Da Capo second season eps 04

Posted by reim at 04:32 PM on August 3, 2005 .

Aishia to school.

What kind of childhood did she have ? Or rather, what age did she came from ? Her mind is a straight line that points to magic in everything. When Junichi told her about school, she instantly imagine about a magic school she'll go with her master and so happy. Early in the morning, Aishia goes on her own to the school, and still believe her idea that it's a magic school.

So happy, Aishia runs around and used her magic to make (what she assume) everyone's happiness.

Junichi, back to his old habit of falling asleep and waking up late. When he arrived at school, the mystery has spreads, about ball that floats, or painting on wall. Junichi tried to hide about Aishia from the others, but Miharu jumps in, let's have lunch together with Aishia !

Seems like Asakura is not so well liked among tha male students, although not as much as Shuffle's Rin. Aishia is a girl's name right ? So they all curiously track him down.

Finally, Junichi founds Aishia, followed by the whole class behind him. Aishia's explanation on why she went to school is... だって... どうしてもガマンできなかったもの. Ambiguos like the words in the previous season, her words can be interpreted sexually, plus that 御主人様 thing.

Suginami offered help for Asakura from being killed by the mob. The price, a week worth of lunch. For their best, Junichi and Aishia goes back earlier from school. Aishia is still with her thought. If Kazami Gakuen is not a magic school, then master is there to make many peoples happy.

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Da Capo second season eps 05

Posted by reim at 04:35 PM on August 3, 2005 .

She can't just wait, she'll have to make her own move, Aishia learned from the mahou shoujo TV show. Aishia then starts to push Junichi to teach her magic. He showed of course, the only magic he can. But Aishia got the wrong message that he only want to teach her that.

She got Suginami to help. Situation is, a sorcerer doesn't want to teach magic to the girl, B. All is fiction. What could be the reason ? The sorcerer is a great person, like the fourth batter in baseball and he won't just teach. The other sorcerer girl will have to see him by herself. Aishia quickly changed into a stalker.

With Nanako's help, another piece of the puzzle is completed. Junichi can't use his magic, it's a secret. He will use it in a pinch though, so to create the pinch. She tried, but all failed. Finally, they both got trapped in a dump truck that will bring old stuffs from the school to Hatsune island's garbage processing.

Thrown inside, both will be dead, so Suginami, Kotori and Mako went ahead. The truck will go several more places using the outer road. Suginami suggest taking the alternative shortcut, Suginami route that will take them there faster.

But finally, Aishia realized that Junichi knows no magic more than to create sweets. That ends her goshujin sama-mode.

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Akahori Gedou Hour Love Game eps 05

Posted by reim at 08:24 PM on August 9, 2005 .

Well... finally they showed the real opening animation, Love Pheromone side. Halfway, nice animation, but I think I'll wait for next week, for the Gedou Otome tai version of the opening.

First half, Love Pheromone is the story about Seki-man, including Seki Tomokazu (the chara, not seiyuu) reveals his secret Batman like identity, a rich person who served himself for justice and always got -logically should be- dead by Love Pheromone's works.

Second part, the Gedou Otome Tai story is about becoming seiyuu. The production house who made that usual anime about tengu in the TV is opening audition for new seiyuu idol group. 

What's seiyuu ? It's not the friend in war (戦友), nor Japanese style sauce made of soy bean (醤油), or neither is a word in English (Say You). Otone quickly got interested. Akumako also want to use the chance to spreads the evil's idea through them.

The small secret, being seiyuu is Otone's dream. She once going to apply to seiyuu school, but seems like the death of her parents keeps her having to work for her family (and appetite). In the interview, except Otone, everyone is afraid.

• Otone's idealism: peoples who made anime must be nice people who hasn't forgot about the heart of a young boy.
• Reality inside: the producer is a nasty looking fat guy (wonder if it refers to the anime production staff)
• Otone's idealism: being seiyuu, the important thing is to have great voice and acting capability.
• Reality inside: these days, seiyuu is not just about voice acting, but also visual. Much like an idol singer.
• Otone's idealism: seiyuu is a great job, giving all your spirit through voice to give life to the character.
• Reality inside: looks is needed, there'll be events where the seiyuu meets fans. Then there's other visual products, or else the anime won't continue.

So... the interview for Hokke family one by one.

• Utano: 5 years old seiyuu ? That will gave impact. Pass ! (oi oi, how about the law against underaged workers there ? ^^;)
• Kanashi: black haired bishoujo. Pass !
• Yoku: ボク子 (tomboyish girl). Pass !
• Maika: the part where she doesn't speak is her charm. Pass !
• Otone: she's sexy, but not really something they're looking for. Failed. <--- 本当にカワイソウ
• Last entry, Love Pheromone. Aimi doesn't like she's not accepted, so she destroyed the office (and throw Seki to the star again).

Otone said she always liked the producer's works, like Maze or Saber (Saber Marionette ?). Seems like that guys is really picturing Akahori Satoru ^^;

Moe Moe Otome Tai (the unit name) had great success from the beginning of their debute. They had interviews, works for anime production, photo album, and even concerts. In other hand, Otone continue her usual life after failing the audition. Her sisters does feel sorry because Otone alone who wants the job most is the one who failed.

Now, they had to go to Hollywood, and might not be able to continue their Gedou Otome Tai. The contract goes for at least three years.

Loving her sisters, Otone asked them to go and don't need to worry about her or their father's will of being great villain, if it's the thing that will made them happy.

Euh... typical, but still felt sad to have Otone left out alone. Now I really don't care about Love Pheromone part, why can't they just made it like previous episode, where Love Pheromone had only ten seconds performance (including title call).

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Da Capo second season eps 06

Posted by reim at 08:26 PM on August 9, 2005 .

Miharu got a letter from someone, the infirmary doctor. She screamed loudly upon reading with blusing face, but didn't want to tell anyone else. Easiest assumption by Junichi, it's a love letter of course. And all along, she does seems very happy.

Even at the break, Miharu is not reacting to the banana purin Kotori made. Junichi told about the letter in shoe box, then things gone bad. Miharu is chased around the school. When Miharu came and showed the expression to Akishima, the doctor, Junichi and Kotori soon assume it's him who gave Miharu the love letter, and for Miharu, they'll keep it a secret.

After the speech from teachers the next day though, it became clear that it's not a love letter. There will be an assistant in the infirmary, someone they know, Asakura Nemu. She's back after going to nurse school outside the island. Everyone in the school is happy, except Junichi and Kotori who seems shocked, and of course, Aishia who doesn't know much about what's happening.

Junichi doesn't seems happy with Nemu's return, unlike Miharu who's all happy after two years not meeting Nemu. Things had change, except one thing... Nemu's breast is still as small as two years ago ^^;

Junichi went back first. Hearing it from Mako, Nemu chased Junichi to the lighthouse. There she asked why he didn't look for her. Junichi is mad because she told Miharu and not him about his return. But... (perhaps to the pain of Kotori's fans), Junichi still loved Nemu as much.

Nemu wa kaechatta, soshite Junichi wa mouichido ichinichi nebokechatta.

From the preview, next episode might be about fixing back the relationship they had two years ago. Kotori got victimized, feeling sorry for her really. -_-

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Okusama wa Mahou Shoujo

Posted by reim at 11:08 PM on August 11, 2005 .

Che, mukatsuku.

And first, Angnes always against Cruge becoming the manager of Wonderland because she want to keep the city her mother created as it is. And now, she's feeling jealous when Sayaka seems like letting Ureshiko do anything she likes and chase Tatsumi instead.

Really... why should the couple in the opening is Ureshiko and Tatsumi ? I like the pairing with Sayaka instead, might be underage, but still like her better.

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Minami Aoyama Shoujo Book Centre 1

Posted by reim at 11:41 PM on August 14, 2005 .

Kuwashima Yoshikazu / Media Factory / 2004.

1. Book 1
2. Book 2

The local publisher here finally pick some variation to the light novel they published. Before, there's only Kodansha's shoujo themed story. Well, I like some, but now they picked more from Media Factory, and the story is much more like the bishoujo anime I like.

Minami Aoyama Shoujo Book Centre feature the protagonist, Haruyama Mario (from Super Mario Brothers' Mario), a very unlucky guy who lost his mother because of his father's terrible child-naming sense, and always have disaster in the worst time. Because he failed taking test in every high school, he had to go for the last resort. His aunt, Miyamae Reiko is a principal and owner of high school in Minami Aoyama, Tokyo.

So, the country boy goes to Tokyo, and first target is to buy porn books in Tokyo, because it's impossible to buy it in his hometown. There, he went to Minami Aoyama Girls Book Centre (MGBC) and got thrown with the porn book by the cashier (a girl) calling him hentai. He got rammed by a truck and ends up in the hospital for two weeks.

Not enough with the unluckiness, he founds out later that the girl, Haruko is his aunt's daughter, with terrible case of dansei kyoufu (boys phobia). Then, the school, Miyamae private school is an all-girls school. Mario is put by his aunt to the D class, a class full of girls with that problem, where breathing the same air as a man is already as scary as breathing the air coming from nuclear reactor.
That's a special class for rehab, with homeroom teacher who had the same problem as her students. Mario will become the male subject for them to overcome their fear.

Will he survive the class, and will he become a good tenchou in the book store who kicked him out in his first visit ? Oh well.

PS: Jousou mo aru :D

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H2 Love

Posted by reim at 09:20 PM on August 16, 2005 .

By Azuki Ryou, Shueisha. Not from any licensed publisher here, and the printing is not that good. But story is fun enough.

This manga is a collection of stories about girls from a school. Also, it's a tribute to those バカップル

First, we have a boke-tsukkomi pair. Hibari Miku, the girl is the tsukkomi role, always with her harisen to smack her boyfriend, Kousaka Yuki (really boke).

Then, her friend Jounouchi Kanae, who likes man's well-built body and the guy that she asked to be her boyfriend Sakuzo. She likes man with abs like Kamen Rider, and since he liked her also, he always train himself as hard as he can.

Third pair is Senda Shouko, and her boyfriend Minami Makio. She had the hobby to tease him, over and over again. Until finally, they found a guy who can accept all those torture with a smile, and a girl who really care for him. But... that S&M couple really need each others ^^;

Fourth couple is Mizumori Saori, a girl who hates boys because she saw enough of their dark side from his family. The couple, her male counterpart, Koizumi Ikuro, also anti-girls and even had a senpai (male) who loved him.

Though my favourite is the fifth. Tendou Yoshiki, the "prince", a girl who looks very like girls. But, she don't like girls, because she is traumatized by her friend (girl) who just throw away her boyfriend in a month. Her couple, Toba Kouichi, the playboy who likes girls very much and hate boys. He even want to change his gender, but worried if after that he must date with male. Tendou ends up with two anyway, her boyfriend, and a childhood friend (girl) who loved her.

Last is Tendou's friend, Shimakura Yachiyo, who's frigid in relationship to male. And the couple, Sakamoto Fuyuki, the girlish and homosexual senpai (refer to Koizumi, the fourth couple).

Fun, I hope the legal publisher will publish this one soon ^^

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Akahori Gedou Hour Love Game eps 07

Posted by reim at 01:10 PM on August 20, 2005 .

Kanashi's love story, sweet as expected although too bad that they don't push it more.

After a failed mission, because Kanashi made a mistake, Gedou Otome Tai is coming back home. On the way, when flying over a park, she saw a pair of street musician singing their song in the park. Curious, she came to the park again the next day and watched.

The group, ポアロ, noticed Kanashi. They even gave her MD of their song. But home, the Hokke family had no MD.

Day after day, Kanashi went to the park to watch, and Poaro's fans are growing. There are fans who gave them cookies as present. Seeing that, Kanashi want to give something also. She want to give them something, maybe lunch box.

But, again, the fans are growing. Kanashi who tried her best to dress up and want to get close saw only the singer surrounded by fans, none is looking at her. She run away from the park, sad because she can't get close to them. Now, like that day, Poaro founds her again, when they runs away from their fans, they met with the little kitten. She become prettier.

They accept her gift, a box full of broccoli before running away again. By then, finally the girl know she's in love (Maika noticed it earlier).

When she takes her family to watch also, the park is closed because there will be a construction there. Akumako saw that too, and, how if we destroy all the park ? Everyone will be really stressed. Great plan. Kanashi doesn't like it, if she do such a bad thing, she won't be able to meet them again. But it's her duty, so...

Like usual also, it failed, instead of destroying it, Gedou Otome Tai renovated the park with new plants, fountains, playground. And in the park where Poaro usually plays music, there's a high raised stage like used for Japanese festivals.

Then, Love Pheromone is... well, remember that producer, the fat one, Akahori Satoru. He bribed Seki with a lot of money to bring Kaoruko for a ポロリ performance, which is... showing breasts. As usual, Seki managed to make the girl agree. Kaoruko will do it so they can raise Love Pheromone's name, then she and Aimi can go to the big stage.

Aimi founds out and saw that scary pattern. Kaoruko become famous and then left her alone, that's the pattern that breaks combis. She tried her best to stop it.

Kanashi likes Broccoli ? Now that's a surprise, although... yes, it's green as her image colour.

Girls in love smell sweeter than rose and shinier than jewels. True ^^

Also like the Poaro's vocal's voice. The seiyuu is 伊藤健太郎. His other role like, Kokutou Mikiya from Kara ni Kyoukai drama CD.

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Zombie Loan

Posted by reim at 11:07 AM on August 21, 2005 .

by PEACH-PIT (Banri Sendou & Ebara Shibuko) / G Fantasy (Square-Enix)

For summary, meet Kita Michiru (CV: Kuwashima Houko), the kind of girl that doesn't protest much even when her classmate send her to errands every lunch break to buy breads and runs back to class. She stayed with her grandparents after her parents died. It's a usual day with the routine errands, until she stepped on something then falls in front of her catholic school's most famous duo.

A-kun (Tachibana Shito; CV: Sakurai Takahiro) and B-kun (Akazuki Chika; CV: Suzumura Kenichi) is well known, because they came back alive from an incident where about 20 peoples is gone. But now, other than becoming famous peoples, their life is actually normal, at day. But, Michiru saw something different from them, they work a collar at their neck, not something good if it's Michiru who saw it.

Like high school student that need extra money, they had part-time job. The job is not something so usual. They're kind of debt collector for a company called Z-Loan. The alphabet starts from A, B, C, and the last one is Z, so Z-Loan is kind of last resort.

Through an incident one night, Chika and Shito founds out that Michiru can see the ring, which they can't. This ring is marking for the god of death. When grey ring appears, the person will die. As death came closer, it become darker. Of course, when they turns black, the person die. But not neccessarily rot in grave, some can still move around. Chika and Shito's job is stop them. Their payment, for each ring, ¥500 will be transferred in to their account. Their plan to make life simpler is of course, Michiru finds the undead, then they'll kill it, quick, simple, clean.

Impression, Zombie Loan had that taste like DearS and Rozen Maiden, in a way that Peach Pit mix the formula of dark seriousness and comedy. All of course had different story, although the theme about life is probably same.
Hasn't read throughly yet so can't give much of ideas of it. But for rating, I'd give a 4/5.

For drama CD, likes it very much, but mostly it's for Kuwashima Houko's "gyaa gyaa" play ^^
The story took place on the first book, from Payment 1 to Payment 6. But several scenes are different. The one I noticed most is, Chika explained about his and Shito's hand. Also in the end of the story, there's no stoy about Michiru moving out from her grandparents' house.

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