Kyoukai No Rinne Final Thoughts

With the majority of the summer season coming to a end and the Fall season starting soon i decided to catch up on those i haven't been watching due to following(keeping up with) talked about animes at the time.

Anyway Kyoukai no Rinnie is a show that premiered in the spring season and carried into the fall. It follows High schooler Sakura Mamiya a girl who is able to see ghost,spirits and such and Rodou Rinne and Half Human Half Shinigami who lives in the human world exterminating the ghost/spirits  and sending them to the Rinne no wa to be reincarnated.

During the show we are introduce to Tsubasa Jumoji a exorist who is implied to be a Christan due to his bible thum attack and holy ash attack and is Rinne Rival when it comes to Sakura affection. Ageha a female Shinigami who is wealthy but is dumb and see Sakura as a Rival when it comes to Rinne affection. Rinne Dad Sabato who due to his scheme is the reason Rinne is in debt $1,000,000 and is the leader of the Damagashi company a company who is out to spread evil. Masato a demon so dumb and petty in one episode he misspells his own name and just does petty stuff to get back at Rinne for what he done to him when they was children and Kain Rinne debt collector who is introduce near the end of the series and will only leave him alone once Rinne debt is paid in full.


If you are a fan of Rumiko Takahashi Work then you know some of her tropes and classic signiature in her manga and anime.  For the most part if you are going in blind them most of the jokes in this show will kinda fall flat and even if you have been a fan of her works there are episode that just fall flat. The first six episodes were ok but not good to me.  As a Collective i believe that it could have been longer but as announced this show is getting a season 2. This season was more the set up for what i hope can be better in the second season.

Story-7.5

Animation 6

Sound-7

Overall-7.5

Its slow paced at time and i really enjoyed episodes that have two parts to them. There is a mix between Comedy and action and it clashes into Dark humor at times but over all if you are looking for a up-to-date Rumiko Takahashi show to check out Kyoukai no Rinne isn't one to be looked over.

though it might be like mermaid forest

                                            Even they are surprised they are getting a season 2.

Charolett episode 11 Review

Shit KEY  who was you trying to outdo! This week episode was way more than KEY has ever done in the past when it comes to pulling on the heartstrings of its views. They decided saddness wasn't enough lets add a dramatic death with blood to the mix along with being kidnap and toured.


Quick rundown of what happen before this episode
Important parts
*Ayumi(aka pizza sauce) was found to have the collapse ablity
*Ayumi dies because of her ablity
*Yu falls on hard times and is saved by Nao
*Yu remembers he had a older brother
*Yu meets his older brother who has the time leap abilty and tells Yu he actually has the plunder ablity
*Yu uses plunder to take his older brother ablity to save pizza sauce(Ayumi) and take her ability
* Pizza sauce lives!


In this episode it was found that one of the members Yu and Ayumi older brother was working with was being blackmailed. The driver who usually take Pooh to the school Yu and Nao goes to to tell them there is ability weilder take Pooh to a abandon warehouse where he is then beaten and bound to a chair and then torched by having his nails on his hand and feet ripped off.

Somehow Nao ends up getting involved with this mess and ends up getting caught in the middle of the night.

Words gets back to Yu brother and he plan to get them both back by using Yu.  Yu meets the people holding Pooh and Nao and things were going smooth until someone who also uses a ablity comes out of nowhere and not only uses a ablity but a knife to slice one of his eye so he won't time leap.

and that when things took a sharp left turn.  Yu uses collaps and the building ended up falling apart the group ended up  getting there a bit to late and had to look for Yu, Nao, and Pooh.  Yu and Nao was ok but Pooh..

                                               Why KEY why you do this to me!


Little Busters was less intense than this. It shouldn't be on Grisaia No Rakuken action levels. Oh my god.

Two more episode left and im really want to see what else does KEY has up it's sleeve because this episode was a so left field for key.




 

Gakkou Gurashi Episode 10 Review

Well That escallated rather fast. I know they aren't going to get to the arc i want them to get to because that is when shit really get fucked up but this anime needs a season 2.

Anyway

                                                       New opening animation


So we now know that the dog IS dead.

The anime starts with the girls in the classroom just chating its a rainy day. Yuki enters and mentions that Taromaru is missing. Everyone excepts Rii goes to look for the Dog. Kurumi comes across some of Taromaru tracks and it leads to the underground shelter that was in the booklet they found two episodes ago.  Kurumi does mangages to find Taromaru but he is no longer the same for he is now a zombie

While down there she also see the person resonsible for taromaru becoming a dead zombified dog.

                                              Megu Nee Herself


Unable to accept this realty she is force to take out Megu-nee on her own but a sudden momentary flash back to when megu-nee was human casued her to hesitate which resulted her to end up getting bit by megu-nee

She somehow makes it back to the classroom but is badly injured. As the girls clearly see and is only able to  say a few words. Yuki was somehow unfased by the bleeding Kurumi and even help.

Kurumi ends up telling Rii that it was Megu-nee who bit her and that she messed up.  The bite that Megu-nee inflicted mangages to do damage to kurumi so much that she is handcuffed to the couch that is in the room. Unable to bear the screams of Kurumi Rii is contemplating on just stabbing Kurumi with the Knife that is in the bag in the room. Before she can do so Miki enters telling her there is antidote in the shelter Kurumi was in and it would be better for her (miki) to go instead of Rii because she just might end up like Kurumi if she runs into Megu-nee again.

                                           Crying because she now know taromaru is dead

The episode ends with Yuki realizing the window is fucking broken. I guess she is somewhat coming out of her delirium


I really need for this to have a season two because there is so much more they need to get too which i know they won't in the last two episode we have left.

For the most part this was a good episode espically doing a good job of animating when kurumi see  megu-nee and they made to me  megu-nee even creeper than she was in the manga

but yeah really hope this get a season two.

Gakkou Gurashi Ep 9

Sorry i haven't been in with any anime reviews. I've come down with a summer cold and im still trying to get over it. I am backed up with anime reviews i know i have to do but today im here to talk about Gakkou Gurashi

More specifically about the last few moments in episode. The majority of this episode was more like the beach/swimsuit episode.  It was a nice refesher from the drama, shock and horror that is gakkou gurashi

                                          ( Obligatory Swimsuit episode images )

The last few moments of this week episode Taromaru conveniently makes up with miki and i found that strange. 1) since episode one that dog has been avoiding her and it wasn't till we saw miki back story we found out why 2) Why now? Why over a dead girls cd player? why? it just didn't fit right. But then, that when i put two and two together and well  near the end the dog excape and that when we see

                                                              Hi Megu- Nee!

They somehow made her more creepy than she is in the manga.  Either way....taromaru we can assume is now dead.

This week episode was ok but lack luster. The last few moment kinda made up for it but barely.

Side note is it me or is miki face animation wokey at time?


Just for fun if you are interested in the opening breakdown http://bluaki.tumblr.com/post/127306374619/the-opening-of-gakkou-gurashi-changes-several if you want to see the full breakdown of the openings thus far.

DurararaX2 Ten Episode 7

It was like someone decided to have a field day with this episode. I'll Just cut to the most important parts. The majority of this episode was spent with the DOLLARS trying to stop all of Ruri stalker from attacking anyone who is close or had some dealings with her. One of the stalkers tried to attack Verona, Shizuo and Kiba on their way to get sushi but Verona ends up stoping one and before Kiba tries to stop the other one of the blue squares masqurading as a DOLLARS end up tazering him. Kiba ends up following the masked blue square person to get infomation out of him.

Celty end up rushing home to find a bloody beaten up Shinra. Last episode the main leader of Ruri stalker ended up going to Shinra's place and beating him to a bloody pulp.

Kiba ends up following another blue square after accidentally knocking the one he was following out and he leads him to a lot behind Anri house. He see someone who he thought was their leader Aoba wearing a reverse shark mask(they group all was but im digressing) the one who attack Shinra Kitsuke shows up and begins to attack the blue squares mostly because they were in his way of getting Ruri cat. He is Ruri main stalker and want to bring her down for whatever reason. He begins to slam one of the blue square head against the wall before Kiba tries to attack him from behind. He ends up being tossed to the ground by him but just before he get pumbled by Kitsuke the beaten up Blue Square person set Kitsuke on fire and he ends up leaving. This is were shit gets sad and weird.
Kiba ask the Masked blue squared person if he is Aoba but before he can finshed his sentence the masked person says his name before taking off his mask to reveal:

                                                        A bloody beaten and bruised Mikado

The two chat for a while before Aoba shows up in a van to take the Mikado and the others away  he ask Kiba to wait to come back because "he will create a place for the three of them to live peacefully"

The episode ends with Izaya holding Celty head with her eyes half open and his office filled with more people other than his secretary.

Side note: Izaya is the only person I know to come out of the hospital after being stab with a whole team.

It was too much! I really did not expect all this to happen especially like that! But now what is going to happen? Is Celty going to take revenge? What is going to happen to Mikado? What is Kiba going to do? and who are 1/2 these people in Izaya squad?

We only got five episodes to answer these questions. Make it count.

Gakkou Gurashi Episode 6 and giveaway results

It seem like Gakkou Gurashi is competing with KEY on who can make their viewers  the most depressed this week. Either way I am glad that this mini flashback arc over for now. This episode is the conclusion of how Miki ends up meeting the girls.

Miki awakes in the school and the first person she meets is Yuki who greets her with her usual cheery smile she ask if she want a drink of water before showing her around the school.

Thinking that the school was never even touched by zombies she follows her but her fears was confimed when she see the music room in ruins.

Miki even ask Yuki "Who is Megu-nee?"

From the time Miki woke up till the time Yuki took Miki to the music room Yuki was talking to Megu-nee and once Miki asked that she only confimed what many if not most fans already knew that Megu-nee is already dead and only Yuki is seeing her.


Miki meets the other girls and ask them what happen to Megu-nee and they straight up tell her that she's dead. Kurumi says to Miki that only Yuki can see her because in her mind none of it ever happen(the zombie attacks, Megu death, anything else bad) none of it happen to her and she still even attends classes like normal. Miki rightfully so ask why is she doing this but Yuuri stop her and just ask her to "play along" with Yuki

this cause a mini argument between those two because Miki sees it as as wrong but Yuuri see it as helping the group. Kurumi end up breaking up the argument and the girls ends up going back to the classroom where Yuki is.

Im going to skip that whole little sport event because it really kinda wasn't nothing. The episode ends with Miki ending up joining the club and we are back in the present with the girl finshing up the graduation albums and Miki draws her friend with vacant eyes back to hers holding her hand. During the new ending song we see any scene that had megu-nee in it we see her dissapear from them even from Yuki drawing in her graduation album.

                                                    She was never even there

Just 6 more episode left. I hope this gets a season 2

Now the giveaway results. Not alot of people entered so i know i will not hold another giveaway for a long time.

but here is the winner.
Kayley Freshman-Caffrey

CONGRADULATION!!! lensflavor will be in contact with you so check your e-mail 

Gakkou Gurashi episode 4+5

I made a error by reading the manga right after the first episode so i know how this is SUPPOSE to go but someone on my tumblr pointed out to me that the first few episodes 1-6 are (are suppose to be) animated by Erogames directors and thats why the story is a bit off. So for those who read the manga or are reading the manga there is your explanation or at least the one i was given



These two episodes were mostly focus on Miki and how she manage to meet the others girls. Episode four is mostly about how the girls plan a "school trip" mostly to get more food but as Yuki see it its a chance to get the fuck out of school.  Miki remembers the time she and her old friend were first entangled in the mall zombie attack

   

Her friend end up leaving her in a room that was zombie free with the dog while she when to go look for help because she was sick of waiting.

In episode five the girls including megu-nee all arrive at the zombie out mall to not only find food but to try on some clothes!!

 

Gotta stay fashionable during this zombie outbreak.

Kurumi ends up running into Taroumaru who ends up taking a can of Ginger beef she was after. Little while later Taroumaru end up joining the party because why not. Taroumaru leads the girls to the area where miki is but not to the place because Kurumi ends up searching a movie theater which has nothing but zombie in it. This freaks Yuki out and the girls bolt to a safe room. Miki thinks she hear someone coming to save her ends up thinking its her imagination.

Yuki now has a fever and has to lye down for a moment and in her fever indues state she has a nightmare of what happen to her during the outbreak.

                                 Don't you hate it when your friends turn to zombies?

Soon she recovers and the group decides its time to leave. once out of the building Yuki hears a voice(miki) and decides to go back into the building only after taroumaru run into it.  Miki end up leaving the room after hearing the girls and finally deciding to gather up straighten to get out but seeing all those zombies everywhere she ends up being surrounded on a piano.The girls manage to find her and save her not with out taking out a few zombies of course. Miki ask if they seen her friend but they said she was the only person they found.

So far it looks like they are getting back on track with the manga but not without a few adjustments here and there. I wish this wasn't a 12 episode series because it could have went to at least 24 but i hope it gets a ova that tells the story the right way.

BTW my giveaway ends in less than a week

Giveaway!!!

If you want to enter you have less than 6 days to do so so far only on person did T_T