Category: Anime

Leon looks way too much like small Trunks in Dragon Ball Z. In this episode, you get to see Eve do some pretty crazy transformations.

Black Cat Episode 18 – Sailing Cat

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Most of this episode is about Eve’s battle with Leon trying to get him to go back to his friends, the orphans. Reminded me of a very weak incomparable version of when Kenshin tries to convince Aoshi to return back to his comrades. Eve got to do some really cool transformations like mermaid and angel. She also apparently learnt how to make a big shield in front of her. I don’t think she’s ever done that before.

While this is happening, the Chronos Numbers advance into Creed’s castle and at the end of this episode Chronos #1 is in the same room as Creed and the famous actress lady.

Train seems to go around just doing random monster killings for the 1st 3rd of the episode and for the last bit, he’s rushing toward the castle.

Creed’s sort of gone crazy. When Leon was reported losing to Eve, he goes, “Leon? Never heard of him.” So much for being comrades. I’m still not sure why everyone is still following Creed. Charden and Kyoko has already left and you can tell the actress lady is starting to have big doubts.

This episode finally ties the several of the episodes together, but there’s still a lot of unexplained things going on.

King of Fighters – Another Day Episode 4 – All Over

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Ash Crimson is after the Three Sacred Treasures. To obtain the power of Kusanagi Kyo after obtaining the powers of Kagura Chizuru and Yagami Iori, green fire has bee unleashed on South Town. Iori chases after Ash. Alba tries to protect South Town.

Kyo is dragged into the battle without a choice… The demon’s fire is quelled, the long night ends, and finally a gentle light shines on.

But, Alba and Soware’s battle has not ended…

セイバーは凄い可愛いいいいいいい！！！
(Saber ha sugoi kawaiiiiiiii!!! / Saber is so cute!!!)

Fate/stay night Episode 9 – Elegance Under the Moon

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So last episode left us off with Saber going to fight the servant hiding in the temple. The servant there is of class Assassin. Interesting guy indeed.

Rider shows up later and attacks the master while the servant is off fighting Saber. The master is some lady hidden behind a hooded cloak, but even Rider wasn’t a match for her it seems.

The fight between Saber and Assassin was pretty cool. Saber unsheathes her sword for the first time, and you can see her releasing huge amounts of mana, creating something like a tyhpoon.

However, the fight is stopped when they noticed a new servant has appeared. From the shadows, it looks like Lancer. But it was a good thing, because Saber already overexerted herself and fell unconcious. Shirou apparently has some sort of link with Saber and fight when she was in danger and followed her. He carried her all the way home and Rin apparently woke up and caught him in a weird position with Saber.

But Rin knew what was up and Shirou and Saber started talking about what they saw that night. The truth is out that Shirou doesn’t want Saber to get hurt and would rather he fight than her. Saber asks why is he being so reckless and Rin explains that Shirou knows that he can’t win against a servant, but he would rather try fighting than put Saber in danger. The argument goes back and forth for a bit, and finally Saber says she’ll agree to Shirou’s actions as long as he trains with her starting tomorrow in swordsmanship.

It’s going to be interesting what’s going to happen next. The preview showed that the little girl (in charge of Berserk – Heracles), really likes Shirou, but the preview didn’t reveal too much.

Anime’s moving along. Nothing big is really happening. Rumor is Saya won’t be coming back for awhile (though you do get to see her in Train’s dreams sometimes). That’s been confirmed by manga readers, who even claim things worse than not coming back. I’m really starting to lose interest, but we’ll see.

Black Cat Episode 9 – Fascinating Cat

Black Cat Episode 10 – Mad Cat

Black Cat Episode 11 – The Fake Cat

Black Cat Episode 12 – Fighting Cat

Black Cat Episode 13 – L♥ve Cat

Black Cat Episode 14 – Small Cat

Black Cat Episode 15 – Dragon-Hunting Cat

Black Cat Episode 16 – Dozing Cat

Black Cat Episode 17 – Sailing Cat

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So more is know about the Taoists. Apparently Creed has created a new group called Apostles of the Stars to destroy Chronos and release their hold on the world. Some of them want to take over that control themselves. Creed really wants Train to join their group, but fails multiple times. Train also wants to kill Creed to avenge Saya’s death. So this goes back on forth a bit where Train leaves the groups and tries to fight Creed himselve. Sven and Hime-chan always finds him though and Sven gives him a beating every time.

Then you meet Kyoko who’s had a major crush on Train the moment they meet. She calls him Kuro-Sama (Black-Sama) because Train tells her his name is Black Cat. Every time she tries to kiss him, Train sticks a cat to her face and she ends up kissing the cat instead. Later on Kyoko and Charden leave the Apostles of the Stars because Charden believes they’re no longer serving the original goal and Kyoko doesn’t want to be an enemy of Kuro-Sama.

So the story moves on, when Train takes a bullet for Kyoko. But this was a special bullet that contained nano-machines and Taoist potion. Apparently it shrinks him and he becomes a 10 year old kid. There he neats a bunch of kids. Apparently Leo used to be their head. Leo is the kid in Apostles of the Stars. However, the cure to Train’s shrink was fried omelette which Hime-chan made and now he’s all grown back. Not sure if he’s going to shrink again.

So the story continues where they have to cross a mountain. Train once again runs away and ends up in a hidden mountain village. There’s a girl that resembles Saya in almost everyway. However, they’ve introduced a new storyline about how she’s protecting a prince that’s been given a bad omen on how he’s going to destroy the world, and she and several others took the prince away to protect him in this mountain. Thinking back on this, I have a completely new theory on Saya. This is just sort of way out there, but maybe, just maybe Train is that prince. The incident in the mountains was all a dream. The reason why Saya and that girl resembled so much is because Saya is that girl, but a ghost, or maybe in another form (maybe a cat). Saya’s goal was to protect Train (the prince) and lead him onto the correct path.

In the last episode that I saw, nothing much really happened. You find out the team of sweepers that was set to capture Creed and the Apostles of the Stars was actually led by a Chronos Number. Things happened and some good feelings scenes apart, there’s this cute little girl that appears. There’s this cursed island filled with monsters (taoist transformations apparently) and her parents had sent her away on a boat so she could survive. She goes around the harbor begging people to take her to the island and in trade, she’ll give them all her treasure which consisted of a big jar of pretty seashells. It was so cute and adorable. No one of course would accept the offer. She then meets Train’s group and there’s this new member, I forget his name, and he takes 1 seashell from the little girl and promises to bring her parents back. Not too sure if he should’ve made the promise. Now that he’s given her hope, only thing left is despair if he fails.

I’m still not sure what this mini series is about. It seems to be trying to explain the story about the characters, but so far, none of the episodes have connected. Hopefully they will soon because I’m pretty lost at what’s going on.

King of Fighters – Another Day Episode 3 – In The Dark

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The mercenaries who rush to capture the “clone Kyo” spotted in South-town were trying to find the genius scientist “Dr. Makishima”‘s whereabouts. “K'” and “Maxima” infiltrated South-town amidst that chaos.

But, K’ and company, who lost their only clue during the fight with “Ralph” and company, disappeared and did not come back.

And here as well, there were men that continued to fight alone.

Yay! More Saber-chan!

Fate/stay night Episode 6 – The Two Magicians – Part 2

Fate/stay night Episode 7 – Writhing

Fate/stay night Episode 8 – Dissonant Melody

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Just a brief overview, Rin and Shirou team up. However, it appears another student at school is a master and he/she’s been ordering their servant to absorb the mana from the students and is creating a force field around the entire school which Rin believes when is finished will kill everyone at school. So they go around breaking seals trying to slow down the force field.

Later on, you meet Rider, another servant and she openly attacks Shirou and Rin. Shirou gets injured protecting Rin. Also Saber told Shirou to summon her in case he was in any danger, but Shirou believed he could fight her off. Rin comes in later and helps out and pushes Rider back. You later learn that Shinji, Shirous archery friend, now a bastard, is the master of Rider. He claims the force field is for protection reasons and it isn’t him going around school taking mana from students, though previous scenes clearly show he is lying. He talks about how his family used to be magicians but their roots have long been dried, though they still have all the knowledge, just no way to apply it. So that’s why he wants to team up with Shirou who can perform sorcery, but doesn’t have the knowledge and attack Rin. Probably a personal vendetta since Rin rejected Shinji quite openly, but Shirou rejects the proposal since he’s already teamed up with Rin.

Shinji then mentions that there’s another servant at the temple. The temple is place where deal souls gather, but it also has a force field which weakens the servant. You meet a new master/servant in episode 8, but it doesn’t mention who they are, but it appears another sword wielder as the servant. Shirou goes back and discusses this with Rin and Saber, and Saber says they should go attack before they do, but Shirou likes to play the defense. Also Rin’s decided to move in with Shirou and Saber wants to sleep in the same room as Shirou in order to better protect him. Sakura of course is put in an awkward position since she sees Rin as a rival.

Got these cute icons from 第2回『Fate/stay night』キャラクター人気投票 (from Artemyst). The title translates to The 2nd Round “Fate/stay night” Character Vote.

The are 2 favorite type of scenes that I cherish in Detective Conan. The first one being when very smart people recognize his true ability:

The second being when his identity is about to be revealed (especially to Ran):

You can mouse over the images to see the subtitles or click on each image to enlarge.

AMV Hell 3 (from Deadlock) (AMV Hell’s homepage)

When I first saw this, it reminded me of Robot Chicken.

The video is an hour and 8 minutes long. Some were funny, but most were rather stupid. The only reason I’m bring this video up is because there was a short clip of Grenadier in it that reminded me of Equilibrium, but a lot sexier.

Remember that animated gif I posted awhile ago where spare bullets popped out of a woman’s breast and loads them into her gun while the bullets were in mid-air. This is the same anime. I ended up getting the entire season to find this clip. Turns out to be on the last episode (episode 12). You can watch the clip here (direct download), but since this is from the last episode, it may contain spoilers. If you’re watching it in your browser, do note that the file is 16megs and will require for the whole file downloaded before it can start playing, so give it some time. You might also want to change your video size to “WIDE” or else the proportions won’t be correct. Tera says this anime was mostly fan service. My brief skim of the anime didn’t reveal anything interesting, so I probably won’t be watching this.

I just added an additional part to the clip: Grenadier – Equilibrium Clip (direct download). Though I must warn you, it is not work safe.

To actually find out the anime’s title, I went to my friend Tera:

<Krunk> hey tera
<Krunk> what’s that anime
<Krunk> where it’s like females shooting guns
<Krunk> but the bullets
<Krunk> spare bullets
<Tera> come out of her tits
<Tera> grenadier
<Krunk> are stored between their tits
<Krunk> yah
<Tera> lol
<Krunk> thanks
<Tera> i was reading ur mind
<Krunk> haha
<Tera> by <Krunk> but the bullets
<Tera> it’s not a bad show
<Tera> fanservice aside
<Tera> but i like anime like that
<Tera> so my opinion is biased
<Tera> jsut telling u
<Tera> i’ve been trying to find wallpaper for it but there’s nothing good =(
<Krunk> haha
<Krunk> i just want to screen capture the equlibrium parody

During my quest to rip this clip for you guys, I found this very useful guide: How to convert matroska MKV to AVI or OGM to AVI. Worked exactly as advertised. I love it when they tell you what tools you need, they actually link you to the tools.

There was this other tool I tried: SUPER v2006. SUPER stands for Simplified Universal Player Encoder & Renderer. It is suppose to be able to convert any file to any other file. The interface looked simple when I tried it, but it had problems splitting up the MKV, which I don’t think they support anyway. I actually found this file when I was searching for ways to convert Google video files to divx and xvid, so you might want to try it out.

It’s been awhile since I talked about Gun X Sword. Series is moving along slowly. Getting repetitive and I really have no clear idea about where it’s going. The only thing keeping me watching this series is la tortuga (the turtle). The turtle is awesome!

Gun X Sword Episode 12 – Days that won’t come back

Gun X Sword Episode 13 – Inside a dream

Gun X Sword Episode 14 – Swift Brownie

Gun X Sword Episode 15 – Neo Original

Gun X Sword Episode 16 – Electrical Fireworks Sparkle

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You learn more about Van’s armor in this episode. You actually meet Gadved, the person who enhanced Van’s body so it’d work in Dann. Apparently there are 7 original armors and they are named after the days of the week. Van’s is Dann Thursday. Gadved has one of the original armors too and he carries an axe instead of a sword. It turns out Gadved works with the claw man and apparently is trying to recruit Van. Also, it turns out it was Gadved who invited the claw man to the town and killed Helena (Van’s wife) during their wedding ceremony. It’s still not clear why Gadved did that and why he follows the claw man, but it was for the better of the world. He didn’t have an explanation for Helena’s death either.

So they get in a big fight. In the end of the fight, Van wins. No big surprise there and Gadved is killed. His companions swear to avenge his death.

Do remember this was when Van told Wendy to leave and go home. Wendy turns up and finds an old man talking about dreams and the world and how most people’s dreams aligned and for those who don’t, will only create conflicts. Later when Joshua’s brother shows up, we learnt that he was the claw man. Some fight scenes occur, but the claw man and his companions were able to escape.

You also learn that Wendy’s brother will be piloting the armor Sunday.

Episode 14 was basically a filler or maybe it was introducing a new character for the sake of it. Out comes Priscilla, an armor piloting lady who’s won many fans. She and her older sister takes care of orphans and she tries to give them a better life by eating bread crusts herself. Quite noble. A company had hired Van to represent them in the armor tournament. The winner of the tournament gets a lump sum of money which both Van and Priscilla needed. So who’s going to win? Well Van wins the battle, but apparently the registered armor that was suppose to fight shows up and loses to Priscilla and she wins the money.

The next 2 episodes are about Van’s battle with Woo, another pilot of one of the original armors. She has some Oedipus complex, where he hated his father and loved his mother. His attempt to murder his father failed when his mother blocked him and he stabbed and killed her instead. Weird guy. But anyway, somehow this led to anger against Van which isn’t too clear why. Their first battle ended with Van injured quite badly and Woo’s ultimatum was to either die in the next battle or leave here in 3 days and don’t ever chase after the claw man again.

Here Van thinks deeply. He can’t win no matter how many scenarios goes through his head. He’s confused and lost and doesn’t want to die. Wendy got really sick and a high fever trying to take care of him. So he turned around and took care of her. At the end, Van decides it’s better to run away and live than to die fighting for the cause. Quite an unexpected turn of events and for once you saw Van’s truly weak side. Wendy on the other hand held strong and said if Van wanted to run away, he should, but she’ll continue her journey trying to get her brother back.

Van is even more confused now. He has some flashbacks to Helena and who he was before he met her. All this while, he’s playing with the puzzle/trinket that Gadved had given him. Suddenly by luck the puzzle is solved and a sword key comes out. He realizes something about how Helena and him are connected and blah blah and becomes super strong. I don’t think the sword key had anything to the do with the upgrade besides the fact it helped him solve an internal conflict. The battle ended pretty fast with Woo dying.

The best scene was when they needed money and Van suggests they gamble. Wendy agrees with this proposition and goes to a casino. She ends up betting on a turtle racing by betting all her money on her turtle. It was funny how she was cheering her turtle on, saying how if he doesn’t win, he won’t get anything to eat and if he did win, then he’d get some nice food. But he was still placing 2nd until Van screams if he doesn’t win, he’ll turn him into turtle steak. At this time, he makes a weird face (see my AIM buddy icon) and tries his best and jumps to victory. It was hilarious. Later, you learn that Van doesn’t like turtles and Wendy gets mad at him.

So the journey continues.