Shingeki no Kyojin episode 18

Kira is not pleased with all my time on the computer today. Super jealous kitty face. She is now trying to sit on the laptop, demanding attention. Like mom, we have only spent all day together on this couch I NEED MORE! I guess though she does save me a lot of time by not searching for endless cat pictures on the internet. Why I don't need to have a cheeseburger because I have my own cutie pie!

Yeah this looks super safe...

Up next in this epic catch up moment is Shingeki no Kyojin episode 18. Spoilers for absolutely everyone in this show being screwed and Levi's face for having little or no emotion. And when I do catch up on blog posts here is the spoilery thread. I think the anime is being slightly more obvious than the manga, what do you think?

And then everyone died. THE END!

Episode Summary: After a brief recap because if this show went straight into new material the world would end we see Reiner patching up Armin whose injuries apparently weren't that bad. Jean and his drooley face is whistling for his horse to return but that doesn't seem to be going well. Armin's horse is dead and the boys realize they all can't fit on one horse. Jean starts running through his head who needs to stay behind and why but realizes he might be losing his mind. He keeps whistling while Armin looks like he has figured something out about the Female Titan. Reiner asks what Armin is thinking but Armin instead brings the focus back on them all escaping. He fires off a flare in hopes of getting someone's attention. Reiner is like look hommies one of us has to stay behind, ain't no one coming to rescue us. Armin agrees to stay behind if Reiner gives Erwin some secret important message. That message never comes as Christa and her goddess self arrives with Jean's horse. Now escape is possible and there is much rejoicing in the streets. The team thinks that a retreat will now take place but they are shocked to see green flares which means changing direction, not going back to the wall. They keep traveling on thinking this is a stupid plan and they are all going to die. Everyone else in the Scouting Legion seems to think that too, as they either continue traveling on or run into the Female Titan and get their asses kicked. She seems especially cruel with one squad as she spins a man around and around until his insides fall out. Each group that comes across the Female Titan assume they can take her down and one by one they fall. One man makes it out and tries to relay information to the other squads. However Erwin is relaying information himself that everyone is to continue on.

We interrupt this horror situation to have some sparkles.

The focus changed to Eren and Levi's squad. Eren is like hmmm what could be going on, why aren't we retreating. Levi is very hush hush about this and soon seasoned members of all the squads realize they are heading to the Woods of Giant Trees. Erwin's team reaches this Woods of Giant Trees first with lots of carts and such. He notes that the Titans must have used this area recently as there is no grass. People spread out and keep on trucking through the woods. The middle teams, including Eren's, go through the woods themselves while the outer teams like Armin, Mikasa, and basically every other main character minus one whom maybe was there and I couldn't really tell take to the sides of the Giant Trees. Almost every character makes a face or is like WTF at this formation as no one can see the middle. Mikasa seems to think they are hiding from the Female Titan, Armin is looking deep in thought, and everyone else is like can we please be retreating now. Eventually the one man that got away from Female Titan groups all the outsiders together and tells them to take to the trees and that their job is to make sure Titans do not enter the forest. Everyone is like is this man out of his mind, especially Jean. He considers going against Erwin as he is proving to be a bad leader. Jean looks at Armin and thinks the boy has figured things out so he decides to shut up and do his job. Despite the fact that Armin HAS figured something out he doesn't know the whole situation or what Erwin is up to. Still the cadets sit up in the trees as Titan's gather at the ground, distracted by them. Meanwhile Eren is like um why are we in the woods? We won't be able to see any Titans and since no one is on the sides we will have no warning. Levi is like figure this out for yourself moron and keeps on going. At first Eren is touched that Levi wants him to learn for himself (Eren's self) and tries to figure this out on his own. However Eren looks around to Petra and the others and they are freaking the hell out. Eren is like holy shit, these seasoned veterans have no idea what is going on! Eren starts to doubt that Levi knows what is going on when the Female Titan busts through the woods. There are several soldiers that try to attack her and each one meets with a violent end. Eren keeps following Levi as Petra and the others start calling out for Levi to give them orders. Levi keeps on going, ignoring them. Tensions get higher and higher until Levi tells them all to cover their ears. THE END!

And dry your eyes too, as this anime might run out of material soon.

XO Well well folks. From the way things are going we are going to run out of manga material soon. I kid I kid. But yeah this arc seems to be moving at a really fast clip. And given how SLOOOOW the manga is...I am not sure when the next season is going to be. X___X If things end how I think they are the next season will either be full of fillers or delayed. Either way...no one is really getting answers for quite a while.

This is the MOG I get it face.

I might have been a bad girl and skimmed the manga at this part I don't remember Eren having such an AHA moment. The big reveal was out of nowhere when it happened in the manga. Like um....really, how did you figure that out? The biggest clue Armin had was really flimsy at best I think and the other clue was...shall we say...on realized really later on. But it doesn't matter Erwin already narrowed things down much further and faster than Armin despite not having either one of these clues. HMMMMMM how did Erwin figure it out.

Or or...you could tell everyone yourself and leave someone else behind?

Either way Armin was not really smart with how he handled things. You don't know who you can trust now that humans can be Titans and what not. So perhaps he should have written what he thought down in code and not maybe entrusted it to someone else. Of course these were major guesses at best but still. I guess time was not on their side as Titans could appear out of nowhere and coming up with a code on the spot might be hard when Titans are biting down on your legs. But Armin seems pretty smart despite getting his head nearly bashed in and eaten by Titans like 4 times in one hour. ONE HOUR FOLKS! That is how long it took for things to go horribly wrong. Or did they?

I think either way ya'll are screwed but yeah this 30 seconds are the worse.

I thought it was pretty horrific that the boys were going to have to leave one of their own behind. Poor Jean trying to get his horse back. While Titans usually don't attack animals they do attack people on said animals and hello Armin's horse just got smushed. Other horses and getting killed left and right. So this horse was like um goodbye not coming back to this chaos. Now both Jean and Reiner are huge compared to Armin so why the hell would they think leaving him behind was an option? Armin should have been the one to go plus one. That way he wouldn't have to tell his information to anyone else. Armin is silly for volunteering. In this situation Armin and Reiner should have went as Jean was the less capable one. :( How horrible would that be to survive the Titan attack but be left to die. Erwin clearly has a plan and going back to get one stranded soldier is not apart of it. Jean would have died had it not been for Christa and her lovely smiles and blond hair. Yay Christa!

Clearly the plan is to kill everyone. Wonderful.

Soon everyone starts thinking....um something is up. Something is way up. Jean and their team and all the other squads start to wonder why a retreat is not in order. Some squads have no idea what is going on but there are lots of black flares. Armin and his team know what is up but slowly it is dawning on everyone that there is something really wrong with this mission and continuing is a really bad idea. Yet the flare for retreat never comes. Everyone is a SOLDIER so they need the retreat flare or else they will be deserters and others might die because of their actions. All who come across Female Titan are doomed to die anyway but you know...no one else really knows that. Still if spirits weren't already down from all the black flares and newness of this all well the not retreating thing wasn't helping any.

X___X Yeah she is different kind of Titan.

Damn this Female Titan is harsh. Maybe it is just the smile on her face that has been plastered there in some gross fashion but wow. She is looking like she is enjoying herself. Kicking humans like footballs, spinning one like a yoyo. Like she gets some real enjoyment out of killing humans. If her mission is to capture Eren AND she is a human inside of a Titan....she is truly messed up yes? Armored Titan and Colossal Titan seem to do their mission and go while Female Titan is like I am going to chase after Eren and every human I come across I am going to take all my anger out on. That is the sound of morale slowly slipping away.

Err...I do not like this plan or how it will end for me?

Things go from bad to worse as most of the troops encounter the Forest of Big Trees. Erwin's group moves with confidence, plowing right in. Levi goes right in too with his troops following but making X___x faces. The rest of the troops seem to circle the forest and....take position in the trees. It was bad enough riding around the forest with no cover or warning on ANY side but then to take to the trees. Yeah soldiers were getting confused and angry. Like hello we would like you to sit here and be bait for a while? How does that sound? Jean seemed to be the most angry, almost suggesting that they overthrow Erwin. Um first you have to find him. I find it funny he calmed down because he thought Armin knew what was going on. The viewers thought Armin knew what was going on too. He might know some of what is going on but in his head he was like X____X what the heck is Erwin thinking. Still he is a SOLDIER and will do what is told. Mikasa seems to be following the be the bait plan the best as it will help Eren out and Eren is the most important person in the world. Ymir has the most bored face and Connie is once again confused. All I know is those huge trees better have some big roots. While most of the Titans aren't large enough to reach the soldiers enough of them could push said trees down. There shouldn't be any casualties from this though right? Well until they need to escape. Where you be horses?

Why aren't there more Titans hiding in the woods anyway? X__X

Despite being in the middle and protected by super elite Eren is the most confused and scared right now. He was sitting pretty being flanked on all sides but now they are in the woods and no one can hear them scream. Or shoot flares. I like how Eren was so polite to ask Levi what was going on but was like oh this is a test to see if I can figure it out myself. I shall be a good soldier and not ask questions about how awful this plan is.

But I am supposed to look up to you guys!!!

I mean...I want to type that it was hilarious when Eren realized NO ONE knew the plan...but Eren was so distraught. Is it right to laugh at his pain? Probably not. I am a bad person. But Petra and the others were equally as X___X just they didn't ask any questions. Insert many sweatdrops here. Like okay if these elite people are worried and don't know the plan we are screwed right? I don't think it helped that the Female Titan showed up and soldiers were being swatted like flies against the trees. I mean attacking her was going to be futile but not giving ANY orders at all...yeah the entire team seems screwed.

Please sir can we have some more? Oh and not die please?

The episode ends with Levi's troops slowly going insane and panicking as everyone around them is turning into a pancake and Levi is like lala let's take a stroll through the forest and ignore the huge Female Titan chasing us. I think everyone was doing their best to keep it together but let's face it. Even if Levi gave orders things were probably not going to end well right? Fight and die or run and die. Not good options. It appeared to Eren that Levi had no idea what was going on and that he was blindly following Erwin's nonexistent orders too. But when Levi said cover your ears well....it was clear he was in on the plan. Whatever the plan is. And going by the clips from next week the plan isn't going to work anyway. XD So yay for being in the dark and in the know because at the end of the day you will be dead either way. Female Titan...she is out for blood yo.

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Kiniro Mosaic episode 7

So much posting. I get to cross a lot of things off my to do list for this week. Because the week ends when I go to sleep folks. There is always so carry over from the week before but this week the carry over list will be so much smaller!!! XD Just got to stay caught up. Oh and you know...do the blog comments that are even further behind. :( Sorry folks, that will be tomorrow's goal!

Tell them Aya!!!

For now it is Kiniro Mosaic episode 7 post! Moving right along folks weeee! Spoilers for summer taking a back seat and Alice not blinding us with an ugly outfit this episode.

How does Shinobu function in the real world?

Episode Summary: At school there is some sort of music class and the girls have a test. Aya is apparently tone deaf and is upset with the results. Youko was singing loudly and without care and Shinobu...well she did good but not as well as Alice and Karen. Shinobu thinks that Alice should sing on the radio and Aya wants to hear Karen sing a solo. This solo turns into Alice and Karen fighting over the same part of the song. They eventually do sing the Sakura Blossom Song with Shinobu ruining the moment with her....specialness. After the opening song it is time for their homeroom teacher to rejoice for it is autumn and she can wear her track jacket. Aya sees Alice talking to another girl in their class and writing in a notebook. Turns out Alice practices her Japanese by writing down hard words. Alice is then told it is time for them to wear tracksuits too and that she totally forgot about the note she wrote herself. Even Shinobu knew Alice forgot her tracksuit and said nothing. The teacher leads Alice her jacket and the other girls suggest Alice just wear said jacket. She is eventually given Shinobu's summer shorts so she freezes outside. Aya hates PE and wants to kill it. Youko takes off running, Aya tries her best, Shinobu looks like she is power walking, and Alice is a giant mess. Youko makes fun of them later when they die on the side of the track. After all this super fun time the girls eat lunch later. Well not Youko because she ate her lunch earlier. She asks Aya for food but she gets all goobery thinking it is romantic.

Are you on crack?

Karen eventually comes in bearing snacks. She ate with the girls in her class but then they gifted her with all these treats. Everyone is X____X at the amount of food the girl have and Alice is like oh you are fat now. Karen is obviously heart broken and there is talk about putting her on a diet. They go to ask their homeroom teacher for help but she is busy doing some chair exercises. She rather not limit the girl's food but should do little things to exercise. Aya is concerned she is fat and Shinobu is okay with being “chubby”. Youko says she eats a lot but goes running every day. Karen vows to go running with Youko until she realizes how much running that would be. It is decided that they should weigh Karen to see how much the girl needs to lose. Aya weighs herself as well. Karen announces she hasn't gained any weight at all and Aya runs out of the room because she is apparently the fattest person on the face of the planet. Alice does tell Karen she needs to be more Japanese and refuse treats though. The girls try to move on from this minor insanity but it becoming exam season. Aya is ready for this but Shinobu has been doing awful lately in all her subjects. Karen likes taking tests so she can take naps. Youko thinks she can read the answers out of Aya's head. Shinobu asks her teacher if she thinks Shinobu can become an interpreter one day and when the teacher cries Shinobu takes it as a sign that she needs to do better. The girls study and Shinobu wants to be more like Alice. Something clicks in Shinobu's brain and she turns into a responsible girl. Everyone is a little shocked at this, especially Alice. Alice accidentally breaks Shinobu's spell and the girl worries that she has forgotten everything. Alice wishes her good luck and somehow Shinobu does better on the English test than even Aya. However...she did horrible in every other subject so you know. YAY FALL! THE END!

Shinobu's determined face actually makes her look cute.

This episode was all over the place! I don't even think I mentioned the little in betweener moments! There is just so many of them and they barely last 30 seconds. But I do enjoy watching them. But yeah...hard to blog you know?

Great, more ways to give teenagers self esteem problems.

What is up first though? Oh the music class. RARW! How awful is that? I think that schools in Japan are well rounded...on paper and in animes really. But in reality just..just no. No singing for me. I am not good at it and I don't think any amount of practicing will make me feel better about myself or make me sound different. Nor do I think everyone needs to take a music class involving an instrument. If they want to yes. So Aya I feel your pain. I actually felt a lot of Aya's pain this episode. No singing!!!!

And then you made the song suck.

Shinobu did not wear a crazy outfit this week. Which is good because my eyes need a break. However Shinobu is working with half her brain and that half is under the influence of booze. Or drugs. Can you really get high on life or cotton candy? But this week her annoying thing would be trying to sing with Alice and Karen. I thought she said she was going to clap her hands. Instead her and her blond hair love rose from her voice like an insane person. As usual. As usual indeed. I like how the song between bickering Karen and Alice was so overdramatic and really they were still in the hallway imagining all this stuff. XD

And then the girl awkwardly stood there....

Alice is sorta cute. I make little lists for myself too. Like I am going to get this, this, and this at the grocery store. And then I forget the list at home. Something like that. I like how she uses that notebook for everything though. Like lala I use it for everything it loses it's meaning. Make sure you bring your tracksuit to school. Because Shinobu will just look at you forgetting it and let you do it. Like what a great friend. Also how awkward was it when the girl Alice was talking to just stood there, well after the conversation was done? So awkward.

I don't think counts Shinobu....

After Alice is given pieces of random uniforms onto exercise. POOR AYA! :( Gym should be blown up and sent to the moon. Down with the class known as P.E. How dare they make us out of shape people do exercise. I want to be a couch potato! I love getting winded walking uphill and stairs and in Disney Parks. Okay maybe not but still. I feel you Aya. Alice wasn't looking so hot either. I would be there with you girls. Shinobu....she looked like she was putting a lot of effort into looking like she was running but she wasn't. She could have tried harder. That really wasn't running, that was walking with a lot of extra arm movement. My grandmother could run faster than that. Obviously not for 3 hours but still. Weird Shinobu.

I accept all your gifts as your blond idol.

Karen is half hobbit/half Japanese. Maybe Youko too. They need two lunches. I think it is important that Karen eats with the girls in her class too. I am sure they could learn a lot about foreign people and Shinobu's people already have Alice. Share the blonds. I am not sure about this snack thing though. On one had I guess it is okay that they want to make Karen feel welcomed. But feeding the cute animal? Karen is a new person but still a person. XD But maybe all the girls have crushes on Karen. I don't think it is fair that Karen should do what Youko says and have some restraint, the Japanese way. Clearly she doesn't know the social rules. And if people gave me treats I take them!

What the hell Alice?!?!?!

Alice does a fair share of messing up with social rules too. Calling Karen fat? What the heck folks? I just hate these fat episodes that seem to happen when the slice of life shows are all about girls. Never the boys. Boys aren't fat folks. Not that these girls are fat. I mean.....most of them are twigs. So this is all about nothing. No one is fat, no one should be dieting, and exercise is the devil. Okay maybe exercise is something normal people should do and Karen should share all the snacks instead of eating them all day. But no one is fat.

The weighing machine has been censored for our eyes. They would melt at the number!

The fat saga goes nowhere. Mainly because Karen is like me. My pants might be a little tighter than last year but I am still going to have ice cream every day and walking to and from my car/walking up my stairs is enough exercise for me. XD The teacher looks pretty good too but she is probably all worried about the Christmas Cake thing. And who keeps a scale in a school infirmary? Once again POOR AYA! Karen is a little shorter than Aya so...no tears? Keep on eating the cookies!

Oh Alice.....

The rest of the episode was devoted to exams. One minute the girls are at the beach the next it is time for exams. And we can never have a group of girls with average intelligence and study skills. No no we need the one who doesn't have to study and gets good grades, one who only studies and gets good grades, a few that do okay in school but worry, and the one who is so hopeless you just hope someone rich marries her and takes care of her for life because adding is hard. Shinobu I know you love your blond girls but you need to be doing what you need to do in class. X___X I mean...Sailor Moon got better grades than you! Why hasn't this girl failed yet?

Then why are you crying?!

We never really learn what got Shinobu that great grade on her English test. I mean doing awful all the time must be a downer. Glad they didn't go with Alice's cheater plan. Perhaps Shinobu saw the tears in her teacher's eyes and realized that her dream of being an interpreter were going to fly far, far away if she couldn't master the basics in high school. Motivation can be a powerful thing. And Shinobu did do well...on that one test. One test......no motivation for math I see.

8? Out of 100? X____X

And I think that is about it for this episode. I would never wake up at 5 am to make lunch for anyone. I guess I would make a bad Japanese mother. Shinobu and her blond girls. If she moved to America would she be sad to see all the fake blonds? With everything moving so fast is there time for a school festival or are we diving right into Christmas? Got to have some chicken and strawberry cake ya'll!

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Duffy the Disney Bear Adventures: Magic Kingdom here I come!

Looking so smart in my new hat.

Hello there everyone! You like seeing all my fun adventures? Well the last time we went to Disney World we didn't just stay in the Art of Animation hotel. We went and spent the whole day at the Magic Kingdom. I went for the first time in May and now I get to go again. So exciting!

I got to meet a lot of princesses today. So lovely.

We got to eat at Be Our Guest restaurant again. I think it's mom's favorite now.

I like the size of the castle. So far away!

HMMMM what shall we get this time?

Order us something tasty dad!

This looks yummy and familiar.

Mom brought another friend this trip. I like Pascal's little tie.

I can't see what dad got. I am sure it is something different than last time.

After all that yummy food we got in another line to meet more princesses.

Thanks for the hand mom, thought I was going to fall.

Don't I look so cute? Love my new hat.

Do you think that will hold all my clothes?

What? Inanimate objects talking? That is craziness.

Oh I see a princess now. Hello Belle.

Wait come closer to me!

Are those apples tasty?

Look more princesses weee!

Onward to the train.

And where would you like all your bags?

I want shiny shoes too!

Look at my new outfit! Mom was so excited to see it at Build a Bear. She says that this is a ROBE not a dress and that Shellie May and I can share it. I got a wand folks.

I shall take over the castle woohoo!

I feel weird not wearing shoes.

Can I wear this on Halloween too please?

An inn? But we are staying at the Art of Animation.

Under the seeeeeea

So spooky!

NOOO! I have so many things left to do in this life!

A Giant Duffy? Trading pins! Mom is so happy!

It is almost time for the park to close. Let's take a few more pics and then go to bed. So much fun today.

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