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Postby AngelicTotoro » Fri Aug 26, 2011 6:08 pm

I've finally finished my anime hiatus! I didn't think I was gonna make it. :eh:

Princess Tutu episodes 7 - 8

I really enjoyed these episodes, the music was superb. ;D (Hear, hear!)
AND talk about a lot of plot twists!!! :wow!:

[spoiler]I never would suspect that Rue would end up being the bad guy, I had Fakir pegged for that spot, but now I actually think he's redeemable. (I totally dig a guy with a sword and a mask! :D Meta Knight anyone?) Plus he was super nice to Ahiru when she was in duck form. :o He's gotta be good! (On a side note, I feel totally bad for PT since she can't tell Mytho how she feels. :waah!:[/spoiler]

I'm rather curious how this'll all turn out, so tonight I shall have a four or five episode long marathon! :jump:
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Postby Wolf-man » Fri Aug 26, 2011 7:23 pm

Started watching Black Butler. After 3 episodes so far I have to say that it is entertaining but it is far from the amazingly awesome series that people seem to say it is. I mean i like it but I have seen better. Granted, I have only seen 3 episodes so my opinion may change by the end; we shall see.
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Postby TheSubtleDoctor » Fri Aug 26, 2011 7:29 pm

Juliannesan (post: 1499762) wrote:BTW, on a random non-related note. I looked up your music playlist and you've got some good tunes on there. :)
Ah, thanks very much! PM me some one that you especially like. I'd enjoy talking music.[quote="Wolf-man (post: 1499826)"]Started watching Black Butler. After 3 episodes so far I have to say that it is entertaining but it is far from the amazingly awesome series that people seem to say it is. I mean i like it but I have seen better. Granted, I have only seen 3 episodes so my opinion may change by the end]I'm gonna go ahead and call that it won't be an amazing show to you, mainly because you are not the show's intended audience. Black Butler is complete fujoshi bait. And that's pretty much it. It just ain't for folks like you and me.
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Postby Wallachia » Fri Aug 26, 2011 10:44 pm

Where to start? Today, I finally go to watch the first two episode of Carnival Phantasm with my buddy... and it... is... glorious.

As someone who greatly enjoyed Tsukihime and Fate/Stay Night, as well as having played Melty Blood long enough to learn multiple characters and recall everyone's arc-drives off the top of my head... Just being able to see everyone goof-off is absolutely wonderful and definitely hilarious. I don't care about rating this show on a critical scale... I just don't. Unlimited Top-Score Works/10 (despite only being on episode 2, sorry.)

I don't have any reaction images amazing enough to express how I feel about this show. I'm definitely over-hyping it, though. You won't necessarily enjoy this if you don't like the characters and know them from their respective stories.

But enough of that. Today, I also finished Shinryaku! Ika Musume. It was pretty funny, and its setting was a nice change of pace. It was a pretty good show and was highly enjoyable with a friend. I look forward to the second season. 8/10 for now.

Next on the list: Redline.
Where to start? Well, I liked it... It was amazing to look at, but I'd feel bad rating it only for the art. There was a lot to this movie, and to me it personally felt like a bit too much. The only characters I enjoyed were JP and that old mechanic with multiple arms... Yeah, he was pretty cool. The fact that JP drives a (heavily modified) Trans-Am was pretty sweet.

The sheer abundance of characters and not one, but two subplots going on at the same time simply lost me. I came in expecting a race, and I got way, way, way more than I expected. There's a lot of excess to this movie, and if the excess was trimmed off and streamlined a bit to fill in the gaps, it'd be perfect.

Still, I enjoyed it. It was fun most of the time and... Well, as far as the ending goes... [spoiler]it ended before our two drivers became a red-line on the ground.[/spoiler]I'm not going to mention my rating here... I'm still trying to figure out whether I should raise it or not.

Finally, to finish off my post: I also got to episode 7 of The World God Only Knows. It's enjoyable so far.
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Postby Maokun » Sat Aug 27, 2011 1:49 am

TheSubtleDoctor (post: 1499759) wrote:Brevity from TSD!

Only Yesterday

Takahada may be the "forgotten man" at Ghibli, but he has made one of the studio's most poignant works in Only Yesterday. I think this movie can be best appreciated by people who have had enough life experience to take stock of both their childhood and their early adulthood. This is a wonderful piece about both nostalgia and self-discovery.

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Perfect Blue

Kon's directorial debut is the most unsettling anime I have ever seen. PB is a disturbing story about the ripple effect that the otaku culture has upon its idols. Of course, it bears the Kon hallmarks of also being about the vagueness of the border that separates fantasy from reality. As in Millennium Actress, he uses movies as his prefered medium of fantasy]

I'm surprised you just watched those movies. As always, your reviews are on the spot.

DD Hokuto no Ken

As you may or may not know, the opening lines of Hokuto no Ken proclaim that in the year 199X the earth endured a nuclear apocalypse, reducing it to a Mad Max-esque wasteland full of biker punks. The opening of DD Hokuto no Ken, a recent set of shorts that parody the shounen fighting classic, states that in the year 199X, the world did not endure a nuclear apocalypse! Thus, The characters of HnK, their intense, grim, battle-ready personalities from the original series intact, must get along in the normal modern world. Hilarity ensues.


This sounds amazing. By the way, I just noticed that we have a very high anime compatibility in MAL. I'm not surprised.

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Postby Neane » Sat Aug 27, 2011 2:29 am

I just watched Wish Upon the Pleiades (Hokago no Pleiades). Which is an anime series made by Subaru and Gainax Studios. AKA: The Single Greatest Car Commercial of the year. I wonder, will this Anime series of 4 episodes turn into a huge series? Or will it stay an anime commercial for the Subaru Car Company? Either way, I know what happens to the money Subaru is given. I actually choked on the cuteness of this series that is actually a commercial for Subaru Cars.
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Postby Agloval » Sat Aug 27, 2011 2:42 am

ShiroiHikari (post: 1498563) wrote:My husband is currently watching Bryger raw (his Japanese is quite good). I didn't know it was getting subbed. I've watched a couple of episodes but without subs, I can only catch what's being said maybe half the time. Blaster Kid looks like a cool, cool guy though, and Isaac kinda looks like he stepped straight out of UC Gundam. And yeah, I noticed that large groups of random mooks tend to get mowed down a lot...
I came across a blogger who called it 'a robot caper anime', which is I think better and shorter than my attempt to describe it! I think I've settled into watching an episode every now and then. So far there's little drive/impetus/engin/what-have-you pushing me from ep to ep, but it still has a great sense of fun to it which makes it a nice thing to wind down with.

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I've begun trying to pick up the pace rewatching LoGH as I'm going on holiday for a fortnight soon, and I'd like to get as much covered before I go. This time around, in the second half of the story, I'm feeling less respect for Reinhard than I had when I watched it for the first time, but more pity for him.
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Postby Mr. Hat'n'Clogs » Sat Aug 27, 2011 7:54 am

DIRECTED BY TAKESHI KOIKE

The Space Government has now come and everything is under their iron fist. The Masses of Space are now downtrodden, oppressed, and just kicked around their entire lives, and there is nothing they can choose do about it.

Well, there's one thing. The masses can race.

Enter into the REDLINE. In their one, singular act of rebellion, the proletarians have organized a massive interplanetary racing event in order for them to have something that they can say they have chosen for themselves. Eight top racers will compete in the biggest event of the galaxy.

Redline is one of the most profound movies I've seen and it is surprisingly deep for a movie about racing cars. I loved the movie when I first saw it, but the more I've thought about it, the more incredible it seems to me. The characters are surprisingly well-written, the message is something you have to dig pretty deep to discover, and the world itself is just alive, covered with thousands of bizarre aliens, people, equipment, events. While the Redline may be a huge event, it is not the only thing in this galaxy that matters.

I'd talk about why I love this film as much as I do in greater length but it would be spoiling it to talk about the film's themes and characters. My only criticism of the movie is basically:

It wasn't as good as Summer Wars

Go experience Redline now*.

*[SIZE="1"]There is some brief nudity in the film if that would bother you, so that is pretty much the only valid excuse for not watching it.[/SIZE]
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Postby Juliannesan » Sat Aug 27, 2011 10:26 am

Watching Sugar, A Snow Fairy now too. The fairy is so annoying! XD But the rest of the storyline is good. It's cute. I have my young nephew and niece over for the weekend and they seem to enjoy it.
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Postby Maokun » Sat Aug 27, 2011 12:48 pm

I started Kaiba following numerous recommendations, and I'm up to ep 4. I'm finally getting used to the character design and thing's have made a little bit more of sense last two eps, so perhaps I'll enjoy it yet.
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Postby FllMtl Novelist » Sat Aug 27, 2011 1:35 pm

Finished Spice and Wolf's second season. It was great. :D

I'm still watching the adultswim stuff (Ghost in the Shell: SAC, Durarara, FMA: Brotherhood) and Natsume Yujincho.

And I've just picked up Mawaru Penguindrum. I'll be popping my head into the appropriate thread when I've caught up.
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Postby MomentOfInertia » Sat Aug 27, 2011 2:19 pm

Finished Spice and Wolf
A very good show, they ended it well. The second season had more suspenseful plots and a more 'active' animation style.

Keeping up on Blue Exorcist (#19)
It may be filler but it's good filler.

Natsume Yujincho #n-20

Darker Than Black #1-4
I picked this up after finishing Spice & Wolf, figure that logic out.
Good action, interesting world and characters, I look forward to more.
I don't think I want to watch more than an arc a a time though.

I also picked back up:

Tiger & Bunny #7

And Eureka Seven #15-16
What's annoying is how awesome the second half of the episode I left off on is.


On Adult Swim:
Ghost in the Shell: SAC
Bleach
Drrr!!
FMA:B
InuYasha

I think I'm going to mainline Darker Than Black and Eureka Seven going forward.
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Postby Roxi » Sat Aug 27, 2011 4:22 pm

[color="DeepSkyBlue"]Well, in terms of "on-going" series, I've recently watched the newest episodes of [color="DarkOrange"]Naruto Shippuden[/color] & [color="SeaGreen"]Hanasaku-iroha.[/color]

Oh, and I watch [color="Pink"]Lucky Star[/color] while waiting for the new episodes, of the anime I mentioned above, to be released.[/color]
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Postby blkmage » Sun Aug 28, 2011 7:38 pm

It's gotten a lot of mixed reactions, but I really liked The Borrowers Arrietty. I like the concept. The characters aren't children and aren't annoying, so that's a plus. There's no overt environmental message pushing. It's not terribly actiony, but there are some pretty good moments of suspense. I like the interaction between Arrietty and Shou. And obviously, it's a beautiful movie. It's not particularly lighthearted fare either, as it's about survival.
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Postby AngelicTotoro » Sun Aug 28, 2011 10:47 pm

Princess Tutu episodes 9 - 12

This show has taken me through so many twists and turns that my head is still spinning!:eh:

I really [color="Red"]love[/color] it now though. :brow:

[spoiler]First off, I was shocked, shocked that Fakir found out Ahiru was Tutu, he was so mean. D: Why not team up??? Then Mytho basically tells Rue that he loves Tutu.. and then stupid ole' Kraehe (rue)gets her revenge by ripping the emotion of love out of his heart and kissing him.

(all while poor Ahiru is trapped, watching and Fakir is getting the snot beat out of him by stinking ravens. ):)

I L.O.V.E.D the next episode, it made Fakir shoot up to second place in my character list... and now I'm shipping Fakir and Ahiru. :dizzy: (How could you not after episode 12??? :grin:)
It was so chock full of super cute, funny fluff that I was squeeing the entire episode!
(and to think, that up until episode 8, I hated Fakir... now he's my 2nd fav character in the show. =3)
And strangley enough, I don't feel torn about dropping the pairing, MythoxAhiru. =/ Now when I think about it... I feel nothing. Zip. and you know what? Even if Fakir and Ahiru isn't canon, I don't care, I wuv it anyway. :rock: [/spoiler]

As said before, I love this show... but why do I get the bad feeling it'll end sad? :(
(It's gotta be all the drama going on in it...)
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Postby Juliannesan » Mon Aug 29, 2011 4:02 am

AngelicTotoro (post: 1500401) wrote:Princess Tutu episodes 9 - 12

This show has taken me through so many twists and turns that my head is still spinning!:eh:

I really [color="Red"]love[/color] it now though. :brow:

[spoiler]First off, I was shocked, shocked that Fakir found out Ahiru was Tutu, he was so mean. D: Why not team up??? Then Mytho basically tells Rue that he loves Tutu.. and then stupid ole' Kraehe (rue)gets her revenge by ripping the emotion of love out of his heart and kissing him.

(all while poor Ahiru is trapped, watching and Fakir is getting the snot beat out of him by stinking ravens. ):)

I L.O.V.E.D the next episode, it made Fakir shoot up to second place in my character list... and now I'm shipping Fakir and Ahiru. :dizzy: (How could you not after episode 12??? :grin:)
It was so chock full of super cute, funny fluff that I was squeeing the entire episode!
(and to think, that up until episode 8, I hated Fakir... now he's my 2nd fav character in the show. =3)
And strangley enough, I don't feel torn about dropping the pairing, MythoxAhiru. =/ Now when I think about it... I feel nothing. Zip. and you know what? Even if Fakir and Ahiru isn't canon, I don't care, I wuv it anyway. :rock: [/spoiler]

As said before, I love this show... but why do I get the bad feeling it'll end sad? :(
(It's gotta be all the drama going on in it...)



Without giving away any spoilers. I'd have to say after watching the show to its entirety. I am still definitely an Ahiru&Fakir fan.
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Postby Juliannesan » Mon Aug 29, 2011 4:09 pm

*squees with delight*
I'm FINALLY watching 5/cms! It's so wonderful! So beautiful! ^_^


Edit: Finished! What a great movie! 10/10!
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Postby Mr. Hat'n'Clogs » Tue Aug 30, 2011 8:50 am

Boy oh boy.

Digimon: Bokura no War Game is the directorial debut of Mamoru Hosoda barring a couple episodes of Digimon and the OP of Crying Freeman or something. It's pretty neat to watch; a lot of people talk about how it is the beta for Summer Wars but it is pretty much the beta for Hosoda films in general. The way the characters move and interact is pretty much Hosoda figuring out how he wants to direct. There's certainly worse ways to spend forty minutes.

Mind Game is another directorial debut from a director I really like, this time Masaaki Yuasa. It has his trademark surreal look, and is probably closest to Kemonozume in terms of style, only it's much more bizarre. It feels really directionless and I didn't like it nearly as much as all of his other works. It's worth it if you want to see more Masaaki Yuasa but I certainly wouldn't recommend it if you have never seen a Yuasa show; The Tatami Galaxy should probably be the best place to start.

Eden of the East was a really solid show that I enjoyed. It's definitely a very accessible anime, and I definitely wouldn't mind showing it to a newbie or as a gateway drug. It has some issues in the middle but is certainly worth a watch.

I also checked out the first eight episodes of Xam'd, which may be the coolest thing ever. Let's look at what it has going for it.

Not one, but three fully capable and awesome main characters, two of whom are female? Check.

Fantastic design work on the Xam'd, humanforms, and mecha, which are pretty much like nothing I've seen before? Check.

Awesome supporting cast? Check.

Incredible animation and visuals that is a step above even most other BONES shows? Check.

Mailmen? Check Check Check.

Overall, I give Xam'd seven stars out of five so far.
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Postby MightiMidget » Tue Aug 30, 2011 1:17 pm

Not sure when I last updated so. Eternalprincess and I are still watching Blood+. We finished episode 19 a few days ago. I'm still in a slight bit of shock about how much I love it. The impression I'd gotten from someone is "it's bloody, boring and risque." :blink: And now I have absolutely no clue where I got that from. Probably mixed it up with something else!
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Postby blkmage » Tue Aug 30, 2011 5:51 pm

Oh, I forgot to talk about Bokura ga Ita. Well, Bokura ga Ita is based on a shoujo manga that's still being serialized, but the anime is a complete adaptation of the first part. If you know me, you'll know that something I hate about shoujo is the use of misunderstandings to create conflict in the relationship. To its credit, I don't think that this ever happens much in Bokura ga Ita.

For me, the problem with Bokura ga Ita is in the characters. I just don't think they're very likeable. Yano's pretty much a jerk, while Nanami is kind of immature and naive about the whole relationships thing. That's not to say that they're poorly written. I think that sucking at relationships because of personal failings is far more interesting to watch than misunderstanding-theatre.

In this way, I think that Bokura ga Ita is remarkably similar to Kare Kano. The problems that the characters are facing aren't the usual flailing of arms to get together. Instead, we have the two characters get together and work through their relationship. Unfortunately, the problems are caused by the characters acting self-destructively. The difference between Bokura ga Ita and Kare Kano is that I actually like Kare Kano's characters.

And now, about something completely different.

I finally got around to watching Gunbuster and Diebuster. Both of them started kinda silly, but by the end of both, I left fairly impressed. I do think that Gunbuster edges out Diebuster. However, it was interesting seeing things that I recognized because Gurren Lagann decided to pay some heavy tribute to them.

Speaking of Gurren Lagann, I thought I would never be impressed by scale ever again, but Gunbuster and Diebuster proved me wrong.

Gunbuster starts out with school shenanigans but drills its theme of hard work and guts pretty hard. The main character can't do anything and idolizes onee-sama~, but with hard work and guts, she eventually becomes a hero. So what is this about scale? Gurren Lagann has robots throwing galaxies at each other, so it's got size down, but I think Gunbuster conveys just how expansive space is far better. The big thing that Gunbuster does that Gurren Lagann kind of handwaves away is time dilation, and I think it's the first time that I've seen an anime incorporate it into the plot.

And this is where Diebuster comes in, which takes advantage of the time dilation somehow and expands on the Gunbuster mythos. It starts off similarly goofy, but ends up in the same awesome place that Gunbuster does. I have to say the tweest was excellent and I'm kind of surprised it didn't occur to me before. The only unfortunate thing about Diebuster is that it isn't quite as groundbreaking as its predecessor, which is understandable. But I think it speaks to how great Gunbuster is that it gave me something that felt new and interesting.
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Postby Juliannesan » Wed Aug 31, 2011 4:02 am

That's good to know about Bokura ga Uta. Because I really hated Kare Kano's whole style, and the characters kinda bothered me. So I'll give it a watch, and see for myself how it is. If it is that similar to Kare Kano, then I'll probably drop it. But we'll see.



Edit: Finished School Rumble, all the way through to the end.
Wow, it definitely wasn't as bad of a finish as I was expecting, but it still wasn't what I was hoping for... I suppose that's the reason so many people wanted there to be a complete 3rd season.

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Postby A_Yellow_Dress » Wed Aug 31, 2011 12:09 pm

Currently watching Pandora Hearts (On episode 17) and Usagi Drop (as each episode comes out! TOMORROW! :P).

Pandora Hearts soundtrack is GREAT. I wish there was a little more action though.

And well, Usagi Drop is a work of epic.
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Postby Maokun » Thu Sep 01, 2011 3:26 am

Yeah, the problem with School Rumble was the lack of resolution. I mean, we have a story centered about the possible romantic relationship between the several characters... And then abruptly "end" without giving us anything at all. Then you resort to the manga for answers and it drags you for even longer until the point you notice not even the auhor gives a crap about anything anymore and that one finally ends too without resolving anything at all.

The series is really funny but following it through the ever-increasingly nonsensical twists and inane plots until it's fruitless end left a bad taste in my mouth.
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Postby aliveinHim » Thu Sep 01, 2011 3:43 am

True, cuz does Harima ever get Tenma or does Tenma ever get Karasuma. Does Hannai ever get Yakumo? I loved it since it was hilarious and definately kept my attention.

I'm watching Baka and Test and Save Me! Lollipop.
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Postby Juliannesan » Thu Sep 01, 2011 4:05 am

Maokun (post: 1501221) wrote:Yeah, the problem with School Rumble was the lack of resolution. I mean, we have a story centered about the possible romantic relationship between the several characters... And then abruptly "end" without giving us anything at all. Then you resort to the manga for answers and it drags you for even longer until the point you notice not even the auhor gives a crap about anything anymore and that one finally ends too without resolving anything at all.

The series is really funny but following it through the ever-increasingly nonsensical twists and inane plots until it's fruitless end left a bad taste in my mouth.


Yeaah, and that's what I was pretty much expecting to happen, because only a very select few have I seen in this genre that have ever resolved romantic situations like that. And it really annoys me. But yeah, it definitely was entertaining for sure.

aliveinHim (post: 1501222) wrote:True, cuz does Harima ever get Tenma or does Tenma ever get Karasuma. Does Hanai ever get Yakumo? I loved it since it was hilarious and definately kept my attention.

I'm watching Baka and Test and Save Me! Lollipop.


Actually!

[spoiler]According to what I've heard people say about the manga.
Harima towards the near end of the series confesses his love for Eri and asks her to marry him, and I believe they do get married, and this leaves Yakumo sad.

Hanai ends up marrying Mikoto and they have a kid together.

As for Karasuma & Tenma, Karasuma loses his memory from some illness, and Tenma stays with him until he starts to recover some of his memory, and Karasuma also tells Harima that he has feelings for Tenma, but it doesn't ever say if Karasuma ever tells Tenma that. So again, another cliffhanger.

Also Imadori & Karen, I believe they start going out officially eventually.

But yeah, definitely not an entirely satisfying ending. [/spoiler]


Also, Save Me! Lollipop! was a cute show.
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Postby Maokun » Thu Sep 01, 2011 8:56 am

As I said, I read the manga and what actually happens is that [spoiler]Karasuma falls prey to a strange sickness which leaves him amnesic and unresponsive. He's sent to USA for a treatment and Tenma follows and decides to study to become a Nurse to be able to stay at his side. That part was actually good as the childish Tenma as the first and only one to take an adult decision. However, Harima refuses to move on, even though Eri makes more and more clear that she is truly in love with him. Lots of hijincks ensue but in the end Harima never answers to her feelings and keeps dreaming of Tenma. Yakumo has even less luck. Hanai does end marrying Mikoto and is the only official pairing resolved. Imadori keeps being a flirtsome idiot and while sometimes surprises Karen with a random caring gesture, he always ends messing up and getting beaten up by Lala. In other words, the status quo that was being reached towards the end of the animated series is maintained until the end and then it all abruptly ends.[/spoiler]
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Postby Juliannesan » Thu Sep 01, 2011 9:33 am

Maokun (post: 1501256) wrote:As I said, I read the manga and what actually happens is that [spoiler]Karasuma falls prey to a strange sickness which leaves him amnesic and unresponsive. He's sent to USA for a treatment and Tenma follows and decides to study to become a Nurse to be able to stay at his side. That part was actually good as the childish Tenma as the first and only one to take an adult decision. However, Harima refuses to move on, even though Eri makes more and more clear that she is truly in love with him. Lots of hijincks ensue but in the end Harima never answers to her feelings and keeps dreaming of Tenma. Yakumo has even less luck. Hanai does end marrying Mikoto and is the only official pairing resolved. Imadori keeps being a flirtsome idiot and while sometimes surprises Karen with a random caring gesture, he always ends messing up and getting beaten up by Lala. In other words, the status quo that was being reached towards the end of the animated series is maintained until the end and then it all abruptly ends.[/spoiler]



That's interesting... because [spoiler]I read a black and white manga scan of Harima confessing his love to Eri. Here's the link... http://youtu.be/sT91giIqJrc Apparently is from the last chapter from the last book called School Rumble Z[/spoiler]
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Postby AngelicTotoro » Thu Sep 01, 2011 2:50 pm

Princess Tutu - 13 - 15

Gah! How come I find this show so insanely interesting!?
It drives me crazy that I've been limited to only 1 or 2 episodes a day by my family...
(They want to watch it with me, but after like one episode they're done. Wut. :shady:)

Anyhoo...
[spoiler]Episode 13! In which, Fakir becomes the best male character, the soundtrack gets even better (didn't think that was possible.) and Ahiru firmly places herself in my heart as one of my all time favorite female characters.

The showdown between Fakir and the raven knights was amazing, I adore how right after you think he died, he manages to swim toward Mytho and break the princes sword so that Mytho can no longer shatter the piece of heart... and then he slow motion falls back into the water... *-* Seriously, I thought he was dead, so I was really happy when it turns out that Edil saved him... (Also, her death... burning herself so that Tutu and Mytho could escape.. it was a really fitting end to her character. :sniffle:)

BTW,
I know that the end of it was super touching and dramatic... I mean, I looooved how the music played out so perfectly as Ahiru ran toward Mytho... It was really good. But I still likey Fakir and Ahiru better. I'm a grown woman and I'm stuck in my ways. :P I didn't feel... well, anything for Kraehe as she disappeared, she's such a cruel little twit; I hope she plucks all her feathers out. :lol:

And onwards to episode 14! Well, this episode was really good as well.
(Of course I say that about every Tutu episode.)
Highlights were... Neko-sensei's fainting spell after he discovers his precious ballet shoes torn... (Mytho totally was the one who did it... But... why?) I also liked Ahiru's dream in the start of the episode since it's showing that she at the least cares about Fakir... and at the most, is falling for him. =3

I also thought it was quite sweet of him to ask Mytho what he thought of Tutu just so Ahiru could hear... (If you had told me back around episode 5 that I'd be gushing over Fakir at all, I'd a said you were crazy. My how times have changed. :brow:) Anyway, the episode ends with a crazy Mytho throwing himself out of a window in front of a bunch of people! (Tutu does save him... but I think he did it to make it look like Fakir was the one who 'pushed' him.)

Finally we come to episode 15... and I get an answer to my previous question about why Mytho would do such horrible things... Kraehe had soaked the piece of his heart in the evil ravens blood. (Ew. [SIZE="1"]Jimmy Fallon reference[/SIZE].) And appearently she's the monster ravens daughter? (Say wut nao? :o)

Anyway, stupid evil Mytho, (Not to be confused with normal, kind, airheaded Mytho.) makes it appear as if he's covering up for Fakir when asked by Neko-sensei what had happened. That **** me off, because all of the 'witnesses' who saw it happen all say that Fakir shoved him. (I knew it! I knew it! I knew that Mytho's evil half would do that!)

However, Ahiru who saw the whole thing from her roof, doesn't believe it and the plot thickens! Then I guess it turns out that the monster raven needs pure hearted maidens hearts as a sacrifice? (Ew.) So the evil side of Mytho, (who seems to keep winning during his inner struggle.) tricks Pike, (the only one of out Ahiru's two 'friends' I don't want Fakir to stab to death.) into thinking he loves her and lures her into the town square at night to give her heart to the raven. Of course Tutu saves her and then at the sight of PT, the good side of Mytho wins out and he collapses into Tutu's arms.

Fakir doesn't show up to help, because the school has suspended him. They all think he shoved Mytho. Then when Fakir confronts 'Rue', 'Mytho' steps in to try and stop him, only to be swatted away. (oh nooo... pwoor Mwytho... 3= NOT! Don't all those freaking fangurls notice that he isn't really acting like himself?) No, of course they don't. Only Ahiru seems to have a brain among his many fangurls. (And she's a duck at heart, soooo... that is one crappy school. xD) Anyway, that seemed to be the final straw, so now Fakir is suspended.
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10/10.
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Postby Juliannesan » Thu Sep 01, 2011 6:42 pm

Yeah, Princess Tutu is definitely a classic for sure. :)
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