Sailor Moon Crystal Season II high session 2

ACT 31 - Infinity 4 - Sailor Uranus, Haruka Tenoh; Sailor Neptune, Michiru Kaioh

Neptune and Uranus refuse to answer the other guardians questions, and attack them for no reason... Chibiusa still wants to believe they are friends.

Usagi and Mamoru both have the same dream again, about the deity of destruction... Rei is meditating by the fire, learning about the talismans...

One is Neptune's mirror. The three talismans which bring us destruction... where are the other two?

Usagi noticed that Haruka is Sailor Uranus, and Mamoru noticed that Michiru is Sailor Neptune...

Chibiusa is trying to make a clay sculpture of the holy grail for her homework... Diana says that Neo Queen Serenity owned the Holy Grail when she was younger... meanwhile Mamo and Usagi apologize to each other about them seeing Haruka/Michiru and being jealous... They both agree that there's something about those 2... like there's something they want to tell us...

The next Witches 5 member... Ami notices this girl at Mugen that has better grades than her, and goes to introduce herself... Yui Bido offers Ami a trial enrollment at Mugen. she gets there and sees a weird 3d hologram of a distant galaxy... feels like she was almost being absorbed into it...

The Tau Star System which our science class created as an experiment.

Viluy (Yui's real name) reports to Kaorinite to say that Ami was attracted to that miniature universe, showing that she is one of the guardians protected by a planet.

Viluy almost succeeds in brainwashing Ami with their computer program... Haruka and Michiru bust in to stop the lesson... Ami runs away and calls the others.

It's confirmed, the Death Busters control Mugen Academy.

Mercury transforms while jumping off like the 8th 5th story of the building into a pool. holy shit...

Sailor Moon and the others immediately come to join her... Then Haruka and Michiru show up...

We can't stay in this school anymore, I guess.

Then they transform right in front of everybody to take out the enemy...
Uranus unleashes her talisman... "Space Sword Buster"... OHKOs the daimons and Viluy

A couple of unknown Mugen science students introduce each other... 3rd year, Reika Nishimura, and 1st year, Setsuna Meioh...

Love Live! Sunshine!! series recaps part 2/4

Episode 05 - Yohane Descends

Yohane is doing some ritual in her room... and then suddenly she turns back to normal and becomes Yoshika again. Yohane is like some alternate ego of hers, and she is embarrassed that she acted that way in front of her classmates earlier...

Hanamaru sees her at school, and convinces her to start attending class like normal again, and Yoshika asks her to help prevent her from becoming Yohane... but she breaks out her ritual stuff in class and does it again.

Ruby and Hanamaru are both in the same class as her. Ruby explains to the others that she used to believe she was a fallen angel in middle school, and she still hasn't fully broken the habit. Chika looks at one of the videos Yohane posted online, and says she's really cute, and asks her to become a school idol.

lmao... Riko is so terrified of Chika's dog that she does a crazy jump between two balconies to get away from it.

They try adapting the fallen angel theme to their idol performances, and Dia disapproves... Then Yoshika declines joining them and says she'll just go back to being normal... but Chika and the others still want Yoshika to join as her Yohane persona.. Chika figured out that muse became successful because they never held back their true selves.

Kure-nai series recaps part 3/3

Episode 09 - With You and I
Wow, this plot takes a turn here...

They are now hiding out in a hotel... Shinkuro is telling Benika he has doubts about being able to do this job anymore, and also tells her that he learned that Murasaki might not even be a Kouhouin child...

Benika tells him about how the Kouhouins are a family that only breeds amongst themselves... The girls in the family are forced to live in the inner sanctuary, isolated from the outside world, until they become old enough to breed... and even after that they are still forced to live in the inner sanctuary until they die... The males of the family breed with their sisters in the inner sanctuary, then they marry a woman from outside the family to pretend that woman is their child's mother...

So... the woman that died in front of Murasaki... was that her real mother or her stepmother?

Shinkuro ends up convincing himself that he'll protect Murasaki no matter what... He then takes her back to the apartment so she can say goodbye to their neighbors and spend time with them one last time... Later, Shinkuro tells Murasaki about how his parents got killed by terrorists, and because of that he made himself into a monster.. Murasaki has incredible wisdom here, and tells Shinkuro that they are both in the same boat, and that the dead won't come back no matter how much you cry...

As expected, Murasaki's big brother comes and beats up Shinkuro, and forces Murasaki to tell Shinkuro that she must go back to the inner sanctuary, but she obviously doesn't...

Episode 10 - Accustomed Fear

Not much happens in this episode... Benika's subordinate consoles Shinkuro, and tells him that she too once failed one of Benika's job and the guy she was guarding got killed... At least Murasaki is still alive.

Murasaki's dad wants to wait until spring before moving Murasaki back to the inner sanctuary, but the older guy is having none of it.

Shinkuro convinces himself that he failed this job and he just has to move on and focus on other jobs... but his friends at school and his neighbors both think it's unlike him to quit like this... Finally he changes his mind and calls Benika over... Benika tells him that the job was only to allow Murasaki to see the outside world and fall in love with someone, and that job was successful... but Shinkuro still wants to protect her... he convinces Benika to help him get to the Kouhouin mansion.

Gakuen Alice manga recap/log part 3

Resuming my log/recap of the Gakuen Alice manga. This is dragging a lot longer than I expected... hard to believe there's still like close to 100 chapters left.

9/09/2016

Natsume tries to rescue Mikan from this dangerous ability class..

Love Live! Sunshine!! series recaps part 1/4

Episode 01 - I Want to Shine!!

Chika Takami starts her 2nd year of high school, and she is determined to create a school idol club at her school after getting inspired by seeing the previous Love Live... Some grey-haired girl is helping her... You-chan, Chika's friend... She can't join though because she's already in the swimming club.

Chika isn't having any luck at all... she comes across a couple of very pretty 1st-years and asks them to join.. Ruby, the red-haired girl turns red when Chika calls her cute... the friend says she is very shy... Then some random dark-blue haired girl jumps in on them, pretending to be some kind of dark angel... Ruby's friend recognizes her as Yoshika, her friend from kindergarten or something... Yoshika tries to pretend she doesn't know what she's talking about and keeps acting weird...

Chika thinks she can probably recruit these 3 people later... then she meets a black haired 3rd year girl with mole, who is also the student council president... This girl hates school idol clubs for some reason, thinks they are silly and a waste of time, so she tells Chika she will not approve of this club no matter what.

That evening, Chika and You meet some blue haired girl who knows them, they eat together or something... Then later when Chika is walking around by herself she sees some long-red-haired girl about to jump into the cold ocean... Riko introduces herself, and says she wanted to hear the ocean in order to help compose a song she's writing for the piano... Chika tells her about school idols and why she is so obsessed with them... Riko says she's from Otonokizaka, the same school the first series took place in...

Then at the end of the episode, Chika is depressed when she realizes she doesn't know anybody at this school who is good at writing songs... and then Chika's class has a new transfer student, it's Riko... she happened to switch schools at this exact time for some reason. Chika invites her to join the school idol club, and she declines...

Kure-nai series recaps part 2/3

I'm starting to get really annoyed by the voice acting in this show... I dunno like... it feels very stiff... and the little girl sounds way too mature. Other than that it's good.

Episode 05 - Wish

Shinkuro takes Murasaki with him to his friend's house to practice martial arts... That girl who knew the Kouhouin family, she's part of a family of assassins or something... Murasaki learns about the cultural meaning of a "Sunday"... I didn't pay much attention but it seemed like nothing much happened.

Episode 06 - Light Shines Over Your Head, Doesn't it?
This episode is really weird...

Shinkuro and his girlfiend, and his neighbors all rehearse a musical play... but the gf and the creepy woman are really bad at singing. That woman who is watching Shinkuro and Murasaki gets roped into helping the creepy woman learn how to sing... and Shinkuro helps teach his gf how to sing by singing a duet with her...

At then end they have this weird song + dance scene in the apartment (with awkward 5fps animation), and Benika comes and reveals this was all part of her plan to help the spy woman make friends with the others, or something...

btw I really hate that other neighbor woman... the "onee-san" one... such an overdone character type...