Wednesday, April 28, 2010

K-ON!!'s 4th episode brought the girls to Kyoto on their school field trip. At the start, "Yui" seems to packing the things needed for the field trip, until she ties up her hair and that it was actually Ui helping her sister pack her things. (this seemed obvious since Yui would never be so hardworking lol) With that, the class sets off to Kyoto by train and during the train ride, Mio was constantly disturbed by the highly energetic Yui and Ritsu who became super enthusiastic during the ride. Mio had to go along with the others with Nodoka asking Mio to take care of Yui, which she thinks that she had to take care of Ritsu as well. At Kyoto, Ritsu started to speak in their dialect and treated it as a game. The class was then briefed by Sawa-chan and everyone went on to the locations. The girls then ended up in Kinkakuji Temple and was fascinated by the beautiful temple that was said to have been made of gold. The girls then clap to Mugi's amazing knowledge on the temple itself. Ritsu was also bored of using dialects in her speech. The next place they went was filled with shrines and Nodoka told them that by rubbing the cow with their hands would make them smarter and Ritsu and Yui rushed forward and starting frantically rubbing the cow with their hands. After the girls return to their lodging area, Mugi decides to start a pillow fight and had superior aiming, hitting Yui, Ritsu and Mio in their faces. Ritsu then retaliates but hits Sawa-chan instead. The girls immediately pretended to sleep and Sawa-chan steps over Ritsu and turns off the light but the pillow fight soon resumed after she left. After everyone started to fall asleep, Mio was having difficulty sleeping due to the others laughing at totally random things. So the next day, the girls head out to different places, have a bird's eye view of Kyoto and feeding monkeys. They then went to buy lots of souvenirs, including one for Azusa, but Ritsu and Yui seemed to have forgotten about souvenirs for their family members. It was soon becoming dark and the girls travelled to the train station but Ritsu had somehow got lost with the map and had to ask people for directions but still got lost in the end. After spotting Nodoka, Ritsu thought that they were saved but turns out that Nodoka and her group were lost as well. When things does not seem to be progressing smoothly with everyone going in circles, Mio started laughing at the random words that Ritsu had said even though she didnt really find it funny during the night before and could not stop laughing throughout the rest of the day. In the last night, Ritsu tried scaring Mio but had failed and was scared the hell out of them by Sawa-chan. The girls then invited Sawa-chan to chat with them and she even slept in the same room until the other teacher came looking for her. And the wonderful Kyoto trip ends the next day.

the episode lacked Azusa but was still hilarious at various part of the episode, certainly the pillow fight and the Sawa-chan scene at the back.

(after Ritsu tried scaring Mio in the dark)

Sawa-chan: URRUUUUSSSAAAAI........
*screams*
*lights on*
Sawa-chan: It won't do if you girls still don't go to sleep...
Ritsu: ... Who are you?

did LOL-ed hard here ._.

it was still an interesting episode with antics here and there, but Mugi seems to be exceptionally enthusiastic in this season lol ...

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

heres the special rock vers of Angel Beats! OP



rather nice too ... Yui is an awesome character lol ._.

Sunday, April 25, 2010

Angel Beats! 4 didnt really continue with the character-disappearance-per-episode thingy but had went on with the character-development-per-episode scenario. would've hoped that the series would be more special and had a more unique plot... but episode 4 was still nonetheless entertaining.

with Iwasawa gone, Girls Dead Monster would need a new vocalist and Yui came to "audition" with the OP, which changed the OP scenes as well. After her performance, she accidentally strangled herself with the wire while the rest look on and thinks that she doesnt have the charisma that Iwasawa had but had the passion to sing. Yuri then decides to leave the decision to the other members of the band. She then announces the next mission which was to participate illegally into the baseball tournament held in the school and win or the teams would suffer a punishment even worse then death by Yuri. Hinata went to pull Otonashi into his team first (still LOL-ed with Hinata-being-gay comments) and goes off looking for more members which he believed, as a good friend, would wait for him. Much to his dismay, the others whom he had placed his trust in had already joined the other teams. Yui sees that they are lacking members and tries to get into Hinata's team. Hinata sees her as a tool to get sent out from the field after getting hit by the ball and accepts her in with that reasoning but was kicked in the face for that. Yui then asks Hinata again to let her join the team with a nyan~ coming out from her mouth. Hinata seems pissed as asks her to say it again, Yui doesnt hesitate and performs her "nyan~" again (seen in the PVs) and get pretty much armlocked by Hinata afterwards since that was what pissed him off the most. Hinata and the others then managed to get Shiina in the team, with her balancing a broomstick to improve her concentration after losing to Otonashi in the Guild Descent Operation. They got Noda as well, with Hinata luring him in to fight with Otonashi in the baseball match. The other members that got pulled in were just normal classmates Yui knows. The matches begin and everyone was doing pretty well, except for the fact that Otonashi and Noda continues to play with each other, returning the baseball to and fro each other and gets a out from it. Tenshi and her team, which were made up of baseball regulars, confronts the teams that were illegally participating and thrashes everyone until Hinata's team is left. Everyone struggled through and when Hinata's team entered the one point difference round, Otonashi realises that Hinata had started shaking. The score seems to have triggered the memories of Hinata when he was alive, where he had missed catching the ball in the exact scenario when he was in the baseball team, while he was alive. Otonashi affirms his position once more, while thinking if Hinata would disappear if they had won the match. The ball is pitched and was hit towards Hinata's direction and it was the exact same position where he had missed the ball when he was alive. Otonashi sees that the situation could go wrong and rushes to Hinata, prompting him not to catch the ball as it would most likely lead to his disappearance. Otonashi didnt manage to reach Hinata in time but he had barely missed the ball with Yui tackling into him. Tenshi's team won the match and Hinata remains with the rest.

i had almost thought that Hinata would be disappearing in this episode with the slow-motion scenes at the back and the BGM playing but the atmosphere immediately disappeared with Yui's tackle. not much details were given about Hinata's life but i was purely entertained by the searching of the players for the team. would hope to see a unique climax to the series...

Say that AGAIN?



Yui-nyan~~~



PWNED ._.

Friday, April 23, 2010

OK... Aizen now reveals a little more about his planning with Ichigo and the others and it was he who had send Rukia to him in the first place. The Hogyoku (i tink i mispelled it ._.) that Urahara had created was not to create a link for shinigamis and hollows but it is smth that grants the heart's desires of someone, which had granted Orihime and Sado's power was also due to their feel of powerless to help anyone. then Aizen prepares to power up with the Hogyoku and then Urahara, who had somehow disappeared for quite some time, made a comeback, hopefully with his bankai this time... oh ._. Aizen hasnt used his yet =(

ANYWAY, these are from the Miku's Day concert O.o just amazing graphics =) love the songs too

Magnet, Miku + Luka



World is Mine



Secret Garden (project diva)



VOiCE!!! (ard 4min+ timeline)



just amazing ... leek lightsticks FTW :D

Thursday, April 22, 2010

started off with Mayoi Neko Overrun! which is a pretty decent series to kill time, harem-styled mini-comedy series does keep me entertained O.o

The story starts off with the main protagonist Tsuzuki and Fumino who are childhood friends and are still maintaining that relationship, although Fumino does seem to have a crush on Tsuzuki and is the tsundere type here. Tsuzuki also deciphers the words the opposite meaning of what Fumino intends to say as she is one who doesn't really like to express her true feelings. Tsuzuki and Fumino are both orphans and Tsuzuki was adopted by a older girl, Otome, who is now Tsuzuki's sister. She has a bad habit of going elsewhere to help someone in need and tends to bring many stray cats home. Until one day, she brought back a girl, Nozomi, who has a hairstyle resembling cat ears. So Nozomi was left to stay with Tsuzuki and even Fumino was jealous about it and stayed over one night due to her fear of thunder. Nozomi somehow realised that Fumino had a crush on Tsuzuki and left the house as she thought of herself as a bother to them. When Tsuzuki discovers that she was missing, he went to rally the others and attempted to locate her with Chise, a heir to a rich family, apparently using a helicopter to try and find her. Tsuzuki did find her in the end and tells her about his past as well and he was the first human being brought home by Otome and Nozomi was the second one. He then tells her that he was like her as well, running away once, thinking that he was troubling the others. Tsuzuki then hugs her and tells her to come back home as they are now family.

so thats about it for the 3 episodes so far, the manga for it seems to be moving on the same pace as it too but i would prefer the "confession" scene between Fumino and Tsuzuki in the manga than in the anime, would've liked it if she had used the indirect way to say that she loves him though. did some research on the seiyuus since some sound so familiar... and most of them were really prominent ones (well, to me), with Tsuzuki's seiyuu as Layfon in Chrome Shelled Regios, Archer in Kaze no Stigma, Issei in Ookami Kakushi, Accelerator in Index, and one of the characters in Toradora! which i cant recall who =X and then we have Nozomi's seiyuu as K-On!'s Azusa and Baka to Test's Miharu. and last but not least, Chise's seiyuu, with roles of Index in Index ._. Karin Ishida in Shangri-la and Irukukwu in Zero no Tsukaima.



and heres the concert song Alchemy by Girls Dead Monster in Angel Beats!

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

K-On!!'s latest episode made me felt that something was like missing in it, didnt have the hyped-up feel like the other episodes so far O.o

so Ton-chan, the tortoise officially "joins" the club and everyone was responsible for taking care of it. Even Mio managed to see the cuteness of it. Ritsu then suddenly screams out that she is sick of playing the drums and shows the rest the videos she got from Nodoka during their performances and everyone could see that Ritsu was always in the shadow and the spotlight was never on her since she was the drummer. She then decides to play the other instruments and have a change, starting off with the guitar. Azusa slowly teaches Ritsu the chords and corrects her posture, but she gave up in the end and then switched to the keyboard. So off she goes to play the different sounds that the keyboard can play and Yui somehow was able to "decipher" the sounds played by Ritsu into words which apparently fascinated Mugi that her keyboard can actually "speak". Mio sees that Ritsu was having fun with the keyboard and wanted to try it too which Ritsu then took the opportunity to play a eerie sound that spooked Mio. Mio later tells Ritsu that she does not want her to try out the bass as she only wants to play it and supports the rest from behind, away from the spotlight. Ritsu promises Mio not to touch the bass but Mio had said too much and was pretty much embarassed. Yui then tries to put herself into Ritsu's shoes but drumming on bowls at her own home and hopes to help Ritsu in her plight. In the next practise section, Yui thought of the many ways to help solve Ritsu's troubles by rearranging their positions in the band or to improve communication by turning around to look at Ritsu every now and then throughout a performance... which didn't really had the intended effect. Back at home, Ritsu then ponders about the time she had spend with her own drums and how happy she was when she got her 1st drum set and decides to stick with the drums after all as she really enjoys playing it. Mugi then announces that she had created a new song called Honey Sweet Tea Time after getting inspired by the "talking" keyboard Ritsu had showed her previously and Mio was in charged of writing the lyrics for the new song.

I guess the only nice "thing" to see from this episode was the creation of the new song (hopefully it'll be as great as the others) was a little disappointed in this episode though, didnt had the unique K-On!! feel there... small antics here and there did liven up the atmosphere, especially Ritsu's glaring forehead ._.

Ga Rei manga seems to be ending as well, although the once-a-month release was kinda sad ._. but the story has headed to the next climax which im hoping for a good end to it (which i believe that it will) ...

Saturday, April 17, 2010

... Angel Beats 3 had a rather fast development with people getting erased alrdy O.o 13 epis really does seem kinda short...

Iwasawa shows Yuri the new song that she'll be playing, which was a Ballad using a acoustic guitar but Yuri doesnt think that it'll serve as a good diversion for their upcoming operation and would prefer her to make a blast during the concert to obtain as much attention from the other students, AKA, NPCs during their next operation. The upcoming operation's aim was to infiltrate Angel's living area and to obtain any suspicious data. The others seemed to have went through the exact same operation before in the past and had failed but this time, Yuri declares that they have a genius hacker, Takeyama, to help them in the operation. Noda doesnt believe in that Takeyama guy and attempts to test him when Takeyama uses his "deadly" strategy, which was to recite the numbers of Pi (3.142....) into Noda's ears and got him squirming on the floor as his an idiot ._. Otonashi then went on to think of how the Angel's home looked like and when the others say that she's computer-controlled, for a moment, i tot i saw Howl's Moving Castle being potrayed... lol. After the meeting was dismissed, Otonashi then went practising with his pistol and later, while resting, bumps into Yui, who was pasting the posters of Iwasawa's band concert and then kept telling Otonashi about the details of the band etc. Otonashi manages to escape from her and sees Iwasawa practising with her band. She notices him and goes out to have a chat while taking a break. She tells him about her memories that she had, which she believes wasnt that bad as compared to Yuri's. Her parents were always quarreling and she doesnt have a place to hide at all in the home. When she encounters a band where the lead has a harsh life like her, she discovers that music could bring her sorrow away and she began to move into the music industry after picking up a guitar on the streets one day. She began to sing to her fullest until one day, an accident happened when her parents were quarreling, causing her to suffer a stroke and unable to speak and her life just ended like that. After she leaves, Otonashi could see that she seems to be also cursing on her life and he knows that just about anyone here is rebelling, maybe due to them feeling how unfair their own lives were. Angel then sees the posters of Iwasawa's band all over the noticeboard and takes them down and then mysteriously disappears. The operation then begins and Iwasawa places her acoustic guitar at the back while she prepares to lead the crowd with her songs and her electric guitar. Meanwhile, Yuri and the others managed to enter Angel's living area, which just turns out to be a normal room in a girl's dorm. Students are already flocking into the hall to listen to Iwasawa's songs and Takeyama begins to crack into Angel's computer. When he succeeds, Yuri sees a whole list of names of the students in the school and discovers as well that Angel is developing her own skills by herself, the harmonic guard skill does seem that she's able to split herself into two individuals. At the same time, Iwasawa's badn was suppressed by the teachers and she was playing her acoustic guitar with her own song after she managed to get it back from the teachers who wanted to throw it away. While she was singing, she realises that her life was to continue singing like this and that she'll be able to save someone else with her music and accepts her own life. The music suddenly dies down and Iwasawa disappears, leaving only her guitar behind. The operation ends and Yuri is troubled by the fact that Angel isnt getting her skills from elsewhere but was developing it by herself. The others were troubled too with Iwasawa's disappearance and they could only resolve that she was erased by the Angel. Otonashi then believes that following the school rules was the only way to get one erased.

Iwasawa's vocals were great too and the song she sang with her acoustic guitar was great too, and seems that if u somehow accept ur previous life and it is, u will disappear as well, AKA, being erased. thats what i tink for now, until they decides to explain it in the next few episodes, hopefully. and Yuri is now wondering whether fighting Angel is the right choice and it would be the worst case scenario if she could develop her own guard skills and diversions wouldnt be useful anymore if she decides to use harmonics.... the ED also had Iwasawa removed from the picture and i dun tink that she'll be the last one to disappear. Iwasawa's disappearance doesnt have too much impact emotionally, perhaps due to the little time she had on screen = less built up on the feel, would have been a rather large impact if it was like nearing the end of the series...

Saturday, April 17, 2010

im sensing Aizen to have another power-up again... and ichigo too .... oh well, at least the fight between Gin and Ichigo is getting interesting...

HnG has now moved on to the next arc and Nagi, having lost her inheritance, would have to move out from the mansion... a new change of environment huh... shall look forward to the next few chapts (and hopefully another appearance from A-tan =X)

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

K-On!! epi 2 had Mugi all mesmerised with a polisher that simply makes objects shiny... and she was amazed by it...

anyways, Yui seems to be unable to wake up, no matter how hard the others try to call her up. Even after teaming up and telling Yui that there was cake to eat, the moment where Yui wakes up to check lasted only a while. Then came in Sawa-chan who asks Ritsu to return the animal costumes they had used previously. The girls then followed Ritsu where she kept it in the storeroom and risked her life after the things started toppling down after she retrieved the animal costumes. Due to that, Mio suggest to the others to start cleaning the room out as the storeroom was actually filled up with personal belongings. All of them started to clean up the storeroom and brought back their own personal belongings, until Yui discovers a guitar case containing an old guitar, which turns out to be Sawa-chan's old guitar. Azusa actually intended to let Sawa-chan teach her some guitar skills but backed out when Yui shows her the "bad" image of Sawa-chan in the past. She then decides to ask the girls to pawn the guitar as it would be better if another person can play it since she doesn't have the time to play the guitar anymore. On the way to bring the heavy guitar case to the guitar shop, Mio suggested to the others to get the club a shelf to keep the room more tidy and they head to the home center. Mugi was facinated by the store and was exceptionally interested in a polish that claims to make things shiny,which started her on a sparkling spree through the rest of the episode. Then everyone started to act like kids, with Yui pretending to hold a gun when it was actually an electric screwdriver, and Ritsu with a helmet and shone the light into Mio's eyes. Yui later finds Azusa staring at a turtle which she finds cute. After successfully purchasing the shelf, the girls reached the guitar store and had the guitar examined. The salesperson then come to a conclusion that they will buy the guitar for 500,000 yen which shocked the girls. It was due to the guitar being a very valuable guitar and it was an ancient guitar which led to the high price. The girls then went to think about what complements they could buy if they split the money between them. It was then in the next day when Sawa-chan came into the music room and asked Ritsu about how much the guitar had fetched. Ritsu told her that it was 10,000 yen at first but when Sawa-chan asked for the receipt, Ritsu had no choice but to take it out and attempted to swallow it. After Sawa-chan managed to make Ritsu spit it out, she decides to use the money to buy one particular thing for the girls, with Yui being asked to be slapped by that large amount of money and feel blessed ._. On the way home, Ritsu sees Azusa feeling kinda sad and would have liked it if there were freshmen for the club and after some discussion, Yui decides to buy the turtle that Azusa had stared at at the home center. It however turns out to be Yui who was the one who thought that the turtle was cute and Azusa wasn't really interested in it but still does not dislike it and with that, the turtle became a new addition to the club.

it was pretty epic to have Mugi polishing things all shiny and then feel amazed by it... and i certainly did loled when all Yui wanted to do with the money was just to get Ui to slap her with the stack of money... shouldn't she be thinking about some complements for her instruments or smth? but slapped by money!? ._. it was a funny episode nonetheless, Ritsu swallowing the receipt was plain epic too...

P.S. Mio with ponytail looks equally great on her too

Monday, April 12, 2010

the Cosfest 2010 date has been put up on their website: www.cosfest.com

it will be on 3-4th July 2010

am hoping that my exams finishes by then... its the first week after Hols D:

Saturday, April 10, 2010

Angel Beats 2 had the killing-off-characters-one-by-one style since everyone is like dying in one way or the other ._. some in quite gruesome ways... but not shown in details since the series isnt really focused on violence.

Yuri conducts another meeting and decides to bring everyone present to the Guild, which is a place underground that supplies Yuri and her team with weapons to fight against the Angel. The Guild is located at such a place to prevent the Angel from easily discovering the location and the way to the Guild had traps too to slow the Angel down. So the team sets off for the Guild and finds Noda waiting for them at the entrance but he sparks the 1st trap to the Guild and Yuri realises that the traps are activated again, even though the Guild knows that they are heading towards them, as the Angel is advancing to the Guild. Yuri decides to continue forward and try to slow down the Angel and thus helping the Guild. The next trap they encounters claimed Takamatsu as the victim of a rolling steel ball and Yuri continues to proceed with the remaining people since they cannot die here in this world and can only feel the pain of death. The next trap was a laser trap where it sliced Matsushita into pieces and the others managed to escaped. Then a collapsing ceiling squashes TK who helps the rest to escape, and the team encounters a pitfall trap next. Otonashi and Hinata fell the lowest and the whole team formed a "chain" and Otonashi had to climb up slowly, and getting embarassed when he tries to climb through Yuri. Otonashi managed to climb up safely but with Hinata's wrong sense of grip, Yuri punches / kicks him down into the hole. The team is now left with Shiina, Yuri, Otonashi and Fujimaki (nt really sure abt this guy ._. too many names...) which Fujimaki warns Otonashi that he's gonna be next victim. Then the irony comes when Fujimaki was the next victim due to his lack of ability to swim and fell prey to the water trap. Shiina then leads Otonashi and Yuri to the next entrance and she falls prey to the next trap where it was a toy cat being washed away... since she have a weakness for cute things. So now its down to Yuri and Otonashi and Yuri sheds some light on the time she was living and how she had caused her siblings death as she was unable to find anything valuable for the burglars but refuses to tell Otonashi how she had died. The duo then reaches the Guild but the Guild's Leader (i suppose) Chaa, decides to abandon the Guild and blow it up since the Angel is already breaking through the traps and moves the rest of the members to Old Guild. Yuri and Otonashi goes up again to slow the Angel down which Yuri rushes forward and fights the Angel in close combat when her Distortion ability is activated. However, the Angel soon activates Delay and moves way faster then Yuri. Otonashi rushes to Yuri's rescue when he sees her in danger and the "cannon" that the Guild had made arrived just in time. The cannon didnt really performed as well but did buy enough time to blow up the Guild and the Angel was thrown into the explosion, although she wont die from that. At the old guild, Yuri then calls up everyone again, who shld have woken up after they had "died" and Otonashi sees that she really is a great leader.

its kinda sadistic where you get to see the characters being killed off one by one but its part of the setting. the expressionless Angel now has another Guard skill and Otonashi even dived in to protect Yuri... relationship alert! O.o lols, by far, i tink the laser part was the most gruesome =X and the Guild, which was introduced in this episode got wiped out in the same episode as well ._. maybe something more significant is in the Old Guild? ... now im seeing 13 episodes as kinda short =X

and with the new episode comes the OP by Lia, quite a nice song too :D and u get to see a LITTLE more "expression" from the Tenshi...

Saturday, April 10, 2010

the bits and pieces are slowly coming together in Bleach since Aizen has already sort of told Ichigo that his actions were somehow "planned" and "watched" by Aizen all along.... Then came along Ichigo's dad which did not spark any questions from Ichigo which he says he knows his dad didnt tell him for a reason and now its Ichigo VS Ichimaru Gin, who apparently 'disappeared' for quite some time, and Ichigo's dad VS Aizen. Story aint ending so soon too since Ichimaru Gin has JUST used his Bankai, which isnt really strong ._. only a WAAAAY longer extension length for his sword. And Aizen and Ichigo's dad have not even used their bankai yet, not even shikai for ichigo's dad. the fight between Ichigo and Gin would be nice though...

*currently still fishing out series to watch ._.*

Wednesday, April 07, 2010

The awaited S2 of K-ON!! has arrived via its light-hearted atmosphere once again and im tuned back to the K-ON!! atmosphere, with one more exclamation mark to make S2 stand out...

The 1st episode started off with Yui being early to school again and was practicing her 360 degree handspin-strumming style when the others step into the music room. The five of them then starts practicing for the orientation performance for the freshmen. Yui was excited by the fact that they were all now seniors in the school and even asked Ritsu if she sees any difference in her, now that she is a senior, and parts her hair to one side but Ritsu was clearly not facinated by her actions. So off they go to check their class allocation and Mio was worried again that she might be placed in a class where there isnt anyone she knows. Yui takes the initiative and managed to squeese through the crowd of students and was shocked when she sees the allocation. She squeezes back out, falls and was helped up by Ritsu, which Yui then reveals that they are all in the same class. Even Nodoka was in the same class as them and they even thought it was her using her authority to make this happen. But after seeing that Sawa-chan was their homeroom teacher, it became obvious who had made such coincidence occur. After questioning, Sawa-chan was the one who had placed all of them in the same class so that she would not need to memorise so many new names anymore. They then make their way to sing the school song and when they returned, Nodoka asks Yui if they would hope for new members to their club which Yui doesnt seem to be interested but became more serious when the fact that Azusa will be alone in the club after they graduate if they cant find any new members. So off the girls go in the animal costumes to hand out the flyers but it did not attract much attention. Even Ritsu went all out trying to get new members, like pretending to faint and with the help of the freshmen, she lures them into the music room but later scares them off. Although their orientation performance was great, no one did come by in the end. Before Azusa came into the music room, Yui tells the others that she thinks that it would be fine if there wasnt any new members and it would still be great with the five of them playing music together and should leave things as it is in the time being. Azusa overhears the conversation and accepts Yui decision but declares to her that she would be even stricter now which Yui then hopes for some freshmen to save her.

A light-hearted episode as usual and gladly, the K-ON!! feel is still there. Since the girls are already in their final year in high school, it might be unlikely for the series to continue, unless the manga or production decides to extend the series after the girls graduate but that could cause Azusa to "disappear" which the lack of members... anyway thats still far since this is only the 1st episode... the new OP and ED was great too, the OP was rather fast + rapping style so it would be a difficult song... love the ED too, animation was somewhat similar to Don't Say Lazy so its just great :D

P.S. loved the part where Azusa DID actually thought about the fact that she'll be the club president if there isnt any new members ._.

heres the new ED "Listen!"

Saturday, April 03, 2010

Angel Beats' 1st episode headed off to quite a promising start, with both action and small character developments being placed into the 1st episode.

The main male protagonist, Otonashi, wakes up and has no memories of how he had ended up in his current position and place. The female protagonist, Yuri, then tells him about the fact that the world he is in now is the afterlife and with him existing here, he must have died in the living world. Otonashi does not really believe in what she says. Yuri continues by telling him that he would be erased by God if he does not rebel in this world and the only enemy of them was the Angel, which she points out at a girl in the middle of the field. Otonashi asks Yuri if the gun of hers was a real one and she tells him to take whatever he sees as it is and asks him to enlist into their battlefront, which is also called the Class 3S, as seen on their uniform. Otonashi however decides to go to the girl whom they call Angel and asks her of her identity. The girl replies him that she is merely the student council president and that there are no hospitals around as everyone is already dead when Otonashi suggested to get himself into a hospital due to his amnesia. Otonashi doesn't believe her words as well and asks her to prove that he was already dead and would not die again. Immediately, a blade appears on her right hand and she stabs it into Otonashi's heart. When Otonashi wakes up again, he sees a blood-drenched cloth beside him whereas his body was clearly fine and gets scared. Another person comes into the room and slashes Otonashi all around as he had not went according to the requests of Yuri, leaving Otonashi in a pool of blood but was clearly unharmed. Otonashi later ends up in the meeting room of the 3S battlefront (naming their battlefront this name would be easier since they're like constantly changing it) where Yuri asks him again to join them to prevent himself from being erased and reincarnated into another being that is not human. Otonashi agrees and joins the battlefront and Yuri took the chance to introduce the members that were currently in the room. Otonashi later learns from Yuri that the other students who are following the rules will be erased and that was why they had decided to rebel and continue living as humans in this world. In the night, Yuri decides to carry out Operation Tornado where the aim was to steal the lunch coupons of the students in the school. Otonashi was handed a pistol and was set to guard one of the posts in the school where they will open fire on the Angel if anyone spotted her. Iwasawa and her band, who are also members of the 3S battlefront then distracted the students by playing one of their songs in the dining hall, creating a concert atmosphere within the students themselves. The Angel seems to have spotted their actions and had advanced through Otonashi's guard post. He opens fire at her, knowing that he would be 'killed' again if he does not act fast but the wound he delivers was not able to stop her from advancing. The other members of the 3S battlefront covered Otonashi and opened fire at the Angel but the Distortion protection that the Angel had activated had prevented any serious damaged from being dealt. The electric fans in the dining hall was then turned on and blew the food coupons away from the students, who are singing along with the band, resulting in a successful operation. The members then had their food at the dining hall again and Otonashi starts to wonder if their actions are justified but it was too soon for him to think about it now as he does not remember anything about his past at all and that is his current priority.

Most of the scenes in the PVs have already appeared in the 1st episode, including the concert scene and the stabbing of Otonashi by the Angel. i really had thought that that would be at the climax of the series or some sort but it could spur on a further in depth development of the story and a more wonderful KEY-styled climax and ending, which i hope there is. The little bits of humorous antics did lightened the atmosphere of the series and it doesnt seem that their enemy was just simply the Angel and could probably lead to more mysteries and maybe would reveal the memories of Otonashi and the past selves of the other characters... got a feeling that Yuri and Otonashi could have some relationship in the real world O.o anyway, it really had a promising start and hopefully it'll last through the entire series :)

BTW, The World God Only Knows' anime series production has already been confirmed (i tink im a little late in this) and it COULD become a successor for Baka to Test in the hilarious antics and its 'romantic' scenes... shall look forward to it :D

Thursday, April 01, 2010

Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu has ended its 13 episode series... there could be a S2 though, taking the fact that its novel is still ongoing.

Due to Yuuko's sudden attack on Yuuji's summoned being, Class A emerged victorious and Class F's facilities are once again downgraded to just a piece of cardboard and a string attached to it. Yoshii is unhappy that they had lost since he had always wanted to let Himeji study in a better environment and went to the Principal's office and requests a rematch with Class A. Shouko and Yuuko were there to request it too as they felt that it wasnt a clear victory and the principal had thus made an exception after taking into account of Yoshii's help during the time when the system went berserk. Yoshii returns to the class to tell them the news of the rematch but this time, Yoshii will go head-on with Shouko instead. Yoshii promises the rest that he will not pull them down this way but Yuuji knew that he was lying, after he realises that if Yoshii loses, Shouko would like to have the marriage document back.

"we'll go to a honeymoon after this match..."
"Hell no!"
"Yuuji, i want to make children with you"
"AKIHISA, U HAVE TO WIN THIS NO MATTER WHAT"

LOL-ed at that ._.

Yoshii gets motivation to not give up and did some revision before the 1 on 1 rematch and was able to be on par with Shouko till an old question appears. When was the Taika reforms? Yoshii was clearly confused with the answer due to the past incident and had to bet his luck on his "chance" pencil and amazingly got it right while Shouko got it wrong the Class F emerged victorious. Yuuji went to find Shouko afterwards to ask her why did she get that question wrong and she told him that she had made a promise with him in the past that she'll not forget the year that Yuuji had taught her, although it was wrong. Shouko also doesnt mind the defeat as Tsuchiya had already given her the marriage document between her and Yuuji. Yoshii's request was granted by the principal as he had won and it was to allow Himeji to retake the class placement exam. Himeji knew that Yoshii was doing it for her sake but as she still wanted to stay with the rest, she deliberately erased the name on the script and got a zero, placing her back to Class F again. Yoshii was angry about it and went to find the principal where he was called a Baka after he said that Himeji really should be in Class A in front of everyone.

So, i would guess that the reason behind everyone calling him baka was due to him not realising that Himeji wanted to continue and stay by him? im really hoping for S2, if there is. This series is really one of the few that is actually superrrrr hilarious, none of the episodes so far made me felt bored at all and it really continue to make me anticipate the following episodes for more hilarious antics. LOVED their jokes and each of the character's personalities and this is really one of the series i've really enjoyed watching for this season, a huge thumbs up for this :)

P.S. shall miss this D: