Cause people celebrating Halloween are always late…

I bet this scared the hell out of you! Just admit it!

Well like the title implies, I’m posting this to wish you all a happy Halloween!

Umineko no Naku Koro ni – Episode 18: swindles

episode III-VII swindles

After all, moe Beato isn’t as moe as we thought. Umineko brought us another plot twist this week… Moe-Beato is revealed to have been acting to be good all along, according to the plan Virgilia (who was also acting) made, to have Battler sign his own defeat.

Kobato. 4 : Cause leaves make people cry…

Shocking revelation! Kobato kidnapped Karen from GX!

Last episode, Kobato received her second “candy” by healing a young girl’s heart, but Kobato’s work is far from over. She still has a lot of hearts to heal before her wish can be granted. Two new characters get introduced or rather reintroduced since they appeared last time already. Expect to see yet another naive bishoujo and one hell of a giant man… just kidding.

Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D’s Episode 82 – Insert Dangerous Spy Music Here

Advanced Happy Halloween!

This episode is the continuation of Yusei and the Guard Robot’s Duel… with an added twist: a countdown to self-destruction of the factory! Jack and Crow get in with the action and Bruno learns the basics of shounen anime: believe in the main character! Also, Placido starts his own biker gang called the “Diablo”.

Expect numerous cliched escape-from-self-destructing-building action, shounen anime syndrome and… more moe Jeager?

Seitokai no Ichizon 4 : Can you imagine it? (with 30% more yaoi)

Thanks to Kurimu, we have no episode this week.

Nothing much to intro about. Last time, Lilicia, a new character, got introduced as president of the Journalism club. Today, we’re going a complete different way and I have to say, it was the funniest way I’ve seen so far. Look forward to some really good comedy and back pinching of some cliché genres. In other words, parody at its best!

Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood 29 – The Fool’s struggle

Bradley: "...!"

Episode 29 of FullMetal Alchemist Brotherhood. Unfortunately, this episode doesn’t contain battle scenes. It is filled with conversation that will strengthen the backbone of the plot for the next episodes. Don’t worry though, as I said from the last reviews, every episode is good, and that includes this one.

So, let’s start…

Asura Cryin’ 2 Episode 4 (EX017) – Endings and Beginnings

"Here is the complete collection of H-Games by Sugisaki."

Tomoharu and company are saved by a person who seems to be Naotaka. They are left in Kagakagiri’s care as they learn of what Kagakagiri was after: the way to separate Burial Dolls from Asura Machina. We also learn of the ways of the demons from Christina. As physical bonds are severed, deeper bonds are created. Kurogane is summoned once again.

Darker than Black Ryuusei no Gemini 03 – Vanishing into the snow field…

Symbolism.

Episode 3 of Darker than Black. As usual, the episode contains battle scenes, plot twists, naked Yin, once per episode mood splasher, twin twin tailed blondies and a lot more…

Nothing happened about me today so let’s get the show on the road~

Hayate no Gotoku Chapter 245

This would have worked on pretty much every other character that likes Hayate.

Last time, after Hayate recovered from his injuries, he set out in search for Athena. After some time of searching and a bit of Athena flashbacks, Hayate finally found Athena when she was off-guard, and asked her a very important, yet, pretty obvious question.

Umineko no Naku Koro ni – Episode 17: promotion

In this episode, Battler decides to aknowledge Beatrice as his opponent again only after she proves she’s a “real witch”, who actually uses her magic to help people, as magic was supposed to exist for. So, this time we see a totally different moe-Beatrice, who keeps on changing. She revives Shannon with the help of George and in the very end of the episode, she wishes to do the same with Kanon, even if that costs her her life. After all, she wants to keep playing with Battler no matter what…

The episode picks up from where the last one left off, with Eva and company discovering the corpses. Eva cries over her dead husband’s corpse as Battler tries to realize what’s happened. George tells him to hang in there, and for that he’s scolded, having already lost a lover and a parent and still worrying about others.

Game room: Battler monologues about the worth of life with Virgilia, Ronove and MoeBeato as his crowd. Since humans only live for a limited time, they live their lives with everything they’ve got. For Beatrice to toy with them and stepping on their worth, Battler can’t forgive her. Beato tries to stop him and explain herself but she’s soon put well off her place by Virgilia, who tells her to keep quiet and listen to what Battler has to say. Battler keeps on telling her he kinda understands her situation though, having to continue the murders in order for her ressurection. However, any unnecessary actions of cruelty are nothing more than her bloodlust going wild. Controlling over people’s lives has made her forget how to respect life itself. Battler refuses to aknowledge that as his opponent. Virgilia makes a comment on how Endless Witches play with life and death like if it were a game. She is then asked by Battler the reason Endless Magic exists. Her answer is simple enough for Battler to pronnounce Beato as a failure of a witch and definitely not worth being his opponent; it exists to bring happiness to the human world. Beato stands up and asks him when will he finally accept her again, and what does she have to do for it, were it to happen. Battler just tells her to think about it herself, or ask Ronove or Virgilia if she feels confused. As she puts on a crying face, Battler promises not to let go of her game –wait for her untill she finally becomes a ‘real witch’. She oaths she’ll make sure to have this happen and thanks him.

Back to the mansion, the Ushiromiyas were now locking up so to stay safe. Of course, little obstacles such as locked windows and doors wouldn’t be a problem for the Golden Witch, Beatrice, but that they don’t know… yet. Krauss announces to the rest they were unable to find the guns and key of Kyrie and Rudolf. The kids move into their room, silence overrules the whole place. Battler wonders why do people have to die since that brings so much sadness to the world. Jessica joins him and brings up the example of their Grandfather, who was so obsessed over reviving Beatrice. Not being able to stand up another minute like this, George leaves the room to get coffee, refusing the idea of the others tagging along.

Halfway through his way, Beato calls out his name and appears before him, asking him if he wants to see Shannon again. George, although starled, states he’ll give her anything she wants in exchange for that wish of his. Beato however felt like granting it for free, trying to become a witch who is able of helping people. She tells him that now she’s abandoned the title of an Endless Witch, her magical power is insufficient, and so she asks for George to help her with it. He agrees gladly, and they both teleport to someplace else. Their actions have been well aware off though. Eva-Beatrice, who was outside with Ronove, the Siestas and a Sister noticed something strange from the guesthouse. The Siestas apologise for not noticing as well, and so does Ronove and Lucifer -although the last two seem to be faking it.

Eva was now sleeping in a room with Krauss and Natsuhi, the rest of the adults minus Dr. Nanjo. While taking that rest of hers, she talks about things with Eva-Beatrice through her mind. She says that she was wrong by thinking that by attaining the Ushiromiya family headship she would be satisfied. At the time she saw that huge pile of gold, she started lusting for it, wanting it all for herself. At that time Eva-Beatrice was born. All because she couldn’t overcome that temptation. Eva-Beatrice isn’t just her heart from her days as a girl, she’s also the evil part of her heart. In that case though, Eva would be held responsible for the deaths of Rosa, Maria, Rudolf, Kyrie and even Hideyoshi himself. Upon hearing her husband’s name she loses it, crying out to learn the reason Eva-Beatrice killed him. Eva-Beatrice tells her that he was being noisy and obnoxius, and also blames her for choosing a husband like that. Eva finally breaks down to tears and tells her that a kid like her would never understand anything about how good Hideyoshi was. Kinda irritated by her, Eva-Beatrice reminds her she made all her dreams come true. After all, she had found the gold and obtained the headship. All the other dreams Eva made during her adulthood matter not for the witch, who now takes an aggresive stance over her. Eva makes clear they’re not the same person anymore and orders her to get lost. She does so, pissed off, leaving Eva behind her wondering if she really killed Hideyoshi.

Krauss lights up a smoke and Eva starts acting up to it, coughing. He immidiately apologizes and asks Natsuhi to bring her some water. Eva tells them she’s just fine and leaves the room to get some fresh air, telling them she’ll make coffee once she comes back. Natsuhi realizes that her husband actually cares about his brothers and sisters, who he’s been bullying so arrogantly all this time, after all. Someplace outside, Eva-Beatrice orders the Siestas to take both of their lives, which they do moments later using those cool arrows of them.

We now move to see Beato again, who had teleported with George to where Shannon’s dead body was lying. Having to use both her and George’s powers to give life back to Shannon, she asks him to try and remember Shannon’s form from when she were still alive. While the spell is being casted, she tries to realise the worth of a human life, seeing how hard George was trying for his lover’s sake. For her, death meant nothing more than just the front or back of a coin, which she could flip anytime. She comes to the conclusion that Endless Witches like her are somewhat inferior to humans, who live for a limited amount of time. At that time, the spell is cast and Shannon’s lifeless corpse is brought back to life. While they finally embrace again and exchange lovetalk, Eva-Beatrice orders the Siestas to shoot their new targets, who are no one other than our lovebirds. Another bolt of light strikes them in the form of an arrow and takes their lives away forevermore. Surprised and annoyed, Beato abandons the room, leaving their bodies behind. The Siestas ask Eva-Beatrice if it were a good move not to attack Beatrice herself at that time, where they had the upper hand. Eva-Beatrice assures them that Beato won’t be taken down so easily, and that they should wait before they make their move.

Meanwhile, Eva regroups with Nanjo and the rest of the teens, who are in search of George and Jessica’s parents. They start by searching at the rose gardens, where they come across two corpses. Natsuhi’s and Krauss’. Jessica goes mad, and so does Eva, who’s now more worried for her son’s life than ever. They both dash off to different directions, with Battler following Eva who searches for George, and Nanjo going after Jessica who’s crying over her dead parents’ bodies.

The scene moves on with Eva and Battler. They’re now inside the mansion searching for Eva’s (dead) son. Outside one of the mansion’s doors their’s another bloody symbol, this time having numbers drawn on top of it. The numbers read ’07151129′ and coincidentally, Battler’s birthday is on the 15th of July. Eva writes them down before she unlocks the door to the room her dead son was at. George was lying next to Shannon, at the exact same spot they died at; nobody had moved them. Battler worries that he’s up next, ready to die and leave his little sister Ange behind, all alone. Jessica dashes into the room angrilly, Dr. Nanjo trying to calm her down. She blames Eva for the murders, since she was the only one who was with Krauss and Natsuhi. Eva pleads innocent and asks her why is George dead too, then. Jessica gets pissed off and attacks Eva, who shoots at bullet at her by accident, luckilly not hurting her more seriously than just a discharge injury at her eyes due to the fire. Eva flees the scene and Battler follows her, while Dr. Nanjo takes Jessica in for treatment.

Jessica’s injury was a minor one, only taking away her visibility for a small amount of time. All the time she was treated she babbled about how Eva is the real culprit, the one behind the murders. Dr. Nanjo however wasn’t as convinced as her and tried to calm her down before leaving the room to find Battler. That would never happen though, he was the next one. Eva-Beatrice herself appears before him to carry out the ninth twilight, which will let her free. He pleads for his life and tells her he has a sick grandchild to take care off. That wouldn’t stop her, of course, from killing him. Moving on, her next toy would be Jessica, who had zero anti-magic power and resistance, due having lost her sense of sight. Jessica cries out for Kanon to save her one last time.

For the episode’s grand finale, we have Beatrice deciding to bring Kanon back to life, so he can save her. Ronove warns her that there is a huge risk in this that she may lose her life. Still, she’s decided she’ll do it to prove Battler her worth. She orders Ronove to hide himself while bidding her farwell…

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My thoughts:

Not much this week either, it was an OK episode I guess. Beatrice sure did it this time though, she hated Shannon so much for living her love and now there she is, giving back life not only to her, but risking her life to do the same for Kanon. Of course, we all know how’s Kanon gonna end up again, in case he’s brought back to life…

Beato dying right now is out of the question too… Right?

episode III-VI promotion

In this episode, Battler decides to aknowledge Beatrice as his opponent again only after she proves she’s a “real witch”, who actually uses her magic to help people, as magic was supposed to exist for. So, this time we see a totally different moe-Beatrice, who keeps on changing. She revives Shannon with the help of George and in the very end of the episode, she wishes to do the same with Kanon, even if that costs her her life. After all, she wants to keep playing with Battler no matter what…

Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D’s Episode 81 – Grand Theft Auto: Neo Domino City

Jeager moe?

This episode is about the retrieval operation for the data that Jeager stole. Placido makes another appearance as well. Yusei battles a nursing Guard Robot in the process.

Expect comedic escapes, much more Jeager than usual, and large robots. Also, Terminator.

A Certain Scientific Railgun 03 – Tokiwadai’s Eyebrow Crisis

we know where you live

Ohay, it’s a new episode of Railgun! Again, this episode is generally light-hearted and comedic, though there are implications that it’ll start heating up soon enough.

Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood 28 – Father

-Character of the week-

The recap episode is done people! We’re now on the second half of Fullmetal Alchemist. I thank Bones for adapting this one hell of a masterpiece (I don’t read manga much… I really want to though). I never felt this ever since I saw Suzumiya Haruhi back in 2007. Keep up the good work and for more anime to come!

As the episode title says. The episode is focused on ‘The Father’ and the Homunculi. Expect some fighting scenes, mood splashes, and revelations (LING!!). Unfortunately, there’s no Roy or Ran Fan but we have to endure it. Overall, it’s a good episode, like always.

For the bloggers… I’m sorry if I hadn’t showed up much lately, busy as usual… B-but I’ll try to come!! Believe it!!

Kobato. 3 : Umbrella in the Rain

Mr. Cool goes Akio

Last week Kobato collected her first “candy” by healing the heart of a boy from the nursery. Today Kobato has to prove Puppy-san she can keep up the good work. We’ll see lots of umbrellas and boyish tsundere voiced by none less than Marina Inoue (Kana from Minami-ke). For the fans of blonde twintails *pokes lazy prince* there’s some good stuff in here.

Seitokai no Ichizon 3 : Drills and Interviews

Tsundere : Cause they're worth it

Today’s episode, we’ll get to see another character : Lilicia Toudou. Doesn’t tell you much I guess, but what if I tell you that this ojou is voiced by none less than Mamiko Noto! Surprising, if you ask me… but that’s not the only surprise in the episode. Sugisaki will reveal a tiny little secret about his past as well… Gotten interested?