Wednesday, May 27, 2009

sry for the delay of flights for Shangri-la as i am still rushing the other series as well =X higurashi is getting nicer but sadly its only a OVA and has only 5 episodes if i'm not wrong (according to wiki). it would be great if it was a full length series as the story plot is really nice =D

[ISM Flight 2 Anime]

Shangri-La 5

Kuniko goes ahead and kicks the man down who he later pulls Kuniko out of the place. He tells Kuniko to get out of the whole place and that he is going to let her go. Momoko realised that he was a soldier and agrees with Kuniko to see what he was up to. Through the three old man, Kuniko was able to feel how it would be like hacking into a system. Kuniko was brought into a weird place where she was able to see through the security camera and saw what the soldier was doing. It appears that the soldier wanted to know who had bought the computer parts which had the ability to disrupt the market and attempted to do trade with the shop owner. The shop owner accepted the trade after the soldiers decided to trade with him the mimic armour which enables anything to blend into the surroundings and that would be used in the military. The shop owner then reveals that something called Serpent had bought the parts from him. Kuniko realises that the mimic armour is something dangerous if that was used for the military and then she sees a teddy bear staring at the same thing as well. The teddy bear appeared shocked to see Kuniko and disappeared after changing into Karin. After Momoko and Kuniko bumped into the soldier again, Kuniko was made to stay with him which she took the chance to ask him about how life was in Atlas. A bomb shower then took place and he appears shocked to find out that Kuniko and the people living in Duomo experiences it almost everyday while they only got drills for it. While in the shelter, the soldier introduces himself as Kunihito. Kunihito later tells Kuniko that the people of Duomo are not the only ones sufferring and that made Kuniko angry and went to attack Kunihito using her boomerang. She was angry about him saying all that as all they get in Duomo are small houses and bad food. Kuniko later loses her boomerang from attacking Kunihito but managed to steal his mimic armour away. Karin later goes to offer help to remove Serpent from the world who is a treat to everyone's market.

*wow... it appears that the Ishida Finance that Karin is "working" under seems to be a company that is feared by many countries. maybe its becos of the fact that Karin is able to hack into almost any systems and they have the ability to do whatever they want to make money. it also seems to be that the system that Karin is using to hack into systems seem to be the same as the one that the three old man had showed Kuniko. The Serpent seems to remind me of MEDUSA as well since they are both quite similar in their ability and Karin's possession of MEDUSA should not be revealed so soon since they are attempting to help destroy the Serpent...*

Shangri-La 6

Karin suggest to the government that they use a country as bait by altering their economy to make the Serpent show itself and to allow them to efficiently take it out. The government opposed to the suggestion at first but for their survival, they chose to go with the plan even though the plan would totally destroy that country's economy. Kuniko's grandmother also shows Kuniko how the market seems to be fragile and any more of similiar economic incidents might cause the whole market to collapse. Ryoko also agrees to the plan and decides to provide aid to the country selected as bait as a compensation for being bait. Kunihito was taken to Mikuni's palace where he gets to meet Mikuni and has a conversation with her. Meanwhile, Sayoko had taken the dagger from Kunihito and found that it was the same as the blade Mikuni has and attempts to check his records but was puzzled to discover that his information was blocked. Kuniko tells Momoko that she can somehow feel a black snake that is lurking in the market and "bites" on countries that have too much carbon credits. It would then caused the economy to be destroyed for that country and leave the country to be ravaged. The mission then begins and the country's economy begins to falter. Kuniko was also at her grandmother's house again and watched the whole mission being carried out. It continues to cause markets to collapse in the region and Kuniko could sense the black snake closing in. The black snake then created a head lease for the country and huge amount of money began to pour into the country. Kuniko then managed to locate the Serpent and the information was leaked to Ryoko and the mission was a success. The news then came a report about bombs being dropped onto the place where the Serpent was located which meant that the Serpent was completely wiped out. The MEDUSA system under Karin is now acting very calmly after seeing a similar system like it being wiped out and meant that MEDUSA would carry out missions more carefully from now on.

*it was kinda cool to see the way they fight a "war" using economies and money and stuff... so the Serpent and the MEDUSA are similar systems but the MEDUSA looks less "evil" than the Serpent through the judging of their looks. the head lease thingy and the way the Serpent affects the country was pretty confusing for me since i do not know much about economies so pardon me if i had make a mistake for the head lease thingy...*

Shangri-La 7

Soldiers were sent into Duomo and their mission was to capture Digma-2, Kuniko. An armoured train was also sent out to capture Kuniko and she was quickly faced with the soldiers. As they were threatening her with the town using their cannons, Kuniko decides to go with them quietly and asked Momoko and Takehiko not to interfere. Her friend Tomoka decides to go with Kuniko as well after slapping the soldier to get herself a reason to be captured. At the prison, Kuniko finds everything weird as no one seemed to dare to look at Kuniko, let alone cheering for her like they did when she left. The warden for the prison had also became Ryoko who had interest in Kuniko. Tomoka later tells Kuniko something that happened two years ago and Kuniko somehow understood the reason for her to come to the prison together with her. Meanwhile, Karin was still looking at the carbon markets and when one of the country's carbon coefficient rose, MEDUSA was still not feeding on it and was instead thinking and looking at the Great Red Spot of Jupiter. In the prison, some girl called Rena seemed to hate Kuniko and attempts to hurt her whenever she gets the chance. While they were all out to help cut down the trees to help the new trees to grow, Rena deliberately chopped the tree which fell in the direction of Kuniko. Kuniko and Tomoka follows Rena and when Kuniko asks why was she cutting the tree down like she had hated it, Rena does not reply to the question. A bomb shower then occurs and everyone was asked to go into the shelter. Rena however locked Kuniko outside to experience the bomb shower but she had managed to survive the attack. Kuniko later learns from Rena the reason why she was hurting her and it was Ryoko who had asked her to do that in return to giving Rena an Atlas Rank. Kuniko defeats Rena easily and took the punishment for her instead by staying in the sun for three days without food. Rena also learns from Tomoka that Kuniko had went into prison for her when she had stabbed a person and that made Rena think about Kuniko differently. When the three days were up, Ryoko goes to find Kuniko and tells her that she was going to execute her. A tired Kuniko was unable to take it anymore and collapsed.

*so that was why Kuniko was in prison at the start of the series... Rena does not seem to be a bad person and maybe she might help Kuniko in time to come. but now Kuniko is under a death sentence which meant that she would have to find a way to escape since she cant die, right? MEDUSA seems to be acting strangely as well maybe it was afraid of getting eliminated like the Serpent... maybe it looking at the Jupiter had some connection with the series?*

Shangri-La 8

Ryoko says that she was not threatening to kill Kuniko off and was serious when she said that. She wanted to see how Kuniko get out of this or it'll be just wasting time for them to expect something out of Kuniko. Meanwhile, the news starting displaying Kuniko's picture and announces that she was going to get executed. Takehiko, who was trying to dig a tunnel to rescue Kuniko, sees the news and began to dig even harder to save Kuniko before it was too late. Kuniko then had a visitor and it turns out to be Momoko who tells Kuniko that she must live on and survive for everyone's sake if the one who was going to be executed was Momoko and not her since Kuniko says that she would be unable to live if Momoko was executed. Momoko passes Kuniko something from everyone which contains a lipstick, some clothes and pickled vegetables from her grandmother. Tomoka had managed to get through all the guards just to see Kuniko through "bribing" them and tells Kuniko that the both of them should run away together. Kuniko does not want to and before Tomoka hears another word from her, one of Ryoko's man came and took Tomoka out. During the normal logging session, Rena took the chance in their resting time to go off to look for flowers which she was actually planning something. The day of Kuniko's execution arrives and Kuniko was led out to the wall where she would be shot by the soldiers. While Kuniko was walking into her position, she dropped the lipsticks somewhere on the ground after using it and stood to face the rifles. Just as the soldiers were about to fire, Kuniko raises up her hand which was a part of the lipstick and inside it contains nano wires which cut throught the rifles of the soldiers. Rena immediately inflate a balloon and allowed Kuniko and Tomoka to escape and met up with Momoko soon after. It had seemd that Rena had set of an explosion using the orange juices that they had collected during lunches which releases huge amounts of hydrogen for the balloon. The clothes given to Kuniko also contained carbon fiber which helped the patching up of the balloon. Rena and the others in the prison however were all shot by the order given by Ryoko. A solar eclipse appears over the sky and Mikuni was finally out of her palace.

*it was quite sad to see that Rena, Nao, and the others having to die as they had helped to rescue Kuniko. Ryoko is really a scary person to encounter who shows no mercy... =X the MEDUSA seem to be still staring at Jupiter and is unable to perform actual tasks yet and Karin is really a lonely girl since her parents had left her all alone... the planning made for the escape of Kuniko and Tomoka possible was quite well planned as i suppose since i didnt know what the orange juice was for. i kinda know that the things Momoko gave to Kuniko had something inside which would help Kuniko but i was expecting something else though... Mikuni is now on the surface which means that there might be a possibility of Kuniko and the others meeting Mi-ko...*