Seitokai Yakuindomo – Episode 7

Episode 7: It`s Getting Bigger / Boys Love With Tsuda-kun

Rule 7: I am a Tampon, Pompom. (Not too sure about this rule…)

Sorry for this blog being late as my last week of work had me very busy and tired after almost every day, including a trip to a theme park. Hopefully I’ll be on time with the next one.  It’s a day at the beach for the student council, taken by Yokoshima in her car. They have fun as well as being preyed upon by a “cock” (My terminology or slang for male show offs who only look for just one thing and one thing only…) including Aria having to pretend to be GF with Takatoshi (with Suzu as their kid); Shino knocks him….cold, but he ends up biting more than he can chew when courting Yokoshima, she ends up chasing after him.  However, Yokoshima gets herself drunk and passes out. With no way back home, they end up spending the night in an inn, they return home the next morning.

The usual jokes are predictable as always, which included the appearance of Hata at the inn (she gets around doesn’t she?) but a few I didn’t get included what Aria dropped in the changing room (EDIT: due to bad translation I got it that she was wearing a chastity belt) and what Shino was doing, swimming in the bath. Well in the preview we get to see a new character, can’t wait to see what she’ll bring to the anime, I hope it’s good. In addition, I got to be careful about the translation, as some subbers are good and some are just plain crap.

Heko the Dolphin (Ecco’s distant cousin)

Down and Out

Down and Out 2

Evil Suzu

Honestly men don’t wear towels like that

Naruto Chapter 506 – Guy VS Kisame

So all this time the Saiyans were merely using the Flames Of Youth? Or is Guy secretly an alien?

Might Guy really is an idiot. It takes him a few minutes to realise that Kisame isn’t his inner self created by the Waterfall of Truth. And those few minutes to us were actually 2 weeks. Exactly. Anyway, Aoba and Motoi tell him that Kisame isn’t his inner self, and Guy muses that he may recognise him. Oh no, that’s right. Guy is too stupid to recognise Kisame, instead calling him a giant blowfish. Ah, the old ‘Guy never remembers Kisame’ joke. Never gets old. It’s only funnier since Aoba agrees with him, making Motoi comically overreact. Kisame then plainly insults Guy, whilst Bee tells them that Kisame is an Akatsuki spy who has information on the village. Only in rap form. Samehada then suddenly separates itself from Kisame, dragging itself to Bee. Aoba then recognises Kisame, as he has separated from Samehada, but notes he looks weaker than last time. Samehada warms up to Bee and his chakra again, but then Kisame grabs Samehada from under the water, forcing it to clamp down on Bee’s shoulder. Aoba and Motoi go into action, running to Bee, with Aoba warning Motoi that Kisame specialises in water jutsu, and he’s in the water. Motoi tells Bee to run, and Aoba brings up a very good point that all the strong people around there are stupid. Aoba tells Guy to back him up, and uses his Stone Needles technique, attempting to paralyze Kisame, but Kisame reverses the chakra flow, absorbing Aoba’s chakra. Then suddenly, Guy comes in with a Leaf Whirlwind, which Kisame blocks and counters with a Water Shark Missile technique. He uses it as a distraction and gets away.

Guy gets serious, and opens the Sixth of the Eight Gates – the Gate of View, allowing him to go all angry and make a water spiral. Anyway, then Bee makes a giant Hachibi hand grow out of his own, allowing Guy to be launched after Kisame, saying he’ll throw him to the East, to rhyme. Motoi points out Kisame went North. Rapping fail. Guy is then thrown after Kisame, whilst Aoba asks if Naruto and Yamato are still behind the waterfall. Inside, Naruto has hurt his ankle, so Yamato makes some wood to act as a splint. Meanwhile, in mid-air, Guy is losing pace and altitude, so he summons Ningame for the first time in Part II, who shows irritation at the fact he summons him for the first time in years and in the air, no less. Guy borrows Ningame’s shell as a platform, and launches off of it to catch Kisame up. Poor Ningame. Still, at least Guy gets there just when Kisame summons a shark and gives it a scroll. He notes how persistent Guy is, whilst Guy asks if the scroll has the info from his spying. Kisame uses his Five Man-Eating Sharks jutsu, then increasing it to a Thousand Feeding Sharks jutsu. Guy sees no other option, and uses Morning Peacock to counter them all, attempting to find which shark has the scroll. Guy still hasn’t finished them all off however, and sees no other option but to box them in. He dives into the water and releases the Seventh Gate – Gate of Wonder, setting the water sharks on fire and destroying them. Guy then says he’ll use a one-hit KO move, and that he doesn’t show it to just anyone. Kisame then releases a Giant Shark Missile and Guy uses his Daytime Tiger move.

Well, I guess we’ll find out who wins next week. Pretty good this week, I’ll admit, and I don’t usually like Naruto chapters. Maybe because there was actual fighting in this. We get another Guy v Kisame match, which I think we need more of. Kisame is still pretty awesome, even though he’s weaker than usual, and Guy finally has the chance to show why he’s one of the best Jonin in Konoha. Motoi and Aoba are still pretty useless. As is Naruto, now that he hurt his ankle. Nothing much to say except I hope this fight goes on for longer, but it most probably won’t. Let’s see who wins then Kishimoto, bring it on.

Kaichou wa Maid-sama – Episode 21

Awwwww…

Giving a rather dark aura there…

Best to leave her alone Yukimura…

Don’t question the prez

They’re not pearls…

That guy’s got guts

Seems like there’s a new kid in town, and apparently he’s quite cute too.

Back in school Misaki is forcing all clubs to have a little clubroom cleaning, obviously they’re not happy and a little help from Yukimura makes things rather awkward. Though it does get them to clean up, on account that they get refreshments. As Misaki heads away she meets Usui who’s now healed from his injuries.

Kanou works out that Misaki ‘helped’ Usui out during his recovery and asks her about it. Obviously she denies but then she says it’s because she owes him. He then meets Usui as he retrieves a love letter from his shoe locker. Kanou asks why he doesn’t just start dating so he would gets less of those, but Usui replies that it’s bothersome to get serious.

After an all night rice ball making session, Misaki and her crew start making them as refreshments for the cleanup the next day. Usui is elsewhere looking down at the cleanup progress. He notices the new student, who’s eating grass…

Back at the refreshment making kitchen, the rice balls are finished. Though Misaki may have taken the word ‘ball’ in rice ball a little too seriously… So anyway, the cleanup people rush in to grab their food which makes Misaki a little annoyed so she goes ‘power up’ and chases them out. Oh and they didn’t see Misaki’s ‘rice balls’ as food, so throws them out the window only to hit the new kid in the head and knock him out, but when he wakes up he eat the ball…

Surprisingly, those guys actually cleaned up nicely in the end. A worn out Misaki falls asleep with her rice balls by the window. Usui comes and tries one, laughs at her unbeatable cooking skills and sits next to her. As Kanou watches, he still can’t understand what’s going through their minds.

Next day, Misaki wonders where all her rice balls went when Usui pops out of nowhere. As they’re speaking, that new kid drops out of the sky…

We finally get the new kid’s name, Shintani Hinata, transfer student. He has a rather… unique personality, a cry-baby for one thing, and will eat anything, and he has an unusual ability of being able to tell a food by smelling it from far away… which results in him getting a load of food as everyone make him try to guess what food they’re holding and if he’s right they’ll give it to him.

His background story is somewhat, sad, yet you don’t feel much sympathy… though everyone does. Anyway, he’s in the city because he’s here to meet his first love again. He apparently made a promise to her ‘I’ll follow Misaki-chan anywhere’ something like that. And then Misaki suddenly remembers that she does indeed know this guy from when they were smaller and he was rather chubby.

With a weird turn of events Shintani also realises that this is the Misaki-chan he remembers and embraces her.

Now that was an interesting episode. Who’d have guessed they’d throw in a childhood friend, well sorta childhood friend. Just what this series needs as a build up to the finale, a rival! Though I hardly think a glutton stands a chance against a perfect Usui. Especially when Misaki didn’t even remember him at first, understandable, but still, we all know who’s gonna win, but I’m loving the drama.

So anyway, I thought that Kanou has quite the sharp eye and amazing deductive skills, he could be a detective if he wants. Either that or he’s really good at reading signs. But he does have a good point about Misaki and Usui’s relationship though. I do wonder what’s going on through their heads and their logic is just off, only they can understand their logic it seems. I still think Usui’s the rather selfish type, I don’t get him sometimes, what does he want then if he doesn’t want to be serious…?

Also, Kanou and Yukimura for the win! They are definitely my favourite couple, apart from Misaki and Usui of course. Then again there aren’t many shipping that’s possible here.

Also, I was thinking that the students here aren’t that bad then if they actually did clean up. Though they may just be afraid of Misaki’s wrath. Who wouldn’t, apart from Usui, who may enjoy it…

Okay then, interesting development, I like, first half of the episode didn’t do much though, just showed us Misaki’s rather weird cooking skills. But the second half made up for it. Wonder how Usui’s going to sort this one out. I still see now chance Misaki’s going for Shintani, so I’m not gonna worry. Wonder if this’ll be the catalyst that Usui needs to finally become serious, that would be very welcome.

One Piece Chapter 596 – Spectrum

Pro: Brook's new ability is a faceplant. Con: It only works on himself.

First things first. Title page shows Luffy with Ace, whose tattoo is now correct, and a grown-up Sabo. Probably a ‘what if’ scenario, so please don’t look too deep into it. Anyway, on Weatheria, its inhabitants are discussing what to do with a now-captured Nami, since she stole stuff and kept Haredas hostage. Nami however pretends to cry, saying that she will jump into the ocean, and that she hopes they can forgive her. This leads the Weatherians (what I’m assuming they’re called when in a group) to overreact and say that she isn’t in trouble, apologising. She then accepts their apologies and says that she might as well study whilst she’s there, asking for a house to live in. Cue comic overreaction. Later, Haredas tells her all about Weatheria, and all about the New World’s weather, and how it can’t be anticipated. He says that Weatheria has records of the weather in the New World, and Nami, wanting to better herself as a navigator, asks for him to teach her. She then reminisces about Luffy helping her against Arlong, giving her reasons for wanting to learn about the New World. She then asks about the Weather Ball, and Haredas gladly talks about it, but when she asks if it could be used as a weapon, he comically overreacts. Figures.

On Kenzan Island in the Grand Line, Brook is held captive as a freak show exhibit, however, he is just sitting reading the paper. The crowd start to get restless, but Brook still thinks to himself that since Luffy has made his move, he should too. He then reminisces about Luffy, and how he didn’t discriminate by his appearance. His captors get more and more restless. He then finally moves, attempting to see how much of an angle he get to before slipping. When he realises that’s a terrible thing to work at, he brings out a guitar and, to the crowd, plays his new song – ‘Bone to be Wild’. Ah, bad puns, how I missed you. We then cut to the giant bridge in Tequila Wolf, where Robin has taken the Revolutionaries’ offer and boarded a ship to go to Baltigo. She says that if she knew there were people as benevolent, she would have come to them sooner. She says she is glad things worked out this way anyway, and reminisces about her childhood on Ohara, and then Luffy coming to save her at Enies Lobby. When the Revolutionaries ask her to go inside, as its cold outside, she refuses, saying she is a pirate and cannot trust them. She then toys with the idea of becoming stronger by meeting with Dragon, stating that she’s never thought of getting stronger for someone else before.

On Karakuri Island, the islanders are discussing the self-destruction of Vegapunk’s lab with Marines, and some say that a large cyborg gorilla was seen in the lab, but the claims are ridiculed as someone would need an Icebreaker ship to get to Barujimoa, and no Icebreakers were seen. The Marines say Franky has been sighted on the island, but people may have mistaken him for one of the many cyborg gorillas. The Marines search the mountains, and a new laboratory entrance has been opened by the explosion. Inside that laboratory, Franky, now with no skin thanks to the explosion, is reading some of Vegapunk’s documents. He says that he’ll live here, and that if the two villagers he’s with don’t say anything, he won’t cause trouble. However, they are scared of his metal face, so he wears a tiger rug to hide it, making them calm down. He lights a fire, and whilst he reminisces about Luffy and joining the Straw Hats, he catches on fire. When the Marines investigate the new laboratory, a burning Franky runs out, complete with tiger rug, and scares them away, making an infamous legend of “The Sacred Burning Beast of Barujimoa”. In the Boin Archipelago, Ussopp, roused by Luffy’s message, decides to lose the weight he had put on by running, saying that he’ll get stronger and stronger. Heracles asks what was in the newspaper, and Ussopp tells him, whilst reminiscing about Luffy, that he thought all he had to do was watch Luffy become Pirate King, but he now realises there are some people that even Luffy cannot beat, so he has to get stronger for him. He then asks Heracles about his weapons, and asks him to teach him to become stronger.

Well, this chapter was fairly packed. So much so that I couldn’t shorten the review that much. Anyway, as I suspected, it seems each Straw Hat is trying to get stronger, and will probably come out of this with some new techniques or weapons. It was Chopper and Sanji last time, and now we got the rest of the crew bar Zoro. I’m still thinking he’ll be taught something awesome by Mihawk. Probably next chapter. Which is why he was left until last. Anyway, whilst this is a slow part of the story, at least it’s getting somewhere. I can’t really put any thoughts towards it, as nothing really happened… So I’ll just say that the current plot is interesting, and I’m intrigued at where this is going. Please make Zoro’s part actiony Oda, otherwise it won’t be fun…

NOTE: I apologise about these manga blogs coming late, but my laptop died on thursday, and I only just got a new one yesterday, so I had to register and install things. Anyway, I’m back, and Naruto and Bakuman should be up later.