhazard be related to Abdul Alhazred / Alhazard / Alhazared ? He also authored a book titled Al Aziv or Necronomicon, a magic literature, but I've been too long away from paying attention to occultism by various busy and tired matters. The name also used as the name for one of the heroine in Nitro+'s game Demon Bane (and I'm quite surprised) as well as another familiar name.
And to those watching, anyone also thinking that at some scene, like when Nanoha and Juno have an audience with Lindy and after the eyecatch in this episode sounds reminiscense of the background music in Boukyaku no Senritsu ? the part where monster or MU agent is shown.
Posted by reim at 10:43 AM on December 16, 2004 in Kakyuusei 2 .
Like in those diet advertisement, they have the "Before" and "After" picture, completely forgot that one of the Kakyuusei 2 girl is named Eiko, or maybe I'm just not paying too much attention, not my fave. The girl in the previous episode, the one that Rouma asked about Mika, she do diet and rigorous training for Rouma. Poor girl, and she's the only of the girls from the game not falling for Kishida -_-
Eriko is afraid to tell who she is to Rouma, not knowing that Nozomu told him already about her effort. So Rouma trained hard for a competition. He's confident that he'll win, he should be, but luck is not on his side as his first opponent is last year's champion ^^;
But losing against that is normal right ? Miraculously he won against tha champion, but at second match, he is KO-ed because he tripped his own feet.
Ooyama Eriko
2nd Year St. Marymead High School
153 Cm 85 - 57 - 85
Blood type B; January 10th born.
Likes cute dolls.
I'm getting more unsure about trying to figure size. Her's not that different from Aoko's but the look is surely a lot difference.
Posted by reim at 10:44 AM on December 16, 2004 in To Heart ~remember my Memories~ .
It's already tangled a lot, so why not add another one outside the circle ? And I think it's clear that Shiho likes Masashi. Everyone is seeing towards their future, so Akari felt left alone.
For Multi, she had a defect in her program, she still can't have worries, if she does, then as now, her whole system shut down into sleep mode.
Shiho : hello ! Shin nen omedetou !
Hiroyuki : Kill zo
Short simple new year's greeting.
Ends well so far, Akari and Hiro forgive each others and showed their feeling. Shiho and Masashi might get along well also. So it's Just Multi left, hope they ends it in the next episode. Though, it didn't look so happy.
Posted by reim at 11:31 AM on December 17, 2004 in W ~Wish~ .
Remembering the past, it all started by Junna himself. His father found the dial he's searching for, an artifact that could make wish come true. Junna asked that he could meet Senna, because then, the three of them, Junna, Senna and Haruhi could have fun together. And it's granted, but his parents and Haruhi is gone.
But who's Senna ? She's real also, Junna's twin sister who's not born. Her soul remains and always close to Senna, until the magic changed her to reality. She wished for a universe for both of them.
Tomo explained the system. The dial goes against fate, and thus created another world, but the two can't become one. Junna's parents died, and Haruhi existed only in Junna's dream. Then she came to look for Junna who left her as his childhood friend, but that has reached it's limit also. As the result, balance between the world was ruined.
Posted by reim at 11:33 AM on December 17, 2004 in Φnal Approach .
The last night between Ryou and Shizuka. Akane left them to talk and get along with each others, she also left Shizuka's favourite apple pie.
Shizuka told about her grandfather, who loved a woman, but married another. He think that he already forgot about his love, until his wife died. Then, he found out the woman he loved has already died too, and leaving grandchildren the same age as his own. That's Shizuka, Ryou and Akane.
At first, Shizuka don't like it, but she grew to love Ryou, even if he didn't love her back, but at the last night, she want to know why he hate her. Kind of sad for Shizuka, but Ryou doesn't want to force himself to love her yet.
No chibi "Tsuzuku" this week.
Posted by reim at 03:22 PM on December 19, 2004 in Rozen Maiden .
Eh ? So she took Lempicka and Sui Dream just for Jun ? how nice. She want to kill Jun because Shinku has a powerful medium. Using the ghosts, she throw Jun to despair, and Jun's tree is dying, same as Shinku who can't draw energy from her medium.
The twins can't just open up the gate, so they asked Nori's help. Suiseiseki has a really rough way in force opening dream gate
Anime : she smacked Nori with a harisen until she "fell asleep"
Manga : she trapped Jun to trip on a wire and "fell asleep"
Inside the dream, Suigintou is winning, until Hina came and freed Shinku. Shinku runs into Jun's dream, so Suigintou chased after her. The twins helped also, Suiseiseki watered Jun's tree to keep it from dying, Souseiseki fought together against Suigintou's wing that looks like either Nrvnsqr's beast, or Boukyaku no Senritsu's Melos (manga version).
Nori wake Jun up, and he finally goes to help Shinku, but Suigintou pulled Shinku's right arm and it fell to the darkness.
Extra, some from the manga, and why I like Suigintou's psychotic nature more than in anime (rare case, usually don't like such character). Plus, I like Souseiseki's line when she threatened Suigintou.
Boku mo doukan da. Kimi no kata tsubasa mo kiri otoshite ageyou ka, Suigintou.
(I agree with that. Should I also cut off one of your wings, Suigintou.)
Suigintou turns pale instantly.
From how Shinku keeps saying Suigintou herself is a Junk, seems like her hate to Rozen is clear, she might be thrown away as a failed work. To that kind of person who can't fulfil their father's will, Shinku don't want to gave her Rosa Mystica.
So as suspected, episode 11 is Suigintou pulling off Shinku's arm, episode 12 is Jun making his oath to Suiseiseki and look for the arm, then episode 13 is when he fixed the arm. Plus ! Finally I hope that the Laplace Demon will show his form :D
But judging from the preview, maybe that won't be the case. Anyway, next episode is Shinku's german name, Reiner Rubin, pure ruby.
The scene where Jun saw Nori saying she actually don't want to take care of Jun is taken from the drama CD I assume, same as when Jun is KO-ed by Suigintou and refuse to wake up. But since the rest are different...
Some stupid idea.
1
Shinku : detekinasai, Suigintou !
2
Nothing happened, Suigintou didn't appear.
3
Shinku : Jyaa, koucha wo hairi kudasai !
4
Suigintou : anata wa aikawarazu ne, Shinku. *dropping a tea table on Shinku*
1
Jun runs away after he got kissed by a mad doll.
Jun : nan... nanda sorea ?
2
Suigintou : *don't care* nee Shinku, anata no dekiru koto, watashi mo dekiru deshou ?
Shinku : *also don't care* Jun, sono makka no kao wa nanda ?
1
Jun : oneechan mo boku mitai no otouto iya deshou ? Boku ga inai nara, bukatsu ippai dekiru, tomodachi to asobu, soshite...
Nori : [name of that unlucky guy] to tsukiatte...
2
Jun : Kimeta, boku wa ikitai ! Ano yatsu ni jyama wo suru tame ! *clasping fist to the sky*
Posted by reim at 08:33 AM on December 20, 2004 in Kannazuki no Miko .
Despite all those time with Souma, it's still amazing how Kaishaku managed to end this story as promised in the beginning, ends with Chikane and Himeko. Maybe later I should try looking at the Shoujo Ai forum to see their comments :D
Overall, bit cheesy, but beautiful ending IMO. Too bad that the other yuri pair don't have so much character development.
To finish the ritual of sealing Yamato no Orochi, the two miko had to give their power to the holy sword (and it's a woman, I thought that sword is a male). Then to return the world ruined by Orochi before, life of the miko had to be offered, and as this time, the red one got stabbed.
The rest, long long love love mode dialogue between Chikane and Himeko who finally know who she loved the most.
This time, Souma, who still can't really get away from his brother, helped and destroyed Orochi instead. But one of the miko still has to be offered, because the gods are gone by Orochi. With promise that one day they'll meet again, Chikane is sealed in the shrine.
Then years passed, Himeko still waits for her lover to come back. She refused Souma's kokuhaku (and Yukihito singing about love afterward is making him feel worse maybe ^^; )
Watashi tachi wa, mata koi wo ochiru.
SaiKano ka yo ? ^^;
Posted by reim at 08:34 AM on December 20, 2004 in Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha .
The braves go in with party of mages, they go to the magic garden to fight with Preshia, the grey witch. A quick view on the party members : (note: I'm not experienced in D&D RPG system, so the level might be wrong.
The enemy : Preshia Testarossa, grey witch. Level 53.
The girl behind the enemy : Alicia Testarossa, Preshia's daughter. Life sign : near zero.
And they don't show the name of Chrono's magic staff.
Last episode is like in the opening, Namae wo Yonde. So that means, up to now I still don't understand what it means with Shoujo wa Yasashii Kaze ni Nare, the lyrics are written by Tsuzuki Masaki (the author), but too slow of kotoko's song for me.
Posted by reim at 09:47 PM on December 23, 2004 in Kakyuusei 2 .
Firstly, sorry for all the long time without update, busy with other things plus not in mood to watch, too tired. Anyway, on to Kakyuusei, things I've just known : Chiho has a fansclub consisting of the girls in the swimming club. Second... afraid that Chiho could sunk to that Akane maniax (from game & anime of the same title). There's a lot of Chiho daydream scene.
Rouma and Tamaki is breaking apart with each others, something to do with Rouma quitting the club, and Tama's first love (charm master that she met when she's child).
Maybe to remember their younger days, Tama and Fumi went to the elementary school they graduated from, a school in the countryside that seems like left and not used already. There, a small miracle happened and for a moment, both saw a scene from when Tama's childhood.
Yokomizu Fumi
172 Cm 90 58 87
Blood type B. June 17th born (Gemini).
Hobby is reading and take a walk.
Posted by reim at 09:13 PM on December 25, 2004 in Rozen Maiden .
Jun found Shinku's arm and fixed it, then Shinku had a fight.
Suigintou had a really sad end. She's an incomplete doll (which could mean she's not into the seven dolls in the series) and thus called junk. Not wanting to be like that, she want to turn other dolls into junk also, so she's not a junk anymore and she has the chance to become Alice and get her father's love.
Strangely, I think the Suigintou in the manga has no love of Rozen at all, she hated him with all her heart and put blame to him for their all suffering.
Nori asked that the twins could leave him alone, and let Jun grow out of his problem by himself.
Shinku and the dolls are gone afterward, Jun also got the courage to walk out, meet peoples, nearly run by a train, talked with his osananajimi and back home to find that nothing really changed.
And Jun still get the obligatory three beatings.
It comes to this, the last episode, and might be my subjective opinion, but Suigintou's chara design is getting worse while the others got better. And after she starts making those beasts from her wings, I always get the idea of her playing as Nero Chaos ^^;, like...
1
Suigintou : Shinku, I had 333 beasts in each of my wings, can you kill them all ?
2
Souseiseki : just cut it off twice, easy right ?
3
Suigintou : ara... you don't know ? It's detachable. *she detached her wings and play around a bit with it*
Other dolls : geh !
4
Suigintou : It's written here in the user manual.
Suigintou showed the back of her briefcase (purchasing box) complete with Rozen Maiden doll ownership certificate authentically signed by Rozen.
1
Shinku : Jun, that is...
Jun : a save house, I made it for summer vacation homework when I'm in elementary school.
2
Shinku : *worried looks* You made it ? And it's supposed to be save ?
Jun : this is my dream, no protest or I'll throw you to boogeyman.
Suigintou's feathers
1
Shinku : Suigintou, anata wa junk da wa.
Suigintou : naaaaniiii ?!
2
Shinku : *took a feather* tatoeba kono hane, [a popular graphic editing software's brand] no brush kara tsukutta deshou ? sore de, default de tada no brush kara da wa. Sonna yasui mono kara tsukutta nante, yappari delicacy wa nai wa, dakara, anata wa junk da.
At the background, various arrow sign saying "Yasui" stabbed Suigintou at the heart.
Posted by reim at 09:59 PM on December 26, 2004 in Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha .
boku no namae wo yonde... kimi no moto e... tsutaetai
When the evil stepmother finally died, Fate-chan is now free, and prince Nanoha came in white dress and pink wings to save her.
Some alternative couples.
The rest are not really that important I think, only talk about maybe Preshia does find the gate to Alhazard, and about Fate is going to face trial at the court for being part of the time space incident. But before going to the headquarter, Nanoha and Fate can meet each others for the last time before saying good bye./p>
Nooooo ! the ending just screamed asking for the extra footage like in Kannazuki no Miko.
Alf's reaction is like a mother who has to let go her daughter for marriage ^^;
City of Alhazard, something lying there can go beyond time and space, even call back soul of the death. So... the magic technology there is comparable to three true magicians :0
Posted by reim at 09:44 AM on December 30, 2004 in School Rumble .
Hakkiri iwanakereba naranai, can't understand tha 9 o' clock joke.
Hanai wa Oshiema, Harima wa Wagamama.
Hanai is depressed because Yakumo don't came. He who lost his reason to go to the sea vent it by being swimming instructor. Just that he get the worst possible option, Takano Akira ^^;
Umi episode, part one of the beach story arc, after that... "Tora Tora Tora" ^^;
Well, fan service, can't comment much, but it's understandable why the favourite couple is Harima and Eri, although later at the mangaka arc, Harima and Yakumo is not such a bad couple also. But to think of it, almost all the chara in Schrum had two perfect pairing at least.
Posted by reim at 09:45 AM on December 30, 2004 in School Rumble .
The swimming lesson progress...
First is, Tenma training Harima for a kokuhaku, thinking that he likes Mikoto. Continuing to the next episode when the conflict between Eri and Miko went to the climax.
Second is the operation to bed the girls they like. Of course, everyone retired.
Third story, don't really like this one. It's about Hanai and Mikoto's childhood.
Also there's an extra story after the ending credit, about how Yakumo stay at home while Tenma runaway because of heat and broken cooler at home. She looks pretty with yukata ^^
And I suspect that somehow Kobayashi Jin's preferred yaoi pairing is Hanai and Harima
And a pic from #113.
Posted by reim at 09:46 AM on December 30, 2004 in Rozen Maiden .
Got the scan of Birz Magazine 2005-02 installment from WinNY.
Still hasn't understand it all, too much kanji I never saw before. But one thin, the main character is Suigintou and her master, Megu. Suigintou is resting at an old church near the hospital. After getting Souseiseki's Rosa Mystica, seems like she'll have to handle Lempicka also, and her body hasn't done so well with that.
In her dream, she remembered when first she met Megu, the girl that become her master. When Suigintou came out of her briefcase, Megu said that finally an angel is coming to her place. At first, Suigintou laughed at her, saying that it's impossible that there's a black angel like she is.
But well, Megu is the type that's so nice, even a mad doll like Suigintou is losing interest, instead it seems like now, Suigintou can't just leave her alone. And to add with, Suigintou never want to made a contract with her, she never gave Megu the ring of rose even if Megu said she'll be glad that she can be strength for Suigintou, and even if she should die because Suigintou used up all her life.
Besides, somehow Suigintou feels sympathetic to Megu perhaps.
There's a story about Shinku and Jun, but didn't pay much attention. From their talk, Shinku found a way to make a call with Suigintou through the n no field and said she's sorry for calling Suigintou a junk, because nobody would want to be called like that.
Suiseiseki and Hinaichigo is sleeping well like babies until Nori came home with dinner ^^;
As for Kanaria, maybe she's still somewhere out there looking for a way to get into the house.