tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77850351302974003432024-03-09T21:46:37.130-05:00Tenchi's Thoughtsa new blog that will have posts about anime shows i have recently watched, mangas i am currently reading, things that tick me off, or just normal every day life.Christinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07410807672363317056noreply@blogger.comBlogger1885125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785035130297400343.post-43460297516160132092014-11-21T03:06:00.001-05:002014-11-21T03:06:39.228-05:00Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon: Crystal episode 10<div style="text-align: center">
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SO SLEEPY! Like look at the clock, I might actually consider this the next day despite not going to sleep yet. But I said I would get all the things done that I thought were done and that included this screenieless Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon: Crystal episode. Why look at all the posts I did tonight?! So clearly all the screenies will fail due to bandwidth because I am special yet? Oh wells. I tried anyway. Maybe there will be a post or two tomorrow. But now it is time for blankets and sleep. Enjoy Sailor Moon episode 10 what with ugly sweaters and randoms boys from past lives.
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Hit it Rapunzel!
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Episode Summary: Luna is like lets go to the moon weeee! Only…we need to use our powers to get there on a specific day so by get ready I mean go to the arcade and talk about our plans in public. The other Scouts check out the book Moon For Dummies and wonder how they are going to get there. Minako acts like she is in the know, probably because she is. Everyone stops to look at Usagi who is playing video games with Naru and her other two nonimportant friends. Everyone is simply excited that a happy Usagi has returned. That night she looks at the sky and thinks about Mamoru and how she can’t wait to go to the Moon to remember her past life. The days go on and Usagi’s father comes home one night and gives her a new necklace charm for her Silver Crystal. She agrees that this gift was sorta for a boy. For a split second Usagi looks mature and what not….but then she starts fighting with her brother over a video game and she is spoiled Usagi again. Soon the night arrives where conditions are such that flying to the moon makes sense. Usagi is sad the travel is taking place in the park where she and Mamoru had a moment but she puts that aside to transform with the rest of her Scout friends. That energy and anime magic creates a self propelling bubble that flies them to the moon (and back). There is a dramatic moment where everyone is like MOG that is Earth and WOW that is the Moon. They land on said Moon and the bubble pops so….how will they get home? Anyway Luna shows them around the ruins, ruins that weren’t there when the astronauts landed or something. Luna takes them to the busted up palace and Minako acts like she knows all. They enter the old prayer room and Luna orders them all to remove the Sword in the Stone© that is randomly in the center of this room. All the girls struggle but Minako manages to remove the rusted thing. Instantly Queen Serenity appears in mini form to talk to her daughter in super formal terms. She is like oh that is the special sword you Scouts should use to protect Serenity. The Queen thanks Luna for getting them there in one piece and what not and explains while she is long dead she sealed her will within this sword to wait for them. Then Queen Serenity tells them….everything they already know. The Moon Kingdom was blessed with long life and with the Silver Crystal they were to protect and help the Earth grow. Serenity fell in love with Endymion when evil itself came and conquered Earth in hopes of conquering the Moon. Endymion was like eff the police and tried to fight them off but was killed. Serenity then killed herself in sorrow. Queen Serenity sealed the Evil away but apparently that was only a bandaid as the Evil is back. As payment for using the Crystal the Moon Kingdom was destroyed and by this time Earth has reset due to all the evil there. Queen Serenity says that only Usagi has the power to use the Crystal correctly and release the power to destroy the evil, not seal it. Queen Serenity seems concerned when she is told that part of the Crystal went into Mamoru. Then she is like oh that is just Usagi’s kind heart trying to save Mamoru. The Queen tells Usagi her heart is the reason why she was reborn and to be both the Princess and a normal girl in all of this. Then she poofs away and everyone bubbles back home with 2 details more than when they went. The Scouts watch the sunrise on Earth and talk about how the Moon was so different when they lived there and that is why they loved Earth. Usagi seems in better spirits and believes Mamoru is alive. <div style="text-align: center">
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You are not being sneaky enough!!!
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Meanwhile in DarknessRUs Queen Beryl decides to go visit Queen Metalia. Kunzite leads the other Kings in the least sneaky mission ever to find out what is up with these maybe memories they have. Queen Beryl tells Queen Metalia that they can’t find the Crystal in Mamoru but she wants to keep him around as a love pet…I mean in case he might be useful. Queen Beryl is like we need to conquer the world now was the Princess and Silver Crystal are in the picture. Queen Beryl is also worried as she thinks the 4 Kings will regain their memories soon. What?! GASP! Then instantly all the Kings remember they are actually the knights of Endymion. Before they can do anything Queen Beryl is like haha so you all remember now? She starts to attack them and they get pissed, saying this wasn’t why they were reborn. Queen Beryl then brainwashes them into only obeying her. As the Scouts are told by Artemis and Luna at headquarters they think the enemy is in a certain spot in the world due to plate movement…everything goes insane on the monitor. Brainwashed Kunzite is leading the charge in Tokyo. He is going to freeze it over to the Evil Queen Metalia can move right on in. The Scout appear and everyone starts fighting to protect Usagi. Until Minako is like no we shouldn’t be fighting at all. Everyone is like why? Minako explains that these are Mamoru’s Knights and once when they followed Usagi to Earth they met these Knights and all fell in love with them. All the girls lose the will to fight as a Beryl voice over is like HAHA isn’t this tragic? Well Sailor Moon can still fight. After she does her speech she attacks….from space. She heals the entire city from ice and attacks the Knights. She almost heals them and the other Scout attack too but they escape. Usagi looks over the Earth while holding the locket to her chest. Back at EvilRUs Queen Beryl wakes up a drugged out looking Mamoru and declares him a puppet that will kill Sailor Moon and get the Crystal. He then is sent shopping at the set of Sinister as he shows up with Grandpa sweater near the arcade. THE END OF THE LONGEST SUMMARY EVER!
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Well eff you Silver Crystal!
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Seriously folks. I think that might have been my longest summary ever. And it isn’t it might be the longest summary ever for a show that had about 5 minutes of new material and 3483 minutes of things we already know. WHY AM I SO WORDY?!?!?!
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Soon anyway. Because the enemy is going to keep Mamoru alive until we get back.
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So when we last saw our Scouts Usagi had been crying in a glowing mess on the ground and the Scouts had come over to cheer themselves up by making her smile. After a group hug Luna is like…lets go to the Moon. What with the dramatic poses last time one would assume they were going to suit up with some stolen NASA gear and head out that moment. No folks. That is just silly. People can be dramatic for dramatics sakes. Luna is like oh you thought I meant now…no I mean later this month. We can go at the full moon. Because everyone knows the Moon actually disappears throughout the month, it doesn’t really depend on the relationship of the Earth between the Moon. It really does DISAPPEAR. So really they can’t go if it’s not there. XD I like how Ami checked out a book with random facts about the Moon like any of that was going to help them. Unless there was a chapter that the astronauts left out about the Moon Kingdom. Also this talk had to take place at the arcade, not under it because secrets are lame. I don’t think anyone was really concentrating on the topic anyway as they were busy looking at Usagi and being so happy that she was with her other friends and smiling. Things are better folks. Usagi will be fine.
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There is no way she could be mature or saving the world or something.
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You know…since everyone believes that Mamoru is alive and not dead. They just assumed that Queen Beryl is keeping him alive because they know she loves Mamoru. Well maybe Minako knows that as she knows everything else and slowly releases this information at the moment that everyone remembers anyway. But yeah Usagi is not a crying mess because outdated info from the Moon is going to help her get Mamoru back. It is time to sit back and look stoic. Also hand your dad the super important Silver Crystal and allow him and a jewelry access to said important rock. Good thing Queen Beryl put the plans on backburner about looking in jewelry shops. X__X Seriously that was dangerous. But she gets back safe and sound and has a moment with it. Like yeah a boy sorta gave it to me…..Or you know…your Mom but whatever. Usagi’s Earth parents are like noooo she is going to get married to this boy we don’t know and she will be lost to us forever. How dare she grow up in such a short amount of time!!! Life is not fair! Or….Usagi is fighting over who gets to play her Pokemon game. Okay false alarm.
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This was Luna.....doing something.
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After a few nights of sleeping with her Crystal and broken pocket watch it was time to head to the park at night (because the Moon only comes out at night DUH!) and travel to the Moon. This is where a lot of anime magic came into play. You know, with a show that has talking cats for some unexplained reason. Luna was going to shake a bit and make a magical circle and use the transformation power of the Scouts to make a bubble AND travel to the Moon. Which is fine I guess but the bubble popped when they got to the Moon and they were already transformed you know. So how do they get back? Also how were they able to BREATH while on the Moon? Maybe it was different when there was stuff there but I am going to assume that using the Silver Crystal actually destroyed whatever previous atmosphere was there and the Scouts should have died instantly. But this is anime magic. Why am I asking such silly questions?
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After ya'll did all the work I can handle the rest.
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After they take the 5 minute flight to the Moon from Earth the Scouts quickly come across the ruins of the Moon Kingdom. The Moon Palace. Next to Moon Lake. Astronauts did a shotty job up there. Like okay boys grab a few photos, we are out of here! No one really had any feelings or emotions up to this point despite last episode everyone saying they got their past memories back. Clearly not as they are still remembering things. I guess it is all too soon for most of them although Minako could have shed a tear or too. Like guys…this was our home. All this pain and devastation, how it tortures me inside. Instead they acted pretty removed to the situation and followed the talking cat Luna (Artemis who?) as she led them past where the palace was and where the prayer room used to be. Everything else has fallen apart besides the pedestal that housed this old sword that probably should have rusted apart. It quickly turned into a scene from Disney World. Except this scene didn’t have a cute Duffy bear trying to remove the sword. XD
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MOM! Sorry you died but I need to save someone hot. Please help me!
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Once the girls removed the sword (with no naked bits or fan service moments Cross Ange) POOF Queen Serenity in pint size form appeared. HELLO THERE QUEEN SERENITY! I see you think highly of yourself as you named your daughter after yourself. It just sounded….odd Queen Serenity saying Serenity’s name like Princess. So formal. Also I am going to push aside the whole idea that there was a computer system on the Moon and it could contain the human will of Queen Serenity like this is Johnny Depp movie. Because folks…they are on the moon without helmets. This is just par for the course.
Since Queen Serenity popped up there was a bit more emotion from Usagi’s eyes. But as I texted my friend after watching this episode…the entire trip to the Moon was kinda useless. I mean…the Moon was destroyed 1,000 years ago. That is a bit outdated in terms of information. The Scouts and Usagi had remembered a great deal already and Queen Serenity just put the final pieces together for them (well most it turns out). But since Queen Serenity only sealed the creature away and didn’t kill it herself…..she really doesn’t know how to stop it, where it is, or how to get Mamoru back. She really only guessed why the Crystal lost some of it’s shininess. Like I am going to guess that you are a pure hearted person right now even though I don’t know you.
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Well that was a new little tidbit.
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Instead of anything useful it was just more of the same with a few new things sprinkled in. For some reason those born on the Moon were gifted with long life which they were to use to help watch and grow the Earth and it’s people. This is actually an important point though as this fact is what helped Queen Metalia turn to the Earth against the Moon. Get the Silver Crystal and you too can live long lives. Despite the Princess and the Scouts always dancing around in flowers and what not it turns out it wasn’t so lushy. It was like Princess Serenity was really named Rapunzel and she wanted to feel the grass and what not. Oh and to check out hottie Endymion. Then the EVIL from ….somewhere came and brainwashed every single person on Earth into attacking the Moon to steal the Silver Crystal. I think that maybe attacking the Moon directly might have been an easier move but I am not EVIL so what do I know. Another detail we got this episode was Endymion died while protecting Princess Serenity from every single person the Earth. Where the heck were the Scouts and Queen at this time? Oh just watching Princess Serenity off herself as she was consumed by grief. X___X Maybe it took time to power up the Silver Crystal. Or as it will probably turn out…Queen Serenity wasn’t supposed to be the one to use the Crystal as she couldn’t use it properly. I mean she could only seal the creature and the side effects were no more Kingdom for you. Sounds pretty dang steep if you ask me. Guess her heart wasn’t pure enough or something. There is no word on what happened to the Scouts during the battle. In the original anime it made a bit more sense on why everyone got sent to Earth. Like everyone was captured or killed and Queen Serenity used the last of her power to send them on purpose to Earth to be reincarnated. In this show I guess we are just to assume that.
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Except we all wanted to live on Earth with hot guys.
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So yeah…everyone acted shocked at this not new information and the Queen assuming why a piece of the Crystal fell in Mamoru. Since she is a tiny hologram Queen Serenity and Usagi don’t get to hug things out. Instead Queen Serenity tells Usagi to be a Princess and normal girl. I might have freaked out at the idea that I am supposed to stop this EVIL that my older and more capable mother could only seal away. UNDER PRESSURE indeed. Usagi doesn’t ask much about her Mom or even her Dad. Doesn’t really cry when the transmission fails and first Mom is gone forever. She came to get answers and got…a few. Maybe. A good look at what could happen is Usagi doesn’t master this Silver Crystal pretty fast. I think that in reality land anyone would be upset at all this info. But Usagi is more worried about how to get Mamoru back. Can’t cry for you Mom, got a boyfriend to save. Well and Earth. The Scouts and I love Earth now because of the grass and trees and oceans. And since the Moon is a giant mess now…I guess this is home.
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This evil lady LIED to us?! Also notice no girlfriends here.
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While the Scouts and Usagi celebrate their return from Earth Queen Beryl decides to have a suspicious talk with Queen Metalia. And despite Kunzite being all who cares about memories last episode…well he is leading the charge now. I bet he was staring at Mamoru for weeks. SO LOVELY. The rest of the Kings follow his lead looking more and more concerned about why they feel things about this man and why they never noticed this random walkway before or why they never asked to see their great ruler before. Questions folks. Questions are important. Anyway Queen Beryl probably knew the Kings were out there and was putting on a show. Really there was no reason for her to talk to Queen Metalia anyway. Beryl wants to keep Mamoru for her own personal and sexual reasons and no matter what Metalia says she is going to do what she wants. Maybe she was just trying to cover her tracks, like oh maybe I can use him so let me keep him alive? Queen Metalia and her gassy self are like can we speed this along before the Scouts and Princess figure out things. Beryl laughs and mentions for the first time she needs to hurry before the Kings figure out their past. She has never mentioned it before and now that they are standing right there she just happens to mention it? SO SHOCKING! But not as shocking as the Kings getting part of their memories back on the spot. How they were Endyimon’s knights and what not. OH SNAP! We got to get away and save Mamoru and find Sailor Moon and…she’s standing right behind me isn’t she? Beryl and her claws attack the 4 awful King spies and everything is unfair! We weren’t reborn for this. One wonders…..where Beryl came from and where she found the 4 Kings to get them sorta on her side. But as they cry in pain she brainwashes them super good this time. Now they mean business.
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EFF YOU ELSA!
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Like immediate business. Like time to freeze all of Tokyo and the people in it so Queen Metalia doesn’t have to adjust to the temperature at all. I think they are at the North Pole. So she will be adjusted to everything when she floats on by. Bring Santa too while you are at it. Okay no Santa as my husband is like NO CHRISTMAS YET! But now that the Kings are all brainwashed for a common purpose and aren’t trying to make themselves look good individually they are going to work together and attack the Sailor Scouts. Like I said they should all the time. I am not sure why this battle was so even though. I guess the Scouts could be getting stronger with each battle but Kunzite was able to take on all the Scouts last episode. Like haha let me hold you off and look amazing while doing so. Now everyone is so equal they are fighting one on one. Because Sailor Moon is not supposed to do anything because she has the Silver Crystal. Even if she fought things would go better. 2 on 1 and what not. How will this end?
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Oh it will end with Minako, keeper of all the secrets ever, letting loose a super secret that probably shouldn’t be a secret anymore. Everyone keeps on getting their memories back. I thought that was what the trip to the Moon was all about. Clearly not. They are going to get their memories back one tiny inch at a time. Except Minako. Who has all the memories and knows why they shouldn’t be fighting at all. You know, how this all slipped her mind until right now. Why wouldn’t Minako tell the others about their prior love lives?! What if one Scout got in a lucky hit and killed the King she was fighting? Sorry guys, should have told you earlier that these are actually our boyfriends in a past life. Not much was actually seen so maybe they were just being the stalkers or everyone just exchanged glances while Serenity and Endymion had a real relationship. Like yeah we like those boys but we got to focus. But whatever, Minako says these are our past boyfriends and instead of being mad at Minako for not telling them the truth they all lose the will to fight because now things are getting ridiculous and sad.
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This is literally the worst sweater on the face of the planet and I think everyone owns one.
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Oh ridiculous? Usagi doesn’t want to be left out. So she must make some dramatic speech about how they shouldn’t attack girls IN love. Like actively? Okay. Then…she flew into space and unthawed Tokyo. Yes folks she really did that. The space that they needed transformation power to safely maneuver that was already questionable. Now Sailor Moon can just breath in space and fly in space and use an attack to melt and heal everyone in Tokyo because folks. Girls are in love. This fires up the rest of the Scouts to fight back and at the first sign of things being a little difficult….all the Kings flee. Like really? I think I would have liked it better if their memories were trying to return and they left as if to fight it. Not that the Scouts became super strong at that moment.
Le sigh. So while the Kings run away Beryl is like…oh yeah. My man Mamoru. Did you notice how the Kings remembered Mamoru and not really the girls? They sorta mentioned it before but only when they were around Mamoru did things click. I guess that would just make the Scouts said on who really loves them. But yes while the Kings are trying to kick butt Beryl has to make Mamoru worth saving or Metalia is going to start questioning her loyalty. It appeared to me that he woke up a blank slate. I think I would have preferred straight up brainwashing with Mamoru trying to fight it and losing. But I guess the end result is still the same: Mamoru returning to Earth in a Sinister sweater with the orders to kill Sailor Moon and get the Crystal back. If Usagi was in denial about Mamoru being a baddie when he was just being Tuxedo Mask…..yeah. I think Luna, the Scouts, and that other random talking cat are going to have their hands full with Usagi flinging herself in the arms of brainwashed evil. Is that stool still available? I think Usagi is going to need it…..
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I am sure Ange cut it because all those evil girls were going to ruin it next...
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I feel out of all the shows I am watching this season...I really hate this show the most. Like obviously. As does most of the world. But why is it I am the most caught up on this show while other shows are left to rot all forgotten? I guess crap does sell folks. It is because people can't stop watching or talking about trainwrecks. It makes Sharknedo look like a masterpiece. Just...what is wrong with me? XD But yes up now is Cross Ange: Tenshi to Ryuu no Rondo episode 6. Spoilers for Ange hating everyone. Even people who exist solely to help and love her. Because.
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But....I thought.....we were forever!
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Episode Summary: Emma and Jasmine have received a shipment of goods from the mainland and are overlooking the supplies. In the background the viewers can see Momoka, Ange’s maid, running around and hiding. Ange’s crew has just returned from dragon killing and once again Ange seems to have hogged the kills which makes Hilda’s hoes pissed off. Before they can do anything in retaliation an alarm goes off due to an intruder. Everyone weapons up to take on the stupid person who actually broke into hell and TADA Ange is reunited with Momoka who seems to be very lala about the situation. While Ange is like what the hell Jill and Emma immediately call..someone. Someone in charge. And obviously things are not going end well for Emma. She is going to learn about the dragons and Normas and how everyone has been lied to about the conditions these girls live in. So…basically Momoka is going to die. But for now Ange and Momoka can live together. Ange agrees to watch over Momoka but is super pissed the girl is here at all. Momoka tries to make small talk during this uncomfortable time while Ange keeps repeating her name is Ange now. Momoka is like…..oh this is where you live….and attempts to help Ange undress and tidy the room up with Mana. Ange gets pretty pissy at Momoka and Momoka is like I am not going home, I am here for you forever. Ange takes this to mean that Momoka can’t go home because Ange destroyed the Kingdom. Before Momoka can explain that is not the case Ange demands to know when Momoka knew she was a Norma. Ange answers the question herself, from the beginning obviously. Ange decides to go to bed as Momoka explains how she searched high and low for the girl and wants to remain by her side forever. At mealtime the next day Momoka realizes how awful it is here and wonders if Ange has been here the entire time. The Normas gossip about Momoka being different and she is refused a meal as she is told to pay. For some reason Ange walks over to Hilda and her hoes table like they are going to let her sit there at all. Momoka is like bitches this is Princess Ange, give up your seats you awful Normas who deserve to die. They are like um bitch you know Ange is a Norma too. Momoka starts to make excuses but then passes out from lack of food as she has been on the run for 3 days prior.
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But....the scandal!
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Ange takes Momoka to the Jasmine mall to buy her better food and give her money to take care of herself. As Momoka talks about this money system being lame a girl missing an arm is wheeled to the clinic. Ange casually says she will probably end up like that as Momoka starts to pale. She wants to know the real Ange is. She decides to spruce up the place. Maybe if things look like the past Ange will act like the past. She goes about changing the locker room and Ange’s living space. At one point she makes a separate dining area with special food just for Ange. Ange gets more and more upset at each of these attempts. Everyone sees Ange lose her mind at meal time and Hilda’s hoes are like oh look at Ange being mean to that girl while at the same time calling Ange spoiled for all this extraness. During rifle practice one day Salia talks about Ersha’s huge boobs keeping her from being a sharpshooter. Because there has not been enough fanservice this episode. Hilda and her hoes talk loud about Momoka, saying that the poor girl came and got iced out by a bitch. That the girl is probably going to die because she learned this super secret information and really anyone who knows Ange dies. This causes Ange to stop and think. At meal time Momoka attempts to eat the food Normas are served and of course it is nasty. Momoka talks about how this is probably her last meal on the property. Ange demands it be bath time and Momoka is like I will wash your back. As they bathe naked Ange notices a scar on Momoka and she wonders why the girl didn’t use Mana to erase it. Momoka says the scar means something important to her. In a flashback a little Momoka accidentally broke one of Ange’s dolls and cut herself. Instead of being concerned about the doll Ange is concerned about Momoka as there is only one Momoka. Ange helps hide the broken doll and that meant the world to Momoka. In the here and now Momoka will always support Ange, Norma or not. No matter what happens. Ange tells Momoka to leave right now, to runaway with her Mana so she can be safe. Momoka says she will serve Ange to the end implying she knows what will happen. There is a dragon warning and Ange is forced to leave the bath and go fight. During suit up Jill informs Ange that Momoka is being returned today and her duty is over will. The Hilda hoes are like haha better earn a lot of money to pay for the girl’s tombstone. Ange gets upset and thinks about how much of a dumbass Momoka has been and that she has lied to her all this time. Then…Ange breaks formation and kills ALL THE DRAGONS. The rest of the girls are pissed afterwards that they have no money. Momoka is brought to the plane that will take her away to death. Everyone stops to watch this as everyone knows what is going on. Momoka thanks everyone for letting her be there and ask they take care of Ange. Ange comes out of nowhere with all the money she has ever earned from dragons, demanding to buy the girl. Emma is of course scandalized at the idea but Jill is like cash is King at Hell Land and allows it. The ship leaves and Momoka is like…I can stay with you Ange? Ange pretends not to care as Momoka is beyond happy and alive. THE END!
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And your mom...and your dad....but you know blame the girl who was BOUGHT already for you.
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It’s like I can’t stop watching this train wreck! I have only watched 2 episodes of that junior high group getting super powers but now I am on episode 6 of hot mess land. You know, where young girls are breaking into or going back to TortureNormasRUs. Crazytime. At least the nudity and fanservice was kept to a minimum this time. Well you know…tolerable.
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Ange left Tusk and Momoka...well probably was going to be killed for keeping the secret too.
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Oh but before I get into this episode I want to talk about something from the last episode that I might have been wrong about. Me wrong? I know crazy. But I thought that Tusk and his family had escaped TortureNormasRUs and Jill had chased them and crashed. I am beginning to think something else was going on in that scene. Mainly because I didn’t notice the other bodies before. But now that I have and it makes sense with all the graves Tusk dug I am wondering what really went on. Especially with the whole dragging frozen dragons away. Did his mom escape a long time ago and find this island of random mens, mens that might have been in charge of harvesting dragons for Mana/magic or other super bad purpose. Then years later Jill stumbled upon this island and had to punish the runaway Norma? But then Jill would have had a better idea where Ange was…..hmmmmm. Maybe Tusk did grow up at that place, NormaRUs and all those down bodies were other Normas that died. Maybe Jill didn’t shoot them down. Just putting it out there that I am second guessing my random guesses.
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This is a VERY good question since I saw no friendship at all in this episode.
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But back to this episode. Ange was rescued from freedom and a sorta cute boy to live among bitches and risk her life everyday under horrible conditions. Is Ange on crack? She must be since Hilda is not looking very punished despite being the one who almost brought down the magical machine of power and maybe freedom. I know that not many Normas know how special Ange’s machine is but still…..if Ange is not going to be punished for the deaths of Zola, Miranda, and DumbDumb then everyone needs to stop trying to kill her. It could have ended badly for others had Ange crashed into them instead of the ocean. So since Hilda isn’t complaining about Ange being a tattletale and isn’t dead herself I am going to assume that Ange came back and continued her craziness. You know, in actually wanting to be back and all. Like I have my keychain and a few friends. I don’t need the others to like me too. Because if she tattles on them folks bad things might happen to Ange. OH WAIT they are already bullying her so why does it matter?!
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MOG what is wrong with her pupils?!
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So for whatever reason Ange is keeping her mouth shut about panties bringing down her vehicle and has continued being a loose cannon on the squad. It looks like Ange will be leader one day if the opening song is true and not a giant house of lies. At this point I can see that happening. Not only because Ange is a natural but because Salia isn’t whipping Ange into shape. I don’t mean sexually like Zola but those books on leadership are not working too well. Maybe Jill should step in because Ange breaking formation all the time is not helpful. Since the money situation at NormaLand is crappy to begin with Ange is really taking cash out of everyone’s pockets. But for now Hilda and her hoes are just shooting glares at Ange, some are like WOW Ange is amazing, and Salia is like wait Ange what about the rules THINK OF THE RULES!
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Who is wearing a bra?!
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Perhaps Ange would have won the other girls over eventually. Perhaps she would have found her own group to be friends with and what not, opening up and accepting that it is okay to have friends. I thought that was where we were heading anyway. Well there seems to be a detour on that friendship boat, one that Ange seems…well upset that happened which confuses me greatly. See this island gets regular shipments to keep the girls happy and able to fight dragons. And bras. Bras everyone except on people’s bodies of course. And during one of these shipments someone really dropped the ball because there was a stowaway. Momoka the hand maid has managed to outsmart guards and hopefully tightened security at home to come and see her precious Angelise. What could go wrong?!!?
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I like how fast everyone was able to find Momoka. Like yeah we might be Norma but since we don’t depend on Mana we got to be amazing in other ways. Also it is impressive since I am sure no one really wants to break into this place or has gotten this far to break in. I am sure the Moms and Dad who got their kids taken away would have loved to break in. I don’t know what would have happened if Ange and Momoka hadn’t had such a dramatic reunion. Would she have been shot on sight? Thrown back in the plane before she saw too much? I got slightly excited when Jill and Emma were talking about the dragons and the truth. Like oh snap we are going to find out that DRAGONS are the source of Mana and not having MANA is actually better and blah blah. But it turns out they were just talking about how Mana users think Normas go to some…..facility for….some reeducation or something. So no folks it is not bean spilling time. It is just that Momoka doesn’t know AT ALL about the dragons and that is the secret that she will be killed over. We can’t have her going back to any Mana users and explaining what she saw. I mean…..that might change people’s minds about Normas you know!!! No? Okay. Just that she saw too much and has to die, we get it.
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Poor dead Mana user. :( So sad....lets kill more Normas.
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While Emma is upset at the idea of a poor innocent Mana user dying (while Normas die all around her) and Jill is like um bitch does it look like I care Ange is having a lot of not caring going on herself. At first I wasn’t too happy with Ange. But since I am a slacker and I take a lot of time to finish watching an episode and putting together my words I thought about it. I mean at first I did assume it was going to be hearts and rainbows. Like MOG someone from my former life cares about me and even though I am a Norma I get NORMAL love. Thank you Momoka for being the small ray of sunshine in my life of hell. Hugs of all. Thank goodness I was being slow on the friendships. I almost really talked to the other Normas. Now I don’t have to. Now clean my room.
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Err I might put that aside as Momoka is the only one who wants to be your friend.
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Yeah none of that happened. Ange was like is this my life? Why is Jill making me watch this Mana User? Just because I know her and she came to see me and used to wait on me hand and foot why should I have to take care of her? Now my Norma Street Cred is worried. Because that is how Ange was acting, like Momoka being there is ruining her reputation. She was trying to put the Princess stuff behind her and now the girl is here and Ange is back at square one. Then I realized that was too much insanity. Ange is upset because Momoka LIED to her. The girl knew she was a Norma and kept it a secret for her. Instead of being happy that she was protected Ange chooses to focus on the fact that there were lies. That everyone allowed to her to spew her anti Norma rants while she was one herself. Sometimes lies can be done for the good of another but that person might not be happy with the lies. Like the trust is broken and perhaps Ange was doubting any of what they had was real. Which should be clear as Momoka was her SERVANT and hello is here right now.
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I am not sure how much more Momoka could have done to let Ange know she was on team Ange. Sure calling Ange by her Princess name wasn’t earning any points with the girl but Momoka was….well very cheerful and happy. She never gave any indication she was looking down at Ange now or then. You know since she knew Ange was a Norma from the start. She might also not be accepting that Ange is a Norma but neither did Ange at first. So that wouldn’t be a reason not to like the girl. Whatever small issues of trust Ange had against the girl…..Ange could have been nice to someone who broke in to come and see her. Granted Momoka didn’t know this was a one way ticket but I am sure Momoka was under investigation and this was no easy feat. Plus if Ange wasn’t so eager to ignore and act all put out by Momoka she might have learned more about what happened to her nation. I mean why would she believe Jill anyway? Momoka started to say something but Ange was like go to sleep Mana waster, folding clothes and what not. I am sure we will find out what happened to the nation one day, Ms. Dark Hair girl looking stoic in the opening. I thought that we would get more scenes with the palace and evil brother but the focus all turned into Ange so….
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Ange wasn’t happy Momoka was there from the start. But Momoka was really ruining her street cred by acting….well out of place. Everyone knew the girl was different and it was going to cause a scene. Personally I might have kept Momoka in a jail cell. The rest of the Normas have already been tainted by having Ange in their lives. We don’t need another Coco on our hands. But this girl actually uses Mana and isn’t Emma in Charge Lady. She treats Ange like she is special. All Normas know their place but Momoka is making Ange seem better than them. Obviously. I just think it is dangerous. I also thought it was eye rolling that Ange tried to sit with Hilda’s hoes at lunch. Like why not go over to Ersha and Vivian? I don’t know if Momoka would have been nice to them. She seems to think everyone who is a Norma is beneath her, like what she was taught at IHATENORMASCHOOL. But maybe Momoka could have seen the light (sooner) had Ange not been stupid and tried to sit at a full table with bitches that hate her. Go sit with the normal Normas who aren’t all about rape and sabotage. Of course they treated Ange badly which proved Momoka right when she was all hating on Normas calling them savages. And of course Momoka was going to defend Ange. Like err…she isn’t a Norma. And even if she was she isn’t like you. I suspect that this would have gone on a little longer had the girl not been starving death. It was entertaining to say the least.
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Despite acting like Momoka was poop on the bottom of her shoe Ange gets Momoka some of the purchasable food (IE more edible than the free stuff) and gives the girl some cash to take care of any other expenses the girl may have during her short trip here. The amount of money one needs for services at this place changes all the time. Ange needed like a hug wad for one outfit but now Momoka only needs a few dollars for food for…however long she is here. Even though Ange is handing over the cash she isn’t…well happy. And Momoka can’t figure out why. Is Momoka just slow or is she in denial about things? Like look around. See that girl missing an arm and crying her eyes out? That is Ange’s future. That is every Norma’s future. Momoka doesn’t seem to care about the other Normas but Ange is her girl. And this is all horrible is it not? Perhaps Momoka really thought she was going to be the light in Ange’s life and bring back some of Ange’s regal past and thought the sweet girl would resurface, even if just for her. But Ange isn’t the nice girl she remembers and it is breaking her little heart. :( Where is her Ange?
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Well since Momoka can’t fix any of the real issues in Ange’s life she goes for the things she can fix. I am not sure if she was using the money Ange gave her or Mana but Momoka was on redecorating kick. Ange will feel regal or more herself if her surroundings reflect that situation. And each time the girl does something nice Ange explodes. I am not sure if it is because this is further drawing attention to Ange or if Ange feels insulted that Momoka is placing pretty pillows and serving lovely meals in the face of dragons eating her face. Whatever it is Ange has exploded in anger. Not as much anger as I would have liked though. Ange just…gets aggressive. She doesn’t explain the real reason behind her anger and leaves people expecting to read her mind. Like let me stomp around and throw a hissy fit. That wasn’t the kind of Princess Ange was portrayed being but I guess it is possible she was spoiled. But clearly Momoka is trying to help the girl and means well. Can’t you just smile and put up with it for a few days?
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Because none of you are bitches right?
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Hilda, Rosalie, and Chris don’t care at all about Momoka. If this was anyone else they would probably be torturing or teasing the girl themselves. Like ew a person who does Mana and is dumb as rocks, lets make sure she hates life too. But since they hate Ange more it was all about making Ange feel awful about herself. You know, after Salia points out that Ersha has these giant boobies and that affects the girl’s shooting. Because no one else has huge boobies like that. But yeah Ange is practicing her shooting and Hilda and her hoes take the time to make Ange feel like crap. Of course if what they say is true about Ange none of this will get to her and they really should practice shooting so they can earn money and stop whining you know? But yeah Ange overhears them talk about how Momoka is going to be killed for knowing the dragon secret crap now and she won’t even going out feeling loved. Can’t Ange love a girl who risked it all for her? No? Because she sucks? Sounds like Ange to me. SMIRK SMIRK SMIRK!
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Ange does have a heart though despite what the others girls think. How about they go from being Princess of an entire Empire to being raped on the table by a crazy person calling yo nothing? So when Momoka attempts to make small talk over awful dinner about how this is probably her last night there Ange knows she has to do something. I wonder if Momoka knows what is going to happen to her. I think she does when she is walking to the plane later but during this impromptu bathy time I don’t think she really knew. I think if she did know she was too happy once again being important to Ange. Like yes let me wash your back like old times. I think Ange was working in her mind what she needed to say to the girl. If she revealed how much she cared about Momoka the girl wasn’t going to go. So I guess she needed to be firm with her talking and what not. But I think whatever Ange said was going to have no affect on Momoka. Momoka is on Team Ange no matter what. While this Mama loving world seems to be all happy and skippy there still existed a caste system that left Momoka being a maid, doing everything for Ange. But while Ange had typical hatred towards Normas she showed Momoka a lot of love despite them not being equal. So when Momoka freaked out over breaking Ange’s doll at a young age Ange was like no we must care about Momoka. She is worth many more dolls! There is only one Momoka. So that stayed with Momoka and was probably a big reason why the girl risked coming to find the girl. Plus Momoka knew Ange was a Norma and that she was nice all along. HMMMM I bet the other girls would be like that too. So after this walk down memory lane Ange really did need to tell Momoka to run. That things were not going to end well and Momoka couldn’t get on the plane.
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As expected Momoka was like I will stay by your side until the very last second. Which was that second as the alarm goes off for dragons. IS there ANY other team besides Ange’s? I have seen other older girls so where the heck are they? But Ange knows the alarm is for her and that she must leave Momoka forever. And Jill informs Ange of this, that by the time the mission is over Momoka will be back on the transport ship. Where she will be stabbed in the back and thrown out an open window. Hilda and her hoes made sure to rub it in Ange’s face as well. Like there is nothing she can do about it and someone else will die because of Ange. There is a bit of travel time to the dragons so Ange had time to think about how much of a dumbass Momoka was. This is translated into Momoka is a lovely girl who doesn’t deserve to die but since nothing can be done so all I can do is say Momoka is a dumbass. So as Momoka gets ready to board the plane Ange takes off like a crazy person and kills all the dragons. Not hogs them but KILLS them all. ALL OF THEM. Dedicated to you Momoka you dead girl you.
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Or not so dead girl. As Momoka gets ready to board her death ship she takes the time to say goodbye and thanks for the horrible memories. Emma looks sad because one dead Mana user is sadder than 32894372 dead Normas. But wait…what is that? It is Ange and 4 shopping bags full of all the money she has ever earned at this horrible place. Thank goodness she has never spent a dime except on her uniform. She runs up to Jill and is like I am buying that girl which of course incensed Emma. Her delicate sensibilities. You can’t BUY Mana users. We are certainly are worth more that stupid pieces of paper. But Jill is like….there is hope for Ange yet. She may be a bratty girl with no love for most people but once she figures out how to work a system she works it good. In a world where you have to pay for the fuel you use to fly to your death it is certainly not out of the question to buy someone marked for death thus useless anyway. Three cheers for Ange as she has gone up a few notches in everyone’s eyes. The most brownie points though is from Momoka. The girl had to know she was toast and Ange used all her money to save her life. This calls for a group hug. A normal hug?....A gentle reminder that your name is Ange and that while you might not show it you care deeply for me? Momoka will take that. Yay for friendship that doesn’t involve raping the other person. Ange isn’t that bad after all…I think. There is still more to this series so who knows.
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Hello there! It is me again Duffy the Disney Bear. Mom says she is falling asleep in the computer chair. Well maybe if she stepped aside and let me handle my own posts I could get things done faster! XO I don't think Mom would like me being cheeky though. I think I will just say that many other stuffed animals live in the house with me and Mom and sometimes I get together with them to have fun. Having lots of Duffys is nice but I like to be friends with everyone you know? So here is a bit of afternoon fun we had one day.
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Oh this kind of tea party. Well....we are dressed nice anyway so I am sure it won't matter.
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When Mom rescued my furniture she only found one chair. I am sure Hello Sunshine doesn't mind.
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Better picture of our outfits. Kira came over and tried to knock us to the ground!
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Err...there is a bunny in my tea cup?
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You want us to follow you?
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What is this? The other Hellos are having their own tea party?
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Err we can't really reach the table. But keep your crown on Queen of Hearts. It isn't that big of deal. We can stand up!
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The Hellos invited the Alice and Wonderland Tsums over to the party too.
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Apparently this was a super sugar filled party. You might want to slow down there Mad Hater.
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The Queen of Hearts dress looks good on Hello Valentine. I wonder how Shelly May will look when Mom finally gets her.
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We will combine meals so they are a little more balanced.
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All of us look pretty cute. The Hellos are made big at Build a Bear though! Maybe they should have special clothes for bigger plushies.
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All the Hellos in the Alice in Wonderland outfits. We had a fun afternoon of yummy foods. Maybe we can do it again sometime soon.
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Release the secret weapon!!!
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As I cuddle into a blanket that threatens to take me to sleepy land have another anime episode post tonight. Up now is Shirobako episode 5. Spoilers for animes of the world being decided on by barely legal assistants who really shouldn't be making decisions at all.
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How about it is zero percent her fault?
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Episode Summary: Tarou tries to follow Endou outside and pretend like he doesn’t understand how angry the man is. Endou is like no I completely quit for episode 8 peace out and leaves. Tarou is completely overwhelmed and it really isn’t his fault but he does not gain sympathy when he decides to assign some blame to Aoi. Aoi is like no and Tarou tries to open up about what happened when Erika walks by. He seems determined to not involve her or Honda despite Aoi suggesting to do that. He might have been right though as they go to morning assembly and find Honda having a meltdown that Seiichi hasn’t finished the storyboard for the last episode and at this rate it will be done after the broadcast is off the air. The office lady with a sleek haircut opens her drawer and suggests they use IT. Seiichi seems to be in a great mood and hops up to Honda who has promised him friend chicken. The man must be on crack as he allows Honda to take him into a dark room for said chicken. Turns out this room has a sort of jail cell in the corner and Honda has locked the man inside with no cell phone and piss bucket. The man is not allowed to leave until the storyboard is done. Honda is going to stick it out with the man in the room too but Seiichi keeps making excuses and what not. Despite all of this Aoi thinks Tarou needs to tell Honda what happened. Tarou has to take Aoi aside as Erika was listening in to the conversation and he wants it hush hush. Basically Endou had a crybaby attack because someone on the 3 D team wanted to make an explosion at the end of episode 8…3D and not traditional art. Tarou knew that Endou was drawing that part and the 3D department told Tarou to tell Endou. Endou basically got offended and said he was about to start it and tell the guys no. Well Tarou goes back and forth between the two groups using no tact at all and ends up getting Endou super offended. The next morning Endou comes in and starts working on the scene and Tarou was like….I told you the 3D people already did it and Endou had his explosion and left. Aoi is like….so basically you screwed it up. She still wants to go to Honda but Tarou tries to make her see the light. When that doesn’t work he fails at complimenting her. Honda however is busy on Seiichi duty, not giving him chicken and following him to the bathroom. Endou comes home surprised to see his wife not at work. She switched shifts so he has to lie about why he is home. He tries to distract her by going out to eat but she wants to stay in as they have a loan to pay off.
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Honda and Seiichi are looking like crap in the jail cell and Honda is like…well why don’t you cop out and have a recap episode for the final episode. Seiichi has flashbacks when he got an award for best director for his debut anime. He promised big things for his next project and it turned out to be some Jiggy anime, the one that everyone mentions. It turned into an utter failure and this anime was supposed to be his major comeback. There is a brief moment of motivation then demotivation when there is no chicken but later the motivation is found. Sorta. In the meantime Endou takes out his underling to meet with his mentor. We will call him Mentor since I don’t need any more nonsense in my life. Underling is clearly team Endou and traditional animation and didn’t get the memo that the events of yesterday/today were not to be brought up. Endou starts to trash 3 D animation thinking that Mentor will agree with him. Well it turns out Mentor has gone traitor and has started teaching 3 D classes to kids. Endou is singing the drunkie traitor song but as Mentor explains…..this field is growing. He thinks traditional is the way to go but there is no doubts that the animation world is changing and maybe they need to work together with 3 D animators and not against them. Underling and Endou get butthurt and Mentor says if Endou blames others well maybe he should just quit. It is time to adjust with…well the times. Aoi and Tarou tried to call during this dinner but Endou kept hanging up on them. They go back to the studio where they run into the 3 D animator and Tarou informs the man that Endou has quit. The man is like X___X but Tarou promises it will be okay even though Aoi is glaring at him. Aoi leaves for the night and runs into Emo at the supermarket. They end up making a meal together and Ema lets Aoi know that many people know about Endou’s tantrum. Ema talks a bit about 3 D animation and how that might affect her career and what not. Aoi feels guilty and goes back to work to hear Tarou trying to find another animator to take over as supervisor for episode 8. He thinks that will be easier than convincing Endou to come back. He wants to handle this problem so Honda doesn’t worry. Aoi goes to pick up more frames from Misato who knows about Endou’s tantrum. She is also worried about the future of traditionally drawn verses 3 D. She also asks how this will effect episode 9 as their episode opens up with the explosion from episode 8. Aoi slightly panics and vows to find out the next day. But when she gets to the office Endou is there and wants to watch the 3 D scene. Aoi shows it to him and he seems shocked. Aoi leaves the room briefly and she is told episode 9’s beginning is done with regular animation. That means Endou has to do the last scene with regular animation. Aoi freaks out and blames Tarou when he walks by. He seems pleased that Aoi is now in deep crap too so she has to help him. THE END!
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Are you serious about being this behind in anime blogging?!
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MOG I started writing this like weeks ago. Why do I do this?! I did write the summary the day I watched the episode. You know…so it would be fresh in my mind. Unlike the rest of the episode which has been erased and deleted already. Because those two things are necessary. Delete something and it goes to the recycling bid because maybe you really didn’t want to delete it. So maybe I just erased it. Let me check my mind to see what happened.
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Okay so when we last saw our heroes…I mean main characters Aoi got a day off which she ended by pounding back a few drinks. Which was well deserved and I don’t think anyone was all pointing fingers and blaming Aoi for what happened with Tarou and his special brand of crazy. Even after learning all the details I don’t know how Tarou could blame Aoi with a straight face. In the end it does become her problem but while I don’t think Tarou was 100 percent innocent there was nothing Aoi could have done if she has picked up the phone. Just would have ruined her night as well. Of course it took a lot of the episode to get to the meat of the problem so I will just cut to the chase and explain why….having very young assistants in charge of much older adults might be a bad idea.
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So going chronologically and to the point Endou needs to learn to stop being such a baby. He had problems with Misato in the first episode and tried to brush it under the rug when the woman never did anything to him. She seems to know he doesn’t really like her work for some reason and is careful to not step on any toes. More like there is well known information that Endou is a giant pain in the ass to work with and no one wants to be on the receiving end of his tears. Basically the 3 D department over stepped their bounds and decided to do a scene that wasn’t originally assigned to them. They thought they were helping the overworked Endou and that their explosion made the scene pop. It is up to Tarou to tell Endou not to do the scene and be the in between of the two parties.
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As expected this does not go over well. When Aoi is finally told the whole story (as she saw Endou walk out at the tail end of the drama) she feels as if most of the fault is with Tarou. I can’t really agree with ALL but some. Some folks. Because….I feel as if the part of my brain that stops my mouth from saying unfortunate things either doesn’t exist or is on a permanent vacation. But Tarou takes that to a whole new level. There were times he could have said the same thing but with different words and the same message would have come across. Or rather he just made up random crap, put words in people’s mouths. I believe part of this business involved a lot of ass kissing and stretching the truth. Like Endou…everyone knows how you have been so busy lately and what with Aoi causing all that drama last week…well we are just trying to keep on track and the 3 D team is going to take over this one scene so no one else falls behind or passes out. Like throw people under the bus. LIE. Lie in a way that makes sense and won’t cause people to question your lie. Because people coming together and talking about your lie leads to your downfall every time. Instead of doing any of that Tarou lied in ways that made the situation worse. Like well Endou I guess people don’t think you can do it. Well 3 D team I guess Endou hates your guts and thinks everything you do is crap. Like…Tarou needs to learn to be a people person. Or people need to learn that everything he says is lies and perhaps people should take the 5 minutes to stand up and talk directly to the person, breaking some Japanese code of speaking through people to not be confrontational or something. Because Tarou is beyond confrontational.
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So yeah…not sure how Aoi was going to help out Tarou in that aspect of his life. She can’t teach him now at the age of 22 or however old he is how to have tact. Usually junior and high school beats that out of you. But Aoi places all the blame on Tarou and his lack of…..workplace words. In reality Endou was being just as immature as Tarou was being. Yes the man felt slighted. Yes they should have asked Endou his thoughts on the matter before even starting anything. That is where the toe stepping started. Sending in Tarou instead of manning up to what they did…not a fan. Even if it is Tarou’s job to keep things on track I don’t think it is his job to stop two grown men from having a fight…even if he started it. I think the fight was going to happen no matter what the kid said just based on what was happening. Endou just has an attitude and this was a moment where anyone would feel slighted. Like I can do this scene amazingly and now someone is going to come around with their 3 D glasses and make it unnecessary. I think that Tarou probably should have gone to Honda sooner….or at all. This was over his head and I don’t think he should have made the decision or helped make the decision on what should actually be on air.
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Aoi keeps saying that Tarou needs to go get Honda. I think Honda should have been brought in earlier. Because now the man has locked himself up with crybaby Seiichi in a tiny room with no hope of ever seeing the light of day again. Because it is funny that Seiichi, a man who needs redemption in his life, has yet to write the ending to anime that is already airing. Just let that sink in folks. People are basically finishing the actual episode, drawings and all, a day or two before it airs. But now we are so backed up things are looking iffy on that point. But now…now…the person who has made up the entire anime from his own head doesn’t even have an ending for it! How did this show get picked up?! Especially with a man like Seiichi who apparently rose quickly and fell just as quickly in the anime field. Had this been a manga or game adaptation or someone who had been consist with regards to hits yeah back up the guy. But Seiichi was like look guys…idols and they just gave him a show? Perhaps if he was conflicted on ONE detail of the ending I might understand. But it sounds like he has no idea what to do and was lala living in fried chicken land when he should have been really reviewing his material and coming to ending that is satisfying.
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Is this real life in the anime field? If so I am really am understanding the derp/C-Team scenes more and more now. How Recap episodes come into being. How the last episode ends with no ending at all or an ending that really isn’t an ending and everything felt like a giant waste of time. Perhaps not all studios have a special key that basically lead to a dungeon under the studio. Okay in the studio but you know what I mean. Honda acted like he was turning into a demon when really the man was just trying to save everyone’s jobs including Seiichi. He was going to eat more chicken! No chicken for you until you finish something. Although I might have drawn the line at the piss bucket since I locked myself in there too to ensure work got done. Just…Seiichi has a lot of regrets about the past and his horrible looking anime that probably would have failed anyway just based on the drawings but still. Honda is just trying to help…everyone. Which means he has no time to help Tarou and Aoi fix this problem. Because a no ending is a bigger deal than a crybaby attack.
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Speaking of showing professional and wearing big boy panties....
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But it is still a deal. Not a deal where Tarou needs to suck up to Aoi. I agree that maybe they should have talked to Erika and see what she would suggest if going to Honda was not an option since she has been around the block for a while. I think a lot of this episode had to do with Japanese interpersonal relationships and that is why it seems so…off to me. Like just talk to people. Or fire people. If Endou wants to play this game he can go somewhere else. Especially when others like Misato finds out what is going on and she isn’t even at the studio. Show some professionalism. I especially was….well was something at the husband trying to sneak home after stomping out of work and finding his hard working wife cleaning the house. Like I wanted to beat him when he asked why she wasn’t at work. Like fool why aren’t you at work?! Guilty face! Plus she is going to work later. As probably the primary breadwinner Endou needs to think about having HIS FEELINGS hurt at work. This coming from a girl who has made bad decisions at her job in the past. But I am not the primary earner. Work is work and sometimes you are going to have your feelings hurt. But if Endou just had put his big boy panties on and talked to the 3 D people he might have learned Tarou was saying some crappy things and perhaps there was a different point of view. Or at least he could have explained how passionate he felt about the topic.
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But they are meanie heads. MEANIE HEADS!
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Instead he takes his underling out to get drunk and talk crap with Mentor. I kinda felt bad for underling as he had pressure to support Endou. I think on his own underling was all like TEAM DRAWING and not team 3 D. He seems knowledgeable and looks up to those who draw things rather than rely on computers. But he has to support Endou during this crazy tantrum the man is having. I think that Endou was expecting Mentor to support him as well. Like eff the police, we don’t need 3 D animation. How dare they take our jobs! Instead Mentor had a more mature point of view which sorta pissed Endou off. Like well….I believe in hand drawn animation too. But right now I am teaching 3 D animators. Because that might be the future. And instead of being left in the dust I want to help shape the future. Because if it does come down to only computers then I will need a new job. And if it continues to be a hybrid I will need to have a good working relationship with these other people. Things are changing and you can either change with it or be called a relic. I think some advice about picking your battles and being someone reliable might have been warranted too. Like dude no one is going to count on you if you stomp out the minute you don’t get your way. I know you felt slighted but do the best you can do so maybe if things fall through you can look like the hero.
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Thanks for the drive by Emmaing and giving your opinion.
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Aoi was stuck in the middle of these two factions. She was trying to help Tarou reach an angry and drinking Endou to no avail. She keeps saying bring Honda into this and Tarou refuses to do so. So on she goes to get some actual food to eat. I can’t help but notice this line of work seems to have long hours or not really a traditional set of hours. I was happy to see Ema and Aoi hanging out. I thought that the show was going to be more like that. The girls living close to each other and often going to each other’s house to complain or vent about work, having dinners together. So it was nice. Brief but nice. Ema was basically there to voice her concerns about 3 D animation herself. Like this is a big chunk of people’s lives. Sorta like when all the video rental places die. Change happens and a lot of people gain jobs while others lose them. So Ema sheds some light on what Endou must be thinking so I guess Aoi feels guilty enough to go back and help Tarou. Or maybe she was just on a break. Either way she comes back to Tarou telling lies to people that things are going well and him trying to find someone to replace Endou. Which I think was the right thing to do. Let Endou have his crybaby attack. I don’t want his help anyway. Time to find someone who can do the work without being all emo about things. I think Tarou did the right thing.
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Okay so maybe Aoi was reminded at a different part of the episode...but still. What the heck?!
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The episode ends with Aoi getting sucked back into the drama. Perhaps Endou had a change of heart or the booze got to him. Or maybe he realized that eating is a nice thing and he needs his job. Whatever the case may be he decides to ask Aoi to play the explosion scene in question. He needs to see for himself if this scene is worth having a crazy attack over. And I think folks…he saw the light. I think he knows that the scene (as incomplete as it was) looked really good in 3 D and he had to admit defeat. That all would have been fine and dandy but of course something else had to come up. Aoi is then informed (well she was informed earlier but now it is dire) that her episode is directly tied into the ending of Tarou’s episode. And that episode has already been drawn with traditional techniques. As in no 3 D. So now…the scenes don’t match. And clearly this is Aoi’s problem. This is why I think there are way too many hands involved with the anime process. No one knows what anyone else is doing and when people take it upon themselves to change things…well other things get affected. If Tarou had not told Aoi about this animation change problem she would have been caught off guard. But since she DOES know what is going on….that means she is responsible to help fix the mess. You know, the minute she got Endou on board now she needs to go crawling back to Endou and get the 3 D team mad for wasting her time. Her. Because Tarou is done being responsible. Like haha you are involved now so you fix it. Thanks a lot dude….
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I should fix my machine...so I can go back to hell.
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A night full of posts continues! I am super tired and thought about eating ice cream to give me a boost of energy. But then I realize despite it being grocery day....there was no ice cream bought. Probably because it was and still is cold outside. HOW DARE I! Guess I will have to make do with leftover Halloween candy. By the time I make my way through all of that it will be time to buy discounted Christmas Candy wee. But enough about nice things. Let move on to crappy things. Like Cross Ange: Tenshi to Ryuu no Rondo episode 5. Spoilers for the first boy we have seen in like 4 episodes and of course he is all up on Ange's vagina. Like literally.
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Oh and Ange too. We should save Ange....
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Summary of WTFness: Because Ange and Hilda are bitches to each other Hilda sabotaged Ange’s machine and Ange crashed into the ocean. The others had to stay and fight the giant dragon that had appeared in the sky. When the battle was over Salia wanted to go and save Ange’s machine…I mean Ange but she and the others were called back due to fuel and exhaustion issues. Because Ange apparently went far far away in the water and not directly under the other girls. So when Ange wakes up not dead and drowned in her machine she is rather confused. She turns that into pissed offness quite fast as she realizes she is naked, tied to a bed, and in bed with a semi naked boy. He wakes up and tries to explain that he was just trying to help her. But clearly he is a dumbass or is playing the part of a dumbass because he just keeps saying dumbass things. You know, not being to explain why she is naked and trying to explain that he is not a pervert despite looking and sounding very perverted. He ends up falling on Ange’s naked vagina because apparently this show is called Love Hina. Ange is outraged enough to kicked him, break the bed, and free herself of her bonds. She takes her clothes and runs. Runs into the correct direction of her machine because she is amazing. She finds said machine and the reason why she crashed, a handful of Hilda’s panties and bras. She throws a fit on the beach while the boy (Tusk) watches in amusement and fear. He has come to explain himself but Ange is more in a shooting mood than a listening one. It doesn’t stop him from falling on her crotch again. She ties him to a tree to continue having a bad day in peace. Back at the base Jill is informed of the situation and orders a search party to look for Ange’s machine. They can look for Ange too….and if she doesn’t want to come along they can shoot her. Salia goes with Mei, Vivian, and Ersha to look for Ange.
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It looks like there is way more to Tusk that meets the eye. So he is a Transformer.
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On the beach Ange is unable to get her machine working and the tide is coming in. It starts to rain and lightning fills the area. She tries to hide in a tree but gets bit by a snake about one inch from her vagina. She is quickly poisoned and stumbles around. She thinks about calling for help but no one would ever help her bitchass self. She falls in front of Tusk and asks for his help. Immediately Tusk frees himself with his handy knife and dives at Ange’s crotch to suck out the poison. He then takes her home quickly so he can get her all naked again and give her a sponge bath. While doing so he thinks about how he knows Ange’s machine and Jill. Memories of dead parents and armless Jill fill his brain. Ange wakes up still being a bitch insisting she didn’t need his help but allows him to take care of her and feed her awful food. She is not happy enough to allow him to sleep in his own shelter though. At the Norma Base Hilda is giving Ersha shit for going out and looking for bitchass Ange. Ersha seems to want to die next with her thoughts for friendship and being Normas together. She even compares Ange to Hilda which goes over well. Soon Ersha heads out with the search party again before Hilda can kill her. When Ange wakes up she is wearing his shirt like a boyfriend shirt which seems good enough for her. She walks to the beach to find Tusk physically working on her machine. He says that he has learned about them from the various parts that wash up on shore. Ange points out that doesn’t explain why he isn’t using Mana. Tusk ignores this and says he can get the radio working probably so she can contact her people. Ange is convinced that they won’t come for her and Tusk offers to let her stay for a while. She decides to take him up on this offer which leads to some sort of happy montage of them slowly becoming friends. Very slowly. Almost like they are becoming a couple doing household and boring things together. One night after working on her machine Ange gets all emotional looking at the stars and they almost kiss when Tusk panics and tells her to duck. Several airships fly by carrying a huge frozen dragon with them. Ange is so confused on who is doing this and why. Before she can get her answers the dragon that brought her down appears and single handedly brings down all the ships carrying the giant dragon. The smaller dragon survives all this explosion and makes his way towards Ange and Tusk. They run towards her craft in the hopes Tusk can finish it in time while Ange holds the beast off with her knife and personal gun. Tusk throws Ange her bigger gun but that is still not enough and Ange is close to death. Tusk powers the machine up and it links with Ange’s ring again and turns on by itself to fire a spray of bullets into the dragon. Ange then channels her inner Daryl Dixon and takes the dragon out by hand in a rage. Tusk thinks her reaction after the battle reminds him of Jill. After it is all over Tusk says they need to leave this beach due to the fire and possibly other reasons. He wants Ange to go with him but her radio starts to work and she hears Vivian calling for her. Ange responds for a rescue, showing Tusk her decision to go back. She can only call that home and she has to teach some girls a lesson anyway. Tusk seems okay with this and Ange thanks him for his help. Then because she is a bitch she threatens him and says she never accepted his help and he better not repeat it. Tusk smiles and goes back to his place to pack up. He says goodbye to some graves and hopes on a machine that looks similar to the ones the Normas use. He smiles at a picture of his parents, his Norma mom and what looks like a pilot dad before taking off. Ange is picked up by some happy Normas who become even happier when Ange refers to them by name and wants Vivian to give her the friendship charm back for her machine. THE END!
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Just…I have no idea what is wrong with me. I don’t know what is wrong with this show but since I can’t control this show I will just worry about myself. And my general mental health. I often don’t waste time with ecchi animes but as you can see on the internets this show was not labeled as such. So how was I to know why looking at the PVs before selecting my shows? Should I have done more to make sure this didn’t happen? I mean shows like the X-Men have questionable outfits for their female superheroes so I didn’t think much about the flight gear but this takes questionable to a whole ‘notha level. A level that has been…..X___X. Basically.
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You know who is on team Ange? This guy.
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Salia is not on team Ange. I think she is in the middle. Hilda and her hoes hate the girl while Vivian and Ersha are like Norma power we love everyone and see the circumstances that has brought Ange to this level of assholeness. Salia is like….I am the leader so I have to be impartial about the subject. Since Salia is so follow the rules or else I don’t know how she would respond if she was free to have an opinion. But it is clear that Salia would pick this machine over Ange any day of the week. The minute Ange went down Salia wanted to save this machine for some reason that has yet to be explained. But it is super important, more important than barely Norma Ange. Almost more important than her real Normal troops. But Salia is called back to battle because it does no good to save this machine if everyone is dead. Plus…you know..Ange fell right below the battle. It really didn’t take them too much effort to find Ange and dead Zola last time so I didn’t think that it would take that much effort to find Ange and her magical machine this time around. I am sure that is what Salia thought too.
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Of course folks. Of course
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Well she should have thought a bit more. Because as we saw at the super end of last episode Ange and her naked self are tied to a bed next to a boy. And since all Normas are girls I think it is safe to say that Ange didn’t wash up near her base. Why is Ange naked? Because folks. Tusk has a penis. And we find out later that he has been on this island for quite a while. I would think that maybe that would mean he would have little to no interest in girls but I guess it is not out of the realm of possibilities that he would have become super interested in something that he couldn’t have. I don’t know. All I know it was super eye rolling. It isn’t like this is some white linen sheet bed. If Ange laid there all wet it probably wouldn’t have mattered in the grand scheme of things. But she could have been cold and needed her wet clothes off that way. I might have wrapped a naked Ange up like a cocoon in the blanket alone and placed her closer to the fire but then we wouldn’t have an epic freak out when Ange wakes up to a mostly naked boy in her bed. And then we wouldn’t have this random boy freak out and fall directly on her exposed vagina because that is what ecchi is. At least in Love Hina all these accidental flops happened with clothes on.
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Clearly Tusk has been through somethings in his life and the crap is going to keep on happening to him.
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Ange had a moment of blushing and what the hell are you doing…before her training kicked in. And maybe it wasn’t training. Maybe the kick was just a female moment where an evil man needs to be kicked. But the rest, breaking the bed and rope…badass. Unless Tusk was just a moron. Which was possible but now that I know the end of the episode it might be less possible. What is interesting that Ange and her dressing at the speed of light in that complicated looking piece of crap self found her machine also at the speed of light. Maybe it was just common sense because she fell in the water and her uniform was still wet and could a person really drag that thing out of the water alone? I don’t know. I did a little side eye when Ange was able to find the reason why her machine failed rather fast. I would assume that panties and bras would have burned up in the engine to the point of being unrecognizable but what do I know? I assume that planes blow up like they do in Final Destination. Besides I need to save my eye rolling for later.
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Don't waste the bullets...stab him!
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Or right now. Or right now. Tusk was able to pull himself together enough to run after Ange and ask why she was so mad. Um I don’t know..she woke up naked and tied to a bed with a strange man in said bed together with her? Said man acted and talked like a pervert the entire time he was conscious around her? Said man fell on Ange’s vagina because this apparently is a comedy anime, in between the moments where girls get raped and ripped apart by dragons. HAHAHA! So whiel Ange might be hasting in her attempt to shoot Tusk because he might have thing she needs later to survive wherever she is….Tusk as really acting stupid on what Ange’s problem is. I assumed he was stupid until the end of the episode. So this might have been an act. I just think it is a stupid act. But when Tusk manages to fall on Ange again in a stupid position there was more eye rolling. Lot of eye rolling. JUST SO FUNNY GUYS HAHAHA! Tie that jerk up to a tree. It is what he deserves if you aren’t going to waste a bullet on him.
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The last screenie I took for this episode so...yeah. Maybe they should have searched faster for the girl. She was almost dragon food.
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While Ange looks at her machine and Tusk looks at a girl who on a normal day in a normal world would still be out of his league….there are plans to rescue Ange. Or at least her machine. Given what Ange has tried to run away before it might not be worth it to put a lot of effort in saving her again. Salia didn’t know what happened and I don’t know if anyone will ever learn the real reason. Ange might keep quiet and that might be a point for her in getting Hilda back on the side of not killing her. She will need about one million more points but that might help. But for now Hilda is not on team Ange and Salia is on team save the machine. Since Mei knows what the machine means to everyone she is going to save it no matter what. Vivian and Ersha are on team Ange so they are like wait for us! We don’t need a break or anything. Lets go save our best friend forever Ange! Also despite my summary and the episode depicting Ange and Tusk spending tons of time alone together….I think based on logic and how much resources mean to Normas the rescue of Ange actually took 3 days at the most. Based on how many times Ange and Tusk were sleeping. Maybe 4 days. But that might be pushing it. Or they could have been sleeping every 3 hours to throw me off. But yeah it wouldn’t make sense for everyone to look for Ange for an extended amount of time so Ange and Tusk aren’t spending weeks together folks.
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A lot can happen in three days. Like a snake can almost bite you in your genitalia.
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But they are spending a lot of intimate and “quality” time together. I don’t know where Ange tied Tusk up but apparently she marched him into the woods far away from her machine because he has no idea where it is on his island. Then back to her machine she went to stare at it for a while because she knows how to fly the darn thing but she can’t fix it. Just mostly glaring. The glaring has to pause though as the tide has come in and it has started to rain. Rain with lightening. Ange might want to get out of the ocean during some lightening. Things are looking really bad for Ange so that means the bar has to be raised. Like man guys…we are totally Gamemakers here in the Hunger Games and we have to make sure these are exciting time for the viewers. It is not enough that Ange has lost her Princess Title for being a Norma. It is not enough for Ange to be raped by her commander and felt up by her almost second in commander. It wasn’t enough for Ange to watch three young girls die in front of her and for her to be injured in the process. And it wasn’t enough for Ange to get some partially deserved bullying. No no folks. Things need to get worse for Ange. Worse folks.
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Or maybe it is just worse for me. But from where I stand (or sit in this falling apart computer desk that has like the screws poking through the armrests) hiding in a tree in a thunderstorm alone on an island with just a horny boy is pretty bad. Add in a poison snake biting you and this would be my worse day ever. Since Ange’s uniform is made of special there wasn’t many places that could be reached by a snake. Although I think snakes can bite though clothes but who cares. Not anyone at the production table at Cross Ange. They are like dude lets have Ange get bite by a snake about one inch away from her vagina. Then we will have her conscious enough to drag herself to tied up Tusk so she can look pathetic and die in front of him because no one is coming to save her. Since you know…Tusk has been tied up all this time and not gotten himself free thus far there will be no way he will be able to save his blond angel. The Normas will lose their machine. All hope is lost. Or the magical ecchi gods will give Tusk a magical knife so he can cut himself free and fling himself on Ange’s thighs and suck out the poison that has been there for minutes and has already spread into her body. Yes folks this is gold. This is a beautiful moment that isn’t fanservicey at all. No no folks. It is just natural for all of this to happen and for Tusk to run Ange back to his shack so he can strip her of her clothes once again and rinse her off of all this poison and broken dreams. The only way my eyes could have rolled more if Ange was bitten by a cake snake and Tusk had to lick frosting off her body. Just what the hell folks.
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Domestic bliss folks.
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So while Ange is dying on Tusk’s bed it was memory time. This memory time also picked up at the end of the episode where I think it reveals that Tusk isn’t a pile of moron. He might be a pile of stupid but he also isn’t lalaing all over the place totally clueless. See Tusk wasn’t too shocked to see Ange and her flying machine. It is all familiar to him. And when he finally meets up with Jill he will remember her. And she might remember him. Maybe not so much as whatever happened between Tusk and Jill ended with her losing her arm. But what I think happened was once upon a time there were maintenance people at NormaRUs. Tusk’s dad was one of those people and I am sure he could use Mana. Tusk’s mom was a Norma pilot. I am sure there were rules and what at the time about no sexy with the Normas (rape is for the womenz duh) and they totally broke the rules. But whatever this rule was I am sure it was OKAY as Tusk was a young boy of about 8 when the bad thing happened. Like well these things happen get to work kid. But perhaps they found out that Tusk was also a Norma which ruined the whole boys can’t be Norma thing and the family had to flee the person in Emma’s position at the time. Perhaps Jill was going after them out of orders and not that she wanted to hurt mom. Clearly Jill and her machine that ANGE now has didn’t fare well and judging by the number of graves at the top of the hill….other things haven’t gone well for Tusk either. Have more Normas washed ashore? HMMMMMM. So yeah. Tusk can’t use Mana, he knows what these machines are, and he probably doesn’t really care who wins a Norma verses Mana User war. That all said….Tusk is a moron.
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Well...to be fair...you shouldn't be missing them either.
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Ange eventually wakes up and isn’t totally upset at Tusk. I think the present of the boyfriend shirt helps this anger issue out. She still has to be Ange though. Like call his food awful and make him sleep outside tied to a tree even though this is his house. But then slowly….Disney music started to play. These two strangers (because Ange didn’t write her name on her side of the room or anything) started off on different sides of reality. Tusk in his moronness and Ange in her paranoid anger state. After the bullets and naked snake venom sucking…a friendship happened. Maybe even more. Tusk doesn’t have to work on Ange’s machine but he does. Ange doesn’t have to attempt to make food and blow up the hut for Tusk. But they do these things together. Ange could let her hair down if she still had it but she tried. A moment where she didn’t have to worry about dragons and being Norma or having something awful happen to her even if one could argue that Tusk is an awful thing that happened to her. So since Tusk was there and she was there and they were only there with each other….maybe things would have happened.
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The rescue of Ange is still priority at NormaRUs which leads me to believe that this is all taking place in a relatively short time period. If Hilda is feeling guilty about what she has done she doesn’t let it show. She has to take care of her hoes. The rescue mission/recovery mission for Ange seems to be voluntary and Hilda doesn’t understand why Vivian or Ersha are wasting their time. I guess with Salia she has to go as she is the boss but why the other two? Even if Zola wasn’t well loved she was respected. And the two tiny tots? What about them? I don’t think the other girls are operating under my thinking in which Ange is not responsible for those girls’ death. I think they do blame Ange but some have moved on and forgiven Ange. Because really life is short and maybe they can see where Ange is coming from? If they were from the Mana World and thrust into NormaRUs wouldn’t we react the same way? But Ersha takes it a step farther. She better watch her back or her machine for random underwear if she is going to compare Hilda to Ange. I mean….I guess they could have had the same attitude problems. But I don’t think Hilda was all like I am better than you bitches, I am not a Norma, let me push you out of the way so I can earn more money that I don’t want to spend. Attitude problems yes. But I am not seeing a lot of Ange in Hilda. If they become best friends later though I guess I will have to eat my words. For now Ersha says her piece and flops into the plane to search for ungrateful Ange. Think about it Hilda.
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See? Progress. Ange isn't shooting at you.
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Ungrateful Ange? Wait is she having a change of heart? It seems like she is. See Tusk is trying to fix her machine, at least the radio so she can contact her people. And Ange didn’t shot him in the face for suggesting such a thing. Why the hell would Ange want to leave this almost island paradise? She almost seems conflicted at this point. And if HTusk really does know what goes on at NormaRUs he wouldn’t want Ange going back there either. Maybe he is doing this all on the downlow though. Like I am going to pretend to fix the radio and casually ask Ange if her people miss her and she will realize that I am a prize and going back to those rapists is a super bad idea. Instead Ange is CONFLICTED. Like bitch please. Even if they were the nicest people in the world to you your job is to hunt dragons until you die. So…stay with the slightly annoying boy and make out. It isn’t that hard.
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That might have been in the cards for Ange. If Tusk had gotten that kiss in who knows what would have happened. But NOOOOOOOOO some giant dragon had to be seen all frozen and dragged across the sky by some planes. I don’t even want to pretend to know what is going on. It appears that when the girls defeat a dragon it is frozen unlike the blasted to bits smaller dragons. I would just assume after the freezing the thing is dead. But maybe the Mana Using world drags the dragons back through portals to keep the Normas busy? Maybe that is where Mana Users actually get their powers? That might be it. Well maybe Mana Users should have some Normas flanking them during their ride home because they were taken out in a blink of an eye by an already injured smaller dragon. Ange was like bish please is this real life? I am not sure what the smaller dragon was trying to do in regards to the attack as it appears the big dragon is dead now. Maybe it knew what the people were going to do with it’s friend and it was a mercy killing? Since I don’t know the whole story yet I will just make up wild stories in my head because I like to entertain myself in that way.
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The smaller dragon apparently has the eyes of a tiger and the nose of…well an animal that smells really good. A bloodhound dog? I don’t know. But what I do know is that Ange and Tusk are in super danger and while Ange’s bitch face is pretty scary and impressive me thinks it will take more than that to take one of these suckers out. Also more than a knife and handgun. Although I might have channeled my inner Beth and aimed for the head the entire time. Like why waste bullets on something so large. The brain is probably in the brain area so have at it there. But Ange was able to keep the beast occupied while Tusk makes the last few adjustments on the machine. It was fixed so fast I am going to assume he knew what the problem was the entire time and was just stalling in hopes of keeping Ange with me. I mean it really was that simple to fix. Ange was doing pretty kicking ass without the machine but once it turned on and it was activated by her magic Princess Ring it was game over for the dragon and Ange’s sanity for a few moments. Go Ange!
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Because we are totally best friends now.
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Tusk manages to put aside how creepy Ange was in the aftermath of dragon death and tried to get her to leave with him. I am not sure where this leaving was going to take place as it appears they are on an island and it is currently on fire. Maybe he would have revealed his own flying machine at that point. But at that second Vivian’s voice comes over the radio and she has been looking for Ange all this time. Ange picked that moment to realize hey….that is my team and some of them aren’t rapist or panty in machine assholes. Sometimes home sucks but that is all you have in this world. So Ange makes the stupid decision to be rescued and not run off with the cute boy and lie the rest of her life in dragon free days. Like……WHY?! Okay we all can probably guess why but still. Tusk didn’t fight too hard and allowed Ange to dictate what happened on the island in the off chance he ever finds someone to share this information with. Going out strong I see Ange. She leaves with Salia, Vivian, and Ersha and refers to the girls by names which is touching. She even graciously accepts Vivian’s gift of a cellphone charm. Like look guys…now I value the fact that some of you aren’t assholes, accept me with open arms. And they do. Meanwhile Tusk does all his HMMMM you know Normas stuff with the pictures and the graves. Then he flies off. I assume to Ange’s NormaRUs island since he knows where it is. Well he is going to have some competition for her as next week Ange’s maid shows up. Say what? I know the girl was loyal to Ange but can someone just elect to go to NormaRUs? I guess so. Until next time!
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XD As the title states this is part 2 of the Rin and Len Nendoroid post. Since they are two nendoroids with similar poses and for all purposes...twins there was twice as many pictures taken of them. I felt the need to divide up the posts as to not kill anyone's screens with too many pictures. I might not know much about computers but real life camera pictures seem to take up more...whateverness than screenies. So enjoy part two of Christmas presents of 2013. One month before Christmas 2014 weee!
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When Nendoroids point with one finger that finger tends to look super fat. Like look at my comically huge fingers. XD
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But then Len points with all his hands and they look proportional. XD Silly little Nendoroids. I think I like his pose better than his sisters.
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These nendoroids are special as they have special poses they can only do together. You know, being twins and all.
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But when they do them alone they look a bit...odd. Like um what ya doing?
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But then you put them together and POOF they are instantly cute. I think I did a better job syncing these two up this time.
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I didn't even attempt to take a pic of them alone on this pose.
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I think it took me about 20 minutes to get this pose all together. Yeah folks I am that special. Or am I?
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A close up of Rin and Len's hands. This pose was SUPER hard to do. Like everything had to be just right on the separate stands and when I had one set of hands together the other ones would fall apart and it was just a giant mess. Sorta like trying to do common core math when you grew up doing Common Sense Math. Like what am I doing wrong?!
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Time to do another pose. This time with 100 percent less aggravation. XD Almost like Rin and Len are thanking the audience for listening to their concert.
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But when alone the pose is a little sad. Like leaving me hanging?
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I really like Len's pants verses Rin's though. But they are both incredibly cute Nendoroids. Thank you so much honey for these Christmas presents. Now I have to wait....a whole month to see my next Christmas presents. XD Haha....
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Why do I work here again?!
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So I will post as much as I can before my eyelids threaten to droop on the floor. Remember how last time with Denkigai no Honya-san is was Christmas and New Year's Eve? Well now it is time for Valentine's Day in episode 4. The year passes fast when you are selling anime and mangas folks!
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Episode Summary: Hio is ready to go into work, bright eyed and bushy tail for another mazing day. She walks out onto the sales floor on falls on her butt when she sees a stack of mangas that look….like a stack of mangas but are clearly representing some historical building I probably should know. Director walks by and explains that he wants everyone in the store to set up their own display with their own manga selections and compete to see which display has more sales. This sounds totally fair since everyone else in the store has theirs already set up and Hio is just now learning about the plan. Director takes Hio around the store to the different displays. Sommelier has his set up with a little sign of him with his spiel about picking out the perfect mangas for you. Sensei has done professional art on her posters. Fu Girl has a reasonable looking zombie display. When Hio walks over to look at it Fu Girl jumps out of the bookshelf and scares Hio. It is explained at first Fu Girl had Umio jump out and look like a zombie but Fu Girl was overwhelmed by Umio’s great zombieness and beat him to death. But not before he made his own shelf. Hio almost dies when she sees Director’s shelf. It is basically some blow up dolls of Hio advertising boy love. Director explains his shelf is winning. Umio’s shelf is full of random things and Hio listens to Umio explain it. She comes to the realization later with the girls at a restaurant all the manga she reads is mainstream while everyone else likes random things or uncommon things. Or at the very least have a genre. Is she just a nothing?! The other girls vow to help her and this means….taking her to the competitions store for a different perspective? Hio has a meltdown but the other girls are like you got to see how they are selling mangas to do a good job yourself. Sensei walks through the store throwing every single manga in her basket. If it looks slightly interesting she has to buy it. Because an innocent man serving jail time is worse than a guilty man going free. She talks about how some people know what genres work for them and for others stores must push them in the right direction. Suddenly Hio sees the light and the fog has lifted. Mangas that she has passed up before now look amazing. She runs back to her store to start working on her display. Director offers some mangas to go along with her selections even though she hasn’t read them yet. He offers to help with her display and she skips along, thinking he is being nice to her. Well fast forward to the next day and Director has made a poster of himself in his banana hammock and the books he suggested to Hio were hard yaoi. She protests a bit much as she did like them.
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The clothes I'm wearing
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Life moves on and Fu Girl hands Sensei and Hio some choco. Hio smiles back and hands some chocos out herself while Sensei loses her mind for not being girly enough to remember it is the most important day of the year Valentine’s Day! Sensei feels her girl power falling even more as she watches Fu Girl give Umio….zombie chocos. Fu Girl walks around the place like a crazy person on crack. She can’t find Sommelier. Turns out he is upstairs giving his special manga picking seminar. Everyone goes upstairs to watch and Sommelier is given so many chocos. Fu Girl gets sad as it is explained he always gets a lot of chocos on Valentine’s Day. Porn Book lady walks in being all crazy and yelling about the mangas Sommelier was suggesting to young people…but then she goes back to her porn book loving ways. She gives him some chocos as thanks and he recommends a very….hot looking book. Tears of wonderment for all. Sensei goes to the store after this event to buy some chocos but ends up losing all her points and getting energy drinks instead. Fu Girl panics more when she can’t find Sommelier. Turns out he already went home for the night. Fu Girl is sad and Director lets her go home early so she can catch up with him. Despite being able to see Sommelier in the crowd Fu Girl has tiny legs and struggles to keep up as the man walks through the dessert and moon and the ocean. She doesn’t catch up to him until she reaches his house. He lets her inside and he literally has 2 million mangas all over the place. He gives her some to read and she gets caught up in the moment, forgetting why she is there. She finally works up the nerve to give him a manga with the word choco in the title. She thanks him for all he has taught her and she hopes to learn more later. He seems touched but Fu Girl is sad on the way home as she didn’t give him her homemade chocolates like she planned. THE END!!!!
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Holidays come and go in anime. One day it’s summer, one day it is both Christmas and New Year’s Eve, and then the next day it is the rest of January of boringness and Valentine’s Day. So clearly that means White Day and whatever they do for Spring will be in the next episode. Maybe Fu Girl will graduate. There is not time waste folks. Every episode must be full of holidays and events. Because everyday life is boring, especially at retail. Same thing day in and day out.
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Well except for this crazy store full of crazy people. Dang my spelling bad. Late at night with a computer with weird glare and a keyboard that I really don’t like. It is making me type words that I don’t mean to. Unless I wanted to say “well expect for this crazy store”. Many apologizes for anything misspelled or incorrect grammar. It all looks correct to me unless it doesn’t. But yes back to the crazy store. Hio is just walking into work ready to start her shift when things look a little crazy on her floor. I am not sure how she walked passed all the displays to get to the employee section but we will pretend it makes sense. As well as her picking out what building that manga stack was supposed to be. Look…well like nothingness to me but what do I know. XD
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As Hio collapses on the ground because this amazing building means something super important to her Director comes by to explain things. He likes explaining things doesn’t he? Mainly because these are all his ideas of insanity so who better to explain them yes? So Director decided it would be fun to have a contest, to see who could make the best display and have the highest sales. This actually sounds fun…except I think Director just randomly came up with the idea. Like oh today is Tuesday and I think this would be cool so I will tell all the people who worked on Tuesday my plan so they can get started on their display and start racking up the cash. Then when people who didn’t work on Tuesday come in I will inform them of my random idea and they will be so impressed with it they won’t point out how unfair it is and that everyone should have been told at the same time so no one would have an advantage and blah blah.
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Since Hio is Hio this does not happen and she merely follows Director as he takes her around the different displays everyone has set up. Is Kameko not really a main character? She never really…does anything. Except hang out with Sommelier at his manga parties but Fu Girl likes him so….She didn’t have a display. She probably only works there to have cash for her camera collection. Traitor. Everyone else had displays that focused either on their personality or their preferences. I think if I walked into a store and saw Director’s display I would have run for the woods. File some sexual harassment charges Hio, those blow up dolls were gross. I too was expecting more from Fu Girl’s shelf but then she turned it up a bit with her screaming from the area. Like okay not shopping here anymore!
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But Sommelier, Sensei, and Umio all had normal and super professional looking shelves. Not overly flashy but filled with mangas they loved and wanted to share with others. I am sure that some people would just focus on sales but they were focused on really connecting the people with the beautiful manga of the world. INSERT ANGELS HERE. This made Hio a little sad. I am super convinced now that Hio is the newest employee besides Umio. Like hi let me show you the ropes of the store and pretend like I know things when really I have been here for 2 months. Silly girl. But yeah Hio really does feel like she is the lowest man on the totem pole. Umio might be the newest but she seems to be the least experience. She just walks into Books-A-Million and grabs whatever is on the ends cap. She doesn’t really know what she likes, she just reads what is popular. An empty shell of a person!
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Well the other girls see and hear Hio’s woe and decide to take her out for ideas. You know, to other businesses in the area. Akihabara isn’t that big folks. It goes up, not out. So I can see how everyone knows everyone and there is friendly competition. A lot of repeats at these stores but some store exclusives and the what not. That is why I am so surprised that Sensei was able to buy so much. X___X Like dang a lot of stores have the same stuff. But maybe some stores have the older things or more obscure titles. But dude I was jealous of all the shopping. I miss the shopping. :( I will just go back to doing the dishes and not catching up on anime posts now.
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While Kameko the nonimportant and Fu Girl the figurine lover run off Sensei takes Hio around the store to show the girl how to do things. To let the mangas speak to her. It is easier to think of this scene like Aladdin (rest in peace Genie). Sensei is showing Hio a whole new world and it is the most magical thing ever. Hio sees the truth and is ready to make her shelf. She is so blinded by the truth she wanted to work for free CRAZY GIRL! Director shows up to look proud of Hio and give her a false sense of security. Like yes I am a lovely man giving you mangas as recommendations and showing you how to display things properly so people can be suckered into spending money. Hio is touched and dreams of having his slightly inappropriate babies. Then she arrives the next day at work to find Director displaying his penis in her display along with all the yaoi manga he tricked her into buying. Yeah folks tricked. So very tricked because Hio doesn’t have eyes. This subject is dropped though because apparently Hio liked it and that is all that matters in this realm. I might personally be upset though coming into the store and seeing someone in charge basically naked. Just…no.
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Since nothing matters we never learn who wins this little competition. I am going to pretend Umio did though. We must not celebrate the best day ever in Japan…..Valentine’s Day. On to be a girl in a country where your feelings are to be kept inside yet society is like give chocos to every man you know on this holiday or you will feel shame. SHAME! Oh Sensei…being a tomboy is okay too. Although I roll my eyes for forgetting this holiday. It is sorta like when my brother’s claim to forget my birthday or have no money for Christmas. HOW COULD YOU MISS IT?!?!?! So yeah…Sensei experiences a lot of drama watching her girly points reach critical mass as she has no chocos for anyone, not her girlfriends or the boy she likes. Even Fu Girl with her creepy chocos are more romantic than she is. Umio never receives chocos from Sensei as she couldn’t even do the shameful thing and buy store bought chocos. Which I would probably prefer. Probably because I think everyone cooks like me and It be safer to have store bought anything.
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There is no focus on if Hio gives Director choco. They already got their segment. Instead we get a lot of Fu Girl turning into a massive piling of twitching. I know she loves zombies but is this just a shy trait or something I am not understanding? She always seems like she is ready to run. Maybe that is part of zombie training, to suspect everyone and to take off running at a moment’s notice. I like how she made Sensei accidentally jealous with the choco of zombiness. That was pretty cute. I had a bit of eyerolling that she didn’t know that Sommelier was having a class or session or whatever it is called that day. Seems a bit odd but we shall roll with it and the fact that everyone wants Sommelier to have their giant babies and chocos. Porn Agent turned up again trying to be all creepy but it turns out she was just kidding when she blasted off everyone’s clothes with her super powers. She is one of them. Come experience the porn.
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Even though Fu Girl was 3 feet away from Sommelier at this event she lets him get away from her. And he leaves work before she does. WOE IS HER LIFE! Except when Director isn’t wearing banana hammocks he can be rather nice and lets her go home early. Not that it does any good since Sommelier has a 20 hour commute to work each and everyday apparently. Fu Girl barely made it to his house alive. I guess she doesn’t have his phone number? I thought to myself that Sommelier lived in scary conditions. That perhaps his place had no walls (and no windows) but just mountains of mangas keeping him protected from the elements. Fu Girl got taken in by this “cool” place before she got put back on track with handing out the Valentine’s Choco. Or you know…a book with half naked girls with Choco in the title. That is what I want to give the boy I like for Valentine’s Day….other half naked girls. But Sommelier was happy and it actually was different than what the other girls gave the man so Fu Girl could have been happen with being unique. But in Japan homemade chocos are the thing to do so Fu Girl is sad she couldn’t express her feelings properly. :( Maybe next time. Not next episode though of course. We got to move right along you know!
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Hello there lovely readers and people who like bears, presents, or birthdays. It is I Duffy the Disney Bear. Last month Mom had a birthday. I think most humans her age start saying things like 29 plus more numbers. Is that how old you are Mom? XD Even though Dad had to work on Mom's birthday he still tried to make her day special. Plus she got to celebrate it a bit early in September at Disney World so I don't think she can complain that much can she? She did have to wait for part two of her present though. Lets see what Mom got that day woohoo!
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Dad wrapped this present August 18th and placed it on the dinning room table. I think he meant to torture Mom.
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Dad put this Yu-gi-Oh card on Mom's present. She was tempted to open it.
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B. D. Duffy is waiting for Mom to hurry up and open her present. But she has to wait until Dad comes home.
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Finally Dad is home. Open it up Mom! HURRY HURRY!
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B.D. Duffy spies something familiar looking....
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It's another Duffy!!!! Because Mom doesn't have enough Duffys weee!
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Other Duffys!! Yes even you passed out Valentine's Duffy. Come and meet the newest Duffy Mom has gotten.
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Welcome to the family Tuffy. He has traveled really far to get here. He is only available at Hawaii. I hear that place is on fire! Good thing he escaped. XO But yes welcome to the family with your fun looking shirt and happy smile.
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After opening more presents and eating dinner we went to go see a movie that Mom was super excited about. Book of Life. She had been talking about it for weeks.
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For the movie Dad got Mom a snack. A very Disney like snack for a nonDisney movie. It was very tasty and doesn't smell like popcorn. Dad hates popcorn.
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Mom got lots of nice gifts for her birthday. I like Huffy the best though don't you?
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Adults? The real world? NOOOO!
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But the posting must continue. I will just break into my cocoa box that is about 343 years old because it takes me that long to finish a box due to how many cold days we experience in Florida. Up now is Shirobako episode 4. You know, everyone's favorite anime about 5 friends working in the anime industry. Or you know..mostly Aoi. Maybe a bit of her friends but mostly Aoi.
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Yeah no. Just no. I rather sleep all day then help you on my day off.
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Episode Summary: Shizuka is on her way to a voice acting audition and decides to practice her lines on the subway which is a bit special given you are to be quiet on the subway and some of the lines are special. At work Aoi is having to deal with Tarou who acts like he is the one who keeps everything together. Aoi has no sympathy and walks away from the delusional boy. She walks into a fight with Animation Director Hironori and Seiichi about the AC. Seiichi says it is hot and he can’t work under these conditions and Hironori is like you are just fat. After that is not settled Ema pokes her head around and reminds Aoi that she is a bad friend and that Shizuka has a voice actress audition today. Aoi immediately feels bad as she was unable to take Shizuka’s phone call and texting hasn’t been invented yet and how was she to know?! Ema seems to think everything will be okay as everyone is getting together the next day anyway. Shizuka and her bundle of nerves arrive at the audition where she practices her lines with others sitting in the waiting room. Shizuka almost loses her mind when she sees a super famous voice actress arrive. The girl in question is super modest but people in charge of the hiring process fawn all over her so Shizuka starts to lose hope. Shizuka is finally called for her turn and off she goes with her bundle of nerves. During her audition she is called out for being nervous which surprisingly makes her more nervous as her voice breaks all over the place. She finishes the audition and leaves dejected. Most people weren’t impressed with her but one person liked the rawness of her voice and the fact that she was a newbie. Shizuka doesn’t know that of course. Aoi gets packed up to leave for the day while Honda grills her on things that she needs to have done on Monday. Aoi seems to be on the ball with episode 9 as she gained some experience points the disaster that was episode 4. Tarou tries to guilt Aoi for having a day off but gets super interested in Aoi going out with her friends. He seems to think one of them will marry him. Aoi skips home to reheat a to go bento meal when her mother calls. It turns into a conversation everyone can relate to, a parent getting a new piece of technology and not understand what Aoi does for the show. Still her parents are super proud of her…and then her mom does the worrying about her eating right and should more food be sent to her jazz. As Aoi hangs up she gets a text message from Shizuka and decides to call the girl to apologize for being busy with a passed out co-worker. Aoi tries to be the supportive friend and asks about the job audition but she senses Shizuka and says they can talk about it tomorrow. Slightly awkward. Shizuka gets off the phone and watches the anime they made in high school with a bit of sadness.
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First day off in forever from anime...so lets go see anime!
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The next day everyone meets at the train station almost at the same time because none of them are named Tenchi. Look Misa and Midori exist! After there are greeting and what not all the girls go and watch an anime movie together. Then they sit around and eat pastries while talking about the movie in regards to what they do for work. Midori seems super impressed anyway as she isn’t really working in whatever field she wants to in anime yet.. They spend the afternoon at a park which houses something that relates to their anime they made in high school and at a local anime/manga store. After some window shopping Shizuka takes them to the small mom and pop store she works at for some drinks. The couple that owns the place really seem to like Shizuka and treat her and her friends well. They drink a bit and Midori is a bit sad that everyone is living the dream and she is still a student. One day she will write anime scripts though…maybe. Misa and Ema talk about how stressful things are at their jobs and Aoi chimes in with how she is always needing to be bailed out. Shizuka decides the other girls are lucky to have stress at their jobs because that means they have jobs. The others try to point out that Shizuka has had work but all she has done was be a mascot’s villain and some dubbing over a foreigners voice that doesn’t even sound like her. The audition comes up and Shizuka explains not only did she mess up but a super famous actress was up for the same roll so of course she isn’t getting the part. All the girls are super supportive of Shizuka and tell her she is going to kill it next time. That doesn’t stop Shizuka from getting drunk. Aoi excuses herself to take a phone call from Tarou. He won’t say why it is so important that she come to work right now so Aoi goes inside to drink with friends. They all talk each other up and Aoi has to pause as she doesn’t know what she wants to do yet. The girls point out she should be a producer and get their original anime made into a movie. They all get silly and a bit drunk. Misa takes home super drunkie Shizuka as Ema and Aoi go home mostly together as Aoi talks about how she doesn’t know about her future. Shizuka walks home singing a drunkie song and ignoring Tarou when he calls again. He is panicked about something but never explains. The next day Honda lays into Seiichi for not having the storyboard done for the final episode and it turns out the man is super behind. Seiichi tries to blame it on the AC. Aoi then sees Endou having a meltdown in front of Tarou. He is crybabying about something and quits as supervisor over episode 7. THE END!
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They exist to hear about Shizuka's problems anyway.
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What is this? The other girls actually exist?! Do my eyes deceive me?! Apparently all the drama that happened with Aoi was actually minute by minute and there were no days or gaps in between. So maybe she didn’t go too long without contacting her friend Shizuka but I am still side eyeing her a bit. Sounds like she hasn’t had a lot of time to get together with the other girls outside of work because I guess if you work 6 days a week you pass out on the 7th like it says in the Bible. But not texting Shizuka back was a bit eyerolling.
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Now imagine her moaning that....
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I was side eyeing Shizuka a bit though. Like hello this is anime based in Japan. Everyone must play up to all the norms and standards that exist in Japan. You must respect the signs on subways and be quiet. Especially when some of the dialogue is super suggestive. I guess when you trying out for voice acting parts you get bits and pieces. Like a line here and a random line from this episode. Just a lot of moaning and high voiced lines for a closed in space like a train. Maybe because the train is sorta empty she feels okay doing that? If it was rush hour it would be a no no. I don’t know. I guess I am thinking too much into this scene. We are just supposed to feel how nervous Shizuka is. This is her big break and she is going to practice up until her name is called. Plus…we actually get to see her. Poor underclassmen Misa and Midori. They get no love.
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YEAH! Says all the cold people of the world.
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Aoi has a lot of people she has to deal with at work. Lots of personalities. Lots of people in general. The show realizes that too and continues to put names and titles under people. But Aoi has to deal with Tarou being delusional. I don’t know if this is Tarou’s first assistant job but it is Aoi’s first job. So him complaining to her and calling all the time for help is a bit…you know. Backwards. And even if it is his first assistant job Erika should be the go to person even if he thinks she is not as approachable. Although it isn’t like Aoi is going out of her way to befriend the boy either. Anyway Tarou is complaining about how tough his job is and everyone else is like dude please. Aoi runs away from Tarou’s complaining but walks into another juvenile situation. Or maybe not so juvenile. It was Seiichi verses some other important due in a battle over the AC. I remember those days. Before I worked at Mike’s Pizzeria with no AC and DryCleanersRUS with super high AC with NO ability to change it I worked a mom and pp…consignment shop if you would. I worked with 3 older ladies. All in different stages of overweightness. Needless to say me and my giant jacket became best friends because someone was always having a hot flash and I was never going to get my way. Of course the owner would come in and yell at me for wearing a jacket and would tell me to wear something more classy AKA expensive looking. Because at 6.67 I could afford to shop at old lady shops where 200 sports jackets are the norm. but I digress. So I have experience with AC wars. The husband wants it cold and I want it warm and I always lose because it is easier to put layers on than take them off. But since this is Japan Seiichi is going to lose. Especially in a post 2011 Japan where saving electricity has become common place. How dare you be wasteful! So what if you can concentrate on your drawings? No AC for you.
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I have no picks of Ema so have one of Tarou being very Tarou like.
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In the middle of all this crazy is Ema. Like oh hello friend. My lovely friend. We promised we go to the big city together and find cool animes in the anime field and well…at least we have each other? Thank you so much for being here for me Ema. What is that? Shizuka has a voice actress job interview today? And since I couldn’t continue her phone call while tending to a passed out person on the ground I was left out of the loop for days? I mean….damn people. Text message exist for a reason. If you call me and I don’t pick up and it was important leave a message or text me. Or even if it is exciting news. People can be busy in this world but it really pisses me off when people can respond to texts later in the day or the next day. Like damn people I see you all the time with phones in your hand. Can’t take a second to say hi or whatever? So yeah…I think it was a little dramatic that Shizuka didn’t text Aoi. Like….Shizuka can have a busy work life and care about your friends. Now Aoi has the guilt dear goodness.
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:( Well that is slightly sad.
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Well Aoi couldn’t call Shizuka right now even if she wanted to. The girl has made it to the audition spot and Shizuka has to focus on getting this job. Sometimes I believe you can study too much for a test. Like if you cram it might all explode your head. There were very few lines for Shizuka to learn and the fact that everyone got to have the paper in front of them and will always have the script in front of them means Shizuka could probably have just practiced on pitches and what not. Her mind would have remembered the sentence structure naturally at that point. But even if Shizuka wasn’t nervous at that point it all flew out the window when the famous voice actress came in. Like damn that girl is getting all the rolls lately and this isn’t an open audition for any part. It is just ONE part and chances are this girl will get it. Personally I agree with the one dude, the one who liked Shizuka for being new and raw. Like if someone has work on 10 shows right now everyone must be sounding the same. Time to spice it up. But after Shizuka allowed her nerves to break through…it is hard to say what will happen. Maybe some anime magic but they had a lot of people auditioning for the role and they might not have time to help a newbie. But I got to give Shizuka props for going through all the lines despite it going..well not so great. If she gets this role it will be by anime magic. I rather her learn from this and get the next job, full of confidence and learning from her mistakes.
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Too bad neither of our phones have texting abilities.....
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But right now Shizuka wants to have a cry and pout. It must feel pretty lonely to move away from home and only have a few friends from high school be your support group. And that support group is super busy doing their own work all the time. The second Aoi was done with her work she called Shizuka so that counts yes? Well first Aoi went home and made some dinner. After Tarou was giving her grief about having ONE day off. Like yeah Japanese people love work so much they are going to constantly be at the office on their days off. Sign me up for some health problems there. Oh wait and Aoi talked to her parents too. But since Aoi doesn’t leave near her parents first and she is going to see Shizuka the next day I will allow this too. I like how cute the parents were. Like we don’t know much about anime or the big city where you live now but we will act cute and ancient, just happy that our daughter is living the good life now. Parents are always proud of their kids. Well most of the time. Some parents are just like thank goodness we got through that. But then after lying to the parents about eating properly she called Shizuka back. Because remember no texting. The size of Shizuka’s room makes me a sad panda. Life is like that in Tokyo I suppose. Just starting off and all. Shizuka wasn’t in the mood for talking though since her audition went bad. Well you are probably going to have to talk about it tomorrow so….
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Where are the shopping bags?!
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And then tomorrow came. WOOHOO for friends and arguing about being on time and who is late. Everyone arrived within 2 minutes of each other which I think is a miracle. I think anyone reading this would know who would arrive last out of my group of friends. Hint: She is the one writing this right now. XD GO ME! But yeah it is the first time we have seen Midori and Misa since it was graduating doughnut time. Funny how a few years out of high school and people act like they are super adults. Sometimes I don’t even feel like an adult. But I guess that is not the point. The point is 5 girls went out for a day together and no one bought anything. I understand window shopping but all of them?! Well they did buy treats. I love that part though. I hate watching animes when the stick girls want to be on a diet. Like no I am going to eat cake and be happy. Time with friends should be full of things that….well you do by yourself in your house and feel guilty about but still.
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It is interesting that on their day off all the girls go to an animated movie. Like damn this is what I do all day for work I want to escape it please!!!! But then again…they could be the kind of people who want to work in this industry because they love that product. They just….well have a better appreciation of how that anime came into production. I would think if I were Aoi though I would want to take a break. Like I love you anime but we need to take some time apart before I kill everything in this room. Oh did I mention when we had sad Shizuka we saw a bit of their original anime? It was….done by high school kids but still a TON of work so many props there. Anyway after the anime was over and the girls were all chowing down on their delicious looking snacks the girls then….talked shop. Like how many frames was that, the voice actress was a newbie, 3 D crap because that is what Misa does. Like look how adult and mature we are, knowing how these things work. I don’t think there was any bragging. Just….WOOHOO I actually knows this and it is fun to know this weee!
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:( At least she didn't start crying again...
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But then there was the flip side. Everyone knows you call your girlfriends when there is money burning a hole in your pocket and when you want to blast a hole in someone’s head. Gotta have the gripes. Some people are happy about their accomplishments and knowing about how animes are made but at the same time everyone else has a bit of envy in regards to the others. Not everything is roses. Ema seems pretty overworked too even though we see Aoi running around all the time being overwhelmed which in charge of everything. Misa doesn’t think she is doing that great at her new job as her elders are always yelling. And poor Midori…well she has big dreams. Dreams of writing animes. Like the actual storylines or coming up with the entire thing herself? I don’t know yet. But these seem like big dreams and I don’t even know how you get started in this field. So Midori feels as if everyone has left her behind when in reality Ema is pretty much the only one already in her dream job which seems pretty impossible as they are still fresh faced.
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LET ME WORK!!!
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But none of these gripes compare to Shizuka and her soon to be drunk self. I like how the people at the bar Shizuka works at have taken her in. Although that sounds very Skip Beatish, especially if Shizuka lives there too. But yeah…Shizuka is all like at least you guys can complain about working. That means you are working. Like okay Debbie Downer, we are allowed to complain about work even if you have no work to complain about. Sometimes you can wish for something and have your dream job and wake up to find out that it isn’t all Mickey Mouse and churros. But Shizuka has experienced what she thinks is a major setback. Another setback. No voice acting job for her. None that really matter in terms of getting her more work. The other girls don’t really help with her pity party when they are like MOG that famous voice actress auditioned with you?! Like thanks my friends….thanks for…well not lying to my face about how awful that is.
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BLAH BLAH so sad my tears.
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But like good friends the group tries to bring Shizuka up. Well Aoi could have done a better job at that if Tarou and his crazy phone call self wouldn’t stop interrupting. Like seriously I hate that when you get a day off and people call you for help. Unless you are manager, boss, or someone with tons of zeros on their paycheck leave those people alone. So Tarou…call your boss and make sentences that are complete and are of the sense making. Aoi handled those calls rather fast though although it interrupted the mood when she walked outside. I would have just turned my phone off since all my friends were right in front of my face. But as Shizuka drowned her sorrows in booze her friends were really supportive. Like wow your ability to sound like an American farmer abducted by aliens is amazing. And just because you didn’t get this part doesn’t mean things are horrible forever. Just keep trying! You can do it!
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Well that was fast...
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I think that is what is great about friends. They either say what will make you happy or they will tell you the truth you need to hear. I think I am more on the truth side. But this is a feel good anime so clearly Misa is….the best 3 D whatever ever, Midori will write the best animes ever, Ema…well she is already amazing so she should just buy the next round, and Shizuka will be the best voice actress ever. All this lifting up and beer drinking made Aoi realize….she has no idea what she wants to do with her life? She works at an animation studio yes but she knew at a young age she didn’t have…well the talent that some of the other girls had. So I think she took a job at entry level that didn’t require any skill. Nothing is wrong with that obviously even if I think the job is a bit fluffy. And nothing is wrong with working that job your whole life. I honestly believe that. But Aoi seems to see this job as a stepping stone, to get her foot in the door. Where does she want to end up? Well her friends took 5 seconds to answer. You want to produce anime right? Sorta like what you are already doing but being in charge? Like we need someone to lead us and get us back on track when we work together in the future. You can be that person. Be the Honda. Aoi and her slightly tipsy self is like WOOHOO I gotta a dream. She gots a dream folks! More booze for my friends, everything is going to be okay!
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In the end Shizuka ends up drunk like a little skunk and has to be taken home by one of the younger girls. Not setting a good example for your younger friends are you Shizuka? I mean I guess she has the right to drink if she is sad but if you are going to drink to the point where someone needs to help you I reserve the right to roll my eyes. This reminds me of when I was in Japan on vacation and my husband and I watched a very drunk man try to help his very drunk coworker up some steps. Lets just say it ended badly. So Shizuka should drink at home. Ema and Aoi were on their way to drunkie town too but managed to get on the train and home by themselves although I think Aoi could have sung a little less. People were probably sleeping. I like that Shizuka was ignoring Taro because 1 it was her day off and B he wasn’t even telling her what he needed. Like how are you going to ask for my help if you are going to hem and haw and not explain yourself. Peace out Taro….you know until the next day. When it turns out there is some major drama going on because key animators can just pick and choose what they want to do and apparently Aoi had the power to stop that…..so yeah. Until next time!
</span>Christinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07410807672363317056noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785035130297400343.post-24815866122729075442014-11-21T01:44:00.002-05:002014-11-21T01:44:51.450-05:00Cross Ange: Tenshi to Ryuu no Rondo episode 4Everyone is going to wake up tomorrow and see a ton of new posts to read from me. Of course that is if anyone has stuck it out with me that long. And I am sure people would like to have a post every day or every other day...to let people know I am still alive and what not. But still....yay for fun tomorrow? Hopefully? Maybe I will try to catch up on more episodes before the husband comes home because CROSS YO FINGERS a new Pokemon game for me?
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Time for Ange to make lots and lots of friends.
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But before that happens I must post on. Up now is the most vile anime I have ever stuck with because....I hate myself. Clearly. Worse than Queerrats. I can't stop watching this train wreck folks! Of course I am talking about Cross Ange: Tenshi to Ryuu no Rondo. Spoilers for episode 4 include deadly pranks and strips of fabric that defy gravity.
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The fact that Ange is still alive amazes me.
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Episode Summary: Jill gathers Salia and some others to talk about the amazing turnaround from Ange. She has participated in three battles and has killed lots of dragons with a machine no one else really could use right. Salia is like….is she the one? Jill smiles and says that some operation will now begin. Salia thinks that will kill Ange and talks about how the other girls aren’t real happy with Ange due to obvious reasons. She wants an opportunity to ride this machine and do this mission. Jill tells Salia to focus on her own mission and Salia is assured nothing bad will happen to the machine. As Mei and Salia leave old Jasmine calls Jill out on being sneaky about something. After the next mission the girls arrive at the Bank de Normas to collect their money from the mission. It is all based on ranking and since Ange has a tendency of pushing people out of the way and being naturally amazing she has tons of cash while Zola’s hoes are counting pennies. Everyone is jealous and Ange doesn’t make anything better for herself by depositing all the money instead of spending it or gossiping about what she is going to spend the money on. All the girls go to the locker room to change from their skanky clothes to their lesser skanky clothes. Zola’s hoes have torn Ange’s outfit into shred. Instead of throwing a fit Ange puts on the outfit that is clearly not going to last long. Rosalie talks some crap so Ange cuts her uniform too and calls her a bitch before walking out like who cares about these assholes. Emma had been talking on the phone with her father as she apparently just took the job here dealing with all the Norma. She tries to act all big and bad, saying she has everything under control but then Ange walks out looking like a street walker and Emma is like X___X. She chases after Ange because apparently her cut up outfit is totally inappropriate but the one she wears in battle is fine. Ange is like bitch you are all like bugs so who cares who sees me naked. Emma tries to give her a talking to anyway and Ange half heartedly gives a salute.
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In the locker room Rosalie is trying to sew her outfit back together since she doesn’t have the money to buy a new one. Chris tries to comfort her while Hilda stomps out. Chris and Rosalie know that Hilda is the most upset about losing Zola and that they need to get revenge for her. The pair (mostly Rosalie) try doing some low grade pranks on the girl including food throwing and drink drugging. Each time Ange is able to avoid the pranks. There is a bit of underwear issue too that ends up involving Ersha. Eventually Ange’s outfit falls apart and she has no choice but to buy a new one. She goes shopping at the same time Vivian was being all WOOHOO and buying a new weapon for herself. Ange is all business with the clothes while Jasmine the shop keeper tries telling Ange that Normas are allowed to decorate their machines as they will eventually be their coffins anyway. Jasmine tries to say other things but Ange doesn’t care and leaves. Salia brings the entire squad minus Ange together to talk about the pranks against Ange and how it needs to stop. Hilda comes in to defend her girls and basically implies Ange is sleeping with the Commander. Salia and her rule loving self isn’t happy with that comment and turns to fight the girl. Hilda ends up leaving with Rosalie and Chris and takes them to Zola’s old room. Hilda has bought it all and will now take care of the girls herself. And the business of getting Zola’s revenge. Vivian and Salia seem to share a room and are seen being extremely different with each other. Vivian dreams about buying things and wonders how Ange can’t dream of buying anything while Salia is studying on how to be a better leader. Vivian has another plan and decides to join Ange for lunch one day. She is going to give everyone little charms to put in their vehicles so it can bring them together as a team. Ange throws hers in the food and stomps away hurting Vivian’s feelings. That night after sexing up Chris and Rosalie Hilda gets her naked self up and thinks of Zola. She throws Zola’s eye out the window and sneaks into the hanger to do something to Ange’s machine. The next day some dragons appear and Salia gets her troops together. Ange finds a nail in her machine but brushes it off and keeps on trucking. She keeps on tricking all the way to the front of the formation not listening to Salia. Things are okay until a piece of fabric lodges in Ange’s machine and causes her to lose control. Hilda gets all smirky and asks Ange if she needs help. Ange crashes in the water wrestling a dragon and Salia goes to help her if only for the magical machine. She is called back to battle as Ange takes on water and things look super bad for her. When Ange does come to she is tied naked to a bed and there is a boy sleeping besides her. Oh I see. THE END!
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Someone come and rescue me even though I hate you all!
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Why?! WHY! Why am I doing this to myself? There must be a lot of self hate going on at Case de Tenchi. I just don’t know. I guess I thought that last week there was going to be a toning down with the skin and boobies and harassment since Zola was dead and Jill was just….giving Ange her initiation. But I was wrong folks. Super wrong. This week was like OH NO! We barely had any naked girls last week. Sure Ange was laying in a bed all wearing bandaids but that doesn’t count. MORE NUDITY! But then we have to call out when people are only half naked. Like oh snap your boobies are showing. You know good and well you can only have your vagina showing. FOR SHAME!
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Oh now the machines are magical by themselves. I see.
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I guess I should start at the beginning. If I have to. Because I like being a martyr. After Ange cried and peed herself in her first battle she manned up. Like let me watch Mulan about a million times and learn how to be amazing overnight. Battle three is under Ange’s nonexistent belt and she is racking up the kills. She sounds like the most amazing person on the team now. All thanks to her magical ring of power. It seems that Ange hasn’t realized what has happened yet. I hope deep down Jill does and isn’t saying anything but it doesn’t explain why the others haven’t noticed anything. It is one thing to get magically amazing over night in battle and it is another to have the machine change. Like hello it looks brand new and no one noticed that? I am not sure how Jill would know about the ring being amazing though since she is not a Princess and has never seen that ring before. Unless mom is a giant liar. That could be possible since mom was indeed a giant liar for good reason.
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So yes Ange is amazing now. Jill seems to know that something…interesting is about to happen. Jill keeps this meeting pretty hush hush about Ange. It is not something that all Normas are going to know about. Salia and Mei seem to be in the know about how special the machine Ange flies is. This machine does have a name folks but I really don’t care. I am sure all the machines have a name but since Ange’s is the only one that is super special it wouldn’t matter learning it’s name since the others aren’t going to be brought up right? Now the way the conversation was going leads me to believe that perhaps this machine is going to be used to get the Normas their freedom. That there will be a special Norma who can pilot this thing and lead them all to the promise land of boobs and pudding. Only it sounds like the person piloting this might die. Or maybe Salia just thinks Ange will die and really wants to the job as the ultimate ruler follower. Maybe when all the girls start their pilotness they take a seat on this amazing machine, like the sorting hat, to see if they are the ones compatible with said machine. Jill manages to sell Salia a load of crap though. Just follow your duty and you will contribute to this grand plan in your own way. Jill seems to mean business and knows that there will be deaths. But if the end game is freeing all the Normas who were going to die anyway….perhaps it will be worth it to play the villain?
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Ange has no idea that this conversation is going on or that she has been cast in the role as hero. I sorta like Ange’s attitude to a point. I don’t think pushing girls out of the way and stealing their money (basically) or putting them in danger is the right thing to do but….being better than everyone else I can get behind. Like I hate you all and I don’t want to be here so if I have to be here I am going to be the very best. Like no one ever was. She is going to catch them all….all those paychecks. Which I am sure eats away at the other girls. They trained their whole lives to be dragon bait and here is Ange with one Mulan song under her belt kicking their asses. That is the only kind of revenge Ange can afford at this point. Plus it doesn’t make her look that petty. I say that petty because of the whole putting your comrades in danger is a big no no, even if you hate them. Like if only for though the meat shield they will provide for Ange. But for the most part Ange is doing her job, what is asked of her and getting revenge at the same time which eats away at the other girls.
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......This is worse than slavery. X___X Well besides the fact that slavery actually happened.
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I hope that Ange and her magical machine do save the girls. Because this Norma world is a stupid one. Like super stupid all over the place. Lets start with what happened first. This world…..is hard for Normas. They are told from the start they are only alive to serve the Mana users by fighting dragons. This amazing mandatory career is often a short one with little benefits. It is either do it and die or don’t do it and die. Now after viewing this episode we learn that this payment system for Normas is a load of shit too. Like…..what is the point of paying them at all? What is the incentive? To keep them working and motivated? To keep a glimpse of hope alive in their sad little hearts? And if this world isn’t unfair enough for Normas part of their winnings in their mandatory job has to go towards things for this job. Like….fuel cost? You are MAKING me go out there and risk my life for these damn dragons and I have to pay for any damage or fuel I use? Pay for new suits?! I can see for paying for outside uniforms or different kinds of food but this is just…insane. Like Hunger Games insane. Also these wads of cash mean nothing when everything costs two wads of cash. What would happen if one girl didn’t earn enough money for fuel next time? Like oh so sad I can’t go out and die this week. :( Woe is me.
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Who cares if I look naked? I do...all the time anyways!
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Ange and her not caring about her money self didn’t impress her fellow troops. Like bish you are taking money out of our mouths and you aren’t even using it? Hilda, Rosalie, and Chris are on team we hate Ange because Zola is dead. I think they only bring up Miranda and Coco as more ammo against Ange. Like they really only care about Zola but to make Ange sound super evil we have to bring up the poor decisions that were the younger girls. But everything Ange does upsets them and I can almost understand their anger. Cutting up her uniform…not so bad in the grand scheme of things. Trying to make Ange spend her money on things she doesn’t really need to. But Ange is like eff you all and puts her ripped up outfit on. Like you can’t get to me and just to show you how much I don’t care…let me cut your uniform while you are wearing it. HAHA!
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This is the part of the episode where my eyes nearly rolled out of my head. Like my brain…..it just can’t handle the stupid that is this show. Emma is talking to her Dad about her job which lets us know she is a newbie in this position and perhaps we should be asking what happened to the past Mana user on site and what Emma did wrong to earn this awful position. While on the phone Ange and her ripped up outfit walk by and folks…..Emma freaks out. Emma freaks out because Ange is wearing a uniform that will cause issues and bring attention onto herself. This Norma loving place has standards to uphold. Because…….the Normas are wearing librarian clothes while piloting the machines and nun wear while walking around the halls or what not. Or or….strippers on the street corner are wearing more than what the girls are wearing while piloting the machines. I suppose Ange doesn’t look regulations ready in her ripped up outfit but lets not pretend she was showing more skin than usual. She was still wearing more than her borderline g-string suit while fighting dragons. So this moral outrage is lose upon me. Or maybe this is all for the viewers to laugh at. Like is this real life? Just….just no. In any event Ange doesn’t mention this irony, just talks about how they are all bugs so who cares if you see my nipples. Good attitude Ange.
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Hilda is one of the smarter girls when it comes to Zola’s hoes. Well they are now Hilda’s hoes. So Zola’s former hoes. She isn’t really against these pranks on Ange but she is thinking bigger. Chris and Rosalie take Hilda’s apparent nonaction as a sign that Hilda misses Zola much more than they do. That she was hoe number one and she is just so sad she can’t even pull off pranks. So that is why Chris and Rosalie are going to get revenge against Ange all on their own. You know…like exposing how skanky Ange’s underwear is. Because what kind of underwear can you wear with a thong suit?! Oh wait none at all? So wouldn’t skanky underwear be better than no underwear at all? Underwear that isn’t even Ange’s? Other pranks included trying to throw food on Ange and trying to get Ange to have the runs. Very juvenile stuff. In the real world this would be serious bullying. In Norma land I don’t think this comes close to having to deal with people getting eaten by dragons. Just saying you know…..
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During all these pranks Ange’s walking around did fall apart. In the real world Ange’s boobies would be all out for everyone to see. In Norma Land when two pieces of fabric break apart that were once covering your chest…..they stay on your chest enough to cover the nipples. It is very magical stuff. I suppose Ange could have walked naked or tried to sew things together but she decided that it was going to bite the bullet and buy new clothes. I like how Vivian was there with her giant bag of cash. Maybe Ange is the smart one keeping it all in the bank. Unless keeping the money in the bank cost money. Because if not I would keep it there because these bitches might steal my cash. But yeah. Vivian is there buying a super weapon. Because supplying the girls with the best weapons possible would be silly. Might be effective and what not. There are other girls buying little charms and earrings and bras and Jasmine, the oldest Norma, tries to explain this is to supposed to boost morale. You know, decorating coffins and what not. It’s fun Ange. Money can’t buy you….much here. Like friendship and love. Ange is like peace out, don’t want to get caught up in your insanity. I do agree with Ange with how she handled this. In and out.
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While Rosalie and Chris are drawing penises on Ange’s face while she sleeps and throwing water balloons at her Hilda has bigger plans. First she finds her own way to honor Zola. And it actually honors Zola. See while some girls were buying earrings and stickers for their machines Zola was buying upgrades to her room. Like in Pokemon. With Zola dead those things would just be thrown out because things have to be extra suck in this world. But Hilda didn’t want Zola’s hard work to go to waste and bought it all up. On a more creepy level she also informs Chris and Rosalie she will be taking care of them now. Like you are under my protection girls. All you need to do is let me molest you. Although Hilda gives off the vibe that the sexy times will be more consensual and not okay I let you orgasm but you are crying while doing so. There is also a scene where Salia tries to stop all this Ange bashing and pranking and Hilda takes one for the team. She wasn’t doing the pranks but she protected her girls from Salia’s righteous wrath. While I don’t think Ange deserves to die I am not going to be a dumbass like Ersha and say Ange is forgiven or being a complete moron like Vivian and attempt to give Ange a friendship keychain. Just…work with her and ignore her. Or you guys can pull weapons on each other. I am sure that will solve nothing.
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The episode ends with Hilda showing everyone that she is either going to go big or go home. Like okay these tiny pranks on Ange aren’t working. So I am going to sabotage her machine and very well kill her. HAHA twirl the mustache because it is Movember. Or something like that. Now granted Ange doesn’t really do herself any favors by breaking formation. She really should be fined for that as it could cause someone else a death. But her machine was going to break down from having panties shoved in it anyway so I guess it doesn’t matter. Salia is like NOOOO my machine while Ange is all pissed off because she knows the truth. Like great what else can go wrong in my life where people value this machine over me? Oh you mean after she goes down in the water some random boy can rescue her and tie her naked to his bed? Yeah that sounds about mad. Stay tuned for the next episode of Ange’s life really sucks as it gets even more naked folks. Til then!
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What is this? A Nendoroid post? How can this be? I thought Casa de Tenchi had been taken over by Duffy?! How can this be? Well it turns out that the husband gifted me with some nendoroids for Christmas....last year and I had been keeping them in the box because I thought I was going to get another cabinet to house the figurines. Well that didn't happen so I had to set free the nendoroids Rin and Len Kagamine. Who exactly are they? Well they are both vocaloids, a sorta....voice synthesizer system. My husband decided that they were a pair and needed to be bought together. As I have since learned these two aren't exactly twins.....just sharing the same soul or something like that. For my enjoyment and well being I will refer to them as twins because I can. I rebel folks. They are my present I can do what I want. So onward with the nendoroids shall we?
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Don't you care about us?!
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So much yellow on the box. X___X
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We are certainly better together.
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The stands on their nendoroids are a bit different than usual.
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Since these nendoroids are twins a lot of the pieces are very similar. If you put nendoroids in places other than the boxes they come in make sure you separate these two. You know, if resell is important to you. The pieces are that similar.
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Only one of their facial expressions are different from the other. But at least they have three different faces. No other real accessories though.
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Trying to copy the basic poses from the boxes. Here is regular Rin all smiling for her audience of millions or one. Singing is fun!
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Len is also ready to sing his heart out. I really like the headphones both of the twins have. Almost like a DJ look without being douchey you know? Everything is better in Japan of course.
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And a pic of us together. My husband had a grand idea of getting them both for me as a Christmas gift last year. Can't get one without the other!
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There are quite a few hand and arm pieces with these little nendoroids. They have to strike the classic vocaloid pose. Come, we shall sing and make beautiful music together. This pose was one of the easier ones to do with these two twins.
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Dang I took these nendoroid pictures right next to each other. They look totally different with lightening don't they? Same pose and everything.
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Ah there is the light. Placing the twins on their stands in specific spots is important or they will not sync up like how it looks on the boxes. Even though I have a lot of Nendoroids I am not pro apparently. XD Can never get it exactly like the boxes. Just stretch your little arms a bit more to reach other!! You can do it. Stretch them all the way to the next post as this has become super pic heavy! You can do it!
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But it's not even Thanksgiving!
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But I shall not sleep until I post all the things that are super all the way done. Promises. I think. Because now there is a cat on my lap. Up now is Denkigai no Honya-san episode 3. Spoilers for other people getting to celebrate Christmas with trees already but not me. :(
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Behold I bring you tidings of great joy.
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Episode Summary: Fall apparently is a distant memory as Christmas time has taken over Japan. Director is instructing Hio and Fu Girl about wearing certain uniforms to attract customers. Hio seems super happy with her cutie Santa outfit and eyeballs Fu Girl’s reindeer getup. She is gunho until…she is told to go outside and attract the customers and magically Fu Girl has the better outfit due to how warm it is. Hio quickly turns into a Popsicle and Fu Girl offers to change outfits because she is nice. Hio rather just hate on the fact that they are outside at Christmas time advertising for an ero game that isn’t really within the Christmas spirit. Director comes out as Hio complains and he lays the TRUTH upon her. He talks about how this game took a year to come to stores and for that whole year many lonely guys cried manly tears waiting for their beloved to come back. That Christmas is a time for couples and how can you deny this product as something that brings young love together? It is truly the symbol of Christmas and how dare Hio not see the joy they are bringing to others. Hio is overwhelmed with emotions and tries to apologize for acting like a know it all. Then Director is like HAHA suckers come spend money in our store so Hio knows he is a lying sack of crap. Soon Hio is able to come inside because her shift is over and Director gives her a drink. He sorta ruins the drink by asking Hio out because she doesn’t have a boyfriend. She nearly chokes to death and Director acts like he doesn’t know that he was just a butthead. Instead he wants her to go out with him…to his house to set up a Christmas party for all the single folks at work IE all of them. Once Hio recovers she goes to Director’s house and loses her mind over how nice and big everything really is. Director gets her back on track and they start with all the decorations. From the context of the conversation Hio is one of the newer coworkers as she has never celebrated Christmas with these people before. She seems touched at how much Director does for them all despite his…special nature at times. She offers to help with the decorations but seems to have no ability to control a knife. Director patches her up with a bandaid before she bleeds all over his floor. She seems very taken with him helping her and tries to find ways to make the apartment festive, with her linked paper thingy. Soon it is time for the Christmas Part of none of us have significant others. Sensei is forced to dress up against her will because that is how everyone rolls. She eventually gets in the outfit and Umio sorta calls her cute. She decides to flee into the Christmas Tree because surely that will not attract any attention at all. Kameko brings out the camera but everyone insists she be in the picture too. She does hold onto her hat which seems to be super important to her. So they all sit down to eat their Kentucky Fried Santa Chicken and talk about how they are all single. Umio is like um I am not single which almost causes Sensei to die on the ground. Turns out he is talking about the video game Hio was trying to sell earlier and he ends up talking all night about the game, clearly killing everyone with boredom.
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Christmas abuse!!!
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The next day everyone goes home and Director goes to clean up…but Hio has made herself right at home with some mangas on the couch. He cleans the entire place up and reappears wearing just a towel in front of Hio. She of course freaks out over nipples while he is like well you said not to mind you…..They both read in silence until Director decides he is hungry. The second he gets up Hio puts in a request on what to eat. He makes it and then she sorta….teases him about being able to cook. He tries to point out she is being rude and hello go home so Hio decides to play video games instead. When she keeps dying Director tries to help her out but doesn’t make much process either. Eventually the game is beat and Director gets up to go get dinner. He invites Hio along and she thanks him for allowing her to spend time with him as she didn’t want to go home to an empty house. She asks if she could do this again some time and Director agrees. So Hio decides that the next time is….right after dinner. Soon it is time to open up the store after the new year and everyone is ready for chaos. Fu Girl is nearly run over and has to be saved by Director and Sommelier who takes the hit for her. They end up having to escape the building to die in peace outside. It becomes super dramatic in the store, with everyone getting injuries from doing the same task over and over again. Umio is killed when he tries to restock and Hio tries to be brave by allowing the second group of people come in. Brave doesn’t work too well. But everyone seems to survive the day looking worse than when they started things. Director apologizes for making everyone stay late all the time. Hio is the first to try to make him feel better, that she likes manga and working with everyone. Fu Girl and the others add that too so director won’t be all sad. Umio and Sensei take the train home and things get a bit awkward. She invites him to a quiet shrine near her house and he agrees to go. They get there and it is not so quiet so she takes him to a hill that overlooks the city. It is her spot she goes to for manga ideas. They talk about their wishes for the year which include Sensei becoming a better manga artist. Of course she thinks to herself about the second wish she made hint hint hint. Umio refuses to tell his wish and THE END!
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Don't mind that you are totally taking over holidays?!
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What? Christmas and New Years already? FOR SHAME! As my husband says we can’t have Christmas before Halloween even happens. And what about poor Thanksgiving? Did anyone ever stop to think about that poor holiday’s feelings? No. No they didn’t. Of course Japan doesn’t celebrate Thanksgiving and the husband bought eggnog at the store yesterday but that is not the point. The point is…HOW DARE YOU!
Hio has recovered fast from her time being run over by a golden ball during the peace out summer festival. She feels okay enough to don a slightly sexy Christmas…person. Elf? Sexy Santa? Not too bad though. Hot Topic probably has a shorter version anyway. Hio was just grateful for the outfit she did have and thought maybe Fu Girl was getting the short end of the deal with juvenile looking reindeer outfit. Like haha Director wants us to do something and it doesn’t end badly for me. Then Hio realizes that she was working outside and not inside where the wonderful heat exists. I would have been like um no this elf/Santa needs more than tights to keep her warm. I know that this is the costume but come on? Would I be any good to you dead? Laying on the ground like a frozen Hiosicle? No she doesn’t want to build a snowman. She already is one.
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Teach me your ways Director Sensei.
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To make matters worse Hio was hawking wares at Christmas time that have nothing to do with Christmas. Well to be fair Fu Girl seemed to be doing most of the flyer passing out while Hio died slowly on the ground. Director came out to see how this three person crew was doing because really you need three people to pass out flyers on a super cold night. After Director explained what they were selling I really rolled my eyes more as this kind of product probably sells itself and doesn’t really need people on the street screaming it’s praises. But then again I am against such…aggressive business practices to begin with as they make me uncomfortable. Hio made the mistake of telling Director what she thought of this Christmas merchandise and I knew…I knew before he even started saying anything where the conversation was going to go. The world according to Director is Christmas is a time for love. And some of their customers…well they love anime and manga. And this slightly ero game was the love of some lonely boys out there. Waiting all year long for the day they would be reunited. And that is what Christmas is all about Charlie Brown. Of course Hio is taken in with this beautiful speech instead of being like errrr that is still creepy. She is like teach me oh wise one for I have much to learn. I thought Director was playing in straight and really believed all the craziness existing his mouth but…he knew he was full of it. Could have went a bit farther with his snark though, counting and fanning himself with the money from LONELY boys who need video game girlfriends.
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Are you trying to kill Hio or something?!
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After Hio was done freezing and Fu Girl was done riding Sommelier (yeah there..) Hio got to go inside. Now that I think about it selling hug pillows probably would have been better for this time of year. Clearly I know nothing though. And neither does Hio who gets all embarrassed and what not around Director. So folks I am thinking there is going to be no love triangle at all. Hio is clearly going to be with Director and Umio is going to be Sensei. Nothing to see here folks. But it will take some time to get there. Director sorta….hovers in between two personalities. As we find out in this episode so does Hio so I guess it works out. Sometimes Director is super…well on point about things and other times he is all derp derp. Of course by asking Hio out was going to sound funny. To look at her like yeah we should go out…to my house…doesn’t fly in my book. Stop torturing poor Hio. She has suffered enough in the cold.
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I might call you a pervert but that won't stop me from being alone with you in your apartment.
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I like how Hio recovers fast from these shenanigans. I would have been like um no you can decorate your own house. Also HMMM someone in a position of power inviting their subordinate to their house alone. Sounds a bit iffy there, should have the party at those karaoke places. Or..what is that other place call I always see in animes with the long tables in private rooms with much drinking and suchies? No idea. But since this seems to be a tradition, that Director hosts a party on a holiday that is usually for couples…well then off you go Hio. If he starts recording you like a creeper I will be waiting right here to say I told you so. Of course that didn’t happen. And even if it did Hio was way too caught up in the fact that Director lives in amazing land. Look at the room, look at the TV! Space is at a premium in Japan and while it might look like a basic apartment to my American eyes it is huge to Hio. Seriously where would all my stuff go if I moved to Japan?
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After Hio was done going MOG all over the room…Director still acted nice and normal. No video taping or saying anything questionable. Maybe he is better one on one and when he is around other guys his douche level naturally increases. I think this is true for real life. But no Director just pulled out some decorations and acted like he knew how to hang the decorations up like he was domesticated. Or he hangs them up in the exact same way each year. Either way Hio is impressed. Plus the man knows how to put on a bandaid. He is amazing. I bet he can defrost TV dinners. While I tease ( I think) about Hio being impressed with these little things she has only seen the man at work and there he is usually teasing her. So maybe to her all this effort into the Christmas party and doing non perverted things was a big deal to her. I mean the man was wearing the smallest banana hammock on the face of the planet in the last episode so she could have reason to be impressed.
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Thanks for murdering the party Umio.
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So it is party time! Again Hio and the costumes. One minute she is crying about them and the next she is forcing others to wear costumes against their will. Run away Sensei. Okay maybe not into the tree but run far away. Or just let Umio really know how much you like him and that his opinion of you is wake gets to going in the morning. There was some nice food at the party, the ever present KFC chicken being the crowning glory. I always wonder about that. Do they heat the chicken back up after traveling to the party place and waiting I the long line to get said chicken? I guess KFC tastes pretty good heated up. Not the biscuits though. They get hard as little rocks. I think I have gone off into lala land with this topic but that’s fine. Me and Umio can match. Although I think he thinks he was being on topic. I guess at holiday parties anything can go but maybe Umio can read the room a little better next time and realize he is the only one who cares about the game. A game that Hio didn’t find Christmas enough and that lonely boys play on Christmas Eve because they don’t have real girlfriends. I wonder how Sensei reacted to that.
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Sorry for being annoying. Since I am cute I am sure you didn't mind.
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After Umio’s boring talk of video games and Kameko’s lack of hair exposure were done well…the party was done. Shows over. You don’t have to go home but you can’t stay here. Well Hio didn’t get that memo. I sorta like characters being multi-dimensional. Like okay you can be a nice girl at work with a heart of gold but you can also be a lazy girl who overstays her welcome and doesn’t offer to lift a finger in cleaning up after the party. I guess she did help set up and no one really stayed to clean up either. Made me kinda sad how fast the decorations went down though. I guess since I leave my decorations up forever I feel different about that situation. It is hard to tell how Director felt about Hio just laying on his couch and judging his free food he was cooking her. On one hand he does tease her a lot like he would want her to be his girlfriend. On the other hand she is not his girlfriend so….get out? Can I have a moment alone to dry off my nipples? But then Hio and her oversized sweater smile at Director and thank her for staying. Sounds like she has a lonely home life and while most of us are okay with having some quiet time…Hio doesn’t seem to be one of them. I used to know someone that would want to work MORE hours just so they didn’t have to be at home. Me…obviously I like being alone but things might be different in Japan. In any event Hio smiles at Director and thanks him and he forgets that she was annoying with her video game playing/manga reading on the couch all day self. At least for 5 seconds. Then Hio shows back up 5 seconds later. Like dude I said you could come over whenever you wanted but you can’t come back over if you are still here. Silly girl.
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Hio hopefully goes back home and changes clothes before it is time to open up shop again. Our main characters are super lucky they are the only ones who work on the floor of this manga store because….okay they are not lucky. Must be hard to plan anything fun with your best friends if you are all working every shift at the store. Especially this shift. The dreaded New Years sale. In Japan it is like Black Friday. Super sales, long lines with Lucky bags and crazy people trying to trade for their crappy Lucky Bag stuff. I am not sure what promotion this store was putting on but I am assuming it was something good. Even if it wasn’t sometimes the need to shop is great. Everyone had their game faces on for this crazy day but Fu Girl and Sommelier were taken out early. I am glad they took their dying outside to not get in the way of other people working or walking. The others were dramatically injured or trampled as well but made it through the day serving all the Slender Men wannabees. Director seems to be a great leader…sometimes anyway. He acknowledges how hard everyone worked and he is sorry for always relying on them and not the other nonseen employees. Like thank guys….Hio lead the charge in making sure Director didn’t feel bad. Probably because she likes him personally but maybe she does see he can be a good boss. This lead to other good feelings of love towards Director who then had to ruin the moment. Which is usually what bosses do so what can ya do?
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Being in love means obvious blushy faces that everyone notices but no one says anything.
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The episode ends with Umio and Sensei having a moment. If this relationship is going to go anywhere I would suggest learning her real name. Say it at romantic times to make Sensei blush, not in front of the others and what not to keep their relationship a secret. You know…a secret. But yes Sensei wants to take Umio to her little known shrine to celebrate the New Year. Of course it turns out to not be that quiet so Sensei could show him her super secret tree spot that overlooks the city. It did look rather pretty. So they got to have their moment with no one else around and no costumes or crazy customers around. Just a slice of life time talking about New Year wishes and having crushes. I like the quiet moments…..but then the silly moments are nice too. I guess I will just have to wait around to see more of these moments since I am SO CAUGHT UP with this show. GO ME! XD
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Hi! Remember me? I am Tenchi's lovable and expensive stuffed animal Duffy the Disney Bear. Even though mom has been slacking on everything but reality TV lately she still has managed to have a little bit of fun with me. She needs to have more though as I like going on adventures. This day's adventure though was Dad's idea. He always has to work when this thing called the Air Show comes to town but this year he didn't have to so he woke Mom and me up at the crack of dawn so we could have some fun. Thanks Dad! Time for adventures with planes that don't talk!
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Some of the planes we couldn't get too close to. Probably because they were privately owned and tiny.
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The most famous planes for today, the Blue Angels, fly in hours and people are already getting their spots. Like Disney!
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Some of the planes we could go inside. We had to take very fast pictures though. I would not want to fly in a plane like this.
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So many buttons and knobs.
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Is this a super copter or a plane?
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Err....how can the pilot see?
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One of the famous Blue Angels. XD Everyone was super excited to get their pictures taken.
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There also other military vehicles there. I am ready to drive a jeep.
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Mom wanted to see the inside of one of the plane Dad works on all the time. The line was long but that's okay. We can take pictures of me while we wait.
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Apparently when you ride in these planes on a mission...sometimes....there is no potty!
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Dad knew what all of these were and everything!
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Finally we are in the cockpit. I got to sit in the pilots seat! There were really loud planes flying during this time too and I got to watch through the window.
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Look at all those people!
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I guess this hole is to look at all the cargo and the people in the rest of the plane?
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We watched the whole Blue Angel's show. It is in the sky so I am not sure why people have to wait for hours to see it. Just look up.
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So many people left before the show was over Mom was able to get a front row seat so I could get a pic with the planes.
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There were lots of booths passing out free things today. This was my favorite, a squishy little plane. Thanks for taking me out today Mom and Dad. It was a little hot but a lot of fun!
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</span>Christinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07410807672363317056noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785035130297400343.post-29578918193235068932014-11-20T22:54:00.001-05:002014-11-20T22:54:20.752-05:00Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon: Crystal episode 9I just want you to know out there in the anime world when it came to Sailor Moon episodes I usually watch and mostly blogged the entire episode the day it debuted. Wait is that a word? Anyway I would feel guilty about the other episodes I had set aside for Sailor Moon and then...well you know...this happened. YAY ME!
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Knock on wood?
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But now that I am almost caught up with everything I can post this episode without feeling guilty. I think anyway. Up now is Sailor Moon cia 2014 episode 9. Spoilers for...not too much happening. Again.
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Thanks Liar Face Scout. I remember now.
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Episode Summary de Tenchi Style: Mamoru takes a blast from Kunzite that seems to last 5 minutes rather than 5 seconds. During this freefall into Sailor Moon’s lap Mamoru realizes that the Princess he has been looking for all along is Sailor Moon and he is this Endymion person he has dreamed about. He reaches up to touch Usagi…and passes out/dies. All the other Scouts have their shocked faces on as Usagi screams and cries for Mamoru. Suddenly Usagi turns into Princess Serenity as Sailor Venus is just..Sailor Venus. Kunzite waits off to the side as Usagi stares at the broken watch going back in time and she remembers being the moon Princess. Mamoru was Prince Endymion and rules Earth and she fell in love with him despite it being forbidden. Things were okay for about 4 minutes until Queen Metalia told the Earth to rebel and steal the Crystal. This ended with Endymion being slightly stabbed by who will become Queen Beryl. Usagi is upset at the fact that they were reborn to just lose each other and cries her head off. Her tear becomes the Silver Crystal and…it looks like a piece of it enters Mamoru. In the now Queen Metalia and Beryl are like MOG GET THE CRYSTAL! Because you know Kunzite was taking a break from attacking. Minako is like please don’t do this Kunzite!!! He attacks and all the Scouts can do is protect Usagi. Queen Beryl appears and with Kunzite they steal Mamoru and disappear. Usagi scream about a million times for them to give him back. They manage to get Usagi to the arcade hideout as Usagi cries on a strategically place bench. For the THIRD time this episode it is explained (this time to the other Scouts) that Sailor Venus was the decoy and Sailor Moon was the Princess. Everyone served her happily in sparkle land and she fell in love with Endymion the Earth Prince. But then the entire planet of Earth turned against the Moon and Endymion got stabbed. Luna and Artemis were frozen and sent to Earth to aid Usagi when she eventually showed back up. Usagi is like…I want Mamoru back now and passes out. Everyone screams Princess a million times and we get to see what Queen Beryl is doing. She thinks that the Crystal is mostly inside Mamoru now so she is ordering him kept alive. Kunzite is joined by the rest of the Kings who all think Mamoru looks familiar. Kunzite starts to have feelings and pushes them away. Usagi is at home resting which includes having millions of nightmares of Mamoru dying. Luna is in command feeling like she somehow let Usagi down and Artemis cheers her up. Everyone decides they are sad without Usagi so they go and visit their sad friend because clearly that will make them happy. There is a super awkward scene with Usagi glowing like an inch worm thing with her never-ending Princess growing hair. The other Scouts cut and style it back to normal for their Princess and Usagi is like stop with this Princess stuff, I am Usagi. Rei is the first one to agree Usagi should be Usagi. Usagi almost loses her mind at the mention of Mamoru because really was that girl going to cheer up? There is a group hug to comfort Usagi and Luna is like….lets go to the moon. What? Luna decides that all the answers that they are looking for including where the Dark Kingdom are lie at the moon so….yeah everyone decides it is Moon time. Especially Usagi who has her fond memories of the place and is vowing not be a tragic Princess again. But not until next episode. THE END!
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Not me Usagi, not me.
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WAI FOLKS! Wai indeed! I had the grandest of plans of making this summary only 4 sentences long. That is how it felt to me, this episode. 4 seconds/minutes of new content. So how did I manage to type all of that above? No idea. I am made of crazy and long windedness or something.
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Shocked faces for all!
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So when we last saw our heroes Kunzite was blasting Sailor Scouts left and right and since Usagi had been flung previously off the tower she wasn’t close to the other girls. She was heading to protect them and Mamoru/Tuxedo Mask was like nope I am going to protect you instead. But since Mamoru is Mamoru and not Daryl Dixon his idea of protection is to take the blast for the girl. To be fair that seems to be a lot of people’s idea for protection as well. Usagi was doing the same thing as well. Personally I rather find a way to hurt the person trying to hurt my friends instead of taking the noble way out. Tuxedo Mask takes the hit and I am going to pretend that he finally remembered who he was as his brain’s dying way of sorting things out. Like oh now I see. All the things that were repressing me and what not have died and my memories are flooding into my brain now, at a useless moment because I am dead and this information might have been better like 5 days ago. Like the kind of death that is so painful you stop feeling pain and enter a dream like state. Only Mamoru was in a memory like state as he reached up to a now heartbroken Sailor Moon.
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Kunzite almost killed the Silver Crystal several times over. Actually the whole Dark Kingdom thing...
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Kunzite gets an F for bad guying. Or maybe he gets an A. Maybe it is part of bad guy school that you have to allow your enemy/the good guys to have an emotional moment after something happens. Like oh look I have to file my nails. You guys take a moment to cry and regroup. You know, because I am not here to kill you and take home the win or anything. So yeah Usagi got to cry and have her breakdown while everyone looked on. I mean come on the other Scouts and their sudden ability to fly could have fought Kunzite while Usagi had her super sad moment. And dude why was Minako so upset that Tuxedo Mask is hurt? She doesn’t even know him. This is why the original anime is slightly better in that aspect, as there was more time for ALL THE GIRLS to become better friends. But Minako was always last so I guess she still shouldn’t be all OH NO about the situation. She should have been the one to regroup the team better.
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The enemy injured one of us? Didn't see that one coming!
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So Mamoru got his memories back due to trauma brought on by…you know imminent death. Usagi apparently got her memories back due to trauma brought on by…Mamoru dying in her lap. Like Usagi is known for being a crier that can spark pain and other powers. Maybe I can be a crybaby super hero too since I don’t believe in myself in any other ways. XD But back to the topic at hand. Usagi is screaming and crying and POOF we got some outfit and cosmetic changes. Gone is the crescent moon from Sailor Venus’ head and it goes on Sailor Moon’s. A SHOCKER! Also…Sailor Moon loses her entire uniform and gains a dress. Or as the Sailor Scouts say…her body transforms! She doesn’t change clothes folks, her body changes around the clothes. What does her body change into? Oh I don’t know…the Princess of the Moon Kingdom? Yeah that sounds about right, Sailor Moon being the Moon Princess. And the fact that in Mamoru’s and Usagi’s dream this Princess Serenity looks just like Usagi was missed by both of them. You know… a little too much fog. Anyone could have the same hair gosh!!!!!
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I AM SO SHOCKED! Didn't see that coming.
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Clearly this show is not about surprises and it couldn’t have been for the audience even if this wasn’t a redo of a 22 year old show. Sometimes Sailor Moon feels very….well for kids despite how mature I think the manga is. Apparently not mature by today’s standards but at the time there was murder and suicide and what not. But then there are other times like where I think this show is geared especially for kids. How could Mamoru and Usagi not question their own obvious dreams. Like we can’t change up anyone’s hair or anything during transformation because how else will the children know?! But yes this is all new to Usagi and it shocks her. All these memories flooded back to her, she being the Princess of the Moon and Mamoru the Prince of Earth. How everything was happy in illegal love land until it wasn’t. So basically Usagi remembered how she lost her love in her previous life just in time to lose him again in this life. I would cry too people.
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Don't be such a dumb baddie. Be a smart one!
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Only Usagi’s ultimate tears of sorrow (not normal tears) are not just a natural reaction to a horrible situation. No no…maybe Kunzite deserves a medal from both sides. That or Usagi was going to cry out the Silver Crystal anytime after she got her memories back. That was the secret to Sailor Venus’ deception though. The Dark Kingdom might have been accidentally right on trying to get Venus Liar Princess alone if the Princess automatically had the crystal. Of course Kunzite gets his medal taken away now because he was going to KILL Minako instead of making her cry out the crystal so if she had had it….Also there is more medal taking away because Usagi is sitting here crying out the Crystal into her hand and into Mamoru’s dying body with the Scouts quickly moving in to protect Usagi and all the Dark Kingdom can do is kidnap Mamoru? I mean I understand the thinking behind that decision since a piece of the Crystal was just cried into him (in an attempt to keep him alive). But they SEE the object they have been searching for. No doubts, no need for hairbrain schemes. So why not call up ALL THE TROOPS and ALL THEIR MINIONS and get the job done now. Queen Beryl got there instantly, have her transport the other Kings and any mud/clay/stone minions they got laying around and attack all at once. Just BAM all our war. Maybe Beryl might have lost a few troops that way but who cares? She doesn’t? Go all out. Victory is within your grasp. Just….bad guys are stupid.
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Look at us being so sneaky!
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But Beryl and lone King Kunzite do manage to steal away Mamoru as the rest of the Scouts were too busy protecting Usagi (who was holding Mamoru but details). They leave the crying girl behind despite her holding most of the Crystal in her hand. Because. They take Mamoru back to wherever the Dark Kingdom is hanging out these days and luckily for this dude he has a piece of the Crystal in him. That means he is valuable enough to keep alive. But even then he probably would have been kept alive like a trade. Sailor Moon will want her boyfriend back and returning him one limb at a time might not make this trade happen. So Beryl and Metalia are off going HAHA this is all going according to plan when really they need to be paying attention to the Kings. All the Kings looking at Mamoru like they know him. Something familiar about him. I WONDER WHY. I mean without being spoilery it should be something that Beryl should be aware of. She was the one who stabbed Endymion on the Moon Kingdom. We saw that. So….you know…Beryl needs to be careful. Very careful. For now Kunzite can be in denial and the other Kings can put together Blue’s Clues.
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While Beryl is gluing Mamoru back together the Scouts get Usagi back to headquarters so their Princess can cry on a random stool in peace. Like there is nothing else in the place with that kind of style. Actually all you see is nothingness and the control panel. Then poof here is some poofy chair. Princesses always need something to throw themselves on and cry. Here in the Scout Land is where we get the THIRD flashback of the episode. To be fair the Scouts weren’t getting these dreams so maybe more of this was a shock to them. It was just a bit much since the audience was being told the whole story all along and in the same episode we get it spoon fed to us for a third time. Like snooze I waited 2 weeks for this? I think I would have liked to see the Scouts asked more questions. I guess there isn’t too much betrayal from Minako since she just joined 2 days ago so her lies were really pointless. Not too much invested in them. I might have asked more about where the Dark Kingdom came from. Like who is behind it and why did they use the Earth to get the Crystal? That might have been a super indirect way. Speaks volumes about their power level. Instead it mainly became about Usagi and Mamoru’s past love and how everyone needs to say the word Princess a million times. That is really going to grate on my nerves. There is a Japanese word for Princess, use it! Usagi of course was not up for any conversation and soon passed herself out because life sucks.
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But home doesn't have this random chair. :(
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The girls must take Usagi home because she is seen waking up from another nightmare. I say another because…well she says it herself. The enemy has her almost boyfriend/past boyfriend so of course she is going to assume the worse. Not sure what her mother thinks is going on but she has allowed her daughter to stay home from school and have a moment to herself. Usagi has matured in a short amount of time otherwise mom might have assumed Usagi was being sneaky. I am sorta disappointed in Luna not being at the house with Usagi. She is off having her own pout and pity party for some reason. For some reason she seems to think she has let Sailor Moon down? How is that possible? Because she didn’t get her memories back before Minako? She still doesn’t know all that happened. All anyone seems to know (except maybe Minako and Artemis) is the Earth tried to get the Crystal and Endymion died in the process of protecting the Moon and Usagi/Serenity. SO MANY NAMES. They also know that they were successful in sealing the enemy…for a bit but there is more to know. Luna and Artemis got sent to Earth but why would they need to be sent to Earth at all or why is everyone reincarnated? There are a lot of missing puzzle pieces and Luna seems to think her not knowing everything is her fault. Like hmmm how did you let this girl down? If anyone let Usagi down it would be Minako who knew about the other Scouts yet let them grow alone. In any event Artemis and the other Scouts tells Luna to buck up because they are feeling sad without Usagi’s smile so they are going to go visit her now.
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Yeah folks they really said that. I am not sure what crazy world they are living in. Maybe Ami, Makato, and Rei are rusty at having friends but when your happily bubbly friend is down because their boyfriend is maybe dead…you don’t feel bad for yourself because there are no smiles in your life. You need to run and take care of your formerly smiling friend and glue her back together. Like….it sounded insane right? We can’t smile without Usagi around. Well bishes I don’t think going to see Usagi in this state is going to make you smile either. I am guessing she is doing a lot of crying…alone…because you know….she has no friends to support her during this hard time. Can we get some Naru up in here?
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So the Scouts all showed up after who knows how many days and find Usagi in a state of sadness and hair. That scene was really…..odd with the hair. It didn’t translate well from the manga and Usagi pausing like some crazy glowing statue. Just no. Thankfully the scene moved on pretty fast to Usagi’s tears and everyone handing out hugs because they are super best friends after knowing each other for a month. Plus you know….they knew each other in the now not Moon Kingdom. They can get through this horribleness together. Maybe. Poor Mamoru being kidnapped and all yes? We can get through this because you brought us all together without meaning to and are our dear friend/Princess.
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Without prompting Luna is like…lets go to the Moon. The girls want to save Mamoru and probably want the missing pieces of the puzzle. So clearly going to a place that no longer exists will unveil those answers. Obviously. Like if they sealed the enemy away so well what the heck happened to this Kingdom and why didn’t the astronauts tell the rest of the planet what they saw? It doesn’t matter though because Luna wants to prove herself to Usagi and take care of her girl. And her girl wants answers and the only place that had the answers is the Moon. So to the Moon they will go. Step aside tragic Princess of five minutes. We are going to hop on a rocket ship and travel at the speed of fast into space. Or you know…hop in their new Sailor Bubble of flyingness and off they will go. Until next time…Moon Pride!
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I have finally sat down and finished MOST of the anime posts I stared. I have 1.5 episodes to go...on things I started. Yeah a bit behind on everything. But I am assuming that the new Pokemon game is going to enter my life soon so if I want a chance at catching up before Christmas I figured I better do it now. So let's get started with Shirobako episode 3. Spoilers for.....one facial expression adding a week's worth of work.
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Clearly this scene needs to be changed. Adding 17 hours of extra work for one face.
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Episode Summary: Seiichi and Aoi show the in house animators the new scene of Arupin yelling that she knew the betrayer was…betraying them. The new scene meaning the voice acting has changed but not the drawings yet. The animators see right away the acting is better than the drawing and Seiichi explains how he wants the scene to go now. Yuka (general animation supervisor assistant….) quickly sketches something to see if she understands everything correctly. Yuka seems to think that they can have this new scene done by tomorrow morning which impresses newbie Ema. Yuka and Ema get right to work but Ema stops to take a little break to spy on Yuka whom she really idolizes. Seiichi ends up spending the night at work and can be heard mumbling about recap episodes. Aoi is either at work bright and early or also worked through the night. I am going to assume it was bright and early. Or I could rewatch the episode and it’s nighttime……She goes through everything that she needs to get done today. I am going to also assume I finally know what it is Aoi does. Each assistant is assigned to a different episode and is in charge of making sure each component is done on time so the next one can take place. While episode 4 is being worked on Aoi needs to start working on episode 9. It seems like a lot of running around work and Aoi starts to get a little stressed about 4 key frames for episode 9 that aren’t being done in house. But she is mostly stressed about the retakes for episode 4 and how to coordinate all the people for that mess. Erika comes by and tells Aoi to not to get sidetracked with admiring the art and to stay on task. Erika also gives Aoi some advice on how one of her key animators like to…say things are okay when really they aren’t. Aoi calls the man in a panic and he doesn’t answer the phone. This causes Aoi to assume the worst. Erika is like meh it will be okay so thanks for worrying her for nothing. Honda comes by and Aoi watches as Erika perfectly talks about her episode 7 and the status of everyone and everything involved. Honda then turns to Aoi and starts firing away questions about…well everything. At first Aoi has all the answers but then she gets super frazzled. Erika hits the man for going too hard on Aoi and Honda apologizes for worrying. Aoi is able to answer the questions anyway about…well all those things that were fired off way too fast for me. Erika gives Aoi a few pointers on what to focus on first and who to give the extra work too. There is a brief scene with Yamada and another artists working on clips when Aoi comes by with some review work. Yamada asks her to calculate times in her head and gives her strict orders to wake him up at 6:30 am the next morning. Well really today as it were.
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Aoi goes back to her desk to fret about what else needs to be done. She passes out briefly and has a dream that her dolls are arguing about her job. Soon the morning rolls around and Aoi is off waking people up, making sure sketches get done, and running them to every single person in this series at a breakneck speed making her look super busy. While handing the frames over to Rinko Ema gets called out on spying as she wants to learn this looking over process. Apparently looking things over is a skill that you can get super fast at over time. Aoi keeps on running around and accidentally makes a mistake due to her lack of thinking or sleep. Aoi checks the mail and finds out one of her people haven’t sent over the frames. Well it turns out he just woke up and assures her all will be well. Later he calls back and thinks he can’t do it at all and Aoi starts to lose her mind. Eventually she is able to pick everything up and runs to the colorer who assures her things like this happen all the time and not to worry. The work they have out sourced is finished but….the server is down and they are unable to send it via the computer. Aoi then has a break from reality and does the dishes instead. Erika sees Aoi and takes the girl up to the roof for a snack break. She tries to get Aoi to talk about what is wrong and to focus. Downstairs everyone starts to realize the internet or the server is messed up. Several people get involved but I am not a computer expert by any means so I really can’t tell you all that happened. Just that the files from the out sourced company could not be sent. The head office lady Yuka calls this company while everyone panics and has them drive the data over here even though it will take 2 hours. Aoi tries to then go finish episode 9 work and Erika is like hello anime is team work and other crap. She then offers to do some of the assistant jobs or…something despite that not being her duty. Because she believes in team work too. So off she and everyone goes working. Eventually the out sourced work arrives and the President of that company talks the ear off the President of this company. Seiichi views the new work and the tiny changes and it is a tear jerker. Aoi is told all the work is done and to send her people home. She then thanks Honda for all his hard work….He says mistakes happen and she will grow as a person. She tells her team that all the work for episode 4 is done woohoo! She then calls Shizuka to confirm plans for Sunday with all the girls. She then sits down with Ema to watch the complete version of episode 4 complete with Arupin ugly face. THE END!
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I am sure the President has a name. But really he is named Dude Who Makes Food.
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Okay wow folks. I was thinking that this episode was going to be so easy to blog. That I was going to simply say for the summary Aoi worked on episode 4 and a million things went wrong but in the end Arupin got her ugly cry while Aoi ran around appearing to look busy the entire time. Yes a run on sentence for the summary indeed. Instead I typed….a million words. How did that happened?! Clearly I have the crazies….
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SO MANY NAMES!
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But yes folks. I might have used up all the words in the universe for the summary but in reality…this episode was all over the place and half the time I had no idea what was going on. X___X Like how to blog this when I am not super sure what Aoi does for a living and when there are a million characters featured in this episode for a slightly brief amount of time. SO MANY CHARACTERS! It is like they want my brain to explode or something. Perhaps this show was created to show everyone what was on the line. If you don’t buy DVDs and BLUrays….none of these people will get paid. And there are a lot of mouths to feed apparently. So folks…downloading anime is bad. Very bad.
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I see everything!
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As I continue on with my downloaded anime….I am going to sit down and try to explain to myself what it is Aoi actually does. I am convinced she doesn’t do any drawing or coloring. We know she doesn’t do any voice acting. She MIGHT scan the prints to the computer and upload them final copies. You know, after she is doing running around with a million cells and folders all the time. But I believe Aoi’s main job is to oversee every single aspect of certain episodes. Mainly 4 and 9. Maybe another one but that hasn’t been mentioned yet. That means she is required to know who is working on what rough cuts, final drafts, coloring, ect. She needs to know when these things will be done and has to schedule when the next part can be done without asking anyone’s time so timing is important. So basically Aoi is supposed to keep track of everyone and everything as her only work while not having a hand at the actual anime episode herself.
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Aoi's job is to apologize and be responsible for other people's actions.
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Is that rude to say? Because I do like how Japan tries to find a job for everyone to keep unemployment low. People seem to accept higher prices on things because that will keep taxes low. Like you would have been spending that money anyway. So sometimes that means there is a lot of stupid red tape and people to go through because…well everyone needs a job. And sometimes that is how I felt Aoi was being. Not that I don’t like the girl. A job is a job after all. It just seems she was running herself stressful and crazy when in reality couldn’t this be done without Aoi? Just do things in order and the person who has the copies last gives it to the next person. No middle man involved, just everyone following a linear line of an episode and the last person who has the product will look it over and give it to the general manager who will give the A OKAY.
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Honda is in charge of the episodes and then appoints minions like Aoi to be in charge of specific episodes?
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But that is apparently not how anime works. And maybe if it did go this way things would end badly. No one person would know every little bit of an anime episode and things could fall through the crack and some finger pointing could occur. No one would be held to a time frame and since animes are made….three minutes before they actually air it is impossible for the boss to know each episode well. So this is where the assistants come into play. They aren’t drawing or coloring or voice acting things. Instead they are assigned a view episodes and keep everyone on track. Unless their name is Tarou they are supposed to be up people’s butts and never take no for an answer. So while Aoi is not doing any of the work herself she gets super stressed out over what she knows needs to be done. It is all in her head, bouncing around her brain and keeping her awake at night. Little lists of what needs to be finished and who has what scenes. Or she did until Honda came over and asked too many questions and turned her brain into mush. So Aoi has a reason to work.
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All of this insanity in this episode happened over one little scene changes. Seiichi turned over the new voice acting part of his Arupin having lots of feelings moment and the artists all agreed that the voice acting was much better than the art and that Seiichi’s changes were sound. This TINY moment of animation meant tons of reworking. The voice acting was already complete but these tiny moments in anime add up into tons of work. Work that was being done in house and sent to other animation studios. I still find it odd that more things aren’t done in a studio. Like I knew manga artists work mostly at home but I thought all animes were done by people who worked at the same office so things would look similar all the time. Guess not. So that means Aoi has to lose her mind more over keeping track of slackers at home who are sleeping and not working. So many pieces of the puzzle spread out all over the place. I can see how that can get confusing, keeping track of all that. But I can also see how that could lead to some downtime. If everyone is working on what they need to do and Aoi is up to date on the situations what else can she do you know?
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That was most of the episode. Aoi and her lack of sleep trying to get episode 4 done while not neglecting her other episodes. Aoi freaking out and thinking she is letting her boss down. Dude these people work late. I almost feel bad complaining about my latest job as I never had to work past midnight and be up by 6:30. X___X Insanity. Yet Aoi was expected to do it all. Like um when can this girl get some sleep? She was constantly apologizing and being lectured to despite the fact she was doing her best and it was other people slacking or Seiichi’s idea to change one ugly face. And then the computer software crashed and the one file she needed was not going to be sent in time. I sorta liked that she lost her mind so much that she was doing dishes. I didn’t like that she blamed herself for this issue though. Not knowing much about computers how can she be the one to blame when she wasn’t the one who asked for the change? All dazed and confused…poor thing. Everything did work out in the end but I think Aoi aged 5 years in the meantime.
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In between Aoi freaking out and everyone in the world having a tiny part of this episode there were some other moments worth mentioning. Ema was adorable all over the place. She and Aoi are new to the business and as such are in awe of others that are in the same position but have been there longer. Ema watches Rinko and Yuka like they are the most amazing people on the face of the planet. Perhaps Misato is a bit higher rank wise but since Ema never leaves the office (because she needs supervision) she might not know to super look up to that woman yet. For now it is all about Yuka and Rinko who seem to get things done within a blink of an eye.
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Aoi has her own moment of you are so awesome too. Well it wasn’t so much hero worship as it was Erika was rescuing Aoi from a stressful situation. All day long. Erika knows how animes work and things aren’t perfect. I think Aoi was assuming things were going to be her fault if they went wrong. Maybe it would have been blamed on her but I thought the artist were more at fault. In any event Erika was calm down Honda, have some chocolate Aoi, and we will all figure this out together. Maybe. Even if it wasn’t going to be alright I am glad that Erika was there to keep Aoi from washing all the dishes ever and quitting her job. Is this Aoi’s first job at all at the studio or just the first time she has been in charge of episodes alone? I hope it is the second option because the first one would be….a bit much for a newbie. Erika probably knows the new to the team feeling and made sure that Aoi didn’t fly away to crazy land while knowing what was expected of her. Yay for being friends.
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So as episode 4 is finally finished Ema and Aoi can breathe a sigh of relief. All that rush and running around like chickens with no heads is done…well until episode 9 comes around of course. This finally means there can be time for friends. Because there were 5 girls in the animation club and we have only really focused on Aoi with a side of Ema and splash of lonely Shizuka. What about the two younger girls? Are they having a tough time as well because they are younger and would be fresh to this crazy city of Tokyo? Shizuka still hasn’t caught her break and she has been there probably as long as Ema and Aoi so….are the other two girls just as busy working other jobs while waiting for their dream job? Everyone must be busy as they barely have time to spend together. Almost makes me sad but I guess that is the reality of adulthood. Still once a month….at least Aoi and Ema got to take a moment to watch this new ugly Arupin moment of animation. Like take a breath and watch our work at…well work. You guys did it. Smiles and doughnuts for all. Then we will wake up the next day and do it all over again WOOHOO!
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Hello there and Happy Halloween from Duffy! Did you get a lot of candy? Or did you get a lot of snow? Mom has friends that live in places that got snow today! I have never seen snow. Maybe there is more snow now because everyone is dressed up like Elsa....especially today, on Halloween! What did I do for Halloween? Well lets find out!
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What is this?! The Tsums have gotten into the candy?!
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Come back here you naughty plushies!
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Oh no! They nearly ate all the candy! Will I have enough to give out to all the plushies?
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What? You think Mom already ate all the good stuff already Huffy?
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Some of the Duffys are getting in the holiday spirit. Has some candy!
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Even though you are not a Duffy Kira you can have some candy too.
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You even brought your own basket Huffy.
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Hello Halloween is manning the door in case a child comes for some candy tonight.
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Since she is doing such a good job I gave her some candy too.
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Cuffy and Tuffy are usually together nowadays due to their similar backgrounds. So I shall give them trick or treat candies at the same time.
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Mom dressed up as Anna while Dad made dinner. Look how spooky it is!
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Close up of the scary food. We have zombie flesh, slime and cheese, and pumptasic potatoes. It is almost too scary to eat. Even the soda is scary!
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For dessert Mom gave everyone some brownies to share. They weren't as scary as dinner.
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After all that food it was time to settle down and watch some scary movies. If we could manage. These were just backup since there were tons on TV. Although The Thing is Mom's favorite. She might have to hold us close due to all the scariness though....Happy Halloween I think? XD
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</span>Christinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07410807672363317056noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785035130297400343.post-19310843598444890062014-10-31T23:54:00.000-04:002014-10-31T23:54:10.265-04:00Curl up with your favorite scary movie. Or alternatively snark it death!Happy Halloween all you witches and haunts. Hopefully today was full of costumes, candy, and scares for you. Even if you had to work today hopefully you were allowed to wear a cute outfit or what not. If not….well tomorrow all that Halloween candy will be on sale and you can celebrate that way?
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Since going Trick or Treating with a stuffed bear is probably frowned upon in most circles I will keep my Halloween self at home. Which is fine because my favorite part of this holiday season is the scary movies. XD My favorite genre of all times. I get to see Halloween and SAW and Friday the 13th on repeat. Killer dolls, zombies, and dumb teenagers doing dumb teenager things….sounds perfect right? Well as you know or have heard…some horror movies and shows have a reputation. Like um so why did a character do that? Is that even remotely possible? Why won’t he die? While some of these are accepted by us horror movies as just….things to accept there are times when I side eye things myself. Like hmmm can I really get behind this? Or really I just watch the movies in question to make fun of these issues because snark is fun. So come along with me this holiday night as I share what I think is amusing or irritating about the horror genre and the like.
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If there is some killer shark or a giant spider or some other creature that has never been seen before and you are the person who suggests we should capture it and not kill it…I will kill you myself. And everyone around me should applaud. Applaud that I have saved at least 3 people’s life. Sure that person died but chances are if they say those magical words they are goners anyway. I know in Tremors the person who suggested it lived (well both Tremors 1 and 2) but other than that if you suggest that the thing that has magically appeared and started eating humans should live because MOG it should be studied….you are toast. It will live longer because it ate you. We can study it’s corpse. Humans outrank giant crocs okay?</span><br />
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<span class="fullpost">Camping is bad. You want to be one with nature? Because if you go camping you will be eating dirt sooner than you thought. Obviously going anywhere near Camp Crystal Lake is a super bad idea but other forms of camping or road trips that don’t involve hotels end badly as well. Even in 2014 there will be no way to call for help because your cell will magically break down. Go to Disney. No one ever got murdered by a serial killer at Disney. </span><br />
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<span class="fullpost">That noise is either a cat or the killer whatever. Everytime. It cannot be anything else. Either way it does not need your investigation. You might look stupid for running away from a cat but stupid is better than decapitated. </span><br />
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<span class="fullpost">If you think something is dead and you are finally safe you should empty your magazine into whatever it is head. The only exception to this rule is during zombie raids as there will be tons of them. Still one bullet to the head wouldn’t hurt. And if you have the time actually separating the head from the body would be most effective too. Don’t call a friend or take a breath, thinking everything is fine. It’s not. Overkill does not exist.</span><br />
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<span class="fullpost">Is your town haunted by some awful past? Well then move. Especially if every kid on every street ends up dead. Chances are you won’t get much for your house but your children won’t end up soul pizza. And if you insist on staying around this crazy place burn down the place of where the bad thing happened. Selling a haunted house of death is pretty dishonest and stupid. Just burn it and replace it with NOTHING. Ever. </span><br />
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<span class="fullpost">If you get confirmation that your friend or love one is dead leave them. If this is zombie times stab them in the head and then leave them. Screaming TINA TINA TINA over their dead body isn’t really going to help you. Sure burying them and paying respects would be nice but I think your loved one would want you to live more than scatter flowers. RUN silently. Yes it is upsetting and of course you want revenge but going blindly into a situation will leave you dead too. And don’t drag the body around for goodness sakes. </span><br />
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<span class="fullpost">Every time you leave your house it isn’t sex or drinking time. Never drugs but you know. It is possible to go outside and do none of those things. I mean I know it is a morals thing anyway, the sin factor but think about it. Humans are the most vulnerable when they are naked. And if you are impaired how can you fight back properly? These activities are usually done alone as well. So if you aren’t doing them chances are you will be ready for anything that comes your way. And if your friends aren’t doing them they will be ready to assist you if anything bad goes down. Again have some family friendly fun at Disney.
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Don’t kill or hurt people who could be your allies. This is not the Hunger Games. There can be more than one Survivor. Typically there isn’t but if you kill an innocent person so you can get slightly farther you will definitely die. I mean…if this made sense evil should reward you for helping and spare you but that isn’t the case. You will get what is coming to you. You might have died ANYWAY but taking out someone else makes no sense Shane. </span><br />
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<span class="fullpost">Sometimes there are crazy people in this world. And other times there are people who have just come in contact with giant sharks or super human killers. And they are upset and frightened. Do not dismiss them. Especially if you are the police. I am not saying trust every crazy that comes your way but take some precautions. Don’t mock the situation especially. Mockers die first. Actually don’t be a cop either. Don’t be a mocking cop. It is just safer. </span><br />
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<span class="fullpost">Doing things to save or make a buck rarely works out. I mean if you are a huge company that used to make millions of dollars surely you can afford some new plastic. No need to reuse the giant pile of old plastic that is currently bleeding on the ground. Solving a terminal illness is great. Making super smart sharks not so much. You too good to be real cure for cancer will indeed cure cancer. Because everyone dies and turns into a zombie before the cancer takes place. </span><br />
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<span class="fullpost">If your child has a core group of friends and two of them die…..take the remaining kids and guard them with your life. Putting your fingers in your ear and going lalala is surprisingly not effective in keeping your kid alive. Because something is killing your kids and while you might not believe the cause at least if you SEE them and all their friends you might stand a chance in keeping a handful alive.</span><br />
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<span class="fullpost">Keep your car in good running order. Sure I am a hypocrite with my broken vehicle but listen. The second things go south you are either going to be dumb and run upstairs or to the danger or you are going to be smart and head towards your car. Chances are though you are a young person and can only afford a piece of crap. No judging. Just…make sure you get an oil change and the spark plugs work. Because you will need a getaway car when things go south and cars like to stall out in these kinds of situations. So while the rest of us are rolling our eyes at how this ALWAYS happens…it reality it is just bad car maintenance people. These are the kind of people who are busy buying booze and drugs with their money. They have enough cash for those things but not to keep their car is good working order. </span><br />
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<span class="fullpost">Life is super unfair. Some might say being a woman is more difficult than being a man. Because life is geared towards the upward rise of men there are other areas in life where men get the short end of the stick. So boys…there will be no tears at the fact that there is no final guy. If you life it will probably be with someone else, almost always a girl. But a girl can live alone in dangerous situations. She will have to endure a lot and probably die anyway in the sequel but she will find a way to pull through. Mainly because you guys like to act like badasses or dumbasses. Sometimes you are heroic and we appreciate that. Not as much as you actually being alive with us but do note your sacrifice is not forgotten. </span><br />
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Hello there! It is I Duffy the Disney Bear. And I am here to tell you lovely readers...I have a lot of costumes. A lot! Mom told me that Halloween was coming up and told me I needed to decide what to wear. So I went to my closet and looked. SO MANY COSTUMES! I think I have enough to celebrate the 13 days of Halloween or something. How am I going to decide? I better try them all on to see which one I like best....
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My all time favorite costume is my Sulley outfit. I think Disney made a very good costume here.
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I even have a little Mike to go along with my costume.
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I could always go as my favorite movie Cars.
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Come on Lightening McQueen. Drive us home!
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Halloween is a time when bad things can happen too. I know this due to all the movies Mom watches....
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Well that wasn't very nice of me, picking on the Tsums. I wonder if they do make a tasty treat though.
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It did all start with a mouse. Without Mickey where would I be?
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I am Mickey, King of the Tsums.
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Mom doesn't have Shelly May yet so she lets the Hellos wear her clothes. She does sorta have hearts on her...
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I bet Shelly and I will look cute when she finally shows up. A matching pair.
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This Duffy hasn't been introduced yet. Mom should get around to posting that....But he looks pretty Hawaiian. And where is Stitch from?
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We could kick back and just relax this Halloween season.
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It's good to be bad!
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Kira you are blowing my cover!
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Drat he saw me!
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I could sneak up on all the other plushies this holiday....
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Wait don't be scared! It's just me Duffy.
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:( No one likes me.
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Just kidding! Everyone loves Eeyore. See how many costumes I have? How am I going to pick? Decisions decisions.....
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</span>Christinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07410807672363317056noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785035130297400343.post-47001555263628812422014-10-29T18:48:00.001-04:002014-10-29T18:48:54.907-04:00Cross Ange: Tenshi to Ryuu no Rondo episode 3Um...i forgot what blog post number I am on for today. XD 5 maybe? I shall post this one and see about to dinner. Then I will organize what I have left to do on some more random posts and go from there. Or you know...watch more anime and have tons of half finished posts for next week WEEEE!
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I would want to say goodbye too if this was my future.
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Before I eat the noms though here is another anime post. Up now is Cross Ange: Tenshi to Ryuu no Rondo episode 3. Gosh animes have such long titles. Anyway spoilers for Ange needing a shovel because she just keeps digging herself a bigger hole every time she opens her mouth.
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So much denial!
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Episode Summary: Miranda screams for Coco as her vehicle crashes into the ocean. Ange looks in shock as the area becomes full of dragons. Like she wasn’t paying attention to that video at the preschool class. Salia is told to back off by Zola and focus on the battle and not deserter Ange. Zola tells Miranda to stay alive while the rest of the girls fight. Miranda tries to go after Ange who still thinks she is going back home. She tells Ange that there is only enough fuel for the battle and that she will never make it. Ange doesn’t care about facts and keeps on going. Miranda flies over where Coco died and gets pissed at her friend for thinking that Normas could ever have a happy ending. To make her point really clear to Ange Miranda is knocked off her vehicle and eaten by three different dragons. Ange loses her mind at seeing this second death. The rest of the girls put the deaths behind them and start battling the dragons. They do a really great job, dodging the gross things that the dragons fire and attacking them with freezing bullets or something. Soon they are down to the last dragon and victory looks promising. Zola tells them all to focus on doing as much damage as possible when Ange and her lost mind self flies over to the battle and hugs Zola out of fear. Zola is unable to fire and she and Ange are both hit by the massive dragon. Ange wakes up in her broken vehicle to find a dead Zola dripping down on her. Ange is mended in the clinic where Jill brings the entire squad over to explain how serious Ange’s actions were. Three pilots died and 4 vehicles were destroyed because she tried to run away. Zola was clearly loved by everyone on the troop now….Ange decides to make her situation worse for herself by saying she is not a murderer because Normas aren’t human. Zola’s groupies don’t respond well to that and give Ange so hurts because of her callous attitude. Jill then makes Salia the new captain and Hilda the second in command. The other girls leave with different feelings about the situation.
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Ange falls asleep briefly and dreams of her maid doing everything for her as the King ordered the royal family to never use mana. She wakes up in the clinic and asks if her petitions have gone out. Surprisingly Jill sent them and none of the other nations would accept the letters and she claims that Ange’s nation doesn’t even exist anymore, that perhaps the people revolted over the lies. Ange truly is stuck here and needs to get with the program. When Ange is well enough Jill makes Ange carry the grave stones out to the sight as the survivors need to have the wasted lives really embedded in their minds. Ange doesn’t respond to this much or the fact she has to pay for this somehow. Jill and another woman tell Ange how it is, that Coco was only 12 years old and that as a Norma Ange will fight dragons or die. That is it. Ange once again tries to claim that she can use Mana just…not right now. It doesn’t really work and Jill lays out the truth, that the magic world only exists because the Normas kill the dragons for them. Ange has a moment of compassion, realizing that her little sister is the same age as Coco was…but then she realizes how awful her life will be at this island and asks to be killed. Jill is like no you will die on the battlefield like your comrades so suck it up. Salia (or someone) interrupts this grand time by saying the dragon has been spotted. Jill is like time to go Ange. It is pointed out that Ange no longer has a vehicle. Jill has a solution to that and gives Ange the oldest one (they all have names and different colors and what not) in the fleet. It is basically falling apart so it will help Ange die if she wants to. Ange seems okay with that as Salia is a bit….err maybe we shouldn’t be doing this…but Jill reminds her about rules so up Ange goes. The other girls aren’t happy to fight along with this Zola killer but on they go. The dragon appears in the water and still has retained the injuries from last time. At first Salia seems to have a great game plan but the dragon has a sneak attack. Something to do with the dragon ice attacks. This throws Salia off and soon the squad falls apart. Ange is also not helping with her wetting herself and flying directly at the dragon so she can die properly. But deep down inside it is hard for her body to turn off it’s natural instinct to survive. Ange eventually gets caught by the dragon and is about to die when her royal ring is exposed from her bandaid hand. She remembers what her mother said about living on and how Coco died horribly. Suddenly she doesn’t want to die and the ring glows. Suddenly…poof her vehicle morphs into some amazing piece of equipment and it works properly. She finds the will to live and kicks the dragon’s ass. After the dragon is defeated Ange realizes what she has done and that she doesn’t want to kill to live and blah blah. Headquarters hears Ange have a breakdown after the battle but Jill seems okay with it all. Ange goes to the graves of Coco, Miranda, and Zola later…and basically says goodbye to her past life and family. She signifies this moment by slicing off all her hair. She returns to her room and eats the pudding that Coco gave her. She cries and declares it gross. THE END!
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Okay. So this episode wasn’t AS BAD as the previous two. Yes this show is going to have tons of unnecessary skin but at least no one was molested or rapped on my screen. Probably because the main offender died and it probably would have made more sense if Ange was killed rather than rapped. But yes. The torture continues as I keep on trucking with a show that is probably not meant for me but I am too stubborn to quit and enjoy complaining about things.
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And apparently Normas have a very, very short lifespan.
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When we last saw these Normas (the show will end with everyone realizing that Normas are NORMAL and Mana users are actually the freaks yes?) Ange decided that breaking formation to fly back home was a great idea. Salia came up to stop Ange and Coco came up to join her wonderful Ex Princess when the DRAGON gate opened up on Coco and she was sliced in half. Now in a normal anime with a lovable main character Ange would have turned her little machine around and avenged Coco. That despite thinking all Normas are monsters and aren’t human she got to know the sweet girl and she must avenge her. She is the Princess, one of a the people and she will defend said people. Move over Zola, Ange is here to protect everyone, even your rapey ass.
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Well at least that makes a tiny bit of sense.
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Or or…Ange would freak out even more and continue to escape even though there are lots of little dragons (I don’t feel like capitalizing it each time) and one big dragon heading for them all. I don’t know why Zola didn’t order Salia to kill Ange and join the rest. It wouldn’t have taken that long to shoot the upset girl in the head for deserting. Plus it might have ended better for certain people. Instead Salia was ordered to enter the main battle while Ange and Miranda were told to stay alive. That was their official duty. I would argue that they needed more time anyway and that giving Ange access to machinery was a bad idea anyway given the fact that she wasn’t feeling the friendship and protection angle. Good job Ange. Thanks for breaking all the norms. Probably because you are a Norma.
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Miranda....at least Coco won't be lonely now.
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I think if I were Miranda I would have followed one of the other girls and used them as shields. I don’t think I would have gone after Ange as that girl wasn’t attempting to fight at all and clearly is only thinking of herself. Plus Coco did go after Ange so if Ange hadn’t run away Coco would have died later in the episode. That would have been Miranda’s logic anyway since Coco made her own choices and I don’t think Ange was really hiding how she felt about the other girls. Instead Miranda tried to help Ange despite all of this. Turns out the people running this island aren’t made of stupid. They only give the girls enough gas for their gear for one battle. And apparently this island is in the middle of nowhere so Ange has no chance in making it back to her home. Thank you Miranda for giving Ange that piece of advice. Look at the water and think of your friend Coco and how dumb she was as you are about to die as well. This death was a little more graphic. I don’t think that Ange would have made it in time to save the girl so all she could have done is watch as Miranda was eaten into tiny little Norma pieces.
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Can't you see I am busy kicking ass?!
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The other girls (especially Vivian) keep on trucking despite the death of their two newbies. And they were doing pretty well. This Naomi person must have been another newbie because it looks like these girls have been together for a while and know how to fight and support each other. These dragons seem to fight with ice crystals yet the main weapons against them also seem to be ice. I am sure what they are will be explained later. Or rather no one has really thought to ask what they are and Ange will figure their true nature out. For now fight the dragons and live. Enter the pretty battle scenes and all the girls taking out the smaller dragons. They were just minions anyway. The big one needs the most focus as he is a boss in a video game and you have to do enough HP damage to it despite where you actually hit it. This is when Ange comically flies over to Zola and hugs her, looking for protection. I was really expecting this to play out in a certain way. Like Zola would try to get Ange off of her while the other girls take out the dragon, denying Zola some of her military money for not taking out the big boss and what not. Zola and Ange would be punished later and everyone else would have sweatdrops on their heads over their antics. Those two silly kids.
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Or or since this show is about only awful things Ange has tears in her eyes and blocks Zola from battling the giant dragon and it hits both of their units. When Ange comes to she is injured, in the water, and has Zola’s fake eye in her lap. When Ange and Zola crashed Zola was partially thrown from her unit and her dead body was dripping blood all over Ange because nightmares are fun for everyone. We learn later that the remaining girls don’t continue to fight the massive dragon. Because their leader is dead and were ordered to find survivors and return to base. Well really I am sure that the girls were sent to look for Zola and for some reason were told to bring back the injured Ange because a soldier is a soldier. Also killing Ange would not be fun. Torturing her is much better.
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Of course Ange brings a lot of problems on herself. She wakes up in the clinic covered in bandaids but alive. I might have questioned why this scene was looking way too 5th Element given some of the areas that were covered were not injured and perhaps a few article of clothing could have been used. But that probably wasn’t the point. The point is 4 vehicles and 3 fighters were lost in this battle that probably goes swimmingly every other time or…only one person is lost. So what is different about this time? Oh just the fact that Ange tried to get away. Now Coco did follow her and Miranda wasn’t told to stick to Ange so is Ange really to blame for their deaths? Coco tried to escape too and I didn’t see her lasting that long anyway. And the battle against the larger dragon had been going well so I don’t know why the remaining girls could have protected Zola during Ange’s hug. But if Ange had just fallen back and allowed the others to do their jobs Zola would still be alive and she is who everyone cares about and looks up to so there were going to be hurt feelings. Ange didn’t take kindly to being called a murderer and explained that since Normas aren’t human there was no murder committed. Yeah that went over super well with Zola’s groupies. I am not seeing a whole lot of older woman on this island so I am guessing people die SUPER YOUNG. After Jill it appears that Zola might have been one of the older fighters so this loss is a big hit for the group. So Jill allows Zola’s groupies to get in a few licks as Ange lays there being all injured and feeling sorry for herself.
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Grief time seems to be brief here at Island de Hell. Jill quickly puts Salia in charge of this troop with Hilda the new second in command. So that means the balance of power shifts slightly with the groupies no longer being on top. I am going to hope that everyone cried later over these losses but maybe they are so desensitized by death now (like Vivian) it is just another day. I would hope that deep down Ange feels upset about the deaths of these three girls even if she doesn’t feel that she is responsible. That time is not now though as she asks what about the letters. Yes the letters to the other nations asking for help or asylum or something. While Ange is laying next to the body of her leader she only thinks about herself. I thought Jill was going to laugh in her face but….yeah surprisingly Jill attempted to mail out these letters. I would have lied and just stamped rejected on them but that’s just me. No one wants Ange, especially her nonexistent nation. Now I don’t think it just…poof stopped existing because the royal family was proven to be liars. I think that Julio renamed it something different and either Jill or he are being dramatic about the wording. Either way there is no hope for Ange and she better start accepting how things are. No more of these dreams of her happy Princess life although that dream did help explain why Ange had no idea about her mana status. That rule was put into place so the King and Queen could hide Ange’s condition but I thought it was still a flimsy excuse. Like Normas are awful for not accepting the gift of mana but no one in the family that LEADS the nation can use mana? Like it is below them or they would show off? It seems off to me.
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Once Ange is able to walk she is tried for her crimes and put to death for causing the deaths of two super young pilots and their commander. Clearly she is never going to get her act together and protect the rest of the squad. Life might be tough in RapeyLand but at least the girls don’t think they are better than the others and they are trying to live. Ange is not at that point and had Jill not put her in that Troop (at all or so soon) Zola and Miranda would still be alive. I fully believe Coco was not going to last anyway. Oh wait none of that happens? Instead Jill thinks the right punishment and way for Ange to GET IT would be to help bury her fellow teammates and pay for their gravestones. Yeah that might work on the others girls or the other girls might just volunteer out of a sense of duty and love but this was not going to happen with Ange. The woman who went along on the trip tried to talk about Coco and how she was only 12 but I sorta started to fade out when Zola was talked up as this great leader who really loved her troops. I wouldn’t really go that far in crazy land. Maybe she was a good soldier but her behavior was a no go with me.
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Ange had one tiny moment of clarity. She realized that her little sister is the same age as Coco. Perhaps she was imagining how tough her sister’s life would have been had she been a Norma and had some issues walking. It is usually easier to get to someone when you make it personal. This lasted 5 seconds as Ange was still not ready to accept Normas are human beings too; they just can’t use magic. Ange is still clingy to the idea she can use mana. I mean…maybe she is just rusty since she has never had to use it before. That could totally be it. Or she is in super duper denial due to her privileged upbringing. If Jill slapped (not rapped) Ange at this point I wouldn’t blame her. Instead she allows Ange to dig herself into despair. Eventually she will have to accept reality right? The reality that Normas only live to fight dragons and then they die. That her peace in the magic world was always tainted due to the Normas’s sacrifice.
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During this conversation it appears Ange does give up. Like you know what…if this is going to be my life from now on just kill me. I don’t think she has accepted she is a Norma but if she is stuck here with the rest of them and has to face those dragons for the rest of her life might as well kill her now. Jill won’t give her the satisfaction now though. Like um if you want to die you need to do so in battle like your comrades did. If I were Ange I might just hang myself but she has it in her mind she is still noble and what not and needs to die in an honorable way. If everything has been taken from her she can at least die the way she wants to. But no she is going to have to wait for the next dragon attack. OH LOOK! The big dragon from the last attack has been located. Lucky you Ange. Now you can die right away aren’t you happy? Salia wasn’t too happy about Ange being in her troop still…you know, given what JUST happened. But Salia is all about rules and following them. Jill won’t let a little thing like Ange not having a vehicle get her down. She will just give Ange the oldest unit they still have. You know, they were keeping it around for sentimental reasons. Using it for spare parts or scraping it would be silly. Now Ange can ride the piece of junk to her doom WOOHOO!
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Salia has probably been in this troop for a while and the way she carries herself I would assume she made second in command rather early. And I think that is a position she is good at. Leading…well maybe not so much. I think it stems from the fact that she can only follow the rules and standard procedures. Anything out of the ordinary and she is not able to handle it. All she has are standard attacks. That was going well for a while with the big dragon but once the thing launched it’s sneak attacks well Salia was calling out for dead Zola. I am not sure how the dragon was able to make sneak attacks under the water with it’s ice bolts but since I don’t know what they really are I guess anything is possible. Things quickly turned awful in the land of the already awful.
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Enter the Ange. The girl who is trying to die on purpose. For a girl who wants to end it all she sure went about it in a long about way. I might have just crashed into the dragon the second could. That might have redeemed her in their eyes anyway, if she exploded on the dragon and saved everyone else. Like woohoo you were good for something after all. But while Ange wanted to die…she was incapable of allowing that to happen on an unconscious level. Like it just isn’t in her nature to give up. Sure her life is horrible on this island and she wants an out. But even as she pees herself and begs the dragon to kill her she just can’t. She is not a quitter and can’t just give up without a fight. I think she would have gotten to that point by herself but the thought of her mother dying to save her life…yeah that probably helped. Like I can’t waste this life that my sorta kind mother gave me. I say sorta find as the rest of the family was okay with letting other Normas die but refused to see the humanity in other Normas. Maybe they did but had to keep things hush hush.
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So why is this ring so magical? Guess we will have to wait to find out....soon? Or at the end of the series I suppose.
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In any event as Ange was about to get eaten by a dragon…she decided it was living time. Jill for some reason let Ange wear her royal ring. I thought she would be denied her past life and Jill was beyond carrying about her feelings but there it is. And I guess it is a good idea that it was there because Ange was able to activate it with her royal blood. It is also good that this magic wing that is activated by Ange (maybe because she is a Norma?) has the ability to change rusted metal and what not into a working vehicle of amazingness. Like….just anime magic exploded all over my screen folks. Why did this ring suddenly explode into awesome? I mean I can understand Ange being awesome at piloting it as she has some natural ability but this seems out of left field. Unless this magic ring was guarded by the family on purpose, as Normas should rule the world of something.
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Byebye Mr. Dragon thingy....
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Now that Ange can kick ass she made quick work of that dragon. What dragon? Begone ice attack and peace out giant creature. Of course Ange still isn’t all WOOHOO about her amazing attacking skills. She isn’t to that point yet. She has to cry about how killing is awful and this isn’t the way she wants to live her life. I don’t think crying for dragons is warranted yet but maybe I will be proven wrong. In any event Jill sees promise in her and maybe the rest of the troop (who was still super pissed and might have wanted to use Ange as a meat shield) owe that girl their lives. Ange does have a dramatic moment at the graves of her fallen comrades and I thought she was going to use that moment to apologize to the girls for what she did. Instead it was more of her saying goodbye to her family and old life. I think I would have liked it better had she cut her head and said goodbye to her life away from the graves, maybe just on the cliff. Ange did seem to say goodbye to Coco by eating the pudding though so I guess that counts for something. And yes I know she was crying over her horrible life situation and not because the pudding sucked. Haha. Baby steps. Ange has a lot of making up to do and I am sure she isn’t ready to embrace this life. Nor are the Zola naked girls ready to accept Ange into their hearts. So where does this leave Ange? Guess we will just have to find out next time right? If there is a next time…
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Goodbye childhood, hello real world!
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WEEEE look what it is! The last of the new animes I am watching this Fall season. I am so sorry Shirobako that I have kept you on hold. :( But I am almost done with episodes 2 and 3 if that counts for anything. If it doesn't...well here is the almost forgotten episode 1 for Shirobako. Spoilers for anime really cutting it close to the wire.
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Episode Summary: 5 girls are apart of an animation club at a high school and have decided to make their own original anime for their high school festival. It will be a lot of hard work but most of the girls seem very talented. Aoi makes them promise victory on some doughnuts. Then the seasons change as the festival draws closer and the girls work hard on their animation. Aoi seems the most outgoing and outspoken about all of them going to Tokyo and working in the animation field together but seems to have the least talent in any one thing. Ema seems the most talented with drawing but has doubts her family will let her go to Tokyo. One girl is talented at voice attacking and the two younger members barely get any screen time. They work hard and by the time the festival rolls around they proudly present their work. Ema talks her family into letting her go to Tokyo and at graduation Ema, Aoi, and voice acting Shizuka bow to their younger classmates and promise to all meet up in the city one day…on the promise of doughnuts of course. Two years later and Aoi is beyond tired at her job. But she trucks on. Well actually she is in a car on her way to pick up some artwork for her studio. Her studios is mentioned on the radio as their anime Exodus to Tomorrow is premiering in a few hours. Aoi blasts the theme song on the radio happily. When she spots a fellow coworker out and about they decide to race to the next destination. By race I mean they turn the cars into airplanes and nearly die. Aoi wins and races up to get some stills or whatever from Key Artist Misato. Aoi is impressed with how hard this woman works..and that she has huge boobies. Aoi makes it back to the studio…and she notices no one is in the work areas. She walks around the area until she finds everyone in the break room eating and waiting for their anime to air on TV. All the other workers at this studio are introduced at a breakneck speed but a familiar face is shown in Midori as she is one of the new artists at this place. Everyone has differing levels of excitement and how to handle their nervousness. Aoi and Midori are so happy part of their dream is coming true.
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The anime airs and as the closing song ends….the entire room is excited. Of course there has to be someone who reminds them there are 12 more episodes to go and not to get too excited. But everyone seems to be positive except for one nervous looking boy. The next day the entire studio is given a pep talk about what to do next. Again more introductions of characters and job titles. Aoi seems to be…in charge of making sure all the art pieces are collected? Like each assistant is in charge of making sure all the elements of shows are ready to go. Aoi and the rest of her team go to watch episode three in which the nervous boy Tarou was in charge of. Turns out he was so nervous because the main key animator for that episode basically told him there wasn’t enough time to finish the main battle scene or something and gave back the rough sketches. This puts a lot of things on hold as coloring can’t be done and the voice acting can’t be started as it will be off in the syncness. Tarou apologizes about a million times and said she tried to ask other key animators for help. They list other people they know but Midori is too new to do such an important scene and all the others are a no go for some reason or another. It is basically decided that Aoi, Tarou, and a few others would go and ask Misato for help even though she is busy working on other episodes. She seems concerned that Aoi won’t be able to get episode 4 finished in time if she is helping with episode 3. Well 3 comes before 4 so lets put that aside for now. Misato agrees to do the heavy work much to someone’s…disappointed back at the studio? Work gets under way and for some reason Aoi get a lot of talking to despite the fact that she is just trying to help get episode 3 done since 3 comes before 4. She seems rather frustrated at home but knows it will all work out. At the last possible hour Misato is able to get the frames done. She is told to rush over there as everyone else is on standby to color and dub. Misato seems exhausted and Aoi thanks her for the hard work. Aoi declines going to the voice acting session so she can get to work on episode 4. She does stop by a doughnut shop on the way home to share with Misato. Only when Aoi gets to Misato’s home she hears the artist pass out on the floor from exhaustion. Oh no!!! THE END!
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Well that part was easy enough to understand. Working in the anime field means you can drive a car like a spaceship DUH!
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So folks…not going to lie. I had to watch this episode twice just to understand everything. Okay that really isn’t accurate. I had to watch this episode twice in an attempt to understand everything. I don’t think it worked. I don’t know if the show is at fault though. I guess I thought the show would explain everything to me, step by step. Sorta like how all my “yaoi” shows do when they focus on the manga and anime industry. In between the not having sex and barely having kisses. With this show I feel as if someone needs to have a basic or working knowledge of anime to understand this process. That might be far but it sorta just left me feeling lost and confused.
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I can get behind doughnuts all the time. Go girls!
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The first part of the episode was easy to understand. A bit fast paced and we really didn’t get much time with all the girls but easy to understand. These 5 girls all attend the same high school and belong to the animation club which also has to involve doughnuts. Donuts? How do you really spell doughnuts? I hate words. The doughnuts might just be an added perk as one of the main character Aoi loves them. She makes all the girls promise to work together to make an original anime in time for the school festival. That is why I am assuming this took place over a year as each year would have their own festival. Less than a year then…..more like 6 months. Quick look out the window and watch the seasons pass on by.
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Look at those eager little faces!
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So throughout the year we see these girls working really, really hard together on this. And the entire time I was so impressed with them. I really would have liked to see more of the final product but I am going to assume that it turned out awesome. The girls seem very talented. Or at least talented enough to do all this work on their own. So maybe in Japan everyone does have a working knowledge of how anime is made since these girls with no prior training figured it out. I found it odd that all the girls seemed to have a hand in some of the animation. Like all the girls might have different interests (like Shizuka and voice acting) but they were all able to contribute to the final drawing product. Kids if you can draw a stick figure you can help make an animated film.
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Best friends forever!!!!
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Throughout all this hard work we learned a tiny bit about the girls although it was really Aoi’s episode with Ema in between. The internets are trying to tell me that Midori also works where Aoi does. If that is the case I didn’t see her this episode. But yes Aoi. She seemed to be the most pumped during the episode, about doughnuts and the episode they made at the club. But then she seemed liked the most inexperienced? Like she wants to be in the anime industry really badly but hasn’t found what she is really good at. She even doubts herself when telling the others they all need to get to Tokyo and work together. Ema seems to be the most talented of the group but almost didn’t make it to Tokyo due to family problems. It wasn’t explained well but it sounds like her parents weren’t keen on the idea. Still sent her money after the fact so I guess it wasn’t too bad. Shizuka seemed very good at voice acting. The other two girls got barely any airtime, probably due to the fact they didn’t graduate at the same time. Midori and Misa will get their time to shine. That time isn’t now though.
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The face of happiness....
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For now it is Aoi and 2.5 years after graduation. I wonder if Midori and Misa kept the club running after the older girls left. Guess we will find out next time. Right now we go to watch Aoi look beyond tired and hungry as she waits for the light to change. Apparently working in the animation area means really late nights as it was pretty dark outside. She was listening to the radio before she became a road criminal and the very fast talking hosts were LALALAing about the new animes coming out soon. Even if I did speak Japanese I would have been like X___X trying to understand them. But Aoi understood them enough and couldn’t help but beam with pride as the anime she was working out, Exodus to Tomorrow, got pretty good ratings from the duo. Even had the voice actresses on to talk up the show. Oh Aoi was just so happy. Of course even after viewing the episode twice I still have no idea what she does for the show but she was excited. Sorta like you stay and watch the credits for a film you worked on. Head Person in Charge of Cleaning the Make-up Brushes. Work is work though folks and Aoi pushes aside all the tired feelings she was having and was excited for the moment. Their show was almost on the air! Quick cue Aoi racing her co-worker down the street like an insane person while singing the theme song to the anime in question. Sounds like an idol show thus the peppy song that really jazzed up the fact that these cars were basically flying in the sky. Where are the cops? Oh wait they are at home ready to watch a new batch of anime too? Fly on.
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MOG SO MANY PEOPLE!!! X____X
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Once Aoi picked up some…..some things from key animator Misato Aoi drove the company car/flying vehicle back to headquarters. It looked..well different than I thought it was going to look. Almost like you could live next door to a major anime studio. Pretty cool. Anyway she arrives back at work and no one is there. Clearly the zombie apocalypse has happened and they are all dead. Or you know…everyone is waiting for their show to air at what looks to be 11 pm or midnight. If Aoi hadn’t figured out where they were would she have missed the showing? Maybe she forgot and they did tell everyone? In any event now Aoi can eat and watch the show with all her millions of coworkers. Seriously it felt like millions. Is this why anime is so expensive to produce? I felt as if there were a lot of people with jobs that could either be given to one person or the job itself didn’t make much sense. Just…just a lot of people and I didn’t bother to learn all their names. </span><br />
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And then this is the part of the episode that makes me all confused. First off…I was taken aback at the fact that anime is made so……close to the wire. 14 days before the episode airs and it still isn’t done? Like that actors and actresses haven’t said their pieces nor have the special effects been added? Hot damn what is going on there? Animes are announced months in advanced and you are telling me they only start making episodes 2 weeks before they air? This explains why things can sometimes look and feel rushed, that once the DVDs come around things are really cleaned up. But why is it happening in the first place? Why can’t they just produce all the episodes in the winter season and then it airs in the spring season? Instead I feel as if the winter season ends and instead of taking a week or two off those people jump into a new project. So during that week or two where all the animes are ending and we have no new episodes everyone is scrambling to get episode 1 out. Doesn’t my idea sound better?
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And that means Ema the newbie can't do it?
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Apparently not. Because while there seems to be a million people working on producing an anime there is only a finite number of people doing the actual drawing. People with no drawing skills are then allowed to put the scenes in order, scan them on the computer, and do the coloring. The people who do the important drawings are outsourced. So while an anime might say such and such company apparently anyone can draw it. Here I thought that people were working all together in a room, the same team all the time. Or at least in the case of Sailor Moon, two teams that work on every other episode and boy does it show. But now I am amazed that every episode doesn’t look incredibly different. I am not sure how many key scene animators there are but it sounds like they use more than 5? Perhaps the same crew is used over and over again for background peoples and scenery but wow the fact that the show goes through that many hands is mind blowing to me. And since these people are contracted out they might be working on more than one show at a time? Like if this Misato is working on episodes 4, 7,10, and 12 of Exodus to Tomorrow she could be working on other anime episodes at the same time. Is that why everything looks alike nowadays? HMMMM so animes that look super different might have the same staff.
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So if I say no the work will magically get done?
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In any event…I don’t know what Aoi does. Nor what the boy who messed up a lot Tarou does. It seems as if there is a mini supervisor over each episode. Like make sure the artist stays on task, put things in order, and maybe helping with the coloring? Maybe. In any event (because I am confused) Tarou messed up. And I don’t really know if it was his fault. The key animator was like nope can’t do this in two days and handed him back the work. Sure Tarou should have said something but why would a professional say that?! It’s your job to do it even if it’s hard. Plus I think Tarou should have told someone higher up to deal with the situation, how do you make a grown person draw something they don’t want to? If that key animator is in charge of episode 3 and there is too much work to be done isn’t it their job to find assistants to assist them? Why is it Tarou or anyone else’s job to find them helpers? Wouldn’t they have assistants all year round no matter what project they were working on? Just….not seeing how this person could refuse the work.
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Um you might want to be quiet Tarou.
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But it doesn’t matter if I understand or not about why key animators can turn down work or what Tarou or Aoi really do at the studio. What matters is episode 3 can’t be finished and it is a perfect time to panic. This is going to set Aoi back no matter what because folks….3 comes before 4. Not a concept that made sense to a lot of people in this episode. I mean everyone was getting on Aoi’s case. If episode 3 doesn’t air there will be no episode 4. Yes she is in charge of episode 4 but this is a team effort folks. I think Aoi knows this will put her behind so maybe someone from episode 7 or episode 1 should step up instead. I guess it doesn’t matter what Aoi did as her key animator was the only one who said yes to helping out despite some people not being on board with her sense of style. Um don’t like her sense of style, do it yourself. And back up what you are going to say coward. Trying to lie about what he said…meh.
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HAHA that's what you get.
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So despite me not understanding a lot of what was going on I understood it was a hectic time at the studio with all this work for episode 3 needing to be done but until the frames were done it was put on hold. Aoi probably could have monitored other things while she was waiting for Misato to finish up. Standing by the phone wasn’t really helping. But Aoi was under a lot of stress too. All her dreams of coming to the big city and working with all her friends sounded like a grand idea in high school but now it is long nights and no doughnuts. Frustrating workers and what nots. Poor Aoi. This business seems very fast pace and stressful, all of which could be solved if they made animes in the Summer that would air in the Fall but what do I know?
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In the end Misato pulled out a win. A very exhausting win but a win. Aoi was able to zip around the city and the wheels for the rest of the episode 3 get started. I was a bit sad for Aoi as she didn’t get to stick around and see the voice acting process (where I think I saw Shizuka) because she had to actually start on episode 4. :( Poor Aoi. Maybe next time. I like that she took the time to get her hard working key artist Misato some of those precious doughnuts that she loves. You know..because the woman deserves them. But also because if Aoi hadn’t been thoughtful Misato would have been passed out on the floor alone. X___X So while this show has a lot of happiness and lala bubbly moments there is a serious side to making anime. Clearly everyone is overworked. So while I don’t understand everything going on in this episode….this show has promise. Maybe I will learn much more about anime and appreciate the process a bit more. Or feel bad for everyone in this industry and I can’t ever judge the C-team ever again. Time will tell if Aoi will enjoy this industry or will gain a million pounds by drowning her sorrows in doughnut. Until next time!
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WEEEE post number 4. Of course given how long I went without posting that might not be something to brag about. But for now I still have things in the queue and I will worry about catching up when....well when I find time to catch up. Up now is Inou-Battle wa Nichijou-kei no Naka de episode 2. Spoilers for misunderstandings and crazy names.
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Episode Summary: Jurai has gathered all the club members together for something super important. Tomoyo is yelled at for showing her visible boredom. Jurai says that they all agreed to pick super hero names and Tomoyo needs to fall in line. Tomoyo points out that Jurai basically forced everyone’s hand into this insanity but Jurai is not deterred. All the girls set to work on picking a name that is perfect for them based on their abilities and personalities. Hatoko is rather boring with picking colors and putting them in front of her name. Jurai is like no go on those names. Sayumi is next to show off her skills in name picking and most of hers have the word Princess in them and have to do with fairy tales. Jurai is impressed and seems to think she put a lot of effort in her names. He does question why a mature woman like Sayumi would pick cute Princess names and not something along the lines like Queen. Sayumi gets embarrassed and/or mad and stomps away to the bathroom. Chifuyu is next in the name presenting procession. Her first name is something stupid, like Strawberry Strawberry or something. Her other names are things like Pineapple or words that imply something bad is happening in her home life. Tomoyo is last to show her name off and Jurai is moved to tears at how amazing her name is. He goes on and on and embarrasses her. They are interrupted when Mirei walks in to tell them to keep it down. Everyone knows she is using the noise as an excuse to come in for something else. Mirei is like I have business with Jurai today. Apparently he left a love letter in her locker and she is here to respond to said letter by confessing her love to the boy as well. Jurai is like whaaaaa while all the other girls have daggers in their eyes and anger in their hearts. Tomoyo is the first to voice her concerns and Mirei accuses her of being in love with Jurai as well. When Tomoyo blushes and denies it Mirei is like well then mind your business. Jurai tries denying all of this so Mirei pulls out the note and starts reading. She goes on and on for about 5 hours which is amazing since this is a 22 minute show. Jurai is like…I was trying to give her a name based on her power and she mistook the word Robber for Lover. Mirei is like I love you too so lets date. Tomoyo tries to rally the troops to take out Mirei but they are all so upset over this develop they have lost their minds. Mirei tells Tomoyo not to be jealous over her small boobie size verses Mirei’s breast size which causes Tomoyo to use her power against Mirei. Mirei of course steals them and Jurai has to sweet talk the girl into giving them back.
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But but...it was in my shoe locker.....and a word that looks like Love.....how can this be?!?!
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The next day Mirei waits for Jurai after class hoping to spend time with the boy. She ends up just walking him to his club room but is all happy and flowery about the situation. Jurai is like oh boy I need to stop this somehow, especially when he learns what her email is. All the girls were waiting for Jurai to arrive to the club room but when he walks in they all enter a state of ignoring him or being so pissed off at him he shouldn’t really talk to him anyway. Jurai asks Tomoyo if she is jealous which was the wrong thing to do. Eventually Sayumi becomes the mature one and points out that Jurai really isn’t doing anything wrong and that they should come up with a plan to help the boy let Mirei down. Jurai then has a mature moment and decides this is something he needs to do on his own as he created the problem. He finds Mirei after school and explains that it wasn’t a love letter but a letter giving her a name for her super power. Mirei gets embarrassed ad pretends that she never really liked Jurai anyway, she was just going along with him. Jurai sees the tears and keeps on apologizing because he really does feel bad. Mirei makes an excuse to leave and runs into walls because of her tears. Jurai feels super bad so Tomoyo walks up to make Jurai feel even worse about making a girl cry. But Tomoyo admits it really was Mirei who was going on and assuming things. Tomoyo asks why Jurai picked such a confusing name to begin with. It turns out Jurai had a reason for it. He wanted the character count and what to match, based on Japanese characters. He felt bad that Mirei must have felt so alone when she had powers and no one else while everyone else was together. Tomoyo smiles even though she still thinks Jurai is a chunni or whatever. They almost have a moment but decide to go home instead. Mirei texts Jurai that night with a different email signifying that things will probably be okay between the two of them. THE END!
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Also this episode had a lot of words and terms that might have been easier to understand if I were Japanese.
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Despite the fact that I have been going through a blogging slump I did enjoy watching this episode…like a million years ago. Just goofy kids having fun. Playing up certain aspects of magical animes that we all think are rather special while being slightly slice of life. Slightly. Because these kids are still crazy and not much outside of the club room is shown. No walking home and shopping at the corner store in this anime yet.
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But I didn't even want to do this task in the first place! Why am I the best?!
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No no, we got to focus on some of the more important aspects of being a super hero and having magical powers…..having a magical/superhero name. Now I might be incline to call BS on this whole scenario if I were in a more cynical mood. These kids have had their super powers for 6 months now and have named their attacks or at least their core powers but haven’t come up with a name for themselves individually? I can see still fighting over a group name but how can you name your attack and not yourself?! Just a scene that is cute to show the audience but it reality this should have happened a long time ago, in the 6 months they were waiting for something amazing to happen to them. Especially Jurai and his….8th grade crazy self. He seems to be the kind of crazy who would want to pick names the next day, especially if they are going through the effort of having power checkups and what not.
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Chifuyu....is there a reason you are never at home? Do you have parent problems?
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However based on what Tomoyo was saying and doing maybe Jurai has brought this name thing up before and each time everyone was like no go away and stop being so weird. Each time Jurai got smarter on how to approach the situation and this time went with Chifuyu who is easily manipulated. Um why is someone’s niece hanging out in a junior high club after school? Where are the parents? Where is the aunt? Chifuyu indeed. Out of everyone Tomoyo was the most against the names. I think as a general rule she hates anything Jurai suggests. If the other girls had suggested it she would have been like oh yeah we do need nicknames. All the other girls were like okay we shall do this. Maybe because going along with Jurai is easier than listening to him whine. And despite it all every girl has a crush on Jurai so they would probably go along with his nonsense anyway. I don’t think Hatoko deserves a lot of time in regards to talking about her nickname. I mean…I think I sorta have a friend like her. Sweet and nice, like a cuddly bunny that is missing part of their brain and sometimes you want to shake some sense into. But then they smile and you know they are actually doing their best and it’s an OHHH moment. So yeah Hatoko…colors. Go you. Also this episode would probably be easier for me to understand if I spoke and read Japanese. So since I don’t a lot of this was lost upon me so yeah.
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How dare you say the word cute! Now I must run away in a super cute manner because I can't handle the word cute.
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How did the other girls do in picking their super hero names? Turns out Sayumi the mature and quiet one is actually good at this task. She does as Jurai asks and thinks of something that matches her power and has the correct…letters or what not. Like way to go. If you are going to take part in this task you are going to do so seriously, I like that. Jurai made the mistake though of asking why Sayumi was making her name cute instead of mature, like the person she pretends to be. Of course all girls in Japan want to be cute so this embarrasses Sayumi. Like don’t point out that I am trying to be cute when it isn’t working due to how I look. Sorta like if someone asked why are you trying to look sexy Tenchi when clearly I have the body type of a 12 year old boy. So go Jurai for being special. Chifuyu is another one with the names that…I guess she tried but it came off a bit…off. She is right about Jurai’s power name but then the rest of her names were…special. At least the way they are read. Jurai was like okay crazy kid alert and moved onto the last member of the club. The one he thought was going to give him the most problems. I thought that too given how Tomoyo was all RARW about the task. But me and Jurai had to take back those negative thoughts as Tomoyo was the best at the task in Jurai’s eyes. I think even though she protests a lot Tomoyo is the most like Jurai and that is why she picks on him the most. But Jurai was singing her praises and probably was on his way to making her the captain when drama happened. Because this anime has no aliens or enemies yet it has to be real life drama but I guess that’s the best kind of drama.
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Put the crazy back in the box, this is not a love letter missy!
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See in Jurai attempt to make everyone pick out super hero names he decided to include Mirei in on it too despite the fact she isn’t in the club and tried to steal all of her powers. Of course she was tricked by hanging upside down from a tree dude but she really didn’t start off on the right foot with these people so it is nice that Jurai was trying to include her in this name picking insanity. Now this is where Japanese anime and English Speaking Tenchi have to stop and think about what is going on and meet together in the middle. I am going to assume that Jurai used the English word ROBBER which would be hard to pronounce in Japanese which is what lead to the confusion on Mirei’s part. Like Lover? Jurai leaves a note in my locker which is love letter rule number one and he uses the word Lover as my super hero name. Clearly he is asking me out so I will bust into the club room and declare my love for him as well with no explanation whatsoever as she thought everything was cut and dry.
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Well if I have to give that mean girl back her powers I will...for you love!
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This obviously did not go over well with anyone. Mirei just coming in and saying she loves him back in front of all the girls is a bold move let alone in a place like Japan. Given that all the other girls like Jurai and he is the only guy in this club I am surprised that Mirei was alive by the end of the episode. The obvious pairing for Jurai is with Tomoyo what with her blushes and hating on him the most. So when she has the biggest protests and anger problems Mirei was ready for this as I think she knows the girl is her biggest competition. Mirei started off okay with decent ammo. Like um if you don’t like Jurai then you have no reason to be commenting on this situation. But then Mirei was all talking about busts sizes and what not and I was giving her side eye. I would have gone Tomoyo on her too and tried using my powers because some of us can’t help but look like 12 year old boys okay! The others were upset with this confession as well but the person who was the quietest about it was Jurai who probably should have been the loudest about it. Instead he just stood there and allowed the insanity to happen. I guess him explaining the names to the other girls IN FRONT of Mirei does count as an explanation but since Mirei didn’t hear any of it due to the fact that she is a permanent citizen of LALAland I think Jurai could have done a bit more.
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Since Jurai is in shock that this life is turning into a harem anime instead of a super natural one he gets to deal with the consequences of it the next day. Mirei has morphed into a level headed
Student Council President or whatever she is into a love sick puppy and the entire school sees it. But I guess people can have different sides to them and if that makes her happy who cares who sees. Of course it would be best if the other person in the lovely dovey relationship wanted to be in it as well. Also Mirei….for next time….just….settle down with the eagerness. She might have thought that Jurai had taken the major step with the L word so she was free to express her feelings that she might have had for a while but the email was just a lot at once. Just dial it about a few notches..or a million. A million notches would be good. Jurai just sorta smiled and laughed nervously for all of this while mouthing help to the viewers. Gotta tell the girl who you feel or this is going to go on forever. Girl might be crazy but you not saying anything isn’t really helpful.
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Jurai arrives at the club room either expecting to find help for his situation or at least a temporary reprieve from the insanity. But the club girls are like um no we invented insanity so you better just walk outside now if you want to be left alone in peace. Because we are all in love with you because we are girls. Girls and guys cannot be friends because the world as we know it would shatter into pieces. So everyone must be upset that Jurai accidentally wrote a love letter to someone that isn’t them. Tomoyo was pretty upset as she has the most feelings for the boy. Hatoko probably couldn’t really be upset at someone to save her life as she had to keep telling the kid she was ignoring him. Sayumi was…..probably pretty immature given her usual standards but not too bad in the grand scheme of things. And Chifuyu is a child so expecting much from her would be silly. But she did give it a good go. Like let me make my plushie to the mean Jurai instead. Doesn’t really work though when Jurai takes said plushie away. FOILED! But did try.
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Sayumi was the first one to stop being mad and to see the situation for what it was…Jurai is dumb. And that he was just trying to give the girl a nickname and she took it way too far. So now they need to work together and figure out how to get Jurai out of this mess. Which is where I thought the episode was going. But then Jurai surprised me. Like legit surprised me. I thought was going to ask the girls for help and it was going to turn into this comic battle for the boy and backfire in his face. Instead Jurai had a super mature moment, which is amazing considering how the girls usually comment on how immature he is. He realizes that he accidentally created this problem so he needs to be the one to finish it. He has accidentally led on a girl and he needs to just tell her point blank the truth. No games or silliness…just the truth. Wow Jurai. How quickly boys can change. X___X Are we sure he is male? I kid I kid…maybe.
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Jurai wastes no time in breaking the news to Mirei which is good because any further leading on would just be cruel to the girl you know? I think Jurai might be a boy he isn’t stupid and realized how upset and embarrassed this would make Mirei. So he was super apologetic and did some deep bowing to the girl where he explained SLOWLY so she could hear him…it was a misunderstanding involving his superhero nickname for her. Of course Mirei tried to play it all off like a joke, that she only was trying to save him from embarrassment and going along with the love letterness. Both knew this was a lie so Jurai apologized more which made Mirei more upset. I think they were both handling it as expected and all Mirei really could do at that point is go home and cry. Jurai did the right thing but no matter what it was going to hurt. Poor Jurai, being the mature one is hard.
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Well....as long as you weren't being a brat about it or anything....
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Tomoyo rounds the stairwell to give Jurai some crap. Well to encourage him a bit but also to give him some crap because she has an image to uphold after all. Yes he made Mirei cry but she is the one who really read the letter wrong. Tomoyo then asks why Jurai picked such a hard name for Japanese people anyway when many other words could have done the trick. This is where Japanese characters and meanings came in, Jurai wanting them all to match so the previously loner Mirei could feel a part of the group. So while Tomoyo might be shaking her head at Jurai all the time…she knows he is a nice guy. Even if he is a bit crazy. Mirei seems to be doing okay by the end of the episode so I think this will all blow over. Including the names. I doubt they will use them at all. XD I am sure something else will happened next episode and the names will be long gone. At least they had 15 minutes of fun yes?
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Tuna tug of war. DUH FOLKS!
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Before you bundle the kids (or yourself) up in costumes have some more anime posts. Up now is Denkigai no Honya-san episode 2. Spoilers for....very questionable games.
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Run away from the insanity Hio!
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Episode Summary: Director is rallying the troops as there is a special manga release coming out. It is heavily implied in the finale of the Haruhi. Some of the workers are a bit doubtful that they should change their work hours (closing at 2 am, after the last train) for a manga that had a three year period in between volumes. Umio takes offense to this and goes off on a crazy tangent that this is a manga to end all mangas and how dare people doubt it. He is basically declared insane as the rest open the store up for business. Fu Girl ends up being a customer and worries about not making the last train home. She is pretty far back in line but the rest of the staff at the store work as hard as they can to get the customers out. Super fast, flying all over the place besides Director. Hio points out he needs to start helping them work. Everyone collapses to the floor around 2 am as the event is over. Hio and Fu Girl are worried about there being no more trains. Director offers to clean up as everyone else can go..somewhere else. Sensei takes everyone to a family style restaurant that she loves and often spends a lot of time at doing her manga work. Soon Fu Girl starts to get sleepy and Sommelier goes out of his way to be the one to take her back to the store to nap. He gets her in bed and while being a creeper is sad to hear her whisper Umio’s name. He goes on the couch and sits with Director for a while. Sommelier drinks him under the table and they are both pretty sloshed when the others return to sleep in the break room. Early the next day Umio wakes up with Fu Girl on top of him. Sommelier pretends to sleep and watches this scene, ready for more heartbreak when it is revealed Fu Girl thinks Umio would make the perfect zombie. She is obsessed with them and happily tells Umio that he looks like the guy who would die and become a zombie to protect the rest of the group. To prove her point she has painted Umio all up like a zombie. She decides she wants to practice her zombie killing skills on the confused boy as Sommelier and the rest are like oh….that’s the kind of relationship they are going to have and go back to bed.
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After the break it has skipped over to the Denki-Gai Late Summer Greetings Festival. Basically all the shops in the area will compete to be the best and win some fabulous (and not so fabulous) prizes. A lot of people are dressed in funny costumes while our main characters are dressed in what looks like high school gym clothes. Most of the girls are unhappy with this state of dress but Sensei tries to keep her eye on that cash prize. Fu Girl is the team captain who thinks yelling at everyone is a great way to lead the team. The only one who seems to be motivated by the yelling is Sommelier who wants to please her in any way and Sensei who sees dollar signs n her eyes. After the mascot of the street (which I think changes throughout the episode and says super annoying things after every sentences) Hio is up next for some golden ball pushing event. Most of the contestants are girls and super embarrassed at what they have to push. Director decides to make the event worse by teasing Hio. She ends up being flatten by another contestant’s ball. Umio is up next in the Protect Your Wife contest. Basically they have to run while holding a figurine AKA wife. Umio does pretty good in the event as he loves his figurine and is able to hold off others who are trying to cheat and push him. One team then shows off a pre-release figurine which gets Umio’s interest. He ends up dropping his figurine and he experiences shame. With Hio and Umio down for the count Kameko is given a shirt and put on the team. There is a Tug of Tuna event next which Kameko loses for her team as she is distracted by a camera lens that is apparently amazing. The mascot announces that the last event will determine the winner meaning all the other events were useless. Teams of no more than three have to protect one member wearing a flag from getting wet in a water fight. Our mains break into two groups of three with Fu Girl leading the charge with her zombie killing ways. Director decides to wear the smallest banana hammock in the world causing Hio to lose it again. Hio and her team eventually lose even though Hio was targeting the balls. Fu Girl and Umio make a good team but it is Sommelier who is super protective of Fu Girl. Their team ends up winning…until Sensei attacks Fu Girl. Turns out she was her own team so she could have the prize money all to herself. As they watch Sensei win Umio asks Fu Girl about the costumes they are winning and she is like…no I am in high school, this isn’t a costume for me. Umio is shocked and Sommelier and Fu Girl have a moment later, deciding the day was fun. THE END!
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Remember...they are zombies!
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Episode 2 and there seems to be no stop on the insanity train. I wonder how long this show can carry this insane pace. Like WOOHOO every day is crazy at HorseHeadMangas! In between shrink wrapping and ringing customers up of course. XD Just so much craziness though.
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The most special manga ever folks. We must be prepared!
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Sometimes shows are very abstract on the topics they are talking about. Like oh a special manga release is coming up, time to get to work people. Nothing is really mentioned, probably due to copying right material. Then some series make up shows to talk about, like LalaLulu that might be based on something but is so generic no one can say anything and that is the main focus on the show (or the go to point). Not this show. This show is going to call it Yepsis and keep on trucking. So it is my impression that crew this week was talking about Haruki. The late release date that kept fans hanging for years and having a super late release date in a country that has last trains and…expensive taxi cabs. The way Umio talks is probably how a die hard fan of the Haruhi series talks: I will support the manga no matter how much I am put through! Hio had more of a logic point of view, this took…a long time to be released and working this late is going to cause problems for workers AND people picking up the manga. A lot of work for a manga that took it’s sweet time coming around and keeping fans blowing in the wind. In fact most of the workers felt that way while Umio was in the corner with all the other volumes, caressing the volumes as he whispered sweet nothings into the page’s ear. I think Umio works here for the discount.
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I am sure it didn't go fast enough but it ends without death.
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The event comes and goes. It only lasts an hour. Besides Fu Girl (what a lame name…) all the other mains had to work the event. “Work” of course. Isn’t that how it always goes? Oh you are in charge of us so you are going to stand around and watch us work? Good job. Although I am not sure what else he could have done in this silly scenario. People were coming to buy that volume only and leaving. It’s not like they needed help around the store. As long as all the registers were manned I am not even sure why the entire crew was there. X___X Just for drama I suppose. Hio was making it look like utter chaos. Get in line you manga lovers. We are all just trying to get in and out of here without any blood shed. As long as it isn’t limited edition there is no reason to be all crazy about things. But if it was limited edition…yeah people would be going crazy. Sadly.
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No one else can take care of Fu Girl or Sommelier will kill them.
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After two hours the event is over and everyone seems to have survived. Fu Girl stuck around because of the last train issue. I think the other characters minus Hio were able to walk home despite the late hour and instead of inviting the girls to stay at her house Sensei is like…lets go to a family restaurant. Like um no I want to go home and sleep. Or go home and read this manga. Too early, even for me, to see looking at people. But everyone else was like WOOHOO we should eat some food after drinking all those Redbulls. Sometimes you reach a point where you are so tired you aren’t tired anymore. And going out and acting silly with friends is always fun right?
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Why are you whispering Umio's name?!
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Partially through the dinner/lunch/breakfast/early morning noms time Fu Girl gets tired. All that nonworking got the best of her. Apparently the plan all along was to eat at this restaurant and THEN go back to work and take a group nap in the break room until the trains were running. I think I might have taken the nap instead of going out at all but I like making sense. I like that Director did most of the cleaning up since everyone else did all the other work. Of course was there much to clean up? Anyway Umio offers to take home Fu Girl and suddenly Sommelier is like NO I will. Well he didn’t say it in words. Just his massive body standing up and letting everyone know he is the only one carrying the tiny girl back to the shop. So not only are they are dynamic duo at the shop (his mouthpiece if you would) but he has feelings for the girl as well. This will surely end well. Except the fact that Sommelier puts Fu Girl to sleep and she moans Umio’s name. That could be a deal breaker. All the girls want him woohoo! Sommelier drowns his troubles in beer. Director tries to keep up with the drinking he is no match for the giant man of few words.
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You like me so much because you want to shoot my zombie persona?!
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Everyone ends up back at the shop and passes out for some hours. On couches and what not. Since Fu Girl didn’t work and got the most sleep she was up the soonest. And decided that she needed to hit on Umio in front of all her coworkers. Or or…..she is a freak. I think Umio might have thought it was a sexy wake-up call and he was going to be flattered yet turn her down. Then he realized that he never asked what Fu Girl’s nickname was all about. I actually didn’t know what her name meant either so it was a shocker for me. Not much of a shock for Japanese people or those who know how to work the internet. I don’t think I would enjoy having the nickname rotten girl but meh. I guess this means she has an obsession with gross things. In Fu Girl’s case she has an obsession with zombies. And Sommelier need not worry about Umio. Fu Girl just happens to think the boy would make a perfect zombie. Like the guy who dies saving his friend and what not. You can go back to sleep Sommelier…and others. Because Fu Girl has no romantic feelings for this boy. She just wants to dress him up as a walker and beat him silly. Girls has to be prepared for the apocalypse you know!
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YAY TEAM SPIRIT!
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Sometime later the group moves on from the sales of the Haruhi manga and focuses on this festival. Ah it must be fun to be part of a company that does fun things like that. Of course if I had a job (you know at all) that had events like that I would complain how it was mandatory and how I didn’t want to do it. You know, like how the girls at this shop really didn’t want to wear these uniforms and take part in some of the questionable activities. This festival, the Denki-Gai Late Summer Greetings Festival, was for the entire street. This street might be based on another famous street in Tokyo, one that focuses on manga, anime, and electronics. I am sure that is just a coincidence that the two are similar. XD So yeah it is a time to promote the businesses or just build up camaraderie within the area. The mascot for this shopping area is rather special. I might not have gone that way but whatevers. It is what it is. Everyone seems excited for the events but don’t want our mains to win for some reason. Some of the girls aren’t happy with their outfits as they were…special. And looked more like a field day event at a high school and not anime/manga related like their shop specializes in. It looks like Fu Girl chose the outfits though as she is very invested in a win despite how her teammates felt about the event. Like you will listen to me and we will win that grand prize. Sensei also seemed pretty concerned about the prize money too but…for herself. HOW DARE SHE!
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Every single of the events was special and over the top. It was like the event was made to make women feel as uncomfortable as possible. Because anime and mangas don’t have a bad enough reputation for woman. No no, we must do everything over the top. Like exaggerate this and exaggerate that. What do a lot of men like in anime/mangas? Panties. So instead of a pie eating contest or apple whatever thing on the string (I forget what it is called) there was a Panty eating contest. I notice that they didn’t actually eat the panties which I am grateful for. Sommelier was the one who ran this race for the team and it was dramatic but he pulled out a win. It was for his Fu Girl after all. Everyone else would have to follow in his footsteps in terms of victory. Fu Girl will not accept defeat which is pretty unfortunate given what would happen the rest of the day. It is not explained why the rest of the street shops are so against our mains but they are bitter about the panty lose and decide to team up to stop them from winning any more events.
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Do you HAVE to do that Director?
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The next event…was a lot of special. And perverted. Everyone seemed to put their girls on this event because golden balls folks. Golden balls. The other store people weren’t shown harassing their girls so I don’t know if Director was really out of line or just going along with the MENZ being perverted and creepy people out. Director was a super creep later so maybe it was only him. Hio did not take kindly to this harassment and almost died on the ground. I think if Fu Girl was in this event…it might have gone better. She is a bit shorter but seems to deal okay with balls. BALLS FOLKS! Are you laughing yet? Balls. Hio loses and loses big as she was run over by a golden ball since she couldn’t handle her balls correctly. The shame folks. She shall never marry obviously and must sit out a few events until she is able to pull herself together. From the shame of being squished in a golden ball event.
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Umio...you have let us down. Disappointment.
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The next event featured Umio and had a lot of promise. Because he is basically a crazy person when it comes to anime and manga. So I figured whatever the task was he might be good at. When I saw it was figurine carrying (like egg carrying) I was like score. Umio will treat this wife (MOG INSANE) like gold so our mains will be back up on that leader board. Well…since the other stores are mad at the mains they tried to push Umio to make him lose. And when that didn’t work they went with the more aggressive approach…..introducing a new figurine that hasn’t been released yet and will be limited edition. Umio was weak and cheated on his wife. He should kill himself now. One could argue his inability to do the next event cost them as Kameko had to take his place. I am not sure what the competition was supposed to represent in the anime/manga world but it was a tug a war with a fish. Yeah…..I don’t know. You would think that the tiniest girl Kameko wouldn’t even matter in this game as Sommelier was in on their event. But I guess everyone got distracted when Kameko was tricked into buying a false camera lens. Cameras are her weakness and shouldn’t pass up a deal. She should sue for false advertising as that wasn’t a lens at all. So yeah disappointed in that event as Sommelier could have been on his own team and won yet somehow got distracted along with everyone else and lost it. How can this group when the events now?!
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Aim for the head!
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Oh because the last event is the only one that counts? I see now. I am sure the rest of the stores were thrilled with this news. The last event was a good old fashion water fight with a bit of capture the flag mixed in. The only thing perverted about this event was Director handing out banana hammocks to everyone else. And lets be real folks. Calling those banana hammocks is being kind. They really were just….the things men wear to appear to be naked in movies. Where do you even buy underwear like that?! But besides that the event was pretty cut and dry with the teams. Fu Girl really led the way with her pretending everyone else was a zombie and shooting them up. With Sommelier using his body to protect his little Fu Girl and Umio being pretty decent they were able to beat all the other stores despite more teaming up against them. They are unstoppable. Victory is theirs!
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Why? Were you going to ask her out? X___X
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Or you….the store. At least the store won guys…even if there was people turning on each other. Sensei paid attention to the rules that stated up to three people on a team. So when she wasn’t picked on a team she was like…I can have the flag on my own head and protect myself. Then run around and snip people and win on her own. Technically I would think that it was a store win as that is how she was able to enter the contest in the first place but it was presented as she won by herself. Fu Girl wasn’t as upset as I thought she would have been. Like how dare you steal my victory! This might have something to do with the fact that Umio just learned that Fu Girl was really a high school student thus the high school swim suit and what not. That turned into a slight embarrassing moment. But since Sommelier and Fu Girl had their own moment at the end of the show I don’t think it is going to have anything to do with romance. Umio and Fu Girl will just be friends as she and Sommelier have more of an understanding, always there for each other. Sommelier says few words but the words he does say are for this zombie loving gal. Ah young love at the work place. With those two out of the love triangle mess who does that leave for Umio to leave heartbroken? I guess I will have to find out next time…whenever I get caught up you know. XD Go me!
</span>Christinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07410807672363317056noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785035130297400343.post-65738778953981181342014-10-29T17:40:00.001-04:002014-10-29T17:43:48.103-04:00Cross Ange: Tenshi to Ryuu no Rondo episode 2I know I know folks. I know what you are going to say. How can I be so behind on anime but still make an effort to watch this show? I have no idea. I really don't. Maybe I think it's a train wreck and I can't look away? I want to see how bad things can get? I want something to complain about? Who knows with me.
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So how long do you think this togetherness will last? Spoiler alert...not long at all!
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What I do know is that I need to get some more posts up tonight as it is October and I barely have any posts this month. Such an empty little month this October. Up now is Cross Ange: Tenshi to Ryuu no Rondo episode 2. Spoilers for Ange being in denial and hell at the same time.
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Well aren't you a ray of sunshine?!
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Episode Summary: Dragons. Dragons everywhere. That is what is playing on a screen for tiny children to watch. Their Norma teacher explains to them what the terms Dragon stands for and how it is their duty as Norma (objects) to fight these deadly foe until the bitter end. Ange looks out of place in this class as she was discovered to be a Norma pretty late considering. The leader of this island of Normas Jill and Mana user Emma oversee Ange taking in this lesson but Ange is still going on and on about this all being a mistake. Jill decides that lesson time is over and Ange is to join Troop One. Emma is a little shocked at that as Jill takes the protesting girl away. From a cargo bay Troop One Leader Zola is licking her lips and groping other girls at the idea of Ange joining their squad. Some girls are…jealous I guess of the attention Zola is already showing her while other squad members complain about how Zola is touching them. Zola pretends it is not a big deal and happily awaits for Ange to be brought to them. Ange is still not in a great mood when Jill marches her in there and is told to be shown the ropes. Second in Command Salia attempts to introduce Ange to the rest of the squad, some of whom were happy to meet her for non rappy ways. This doesn’t go over well as Ange still thinks of herself as Mana user, the mana just doesn’t reach this awful island. Most of Zola’s groupies are pissed off with Ange’s attitude and want to slap the stupid off her face. Salia is tasked with showing Ange the rope and apparently the edge of her knife when Ange mouths off. Ange is scandalized at what she is given as a uniform to wear and that it belongs to some dead girl. You know, also there is still blood all over it. Ange decides she rather be naked than wear that and Salia gives her her wish temporarily. Ange eventually decides to wear the clothes but since she is a Princess she has no idea how to dress herself anyway. Salia is like is this real life as Ange realizes all the rumors about Normas were true. Jill has gone to the clinic to get felt up herself (which she is not happy with) and to get her fake arm worked on. She is told to be more careful as she broke in slapping Ange around apparently. The people in the clinic are not sure Ange should be in Troop one either but Jill is like if she dies she dies oh well. Ange gets dressed and immediately is taken to a simulation class that looks pretty real to me. Salia shows her the ropes and off she and the two other new recruits go. At first Ange does worse than the other two girls but then she gets pissed off and really starts to focus. She realizes that this machine isn’t any different than the one she used when playing her sport in school and magically masters it in front of the others. Everyone is pretty impressed that she didn’t splat herself on the ground. Later they all take showers together, with Zola getting…washed from her groupies. The talk of the shower seems to be Ange and her amazing abilities but she pays no mind to them. Salia takes Ange to her room which is empty as there are no other new recruits at the moment. She gives Ange a bit of money and what not and leaves the girl. Ange has delusions of her happy life back home but quickly snaps out of it. She continues to train with the Troop and they find she is above average in everything they throw at her. Impressive…for a Norma Emma says.
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Why does my life suck so much?! :(
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It is lunch time at the island and the two other new recruits, Coco and Miranda, are happy over pudding it seems. They go to sit down but see Ange being all upset. The girls who are Zola’s groupies join Ange and make fun of her for turning her nose up at the food and proceed to take Ange’s lunch. Ange looks at them like they are crazy for this is pure garbage what they are eating. They bully her a bit more and Ange walks away. Coco comes out of nowhere and is like please take my pudding. Miranda comes up and tries to get Coco to talk to Ange who she apparently idolizes. Coco offers to help Ange with anything and Ange takes her up on the offer since she doesn’t know how to do shopping. Coco shows her and Ange explains how things work in her world, that she got everything and no one was ever discriminated against or suffered. She is…sorta nice to the girls and goes to her room to throw the pudding cup away and write a letter with her newly purchased paper. Meanwhile Zola was busy molesting one of her favorites Hilda when Hilda grows tired of the sex and needs a break. Zola leaves to find more people to molest. Ange has finished her letter and gives it to Jill, stating it is her right as a royal to seek asylum and to please send this letter out. Everyone is like is you dumb as Zola comes in and decides Ange will DO and it will survive as reeducation. Ange is thrown into the prison room as Zola decides that Ange will learn to submit which will help her survive on the battlefield. Ange doesn’t take kindly to the molesting and fights back, accidentally knocking out Zola’s eye. She is stunned but insists she is not a Norma. There is more molesting and it probably would have gone further had the alarms not sounded. Zola is like I will have to rape you later. Ange gets her clothes in order and joins the others in the bay. Apparently there has been a dragon party sighting and Troop One is sent to fight first. Zola tells everyone to remember their training and they will live. Ange joins the group and realizes that she is outside. Instead of going into formation Ange is like I will just fly home and turns away. Hilda goes after her and threatens to shoot if she doesn’t go into formation. Ange is like I am going home bitches and Coco is like take me to this magical place you grew up Princess Ange. Coco smiles happily until blood pours from her face and she is cut in half as the dimensional portal thing forms right on top of her and dragons appear. Both Hilda and Ange are shocked as the battle begins. THE END!
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I am almost 99.9 percent positive that I hate myself. Why else would I watch episode 2 of this questionable anime? Even peoples on the internet are saying it is special. Not for the over the top fan service though. Well some people were upset at that and how…violent it was. But Christina, you watch The Walking Dead and that is a horrible situation with humans turning on humans instead of zombies. Well I don’t see Rick’s group eating each other. I would think that all these Normas would band together and make a close knit family to deal with the trauma of being cast out of society forced to fight acronym Dragons but no. Since everyone got bullied lets just keep on bullying some more, because who needs love and friendship in this horrible world?
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Lets start at the beginning of this episode though shall we? Ange is now 16 years old. That is pretty old to be starting off as a Norma. Most people are taken to this island of hell at a young age. I am sure once they enter school there is a Mana test. Like okay class lets see how far along everyone is in Mana land. But as we saw in the first episode young babies can be picked up as well. Maybe someone was being a narc. Or in reality it is hard to live in a world that has almost all Mana users and the baby accidentally broke someone’s Mana which caused the Popo to arrive with their billy clubs. The point is no one else is like Ange, going 16 years without using Mana once. Sounds a bit improbable but when you are the royal family you can do what you want. I can see the maid being banished to this island of hell too. So Ange is taking a class with much younger children because she didn’t grow up Norma. She grew up in a super privileged way and I am sure it was eating at her…well to be there at all but to also be in a class with such younger students. She might not have picked up on that insulting fact since in her mind this is all a big mistake and her…well parent is on his way to save her from hell. I like how she only thinks of herself in this episode and not the fact that her mother is dead, her brother turned on her, and her father is probably in massive trouble as well as the maid. I think the younger sister could skate out of this but hello now she is all messed up too.
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I think the most surprising thing about this brief class is that DRAGON stands for something. That they aren't just dragons...
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We briefly learn in this class (because Ange was in this class for 5 seconds because clearly the little girls just take these filler classes until they are old enough to die) that Normas are allowed to live as tools for the humans (as Normas are not humans). Tools that ride giant motorcycles in the sky and fight dragons. Yeah I can see how killing the Normas might be more humane but I am going to guess that humans aren’t lining the streets to take on these awesome jobs. Like you know what…instead of killing these awful creatures known as Normas we will let them live. How amazing and kind of us. In return for this gift of life Normas will then pledge themselves to the cause of fighting these giant dragons that randomly appear in the sky. A job that has a life expectancy of three years it looks like. Yes this is super fair. I am sure if I stick with this anime long enough it will be revealed that these dragons are appearing because of the Mana users. Like the power actually comes from them or when long ago humans were testing with genetic modification they did something SUPER bad and the dragons are now the results. I think it might be fun to see the dragons go to the peaceful kingdom and it turns out the Mana users can’t refight the dragons at all due to their magic. HAHAS for everyone. But for now the indoctrination must begin at a young age. The teacher seemed…resigned in telling the kids the truth. In nonrapey ways. Like yep we must do our duty as objects and do it proudly. Ange gets about 4 sentences of knowledge before Jill and Mana User Emma drag her not happy self out. I myself might have done other things to get her use to this life as 5 seconds of class and rape didn’t seem to work out that well in changing her attitude.
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I like how Emma, the only Mana user (I think) on this island of hell (which…sounds pretty bad when you think about it considering she is outnumbered AND her powers don’t work on Normas), is not really on board will all of Jill’s awful ideas. She was pretty much against the rape and now that Jill wants to put new recruit Ange in First Troop Emma is like oh boy. Might as well just kill this one if this is how you want things to go for the girl. Thanks for having Ange’s back Jill. I am sure as the show continues we will learn that all these girls have had it so tough and they are just taking their pain out on other people. Or it will be spun that they were just trying to prepare Ange for what is to come and it was all out of help for the girl. For now I will just feast my eyes on the girls that are in First Troop. Maybe because they aren’t as old or….broken as Jill they will treat Ange with respect. Or….you know…Zola the leader of First Troop is already acting like a bitch, trash talking Ange and molesting her fellow Troop members. It seems as if this First Troop has already gotten some new members as they have complained to second in command Salia about the matter. Skinship it is called. I am sure this Skinship would work better if it was consensual, like I will grow close to my Troop mates so we might be a force to be reckon with on the battle field. For now all these girls live in fear from Zola although she does seem to have some kind of fanclub. An unhappy fanclub that probably puts up with the touches out of fear, maybe at first, but are clearly upset that Ange might steal Zola’s attention way. Clearly everyone is insane on this island.
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After the nice members of First Troop joke around (you know, what which recruits will die first) Ange is happily introduced to the people she will be fighting Dragons with until she dies. Me thinks that First Troop is…well the first line of defense and therefore the veterans are probably the best. Perhaps they could have started Ange and the other newbies somewhere easier? No? Okay then. Zola starts the meeting off well by groping Ange a bit but Ange decides that she hates everyone and everything, even when Salia tries to be nice and introduce Ange to the rest of the team. Because Ange has lived 16 years with Mana users and has been brainwashed into thinking these individuals are dangerous and defects…well she treats them as such. This is probably new to the girls as they are all raised together and are used to being treated like crap…from Mana users. Not one of their own thinking they are better than everyone else. Ange being a Princess and thinking she is above even other Mana users helps this situation, even when a few of the Troop members try to give Ange a bit of slack. I think that Ange is used to be treated a certain way and of course she thinks these people are monsters on a good day. Given that they have done nothing but torture her since she has arrived I don’t see her changing her opinion any time soon.
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Salia is second in command of this unit and seems to be on the side of the ones who aren’t particularly cruel and aren’t down for Zola and her…..special skinship ways. So when she is put in charge of Ange I was like okay maybe Ange will have a bit of a break with all this….over the top stuff. Well Salia is a bit of a rule follower and isn’t taking kindly to Ange’s ideas that she is still a Princess and people need to treat her as such. Salia might not want to slap the bitch off Ange but she might cut off her arrogance. YAY FOR MAKING FRIENDS! First order of business is to put Ange in some clothes that I think the X-Men might pass on for being a bit too revealing. Ange is like…I can’t wear that in public. I think it was secondary that there was blood all over it and the last girl who wore it still had her dead name tag in it. I guess when someone dies on this island they are quickly forgotten about and washing clothes is just way too hard or something. Just gross. I wouldn’t want to wear that either. But since Ange had already been a brat about other things Salia has no patience for her. So when the former Princess was like um no to the clothes, I rather go naked Salia grants her wish by throwing her naked body into the hallway. Friends. Friends for everyone. Ange quickly dons the outfit although I don’t think it would have been out of line to ask for a clean outfit. The joke was sorta on Salia though as Ange had no idea how to dress herself. Ange really should have known something was up if her maid was dressing her her entire life with the maid’s mana but whatever.
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HAHA bishes look how awesome I am in the sky.
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Like the lesson on the dragons Ange’s time spent learning about the flying machines was brief. Salia did show her all the controls but I assumed it was going to be an actual simulator. Maybe I am wrong and it was a simulator and it just looked super real. Maybe Ange and Coco and the other random girl were never in any danger. Because it looked like a whole lotta danger to me. Here are the keys to the car, don’t die. Because when Jill was in the clinic getting work done on her mechanical arm she told by others maybe placing Ange in Troop 1 was a bad idea and Jill was like OH WELL SMILE SMILE! Like it might save time if they just shot the girl in the head. But since Ange was captain of that certain sport in school and vehicles are similar she was able to smoke Coco and Miranda who are younger but have been put through this training all their lives. They didn’t die so I guess it really was a simulator and they aren’t as evil on this island as I make them out to be. Oh who am I kidding they are all super evil.
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The shower scene was…pretty unnecessary. Of course I think shower scenes are always unnecessary but this one just had all the girls gossiping about Ange in front of Ange while one of Zola’s minions washed her vulva. Like thanks, this show is totally awesome. Ange has a moment of what the hellness when she goes to her new room, like all of this happened on one day and she had been living in that cell before she was introduced to the others. She briefly wishes for her life at the palace before she fast forwards to the good part of the Be A Man song from Mulan. She magically aces at everything thrown at her during soldier training. At first I thought that was odd because she was a princess that couldn’t even get dressed on her own. But maybe since she had no mana she unconsciously had learned how to do things the normal way. Like yes we have magic magical people but there is just something satisfying about running and blasting things away with guns. Or you know Ange is just pissed off to be there and wants to prove that she is the best at everything because she is not like those awful Normas. Ange being great at everything makes people hate her and love her more than they already do. No minds were changed.
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Since Ange is a newbie and didn’t grow up the normal Norma way she is an odd little duck. I am sure everyone knows by now how she insulted Normas so no one would really want to be her friend anyway. So when Zola’s crew tries to join her for lunch you know they are up to no good. Ange is like fine steal my food, it’s not even fit for pigs. Yeppers that might make them mad. Miranda and Coco saw the whole thing and decided to talk to the girl. Coco has a major girl crush on Ange and seems to block out all the negative things Ange says. She is just misunderstood you know! Miranda seems to just want to be friends, that they all can connect on a newbie level. I don’t think she approved of Coco giving up her pudding cup but whatever makes her friend happy. I am surprised they get pudding cups. Actually I am surprised they get paid. That kinda didn’t make sense to me. They are basically slaved that will fight until they die. I mean I understand the theory if you don’t give these girls hope they will all just die on purpose and who will kill the dragons then?! I just found the money odd. Like how about you don’t pay me and keep molesters away from me. Thanks. Ange seems to be used to dealing with annoying people as she clearly doesn’t want to talk to Coco but does so anyway. Or maybe Ange just wants to voice how wonderful her world is and how horrible it is here and someone actually wants to listen to her. Maybe she thinks Coco will treat her with the respect she deserves and that is why she allows the girl to show her how shopping works. I sense hope for these three. Or I did until Ange threw the pudding cup in the trash….
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So what did Ange buy at this random store at the slave labor camp? Well Ange still has delusions that this is not her life now. I guess that makes sense. She does come from the happy and perfect world of Mana Land but she was THE PRINCESS on top of that. She is probably used to being treated a certain way. And from what she has seen thus far….these are monsters. Normas are horrible even to each other. Surely she is not one of them. So she has written important people letters trying to get herself out of this situation. Like um your hommie brother is the one who helped get you exposed in the first place. Just who do you think is going to help you? This is basically Jill and Emma’s reactions. Like…do you really not understand that your life is basically over and you need to fall in line before more bad things happen to you? Because that physical examination was just the tip of the iceberg baby.
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While this was going on Zola was having a moment with her number one groupie Hilda. I am not sure if Hilda was having a good time or not. It looks like Zola was forcing her to orgasm over and over again and Hilda was reaching the point where she needed to rest or she was going to die. I guess Hilda was getting off on forcing orgasms onto her or something. So when Hilda needs a break Zola is like PSHT I will find someone else to molest since you can’t handle things. I think this actually hurt Hilda’s feelings but I would have been like YES escape time. Zola was trolling for groupies to molest so when she happens upon Ange being a dumbass Zola is like okay I can rape you instead because I will super get off on giving you orgasms that you don’t want. This method seems to be approved or invented by Jill to get people inline. I would think this would just BREAK a person more. Like nope not they really don’t have any reason to live and I am going to let them fly in the sky next to me with a huge weapon that could take me out. Yep yep this breaking the cutie moment will probably not end well. Thank goodness dragons came to attack or Ange would have been rapped. Well again. She did put up a great fight and knocked out Zola’s fake eye. Like bish is everyone made of fake parts?
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Whatever the dragons are they must emit something that allows the Normas to detect them before the portal opens up. Wouldn’t want them to attack the Mana users or anything. This means that there is time to suit up and get to the location that they appear. Zola switches from rape mode to leader mode and gives a speech about how if you remember your training you won’t die. She attempts to lead her troops into battle when Ange is like…I AM OUTSIDE. Okay so it was a simulator earlier, leave me be. She is like ha ha bitches I am flying back home. I am not sure how far she would have made it with all the other girls there ready to shoot her down. I guess all the girls could run away but where would they really go? Ange would have been shot the minute she got back anyway. Not to mention Emma might have access to some super weapon that would destroy them all.
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The face of happiness and freedom!
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Salia tries to get Ange back into formation before the Ex Princess is shot in the face…by her. Salia is super big on rules and I wonder as the show goes on will Ange have her question those rules. For now though it is get back in line or I will blow your brains away. Ange doesn’t listen and soon Coco joins them. She loves Ange and wants to go to this magical place Ange has talked about. I am sure Coco has seen countless girls die and she knows what kind of life she will have on Zola’s rape squad. She just wants to go to the beautiful place Ange told her about. I could see Ange thinking about how Coco is a gross Norma and that place is not for her when….Coco’s smile was painted red and the top half of her body went flying through the air. Um so when the portals open up that let out the dragons out it is slightly dangerous in that area. Just an FYI. Ange and Salia look on in shock as the smiling girl is smiling no more and Ange’s lack of formation might have put them all in danger. What is going to happen next? Maybe Zola can just molest the dragons to death. Or they can all take off their clothes and then the dragons won’t see them at all. Yeah that’s it…..RIP Coco.
</span>Christinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07410807672363317056noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785035130297400343.post-64923364635882029152014-10-29T17:34:00.001-04:002014-10-29T17:34:43.300-04:00Bishoujo Sailor Moon: Crystal episode 8Long time no type it seems. X___X I have not fallen off the face of the planet just yet folks. XD Even though it seems like I have. No no I just had the bright idea of watching tons of anime at once and doing each blog post a tiny bit at a time....then I would watch more anime. Clearly this is always made of fail and I continue to do so. XD Oh well.....what can I say?
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So we meet again slightly useless Tuxedo Mask.
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I guess I shouldn't say anything and get to posting right? Lots to finish up and parts of some posts are on Dated and some are on the actual computer that is able to play anime episodes. So what should be up first? I guess I will start with Bishoujo Sailor Moon: Crystal episode 8. Spoilers for a lot of hero worship and not a lot of details...
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Episode Summary: Despite the fact that Zoisite isn’t DEAD all the Sailor Scout, especially Usagi, are like look at that….the legendary Sailor V. Usagi is completely awe struck and everyone else notices her costume is different. Sailor V (Venus) makes a great show of putting her mask back on which probably confuses Usagi even more. Her white talking cat Artemis is like um ya’ll need to show some respect, this is really Princess Serenity of the Moon Kingdom in disguise. Usagi’s tiara changes shape and she nearly remembers something important but brushes it aside. Zoisite wakes up and runs away as he is outnumbered. Tuxedo Mask also runs away because he is upset he couldn’t protect Usagi and this Sailor V is proclaiming to be Princess Serenity. Sailor Venus jumps down and is happy to see everyone even if they don’t know her. She has been instructing them over the game for so long she feels as if she knows them well. Luna contacts everyone over the communicators and Sailor Venus says they will meet at headquarters soon. She untransforms which also impresses the other Scouts (they are easily impressed this episode) and explains her secret identity on Earth is Minako. Minako leads the way to the arcade where Luna is falling over herself for not greeting the Princess on the battlefield. Minako is busy taking in all the memories of headquarters like she hasn’t been there in forever. Minako then explains a whole lot of nothing. She awaken first with Artemis as her teacher to being a Sailor Scout. She battles around Tokyo with what she thought were just baddies until she uncovered a darker force at work…The Dark Kingdom. Apparently a long time ago on the Moon this Dark Kingdom came and kicked the Moon Kingdom’s butt. This evil was sealed away but now someone has come along and woken the evil up. They need the Silver Crystal and apparently they need human energy to build up it’s strength. No one mentions that they already know all that business and ask where the Crystal really is. Minako hesitates and says she will keep that a secret for a little while longer. Minako seems sure everyone will regain their memories soon and the rest of the Scouts are like whatever you say amazing Princess girl you. As they leave for the night Artemis is giving Minako side eye, implying she should have told them everything. Minako says they will know the truth soon and she needs to carry out her individual mission until then.
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<span class="fullpost">I wonder if something is up?! Could it be?!
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Usagi has a dream some time later, really a nightmare. She is being pulled through an angry crowd by someone with a sword. He is fighting the baddies but they get separated. She calls him Endymion and he was calling her Princess Serenity. She wakes up and decides she had this dream because she met the Princess the other day and it means nothing. Luna and Usagi got for a walk so Usagi can think about how she thinks the Princess is keeping things from them. She sees Mamoru studying about crystals on a park bench. He basically apologizes for not being able to protect her. Usagi wasn’t even thinking about that. She was thinking about how to get the Princess to show her the Crystal so she could show Mamoru so he could get his memories back. She tries to return the pocket watch but Mamoru is like I have something of yours, lets trade next time. Luna walks away dejected at the idea that Usagi might be in love with someone slightly untrustworthy. Artemis walks up and says that Luna is doing a great job and soon she will remember her past life as well. Meanwhile Queen Beryl is talking to Queen Metalia about how Princess Serenity has come to kick their butts again. They decide they are going to beat her until she gives up the location of the Silver Crystal. Kunzite volunteers for this mission as the rest of the Kings are in the clinic still resting from their injuries. Minako is shown walking around the city when suddenly everything and everyone is frozen but her. She hears Kunzite telling her to come to Tokyo Tower alone or he will kill everyone in the city. Artemis is like tell the others but Minako is like no I will go alone. Everything is unfrozen and she starts to make her way to the tower when all the other Scouts appear. They claim to have been on their way to see her (?) because Makoto is making them all dinner. Minako makes an excuse and runs off. Not ten seconds later Tokyo Tower loses power and so does the rest of the city. Minako morphs and makes her way to the tower were Kunzite is being all give the Crystal or else. The rest of the girls have started to find people with their energy sucked out and they realize this just isn’t a power outage. Elsewhere Mamoru wakes up from a Princess Serenity induced dream and realizes that there is danger all over the place. Minako AKA Sailor Venus fights Kunzite but he is still way more powerful than her. She begs him to remember his real self which causes him to pause for a moment. Before Minako is toast the other girls arrive. They are like we are sailor Scouts and we are here to protect you Princess. We were all alone until Sailor Moon brought us together. Now we are unstoppable. They fight against Kunzite together and appear to win. Then Kunzite is like…no really you suck. The other 4 Scouts are safe but Sailor Moon gets flung off the tower. Before she goes splat Tuxedo Mask saves her. She is beyond touched about this but sucks her tears and tells him to run from the enemy and she will handle this. She jumps back into battle after kissing him and Tuxedo Mask is in awe of how strong she is today and how she has many sides of her personality. He sees that she is going to protect the other girls from Kunzite’s blast so he flings himself in front of her and takes the blast himself. THE END!
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Excuse me. Focusing on my new tiara is a very important use of time!
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I am pretty sure this episode was 23 minutes long. By my calculations (TC or CC for those of you at home) there was about 6 minutes worth of new material. My math is very precise. You know…guessing and making things totally up. But yeah folks….this was totally…..a lot of wasted time. Which happens in mangas all the time. 28 pages a chapter and 4 of them are devoted to talking about the characters each time. Like look here is Ami and her smart self. And there is Rei being all Rei like with mysterious self. Only now we get 28 pages of manga/anime content and 47839473 of them are devoted to saying the same thing over and over again.
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Now is the time to strike Dark Kingdom!
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If the Dark Kingdom had any brains they would be working in teams. But that is the point though, that the good guys are good because they believe in friendship and team work. The baddies only think of themselves. Well even if I was a baddie I would be like err I want to stay alive so how about we all work together since these 14 year old punks keep getting the best of us. Queen Beryl could send us all at once and pound them into dust. Instead the Dark Kingdom likes to fail because failure builds character. It would be a quick show if we all died at once right? Or if we won at once. So Zoisite will just pass out on the ground all hurt and broken while everyone else does stupid things that lessen their own chance of survival.
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Not only are people supposed to see up a building but they are supposed to know this random girl is the Moon Princess. I see. Not really though.
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I wear glasses. I notice Ami wears glasses too. None of this matters in anime as everyone has 200/20 vision. I am going to assume that means super eyesight. I would have just saw some orange girl on top of a roof. But no Usagi is seeing crescent moons on foreheads and going on and on that Sailor V is really Sailor Venus in a different costume. Which by the way folks was never talked about. All the girls have pens to transform with and Sailor V has a different costume than Sailor Venus. Did she change in a phone booth or something? Was there a point in having a different costume since no one at the time knew what a Sailor Scout was and by the time these girls came Scouts they should automatically assume this Sailor V who talks to them via video games and has similar style of dress is one of them? Why the super unnecessary mask as no one else knows who the rest of the Sailor Scouts are and they have no masks. All of this gasping and looking beyond amazed that a new Sailor Scout has appeared and it is the super famous girl from the newspaper left everyone…a little useless. So they should better thank their lucky stars the Dark Kingdom isn’t on the ball about things.
I do not like Artemis’s voice. While I hate American Dubbing on principal I rather liked Artemis’s voice before. Now I think his Japanese voice doesn’t fit his character at all. Just…no bueno at all. It probably didn’t help that the first thing he did made me want to smack him in the head regardless of how he sounded. Like you all better recognize who you are dealing with. Sailor V? Please. See this moon on her forehead? She is PRINCESS Serenity. Good thing you are already on your knees because some bows are in order. Like chill dude. We just met your white cat self and if we assumed everyone with a moon on them or in their name was the Moon Princess well Luna and Usagi would be in that category too. I guess Artemis could have been the Moon Prince if he wanted to be. But yeah. Sailor V is really Sailor Venus who is Princess Serenity in disguise. Even if one didn’t know how things were going to play out this would be questionable at best.
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You could....keep trying? I promise you probably could do it.
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But yes all the girls are star struck. Zoisite got a tiny boo boo on his leg or something and needed to leave. He was out numbered but so far all the Kings have better powers even with the Scouts combine so….he probably could have kicked some ass. Which he didn’t decide to do. Like I am going to kill you while all you are distracted by a new girl with long blond hair in a Sailor Suit. Like hello slap the title Princess on someone and suddenly they are 15 times more attractive. That is how everyone was acting too. Maybe Zoisite left to get away from the insanity of all the wonderment. Like yeah we have seen Sailor Scouts before. In any case I hope that Minako (you know, her super secret Earth name as the Moon Kingdom properly doesn’t exist anymore because we went to the moon…) is more like her manga counterpart rather than her late anime persona. She started off serious business and the…leader as it were but in later seasons Usagi was way more mature than her. I know that saving the world at such a young age could make you want to revolt and do childish things but it was such a turnaround. Not good.
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Got anymore details than that? Because yeah..it might repeat if we have no idea what is going on....
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So after all the MOG Princess comments filled my soul it was onward to the arcade. Minako sorta acted…odd. Like no one ever questioned why Luna kept Sailor V from them or why when the other Scouts started to awaken Minako didn’t show up. Like if you is the Princess don’t you need some protection? No? Okay. Also Minako implied that they are going to be getting their memories back soon and that Luna had her memories extra sealed on purpose. Now wouldn’t they be able to function better if they knew the truth from the get go? Sure it might super sad all at once but at least they know what was at stake and what they were fighting for yes? So none of those questions were asked and all Minako talked about with the other Scouts was the same crap they have heard the entire series. Crystal, Dark Kingdom, sadness. Surely Minako was getting a lot done when she was working alone. None of the girls seem to mind the lack of details or Minako’s decision not to show them the crystal they have been looking long and hard for. Instead it was more YAY Princess stuff. Minako smiled through it all but Artemis and her quickly turned those smiles upside down as things are getting serious.
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My what a wonderful and repeating dream you keep having.....
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Speaking of serious…I might have glossed over Tuxedo Mask having a moment. See he was unable to protect Usagi when Zoisite was being all Zoisite like. He ran off all mad like it was his fault. Like hello dude you already had a pout about the fact that you have no powers. We get it. You are doing the best you can. These girls with powers are having a hard enough time to protect themselves. I think when the girls transform for the first time they are super powered which is why they come in guns blazing. Then after that initial use of power after a long time of dormancy they go back down to normal levels. Whatever the case may be Mamoru is all sad thinking he let his girlfriend down. Now that Usagi knows who he is I guess she could have visited the boy afterwards but…that is hard to do. It is better to go home and have weird dreams about someone who looks like Mamoru and someone that looks like her but that person is being referred to as Serenity. HMMMMMMMM what could be going on here folks? It is clear to everyone experiencing it. Because masks folks. And when you transform you look different. So obviously Usagi is just having weird dreams okay.
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Embrace that feeling. Ask questions!
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Usagi….might have some brains. While she was all WOOHOO Princess the other day now she is thinking that maybe Minako is hiding things from her. Maybe it was the obvious facial expressions or the fact that Minako isn’t coughing up the crystal now. Like HMMMM why did you wait so long to come join us? You could have trained us better and what if we had DIED waiting for you? So yeah Usagi is pretty smart. She runs into Mamoru and of course it is flowerly and romantic time. She doesn’t really acknowledge his pity party self about not being able to protect her and instead focuses on wanting to help him out by asking Minako for the crystal. I do want to know at what point did Luna find out that Mamoru knows who Usagi is and that Usagi found out who Mamoru was? I know everyone runs around and says people’s names while transformed but I didn’t see any scene where Luna got UPSET about this. Like hello don’t you suspect him still for being a baddie? She was a little…sad this episode but not what I would qualify as SUPER WORRIED about everything. Of course Artemis and his crappy voice comes by to tell Luna she is doing a great job and oh by the way her memories were sealed on purpose for her own good. Why such a control freak Artemis?
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Make sure you send me alone so I will have minimum amount of success.
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Instead of waiting for the enemy to poof away Minako told Zoisite that she was the Princess of the Moon Kingdom. Because that was smart. So now Queen Metalia who looks pretty gaseous and not metal like at all is like HMMMM this girl must know where the Silver Crystal is since…it’s hers and while we kicked their butts last time someone DID seal me away with what we assume is said Silver Crystal. Instead of running around jewelry stores and having random humans search their closets we could just send the Kings out to do mean things to humans and capture said Sailor Venus/Moon Princess when she comes in to save the day. I mean…I think they can conquer Earth without the crystal and if they destroy the person who has the crystal no one has it right? Sounds like a plan. Now we will wait until all the Kings are feeling better and we will set up a massive plan that will involve killing the other four Scouts and capturing Sailor Venus. Maybe leaving one Scout alive so Venus will spill the beans. Or…or…Kunzite will be sent alone because clearly he needs time to shine alone yes? Let my flowing locks get the crystal for her gaseousness. Yeah going alone sounds like a better idea, since it has worked out so well for everyone else.
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5 seconds later it seems Kunzite is ready for his plan. And dude he didn’t even draw out Minako. No no he just…talks to Minako directly in her head. I wonder if there was more to that though. Like he froze everyone in the town and his magical talking waves would only affect Minako. If he knew who Minako was I guess he could have gone to her house and kidnapped her. This secret identity stuff is hard folks. Anyway he is all like bring the Silver Crystal to Tokyo Tower or I will kill everyone in the city. Poor Tokyo Tower is going to be all beat up. Good thing they have the Sky Tree now to keep things going in the city. Minako is told to go alone because maybe Kunzite marathoned some of the episodes and realized he could actually take on one of the girls and live. This probably wouldn’t have been such a big deal, well not right away anyway if Minako hadn’t run into all the other Scouts who apparently were going to her house right that minute to pick her up for dinner. So they all know where she lives? I wonder why they hadn’t been seen hanging out with their beloved Princess then? Perhaps this is where a few filler episodes would have helped out. Anyway Minako blows them off rather fast and starts to make her way to Tokyo Tower to die at the hands of Kunzite.
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Wait finish the sentence!
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That probably would have happened if Kunzite hadn’t gotten so greedy. Trying to get the Crystal and human energy at the same time. Because Minako only got about 5 feet before the other Scouts realized there were passed out people everywhere and hello there is a massive power outrage and the enemy loves to take over Tokyo Tower. Had he just cooled his jets he would have been able to take Minako and…I guess use her as bait as well? For the other Scouts? Torture a few of the girls until Sailor Venus gave up the goods. Now he has to deal with all the Scouts and Mamoru who has woken up from another Princess Serenity laced dream coming for him. Better pull that hair back in a ponytail, wouldn’t want to mess up your lovely locks all messed up. </span><br />
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Or Kunzite is like are you for real, your powers are pretty lame and attacks everyone. The other Sailor Scouts use some new power that allows them to float (and FLY) in the air. In the manga and this show the Scouts randomly get new powers while fighting whereas the original anime everyone usually had one attack per season. And there was no flying. Usagi was not part of this fly circle and was falling headlong into the ground below. Whatever will happen to her? Oh Tuxedo Mask will show up and save her? He is good at catching girls you know. Usagi wants Tuxedo Mask to show up and save her but then she always realizes he will be in danger. And this time folks..she wants to protect him. This is her mission and he is precious to her so he needs to leave while she handles this. Then poof a kiss and jump she is off to save the day. Instead of losing some of his man pride Mamoru is very touched and..moved at how many sides to Usagi there really are. She has grown up a lot since the series still started. But no matter how much she cares and tries for her friends….she still hasn’t gathered enough power to stop Kunzite. So she was jumping up the tower to protect everyone and it wasn’t going to end well for her and everyone knew it. So Mamoru was like NO I am not going to let you protect me, I am going to protect you…and threw himself in front of the blast. X___X What a dramatic way to end an episode. No really I mean that…because of the long gap in episodes. Curse you Sailor Moon! How dare you make me wait…of course I can’t really complain about things being late can I….So I will be patient. If I have to anyway…until next time!
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Yes folks..I share a birthday with Michael Myers. He is slightly older than me but we both blow our candles out on the same day. His cake might be a pile of dead bodies but the point still stands. It also made me start to wonder….now that I am getting OLD (31 to be exact) what other things are old. Like things I love and use in my everyday life. What would kids call ancient nowadays that I could be like hey get off my lawn and let me be. So I decided to think up a few things and compare my age to them to see how old I really am. Although I fear I am quite ancient as I am a loyal N Sync fan and have no idea who is in One Direction.
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<span class="fullpost">Ghostbusters- This movie came out June 1, 1984. When it was being advertised on TV as the 30th anniversary of this movie I was like HEY that can’t be right, I am turning 31 oh wait now I get it. Like my mind hadn’t caught up with the fact I was days away from being 31 and yeah….I already existed by the time this classic movie came out. </span><br />
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<span class="fullpost">Thriller the song- While I am not older than the whole album itself I am older than Thriller the song. I guess when you release singles and stuff. Why I almost 3 weeks old when that was being blared across every major radio station. This must be why I love zombies so much. </span><br />
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<span class="fullpost">Code Red- In the year 2001 Code Red was introduced into my life. At first I was skeptical. Surge was eventually taken away from me (although it might be coming back!!!) so I didn’t want to fall in love with another drink only for it to be ripped from my sugar obsessed hands. This drink is just so…so many things. While it worries me this drink has NEVER caught on in stores (hate you Taco bell for giving then taking away) it seems to have staying power in the stores so I am a happy little Tenchi. </span><br />
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<span class="fullpost">Disney Parks including Hollywood Studios, Animal Kingdom, Disneyland Paris, Disney California Adventures, Tokyo Disney Sea, Hong Kong Disneyland, whatever that crappy studios park is called in Paris- Wow that is a lot of parks. Of course most people would argue that all the good parks were made before I existed but still…Disney has grown a lot in 31 years. Lots of parks anyway with more on the way. Now if the content within the parks grew at the same rate…also I need to see some of these parks on the list. </span><br />
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<span class="fullpost">Alien- While I don’t think this movie has aged as badly as some movies (in terms of graphics and such like Terminator and Ghostbusters) it still is a movie that tries to be futuristic for its time and some parts of it today…well you can tell came from 1979. Still I am sure this movie will still look great for it’s time while people in the future will be rolling their eyes at the “graphics” in Transformers. </span><br />
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<span class="fullpost">Cellphones- According to the internets the closest relative to what we call cellphones today came out in the year 1983. But if we want to be technical something like a cellphone existed 1979, although with very limited availability. But even if we were using the 1983 date chances are it would be the 9.5 months before my birthday still putting them older than me. But barely folks. I actually thought this was a much closer date as Scream was so silly with calling them Cellular Phones, like they just came out last week in that timeline. </span><br />
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<span class="fullpost">The Thing- Where were you June 25, 1982? Well probably not in the theaters watching this masterpiece as it took a while for this show to pick up an audience. But yes folks. I have watched this movie a million times and it never gets old. Childs is 31 years older than me and went on to do things like voice baddies in Princess in the Frog. I am not sure who gave Kurt Russell permission to get old but who am I to say who is old now?</span><br />
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<span class="fullpost">Orlando Bloom- It pains me…PAINS me to report that Orlando Bloom is 37 years old. Like hello I just saw Fellowship of the Ring in theaters last year, how dare you say Orlando Bloom isn’t and up and coming actor. Of course I still think he is baby face and a cutie. Ya’ll can keep your Brad Pitts and George Clooneys. Orlando Bloom has my heart…you know, after my husband. XD </span><br />
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<span class="fullpost">Disney Parks including Disneyland (original), Magic Kingdom at Disney World, EPCOT, Tokyo Disneyland- So basically I am younger than most of the flagship parks of the major part resort areas. The parks you would visit if you had limited time in the area. Oh how much fun it would have been to seen the park when Walt Disney was alive. I only had to go to one of the parks on this list but I bet people would call it the most important since it started it all. </span><br />
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<span class="fullpost">This is just a sample of things that I am older or younger than. I think we can guarantee that I am older than all the current kids on The Disney channel but I am younger the entire cast of Buffy. I would list more but I got an early birthday present of Alien playing right now. XD Gotta watch it…and maybe finish blogging the 5 or so anime posts I have that need to be…well mostly started. XD
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