I looked at my watch and eagerly awaited for the time my train was supposed to arrive. After leaving from my part-time job as well as listing files in front of my computer for seven hours, I was thinking only about the magazine in my hands and the Boom Boom Satellites CD I was listening to. As the sunset was glaring, I adjusted my sunglasses and stood in line as I got ready to board the incoming train. As was usual, the train was devoid from seated places, since it’s full with people getting back to their homes, so I sit on the ground, on the opposite side of the train door.
Then she entered…
Today is the 50th anniversary of the day instant ramen went on sale in Japan - August 25th, 1958. You may remember January of 2007 when the creator of this delicious treat, Momofuku Ando, passed away and was given a huge send-off - Yasuhiro Nakasone, former Prime Minister of Japan, even delivered the eulogy at his funeral!
This meal, sometimes the only nutrition we can manage in between bouts of anime marathons at our computer desks, is easy to take for granted; it’s easy, cheap, and has always been around (sorry to our 50+ year old readers). So, I decided to do a bit of research on this subject, and thought you might be interested in what I found out!
Lelouch, about your mother, I have something to tell you…
This episode left me with many more questions than I have answers once again. While last week was a “shit hits the fan” episode, this week we are back to setting up the next confrontation. The writers manage to reveal some supernatural tidbits along with a surprising character appearance, but only give us part of the truth. And unsurprisingly, Schniezel continues to forward his scheme for world domination.
Yeah he’s dead for reals…
Ranka catches Alto-hime and Sheryl sharing a tender moment and begins to wallow in her own self pity. Wishing that she were dead and singing with anguish in her heart Queen Ranka of the Vajra served only to prompt Ai-kun and his siblings to realize Ranka’s pain in a more physical manner. While many died Leon and Grace took advantage of chaos and Ranka only could think of herself. I confess I am really ticked off at Ranka after this episode. I can forgive her being ignorant of her own abilities, I can forgive her for being slightly emo after her heart break, but what I cannot forgive is that when shit hit the fan all Ranka could do was cry and be useless to everyone. Here was her chance to grow up take the flight deck and sing her heart out to save the fleet, instead she delivers a massacre and feels nothing for anyone else. I know she is a kid, but it was high time she grew up. Ranka can’t be a kid forever and after this I cannot honestly say I would like to see Alto-hime choose Ranka because that is the heart of the problem she is still a child mentally and utterly incapable of entering a relationship and enduring the highs and lows of it. In a battle you find the true measure of a person, you learn of who they really are, if they are crazy, craven, bold, resolute, or stupid. Ranka showed that she is still that scared little girl from the 117th Fleet 11 years ago.
Being somewhat of a Negima! fan and even more of a SHAFT fan, I was rather excited to see this being released (and even subbed!). Despite having such a long title, the new “series” happens to be just three episodes long and are based more closely on the manga rather than what SHAFT did with the series previously.
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This has been a slow summer for me anime-wise, with not much new that has kept my attention. So, I’ve been using this chance to catch up on some of my backlog, marathoning older shows and reading lots of manga. If you read our fall preview, you may have noticed that I have recently become a huge, HUGE Clannad fan, and seeing as how I have this new love and lots of free time, I have been working my way through the manga.
As you may well know (I am a bit late to the party 
), after Key did the Clannad visual novel and the after story, they let their designers kind of run free with the universe, and one of them created another VN set in an alternate world where Tomoya ends up with Tomoyo, aptly calling this VN “Tomoyo After.” The manga that I want to talk about is a short work based on that VN, called Tomoyo After: Dear Shining Memories.
Watching this episode makes me wanna puke, and as you can see, I don’t even see what the story was about. ROFL to the randomness in the episode and Morte being unaware about her ripping skirt (And beat up poor Kirie and Toppi.) Must hate her this episode; Kirie and Toppi are just trying to help, and to save face to know that her skirt is ripping till the lower part is similar to wear an apron. And the stupid fake World Destruction Committee are NOT badass at all (Poor imitation in taking the look of Kirie, except his hairstyle, the coolheaded and less-tsundere Morte look-a-like (At least you don’t see her acting dere dere to her so-called Committee members), and a bear that is too big to look like Toppi)
Warning: Multiple references of Romantic Period (1820-1900) composers (Lots, of lots of them, probably people with little or no musical background will not understand the post.) And spoilers ahead, probably come back after watching the episode or don’t click the ‘more’ button. I’m warning you, period. And for those with music background, understand what is it about, or watched the episode, just click the ‘more’ button for another step of my thoughts for this episode. (One random loli inside, but sorry, no green-haired loli, Impzy.)
Don’t say that I didn’t warn you, readers. (And I’m going to be in deep crap after you readers finished reading this post, especially to the readers with music background.)
