Trapeze OST by Mori Hideharu and Denki Groove

Tracklist:

01 Upside Down -TV Version- 02 Circus no Yoru (Circus Night) 03 Seishin Kaihou (Spiritual Release) 04 Tsuya Toiki (Charming Sigh) 05 It’s LOVE 06 Kokoro no Yami [Dark-Minded] 07 Hokenshou Elegy (Elegy for an Insurance Card) 08 Kokoro no Kagami [Mirror of the Soul] 09 [...]]]>

Trapeze OST by Mori Hideharu and Denki Groove

Tracklist:

01 Upside Down -TV Version-
02 Circus no Yoru (Circus Night)
03 Seishin Kaihou (Spiritual Release)
04 Tsuya Toiki (Charming Sigh)
05 It’s LOVE
06 Kokoro no Yami [Dark-Minded]
07 Hokenshou Elegy (Elegy for an Insurance Card)
08 Kokoro no Kagami [Mirror of the Soul]
09 Shinkokyuu (Deep Breath)
10 Hanpuku Yokotobi
11 Mononoke Dance
12 Ichigo Musume
13 Por Una Cabeza
14 Winter Wonderland
15 Counseling Room
16 Shinshoku [Abrasion]
17 Odoro Doumyaku (Dancing Artery)
18 Shiroi Meikyuu (White Maze)
19 Realize
20 Shangri-La (Y.Sunahara 2009 Remodel) -TV Version-

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Rabu triangle commence, yo.

The episode starts with someone running off, but ends up getting caught by Celty. Some girl from the shadows appears with a katana and tries to attack Celty though. Can’t take screencaps of that scene because it was too dark it wouldn’t be really [...]]]>

Rabu triangle commence, yo.

The episode starts with someone running off, but ends up getting caught by Celty. Some girl from the shadows appears with a katana and tries to attack Celty though. Can’t take screencaps of that scene because it was too dark it wouldn’t be really that clear at all to view it except for the flashing red eye of Celty’s attacker. Hmm, I wonder how she plays in the story. Anyway~

Aww~ Shinra. He’s so fabulously romantic. Too bad Celty seems to not have any clue that Shinra’s knocking some rabu~ sense into her xD.

D’aw~ I just enjoy their interactions. Shinra’s WEIRD taste is surely amusing. I lol’d when he considers someone as headless as Celty as ‘enchanting’. Erm, well they say love is indeed blind.. lol.

This week’s episode is narrated by Kida Masaomi this time and I must say that Miyano Mamoru’s definitely giving a very natural job at him. Welcome back officially, Mamo-kun~

Moving on, yup~ We now have the love triangle. Kida admits that he is targeting Anri, but at the same time his best friend Mikado seems to like her too.

Lol Kida is definitely adorable in his own way being fabulously confident on girls. Bad thing is that I never see him getting a chance with Anri, unless this gets some crappy shoujo-like plot turn there xD. I like Kida being with Kida only (or Mikado *smacked*) But I just wanna say that Kida’s awesome in his own way without having a love interest.

Kida glomp always comes out of nowhere xD.

Lawl. Why this friendship has the potential to get broken because of some girl? T___T

OMG NOOO YOU’RE IN PUBLIC!!! HAZUKASHII!!!

Ok, this teacher is a pervert indeed Keep yo eyes away from Anri’s juggles!!! >:(

The girl Anri’s talking about (Harima)… turns out to be someone close to Anri. She’s also a stalker to Yagiri, but then she suddenly disappeared. She and the girl with a scar on the neck looks very similar, so I thought her head might be replaced with someone’s. Celty might get involved with this now.

Lawl.

Awww these two~ <3 I think Mikado’s more in the know about things without everyone knowing about it.

Bang! totally reminded me of Akira on Eden of the East

Creepy spammer

Ugh, Shizu-chan gets too little close to nothing on screentime this episode T__T. When will he throw more stuff again? ;D

Mikado encounters the “luvahrs~” Seiji and the scarred girl. I don’t really care much about these two until we finally dig down deeper to them… but lol these two are so seriously eloping together, they need to get a room fast xD.

Hmmm Kida and the Yellow Scarves… *prevents from saying anything spoiler-y*

D’awwww moment

There’s a new girl in this episode, and she’s visited by Izaya on the hospital. It’ll be very interesting to discover who she’s related with, why is Izaya visiting her, and what’s up with her and Kida ^^. And oh yeah, Izaya also only appeared at this part on the very end T__T Needs moar Izaya screentime, but heck, it’s really weird to see him acting so gentle here O__o.

Creepy girl = Slasher girl a while ago??

Bottomline:

Awesome episode again. This show is definitely consistent with the amazing story-telling and character perspectives. And for sure this anime always brings you a LOT of questions to your head every episode. I love these type of shows.

I also love the timeline of this episode jumps back and forth, that was very creative again when it comes to the story-telling department. Gotta love how everything started with all of us not having a clue what the hell’s happening, until it gets explained bit by bit. Nice to see Kida and Mikado’s genuine friendship, and that’s kind of worrying though on how much more it’ll be tested. But so far, it’s just a friendly rivalry to a girl. Isn’t that cute~?

So yup, besides from the story-telling, I enjoy its characters very much as well. I’m glad that Shinra’s getting some screentime on this episode as well because he’s just so adorably cute! I really want a Shinra plushie right now >__< Oh scratch that, actually I would want a plushie of them all~ xP.

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To Aru Kagaku no Railgun OST 1 – SPARK!!

Artists: Iuchi Maiko, fripSide, ELISA

Tracklist:

01 – only my railgun -TV size- 02 – Tokiwadai Chuugakkou 03 – Fuuki iin no Katsudou 04 – Judgement desu no! 05 – Uiharu Kazari 06 – Manabiya no Sono 07 – Oneesama… 08 – Kuroko no [...]]]>

To Aru Kagaku no Railgun OST 1 – SPARK!!

Artists: Iuchi Maiko, fripSide, ELISA

Tracklist:

01 – only my railgun -TV size-
02 – Tokiwadai Chuugakkou
03 – Fuuki iin no Katsudou
04 – Judgement desu no!
05 – Uiharu Kazari
06 – Manabiya no Sono
07 – Oneesama…
08 – Kuroko no Kuwadate
09 – Itsumo no Nakama to
10 – Sakubou
11 – searcher
12 – battle area
13 – Taisetsu na Tomodachi
14 – Katsubou
15 – Uwasa sareru mono
16 – Anti-Skill
17 – Chiisana nozomi
18 – RAILGUN SHOOT
19 – Gyakuten
20 – Ano Toki no Yakusoku
21 – Kiyama-sensei
22 – Dear My Friend- Mada Minu Mirai he -TV size-
[w/ scans]

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Can’t help but to blog this episode :3

This is one of my favorite parts of the manga so I thought I’ll pick this show up back again for this episode. Yup~ I definitely enjoyed it a lot, just because Kimi ni Todoke is best on what it [...]]]>

Can’t help but to blog this episode :3

This is one of my favorite parts of the manga so I thought I’ll pick this show up back again for this episode. Yup~ I definitely enjoyed it a lot, just because Kimi ni Todoke is best on what it does when it comes to slice-of-life. This might top off the episode where they’re on Ryuu’s house for the best episode right now~ Slice of Life moments in KnT ftw <3

Episode starts with so much d’awwww-ness already with Sawako~

Funny how Chizu is still taller than Sawako’s dad even when she’s on the lower platform/floor of the house xD.

Lol Yano girl has lots of piercings. I also want to do that~ xD I only have two so far each ear >.> Yano-chi beats me.

Sawako’s dad is probably just like any other dad as well. He already judges his daughter’s friends by appearance before everything else xD

This is what I so love about Yano, she’s a total shipper xDD.

Lol, confessing isn’t that easy.

MARUUUU~ <333!!!

D’awwwwww!!! Ryuu has a super soft spot for dogs~

CUUUTE!

Ryuu and Maru seriously owned the first half of the episode >.<

Moving on now, Pin calls everyone and asks them to come over because he is sick. Pin is incredibly stupid but awesomely funny at the same time, which makes him totally win xD. He probably got too busy fapping over to paid porn that’s why he got a cold xD.

Lol ewww @ his house…

Don’t you think Pin looks better with hair down? Someone steal his hair gel so that he won’t use it anymore!

And it’s so funny and cute when Kazehaya starts acting jealous to Sawako treating Pin xD.

Duuuuuude, you’re making as all confused Kazehaya. I can smell BL fanfics brewing on the side already.

Sometime I just love it when Yano bullies Pin xD. They’re one of my crack OTPs, not gonna happen so far with the situation, but I totally enjoy when Yano pwns Pin xD.

Oh my gah I thought Yano’s lips were fingers at first lol

Hahahaha, young Kazehaya is so moe up until now~

So.. cute xD!!!

Awww~~~ Moezehaya can activate the bishie-sparkling and his man-moe powers at the same time xD

Lol. Almost-kiss scene #1 of the episode. More comes later on~

I know right?

Lol Pin, ungrateful brute to Yano and company xD. Well, no waiz Pin’s gonna steal Sawako, what are you thinking there? They should not use him as the anime’s plot device to make Kazehaya  jealous or something ^^;;.

I love it when Sawako always believe everything you said to her. Like, Pin should have directly said she should already kiss him or something, that would have worked more for us xD.

lol, Yano’s scary story might be real… (or maybe the one who knocked was Yanon herself before they went out?)

You go, Yano the shipper!

KYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA~!!!!!! OMG!!! God, I love this screencap so much x3

And of course, this scene…

SO CLOSE!!!

But ugh, I guess it’s development. Only a few inches more!!!

Kazehaya’s reaction is so funny:

Pfffftt.. Kazehaya, you fail looking like a bad boy tsundere xDD; But still, so cute, awkward and adorable~

Bottomline:

Beautiful episode that makes it up for the recap last week. Pin is so much win for getting involved with the almost-kiss in this episode. It’s just these two dense cheesecakes that needs to pave their way to each other more though xD. That moment is just so adorable~ I really love shipping in here, this show is so shipping-friendly I love it xD. I wonder if there’s Maru x Ryuu shippers out there though O___O *shot*

So yup, it’s an awesome episode indeed. Looking forward to the next arc as it focuses on Chizu ^^. I really hope there’s gonna be a 2nd OP and ED for the show, I thought that there’s gonna be new ones after a recap episode T___T.

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First look on the upcoming SHAFT anime “Arakawa Under The Bridge”

[UPDATE: Seiyuu info added]

[Starchild] Anime Website

Mangaka: Nakamura Hikaru >Manga Website<

Genre: Seinen, Comedy, Romance

Sample Manga Covers: Show ▼

Anime Details:

Director: Shinbo Akiyuki Series Director: [...]]]>

First look on the upcoming SHAFT anime “Arakawa Under The Bridge”

[UPDATE: Seiyuu info added]

[Starchild] Anime Website

Mangaka: Nakamura Hikaru >Manga Website<

Genre: Seinen, Comedy, Romance

Sample Manga Covers: Show ▼

Anime Details:

Director: Shinbo Akiyuki
Series Director: Miyamoto Yukihiro (Maria Holic)
Series Composition: Akao Deko (Asura Cryin, Natsu no Arashi)
Character Design: Sugiyama Nobuhiko (ef)
Art Director: Azuma Kouji (ef)
Sound Director: Tsuruoka Youta (Bakemonogatari)
Production: SHAFT

PV:

This came a gag manga about a young “elite” man Riku, who has a policy of not being in debt to anyone. But then he ends up accidentally being in debt to someone who saved his life. He owes it to a strange girl named Nino, who lives under a bridge and claims she’s a Martian. Since Riku believes that he has to pay his debt to her saving him, he offers to be her lover and live with her.

Shinbo will definitely do it again. This seems pretty quirky and bizaare that it’s no surprise SHAFT picks these kinds of stuff as they’re right up into their alley. It’s no surprise I’m looking forward to this, even though Vampire Bund is a fail. Still, I enjoy SHAFT’s creativity to do something different with their comedies though. The trailer was lulz. It’s live action and we’re seeing a Kappa coming out from the water. That was… weird. Oh wait I’ll replace it, that was… “SHAFT-y”~ Looking forward to the anime, comes out this Spring (04/2010)

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Seiyuus:

Ichinomiya Kou (Riku):  Kamiya Hiroshi
Nino:  Sakamoto Maaya
Hoshi:  Sugita Tomokazu
Sonchou (Kappa):  Fujiwara Keiji

Wow, Sakamoto Maaya ftw! Can’t wait for her to voice Nino. And lulz, Hiroshi Kamiya voices yet another SHAFT male lead again.

Dance in the Vampire Bund Full OP – “Friends” by Aiko Nakano

Tracklist:

01. Friends 02. ROSA 03. Friends -without vocal- 04. ROSA -without vocal-

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Seikon no Qwaser OP Single – “Errand” by Faylan

Tracklist:

1. Errand 2. scat blue 3. Errand (off vocal) 4. scat blue (off vocal)

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Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood ED4 Single: “Shunkan Sentimental” by SCANDAL.

“Shunkan Sentimental” PV:

Tracklist:

01. Shunkan Sentimental 02. Hoshi no Furu Yoru ni 03. Yumemiru Koro wo Sugite mo 04. Shunkan Sentimental (Instrumental)

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Here’s the trailer for the second Higashi no Eden movie: Paradise Lost. WARNING! The trailer may contain spoiler from what happened on the previous movie and who’s still left on the game.

Looking forward to the second movie (and the first movie to be released in Blu-Ray too.. ”orz. Though [...]]]>

Here’s the trailer for the second Higashi no Eden movie: Paradise Lost. WARNING! The trailer may contain spoiler from what happened on the previous movie and who’s still left on the game.

Looking forward to the second movie (and the first movie to be released in Blu-Ray too.. ”orz. Though I already know what happened on the first movie, I’m still gonna watch it if it comes out subbed). Comes out on March 13 in Japanese theaters.

WTF IS THIS MONOSHITSUJI SHIT?

After the announcement that there’s gonna another new Kuroshitsuji project, it left us all wondering what are they gonna do with it. I think we get a little piece of an answer now, and I don’t know if it’s a good news at all. Ciel [...]]]>

WTF IS THIS MONOSHITSUJI SHIT?

After the announcement that there’s gonna another new Kuroshitsuji project, it left us all wondering what are they gonna do with it. I think we get a little piece of an answer now, and I don’t know if it’s a good news at all. Ciel and Sebastian WON’T be in the new Kuroshitsuji anime… well, so far as revealed. Instead, we’ll have this so-called “Monoshitsuji”, with two brand-new main characters. A new butler named “Claude Faustus”, who will be voiced by Takahiro Sakurai; and his master from the “Trancy” family, voiced by Nana Mizuki. The said release will probably be on Summer of 2010 (around July).

I’m really gonna say that I’m very shocked, though I like the seiyuus so much. I must say that it’s very sad though because I’ll miss Sebastian and Ciel so much if ever they’ll be replaced T___T. I love my Ono D demon butler and eyepatched shouta T__T.

This would be very odd if they really turned Kuroshitsuji into another original franchise. I have lots of question popping up on my head wanting to get answered right now. Maybe these two new characters are just filler villains to the new season? Or if not and they’re really replacing SebCiel (nuuu~) then I wonder if when this takes place? I think we’ll just wait and see for more announcements. I’m very curious on how would this play out.

If ever this turns out to be an early troll for April fools, then screw A-1.

Welcome to the Anime Status for Jan.. err, there’s something really wrong with the picture above.

Welcome to the very first Anime Status for the year 2010!!! Though I must say, this was surely not a good way to start off the first season and month of the year. Oh [...]]]>

Welcome to the Anime Status for Jan.. err, there’s something really wrong with the picture above.

Welcome to the very first Anime Status for the year 2010!!! Though I must say, this was surely not a good way to start off the first season and month of the year. Oh my god, this season sucks. Probably the worst season I encountered in a year and a half of my time blogging, and so far from the second half of the 2000’s as I can remember. Nothing really seems worthwhile at all except from a few shows carried over from Fall, and probably only ONE show this new season. The others just lacks the anticipation factor, like I cannot feel like I have the spirit to wait and/or blog the next episode of some shows. And other shows are just dropped off like hot potatoes. I think the top three are very deserving, so I guess they’re the only ones who can get a picture/screengrab. Lol. Let’s get on with this very miserable edition of AniStats for January.

17: Omamori Himari

I checked out promos, and I thought this will INDEED be horrible, so I tried looking at the first episode, so that I can have something to bitch on and humiliate on this Anime Status. This is a waste of an anime show. It’s like all cliches and generic things got thrown out into this huge garbage bin called Omamori Himari. The fact that some people still watch this thing just makes me sad :(

16: Ladies VS Butlers

The moment I saw huge-ass drill hair of the female protagonist, I thought that this show sucks. Then it got more confirmed when a maid’s pussy starts rubbing on the male protagonist’s head. Congratulations for this show being the Nth one to have sluts whoring the bland male lead.

15: Chu Bra!

At least this one is quite unusual. Though the humor of the show just doesn’t appeal to me. Nothing really much to say except that it’s just sad how the creators of this decided on this idea.

14: Ookami Kakushi

It’s disappointing. The characters are ugly, the animation is lame, the stereotypes starts to get boring now, and the pacing of this show just sucks. It’s sad when the only good thing about this show is its OP song. You know I dropped it already when I discovered Islutzu still lives on the next episode, and there’s some pedophile gay brother molesting the protagonist.

13: K-ON! OVA

Gotta give props on how they showed progress in this OVA. Though I’m so not gonna watch the second season anymore, since I think there’s not any more source material for the anime to cover (which freaking airs on April already) and we know what stupidity KyoAni can be capable of when it comes to just simply milking the franchise.

12: Dance in the Vampire Bund

Well we have the show everyone loves bitching about because it doesn’t follow the manga. Well, I don’t really give a damn if they follow the manga or not, just make this show worthwhile watching and not boring… but they STILL failed. Biggest disappointment of the season after all the hype it got, but I guess it isn’t as bad as the others above.

11: Katanagatari

Wow, I never expected this to be so… boring. Definitely upsetting after I anticipated it after its promos. We have 50 minutes full of talking heads. It’s just irritating and I would just like to fast forward it with the action. But the bad thing is, even the action scenes are full of talking. Just blahblahblah here and there, the animation isn’t also impressive, though I love the art style for the characters. I think they’re gonna pull-off a “sword of the month” every episode. Still looking for the next episode though, all because there’s something worth fangirling with the two lead characters.

10: Hetalia Axis Powers

They only showed one episode this month, and it’s a boring episode at that. Kiku is very cute though. Oh well, can’t wait for the movie and the third season though. We have to wait until March 1 to get another episode of this.

9: Kobato

This show started to shine on Episode 12, but then it’s followed by a boring filler as well. But oh look, it seems like they remembered the plot again for the upcoming episode. It’s just overwhelming to see this move on the plot even by a short inch because I must say that this show was just so bland on the previous months. Great improvement for this show.

8: Sora no Woto

Well this show should be grateful that all the other shows suck this season, it makes this average show look good. There’s nothing really special about Sora no Woto if I think of it. It’s just decent, full of moe-ish characters, and enjoyable slice-of-life bits. The thing I love the most about it is the setting, because there’s a lot to unravel and for the creators to experiment on a setting like that in this original anime production.

7: Letter Bee

This show just grew on me a lot this month. I guess that they give way too much fillers, but I think most of the fillers are quite nice to watch. Though I must say that I’m gonna get tired of this show sometime because this is so long and slow.

6: Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu

The first episode of this show is just awesome, then followed by the next two ones. I’m worrying that the humor in this show is starting to dry out though. But I guess I’ll still enjoy it while it’s hot. I lol’d how they threw in a bit of BL in it. Some characters are plain awesome and hilarious, like Yuuji x Shouko, pink, tomboy, and the trap, while some characters aren’t really not worth caring for.

5: Hanamaru Kindergarten

This is a very refreshing series that definitely turned out to be better than expected. It’s very light, fun and clean… not to mention so freaking adorable to bits! This is my laidback yet enjoyable show of the season, where nothing about it seems very problematic, and is good for a little bit of giggles and d’aww moments. Panda Neko is also addicting~

4: Tatakau Shisho: The Book of Bantorra

Well this show should be already dropped, but because of how there’s so much irrelevant shows this season, I didn’t continue dropping it. Well I guess it was a good decision for me. They’re now starting with the real meat of the show, and things just get more and more interesting. Which side I’m gonna take is quite confusing, because Volken seems to be the star of this arc, then they’re making Hamyuts look villainy. Oh well, I’m not gonna get on someone’s side, and just enjoy the rest of this show.

3: Darker Than Black OVA

Am I lovin’ this honeymoon special OVA now or what? This is just freaking awesome to bits! Probably much more awesome that most of the second season episodes combined, lolz… But of course, that’s all biasness because I’m a pure Hei x Yin fangirl. I love the moments!!! Though I hope the best for my OTP for the rest of what will happen next. Episode 2 comes out on March 24.

2: Kimi ni Todoke

I’m still LOVINLOVINLOVIN this show. I stand ground claiming it to be one of the best shoujos in a long while. How they climaxed Kurumi’s arc was spot-on and fantastic, even I being a manga reader. Now this is where Kurumi gets the love <3. I skipped the boring recap episode though because well, it’s gonna be a… boring recap. But heck, still one of the top contenders for the best show, but I guess we’ll have to give the top spot for a new show that stood out the most amongst other new shows this season.

1: Durarara!!

Best new show of this horrendous season. This show is just wonderful, fabulous, etc etc. Such a stand-out, and it did not disappoint at all, because instead, it even exceeded my expectations. I just can’t get enough of this show weekly. I need regular Shizaya (coined term for Shizuo + Izaya awesomeness) fix. The others characters are also made of pure win as well. Argh this show, so awesome I love it to bits!!!

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So that wraps up the Anime Status for January! Lol @ less than half of the shows in here are the only ones I find relevant, the rest are just blergh. With how much shows dropped in the list, I’m worried for what’s gonna be in store for February. I hope this season passes already though, Spring’s gonna be so epic.

P.S. - New banners for Katanagatari, Kobato, Kimi ni Todoke, and another epic Shizaya Durarara!! banner! Hope you’ll like them ^^.

Wow, I have heck no other show this season to watch… This proves it.

I noticed that they started censoring this show now. Not really caring about the fan service, but it bothers me that the gore is censored as well. It’s not fully censored, because there are [...]]]>

Wow, I have heck no other show this season to watch… This proves it.

I noticed that they started censoring this show now. Not really caring about the fan service, but it bothers me that the gore is censored as well. It’s not fully censored, because there are still bloody parts, it’s just SHAFT didn’t went all the way with them. You can notice it on the part when the weekly filler girl gets stabbed to death by Mina’s assistant where it looked like it got cut and instead we get SHAFT inserting some red still. It’s quite annoying (and I must admit it really hurts the eyes). And speaking of stills, here we go again with the SHAFT-ness, because this is starting to be Bakemonogatari all over again with random flashing stills scattered everywhere throughout the entire episode. I hope everything will be fixed on the DVD version (including clearing up the breast-sucking scene). It just shows again that SHAFT doesn’t do well with deadlines, because the animation in this episode is much more lazier. Lazy, as in we have stills lasting for 10 seconds, and like it’s mostly all pictures except with their hair and mouths talking only getting the animation.

Just like Seikon no Qwaser, it definitely fails when it is censored (and speaking of which, I am still waiting for subs on their uncensored episodes =.=). But overall, this episode is still better than the previous ones.

I do not know if this is a very good thing or not, but it seems like the director have nothing else to pull off from his so-called “original story” and attempts to follow the manga now. It shows in this episode how the story is now close to the manga. The problem is that four episodes are already gone, and it is almost too late because the story is screwed up too much. I hope this really comes to the minds of directors that god, if they can’t fully make an ”original story” for their adaptation, it’s better to keep the original instead of making something that looks like some pitiful knockoff.

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Katanagatari OP Single – “Meiya Kadenrou” by Minami Kuribayashi

Tracklist:

1. Meiya Kadenrou 2. Hohoemi no Kanata 3. Meiya Kadenrou (off vocal) 4. Hohoemi no Kanata (off vocal) [w/ scans]

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Doctor *AAA*

Before we get started with everything, I forgot to mention this since episode 2 but I’ll have to say that… I ALWAYS LOVE WATCHING THE OP OF THIS SHOW ESPECIALLY THE PARTS WHERE THEY RECAP THE PREVIOUS EPISODE, FOLLOWED BY THE CHORUS OF THE SONG. SO [...]]]>

Doctor *AAA*

Before we get started with everything, I forgot to mention this since episode 2 but I’ll have to say that… I ALWAYS LOVE WATCHING THE OP OF THIS SHOW ESPECIALLY THE PARTS WHERE THEY RECAP THE PREVIOUS EPISODE, FOLLOWED BY THE CHORUS OF THE SONG. SO SEXY AND AWESOME. LOL, JUST SAYIN’. Ok…

SHINRA IS SO CUUUUTE~!!! When the promo pics first came out and I have no idea about the characters yet, I thought that this dude is gonna be so crazy xD, And oh lol I guess that’ll be right. I LOVE Shinra so far. He’s very interesting, eccentric, and not to mention secretly perverted romantic as well.

This episode is narrated by Shinra himself, and it’s on a documentary-like presentation about the headless rider/Celty, who turns out to be living with him. This show really gets creative on every episode’s story-telling ^^. Fukuyama Jun voices heavenly as usual, and that really adds why I love Shinra SFM.

Lawl, these two must have been a lot of things already (needs spin-off slice-of-life “Shinra Living With A Dullahan” show), and it shows from the lame calcium joke, to Shinra peeking on Celty while taking a bath… It’s cute to see Celty’s reaction though, not like Shinra already saw her naked headless body way back then, lol.

More Shinra adorable-ness, he makes me go “D’awww~” as well because it’s very obvious (and admitted) that he has feelings for Celty, too bad it seems very one-sided though. Celty seems too much srs bsns on finding her lost head, and probably realize Shinra’s care for her. But I wish Shinra the best of luck though. He seems very interested so much on Celty, and it just gets me more intrigued in his character, it seems like he has something else to show more aside from being a eccentric doctor in love.

We only got very few of Izaya this week. But heck, he’s still made of pure win with his play of words and trickiness.

Shizuo also gets little screentime in this episode, and like Izaya, it’s with Celty as well. He’s not really always that violent, and it shows here. Nice to see Shizu-chan in like, tamed mode lol. Rage mode GARtender is much more awesome though, and I would love to see more of that later on~

Mooooving on now to our Ms. Centric Character of the episode a.k.a Celty, she’s a Dullahan from Ireland. Ya hear it right, IRELAND OMG! Needs a full episode set in Ireland NAO~! Ok, back again to Celty’s background. It all started when she woke up on a graveyard without a head, and her memories are lost as well. So she travels, and travels in search for her head. Then the next thing we knew her head flew off to Japan… I don’t know, I think I missed something I guess, there are lots of questions indeed. Why Japan, or Ikebukuro specifically? Why is she on a cemetery? Where’s her head now?

And much more importantly…

What the hell is up with the black smoke coming out from her neck? Is that something, or just a unique way of gore censorship? Geez, this show packs a lot of questions that need to be answered.

Eeeek. I guess this scene caught me off guard, and it reminded me of some medical torture movie xD… Not expecting this show to show boobies (with SHINING nipples. SHINING) But…

HELLWHATTHEFUCKAFOURYEAROLDASKEDTODISECTAWOMAN?!?!?!

His dad is just… O__O; But yeah, that’s when Shinra fell in love instantly with Celty (lol, duuuude O_o). He discovered her first in their ship, then asked his father about her. Then they discovered her structure is like a living anatomical model, without a working nervous system, but with complete organs. Celty’s also cool for having auto-heal ability as well. Shinra just got more and more infatuated on Celty~

Aww~ these two just look so cute together xD.

Bottomline:

Another great episode! It’s not really “giffable”/lots of awesome, gif-worthy moments unlike the previous episode (I want to make Shinra gifs, but his scenes aren’t that action-packed and it’s just talking so I guess it’s better to screencap it instead of wasting time making gifs of someone’s mouth moving)… But anyways, it’s still very nice in terms of characterization and showcasing Celty and Shinra. Lol, so I’m betting they can be considered as this “twisted love story” this show states itself as.

We definitely see a more humane side of Celty in this episode. She’s definitely fleshed out already (so fast), and it’s proven she’s just not one cool headless character riding off a bike. About her head, I guess that’s the read-headed girl flashed in the OP, you can catch it but it’s fast, so keep an eye on it.

So yup, I’m really starting to lose interest on anime because of how bland this season is, and I swear I would have already QUIT watching anime for the meantime and focus more on my fashion hobby, but heck, Durarara!! just stops me from it once a week on how addicting this show is. Looking forward to the next episode. I wonder whose character gets a spotlight next time, and are we getting into the love triangle now? Uh-oh~

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P.S. -- Here’s the PV for the OP song -- “Uraguru no Yuyake” by some irrelevant band nobody took notice of until Durarara!! Theater Book. Enjoy~

Having a K-ON! season 2 is pretty much expected. Moe sells I guess.

[UPDATE: Second season comes out on April. Woah, that's too soon. //source]