Revolutionary Girl Utena – 38

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What the HECK!?!

Okay, that was just a horrible cliffhanger. This really, really was something you DO NOT expect… I mean… Utena will now…. omg.

I’d love to prepare some kind of summary on this episode, but it would just be filled with spoilers. All I can say is, that this was an incredible episode. The duel also was awesome to see. For some reason, Revolutionary Girl Utena always features some incredible battles, and this episode surely was no exception. Certainly with the awesome elegance, even more awesome background music, and even more awesome character development and interaction. Believe me. This episode was NO exception. It also had one of the best cliffhangers EVER.

Revolutionary Girl Utena – 37

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The last intermezzo episode before the grande finale starts. This one was mainly meant to get Utena out of her crisis, become more like a prince, and forgive Himemiya. I have to say, that these things worked out pretty well. It’s not the best episode of its kind, however (that credit goes mainly to Mahou Shoujotai), but still, it was enjoying to see. I’m curious about how this will end. The thing I loved most is the fact that Sayonji and Touga are still together. I have no friggin idea why I find the fact of the two of them being together so amazing. Actually, now that I think about it… it scares me a bit…

Revolutionary Girl Utena – 36

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WHAT. AN. INCREDIBLE. EPISODE!!!

Oh my god… I knew that this was supposed to be the end of the Touga-arc, but I never could have imagined the awesomeness it contained. First of all, they give a very nice variation to the car-theme, by suddenly showing up in a motorcycle with a side-car. Akio entirely stays out of the picture in this episode, and the only times he gets mentioned are when people talk or think about him. This alone made it into such an incredible episode, but I NEVER could have imagined to actually feel sorry for Touga. Firstly, he ACTUALLY confesses his love for Utena. Then we get to see his reason for duelling her. Really, if I were to see this after episode 10, I would not have believed it. I can hardly believe it even at this time.

Anywya, he and Sayonji make some plans, which actually made me dislike Utena more and more. Especially because of the mistrust she puts in Touga, even after all this. In the end, when the battle began, I actually chose sides for Sayonji and Touga. Which has probably been a first time ever.

Speaking of the devil, eh… battle. It was AWESOME! I so kept hoping for Utena to lose. But then again, after Touga’s reasons were revealed, how couldn’t I? The cars may have been a bit too much this time, especially after being followed up by the motorcycle, but the climax was great. Also the beginning of the battle had me glued to the screen. The elegance of all of the characters only added up to the awesomeness. The aftermath was amazing. I am SO wondering what will become of them in the last couple of episodes. Actually, I’m curious about every single one of the side characters. They all got their place in the spotlight. Only Utena, Akio, Himemiya and the Prince remain to have a conflict. What will the side characters do!?!

And if even this wasn’t enough, the cliffhanger of this episode just blew me off my chair. Okay, it had it coming for a long while, but still… OMG!

Overall, this was probably the best Utena-episode yet. I’m really dying to find out what the last couple of episodes will be about.

Revolutionary Girl Utena – 35

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An intermezzo. Still, one heck of an intermezzo. The focus lies mostly on Touga and Utena. The symbols are as existant as ever, the Kashira-girls are awesome again, and what the heck is up with Himemiya!?

Utena’s herself doesn’t have any problems at all. At least, in her opinion she doesn’t. She’s actually moving farther and farther away from her goal. She begins to act more and more like a woman, the opposite thing to do in order to save Himemiya. All because she loves that idiot of an Akio. Dammit! I want Himemiya to be saved!

The awesome part, however, comes from Touga. The next episode will feature the last of the rose-bride duels, with the third duel between Utena and Touga. That won’t be everything, however, as there are still four episodes left. Anyway, this episode, we finally see Touga himself struggle. Sayonji helps him brilliantly in this. I so love it when the two of them are together (except their Yaoi-ness, perhaps…). You can really see that they are good friends. Sayonji is probably the only real friend Touga has. Touga only lives using people as objects. He’s a playboy, and he never really loved anyone. Though, the upcoming battle with Utena sets him to think. I also was exremely surprised at seeing his relationship with Akio. On one side, he wants to be like him. On the other side, I can’t stand the look on his face once he saw Utena and Akio happy together.

Ayakashi ~Japanese Classic Horror – 06



The man (what the heck was his name again? *kicks memory*) gets ordered to return the falcon he lost in the previous episode. If he doesn’t, he gets to perform seppuku. Though I think he would’ve gone back anyway. When he arrives at the castle, he meets up with the two demons, and the three form a truce. It’s interesting that the demons are on the good side for a time. Well then, they enter the castle, and suddenly they got attacked by a couple of forgotten gods. The demons actually help our main character escaping, after which he goes to search for Tomi Hime. He finds her, but before the two can get to know each other, the old woman manages to catch him and knock him out. He finds himself locked up afterwards, only to be freed by Tomi Hime. The two talk for a bit, Tomi Hime shows her background, and they officially end up as a couple. After a wild night, the main character convinces Tomi Hime to run from the castle, and the two run off on a horse. This doesn’t actually please the old woman.

Overall, I like this romance. It’s greatly executed and I can really feel that these characters love each other. There’s just one problem. This show is called “Ayakashi ~Japanese Classic Horror”. Not “Ayakashi ~Japanese Classic Love-Stories Involving Supernatural Beings”. I have yet to see any horror in Ten Shu Mono Gatari. Sure, we have some ghosts and demons fighting each other, but I don’t really classify that as horror. It’s more like action. Overall, I think I liked the second episode of Yotsuya Kaidan more than the second episode of Ten Shu Mono Gatari. The former already had some disturbing deaths at this point, though the latter likes to take its time in telling.

Anyway, the two are in love now. It can’t get any better than this. I’m expecting that the horror-part will come in the next episode. After all, something has to happen, doesn’t it?

Popolocrois Story – 1998 – 08

Heh, this show just keeps getting better. We firstly see Gamigami have some “tiny” problems controlling his newly created mecha, resulting in a couple of small earthquakes. He has found an interesting way of shutting it down (involvind a large hammer). It’s also hilarious that he managed to give his newly created “Great Pantzer” the nickname of “Gre-chan”. Meanwhile, we see a royal meeting of the king, queen, Pietoro and the knights, who try to find a solution for this rather annoying problem. Pietoro is thinking of entirely different things, like Hyuu’s alignment. He was just too cute when he finally decided what to do. This really is one of the most original main characters ever.



Hyuu, meanwhile, still struggles with her moral. She wonders whether she’s doing the right thing or not. Then she gets to feature in her own song. I so love the fact that each character appears to have his or her own song. The budget also seems to have turned up a bit for these, as each of these songs were jsut great to hear. My favorite up will now is Hilda’s one, describing the proper etiquettes for making correct potions. That really showed that even old ladies have spirit in them. ^_^

After a while, Gamigami finally manages to finish his new found pet. He shows the results to Hyuu and she praises him. After that moment, Gamigami was just too adorible to see. I also have to say, that mostly when a love-potion gets out of control, it will just be solved at the end of an episode. Popolocrois is the first show who managed to carry this even further. Anyway, Gamigami, Hyuu, Ston and Sanda set off to Popolocrois castle, Hilda sees this through her magic mirror, she sends Narcia to Pietoro and Hyuu suddenly feels like swimming and picknicking. I never saw that one coming.

Gamigami, of course, stops and orders Ston and Sanda to go fishing. That in itself was hilarious, as they’re not even his servants, but afterwards, we get to see even more awesome scenes. Ston tries to think of something again, while Sanda enjoys fishing for crabs. After a funny conversation, Ston gets an idea, and takes Sanda with him. Gamigami then plays a part in the most awesome peeping-scene ever. He wants to pick a beautiful flower, but if he does, he will see Hyuu swimming. As he is a gentleman, he actually doesn’t want to do it, and gets the genious idea of letting his giant mecha robot pick the flower in his stead. Okay, it makes no sense at all, but I so loved the fact that he actually seriously considered that.

Anyway, he’ll never get a chance to pick the flower, as Ston and Sanda suddenly ran off with Gre-chan, and plan to attack the castle all by themselves. I never knew a castle attack could be this awesome (after all, how many times do you see such an attack being executed by just too cute and fluffy animals?) Pietoro shows his best side again, and Gamigami saving the day was just too friggin awesome. Then Pietoro’s father (aka, the king) brings a very interesting development concerning the following couple of episodes. He actually challenges Gamigami to take his crown. Not by force, but by intelligence. I SO want to know what kind of plan Gamigami manages to think of. After all, I don’t really think he’s that stupid, after his behaviour at the end of this episode.

Bleach – 73



This was another one of those Bleach specials, which took up twice the amount of time a normal episode does. It’s been split into two parts. In the first part, the gigantic challenge against the blue slime blobs continues. In the second part, we get some background info about the Quincys.

The first part was pure garbage. The bad guys already have so many weaknesses, and still Ichigo & co just randomly hit the slime for numerous of times, in the hope of being being lucky and destroying them. And on top of that, the creators decided to give the bad guys even more weaknesses than they already had. And still it takes our group twenty friggin’ minutes to defeat these guys. Actually, in the end they even need the help from Hana and Ganju in order to actually win this pathetic fight. I’m seriously getting worried about the next couple of battles if this goes on.

The second part features something that Bleach should’ve tried ages ago: characters who are actually holding a conversation. It gave a nice twist for the series, and we got to see a bit more background behind the woman and the main bad guy. This was very nice to see, especially Ishida’s attempts to hit on her. I like it that he’s been the thing that the Bounto’s need, instead of someone like Inoue, Ichigo or Rukia. He makes for a very original damsel in distress. Although this part was nice to see, it did make me worried about the next couple of episodes. First of all, Ishida has some hidden powers slumbering within him. This is NOT good. Absolutely NOT good. I would have loved to see him struggle without powers for the rest of the series. It makes so much more sense, it’s very original, and it gives so much chances for some nice scenes. But I guess I got my hopes up too high. The second thing I’m worried about is the entire army that the main gad guy managed to recruit. There are like eight bad guys remaining. Each one has their own story. I’m predicting that they’ll either get two or three episodes devoted to them, so that makes for about twenty more episodes before the series gets back on tracks. I think I’ll have a horrible time trying to survive this.

Jigoku Shoujo – 22



Ooh! Awesome episode! We finally get to see a bit of Hajime’s background, and it turns out to be a magnificent story. I always thought that he and his wife just didn’t like each other and divorced, but it appears that there’s so much more. It seems that Hajime used to be a total workaholic, and always chose his work over his wife. This went on for a couple of years, his wife got more miserable by the minute. This just kept going worse when Tsugumi was born, up till the point that she abandoned him and chose for another.

The way Hajime found out about this was beautiful to watch. He was a real hothead in those days, so he immediately divorced her, including taking Tsugumi away, and saying the most horrible things at her. That may be great in itself, but the creators cleverly came up with a Hell-Hotline-case, that so resembles Hajime’s past. It was so great to see him struggle like that, and the way his wife eventually died was just great to see.

Overall, this was an amazing episode. Probably the best yet, apart from episode 16 and 7. This makes me even hungrier about Ai’s past. Muaha!

Jigoku Shoujo – 21



This time, the case involved a girl and her father who were old friends of Hajime and Tsugumi. But that’s not the thing this episode centers about. This episode really is about the growing conflict between Hajime, who wants to stop all the revenges, and Tsugumi, who believes that the revenges are good. It’s really, really tough to choose a side on this conflict. Therefore I just decided to support both sides.

Anyway, in the ending, Hajime finally manages to talk the victim out of revenge, with the horrible results following. This really tries to let the viewer believe that the revenge was actually good and it also adds up to the wonderful drama going on. I really liked this episode. It couldn’t have been executed in a better way. Not to mention that the little doses of humour added worked perfectly this time around.

Jigoku Shoujo – 20



This is the perfect example of an episode which started horribly, and ended magnificently. In the beginning, we see some kind of actor who claims to be paranormally gifted being humiliated in front of television by a guy who calls himself “The boy who returned from hell”. I have problems with both of these persons. The actor just doesn’t fit this show. I have no idea why the creators found it a good idea to make him act like a little boy, but it just doesn’t work in a show like this. The boy who returned from hell (I’ll call him hell boy for now) is even worse. First of all, his outfit totally sucks. It looks like he’s some kind of Dracula Wannabe or something. Secondly, he behaves like a total idiot, acting all high and mighty, while every baboon can see that he’s nothing. Tsugumi and Hayate also didn’t play such good roles as they did in previous episodes.

Anyway, hell boy plans to challenge Ai for a fight, so he uses the actor to summon her in order to extract revenge upon him. It works, Ai appears, and then the awesomeness starts. First of all, we get to see a bit of her background! I really can’t believe it. Okay, it is not much, just a clear sky, but still. I’ve been dying to see that scene. Then hell boy tries to beat her using his hell-powers. It seems to work, but Ai so TOTALLY pwns him afterwards, it was so great to see this idiot get what he deserves after messing with her. The thing she said about not caring about herself was just AWESOME. Finally, we get to see Ai pwning hell boy even more, by straightly sending him into hell, where he literally belongs. As a dessert, we get treated on even more background and awesomeness of Ai. There surely was something that happened to her in the past. And I want to know it!!