Monday, October 27, 2008

a short post this will be... decided to stop chasing Skip Beat! much since it did not really 'hook' me on but i will still go to OKTO and watch it if i have the time though... and yes again, started a new anime in replacement for Skip Beat! is To Aru Majutsu no Index, might be doing a flight for this depending on the amount of time i have and its really a nice show and will continue to follow it =D

Sunday, October 26, 2008

nothing much happened nowadays so this time there will only be the flight in this post and i'm including Toradora! in the flight too. Oh and Full Metal Alchemist is going to have another season which i saw in the latest few post in random curiosity, hopefully it would be continuing the Edward's story though... didnt have time to finish Skip Beat! and ef tonight, zzz 12pm alrdy...

[ISM Flight 2 Anime]

Clannad After 4

It was another schoolday where Tomoya does not seem to find Sunohara anywhere and Tomoya and Nagisa discussed with the other club members about Sunohara and Mei's current situation and deemed that Mei's suggestion of making Sunohara rejoin the soccer club again as a hopeless thing to achieve. Mei however cannot think of other ways to bring back the old Sunohara and had decided to continue with the plan. The 3 of them, Tomoya, Nagisa and Mei went to find the soccer club members and tried to persuade them to let Sunohara rejoin but was rejected. They then went to Yukine afterwards and Tomoya told Mei and Yukine about Sunohara's past where he had picked a fight with the whole soccer club during his first year. They next day in class, Sunohara did not seemed to care about Mei at all when Tomoya asked him if he was worried about her and that did he even cared for her. Sunohara doesnt understand what Tomoya was so pissed about and almost had a fight with Tomoya when Kyou, Ryou and Kotomi stepped in to prevent the fight. Tomoya then went off, pissed with Sunohara's attitude. Tomoya then told Mei and Nagisa what happened in the morning and Mei went to try and persuade the soccer club again after hearing what Yukine said about her brother that has a totally different personalilty from her, with the help of Nagisa and Tomoya bowing his head to the captain, he allowed them to help retrieve the balls that the club members purposely kicked off the goal area and even hurt Mei. In the end, the soccer club still refused to take Sunohara back in and grabbed Mei by her hand which made he shouting for his brother. Before Tomoya went to help Mei, Sunohara appeared and told the club that he would not forgive anyone who made Mei cry and started fighting, Tomoya then joined in afterwards and both of them managed to win the whole soccer club. After Sunohara and Tomoya rested in the rain, they then started to fight, ignoring the shouts from Mei and Nagisa while the two of them try to tell each other off. Tomoya told Sunohara that he should care more about Mei's feelings and why didnt he stop Mei from going out with Tomoya and then Sunohara replied back that he did it because he knew that Mei would be alright with him. In the end both of them stopped fighting with Mei going to Sunohara's side and Nagisa going to Tomoya's side. The next day when Tomoya saw Sunohara again, the both of them started laughing at each other's wounds and became friends again, just like what happened when Tomoya and Sunohara first met. Sunohara then went to Nagisa's house and told Akio that he would take good care of Sanae which Sanae then appears to tell Sunohara the truth. Akio was angry that Sunohara was trying to steal Sanae away from him and Tomoya just stood there laughing as he had purposely not told Sunohara the truth yet.

*The scene when Sunohara rushed in to save Mei was very touching and so was the fight between Tomoya and Sunohara. Finally the arc has ended and it was quite a good arc anyway, laughed hard at the final part too =D. Hopefully they are going to show the real "after" soon as seen in the trailer*

Akane Iro ni Somaru Saka 4

Jun is seen going to class with Yuuhi again and Yuuhi almost revealed that tey were staying together as their actions were already causing others to be suspicious of the both of them. After they went in to class, Karen went forward and asked them to join her party which Jun pass it off, saying that he does not like formal occasions. In the end Jun still went with his sister and Yuuhi to the party as Minato had dragged him along and said they her brother should try and learn more about these occasions. After Karen appeared with a high class dress, she brought along the others to change their clothes into more formal ones and even Jun and his friend had changed into suits. When Minato and the others appeared, Jun only looked at Minato in a different way as her clothes were rather revealing and Jun felt uneasy. After Minato wore another extra jacket, they went pass the kitchen and decided to help out with the cooking as the cooks were seasick and were unable to work. Yuuhi at first proposed to help out but ended up almost destroying the whole kitchen and had to pass. Minato and the other girls the started with the cooking with Nago-Nago bringing in a hude high-class tuna. After Karen "entertained" the crowd with her super cold jokes, the dinner was finally ready and was served. Minato even performed an amazing cutting of the tuna demonstration that made many of the visitors there to be bewildered. Karen does not want to lose out and carried out Plan D with is a person dressed up as an octopus and Karen telling the people that she will be the saviour. Everyone was looking at her at a wierd way as it can be easily seen as a fake octopus and Jun even said that it was painful even to look at it. Only Yuuhi was taken in by the octopus and ran away, activated the fireworks and caused a small fire inside the ship they were on. Jun then went to find Minato and Yuuhi after the rest were safe and managed to find Minato first and told her how worried he was and then went to find Yuuhi who was standing alone, drenched in water, who rushed to Jun immediately and told him to safe her earilier as she was afraid when she was all alone. The cruise then ended with everyone being safe and Karen even asked them to join her for another similar occasions which made Jun think that Karan is really a scary person.

*a very LOL episode and an epic scene of the octopus and Karen and Yuuhi who had actually believed in it, it was like OMG? it was so fake, and the octopus man was like so happy when actually someone would fall for it... =.=*

Toradora! 4

Toradora is a show where Ryuuji is a guy in school were everyone is afraid of due to his scary eyes and incidentally banged into Aisaka Taiga who was called "Palm Tiger" due to her violent personality and her size and they both decided to help each other with their own crushes and Taiga had somehow some feelings for Ryuuji as the story progesses...

Ryuuji went to Taiga's house again to help clean up and prepare dinner and found Taiga's mini collection of photos that were so blur that it was almost unrecognisable but he was found by Taiga who told Ryuuji that it was her crush, Kitamura, that she was taking and Ryuuji finally realise the person in the photo was actually him and told Taiga that he would help her take some clear photos of Kitamura. When they went to school, Taiga was telling Ryuuji what photos she wanted to take of Kitamura when Kitamura appeared and Taiga was like doing a very outdated action to Kitamura who amazingly did it back to Taiga to Ryuuji's surprise. After Kitamura left, Taiga asked Ryuuji if he had taken a photo of Kitamura doing that but Ryuuji said that it was impossible as it was like so fast and he had no time to take out the camera. Taiga then said that Ryuuji was a useless dog and went off. When Taiga saw how popular Kitamura was with other girls, she felt pissed and also irritated the student council president and in the end Kitamura had to CARRY Taiga up by her arms which made her go into daydreaming mode for quite some time. After Kitamura and Ryuuji's crush, Minori, went to eat lunch with Ryuuji and Taiga, Taiga almost revealed that she was having the bento Ryuuji had made and the both of them were called away, allowing Ryuuji to tell Taiga that she must be careful. After school ends, Ryuuji was dragged by Taiga to the baseball pitch where the both of them started taking photos of Kitamura in action and Taiga was drooling over the photos of Kitamura in Ryuuji's home. Taiga was unable to choose which photo to laminate and passed them to Ryuuji to ask him to choose after Ryuuji coincidentally received a photo of Minori. Just when Ryuuji was examining the photos, Kitamura found out and even showed his own collection of photos of Taiga and told Ryuuji that he had confessed to Taiga before but she rejected and Ryuuji was shocked badly as Taiga had liked Kitamura. After school at the rooftop, Taiga told Ryuuji that she wanted a picture of Kitamura confessing to her and just as she finished talking, she sent a flying kick at Ryuuji who luckily dodged it and Taiga shouted that it was Ryuuji who made her talk about all the embarassing things.

*an amazing episode of Toradora! yet again and the reason why i had decided to make a flight for it was because that this anime could actually be on par with Clannad as the the anime is really humourous in a really funny way take attracts people to keep watching. I really hope that Ryuuji and Taiga would be like together in the end, that would be so cool, hopefully it all ends in one season too =D*

Shikabanehime 3

The sound of a baby crying can be heard by the people at night and Makina and Keisei is currently hunting down that Shikabane. Kagami was down with a cold and has to rest in his house. Meanwhile, Makina and the other shikabanehime is chasing down that Shikabane but only to lose it and find another victim lying dead on the ground. The black cat then appears at Kagami's house when he heard the baby's crying voice and the cat tells him that the baby is calling out to him, telling him to save it. Kagami s then led to a clinic but fainted their due to his fever. A doctor carrying a baby came out and found him lying at the doorstep and took him in. Kagami later woke up on a clinic bed and his cold was almost gone. He heard a person talking and went out of bed and went to see what was happening. Then he saw Makina telling the doctor that she was pregnant and that she hoped the doctor would help her. After the doctor left to make preparations, she went up to Kagami and asked him why he always appeared when she is chasing down the shikabanes. Makina then left and went to find the shikabane while Kagami also went with her. When she reaches the room where the baby is seen on a small bed, she attempts to kill it but Kagami stopped her and Makina then told him to smell the baby for a corpse smell but Kagami told her that the baby smelled of milk. Makina didnt care about Kagami and took the baby away and away from the doctor who told her that the baby was not a shikabane but Makina was later grabbed by the real shikabane and Kagami was also hit on the head by the doctor and blacked out. After Kagami woke up, he heard Makina asking the doctor why the shikabane was obeying him and it was revealed that the baby was the shikabane's and that after she died and turned into a shikabane, the doctor looked after the baby and therefore it obeyed him. The doctor then injected some of the shikabane's cells into Makina but it has no use and Makina told the doctor that she, too, was a shikabane. She then later kills off the real shikabane and before she killed the doctor, Keisei appeared and Kagami fainted again. After he woke up, Keisei told Kagami that everything he saw was just an his own imagination and Makina asked Keisei again why his brother would always apppear when they are hunting down the shikabanes. Keisei then went to visit the doctor who uses the shikabane cells to prolong his wife's life, only to find out that he was killed by someone.

*Again! i watched it like deep late at night, regretted again. Freaking scary, the baby's crying in the night... whao sia la, scary X.X its getting more serious and i find it nicer this way as its good to have some serious animes once in the while, and the plot is good too, maybe Kagami has some connections with the shikabanes that he is able to sense where they are? O.O*

Chaos;Head 3

Takumi is shown that he in the past had once wished for something bad to happen and it really did happen and he himself wondered if he had the ability to make what he wishes come true. He was then brought to a clinic as he wouldnt talk and had check ups with his mental condition. Back in the present, Takumi goes back to the clinic to check hs condition again and determine if Yua was telling the truth about him moving by his own without himself knowing it. He then goes to sleep in the clinic and met Sera-chan again in a nurse outfit and talked to her a little while before he was woken up again by the real nurse of the clinic. He later goes back home and under the advice of Sera-chan, he decides to check the picture the Commander had sent to him, which is himself, again and through zooming, he sees himself in the picture, running away with a stake in his hand. He is shocked to see it as the incident happed at the 29th but the pictre was taken at the 28th and it is impossible for someone to send a photo from the future into the past and Takumi is taken aback by what he had seen. He then searches for his condition that is something like possessing the ability to look and see into the future and he came by a band whose lead singer is called FES and her song lyrics were a prediction to the new gene crimes. Takumi decides to go and check on FES and was dragged by his friend to the live concert, only to see FES holding a long sword in her hands and is looking at Takumi, after his delusions later clear up, he quickly left the place. The next day, his sister brought him out to et a new handphone and after Takumi went into the streets, she sees another person holding a similar sword that FES was holding and was also shocked at what he had seen. Back at his house, he receieves a message saying that the 4th new gene crime had been committed and through zooming of the picture at the crime scene, he sees some words that only he knows in his head and his mind was blank thinking abut how another person would also have known those words.

*another epic episode and the mystery deepens, hopefully the swords have some use and i'm hoping for some actions!!! =D*

P.S. dunno why my posts are getting longer =.=

Monday, October 20, 2008

its time for another long post yet again with an amazing 4 anime flights today. Decided not to have a "flight" on ef2 as its too confusing to write it down, many wont understand =), so im gonna leave it out. Yup and my tickets for AFA08 have already been pre registered, so hopefully i'll be able to get the tickets easier rather than queueing up for the 2 day pass. Cant wait though, but its still a whopping 1 more month, with the 'O' level chinese coming up, i'm feeling abit tensed again... scared myself after watching Shikabanehime late at night yesterday and Chaos;Head has become even more interesting =) and also with Toradora! entering my fav anime list. Changed my blogskin too and removed the playlist as it might irritate those coming here as it 'auto plays' so might not be putting it back till i found other nice playlists. Went to KKnM for the first time last weekend and had trouble locating it due to the fact that the shop name was NOT KKnM and was called 什么店, went in and was amazed by the large collections of figmas and mangas, many anime lovers were like relaxing there, looking at the book full of figmas for order and saw vocaloid figmas in them. maybe i'll get the miku figma in the future through there too, haha. Ok, now its time to fly =)

[ISM Flight 2 Anime]

Clannad After 3

Sunohara continues to bring Sanae and carry on with his date and does many things that normal couples do not do, like going to an arcade straight away. After Sanae realises that Sunohara has always been eating pork rib noodles (correct me if i'm wrong), she decides to cook for Sunohara and Nagisa, Tomoya and Mei. Mei thought that she recognises the cooking style but did not try to look into the matter. After around evening time, Sunohara decides to leave the arcade and then went walking past a playground. By doing so, the gang sees a group of young boys bullying a small girl. When Sanae suggests to go to them, Sunohara chooses not to do so and just then, another boy came running by and told off those kids from bullying his sister and that reminded Mei of something. After Sanae went to talk to them and realised that they were lost, Sanae wanted to bring them back home but Sunohara didnt want to do so as it had somehow intruded into his "date". However it does not stop Sanae from doing what she wants and told Sunohara in the end that it is always good to remember that there are other important things others could help or do. After seeing her brother so engrossed into a relationship, Mei feels that she is being neglected and when Sunohara asks her if its time for her to go home, Mei replies that she has come to the city to find her boyfriend and runs off, expecting Sunohara to chase her. In the end only Tomoya and Nagisa went to her. The gang then starts to regret what they had done to Sunohara and Mei wanted to see her brother playing soccer and returning to his old self once again. After Akio almost found out what Sanae was doing, Tomoya pushes all the responsibility to Nagisa to do the explaining and goes off with Mei. After Mei called Tomoya "onee-chan", which makes him happy, but caused misunderstanding from Kotomi, Kyou and Ryou, Mei went to take a photo with Tomoya. When they left the machine, Sunohara stood there and asked what were they doing. He snatched the photos away from Mei and Tomoya decided to lie that Mei is his girlfriend and he was going to break up with Nagisa, they then walk off, hoping that Sunohara would stop them, however Sunohara just walks away, feeling uneasy about his own sister. In the end Tomoya told Nagisa the story and Mei wanted to make her brother play soccer again but Tomoya feels that it will be hard.

*The part when Mei called Tomoya "onee-chan" was freaking funny as seen from Tomoya's actions and it made me laughed =D however the mood is getting serious in the end when it shows how relationship can harm someone's family if it is not well maintained or managed. Thought that Nagisa will misunderstand Tomoya from "being" Mei's girlfriend but luckily it didnt happen, next episode will probably conclude by seeing from the preview that Sunohara asks Tomoya if he wants to fight with him*

Chaos;Head 2

Takumi is shocked to see the pink-haired girl beside him and she was believed to be Takumi's many year classmate and old friend. Takumi even knows about her name as Rimi. Takumi's friend Misumi then shows Takumi a photo where it shows the 3 of them together when they were young. After Takumi goes back home, he then talks with his imaginary character and said that it was not an delusion after all. He then sees an image of Rimi covered in blood and calling out to Takumi. She even holds up the stake and tells Takumi that he is unable to run away. Takumi was immediately taken aback and saw the real Rimi is his house. Rimi then tells Takumi that the number of figurines he had had increased and Takumi still have no recollection of Rimi as his friend at all. Back at the police station, the police had taken a video of Takumi running away with the stake in his hand at the time where the New Gene crime had happened and they believed that Takumi was the criminal behind the New Gene crimes. Yua then stops by his place and Takumi brings her out to the anime shop and meeting his sister on the way. After that, they walked home together and as Yua wanted to give Takumi something, her bag dropped and many documents containing New Gene information dropped out from her bag. Takumi immediately felt scared as he thought that Yua was connected to the New Gene as well. However it turns out that Yua is a person investigating Takumi and suggests that HE is the criminal. When Takumi told her that the photo, that Yua showed him, was sent to him by a person called 'Commander' but she tells him that he could have a power to predict things that are going to happen as the 'Commander' is Takumi himself. Takumi is shocked to hear that and went home, disbelieving that he is the criminal of the New Gene crimes.

*a shocking episode as usual for Chaos;Head with made me even more to watch it as its getting more and more interesting. How can he send himself pictures of the crime to days before ina chat room????? i was like OMG? maybe Takumi himself is the criminal but he just doesnt know it, perhaps, or maybe he really had some kind of power, or even a split personality.

Akane-Iro Ni Somaru Saka 3

Their class teacher is missing after going into an abandoned school building and the student coucil president calls for help from the students with Jun'ichi and some of his other friends coming forward to try and assist her, even Yuuhi and the class rep came by. The five of them then went into the abandoned school building and the class rep became all scared through the scary rumours that she was told. After that, the five of them decided to split up and find their teacher and it turned out that they had planned to make Yuuhi and Jun'ichi together and observe their relationship. Yuuhi and Jun'ichi then went into a room where they meet Nagomi who tells them that there was a clue near the wall that could lead them to the teacher. Jun'ichi then went and pulled a rope which caused him and Yuuhi to fall into a hole. When they woke up, Yuuhi was above Jun'ichi and began hitting him and called him a pervert. Yuuhi then tries to go back up by using Jun'ichi's back as a step but was too low. Yuuhi then sit on Jun'ichi's shoulders and tries again. Jun'ichi is then brought into his own imagination and decides to look up, which caused him to get another spanking with a blindfold. But the blindfold just decreased Jun'ichi's sense of balance and fell with Yuuhi. After they gave up, Jun'ichi handed over his own blouse and decides to talk about his kiss with Yuuhi as a misunderstanding but Yuuhi was angry as she was about to forget it but Jun'ichi reminded her again. She then talks about it too and about her being Jun'ichi's fiancee, which incidentally was heard by their teacher who was sleeping under a blanket-look-alike cloth. The others then manages to find Jun'ichi and Yuuhi and brought them back up, with them having the help from Nagomi as a secret.

Shikabanahime 2

An accident happened on a road and one of the children that Kagami knew was caught in it and had died. This also made Yuuta (correct me if i'm wrong) sad as he had a small crush on her. Kagami then suggests to Yuuta and him to attend the wake but Yuuta didnt want it as the media would definitely be there and it might disgrace her by seeing that she had such friends like them. However Yuuta then passes on something to Kagami as though telling him to bring it to the wake. Later during the wake, the girl came back to life and so did some of the other childrens. Makina and Keisei then immediately knew that all of them had became Shikabanes and Kagami saw Makina again after going to the hospital where the girl was immediatelyt sent to. Kagami then slowly follows Makina through corridors of dead bodies and Makina is confronted by the child Shikabane and is stabbed in the waist. When she is about to open fire, the Shikabane turns back into human form just when Kagami comes by and asks Makina what was she doing. The child then runs to Kagami, telling him to save her and Kagami brings her off, leaving the injured Makina behind. The child then makes Kagami bring her to the playground and Makina's injuries were slowly recovering and told Keisei to not worry about her and Makina realises where the child was going, to the playground. At the playground, the child throws Kagami away and reunite with the other 2 children who had died and Makina appears and explained to him that they are now Shikabanes and where the same as her. Makina then starts fighting them and Kagami manages to stop the girl Shikabane by holding up the paper that Yuuta had passed to him. Makina then takes the chance and finishes the Shikabane. The girl then returns back to half-human and looks at Kagami who is reluctant to pass it to Makina. After Makina threatens him with her gun, Kagami steps away and thanked Makina before running off. Keisei then explained to Makina that Kagami had thanked her as he would be unable to hand over the Shikabane if she had not forced him to do so.

*a scary episode due to the scenes at the hospital, freaking scary, scared me lol... starting to love this anime too as its very serious and the fighting scenes were abit different from other animes. Kagami is somehow having the same powers as Keisei has, the ability to bring Makina back to life, maybe Kagami will have his own Shikabane too in the future?*

heres Toradora!'s OP, amazing music and amazing anime =) its on OKTO thurs 11.30pm FYI

Thursday, October 16, 2008

an error made by previous post, its not 6 animes/week, its 7 =.=, 4got to add in ef ~a tale of melodies~ and ya, 4got to add in Clannad After's flight too, will put in ef's summary soon once i finish it like tml? ok, here's the flight for clannad =)

[ISM Flight 2 Anime]

Clannad After 1

The story continues from season 1 where Tomoya is still with Nagisa, watching Akio playing baseball which almost struck Tomoya on the head. Back at Nagisa's home, Akio wishes Nagisa and Tomoya to search for more baseball players to make a team to play a game of baseball against Akio's rival baseball team. They managed to get in Tomoyo, Yuusuke and Misae and the game began the next day. As Mei wanted to see Yuusuke, she came along too and became a player of the team. Sunohara then catches the amazingly fast ball Akio had thrown at him and Kyou cheered him on, obviously ignoring the fact that he's in pain. Tomoyo then take her turn to hit the baseball and through Tomoya's teaching, she manages to hit the ball so hard that made everyone shocked. Akio then became injured once the bat hit his shin and he had to be sent off court and the person taking over him became Nagisa. Kotomi then hits the ball through multiple calculations and Sunohara was able to run off but was "out" due too his overconfidence. Yuusuke then takes his turn to hit the ball and got carried away by saying something about making memories and was "out" before he could finish. The game continues and Tomoyo attempted a "girly-shot" which failed badly and Yuusuke could finally finish talking after getting a "timeout" from the game. It was Tomoya's turn to hit the ball and Nagisa would be counting on him to get a homerun. Tomoya was unable to lift his shoulder too high up, but through the encouragement that Akio and Sanae gave him, he manages to win the game.

Clannad After 2

The episode starts when the little robot is seen with the little girl discussing about a new creature that they found roaming in that empty world of theirs. Tomoya then makes fun of Sunohara and Mei is still staying at Nagisa's place. In order to stop Mei worrying about Sunohara's future, Tomoya suggests Sunohara to get a fake girlfriend to not let Mei worry so much. They went to Ryou but she was not able to do it and Tomoya and Sunohara even got a bashing from Kyou. They then went to Kotomi who was willing to help but they rejected due to her amazing ultrasound violin skills. They went to Yukine later but Sunohara was wacked by some guy who was being helped by Yukine and vowed to kill him if he tries anything funny to Yukine. Tomoya and Sunohara met up with Sanae after school and she suggests that why not she would help Sunohara out and decides to disguise herself up to have a "date" with Sunohara who thinks Sanae is just Nagisa's sister. Nagisa is worried about her mum doing that but decided to help after seeing how Sanae is into this, Tomoya then suggests not to let Akio know or Sunohara would be a goner. Sunohara and Sanae then practised together and Sunohara was like telling Tomoya exactly what he was feeling every now and then and made Tomoya a little pissed. During the actual "dating" day, Sunohara was seen waiting for Sanae and with Tomoya, Nagisa and Mei behind him. Sanae then appeared later in a school uniform which made Sunohara pumped out as Sanae was so cute. However Mei doesnt seem to be happy knowing that her brother now finally has a girlfriend.

Clannad After Story is finally showing after a gap from the 1st season and its nice to see Clannad being shown again. However i was expecting that they would start the story like the real "After" where its many many years later but i was clearly wrong and it looks like this season would be focused on Nagisa and Tomoya just like season 1. The OP for this season was very cool too as it showed the various characters in their present life and in the future. Kyou was a kindergarden teacher, and Kotomi was seen looking at the Dango poster of the drama club lying around, Nagisa being with Tomoya many years later, Tomoya working in the same company as Yuusuke (if i'm not wrong), Tomoyo supposely with Tomoya in the snowing hillside, Fuko is hugging Nagisa and Tomoya's child / Tomo in Tomoyo After, not quite sure as the shirt is the same. But at least Fuko didnt die =), can be seen by her ribbon by her hair. Amazing OP it was

Here's the OP:

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

ok, my exams are over and the results are out and its not that gd though... 2 weeks refrained myself from updating my blog and now its gonna be a long post, for those interested about the new animes can see my flight to anime at the bottom =)

first things first, OKTO is going to start this Sunday and having taken over kids and art central, the show should be more promising, and it seems that it was not that bad after all... the animania section is purely just taken over to OKTO, while D.Gray man and Azumanga Daioh is going to reshhow again during weekends at around 7pm, saturday night at 10pm however will be showing Inuyasha movie which i find this a good approach rather than just reshowing old animes

the Anime Festival Asia 08 is going to be at Suntec convention center 4th floor on the 22nd and 23rd of November, which has a small entrance fee. i should be going on both days as day 2 will be the cosplayt competition and the seiyuu of Sheryl Nome in Macross Frontier will be coming to this AFA 08 live which i tink is on day 1, so it will be very worth it to go =), however it looks like i'm going alone for this AFA again like the recent Autumn Matsuri, well it isnt that bad though =)

[ISM Flight 2 Anime]

OK, lots of new animes are showing and i'm currently watching 6 of them, inclusive of 2 of them which i watch on TV, Toradora! and Skip Beat! The other 4 shows were promising and had me hooked on, so here comes the reviews: (summaries might be a little shorter and bland as i haven really quite understand some things in the anime yet)

Shikabane Hime

The show starts when this kid Kagami is leaving a home which had taken care of him for a long time. Before the day he left, during the night, he stumbled across a dead corpse of a girl lying on the floor, he went closer and found out that the girl was already dead and quickly hid himself when he heard this brother coming. His brother was accompanied by other fellow priests with his brother covered with wounds. His brother Keisei then went to the girl and hugged her when she opened her eyes again. Kagami was shocked as he was really sure that the girl was dead. It later reveals that the police were hunting down a serial killer who later jumped from an apartment and was supposed to be dead, but he revived as a "shikabane" vampire and attacked other people. Keisei and the girl Makina then went to chase after this vampire, but Makina was caught and was threw down from the sky. Makina then dropped onto the ground near to where Kagami was when he was moving to his new home. Kagami quickly went to her and attempted the same actions as what his brother had did. Makina is then shown in a world that looks like hell and Kagami managed to bring her back to the human world. When Makina asked if he was afraid as he clearly new that even if she woke up, she still had no heartbeat as she was a moving corpse. Makina then left with Keisei and quickly chased after the vampire. Makina then told the vampire that she is a "shikabane hime" who hunts down those "shikabane" that eats human. The fight continues on and Makina managed to destroy the vampire.

Akaneiro ni Somaru Saka 1

the story starts when a girl who's name is Katagiri Yuuhi gets bothered by two strangers and Jun'ichi who went by, saves the girl when the two strangers recognises him as the legendary "Genokiller" who is heard to have killed many people. They apologised and quickly ran off. Yuuhi was then fetched by her butler with Jun'ichi walking off without leaving his name. He then regretted acting cool as Yuuhi was cute and he somehow had fallen for her. The next day in school, Yuuhi happened to have transferred to the school Jun'ichi was in the found out that the "Genokiller" thing was a mock story made up from Jun'ichi who was a past delinquent. Yuuhi then made everyone mistaken when she said she wants to go out with Jun'ichi but was actually just going for a tea break. Jun'ichi's friends then explained his past to Yuuhi with Jun'ichi trying to clear the misunderstandings. They then returned to class where everyone is asking Yuuhi's relationship with Jun'ichi who after some commotion, kisses her in front of eveyone. Everyone was shocked by Jun'ichi's action and Yuuhi went angry and bash up Jun'ichi who had clearly misunderstood the situation. It then ends with Yuuhi coming to Jun'ichi's house saying that she will be staying here onwards and that she is Jun'ichi's fiancee.

Akaneiro no Somaru Saka 2

It then clearly shows that Yuuhi was made by her father to marry the fiancee that is living in this city and she didnt realise that that fiancee of hers was actually Jun'ichi. Jun'ichi's father then called to tell him that he was going to have a fiancee but it was already too late to be said as thought by Jun'ichi. After that, Yuuhi slept at the living room sofa when she clearly does not wish to sleep in Jun'ichi's room in a futon and the next morning in school, the friends of Jun'ichi told him that the act he did to Yuuhi yesterday had added another page to his legend of Genokiller and such. Yuuhi then went home with Jun'ichi's sister and went shopping together. Yuuhi had fun there as it was the first time she had went into a supermarket. They two then went back home to cook curry where Yuuhi is seen playing around with the things in the kitchen as she had never been in one before. After quite some time, the curry is done and Jun'ichi tastes the curry, which he finds it alright. The light in the house went off and somehow Jun'ichi landed on Yuuhi who quickly moved away and made Jun'ichi suffer through series of arm locks and a headbutt. After that night, Yuuhi then went into the living room half asleep and still in her dream. Jun'ichi and his sister smiled when they saw how Yuuhi was really like while Jun'ichi said that he had found a weakness in Yuuhi.

Chaos; Head 1

The story starts with Takumi who lives alone in a dream where the city is destroyed and a angel-like girl appeared beside him. He then woke up when being called up by an imaginary character in his mind and talks to her about things in his life. Takumi then went to school and can be seen that he was a fan of animes and addicted to gaming till he was always seen talking to the imaginary character in his small little container house. In school, his friend told him about a series of strange happenings in the cities that are called the New Generation but Takumi was not at all interested in the 3 dimensional world at all. Back in his home, he started gaming and his teammates were also taking about the new generation. Takumi's sister then came by and wanted to by Takumi a handphone so he could be easily contacted by Takumi ignores and made her sister leave alone despite the strange happenings in the city. Takumi was later brought into chat room where he sees a person talking to him and placing a lot of links to the photos when Takumi accidentally clicked on one of them and it shows clearly the bloody scene of one of the killings of the New Generation. Takumi was very troubled and shocked and decided to play games in the internet cafes instead of at home. Just when he left the internet cafe, he heard some metal clanging sound and found a pink haired girl stabbing a man with metal nail-like dagger with blood dripping on the floor. The girl then calls out to Takumi in his name and wanted him to do something, Takumi immediately ran back to his home and was comforted by his imaginary character, Seira and treats it as an delusion. The next day, he found out that someone was following him and hallucinated about the stalker being the lackey of the pink haired girl and wants to kill him. He runs off by injured himself when the girl following him catched up and introduces herself as Yua who has fallen for Takumi. Takumi then thinks it as a trap but Yua manages to bring him to his home. They both then discussed about Seira who is well loved character by the both of them and Takumi agreed to go out with Yua to a anime shop. The next day in school, Takumi sees the pink haired girl seating down next to him and greets him. Takumi's eyes went blank as he stared at the girl.