Showing posts with label spoilers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label spoilers. Show all posts
Saturday, March 26, 2011

Paint it White: the Hetalia Movie

Paint it White starts out as like any other Hetalia episode, with a character, in this case Iceland, sitting out in the middle of his country talking about his problems.  Then, Iceland disappears, and you see a nameless girl running through darkened streets. She is screaming for help, and seeings a police man, she runs toward him. But when she reaches him, he turns toward her, and has a blank white face, and a glowing antenna, not unlike one of those bio-luminescent fish. 

When she turns to run, she see's that there are thousands of them behind her and that she is trapped. She is engulfed in the crowd and suddenly, all you see is an alley with the police car, and flowers and spirals, like those in Marukaite Chikyuu, flowing from another side street. It goes from horror film beginnings to this in seconds:

It's rather unnerving really, the sudden change. She becomes one of the white bodies and the scene cuts to the conference room where all the main characters/countries are sitting. 

As usual, America is talking, England is drinking tea and Italy, is well, Italy. But the odd thing is America is making sense! He's speaking about the crisis, and he is logically going over the various ways to retaliate, and is providing information on the blobs, who his alien friend, Tony,  says are called "noppera' and hail from the planet Pict. Japan then explains that there is a "nopperabou" that are monsters of legend in Japan. Because of his knowledge, his loyalty is called into question, leading to Japan's semi panic attack.

Fortunately for Japan, America demands order-again out of character- and goes one with his plan,  He's the hero! Most of the nations refuse to be part of his plan, Japan says he'll lend money but not his army, Russia agrees to fight, until he learns he'll be America's backup. And Italy says his only allegiance is to the white flag.He then proceeds to try to sell white flags in the conference center. They go on figting about the trivial until Germany can't take it any more. He starts yelling at them, but unlike in the 1st episode of Hetalia, they don't listen, and go on babbling.

Then Germany decides that talking to them would be a waste of time. He announces that he will fight on his own, and they should do they same.
 
After they all leave, the scene changes to the familiar opening, and then continues on to  Prussia, of all people, hosting a talent show.This part is completely random, and both of his singers, Ukraine and Belarus, don't show up. 

There's another scene change, this time to a city scape. Looking up at the sky you see glowing balls of that same green light. These pods burst and that same flowery substance engulfs the city, every thing turns white. But when America-san tries to fight back, his missiles are painted white as well.  On to Russia's home where they paint everything, except Russia, white. It appears that Russia is invincible, nothing seems to work on him, Busby's Chair to Noppera. The same thing happens to France, China, Japan,Britain and Italy, and even Germany cannot withstand their attack, his army falls prey as well.Even Romano, when he is trying to find his brother is painted white, and becomes a noppera. The other countries, Finland, Greece and his cats, are changed as well. However, Switzerland and Liechtenstein's old habit of being neutral seems to be protecting them rather well.... 

In a urgently called  meeting, all the countries agree to work together. Then, America's friend Tony calls to say he has created a website about Pict, and has uploaded all the pertinent information. They then proceed to watch a  short film about Pict and it's people. They discover the reason Earth has been targeted is because they are known for fighting amongst themselves, and are considered an underdeveloped planet by the rest of the Universe. Then, as they are talking to Tony, he is painted white. That same light also begins to appear outside their hiding place as well.  They run outside in time to witness all the little balls of light forming into a huge mass. This mass in turn becomes- a UFO, and behind this UFO is an army, created out of all of the  people and Tony, that were painted white. But instead of attacking, they begin to enter the ship.

They decide to sneak into the ship and learn the noppera's weaknesses, but they cannot figure out how to to sneak in without being seen. For once, Italy's white flags come in handy. He has created noppera costumes out of them. Once on board, they split up into 3 teams: England and France, America, China and Russia, and then Italy, Japan and Germany.  France and England find an information center, but then are captured and fall down a tunnel.  America, China and Russia find what appears to be the power source of the ship, but can't figure out how to turn it off. They accidentally sent off an alarm system. While they are being chased, they run into England and France. Literally. The tunnel they fell into comes out in that hall way. They are trapped in a dead end, about to become noppera, when from the floor above, comes the sound of a violent struggle. It appears Italy brought his cat with him, and Germany became annoyed by it. Anyway, they fell through the floor and are all trapped. 

While stuck in this desperate situation, Japan tries the only option left-diplomacy. The only one who agrees immediately is America, and he begins to laugh. This completely confuses the people of Pict, which is understandable. America's laugh, while not as bad as Light's dying laugh(Death Note), is very creepy. China catches on quickly too, and he takes them all to a Chinatown to eat. He also puts on a show for them. Upon being asked if they liked it, they answer in unison: It was....odd. Next up is France, who provides the best wine and food he has to offer. He receives the same reaction as China-san.  Next on the bill is Russia, who makes Latvia, Lithuania and Poland preform a ballet.
Understandably, they think that It's....Odd.Then comes Germany. Who is either REALLY scared, or trying to be nice again, we're not sure which. He serves premium beer. Now, it's America's turn. He brings them, of all things, Las Vegas, complete with slot machines, and girls in bunny outfits. Next is Japan, who holds a traditional festival for  them.Then, England provides them with souvenirs, but inside are England's famous scones, which are not odd, but according to the noppera, nasty.  Just as all hell is about to break loose, Italy saves the day buy asking them to come play with him. While they are distracted, our heroes make a run for it.  they kick out a door in the side of the UFO and jump. As they fall, the noppera send a hail of glowing green blobs after them. 

During the fall, Germany is separated from the rest of them, and starts walking aimlessly through the jungle. As he walks through the jungle, he delivers a very depressing  monologue, he has given up, and just as he succumbs, he see's a light a short way away in the forest. When he reaches the light, he finds Italy. One by one, the others stumble out of the darkness to stand beside him. Somehow, Italy has managed to make pasta.  But just as you think it can't get any better,  their all alive, there is good Italian cooking ready, guess who show up? Sealand! As they eat they discuss the days events, only to be interrupted by the arrival of the noppera. 

Sealand runs ahead, trying to save the others. Poor little Sealand is painted white, as he tries to help. In a tense moment, the UFO lands in the water and thousands of wires come shooting out of it,a s well as all the monuments from Germany, France, America, and the rest. Frightened, Italy runs off into the darkness.  Out of the doors of the ship run tens of thousands of noppera, bet on attack.  During the fight, China's hands are painted white, and as America tries to go help, his legs are engulfed.One by one the others fall, until only Germany is left standing. Even Germany eventually falls.  Out of the dark come Italy, just in time tho see the  others become noppera.Germany's last words as he collapses order Italy to smile.

Remember Grandpa Rome's songs that helped out the Axis during "Crying Out SOS from the Center of the World"? Well, just as Italy is about to be painted, the song for Heaven plays. Then we see Grandpa Rome, up on a stage, dressed like a member of the band, Kiss. He continues to sing, and then moves on to the song for Hell.  He finishes and vanishes.

At Italy's feet is a felt tip pen. With it, he draws faces for the noppera. One the faces of his friends, he draws them as he remembers them- Germany as angry, France as overly cheerful and so on. With the drawing of the faces, the noppera begin to return to normal, Germany is the 1st to dissolve. Slowly everyone and everything changes back to normal. The bubble that caused all the trouble to begin with floats toward Italy, and reveals itself to be a young girl, who promises everything will return to normal.However, she takes the felt tip pen back with her.

However, after the credits role, you see Iceland with a part of the green flower glob and tourists all around it. It appears that the whole thing was Iceland's way of getting tourism, which he said was lacking in the very beginning.

Fin
Thursday, December 23, 2010

The World only God Knows Season 1 End

 Season News:
The last episode of the season, episode 12, was released on the 22nd, and there is a second season coming in April, 2011.

Episode Summary:
There is NO real girl for Keima to conquer in this episode, just like in an earlier episode.  This is because most of the episodes where human girls are conquered require an additional episode to complete.

  Frustrated by the lack of time he spends gaming, and the "shameful backlog" of new games, Keima  enters  God of Conquest mode, wherein, Keima battles 6 games at once, on a large screen, while Elci looks on in amazement. *This is the 1st time Keima's room is shown. While in the middle of this mode, replaying multiple Princess Derby games at once, there is a loud bang and his consoles fuses blow. When Elci comes to check on him, he is hovering in the air, in some sort of relaxation pose. Keima is awakened from his sleep to the persistent buzzing of one of his games, and continues to play.

  Keima ups his game to 24 games at a time, since 6 will no longer due. When he collapses from exhaustion, Elci makes him leave his room and take a walk. Of course, he brings along some handhelds too. Elci begins to berate him about how sad and pathetic his life is, locked away playing games, and Keima, instead of giving her a long monologue as before, explains to her why he loves the games, and how they provide him with all the company he needs.

  With only one game left to play, Keima almost falls asleep from pure exhaustion, only to begin to hallucinate that all the characters he's conquered leave their screens to give him encouragement.   It's kinda creepy to be perfectly honest. At the end, all the characters take Keima into their world, and then a new ending song rolls. Which is REALLY bad.. painful to listen to. However you need to suffer trough it, because, at the end, there are some hints for season 2. For instance: A game version of Elci appears to challenge Keima.

Season Recap:
After signing a contract with daemons and hell, Keima is forced to hunt down loose souls or lose his head. Elci ( the daemon) buys her way into Keima's house by telling his mother that she is the bastard child of Keima's father.  By the end of the season, they've defeated 4 loose souls.

My Other Article:
Monday, December 20, 2010

high school debut

 Our heroine, Haruna's only real goal in high-school is to get a boyfriend. After spending all of her junior high life playing softball, she's rather clueless, and approaches one of the most popular boys, Yoh, to coach her. His one condition is that she not fall for him, which is pretty much hopeless from day 1.

 Over the course of time, Yoh introduces her to multiple boys, and fails to keep her in a relationship for any length of time. Slowly, Haruna begins to realize just who she's really in love with and who she'd rather go out with. After firing Yoh as her trainer, and continually ducking him, she finally confeses her feelings for Yoh.

 He goes out with Haruna and her exuberance and lack of experience leads to many small tiffs and  problems, including a fight in which she and Yoh don't speak for days, not wanting to be the one to apologize. However

While High School Debut is highly popular and has a cute story line, the haplessness of Haruna gets rather annoying over time, as does the subtle jealousy of Asa, and Yoh's own aura of angst starts to get on one's nerves.  But, it has considerable merit, and is a nice quick read, only 13 volumes.  If you find it hard to take Haruna, think of her as a female Tamaki ( Ouran High School Host Club), it helps.

 Live action filming for High School Debut started in October of 2010, and is scheduled to hit theaters in spring 2011. Mizobuta Junpei and Ohno Ito will star.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_School_Debut
Sunday, October 17, 2010

Kanaon Spoiler

I'm not sure I'll be able to finish this one. It's hard to watch as Makoto dies-infront of her friends-unknowing, slowly remembering things. And it's sad that they can't do anything to help her. it's like in the opening song she just "smiles to the very end". Plus, I'm only on episode 10. there are 24 episodes. How much worse can it get??
Sunday, September 26, 2010

After two years

After two or so years, I have finally finished Asura Cryin seasons 1+2. The ending was fabulous, and had some interesting twists. Whether Tomoharu ends up with Kanade or Misao is left up to the viewers imagination.
Saturday, September 25, 2010

The Cute Girls of Kanon




Yuuichi Aizawa is a normal high school boy, coming back to live with his aunt and cousin after ten years of being away.

Is it just me or is there  something wrong with him and the town he lives in?He can't remember much of anything, his aunt makes a secret, and weird, jam only she knows how to make, he constantly gets hugged and attacked by various girls claiming to know him, hate him, bear grudges, or just want him to pay for their food. And at least one of them is packing a sword, claiming to be a demon hunter.

A remake of the original, published in 2002, this version was published in 2006, either way Kanon is a interesting, beautifully drawn, and adorable story.

Character Summaries:
Mai: Mai is a quiet third year who carries a sword and claims to be a demon hunter, only, she's the only one who can see the demon, and it only is at the school at night.  Her only friends to start with are Sayuri, who doesn't seem to know about the sword, and Yuuichi.


Shiori was born ill, and appears 1st under a tree covered in snow. She comes to stand outside the school where she, and Yuuichi, Mai, and Nayuki go to school, and talks to Yuuichi there, refusing to give her last name.She has a weird dream to build a ten meter tall snowman....



Ayu, appearing here on the original game cover, is a happy girl who knew Yuuichi when he 1st came to this town. She has a fondness for taiyaki, and is very forgetful.She always wears the same jacket.
Always saying Uguu...Can't stand scary movies.

Very klutzy.



Nayuki is Yuuichi's cousin, and is the captain of the track team. She collects alarm clocks, and still has problems waking up. She's very sweet, and relives what people tell her.
She's allergic to cats, but has a fondness for them....






Matoko has a passion for eating and has a dislike of  Yuuichi. The 1st time she appears, she hits and kicks him, then passes out and is taken back to his aunts home. When she wakes, she has no idea who she is. There she remains, constantly trying to hurt him, be it fire crackers or ice down his back. Instead of breaking out like Nayuki, when the Siamese cat comes, Matoko is afraid at 1st, and only picks it up after she is promised a pork bun. Then cat steals her pork bun. Matoko drop the cat over the side of a bridge, and it rides away on the top of a car, however Yuuichi starts berating her and she runs away crying only to disappear for hours. When she is found, on top of Monomi Hill, she is with the cat eating a pork bun. "We're the same, both nuisances with nowhere to go."It turns out her loss of memory was caused because she was a kitsune who fell in love with Yuuichi many years ago, and when he returned, traded her life and memory to be with
him again. She slowly dies, completly unaware of what is happening.
Phrase= Auu....

 Episode information:

 - in the 2006 version, there are 24 episodes, all available on WAO
 - each is about 22 minutes long, counting title song, and ending song.
Opening Song:





And the prize question for Kanon.... WHAT IS IN THAT JAM?!?!?!


The 1st season ended after thirteen fabulous episodes, and then continues on, with another thirteen.  Tomoharu   learns that the more he uses Kurogane the less time he can keep Misao alive and have a second chance to save her. ( His 1st chance was when he made her into a burial doll so she wouldn't die, now, maybe he can save her again?)

While on a class trip, Kagakagari hijacks the
plane the seniors are on, and the 1st and 3rd councils must work together to save the students and plane staff.  When the fight is over, tears will be shed all around, the characters, the voice actors, and even you- Aine, the sweet burial doll for Reishiro. She sacrifices the last of her dwindling life force to make a runway of ice for the plane and her cousins - Reishiro and Reiko- to land on.
                         
                                                                                                                         
 ( Kristina Fortuna)
The tentative romance between Tomoharu and Takatsuki continues as the urgency for her to find a contractor strengthens after  the death of Kristina Fortuna, Nia's big sister.  In episode four, the group finds ruins on a deserted island, and Satomi kidnaps little Nia and draws Kristina and  Kagakagari out into the open, attacks and in this battle, both Kristina and Kagakagari's burial doll, Kotori die in the fight. Some of Kristina's last words are for her sister, telling Tomoharu to tell Nia that she was reckless, but she was happy.  In fact, her last strength is used freeing her sister from a Casta Machina. Then, she and her demon-daughter Ingrid, contractor Kagakagari, melt away. Having also lost Kotori in the fight he has nothing left for him to fight for and gives Nia a disc drive containing all of her sisters research.


I've left out some other surprises, just in case you decide to watch this anime, but, like all anime and manga, it's a hit-and-miss proposition. Have a good day!
http://www.watchanimeon.com/anime/asura-cryin/
-Kisa
Saturday, May 29, 2010

FMA Ending

The popular series, Full Metal Alchemist is ending in two months. The author has penned the final chapter and is finishing up the anime.
http://www.animeglobe.com/articles/2010/05/07/news-articles/452-fma-end-coming/index.html
Tuesday, May 25, 2010

The Death Of Yagami Senior

He went to his death knowing two things- Sayu was safe, he having rescued her not long before, and though he was wrong, he saw that his beloved son Light -kun was not Kira, because he could see his life span.
R.I.P-Soichiro Yagami
Monday, May 24, 2010

Misa's Song 砂の歌

the song sung by Misa Misa  when she is out committing the murders in episode25: (kanji and english)
あなたの自己の世話神を見ているあなたの頭の中でも、話の場合だけで、彼は常に見つけることができます、彼はこう伝えくださいあなたの罪を伝える彼彼の顔を知らないが、私は私に天のドアが閉じている場合をそうつもりも知っている、暗い路地から自分でハングしないか。

Take car of yourself god is watching don't hang yourself from your head in a dark alley even if you talk alone he'll always find you he knows so tell him your sins tell him even if you don't know his face but what am i going to do if heavens doors are closed to me?
Thursday, May 20, 2010

Kira's motives, ar they just?

Kira, wanted to create the perfect world, free of the violence and crime that currently  plague our corrupt world.However, Light Yagami, aka Kira, used the Death Note, to accomplish his purposes, and killed minor criminals and FBI agents, and following his example, the 2nd Kira, Misa Amane, killed innocent members of the media, and more policemen working on the case. His views, just as they may be, are jesuitical and judgmental, he takes the lives of others, acts as judge,jury and executioner. Killing those in prison, many already having received the death sentence, merely waiting for that day to come. Helping children held hostage inside a school, (see vol.2) by killing their captor by means of the death note is different from using the same article to kill a common purse snatcher or a man harassing a woman on the street(vol.2).

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