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Shuffle! 18 – The Ferris Wheel
Jun 7th
(you should know what that means…and also, certainly, it could fit as a horror movie title in this way too)
It’s showtime! We’re about ready to hit the climax of Shuffle! with 4 straight episode of raw awesome, and here’s the first of the four.
The light-hearted title card is back, and it is screaming Very Important Episode at the top of its lungs. It’s kokuhaku (confession) time this episode, and so we’re getting down to crunch time – and don’t expect, even after the main two get together, that things are going to be all better.
Well, what’s to say? Let’s get this mission started. And what a mission it is – that subtitle says “secret strategic meeting for the date”. This is Spartaaaaaaaa business. This recap is spoiler-free, covering only Shuffle 18, so if you’ve gotten this far, keep going.
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Kanon 13 – The Contradictions of Mai Kawasumi
Jun 6th
(my 2 cents: not every title like that is meant to be a Haruhi ripoff, okay?)
It’s funny that I don’t have any ideas for an intro to a blog post. And so I’ve gone to the lame and typical idea about talking about how I don’t have anything to talk about. And now I’m talking about talking about not having anything to talk about. Want me to go for one more loop?
But seriously, have a list instead. Ideas rejected for intro to Kanon 13…
1) Talking about how I’m not blogging Shuffle! because 18 is EPIC (win? fail?), again
2) Rabid Mai fanboying
3) SaYURI (x Mai) joke, followed by getting self shot
4) Random pictures with amusing captions.
5) Rampant Mai fanboying
6) None at all because I’m a lazyass who wants to go watch Lucky Star 9
7) Ridiculous Mai fanboying
8) A list. OSHI~
What’s that? Get on with the episode recap. Alright. Spoilers through the end of Kanon’s 24 episodes as always, since there is a good job done at mixing the character’s stories and developing them all a bit at a time.
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Shuffle! Memories 2 – Yay for Kaede?
Jun 5th
Not quite the same ring as Wai for Mai~ , but Kaede’s a strong character with a strong story and a strong runner-up for best Shuffle! character. So, catchphrase’d for the token witty title.
And now, time for some time paradoxing.
So, Shuffle! Memories is a recap series, half the length of the original with the story split up into multiple parts. Each main heroine gets 2 episode for a total ten, there’s one intro episode (the previous one), and one new episode (finally!) at the end for a total of 12.
However, the dividing up of the story does strange and awkward things to the flow of the plot. Kaede Fuyou, the first girl featured in Shuf!Memo, was one of the last to get a story arc in the original series. So now, instead of starting out with some of the lighthearted stuff and then going into the more serious plots (I think the arcs built off of and eclipsed each other in the original), we’re going straight into the deep end.
Each character is split up into two parts, so Kaede’s entire story isn’t laid out at once, but we get a significant enough chunk of it that I’m forced to issue a spoiler warning for through Shuffle! 21 or so. Somehow, I’ve managed to overtake my blogging of the entire Shuffle! series with the 2nd episode recap of its…recap series.
Not to mention…a recap of a recap? Strange, isn’t it.
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Track & Field Lucky Star 8
Jun 3rd
It’s still a good series, but it’s beginning to feel like more of the same.
Maybe that’s the issue with slice-of-life/school days stories, in that since there’s not a lot of plot or exposition, it’s mostly a lot of the same gags used before, in subtly different ways. You can Konata being a video game geek or an anime geek, at school or at home, but it’s still the same thing.
Maybe I’m just spoiled though, from all the series I’ve been watching/blogging that feature extensive character/plot development, such as Kanon, Shuffle!, pretty much every eroge anime in existence, and, uh, Haruhi.
Still, it seems that, despite all my complaining, if the next episode of Lucky Star featured a solid 24 minutes of nothing but Tsukasa knocking over hurdles, I’d probably watch it and love it anyway. Tsukasa seems to be my halo character for Lucky Star; much like Yuki from Haruhi or Mai from Kanon, the second they pop up on screen I get this big smile and fanboy like there’s no tommorow.
lol, fanboys, gtfo noob.
Anyway, so, episode 8! The athletic meet is the big star of the episode, making up the main block before the first eyecatch. We’ve also got some more Hiiragi sister dynamics, Konata going Lucky Channel on Kagami, and, uh, Lucky Channel itself. Hit the jump for a boatload of screenshots (79 of them!) and, y’know, text.
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Kanon 12 – Do the time warp?
Jun 2nd
Yes, that cheesy title, as always, is in both senses of the word. First of all we get chronological time warp, as in Double Ayu Ayu Flashback Bonus. Secondly, the pop-culture Time Warp, as in 007 agent Yuuichi and Mai dance. And it’s damn awesome.
You want me to say it? I’ll say it.
Wai for Mai~
Carrying on, the halfway mark for Kanon contains a lot of important plot points, plot hints, or plot omissions, not just for Mai’s arc, but for many others as well. The storytelling’s picking up a bit with the intertwining of many character’s stories; or at least the parallel exposition of them.
Uh, you know the drill, spoilers through Kanon 24 (end of series) after the jump, so, uh, be forewarned or something. Also, lots of Mai after the jump. Be forewarned for cute^infinity.
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