Sailor Moon Crystal high session 6

ACT 11 - Reunion -Endymion-

The moon used to shine brighter than it does now... when the moon kingdom was destroyed, it's shining palace turned into poisonous rubble, including the legendary sword.
Mamoru hypnotizes the arcade worker and takes on a fake persona while trying to lure out Usagi. Usagi knows that something's wrong with him, but stays with him for a while anyways... he then tries to hypnotize her, but it doesn't work and she runs away. Then he hypnotizes Mako instead and finds the senshi's command center..

Tuxedo Mask trashes the other 4 guardians, while Usagi watches in shock.. Luna tells her to fight, and to show she's serious she leaps toward him and gets knocked out.. making Usagi worried for Luna so that she would fight.. just when she's about to attack, Queen Beryl warps in and steals Usagi's silver crystal...

ACT 12 - Enemy -Queen Metalia-

Queen Beryl grabs all 5 of the senshi with her hair and starts draining their energy, while mentioning Metalia's name.. Venus figures out that Metalia is the one who brainwashed Beryl and everyone on earth, and summons the holy sword to cut down her attack. Mercury then figures out that the necklace is what gives Beryl Metalia's power.

Sailor Moon grabs the sword and plunges it directly into Beryl's necklace... "Mamo-chan, please, come back to us!"... the holy sword starts to glow, as well as the silver crystal, responding to Sailor Moon's prayers and boosting her power. She shatters the necklace, and Beryl's body suddenly ages rapidly and turns to dust without Metalia's power... then some words appear on the sword.

"When this sword shines, the legendary silver crystal within the Queen will work as she wishes."

Tuxedo Mask takes the sword and runs into Metalia's portal.. Sailor Moon chases after him, but the other 4 don't make it in, and instead have to face the other 4 dark kingdom enemies. Sailor Moon gets notified that a piece of the silver crystal is within Mamoru's body, and the silver crystal needs to be complete to unleash its full power...

Tuxedo Mask attacks Sailor Moon with the sword, but she shows him the locket and makes him stop... then she uses Moon Healing Escalation to turn him back to normal... meanwhile, the 4 sailor soldiers are battling the 4 dark kingdom soldiers... they get beat up, but refuse to stop fighting as long as Usagi is still fighting.. When they

Hana Yori Dango anime high session 10 & 11 (finale)

Episode 46 - Within The Approaching Hurricane!!

Tsukushi mopes around some more.. her friends come over and help her redecorate her apartment, which cheers her up a little... Suddenly Shigeru appears in an Eitoku uniform...

Episode 47 - Exchange Student - Shigeru's Ripple!!

Sakurako declares rivalry against Shigeru, saying it's okay if Makino wins, but she won't lose against Shigeru... Makino sees Rui again, and tries to deny that they are going out when Shigeru pops up... Suddenly, Shizuka returns out of nowhere.

12/03/2014

Episode 48 - Study Abroad??

As Tsukushi takes Shigeru away so that Rui and Shizuka can be alone, she overhears her asking him to come back to France...

I can't do anything for you.

Yes you can, you can play your violin.

He suddenly becomes cheerful for the first time in a while...
Tsukushi:

If only I could be as honest as her.

Shigeru figures out what happened and tries to cheer up Tsukushi.

Tsukasa shows up, Tsukushi goes tsundere again, tells him not to interrupt Rui and Shizuka, then insults him and runs away.

After going to listen to Rui's violin one last time... Tsukushi decides to go on a trip to try and change herself. She enters the test for the exchange program. Shigeru tells Tsukasa about this, and tries to get him to stop her, saying he's the only one who can change her mind... Tsukasa gets mad and says Tsukushi will never finish the exam. If she does, he'll run handstand laps around the school. Tsukushi hears this, and accepts the challenge.

Rui goes to try and change Tsukushi's mind... Saying that going away won't guarantee she changes...

Don't run away. Take stock of your feelings.

The night before the exam, Shigeru holds a surprise party for Tsukushi at her apartment, with Tsukushi's friends and 2 of the F4... She can't get any sleep that night. Tsukasa is there to greet her with coffee in the morning. He asks her if she's really going to go away if she passes the exam...

...She's in shock as she finds out she passed the exam.

Episode 49 - The Couple's New Connection

Tsukushi slowly starts to accept the idea of going away, leaving all her friends behind... While thinking about her friends, Tsukasa keeps popping into her head... Suddenly, Tsukasa comes and knocks on her door, asks her not to go...

This test was all part of mother's scheme to get rid of you.

He confesses everything about what went on between him and Shizuka... He admits that he hurt her, and says to Tsukushi "You're the only one for me."
Tsukushi backs out of his kiss... She says even if she did love him, she's not confident enough to live in Domyouji's world.

If you won't come, I'll leap into your world.

Finally, he gets his lips on her...
Tsukushi starts coming to her senses...

Tsukasa.. leaping into my world? ...It won't be easy for him... but I can believe him now.

Episode 50 - We Shouldn't See Each

Only Yesterday movie recap

A woman keeps reminiscing about her life when she was 10... While she heads on a trip to start working as a farmer with her relatives...

This is very ghibli-style slice of life... A very normal/boring story about school romance and family drama...

Sailor Moon Crystal high session 5

ACT 9 - Serenity -Princess-

Tuxedo mask is trying to remember who the crying princess is... he sees Sailor Moon... suddenly he remembers everything about his past life, as Endymion.

Sailor Moon transforms into Princess Serenity... she looks at Mamoru's locket... it was stopped before, now it's moving backwards... Usagi starts regaining her memories... Endymion tried to stop the Earth Kingdom from attacking, and sacrificed himself to save her.

She cries out, confessing her love for Tuxedo Mask.. and her tear transforms into the silver crystal... Its bright glow makes all the flowers around the area bloom...
The silver crystal's power went into Mamoru... then Kunzite and Baryl captured him. The four guardians save Usagi and escape...
Venus explains that she's the real leader of the senshi who guards the princess. She and Artemis knew all along.

They find out that this Beryl person must've broken the seal that the princess made on queen Matalia.
Meanwhile the four dark kingdom generals are looking for the silver crystal that Beryl saw go into Mamoru's body, but it's nowhere to be found... they all seem to recognize Mamoru... Kunzite gets flashbacks of the name "Endymion", then denies it.

Luna suggests they go to the Moon to see if they can find a clue to defeating the Dark Kingdom.

ACT 10 - Moon
"The Moon is getting full again... And my feelings are getting stronger. I want to go to the Moon and find out everything about my previous life."

some moon lore...
"Moon phase fifteen, directly under this park. Clear skies. It's a perfect night to go to the moon."
"The waning moon implies hatred and discord... The new moon is related to death and destruction. The full moon is best if you seek visions into the future."
Usagi notices, this park happens to be the same place that Mamoru promised to trade back their items.

Sailor Teleport... They find the remains of Queen Serenity's prayer room... The Crystal Tower inside it is the core of Moon Castle, a sort lies there, placed in stone.
Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, and Venus manage to pull it out.
A hologram of Queen Serenity appears and explains about the legendary sword for protecting the princess...
Usagi used to go visit the Earth all the time because of its greenery and wind...

They all lived long lives on the Moon Kingdom... guarding the Silver Crystal and watching over Earth... but that year, an evil being invaded Earth.. it was evil itself, and it brainwashed the humans

The Wind Rises movie recap

This was okay I guess... some nice feels... very forgettable though.

It had some really good quotes... here's my summary, highlighting all the parts that stood out:

A kid who is obsessed with airplanes has a shared dream with a famous airplane engineer. He wants to grow up to design airplanes too... since then, the famous guy, Caprino has been talking to him in his dreams... reminding him of this quote in another language:

The Wind is rising. We must try to live.

A few years later he meets a girl on a train... she saves his hat after it gets blown away.. Suddenly, a massive earthquake.. the girl's mom breaks her leg, and the guy decides to help them get home.

The village is on fire, and apparently this is part of Caprino's plan which the main guy is helping with... like, the wind needs to rise above Japan for his planes to work or something?

Later, the main guy (Jiro) is now studying in the rebuilt Tokyo. his classmates talk about how America is way ahead of them in bulding planes. Then the guy's sister, Kayo comes to visit him, complaining about how he never comes home... and also talks about that girl he met on the train.

Jiro's fighter plane design failed its test run, so the Japanese goverment desides to order an all-metal bomber plane design from Germany instead... Jiro's still more interested in designing his own plane. Jiro gets sent back to Japan, and then he has another one of his dreams and meets Caproni on a train.

Is the wind still rising?

Then I invite you to join me in my final flight. Come.

they jump out into a grassy field, and ride a plane... he's taking his whole family/friends out on a joyride on this thing before it gets delivered as a bomber. He says that Italy is poor too, just like Japan, and that inspiration can help catch them up with everyone else.

Which would you choose, a world with pyramids or one without them?
Humanity dreams of flight, but the dream is cursed. Aircraft are destined to become tools of slaughter and destruction.
But still, I chose a world with pyramids in it.

Now he gets asked to design a cruiser plane... while walking around looking for inspiration, he meets the girl from the train again, but he doesn't recognize her. She's painting on a hill, and her umbrella gets blown away by the wind, he catches it for her than walks away... she runs into him again by sheer luck (and because they're staying at the same hotel) and thanks him.. she introduces herself: Nahoko Satomi..

Jiro stans on the edge of a decrepit old balcony reaching for a paper airplane he sees land on the roof... Nahoko sees him just as he almost falls, the plane falls too but then glides back up. Later they start playing with paper airplanes together, throwing it up to her balcony and her trying to catch it before it glides away..

When she accepts his marriage proposal, she tells him that she contracted the disease that killed her mom..

I've loved you since that day you rescued my hat.

I've loved you since the wind brought you to me.

Jiro goes back to work with a new design, and he finds out the japanese police have been going after (kidnapping, or what?) engineers in the company that are no longer useful (or something like that?). The company boss tells Jiro about this corruption, and how Japan is being forced into fighting with the Germans against all the other superpowers. They will keep him safe as long as he's useful.. then he gets a telegram from Satomi... Nahoko has a lung hemmorage.. he immediately gets on a train to Tokyo just to see her for a few minutes, before having to go back to his important job... She then runs away from home to go to visit him while she still can... They get married right away so they can be together.

Jiro goes to test out his final design... just as the test run succeeds, he senses something about Nahoko... he dreams with Caproni again...

None of those planes will return...

Then tells him Nahoko has been here waiting for him...

Darling, you must live. You must live...

Hana Yori Dango anime high session 8 & 9

Episode 35 - Lovers on The Run & Episode 36 - Tsukasa's Mother's Secret Plan

Mrs. Tsukasa rejects Tsukushi... Domyouji then runs away with her... They go on a yacht alone, and he tries to ask Tsukushi how she feels about him... She still doesn't know how to answer, but her actions speak for themselves... She acts weird and does stuff like intentionally moving in close to warm Domyouji up, accusing him of lewd thoughts, being nervous about the present she made for him... He doesn't eat the cookies, but compliments how they're made..

Mrs. Tsukasa goes to try and bribe the Tsukushi family to stay away from Domyouji... Tsukushi thinks this is ridiculous and starts to get mad.. her mother goes and dumps salt on Mrs. Tsukasa's head.

Episode 37 - It's Showdown Time!!

Tsubaki doesn't want her mom to make Domyoji suffer the same way she was made to suffer... she tries to find out what she's up to... Mrs Tsukasa forces Tsukushi, Tsukasa, and Tsukasa's fiancee Shigeru together in a meeting...

Episode 38 - I Will Tame You!! & Episode 39 - Love Triangle From Hell & Episode 40 - The Turning of Love's Tide & Episode 41 - The Dawning of New Day

Domyouji tried to take Tsukushi's hand and run away from his mother... but he took his fiancee Shigeru's hand instead. This girl didn't know Tsukasa, and thought he was insane for dragging her off like that. When Domyouji realized he grabbed the wrong girl, he left her behind.

Of course, Tsukushi misunderstood this, and became furious... The next day Shigeru visited the school and met Tsukushi again... She thinks Tsukasa is weird, but says she'll fix him up... Then watches as Shigeru goes to hit on him... Unsuccessfully... She doesn't give up, and tries asking Tsukushi for hints on how to win over Tsukasa.

Tsukushi acts mean to her at first, and says their love affair has nothing to do with her... Shigeru apologizes for being a bother and says she's really bad at making friends.. Tsukushi feels bad and agrees to be her friend and help her. Shigeru notices Tsukushi's toy and asks where she got it... It was from Tsukasa when they were in Canada... Tsukushi suddenly remembers all that they've been through together... She still says that she's not interested in him, and agrees to help her.

When Tsukushi and Tsukasa meet each other again, she tells him that she

Hana Yori Dango anime high session 7

Episode 27 - Tsukasa Goes to New York!!

Rui asks Tsukushi if it's okay that Tsukasa is leaving.. just like how she helped him when Shizuka was leaving... but Tsukushi's family now has money problems and she's too busy looking for a job to see Tsukasa before he leaves. Rui gives him Tsukushi's walkie talkie and says it's a gift from Tsukushi... He listens to it while he's on the plane... Rui:

Nothing happened between me and Tsukushi that night.

Suddenly, Domyouji immediately wants to go back to Japan... He somehow ends up in Vancouver, and calls Tsukushi and says he'll help her family with their money problems if she comes to see him...

Episode 28 - Tsukushi Goes to Canada!!

Apparently Tsukasa has a villa in Vancouver. the F4 and Tsukushi's classmates tag along to go on a trip there. Tsukushi still acts tsundere toward him and says she's only there for the money... Later, the classmates are jealous after seeing Tsukasa with Tsukushi, and they trick Tsukushi into looking for her friend Yuki out in the blizzard...

Episode 29 - His Body Against Mine

Tsukasa saves Tsukushi and sleeps with her in a cabin to keep her warm... Then back at the villa, she stops him from throwing a pot at her classmates who did this to her... Sakurako is pretty much entirely on Tsukushi's side and is really friendly to her now... Tsukushi and Tsukasa keep staring at each other all the time... Tsukasa tries to confess to her again, but a loud truck passes by as he says it. Tsukushi remains her usual self and says she'll work to pay back Tsukasa when she gets back to Japan.

Episode 30 - Do You Want a Friend?

Okay now this is getting weird.. Tsukushi meets a new guy at Eitoku. She thinks he's weird at first, but then finds out he's just like how she used to be at the beginning of the series.. then it turns he's a model, and he forces her to model with him and says it won't get published.

Episode 31 - Shock!! Horror!! Another Red Card?!

Tsukushi tries to quit being that guy's friend... Tsukasa sees them together, and that guy (Junpei) asks her whether she likes Tsukasa or not...
She can't answer...

My feelings for Tsukasa go beyond simple liking or disliking...

Tsukasa starts beating him up, she yells at him to stop...

Domyouji. When I'm with you I feel like I'm suffocating.

Hana Yori Dango anime high session 6

Episode 25 - Two Ways of Love

Domyouji quits the basketball match at the last 10 seconds, when he was about to win by 1 point. Kazuya gets another point and it becomes a tie... he gives up on trying to expel Makino and Rui.

Episode 26 - Sleepless Night

Tsukushi is still confused by Rui's feelings... He never exactly said that he loved her... Meanwhile, she still can't stop thinking of Tsukasa.

Domyouji goes out walking around in has basketball clothing, gets harrassed by some guys, he thinks he hears them say Hanazawa Rui, and he starts beating the crap out of them... he remembers Makino's voice:

Hit me if you want! You're worse than a worm!

Akira and Soujiro wonder how far Makino and Rui have gone, so they use that fortune telling toy. They find out that the 2 have only just kissed. Tsubuki goes and puts the 2 of them into a bedroom for the night... Rui tells Tsukushi that he isn't sure how he feels about her, and that he's still thinking of Shizuka. She keeps thinking of Tsukasa the whole time she's looking at Rui's sleeping face...

Suddenly, Tsukasa announces out of nowhere that he's going to New York.

Sailor Moon Crystal high session 4

ACT 8 - Minako -Sailor V-

Beryl: "A fifth Sailor Senshi... it can't be..."
before there were only 4.
Sailor V wears a fake Princess Sirenity mark... when Sailor Moon sees it, her memories start to awaken, just like the other 4 senshis have last time... her tiara changes shape...

wow, I never thought of it that way before... the marks on the Sailor Senshis forheads showing up, is the exact moment the senshi remember their past lives for the first time...

Usagi: "I feel like I almost remembered something very important."

V and Artemis explain that they've been communicating with the 4 of them this whole time through the arcade machine...
Sailor V decides to continue working alone... she has to keep up her fake princess disguise for a little while longer, until the other 4 fully reawaken. I wonder why? if the princess does know where the silver crystal is, why isn't she helping the other 4 find it? maybe she is secretly helping them find it from the shadows somehow?

Usagi has another one of those dreams... Prince Endymion is rescuing her from the moon kingdom's invaders... he calls her "Princess Serenity"... she meets Mamoru later, tries to give him back the broken locket... he says to keep it, because he has something of hers too, so they'll trade later.

Artemis' voice wtf... he sounds just like Mamoru I think? or definitely like another anime character or 2... wait a sec... Kyon-kun?

The city blacks out.. all the humans that have been searching for the Silver Crystal had their energy drained... Sailor V goes and attacks Kunzite... her Crescent Boomerang is easily reflected. The other 4 guardians all came to help her, saying that friends help each other. Tuxedo Mask also comes in and rescues Sailor Moon... she then tells him to run to safety and kisses him. She goes to try and block Nephrite's attack, but Texudo mask jumps in front of her.

by now it's so obvious... the preview for Act 9 just flat out states it: Sailor Moon is the real Serenity.

Hana Yori Dango anime high session 4 & 5

Episode 17 - Mine at Last

Tsukushi now finally knows that Tsukasa is in love with her... she doesn't know how she feels... he starts getting payback against the people who beat her up... Just then, Rui returns out of nowhere.

Episode 18 - Will You Go Out With Me

Sakurako is now the target of Domyouji's bully followers. Tsukushi actually starts to feel bad for her and helps her out, but still doesn't forgive her... Meanwhile, Rui has gone back to creeping on Tsukushi, joking about being interested in her...

10/14/2014

Episode 19 - Be Still My Beating Heart & Episode 20 - Warm Night of Betrayal & Episode 21 - The Crime and Punishment of The Kiss

Tsukushi goes with the F4 to a private island villa... she's sleeping in the same room as Tsukasa. Since she hasn't responded to his confession yet, he decides to sleep on the couch... But Tsukushi can't stop thinking about Rui. She goes out late at night and meets him on the beach, and he tells her about how he broke up with Shizuka. Tsukasa starts getting suspicious, and then follows Tsukushi and sees Rui kiss her...

Kazuya and Sakurako also arrived at the villa, completely uninvited... Sakurako is now Tsukushi's main rival. After Tsukasa sees Tsukushi and Rui's betrayal, he leaves the island on his jet while Tsukushi, Rui, and the rest of the F4 are left behind and forced to go take Kazuya's boat to get back.

Tsukushi now feels terrible about breaking Domyouji's heart... she can't stop thinking of him now. Rui tried to cheer her up, but it's not the same without Domyouji there...

Later, Tsukasa kicks Rui out of the F4... Tsukushi tries to apologize to him, but he just ignores her... Rui notices that Tsukushi gets teary eyed whenever she thinks about Domyouji, he asks her out on a date to cheer her up. Sakurako declares that Tsukushi is no longer her rival, and she will take Tsukasa for herself...

Episode 22 - First Date at The Seaside

Tsukushi's date with Rui, she is disappointed that Rui is acting like his usual distant self, and not acting more like how Domyouji would act around her... She realized Domyouji's feelings toward her ever since that first date they went on, when he waited 4 hours for her... She pretended not to notice. Rui takes her to his old style japanese house... She just watches him fall asleep and then leaves.

Meanwhile, Sakurako is tailing Tsukasa all the time, trying everything she can to get him to like her... Wow, it's kind of like the reverse situation that Rui and Shizuka have, Domyouji has a crush who like him since she was little and ugly, he rejects her... and Makino Tsukushi is in the middle of this 5-way triangle. Except she doesn't want to even try to compete with Shizuka, while she is just fine competing with Sakurako. As soon as Tsukushi sees Sakurako and Domyouji laughing

Sailor Moon Crystal high session 3

ACT 7 - Mamoru Chiba -Tuxedo Mask-

Usagi puts the Mask on Mamoru... he tells her about how he lost his memories, and has dreams about a princess telling her to find the silver crystal...

Meanwhile, Luna is talking to Venus through the game machine, says that even though the Sailor Guardians are all together, they haven't recovered their memories of their past lives yet...
"We don't have time. Our enemy is already here."

Meanwhile, Queen Beryl gives Queen Metalia more human energy... she says it's not enough, she needs the Silver Crystal.
Beryl: "It might be in the Sailor Guardians' hands already."
Metalia:"No, we can never let them awaken the successors of the Moon Kingdom. The ones who defeated me long ago."
Once Queen Metalia is revived, she may eat up this entire planet. Beryl says that it's too late to turn back... she discovered the Dark Kingdom at D-point, and released Metalia from her seal. She plans to take the Silver Crystal for herself and betray Metalia.

By now, all the civilians are completely brainwashed, and they want to try and capture Sailor Moon and retrieve the Silver Crystal... Umino shows up and tells Usagi about the new Sailor Moon game, which is better than Sailor V...

Usagi gets something on her face, but she can't find her hankerchief. Instead, she finds the locket that she accidently brought from Mamoru's place... meanwhile Mamoru has Usagi's hankerchief...

Usagi gets surprised when Naru tells her she's looking for Sailor Moon. Luna notices that everyone seems to be acting strange... they all have a dvd called "Dark" from a mysterious rental shop... They put the dvd into the game machine.. it shows Sailor V's sprite talking to Sailor Moon again, telling her this is a brainwashing program. Sailor Moon uses her powers to heal a bunch of people from their brainwashing, then Zoicite shows up and attacks her... the other 3 are no match for him... Tuxedo Mask comes in and punches Zoicite, but then gets blown off like nothing... Sailor V comes at the last second and saves her.

Hana Yori Dango anime high session 3

Episode 09 - Domyouji Tsukasa Snaps!! & Episode 10 - The Woman Who Gave Up Everything

Domyouji has snapped because of Tsukushi saying she loves Rui... He starts beating someone up... Then he attacks Tsukushi and kisses her... Tsukushi is frightened by him now, and almost doesn't want to go to Shizuka's birthday party. She does go, and even though Rui is there, all she can think about is Tsukasa. She eats/drinks too much while keeping her distance and staring at him from far away... then she goes up to him, pukes on him...

Meanwhile, Shizuka announces she is abandoning the Todo family and permanantly moving to France. Tsukushi feels bad for Rui, and isn't sure if she wants to take this chance to try and get with him...

Episode 11 - Love Flies Over The Horizon

Rui doesn't see Shizuka off at the airport... Tsukasa is there.. Tsukushi actually agrees with him about how someone who is in love shouldn't repress their feelings, like Rui is doing.

This is where it really starts to deviate from the movie version...Rui was actually hiding behind a pillar the whole time. he has a ticket for the next plane to France. He thanks Tsukushi for convincing him to go after her. Tsukasa then asks Tsukushi out on a date, but a plane was flying by and she didn't hear... he acts as if it's confirmed.

Episode 12 - A Date in The Snow

The elevator scene... Tsukushi holds up Tsukasa on their date for 4 hours, he catches a fever, they get stuck in an elevator. Everyone knows about this the next day, and suddenly Tsukushi's classmates who bullied her before are now trying to be her best buddies.

Episode 13 - Love Moves Too Fast & Episode 14 - Sakurako's Secret & Episode 15 - Get Lost!! & Episode 16 - Please Believe Me!!

A crazy side story where Tsukushi gets drugged and raped by someone who reminded her of Rui... He turns out to be a housemate of Sakurako's... Sakurako, who acted really polite and says she's afraid of boys, is actually a slutty model, and used Tsukushi to get close to the F4. She got the guy to do that to her so she could take pictures of it frame her. In the end, Domyouji believed Tsukushi, and apologized to her...

Hana Yori Dango anime high session 2

Episode 04 - The Ordinary Duo

Shizuka arrives, Tsukushi realizes she doesn't have a chance against her. Tsukushi meets a guy who she knew in elementary school, and becomes friends with him. He just transferred here and doesn't know about the F4 yet. Tsukasa sees them together and gets jealous, then the guy gets a red note in his locker. She defends him, they run away, and Rui steps in to save her again.

Episode 05 - Him, Me, and That Guy

Rui isn't sure what to answer when Tsukasa asks him if he likes Tsukushi... Tsukasa then grabs Tsukushi by the lags... she struggles to break free...
Tsukushi:

You're hurting me! Let go, you moron!

Shizuka helps Tsukushi out and takes her to the bathroom... she tells her Rui might actually like her... she's moving to France to fulfill her dream, and Rui is asking her to stay rather than him wanting to go with her.

Later, Tsukushi meets Rui alone again... wants to ask him why he ruined his friendship with Tsukasa to help her, but holds it in... Tsukushi's friend Kazuya shows up... he insists on staying at this school with her, even if it means living with the bullying... he shows up with a pot on his head for defense. he asks Tsukushi out for lunch, she faints suddenly...

Tsukasa still acts hostile to Rui... he acts neutral and asks Tsukasa why he even approached him if they are no longer friends.

Tsukasa Domyouji shows up at Tsukushi's house when she's home sick... she treats him as an enemy, but as soon as she mentions his name, the parents suck up to him and invites him to dinner. While he constantly insults her cheap lifestyle, the mom doesn't let Tsukushi intimidate him. Tsukushi sees him eating with absolutely refined manners...

I keep forgetting... he was born with a silver spoon in his mouth.

The parents want Tsukushi to walk him home... they won't throw away the chance of their daughter marrying a rich guy like him. she rejects his date offer, and says she's going to Kazuya's villa instead. he became rich too out of luck. the parents then tell Tsukushi that Tsukasa brought her the talktoy she forgot. it had a get well message from Makiko.

Episode 06 - One Night Cinderella

Shizuka makes Tsukushi into Cinderella and invites her to a fancy yacht party. She just stands around daydreaming about dancing with Rui... then the lights

Hana Yori Dango anime high session 1

Either I'm really high or anime version of this is actually really good. I've only seen the live action version of this series before, and assumed the older anime version wasn't as good.

Episode 01 - Declaration of War!!

Starts off with a completely different tone... Tsukushi is already attending Eitoku... she just wants to get by the next two years with a peaceful school life... but she can't stand seeing the F4 bullying people. She starts calling them out, and officially makes her own "declaration of war" red note and slams it on Tsukasa's face. Meanwhile, her friend who she defended from the F4, is now pretending not to be her friend for her own safety, and only speaking to Tsukushi through stealthy talk-balk toy messages.

Episode 02 - No-Brand Woman!!

Tsukasa Domyouji has some shady men kidnap Tsukushi, and sends her to... a beauty salon. At first it's really eerie, it really feels like he's going to do something bad to her...

It costs more than you'll ever make. 420k yen, altogether.

Tsukasa tells her that Rui is already taken...
He offers to be allowed around him and invites her to this luxurious life, but at school he will ignore her.

You think you can buy me like merchandise?

I'm no-brand. Don't put me together with all the other girls out there.

She passes by Rui later... asks him if there's anything money can't buy... he goes: "Air.. dumb girl."

Episode 03 - I Won't Get Hurt!!

Now a group of girls who are obsessed with Tsukasa are bullying Tsukushi. She blames it on the F4 at first, then finds out the ones who were pretending to like her actually did it. They start ridiculing her about her crush on Rui, and the competition she has... Then instead of Rui, it's Domyouji who comes to save her from the bullies this time. She rejects his attempts of kindness with a punch to the head.

The other two members of the F4, Sojiro and Akira (who barely got any introduction in the 1995 movie) are acting nice to her now too... so now she's got the whole F4 on her side. Rui creeps on her a bit when he finds out she likes him... Tsukasa goes even further and changes his hairstyle to impress her...

Sailor Moon Crystal high session 2

ACT 6 - Tuxedo Mask

Usagi and Mamoru keep having dreams about each other and their past lives...
meanwhile Tuxedo Mask is in the news... for committing crimes in order to find the Legendary Silver Crystal...

Luna explains to everyone that she's from the moon... the enemies are after the silver crystal held by the royal family for its immense power... their job is to find the silver crystal and the moon princess. Usagi notices that the weapon in the Sailor V game is a lot like the new moon wand she got from Luna. she then heard and saw Sailor V's sprite in the game talk to her.

Jupiter was getting in Nephrite's way too much... Zoicite starts taking over his job... The news media is now brainwashing all the humans to help find the Silver Crystal. Everyone is suspicious of Tuxedo Mask, they tell Usagi to be careful around him. Usagi runs off, Tuxedo Mask helps her as she's about to faint... he tells her that he is partially responsible for this mess, and he is trying to fix it, but he doesn't have special abilities like the Sailor Guardians do...

Zoicite knocks the 4 senshi out like they're nothing... then they sense a tremendous evil energy approaching... Queen Beryl... commander of the 4 kings of the Dark Kingdom.
Luna: "Usagi-san... where are you?"
Tuxedo Mask: "Hurry, transform into Sailor Moon..."
"But I'm not as strong as the others... I'm useless without Luna..."
"You have a special power to make everyone smile. You opened everyone up, and they realized their destiny as Sailor Guardians. You are the best person to be a leader."

"I may be a crybaby, and clumsy, and powerless..."
V: "Sailor Moon. You can do it."
"But I want to help everyone!"
"Moon Healing Escalation!"

Tuxedo Mask picks up Sailor Moon as she faints after the battle... he drops a pocket watch showing the phases of the moon onto her lap... this whole time that she's with Mamoru.. she having a very vivid dream about her past life... she wakes up and sees Mamoru... instantly knows he's Tuxedo Mask...

Sailor Moon Crystal high session 1

ACT 1 - Usagi -Sailor Moon-
Episode 1 was... meh... too similar to the 1st episode of the old anime, except uglier and with less charm... I like the art style on the opening/ending, the transformation, and some of the other things, but most of the time it looks terrible.

ACT 2 - Ami -Sailor Mercury-

Jadeite, one of the four kings of the Dark Kingdom, being bossed around by Berryl...

Mizuno Ami... her element being cold, her personality makes her look like a cold person, but Usagi sees the warmth in her as she's petting Luna... When Ami touched Usagi's hand for the first time, some memories of Ami's previous life flashed in her mind for a second...

Usagi wants to be Ami's friend so that she'll become a genius girl too. She takes Ami to the arcade. Some Sailor Pens came out of the arcade machine they were playing at... obviously one of the space cats is controlling these arcade machines somehow.

An addicting computer study program brainwashes Ami into turning town Usagi's invite... Mamoru was coincidentally stalking Usagi, overheard her talking with Luna about this suspicious study program...
Later Usagi goes to investigate...

How about if I press random keys

lol oh man... it's a good thing she gets Ami on her team to help with this kind of stuff early on.... Ami just barely snaps out of her brainwashing after seeing her transformation pen and hearing Usagi's voice... she transforms and helps defeat Jadeite's youma.

Umineko no Naku Koro ni Chiru - 8 - Tea Parties recap (finale)

Umineko Chiru Episode 8 Tea Party

Featherine says she's going to write just a little bit more and then she's done...
Bern is sewing Lambdadelta back together. Erika comes in and brings her some materials, then Bern tells her to get out. Erika gets mad and starts tickling Lambda's arm
Erika writes a letter to them... telling them about how Gertrude, Cornelia, Will, and herself are doing..
Then they start talking about where they're going to go this time...
Bern:

If you go north, I'll go south." Lambda: "If you go east, I'll go west." - "I... hope we can find another charming tale like this one.

We'll meet again. When something else cries.

Umineko Chiru Episode 8 ????

Decades later, at some publishing award ceremony... People are talking about the award winning Sakutaro series... the author's name... was Kotobuki Yukari. Kotobuki was dying of cancer, and she said that she hadn't finished telling everything she needed to tell...

Someone asks her if she knows of the novelist Hachijo Tohya... apparently Hachijo wants to meet Kotobuki.

Did she really reach the truth? Why did she reach something that was infinitely close to the truth, "even from my perspective"?

They also tell her that Hachijo Tohya is actually two people... there's a female and male who were both the authors of the forgeries...

As soon as I heard that... I felt a premonition of a certain kind of miracle...
When I left on my journey, I abandoned the name of Ushiromiya Ange and stepped into a new life.

However, now that "Sakutarou's Adventure" has caught the public eye this year and made the name of Kotobuki Yukari famous... maybe it finally reached his ears."
the number of people who could recognize her from the connection with Sakutarou was very, very limited.

At the very instant that the arranged time came, they appeared... a man sitting in a wheelchair... and a woman pushing him.

There's no doubt about it... He's my brother... Ushiromiya Battler...

Hachijo Tohya introduce themselves...

My name is Hachijo Ikuko. I am mostly in charge of the actual writing... This is Tohya. He mostly handles drafting.

Even though Ikuko was much older, she was very youthful looking... There was a strange mystique about her... as though she was immortal and never-aging. Tohya says they've been together a long time...

Come to think of it, by now, he was staring back into my face. After all, I had been just six years old last time. It must be hard for him

Umineko no Naku Koro ni Chiru - 8 - Twilight of the Golden Witch recap part 8 (endings)

Battler coughed, which means by some miracle he was still alive...

Well, that was a nice warm-up. Shall we get started, Bernkastel? Round 2

Impossible!!... [red truth] Battler is dead!!!

I've used the red truth!! I've said that Battler is dead, right?! So why, how did he come back to life?!

Even if the whole world says he's dead... I'll be the one person in the world who believes... Onii-chan is alive.

Even if the whole world refuses to acknowledge it, the miracle will happen as long as we believe!!

There will be no miracle!! [red truth] There exists no one whom you can trust!!

The mystery was deflected back by... Beato...

You call that cliche a triiiick...?!! I've read and gotten bored of that one long ago!

At this point, Ange's abilities make the red truth completely meaningless to her.
Everyone from Rokkenjima/Golden Land slowly appeared, and rose to their feet.

Even if the whole world denies my hope, I won't abandon it. I won't abandon my unshakable hope that everyone's alive... This is something that I've finally reached... This is... my attitude as a witch.

I am the Golden Witch, ANGE Beatrice... My titles are the Golden, the Endless, and the Witch of Resurrection.

Oh yeah, I remember that stuff about her resurrection abilities from ep4... it's amazing she came back to that after going through this obsession with becoming the "Witch of Truth"

Everyone will be with me for eternity. No matter how many times people try to kill them with the red truth, I'll reject it. Everyone will be revived for me no matter how many times it takes... I am ANGE, Witch of Resurrection!! In my world, your red truth can't touch me!!!

From Ange... no, from Ange and her family and her friends, several golden streaks shot out at once. Then, the wriggled, combined into one single mass, and transformed into an eagle with two wings.
Bernkastel didn't fight the golden eagle. She couldn't. In this world of Ange's, where even the red truth couldn't hurt anyone, just what sort of attack could have any effect?

Th... this is... can Endless Nine really do this...?! Even the red truth... doesn't work?!! Just what is this golden truth?!! What kind of golden truth could defeat red truth...?!!

A believing heart... This is 'our' consensus. Compared to the truth that we all acknowledge and share, your red truth can't hurt anything.

So long, Bernkastel! This

Umineko no Naku Koro ni Chiru - 8 - Twilight of the Golden Witch recap part 7

Meanwhile... people in the Golden Land were holding up against the goat swarm... the magical creatures couldn't fight against those who denied magic, but the humans could fight all of the goats with their guns and fighting abilities. Rosa and Maria even made Erika back off... constantly putting bullet holes in Erika's afterimage... Kyrie and Rudolph started shooting at her from a distance too.
Erika had to flee from the guns... and then she was met by Dlanor's longsword.
Then, Erika left the Golden Land and returned to the ships... she ordered the goats to start firing at the golden land with all their might...
The Golden Land was now a burning hell, being torn up.... Beato herself came up to Erika's ship, turned her pipe into a golden sword, and challenged her to a duel.
A duel between the master of the illusion called the Golden Land and the witch who controlled truth.

Gradually, the Golden Land started to fall apart... Beato's friends fell into the sea of nothingness... they looked up one last time... and prayed. They prayed that the master of the Golden Land would leave proof that the Golden Land had indeed existed.

This is our Golden Land!! I am the Endless and Golden Witch Beatrice, and I am here!! We may fall, but we will not be defeated!! You will become living evidence! I'll carve the proof of our existence into your chest!!

The battle between the two voyager witches, who possessed power on an entirely different level, could only be resolved by mutual consent, if one of them lost interest or found some reason for wanting to lose.
Suddenly green eyes of cats formed like a constellation... surrounding Featherine, who approached her miko Bern. These cats were entirely different from the pack of wild cats that served Bernkastel. They were the overlords from many worlds that formed Featherine's personal guard.

Aurora looked at Lambda. the latter bowed hurriedly...

Did you get lost on your way to the party?

Featherine Augustus Aurora... The legendary Great Witch. It is said that she surpassed the level of witches, becoming a Creator, and that, upon reaching this forbidden plane, she was cursed with a deadly ailment. However, in life, she once turned her pet cat into a witch. They say that this second witch wanders the sea of Fragments endlessly, searching for any Fragment that can revive

Umineko no Naku Koro ni Chiru - 8 - Twilight of the Golden Witch recap part 6

And still, the Rokkenjima cat box hasn't been opened completely... you've just taken a peek at what's inside. So, you must be the lid yourself.

Yeah... This time... I have to... protect everyone...

Then shouldn't you hurry up a bit?

The sound of popcorn being eaten rang out from beyond a rose bush... It was Lambdadelta.

I think you know this already, but Bern is just about to hold a big party for the Book of the Single Truth. She's gathered beings from heaven and hell, from the spirit world and from parallel worlds. If she announces what's in that book in a place like that, it'll all be too late, won't it?

I'm going... I gave Bernkastel that key. It's my responsibility. I'lll go and bring it back.

She gave me this. With it, I can come and go to the City of Books as I please... What an idiot.

...it was a bell with a blue ribbon tied to it.

Lambdadelta. Take me to the City of Books

Are you serious? That place is a den of monsters among monsters. Now that you've lost Bern's protection, you'll be weaker than a fly.

Battler takes the bell away from Ange...

Lambdadelta. I'll go there... After all, I'm an empty creature, unable to exist outside the cat box.

Ange:

No! This is my way of making up for what I did! If I don't do it myself, the future won't change at all, and I won't be able to save the cat box of the future...!

The 2 siblings argued with each other... Lambda only cared about which one would make the story more interesting... then she noticed... both Ange and Battler were holding bells.

From the very beginning, this game has belonged to the two of you.

It's now a fight between Battler+Ange, who want to close the lid on the cat box, and Bern, who wants it opened.

Okay, I'll take you there, but after that, I'm done being anything but a spectator! I just wanna have the best seats, to see what you do, and how Bern makes mincemeat out of you all...!

Erika starts the assault on the game board... Beatrice asks for her demands...

We demand that you hand the entirety of this game board over to the honorable City of Books. Doing so will give this board and its pieces the greatest honor and protection imaginable.

Beato gives her answer...

Umineko no Naku Koro ni Chiru - 8 - Twilight of the Golden Witch recap part 5

Battler and Beato were guarding the door to the Golden Land... the 2nd wave of goats were approaching in pirate ships... these were probably powerful enough to break down the door to the Golden Land. They're planning to smash the golden land directly. Battler and Beato go inside and tell Shannon and Kanon that they are now the ones in charge of defense.
Lambdadelta pops in, and says that Bern and Ange are in the City of Books. the pirate ships have been delaying their attack because the party hasn't started yet.

The City of Books is a sacred realm under the supervision of the senate. It's protected by a holy barrier. Only a witch of the senate, and witches given special invitations, can enter.

Lion:

How do you know Ange is in the City of Books?

I saw it with my own eyes, of course.

Which means you're qualified to enter this sacred realm, right?

How stupid can you be?! If I were to save Ange, that'd mean crashing the great Aurora's party, get it?! I'd have the whole world as my enemy! And what's in it for me?! Nothing, obviously!

There could be no greater thrill. If you pulled off such a marvelous feat, you would be able to forget your illness for a thousand years, would you not?

She starts getting angry, saying she's just a spectator, and that she'll sit back and watch them all get devoured...

Forgive me. I'm totally lame, aren't I? ...Yeah, if I stood up right now and said 'leave it to me', my popularity would surge and I'd probably make it into the top 3 in the next character popularity contest.

But still, unlike the rest of you, I'm not a character who appears in the story... I can't die. It's like it's midnight, and you're telling me that we're almost at the best part. But tomorrow's Monday, and I've got early cleaning duty at school...! We live in completely different worlds...!!

Battler:

Sorry... it's not fair for us to force you to risk something on your own, not when we haven't yet tried everything we can do.

EVA calls on Ange to tell her the seal has been broken... Ange gets up to leave, says she'll be back in a bit...
EVA:

Are you happy? Now, you'll finally get to learn that secret I've been hiding from you these past 12 years!

The which

Umineko no Naku Koro ni Chiru - 8 - Twilight of the Golden Witch recap part 4

Umineko Chiru Episode 8 - Twilight of the Golden Witch part 5

Ange's opponent is Beato, who sealed the chapel with a closed room barrier. Meanwhile, Auaurora is writing up a tale to give to Ange, in exchange for her being her miko... Bern is helping her get some motivation...

Ange said she wanted to know what happened that day. No matter how many tales you write distorting the truth, she'll never be satisfied.

No matter how interesting or uninteresting it is, everything you write is an illusion. Ange doesn't want any of that... Haven't you figured that out yet?

The Single Truth is boring... I certainly have aged... The first thing age taught me was that "not knowing" is more precious than "knowing".

Will it make for a better tale if Ange learns the truth, or if she doesn't? To be honest, I don't know... so I've decided to stop writing this tale.

I won't write it. I will merely show it... The tale that Ushiromiya Ange weaves herself.

Perhaps fate has decided that this book's seal is to be broken... Ange will reach the Single Truth, the Single Truth will break the seal on the cat box, and everything will be exposed to the light of day. And so, all of those countless message bottles and fragments made up of delightful imaginings, which have been scattered across the ocean of the internet, will fade away like foam on the sea.

Just then it was revealed that Hachijo had Ange's key in her drawer... hmm...

Beato is killing all of Ange's blue truths with her red... she tries to reason with Ange...

I know what Onii-chan's trying to say...! He's telling me to look to the future and live, instead of being stuck in the past, right?!

In that case, there's no need to keep waiting for my answer. The answer's "no", Golden Witch...! Back in 1986, I was already dead. I've wandered about like a ghost for 12 years since then...! And when Eva oba-san died, I lost my only reason to stick around on this Earth as a ghost! That's why I decided to do one last thing before ending my life!! Is there something wrong with that?

Indeed there is, foolish girl!! So, when you do reach the truth, you plan to die...! In that case, I can't let you have it...!!

Ange. You are young, and you have a long future ahead of you. In fact, you are a

Umineko no Naku Koro ni Chiru - 8 - Twilight of the Golden Witch recap part 3

Umineko Chiru Episode 8 - Twilight of the Golden Witch part 4

Back at the halloween party, Battler is awaiting the return of Ange and also Erika's appearance. he wants to see how well Erika does at Bern's game... Bern is trying to hide her smirk when they are talking about Ange...

Ange returns, and then calls out Battler for his tricks. She declares that this game is a battle and that she won't fall for his tricks anymore...
Ange:

There's only one thing I've ever wanted! The truth of Rokkenjima in 1986.

Battler:

The truth is sealed within the cat box... it can't be reached by someone outside the cat box like you.

Yes, this is an illusion. However, I wanted you to feel this fun atmosphere, the harmony within your family... I wanted you to remember the warmth of these family conferences, a warmth you forgot about.

The truth of 1986 doesn't exist. The cat box is empty inside... you're looking for something that isn't there.

Hmph. I won't be tricked anymore. The truth of that day does exist... It was written down by the sole survivor and preserved to this very day!

Ange:

Eva... thank you for giving me one last chance to learn the truth.

Eva:

A...Ange-chan, listen... everything I wrote in that diary is nonsense, so it doesn't...

Ange:

There's no point in trying to deceive me. It's already been proven in red that your diary has the truth of that day written in it!

Beato:

...A...absurd. How could anyone but Battler, the Game Master, use the red truth?!

Lambda:

...... It's Auaurora, isn't it?

Bern:

That's right... The Book of the Single Truth exists in 1998, the world of the future. Who else could confirm the crucial role of confirming its contents with the red truth?

Ange:

... and no matter how hard you try to cover it up in 1986, I can expose it in 1998!! After all, you are the Beatrice of 1986... and I am the Beatrice of 1998!!

A swirl of golden butterflies rose up around Ange... Ange turns into her future self...

I am ANGE Beatrice of 1998, the final Golden Witch!! No witch of the past can defeat a witch of the future!!

You are the Golden and Endless Witch. I'm not! I'm the Witch of Gold and Truth! No illusion can stand in my way!! Yes, this is the end of Onii-chan's boring party! Now it's time for my party to start!! I've readied a

Umineko no Naku Koro ni Chiru - 8 - Twilight of the Golden Witch recap part 2

Back to Ange... She woke up from being passed out at seeing her dead parents, along with 4 other corpses in the dining room... she goes around and discovers a total of 13 corpses that were murdered.

The next day, Gohda and Kumasawa are talking to the rest of them about when they discovered the 6 corpses... but the other people Ange discovered before weren't dead yet in this scene. It went through each twilight one by one... almost all of them were closed room murders, impossible without someone else on the island who had an extra master key or a way in and out of the closed rooms... It was very short and to the point, with a lot of rules made up about keys and such for simplicity...

I see... it's like another of those quizzes... I have to review all of the purple statements, keeping in mind rules such as... no character can lie except for the culprit/s... a culprit can't die... master keys carried by the servants are the only keys, and nobody but the servant can use their key... other rules making it possible to figure out the culprit from just the information given... first, I have to figure out who is definitely telling the truth, and who definitely died...

*Genji: (died at 1st twilight, according to Kuma, Nanjo and Kanon)
Eva: (died at first twilight, according to George (according to Shannon), and Kuma)
Hideyoshi: (died at first twilight, according to George (according to Shannon), and Kuma)
Rudolph: (died at first twilight, according to Battler (according to Shannon), and Kuma)
Kyrie: (died at first twilight, according to Battler (according to Shannon), and Kuma)
Rosa: (died at first twilight, according to Maria (according to Shannon), and Kuma)
*Krauss: everyone gathered in dining hall - dining hall is closed room - nobody is hiding in dining hall
(died at 2nd twilight, according to Nanjo) (narration: laying sprawled on the floor)
*Nats: we destroyed Genji's master key
(died at 2nd twilight, according to Nanjo) (narration: laying sprawled on the floor)
(all of the above were locked in the mansion after 2nd twilight, according to Jess, Maria, Nanjo

*Jess: 2nd twilight is a closed room - nobody can enter or leave 2nd room until police arrive - 4th all went outside to look for Shannon/Kanon - George couldn't have killed Shannon - Gohda/Kuma died

Cousins and Nanjo couldn't have killed Gohda/Kuma - Nanjo

Umineko no Naku Koro ni Chiru - 8 - Twilight of the Golden Witch recap part 1

In this version of October 4th and 5th, Ange actually came with the family to the island...
Even Kinzo is still alive in this version... the guests all bring Kinzo halloween treats, in exchange for a present from Kinzo. they do this every year..
This is kinda reminiscent of the beginning of Madoka Rebellion. It's like Ange's perfect reality.

When Ange went to give Kinzo her present, Kinzo suddenly turned from cheery and weird to stern and terrifying. This is how Ange has always seen him. She only remembers Kinzo yelling and being scary...

Ange starts doubting that this whole thing is real, because Kinzo is not like how she remembers him. Battler tries to assures her that this is the real Kinzo, and that her early impression of him was exaggerated by her imagination. She also says that the adults were supposed to be arguing about the inheritance, but now they were all friendly with each other... She learned about all of that after 1986, because of the conspiracies that came up about it... Ange took that for the truth because it fit with her blurry early-age memories...

Ange declares that she doesn't believe this story that Battler created on his game board.

Now I get it, you damn witches. So, you've sent Onii-chan as a final assassin to finish me off.

You're right... This is... my game. So, of course, this is my tale, and I'm the one making it. That's why I'm able to add in "what if" situations, like what would happen if you came to the island too.

Why won't you tell me the truth.

... Because there's something I must get you to understand... something more important than the truth.

Just as Beato's games were made to make Battler believe in witches. Battler's game... was made to help Ange understand something that was more important than the truth.

No. This is a game... I made a wish, hoping to learn the truth of October 4th, 1986. And so, you invited me to this game, saying that you'd show me the truth. And now, you're showing me this strange illusion, trying to make me believe that it's the truth!

Back in the story, Battler introduced young Ange to Beatrice. This Beatrice was very different from the witch Maria told her her about, who had lived for a thousand years and had various servants from the

Umineko no Naku Koro ni Chiru - 7 - Tea Parties recap

Umineko Chiru Episode 7 Tea Party

Lion and Ange are suddenly together in a theatre. Claire appears and tells about what happened on October 4th, 1986... Maria read aloud the letter that claimed to be from the Golden Witch Beatrice and challenged the family.

Try and solve the riddle of the epitaph. Otherwise, I will take everything.

The adults all start suspecting one another...

Beato's ceremony has begun... Kihihihihihi

Ange:

In all the games, October 4th happens in pretty much the same way.

She complains that this is just another riddle the witches are forcing them to play through.
Lion realizes that since she has learned about the culprit's heart, and can see through any of her riddles, it is her role to teach Ange about the truth of this tale.

The adults have stopped bickering about the inheritance and started working together to solve the riddle.
Battler hears about Shannon and George going out, and recalls his memories from 6 years ago, when he had a crush on Shannon... George proposes to her, and talks about how she used to like Battler...
Meanwhile, the adults have already solved the epitaph, followed the lion statues, and found the door to the gold.

On the tenth twilight, the journey shall end, and you shall reach the capital where the gold dwells.

Lion explains that all of the siblings had solved the epitaph together before the crimes occurred... Beatrice decided not to commit the crimes if the epitaph was solved. so in this game, the crime will not occur. Beatrice's roulette has already made its decision. This is the end of her game.

In the room with the gold, the adults find Beatrice hiding behind a curtain. she welcomes them with a blank expression...

Is Father behind this?

No. This is my... game.

Beatrice states plainly that if they hadn't solved the epitaph, she would taken all of their wealth... and all of their lives.

I planned to do as I please with everything that exists on this island.

She picked up one of the bullets that were sitting on the table with a bunch of rifles.

If the night ended before you managed to solve the epitaph's riddle, I planned to follow the epitaph and commit 13 murders.

I am prepared... you may do as you will with me.

I planned this game because I was prepared to bet my life.

...then suddenly she walks up to a grandfather clock...

Allow me to explain the device within this clock. For you have gained not just the gold, but the

Umineko no Naku Koro ni Chiru - 7 - Requiem of the Golden Witch recap part 2

The culprit, a Beatrice-like figure with white hair starts to speak.

Let it be heard. I am one yet many. What I speak is our tale. However, this is a small world, sealed by glass and cork, with no one to hear. None shall lay eyes upon it, and my entire tale shall be sealed away, set adrift in the sea of my heart until it disappears along with the seaweed.

The two love demons are among her as well.

For us... Where and who we are hardly matters!!

Then the culprit tells about the first time she arrived at Rokkenjima in 1976, as a servant from Fukuin house, who was just starting elementary school along with Jessica...

wtf? It isn't Shannon? It shows Shannon there talking to this new servant, and that Shannon looks the same age as the Shannon from 1986?
Oh, so this servant is Lion. She wasn't killed, she was just raised by the Fukuin house and brought to Rokkenjima by Genji (who knew this girl's true origin) to work as a servant, since Natsuhi didn't accept her as a daughter. She was given the nickname Yasu by the other servants (some of which looked a lot like the 7 sisters of purgatory).

Kumasawa talks about those ghost stories again. The seal on the shrine, and how Beatrice has become a ghost, wandering around in search of a body, and how she dwells in the VIP room on the second floor... Yasu also heard about these stories from Kumasawa, and had blamed Beatrice whenever she lost a broom or something.
The witch was playing a prank on her, moving the broom to different places so she couldn't find it.

I know that turning around won't help, since she has no form. I can try to look, but I musn't look with my eyes. Once my eyes tell me there's nothing there, I won't be able to "see" anymore.

I learned that from the director of the Fukuin house. You mus'nt try to see with your eyes... you must see with the eyes of your heart.

The whole world is filled with god's love. In the many blessings of everyday life, one can see god, and angels, and the holy ghost. If you try to look at them with your eyes, you cannot see them, so you won't be able to "see" them. You won't be able to feel them or understand them. With the eyes of the

Umineko no Naku Koro ni Chiru - 7 - Requiem of the Golden Witch recap part 1

A dream is something drawn in the sand between the coming and receding waves. Something so fragile that it is wiped blank each time the waves draw back.

Battler created a tale only for Beatrice to read, and nobody else... This way, nobody will be able to defile her tale. A certain truth, between the two them. No matter how some witch or theatregoer tries to spin the tale, the golden truth between Battler and Beatrice will remain in tact.

There's some scene with an unknown protaganist maid, who gets fingered as the culprit by some inquisitors of heresy... Then some guy shows up and says they got the wrong culprit. He starts going off about Van Dine's rule #11. It is forbidden for a servant to be the culprit.

That's right, we are inquisitors of heresy. Felling evil witches is our job. However, we must not risk hurting the innocent.

All humans have their own personal truths. Those should only be exposed when they commit crimes. We've been given the right to expose them.
But no one, not even god, has the right to expose the innocent truths of those who have not sinned!!

He says that detectives must not forget to find the motive... the heart... without heart, a detective is just an intellectual rapist. heh...

This guy's name is Will, but that's not what everyone used to call him... Head inquisitor of heresy in SSVD... Wizard-hunting Wright.
So that whole scene was unrelated to the witch's game, and was just to introduce Will.

Later, Will arrived at Beatrice's funeral. to meet with one of the family members. on Beatrice's coffin, there was a book with words printed on the cover:

To my beloved Beatrice. October 5th, 1986

...what th... Krauss introduces himself and... his daughter, Ushiromiya Lion. Now I'm officially confused.
Will is confused by this as well, saying Kraus's child is supposed to be Jessica.

Jessica's my little sister

Will called out...

I'm here. isn't it about time you showed your face?

Bern shows up in front of Will. Lion is able to see her too, but doesn't know who she is. Bern just made the catbox bigger by adding Lion, one of the pieces who has a possibility of appearing in the game.

Bern asked Will to solve the murder of Beatrice. He brings up Van Dine's twenty rules again.

Rule #1. It is forbidden to have a crime without all

Umineko no Naku Koro ni Chiru - 6 - Tea Parties recap

Umineko Chiru Episode 6 Tea Party

So.. now the epitaph has been fulfilled. everyone has been revived, lost love has been reunited, and the witch has been put to sleep forever.
Ange: "Now what?"
No matter what Featherine's tale says, in the end Battler and the rest of them never returned from Rokkenjima.
Hachijo reappears, and thanks Ange for reading her tale. Ange asks Hachijo if the Featherine witch that appeared in the tale is her, or if she is really Featherine...
Then some weird dialog between Amakusa some henchmen that are plotting against the Sumadera group... I never really cared about this subplot. Then him and Ange move on to visit Rokkenjima as in ep4...

Umineko Chiru Episode 6 ????

Bern is upset about losing, and now can't find Lambda anywhere...

Yes... miracles don't exist in this world. To create a miracle, you need "an amount of time that can never be reached", a period that is no different from infinity.

When something that appears to be a miracle happens in a shorter span of time than that, it is not a miracle... but due to someone's design.

Bern follows a cat, and then meets Featherine, the one that used to be her master. She tells Bern that she has observed all of Beato's games, as well as Lambda's game and Battler's game, and has formed an answer for all the riddles...

Although the last part of the epitaph's riddle still eludes her. The part about the witch going to sleep forever.

But I have enough of a theory that if I actually went to Rokkenjima and investigated, I should be able to resolve that part as well.

Of course, since there is no single truth, my theory is probably only one of many possibilities.

She wants to go through her answers with Bern, the player... or something like that.
I'm going to be the Reader, right? I have no love, so a few things might be interpreted in an odd way.
Featherine:

I only want to check the answers... I'm not deeply interested in what sort of tale you'll create.

...Featherine makes Bernkastel the game master.

You can create whatever sort of tale you like to satisfy your grudge. However I have one condition... Answer all of the questions I ask for. No hiding, concealment, or tricks.

Bern starts setting up the pieces...

When the seagulls cry, there are no survivors.

Umineko no Naku Koro ni Chiru - 6 - Dawn of the Golden Witch recap

Ange meets up with Hachijo Tohya, a writer who has been creating forgeries of Maria's message in a bottle from Rokkenjima, and claims to know the full truth about it. Ange senses that this is different from what happened in the 4th game... Hachijo presents her newest forgery... "Dawn of the Golden Witch"

Whose piece am I this time?

Hachijo reveals her true form as a witch

In the past, I observed the Fragments through Battler's eyes. I want you to observe the Fragments that Beatrice has woven.

Now that he has succeeded the position of Game Master, Battler is not a suitable observer.

The Witch of Theatergoing, Featherine, just wanted Ange to read this newest bottled message to her. Ange and Featherine are observing this game on a higher plane than Battler, Bern, and Erika.

Battler is now using Beatrice as a piece... just like Sakutaro is a piece in Maria's game board.
That Beato was Battler's piece, and was supposed to be the same Beato.. however, since the real Beato was a lifeless Doll, this Beato took on the personality most desired by their master.

At the end of the first game, Bern mentioned that Beato exists as the incarnation of the rules. Battler intends to recreate the conditions that manifested the original Beato, so that this new doll Beato becomes the true Beatrice.
Battler's sin 6 years ago created Beatrice. Beatrice was his piece.

Featherine's forged stories have the same scent as Beato's, because she reached the truth just like Battler... Anyone who knows the truth can become an Endless Witch.

Featherine then invites the chick Beatrice to read the stories of the golden witch with her and Ange, so that she can become the golden witch that Battler wants her to be.

Beato wanders into the portrait of Beatrice, looking to find herself... she is surrounded in darkness... meets another version of herself with her hair down, and in a different outfit... This is before the portrait appeared. Beatrice owns the place at night. Kinzo is still trying to catch/revive her... she is powerless because of the shrine.

A result without an observer can possess an endless number of ways in which it might have occurred.

When people imagine that it was the result of a witch's prank... it is etched into the fragment as a fact... That's one of the foundations of magic. Decorating... the process. With magic, even a mass-produced stuffed animal

Kill la Kill series recap part 2

I was really stoned when I watched the last 8 episodes of this, my mind was in a constant state of being blown...
I wrote down a bunch of notes to summarize what happened and highlight my favorite parts.

Episodes 17-20

- Kiryuin starts the great Hounouji Culture and Sports Festival
- Mako's family decides to go to the ceremony just for the food

The day has come for the pigs in human clothing to be consumed by their garments

- then, when Ryuuko and the Nudist Beach guys jump in to confront Ragyou and Satsuki Kiryuuin... Satsuki stabs her own mother and declares a rebellion.

People do not live for the sake of clothing. I, Kiryuuin Satsuki, am rising up to overthrow the Life Fibers.

Honnouji Academy is the fortress I created in order to defeat you!

I pretended to obey you as I waited for this day to come.
Fear is freedom!
Control is liberty!
Contradiction is truth!
That is the reality of this world!

Every student here is a soldier that has been trained to fight you - no, to fight Life Fibers!

- she was on Nudist Beach's side all along. but then why did she fight them?

I have no need for half-baked allies. If you can't defeat my army, then you don't stand a snowball's chance in hell against the life fibers.

- she speaks to the audience...

If this battle caught your eye, burn any REVOCS-made clothing in your possession!

- meanwhile Nui is casually fighting the devas...

When a lady changes her underwear, she leaves the past behind her!

- even while all this is happening, the Mankoshoku family just keeps not giving a shit and pigging out on food
- when Satsuki was 5, her father told her she'll be consumed by her wedding dress when she puts it on..
- meanwhile Satsuki already has the sewing club students waging an attack against the original life fibre...
- but it's too late... life fibres are already starting to take over people's minds and attacking Satsuki's group
- Ragyou:

One of your mistakes was bringing Matoi here.

... she takes over Ryuuko's mind and has her attack Satsuki
- she finds that Ryuuko is capable of going against Satsuki even without synchronizing with her godrobe.
- Ryuuko screams as she's about to punch Satsuki, then ends up punching herself... forms some little scissor with Senketsu and cuts the threads around her brain
- Nui confronts Ryuuko, boasts about killing her dad... Ryuuko tells Satsuki to take care of Ragyou

Don't lose

Kill la Kill series recap part 1

I watched most of this while high. holy shit... this is better than I imagined...

Episodes 1-3

- Matoi Ryuuko... a girl with half a scissor as a weapon, goes around picking fights with people...
- starts going to some strange academy, where people wear "Ultima Uniforms" of 3 different strength classes...
- after running away from a fight with the student council president, a guy leads her into a dungeon, where a talking sailor uniform attacks her and makes her put it on. O_o
- the school's principal/board admits that the student council president is the true ruler of the academy... they capture Ryuuko's new friend, Mako
- Ryuuko's new sailor suit... she named Senketsu... is a godrobe... a level above ultima weapon, when it feeds on her blood.
- ... so even though Satsuki, the student council president isn't wearing an ultima uniform... she is on equal footing with Ryuuko, because her sword cuts through even a godrobe...
- Satsuki herself is wearing a godrobe, maybe? her dress... Junketsu... purity
- ... in order to master her godrobe... Ryuuko needs to get naked... make Senketsu part of her skin... that's what it means to master wearing it
- after their battle comes to a standstill...
- Satsuki made Ryuuko a proposal to defeat every student at the academy before deciding if she is worthy of fighting her.

Episode 4

Dawn of a Miserable Morning

- Ryuuko is almost late for school on no-late day... Mako drags her out in her pajamas, leaving Senketsu to be washed and ironed by Mako's mom
this is absolutely hilarious and brilliant

Episodes 5-6

- some guy with a mohawk, who hates godrobes, wants to get Ryuuko naked... part of some anti-uniform force. he shoots needles that sever the connection between life fibers and the human body.
- only Ryuuko can hear her godrobe's voice... Mako's family just thinks she's strange, talking to her uniform all the time.
- mohawk guy thinks godrobes can't talk, and don't care for humans... Senketsu proves him wrong, warning mohawk guy not to lay a finger on Ryuuko...
- the leader of the music club, watching Ryuuko and mohawk guy's battle in order to study how she fights...
- Ryuuko lost to one of the four devas... but that guy had to blind himself and heighten his senses in order to defeat her...

Episodes 7-12

- since all the clubs are challenging Ryuuko to fights anyway, Ryuuko decides to start her own club, the Fight Club... makes Mako the club president...

Umineko no Naku Koro ni Chiru - 5 - Tea Parties recap

Umineko Chiru Episode 5 Tea Party

So, the Illusion of the Golden witch has disappeared, and the results of all the previous games painted over with a new truth.

Apparently the 7 sisters of purgatory that serve Beatrice, they are fakes that were created in USA... Kinzo was a sucker who paid big bucks for any fake occult object.

Bern gives Erika the temporary title of "Witch of Truth", and has her take over the sealed Rokenjima, to remove all traces of Beato's Illusion of the Witch. The Voyager witches, Lamdadelta and Bernkastel, travel across the countless glittering futures of possibility, and gobble them up... trying to escape their illness called boredom for as long as they can.

I guess some sliver of Natsuhi's truth still remains in ep5... so Erika now has to use ep6 to totally and completely smash the game board.

Then there's the Tea Party of those who are not human...

Umineko Chiru Episode 5 ????

In this place, the concept of death means nothing except that one has stopped thinking... Battler, pierced by the red wedges of Dlanor's execution... Beato goes up to it and says ".... you .... liar"
He recalls that conversation with Dlanor... Knox's Decalogue, the mystery genre's first line of defense... it is the proof that a mystery is solvable with the hints provided for the reader. Although it's supposed to be the opposite of fantasy, this method seems very similar to a Devil's Proof. In the past, Battler has always faught by using a Devil's Proof to imply an unknown element X. But that is anti-mystery.

Humans often refuse to even try reasoning it out because the lack of clues provided make reasoning impossible... that's what Battler did in the 1st game...

It's all useless

Then Beato sneered at him, asking him if he would repeat that over and over in an endless repetition of moves.
Battler is both anti-fantasy and anti-mystery. The reason he stopped thinking in the first game was because of lack of information... but even if he was given information, he would deny the basis of that info's truth. Beato then gave him what he wanted. Information that couldn't be denied. Red truth.

So... without Knox's Decalogue, Red Truth wouldn't be able to exist?

Though riddles are the only holes witches can live within, she began to give you the red truth, a method by which those riddles could be SOLVED.

Isn't this almost as though... Beato herself is admitting... that she

Umineko no Naku Koro ni Chiru - 5 - End of the Golden Witch recap

Episode 5 - End of the Golden Witch

Lambda and Bern, 2 witches that outrank Beato, and Virgilia doesn't even come close to them... these 2 want to resume the game in Beato's stead... Lambda as the new game master. Bern reminds Battler of Ange to convince him to continue with the game. Battler decides to take a break and have Bern substitute for him... Lambda can't do anything with Beato's game board that Beato couldn't do herself, but she can do things Beato wouldn't do. Maria is already dead when Battler rejoins the game.

Kinzo has the power to turn desire into reality, and is the only one who can control Beatrice...

A true monarch fears no hardship. They declare that they will overcome anything without fail.

He dies 2 years before the 1986 conference.. Natsuhi and Krauss have to deal with the inheritance problem... Natsuhi then convinces Beatrice to revive him with magic. she has to keep Kinzo away from the magic-resisting toxin to keep him alive.

Without love, it cannot be seen.

Bern solves the witch's epitaph, while giving Battler hints...

Behold the sweetfish river running through my beloved hometown.
You who seek the Golden Land, follow its path downstream in search of the key.
As you travel down it, you will see a village.
In that village, look for the shore the two will tell you of.
There sleeps the key to the Golden Land.
On the first twilight, offer the six chosen by the key as sacrifices.
On the second twilight, those who remain shall tear apart the two who are close.
On the third twilight, those who remain shall praise my noble name.
Twilight 4-8: Kill a single character
On the ninth twilight, the witch shall revive, and none shall be left alive.
On the tenth twilight, the journey shall end, and you shall reach the capital where the gold dwells.
The witch will praise the wise, and should bestow four treasures.
One shall be, all the gold from the Golden Land.
One shall be, the resurrection of the souls of all the dead.
One shall be, even the resurrection of the lost love.
One shall be, to put the witch to sleep for all time.
Sleep peacefully, my most beloved witch, Beatrice.

That hometown with the sweetfish river, is probably referring to something that's at least 11 or 13 characters long. First remove 6 characters, then tear apart the 2 characters that are close together, etc...

Natsuhi and Kraus, Beatrice's allies, were getting cornered. They didn't expect

YU-NO high playthrough comments

Here's unorganized notes I made while I played through the visual novel YU-NO. I didn't comment on most of it, just a few parts where I was really high while playing and wanted to highlight some stuff...

Spoilers ahead...