Wednesday, June 29, 2016

Kara no Kyoukai movie 6 recap

Kara no Kyoukai: The Garden of Sinners - Oblivion Recorder - A Fairytale box cover art
- Oblivion Recorder - A Fairytale -

It starts off showing some artificial astronomy thing (what are those called again?), and then goes to some little girl who looks like Tohsaka Rin... I think it's actually Mikiya's sister a bit younger? she mentions a certain childhood dream she had but can't recall.

And now she's older, and some fairy flies up to her at her school... she introduces herself as the mage apprentice Azaka Kokuto, and gives her side of the story, how Shiki is her rival in love... She's completely open about the fact that she's in love with her brother... She even became a mage apprentice just so she can take on Shiki and force her to give Mikiya back... Toko gave her a mission to find and eliminate the magus who is using fairies to spread anxiety among the students at her school...
Since you can't see the fairies, you'll need the eyes.
Azaka and Shiki go to have a meeting with a teacher to ask him about the rumor about fairies attacking the school... he seems to know about fairies somehow, but doesn't believe that they were the cause of this one student's recent suicide. then the student council president comes and makes Satsuki-sensei come and help with council stuff... She tells them not to waste the teacher's time about this fairy stuff.

Later, Shiki sees a fairy and starts chasing it, and Azaka gets mad and doesn't take the clue that she has a lead... Then Shiki wakes Azaka up and tells her something that gets her mad at the fairies. They resume their investigation.. Azaka talks about some girl who committed suicide, ran out of class crying and saying "The fairies are coming!"... and then she ran into the old abandoned school next door and set the place on fire to kill herself... Somehow nobody else remembers this... Shiki says they're probably using the fairies to erase people's memory of this event, and killing people probably isn't their intention, it's just turning out that way.

Later, Azaka fights Shiki in bed and takes back a knife she stole.. Shiki finds out that she's in love with Mikiya, and she confesses. She doesn't remember the time when she fell in love with him, though.. that's why she asked Shiki if it's possible for people to get back memories that were taken from them, and she's disappointed when the answer is no.

Azaka ends up finding out that

Sunday, June 12, 2016

Kara no Kyoukai movie 5 recap

Kara no Kyoukai: The Garden of Sinners - Paradox Spiral box cover art
- Paradox Spiral -

The stop motion theatre thing at the beginning has some strange guy who uses his boundary field powers to cut off Arcueid's cell phone instead of Shiki doing anything this time...

The intro just shows this orange-haired kid hanging out at Shiki's house for some reason... and then it cuts back to a flashback showing this kid seeing some crazy demonic stuff going on with the people he lives with... I think I remember this from the book, that guy's parents keep dying and coming back to life, and this kid gets so freaked out he ends up killing his parents himself and then running away.

Some burglar comes across some dead people in an apartment that he's trying to rob, and when he comes back with a police officer to show him, that person is alive again.

Some investigators are talking about this... the burglar's story sounded too detailed to be made up... it shows the connection between those dead people that were found alive, and their son who wasn't in the apartment, the orange haired kid Enjoe Tomoe.. later that guy gets in a fight with some guys who he owes money to or something... then Shiki comes up to save this guy for some reason..

(btw I just noticed this movie is 114 minutes instead of the usual 45-60 minutes)

Tomoe convinces this girl to let him hide out at her place...

It seems this guy has recurring nightmares about being stabbed by his mom... That's what drove him to kill his parents and run away. whenever Tomoe looks at his apartment key, he gets flashbacks of that...

Shiki still agrees to let him stay with her, even after he told her he killed somebody. she doesn't care at all... "I'm the same."
Later, she says "Mikiya won't be coming any time soon anyway." to further justify how she doesn't care about him staying with her... Tomoe says he noticed Shiki doesn't have a lock for her house, so he changed the lock for her and gave her the key...
A house without a lock... isn't a house.
It starts showing repeated scenes of the two of them living together, as if they're stuck in a time loop...

One day, Ryougi comes home and just about kills Tomoe...
I was out to kill someone. But I couldn't find the person to kill. I thought that you might do, but I couldn't. It's meaningless.

I want to feel like

Saturday, June 4, 2016

Gakuen Alice high session 3

Episode 10 - How Exciting, Central Town
the "Central Town" episode... even though Mikan only received 5 rabbits as her allowance, she is really excited to go shopping around because she's lived in the country her whole life.. but the mean teacher says she can only go if Natsume goes with her.. she has to beg him to take her, making it look like she's asking him on a date... also Natsume introduces that weird little kid Youichi. He has the Evil Spirits alice, a dangerous class ability... the kid convinces Natsume to go to Central Town for his own reasons...

There's all sorts of really cool things that Mikan can't buy... a mirror that shows you in whatever you want to wear, pillows that let you dream about whatever you want, a juice-making flower... Mikan is about to use her 5 rabbits to buy some ice cream, but then she sees some boys about to buy a talking apple, and the apple is saying it doesn't want to be eaten.. so Mikan interferes and saves the apple by buying it...

Then she forgets about the ice cream when she sees Luca and You-chan eating some cotton-candy-like stuff called Howalon. he says eating it makes you really happy... You-chan is about to give Mikan the last piece, but he just teases her with it... Iinchou and Hotaru offer to lend her some money, but she remembers her grandpa lecturing her about never borrowing money from people.

Mikan tries to make some money buy offering massages to people.. this one really big muscular guy shows up... "I'll do all I can, but I'm only good with normal shoulders, so your muscular ones might be a bit..."
then she tries shoe shining... the giant bird shows up wearing giant shoes...

Next, Hotaru, Iinchou, Luca, and You-chan help Mikan put on a street performance. it's really cute/hilarious... she successfully sells the matches that were used in the performance for 1 rabbit each... even the girl in her class who was always mean to Mikan comes and buys one. Mikan shares her Howalon with everyone who helped her...
"It's thanks to everyone. This melting taste is like everyone's hearts melting into one."
she's so happy, she goes and gives the last piece of howalon to Natsume...

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This was one of the cutest episodes of the series...

Episode 11 - Alice, I'm in Special Training