Wednesday, March 30, 2016

Sailor Moon Crystal high session 10

ACT 20 - Crystal Tokyo -King Endymion-
King Endymion introduces himself to Usagi, Mamoru, and Minako... and he asks Small Lady to formally introduce herself.
... so... cute... she's embarrassed to at first, then goes through with it while blushing...
"Ladies and gentlemen, it is a humble pleasure. I'm Usagi Small Lady Serenity, daughter of Neo Queen Serenity and King Endymion, and the First Princess of the Silver Millennium. I am honored to make your acquaintance."

the king explains that Chibiusa got the idea to come to ask for help in the past because of those stories about Sailor Moon he's told her of. He also explains that him and everyone on earth gained the power of living long lives from the Silver Millennium now being on their planet... theSilver Millennium is like the ultimate form of the Legendary Silver Crystal... an invincible crystal palace that gives positive energy to the rock it is planted on...

then suddenly a big purple crystal structure lands on earth right next to the silver millennium, and starts trying to destroy it... The delicate long lasting peace on this planet was broken... for the people of the 20th century, this is just like "so what it's just another day" for them...

it's just that... it's like the manga/smc story is like... so deep my stoned mind can barely contain it...

the energy given off by this dark foreign rock distorted the space around earth, and siphoned off energy from the planet, and people begun to vanish due to it...

the silver crystal could save them from this, but the only one who is able to use it, Neo Queen Serenity, is unconscious... so wait, that little silver crystal that Small Lady stole is the source of it, or just part of that whole palace? at the very least it's the part that Usagi always kept with her...

this rock came from the planet Nemesis, which was heading towards earth... this is like some Shadow Raiders beast planet shit...
oh and there's this detail I forgot... long ago the earth sent one of its criminals to this planet and left that planet alone, unchecked for centuries... could that be Prince Dimande? or maybe all of those human enemies?
"Then Nemesis was hijacked by the Black Moon"
That's obviously wiseman... and Endymion links that black crystal to this Black Moon group who attacked and committed mass murder...
"That monument is the Malefic Black Crystal, Artemis!"
even the small pieces of

Thursday, March 24, 2016

Gakuen Alice high session 2

Episode 6 - I'm With The Good-For-Nothing Types
Mikan runs into Natsume on her way to the combination class. Narumi explained the 4 (5) different alice ability types to her, and that she was in the good-for-nothing "Special" class... only Mikan called it the "good-for-nothing" class though. She heared from the mind reader that Natsume is in the "Dangerous" ability class...

Natsume grabs her and covers her mouth while hiding behind the bushes... he's hiding from this older masked guy... then some middle school students show up, they hate Natsume because they don't like that a dangerous guy like him is one of the privileged "principal students".. they mention that it's because he's Persona's favorite that he gets special treatment. Natsume gets mad and threatens to burn these guys if they tell Persona where he is... then one of them grabs Mikan's hair to threaten Natsume.

Then she meets Tsubasa, a middle school guy in the special class. He gets back at the bullies with his shadow manipulation alice, and then he introduces her to the rest of the special class who are mostly older students. They are all very friendly and hold a big celebration for Mikan joining them. Their teacher is a weirdo who frequently "trips" on his time travel powers, and the few times Mikan met him already, he vanished before he could explain who he is. This red haired girl, who I guess is Tsubasa's girlfriend? has a doppleganger ability.

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Sunday, March 20, 2016

Kara no Kyoukai movie 1 recap

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- September 1998 -
- Overlooking View -

The mysterious Fujyou building suicides... none of them had any reason... Shiki goes on one of her late night walks and finds a bloodied corpse on the ground, looks up at the building, sees some flying ghostly figures... 8 of them. Shiki's mage employer, Toko Aozaki, explains her theory...

The Fujyou buildings were built during the economic boom of the 70's then later abandoned... The decision to demolish them was made years ago, but they weren't emptied out until just recently.
I don't know how to put it, but time is crooked there. You could perhaps say that the order is reversed? People's memory, no, records. The rate at which the records compile themselves is slower in that building. So the records from when they were alive haven't been brought up to date yet. As a result, their memories live on.
People don't just instantly turn into nothingness after they die, as long as people remember them. Just like how smoke doesn't suddenly disappear when the fire goes out.
Then she goes into that philisophical discussion about how a view from high up changes your feelings on the world.
A vision that's too large creates a boundary between you and the world. It's more correct for you to recognize the large world you see as the world you live in rather than as the small space around you. But you can't feel that you're living in this big world no matter how hard you try.
She also comments toward Mikiya Kokuto... "I wonder when he will return"... not sure what that's about... Mikiya hasn't talked at all since that scene at the beginning where he brought Shiki some ice cream... Shiki starts to freak out about Mikiya not being around... she here's someone fall off the building, and thinks it's Kokuto at first. She goes into the haunted building, and fights this laughing girl who starts beating Shiki up by controlling her fake arm... Shiki cuts her fake arm off and gets out of there...

While Toko is remaking Shiki's arm, she tells her about when she hired Mikiya... he learned about Toko's doll-making abilities and became fascinated enough with her that he managed to seek her out, even though her headquarters are well hidden and protected. She thinks that maybe Mikiya saw Shiki's former emptiness in these dolls.

Is that girl who Shiki's been talking to all this time, really Toko? She

Friday, March 11, 2016

Sailor Moon Crystal high session 9

ACT 17 - Secret -Sailor Jupiter-
Usagi is in her room crying... and she yells at Chibi-usa before realizing she was trying to cheer her up.

later, Chibiusa follows Usagi to the arcade, where the remaining senshi are having their secret meeting... Minako and Makoto get a message from the game center because someone was doing really well at the Sailor V game... it was Chibiusa... wow, Chibiusa and Usagi are practically indistinguishable in their personalities during this scene, it's really cute.

Usagi figures out from Makoto and Minako's deductions that the Black Moon is after Chibiusa...

then there's a really sad seen where Chibiusa gets memories of her parents from seeing Usagi's parents... then she runs away in a rainstorm... remembering Pluto's words cheer her up, and she turned her P ball into an umbrella and made pidgeons fly out of it, some kid saw it... Mamoru sees her, and comes up to ask what she's up to... he touches onto her shoulder as she's looking at the time key... and just then a terrible vision comes to both Chibiusa and him...

Meanwhile, Prince Demand talking with Wise Man.. he (correctly) theorizes that the Sailor Senshi all get their immortality from the silver crystal. he can't wait to crush it and see the look on their faces... Rubeus brings in Petz, the 3rd of the sisters, to avenge Koan and Berthier...

Mamoru tells Usagi that he can feel something really frightening Chibiusa whenever he touches her... and Mamoru's friend overhears the cat talking to them. This guy, Asanuma-chan... he refers to Makoto as "senpai"... Makoto seems to be coughing a lot. he touches her forehead and gets a shock...
"Apparently I get all statically charged when I'm not feeling well."

lemme guess, that storm that has been going on all episode has something to do with Makoto's illness, or Petz, or both...

Asanuma tells Makoto about how he overheard that cat, and something about Ami and Rei being taken...
she looks into his eyes and truthfully reassures him... "We are normal humans. One thing that's different is that we have a destiny to fight enemies. Rei and Ami, who share my destiny, were taken, and I want to save them. No matter what it takes."
then he runs away as Makoto starts coming onto him... he reassures her that he won't tell anyone.

just after he leaves, both Makoto and the storm start getting worse... she barely manages to call her teammates

Monday, February 29, 2016

One Punch Man season 1 recap

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Episode 1 - The Strongest Man
This is so ridiculous... a very boring character with a boring backstory and boring motivations defeats some crazy powerful supervillain monsters in one punch...

Episode 2 - The Lone Cyborg
Mosquito queen commands all the mosquitos to get blood for her, and she turns super powerful... some cyborg superhero guy is going after her, and fails to defeat her, then he sees Saitama defeat her easily in one punch... the cyborg Genus then becomes Saitama's apprentice. He babbles on a lot with his backstory until Saitama stops him and tells him to sum it up in 20 words or less...

Then we see the villain who was in charge of that mosquito lady... he sends a bunch of other monsters to try and capture Saitama after seeing how strong he is.

Episode 3 - The Obsessive Scientist
The villain is some old guy who dedicated his life to researching human evolution.. he eventually discovered some way to create evolved humans, and made clones of himself and started running a monster laboratory... the ultimate monster he created was supposed to be unbeatable, and it looked like Saitama was actually worried when this monster turned to his "rampage mode"... but actually he was just worried because he realized what day it was.

Friday, February 19, 2016

Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works high session 4 (finale)

Episode 23

Rin, Shirou, and Saber are now back safely at Shirou's home, planning their attack on the holy grail at Ryoudou Temple... Saber says she only has enough mana to unleash Excalibur one more time.

they get there, but aren't sure what to do... Shirou is about to just act without thinking and run in through the cursed muck.. then Gilgamesh approaches them... Saber can't help them because the fake Assassin has challenged her.

Gil explains that he wants to wipe out the humanity of this era, because there's too many of them, so their lives have little meaning now compared to the era he's from. Shirou goes to hold off Gil so that Rin can go through the goop and get to Shinji herself...

"You filthy sham, learn firsthand the difference between counterfeits and the real thing!"

meanwhile, Assassin, the Heroic Spirit Sasaki Koujiro, explains that he is not a normal servant, and that he is based off a fictional character who doesn't exist... he is merely a ghost who emerged solely to take the form of this servant, and he himself has no origin...
"I am empty, so all things are meaningless to me. However... If one thing could be said to give my existence meaning, it would be this moment."

the holy grail has already started spilling its guts...
"Those are wishes being drawn up by the holy grail... The true nature of you mongrels. The malevolence of humanity... To be able to grant any and all wishes... That is, to transcend the limitations of life, why is a wish not granted? That is because humans are inherently limited. Equality, peace, happiness... They are all the same. You, who are prisoners of your own flesh, will never be satisfied. That is why you humans constructed that Holy Grail. Not to be released from all suffering, but rather to conquer all suffering."
*laughs*
"But this is that ideal's end result. No desire to change the world is more powerful than human malevolence. But because it is fueled by malevolence, it uses self-annihilation as its means. That is your true nature."

... I just realized Gil's epiphany just now was the same as what that one bad guy from Kara no Kyoukai had...

oh man... a really creepy scene where Rin pulls Shinji out of the grail... and some disconnected arms come and try to grab her to get him back...
"I shouldn't be surprised that yanking out its heart angered it."

meanwhile

Monday, February 15, 2016

Gakuen Alice high session 1

Episode 1 - The School is Gone
oh wow, I forgot how cute this opening was.

the first ep covers the time when Hotaru had to transfer to Alice Gakuen in order to save her old school from being shut down... and then 2 years later Mikan learns about Hotaru's reason for leaving, and she runs away to go and meet her, and the teacher sees her and notices his powers didn't work on her, so he lets her take the entrance exam. pretty much the same as the manga so far... Mikan has a wierd Osakan accent.

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Episode 2 - Welcome to Alice Academy
Mikan is in a room alone with an unconscious Natsume... some biology teacher comes in and explains to her that Narumi is a weirdo but not a dangerous guy, and says that Natsume IS dangerous and she should press the emergency alarm if she sees him open his eyes... then Natsume wakes up and threatens her to tell him who she is...