Otome Yōkai Zakuro ~ 3 & 4

Episode 3 ~  This is a Zakuro/Agemaki episode, It actually gives some background to Zakuro and also seems to introduce some new "bad guys". 
     Women in a village are being "Spirited Away" so the Mayor of the town comes to the Ministry to ask for help, With the other two teams gone and the details of this case Zakuro really wants to take this case.  Kushimatsu tells Agemaki how half-spirits are born, It's when pregnant women are spirited away and when they return they are carrying half spirits.  The girls are said to be possessed by fox spirits and when the children are born they are taken away.....
     Zakuro later tells him that her mother was spirited away twice, Once before she was born and once after.. the second time she never returned.

Kushimatsu

      After some comedy, some bonding and such it turns out that the women of the village weren't being Spirited Away. They were being eaten by a giant frog looking monster that lets them rot and decay in his stomach... Bleh.  Agemaki is pretty much useless against the monster and is almost eaten by it, Saved by Zakuro he really lost some major man points and he knows it.

      Looks like Kushimatsu shows up in her full form to check on Zakuro and senses/sees the two that faked the whole spirited away thing to get Zakuro there, Seems the whole things failed however with the Frog Things death.

Episode 4 ~  This episode revolved mainly around Riken and Susukihotaru, It's their "getting closer" episode much like episode 3 was for Zakuro and Agemaki.  With their mission involving a cursed sword Susukihotarus powers of empathy are finally revealed. 

     The Twins, Ganryuu, Riken and Susukihotaru set out to a shop for a mission, Seems a woman has dropped off a strange {cursed} sword to the shop owner {Aya} and she won't sell it due to the suspicious air it has.  She called the Ministry in to look into it and upon reveal Susukihotaru has a strong reaction to it's mere presence...

    While the twins and Ganryuu are out uselessly investigating the sword a lot is revealed back at the shop. Mugi a young half spirit who is "employed" at the shop is apparently connected to the sword in a rather morbid way... It/it's wielder killed her mother. Susukihotaru sees what has happened to Mugi's mother in the past when she touches Mugi's mothers comb, Seems her mother is killed protecting Mugi from a crazy murderer.

      Susukihotaru tells Mugi that her mother will come back as long as she is a good girl so Mugi for some reason goes off and trys to get the sword... Riken and Susukihotaru find Mugi trying to get the sword and while knelt beside Mugi the sword falls from it's perch and she catches it. When caught she ends up possessed by the sword and attacks Riken and Mugi, She's one scary half-spirit while possessed.. she knocks Riken thru a wall and then goes for Mugi. 

       Aya shows up just in time to shield Mugi much like the scene with Mugis mother played out but this time Riken blocks the attack. {Mugi remembers what happened with her mother during this.} On second strike Riken grabs a cloth and catches Susukihotaru's sword in turn cutting his hand and snapping her out of the controlled state...

      When the twins/Ganryuu return Susukihotaru is in the back bandaging up Rikens hand, While bandaging she's upset that she hurt him but he's still concerned for her.... She tells him of her powers and he's quite appreciative of them. As a man of few words it's a great help to him that she can sense his emotions and thoughts just by merely touching/being near him.

      This episode was just all full of love-love, These two are certainly my favorite couple thus far and to me the whole other storyline took backseat. The sword was obviously planted by those hooded figures in the third episode to get Zakuro to come out but she wasn't sent on this mission so their presence quickly faded.

Yakumo 4 & 5 + Imouto 5

Shinrei Tantei Yakumo 4 & 5 ~  Things are getting a little more interesting, More deaths, More spirits, More info.   Detective Gouto has a new partner, Ishii.  A strange man that was thought to have had a crush on Gouto but, in fact he thought Gouto was the one with the powers and he's an occult groupie. Poor disappointed Ishii, I thought he had a little crush on Haruka.
      Some of Yakumo's past was revealed, His mother tried to kill him when he was younger and he pulled the necklace from her neck while she was choking him. Now she's vanished and... yea.. the red eyed guy is his father.
       Two Episode "Case".  The guy who wanted his daughter brought back was the doctor that delivered Yakumo,  Her name was Ayaka and she drowned in a river when a typhoon was coming in. The doctor with the help of Andou {some guy} was drowning girls who looked like her so she would take one of them as a vessel, Mr. Red Eye was lying of course because she could never come back.  Ayaka was comforting the girls as they were drowning, taking on the pain and fear of each drowning, It was as though the Doctor was killing his daughter over and over again.
      Long Story Short;  Doctor kills Andou who then possesses the police chiefs daughter who happens by, Mr. Red Eye targets Haruka, Doctor trys to drown Haruka, Yakumo/Gouto save her and the Doctor ends up being arrested.  Andou and Ayaka finally move on in the end and Yakumo sees his "dad" across the river... I need episode 6.

Ore no Imouto 5 ~ Nothing about this episode was all that surprising. We left off with the group running into Ayase after the Convention,  Kirino denies knowing KuroNeko and Saori and calls them "disgusting". The two of them are seemingly quite understanding play along and wander on by to go home. Ayase can sense something is up and pretty much goes into Higurashi-Psycho Mode.

      During the freak out, Ayase rips Kirino's bag and all of her precious little sister porn goes sprawling out onto the wet sidewalk {it's raining}. Ayase picks up one of the manga and flips thru it... and over reacts. She doesn't want anything to do with Kirino anymore..

     Kyousuke ends up having to clean up this mess as well, With Ayase thinking everyone who's into those type of things are sick freaks he has go to his {cop} father and get proper information on at least one case involving a man who tortured {killed?} a girl and it was blamed on the games/books. Turns out it had nothing to do with that and the media just went crazy with it....   

     He also ends up having to declare his love for his sister which was just strange and I'm still not 100% sure what happened in those scenes but, Ayase has really turned out to be a unique...crazy character. Oh, She's also accepted Kirino as a friend again but will not accept her "hobby".  Episode 6 Please.

Halloween

Why am I in on Halloween night?  Because I am boring.

Well actually, I'm not the party type... I'm not the get dressed up like a hooker and go out and drink till I can't stand up type. I'm certainly not the hang around a lot of people type, I prefer to just be at home doing what I always do.   Not much.
    Obviously, I don't get bored easy. Little things entertain me which most people would find stupid. The fact we only got one trick-or-treater is a bit sad and it's even more sad that the one was the only one we've had in like... five years.  We always get candy, we are prepared but... they never come.
      My neighborhood must be too scary or something... I've never found it scary.  Friends and I use to go around by ourselves and trick-or-treat when I was younger, Back then you'd get quite a bit and we never ran into any questionable or even bad candy.
      Now the candy I do get is left over candy, Which means we always get something we like so we'll eat it. Reese Cups and Kit-Kats for me!!

Other then nothing, I did catch the Flea Market at the Fair Grounds earlier today. 8 Dollars to park now is such a pain but it's only like once a month so no biggy....  Was looking for this booth that sold coin purses and other little bags made from photos the sellers had taken. They were really nice coin purses, Only three dollars which was a nice price but... that was back in August when I saw them. They weren't at the September market and they weren't at this one either. 
     Sucks.

Friday?   Did get to the gym, Be amazed. Then ruined that with going to Old Chicago for pizza, Hadn't been there for over a year and I remember why... The pizza isn't that good.  BJs in the mall is far superior, more flavor, better crust and the tomatoes on top are delectable.

Saturday?   Bad day.  Blueberry pancakes at Wild Eggs didn't even get my mood to taper off, I just wanted to huddle in a corner and cry most the day.  I hate the down days, Still not fully up but trying hard not to let it overtake me like it normally does.

Pants Found, Mission Over.

Went to the Spaghetti Factory today, For once we didn't get lost getting down there and we found a parking spot nearly right in front of the door. Most the time we go the wrong way and have to park a few blocks away.  I'll have to say, It's one of the few places that I will order Spaghetti... Why order something out that you can make at home better and cheaper?
     It's probably because I've been going there for so long.  Ever since I took field trips to the Kentucky Center in elementary school... It's probably the first Italian place I ever ate at and at the time it was the ONLY place I'd eat the "ice cream" {spumoni}. Only the green part though, Didn't like the pink or brown.. that green is like heaven.  Still, I don't really care for ice cream but the spumoni there is great.. now I will eat all three colors but really prefer the green still.
     Salad, Bread, Main dish and desert all for under 10 dollars, Plus I get enough left overs to eat for supper. That's like 5 dollars a meal and I only eat two meals a day normally.....

Anyways, Enough about the food.  Went to Target/WalMart/Meijer to see if I could find some pants {Yes, I am persistent} and I find that it's not only the mall sizes that are all screwy....  Everyones Mediums are now like what larges use to be.  Very strange, Very strange indeed....
     Found two pairs of pants though finally, No More Shopping For Me!  I should really pick up some more shirts and pajamas but.... I'm just not in the mood.

Tomorrow?  More gym.

Episode 13 of Shiki is out which is full of wootness.

The Results...

I Finally Got a Hair Cut... Been meaning to for a couple weeks. It's due in part to my pants buying failure. I should really do something different with it but... I'm just not that eager to try something new and have curly hair from hell.

Sundays mall excursion was an utter failure, I didn't find any suitable pants or a winter hat... Maybe I'm just too indecisive. I always think, What if I find something I like more in the next store then comes the next store and that's the same...  *sighs*  Such Fail.
    I did however pick up the Vampire Knight Fanbook at Borders, Gotta love their 33% off coupons. The book is quite nice, details on all the characters and a load of other odds and ends within.

With the failure at the Oxmoor and St Mathews Malls it was decided to try the Jefferson Mall on Tuesday, Tuesday... The day a giant storm just decided to come floating in. I woke up to windy, tornadoy weather.. The rain was extremely needed, We haven't had any significant rain since August so this huge downpour made the lawn very happy.  

Anyways, The storm settled down around noon-thirty so we could start off to the far away mall... Over 20 miles is fairly far for me to go {certainly for shopping}.  My mind was set on finding at least something to make this trip worth the trouble... and I did.  I found a hat.... yes... a hat.. that's it.
     JC Pennys seriously needs to check their sizes or I was in the wrong area... I swear their sizes run large or something because I was swimming in pants that I normally can wear.  Could it have been me changing body sizes? Nope, I've gained five pounds. Gaining means the swimming should not have occurred. They didn't have any sizes that fit so... No pants for me. 
   The other places just didn't have anything I liked... I am just too picky. I'm happy though, I'll find more pants eventually and now I have a hat that will fit my big head. Finding winter hats is almost impossible for people with giant heads..hehe. 

   The Red Lobster over in that area is also quite nice.. Red Lobster has really turned into a lunch only place seeing their seafood has gone up in price so much. I'm also not that big on fried fish of any sorts so I mainly go there for the Shrimp Skewers.  Their biscuits are the best part of the meal of course...

    I've... also managed to go to the gym Monday and Wednesday so far, Which is right on schedule. I haven't been slacking there even with the near mile walk there and back.

Ore no Imouto ~ 3 & 4

Kirino's "normal" friend Ayase seems to be figuring out something is up, Of course she thinks this something is a boyfriend but at least she noticed....

During her trip to Akihabara with KuroNeko and Saori Kirino finds out that the other twos parents actually know about their Anime habits, Neither of them have any real trouble with this fact. Sadly, Kirino's father isn't so... flexible.  When she gets home she accidentally drops her new game when she bumps into her father....

After what seems to be a one sided talk, Kirino runs from the house upset and on partial behest of his mother Kyousuke runs after her. Turns out their father was quite angry and called her hobby useless... he's pretty much planning to throw all of her collection away. {At least what he can find.}  Kyousuke does the nice, brotherly thing and goes to talk {threaten} their father. Pointing out how well she preforms in school and work, saying he should allow for Kirino to keep her hobby because even she knows it's weird.

Their father finally caves but only after Kyousuke lies and says the Mature game that Kirino dropped was actually his, He then punches Kyousuke in the face and... He is now the "Worthless Son" .. haha.

That just sounds...so wrong.

Quick run down of the fourth episode... Why did he stay in that position so long?  This was a big facepalm moments...

Kirino has her school friends over to the house and wants her brother to stay out of sight, A package for him arrives and the box apparently is a ritzy make-up company. Thinking it's make-up Kirino takes the box from him and runs upstairs.... Meanwhile, Kyousuke gets a call from Saori saying that the box has Meruru Doujinshi's in it.  Chaos insues... Kyou and Kirino fight for the box, fall and...

*cry*

Don't stay there so long....uhg....

Later on in the episode Kirino, Saori, Kyou and KuroNeko go to a con, Lots of con stuff happens and KuroNeko wins the last Limited Edition DVD and gives it to Kirino....

While they are walking home... They run into Ayase... there's the cliff hanger.  {I think she has a little crush on Kyousuke}

Kanako and Ayase...

Always forget about Manami... She's Kyousuke's classmate that obviously likes him. I just wonder if he's playing dumb of if he really can't tell she likes him.

Crunchy Viewing.

I'm pretty random with CrunchyRoll Anime, I just watch whatever whenever and may never finish it.....

                                                               Seikimatsu Occult Gakuin

 Episode 1~   "To stop a lamie, You have to cut off the head.... of the one it first possessed."   Maya Kumashiro comes back to the Occult Academy for her fathers{the principals} funeral.  A tape her father recorded before his death was played during his funeral contained a spell that went presumably wrong, Resulting in a lamie possessing his dead body and him running rampant on campus. Maya with minor help from an old friend Ami, the janitor Smile, some strange guy JK and glasses girl Kozue track him/it down and extinguish him/it.

    The Vice Principal seems hinky somehow and a strange, naked guy floats down from the sky in a ray of light while Maya is standing on the roof at the end.

Episode 2~ "In 2011... The earth is ruled by Aliens."  Yep, Naked man is actually Agent 6 a time traveling agent from the future sent back to find the Nostradamus Key and stop the alien invasion. He'll be posing as a History Teacher during his mission. He supposedly graduated top in his class and has psychokinesis... really weak psychokinesis it seems. Perhaps 6 is actually his power ranking or something, he can't even bend a spoon anymore.

     Maya finds her fathers diary in his house while she's being attacked by a spectre of some sort {Agent 6 was no help during this either.} Probably something the Vice Principal sent after her because ya.. she's still hinky.  By the end of the episode Maya decides to help the Naked Agent find the Key with the hopes of finding who also killed her father.