Arata Kangatari episode 7

Hello there my lovely readers. Some major drama going on in Tenchi's world but I guess that is a topic for another post. Maybe. Hopefully. Just rarw. A whole lot of what the hell going on.

A Tenchi outburst? I only wish...

After spending a lot of hours doing nothing and moping though (mopeing? I hate spelling) it is time to dust all the cat fur off the keyboard and type! Anime posts indeed! Up now is Arata Kangatari episode 7. Spoilers for Hinohara not really...having a great game plan for life.

You need to learn your rules of...well anime! This is not a video game duh.

Episode Summary: Hinohara is slowly trying to escape Kannagi's old territory. Kotoha manages to sprain her ankle on nothing. Kanate tries to carry Kotoha to a resting spot but she rather lean on Hinohara. Kannagi watches this all go down nearby and is like HMMMM idea. In the real world Arata greets Masato and asks if he is Hinohara's friend. Masato seems to think he is getting teased and starts to get pissed. Hinohara's mother comes by and takes him to the homeroom teacher before things get ugly. Mom tries to explain that “Hinohara” still has amnesia and to be easy on him. Arata is confronted by some of Masato's people who take him to the roof. Masato is really, really pissed off about how Arata is talking to him. Arata seems more content in looking at the view from the building top. When Masato gets super pissed and tries to punch Arata the boy flattens him pretty fast and is like HAHA weakling. Back in the magic world Akachi is on a mountain top randomly killing birds because how else would we know he is the baddie? He talks about how Kannagi apparently made him do this. Inside a broken down...shack Kotoha's leg looks pretty bad. Kanate volunteers to go look for some herbs and runs off to be important. Kotoha tries to snuggle with Hinohara and confess that she is just a normal girl and all normal girls want....Hinohara makes some excuse to patrol the area and leaves the shack. He has had some blushy moments with Kotoha and thought something was starting with her. He has then realized Kotoha actually loves Arata and not him. Woe is him.

Oh so she hurt her ankle on purpose for some "alone" time. Only now both of their feelings are hurt.

As Hinohara is having his sad party the necklaces glow and Hinohara and Arata are able to talk via...a tree. Arata is caught up on what is happening in his magic world although he doesn't seem all that sad about the many dead people. Arata explains that Kotoha is like a little sister to him and that Hinohara needs to take care of her. That makes Hinohara and his crush a little happier...until Arata mentions the fact that he beat up Masato. Hinohara gets a little upset and the connection fails before Arata can learn why. Hinohara gets beyond sad when thinking about his turn coat Masato friend. While Kanate was gathering the herbs he happened upon Emisu's grave. He picks the flowers and suddenly fire springs from the ground. While Hinohara was walking back to Kotoha suddenly Kannagi springs from nowhere and demands Hinohara's god sword. Hinohara is like I don't think so buddy. More fire springs from the ground and it is explained that there is a lava flow under this area. Kannagi keeps demanding the sword, saying he needs it more that Hinohara. Hinohara defends himself but eventually can't bring himself to hurt Kannagi. Kannagi gets the sword with little trouble and is pretty pissed that Hinohara was the one chosen. Hinohara tries to point out that the god sword might not pick Kannagi even if Hinohara is dead. Kotoha was alone for far too long or 8 seconds so she went looking for Hinohara. She gets trapped in some of the fames which triggers something in Kannagi. Kanate comes across the scene too and starts to panic. Kotoha begs Hinohara to leave her but instead he jumps into the flames to protect her...Kannagi gets really upset and grabs him shoulder. A voice tells him to do something so he does....he leaps into the fire and pulls out Hinohara and Kotoha. He seems wounded himself so Kotoha tries to heal him. Everyone looks on and sees that it is not working. 

Kannagi wakes up and apparently it become storytime, a story that Akachi seems to be reliving at this same moment too. When Kannagi was younger Akachi and this girl Emisu (unknown if she was a sister or a friend) were brought to his father's palace to work. Akachi seemed to like Kannagi enough to teach him various things. Kannagi of course was in love with Emisu and things seem okay for a while. But the workers rebelled one day and killed dad. Akachi ran with Kannagi and Emisu until they reached a pathway that could only hold two people. Akachi puts Emisu and Kannagi in that tunnel and takes on the rebels himself. Kannagi and Emisu are very upset but try and carry on. They are eventually taken in by Ohika and things seem really great there. Until one day Kannagi gets really sick and Emisu went out in the crazy...volcano weather to look for herbs. Kannagi wakes up in the middle of his fever and sees the fire all around. He magically assumes that Emisu is trapped in that crazy. Turns out she was and Kannagi gets injured trying to rescue Emisu. She ends up dying and Kannagi decides to yell at the god of fire, threatening to kill himself. That is when his god sword came to him and how he became a Sho. So since Akachi took the sword it is like he stole Emisu. Hinohara is touched by how much of this story is really about him and invites Kannagi to come with him and change this world. Everyone is like X____X THE END!

And a bunch of people died. But yeah that was the main point.

How do my summaries get so long? I think to myself well that was a fairly simple episode this will be easy to blog. Then BAM! Words! Words all over the place. HOW DOES THIS HAPPEN?!

Shouldn't we be crying over the dead pregnant lady?

I mean I was prepared to talk about...well the simpleness of this episode. I mean I guess it was needed after the blood and guts that was the last episode. I just thought maybe our characters would be slightly upset over it all. Instead we got more worried over Kotoha tripping over nothing. I was going to make fun of her but I run into walls all the time. So....I really can't do that. But I can comment on the fact that the conversations got a bit weird in light of what just happened...

Shut down!

But yes people are dead and Kotoha hurt her foot. It doesn't look like they made it very far but since I don't know where Emisu's grave is maybe they made it further than I thought. I kinda feel bad for Kanate. You know he is not going to get the girl and his efforts really are...well ignorable. Like oh what a cute little brother, thanks for helping out. But least he is trying right? Yay friendship! How is that Ginchi kid doing....

I might want to tap that so I need to know since we are bros.

While Kanate is off looking for something to help Kotoha out Kotoha is trying to get it on with Hinohara. XD Okay maybe not. Oh and for the record Kotoha can't heal herself. I find this acceptable as in most animes this seems to be the case. But not the case in video games though....But anyway yes that Kotoha. It seems as if this romance that happened before the Princess murder plot was just one sided. I mean....it would make her seem less insane if this wasn't all in her head. If Arata actually liked her back. It is all wishful thinking and she seems to think this “memory loss” is ruining their relationship. Hinohara of course is stuck in the middle as he might actually like Kotoha. I am not sure why as she mainly talks about Arata. How he “used” to be. Still there are other qualities that Hinohara has seen that he likes and now it hurts that she really doesn't like him. I am sure there is a trust issue in there somewhere.

In love with Hinohara?

In the real world Arata has headed to school. For some reason. I don't know why the mom didn't keep him home and talk to the teacher herself. Or really I am not understanding why Arata would want to go to school anyway. Did I miss something manga related? Just....it doesn't make sense to me. But maybe Arata got bored. Like let me see this new world. There seems to be no way for Arata to help Hinohara. And since the anime hasn't really showed how extensive the bullying got it's not like Hinohara should pour out his soul to Arata to have him fix his problems. What would I do if I was in a strange new land all alone?

Did he kick the anger out of you yet?

Masato is a crazy joke right? Why the hell was he so mad? I mean we should be asking why he turned on Hinohara but I am sure that will be explained. So maybe that will explain the ANGER this morning. Like RARW how dare you talk to me, let me gather up some people and take you to the roof all dramatic like. Did Masato steal his girlfriend? Or just get a girlfriend and Masato was like noooo all my yaoi hopes and dreams, didn't you see the closing song?! I am not thinking Arata solved anything today but smacking that boy...seems necessary to me. But violence solves nothing, stay in school kids.

ONE TREE! So sneaky!

Back in magical land Kannagi has managed to sneak up on Hinohara. Which is sorta sad since there was not a damn tree besides the stump Hinohara was talking into. Just a lot of burnt area. Hinohara needs to work on his staying alive skills. Like really didn't a whole household just get slashed to pieces? Kannagi might not have his god sword but he has some fighting ability and it looks like the will to kill. Pay attention please!

Now lay down and die!

I am not sure why Hinohara wasn't trying harder to...well be alive. If there is some way to bring back the people from his god sword I think he should be...you know trying to protect his sword. I am not saying kill Kannagi...just stab him a bit and run. Or you know....Kannagi did kill the Princess or tried to and started all this mess for some reason. He is the reason while all those people died last week. In Hinohara's mind, that is what he should think. The other 11 could have done the task but it was Kannagi. So Hinohara needs to focus on the goal, to save everyone. But I guess that is the kind of person he is, wanting to not due harm to everyone and talk it out. I am not sure how many people it will work on. Maybe the other 11 will do themselves in, in battle so Hinohara doesn't have to.

Solid rescue plan.

Kotoha probably needs to work on her self preservation skills too. Like just sit there and be injured while people come help you. Now in her defense I am sure she didn't know about the random volcano vein under the ground. But once she got closer and saw the fight maybe she should have....not screamed and distracted Hinohara. Of course all of this had to happen so Kannagi could have his flashbacks. So much anime magic. Hinohara does seem to do better in battle when protecting others and not himself though.

So your tragic past comes before this right? We should feel badly for you too? BIRD KILLER!

In light of Kotoha in the fire and Hinohara bravely trying to protect her Kannagi has turned into a gentle killer. Which is the theme with this author. No baddie is every truly bad. Almost every character has suffered some sort of trauma in their past and they just want to fix things, selfishly sometimes. So things have to be the same with Kannagi. Now how people respond to him is a different story. Like Kotoha, where is Granny? Hinohara, aren't you a wanted man and got sent to jail? HMMMM. I smell forgiveness coming on.

Brother and sister? Neighbors?

So after Kannagi saves Hinohara and Kotoha (because Kanate ain't that crazy) they notice there is a....current wound on Kannagi. This leads to STORY TIME! 5 seconds ago Kannagi was willing to kill Hinohara to get the god sword. But now we have to feel sorry for him. It looks like Kannagi had a nice childhood. Look at me, being the son of someone important. I am not sure if Emisu is Akachi's sister or friend from the same sad fate. Like maybe their village burnt down or something. If she was his sister Akachi would feel upset and protective over her. If he was a friend then he might have been in love with Emisu and was jealous. My yaoi colored glasses see things differently OBVIOUSLY but for what is real in the show Akachi cared for both them and could be jealous no matter what.

Um...what are the boys trying to do again?

This really opens up the questions on why Akachi is doing all of this. I assumed that Emisu could be saved. But she decided that going out in the middle of the night during volcano season was a great idea and was fried. Homegirl is super dead. Like for real. She was burnt into a tiny crispy and Kannagi only has a god sword because he screamed and was going to kill himself. So...I am not sure what is his motivation is in terms of turning on the Princess. Unless being King gets you one wish. Then obviously Akachi and Kannagi have the same wish. Because killing tons of people to bring back one dead person is good math. This is all before they knew about Hinohara's sword and maybe people being brought back to life.

Um......this dude did frame you for murder...lets think about this.

I usually frown on this uneven number things. Like if I died and my husband wanted to bring me back to life fine. But if that includes killing pregnant women and innocent bystanders and making an entire country turn to chaos I don't think it's worth it. But this story....which probably has the word trust in it...has touched Hinohara. Or maybe he just feels bad for the underdog, even if that person was on top 5 seconds ago and was trying to kill him. Either way it seems as if Hinohara wants to join up with Kannagi. Not sure why as eventually Kannagi will have to “die”. Details details right?!

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Duffy the Disney Bear Adventures: Hollywood Studios here we come!

The breakfast of champions. Guess which one is moms.

YAWN! We did a lot of walking day one of our trip. But now it is morning and time for day 2! Mom is actually getting up early, is she okay? Must be excited for all the fun.

It seems you got to ride the tram a lot at theme parks. But this one wasn't full so there was room for me to sit.

Welcome to Hollywood Studios! I see you magical brooms.

Hurry run run the park has been opened for 7 minutes. First up is the Tower of Terror.

This would be mom not riding the ride. She got to see a lot of special get off the ride spaces at Disney. Note...they are not themed at all. XD

Waiting for dad to get off the ride. This is where you see your pic that is taken on the ride.

Some lady thought I was left behind and went to take me to the lost and found. Like mom would leave me behind PSHT!

Duffy is not a monkey! Got fast passes to Toy Story Mania as the lines are always so long.

Now I look even smaller!

Mom loves Orlando Bloom. FIRE AWAY!

Can I have a pirate costume like Muffy and Scruffy?

Time to ride the Backlot Tour ride.

Planes from some movie I have never seen.

I'm gone with the wind fabulous. Now twirl!

We demand more movies!

Does he have to get this dry cleaned?

I saw this movie!!! So there is new and old stuff at this park.

Mom says this movie is very important and basically made the Disney Parks possible. Yet all she watches is Tangled. XD

I see scary rides.

To my room good sir.

Are we going to watch a show now?

An Indian Jones show. Another movie mom hasn't seen. Wait the last one she did.

I see a trashcan full of frogs. X___X

Time to shoot things weee!

Dad wanted to see a stunt show...and look who showed up! Yay Cars!

Go get them McQueen!

One Man's Dream exhibit. Time to learn about Walt Disney.

Dad loves this movie.

Maybe one day we can go to California and see their park.

Time for dinner. Pizza Port closes early!

One last ride. Lets shoot things again, its fun!

Is that your blankie? I am tired too. Lets go back to the hotel so Day three can be lots of fun too.

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Suiseu no Gargantia episode 8

You. Are. An. Asshole.

As promised back to back episodes of Suiseu no Gargantia. X__X We are already on episode 8. Does that mean it is time to look at the Summer Anime Line-up for new things to watch? Where does the time go? In any event here is episode 8. Spoilers for MENZ, especially Pinion, sucking.

Amy has the sads most of the episode.

Episode Summary: Fairlock is rushed to Doc but it is too late for him. Ridget begs Fairlock to stay with her but he hands her the “keys” to the vessel and tells her to do a good job. He flat lines and dies. All the menz in the room are pretty upset that Ridget is the one to inherit the fleet. Who else is having a bad day? That would be Ledo. Besides the fact that he killed their whalesquid/Hideauze Chamber has located where they are in the universe. Ledo gets so excited until Chamber explains that he cannot reach the Alliance without the Enterprise and the first distress beacon won't arrive until forever. Ledo realizes there is no more home ever. The next morning the funeral for Fairlock starts with everyone wearing their black little caps. The elders/captains talk about how Ridget sucks and has boobies and girls have cooties. Ridget appears and wants to talk business/how ships want to separate. Some of the men reprimand Ridget for not showing more respect since Fairlock took her under his wing. One man Krown gets the other men to attend the funeral while telling Ridget it will just take some time. Meanwhile Pinion has hunted down Ledo and finds out that Ledo can never return to his....Alliance. Pinion pretends to cry and then asks Ledo to join him by promising lots of Hideauze to kill. Ledo is like yes kill Hideauze. As this funeral is going on many people are leaving on Flange's ships. Ridget is begging him to stay but basically Flange calls her weak and that Pinion's find might be super important for their future. He does wish her luck but he still sucks. Amy and Saya run to find Melty and question if she is leaving too. Melty nods, saying since her grandfather is going with Flange. Melty seems happy about the situation, that maybe she will meet a hot guy. And since Ledo is coming too maybe it won't be so bad. Amy chops Melty into pieces and feeds her to Piranhaconda. Or not.

But who will replace you in the dance?!

The funeral of longness continues the casket being taken throughout the ship and people placing sand on Fairlock. After Flange does his sand he turns to Krown and says maybe things would be different if he was in charge. Krown points out he is old too and it is his job to teach Ridget and the next generation. Flange wishes them luck and starts to head out. Ridget is in her new office looking at all these separation papers and is getting frustrated. She looks at pic of Fairlock, Doc, her, and apparently Dead Dad. She leaves the room to pull herself together. Clearly a good time for Pinion to ask to leave the fleet again. Sadly she does not feed him to a Piranhaconda either. Amy flies off to find Ledo who is hard at work drilling holes in Hideauze teeth. Saya flies up to Amy and tells Amy to go with Ledo. Amy gets sad...then pissed. She will not leave Bevel. Saya gets happy as she didn't want Amy to leave anyway. Bellows visits Ridget and they bond over the fact that men suck and hate them for they are woman. Bellows talks about how she tried to do too much when she first took over her father's business but a near death experience later she learned that being in command means knowing who to ask for help. How to divide up the work. Bellows wishes her luck and not to work too hard.

I don't think he knows how to do anything else...

Amy returns home and tries to make Bevel dinner. All he wants to talk about is Ledo leaving. Amy starts to cry but pretends that everything will be okay, even if Ledo sucks. Ridget takes a break from being sad to go outside and see how things are going. She learns that some people from Flange's ships are choosing to stay. She thinks back that Fairlock gave her the duty to handle the Ledo situation. Bevel has run off and tried to handle that for Ridget and Amy. He asks Ledo why he is doing this, that he doesn't have to be a soldier anymore. Ledo explains that he believes the Hideauze are the same as the ones in space. That even if you leave them alone they will eventually want more and more space and that is when war will break out. He wants to protect Amy and everyone by taking them out before that happens. That is why he is leaving. Ridget runs to catch the tail end of the funeral. She makes sure she takes part of the sand funeral thing, then turns to the people. She says while she is the leader now she can't stop the people from leaving and asks everyone for help. After a huge pause people start speaking up, that if they can't stop people from leaving, they will just rebuild. Ridget seems happy with this answer. Ledo goes to say goodbye to Amy and Bevel. Bevel says that Ledo gave him his....flute tooth he is not going to keep it forever, that he will return it when Ledo returns. Ledo agrees but Bellows and Amy still declare all leaving a bunch of fools. THE END!

Okay....so not everyone sucked...but still!

Eff you men. ALL THE MENZ! All the menz everywhere. Okay that might be over dramatic. How about Eff a lot of the men on the boat? Sounds more fair yes? Can't be going to the other side of the extremes yes?

X___X Well goodbye to you too!

First off Fairlock didn't waste anytime dying did he? None of this clinging to life and people wondering what to do crap. I guess had he had more time maybe things would have been easier for Ridget. That Fairlock could have said HEY this is the year....THE FUTURE and sexism is out of style. This is my legacy, you treat her well. But Fairlock was old and in failing health. At least he had time to pass on the key or that would have been a whole different mess.

Um what about the people who are LEAVING during the funeral?! HELLO!

Now I think a lot of people are going to say that Ridget brought a lot of her problems upon herself. That she came off as hard and cold. I mean the guy died 5 minutes ago and she didn't even put on her mourning cape! She was all business. Well let me explain this to you boys. This is how the harsh world works, the reality world. And I am glad they portrayed it realistically in this anime. Woman.....can never get things right. Ever. This is still a man's world. And Ridget (and later Bellows) knows it.

So the pirates can tell that Fairlock died and Ridget is a sucky leader from far away?

Lets say that Ridget did what most people would do when a loved one dies and broke down and cried. But just for a day or two. Perfectly natural and acceptable right? NOPE! Ridget is now in a position of power. One that most of the MENZ didn't think someone of her age/gender should have. Yes age could have been a factor but had it been a young man I doubt the older men would have called him a little boy. Really there. So yes had Ridget broken down and cried because Fairlock died she would have gotten all that crap and more. Look at her weak woman tears, she has to lead us now and she can't even pull it together. WEAK! Must be on her period. Way too emotional!

And I want you to shut the hell up.

Ridget knew that was going to happen so she went the tough route. Like okay we need to get things together. And any other time I would have agreed....probably way too much too soon. The dude just died. But the boats were leaving THEN! Did anyone else get yelled at for not showing respect to Fairlock? Have some sand, peace out we are leaving. So Ridget was forced to try and fix the situation as it was happening right now. Had everyone been told okay lets have a day of mourning and then we will get back to business tomorrow Ridget could have still been stoic but proper.

So....when Ridget's dad died they made someone older in charge? Err...shouldn't the training of the replacement started then?

Since that didn't happen Ridget got the WHOA don't you care about this man at all?! Because in the world of reality if a man had done this it would have been...well probably more okay. Like that is just how men are, down to business and a nod of respect. But since us WOMEN are more emotional to begin with if we aren't then we are cold hearted bitches. What great choices Ridget had, weakling or bitch. WOOHOO! So I can go and killz all the menz now yes?

See?! What did I tell you!

Despite all of this nonsense I like that Bellows came in and talked to Ridget. It hasn't been shown much but I thought these two had a friendship. Then I thought oh maybe they both like Pinion and have a friendly rivalry going on. But now it is back to true friendship as Pinion can go drown in the ocean. She tells Ridget that doing everything on her own is probably not going to end well for her. That sometimes we woman get a little too caught up in trying to prove ourselves we become our worse enemy. It is true, that sometimes woman have to work twice as hard to be seen as equals. As that changes slowly it is time to back off and ask for help. Because preconceived notions are just that. If people already think that about you might as well as for help and not look like the fool right?

The braids are down....that means something important I am sure. A woman of the people.

In the end Krown was on Ridget's side. Especially since...you know Ridget's DAD was the commander before Fairlock. Like what the hell people. What the hell indeed. But maybe Krown was a relation too. I don't think Krown was all that old but I like that he supported the decision and decided to make the best of it instead of being an asshole and commenting on Ridget's leadership skills. Some people were blaming Ridget for the other ships leaving. Like hello this was happening BEFORE Ridget took over. How was she supposed to stop them? Guys I haven't ever lead the entire fleet before so place your fate in me? No people were using that as an excuse to leave even faster. So I glad that Krown had Ridget's back. Also maybe not all the MENZ in the world need to be destroyed. It seems the higher ups weren't that thrilled with Ridget but a lot of the day to day men had her back. So maybe I was a little overdramatic.

But not that Melty person though!

What else happened in this episode besides sexism? Melty is leaving. :( Well I am sure that makes Amy and Saya sad. Well I guess later the girls prove they are better friends with each other and not Melty. But still Melty was so up beat about it. Like yeah it will be an adventure and maybe I will meet a cute boy. Like what the hell, it is going to be the same people you see all the time now, just less of them. I know she had to go to be with her family but a little bit of sadness would help. Oh and not throwing Ledo's name around...so low.

I like your sister and destroying all those enemy by myself is surely the best way to protect her.

I think....Bevel is not that sick if he can run around the ship like that. XD No seriously I don't think that Ledo is really doing all of this whalesquid killing for Amy. I think he thought about it later and came up with that decision but his first reaction was must kill the enemy. Must destroy the enemy. Then later came the Earth will be overtaken and I don't want Amy to suffer all this sadness. Like okay dude. You saw a dance and have decided to protect this girl. I see what you did there. Also not buying the real Ledo is the one who had fun with Amy the other day. That is who HE COULD BE but not who he is now. Just...a lot of forced feelings and explanations of situations. Ledo's end result can be protecting the Earth/Amy but I think that would have taken a bit more time on Earth for him to think like that and not be on autopilot.

Just how foolish will they prove to be though?

In the end I feel bad for Ledo as he has been told he cannot return to his home. Pinion is an opportunist who is probably going to suffer the consequences later. I am glad that Ledo and Amy said goodbye to each other even if Bevel says this is not forever. Like we are both stubborn people but be okay. I am still not sure if this will end in a bloodbath though. It could still end in a feel good way. That Ledo finds out that the whalesquid are heading to the main fleet and he goes to protect them all. Yay for everyone. But then again...Pinion's treasure really could be the Hideauze making plant that eventually destroyed Earth. Death for all! I guess we will find out soon?

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