Reviews and Summaries A-C As stated, this is the section that contains the titles we have reviewed and or summarized starting with A all the way down to C. (Amazing isn't it? Even I wonder at the genius of such a system!) Please note that all descriptions that are in yellow come from the box or other materials that come with the movie/OVA/series, green comes from me, and purple comes from Karmie-chan. A B C Abenobashi Magical Shopping Arcade (Comedy) Mysterious!: Sashi and Arumi are two kids who have lived together in Abenobashi Shopping District all their lives. They now find things are changing. Abenobashi is slowly changing and Arumi's family is moving away. After and accident involving Arumi's grandpa occurs, the family immediately decides to close their Pelican Grill and move to Hokkaido. Things start to turn weird after that as people become giant mushrooms and stores fall down to reveal that they are in a floating rock with a magical rainbow bridge connecting them to somewhere else. Adventure!: Following the rainbow bridge, Sashi and Arumi end up in a medieval fantasy version of Abenobashi where they must go on a quest to defeat the goblin. Just like in an RPG, Sashi keeps on dying and Arumi keeps on bringing his corpse back to the castle so that he can be revived. Mune-Mune constantly appears as various enemy characters and after a while, they manage to reach the last boss. The goblin proves to be unstoppable until Sashi forces Arumi to give him the Amulet she bought from Eutis thinking that it's a magical item that can help. It turns out to be a magical bust enhancing amulet and the goblin topples over when its chest becomes too big and is defeated. With that, Sashi and Arumi force the goblin to send them back to where they belong! Combine!: Sashi and Arumi find themselves in a futuristic Abenobashi where that world's goblin steals Arumi's underwear. Chasing the goblin, they run into the Abeno angels and Sashi meets Eutis, the guy who sold Arumi the magical charm from before. When the Abeno Angels attack the district as their second part-time job of space piracy, the goblin takes over their space ship and Arumi and Sashi become giant robot pilots in order to defeat the goblin and get it to send them back home. Blaze!: Sashi and Arumi end up in a Hong Kong Abenobashi district where Sashi gets roped into a martial arts competition against Arumi's dad. Sashi gets forced to meet up with his grandfather who forces him through a rigorous intense martial arts training with a panda. In the end, Sashi uses all the skills he has ever learned from kung fu films, video games, and fighting anime to defeat Papa and wins the award, a doll that turned out to be that world's goblin! Extinction!: Sashi and Arumi are thrown in a prehistoric world where dinosaurs exist (although creatures from different eras are all jumbled together). Here, Sashi and Arumi discover a lost red triceratops and take care of it. When they reach the primitive Abenobashi Arcade, they learn that Sashi's older sister is the queen of the place and her fortune telling tells her that the red dinosaur will bring disaster and Sashi and Arumi run away with Mune's help to save the red triceratops. They run into Eutis, who Mune seems to be chasing and knows as Mr. Abe and with his help, ward off the goblin of that world that came in the form of a meteor about to wipe out the world. In the Night Fog: Sashi and Arumi are sent to a hard-boiled prohibition type world. Here Sashi gets mistaken as a legendary hitman and is hired by grandpa Masa, who is running an illegal snail running business, to eliminate the chief of police who just happens to be Sashi's Grandfather. At the same time, Arumi is taken in by the Abenobashi police force and becomes one of the Abeno Angels along with Sashi's older sister and Mune-Mune. Of course, things can't remain very serious when the two forces collide. Reminiscence!: The story is taken away from Sashi and Arumi to a time from before they were even born. Abenobashi was just being made and a young grandpa Masa was hitting on Mune, daughter of the Turtle Bath's owner and Sashi's grandmother. Masa dreams of becoming a fine restaurant owner in one of the plots of land in the Abenobashi Shopping Arcade that he is helping a talented young man named Mr. Abe to make. At the same time that this is happening, Mune is slowly falling for Mr. Abe and the wheels of tragedy are slowly starting to turn. Flutter!: Arumi and Sashi end up in a world filled with pretty girls and Sashi feels is a paradise made just for him. Sashi decides to go along with the game and take advantage of the time he is spending there happily. Arumi, on the other hand, is completely incompatible with that world and has turned into the goblin of that world and just wants to go home. When Sashi tries to spend a little more time there to enjoy himself, Arumi gets pissed, goes berserk and runs off just as Senmei Abe meets up with Sashi again. Crying!: Senmei Abe and Sashi head towards the world where Senmei comes from -the Abenobashi from the Heian era. There, he explains the events that led to Sashi and Arumi traveling from one version of Abenobashi to another. He explains how he knew Masa and Mune-Mune from his time period and how he tried to bring them back from the dead only to lead to the tragedy in Sashi's world. In explaining why they can't go back to their real world, Sashi then realizes that he has been unconsciously trying to find a suitable reality not because Arumi is leaving, but because in truth, grandpa Masa is already dead in their reality! Poa! Poa!: After learning the truth, Sashi decides to try his best to find a world where grandpa Masa is still alive. In order to keep Arumi from wanting to go back and learning the truth, Sashi decides to create a world where Arumi can enjoy herself and forget about returning to the real world. Of course, true to form, it only leads to disaster. Decision! Abenobashi Battlefield Shotengai: The rift between Sashi’s desire to find a suitable Abenobashi and Arumi's simple desire to just find a way home has forced the two of them to end up in a war torn Abenobashi with Sashi in a WWII Japanese army style Turtle Army and Arumi in the WWII Nazi Germany style Pelican Army waging war with each other. As the war of attrition destroys everything, Arumi and Sashi manage to meet up again and the two of them jump worlds once more. A Big Inversion! Abenobashi Hollywood Shotengai: Sashi and Arumi jump from the battlefield Abenobashi and end up in an Abenobashi that is a combination of the movies that Sashi has seen. After being separated, Sashi realizes the danger that Arumi is in when he realizes just what kind of Abenobashi they have ended up in and comes rushing to her rescue. In the end though, Sashi's dad comes for them from the reality that they came from to pick them up. Revive! Legendary Onmyouji: Sashi's dad reveals to him a shocking secret. Mune-Mune is their grandmother, but their grandfather is actually Senmei Abe and that even though they could do wondrous things with Onmyouji, it cannot change a thing. Unable to cope with this, Sashi runs away again with Arumi before she can realize completely that her grandfather is already dead. While running away, Sashi manages to confront his grandmother and when Arumi realizes what it would mean to return home, she still wants to despite what awaits them there. Sashi, still unable to accept that, summons Senmei Abe to help him meet with his older self to make things right, which he manages to. In the end, they return just as grandpa Masa is about to fall and manages to prevent him from falling and in the end, Arumi's family doesn't move away as a new Abenobashi Shopping district is made over the old one. AD Police Three different tales about Leon McNichols from Bubblegum Crisis when he was still a rookie in the AD Police department before his involvement with the Knight Sabers. These stories are set in the year 2027 and are mostly about the boundaries between humans and machines and the confusion as to where that boundary lies. (Action/Drama) These tales have absolutely nothing to do with the Knight Sabers. Unless you are a real die-hard Bubblegum Crisis fan, don't even bother with these. The Phantom Woman: Leon, newly recruited into the AD Police, must prove that another cop’s death was not a suicide while being chased by visions of a female Boomer who has been recycled from the scrap heap and whom he had apparently decommissioned before. The Ripper: Detective Ailis of the regular police investigates a series of murdered hookers in a subway while trying to figure out if the murderer is human or a Boomer and what to do with the discovery, at the same time as trying to decide for herself whether the benefits of replacing ineffective body parts with machines outweighs the cost of becoming less human. The Man Who Bites His Tongue: A policeman, fatally wounded in the line of duty, is resurrected as an Anti-Boomer cyborg that can now only confirm his humanity by biting his tongue. No other sensations of his former humanity can get through his brain except the pain caused when he bites on to his tongue. The lack of sensations and the perception of life have begun to slowly drive him to madness. Advancer Tina Advancers: Reckless explorers of uncharted territories in the far reaches of outer space. Meet Tina Owen, a sexy renegade Advancer serving a 2000 year jail sentence for destroying an entire planet. She's offered the chance to lift her sentence if she explores the mysterious planet Omega 13 - a place no Advancer group has ever returned! (Adventure/Hentai/Sci-Fi) It's a sub-par space thriller/adventure. Nothing much to say about this title. My recommendation is to not even bother with this one. Ah! My Goddess College student Keiichi Morisato accidentally dials the Goddess Technical Hotline and summons forth the goddess Belldandy to grant his greatest wish. When a misunderstanding ensues, a wish made in passing was made and he gets Belldandy by his side forever with the Ultimate Force ensuring that nothing can tear them apart. The misadventures of Keiichi, Belldandy, and the whole cast of both heavenly and earthly hosts begin as they go through college life and beyond. (Comedy) For those of you who love the manga, this is well worth the bandwidth. It follows the manga fairly well with only minor deviations from what I've seen so far and not the OVA's. Belldandy isn't a complete doormat here and hopefully, she'll show more of her personality later on. The TV series apparently chronicles Ah! Megami-sama from the very beginning all the way to the Terrible Master Urd arc. You're a Goddess: We are introduced to Keiichi Morisato, a freshman in Nekomi Tech University. He hopes to leave behind the old him and start out as a better person there, but he finds that people still try to take advantage of his nice guy personality. In another situation forced on him by his sempais, he stays home to mind the dorm and when he makes a call, he misdials and a real live goddess appears before him to grant him his fondest wish! This story and parts of the second episode is based on Wrong Number from the manga. Ah! Can the Ones Who Believe be Saved?: Belldandy appears before Keiichi through his mirror and tells him that she has come to grant him a single wish. Keiichi, still disbelieving that someone like Belldandy could actually be real, thinks that it's just a prank that his sempais are pulling on him and accidentally blurts out that he wants a goddess like Belldandy to live with him forever-a wish that is immediately granted and enforced by the ultimate force which prevents them from being separated. So since Keiichi lives in a guys only dorm, he gets immediately cast out to prevent his separation from her and the two of them go off in search of a place to stay. Ah! Studying, My Family, and a Goddess!: Belldandy and Keiichi wander around town looking for the ideal place to stay on Keiichi's budget. With no place to go to and nearly broke, Belldandy asks the spirit to guide them to where they can live peacefully and they are led to a Buddhist temple where a monk who has the propensity for jumping to conclusion allows them to stay if they work there. During their stay, the monk notices that there is something just unearthly about Belldandy and jumps to the conclusion that he is not enlightened enough and decides to go off into the world to seek more enlightenment and leaves the temple to their care. This story is based on A Man's Home is his...Temple? from the manga. Ah! The Queen and the Goddess!: Belldandy and Keiichi are now living at the temple and it may seem like heaven to Keiichi to be with such a beautiful woman and be served with the most delicious meals, but he still has to come down to earth and live in it. When he goes of to school, Belldandy wants to tag along. While showing her around the campus, Belldandy gets a lot of attention from the students there and the ire of Sayoko, the campus queen. Sayoko decides to wage war against Belldandy to get all the attention back on her. When Belldandy shows up with professor Kakuta, Sayoko decides to tell professor Ozawa, professor Kakuta's rival and use him to get Belldandy expelled as a fake student. When that doesn't work, Sayoko turns her charm on Keiichi to get them separated and hopefully, have her go home when Keiichi dumps her. Of course, with the Ultimate Force in effect, everything she does is futile and Keiichi and Belldandy have to make sure that she doesn't get hurt in the process and get her to give up on her own without her finding out anything. This story is based on College Exchange...Goddess and Those Who, Goddess has Joined Together, Let Not Woman Put Asunder from the manga. Ah! Under One Roof!: When Belldandy goes home to get something that Keiichi forgot in the house, people start misunderstanding the situation when they see him by himself - from finally getting dumped to Belldandy pregnant with their child. Talking to Sayoko, Keiichi begins to wonder just how Belldandy sees him as. Wondering how to ask about their relationship and wanting to do the normal boyfriend/girlfriend things, Keiichi racks his brain in coming up with a way to get on with it and not repeat his abysmal failure when he asked Sayoko out. Trying to come up with a way to ask her properly into becoming his girlfriend proper, Keiichi studies up on a manual about dating. Making an attempt to express himself with the help of the manual, Belldandy mistakes his embarrassed face and elevated temperature as a sign of an illness and ruins the whole night by putting him to sleep with her magic and "healing" him from the sickness. The next day, things return to normal as Keiichi realizes that those things really doesn't matter when the two of them are already that close with one another. Ah! Unexpectedly Finding Something Blessed?: Lacking some serious monetary funds, Belldandy casts a spell that will bring Keiichi good fortune and it comes their way when Megumi, Keiichi's little sister, shows up in their doorway. She is going to enroll in Nekomi Tech and decides to stay over while she gets a place if her own. Since she will be staying there, she gives them the living allowance that she has been given. Searching for her ideal place, Belldandy lends a helping hand by casting a spell to help them locate a place to her specification. They end up in the place that is just right and in her budget. The catch is that every resident that has rented that place has almost immediately left. It turns out that there is an angry earth spirit there that has been disturbed by the placement of the building. With Belldandy's help the obstruction is cleared and in return, Belldandy asks the spirit to protect Megumi from then on in. Megumi now has a place of her own with a guardian spirit in the shape of a rat protecting her. This story was taken from The Megumi Problem and The Apartment Hunting Blues shortened into one story. Ah! The Place to Express Your Feelings: White day has arrived and when Megumi asks Belldandy about what she got Keiichi for Valentine, she finds out that Belldandy doesn't know about that Japanese tradition. To make up for not giving him a honmei choco on Valentine's day, she will give it to him on White Day. Wanting to know about a place that will set the mood when she gives it to him, she asks Sayoko about it and Sayoko plays a trick on her by sicking Aoshima, the school's head playboy on her. When she asks him about a romantic place that will set the mood, he takes her on a love hotel to show her a place with the proper mood. When he tried to put the moves on her, Belldandy ends up knocking him out with a blast of electricity. Getting some advice from Megumi, Belldandy gets an itemized lost on where to take Keiichi on a date to set the mood. Just to make sure that it goes well, Megumi also follows them to make sure that nothing goes wrong. At the end of the day, Keiichi asks her what is going on and Belldandy apologizes for not giving him chocolates on Valentine Day and Belldandy finds out that Keiichi really doesn't mind since she couldn't know about it. Next time around though, Keiichi wants to know the places that she likes so that they can go there the next time around. Riding the ferry, the two of them exchange chocolates. As night falls, Belldandy, all by herself, wonders if the Ultimate Force is still in place. Ah! Taking an Examination of Love, Starting with a Deviation Value of 30: When a problem with the Ultimate Force arises from Keiichi and Belldandy's contract, Urd decides to come down to earth and see for herself what is wrong. She tries to sneak into the temple, but is easily caught by Belldandy and introduced to Keiichi as her older sister. With her in the household, she immediately starts trying to get Keiichi to make out with Belldandy with the contract errors as reason on why he should do it. True to Urd form, she keeps on pushing them to try to get the two of them to make out and get all that tension over with. That night, frustrated that Keiichi is so spineless, decides to teach him a little about some "adult" fun. Slipping him a drug, Urd sends him out to do all sorts of "fun" things with Belldandy. Frustrated at the kindergarten grade puppy love that the two of them are doing, Urd decides to punish them. However, she gets slapped with a a punishment of her own as she gets herself banished on earth for screwing around the Ultimate Force. Now she lives with Keiichi and Belldandy in the temple. This is taken in from Sexy Sister in the manga. Ah! The Secret of the Queen and the Goddess: The time has arrived for the annual Nekomi Campus Queen and with Belldandy in the running, Sayoko is quickly dethroned. Drinking to forget about it, Sayoko nearly gets run over by Keiichi and saved by Belldandy when she floats her out of the way. Wondering just who and what she is, Sayoko and Aoshima forms an alliance to figure out just that. Sending people out to "accident" them and catch Belldandy saving Keiichi. Unfortunately, a series of coincidences prevents them from getting the evidence that they want. In order to get what they want, they decide to kidnap Keiichi to get Belldandy into revealing her true identity to them. While Belldandy looks for Keiichi, Urd goes out chasing Aoshima to give him the punishment he deserves and Keiichi gets tortured by Sayoko through some rather interesting methods that involves snails and matchbox cars. When Belldandy gets there and Sayoko demands that she reveal her identity, Belldandy does and changes into her uniform. Shocked, Sayoko passes out and Urd, bringing Aoshima with her, cast a spell to make it look like the two of them passed out drinking. This was taken from the The Secrets Out story from the manga. The only main difference is that Keiichi is captured and tortured by the S&M guys. Urd still beats those two up, but allows Belldandy to come to Keiichi's rescue. Ah! Can the Motor Club Win?: Deciding that he really wants Belldandy for himself, Aoshima formulates a plan to steal her away from Keiichi. He uses his money to make a 4-Wheels Club to steal away all the new students with an interest in cars away from the Motor Club. Thinking that if the Motor Club disbands, he'll get Belldandy for himself, he challenges the Motor Club to a match in which the loser has to disband. After working so hard to get money and the parts, Aoshima sneaks there at night with a couple of flunkies and smashes their machine. When they find out, Aoshima is there to mock them and demands Keiichi's apology in exchange of him considering the contest never taking place. When he gets kicked out by the Motor Club, the race is on. Unfortunately, that is not the only dirty trick Aoshima has on his sleeves. After they manage to fix it in time, Aoshima has Belldandy locked up in her changing room to which she escapes using the mirror. Not only that, but Aoshima also hires professional racer to crush them. With the repairs so rushed, Belldandy uses her powers to keep the car together while keeping an eye for the surrounding. When Belldandy passes out from using too much powers, Urd comes along to help out. Using their car's specialty, they breeze through the last lap of the race in the sand by riding the front wheel of their 3-wheel drive into the sand bars to give themselves a better grip and speed than by just driving over sand. With the race won, Urd comes over to Aoshima to give him the punishment he deserves...again. This was taken from Winner Take All and What a Miracle It just compresses both stories into just one little story. Ah! A Devil Comes and Brings Misfortune: Lately, Keiichi has been having nightmares lately and at the same time, Belldandy has been getting a bad feeling. When Keiichi's senpais from the Motor Club goes shopping for their good luck charms, they get enchanted into buying a CD. Without a CD player, they decide to play it in a recorder and Mara, a demon, comes out. When Belldandy gets a really bad feeling, she takes Keiichi home and erects a barrier around the house. It proves to be useless since Mara has already snuck in before she activated the barrier and turned Keiichi into a scooter. With a password needed, both Belldandy and Urd's efforts to change Keiichi back ends in vain. They figure out that the best way to get the password is to use the Demon's CD that Mara came out of to try and seal her away again. While Belldandy tracks Mara down, Urd and Keiichi searches for the Demon's CD. When Urd finally gets to where Mara and Belldandy are at, Urd gives Keiichi the CD and she uses the God's CD, which is opposite the Demon's CD in the same case to threathen Mara into giving them the password. With Keiichi back to normal, Mara manages to escape. This was taken from the story from the manga and there is no significant differences. The only thing different is that Keiichi is turned into a salamander, not a scooter. On a side note, Megumi was turned into a car at a later story titled Sympathy for the Devil by Mara Ah! Put the Goddess and the Queen on a Balance?: Mara has been beaten, but she is not out just yet. This time around, she has decided to use Sayoko who is still sore at losing to Belldandy. Sayoko comes over to the temple when Belldandy and Keiichi left to run some errands and manages to knock Urd out with a tape playing enka and steals the Demon's CD. In exchange for retrieving the CD for her, Mara gives Sayoko the item that represents the balance of Keiichi's heart. If she could toss it out of balance, Keiichi will be unable to hear Belldandy's voice and fall in love with Sayoko, driving Belldandy out of the campus and of her life. Doing as she has been told, Sayoko manages to come into contact with Keiichi and Belldandy and the instance that she does, the heart's balance begins to work. While Sayoko is out spending time with Keiichi after he sends Belldandy home, Urd wakes up and immediately realizes what has happened. Alone with Sayoko, even under the spell, Belldandy keeps on coming out and she storms out on him. While this is happening Urd, looks for Mara and enchants every TV in the city to play rock and roll to find her. Whenever Mara listens to rock and roll, she can't help but dance, making her helpless when Urd finds her. Unfortunately, the moment she gets the Demon's CD, a bug pops out of nowhere, grabs the CD and vanishes. Freed of the spell, Keiichi searches for Belldandy and manages to find her just before she leaves to go back to heaven and convinces her to stay. This was taken from Mara Strikes Back in the manga and doesn't have much significant differences. Ah! An Exchange Diary with the Goddess: Ah! Who Does Knee-sama Belong to?: Strange things are beginning to happen when bugs have managed to escape on Earth - particularly around Keiichi and Belldandy. To alleviate that mess, Skuld, Belldandy's little sister comes over to take Belldandy back to heaven to stop the distortions caused by bugs escaping on earth. When the machine that Skuld was going to use to gets smashed by Urd trying to catch a bug, the distortions increases and Urd is locked inside a TV while Keiichi is whisked away all over town until Belldandy and Skuld manages to catch up to him. Belldandy finally decides to go back to heaven, Skuld realizes that the reason for the disturbances is the uncertainty within Belldandy's heart about the fear of getting separated from Keiichi. Upon learning that, Skuld decides to rebuild the machine that Urd accidentally broke and uses it to clear the bug infestation. Afterwards, Skuld decides to stay on earth to make sure that Keiichi doesn't steal Belldandy away from her. This story was taken from The Third Goddess and The Goddess' Big Crisis from the manga Ah! A Teaching Practice Called Showdown: Skuld is staying over at Keiichi's place and she is getting a bit jealous that Belldandy is going to the university all the time and decided to sabotage the bike to keep her home, but got carried away and rebuilt it again. When Megumi comes over for breakfast, she points out all the flaws in Skuld's creation and is immediately targeted by Skuld's wrath. Belldandy then suggest a match between the two of them and Tamiya and Otaki comes and suggests a match between robots for the two of them. A clash of robots has been decided in which each of them will make a robot to collect barrels in an alloted time. The entire university hears about the match and gets divided into camps. While Megumi recruits help from people supporting her, Skuld makes the robot all by herself. On the day of the match, although Skuld's robot has destructive power, Megumi's is faster so Skuld turns her robot's offensive abilities to block Megumi's robot until Megumi's manages to catch Skuld's machine. About to lose, Skuld self detonates her robot to keep from loosing. At the end of the day, everyone goes out looking for Tamiya and Otaki to take back their bet money since the match ended in a draw. This was taken from Robot Wars in the manga. Manga time wise speaking, this story takes place after episode 24 of the tv series. Ah! A Heart Stolen by a Goddess?: Skuld creates a robot to help her out named Banpei. Unfortunately, it eats up all the electricity in the house when it is activated and when it is on. everyone else can't use any electrical appliances in the house. After a few modifications, it can finally operate without draining too much electricity allowing other people to use electricity. Unfortunately, it has now been programed to protect Belldandy from anything and everything that approaches her - Keiichi and Urd included. After a while, Urd has determined that it is love. Banpei is in love with Belldandy and gets insanely jealous of anyone that gets close to her. When Mara decides to strike again, Skuld and Banpei intercepts her as she's trying to leave with the lunch that Belldandy made. After beating her, Mara drops the lunch that Belldandy made and Skuld jumps off the roof to save it. Banpei runs to save her and rips off the power cord and runs out of power. After reactivation, Banpei has lost all of its memories and doesn't attack Keiichi and Urd anymore, but still, somehow, it still trusts Belldandy and Skuld more. This story was taken from Thank You in the manga. Ah ! Catastrophe Arrives. And Auspicious Sign Stands?: This story was taken from Mister Unhappy from the manga. Ah! What are Talent and Hard Work?: Ah! The Fated Confession Under the Moon?: As thanks for eating breakfast with them all the time, Megumi gives Keiichi and Belldandy a pair of tickets to go to the hotel on the beach. It's a great way for the two of them to be alone, if only Urd and Skuld didn't tag along as well. Every time that he and Belldandy is about to get closer, Skuld keeps on getting in the way, Add to the fact that Urd keeps on scheming to get the two of them closer to each other When Urd gives him a fortune telling and advices him to tell Belldandy how he feels under the moonlight, Keiichi begins to look for the rocks that looks like three sea cucumbers while Skuld plans to put traps along the way to prevent him from finding it and bringing Belldandy there. Wandering out on the beach at night, he finds the rock formation and brings Belldandy there after a lot of interference from Skuld. Riding the water Banpei with Belldandy, Keiichi nearly drowns getting to the rock formations when Skuld forces it to submerge. Belldandy rescues him and drags him into the rock formation. Trying to prevent Keiichi from telling Belldandy how he feels, Skuld tries to get there and ends up jumping in the way just as Keiichi confesses. Back at the temple, the two of them are depressed at being tied forever while Urd smirks at how easily they believe that story she told them. This was taken from Meet Me by the Seashore in the manga. The main difference is that Keiichi goes to the beach under Urd's advice when she tell him his fortune that he has to be there with Belldandy and find the Rock 3 Sisters and confess under the moonlight. Ah! Don't Look at me with Those Eyes?: Deciding to give them a little boost, Urd decides to concoct a love potion to help them out a bit. Leaving the distillation while she watches her TV program, Skuld sneaks in and sabotages it. Urd returns and completes the process and turns it into the crystal seeds of love and tries to give it to Keiichi, but Belldandy eats it instead. At first, there doesn't seem to be an effect, but that night, the effects begins to manifest itself and by next morning, Belldandy is pretty much throwing herself all over Keiichi, which creeps him out. After finding out that Skuld interfered, Urd figures out what went in the mix and discovers that the combination turns Belldandy into a total sex bomb With the two of them out shopping, Urd and Skuld follows them just to make sure. When Skuld gets mad and blows up the movie theater, Keiichi and Belldandy manages to get away. Nearing the 24 hour limit when the medicine will lose it's effects, Keiichi can't manage to "take advantage" of Belldandy with the way she has been acting weird and the time passes away slowly, turning Belldandy back to normal. This was taken from The Trials of Morisato Part 1: Belldandy's Tempestuous Heart in the manga. The difference is that Urd, grateful for what Keiichi did for her in part 1 (see episode 25), decides to help him out with Belldandy by getting Belldandy to be a little more aggressive (the Crystal Seeds of Love was always meant for Belldandy, not Keiichi). Of course it gets screwed up when she leaves the potion to distill by itself and Skuld comes along looking for the newspaper. Seeing the newspaper under the potions, Skuld yanks it off and accidentally spills the potion on the floor. she manages to put a bit of it back in the container, but not enough that Urd wouldn't notice. Fearing the "unmentionable" punishment that Urd will give her (involving forcing her to make machines that have no purpose), Skuld tries to hide it by tossing in as many random ingredients in the beaker to make up the lost volume. Ah! Save the Goddess if you're a Man?: When Urd and Skuld goes off to fix some things up in heaven, Keiichi and Belldandy are left all alone and both expects either have Keiichi take advantage of the situation or stay away from Belldandy. Skuld proves to be the winner when she manages to poison Keiichi and partially turn him into a woman. When Belldandy goes through Urd's medicines, a sneeze from Keiichi blows the virus that Belldandy was holding into the air and Belldandy accidentally inhales it rendering her ill. To make matters worse, Skuld calls everyone to party at their place as an added insurance. Keiichi manages to get everyone to leave, but there is still the problem with Belldandy's illness. Deciding to call Urd in heaven for some help, Keiichi actually gets through. Urd tells him what to do and Skuld comes back to help him out. Finally getting all the things for the cure, Urd gives it to Keiichi so that he could give it to Belldandy the only possible way - mouth to mouth! In the manga (Together for Never), Keiichi is transformed into a woman because he started taking the drugs that Urd had while trying to see which one of them could cure Belldandy. Of course, true to Urd's personality, their names are written in code. Also, the only thing that Skuld did to get in the way was program Banpei to watch over the two of them and have him (it?) attack Keiichi if he gets to close to Belldandy. No one ever gets to see Keiichi with breasts and long hair other than Belldandy and her sister. Also, he is returned to normal by Urd who had to figure out which drugs he took and create an antidote instead of Belldandy. Ah! I Admire the Angel with White Wings: With Urd's arrival, Keiichi's halfway misadventure into womanhood is over, but a new crisis looms in the horizon. Skuld wants an angel of her own just like Belldandy. Unfortunately, to be able to get an angel, a goddess must have significant magical powers which Skuld has barely any of. The way to increase magical power is to practice magic and Skuld has no patience for it. When she realizes that Urd might not have an angel yet, she is spurred on by thoughts of vengeance and making Urd kneel before her to come up with a way to boost her magical powers. When she builds a machine that amplifies magic, she screws up, knocks herself unconscious and traps herself and Keiichi behind a wall of water made of high level magic that is being forcefully drawn out of her. With the only thing that can counter the water wall a spell of fire, Belldandy is unable to do anything. Turning to Urd, she asks her to use her fire elemental angel, but Urd tells her that she can't use the angel. When it first came out, Urd wasn't sure of her heritage and the angel, reflecting the goddess' heart, showed her that she really was a half-goddess and half-demon. It frightened her to know that she ordered her angel to never show itself to her anymore. With the situation as grave as it is, Belldandy manages to convince Urd to try and summoning her angel once more and believe that they will be able to meet again. Urd summons her angel and World of Elegance, an angel whose wings reflects Urd's heritage - half white and half black, comes out to break Skuld from the prison she accidentally put herself in. Her happiness reunion with her angel is lived short when she receives a call from heaven and finds out that her license has been suspended. With her license gone, she is unable to use magic. This episode is a combination of three stories from the manga (all of them much later in the manga than it should be in here). Crazy Little Thing Called Love consists of the first part of the episode and is the part when Belldandy and Urd tries to get Skuld to practice her magic by levitating objects. Pretty in Scarlet is a story about Skuld wanting an angel of her own and ends up accidentally swallowing an angel's egg that belonged to Urd and summons forth Noble Scarlet. Another Me is he part of the episode where Skuld finds out that Urd might not have an angel yet and creates a machine to boost her magic to summon Noble Scarlet back to her side, ends up getting trapped and forcing Urd to attempt summoning World of Elegance again to save her. Ah! A Demon's Whisper is Within an Urn?: Urd is depressed that her license has been suspended for the next 50 years. Walking around to get rid of her depression. Urd tries to get a job now that she can't use magic anymore and ends up as a waitress in a family restaurant. At the same time that this is happening, Mara finds the seal of destruction that will summon the Lord of Terror back into the world and bring an end to all things. With Urd sick and tired of needing licenses not able to adjust to living without her magic and being bullied into things by humans, she easily accepts the powers of the demon blood within her and is transformed into the Lord of Terror since she is descended from the Lord of Terror. With Mara as her new underling, the two of them plot to destroy the world and remake it into one that is fitting for demons alone. To that end, they attack the temple first. As Urd overwhelms all of them, Belldandy collapses from using to much magic. At that moment, Mara shows up and tries to seal her away, but ends up capturing Keiichi instead when he jumps in the way. With Belldandy beginning to wake up, Mara runs away with Keiichi as her captive. The only real difference between this episode and the condensation of Urd Goes Berserk and Urd's Terrible Master is that Urd rides the motorcycle without a license and gets chased by the cops. When the cop chasing her gets an eyeful of her bare thighs, he calls other cops so that they could also enjoy the view. Being chased with a constant reminder of license being revoked, she loses control of the bike, drives off the cliff, ends up in a garbage dump where she gets pissed off at her current condition and accepts the urn's offer for power and unlimited magic use. : Ah! Urd's Small Love Story.: After the system in heaven crashed, Urd, without a source of power, begins to regress into the past and turns into a child. Mad at her situation, she decides to walk around town while taking in an alternative source of power - sake. When a cop tries to bust her, she tosses the sake to the kid sitting next to her in the park and runs off. About to run out of power once more after having fled, she is grateful that the kid followed her with her sake. Spending time with him, Urd plays and beats all of his games to Shohei's disbelief. Urd goes home, leaving only her name and a promise to be there the next day. As promised, Urd is there waiting for him the next day and takes him out to play in the field and the forest. Finally, she takes him in a construction site to show him the best view in town as she motivates him forward. That night, with a solution to her dilemma in hand, Urd decides to prolong her state one more day until she sees Shohei at the front of the house. Returning to her original form, Urd meets him and tells him that she has returned to her home far, far away. When Shohei asks if he can see her again if he becomes a fine adult, Urd promises that it will happen and gives him a kiss on the forehead. This is titled The Trials of Morisato Part 2: Urd's Fantastic Adventure in the manga. The major difference is that Urd and Skuld regress to their own domains at the same time, but Keiichi manages to fix Skuld's condition first. Also, Shohei first meets Urd as she is about to pass out and buys her sake. Finally, when the part ways on the second day, it is not because of cram school - it was late. When Shohei asks where she lives, he was asking where her house was not her home country. Urd answers that by telling her that if he were to find out where she lives, the magic will end and she will be unable to meet him again. When he follows her anyway, Urd returns to her original form and greets him at the door and tells him, "Oh dear, that's such a shame. My little sister isn't here anymore. She had to go back to where she lives...far, far away. I don't think she'll ever come back again, but she gave me a message for you before she left. "Thank you, I had fun," and this" at which point she gives him a kiss in the forehead. After that, Shohei narrates that, "That's when I knew that the spell had been broken. And even if I waited back at that bench forever...I'd never meet that girl again...," which gives it a more fairy tale like quality that I like. Ah! Being an Adult is Heart-Throbbing?: Skuld's emblem represents the future so when the goddesses regresses to their domains, Skuld is propelled to her future self and becomes an adult. Now that she is an adult (at least, until midnight when the system in heaven is restored), she wants to go out and experience all the fun things that adults do. At first with Keiichi, Skuld runs off on her own and ends up with Aoshima only to be rescued by Keiichi from Aoshima's lecherous intent. As the afternoon progresses on, Skuld wonder why she felt such horror when Aoshima grabbed her, but not when Keiichi holds on to her and decides to go out with him in a sort of date. Going from store to store, trying on make-up, high heeled shoes, and clothes, they seem like a couple. So much so that when the bridal store's model (Sayoko) ends up with stomach cramps, the two of them are requested to stand in as the bride and groom. As the day ends, Skuld realizes that being an adult, isn't all fun and games. Someday - someday soon, she wants to become an fine adult. This is a combination of The Trials of Morisato Part 1 and You're so Bad. from the manga. Actually, it takes ideas from those two stories and creates a brand new story from them. Very touching, especially for Skuld fans. Ah My Goddess! Sorazore no Tsubasa (Season 2) (Romantic Comedy) Season two of Ah! Megami-sama. Ah! Wish, One More Time!: After the incident with the Lord of Terror (from season 1), the system in heaven is a mess and most of the data of our earth bound goddesses have been deleted or rendered unreadable. Because of that, Belldandy's contract with Keiichi has been damaged badly. When she was told that she will be forced to go back to heaven without the contract to keep her bound on earth, her friends at the Goddess Help Line try to help her out. All Keiichi has to do is to repeat the same words he asked her when she first granted his wish. Unfortunately, he cannot remember the exact wording. Resigned that Belldandy will be forced to return to heaven, Keiichi and Belldandy goes out on a date to remember the times before she leaves. At the end of the date, Keiichi unconsciously tells Belldandy the exact same wish he made a year ago and it gets accepted into the system, allowing Belldandy to stay on earth with Keiichi. Ah! The Troubled Queen of Vengeance!: The time is nearing Christmas and all though, Sayoko has a lot of suitors as usual, she doesn't feel contented. Feeling that she wouldn't feel so lonely if she manages to catch the heart of the only guy who has rejected her, she tries to get closer to Keiichi while Belldandy spends some time at home with her sisters while knitting a sweater for Keiichi. Having found her drunk on the steps of the temple, Keiichi carries her in and Sayoko wakes up to see Belldandy knitting the sweater. When the sweater goes missing, Sayoko is first suspected by Urd, but it turns out to be a dog attracted to the smell of wrapper that was used to wrap food in. Searching for it desperately, Belldandy refuses to give up. When it ends up in Sayoko's hands, she goes out with Keiichi in the midst of the Christmas festivities. At the end, as Keiichi talks about Belldandy to Sayoko, she is realizes what a big mistake it was when he turned him down so long ago and now, with Belldandy in the picture, it is probably too late. She gives him the sweater and tells him to wear it home. When Belldandy finds Sayoko on the bridge, she tells her to go home - her feelings have indeed reached him. Returning home after all that searching, Belldandy is greeted at the door by Keiichi wearing her hand knit sweater. This story was taken from The Queen of Vengeance in the manga. The only difference is that Keiichi goes home wearing the sweater and Belldandy had already given up at that point of finding the sweater herself and tells her sisters that she is quite certain that no matter what, her feelings will reach Keiichi...and it does! Ah! I Offer You this Feeling on Christmas Eve!: Christmas is almost upon them and Keiichi is wondering what he could get for Belldandy. When he is told that girls are happiest when receiving a ring from someone they care about. Spurred on by Urd and supported by Belldandy in her own way even though she doesn't know what he is up to, Keiichi takes on multiple odd jobs with Urd to keep him company and remind him what he is doing all of it for while Belldandy patiently waits for him at home. Upon earning enough money to buy that ring for Belldandy, Keiichi and Urd rushes off to get that ring only to find Sayoko about to get the ring. Begging her for the ring, Sayoko agrees to give it to him on one condition - he and Urd must do whatever she wants them to do. While they are in Christmas costumes, Sayoko forces Urd to polish her shoes in public while she forces Keiichi to climb up and grab a balloon that has flown away for a kid. Belldandy arrives there to see Keiichi climbing up and manages to rescue him in time when he falls off. Sayoko gives him the ring and in turn, Keiichi gives the ring to Belldandy as a Christmas present. This story kinda looks like a modified and shortened version of the last two episodes of the OVA. Now that I think about it, if you combine episode one of this season and this one, you do get the last two episodes of the OVA! Ah! I Want the World to be Filled with Happiness: When the Motor Club is invited to the Christmas Party that is hosted by Sayoko, they happily go there for the grub, the drinks, and the fun. Sayoko, on the other hand, has a different agenda in mind. She wants to prove that she is much better than Belldandy and challenges her to a contest and loses badly. After all the contests and the bottles of alcohol she drank with Sayoko trying to get her drunk, Belldandy gets drunk on a can of cola given to her by Megumi and starts granting people happiness in strange twisted ways. When Sora wanted to be bigger, she turned him into the size of a house, from horrible puns, to just plain errors, Belldandy manages to wander around town granting wishes. Trying to catch up to her, Keiichi is besought by misfortune as every happiness that Belldandy grants reflects back on him in the form of a misfortune. Finally catching up to her, Aoshima is demanding that Belldandy grant him happiness by giving herself to him. When Belldandy refuses because her own wish to make Keiichi happy and be with him is a higher priority, he gets mad and tries to get violent. Keiichi, counting the amount of happiness that Belldandy has granted so far and the amount of misfortunes he has had, he sticks close to Aoshima to share his last misfortune with him and used that to escape with Belldandy. Granting a last bit of happiness to Keiichi before passing out from using too much power, Keiichi finds that his hand is glued to Belldandy's hand until the morning. This was taken from Never Let Go. In the manga, it was Chihiro who tried to get Belldandy drunk, not Sayoko and the horny bastard that wanted Belldandy for his wish was just some random stranger, not Aoshima. Ah! The Wavelength that Captivates Love?: During a drive to gain some funds after they emptied out the treasury building the drag race machine for their next event, Otaki runs a cross a cute girl that Aoshima is hitting on. Her scooter refuses to run and Otaki manages to fix it for her. At the same time, Otaki falls in love at first sight with the girl. It turns out that Otaki isn’t the only one. The girl – Satoko Yamano who is actually quite popular, seems interested in him as well. In order to help him out, Belldandy decides to play the role of cupid and get the two of them together. They convince him to ask her out to a date in the newest amusement park, but it appears as though Aoshima’s family owns the park and when catches the two of them together, he decides to hamper their date by shutting down all the rides they want to go in. In the end, they end up in the university where the date ends up successfully. Going to the next step is the meeting with her dad where Aoshima again decides to interfere. Luckily, a fire in the kitchen shows him just what a reliable young man he is and Satoko’s dad ended up being impressed. Afterwards, they realize just how alike Otaki and Satoko’s dad are like when it turns out that he is also a cosplay maniac like him. This was taken from Never Let Go which was an early story from the manga. In here, they never go on a date and Aoshima never interferes with them. Otaki also meets Satoko by chance when she was having trouble with her scooter and helps her out. It took a psychic camera to tell who Otaki was thinking of before Belldandy and Keiichi decided to give out a helping hand to them. Ah! Is That Jealousy?: One day, Keiichi receives a love letter from someone named Shiho Sakakibara. Meeting up with her (under Belldandy’s advice to make everything clear) with both Belldandy and Urd in tow, Keiichi finds out that Shiho is actually only after him because she thinks that he is surrounded by spirits and she wants to exorcise them for him. She manages to force her way into their home and tries to perform some exorcism ritual. Unfortunately, she is pretty bad at it and instead of exorcising evil spirits in the house (which there aren’t), she is actually summoning them with her exorcism ritual. When Urd breaks her seals, the evil spirits vanishes and Shiho believes that it was her power that did it. About to leave, she decides to thank Keiichi by kissing him on the cheek and Belldandy’s jealousy overflows causing Shiho to believe that there are more evil spirits hiding. Performing her ultimate ritual to purify the house, she accidentally summons Garm – dread hound that guards the gates of Nibelheim. When she manages to insult him, Garm goes on a rampage. Ultimately, Urd saves them all by manipulating Keiichi to cause Belldandy’s jealousy to overflow which caused the seal to break and send Garm back. At the aftermath of the chaos, Belldandy admits her own jealousy and weakness as she begins to doubt herself and fear what might happen if Keiichi falls out of love with her and in love with Shiho. This was taken from Ah! I Will Fulfill Your Wish: After receiving the photos that he took back from the developer, Keiichi decides to make a call to Megumi and show her the photos that he has taken with her old camera. Strangely enough, Keiichi accidentally calls heaven once more and another goddess named Peorth arrives on earth to grant his fondest wish. Much to her dismay, Peorth is surprised to discover Urd, Skuld and Belldandy (who works in a rival office in heaven) living with Keiichi. Of course, Keiichi doesn’t have any other wish that he really wants and Peorth refuses to leave until Keiichi wishes for whatever it is he wishes for most of all. And so…a fourth goddess begins living in the temple. Of course, that means trouble for Keiichi as Peorth begins hanging all over him in an effort to get him to ask for that wish of his. At the end of the day though, Peorth finds out that there really is a bond between Keiichi and Belldandy that goes beyond the simple client contract that they have between them. This was taken from On a side note, I want a Murder-kun! Ah! I Want to be Able to Help You Out: One fine morning, Peorth just manages to piss off both Urd and Skuld and the result ends up with a three way fight to determine which goddess is more useful and Keiichi is the unlucky victim, er...lucky subject. With all three of them trying to grant whatever it is that Keiichi wants (against his will of course!), it can't be helped that they keep messing things up with their spells mixing and messing with each other. Ultimately, they accidentally turned Keiichi into a gust of wind. Fortunately, Belldandy felt something go wrong with Keiichi and arrives in time to change him back to normal. Later on, Peorth decides that the easiest way to monopolize Keiichi and quickly grant his wish is to cast a spell on him. Modifying Urd's Seed of Love, Peorth slips it into Keiichi's drink. Little did she know that when she modified it, she screwed things up. Instead of enchanting him to fall in love with her alone, she enchants him into getting every woman he looks at to fall in love with him. From Megumi who just happened to be there to see the pictures Keiichi took, to Skuld and Peorth and finally, Urd. When Belldandy walks into him, Keiichi tries to get away from her. Refusing to let him get away, Belldandy wanted to know why Keiichi doesn't want her to be put under the spell as well. Fortunately, not only is Belldandy immune to it because she and Keiichi are a match already, but their proximity to each other released everyone from the spell. Later on, with everything explained by Urd, Skuld wonders where Peorth had gone to. Elsewhere, Peorth is spending her night whispering sweet nothings to a tanuki statue's ears courtesy of Urd's punishment. This is actually a combination of and Ah! The Goddess Decides the Victory with a Date: One day, while Peorth is trying to get what Keiichi wishes for out of him, he turns the question around and asks her what her desire is. Mistaking it for something that he will grant, Peorth asks for a date - earth style the way it is in the mangas. Unfortunately for Peorth, things don't go the way that she planned it to be when Keiichi shows up with Belldandy, Urd, and Skuld and passes it off as a group date. Even after that, things go wrong for Peorth when all of her ideas carefully researched from mangas get thwarted by Keiichi not having enough money and Belldandy seemingly prepared for everything and having tickets to everywhere they wanted to go to. Of course, Peorth tries to get the two of them alone, but Belldandy seems to have the uncanny ability to locate where ever she decides to take Keiichi away to. Finally arriving at the public pool, Peorth plans to have Keiichi take a dip into the pool quickly followed with her “saving” him from a watery fate. Unfortunately for her, it doesn’t go as planned when Belldandy uses her powers to save Keiichi first and causes her to drown instead. Saving her, Peorth reveals the reason why she doesn’t like Belldandy much and it goes back to a misunderstanding from the time when they first met. Resolving that, she may not despise Belldandy as much, but that doesn’t change anything about Keiichi! This is actually a combination of and , although it was a fragment of the second story. In the original, They have to go through a duel in which Belldandy has to win in order for Peorth to reveal her reason. It was a series of 3 matches – the first one was a tickle contest between their angels (Belldandy’s victory). The second is a whack a mole contest (Peorth’s victory – they were too cute for Belldandy to whack). The final is a target practice with meteors as the weapon of choice (Belldandy’s victory of course). : : : : : : : : : : : Ah! The Place Doesn’t Matter as long as the Two of Us are Together: With her license revoked for a week, Belldandy is not allowed to use any magic until the time that she gets her license back. At the same time though, Tamiya and Otaki’s dorms are renovated and they decide to put all their stuff into Keiichi’s place. On top of that, Megumi decides to buy new appliances and decides that it wouldn’t be much of a problem dump her old stuff on Keiichi until the junk man arrives. Then, Chihiro comes on over and leaves two of her bikes that she just got. Finally, Sayoko decides to come over and “donate” her older clothes to their household and arrives with a truck. Trying to find a way to make things bearable, Skuld helps out by making a machine that compresses time within a room and doubles it during that compression. When they ran out of room again, Keiichi and Belldandy tries to use the machine to double the room once more only to have the machine malfunction on them and they get stuck in a place that is infinite in size. The machine itself will die out when the batteries go, but that will take a week. As Urd and Skuld try to figure out a way to rescue them, Keiichi and Belldandy take their time leisurely enjoying each other’s company. While enjoying each other’s company, they figure something out. The machine itself fools around with the time and space within the room itself, but what about beyond the room – like under the floor that they are standing on? Yanking to floorings out, they realize that below the floor is not affected at all and they manage to get out using that means. Ah! Is it All Right Even if I’m a Demon?: After returning to heaven for her license, Belldandy returns to earth and realizes that there has been a mistake and she has been granted a demon license instead of a goddess one. Whenever she does something that a goddess does or try to make others happy, misfortune befalls Keiichi. With Urd and Skuld having returned to the heaven to get her license fixed, Belldandy and Keiichi are left alone on earth where one misfortune falls on them after another. Marler reveals herself to Belldandy after Keiichi collapses from a fever and convinces her that if she were to do bad things, Keiichi’s fever would go away. Convinced, Belldandy goes to town to do bad things (dastardly deeds like…jaywalking!!!). Wandering around, she runs into Peorth who has come down to help her out and gives her a telephone. Using it, she dials up Keiichi and he tells her that it doesn’t matter if he is unhappy or not, what he wants and loves is the goddess Belldandy, not the demon one. With that phone call, the fix has been triggered and the bug that causes Belldandy’s license to become a demon license corrects itself and changes her license back into a goddess one. This episode is a TV series original and has no counterpart in the manga. Ah! A Goddess’ Confession of Love!: Coming home one day, they discover Hild in Keiichi’s bed. Not only do they seem to be real chummy with each other, they seem to be in love. Belldandy, Urd, and Skuld can’t seem to find any traces of Keiichi being possessed, controlled or tampered with in any way. Wondering just what is going on, Belldandy finds an old high school picture of Keiichi with Hild in it. Discovering this, Urd opens up a doorway to the past and sends the three of them to Keiichi’s high school days where Belldandy enrolls to the same high school that Keiichi is in. Unfortunately, everywhere that Keiichi is in, Hild won’t be far behind. When most of her efforts to get close to Keiichi and win him over from Hild’s influence are torpedoed by Hild’s presence, Urd helps out by occupying some of Hild’s time by playing the role of a delinquent. Belldandy manages to get some alone time with Keiichi, but Hild is quickly there. When Belldandy can’t hold on much longer, the feelings of jealousy begins to pour out of her and taint the surrounding, which is what Hild wants. In the middle of that miasma, Keiichi somehow manages to break through the illusion that Hild has cast and gets Belldandy to stop. Freed from Hild’s influence, Keiichi asks Belldandy out to the museum to which she agrees before being whisked back in to the present. There, they go out on a date to the museum where Keiichi asks her to go with him next time to his hometown in Hokkaido. This story, like the previous episode, doesn’t take place in the manga. The only real link with the real manga storyline here is when Keiichi asks Belldandy out to the museum which is a reference to Keiichi asking Sayoko out to the museum before he met Belldandy. : : : Air Mizusu is a child that has always been alone for all of her life. Abandoned by her real mother and raised by an aunt that seems to have no real interest in raising a daughter, she dreams of making a friend someday amidst her dreams of flying through the sky with white feathered wings. ___ is a traveling puppeteer who has inherited his mother's will - a will that has been passed through out the ages from one generation unto the next. He searches for a girl with wings so that he may somehow help her. In a small town in at the start of summer, these two souls meet and destiny is spun, they just might be what each other needs to free themselves from the burden they carry. (shoujou) It's a wonderfully sad tale about a fate that has been spun out of the most basic of human emotions - that of a desire to be loved, of hatred, of a sense of duty and loyalty, of loneliness, of sorrow. It also seems to be a sequel to Kanon in the sense that they share similar character designs and the fact that Ayu, Nayuki and Makoto from Kanon makes a cameo appearance (heh-he, get it "Kanon," then "Air"). It's a wonderful story, but deeply sad at the same time as well. Yes, I highly recommend this! : Yuuta arrives in a small town at the start of summer on his journey to find the girl with wings flying in the sky. To do that though, he needs to eat and earn money as well, unfortunately, his puppet shows needs a bit more work for to actually watch and pay him. Starving, he meets a strange girl named Mizusu who lures him to becoming her friend with food and promise of shelter. Haruka, her mother, agrees to let him stay so long as he sleeps in the shed. He takes it as his job to take Mizusu to and from summer school everyday. After having taken her to school, he wanders around town to find a place to do his puppet shows when his precious puppet is stolen by a dog. Chasing it, he meets a girl named Kanna who befriends him. Having met up with Mizusu that afternoon, he also meets a strange girl at the station named Minagi and her friend, a little girl named Michiru. With this, summer has only just begun. : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : Angelic Layer (Adventure/Comedy/Drama) Another series by Clamp (although I'm not really sure -after all, they didn't blow up or damage Tokyo Tower in this series). This series features fighting dolls! Yes, it's a real life version of arcade fighting games where the players are predominantly girls. An interesting series to watch actually and of course it has almost all the trademark CLAMP charm added on to it (except they DIDN'T blow up Tokyo Tower!). Angelium (Hentai) 1: Zeus, lecherous after young angels, keeps on getting caught by Hera. When the time came for three young angels to take the test to advance to the next lever, he gets an idea. Sent to Earth to help out people, Miki, Yuu, and Chadoko ends up helping in a flower shop whose owner is being harassed by thugs to sell the store. Then there is Yurishiro, the delivery guy whom they met at the flower shop. He seems to have a knack for passing out, beginning to glow a golden color and having his way with the angels. Of course, they are willing to let him as long as it makes him happy. From above, Zeus watches them closely - very closely... 2: Hades has learned of the angels on Earth and that Zeus is watching them with great interest. Trying to figure out what he is up to, he sends Persephone, a succubus to Earth to find out and interfere with whatever Zeus is up to. Of course, Yurishiro is the only who suffers when Persophone starts thinking that he is kinda cute and gets a liking to him. Caught in the crossfire, he gets his life force sucked out of him. When the angels try to rescue him, they get caught themselves since they are forbidden from using their powers on Earth. Zeus himself descends from high above to rescue them and give a stern warning to Hades. Miki, Yuu, and Chadoko wakes up unaware that their master was the one that saved their hides. Aquarian Age "It's distant yet close- this story begins at a place such as that." Kyouta was just a normal high schooler until one day, he begins to feel and see weird things-like superhuman combatants in a fantastic one on one combat in the sky that no one else seems to see. Before he realizes what is going on, he and his girlfriend are drawn into a conflict that has its roots from the very beginning of time itself. (Action/Adventure) This series is quite interesting. Certainly not the worst nor the best one out there. The thing that really turned me off in this series is that they never fully explained things - like how Kyouta’s girlfriend can be two different reincarnations of two different goddesses of the same thing (arts) from two different cultures? Most of them are just supposed to be inferred. Watch it if you are interested in shows with a supernatural theme and love triangles, otherwise, stay away from this one. Prelude of Deep Blue Premonition of Flaming Green Tainted Crimson Melancholy Pre-emptive Dark Offering Inevitable Flash of White False Sense of Relief Deep Crimson Offshoot Soft Indigo Awakening Burning Silver Remains of Shadows A Yellow and Green Reality Indigo Blue Vortex Fading Red Conflict Pure White Embrace Argent Soma Highly angst ridden (well, not as bad as the later half of Evangelion). It can be very dark, especially with the main character thinking only of revenge the whole entire time. Can be depressing, but on the other hand, it does have a very, very good story about vengeance, love/hate, and redemption and I rather liked it...a lot! The opening song is also very nice (had it stuck in my head for about a week at one point). A worthy series in my humble opinion. I'd say buy it. (Action/Drama/Sci-fi) Rebirth and Death Death and the Maiden Maiden and the Meeting Meeting and the Hatred Hatred and War War and Escape Escape and Memory Memory and Solitude Solitude and Sadness Sadness and Malice Malice and Betrayal Betrayal and Despair Despair and Hope Hope and Confusion Confusion and Conflict Conflict and Decisions Decisions and the Past The Past and Deadly Sins Deadly Sins and Warning Warning and Awakening Awakening and Truth Truth and Destruction Destruction and Courage Courage and Love Love and Rebirth Death and Death Four years have passed since Yuri Leonov left and averted the destruction of earth. During this time, Hattie has grown up and has already finished her doctorate and is preparing to voyage out into space in the newly resurrected space program using the Ulysses. She meets with Commander Inez who is now a senator at Gwenevere's grave. At the same time, Ryu Sohma, incarcerated all this time for attempting to tell the truth, is being released from political imprisonment. Hattie also meets Dan who is now a commander in Funeral, Sue who is now married to Dan and the base commander, and their baby girl named Gwenevere. They reminisce about the past and Hattie's joy of finally being able to meet him again-both of them. Looking at the base where supplies to the Ulysses is being launched from, Ryu leaves to go to an apartment that has been supplied to him by General Lawrence years ago when a car. Arriving at the Ulysses, Hattie is greeted by the Ben, the mission commander and as she expressed her joy of a reunion, he regrets to inform her that Ryu is missing and might not show up. As Hattie is saddened by the news and yearns to meet him again. As Ryu contemplates whether he should go or not, a car appears outside. Back in the Ulysses, Ben and Inez are talking and Inez tells Ben of a gift to him and Hattie and as a last minute shuttle with a strange pass code approaches, Ben sends Hattie off to help with the last shuttle. She is happily surprised that the last shuttle contained their first officer - Ryu Sohma. As the Ulysses blasts off into the wide universe, it bears with it the collective hope of mankind. Armitage III Mars 2046: The murder of a celebrity reveals the existence of a secret “Third Type” robot so intelligent and sophisticated that they can pass for humans. Assigned to the case, Ross Sylibus and his beautiful partner Armitage uncover a conspiracy of government sponsored murder and forbidden technology that threatens to kill them both – especially once the government discovers Armitage’s secret: Armitage is a “Third.” (Action/Comedy) I actually saw this after I got my hands on the movie version. Truthfully speaking, I rather liked this one better as there are more scenes that explain more of what is going on. On the other hand, I liked how the movie ended much better. It teaches us that only in seeking out the joys of living can you counter the sorrows of life. Only love can heal the wounds caused by hatred. Only understanding can fight the ignorance of racism. Over all, they are the same and thus, receive the same praise – go buy it now and add it to your collection! Electro Blood: Flesh and Stone: Heart Core: Bit of Love: Armitage III: Poly-matrix (Movie Version) 2179: Mars has been colonized by Earth, populated by humans and Second Type robots-robots designed to perform the menial tasks humans won’t do. Then there are the Thirds-illegal humanoid robots designed by a nationalist force to look and behave exactly like humans-living undetected among Martian population as citizen, until one man, Rene D’anclaude, declares war on the Thirds, starting a massacre in a vow to destroy them all. That’s where she comes in. She’s Naomi Armitage, a cyber-punk Martian cop in hot pants, with attitude as deadly as her gun. She’s also a Third, and her fight against D’anclaude is a fight for her survival. Her partner, Ross Sylibus, lost his partner at the hand of a cybernetic killer and hates robots. Ross must face this prejudice when he is injured and receives cybernetic limb replacements, bringing him closer to becoming one of the monsters he abhors. He begins to realize that being human is more than flesh and blood and joins Armitage in her fight against D’anclaude and her quest to discover the mystery of why the Third Type was created. Armitage and Ross are brought together in a bond of love and hope as their journey uncovers a secret that could destroy two worlds! This is a story about technology and emotions; about hatred and love; about a human on the verge of becoming a machine and a machine on the verge of becoming a human. It is a story of survival. (Action/Drama/Sci-fi) I loved this one. It is a story that mostly echoes about discrimination and Naomi Armitage’s search for her place in a world that doesn’t like her and refuses to allow her to find her place in it. Buy this one - at fifteen bucks, it’s worth the dough (twenty for the whole four part OVA that has the subtitles). One of the first anime movies I ever rented, I'm soooo glad I picked it up. It has a WONDERFUL story with a universal message that's so well integrated into the plot that you don't even realize it's there until the SUPERB ending where - well, I'm not gonna ruin it for ya ^_-. Armitage III: Dual-Matrix Naomi Armitage and Ross Sylibus have changed their names and live with their daughter Yoko as a normal happy family on Mars-until a robot riot breaks out at an anti-matter plant on Earth. Armitage learns the riot is a plot to suppress evidence of illegal research and development of more “Third Robots” and decides to go to Earth to find out who is behind this heinous act. What Armitage discovers is the most powerful enemy she has ever encountered… Replicas of herself! (Action/Drama/Sci-fi) Pretty good follow up of the original movie/OVA's. The only gripe that I have with this one has to do with the CG’s. They are completely out of place and look as if they were made in the early 90’s. There doesn’t seem to be any underlying theme to this one like the last one (as in finding your place in a world that doesn’t accept you). If you have the first movie/OVA's and loved it, you will definitely like this one also. If you just liked it, I recommend that you at least rent this one. Ayakashi Ayashi (Adventure) Think of this as ghostbusters...in 1700s Japan. It's pretty interesting and worth watching at least ones. : Yukiatsu or Yuki has been a drifter for the longest time and is continually running away from some unspeakable horror that he has experienced in his childhood. When a mother and child shows up in town runnning away from something, he feels pity for their plight. Having been discovered as a drifter by the local boss, he runs away again and meets the mother and child named Tae and Outa. While Tae is running away from something that is chasing them, Outa seems to be searching for something within the mounds of dirt that he encounters. When Outa runs away again, Yuki soon discovers that Outa might have encountered the same vision that he has experienced in his childhood. Not only that, but the thing that his mother is trying to take him away from has caught up to them. Left with no choice, Yuki is forced to use the power he has gained from that other world and pulls out a name, and with it, another monster. : The monster that Yuki pulls out and the one that Tae and Outa have been running away from attacks each other and soon, they both dissipate together. Leaving the battlefield, Yuki soon finds himself along with Tae and Outa at the hands of the Occidental Investigation Office with and offer, or rather, a demand that he become one of them and hunt monsters that appear in whatever form or place. He refuses, but when Outa wanders off again, he is forced to rely on their help to find him. Having found him at last, the mountain god that has become the monster chasing them appears once more and Yuki finally realizes what it is. In Tae and Outa's village, whenever there is a famine, a child is sacrificed to the mountain god. Outa's father couldn't bear it and was absorbed and became a part of the mountain god. Using the power from the other world once more, Yuki pulls out the characters from “father” and forms it into a pair of axes and with it, defeats it with that power. : : : Yuki meets up with that young girl once more and it seems as if it were just going to be two strangers passing by. Back to where the other Ayakashi are at, he is given a letter stating his class since he didn't want to go through the removal of his tatoo. When he goes to town, the boss sees him and chases him again and Yuki, used to running away, runs away again even if he didn't have to. While running a woman recognizes him as he runs into a stable to hide, he runs into that girl once more. When ___, the Ayakashi's rival show up with their own pet youmam Yuki goes up against them when the youmas go berserk with no apparent reason why it is happening. : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : Ayane's High Kick Meet Ayane Mitsui: Full-time high school student and part-time hand-to-hand combat specialist! Exams are forgotten and homework is neglected as she pursues her life-long dream of becoming a pro-wrestling champion. Ayane has got what it takes- skill, determination, a lethal high kick - even a cool wrestling mask! (Action/Comedy) It's an ok series. Heck my dad liked it. It is amusing for a sit through or two. The only gripe that I have with it is that it is incomplete. The end of the second episode resolves nothing. As such, I can only recommend that you just rent this series. If it was complete, I would have recommended this for your collection. 1: Who can guide Ayane to the top and allow her to become a champion? Kunimitsu Tangay, that’s who! Kunimitsu is a veteran trainer who is prepared to mold young Ayane into a championship caliber fighter. But his rigorous training regiment isn’t preparing her for wrestling but for kickboxing! 2: Feeling betrayed, Ayane is furious when Kunimitsu enters her in a kickboxing tournament. But Ayane’s school ABSOLUTELY FORBIDS such violent extracurricular activities. What will she do when Sakurako Miyagawa, the top contender of the All Japan Kickboxing League, challenges her to a duel? Will she be able to high-kick her way to victory-or will she get kicked out of school? Azumanga Daioh Azumanga Daioh chronicles the daily lives of several high school students from their freshmen year all the way to their graduation. Among the class are best friends Yomi and Tomo-chan, genius girl Chiyo-chan (also known as Chiyo-suke), super athlete Sakaki, Osaka the always spaced out girl, and Kagura, Sakaki's self proclaimed rival. Then there are also the teachers-Yukari-sensei, their homeroom teacher through out all three years, Nyamo-sensei, Yukari-sensei's best friend from when they themselves were still in high school, and Kinamura-sensei, the weird pervert teacher. They go through all sort of things as they grow up and make their way through school and all the weird, funny and sometimes even the normal situations that they find themselves in. (Comedy) Azumanga Daioh is awesome. I recommend it to everyone! I just love al the characters in Azumanga. There's also no real bad guy there either. Chiyo-chan is sooo cyuuuttteee and Sakaki gives of that "aww" reaction because she just loves animals and they don't always love her back. This series receives Sir Bon's seal of approval- 2 thumbs up! Entrance Ceremony The first day of their high school days is here. You know it’s gonna be an interesting high school experience when on the first day of school, your homeroom teacher steals your bike when you are already late for school just because she doesn’t want to be scolded by the principal for being late herself. Not only that, but having a cute, genius ten year old girl in your high school class-you know it is going to be a rather unique high school experience! Osaka's Day Yukari and Nyamo Pool! Summer Break Sports Fest Culture Fest New Year's Dream Special Chiyo-chan's Birthday Second Year Sakaki and Kagura Chiyo-chan's Day Mid-terms Summer Break 2 Sports Fest 2 It is now time for their sophomore year's sports festival. Yukari-sensei's intention in having Kagura transferred to her class comes out. In order to beat Nyamo-sensei's class two, she is bribing the class with juice and Korean barbecue if they win. Another concern of the class comes to light when they see a picture of Kimura-sensei's wife and wonders just what kind of person would WANT to marry Kimura-sensei. Osaka takes on the obstacle race, Chiyo does the borrowing race, Kagura and Sakaki takes 5th and 6th in the marathon. Culture Fest 2 The culture festival is here again and Sophomore class 3 can't decide on what to do. They eventually settle on a cafe with Chiyo-chan as their mascot in a penguin suit. With little people coming in, Chiyo and Osaka decide to take a break by wandering the school grounds looking at other classes' presentation, but not before their class room number is taped to Chiyo to serve as an advertisement. Of course, Chiyo's natural cuteness attracts more than enough attention merely by wandering around the school grounds. Christmas First Snow Yawn Third Year Study Traveling Sports Fest 3 Culture Fest 3 Yamamaya Exams! Graduation Ceremony The Azumanga gang graduates from high school and that part of their lives is over with. Some look back with regret that it’s all over while others look forward to the future that lies ahead for them. Chiyo-chan fears that once high school is over, they will all go their separate ways and they’ll never see each other again. Then, there is also the wait to see if Yomi passed her college entrance exams before going to the amusement park… Azusa Will Help Kara Duck High's baseball club is pretty pathetic. In a time and age where almost every baseball club has their own sports robot, they are probably the only ones without any. After a devastating loss to Eagle high, their nemesis, they decide to pool together their resources and buy a sports robot or risk being dismantled after loosing their 9th member. With the money they have on hand, they just don't have enough to afford even the cheapest old models. Instead they got a used maid type robot named Azusa. Deciding to use her as the 9th and just try and teach her the basics of being a baseball player, all seems hopeless as she can't seem to do much. During training camp, however, they discover that she has a way to increase her abilities by draining more energy than normal. During their rematch against Eagle high, they notice that Azusa needs to recharge more and more. Searching through her system, they found out that her batteries are about to die and are way past their projected lifetime. Worse, Azusa is so old that her type of battery is no longer manufactured. Giving her all to help the team, Azusa needs to draw on a deeper wellspring of power built into her design! (Sports) It's a short and sweet show (45 minutes) and quite amusing. An okey watch - go ahead and download this. Banner of the Stars Three years have passed since Jinto and Lafiel's first encounter, and once again Jinto finds himself at Lafiel's side. Now in command of her own assault ship, the Basroil, with Jinto serving as her supply officer, the two find themselves thrust into the middle of intergalactic conflict. However, will their efforts be enough to bring about peace? (Adventure/Drama/Sci-fi) Are you kidding? Hell yes, go get this series from Bandai. You like Elves? How about Star Trek? Good story telling? splash of romance? Then what the hell are you waiting for? Go out there and get this one now! I mean, dude! it has space elves! Reunion: After three years, Jinto and Lafiel has been reunited once more. Together in the assault ship Basroil, they are training to prepare themselves for combat. While trying to keep their close relationship a secret from the rest of the crew, the ship is already a little famous for one thing - that two of the officers are nobles. One of them is Count Jinto of the Hyde system and the other is Vsicount Lafiel, a princess of one of the eight royal houses of the Humankind Empire Abh. Being a princess, Lafiel is a little hard to approach, especially to those who are her subject, even if they are working under her. It is a good thing that they have Jinto to relay their concerns to her. Operation Phantom Flame: Admiral Spoor has conquered the Aptic system and has left the official demand for surrender to the supreme commander. At the same time, the officers (namely Samson, Ekuryua, and Jinto) of the Basroil are enjoying the downtime before they are officially given an assignement. Before Jinto can send Diaho (his cat that Lafiel gave him) away, they are assigned to the Battleship Squadron Latouche of the First Division of the 1058th Battalion and are to leave within two hours. They are about to be stationed at the Aptic station and the commander they will be under is Commander Atosuryua, the younger sister of Baron Febdash who tried to imprison them 3 years ago and a man that Lafiel killed to complete her mission. Assault Ship Basroil: They have now been assigned to a squadron and are the forefront of the battlefield. Still, there are enough free time and they are not in a constant state of readiness and Jinto's worries lies more towards what if Commander Atosuryua holds a grudge against them. In the only inhabited planet in the Aptic system, Supreme Admiral Abriel doesn't demand a surrender and tells them to surrender anytime they feel like it. While that is going on, Jinto is approached by Commander Atosuryua and tells him that she harbors no hatred, just an annoyance that she now has to take the title left behind by her brother. While they are talking about Lafiel, an alert sounds out and the Basroil is about to participate in it's first battle. The First Campaign: A squadron of patrol ships has been spotted on a scouting mission and the squadron that the Basroil is a part of is sent out to annihilate the enemy before they can escape with information. Swarming the patrlo ships and overwhelming them with sheer numbers. From heartpounding moments anticipating the battle to intensity of the battle itself, the Basroil performs reasonably well in it's first engagement. Ordered to pull back once they have softened the patrol ships, mines are then sent to finish them quickly and decisively. After the battle, Supreme Admiral Abriel is given the reports that there were four other reconnaissance missions. From those, they are able to estimate that the enemy strength lies somewhere from 180 to 200 squadrons and that they may have knowledge of Operation Phantom Flame, the Abh's strategy to reclaim lost territory and deal a decisive blow. Spectacular Insanity: Their first actual combat has ended and Lafiel and Jinto takes it easy for a little while. In the main HQ, Admiral Abriel and his aid plans the tactics to respond to the probe attacks. They have decided to set a bait in two fields and the main battlegrounds will be in either Mystel and Aptic. In Aptic where Lafiel and Jinto are stationed at, Admiral Bebaus has been given command with his twin brother as his chief advisor. Admiral Abriel's aid has qualms with the idea of placing Admiral Bebaus in charge. She reasons that he has no actual combat experience and they come from the Bebaus branch of the 8 royal family - a branch known for it's many eccentricities. In the resupply base, Samson, Jinto and Ekuryua get together for a little relaxation between their duties. When Samson gets called on by one of the crew under his command, Jinto is left alone with Ekuryua who seems to like him and gets to know more about her when their little "date" is interrupted by Lafiel's arrival. Afraid that she might have misunderstood what he and Ekuryua were doing together, Jinto hurriedly accompanies Lafiel to clumsily explain what they were doing in the guise of asking about the Bebaus brothers. While relaxing in his room with Diaho, Jinto recieves a call from Commander Atosuryua inviting him and Lafiel to dinner in remembrance of her brother. Remembrance Dinner: Commader Atosuryua has invited Jinto and Lafiel through him to help her celebrate her late brother's birthday. It is a remembrance dinner that Lafiel decides to go to that Jinto is unsure about going, but is forced to go as well with Lafiel's decision to go. Going there, Jinto wonders why would she want to celebrate the birthday of the man the she killed. To alleviate a guilt? No, it is a duty. Attending the dinner, the meal that Commander Atosuryua has ordered for them is the same one that was served to Lafiel when she met Baron Febdash. Talking about him and what he was like, Commander Atosuryua finds out that Jinto has never met her brother and that he had him imprisoned when he was there. After the dinner, Jinto muses to himself and tells Lafiel that if the only reason that people will remember him after he dies is due to a duty, he would rather not be remembered at all. Lafiel corrects him and tells him that it is not duty to the dead, but to the living. He also corrects him on his assumption that no one would remember or be saddened after he dies because she would be saddened and that she would never forget him. Escape in the Dark: Returning from a recent engagement with enemy forces, the Basroil is forced to stay behind the rest of the squadron's advance back home with the Seigroil due to the extra mass they have acquired from debris of the ships they have destroyed. Although it seemed simple enough at first, it suddenly escalates into alife or death situation when unexploded mines suddenly activates and attacks their ships leaving both ships badly damaged. Trying to repair it a quickly as possible, with the remaining fuel that they have, they are dealt with another bad hand when a squadron appears and is headed for them. Although they can't tell, they are quite certain that it is an enemy squadron. Planning on what to do, Captain Ragash of the Seigroil transfers over all the remaining fuel that they have and the entire crew to the Basroil so that they can make a run for it. Unfortunately, the officers of the Seigroil are unable to come due to the damage. Watching as the Seigroil is destroyed, the Basroil makes run for safety. Chased from behind, a new squadron appears in front of them. Without a way of telling if it is an enemy or an ally, Lafiel makes a gambit and heads for the new squadron and it turns out to be a good idea. The new squadron turned out to be Commander Atosuryua looking for them and they are rescued as the enemy force chasing them is destroyed. Back in the supply base, Jinto finds out that Lafiel only made a random guess instead of basing her choice on anything as the two of them laugh it off. The Eve of the Decisive Battle: The Basroil's Battle: Shooting Star: The Flaming Battlefield: The Battle for Aptic Gate: The Shape of Bonds: Banner of the Stars II Imperial Calendar Year 956. Operation Phantom Flame has come to an end and has been hailed as a complete success. Now the Imperial forces have embarked on a new plan, codenamed Operation Hunter. Their task: to hunt down and destroy any remaining enemy forces. With Lafiel's new title as Territorial Ambassador, life has been rather boring... until now. When they arrive at the recently captured planet of Lobnas, Jinto and Lafiel realize that Lobnas was once a prison planet, and now that the Abh have taken control, it has now become their problem. (Adventure/Drama/Sci-fi) Operation Hunter: Planet of Exile: Emigration Plan: The Hunters: Rebellion: Abh Hell: The Flag of Gasarus: Thing to Protect: To Lay Down the Bow: It is near the end of the Beabaus brother's conquest when they run into Admiral Abriel, Lafiel's father and his fleet. After an exchange of pleasantries, he learns from them that Lafiel has put in some leave to return to Lobnas 2. Suggesting An Abriel's Tears: After getting left behind on civil war torn Lobnas !!, Jinto has gotten very sick from malnutrition and is nearing death. Trying to leave behind something of himself to Lafiel, he attempts to write a message to her in the form of a poetry. Just above of Lobnas II's atmosphere, a ship is about to enter the atmosphere. It contains a contingency of mercenaries comprised of the former guards, Samson and Lafiel who has hired them to do one thing - find and rescue Jinto. Waiting for them to find a clue, Lafiel asks Samson for an advice on what to do once she is reunited with Jinto. When the mercenaries returns with a prisoner possesing an item that Jinto owns. When she tells them that she got it from a dead man, Lafiel hurries up to the corpse hoping that it really isn't Jinto and is relieved when she sees the corpse. Finding a new clue as to where he Jinto might be, they head on over there. While the mercenaries clear the building, Lafiel waits for word in the armored car. The moment they find him, Lafiel runs to where he is and manages to talk to Jinto just before he passes out and is carried off by the medical team. Later on, the crew of the Basroil is disbanded. Smason has retired and both Jinto and Lafiel has taken leave. With the Hyde system reconquered by Lafiel's dad, Jinto plans on returning to his homeworld to see things through and Lafiel, not wanting to feel the way she did when she thought she had lost Jinto, decides to accompany him.. Banner of the Stars III The Hyde system has been recaptured once more and Jinto on vacation from the Star Forces with Lafiel, heads back to his homeworld to establish his fiefdom. Attempting to set up a matter/anti-matter plant in one of the stars of the system, he is looking for vassals that can work for him both in the technical and administrative field. At the same time, under the command of Commander Attosurya, their former squadron commander, a new type of squadron is being formed. When the planet of Martine, Jinto's homeworld revolts and open fires on the ship that he is riding on, the new Scourge Squadron is sent to the Hyde system to perform a "mock battle" exercise. Jinto is worried that something bad may happen to Martine as a result of attempting to revolt against the empire. In the end though, nothing more than the "accidental" destruction of Big Charlie, the (only) laser gun anti-space defense that fired on his ship is destroyed and Jinto negotiates with the revolutionary government that is now lead by Til, his father's former best friend and the man who helped raise him. At their meeting, he is presented with the agreement for peace which prevents him from ever stepping on the soil of his native world ever again. Given the choice to seek asylum and not have to sign, Jinto chooses his responsibility. After all, more than his homeworld, he would miss being in the presence of a certain imperial princess. (Action/Drama) YES, GO GET THIS!!! I just love this series! It has a fairly realistic character design and the struggles and moral choices that they are forced to make given their time and situation is quite remarkable. The story is pretty good and told very well. An excellent addition to any collection. Battle Angel Alita Gally is a cool and efficient bounty hunter. Armed with a knife, two fists, and a lethal metal body, she is the Battle Angel; a Hunter-Warrior paid by the factory to eliminate Scrap Iron City’s most wanted and dangerous criminals. (Action/Drama) 1: Raised by the Cyber-Doctor Ido, who found her broken body in the rubble beneath the Sky City of Zalem, she has no memory of the past, and an even more uncertain future. A pawn in a game played with living pieces, Gally finds herself set into motion against such foes as the brutal spine thieves, the brain-eating gladiator Grewecia, the sinister Mr. Vector and the beautiful, but ruthless Dr. Chiren. 2: The greatest threat Gally now faces comes from Gally’s own employer. For when the mysterious factory orders the execution of her best friend, Gally must make a terrible choice between her own code of honor and the life of the man she loves. Battle Arena Toshinden *still in the works* Battle Athletes (OVA) The year is 4999-sixteen year old Akari Kanzaki, whose mother attained the legendary title “Cosmic Beauty,” finally accomplished her biggest dream: attending the famous “University Satellite.” Although other competitors intimidate her, Akari’s natural charm and bravery lead her to overcome all her troubles. She meets friends she can trust and with them, she beats persistent bullies in the university. Facing anxiety and her aspirations, her lifetime of battles has just begun! (Comedy) The OVA is a bit different from the TV series in some respects but also the same as it takes place during the middle parts of the TV series. For one thing, one of the characters is not even the same gender as in the TV series. Rent this one. Chronicle Beginning Oath Entrant Screaming Advance Match Unexpected Objective Tension Stage Yonder Battle Athletes Victory (TV) (Comedy) Ready, Go In the midst of the midterms of an athletic school, there is one special student, Akari Kanzaki, the daughter of the legendary Cosmic Beauty-Tomoe Mido. Kowloon's Attack Several students (including Akari) have failed the midterms and are due to take a make up exam. Ling Pha decides to stake the odds in her favor so she makes her minions hack into the school’s computer and change the event to her specialty-Bike Hard! The Night of Woong-A-Ji Akari and Tanya (mostly Tanya) wreaks havoc all through out the girl’s dorm making sacrifices to Woong-A-Ji so that they would me granted an increased athletic ability. My Rival Arrogance The Return Home After being humiliated by Jessie, Akari decide to call it quits and heads on back home. Ichan, her best friend decides to follow her back to where she lives and convince her to come back. Lamentation The Sinking Talent The Thing on the Other Side The Promise Resurrected Girl Meets Girl There Go the Three! There Go the Three Again! There Go the New Three! Light Shadows I'm Sorry Reason to Fight From Heart, to Heart Friend Save the Last Dance for Me Farewell Introductions Day of Resurrection Cultural Catastrophe Oh God! The Evil Trap of the Nerilians Goal Big Wars It is the dawn of the 21st century. Mankind has terraformed and colonized Mars. But we are not alone in the universe. An ancient race of alien beings, known only as The Gods, has been watching mankind’s progress and waiting. Now, these mysterious aliens have returned to halt mankind’s expansion into space-by force. Now, the planet named after the God of War will become our final battlefield, as mankind fights a desperate battle with the latest in high-tech, military hardware: hyper-advanced aircraft, orbital fighters, and gigantic, dessert battleships brimming with the most advanced weaponry. But will it be enough? The aliens have awesome, incredibly destructive weapons at their disposal-including Hell-an unstoppable stealth carrier. But the aliens’ primary weapon is insidiously quiet and invisible-a mind control plaque. Incurable. Inevitable. Contagious. Humans are powerless to resist its effects, which transforms even the most loyal soldiers into dangerous subversives. Our last hope lies with Captain Akuh and the crew of the battleship Aoba. If his top-secret mission is successful, mankind will deal a decisive blow to the alien armada. But Akuh’s girlfriend is showing signs of nymphomania-the first symptom of alien subversion. (Action) This title is supposed to be a "big" war epic, but it just falls flat of the expectation from such a title. It doesn't really tell us anything at all. All we know is that humans are fighting against "aliens" although most of the aliens are actually humans who have been converted by the "Gods" into their fold. It doesn't tell us what the "Gods" really are, why humans are at war with them, or anything else for that matter. I suppose that it would rank it as average-if you want to see this title, rent it first before you actually shell out some dough for this title. My opinion though is don’t buy it. Black Blood Brothers (Action/Supernatural) : There once was a time when a great war was waged between vampires with the fate of humanity at stake in Kowloon. There, Jin fought as the hero known as “Silver Blade” against the children of the Kowloon Child bloodline and against Casa – a former companion who has betrayed him and his Eve. Years have passed and the war is now a distant memory. Jin and his little brother Koutaro are now on their way to the Special Zone where vampires are supposedly allowed to live in peace. On their way there, the ship that they have stowed away on is attacked by a suppression team that has been sent by the company in charge of the Special Zone. They are there to eliminate the vampires on the ship and when Jin tries to find out what is going on after he realized that Koutaro has wondered off, they attack him as well. He proves himself more than easily able to deal with them. Unfortunately, Koutaro falls in to the sea when parts of the ship explodes and Jin jumps in after him. Elsewhere, in the Special Zone, a young girl receaves a call in the dead of the night from the company for a special mission.... Compromiser: Mimiko finally catches up to Jirou and Kotarou as she was ordered to do by the company. Her duty is to take him in and prevent normal people from getting suspicious of him and his little brother. Of course, there is the problem of also trying to convince him to come to the “Special Zone” as well. Added to her problem is the appearance of Wong, the vampire who seems to be the leader of the group of vampires that the Company mercenaries attacked the previous night. She wants to recruit Jirou as well to strengthen their own group no matter what bloodline he may be from. Unfortunately, before either Wong or Mimiko could convince Jirou to join them, they are attacked once more by the group of mercenaries from the company that attacked them the night before. Jirou acts as a decoy in order to allow Kotarou to get out of there safely. Easily overpowering the mercenaries, Jirou manages to screw up and ends up falling into a fountain when water weakens him, allowing the mercenaries to capture him even as Kotarou escapes unharmed. : : When the Kowloon Child among them revealed himself, he has already bitten most of Maria Wong's comrades and turned them to servant Kowloon Child vampires. Jirou, still a little weak, doesn't seem to be doing to well against them and because of that, Kotarou got kidnapped. When Mimiko volunteered to give her blood to Jirou, he accepts reluctant. The moment he does, he is instantly filled with power and Mimiko begins to see images from Jirou's memories. Briming with power, pursuit of the Kowloon Child is left to him, Mimiko and Maria with the entire assault team anhilated. As Jirou chases after them, Mimiko feels the sensation of flying through the sky the way that Jirou feels them. When they managed to catch up to the Kowloon Child, he easily overpowers the servants that he has created out of the other vampires that used to be Maria Wong's comrades. Just before reaching the barrier to Special Zone, Jirou completely overtakes him and as he attempts to kill him and rescue Kotarou, Maria is forced to shoot and kill her little sister making her the last of their group. With the media helicopters closing in, Mimiko invites Jirou in – allowing him and Kotarou to get past the barrier. : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : Blood: The Last Vampire Saya is the last living vampire in the world and the only one who can actually match the bastardized offsprings of the vampiric race-the chlopterans. She is under the employ of a US intelligence department (they never really said which one) and she is the one sent the destroy these false vampires that roam the world. The time period appears to be 1970’s and Saya has been deployed to a US Airforce base in Japan where she is to find out and destroy the chlopterans. (Action/Supernatural) Blood is a pretty good concept, but there is one major flaw in this film-time. It is waaayyy to short. At about 40 minutes, by the time you reach that point and the credits roll, you will go “WTF?” The ending seems more like merely a halfway point and that there should be more of this. Yes, the plot does seem cut off and the ending forced. Just rent this one kiddies and you’ll know what I’m talking about. Blood + (Action/Supernatural) Blood + is the TV series of Blood: The Last Vampire, but the conceptual idea is made up from scratch instead of basing it from the 40 minute movie that seemed rushed. In here, Saya starts of as Japanese and it seemed to be the modern time instead of Vietnam war era. So far, everything looks pretty good. I'm gonna be making sure to catch more of this. First Kiss: Flashback - a lone girl stands amidst a bloody battlefield slaughtering villagers, soldiers and monsters alike. Present day - Saya Otonashi is a normal high school girl who worries about two things: her upcoming track meet and how soon her next meal is going to be. Having forgotten her running shoes in school, she decides to run back and get them when he encounters a strange man with a knife who tells her that he has found her at last. Frightened, she runs off to get a teacher who is then killed by a monster who chases her throughout the school. That strange man shows up again and save her. He tells her to fight, gives her a kiss and lets her have a taste of his blood. When Kai, the son of the man who adopted her shows up, she has changed into a different personality. Sword in hand, she easily slaughters the monster and passes out at the sight of her own bloody reflection. Magic Words: When the US military shows up after detecting the Chiropteran, the strange man whisks Saya and Kai away several blocks with a single jump. He mumbles something about Saya not fully awakened yet and vanishes. In the hospital, David, the strange person that shows up to talk to her adoptive father from time to time shows up to claim Saya stating that she is nothing more than a weapon to defeat "them" and that her destiny is to always fight. Meanwhile, the school is blocked by the US military as autopsy is performed on the Chiropteran corpse and the incident is covered up as the apprehension of a serial killer and a murder of a school teacher. When Saya overhears, she runs off and Kai goes out to search for her. He finds her in the beach with that strange man again who hints of knowledge from her past. Saya herself has a brief flashback with him in it, but set in a different era. When Kai decides to fight the strange man, he easily gets his butt laid on the floor. The strange man then stops and vanishes when Saya yells for him to stop and the two of them head on back home. As they are eating dinner, they get an ominous phone call that seemed nothing more than a prank call.... : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : Blood Reign: Curse of Yoma To avenge the woman and friends he loved, one lone ninja must seek out and slay his former comrade…but how do you kill someone who is already dead? A solitary ninja must find the answer to that very question. From nightmarish battle sequences in which blood soaked clay literally becomes the feeding ground for the dark creatures that lie in wait, to flesh eating stallions and shape changing spiders, the action is so intense and not for the squeamish in this high action sword and sorcery thriller. (Action) Boogiepop Phantom (Thriller) Portraits From Memories: Within the light and within the city is death, and when the power failed, the world changed. In the air is flux. Within the night is Boogiepop Phantom if you meet her one dark night with a dark soul no one has ever lived to tell. Within Boogiepop Phantom is your salvation or your end or perhaps both. Portraits From Darkness: Jonouchi is cursed with vision: he sees the world’s evil that no else can. Powerless to avoid it, crushed by the burden, and pushed beyond his limits, his existence has a single purpose: change. He travels the city removing the pain in others but it carries a price. How complete can a life be if it’s without pain? Life Can Be So Nice: Misuzu lives a terrible lie and a lie that conveniently serves something quite malevolent. Her life changed some years ago in many ways: some subtle and others less so. By adopting an alien philosophy, her world changed. One way or another, many of us serve another who holds power. Some fail to recognize it until too late, though. My Fair Lady: Yoji’s concept of the world is what he sees on his monitor. For him, the only real thing is the generated girl he plays with every waking moment. Then, one day, reality intrudes on his world and the girl of his dreams appears. She’s so very nearly perfect with a little help she will go the rest of the way. You see, it’s really all so easy. Interlude: Morita and Yamamoto are two typical cops in what seems like a sleepy town. It wasn’t always like this: there was that string of murders five years ago, but most of their days are spent going over reports and chatting about the mundane events of their lives. So, how does one define mundane? Mother's Day: Shizue and her mother didn’t really know each other: the death of her father saw to that. Driven apart by a mutual lack of understanding, Shizue’s death and the discovery of her diaries sends her mom through Shizue’s short life. Her few joys. Her many disappointments. A crystallizing event. And at last, a moment of clarity for each. Until You're In My Arms Again: Mamaro was never like other guys, but he suddenly discovers that he has little in common with humans at all. Closest to his sister, he still beats her regularly. To the rest, he is merciless. His life is spent looking for life’s redundant parts society included! And, one day, he finds the parts which are useless. She's So Natural: Nagi Kirima goes through life with a single purpose: carry on the investigation which has brought her to the Manticore. Her father would have approved, as his theories (jealously guarded) form the basis for so much of Nagi’s research and world view. This pursuit has left little for a personal life. Up to now it hasn’t been a problem. You'll Never Be Young Twice: Saki is a gifted pianist. Popular and talented, she is being manipulated to become something she will never be. Her parents want only the best for her, and are sacrificing everything for their goal. Everything in the park late at night, though, there is rumored to be someone who brings a resolution for life’s problems. Poom Poom: Poom Poom. Magical Poom Poom who holds a balloon and travels the sky to the wondrous worlds. And, in the world of Poom Poom everything is perfect, there are no grown ups and only powerful children who live without pain... But there are sinister under currents running beneath the apparent happiness of this little land... Under the Gravity's Rainbow: Manaka knew nothing of the world. trapped in the house by her grandmother, life became more and more impossible ... and one day, it ended. She knew that Death wasn't something to be feared ... that there were things beyond. And, although she couldn't possibly know what it meant, she also came to know what Echoes was... and is. Requiem: A year after the Rainbow disappeared, life returned to normal. Time unwinds itself and the darkness retreats. It does not, however, vanish. Some people understand that strange events unraveled. For other the quests continue, but the veil has been lifted and sunlight has returned... Maybe. Bubblegum Crisis (Action) Tinsel City: Born to Kill: Blow Up!: Revenge Road: Moonlight Rambler: Red Eyes: Double Vision: Scoop Chase: When Nene reports for duty, she finds out that she has been saddled with baby-sitting duty. Her charge is Lisa Vaneta, the chief's niece. Lisa is on vacation and has decided that she wants to expose the secret identity of the Knight Sabers while on vacation to build up her reputation as an investigative reporter/photographer. During one boomer incident, Nene's helmet had been shattered and Lisa has managed to take a picture of the instant that her helmet shatters exposing parts of her face. Although Grainy, Lisa already suspects that Nene is actually one of the Saber Knights. It also doesn't help that Nene has a nasty habit of disappearing for long periods of time, especially whenever there is a Boomer incident. When an egoistic mad scientist decides to show the world that he is a genius that is unrivaled by destroying the Saber Knights, the first target is the ADP HQ. Now, Nene must somehow juggle trying to lead Lisa to safety, battling the Boomers that has taken over the building and trying to keep the truth of her identity from Lisa. Bubblegum Crisis 2040 A "modernization" of the cyber punk classic. truthfully, I kinda like this series much more than the original Bubblegum Crisis because the story feels a lot more desperate- more immediate. That motivations of the characters are more clearly defined and believable. (Action) Can't Buy Me a Thrill: Lina Yamazaki, a girl from the countryside arrives at Tokyo to begin her new life there. She works as an office lady and her interests lie in learning more about the Knight Sabers, a vigilante groups that takes on rouge boomers. On her first day at work, she gets into an altercation with a biker chick and later that night, gets a date that ended with a rouge boomer attack. With her life on the line, she gets her wish fulfilled as the Knight Sabers rescues her from the rouge boomer. Fragile: Keep Me Hanging On: Machine Head: Rough and Ready: Get It On: Look at Yourself: Fireball: My Nation Underground: Woke Up With a Monster: Sheer Heart Attack: Made in Japan: Atom Heart Mother: Shock Treatment: Minute by Minute: I Surrender: Moving Waves: Leon, Daly and the rest of the AD Police that aren’t in the union assembles outside the sieged office in hopes of mounting a rescue operation. Priss also comes along to lend a hand in her moto-slave. The survivors aren’t given much choice when all avenues of escape in the ground floor are cut off forcing them to go up to the roof. On the way up, the boomers follows them to get to the communications device in that is set up through out the building leading to the roof. Reaching the roof, the survivors decide that to prevent the boomer phenomenon from spreading, they will have to try and destroy the communications equipment. Good thing that there are several tons of liquid nitrogen stored in tanks along with the communication gears. We Built This City: Trying to broadcast the truth and warn the rest of the world, Leon, Daly, and Nene tries to keep on hacking to TV stations, but are constantly cut off before they can give their full message to the masses. With the remaining AD Police officers in the city, they are willing to do whatever else they can to help stem the tide of the boomers and attempt an operation to destroy the dragon line which is feeding the mad boomer phenomenon. Guarding one of the key locations is a gigantic boomer which the remaining AD Policemen will have to destroy. Leon and Daly manages to destroy its core which should have stopped its movement, but the Dragon Line keeps it alive. Now it’s up to Lina to destroy it! Are You Experienced?: One of These Nights: Close to the Edge: Physical Graffiti: The Knight Sabers’ headquarters is being invaded by the boomers and manages to fight them off long enough for them to escape to a safer location. The evacuate to a nearby park where the mad boomer phenomenon can’t quite reach yet. There, they find what is left of the human survivors of the city and the girls are initially mistaken as boomers themselves. As soon as the situation is resolved, they are happy to accept the Knight Saber team into their group. Hydra: With Galathea now overriding Mackey, the Knight sabers are forced to try and confront her in an effort to destroy the mad boomer phenomenon. Light My Fire: With Galathea launching into space to spread her influence across the globe, the girls must now find a way to go to space themselves and into the Umbrella. Priss, Lina, and Nene are going to attempt getting into the palette that delivers supplies to the Umbrella to confront Galathea before she can turn all the world’s boomers into mad boomers. Meanwhile, Sylia, Mackey, Mesia, and Nigel move to Sylia’s old house in the hopes of restoring Mackey’s memories. In the palette, the girls talk about their hopes and dreams as they wait for the palette to arrive at the Umbrella and confront Galathea for the last time and Priss makes to her feelings of hate against all boomers. Walking on the Moon: The episode begins with Galatea explaining the circumstance of her birth/creation and her inability to understand why people created her when they are so afraid of what she can do and what is capable of. It goes on further to explain how the incident that ended up with the great earthquake began and how, though sealed away and sleeping, she can still see through the eyes of her copies. It then shifts to the Knight Sabers as they attempt to stop Galathea from taking control of the Umbrella and contaminating the whole world with the boomer phenomenon. In order to stop them, Galathea makes copies of them and begins talking to them in their minds while offering them a “better” choice. Lina, Priss, and Nene manages to resist her and begins fighting back.... Still Alive and Well: The final battle and all hope is left to Priss as Lina and Nene are blown away from the Satellite and begin falling to Earth with no hope of breaking away from the gravity of the earth. Galathea has begun absorbing Priss into herself, but Priss manages to break free of Galathea’s hold in time. In order to fight back, Priss merges her suit with the motoslave. In a last moment attack, Priss goes into a kamikaze dive and when she goes through Galathea, it finally allows Galathea to find the answers that she is seeking. Burn Up W Team Warrior is no laughing matter for the criminals of Neo-Tokyo. Led by the fearless Rio, this top secret counter-terrorist force will stop at nothing to preserve peace, or at least their version of it. From assault by bungee jump to giant mecha destruction, Rio, Yugi, Maki, and Lilica spare no extreme in the forging of their own brand of justice. Plagued by kidnapped virtual idols, financial woes, and marginally restrained violent proclivities, the members of Team Warrior skate the edge of comic insanity to bring you Burn-Up W. (Action/Comedy) This one I would rate as a little bit below average. Okay, so you got this "special team" of counter terrorist operatives and most of them are out of their minds and they're all (except for one guy) women. Of course, you do realize what that means in an Anime with character design that has been copied from American tastes and a comedy at that, right? It means that the jiggle factor comes into play over and over again! It's pretty "bleh!" to me-the characters aren't very well developed (although hey, they did try with the last episode *reads sentence again* Well developed characters! Bwa-ha-ha! Oh man, I kill me!) and it really isn't that interesting of a story. Rent this one-don't buy it! Skin Dive: Introduces the entire cast. A terrorist group takes over an entire building and threatens to do something rather nasty to the hostage unless their ridiculous demands are met. Now the question is are the demands real or is it just a smokescreen to hide what they are really trying to do? That and can Maya stay still and not shoot anyone prematurely? Search for the Virtual Idol: The world's most popular idol, who is not even human, is somehow kidnapped. Is it kidnapping, theft, or did she just get bored and decide to take a little stroll? Team Burn-Up is ordered to help with the investigation, but where the hell do you begin to start looking for a missing electronic idol? Policetown Assault, Act I: Rio need some money and fast! With the bill collectors closing in on her, she is willing to sell of some of her most precious belongings to keep them at bay. Of course, it turns out that she didn't have to do that when her best friend decides to help her out without her asking for it. The next day, Policetown is assaulted by a mysterious criminal organization. When Rio realizes that the main incident site is where her friend works in, she rushes there as fast as she can only to find her friend dead. Policetown Assault, Act II: Rio's friend is dead and a couple of the criminals involved with her death are on the rampage inside the police station! It's time for Rio to kick some ass and teach a couple of bad-guys that crime just does not pay! Buttopi CPU: I Dream of Mimi Akira’s a normal guy…well if you ignore the fact that he sometimes forgets there’s a world outside of cyberspace and doesn’t always notice that boys and girls are very different. His life takes a rather drastic turn one day however when he ventures into sunlight to buy his very own computer and he comes home with something a bit more than he bargained for. Her name is Pixie, and as you might say that she’s remarkably user-friendly by anyone’s standards. To say that Akira isn’t terribly experienced when it comes to females is an understatement, but it’s a safe bet that most would be in the same position as far as this girl’s concerned. Pixie’s one in a million…but not the only one like her. The only thing for sure is that Akira’s life is really complicated, and he’s got to figure out how to tell his friends that his “cousin” is a very personal computer. Certainly Pixie’s trying to help any way she can, but isn’t usually able to. The world’s a pretty place, as Akira is about to discover (there are things you can’t learn in the Internet)…and not all of it’s very nice. Fortunately, he’s got the one thing everyone craves: a loyal companion and partner who will literally do anything to make him happy more often than possible. Strangely, she really wants him: girls (even when they’re machines) have needs too, y’know? Hey Akira…it’s upload time! (Comedy/Ecchi) Not a very well made series. The plot goes nowhere, the characters aren’t developed very well, etc, etc. This is labeled as hentai, but it’s not- more of echi. Yeah, there are a lot of allusions to sex and having sex, but all you see are trains going into tunnels or oranges and bananas. Not recommended at all. Extreme Access: Akira is your typical nerd (without much of the smarts it would seem). He wants to go buy a brand new computer, the most powerful one that his hard earned money could buy. Of course this also happens to be his very first computer and he knows diddly squat about computers (Did I say nerd-I meant loser). When he arrives at the store, the computer he has had his eyes on (and was on sale) are all gone. Depressed, he wanders home and finds a strange man in an alley willing to sell him what seems to be the same model for the same sale price. Of course when he gets home...hey is a computer supposed to look like a butt nekked girl? Gentle Hang Up: Okay, so the good thing that has happened to Akira is that he now has Mimi, a humanoid bio-organic computer that needs continuous "memory upgrades." Of course, the problem now is that he has Mimi, a computer that looks like a girl living with him in his house. To get around the ridicule that he will undoubtedly suffer from his friends about living alone with a woman, he has introduced her (it?) as his cousin who has been living in Columbia and has only recently returned. Everything is going smoothly until the Mac sisters launch an electronic offensive. (start sarcasm) Damn those American computer companies and their unethical hostile takeover tactics! (end sarcasm) Graceful Reset: Okay, so Mimi now has an identity and she now goes to the same school as Akira and is rather popular with the other students. Everything is going well until the third Mac sister launches an attack and crashes parts of Mimi's system along with nearly every electronic in that part of Japan. The Mac sisters have gathered every bio computer in Japan and is about to do some "industrial espionage" when Mimi and Akira arrives. When all hope is lost, Akira's friend accidentally installs a virus into the computer that is connected to Mimi and the virus is "accidentally transferred to the Mac sister unwittingly saving the day for the hapless loser, er...Akira. Of course now he's stuck with a dozen or so bio-computers and will have to give them all some "memory upgrades." Can Can Bunny Extra (Lucky 7 and Extra Fun) (Comedy/Drama/Hentai) Extra 1: Looking at him, he ain’t much, but Kenta scores with every girl he meets. Why? He has a love-struck goddess who decided to help him out. After the celestial sweetie takes a shine to him, she grants him the ability to seduce seven different women! Extra 2: Ever since Suwati, the love-struck Goddess of Happiness granted his wish, Kenta’s been getting more than his fair share of “luck.” Everywhere he goes, Kenta finds his path strewn with willing women who fall into his arms. But when the powers that be discover what Suwati has done, she’s left in a sticky situation. Kenta’s score mounts towards the mystical number 7, but will he reach it in time? Extra 3: Kenta’s so busy adding names to his little black book, he barely notices Suwati or her sexy cousin Shuree at all. As the body count soars, both goddesses decides it’s time to bare their soul and a little bit more besides! But there’s only one piece of lucky star left and two goddesses. Kenta hasn’t got a prayer! Extra 4: A beach in the summer time is Kenta’s idea of heaven. Too bad heaven decided to tag along. Sure enough Suwati, Goddess of Happiness, her cousin Shuree and all of the Gods of Luck are going to hit the beach as well! Extra 5: Ah, the beach in the summer time. Sun, surf, and…hostile takeovers? The owner of the nearby luxury resort would love to wipe the cozy President Hotel off the beach. But with the heavenly Suwati and Shuree running the bar, business at the President Hotel has never been better… Extra 6: Summer’s almost over, but there’s time for one last surfing contest. Trouble is Kenta’s area of expertise is broads, not boards. And while his opponent is an old man, he’s an old man with a closet full of surfing trophies to his credit. Still, if Kenta can keep his mind on surfing and not on women, he might just make it… Cardcaptor Sakura the Movie Join Sakura and her friends on the most unbelievable adventure ever! Sakura wins a trip for four to Hong Kong; the place where Clow Reed, Kero, Yue and the Clow Cards once lived. Her excitement fades when an ominous force calls out to Sakura in her dreams reminding her that Clow Reed’s vengeful legacy lingers in the back alleys of Li’s hometown. Now, for the first time, Sakura must call upon her cards to combat a true menace. If she fails, her family and friends will be trapped in a phantom world! (Adventure) The movie is pretty good. Unlike some movies of TV series, this one doesn’t stray to far from its TV formula. If you are a Cardcaptor Sakura fan, you must buy this one. If not, I recommend that you rent this. Cardcaptor Sakura the Movie 2 Sakura Kinomoto has finally captured and converted all the Clow Cards into Sakura Cards and now faces her biggest challenge yet. How is she going to tell Shaoran that she loves him...? To make matters worse, some of her magical cards are missing. Apparently, someone or something is stealing them away and is erasing vast parts of town including the people she cares about! Now Sakura has to find out who is behind this if she is ever to find her friends again... (Adventure) I rather liked this movie and though that it was pretty good. Plot line is pretty standard fare, but if you are a CCS fan, I don't really need to tell you to go out and get this now do I? For anyone else though, I recommend you at least rent this one out. Chobits (Comedy) Chii goes to the Ocean: Motusawa, afraid of failing, decides to just study for the rest of the summer. His plans always have ways of being placed of course as Shimbo convinces him to go to the beach with him at Minoru's invitation. With the manager, ___, Shimizu-sensei all coming along too, how can he resist. They have fun in the beach as they teach Chi more stuff about things having to do with the ocean. They even got to see dolphins up close. Of course, by the end, Hideki's grade suffers for all the fun he's had. Chii Entertains: When Shimizu-sensei just suddenly shows up at Hideki's doors wanting to crash for the night, what is a guy to do? Against his "better" judgment, Hideki just can't turn his sensei away, especially when she seems to be drunk already. As they spend the night together playing drinking game, Hideki learns more about his sensei. The next day, Shimbo, who didn't look like he got much sleep either, is shocked to learn that Shimizu-sensei spent the night in his place. Later on, Hideki walks in on a little romantic rendezvous between Shimbo and Shimizu-sensei. Chii Doesn't Do Anything: Hideki wakes up to find that Sumomo has been entrusted to him and that Shimbo has left with Shimizu-sensei. Reaching him through Sumomo, he demands to know just what the heck is going on. From Shimbo, he finds out more about how Shimbo and Shimizu-sensei ended up together. He tells him that the night when Shimizu-sensei went to Hideki's place, she was supposed to meet Shimbo and make a decision about them and her husband who has forgotten about her and only cares about his persocon now. Trying to make sure that she doesn't run away and come to a decision, he has taken her to a remote hot springs place. Chii Manages: Hideki is highly depressed about his grades and is afraid of having to repeat the same thing over again. Chii notices this and tries her best to cheer up Hideki. Preparing to take the national exam as preparation for his real one as Shimizu-sensei suggested, Hideki takes a week's leave, but looses his allowance for the week. Without any money to buy food and other stuff, Hideki just can't seem to get anything done. Chii, trying to make him happy, begins to learn how to cook from the manager. Minoru and Yuzuki Talk: Minoru and Yuzuki reviews the events where Chii is concerned trying to determine the authenticity of the picture that they had received. Although Chii herself tells them that it isn't her that is in the picture with the Chobits markings, Minoru has his doubts. Accessing Yuzuki's memories of Chii, they come across some rather unique things that Chii is able to do. Beating a game where she isn't supposed to be able to or being able to swim in the ocean. Of course, they still can't solve anything without further clues so they just keep on trying to solve the mystery. Chi Assists: Chi Disappears: : : : : : : Chrono Crusade The year is 1928. Jazz is hot, bootleg liquor is king and the idle rich of a nation have discovered a horrifying new past-time: summoning demons! To combat this growing threat, a new order of Holy Warriors has arisen. This is the story of Sister Rosette, an elite Exorcist in the Order of Magdalene, whose soul has been bound by alchemy to that of the devil Chrono. Armed with Sacred ammo, they form an unstoppable team, ready to wage war at a moments notice... because when the gates of Hell are opened, someone's got to put the devils back! (Action) Pilot - Sister Rosette: Meet Sister Rosette, a member of the Magdalene Order and an exorcist living in New York during the time just after WWI. Her partner, Chrono is a demon and together, they form the most destructive team in the entire order who manages to always inflict massive collateral damage before finishing any mission. The bane of Sister Kate, she is sent out when a ship arriving on port is suspect and no one can raise anyone on the ship. When a powerful goblin turned out to be inside the ship and has already killed all the people in it, Rosette may have bitten off more than she can chew when Sacred (a blessed bullet) doesn't affect it. Fortunately, she has an experimental new bullet more powerful than Sacred - Gospel. The Covenant - Contractor: When Rosette and Chrono are sent to take out another demon, the demon manages to knock her gun away before it disintegrated due to Rosette shooting its horn off. Her gun, loaded with Spirit, another experimental bullet from Edward Hamilton. The bullet itself posses a type of demon inside and when the bullet is fired, it unleashes a massive amount of demonic energy upon impact. Striving to find the gun, she is yet to realize that the gun is being carried around by a human possesed by the demon whose horn she just destroyed and is using the energy from Spirit as a source of energy in place of its horn. Searching for its horn, it attacks the convent and manages to injure Rosette. With Rosette getting hurt, Chrono gets mad, his seal begin to breaks, and he begins to transforming into his true demon form once more. Fortunately, Rosette manages to wake up in time to kill the demon and stop Chrono's transformation. Elsewhere, Joshua, Rosette's brother is with a woman when he is attacked by a horde of demon...that proves to be no match for him. Apostles - The Angel: Rosette and Chrono are sent to Las Vegas to investigate a devil worshiper and a singer named Azmaria. Investigating them, Chrono discovers a demon that he knows. When they free Azmaria from her virtual prison, the fight with minor demons causes the roof to collapse on top of several people, injuring them badly. Feeling responsible for it, Azmaria begins to sing and her song instantly heals the injured people. Back in the convent, Rosette learns of the 7 apostles on earth - each representing one of the beatitudes. Azmaria represents benevolence and Joshua, Rosette's missing brother most likely represents hope. The demons and devil worshippers are trying to use them to gain access to the realm of god and gain greater power in doing so. Feeling sorry for Azmaria, Rosette decides to take her to the lake where she usually goes to. After having fun there all day long, they are attacked by Lerajie, the demon from Las Vega who has come to retrieve Azmaria. Sinners: Azmaria has been abducted and the purpose that she has been abducted it to give life back to Larajie's master who has an immortal flesh, but due to Larajie's powers being diminished due to what Chrono did a long time ago, his undying flesh has no life in it. Back by the lake, Rosette has regained consciousness and begs Chrono to consume a piece of her soul to regain some of his demonic strength and rescue Azmaria. Arriving there, they find that Lerajie has betrayed his mastered and instead of manipulating the power of god to give him life, redirects it into himself to become more powerful. Facing Chrono once more, he desires to kill him and gain a higher demonic rank. Having rescued Azmaria from minor demons guarding her as Chrono takes on Lerajie, she encourages her not to give up so easily. Outside, Chrono is being overwhelmed by Lerajie who is getting near unlimited strength from the Astral Line. Fortunately, Rosette manages to destroy the device that grants him access to Chrono finishes him off. When they fall off, Azmaria rescues them by tapping on to the Astral Line subconsciously and flying them down, causing her to lose the ability to access that power for a while. Militia: Upon finding out about the reason that Aion abducted Joshua, Rosette demanded to be allowed to search for him. When Sister Kate refused to allow her to go and search for him, she decides to leave the convent and search on her own. To keep her from leaving, Reverend Remington suggests that she take the test to become a Militia, the 1st class exorcist rank since they are allowed to do things on their own like pursue a single case permanently. Deciding to take the test then call Sister Kate after it has started to keep her from canceling it, they didn't realize that Azmaria, wanting to be an exorcist like Rosette, is down there as well to be tested by Sister Kate. Upon hearing this, Father Remington decides to cancel the test to get Azmaria out of there since he also released a powerful demon called a mind eater to test her skills. Rosette. after getting disconnected, searches for Azmaria and found her possessed by the mind eater already. She is forced to dive into her soul to get her out and she manages to free Azmaria soul from the hold of the mind eater and come out in one piece. Jewel Summoner: On her first mission as a Militia, Rosette is sent to eliminate zombies smuggled in by the mafia to be used as foot soldiers. Along with Chrono, Azmaria is with her as an apprentice. When she arrived there, the zombies has been released and the smugglers are nowhere to be found. They also meet Satela, a summoner who uses jewels to summon her creatures to fight the hordes of darkness. When they meet up again the next day, Rosette decides to "help" Satela out and they end up competing with each other. Resting in the park, they find out that like them, Satela has been searching for her sister who was kidnapped by demons. While in the park, Rosette plays ball with some kids and ends up running into the mummy king that has been summoning the zombies. Only by working together were they able to defeat it in the end. The Devil: When strange phenomenons have begun to manifest all over the city, Chrono believes that Aion has returned. With a plague of dead rising from the ground, the order is kept busy. While setting up a barrier in the park to keep more of the dead from rising and people from getting hurt from the released miasma, Aion appears in front of them. He has come to pick up Azmaria and tells them that all is god's fault and he simply wishes to correct the errors that he has made. Having overwhelmed Rosette, Azmaria agrees to go with him if he leaves everyone else alone. As he is about to carry her away, his touch causes Azmaria to activate the barrier that is being set up and drives him away. Elsewhere, Sister Kate is reporting to a group of elders about what is happening and they begin to talk of the third prophecy of the 3 children. Falling Rain - The Puppet: When Reverend Remington is caught in a trap, he is forced to lure Rosette to where he is. There, the demon wants to take her away all for his sake - Joshua. The demon has taken all the people in Grand Central Station as her hostage by manipulating them as puppets to attack them and threatening to have them commit suicide if they don't cooperate. Rosette is torn between finding Joshua once more and fighting the demon to keep Reverend Remington safe. Facing off against a horde of people manipulated by the demon, they barely make it out of there. Fortunately Azmaria and Chrono manages to make it there in time and places a barrier in place that prevents her from manipulating people against them. Joshua: Rosette, Chrono and Azmaria heads of to 7th Bell, the orphanage where it all began. Sealed away, the people inside the entire land around it are frozen in time. 4 years ago, Rosette and Joshua were orphans living there. Running away from the orphanage whenever Reverend Remington would come by to try and adopt Joshua, Rosette and Joshua fell in a cavern and discovered the tomb of Mary Magdalene. Inside, they discoverer Chrono and soon befriends him. They would often visit him and in return, Chrono would tell them his stories and what he knows. One day, Joshua, very ill, decides to let himself be adopted by Reverend Remington and be placed in the care of the order. Running to Chrono to help her prevent that, Rosette stumbles on the way back and she and Chrono runs into Aion. Horn: Aion has come and offers Chrono his horn, the source of his powers, back if he stands by his side once more. When Chrono refused, he mocks him by telling them that he already gave it to someone else - Joshua. Back in the orphanage, Joshua adjust to Chrono's horns attached to his head and begins to hear the thoughts of people around him. Trying to stop the voices, he unleashes a new found power and begins to petrify people around him. By the time Rosette arrives, it is too late. Joshua unleashes a whirlwind and Rosette only survives because Chrono manages to protect her. Demanding that Chrono stop Joshua and return him to normal since it is his horns that has caused all of what is happening to Joshua, Chrono tells her that he cannot. Without his horns, he is powerless and nearing death. The only way that he can return to some of his original strength is through the contract, but that would require a host to feed him some of their own life to give him strength. Rosette forces him to make the contract with her so that she can search for her brother. Reverend Remington found them afterwards and took them in. Back in the present, Aion arrives where Joshua is at and his mind is in fragments, he believes that Rosette is the maid that is always with him. Be that as it may, it still doesn't matter to Aion since it won't hider his plans any. Gabriel Hound - Beast: When a mysterious creature has been reported going on a rampage and killing off members of the mafia, Rosette and Chrono is sent out to investigate. From her first hand experience fighting it, the Magdalan order has concluded that it is a Black Dog - a supernatural creature made purely of negative emotion. A Woman summoned it in exchange of her life in order to avenge the death of her fiancé who was killed when the mafia had a shoot out with the cops. At the same time, Satela, paid by the Gocci family, is on the case as well. Until the Black Dog takes on a more substantial form after feeding off enough victims. Rosette, refusing to give up on saving people, decides to fight it on her own against Sister Kate's advice. Managing to convince Satela to help her out after the Black Dog killed her employers, the two of them team up against the supernatural creature. She manages to destroy the creature when she connects with a bullet that causes a massive blast that also destroy most of the street. Holy Night: Azmaria, being an orphan, has never really found much significance in Christmas. Out with Rosette and Chrono, they run into Satela who turned out to be the president of her own fine arts company and quite rich. Seeing all the presents that she bought for all the people that she knows, Azmaria is surprised at the sheer number of gifts. At the same time, they learn that she has never received a Christmas present before. This Christmas, she has Rosette. Planning on giving her a present, she asks the other nuns what would make a good present. Window shopping, she finds a snow globe that she wants to give to Rosette and asks the store owner to hold it for her. After the Christmas play, Azmaria runs off to buy the gift. After having bought it, a man comes in wanting to buy it because he promised his girlfriend that he would get it for her. Azmaria decides to give him the present. When Rosette finds her on the street, she picks her up and takes her to help out in handing presents to orphans. Afterwards, they head off to the convent's Christmas party and Azmaria gets to spend her first real Christmas. Marionette Train - Older Sister : Joshua is starting to grow more unstable. He is hearing the "noise" more and more and his maid/attendant can't do anything about it. Rizel, heads out to take back Rosette in the hopes that her presence can stabilize him. Traveling to San Fransisco, Rosette, Chrono and Azmaria meets Satela in the same train. When Rizel, the solider demon that attacked her and Reverend Remington at the Grand Central Station appears to take her again. She takes the people on the train as hostages to do her bidding once more. Biding her time as she faced Rizel one on one, she manages to turn the situation around when she got Rizel furious at her taunts and shoot her horn off. Finally, she is able to kill her by grabbing her own horn and stabbing her through the throat. Invocation - Prayer: Headed for San Fransisco on foot after the train is messed up by Rizel's attack, Rosette, Chrono, and Azmaria manages to hitch a ride in Satela's car. Unfortunately, Chrono develops a fever and is taken to Satela's retreat. Wandering around San Fransisco in search of a medicine that will work on a demon, Rosette and Satela ends up in a fortune teller’s tent. Reading her fortune, she sees a peculiar future for Rosette and gives a her a charm that will help Chrono out. Returning to Satela's retreat, Rosette ends up with a fever as well. Once Rosette gets better with Azmaria looking after her, she visits Chrono's side. As he lay sleeping, she gives him a kiss and falls asleep beside his bed. When she wakes up, Chrono has already gotten better. The Pursuers: Duke DeFaux a pursuer after Aion and the Pandemonium's head, contacts Rosette, Chrono, Azmaria, and Satela in Satela's retreat. He has come with an offer to join forces since they have a common enemy. Upon learning of this, Sister Kate and Reverend Remington appeals to the council and in the meantime, gives approval for Rosette to take any action she sees fit. At the same time, reinforcement for her has been sent to assist her in the form of Reverend Gilliam and the three sisters who are always around her from New York. From Chrono, Satela learns of what he and Aion had done. They have taken Pandemonium's head and killed many demons to create a revolution and destroy the curse that heaven has forced on them and their entire race. Making an alliance with Duke DeFaux, Rosette learns that the reason Aion calls her Mary Magdalene is that she might also be an apostle just like Jozhua and Azmaria. That night, while taking a bath, the mark of protection that Duke DeFaux told her about appears on her wrist in the form of a cross shaped wound on her wrist. Believer: People have been disappearing en masse and the Magdalan Order, working with Duke DeFauz and his demons, have called attention to that case. It seems as if those people aren't disappearing. Rather, they are being sacrificed to provide power to demons, namely, Aion and his group. Elsewhere, Satela is working on the same case, falls victim to the Devil Worshipper who has been sacrificing people. When the summoning is initiated to sacrifice Satela to the devil, Aion appears and is bemused at seeing Satela and tells her an old tale of how there once was a group of people who used jewels to summon magical beasts imbued inside. That group of people was so easily wiped out by a single demon and on a whim, allowed a single member to live. That demon was Aion and that survivor was Satela. At that moment, Rosette storms in to her rescue and manages to shoot Aion in the head with a Gospel...to no effect. Aion praises her for her courage to shoot, and leaves. Accomplices: Satela is taken out of commission and at the same time, Chrono discovers the Stigmata on Rosette. With Aion's group located, a plan is set up to eliminate them as quickly as possible. When they get there, they find that they have walked into a trap as two of Aion's demons attack them from behind. Duke DeFaux and his demons rush to where the battle is as quickly as possible and when they get there, it quickly becomes a battle between demons. The members of the Magdalan Order that came to support Duke DeFaux become nothing more than bystanders very quickly. Even their blessed bullets prove to be nothing more than just a minor annoyance. When the attack barrier is finally set up, it restricts the movements of all the demons inside. Rosette, using a special bullet, fires it at Vido, one of Aion's demons. When Vido attacks her, Calv, the pig like demon with Duke DeFaux, defends her and ends up sacrificing himself to take Vido down with him. Seeing Vido die, Jena, his partner runs away from the battlefield and back to Aion. Photograph - Four People: With the devastating blow dealt to them , the Magdalan needs time to recuperate and reorganize. In the meantime, Rosette is getting herself worked up at not being able to do anything and Satela has pretty much locked herself away from the world. When Azmaria discovers a festival, she drags Rosette, Chrono, and Satela to get them to loosen up a bit and stop worrying about what they cannot do anything about. Realizing how worked up they are over what has recently happened, Azmaria manages to convince Satela and Rosette to stay and enjoy the festival. At the same time, Aion has decided to make his move and has ordered the other apostles thawed out. Taking in the view of the festival from the hill, Rosette finds out from Chrono that he has decided to die when she does. At that moment, Rosette feels something and runs towards it and she is led to Joshua. Atonement - Neck: Having reached Joshua, Rosette finds out that he doesn't remember who she is anymore. Even worse, he is protecting Aion. At the festival, Azmaria is kidnapped by Jena and led to where Rosette, Aion and Joshua are at. The moment that she taken there, the ritual is initiated and 6 apostles are gathered together and infused with darkness to summon forth the Astral line. Satela arrives there as well and is unable to do anything as Rosette is sucked into the ritual. It turns out that Aion has been waiting for this opportunity for the past 4 years and that his goal was to awaken the soul sleeping within Rosette. What he wanted was Mary Magdalene's soul and he is near his goal. Rosette, weakened, calls out to Chrono as her watch seal opens up, supplying a vast amount of Rosette's life. Temptation - Poison: Chrono changes into his full demon form and tries to take back Rosette, but Joshua keeps getting in the way. Reverend Remington, upon learning the situation in San Fransisco, departs from New York and arrives there within minutes in an attempt to help out. As Chrono and Joshua demolish the city in their battle, Duke DeFauz arrives to deal with Jenai. Reverend Gilliam also arrives there and disables Fiorre who was Joshua's maid and Satela's older sister. With Jenai fighting Duke DeFaux, Reverend Remington manages to kill the final demon under Aion to keep Azmaria safe. With the city in flames, Chrono manages to stop Joshua's rampage by grabbing his horns that has been implanted in Joshua and yank it off. The moment he does this, he is petrified as Joshua lapses into a coma. Afterwards, with Rosette in Aion's possession, he tries to convince her to use the virtue of justice that she represent to turn it into absolute violence and tear the world asunder so that it can be made into the ideal image that Aion has in mind by showing her the result of the battle between Chrono and Joshua. All that the Magdalan Order can do now is hope and pray. Although they have Joshua and Azmaria back, Rosette is all that Aion needs now. Mary Magdalene - Magdalene: Chrono is still in a petrified state. Fiorre is still acting the way she does. Her right arm is cracked, cannot remember who Satela is and believes all that matters is Joshua. At the same time, Joshua wakes up and he can no longer recognize her. Azmaria also seems to have lost her abilities. Chrono, in his petrified state, hears the voice of Mary Magdalene and his memories are propelled nearly 50 years into the past to the time when was still a part of Aion's group and a time when he abducted Mary Magdalene from the Magdalan Order. As Chrono gets closer to Mary Magdalene, he begins to learn of the sadness of her existence. Ever since she has received the stigmata, she has begun to see the past and the future to the point where her own memories have begun to vanish. The only thing that is of hers is the visions she has of Chrono an how she has seen her own death at his hand. She has gone with him to know what kind of person the one who will take her life is like. When Aion orders Chrono to kill Mary Magdalene, he is unable to and Aion deals him a critical blow. To save him, Mary uses her own life and dies. Now, with Mary's soul helping once more, Chrono is able to break free of the spell cast on him. At the same time, Duke DeFaux takes a group of demons and attacks Aion after he has been located, but Aion just kills them all and Rosette, who is now under his control, kills DeFaux. Farewell: Satela remembers the past and the time that Aion killed her entire family and took her sister away. At the same time, Chrono and Magdalan Order is preparing to track Aion down and take Rosette back. Fiore manages to break free and take Joshua with her. At the same time that this is happening, Rosette has reappeared and is under Aion's spell. Healing people and having the angelic effect on her, people have begun to follow her. When Chrono, Azmaria, and Satela heads to where all the people are gathering. They discover Fiore and Joshua as well. Satela takes on her sister and seals her and herself in a barrier to minimize damages. With Joshua back in the order's hands, Chrono tries to get Rosette back and contact with her causes him some damage as well as looses the spell placed on Rosette, but when people see this, Aion tells them that he is a devil trying to kill the saint and causes the people to try and kill him and Azmaria. Meanwhile, Satela and Fiore fights inside the barrier and Satela finds out that her real sister died 10 years ago and the one that stands before her is a doll made with her corpse and a soul made of a jewel. Satela manages to defeat her, but is gravely injured in the process. As she exits the barrier, the people, tricked by the real devil, riots outside of the Magdalan Orders' door and calls them a satanic cult. The Noise: Rosette is completely under Aion's control as he uses her against Chrono. At the same time, Aion is also using Rosette to create chaos all over the country. As riots begin to rise, several people are starting to hear the "noise" and committing even greater sins in the name of god. Wanting to end it with his own hands and not run away like he has always done and to repent for following Aion and his ideal "freedom" all those years ago, Chrono seeks out Rosette and Aion. When he catches up to them in the park once more, He manages to paralyze Aion by using his horns. When he tried to get Rosette to shoot Chrono, the final stigmata appears on Rosette and breaks the spell on her. Back to normal, Chrono rushes to her side, but at that moment, Aion breaks free and hits Chrono with his own horn and has begun to petrify him. Rosette, back to her senses, opens up the watch seal and transforms Chrono back to his full demon form. Filled with righteous fury. Chrono kills Aion in mere second and then vanishes himself with Rosette as well. Chrono: 7th Bell has been returned to the flow of time as well as all the people trapped within. The Elder and Reverend Remington visits Mary Magadalene's tomb and the place of Chrono's self imposed prison and learns the reason why time in 7th Bell has begun to move again. They have used Aion's horn that can move time forward as opposed to Chrono's horn that has the power to stop time. All over the country, the "Crusader" phenomenon of people committing crimes in the name of god has diminished and scattered, but is still happening. At the same time, all that knew her in the Magdalan Order misses her and wishes that she would return soon. In an unknown place, living in a broken down house. Rosette has decided to live the last of her days with Chrono as she struggles with the knowledge that she is about to die and the desire to live longer. As the sun sets, they both die together an they are soon discovered by the Order and her friends comes to retrieve their corpse. As time moves forward, another who has the stigmata appears while Joshua has regressed to the time when he was 12 and with Rosette and Chrono. Azmaria, following in Rosette's footsteps, has become a nun of the Magdalan Order during the time of the beginning of the Great Depression. 50 years later, in 1981, Remington is still observing the passage of time and bumps into the assassin in the Vatican who has been predicted in the 3rd Fatima prophecy. Time ever so quickly moves forward as men filled with weakness rejects the light and embraces the darkness and those who record the passage of time can do nothing but observe the ages and the folly of man. City of Sin A barbaric warrior king seizes the beautiful Queen Beatrice. As his soldiers ravage her kingdom, they introduce the city wenches to a variety of exotic sexual acts. Soon, the haughty queen and her handmaids are begging for more, and the city becomes a carnal capital of debauchery and lust! (Hentai) This was utter crap. It's a paper thin flimsy excuse of a story wrapped around a half hour rape scene. Quite frankly, when the king's previous wife was beheaded, she was the lucky one...which is probably why Beatrice got herself beheaded as well. Co-Ed Affairs A group of naive and curious friends, Moemi, Reina, and Mitsugu decide to document their first sexual exploration on video. As they learn more about their bodies their video's theme evolves from a mere sexual documentary into an ultra kinky adult video. The young women are totally uninhibited and candid in their discussion of sex, in their exploration of each other, and in the erotic topics they choose to cover in their spicy little film. (Hentai) Heh-he, how do I rate this? Um, NO. Don't bother with this. It's got a really bad quality to it and the story is pretty much non-existent. For the perverts, there are no sex Comedy The narrator, a young girl, sets out to find the mythical "black swordsman" who supposedly lives in an abandoned castle just past the dark forest two days from town. He stays in "Devil's Castle", as the place is called, and reads books. It is rumored that he will perform a favor for anyone who asks...however, the only payment he will accept are books of a certain genre. The narrator somehow knows that she has a book that he has been looking for and sets out to bring him the book. Just as she reaches the forest she faints and wakes up in the castle by the fire with him. He accepts the book and after two days of reading non-stop he agrees to fight off the English invaders who are preparing to invade her village in Ireland. He single handedly annihilates 200 cavalry men...but after the battle only a pile of bloody armor is left. When the narrator asks what happened to the bodies, he leans over and whispers in her ear that he'll kill her if she tells anyone about him. 15 years later she is remembering the swordsman who once again faded into old stories as a myth. (Drama) This is a macabre kind of story that is only 10 minutes long. I'm still wondering why they named it Comedy when it's clearly not a comedy. There are a couple of cute, charming funny scenes here and there and, overall, I highly recommend this if you enjoy grainy, dark stories. I give this one a 10! Cool Devices Welcome to a series of tapes the likes of which you’ve never seen before! Strong stories, highly charged with erotic content are all presented without Japan’s censorship (as they were intended to be seen). They don’t follow a single story. They break all the rules. They are Cool Devices. They aren’t for kids, but they might be for you if you have the guts. Welcome to a new world…and wash your hands when you’re done (Action/Adventure/Drama/Comedy/Hentai/Fantasy/Vignete) Operation 1 - Curious Fruit: Ai sits with her friends enjoying a quiet drink. Then, her world turns on end…because she sees…them. Curious. Excited. Very turned on. And then they’re gone. But for reasons she doesn’t even understand she has to follow, and her journey takes her to a place she never knew (both physically and emotionally). Discovering something smoldering deep within her very being, she leaves her old self and becomes what she was always destined to be. Admired. Scorned. Worshiped. Abused…Loved. Operation 2 - Scared Girl: He is alone in the house left to him by the death of his parents, even though he’s only feet away from his little sister. To this sister he’s always been much closer to than anyone else…even his parents when they were alive. His sister almost realizes this. He realizes it only too well. He is alone…except for when he’s in the nerve center of his domain. From this hidden room, he experiences adults playing and everything else by proxy…courtesy of many concealed video cameras. Life is only real to him when he sees it on a monitor, and on most of those monitors is his sister…. Operation 3A - Lover Doll: If you’ve got a rabbit in the cage and a cat coming to visit, the story isn’t always about a house full of pets. Well, maybe not the pets that you normally think of…. Operation 3B - Winter Swimsuit: The old story of a girl, a sharp box-cutter, a heated pool in the middle of winter…and a somewhat twisted fellow. Operation 3C - Enema: Find out how to clear up that occasional irregularity. Hint: doesn’t involve an all-natural fiber therapy. Operation 4 - Kirei The island looked like an idyllic summer getaway: bathed in sunshine, washed by gentle breezes and filled with colorful butterflies. But, like all visions of paradise, there are traps lying in wait for the unwary. And, like all vacations, there are hidden and sometimes horrible prices to be paid for the brief pleasure. It’s long been said that any vacation spot will be eventually ruined by tourists if the word gets out. Funny how this place still looks like a virgin beach with white sands and friendly locals. Maybe those locals are a little too friendly…. Operation 5 - Seek I Marino Ohkura’s an “ordinary girl”…well, “innocent girl” might be closer to the truth. Naturally, Takayuki Sawatari (the son of a famous masochistic dominator) and little Saki are going to see just how much fun they can have with her mostly unwilling body. First, they’re going to teach her all the ways that a body can give pleasure. Ways that are unknown to her. Ways that are unknown to almost anyone…. Saki and Takayuki are experts in their field, and soon Marino is doing things she never thought of before…actually, more like having things done to her that she never thought of before…. Operation 6 - Seek II (SM Queen Saki): The problem is that Saki’s just not a very nice lady. For this there is a reason…it seems that Saki no longer understands the difference between pleasure and pain. This was learned at the lap of Takayuki’s recently departed father when she was many years younger. Along with Marino from the first story (who will be thrown to the wolves), we see how she mistresses the rest of her acquaintances. Momotomi is whipped into senselessness, and Haruka will get plugged in (in one of the most famous scenes in recent memory). If you’ve seen the images on the Internet from the game, here’s your chance to see perhaps the most disturbing tape of the entire Cool Devices series! Operation 7 - Yellow Star: Her mother has married Mr. Fujisawa…a famous detective…a man who is playing his authority for all it’s worth. He’s involved with some very unpleasant underworld types, and one of his shadier deals is trafficking a unique drug: “Yellow Star.” This chemical compound is the ultimate date-rape drug…it accentuates pleasure while depriving its victims of their will. And, our Mr. Fujisawa has a seemingly endless supply…and a taste for young women…particularly when they are denied by all conventions to him. His new wife is not enough. He must have her at all costs. Again, and again…. Operation 8 Slave Warrior MAYA I: On this world, unimaginable light-years from Earth, there is a prophecy of a Druid Warrior who will one day arise and vanquish the evildoers. The legend says that the soldier will appear in the humblest of forms…superior to man, or to woman. How can this be? Oh, you’ll find out…. Operation 9 - Slave Warrior MAYA II: Now considerably different than she was before, Maya Misutani is currently enjoying the hospitality of Lord Estilgar…and her new body part. She still wants to go home to Earth, and the opportunity comes to attempt an escape. Fail, though, and the punishment will be most severe…. Operation 10 - Binding: Masaki Hoshino’s on an assignment…an on a train…and has a vision of a woman he’s never met. Awakening, he finds hi luggage stolen as well as his wallet. Thing go from bad to worse when he departs the train and an earthquake damages parts of the tracks. The only thing to do is to follow a pleasant woman who is waiting at the station.... His journey leads him to a monstrous house…a house with a number of other women living in it. Masaki’s immediately popular with the residents (being a writer), but after the sun goes down, strange things begin to happen. He sees things that are denied the next day. Things that he is not meant to see… Operation 11 - Fallen Angel Rina: Rina Yuki is a talented and popular (in her own right) Idol Singer. She’s got a bright future and a talented manager…who also happens to be her father. When he one day falls gravely ill, she meets the darker side of the entertainment business…and discovers she owes favor to people. A lot of favors. Favors for which there is only one way to repay. This causes her to embark on a new kind of entertainment. She’s systematically stripped of everything she knew and is taught lessons that she would hardly have believed. Introduced to an enigmatic shadow world, she must become the opposite of what she is…or her father’s reputation will be destroyed. Of course, to do this means destroying her own…. Cowboy Bebop Cowboy Bebop takes place in the distant future where Earth has been reduced to a pile of ruble due to meteor bombardment and people have colonized the other planets of our solar system-from Venus to the moons of Jupiter. There are gates that makes traveling form one planet to another easy and traveling all over the system are bounty hunters called cowboys. Our heroes are Jet, an ex-cop, Spike, a former mob assassin, Faye, a woman who can’t remember her past and owes too many people too many debts, Ed, a genius hacker, and Ein, a welsh corgi with human intelligence. (Action/Adventure/Comedy/Drama) Cowboy Bebop is a set of loosely connected stories of our intrepid band of bounty hunters as they try to collect bounties and have enough food to last them until they catch the next bounty. Then there is also the personal drama of each of the members (most notably is Spike) that we get to see. It is a pretty good series. The style of storytelling is not something that people are used to in an anime so it really isn’t for everyone. If you don’t want to buy it, at least rent it. Asteroid Blues: Jet and Spike must track down a dealer of a dangerous, very addictive drug, which induces berserker rages. Has Spike been swayed by the charms of a mother-to-be? Can even Jet’s strength stand up to the power of Red Eyes? Stray Dog Strut: Spike and Jet are hired to recover an item stolen from a research scientist’s laboratory. Spike is led on a wild goose chase by the thief and then by the item itself! But this dog is more than it appears to be, and is the product of some unusual research. Honky Tonk Women: As luck would have it, Spike and Jet stumble across Faye Valentine, a wanted criminal in a casino on Mars. But Faye is more than a handful and she holds her own against them and her other-would be pursuers. She’s in the middle of a very shady deal, but whose side is she really on? Gateway Shuffle: The Eco-terrorist group the Space Warriors stage a hit on a casino. They intend to hold a world hostage with an experimental virus, but Spike and Jet, lured by the 25 million bounty on the leader’s head, aren’t going to let them get away with it. Ballad of Fallen Angels: Spike’s past comes back to haunt him as he goes after another bounty on a member of the Red Dragon Syndicate. But it’s a set up, and if Spike is going to survive-and rescue the impetuous Faye as well-he will have to face his old friend and comrade, Viscous, alone. Sympathy for the Devil: While chasing another bounty, Spike and Jet meet Wen, a musical child prodigy. But they immediately notice that there is something strange about him. Is there a connection between this kid and the strange stone a man handed to Spike with his dying breath? Heavy Metal Queen: Spike meets up with a space trucker VT. A strong, independent woman, she and Spike seem to become fast friends until she learns he’s a bounty hunter. Their paths cross again however, as VT is after a guy who hit and run one of her friends. When the situation turns grim, they will have to put their differences aside if they are to survive. Waltz for Venus: Venus is a beautiful planet, now that it’s been terra formed. Unfortunately, the floating plants used to maintain the environment make some people sick. The Bebop crew is pursuing another bounty here, and Spike seems to have reluctantly accepted a young man named Roco as his pupil. But Roco is not all he seems, and he is in fact a wanted man. But he’s not the bad guy he appears to be. What’s a bounty hunter to do? Jamming With Edward: The crew of the Bebop encounters the genius hacker known as Ed, but only after solving a complex mystery. Bored with hacking, Ed wants to go with the Bebop crew, but they don’t want a kid tagging along and getting in the way, so Ed sets out to change their minds. Ganymede Elegy: The Bebop returns to Ganymede, Jet’s home, to drop off a criminal they’ve captured. But this trip home for Jet brings back painful memories. While he goes to visit someone from his past, Spike gets a lead on a new bounty from the local cops. Fate is rarely kind. Toys in the Attic: There’s an intruder on the Bebop! A strange organism roams the ship in search of-what? It’s touch causes great illness and the crew begin to fall prey to it. Is it an alien invader? A disease? Soon only Spike and Ed are left to deal with this dangerous creature. Jupiter Jazz (part 1): Faye’s abandoned the Bebop-and taken their cash! When Ed search for her, one name comes up: JULIA. Spike sets off on his own to find his long lost love, but only after a big fight with Jet. Meanwhile, Faye finds company in a strange man known only as Gren in the town of Blue Crow, a place without women. And Viscous is somehow involved in all this. Jupiter Jazz (part 2): All roads lead to Viscous as Spike searches for Julia, Jet tracks down Faye, Faye confronts Gren, and Gren reveals his secrets. But as Spike looks desperately for answers, Julia is nowhere to be found. Can Spike get his answers from Gren before it’s too late? Bohemian Rhapsody: Toll booths at the interstellar travel gates have become the scene of high-tech robberies. There’s a large bounty for the culprit, but over 20 perpetrators are arrested. The Bebop crew pools its information and tries to track down the mastermind behind all this, but their only clue is a chess piece, and even that seems worthless. My Funny Valentine: Faye is brash, reckless and sometimes uncouth. But who is Faye Valentine really? Even she doesn’t know. All she knows is that her story began over fifty years ago! Black Dog Serenade: A riot on a prison ship reunites Jet with his old partner from his days with the ISSP. The criminal who took over the ship is the one responsible for the loss of Jet’s arm. And now, Jet, the Black Dog, has a score to settle. And once the Black Dog bites, he doesn’t let go. Mushroom Samba: The Bebop is out of fuel, the crew is out of cash, and now, they’re out of food. Driven by hunger, Ed and Ein set off on a hunt for food and wind up in the middle of the strangest bounty hunt yet. What can a thirteen-year-old genius and a data dog do against their adversaries? Plenty! Speak Like a Child: A package comes for Faye - COD of course. So when she refuses to open it, Spike and Jet take the liberty of seeing what’s inside. Their search for the equipment needed to decipher this package takes them to the ruin of Earth, and lead them back to Faye’s past. Wild Horses: While Spike is getting his ship overhauled, Jet, Faye, Ed, and Ein go after the Space Pirates. Unfortunately, though, they soon find themselves at the mercy of a computer virus. It’s up to Spike to get them out of a difficult situation, and time is running out. Pierrot Le Fou: Spike stumbles across a strange-looking man who has just murdered some high-ranking ISSP officials. After narrowly escaping the first time, he finds himself being hunted by a madman with incredible paranormal abilities. When the killer invites Spike to a party, it’s an invitation he can’t refuse. Boogie Woogie Feng-Shui: Jet gets some mysterious mail from an old acquaintance, but when he arrives to meet him, he finds that he’s too late. He does, however, wind up helping out his friend’s daughter as they try to unravel the mystery of the Sun Stone. But why is Jet going to so much trouble? Cowboy Funk: The criminal Teddy Bomber is blowing up buildings. Spike almost has him caught, until the bounty hunter known as Andy shows up. Now, Spike has a new rival. As Spike and Andy continue to lock horns, who will come out on top? And is anyone going to catch Teddy Bomber? Brain Scratch: Faye in a attempt to flee her debt, seems to have joined a cult named Scratch, which encourages migrating the human soul into electronic form and forsaking the body. But the leader of this cult is wanted by the police after a string of his followers commit suicide. Now, the bebop crew has to rescue Faye and get to the bottom of Scratch before more people die. Hard Luck Woman: Still haunted by her missing past, Faye searches for more clues to her identity. But it seems that one of her crewmembers is having more luck. Ed is reunited with her father, but there’s the annoying problem of a bounty that needs to be settled. Of course the identity of this strange man is suspect, but if he really is Ed’s father, what will she do? The Real Folk Blues (part 1): Spike has been searching for Julia for what seems like forever, but he has never wavered in his determination to find her. Now, at long last, he is reunited with his one true love. But will this reunion bring happiness or more sadness to a life that’s already full of sorrow? The Real Folk Blues (part 2): Spike convinces Julia to leave with him, to put the past behind them once and for all. However, Viscous, their onetime friend, is not about to let them just walk away. Spike and Julia must now face the greatest danger of their lives, and the stakes are their happiness, and their very lives! Crest of the Stars Jinto Lin's life changes forever when the Humankind Empire Abh takes over his home planet of Martine without firing a single shot. Sent off to study the Abh language and culture, Jinto must prepare himself for his future as an Abh nobleman. Entering the next phase of his training, he'll meet his first Abh, the lovely Lafiel. However, Jinto will soon learn that Lafiel is more than she appears and together they will have to fight for their very lives. (Adventure/Sci-Fi) Do you like space adventures? How about human drama? Elves? If you answered yes to any of the above questions, then the answer is simple - hell yes you gotta have this. I absolutely love this series. I think it's a series that every otaku (non-otakus as well) need to have in their collection despite the mediocre dubbing. : Jinto was just a child when his planet was conquered by the Humankind Empire Abh. His father, then president of Martine, decided to surrender without a single shot – an act considered by most as a betrayal. In return, he has been given the title of Count and charged to rule the planet. Jinto as his heir, has also become an Abh royalty. It is now time for him to leave his primary schooling to go on to an Abh military academy. It will also be the first time that he will meet an actual Abh. Waiting for his escort, his friend ___ comes along and the two of them reminiscence about the past to while the time away. : Helping a woman who's backage was stolen by a group of street rats, Jinto runs into Lafiel, his Abh escort who helps him capture the thief. After returning the baggage with scorn as their reward, Lafiel escorts him in a Calicke, a spaceship to his destination – the battleship Gosroth. All the time, he and Lafiel begin to develop a raport as they get to know each other during the short trip. Talking to the Gosroth's captain, Jinto finds out why everyone is being overly polite – Lafiel is actually from the Abriel family – one of the eight royal families and the current ruling one. In short, she is a princess destined to become a queen if things go smoothly! Everyone already knows who she is, which is why she never introduced herself when they first met. When he realizes this, he began to get nervous around her, but in the end, she tells Jinto that she wants him to be a friend, not a subject and tells him to continue calling her by name instead of “your highness” like everyone else in the kingdom does. : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : Crimson Climax Lured to a cursed island by a carnal cult, victims are brought to the throes of ecstasy, then brutally sacrificed in a bloody occult ritual. When sexy Ryo visits her late mother's island home, she's in for a terrifying surprise! Can she escape with her life - and her virtue - intact? (Hentai) 1: 2: 3: Driven mad by lust on an exotic island, comely outsider Ryo becomes the helpless prey of a mysterious temptress named Hotaruko. What is Hotaruko's nefarious plot, and what is her connection to Ryo's dead mother, and to the sinister island of sin? Cybersix In a town called Meridiana from a time of nowhen and a place of nowhere, Cybersix, a creation of the evil Dr. Von Reichter confronts her creator’s other minions in an effort to disrupt his plans while hiding as a male literature teacher named Adrian in a local high school. (Adventure) It’s alright as a show and has proven to be quite entertaining, although it is not something that I would watch over and over again. Besides, Cathy Weseluck (voice of C-Ko from Project A-Ko and Shampoo from Ranma ½) provides the voice of Cybersix. The Mysterious Shadow: In the dead of night in a strange city, mysterious Frankestein-esque creature called Fixed-Ideas kidnaps a two people. A woman in black leaping from rooftop to rooftop notices the creatures and begins to trail one of them. The next day, in the local high school, Adrian Siddleman, a new literature teacher shows up for his first day. When he rebuffs one of his student’s advances on him, her fans aren’t exactly thrilled about him and decide to teach the teacher a little lesson. Good thing Lucas Amano is there to help him out. That night, Lucas sees a Fixed-Ideas being chased by the woman in black and follows them only to see her take it out. After she had left, the Fixed-Idea vanishes into thin air leaving only its clothes and a glowing green vial. The woman shows up again to claim the vial from him in his apartment. When Lucas refuses to give it to her, another Fixed-Idea attack them and the woman takes it out by tossing out the window. When it vanishes, she takes the glowing green vial and drinks it, fixing her damaged arm. Unfortunately, the handler of the Fixed-Idea now believes Lucas is the culprit. The next night, with Adrian in tow to the apartment, Lucas discovers his place tossed as someone has come searching for the vial. Adrian goes home and reveals himself to actually be Cybersix, Lucas’ mysterious woman in black. She goes out and keeps watch at Lucas’ apartment and when Jose, a little kid with several Fixed-Ideas with him show up, Cyber Six engages them in a battle that leads her to a warehouse where the two men, an engraver and a printer being forced to make fake money. There, during the struggle, the warehouse is set on fire and with Lucas’ unwitting aid, the truck carrying the fake money crashes into the sea and the money lost. Back in the base, Jose reports to his father about Cyber Six, and he laments on her survival – his greatest failure. Data7 and Julian: In order to take out Cybersix, Dr. Von Reichter sends out Data7, to eliminate her and it would seem that he and Cybersix has a connection. In the city, Jose has begun taking over all the other criminal gangs and activities as an orphaned boy named Julian is forced to steal wallets by his “landlord” so that he can get something to eat. His first target is Adrian, who is searching for a bookstore along with Lucas. When Adrian catches up to him, he opens up his wallet and checks to see if the picture of her and 29 when she was still a kid is still there, takes it out and gives the wallet to Julian who decides to give it back to him. Adrian then decides to follow him to see what he would do next and discovers him to be quite a nice young man and not the misfit he seemed to be. Following him to his home where he finds out that he is being forced to steal to eat and have a place to stay in, Cybersix also discovers that Jose has taken over the place. Cybersix, reminded of 29 so much by Julian, decides to go out and take him away from that place where he is at. Unfortunately for her, Data7 is lying in wait for her and before Cybersix can take Julian out, she is ambushed by Data7. During the battle, Cybersix realizes that Data7 is actually 29. When Data7 rebels against Julian and the order to kill Cybersix, he orders all of his Fixed-Ideas to open fire on them. As the day dawns, Data7 remembers how he died and got reincarnated by Dr. Von Reichter into Data7’s panther body and that he and Cybersix are actually brothers. Terra: Dr. Von Reichter unveils his latest creation – Terra, a living clay that holds intelligence. Jose decides to use five Fixed-Ideas to make up its brain and give it a boost in strength. Unfortunately, the creature breaks out of its container, wanders around the city, and begins wreaking havoc all over. When Cybersix faces it, it manages to not only absorb her essence, but that of Lucas’ as well. Because of that, it is unable to finish her off when it had the chance. Going back to his hideout, Jose is infuriated that Terra is unable to finish Cybersix when it had the chance and decides to give it a boost in ferocity by adding a polar bear into it’s make up. Patrolling the city at night, Cybersix notices a group of Fixed-Ideas running around and decides to follow them. They lead her into Jose’s hideout where Terra is left behind to ambush her. Constantly running away, Jose gets impatient at Terra’s inability to quickly finish Cybersix and decides to set the building that both it and Cybersix is in. When Terra managed to grab her again, it absorbed some more of Cybersix’s essence and Cybersix finally understood that Terra is not evil, just forced to act that way. When the entire structure got engulfed in flames and there seemed to be no way out, Terra decides to save Cybersix and sacrifices itself for her, much to Jose’s disappointment. Yashimoto, Private Detective: Jose attempts to trick a detective named Yashimoto in to finding and revealing Cybersix’s location. When the detective refuses to take the job, He resorts to kidnapping the detective’s little sister who also happens to be playing around with Julian at the time. Yashimoto is then given an ultimatum – find Cybersix within the allotted time or never be able to see his sister again. Having no luck searching for her in the internet listings, he decides to put up cameras all over the place and spots her going into Lucas’ apartment. Having lost her trail after she leaves, Yashimoto breaks into Lucas’ apartment and takes his phone messages and compares the voices there to the sample he has of Cybersix’s and manages to figure out that she and Adrian are the same person. In Adrian’s apartment, he confronts Cybersix and they both find out that the same person has kidnapped both Yashimoto’s sister and Julian and decides to team up. At the appointed time, Yashimoto shows up with a decoy Cybersix while Cybersix attempts to rescue his sister and Julian. Unfortunately, Jose has a back up of his own - a giant nautilus type creature. While fighting it, Yashimoto fights of the Fixed-Ideas with Jose. Cybersix finally defeats the creature by having the bridge collapse on it. In the end, with his sister and Julian safe and sound, Yashimoto “forgets” about Cybersix’s apartment and identity. Lori is Missing: Lori’s crush on Adrian is getting more and more serious. When she is sent to the principal’s office after her daytime fantasies disrupts Adrian’s class, she manages to accidentally discover his address and decides to drop by for some “after class lessons” only to get at the door and hear a woman’s voice inside. Looking through the keyhole, she discovers Adrian as Cybersix and leaps to the conclusion that she is his girlfriend. When Lucas talks to her to get her to stop being so disruptive in class, she tells him about Cybersix being Adrian’s girlfriend and causes a bit of friction between Lucas and Adrian. A chance encounter with Jose brings into Lori’s possession an MD with the program that he has created to run a drilling machine that will drill underground into a vault so that he can steal its contents. Upon discovering that his MD is missing, he has Lori kidnapped and taken to his hideout. When Cybersix as Adrian finds out that Lori is missing, he goes out in search of her and runs into Jose’s operation. Releasing Lori, they manage to ruin Jose’s plan of breaking into the vault. Lucas gets there in time to see Cybersix as she hands him Lori and deliver the final blow to Jose’s drilling machine. Blue Birds of Horror: Spring seems to have arrived in Meridiana as blue birds appear all over the place going through all the hi-jinx that birds gets into. Unfortunately, there is something sinister behind these birds when it turns out that Von Reichter and Jose have something planned for them. The following day, the entire city is put to a halt as the blue birds begin attacking people in mass. Later that day, a declaration is made by Jose that unless the city surrenders, the birds will continue to attack. This message enables Lucas and Cybersix to discover the location and the method that they are using to control the birds. They plan their attack for the next day as Lucas and Data7 handles trapping as many birds as they can and Cybersix goes on to destroy the transmitter that they are using to control the birds. It turns out that a new creation of Von Reichter is being used to transmit its thoughts to the other birds and thereby control them. With the creature released, it begins to attack Cybersix. With Data7’s help, Cybersix manages to destroy the creature and bring everything back to normal in the city. Brainwashed: Julian, the lovable street urchin that he is, also has some friends who are good guys besides Cybersix and Data7. One such friend in particular is Enrique, a detective in the Meridiana Police Department. However, Jose’s latest plan has involved Enrique in the latest scheme to eliminate Cybersix as well as five other detectives from the force. Summoned by the police chief who is actually one of Jose’s techno minions, they are made to wear a brainwashing helmet and given the orders to seek out and eliminate Cybersix on sight. When Enrique ambushes Cybersix and manages to graze her shoulder, Jose who was with her at the time, recognizes his detective friend and begins to wonder what is going on. Against Cybersix’s order, Julian escapes from Data7’s watch and goes off in search of Enrique. He notices the helmet and follows him to Jose’s base where is captured and used as bait to capture Cybersix. Held in a tank to drown, Julian manages to help by outsmarting the Fixed-Idea guarding him and pull off the helmet. Free of the mind control, Enrique shoots the tank and sets Cybersix free. A stroke of luck comes their way when a lightning strike destroys the brainwashing device’s antenna. In the struggle, the techno is destroyed as well as the brainwashing machine as Cybersix, Data7, Julian and detective Enrique escapes to safety. Afterwards, Cybersix notes how lucky Julian and Enrique are to have each other. Gone with the Wings: Fighting the Fixed-Ideas one night, Cybersix is attacked by Von Reichter’s newest creations – gargoyles with a killer scream. News of their sighting has the people of the city either terrified or curious about the rumor. One of those is Julian who heads for the subways in search of them. He somehow manages to locate their nest and discovers eggs that are nearing their time of hatching. Data7 also manages to locate Julian who is trapped under some rubble after his encounter with the gargoyles and sends him of to get Cybersix. Cybersix, after learning about Julian, fights the gargoyles as a distraction while Data7 runs off to rescue Julian. During the fight, Cybersix notices that they retreated when the sun began rise once more. Cybersix then formulates a plan to eliminate the gargoyles once and for all. She plans on putting all the eggs in a train compartment and bring them out into the daylight. Later that night, while the gargoyles are flying around the city looking for Cybersix, Cybersix heads for their nest and with Julian and Data7’s help, loads all the eggs into the train. When they are discovered by the gargoyles, Cybersix lures them into the train as well and traps them inside. Once trapped, Cybersix activates the train and brings it out into the dawning sun where the gargoyles self destruct at the touch of the sunlight. The Eye: Jose gets a gift from his father with orders to test it out and see what it can do and its limitations. When he realizes that the eye can put people in a trance, he decides to test it out in the city by having it follow him around. When he has had enough, he decides to take over city hall using the eye. When the police surround the place, he uses the eye again to attack the police where the eye, having grown considerably, has gained a new ability to blast things with a laser. Cybersix shows up to fight the eye after encountering Lori and her friends all in a trance and in the battle, she uses a mirror to deflect the eye’s hypnotic gaze, which causes it to go out of control and begin putting people into a trance and absorbing their essence. Cybersix, having failed to stop it from absorbing the essence of everyone in the city, heads back to the school and takes Lucas’ liquid nitrogen to take out the eye. At the same time, Jose is getting yelled at by his father and given a time limit of 3 hours to reclaim control of the eye and have it returned. Managing to climb the eye, Cybersix begins to pour liquid nitrogen all over the eye and Jose’s Fixed-Ideas try to net the eye. When one of them sees Cybersix, it fires a missile at her against Jose’s command and the impact on the frozen eye causes it to shatter, releasing all of the essences that it has absorbed and returning everyone in a trance back to normal. Full Moon Fascination: The city of Meridiana seems to be experiencing some werewolf problem as of late. In fact, Lucas has been attacked by a werewolf as well and seems to be acting strangely ever since, but then again, it could be Elaine – the new teacher at the high school. Later on, during the full moon, Lucas changes into a werewolf himself and when he has reverted back to normal, he has no recollection of the things that he has done as a werewolf. During one of Cybersix’s night visits to Lucas’ apartment, she leaves him behind when Lucas tells her to leave because he is expecting Elaine to come over. When Elaine finally does come over, she catches Cybersix’s scent and makes an excuse to leave. While Cybersix is out in the city, she is attacked by a werewolf again, but manages to evade her. The following full moon, Lucas changes into a werewolf once more and begins to roam the city. Cybersix encounters Lucas in his lupine form and unfortunately, so does Von Reichter’s creation, whom Cybersix has figured out to be Elaine now has almost complete hold on Lucas. She orders Lucas to attack Cybersix. While trying to evade both Lucas and Elaine’s attack on her, Cybersix keeps on trying to get Lucas back to normal. When Cybersix manages to get Lucas to regain a bit of his consciousness, he goes against Elaine who tosses him off on the ledge of a building. While trying to crush his fingers, Cybersix manages to toss Elaine off the building and the impact is enough to kill her. As she disintegrates, Lucas begins to transform back to normal now that he is freed from Elaine’s influence. The Greatest Show in Meridiana: Jose is plotting his next scheme and it involves robotic animals. When he receives Fixed-Idea hounds, he uses it to track down Data7 and then proceeds to use him as bait for Cybersix under the guise of a carnival for Meridiana. In the carnival, everything seems normal enough with the exception of Jose being the Ring Master. Cybersix sneaks in while everyone enjoys the show and discovers Data7 locked in a cage. Unfortunately, Jose notices her presence and tracks her down using the Fixed-Idea dogs and attacks her with the mechanical animals. When Lucas, watching the show, notices what is going on, he heads out to help Cybersix and notices that the robots are being controlled by someone using a central computer. When he takes out the computer, Jose reactivates the robots using his remote control and it causes them to go berserk, making it easier to take them out. As the carnival burns down, Cybersix, Data7 and Lucas manages to get out in one piece. Daylight Devil: Cybersix is being hunted again by Von Reichter’s creations when she finds that the Fixed-Ideas are being led by a new creation of Von Reichter’s. She has the ability to turn invisible and manages to wound her left arm. The next day, Lucas tells Adrian about the field trip the following day and notices that his left arm is wounded. Data7 has noticed that her arm is still damaged and decides to follow her on the field trip. Unfortunately, the stealth creature also notices Data7 and decides to follow him. At the field trip destination, she manages to find out that Adrian and Cybersix are one and the same. She attacks Adrian and unable to see her, is pushed back and falls of a cliff where Lucas notices him and takes him to the nearest hospital against his wishes. There, she attacks again and Adrian runs away again. She catches up to him again and manages to ensnare his arm as she drags him behind the ambulance she stole. With Data7’s help, the ambulance falls off a bridge and the stealth creature is left hanging on the rope she used to drag Adrian behind. Adrian then uses the rope to try and drag her up, but his left arm prevents him from doing it. When the stealth creature notices that he might get hit by the train while trying to save her, she lets go of the rope and sacrifices herself. Final Confrontation: Von Reichter decides to put an end to everything and unleashes a gigantic creation upon Meridiana. It will go to the center of the city and at the tolling of the midnight bell, it will detonate, destroying the city and Cybersix. Jose, believing that the city rightfully belongs to him and is his own personal plaything, doesn’t see it that way however. Fearing that this will be the end, Cybersix begins to bid her farewells to the people she came to know in the city. She thanks Lucas and reveals to Lori that she and Adrian are one and the same while Data7 visits Julian one last time. On the way to where Von Reichter is at, Jose spots her and decides a little betrayal of his own. He changes the gigantic time bomb’s course and makes it return to Von Reichter’s lab. Meanwhile, Cybersix and Data7 fight a new upgraded Fixed-Idea. Having defeated it, Von Reichter reveals himself and offers her deal. If she joins him, he will make it so that she doesn’t need the sustenance anymore and he just might spare the city. Going to the control room, Von Reichter discovers Jose’s treachery and with no way to stop the explosion, Cybersix forces him to change to course of the walking bomb to minimize the damage to the city. Von Reichter decides upon one last betrayal and activates all of his creation from their stasis capsules. Fortunately for Cybersix, they turn on him and help her find the exit. Later on, Lucas is in the café with Cybersix’ glasses. He heads on home and discovers that there is someone waiting for him in his apartment. At the same time, Jose is back in the city having escaped the lab and death.

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