Kara no Kyoukai: Mirai Fukuin movie recap

- Recalled out Summer -

There's this girl who can see the future with one of her eyes... she knows everything that is about to happen, and knows that there's nothing anyone can do to change it... also the intro is some vague scene where Shiki comes to a parking lot looking for a bomber, and then an explosion occurs which Shiki can't fight off and the knife falls out of her hand...

At first, it sounds like a guy who is describing this... but later it turns out to be a girl at Reien Academy... This girl is leaving the school to visit her dad... She is aware of 2 different versions of herself, the one in the present and the one in the future... She feels like she has no agency whatsoever because of her power...

Then as she gets off the bus, she immediately has a vision about someone getting run over by a car... She tries calling out to that person, telling him not to go that way, but he won't listen... Just then, Mikiya Kokuto appears as a random curious stranger and gets in the middle of this dispute. He listens to the girl and then says he'll go and try to stop that guy from being in danger... then an explosion occurs at a nearby building... The girl is really confused by all of this stuff that is happening that she didn't see coming... Now she's just cowering in fear... Kokuto eventually comes back to her and says she was right, and that he barely managed to save that guy from the accident.

Seo Shizune introduces herself to Kokuto...

Next, you see some guy tinkering with bomb materials... It's that guy from the beginning... He also has the same power that Shizune has... his right eye sees his desired outcome, and his left eye sees exactly how to bring that outcome to fruition.

Next is a scene where Aozaki, Kokuto, and Shiki are at some fancy party.. Shiki is bored and goes outside... She sees someone and tells him it's dangerous over there... he walks away, and then an explosion occurs nearby...

The bomber guy thinks to himself...

How did that woman know something dangerous was going to happen at the hotel?

Later, Shiki is talking to Aozaki about this bomberman.. saying he seems to be able to plan ahead way too well.. she almost got killed by a bomb that she just happened to come

Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva - movie recap

This turned out to be a lot better than I was expecting...

It starts off showing Layton, Luke, and Flora just concluding a case and catching Don Paulo... Then Luke starts describing the story of when they were invited to a theatre by an opera singer... This woman's friend, Melina, has somehow returned but is now in the body of a little girl.. that girl says she was given the gift of eternal life...

Layton explains the legend of the "Ambrosia" people, who used to worship their queen and her beautiful singing voice.. but then one day that queen got sick and died... Shortly after she died, they invented an eternal life elixer. so they all started taking the elixer and waiting for their queen to revive...

At the end of the performance, some unknown person takes over the stage and tells everyone they are about to play a game where the winner gets granted eternal life, and the losers will lose their lives... Inspector Grosky is there and he tries to arrest this person, but that person turns out to be a decoy balloon figure.. The whole theatre suddenly turns into a boat and they are now sailing through shark-infested waters, and being forced to play this game...

Puzzle 001: Find the oldest thing you can see. Layton realizes that doesn't specifically say it has to be on the ship, and he and a bunch of other people go to where they can see the stars in the sky...
Puzzle 002: Find the biggest crown on this ship. Luke thinks he has solved this puzzle and yells out that the solution is that big crown at the entrance... but Layton has other ideas... he takes Luke and Janice out to the dock, where a bunch of other passengers had the same idea as him... one of the passengers is treating everyone else as enemies and wanted to trick people into going to the wrong solution... They all get onto lifeboats and start rowing away from the theatre ship, until eventually they see that the ship itself is in the shape of a giant crown.

Layton, Luke, and Janice are all on the same boat as the orchestra player and Melinda... The orchestra player is the original Melinda's father, and he says that he adopted this girl because she reminded him of her... He doesn't seem to be on the same side as the villain, but this

Gakuen Alice manga recap/log part 2

Resuming my log/recap of the Gakuen Alice manga. This is after I started and got near the end of the Gakuen Alice anime, but at this point the manga's story has deviated a lot from the anime and isgoing a lot further than where the anime ends at.

8/28/2016

Mikan somehow fully recovered by using an alice stone she was carrying... everyone theorized that Mikan had some sort of Alice-stealing powers, but she couldn't replicate it after she woke up...

Gakuen Alice high session 6 (finale)

Episode 23 - The Circus is Here
a boring episode where they go to see a circus at central town, which is really pointless since these kids can all do more amazing things than the circus performers... seeing these people/animals perform inspired Mikan to try to tell the other students not to use their alices in a sport competition, she got in trouble for saying that... Luca seeing one of the lions being mistreated reminded him of how Persona treats Natsume.. there was some backstory where Natsume's house caught on fire and he lost his family..

the episode ends on a cliffhanger where the circus ringleader, an ex-Alice student, is about to tell Luca what exactly this academy is forcing Natsume to do..

Episode 24 - Mr. Narumi's Lie

Natsume is being forced to use his alice to help out the military or something... all of the alice gakuen graduates eventually blend into society as people high up in power.. Narumi is one of them.
"The Dangerous ability class is just a name the academy made up to hide activities they don't want the outside world knowing about."

The circus leader also tells Luca about this woman who was fighting to free the academy students... he and Narumi were with her, but Narumi betrayed them.
flashes back to when Mikan was talking to Narumi, asking if people would be better off without their alices..
"Not at all... But you know... when I was a student, there was someone who said the same kind of things as you... they didn't say anything bad, but they criticized the academy."

Luca beats up Persona to save Natsume from being drugged and taken on another mission.. they lock themselves up in a classroom, not letting anyone in until they can guarantee Natsume's safety.. Narumi shows up and tries to reason with them.. Mikan believes him when he says that he'll make sure Natsume is safe, but Luca doesn't trust him at all.. Luca turns out to be right (although they really seem to want you to think Narumi is actually trying to help but can't)...
The whole class hates Narumi now and they refuse to attend..

Kure-nai series recaps part 1/3

Episode 01 - Extreme Night

It starts off with some confusing, nearly incomprehensible family drama, about this little girl with a very strict/rich dad, and he blames the servants and beats them up whenever they let her do something as minor as going outside, and the girl cries... beyond that I can't really tell what's going on..

Then it goes to this high school kid who is working as a spy or something for an older lady. One day he accepts a job where he has to look after this little girl, the same one from that rich family. Apparently some bad guys are after her, and this high school boy's apartment is the safest place for her right now. The guy goes off to school, leaving the girl in the apartment alone, but when he gets back the girl had run away... He spends the night running around looking for her... The woman that he's working for, has some other woman find the kid before he does, and they conclude that this guy is trying very hard and should still be given another chance to take care of her...

When the high school guy finds the little girl, she is trying to hide the fact that she is crying, but he comforts her and she tells him about her dead mom...

Episode 02 - With the Drain and Stream
Nothing much happens in this episode...

Murasaki meets Kurenai's neighbours, including this one woman who makes her living by exploiting guys.. and another woman who she starts watching soap operas with... at school, some girl who has a crush on Kurenai gets curious about why he's always talking to someone on his cell phone about food and stuff, as if he's living with someone. He lies and says that he's protecting some old man for his job. Kurenai's childhood friend, a nerdy girl, knows all about what he's doing though.

There's a really cute part later on where Kurenai takes Murasaki to a bath house, and the old lady working there gives her a free drink. Kurenai tries to get her to say thank you, but she just assumes that old lady is another one of her servants and there's no need to say thanks.. but he tells her that she's only doing it to be nice, and then she formally thanks her and apologizes for doing it so late...

Sailor Moon Crystal Season II high session 1

Starting season 3: Death Busters arc... again I'm gonna watch this entirely while high on weed

ACT 27 - Infinity 1 - Premonition - Part 1

Some evil sounding guy talking...

The light awakens... This Omega Area... our sacred place will be brought to destruction by the light. Other lights can be seen. Lights of the stars. The luster of the Guardian Stars. Our own world... This Omega Area is full of the power similar to ours. Everyone gravitates to that great aura. In the luster of the Guardian Stars, I sense a light similar to Taioron Crystal, the spring of our power.

But this sacred place is ours! We shall create a new world here!

This thing that's talking looks just like the Death Phantom... Two bright glowing white eyes shining in a void of darkness...

Some red haired girl...

As you wish, Master Pharaoh 90.

The light brings us to destruction. Never let it awaken.

Some black haired girl having a dream, seeing all the other guardians... and Pluto and 2 other guardians are calling out to her, saying it's time to awaken...

The light guided by the three Talismans. The beginning of doom.

*cue op theme*
Meanwhile, Usagi is having dreams about a light that is way too bright... things maybe it is the sign of her and Mamuru's wedding... and Mamoru also has dreams similar to Usagi and that black haired girl...
After Usagi's parents wake her up for school barely in time, Usagi and Mamoru then see Chibiusa off to school...

A memory of the fierce battle with the Black Moon for the future of the Earth... has faded into a dream.

...

Wake up... the beginning of doom.

The 5 girls all meet up at an arcade... although Usagi senses it's not going to be this way for long, right now they are just there to play games...
Mamoru meets Michiru for the first time as she accidently drops her mirror... she uses the mirror's power to guess that Mamoru was a prince in his previous life.

Holy shit, you can really tell that these 2 new guardians are already just as "woke" as Pluto and the other 5 currently are, without having met them yet.

Sailor Moon noticed her silver crystal immediately reacting as soon as a girl gets turned into a monster... and the others also get premonitions of some bigger evil in their own ways... From what they all heard on the news, that leads the guardians to investigate

Gakuen Alice high session 5

Episode 19 - Raise the Curtain, Snow White in the Sleeping Forest

The physical ability class is doing a play that's a combination of Snow White and Sleeping Beauty.. Luca is embarrassed because Narumi made him play as the princess.. but then he gets even more embarrased when some people from other classes have to take over some roles because of a sticky ball accident.. and Mikan takes the role of Prince..

also Natsume plays as a cat to help out the kid playing a dwarf who is now stuck to his hand... he gets jealous seeing Mikan and Luca practicing together..

the queen (played by Sumire) has really good acting in this... the crowd is disappointed at Mikan replacing a girl they were looking forward to seeing though... after a cringey musical scene with Luca singing.. the queen sends a magic biting apple to bite the princess..

during the prince's scene, Sumire comes up to whisper to Mikan that the script has been changed and they have to ad-lib the rest of it now... The queen gains whiskers and cat ears and starts swordfighting with the prince... and suddenly someone throws a bone past them to get the queen to go chase it.. after that, Narume holds up a sign telling Mikan she has to kiss Luca for real to make the audience believe it more... she hesitates a lot, and Natsume throws an apple at her head to quickly end the scene.