Gakuen Alice high session 4

Episode 16 - Win in the Maze. The Magic Lamp

The Alice Festival finally starts... it takes a while for the special class's "Aladdin and the Magic Lamp" RPG attraction gets any customers.. Narumi, Luca, and Sumire are the first ones to come and try it. Luca and Sumire are dressed as the March Hare and the Cheshire Cat... Luca is just entranced by Mikan's cuteness in her genie outfit...

Luca loses to the doppleganger girl.. Narumi gets through the raindancing guy easily using his pheremone alice, then runs into Mikan at the goal, who says he can't pass unless he can get her off this flying carpet within 30 seconds without touching her. Dogcat girl runs into the laughing alice guy, and figures out a little too late that she's supposed to use the earplugs she was given..

now there's more and more people showing up at the RPG because of other people who keep replaying it... Natsume shows up to it too, and scares the lineup away while he's there.. Mikan comes out and greets him, and he pulls on her genie top and makes her cry...

it turns out, they made the prize for winning this RPG, that you get to keep someone from the special class as a slave for the day or something... Natsume gets jealous of Tsubasa when Mikan starts crying in his arms.. now he wants to beat this RPG and make Tsubasa his slave.

Natsume's first challenge was a girl who hides inside the mirrors that are placed on the walls.. Natsume was given a special beetle thing, and by holding it, he made it so that girl was holding a reflection of it, that scared her out and let Natsume pass.. The mind-reader kid also got passed the mirror girl by talking about how she has a crush on him...

Natsume got passed the guy with the inanimate object possession alice, by making his real body hot and forcing him to go back into his body... mindreader kid won by embarrassing him as usual.

Natsume made it through another challenge by using flames to write on a high up chalkboard... then he was challenged by his new rival, Tsubasa.. Natsume has to touch him within 30 seconds.. "But being able to move is your first priority... since I've already caught your shadow."

Tsubasa is light Midna/twilight people... Natsume threatens him with fire, even though injuring is against the rules.. but actually what he's doing is using a stronger light source to move his shadow out of Tsubasa's control... he gets to Mikan, while the mindreader is still stuck at the chalkboard...

Natsume tries throwing his cockroach on her, she doesn't care about it. then he starts acting like he's in pain... either he's acting really good or it's real... Mikan isn't sure either, and starts recalling that lesson about the alice levels.. wonders if Natsume is in the level that makes his powers shorten his life span..

At the end, Natsume just had to pick a lamp to get a slave.. he used the mindreader to figure out which one was Tsubasa's. except the mindreader kid assumed he Mikan's lamp instead... "I saw her face in your mind just now, so..."

Kara no Kyoukai movie 6 recap

- 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

Kara no Kyoukai movie 5 recap

- 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

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...

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

Episode 11 - Alice, I'm in Special Training

Kara no Kyoukai movie 4 recap

March 1996 - The Hollow Shrine

Shiki has been injured and is now in a coma... it shows a visualization of her accessing the "root" and learning to see death. Mikiya somehow meets Aozaki for the first time during this... Mikiya says she's different than she seemed like on the phone..

I'm switching my personality depending on how I view things.

Shiki is naked and is seeing hallucinations of her own body while floating in this endless void... suddenly she wakes up. She looks around and sees lines on everything... Touches a flower and kills it...

Mikiya and Toko comes to see Shiki, but only Toko is allowed to see her for some reason... Some nurses are saying something about how Toko is now in charge of this girl who Araya used to be in charge of... Shiki now has a blindfold on, I guess because she's still freaked out by her eyes. This is Aozaki Toko's first time meeting Shiki... She introduces herself as a sorcerer... Shiki says she has no need for one of those.

That's right... a sorcerer can't fill the whole in your chest. The only ones who can fill it are normal people... You've already realized that you're alone now, right?

Shiki is surprised about how much Toko knows...

That night, Shiki gets visited by some trippy looking figure that seems to be made up of the "Death" that only Shiki can see... it tries to go inside Shiki's body.

Was that just a hallucination or something? Next, Shiki is thinking to herself...

It's so beautiful here. It's so happy... but humans are so alone.

That woman who calls herself my councilor visited me every day. I realized that I had become dependent on my conversations with her.

Toko:

I see... So it's not that SHIKI-kun didn't have initiative over the body, but it's just that he didn't use it...
The two of you exist at the same time, each having their own experiences and will. And yet, the actions you take are the same. There isn't any other case of such a complex and bizarre dual personality.

Toko starts to wonder why SHIKI always sleeps, if they are essentially the same personality. Meanwhile Shiki is thinking about Mikiya... "His name is the only name I can't remember..."

Toko is talking to Mikiya about her...

She probably doesn't even have a sense that she's alive... but there will come a time when she'll realize that she's Shiki.

There's

Sailor Moon Crystal high session 12 (Black Moon finale)

ACT 25 - Showdown -Death Phantom-

Prince Demand now has posession of both silver crystals after getting them from wiseman and Sailor Moon... he's about to touch them together, which would create a paradox crash or something... Pluto comes in just in time to say "Stop"... the third taboo she must not commit...

If you were ever to commit such an act...

...and then the flashback ends.

King Endymion is the first to break through Pluto's power and find out she stopped time... the senshi and Mamoru all wake up soon too... then Black Lady...

Usagi comes up to Pluto... she explains that she committed the one thing that the queen warned would kill her if she did it...

I think I just figured out something about the manga story just now... Pluto dying and being reincarnated again so quickly by the end of s3... then doing the same for Saturn sort of... the outer Senshi, because of their connection to the time key holder, exist farther across in the 4th dimension and can freely travel through that fourth dimension...
okay whatever dunno where I was going with that random high thought.

Pluto yells at Usagi to grab the 2 crystals from Demande... she quickly snags them and runs back to her... does she even know which one is her's?

Pluto on her dying breath...

Sailor Moon... I beg of you, save Small Lady.

Next she brings Diana over with her warping magic she suddenly has? Oh yeah, I forgot she left Diana in charge of the door... She then looks at the king and recognizes how much she loves him as she passes away...

Oh gosh... These feels as soon as Usagi starts bawling her eyes out... and Chibiusa/Black Lady sits there, in total shock... as if time seemed to stop for her...

I am... black lady... I have no friends or allies... I am alone...

She remembers Pluto entrusting her to a very important time key...

And then it flashes back to when Small Lady went and stole a key from Pluto and ran off with it, before she became best friends with Pluto... She got in trouble by her mom for coming to see her even though she said Pluto is a close friend... Chibiusa asks Pluto:

I wonder if mama really loves me?

Hugging and kissing alone are not the only proof of love, Small Lady. Just thinking of someone, and quietly watching over them from afar is also a form of

Sailor Moon Crystal high session 11

ACT 23 - Covert Maneuvers -Wiseman-

Grown up Chibiusa takes Tuxedo Mask away... Pluto stops Moon from going after him...

In this place between space-time, where concepts such as distance or direction do not apply, there are places where pitfalls open up in the fearsome darkness.

But Jupiter, Venus, Mercury, and Mars say they'll go with Moon, and try to reassure Pluto... Pluto ends up going with them too... they found Chibiusa's P-ball... and the moment it dawns on her that Chibiusa is lost out there too just like Mamoru, she faints...

Meanwhile, Black Lady takes Demande and Sapphir to some firey surface...

Due to the power of the Legendary Silver Crystal and the explosion earlier, fires started on the surface of this planet, and the fusion reactions began.

This is the surface of Nemesis, I think?

The planet was able to grow like this because you built the reactor and set up the Malefic Black Crystal fusion reaction system. Now Nemesis is an unbeatable planet.

Demande notices the Black Moon mark on Black Lady's forehead... "Who are you?"

Then she takes them through a portal into this void world... to a little platform floating in it...

That will be your new castle. Wiseman's Castle of Darkness.

Shit is getting real here...

Demande:

Wiseman... does he come from this twisted space?

Demande really can't tell who this lady is... Then wiseman tells them... "Have you met my Rabbit?"
Chibiusa:

Wiseman's will is absolute. His will is the truth. All we have to do is follow him without going astray.

Then she explains to Saphir that Rubeus rebelled against Wiseman and attempted to escape...

Demande finally loses his allegance with wiseman completely...

Show me your true form. What the hell are you plotting?

My will is absolute! You must serve me. Act according to my will.

His brainwashing works against them... then Black Lady gives them upgraded Black Crystal earrings... these earrings are what Wiseman uses to control his henchmen...

Wiseman asks why the silver crystal isn't glowing like it was before... Black Lady explains that only the Queen can unleash its power...

Now he wants to capture both Neo Queen Serenity and Sailor Moon. He gives Black Lady the crystal... However Demande isn't convinced that silver crystal is the real thing, and that Rabbit could be tricking Wiseman.

Now Usagi is in some fake wakeup dream where the dream characters try to convince her everything is normal...

We used your Luna-P to erase everyone's memories. We left the 30th century temporarily