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Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood 47
March 10th, 2010
I knew it was coming, but at first I couldn’t place it. Was that Orange-kun’s spinning power I saw? No wait maybe it was Izumi? As my brain slowly put together the pieces, my body suddenly felt light, my head felt numb and my eyes welled up… the moment I had been waiting for for so long had finally arrived…
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SHE'S BACK!!! RAN FAN!!! YES YES YES!!!
Summary:
If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck and takes a hit like a duck, it's gotta be Hoenheim
As the Promised Day approaches, Ed and company make their way to the slum of Kanama on the outskirts of Central. There they find Hoenheim and Ed reunites with his dad with a punch to the face… using his metal hand. Hoenheim proceeds to explain everything including his being a giant Philosopher’s Stone to Ed and his companions. In turn, Ed delivers Pinako’s message for him, Trisha’s last words: “Sorry I couldn’t keep my promise. I’m going to have to leave you first.” While Ed was expecting his father who abandoned the family not to care he is instead surprised by his tears over the message.
Remember that time me and you made Al on that swing Anata?
As Hoenheim reminisces about the faithful day – when he left the family and Trisha’s promise to him to still be in family pictures when she was old and wrinkly and him looking the same as ever - Ed creates for himself a new red coat (to be shared with Chizuru, but only on soccer weekends).
"Well at least it was better than that car he made…"
While Ed and the gang discuss the final battle ahead, the chimeras admit that their animal instincts tell them to stay and help with the final battle even though they don’t have to. As they talk, they wander outside the slum and encounter a strange acting Al.
Grumman was Greed before there was a Greed
Meanwhile back in the East, as the search teams scour to find bodies after the bridge explosion, they are unable to find Bradley’s body. As the soldiers search, Grumman mulls staying in the East until Roy and Olivier start their little rebellion so that he could come to the rescue and take over the country all for himself. Sensing his completely counterproductive schemes, Miles tells himself to stay alert even with allies.
Dude's missing a badass motorcycle
Back at Kanama, as Ed walks towards Al, Ling manages to get through to him before he manages to get too close and warns him to stay back. It seems that Al is actually a Dullahan being controlled by Pride’s shadow power while Al is still unconscious. As Pride moves to take out Greed and caputure Ed, Ed realizes that Greed’s entire power is based upon shadows. With the happy coincidence of a dark and cloudy night sky, Ed blacks out the entirety of Kanama with alchemy. Without light, Pride cannot materialize, and Greed uses that time to explain to everyone that the real Pride was probably hiding in the forest instead of inside Al’s armour body.
Eat dirt and die gato!
While Heinekel goes off to defeat a darkness eakened Pride, the rest chat about what to do next when all of a sudden Gluttony appears.
Mmmm birdie num nums! (+extra points for figuring out that reference… don't google it you cheaters!)
As Gluttony sets off kicking everyone’s ass, Ling asks for control of Greed’s body back as he’s able to sense the presence of the Homunculus and puts up a bit of a fight. Realizing that he too can’t see in the dark, Gluttony decides to use his ultimate attack of his stomach sucky thing-a-ma-bob but before he’s able to materialize, A SUPER AWESOME AND SUPER POWERFUL MYSTERIOUS STRANGER appears and kicks Gluttony’s ass. Who’s this stranger? None other than RAN FAN.
Reaction:
First of all, I must reiterate the completely awesomeness that is the return of RAN FAN. I’ve been waiting for her to appear for a very long time, and for her to come back kicking so much ass like this is a treat to behold. Too bad she’s still behind the mask instead of being out there in all of her beauty because now it’s going to be even harder to wait for episode 48 to come out.
As for the rest of the episode, I was extremely surprised that Grumman does not seem to fully grasp the implications of what is happening on the Promised Day, nor does he know that Bradley is a Homunculus and thus immortal. This explains why the bridge was destroyed in the first place as Grumman probably thought it was a pretty awesome trick he played on poor Bradley. The fact that Grumman is mulling about being at the top of the country and thinking about sacrificing his colleagues for that goal, he really doesn’t seem to know that the Promised Day means the end of the entire country, and thus it would be dumb to delay anything until later. Why they never bothered to tell such an important ally about what was really going on may end up being an planning failure that’s going to haunt our heroes for some time to come.
I thought the bit with Hoenheim crying at the news of his wife’s last words were really quite touching (at least for FMA standards) and quite a scene. At the very least, united by the love of Trisha, Ed is able to realize just what kind of person his father really is (although I’m starting to believe more and more that the dude’s a total goof).
The Pride fight was really fun to watch. I’m predicting that the fight will end within the first few minutes of next episode with Pride and Gluttony escaping back to the capital in hopes of fighting again. And then with all external threats gone, RAN FAN decides to strip down to her bandages once again.
With the evening almost over, it seems like all remaining episodes will be directed at the last battle. They sure are taking their sweet time though eh? I guess we are catching up to the end of the manga now so they have no choice.
Finally, I just wanted to mention that I’m glad they at least re-inserted the idea that people from Xing can sense the Homunculi, something which we haven’t heard anything about since May Chang’s ‘weird feeling’ when she first saw Father. Speaking of May, where is Envy?
Can’t wait for next week and more… RAN FAN.
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Kimi ni Todoke 21
March 6th, 2010
What loli could resist salty AND sweet?
Summary:
Ran 10 miles and then fapped… Feeling so much better now
Ryu slyly calls Tohru down, and Tohru busts his butt at work and drives 3 hours late at night to help his little brother put Operation Long Legs GET into action. Tohru snags Chizuru for a stroll down memory lane, and Chizuru finally tries to say all the things she always wanted to tell Tohru. Unfortunately, Tohru reminds Chizuru she always wore shorts that showed off her legs and so the mini-skirt brings nothing new to the table. Even when Chizuru is able to tell Tohru she loves him, Tohru pretends to misinterpret it as platonic love and returns the friendly sentiment. As the stroll ends, Tohru tells Chizuru that he always calls her “Chi” because it makes him literally smile to say the name.
Afterwards, Tohru meets up with Ryu before making the long drive home. Tohru collects his day-old prize bread, and implies that he always knew Ryu had a thing for Chizuru. Ryu agrees that he is the better man for Chizuru, and then correctly guesses that Chizuru is hanging out by the ocean (since that is the last place they all played together before Tohru moved to Sapporo). When he finds her there, Chizuru apologizes for taking everything out on Ryu and he mentions that she is the only one who would remember his birthday. Chizuru wonders if she just saw Tohru as an older brother, Ryu tells her that her love was real. As Chizuru finally cries out some of her emotions, Ryu holds her tightly in his arms and secretly gives himself a “Kekeke, just as keikaku.”
Reaction:
WTF is this smell??? Smells like sweaty socks and sex!
While Chizuru was a surprisingly cute kid, she never really got past that phase. Chizuru might not have that fierce magnetism that Tohru is looking for, but she still managed to scam FOUR whole episodes near the end of the series away from the main couple. This is what happens when you waffle, Shota! Santa Shota better give Sawako the dick in a box next episode, or we’ll definitely get stuck with Chizuru x Ryu in the final two episodes.
I found the whole “Chi” thing interesting. All along Tohru wasn’t some super happy guy; he just called Chizuru a lot. Damn, the things a guy’s gotta do so that his little brother can get the little girl. At least Tohru is following the bros before hos mantra. I like the way Ryu is working this, and he really seems in control. Next to Ryu, Shota is just a mess. This leads me to believe that Shota quit the baseball team because he couldn’t ever get it done in crunch time.
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Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood 46
March 5th, 2010
Many apologies for the late post. Between watching the Olympics (WOO GO CANADA!), Gundam Unicorn and waiting for the non-tsunami warning episode to pop up for screenshots it’s also been quite a busy week for me. But here goes!
Winry ponders the incoming tsunami
Summary:
Not that I'm complaining, but there's been a LOT of Winry fanservice lately…
It’s a few months later as the promised day is about to begin. The Briggs crew ends up bringing Winry back home. Relieved to be home at last, Winry changes into some fresh clothes when she realizes that Ed is there smelling her underwear eating a sandwich. After her initial scream at the sight of an intruder, everyone meets up at Winry’s room and it’s revealed that the Greed/Ed crew has been camping out at Winry’s house with her Grandmother for the last while. Distressed at all the guys in her room, Winry clears everyone out.
I'm loving the expression on the dog
Winry then lets Ed know that Al is nearby at the train station, but after some hesitation Ed decides not to go find him in case their covers are blown. That evening everyone has a meal (which my family could have easily polished off when I was a kid) together and Winry meets Greed for the first time. Afterwards Winry tunes up Ed’s automail when Ed tells Winry to leave the country because he may fail to save everyone. Winry scolds Ed for not believing that he’d succeed for sure, and vows to stay until he comes back. Afterwards Greed has a philosophical discussion with Ed about the nature of Greed.
Back at Lior, the other two chimeras finally meet back up with Scar and Dr. Marcoh and they set off to Central as per the plan. Scar has a bit of a surprise for them all though as he’s managed to gather up an Ishbal army in the previous few months to help with the upcoming battles.
In the East, the joint exercises between the Eastern and Northern army have begun with General Grumman looking as smug as ever (likely from many more wholesome ass grabs). Unfortunately for them all, Bradley has decided to drop in to watch the exercises as he realizes that something may be up.
Pride's such a creepy bastard
While the exercises begin, Al is hiding out in the train yard and realizes that his disabling visions are returning with increasing regularity. As he ponders this, he hears a sound outside and is soon chased by none other than a newly resurrected Gluttony and Pride and is easily captured.
The house is nice but it could really do with a giant hedge maze in the back!
At the Armstrong house, Mustang lets Olivier in on the true identity of Pride, and also lets her know that things are progressing as planned.
Back in the East, Bradley receives word that the Ishbals are attempting a terrorist act in Central and that Grumman’s plan is to intervene to help root out the terrorists. Caught in a bit of a catch-22, Bradley decides to head back to Central knowing of the oncoming trap.
Bradley gets dang blowned upped on the 'Eastwood Bridge', named for the cowboy who drove off the edge of the cliff in his DeLorian 100 years ago…
As Bradley’s train crosses a river, the bridge is blown up and everyone is sent to their deaths.
Back at Central Riza, Breda and Fuery are shown together ready to act.
Finally in the central command room, the generals realize that Bradley has ‘died’ and confusion breaks out in the ranks. As Olivier realizes that this is the time to make her move, she feels a powerful presence behind her…
Olivier is in sexual harassment city
Reaction:
So it looks like they decided to skip over all of the months of preparation and jump right to the final battle after all. I predict that the remaining episodes will all take place within the span of about a day or two (with possibly an epilogue episode at the end or so I hope) showing the final battle in all of it’s awesome glory. I’m assuming that this was to create a bit more mystery as we have no idea what either side has planned and we can be continuously and pleasantly surprised by how their intricate plans play out. Still deep down, I’m hoping that all their plans fail, but we’ll see some of the main characters making it up on the fly and doing a good job at it too, which would be much more fun to watch than have infinite ‘just as planned’ moments.
I do note one irregularity through. How are the Eastern and Northern armies are supposed to intervene, when the main bridge back to Central has been blown up (maybe alchemy will save the bridge?)? Is the country so small that a steam engine train or crappy cars could possibly make it to the capital from the East in a day to get there, considering the exercises take place the day before the Promised Day? While it’s still not exactly clear what Grumman’s plan of actually actually is, he likely knows that his little train stunt did nothing to actually hurt Bradley. Was it all just a play to draw Father out of hiding so that Hoenheim could find him? Or was it simply a way to kill a bunch of traitor senior officers all in one blow, while getting rid of Bradley at least for a very short while?
As for Ed, one wonders what exactly the little guy (who may have grown as he seems taller this episode) was doing all this time at Winry’s house. I really hope that he actually thought of something rather than just go to Winry’s house in the hopes that he might see everyone again (considering his first hunch failed big time). At the moment Ed seems a bit of a non-factor, although the next episode preview hints that him and Greed will have some awesome fight with Pride and Gluttony possibly saving Al in the process, although if they do it will likely be a total coincidence that they meet up.
Meanwhile, Mustang has obviously been busy all of this time. His former troops have now all gathered together (how did Riza escape Bradley’s spies exactly?) and we know *something* is about to happen.
We have no hint though of what’s going on with May Chang and Envy. Presumably by now Envy would have gotten her to meet up with the rest of the Homunculus by now unless she actually wizened up. I’m still holding out for her meeting up with Maria Ross and RAN FAN while squishing Envy somewhere, although I’d also accept Envy escaping as long as RAN FAN RETURNS.
As for the Ishbal army, the whole scene where they meet the army sort of reminded me of the scene in The Patriot where Mel Gibson’s kids kill off all the British soldiers in the woods. That is until I realized they were not actually ambushed and kumbaya was sang afterwards. I desperately hope that the Ishbal army is somewhat useful and doesn’t serve as a Gungan army proxy in some crappy re-imagined three-pronged attack ending to The Phantom Menance. The Ishbal are too awesome to just be ‘tribal army fodder’, although their lack of guns and alchemy power might hinder them.
Finally we get to the question of how Kimblee will factor into all of this. The dude’s gone missing for a while, so I totally expect him to be kicking some ass.
Oh and Izumi too.
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Naruto 485
March 5th, 2010
I love how Kakashi only tells Sakura to leave
Summary:
I always found it ironic that Naruto uses the tight, neat Rasengan and Sasuke uses the flashy, uncouth Chidori
Doesn’t it look like Sasuke is a Hollow in that picture? Anyway, it’s a replay of what happened when Sasuke ragequit the Konoha guild years ago as everyone tries to cheer Sasuke up and Sasuke replies that he is going to eat their children. Kakashi just comes out and tells Sakura that her plan sucked because Sasuke already got the H1N1 vaccine while he was staying at Orochimaru’s, and Karin decides that maybe it’s time to stop worshiping Sasuke and give online dating another try.
That's a false dichotomy! Nice try, Sasuke.
When Naruto learns that Kakashi wants to kill Sasuke, Naruto restrains his teacher and leaps in to meet Sasuke’s attack. Once again Chidori meets Rasengan, resulting in some weird in-mind discussion where Sasuke reiterates that the only way to cleanse the Uchiha name is to wipe out Konoha. Hopefully Naruto has a plan to not wind up unconscious in the water during this mulligan, but at least this time Sasuke won’t be flapping away with goofy wings and bad face makeup.
Reaction:
Eh, this was kinda a boring chapter, but at least Sakura didn’t screw anything up this time. I’m still eager to see what Naruto’s plan is, and I figure it will involve him schooling Sasuke with some Sage mode, only to have Madara sweep Sasuke to safety. Also, I always find these in-mind discussions to be so dumb, but at least nobody was naked a la Gundam.
I know some people dislike how Sasuke is all stereotypical crazy villain guy now, but I like it. He’s like a rabid dog striking out against everyone, and yet he’s so skilled in battle that his complete lack of strategy is that much more appalling. Sasuke is what Sakura would be if she actually had any good moves. Plus Sasuke’s emo just makes Madara’s manipulations that much more delicious.
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Hidamari Sketch x ☆☆☆ – 07
February 27th, 2010
*huff puff* Please, Mister! Let me Rosario your Vampire!
DISCLAIMER: She's only a freshmen… and/or "I will Claim her dis Claim her!"
YO, CHECK IT OUT! It’s Chika the Chick from Rydell High *cricket cricket*… So anyways, the entire episode is dedicated to Sae’s little (but curvacious) sister, Chika. As any other guest to the Hidamari apartments, she is paying a visit to eat free food and chat amongst her Rectangular Sistahs.
As the episode continues, the Hida-Gals visit Kawasemi Park, but instead of showing us what happened during their visit, they only chat about it while eating snacks (The animators were lazy again). Long story short, someone finally ate that Green thing that spies on Yuno whenever she is taking a bath. THE END!
*pst* I voted for Louise in Sai Moe! *trollface*
"OH NO U DIDN'T!!! IMMA CRANK DAT SOULJA BOY AND WHACK U UPSIDE YO RECTANGLE ASS IF YOU DON'T CORRECT DIS RIGHT NOW!!! SHEEEET!!! BITCH BE TRIPPIN'!!!"
"Girl, what is UP with your hair?! Looks like a na-ZOO-na went through it! *BA DUM PSH* Eyyyyy!!"
Impressions
This was an okay episode, but too much Chika is probably a bad thing since I’m a lolicon since she’s totally stealing everyone’s thunder. She has short hair like Yuno, big boobs like Yuno, big head like Yuno, a better personality than Yuno, the list goes on and on! Episodes involving Chika usually focus on the relationship between the sisters, but this time Sae wasn’t needed. Chika the Churro-Eater fit so well that you would think she was an Up Town Girl livin’ in a Hidamari World.
Speaking of Billy Joel, WHAT THE HELL WERE THEY WEARING?!?!… I LOVED IT!!! Nothing speaks ridiculous better than a nagging wife and her husband who never listens!
It was great seeing Chika and Nazna bond, but sometimes it seems a little forced. For instance, if this were real life and Nazna said “We went to a field trip in middle school”, there would be dead silence since no one would know how to react to it. It’s really hard for shy people like Nazna to keep a conversation going, so I’m glad Chika was there to help. In fact, it reminds me of the time TOTALM@STER gave me advice on becoming more proactive, but he was only advertising acne cream…
I'm dancing where the sun don't shine, happy as a cricket. "What did you wish for", I asked. "It doesn't matter. I've already won the ticket". I didn't understand, standing under his hand, my wish was "Let me learn more from this man". Jesus was a Gangsta Jigg. He's bustin' for the Customers
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Hidamari Sketch x ☆☆☆ – 06
February 26th, 2010
"YOU WANNA PUT UR CARROT IN MY CURRY?!?!"
"huh? I don't have to blog Darker Than BLACK OVA?… okay, I guess we're cool then"
“There’s something peculiarly wrong with Yoshinoya sensei“, say’s Yuno who happens to know everything (she read the script and is 2 weeks late with this post). Not only is there a random eye-catch every 5 or so minutes, but Yoshinoya keeps poking at her cellphone as if T-Mobile were still cool. Miyako con Yuno investigate with Hiro and Sae, who come to the conclusion that Yoshinoya is in love. After a few more misunderstandings, Yoshinoya reveals that she is only reading a love novel (?) on her cell phone.
Yuno takes a bath while reading this so called Cell Phone Love Novel and hates it. She hated it so much that she refused to blog that Darker Than Black S2 OVA.
"How do you solve a problem like Mi-Ya-KOoOooOOOoo!" (/Sound of Music)
In the future, Yuno and Miyako rush to class while catching Nawwwwwwwznaw with the opposite sex. Later, Sae and Hiro see Nawwwwwwwwwznaw with another guy as well! Those rectangular heads are filled with one thing: GOSSIP, so the Hidamari-ers (along with Nori) confront Nazna to find out da-deets. Apparently, Nazna is very popular with the boys (including my rival), and something about putting carrots into her curry. THE END!
People tell me that all the time!
Impressions
I quite enjoyed this episode, but mostly for the sexist tendencies (ex: girls reading electronic love novels IN THE BATH TUB, girls getting all excited when talkin’ bout BOIZ, putting carrots into other people’s curry, etc). I’m still confused why anyone would use an electronic device in the tub, but as long as it has warranty it should be fine (DISCLAIMER: It’s not fine. Don’t do it. Seriously.)
The 20 or so eye catches were pretty gangsta, especially the ones with Yuno’s boobage, Sae x Natsume, and the girls wearing glasses (except for Sae cause she’s already wearing glasses and looks like a man). Speaking of eye-glasses and eye-catching, the TOTAL_M@STER once told me he would pre-order Pokemon HeartGold and SoulSilver ’cause they were the best Pokemon games in the series. That is all.
"This Tub is TUBULAR, but there is no need to put it in an expensive sports car", said I while refuting his ridiculous claims. "Ridiculous is the Sign of a Genius. Promiscuous is the Sin of a Penis"… Jesus was a Gangsta Jigg. He's bustin' for the Customers
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Kimi ni Todoke 20
February 26th, 2010
Yo Chizuru, I'm really happy for you; I'mma Let you finish, but Ayane had one of the best romantic failures of this series!
Summary:
I was hoping to grab your buns, but all I got was flatbread
Chizuru is caught in an interesting dilemma as she wants to give Ryu his present (with a smile), and she wants to see Tohru again, but she knows she should wait until Tohru leaves before stopping by. When she gets there, she finds Ryu has been waiting for her, and he coldly gives her Tohru’s message and mentions that she sure took her sweet time. This supremely pisses Chizuru off, since she purposely waited until Tohru left, but Ryu combos off the launcher by honestly telling Chizuru that he is glad that things went down like they did, since now she can give up on Tohru. Naturally, this doesn’t go over well, and Chizuru throws her gift in Ryu’s face, tells him she hates him, and stomps off.
Ayane and Sawako feel terrible that they can’t help Chizuru feel better, but Shota says that their concern is sufficient to lift Chizuru’s spirits. Chizuru ignores Ryu all day, but he intercepts her in the stairway after her bread-o-rama. Ryu tactlessly agrees that Chizuru’s infatuation was hopeless from the beginning, and as Chizuru storms off again, Ayane and Sawako are there to comfort her. Seeing Sawako’s tears finally gets Chizuru to stop pretending nothing’s wrong, and she finally engages in two of the three things girls love to do after being dumped: binge eating and complaining about boys.
Reaction:
Too bad Chizuru is too poor for retail therapy
The first third of this episode was sooooo boring, watching Ayane and Sawako mope around. I’ve been there trying to comfort a forlorn friend, and it sucks; obviously watching someone else do it is not much more entertaining. However, Chizuru’s plight was much more interesting. I liked how she finally let loose about how terribly awkward the situation was, and how hard she tried to do the right thing. I even felt bad for Chizuru this time. All this time she seemed like your typical genki-baka but this episode really deepened her character a lot.
Ryu continues to employ a strange strategy for winning Chizuru over. Blunt honesty is his strength and Chizuru was never one for subtlety, but perhaps he could have held his tongue in a few cases. Still, the things he said were all things Chizuru needed to hear, and perhaps in time she can piece together what Ryu was implying when he said he was happy that Chizuru’s one-sided romance was destroyed. Hopefully the two of them can reconcile, although having Chizuru coming over to Ryu’s place to apologize only to find him making out with some hot, curvy chick in a mini-skirt would be an interesting/awkward development also.
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Naruto 484
February 26th, 2010
Wait, did you just shrink my boobs? You said you were going to enlarge them! I TRUSTED YOU!!!
Summary:
Why do you keep facepalming, Kakashi? Hmm… Sakura is behind me, isn't she?
Kakashi tries to get Sakura to stay away by ordering her to heal Karin. Karin can’t help but sympathize with the sobbing Sakura, as Sasuke works himself into a vengeful froth at the sight of Kakashi’s Sharingan. Sasuke brings back Susanoo for another speedy arrow, and of course instead of dodging the arrow, Kakashi warps the arrow away with his Mangekyo. Once again, Kakashi implores Sasuke to look inside his heart and find more than revenge; unfortunately, when Sasuke sees his smiling friends in his heart, he gets angry that they aren’t as emo about Itachi as he is.
Damsel in distress no jutsu
Sasuke powers up Susanoo, but suddenly his vision goes and Susanoo fizzles. Don’t worry Sasuke, it happens to everyone *snicker*. Before Kakashi can do anything (since he moves like he’s drunk after using the Mangekyo), Sakura zips in to try to backstab Sasuke. As expected, Sakura chickens out and gets taken hostage by Sasuke. This is Naruto’s cue to enter, and he sweeps Sakura off her feet before Sasuke can kill her.
Reaction:
I really hope that Madara warps in and carries Sasuke off in his arms the way Naruto did with Sakura. That would be awesome. Other than that, it was the same ole useless Sakura act once more. This battle could have resulted in victory in so many different ways, and yet Sakura managed to completely blow it. First, she could have thrown a sleep bomb as she went for the backstab. Second, she could have punched Sasuke in the face with her super strength when he grabbed her at close range. Third, she could have used her super strength to prevent Sasuke from gingerly taking the kunai out of her hand. I mean, WTF Sakura? It’s like Sakura has absolutely no fighting skills, but everyone is afraid to tell her because Sakura is such a skilled medic.
Anyway, I’m willing to bet that Naruto will get a few macho words in, but before the battle can really get underway Sasuke will escape. Sasuke is too injured for this to be a fair fight, so we’ll be left high and dry once again, and Naruto will have to go back to the village and mope with Sakura. Oh yeah, BTW, was Karin always so flat? And if Karin fell in love with Sasuke after he rescued her, shouldn’t she fall in love with Sakura next?
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Durarara!! 07
February 24th, 2010
What this film needs is a werewolf samurai
Summary:
Shizuo driving up health insurance premiums
Shizuo is narrating this time, and he tells of how his monstrous strength started when his quiet little brother Kasuka ate Shizuo’s pudding. Shizuo cannot control his anger at all and his rage overrides his brain’s normal limits. By tapping into the desperate strength typically reserved for fight or flight, Shizuo constantly injures himself badly but also comes back stronger each time. We then see Shizuo meeting up with Shinra, Selty, and Izaya while at Raira Academy, where Shizuo immediately clashes with the manipulative Izaya.
After HS, Shizuo had a tough time keeping his temper in check, and kept getting fired. One day his brother, now going by the stage name Hanejima Yuhei, stopped by the bar where Shizuo was working and gave Shizuo a ton of bartender uniforms in hopes that he would stop changing jobs so often. Unfortunately, Izaya framed Shizuo, which led to Shizuo’s brief arrest and the loss of his bartending job. Eventually, Shizuo secured a steady job acting as debt collector Tanaka Tom’s bodyguard, and as the episode comes to a close Shizuo mentions that he feels close with Selty because they both understand what it is like to feel lonely.
Reaction:
What part of 'Give us your melon pan' don't you understand?
I don’t really like Shizuo’s character that much, and I found this episode kinda boring. In fact, I would have preferred to see more of Kasuka’s Camilla Saizo, Vampire Ninja movie. I could tell that movie had a very deep storyline. One thing I didn’t understand was the flashback to the baker who looked a little like Anri. What was Shizuo’s problem? Sure he trashed her store and got her injured, but those thugs were totally gonna beat the crap out of her and trash her store anyway. If anything, she came out ahead, since the thugs got beaten up. Shizuo should have held his young head up high!
I noticed they kept showing Kadota being ignored by Shizuo, both in HS and on the street. Perhaps Shizuo is also one of the Dollars, since Kadota seems to think Shizuo ought to know him. Shinra doesn’t seem to have changed much since middle school, but it was fun watching Selty jab him in the solar plexus over and over again. Speaking of Selty, I am starting to think that it really is Selty’s head in the jar, because you’d think she’d be able to locate her head if it was out and about in Ikebukuro. I joked about it in the last episode, but now I wonder if Mika really did just cosplay as Selty to trick Seiji.
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Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood 45
February 23rd, 2010
NOOOO!!! Why is she my sister, I can't even ENJOY THIS :'( NOOOO!!!
Summary:
Pride is such a bastard
Jumping right into the fight from the end of the previous episode, Pride who’s not amused looks on as Wrath and Greed fight it out. Having fully regained his memories of his past, Greed takes out his revenge on Wrath as the guy who killed all of his former underlings.
This battle was pretty epic
After a super epic battle, Wrath manages to put Greed back into the same position he was the last time when he was defeated (on the ground with a sword to the neck). Fortunately for Greed, this time he’s able to escape by jumping out the window.
Meet the Armstrongs!
Meanwhile at the Armstrong mansion, Olivier tells her father to retire as the head of the household and to give control over to her, and also tells her parents to go take a long vacation out of the country. When he tells her that he’s always meant for Alex to take it over, she fully objects even when he walks into the room. Their father has another idea, for the siblings to fight it out, winner take all. With that his father immediately retires, and the entire family empties out the vault and decides to go to Xing for their vacation, while cutie Catherine is all too happy to go along. As the Armstrong clan packs up, we get to see Olivier totally own Alex completely and totally. After some awesome “nooooooooooooo!!!!”s Alex concedes and Olivier is the new head of the Armstrong family.
Out in the East, May Chang is about to leave to Xing when a random group of townsfolk decide to take care of her before her long journey. Sensing that she is moved by all of these kind people, Envy uses the opportunity to trick May into going back to Central to ’save these people’ and being the impressionable little girl she is, she goes along with Envy’s rouse.
Meanwhile Ed travels back to the hideout from a while back (the place where Gluttony first ate Ed) to find Al, but he’s nowhere to be seen. Amazingly though he runs into Ling who’s temporarily taken over his body back from the distraught Greed. He manages to let Al know that there’s a particular date that Father is going to run this plan into motion but before he can say more Greed comes back. Apparently Greed who now realizes that he’s alienated himself from the rest of the Homunculus, has decided to live alone, and Ed’s pleads to become friends come unheard. Ed finally begs Greed to be his subordinate though, telling him that he’d be a fool to pass up this opportunity to know some of the information that Greed knows even if he’s his subordinate.
That's some fine, fine ass
The rest of the episode deals with the beginning of Al’s plan as he sets into motion all of their allies by letting them know of the ‘promised date’. Everyone then contacts each other and pledges to all that on the promised day, the East and the North will move.
I like Riza in her casual clothes
Reaction:
Wow such an amazing episode. It’s hard to believe that within the first 6 minutes we get two of the most awesome fights in the last 10 episodes all plunked together. It almost felt as if those 6 minutes was the full episode when I was watching as time seemed to go a bit slower. It was THAT GOOD.
The second Greed/Wrath fight was all the more awesome because Pride was looking on, even as mommy was hugging Selim. The fact that GreedLing seemed to be stronger than the previous Greed also made for a better and more balanced fight.
Of course the highlight of the week was the Armstrong family battle. Olivier obviously intended to get her family out of the country and out of harm’s way, but she also seems to genuinely think that her little brother Alex is a loser. She makes short work of him in a ridiculously one sided battle. I’m pretty sad though that while the ‘battle’ saw Alex get his ass kicked over and over and getting thrown around, we don’t actually see Olivier doing her moves. It’s all implied that she’s doing crazy moves, but we don’t see anything. I’m also sure that of you many readers out there, you probably wish it was YOU that was owned by Olivier totally and completely.
The little bit of seeing Catherine was awesome too. I wish we got to see more of her and her amazing powers (as evidenced by Yoki).
The Ed/GreedLing pairing was a bit unexpected, but it’s good to see the two back together. Their little banter was always fun, although I wonder if that will be lost if Greed is in control most of the time.
Having Envy being able to trick May into going back to Central was somewhat expected. I mean the stupidity of NOT KILLING ENVY is just… stupid. Man you’d think they would not do something so obviously dumb, but… they did.
Finally we get to see all the ‘forces of good’ set into motion. As Ling mentions, the promised day is still a few seasons away. So will we suddenly flash forward into the future and thus see the fruits of a lot of preparation, or will the series still move at this ‘day at a time’ pace for a while longer before skipping to the end?
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