Guilty Crown episode 18: Making sense is overrated

X___X Apparently I am supposed to be in bed already. We has an early day tomorrow and yet time has gotten away from me. Silly Tenchi.

Look at me sorta being alive and creepy.

So since I need to go to sleep here is my post! XD Guilty Crown episode 18. Spoilers for things making absolutely no sense.

Good thing we turned on Shu to trust in a guy we never met!

Episode Summary: Shu continues to yell in pain as his arm just got cut off. His best friends forever…look away and proceed not to care. Argo, Tsugumi, and Ayase are like GAI?! Daryl is the only one on the “Baddie” side that is not happy to see Gai 2.0. According to Daryl Gai is the reason all the bad things in the world happened to him. The other countries have reached Japan and decide the first place to bomb is right where all the main characters are. The investigators among the students tell Gai 2.0 to do something…and Gai takes out his glowing triangle to randomly extract three Voids from said trouble making students and take out all the missiles. Once done the Voids break and the students die. Another student is murdered when she tries to defend her fallen comrades. Gai 2.0 tells Ayase and Tsugumi they are either going to follow him or die. Daryl is not pleased that Gai 2.0 threatened Tsugumi and opens fire on Gai 2.0. AntiBodies then attacks Daryl but he manages to survive. More missiles are fired and Gai 2.0 takes them out. Inori uses the confusion to escape with Shu. Gai 2.0 announces to the world if Japan is attacked he will attack back. He wants Japan to handle this…”virus” problem themselves and for outsiders to stay out of his. Oh and Shu’s mom takes a sad little shower saying that she is glad Shu is freed from the power of the kings (AKA she wanted his arm to be cut off).

Wha?! Is anything going to be explained at this point?

Arisa’s grandfather is talking to some people about the situation and about an ancient organization. But nothing is really explained and he leaves someone else in charge of his empire as he has SOMETHING to do. Inori has been nursing Shu back to health, avoiding Antibodies, and getting them food. Shu has been laying on the floor a lot and feeling sorry for himself. It has been shown that Arisa was talking to Gai 2.0 before the mutiny and wants to serve him afterwards. However she is not happy with her new position as lackey, being sent to find Inori. Daryl is injured and Saiga wants to know what the heck is going on with Gai 2.0. Inori is located by Antibodies but before Arisa and her team can capture her Arisa’s Grandfather appears and goes ninja warrior on their asses. He attempts to take out Arisa as she is an embarrassment to the family but Arisa shoots him. Inori watches this all and then is almost attacked by a bunch of random men.

Yeah. Remember that everyone else hates you. But me. The Thundercat.

When Inori “wakes up” all the men are laying on the ground and she is covered in blood. She runs back to Shu all upset. Then Mana takes over Inori’s body and attempts to give Shu a blow job. Shu freaks out for some reason and Inori wakes up to cry some more. Inori then has a dream…or something where Mana is talking about how Inori is a monster and should come back to Mana. Shu seeks out Inori who is singing her one song still. She tells Shu no matter what she will believe in Shu, even if no one else does. She then uses her magical powers to put Shu to sleep as she will face Antibodies alone. Inori then morphs into a crazy looking cat creature to fight all the Antibodies alone, talking about how even though she is a fake person Shu helped make her real. Only Gai 2.0 is able to stop her, disgusted that Inori would help a human. Shu wakes up and sees that Inori has left him. THE END!

MOG folks. This has been the best couple of weeks in anime EVER. We got a crazy time traveling Yuno slicing down Diary Users, a class full of innocent students set to die at any moment, Yomi from Black Rock Shooter (enough said), and now we have Guilty Crown spitting in the face of their own logic and character development. It is all truly amazing!

WTF IS THIS?!

Oh and Inori is a Thundercat.

Oppies. Team Shu is looking better now isn't it?

You know those students that were plotting and scheming against Shu because he “withheld” information about their Voids? Gai 2.0 killed them. And I loved it. LOVED IT! Watch to watch it all day long. Oh Shu was keeping a secret from us let’s trust in the girl we overthrew a few weeks ago. HOW DID THAT WORK OUT?! Oh what’s that? You can’t answer me? Oh that’s right because you’re dead.

WEE no one is safe now!!

Sadly Gai 2.0 did not kill Arisa. I thought she was going to be toast burgers but she used her own Void to protect Gai 2.0. Her boyfriend. Of negative seconds. Now…walk with me people, talk with me. Arisa saw Gai for about 3 minutes on the cruise ship de almost blown up. She was a bit rude to him but later was probably masturbating to table at the thought of him. Okay I get it, silly girl crush. But I am just ASSUMING that Inori and Shu told the Main Cast that Gai 2.0 was killed in the tower battle. So…..why wasn’t Arisa all X___X when Gai 2.0 contacted her? Maybe Arisa was too far gone in crazy town? Maybe.

But I think it is stupid that all the character development in Arisa has been destroyed. She started off as the aloof student council president who protected other students from being bullied. Then we saw the family pressures she was under and how she had a lot on her little shoulders. It was a bit touching to see what her Void was. She tried to keep her cool after Lost Christmas Part but allowed Shu to take over when it was clear he had the power to protect them. And she also was on team Void Ranking. She had no problem keeping vaccines and such from students to protect the majority.

You mean sleeping with a random kid at school DIDN'T please Gai 2.0?!

And now she is a crazy jealous bitch that randomly had sex with an asshole to make sure Shu got his arm cut off? Oh and she killed her Grandfather. Who was trying to kill her but you know….maybe he didn’t like what she had become. Obviously the writers hate women or are insane. Yes Inori randomly attacking her was horrible but was that enough for Arisa to sleep with random assholes to overthrow Shu? No. Stop being crazy.

Time to light them all on fire.

Oh and did I mention not one damn person because Inori the Thundercat cared that Shu got his arm cut off? Kill them all. Well Gai 2.0 accomplished some of that but really folks. Whether or not Shu should have told people is besides the point. He said he was going to get them out of the city and for most of them that happened. Most of the students that died were due to bullets going into their bodies NOT their Voids being destroyed. Especially main cast people. They knew the conflicts going on in Shu’s heart and none of them do anything? Just look a little sad? Yes I look a little sad when my ice cream cone falls on the ground folks.

I don’t think I am going to question why Shu is still alive and looking well after getting his arm cut off. These kids were having a hard time finding enough vaccines for everyone but now there is enough medical stuff laying around for an inexperienced Inori to make Shu…functional. I did appreciate the fact that Shu was still trying to use his stump. He isn’t used to having a missing limb and it was real. Of course I appreciate it more because I didn’t have to see it.

All hail Sir Gai 2.0.

I think it is safe to say that Gai 2.0 doesn’t really care about Inori. Maybe the small part of him that is hidden and still Gai does but in the grand scheme of things Gai either wants her weapon or Mana. The crazy rapist inside of her body. So stop being jealous Arisa. Crazy girls.

No one cares about my arm :(

Shu didn’t do much in this episode. Which I think worked for him. Life has not been good to Shu lately. Every other minute something awful happens to and around Shu and he is blamed despite the fact he is doing the best he can. So while it might not be the best time to be sitting down and having an emo attack…I can see where he is coming from.

Shu wants to die a virgin folks.

We shall not talk about Inori/Mana attempting to relieve Shu of his pants.

Why did someone give Arisa a gun? Did I miss the part where she became a trained soldier in 3 days?

Nor shall we talk about Arisa’s Grandfather bringing a sword to a gun fight. I would like to talk about that secret organization he was talking about…but that was basically it. Him saying there was a secret organization.

Rescuing my son would take too much time and effort. No no better to just cut off his arm and make him useless.

Mom has pretty much sealed her own fate by supporting the HEY My son doesn’t need 2 arms plan. Yes I guess in the long run it could be seen as a protection thing. But if she believes for a second that Antibodies was going to leave Shu alone or he was going to survive without Inori…well momma is stupid.

And what exactly IS you?

Inori leaving because she was putting Shu in danger…good idea. I was following that. But then Inori morphed into a Thundercat. It took this show to a new level of WTF. It might have created a new category of WTF. Before it was just um okay…sure we will go with that. But not one damn issue has been explained this entire series and with 5 episodes left they are making new plot points with NOTHING to back them up with.

Damn human. Be more amazing like us!

I have always thought in the back of my mind this might be alien technology at work. A random rock from space landed on Earth and scientists in Japan tried to unlock its secrets and KABOOM instant death. But this is going too far. Now Inori and Gai BOTH aren’t human? Since when was that hinted at? Of course it could just be that Gai 2.0 was being over dramatic. But somehow I think Gai and Inori were either fused with Crystal Rock or created from it. That is the story as the writers see fit NOW though. Nothing has even remotely hinted at this before. We saw Gai being sick and was very humanly killed a few episodes back. And Inori has not been totally unstoppable in battle. So where all this crazy crap is coming from is anyone’s guess.

This show is just like The River. Only The River has a Spanish teenager who knows all the answers and explains everything to the Whites and Token Black. This show can’t have a Spanish teenager though because the writers are making this stuff up as they go along but it would have been nice, to have someone explain stuff to us.

So much caring for Shu and his arm.

In conclusion this show is made of insane. Wonder who Shu is going to meet to make him a new arm. Oh wait maybe he is an alien in disguise too.

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Black Rock Shooter episode 4: Descent into AMAZING

-______________- I am trying to keep work out of my anime blog posts. I really am folks. But seriously….I hate people. Lots of people.

So…bring on the snark! XD

I'm the normal one in this episode?!

Up now is my amazing review of Black Rock Shooter episode 4. Spoilers for Tenchi having fun taking screenies!

Kagari doesn't even brush her hair. OH AND SHE IS INSANE!

Episode Summary: After the worse anime song in the history of anime song openings Yomi introduces a less crazy Kagari to the class. She appears to be shy and then insults the rest of the class. The boys declare this cute and the girls think she is cool. OKAY THEN! Kagari and her new hairdo continue to insult classmates while Maho contemplates changing schools to get away from the crazy people. Or she tells Yomi she did a great job in making Kagari normal. Yuu runs by saying Kohata has returned to school so Mato runs off to see her senior classmate and Yomi becomes a jealous troll. Kohata seems to be doing well and laughs about how she passed out from a lame sprained ankle. After school Kagari tells Yomi she is joining the cooking club with the girls she has insulted the most. Yomi is like alone BUT YOU ARE CRAZY?! Kagari runs off with her new friends while Yomi puts more coal in the fire. All aboard the insane train! Since Yomi hasn’t gotten the memo that Ms. Saya is EVIL she runs over to get a cup of coffee that is probably poisoned. OH HOW THE TIDES HAVE TURNED SAYAS! Ms. Saya tells Yomi that no one really needs her teehee. This makes Yomi all sad like. Sad face here. Yuu looks like she wants to talk and help Yomi but Yomi runs off.

Kagari comes over after school and hasn’t really grasped the concept of Monopoly. Yomi snaps at Kagari but apologizes and let’s her pass go as many times as she wants. The next morning Madoka…err Mato and her late self are running with toast and see Kagari at the corner. They walk to school together but no one sent Yomi that message. Yomi arrives late to school as she was looking for Kagari and asks why Kagari left without her. Kagari’s fan club are quick to point out Yomi is insane. Kagari talks to Mato later, saying that since she has spent the last 7 years of her life torturing Yomi she really should do something nice for the girl. Mato suggests making something in the cooking club and everything will be set straight! Yomi goes to see Kagari at the cooking club but the fan girls are there instead. Yomi is lead into a fight and ends up saying she is HAPPY that Kagari made friends. Kagari hears this and apparently it is the end of the world. Kagari tries going over to Yomi’s house after school but Yomi refuses to see her.

Dude is this chick dying or something?

Mato thinks something might be wrong with Yomi (REALLY?!) so she has Yuu text Yomi to see how she is doing. That goes over as well as one can expect it to. A cellphone is then nearly murdered because Yomi is insane. Kohata is pulled aside by the boy who she confessed to. He tries to apologize but Kohata has no idea what he is talking about much less knows who is he. Sad boy is sad. Kagari has come over with her cookies again and this time Yomis is like MY ONLY FRIEND IN THE WORLD. She barely falls down the stairs in one piece to make it to Kagari and the cookies. Spoiler alert: The cookies do not get eaten. As Yomi goes on and on about how she can always count on Kagari and that Kagari will always be there and blah blah. Kagari says she has given these cookies to Yomi and now they can move on, like nothing ever happened. As in Kagari is having a hard time remembering even if she liked Yomi. This also does not end well for Yomi or the cookies.

And in the other world Strength is seen carrying around dead girls and throwing them off cliffs. Black Saw Gold watches her every movement with her weird random eye. As the episode goes on we see Black Saw Gold nurturing Dead Master. Black Rock Shooter hurries to rescue Dead Master but it is too late. She has grown to a giant size with huge skulls as her body guards. Time to fight. THE END!

MOG folks! Yomi is insane.

And it’s awesome. Kagari who?!

Well I take that back. And it was a pleasant surprise. I didn’t think I was going to see Kagari again in this series. She does remind me of someone but her name escape me at the moment. I want to say Pandora Hearts for some reason…Anyway I thought the crazy train had left Kagari behind in normalville but I was wrong. Kagari is all over our screen.

Yomi is officially having the worse life ever. She was being suffocated by Kagari and Mato was able to help free her from that burden. It should have been all cupcakes and rainbows when Kagari was able to go to school and function as a semi normal human being. I say semi normal as most people don’t call their classmates smurfs and it ends well. Oh and her hair is still a hot mess.

But nooooooooo folks. NOOOOOO! I mean deep down I understand and get that while Yomi hated having the responsibliy of taking care of Ex Crazy Kagari it was at least something that was only hers. In some crazy way she liked feeling needed. It was a very unhealthy relationship for both girls but I can see how it comforted them and the sudden ending of said relationship, no matter how beneficially in the long run, was shocking and confusing at first.

SINGLE WHITE FEMALE!

However….Yomi is insane. INSANE! I thought Kagari was the crazy one but really she just caught it from Yomi. Then after Ms. Black Rock Shooter cut off her head Kagari gave back the crazy. Only it had grown tenfold and Yomi is a walking disaster. She wants Kagari to go to school…but still wants Kagari to depend on her. But while Yomi wants Kagari to have no other friends but her it is okay for Yomi to be friends with Maho. But Maho can’t be friends with Yuu, someone she has known for years.

See Yomi this is how you make friends!

Basically in that complicated sentence it says that Yomi wants everyone to be friends with HER but they aren’t allowed to be friends with anyone else. Meaning that she wants to be the center of everyone’s universe and she is the queen of selfishness. Yet she is getting depicted in a poor me kind of mentality, at least where Black Rock Shooter is concerned. Yes I know many teenager girls….well all teenage girls are selfish, self-centered, and jealous of other girls but this takes it to a whole ‘nother level!

Let it be known if someone tortures me for 7 years it will take more than 1 bag of cookies to make it even. That is least a 3 bagger.

I WAS going to call Kagari out on perpetuating the problem with Yomi. I mean it appeared that she was being cold hearted, clinging to Mato and walking to/from school without Yomi. And then the speech at the end with the cookies. Let’s just put this behind us? Yeah I going to get on here and rip her a new one.

HAHA! The boy deserved it too. Snarky Tenchi is pleased.

But then it became a little obvious that Kagari doesn’t remember what happened. Yes she was still being friendly with Yomi at the start of the episode so maybe it could have been stronger in that aspect. But yes apparently when you get your head cut off in the Other World you lose the memories of what made you NEED to go to the Other World. This was made apparently when Kohata was like Um who are you with note boy?

On one hand I do understand this concept. Something hurts you so badly that to move on you must forget it. In a way it does take away your pain (in a super….violent way of course Ms. Black Rock Shooter) because HEY what you can’t remember can’t hurt you.

But on the other hand…this is very unhealthy in the long run. People have to go through painful and unpleasant things to grow. Yes it would be nice to live in Rainbow and Unicorn Lane like all my co-workers do but that is not possible. So since sad things are unavoidable all you can do is learn from them. Take a deep breath, cry a few tears, and become a stronger person in the future. But if the girls forget about these sad and unpleasant things they will never grow as people. Yes I know this is an anime but things have meanings folks!

I am here to rescue you. And by rescue I mean behead you, befriend you, and deal with Yuu becoming jealous.

Maybe that will become an important point later though? How Black Rock Shooter thinks she is helping all these people by taking away their pain but she really can’t protect them in the end. And maybe Ms. Saya is able to keep on doing whatever it is she is doing because the girls don’t grow. They are stuck in the same spot as they were when they first came to school because they don’t learn and move on from mistakes. Instead of cutting off heads/forcing out memories maybe Black Rock Shooter/Mato can help the girls deal with their issues instead.

Good to see the unemployment rate is low in the Other World. Keep up the good work Strength the Garbage girl!

I think it was interesting to see Yuu already in the Other World despite the fact nothing has really happened to her. Perhaps everyone already has a counterpart in this world but they are “okay” until something happens to them in the real world. Or maybe anyone that has a sip of Ms. Saya’s magical coffee is a possible crazy girl. Must water the crazy girls.

A cup for each girl she messes up?

Ms. Saya wasn’t AS dramatic as last episode but since she was 5 seconds from having a nervous breakdown last episode that isn’t saying much. Yomi is already driving the crazy bus so Ms. Saya didn’t have to say or do much. Subtle she isn’t though. NO ONE NEEDS YOU indeed. Also is it normal to have that many mugs at home? Maybe they are special mugs. Or maybe she is like me and that creepy kid from Signs. We need to have a different cup every 6 hours!!

Mato didn’t do much in this episode. She was there to see Kohata return from school but she really didn’t question why she passed out. Mato was pleasant with Kagari but really didn’t get involved despite the fact she saw how upset Yomi was. And she didn’t go and visit Yomi after school like she has been…well painted to be so far. The kind of person who does visit the sick after school. Instead she lets Yuu do the texting.

It's like Mato is GOD or something, knowing all these amazing things.

Of course Mato is a teenage girl too thus she is in the selfish girl department. But she did try. She tried to help Kagari and Yomi in the best way possible. She thought it would help Yomi to show her that Kagari was okay on her own. I can see how she could think that way. And at least she thought of Yomi. Let’s be honest for a second folks. Mato has known Yuu for years and Yomi for weeks. Maybe even days. For her to go this far for someone she just met is pretty amazing for a 13 year old. Cookies for all!

Okay not cookies for Yomi. Because cookies are the devil. I know Yomi is having a lot of emotional issues this episode but her faces were AWESOME!!!

In conclusion this episode was pretty good. Notice what was NOT in it. HINT: THE BIRD BOOK! I leave you with some more amazing screenies of Yomi.

Even YOUR MOM likes Kagari more than you.

Innocent wallflower my butt.

I think this is the most insane face of the entire episode.

What do you mean things don't get better for me next week!??!

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Nendoroid Mami Tomoe is making her presence known!

I am not a fan of the rain. I know that it is a necessity for life in general but not a fan. I tend to wear pants that a boot cut but don't wear the boots. So my pants usually drag on the ground which turns my pants into two ton weights during the rain. So on my days off I pray it will rain so all of my FAVORITE co-workers can get wet instead of me. Of course...that means I have to stay home....

Before I get to my exciting MAMI post I am going to link you lovely readers to where I buy my nendoroids. Someone asked me but I took way too long to reply so here is the answer.

Hobby Search is my first choice of nendoroid shopping (the husband's too). You can earn points depending on what you buy. Shipping is generally reasonable and the prices are lowered for a preorder item. Website link: http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/

AmiAmi is also a good website if you are looking for nendoroids. Not sure about their shipping prices though as the husband does most of the buy. Website link: http://www.amiami.com/

Finally she has arrived!!!

OKAY! Now it is time for Mami! my favorite character from this series despite her um...short time on screen. XD

First we got to take some pictures of the box.

I always get worried about ripping the box when I take off the sticker.

That doesn't look friendly too me.

HMMMM in all these pictures there is no stand. That is cheating!

Weee so many weapons and so little time.

Here she is! After many months of waiting she is finally here. Her hands, like Homura, are pretty firmly in place. But I was not impressed with the plug that connected to her back. Obviously you take these nendoroids apart a lot and I find it easier to just keep the plug in the back and take the stand off. This plug was not staying in place at all, even when the husband got involved. The only flaw I could find with this nendoroid but due to this flaw Mami took a header into the table when I moved her and now her hair has "character".

Closer view of Mami's jewel. Soul gem if you would. Wonder what is inside it.

Close up of the ADORABLE hat. It is magnet and it fits perfectly on Mami's head if you put it on just right. Which means you really can't put it in different spots if you felt so inclined.

Yes come be my friend. Everything will work out I promise.

Being the mature 9th grader Mami is she has snacks and drinks ready for all her guests.

Close up view of the lovely treats. Mami comes with special hands already holding the treats. So no need to worry about them being dropped.

A certain someone sees something delicious. I suggest not sharing.

But Mami isn't all about sweets. She is also a veteran Magical Girl. Oh snap have I not probably introduced Mami yet?

Close up of the guns and their little stand. Mami is the oldest girl in the series Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica. While many fans thought they were getting another magical girl show things quickly went from WEE girl power to...well end of the world. And Mami was part of the turning point.

Mami is a very powerful magical girl. And unlike most of the girls in this series BUT like most magical girls she actually labels her attacks. Because she is awesome and full of hope. Only one of the guns can be held though.

Mami's SUPER spell. Bring on the dead witches!

This pose was one of the most frustrating scenes I have tried to create out of all my nendoroids though. Maybe if the back plug worked better there would not have been anger. Mami has to be set as far back as possible for this to work and even then I couldn't get her hands to look like they were holding the gun. Maybe I am just special and the husband could have done a better job with staging.

Or I could just take pictures like this and you can't see how special I am YAY!

Time for serious Mami. The hats are off folks! Not the gloves but the hats!

Together we can save the world Madoka. Notice how I didn't ask Sayaka for help at all. BECAUSE NO ONE LIKES HER!

Here is a close up view of Mami's AWESOME hair. I appreciate cosplayers who take the time to make their hair as close as possible to the original. But with nendoroids everything is perfect yay!

Despite the fact that Mami has a huge gun in her set she still comes with something....a little extra.

Meet Charlotte! Everyone's favorite cake eating witch. Her time on screen was brief and she appeared to be an easy boss...but Mami's facial expression says it all doesn't it?

Um....Moving right along!!!

Mami happily joins the other Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica girls in my case. One of these days I will buy a huge glass case but this is what I have for now. My poor nendoroids, less and less space for them to have. But it will do for now. I hope everyone loves Mami as much as I do! And if not...well just don't love Sayaka. Whom will be on her way shortly.....

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