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.

Kara no Kyoukai movie 7 recap

Febuary 1999 - Murder Speculation Part 2 -

Starts off wth a lot of pointless small talk... Then finally we get to some plot. Shiki and Mikiya pass by a TV showing something about the homicidal maniac on the news who is at his 10th murder so far... s this the same string of murders from movie 2 I wonder? They are both working for Toko now at this point. Shiki says this guy isn't really a killer, because none of these killings have any reason for them... She says that you can only kill once in your lifetime.

Shiki asks Kokuto to sleep with her.. the next day...

Toko:

What happened now and 4 years ago... Do you think it's Shiki?

Kokuto admits that Shiki doesn't have any alibis... but he still believes that Shiki couldn't have done it. Toko explains that since SHIKI is no longer inside Shiki, that personality called murder is no longer inside her...

Just then, Kokuto sees on the news that another murder happened. he tries calling Shiki and going to her apartment, and can't find her... He runs back to that bamboo forest place where he saw Shiki at the crime scene 4 years ago, gets flashbacks of her empty eyes and weird smile...

Then it goes to another flashback from movie 2 in that same area, where Shiki is about to kill Kokuto.. it shows more of that scene... suddenly Araya pops in out of nowhere and starts fighting Shiki.

You can't kill me? Appropriate if you're trying to survive. But you're trying to kill so you can run away. Do not lower your own value... You belong to one person. Live as one, and conclude as one. The spiral of conflict is the appropriate end for you.

Shiki notices something, like she's snapping out of a trance and switching personalities again.. She starts crying and running away, and Kokuto runs after her.. he eventually catches up and grabs her arm, and Shiki looks really sad and confused... then she runs away again and jumps in front of a car, probably to save Kokuto..

back to the present I guess... it's not being clear at all this time, not even showing the dates when it jumps around... Shiki is walking by herself in the rain, thinking about stuff... goes to take a shower, remembers the guy from movie 6 saying

I came to this country because Souren Araya requested that I return

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