Monday, August 30, 2010

Ookami-san to Shichinin no Nakamatachi 9

It begins in Ringo's dream where she, as little red riding hood, meets a genie who'll be able to grant her wishes and her wish was to get along well with a person she knew again. Meanwhile, the Otogi Bank had took on another request which was to help babysit the brothers and sisters of Shirayuki-senpai who works part-time in order to have enough money to take care of the others. Ryoushi and Ryouko were given the task of babysitting them and Ringo, who was supposed to be the one babysitting since the client requested for her, stood outside the house and kept hesitating on moving forth to talk with Shirayuki-senpai. Back from her job, Shirayuki-senpai thanks Ryouko and Ryoushi for their help and questions about Ringo's presence for which Ryouko tells her that she'd try to persuade her to come the next day. Back in the dorms, Ringo serves Ryouko and Ryoushi tea and when Ryoushi seemed serious on wanting to know what connection Ringo and Shirayuki-senpai actually had, Ringo stared hard in Ryoushi's eyes, frightening him so as to reconfirm if the serious Ryoushi was real. It was not something that couldn't be revealed and Ringo recited her past with Shirayuki-senpai to them. When she was young, her mother brought her to a mansion one day and told Ringo to play with herself while she tend to some important business. Ringo started to feel lonely and that was when she met Shirayuki-senpai for the first time. She was living in the mansion with her mother and had saw Ringo alone, prompting her to play along with Ringo and the duo had so much fun together. In the end when Shirayuki and her mother left the mansion, Ringo asks if they would meet again and she was replied that they will, if Ringo continues to be a good girl. Ringo later discovers that Shirayuki-senpai was actually her sister from a different mother and that important thing her mother had to tend to was the filing of divorce for her father with Shirayuki's mother and that was why they were forced to leave the mansion. Ringo thus felt that she was bad when she asks Shirayuki if they'll meet again, they were actually forced out of their home by Ringo and her mother. Ryouko pushes an entry ticket to a swimming pool, telling her that the Otogi Bank had invited Shirayuki-senpai and her siblings as well and the choice was up to Ringo whether or not to stop hesitating and be true to her feelings. The next day at the pool, Ringo didn't show up but Ryoushi believes that she had come and was hiding somewhere nearby instead. The girls were changed into their swimsuits and their free time had arrived. The kids had fun playing with the slide and Shirayuki-senpai was playing ball games with Ryoushi and Ryouko but Ryoushi earned a punch from Ryouko when he slipped and fell onto her. Tarou had also fell into great misery when he attempted to flirt with other girls and was unfortunately caught by Otohime and brought away to be taught a lesson. While Ryoushi was rowing a boat with Shirayuki-senpai sitting in front of him and Ryouko and one of Shirayuki-senpai's brother was pushing the boat from behind. Her brother then suddenly started to drown and Shirayuki immediately dived in to save her and holds him before passing to Ryouko but as she was doing so, she sinks into the water and Ryoushi dives right in to save her. Out of the water, Shirayuki-senpai was still unconscious and at that moment, Ringo came out of hiding and performed emergency treatment for Shirayuki-senpai and when she awoke, Ringo tried to escape but was held back by Ryouko. The duo finally had some time to talk to each other again and Shirayuki tells Ringo that she shouldn't think that everything was her fault and without that departure, she wouldn't have so many hardworking and cheerful siblings with her. She then pats Ringo's head and tells her that she had always been her sister. Ringo started to cry and was finally able to throw herself at her beloved sister again. Due to the lack of money, Shirayuki was planning to skip University to work but Ringo had used one of her wish she would get for working for Otogi Bank to give her a scholarship to continue studying and in the dorms, Ringo rebuked Ryouko's words back at her, telling her to be true to her feelings towards Ryoushi. Ryouko ignores her and goes to sleep first and then her dream started to appear. Dressed as a princess, she awakes to find a smart-looking Ryoushi in front of her, dressed as a prince and then he holds her down, telling her that he knows the correct way of waking a princess up and when he was going to kiss her, Ryouko didn't try to reject it and just at the moment where their lips had touched, she awakes and went screaming after she had such an embarrassed dream and had punched Ryoushi once again after they meet which Ryoushi didn't understand why he was hit when he had merely greeted them.

for the episode, Ringo's past was much said, and i myself am rather interested in Ryoushi's but more importantly, i had actually intended to see more about how Ryoushi's going to hunt that arch enemy down but now it all seems that all that had disappeared into thin air. rather, at least there was a large hint that Ryouko actually has feelings for Ryoushi after being about to dream such a dream... and poor Ryoushi who always get hit when he doesn't know the situation.

Sunday, August 29, 2010

Eden of the East - Paradise Lost



^a rather nice pic i found O.o

alrighto, i just had to prioritise this first other than the others (like ookami-san). Watched it, was glued to the screen although there weren't much actions but rather plot developments. Whole thing ends and i went "ARGH!"

yea really... the end felt rather rushed... and there wasn't really a happy ending i was hoping for.

*SPOILER ALERT*

Akira and Saki were on their way back to Japan on the airplane and Akira himself didn't really feel that everything would progress smoothly. The air-stewardess then handed Akira an Air King T-shirt which he wore and left the plane when it finally landed in Narita Airport. Akira and Saki were stopped by people under the Iinuma Chigusa, the wife of Prime Minister Iinuma and she leads Akira elsewhere to have a talk. She labels Akira as a terrorist behind the missile attacks and that she does not tolerate him appearing out of nowhere and announcing that he's Prime Minister Iinuma's illegitimate son. She then pulls off a strand of hair from Akira to perform DNA checks and then leaves the room. Akira walks out and asks Saki to help find his mother as he thinks that the woman who left the dog, which was previously in Akira's care, was actually his mother and he wants Saki to try and find her. With that, Akira leaves Saki to tend to his request where he heads to a holding room by the security personnel. Saki leaves and as she walks down into the lobby of the airport, she sees many NEETs and media individuals waiting to catch a glimpse of Akira after hearing rumours that the Air King was finally here. Osugi spots Saki and leads her away while telling her that their cell phones and calls were being tapped and they have t0 now use Itazu's own communication system, AirShip, to communicate among them. As Osugi goes off to get the car, Saki calls Hirasawa so as to not let them worry and then calls her family members to bring the dog to her as it was a clue to Akira's mother. Meanwhile, the group sends Akira the AirShip program and was finally able to get a hold on him. Hirasawa tells Akira that he can share the burden with them and they wouldn't mind even if they couldn't return to lead their normal lives again. Itazu explains that after the missile attacks on Juiz trailers, he has been trailing their locations and have found out that Mononobe had called Juiz for extra gasoline so as to keep the trailers on the move and had suspected the trailers to take a break at another location. Akira acknowledges and heads over to that location and prepares to rendezvous with the others after he reach the trailers. Akira took the chance by sending a NEET he met in the holding room to serve as a disguise for him while he sneaks away and grabs a motorbike. True enough, the Juiz trailers were all parked nicely while the girls in charge, who are identical granddaughters of Mr. Outside, take a break at a nearby cafe. While thinking about what they should do and feeling worried as a missile strike on the trailers could cost their lives, they see Akira arriving at the carpark where he searches for his own Juiz trailer. He spots it and attempts to communicate with Juiz, determined to save it but at the same time, the trailer with Juiz No. 1 was driven away and Akira drives his own Juiz No.9 to follow Mononobe's Juiz trailer so as to prevent his trailer from being targeted as it would mean Mononobe's downfall as well. The granddaughters did not see it as a need to report to Mr. Outside since Akira had not used Juiz to move his own trailer and the other Selecaos have no right to know. Akira gets back into contact with the rest of the Eden group and they were meeting up elsewhere where trailer No. 1 stops for a break. Akira finally got to see the rest face to face again and asks if anyone could drive a trailer for which on of them was able to and they were told to follow him who he personally drives his own trailer No. 9. The group was led to the Iinuma's household where Akira had used its front yard as a place to keep the two trailers and heads in to talk with Iinuma Chigusa. Meanwhile, Osugi and Saki had already met the owner of the dog and had chatted with her, for which Saki highly suspects was Akira's real mother. She however, does not divulge any information and when Osugi took a photo where it shows a young her with Prime Minister Iinuma and she was pregnant in the photo. The duo decides not to ask her anything regarding the photo yet and as she serves them another drink, she tells them that there are already people looking out for them and tells them of a escape route. Saki follows her while Osugi helps to delay those people and she confronts her with the photo. The woman reveals that she had left 500 yen to her child and when she heard that Akira had not spent a single yen of the 10 billion he has on himself, she brushes it off and says that it was definitely not her child and leaves Saki behind. Osugi catches up with some torned portions in his shirt but still made it safely out and questions Saki about the woman. Saki knows that it was definitely Akira's mother but if she had called Akira now, she was worried that Akira would not be by her side anymore and was in a dilemma. Osugi however comforts her and suggest that meeting Akira face to face and speaking to him would be the best option and they head off to meet Akira. While in the Iinuma household, Chigusa questions about Akira's motive as she still thinks of him as a terrorist for which Akira tells her that he wishes to become the country's King and change the country for the better but Chigusa didn't really understand what he was trying to do but she would not bulge on the hearing on Akira being a terrorist. Mononobe arrives at the house as well for which Akira knows that he was looking for him and leaves to have a talk with him. Mononobe asks Akira if he wanted to give up on the game together since there wasn't really much meaning to the game and seeing how Akira had took his trailer as well, he admits his loss. Mononobe tells Akira that when he was asked on what he would do to change the country if he was given 10 billion yen, he wants to get rid of the current government and start everything all over by placing more importance on the citizens firstly by re-instating the Home Ministry. Akira receives a call from Saki and knows that she had arrived at their location as well and learns from her that his mother was found. He heads out to see Saki for a moment and is glad that she's safe before returning to speak with Mononobe. Having confirmed about his past and that he was really Prime Minister Iinuma's son, he didn't really feel different and he declined Mononobe's offer on helping to get rid of the danger of Akira's friends on the note that he disappears elsewhere. Akira knows that he and Mononobe's aim was similar but his way of doing things lacked love. Meanwhile, Hirasawa had tracked down some requests made by Selecaos and had finally tracked down Mr. Outside, who is a taxi driver and had chosen the Selecaos via his customers by asking them what they would do if they had 10 billion yen to change the country and had chose Akira after seeing him thinking that the world world would be better if people work to earn rather than spend since there wouldn't be anyone around to provide the services if everyone was spending their money. Akira then makes a request for Juiz to make a call to everyone in the country through using of the Eden system to force the download of AirShip on every citizen's handphone, and also leaving around 100 million yen to spare. Itazu, who had escaped from their old school building and was now at a Internet Cafe, helps Juiz with the task and AirShip was transferred to everybody's handset. Akira prepares his speech with all the citizens in Japan and declares firstly that he was the one behind Careless Monday and was the main antagonist behind everything. He tells everyone that his next plot was to take even more people away to paradise as compared to the 20,000 NEETs before and the only way to stop him was to comply to his requests, which was to ask the old men to change their ways according to what he feels is right and that the NEETs should now step out of their comfort zones and all this have to be done if not the country wouldn't have enough youths, who are the future of the country and the country is doomed, but if they comply, everyone would be led to a paradise. He then ends off his call by sending everyone a single yen as e-money and tells them to take this to Eden where he'll meet them and everyone would be living in paradise. Mr. Outside sees Akira's way of doing things and agrees with his rational choice and decides to end the entire game. He takes his phone and calls all the Selecaos, telling them that everyone was a winner and the game ends where they get to keep the phone as a gift but everyone was given a memory wipe. After Hirasawa discovers that there was a trap lie in store for the Selecaos once the game ends, he tries to stop Mr. Outside from toying with them further but to no avail. Mononobe steps out of the Iinuma household, looking dazed after losing his memories and as he drives out and does not recognise Yuuki, Yuuki attempts to shoot him after seeing how Mononobe is trying to forget all that he has done for him (Yuuki still had his memories intact since he had already lost his phone) and he was run over by Mononobe who in turn crashes his vehicle. A dazed Akira steps out as well but the memory wipe does not seem to work on him, possibly due to him having wiped his memory once already. He takes a look at the DNA report Chigusa handed to him earlier and sees that he wasn't Prime Minister Iinuma's son at all and that the woman whom Saki confronted wasn't Akira's mother at all but was only hinting her to make her suspect that she was. Akira then leaves the rest, telling Saki that he still have things he need to do, promises that he'll be back after that and leaves. Saki however runs after him and grabs on to his hand and kisses him. She asks Akira to promise that they will definitely meet again which he complied but that was really the last time Saki would ever see Akira. The NEETs, under Akira's "orders" were now making a living in the shopping center which Akira used to own and many companies were going on a hiring spree after being "awakened" by Akira's speech over AirShip. But Akira was never there to meet them, he had however went to find Mr. Outside where they together try to change world even more and Saki, herself, knows that the world is changing in ways that she could not see and follows the rest to develop another communication-styled program, like the Eden system, under Hirasawa's leadership. And that was the short days of which Saki had spent with Akira.

...

and it ends.

personally, on how the story develops, it could be boring for some, but i was honestly kept glued on the screen for various reasons. the twist in plot was interesting and based on how the story had started, it was quite a good way to wrap everything up. some mysteries remain unsolved though, on the truth about Akira's past and with the woman who claimed to have left a son behind but was that really Akira or someone else? and did Prime Minister Iinuma really mistook Akira for his son at the candy store where he was abandoned? the idea of protecting Juiz 1st-hand was rather cool but comparing the two movies, i did felt the end of the 1st movie was much better with the missile targeting the Juiz trailers and was expecting more on how the whole story was going to end. I did felt slightly disappointed when Mr. Outside announced the end of the game just after Akira made his speech, it was like all the fuss had all been for nothing. And of course, i had expected Akira to disappear at the end of the whole series (including the movie), which he did and i would've hoped for some time leap or something... can't they just show them reuniting again?! =X overall, it was a series i had definitely enjoyed watching. ending-wise wasn't that great but the plot and everything was truly marvelous... a totally great series worth watching over again :) thumbs up!

Friday, August 27, 2010

K-ON!! 21

it was photo-taking day for the girls and Yui was particularly interested and troubled on what kind of hairstyle she should get since the graduation photo would be the one and only photo that serves as a memory. With that in mind, Yui was tending to her hair the whole morning until she sees Ui and asks her for help. In school, Ui meets Azusa who seemed to have just woken up since her hair wasn't tied and had thought that she had same thoughts as her sister on changing a hairstyle. After helping Azusa with her hair, Ui thinks that she perhaps could change her hairstyle and changed into Yui's hair which with it, was darn similar to the real person herself. It had seemed that in the morning, Yui had requested Ui to be her hair model and used her hairpins on her and had forgotten to retrieve it from Ui. A restless Yui then slumps on her desk, feeling slightly different that a side of her hair wasn't pinned up. Nodoka wanted to hand her something to help keep the hair stay but Mugi was already on the task. She helps to tie Yui's hair up, revealing her forehead for which she wasn't pleased about it and while Mugi was attempting different styles on Yui, Ui returns to return her sister's hairpins and saved the day. Every senior was already stepping down from club activities after the school festival and Azusa, thinking that she might not see her senpais again, rushes to the music room, only to see everyone having tea as usual. Ritsu immediately saw through why Azusa was in such a hurry and the girls felt that they could study in the clubroom from then on. While having tea, Yui showed the rest a book on different hairstyling and felt that everyone should do something different for the photo. Ritsu also then decided that she'll bring her camera to see if they're all ready for the photo-taking. Back at home, Yui browses and analyses her photos so as to obtain the best looking style for her photo. The next day in the music room, the girls get on with her mini-photo-taking session and Ritsu was up first, followed by an embarassed Mio and Mugi who attempts to look different. When it was Yui's turn, her serious face almost made Azusa, who was taking the photo, laugh, since it was rare to see a focused and serious Yui. After seeing her own photo, she decided that her bangs were too long and decides to cut it herself. She then made a second cut after it still wasn't up to her expectations... until she sneezes and had cut her whole bangs off. Ritsu tries to "save" her by lending her her hairband but Mugi then really helped her after shifting the "what remains of her bangs" to a side to barely save her image. The next day was the photo-taking and Yui was extremely regretful on what she had done to her own hair but had lightened up after she was threatened with no snacks to eat if she continue feeling down. Their photos were taken and after which, Mio and the rest hand in their forms where it was accepted by Sawa-chan and that they are all now aiming to enter the same university.

... its just all about hair, hair and more hair. honestly, Ritsu looks great without her hairband and Ui and Yui are just dreadfully similar with their same hairstyle... and all that actually matters was the very last scenes of the episode where the girls are all aiming for the same university,

*SPOILER ALERT*

which they did. but K-ON! ends there. just a typical episode :)



heres the ED of Seitokai Yakuindomo by Angela. she really CAN sing fast eh ...

Monday, August 23, 2010

Highschool of the Dead 8

honestly... i'm getting sick and tired of seeing jiggling objects whenever they got the chance to show it .___. i mean, come on... this is just overboard fanservice and i dun think it pleases many of the viewers IMO. even the manga wasn't THAT overboard...

So the group have managed to cross the river and had made it to the other side. Having previously taken the bath, Shizuka-sensei had prepared some clothings for them to gear them up for combat. Takashi was handed a shotgun by Kouta and had taught him slightly on how to operate the gun and if he needed, it could always be a secondary bat for him but having a firearm is still better than nothing. Kouta meanwhile holds on to his own assault rifle, Saeko still has her own wooden sword and Rei is now equipped with a long rifle with a bayonet attached to aid her style. Kouta and Takashi took the initiative to check their surroundings and signalled Shizuka-sensei to start the vehicle and ferry them across the streets. Since Takagi's house was the nearest among them, the group decides to head there first and Takagi herself knew that chances of her family members surviving was very slim. Nonetheless, the group still headed in the direction of her house and midway, Rei asks Takashi if he had noticed something different. The group had not encountered "them" ever since dawn and the other side of the river was as quiet as it seems to be. Just when they thought how great the situation was, they started to encounter "them" as they get closer and closer to Takagi's house and suspect that something must have happened that led "them" to be grouped together. In an attempt to keep of roads filled with "then", Shizuka-sensei accidentally swerved the vehicle into a wire barricade and after slamming on the brakes, both Rei and Takashi stumbled on the vehicle and Rei was thrown off. Looking at the approaching "them" and an immobile Rei, Takashi jumped down the vehicle without hesitation and fired his shotgun. Kouta then taught him how to aim properly with the intense recoil and Takashi did managed to fend most them off but the number was just too large. Even with Kouta assisting Takashi and Saeko with her wooden sword, the numbers just does not seem to have decreased at all. Takashi soon ran out of bullets and when he almost said that they could at least die together, he took notice of Rei's rifle and attempts to use it, while sling-ed to Rei's clothes, but none of the shots seemed to hit. Takagi also tried to help after picking up Takashi's shotgun but the situation seems to be getting worse. Saeko and Takashi then slashes through the crowd of "them" and tries to lure them away using sound but not all had followed them. Kouta then took the chance to bring Alice and her dog over to the other side of the barricade first but she refuses to be left alone and cries to say that she wants to remain together with the rest of them. Just then, a group of people arrived at the scene, wearing firefighter suits and blasted "them" off using their high pressured water rifles and also aiding the group to get over the barricade. When they were safely across, one of their saviours removed their mask and Takagi immediately realised that it was her mother and hugs her happily with the fact that she was still alive. Meanwhile, with Takashi and Saeko being separated from the group while trying to lure "them" away, the duo are now proceeding to Takagi's house.

ASIDE from the FS scenes, the actions were much well thought off with gunfire actions and rather remarkable swordsmanship. and with the episode down, Takagi has reunited with her mother and Takashi could have started to feel the ecstasy of killing "them" like as if he was killing humans when he actually felt high when he was wiping "them" out with his firearm. ain't a good sign but in such chaotic world they are in, it seems to be inevitable with the fact that they are all trying to survive.

and please ... stop overloading FS .___.

Sunday, August 22, 2010

Ookami-san to Shichinin no Nakamatachi 8

i mean, honestly... what does this episode got to do with the entire series .___. was disappointed about how this episode turned out to be but at least the insults hurled were rather at least interesting to watch

and it starts with a rather interesting scene of Ringo, Ryouko and Ryoushi infiltrating a school that contains 3 brothers who refused to bath and they were forced to wear gas masks to prevent themselves from being wiped out by the smell and after Ringo did almost succumb to the toxic gas, the short scene ends.

it returns back to the Otogi Bank where the cast is about to receive another request by Chuutarou, a rich boy who had come to seek help for his future wife due to his family tradition. Accompanying him was his butler Hammel, who became the one looking through the candidates himself rather than the boy himself. And so, when Ringo asks him about what type of girl does he like, he tells them that he would like someone who can help him in managing his company, someone who is pretty and hardworking at the same time. Just as the rest just thought of Alice who does fit the description perfectly and at the same time, Liszt had sent her to them, perhaps knowing that she'll be a perfect candidate. However, Hammel passes her off by saying that she'll just be dominating his assets in the future. Their next candidate was Ami, who Ryoushi helped the rest to locate her spying on Jin practicing while camouflaging herself in the trees. She was passed off as well, saying that such dedication is just like unintended load to Chuutarou if she does become his wife and that's another insult hurled by Hammel and another candidate down. The next target was some who was rich and it was Otohime who was located again in a storeroom with her pinning Tarou down, forcing him to answer her questions on why she had seen him holding someone else's hand. While Otohime had gently rejected Chuutarou's request for becoming his future wife, Tarou had went off to greet Ryouko and Ringo which in turn made Otohime fume. She confronts Tarou but he brushes it off by saying that the only person in his eyes was Otohime but thinking that he could get away scot-free, Otohime drags him into the back of the room, closes the door and unimaginable things start to happen inside... The next few candidates were quickly moved on, including Mimi and even cameo appreances by Taiga, Minori, Kawashima Ami, Kuroko, Misaka, Saten and Uiharu. And after a long say of searching and rejecting, Hammel goes down into saying that women with large chest would be the best candidate and Momoko walks by and gets stopped by Chuutarou. However, Hammel adds on that to them, gravity would be their worst enemy as they age and that flat chests would be the best .____. (lolwut) and that didn't register quite well in Momoko, Ryouko and Ringo's ears. In the end, Hammel tells Chuutarou that the best option for his wife would be his childhood friend who had been watching the entire process of him seaching for his future wife and the two reunites and they live happily ever after...

the scene returns to the start where the trio were engaged in a fight with the toxic gas brothers and just as they played "King" and Ringo kissed Ryouko, Tarou turns the screen off and it was actually just a clip made by Ringo. And after all the insult, the girls were all treated by Liszt to some cakes which indeed had burnt a large hole in his wallet.

._____. just wheres the link to the story?! this episode had no story developments, nothing at all... just insults hurling here and there and short split second cameos. seeing how little episodes the series is left, maybe around 5, i was hoping for the relationship to blossom slowly and nicely between Ryouko and Ryoushi after seeing how nicely the previous episode left off. epic fast relationship developments do not interest me, just like what happened in Angel Beats! ._.

Thursday, August 19, 2010

K-ON!! 20

The day of the live performance has finally arrived. Seeing that Mio was still fast asleep in her sleeping bag, the others decide to draw something on Mio's hand when she was unaware. Mio later wakes up to find a huge number of scribbles on her hand and screamed, for which she later hits Ritsu on the head for doing that. The time of their performance have arrived and the girls quickly changed into their HTT t-shirts before moving to the stage. After the previous performance had ended, the girls quickly prepared their instruments and get ready to make it a wonderful performance and Ritsu just had to remind Mio of what had happened to her two years ago and Yui as well, who had forgotten her Gitah last year. Just when the stage curtains were about to unveil, Yui tangled herself with the wires and fell but picked herself up quickly after the audience is able to see them. The girls then realised that everyone was wearing their HTT shirts and even Nodoka was wearing it too. Further questions led Nodoka into disclosing that it was Sawa-chan who had helped in it and as the "president" of the Mio fanclub, she felt that she should be doing something to support the band. Sawa-chan was also feeling pleased with herself after hearing words of thanks from the students which she initially wanted to hear. The girls then started on their first song, Gohan no Okazu, where the lyrics were all just about food... the audience seems to like it though and Yui got as high and took the mite out for the audience to sing-a-long as well. Then came the introduction where Yui introduced Mio and asked her to perform a line of Romeo the day before and had squeals from her fanclub after she reluctantly agreed to do it. Ritsu was also given the chance to speak her Juliet lines, Mugi thanking everyone for coming to the concert and even inviting the others to join then for tea and also Azusa which Yui introduces someone who has superb guitar skills. Yui had even introduced Sawa-chan by "Sawa-chan" and had changed to Sawako-sensei after Mio gave her a disapproving look. Yui went on and had almost introduced Nodoka as well until she prompts her to continue with the performance. Meanwhile while they're performing Fuwa Fuwa Time, audiences streaming in were given a HTT t-shirt as well when they stay to listen to the performance. Yui thanks everyone for supporting them and listening to their performance before moving on to their last song, U and I. The song was somewhat dedicated to show the close bonds between Ui and Yui after looking at the lyrics and the song had a little more meaning than Gohan no Okazu which was just all about food. The performance ends and the girls returned to the music room and sat on the floor, staring at the ceiling. Yui asks them if it was a success and that it was truly fun even though they had forgotten whether they had played the pieces well. Yui also took the chance and "revived" the naming process where Mio and Azusa seems to have already accepted their bass and guitar to be Elizabeth and Muttan respectively. She then hopes that next year's performance would get even better, being able to perform in front of the freshmen and also go on training camps together. But, the truth sinks into them and the last and final performance they could ever have together in high school was over. Yui started to cry and the others as well, thinking about all the fun times they had and performing together but all those have come to an end now. There won't be another high school festival for them anymore but at least their final performance was definitely a good one. Sawa-chan and Nodoka later comes to music room and sees the girls sleeping by the wall, holding each other's hands and having such happy expressions.

this could be the possibly the one episode of the K-ON! series that actually made me feel sour. the episode had of cos, the debut of the two new songs, which i personally prefer U & I. and those totally random words coming out from Yui's mouth. and after all that, the impact really came when you can actually feel how sad the girls were feeling, the last chance they could play together as a band and that they could be all separated after they graduate from high school and perhaps after the university. the manga would be ending after they finally do graduate from high school but this was definitely an episode with the most touching scene i have ever seen in any of the K-ON! episodes...

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

AFA 2010 aka AFA X

AFA X

just a small update, AFA's web is up but for now, only the date of the event is shown.

they really did push quite forward this time, ticket pricing is still unknown, hopes that it wouldn't increase or at least retain the 09 pricing. Concert-wise, definitely anticipating it. so.. till then! :)

Monday, August 16, 2010

Highschool of the Dead 7

after a hectic night and a chance to get some rest, a nearby barking dog started to group all the zombies near the house Takashi and the others are in, where things are just getting started. Along the streets filled with zombies, an individual with a shotgun was fending off the zombies in front of him but he himself wasn't in the right state of mind after experiencing such a chaotic world. The piercing sound from the shotgun was enough to cause himself to be surrounded by the zombies and while attempting to reload, he was swarmed upon and was taken out. Takashi was watching the scene and could've wanted to help the survivors but Saeko wouldn't want Takashi to do it. Takashi thought that Saeko would be different and would agree with his actions, Saeko tells him that she was facing the cold hard truth that they wouldn't be able to save everyone and even turned the lights off to prevent anyone from coming up to the doorstep. Takashi was handed the binoculars to "familiarise" himself with the current world they are in and all he could do was to watch victims after victims fall prey to the zombies in the street. It was then a father and his daughter caught Takashi's eyes and continued to watch them. The father had brought the daughter to a nearby household and called out to the people inside to at let them in. They were however rejected of entry but to save his daughter, he once again plea with the household and even threatened to break down their door to allow his daughter to be saved. Hearing that, the members of the household agreed to let them in but stabbed the father when the door opened and they truly wouldn't want more people to seek shelter in their house. His daughter, Alice (who would be introduced soon), witnessed her father's death and cried, causing the zombies to target her instead as they are attracted to her cries. Seeing how the situation has become and a zombie closing in on her, Hirano snipes down the zombies targetting her and tells Takashi to go and save her. Takashi does not need to be asked to as he himself had already wanted to go and save the child, passing by Saeko, he tells her that he must go and save the child which Saeko let him go, telling him that she'll protect this place and he can leave the house to her. Leaving on the motorbike, Takashi reaches the girl quickly with Hirano covering him with his sniper rifle. Takashi takes down the approaching zombies and saves the girl but had to fire his hand pistol when he was nearly ambushed, causing the zombies to group around the house but with the gates being locked, Takashi and Alice are currently saved. Takashi sees her father lying on the floor and covers the face with a piece of cloth and hands a flower to Alice, telling her that her father had gave up his life protecting her and as she place the flower onto her deceased father, Alice continue to cry in Takashi's arms. Judging by the huge number of zombies grouping together at Takashi's location, the group decides that it would be best for them to go and pick Takashi up and loads the various items that they need into the armoured vehicle that belongs to Shizuka-sensei's friend. It would be difficult for them to pass by the entire hoard of zombies to reach Takashi but Takashi himself have already taken a step forth through walking by the walls, carefully taking each steps as the zombies are still on the streets. With that easing the situation a little, the others arrive and with Saeko cutting through the incoming zombies and Hirano blasting away the rest, Takashi and Alice are able to reach the armoured vehicle safely and crossing the bridge becomes their next priority.

quite number of "not-so-needed" fanservice scenes but at least this episode had more of a plot rather than the previous one. Alice would play a role of one of the main chars so all the char in the group have mainly all grouped up. Hirano had a pretty much personality change in this episode as well, from a nosebleeding dude to a rather cool sniping dude. seeing how the series is proceeding with the manga, im hoping that they wont make the same boring episode as the one with tons of recap just for the sake of keeping the 1 chapter 1 episode kind of thing.

K-ON! is going to end in their next issue and the girls have all made it to their Universities, which the final chapter of the rather famous series would end with the girls graduating and with the entire series focusing on their high school lives. so we wouldn't be able to see them perfoming in Budokan / outside the school as a professional band. unless they do a time leap which is pretty unlikely.

Friday, August 13, 2010

K-ON!! 19

With much practice being made, the long awaited school festival as finally arrived. Everyone in the class were busy adding final touches to their props while Mio and Ritsu continue to practice their lines. Mio was however beginning to feel nervous and even forgot most of the lines. Yui returns to the class and advices Mio to write down pumpkin on her hands and then "gobbling" it down to relieve stress. Ritsu knew that it wasn't really something practical but Mio really did went on to try it nonetheless. Meanwhile for Jun, Azusa and Ui, they were finally given a break after attending to their own booth and took the chance to go explore the school festival. Through touring the festival, the girls sees that most of the costumes worn were rather well made and then heard that they were all made by Sawa-chan. Azusa wonders just how many other clubs Sawa-chan had volunteered to design their costumes for. At last, the costumes were finally ready after Sawa-chan's all nighter and everyone were all happy with the quality of the costumes made and the class prepares to step onto stage. Ritsu sees more and more people swarming in to watch their play and was getting excited but that wasn't the case for Mio who was still slightly nervous just right before the real play. Meanwhile, Azusa and the others have already reached to watch their play and Azusa started to think for a moment on how the others have "neglected" their club practices but she thinks that it could be because the school festival would be their last one and it would be right for them to practice very hard for their play. After settling down beside Sawa-chan, the Romeo and Juliet play begins. Mio did somehow obtained some courage and was performing rather well, the only possible distraction for the audience would probably be the tree Yui is in with her head sticking out of the tree's trunk. As the play continues, one of their classmates realised that an important prop was missing, the grave which was to be use during the climax of the play. Seeing how complicated the situation has become, one of the performers leave her role to Yui and heads out to borrow a similar-looking prop from the Occult club and Mugi follows her as well. Yui then took up her new role for the time being where she is now a bush with her head yet again sticking out in the middle. Luckily enough, the Occult club allowed their look-a-like to be borrowed for the play and it was transported back to the stage just in time. With that, the play was successfully completed and the curtains close with Azusa tearing, not because of how touching the play was, but rather about the lack of club practice with the rest. The other girls then went back to the music room and sees Azusa practicing by herself and after knowing how she feels, Ritsu tells her that they would not neglect the Light Music Club at all and will be staying overnight for practice. When night falls, the girls decide to take the chance to take a stroll around the campus and coincidentally found the Juliet's Grave being left behind near some other booth where someone must have thought that the prop belonged to them. The girls later went to thank the Occult club as well for borrowing their prop to them, making the success of the play possible. After some pointless chatter, the girls went to sleep and were called up by Sawa-chan next morning after she, who has now deep eyebags, have finally completed a normal looking T-shirt for the girls after rushing through it the entire night and the girls are now finally ready for their perfomance later in the afternoon.

the play was rather alright IMO and more classmates were given some scenes as well. it was distracting for me when you have some serious and touching scenes being acted out and you see a small Yui's head on a tree and on a bush .___. just to add on, the manga is ending, where we won't get to see the going into Budokan or even their lives after high school as it would probably end in the next chapter being the last, and would most possibly be showing them graduating. nonetheless, this episode was rather OK, well, seeing more dialogues from the other characters is interesting and in the next, the LONG awaited performance it finally here! HTT!!!

Ookami-san to Shichinin no Nakamatachi 7

In the town, Ryoushi is greeted by a Ryouko in a dress, resulting in Ryoushi getting whacked after exclaiming how cute he thinks she was. It turns out that the Otogi Bank has a new request where it was first started by Hanasaki Jin, who has come to the Otogi Bank to make a request for them to help find out who was going into his house everyday to clean his house and even prepares food for him. With the spy cameras installed, it was easy for them to discover who it was, and it turns out to be Jizou Ami, a student of their school. After confronting her with visual evidence, she explains that Jin had lent her an umbrella one rainy day and she was too embarrassed to thank him face to face and had used this way of thanking him. Under Ringo's advice, Ami finally found courage to express her feelings face to face to Jin but he had not look at her once in a romantic way. Jin however tells Ami that her way of repaying him was too much and would like to do something in return for her, which Ringo then suggests to them to go on a date. Ryoushi and Ryouko were then asked along to go with a double date to make Ami less nervous. Seeing how stiff Ami was still after walking beside Jin, Ringo tells Ryouko to hold hands with Ryoushi and to act as a model example to the two. For the request, Ryouko then forcefully grabs Ryoushi's hand and walks in front of the other two, successfully bringing them to hold hands as well. In the cinema where they watched a sad movie, Ryoushi had brought with him a handkerchief to aid Ryouko when she tears and Jin also helped to wipe off the tears of Ami as well, so did seem like a doll, being all stiff. The double date continues where Ryoushi and Ryouko look more like a dating couple rather than the other two, whether in the pet shop or in the arcade where the two rarely spoke to each other at all. The group then reach the park where they were suppose to have their picnic but Ryouko takes her leave temporarily, Ryoushi follows as well, leaving Ami and Jin alone on the picnic mat. Ryoushi discovers Ryouko trying to save a cat on the tree and after reaching it, the branch breaks and they both fell in the shallow river. Ryoushi sees the situation and dives in to save Ryouko. The cat was safe and Ryouko had passed out for a moment and when she wakes, she does not recognise Ryoushi at all and Ryoushi suspects her to be suffering from amnesia after probably hitting her head on the bottom of the river. Luckily, Ryouko still remembers her own name but had her mindset when she was 13 years old. She calls Ryoushi "Onii-san" after thinking that he was older than her which did made Ryoushi happy for a moment. After seeing Ryouko might have caught a cold, Ryoushi goes forth and hands her his shirt which was drenched and when Ryoushi was anticipating a wack from her, Ryouko thanks him instead and Ryoushi is kinda happy when she's being honest. Jin and Ami weren't talking to each other and had a wierd atmosphere without Ryouko and Ryoushi but Ringo covers it for them by telling Ami that it was part of the plan. Ringo later receives a call from Ryoushi where he tells Ringo that Ryouko has become cute and the line was cut off before he could actually make some sense in his words. The duo then settle down on a bench and Ryoushi helps to relate the current situation to Ryouko. She learns that she was actually older and that when she asks about their relationship, Ryoushi tells her that they were companions and Ryouko had initially thought that they were in a relationship. Ryoushi suggests yet again that they should go to the hospital but Ryouko drags him into town. While doing that, Ringo sees a happy Ryouko dragging Ryoushi along and thinks that she must have been to tired to be seeing something impossible happening. The duo went into town were enjoying themselves like in a genuine date, eating crepes and shopping but when Ryoushi mentions about the visiting the hospital again, Ryouko stops and seemed reluctant to go. Ryoushi then pats her head, telling her that she was probably feeling scared that she was all alone but he would always be there by her side and protect her. It then started to rain and while taking shelter, Ringo calls Ryoushi and tells him that Ami and Jin had left together under an umbrella and Ryoushi suggests that they meet up as it would be easier to explain the situation. In a family restaurant, Ryouko was eating her ice cream while Ryoushi explains the siutation to Ringo and Ringo proves it when Ryouko does not recognise her. While they were discussing on how to recover her memories, Ryouko sees that she was being ignored by Ryoushi and leaves, telling Ryoushi that what he said to be by her side all the time was all lies. In the rain, Ryouko ponders over Ryoushi's words and had thought he would be caring towards her and when she turned, she hit someone and fell to the floor where she sees Shirou in front of her. She starts to feel scared after seeing that familiar face once more but was kept "conscious" after Ryoushi called out to her again and then helped carried her back up. Shirou stops them in their tracks and started to talk about the relationship he and Ryouko had in the past. Shirou tells him that Ryouko was labelled by the others as a liar after he tried to force himself on her but the others did not believe Ryouko's side of the story and that was why she had transferred school. Ryouko breaks down and Ryoushi quickly takes out his slingshot but was sliced through within a split second. Ryoushi tells Shirou that he does not care about how Ryouko was in the past and would protect her from now on and that he will continue to hunt him down for what he had did to Ryouko in the past. Shirou leaves after the commotion and Ryouko's memories returned later in the day. Ringo tells Ryouko that it was a pity that she had lost her memories while she was having amnesia and when she tells her that they should go and eat, Ryouko decides to pass and tells Ringo that she already had crepe. This then gave her away as she had ate the crepe while having amnesia which means that the still retained all her memories during the whole time and then, Ringo smirks. The result was seen in the next day in school where Ryouko was forced to wear a ribbon to prevent Ringo from spilling the beans and when Ryoushi said that she was cute with it, he receives the familiar wack from Ryouko once again.

a rather decent episode and Ami and Jin were probably real side characters where the episode mainly focuses on strengthening the understanding between Ryoushi and Ryouko and also we got to see a different side of Ryouko, and Ryoushi as well. It was really cool when Ryoushi tells Shirou that he would definitely hunt him down, a totally different him and a side of him that we all probably wants instead of his timid side. he gets pretty serious when it comes to Ryouko eh. and of cos we get to see Ryouko's soft side as well, which wasn't bad but did felt a little wierd where she's all honest, unlike being a tsundere. so probably the series would be heading towards Ryoushi hunting down Shirou (which isn't bad i presume) and hopefully an ending that we would all like at the end...

oh and Jin and Ami seemed to have been together after that with Ami still preparing food for Jin in his house O.O

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Highschool of the Dead 6

typically, this would be a rather short post on HOTD, the reason... nearly 3/4 or even more of the episode was just plain fanservice and that isn't something that can be written @.@

leaving those aside, what was left isn't much =X

the team went to Shizuka-sensei's friend's home and was finally able to take a rest and take a shower as well (and there's where the fanservice are all coming from .____.) Hirano and Takashi manage to pry open a locker which contained a rifle, shotgun and a crossbow. Meanwhile, the police who were containing the crowd were given orders as to do whatever means necessary to keep everything under control. So when there was a demonstration by a group of people to condemn the police, one officer had no choice but to end the entire demonstration by firing a point-blank shot at the leader of the demonstrations. Later that night, the people being infected by the virus was spreading so quickly that wiping them all out, including some who are still alive, seemed to be one of the best options around and huge machinery were used to eradicate all those on the bridge. In feeling of how inhumane he had become, the officer eventually killed himself with his own pistol. Having the commotion died down over at the bridge, the zombies were now attracted to a barking dog near the house the team is currently staying and they were all yet again surrounded by the bloodthirsty monsters.

due to the lack of "attractiveness", Shiki is given up for this season... mainly due to the story which didn't really prompt me to watch it further.

The World God Only Knows will soon have its anime preview coming up, shall be waiting for it :)

finally got my HnG vol. 22 which stars Athena yet again :D the next 2 volumes which have a double cover shall be released together in Nov-Dec... oh well, good things are worth the wait!

P.S. too much braincells being killed off these days ... extremely busy with schoolwork and preparing for upcoming exams. do not expect more frequent updates in time to come... shall be more active during hols.

oh and heres a quite beautifully done Miku PVC (kinda late on this):

Sunday, August 08, 2010

K-ON!! 18

with the results of the class polling, Mio has been selected to be playing the role of Romeo in their class play and being unable to take the shock of being chosen as a lead character, she faints in her own seat. After regaining her senses, Mio immediately objects to the decision made but was denied by Nodoka since it was of the majority vote and no one else was nominated or volunteered themselves. Ritsu tries to comfort Mio and to make her accept the fact of the Romeo's role. Coincidentally, Ritsu was chosen to play Juliet and objected too as well but the both of them were clearly ignored by Nodoka. While deciding on who would design the costume, Sawa-chan volunteers herself to design the costume and both Mio and Ritsu looked at Sawa-chan and appears to be afraid of what she was going to make for them. Back in the music room, Mio had remained emotionless in a corner, staring closely at Ton-chan, while Ritsu was thinking about her own role as Juliet and was laughed at by Azusa who just couldn't control herself being amused by Ritsu taking up Juliet. Azusa then goes to Mio and tells her that she would be in the spotlight on the stage, Mio immediately receives the impact and later walks off, saying that she plans to transfer school and would be back after the school festival. Her self denial continues with her thinking that the role she had taken was all just a dream but Ritsu quickly drags her off to practice the scripts. Meanwhile, Yui had been standing still all along as she plays a tree in their class play and was adviced by Nodoka to practice standing still. Mio later finds Nodoka and tells her that she really cannot take up the position as Romeo and before Nodoka agrees to it, she tells Mio that everyone had believed that she could perform the role best and with that, Mio feels motivated and accepts the role to not let everyone down. The duo then started practicing lines but the both of them still had problems with Ritsu not being girly enough and Mio being totally embarrassed after reading the script and being unable to project her voice. After returning to the music room, Yui suggests to them that they should start acting like their roles in the play and tries to make Ritsu more girl-like and Mio more boy-like but it wasn't long before Ritsu grew tired of it and dragged Mio to her house for more practice. Just as Ritsu began to speak her script, Mio began to laugh uncontrollably and the situation continues with the them still being unable to totally match the characters. While teasing each other, the duo suddenly "caught" the voice as was finally able to properly act out their respective roles. Mio was however still unable to project her voice even though she did quite well in Ritsu's room and Mugi decides to bring her to a special training during the weekends. Mugi had brought everyone to work at a cafe where they would serve the customers as waitresses and since they are all strangers, Mio would be able to boost her courage after the training. Mio wasn't really up to the task and was rather clumsy while serving the customers and couldn't really speak up. Azusa wonders why Mio was still able to sing during the school festival in front of the audience and Ritsu tells her it was because she wasn't given a choice and with that, she thinks of a perfect plan for Mio. While everyone was given a chance to rest, Ritsu deliberately leaves Mio to tend to the customers alone and while given no choice, Mio could actually perform better. The others then decide to check on Mio after some time and did see her perfect smile and sending of the customers but after stoning there, she had fainted once again while standing as due to extreme stress. The next day in school, Mio seems to be unable to remove her smile after practicing it for so long and was finally removed with Ritsu's cheek grabbing technique. In the end, the training did seem to have paid off a little and Azusa feels wierd practicing her guitar with Yui standing still in front of her.

just another typical episode, would lovely wait for the next school festival episode...

P.S. Mio was extremely depressed after having larger hips than the rest .____. Mio's self delusions is just awesome. Still Tree FTW! xD

Friday, August 06, 2010

Ookami-san to Shichinin no Nakamatachi 6

the 6th episode focuses more on Ryouko's past but was indirectly known to the viewers and not Ryoushi, yet.

the day starts off with Ringo cleaning up their room while Ryouko goes off to the gym to train and is seen by Ringo to be behaving rather wierd after she did not seem to be extremely happy when Ringo tells her that she's preparing her favourite hamburgers for dinner tonight. Having pondered over the relationship between Ryouko and Shirou, Ryoushi decides to call Ringo and asks if he could have a chat with her. Ringo complies to Ryoushi's request and goes out to meet him but declined telling him about Ryouko's past as he should be the one asking Ryouko directly after gaining her total trust just like Ringo did. Meanwhile, the past wasn't totally kept secret and flashbacks were seen by Ryouko in the gym, where after she was forced on by Shirou, her other friends did not believe her words at all and she felt all alone and lost. This directly affect her training blows and even her old time "trainer" could see that lack of energy. Alice and Liszt are both trying to garner more information about Shirou as well but it seems like his data before he transferred school had all been deleted. While back in her room, Ringo takes out the photos she had with Ryouko when they first met and starts to think about them yet again. On that fateful day, Ringo had took the opportunity to pass Ryouko a form as she was absent and after being warned by the other classmates that she was scary and violent, Ringo wondered if she had made the wrong choice but helping out. When she went to find Ryouko, she discovered that she reads Girl's Novels and at the same time, found that she was having high fever. While Ringo was going to get something to cool her down, Ryouko, in her sleep, pleas for her friends to believe what she had said. After her fever had went down with Ringo's help, Ryouko awakes and immediately questions her about her coming into her room. Ringo passes her the form and even cooks porridge for her and takes care of her while she was sick. When Ringo wanted Ryouko to call her by her name as they were friends, Ryouko's mood changes and asks her when did she became her friend and asks her to leave. Seeing how determined Ryouko is on asking her to leave, Ringo complies but was thanked for by Ryouko who did call her name in the end. From that day onwards, Ringo seems to follow Ryouko around and sticks with her to the gym where the trainer tells Ryouko that she should take a rest as she was sick but Ryouko tells him that she wants to become strong as fast as possible. The trainer tells her that if she continues at this state, the strength that she would have would only be a short-lived one. After the session at the gym, Ryouko sees someone getting bullied and leaves Ringo behind to go forth and save the guy. Ryouko managed to land a few blows but was quickly outnumbered and had to be saved by Ringo who fakes the bullies that the police was coming. Ringo then treats Ryouko's injury and asks her why was she trying so hard to become strong. When Ryouko tells her that it wasn't of her concern, Ringo told her the phrase she heard when Ryouko spoke in her sleep, to ask someone to believe her words. Ryouko was taken aback by what she said but Ringo tells her to stop lying to herself and Ryouko was actually just a lonely person at heart, just like her who had just transferred into the neighbourhood. Ringo then asks Ryouko to be more of herself when with her which Ryouko eventually did and opened her heart to Ringo. Meanwhile, Ryoushi have always been pondering what exactly should he do now. While in school, he was always trying not to get into people's eyes by avoiding but one day his eyes caught sight of Ryouko and after days of observance, his love for her grew. During the day where he confessed to Ryouko, he was trying tell her that she was indeed a much more gentle person but Ryouko had already left after hearing only the first part of it. Ryoushi is now determined to protect Ryouko and not be the powerless on that stands far and being unable to protect the one he loves at all. He gets up and then goes to find Ryouko and tells her that she would have her putting her trust in him and confesses to her once again. Back in their room, Ringo have noticed that Ryouko's mood has changed for the better and confiscates her dinner to force her to tell her what had happened and she is indeed quite happy after hearing those words from Ryoushi but was too embarassed to say it to Ringo.

things get revealed rather fast where the flashbacks were slightly explained. and at least we get to know her past but not Ryoushi who like sat at the grass for the whole day?! .__. it was something out of the blue for him to confess to Ryouko once again and i wonder how their relationship would become if Ryouko had listened to Ryoushi's entire confession and realise that he has the same sharp eye as Ringo. half the series is down and i really can't see the ending yet =X

Monday, August 02, 2010

Highschool of the Dead 5

People who are still alive and important people are being taken out of the city through the airport and their families were also given priority to leave the city 1st. The runway was however blocked with zombies all crowding around, causing problems for the plane to take off as it is still potentially risky. Having a zombie grabbing on to the plane isn't an eliminated option and the possibility is still there. The problem was however quickly resolved with a duo sniping team, wiping out every single one of them and clearing the runway for the plane to take off. Meanwhile, Shizuka-sensei and the others were stuck in the bus due to a serious traffic jam and Shidou-sensei was still "brainwashing" the students who are following him. Takagi tells Himuro that the situation could get worse since people are all trying to move to the airport to leave the city but it was already too late for them as those cities with armed forces would not want more people to enter their city, all for survival's sake. Both Takagi and Saeko were worried about Takashi and Rei as well. While on the motorbike, Takashi and Rei continue to travel through the town and sees how crazy the world has become and the people are no exception. Seeing how people are killing the zombies and even opened fire at the both of them, Takashi concludes that everyone had killed too much and were already a little "crazy", just like them. The duo arrives at the bridge to cross over but Takashi quickly took a different route since he doesn't know how long it would take for them to be able to cross, seeing how packed the entire bridge was with vehicles. The police were enforcing their barricade very strongly, preventing the zombies from entering and urges the citizens not to force their way through and when some complacent students did, they were severely dealt with and were blasted into the river after getting hit by high pressured water. Back in the bus, the others started to feel irritated by Shidou-sensei and prefers to leave the bus and try and check on their families. Shizuka-sensei expresses her ill feelings for Shidou-sensei as well and the team prepares to leave the bus. Shidou-sensei spots them and asks them what they were planning to do. Takagi rebukes him that they had a different objective as them and that it would be pointless for them to stay. Shidou-sensei complies to their request but asks for Shizuka-sensei to stay due to her medical knowledge but Hirano stops him in his tracks after grazing him with his nail gun, telling him how he had kept his anger in for him for so long but now he is able to kill someone who is living and urges Shidou-sensei not to push him to do it. Takashi and Rei reaches another bridge but encounters the same problem as the other one and were unable to cross it. While thinking of a solution to cross the bridge and meet up with the rest, Rei thought that she heard a gunshot but Takashi thinks that the sound was from Hirano's nail gun instead and starts the motorbike to head in that direction. True enough, Saeko and the rest were fighting off the zombies but Hirano's nail gun was already running out of ammo and relying on Saeko alone would not be able to protect everyone. Just then, Takashi and Rei, on the motorbike, flies above their road and land on the higher ground where Saeko and the others were and starts to help exterminating the zombies. Together with Rei's lance, Takashi's motorbike skills, Saeko's tag team with Takashi and Hirano being equipped with Takashi's handgun, the group was now safe from danger and while making sure everyone was alright and that it was great to be all teamed up again, Hirano was still engrossed over the handgun that Takashi threw to him earlier. Seeing how it would be impossible to cross the river to check on their families, Shizuka-sensei suggests that they take a rest first at her friend's house where they have their rest and also possibly "take" the tank-look-a-like vehicle at that house and both Shizuka-sensei and Takashi goes off to check on the house first. Incidentally, Shizuka-sensei's friend would be one of the snipers protecting the airport.

no more recaps! :) truthfully speaking, i was really irritated about how Shidou-sensei speaks and seeing how Hirano had grazed him, i went "serve him right! :D" ... nothing good really happens to bad people eh. Thankfully, the team is now grouped up again and the scene where their teamwork fended the zombies off was really cool and i could have wanted more of those rather than just mindlessly scrapping all of them away like L4D. not much storyline could possibly develop from here since their main goal of it all would be to locate their parents and to confirm their safety AND also to survive as well. how everything could end in like 13/24/25/26 episodes really is something i think would be unexpected (provided they plan to remove all of the zombies but the manga isn't near there yet so probably not =X)