Tuesday, 20 November 2007

Clannad Episode 6



It’s been a while since I last updated on this one so thought I own you some episodes… not much changed since the last time. Fuko-chan is still staying in Nagisa’s house (and has somehow convinced Nagisa’s mother to turn each and every one of her not so good breads into starfish shaped ones…),and along with Nagisa and Tomoya she keeps giving away gift-stars to half the school population. She has become really popular somehow and she even got herself a fan club (no wonder since she is so cute). 3 guys come up to her and offer to help her get more people for her sisters wedding (since her devotion moved them). Fuko refuses of course since she thinks they are weird and they actually make a stand full of starfish Fuko things, from shirts to cards and phone straps(??), just to prove their point.


Nagisa and Tomoya decide that since the school festival is coming up it’s the perfect opportunity to have Fuko-chan and her sister meet, so they go of to her house to invite her to the festival. On their way Nagisa makes a comment about how attached Fuko is to them, saying that they look like her parents. Of course she realizes how that could be interpreted and she causes both of them to blush embarrassed. (kawaiiii).




When the reach Ibuki-sensei’s house they meet Yusuke outside. Apparently the really cool ex singer guy that looks a lot like Tomoya is indeed Ibuki-sensei’s fiancé. They ask her to come to the festival and she accepts saying that Fuko always wanted the two of them to go together, which causes Nagisa to burst into tears and runs off crying followed by Tomoya.


Onto the festival then… Fuko gives away even more stars… Tomoyo gets one and so does the girl from the previous episode that was really rude to poor Fuko-chan. And while everything goes smoothly (Fuko and the rest of the girls even get into maid uniforms for the schools café and they all look aniaaaaaa) that’s when Ibuki- sensei arrives.



But of course what kind of drama would this be if she just saw Fuko, hugged her and they lived happily ever after with Fuko’s body in the hospital? So instead she doesn’t see her… and when I say she doesn’t I mean at all! Poor Fuko is standing between Tomoya and Nagisa when Ibuki-sensei is talking to them and she can’t see her. Which of course makes some sense since Fuko is dead and if her sister ended up seeing her in the middle of the school she would end up in a mental institution… sigh… our happy ending looks farther and farther away… and why is it that we cant get any more hints for Nagisa and her own world??? I’ll be off to watch the next one...




By the way I really liked the fact that they throw around random video game things… it’s really funny. Makes me wonder if the actual game had them… maybe if I magically learn to read Japanese I could buy it and play it… now the only thing I need is a genie…


Tuesday, 13 November 2007

Majin Tantei Nougami Neuro



Well since my DSL connection ain’t that good and I’m still waiting for Clannad episode 6 I though I might take my time to introduce another anime of this season that drew my attention.

“Majin Tantei Nougami Neuro” ( it means ‘Private EVIL Eye Brain Eater Neuro’ or something like that…)

Well the title is kinda weird but the anime itself is really interesting. It’s about a demon named Neuro who actually feeds on mysteries. Yeah I know how can you feed on mysteries? I have no idea… I can get nightmares or dreams or fears or something amongst those lines but mysteries???

Well anyway he comes to the human world looking for food (since he apparently ate all the mysteries in the demon world) and found a girl Yako to help him. He threatened her into becoming his cover. Since he couldn’t draw a lot of attention to himself (being a demon and all…) he made her open a P.I. agency so that he can get his hands on mysteries, solve them and then eat them. And of course Yako got all the credit from all the cases they would solve (not that she asked for it).

Yako on her part is a normal girl… well kinda. She is human and she has a huge appetite and a crazy obsession with food but it seams that when she was little her father was killed in a closed room, which let the police to believe of course that it was a suicide. Yako believes otherwise so she sides with the demon Neuro in order to have her own mystery solved and devoured.

I have only watched the first episode since it’s the only one that got subd this far. I found the rest of then in Japanese in youtube but I couldn’t get more than half the staff they were saying so I gave up quickly.

But if you like the show you could follow the manga. After some digging around I found out http://www.tatsu-ryu.com/ET/ were translating it. They have up to the 3rd volume. (I think there are 13 volumes this far and I don’t really know if it’s ongoing or not) The chapters are kinda different compared to the anime I think, since you start of with Yako’s case there, but it’s really good.