Reviews and Summaries T-U As stated, this is the section that contains the titles we have reviewed and or summarized starting with T all the way down to U. (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. TA TE TR TS U Tatton Master Hibio's adventurous mother would do anything for the chance to study an ancient, mysterious tribe of mystics. And when Nima, one of the tribe's more beautiful members, sees a family photograph, the explorer has her bargaining chip. So she gives the young girl her son as a husband. She just doesn't tell him about it. So when Nima shows up on his doorstep, full of love (and magical power). Hibio's not exactly thrilled about it. Nima, however, is undaunted, and she'll use whatever she can to protect her man and prove her love for him. But a pretty young tribal highlander has a lot to learn about 21st century teen culture. That's okay, because a 21st century teenage boy has a lot to learn about the magic of love. (Action/Comedy) Er, it's not all that interesting. a bit below average in my opinion. It doesn't help either that ADV seems to have changed the names for whatever reason so that the subbed and dubbed version doesn't match. It tries to be a sweet romantic comedy...and fails. It tries to be action packed and they stopped filling in the action halfway through. Basically, your average cute uber princess in love with a worthless ass jack who may have a sweet side to him inside that nasty exterior. Don't bother with this. : Bala arrives in Tokyo and introduced herself to Hibio, who is completely reluctant in having any relationship with any girl. Of course, Hibio himself, though seemingly completely against it, is not the real threat. One of his classmates, a girl who seems to be cold towards everyone, particularly Hibio, finds out about Bala, she explodes and challenges Bala to a duel to the death. : Tekken Oh the humanity! I bought this title when it first came out thinking that it was gonna rock just like Street Fighter II the Animated Movie. SF2 was pretty damn good while Tekken, well, let's just say DON'T BUY OR RENT IT! It's a horrible piece of crap! Really! Save your money for something else. Tenchi Muyo (OVA) Hands down, this is one of my favorite series. It's also the first series that I was able to complete with my own money. Ah, nostalgia. Tenchi Muyo really is a great series. It has everything that makes a series/movie successful-a gallant knight, a princess, a wise mentor, a space pirate, an all powerful force that can be used to dominate all things (wait, did I just describe Star Wars?), a genius, and a furry little cabbit. All of this makes this series worthwhile. Oh, and did I mention that Ryoko is just sooo awesome? She is so much better than that Ayeka because she knows how to have fun, is honest, and damn, I wish a girl would love me the way that she has loved and devoted herself to Tenchi! That said, yeah, it's a must buy-especially the OVA series. (Action/Adventure/Sci-fi) Wow! I'm surprised Sir Bon could manage to peel his eyes off of the love of his life, Ryoko, long enough to figure out what the plot was about ^_-. He does have good reason to idolize her, however. The life of the party, she is pretty much the sole reason for watching Tenchi Muyo (well, besides that cute cuddly cabbit *_*). Please note that the OVA's and the TV series do not follow the same sequence of events, but are all contained in their own separate dimensions. Also, for those of you who has seen this on Toonami, have you ever wondered at the editing job that they did? I mean, come on, who freakin' gets smashed on tea? If there is such a tea, I want that kind- no really! Yeeesh! They changed sake into tea to keep the little kiddies from associating it with alcohol, but unless those same little kiddies know what sake really is, it's pretty useless. And if they didn't know what o-sake really was, then it doesn't matter cause A)their dad talks to them about alcohol, B) they know the culture of Japan and can tell what's going on with those "tea" scenes, or C) they've got a drunk in the household who loves sake sooo much that the kid will know what the "tea" really is anyway. Also, who the freak takes a freakin' bath wearing their freakin' underwear? Ryoko Resurrected: Tenchi is curious to see if the shrine that his grandfather is caretaker of really does have a demon sealed within. Of course, true to form, he not only discovers that there really is a demon sealed within, he accidentally breaks the seal and resurrects it as well. Of course Ryoko, the demon, is pretty pissed after having been sealed away for seven hundred years and the first thing she does is go on a rampage...in Tenchi's school! Here Comes Ayeka!: Ok, so Tenchi manages to defeat Ryoko with the help of the magical sword that sealed her away, only to go home and find her sleeping in his bed (hmmm...Ryoko in my bed...er, I mean bad Bon! BAD!) after destroying his school. Now she demands the jewels on his sword (no, not those jewels) because and even scarier "demon" is coming their way. Of course, after he finally decides to comply with Ryoko, it's already too late! Aaarrrggghhh! It's Ayeka, a real demon! Well not really, just a spoiled Jurain princess looking for her long lost step brother Yosho. Needless to say, Ryoko and Tenchi get captured. Thank god Sasami is also there to help them out! Hello Ryo-Ohki!: Now that Ayeka and Sasami are stuck on earth, they have come to live with Tenchi. Trying to adjust to earth life, Ayeka discovers that Tenchi really is a descendant of her long lost step brother Yosho. Not only that, she discovers that Funaho, Yosho's Jurain tree and soul of his spaceship has taken root near the Masaki shrine. Finally convinced by this proof of lineage, Ayeka happily relinquishes the sword back to Tenchi. Mihoshi Falls to the Land of Stars: The hot springs! The hot spring! Whoo-hoo! The usual hi-jinx ensues when Ryoko and Ayeka start arguing which ends up with Ryoko summoning a demon without realizing that she needs at least 2 jewels to control it. Of course it goes on a rampage and Tenchi has to clean up the mess, which means that he must destroy the summoned demon before it destroys the hot springs completely. As Tenchi faces the demon, the strangest thing happens, the energy of the demon pulls a spaceship down to earth. The space ship belongs to Mihoshi, a Galaxy Police officer hot on the trail of Kagato, the most wanted criminal in the universe. Kagato Attacks!: Just as things were starting to become normal, Kagato attacks (no duh from the title right?) and kidnaps Ryoko. As Tenchi tries to rescue Ryoko, Kagato reveals what he is after- Tsunami, the first and source of all Jurain trees and the godly powers she wields. As the sword is about to be taken away from Tenchi, Grandpa steps in and reveals himself to be none other than the long lost Yosho, first Prince of Jurai! Using Ryo-ohki, Tenchi, Ayeka, and Mihoshi go after Kagato in an attempt to rescue Ryoko. We Need Tenchi!: Ryoko breaks free of Kagato's prison only to find out that Tenchi is already dead. Enraged by grief, she, Ayeka, and Mihoshi storm Kagato's space fortress, the Souja, to take their revenge and bring the criminal to justice. True to form, Mihoshi gets lost within the massive ship and accidentally releases Washu, the real creator of the Souja, Ryo-ohki, the genius professor that Kagato is apprenticed to, and Ryoko's mom. Just as Kagato is about to win, Tsunami steps in and sends a very important warrior to help save the day. The Night Before the Carnival: Everything is back to normal in the Masaki household, well, as normal as it can be. Washu has occupied the mop closet, Sasami is still as cheerful and mischievous as ever, Ryo-Ohki is still as cute as ever, Mihoshi is still a ditz, and Ryoko and Ayeka are still fighting over Tenchi. This is the transition between the two OVA seasons. Nothing really goes on in here. No story is resolved. It's just Ryoko and Ayeka fighting over Tenchi once again. More hi-jinx ensue and did I mention Washu in a nurse's outfit? Hello! Baby: Meet Taro, Tenchi's baby nephew. It would seem that his mother has suddenly gotten ill and Tenchi and the girls have ended up having to take care of him. Of course, with so many girls around it shouldn't be any problem taking good care of him right? Wrong! From Mihoshi tying his diaper into a Gordian knot to Ayeka tossing poor Taro in the air the first time he peed on her to Ryoko trying to feed Taro his powdered baby milk- without diluting it first with water, this baby is in one heck of a mess! D’oh! Good thing Washu is around to lend a helping hand. Who knew that Washu would make an excellent mother? Sasami and Tsunami: It's back to the old hot springs (you know- the one that got destroyed by Ryoko's berserk summoned demon. This time, they will be fixing the damage they caused instead of relaxing in it! While working in the hot springs, they all start seeing an image of a ghostly woman in white wandering the halls of the hot springs inn. When they find out that the ghostly image is coming from Sasami, Ayeka is confronted with a terrible secret that Sasami has kept for well over 700 years. I Love Tenchi: In a misunderstanding, Ryo-ohki runs away thinking that Tenchi hates her. Of course Tenchi was only yelling those things to Ryoko (bastard, how dare you treat Ryoko-sama that way!) when Ryo-ohki walks in. After the misunderstanding has been cleared, Ryo-ohki is still left with feelings of insecurity and yearns to help out Tenchi. Those feelings in turn were received by the Mass (a mineral based life form with lots of power that Ryo-Ohki was made from). The Mass breaks free of it's cage in Washu's lab and is now wandering around trying to do things to help Tenchi with. Now the problem with that is that whenever the Mass feels a huge amount of power, it feels threatened and starts attacking that power source! The Advent of Goddess: One of the three goddesses, Lady Tokimi, has decided that she wants to have a little talk with Washu. To grant this decree (and get the reward of rulership over an entire galaxy) Dr. Clay, an old acquaintance of Washu's has undertaken the task of bringing her back using any means necessary. In order to get Washu to cooperate, Dr. Clay has kidnapped Ryoko and replaced her with his assistant, Zero, who has copied Ryoko's form and memories. Of course, Dr. Clay didn't count on Zero also copying Ryoko's love for Tenchi or that it will interfere with his plans. Zero Ryoko: Dr. Clay has ordered to kill Tenchi and the conflict of Zero's programming between absolute obedience to her master and the love she has for Tenchi (copied from Ryoko) has caused the mission to fail. When she flees back to Dr. Clay's gigantic space battleship, Tenchi, Ayeka and Washu chase after her in order to rescue the real Ryoko. With Mihoshi already there, Tenchi, Ayeka and Mihoshi storm the space battleship looking for the whereabouts of the main control room where Ryoko is being kept. Washu, on the other hand, has already discovered it and gets a long awaited reunion with her old acquaintance. Here Comes Jurai: It is the end of the second OVA series. Funaho (Yosho's mother, not the Jurain Tree) appears one quiet day and asks for Yosho. It would seem that Mihoshi's report about the Kagato incident has finally been analyzed and the Jurain royalty is about to try and take some action! Misaki (Ayeka and Sasami's mother) also appears and causes some rather unpredictable situations with Ryoko. Lastly, The Jurain King, Yosho, Ayeka, and Sasami's father, comes down with a new chosen fiancé for Ayeka. If Tenchi can't defeat him in battle, Ayeka will have to come home (and Ryoko gets saddled with the bill for all the damage she caused 700 years ago)! A Visitor from Afar: Thins are back to normal once more. Tenchi, reminisces about the life he had before Ryoko came along and what has happened afterwards. Heading to his dad's office in town, he passes his old school that Ryoko blew up when they first met and runs into some of his old classmates who has learned that he is living with a group of beautiful girls and are mad at him for that reason. He then heads to his dad's place, who is living there with Reia, an aunt of his. Back home, while his dad assembles a computer that he got for them, a visitor arrives and Tenchi is taken back when he sees hi mother standing there, seemingly resurrected from the grave. Fiancé: The one that Tenchi mistakes for Kiyone, his mother, turns out to be actually Tennyo, his older sister. She has come bearing news about Tenchi's fiancé that Seto, Ayeka, Sasami, and Yosho's grandmother. They mistake Airi, Yosho's new wife (by decree of Seto as well), as Tenchi's fiancé. Tenchi, working the fields before getting to the part about Airi being Yosho's wife, meets Noike, his new fiancé and Seto's adopted daughter there. Noike also turned out to be Mihoshi's old partner. Going to grandpa's place, he explains everything to Tenchi - why he never met Tennyo, he was never told of the Jurai heritage, and he revealed to him what he really looks like. Tennyo (who is actually 80) then leaves them to go her old class' final reunion. Right Now I'm Resting ~Strategy~: With Ryoko, Ayeka, and Mihoshi's constant bugging of Tenchi, Tenchi collapses from exhaustion and stress. Washu prescribes three days of rest for him and puts Noike, who is a nurse, in charge of taking care of Tenchi. To keep everyone from bugging Tenchi, everyone gets assigned "chore" that will help in Tenchi's recovery. Noike also gets Grandpa to get them a mini truck to help Tenchi in his fieldwork. After Tenchi's recovery, she invites him to his ship, a top secret experimental third generation Jurain battleship made because of the events caused by Ryoko and Ryo-ohki. Misao Arrives Aboard the Chobimaru: Misao heads for earth in the hopes of recovering his big sister Mihoshi from the evil grasps of Tenchi. To that end, he plans on eliminating him accidentally with the Chobimaru, the most advanced battleship of the GP that looks like a small satellite planet. To that end, Mashisu, his adjutant, decides to act on a plan to eliminate Tenchi by accident and capture the Jurains living with him. She sets out his plans with her subordinates. Back on Earth, Seto finally makes an appearance and collapses from lack of sleep the moment she meets everyone. As Washu is taking care of her, Noike and Sasami prepares a feast for when she wakes up. The moment they separate, Mashisu and her subordinates decide to attack. Lovey-dovey Epic Battle - The Beginning of the End: Mashisu and her subordinates gets easily beaten up and captured. Ryoko, enraged by what was said to her when they tried to hold her back, attacks the Chobimaru. The Chobimaru, the most advanced battleship in the GP fleet, quickly proves to be no match for Ryoko and Ryo-ohki. While in Seto's Tsunami class Jurain battleship, they decide to play match maker between Mashisu and Misao. They manage to get a confession of their true feelings for one another when Ryoko nearly destroy the Chobimaru and Mashisu gets wounded badly. Mourning Mashisu they soon discover that the whole scene is just an illusion that Seto and Washu concocted to get the two of them together. Z: Just as things are starting to cool down again, Lady Tokimi's champion arrives to take out Tenchi against her wishes. Tokimi arrives to separate him and Tenchi and when it seems that he might be able to kill Tenchi, Tsunami reveals herself to intervene as well as Washu's goddess form re-emerges. When Z kills Tenchi while the three goddesses are having a conference, they have to work together to avert the destruction of all there is resulting from Tenchi's too early ascension into higher power. Afterwards, the three goddesses explains to them all what they have been trying to do since the beginning of the universe and resets time from the beginning of the series before Mihoshi sends her mail, though they still have memories of what could have happened if she did send it. Tenchi Muyo: Mihoshi Special Everyone knows Mihoshi, one of the beautiful girls living with Tenchi. She’s a bit of a scatterbrain, but she’s a Galaxy Policewoman. And, according to her, one of the best! Nobody believes her, but maybe they’ll acknowledge her abilities after she recounts how she and her partner, Kiyone, solved the galaxy’s most notorious case! Tenchi as the investigator, Ryoko as the space pirate, and Sasami as the Magical Girl Pretty Sammy!? All the Tenchi Muyo characters are cast (against their will?) in her amazing and unbelievable story! A special episode! (Action/Comedy/Science-Fiction) This is a side story (wait - aren't most of the ova stories side stories?) of the OVA reality where Mihoshi tells her adventures as a Galaxy Policewoman and her and her partner's greatest triumph. This is also where Sasami first shows up as Pretty Sammy. The usual hijink and chaos ensues. Got get this one. Tenchi Muyo: Tenchi Universe (TV1) (Action/Adventure/Comedy) Set in a different continuation than the OVA's. This one is mostly a retelling of the OVA's with more characters and a rearranging of some events and character backgrounds. Personally, I preferred the charm of the OVA series much more, but the TV series is also pretty good. No Need for Discussions!: The carnival is over and Tenchi reminisces about the time he spent with Ryoko and Ayeka and the rest of the gang. As he is leaving to go to school, he thinks about how it all began- when he saw Ryo-Ohki falling to earth carrying Ryoko who claims to be in trouble and is being pursued by a most notorious space pirate and desperately needs Tenchi's help... No Need for a Princess!: With Ryoko and Mihoshi stuck on earth, Mihoshi activates her distress beacon hoping that someone might pick it up. A royal Jurain princess named Ayeka happens to be in the general area and picks up the signal. When she lands on earth in search of the source of the distress signal...hey wait a minute, how the heck does Ryoko, a space pirate and most wanted criminal in the universe and Ayeka, a royal princess of the house of Jurai, the most powerful kingdom in the universe know each other? No Need for Worries!: With Ayeka missing, it wouldn't be long until someone searches for her. That is what Sasami is doing on earth- searching for her big sister Ayeka. Now that Ayeka and Mihoshi have a way to get back to wherever they belong, a farewell party is thrown in their honor and during the party, Ryoko reveals that she has laid an egg with Tenchi as the father! Of course the egg hatches into Ryo-Ohki and as the Mihoshi and the princesses leave earth, Tenchi and Ryoko accompany them all the way to the earth's atmosphere and...hey, is that a carrot that you're carrying in your hands Sasami? No Need for Monsters!: OK, so we've got the Masaki shrine sealing a demon away (sound familiar?) and curiosity has gotten the better of Ryoko and she decides to "explore" the cave with Tenchi without telling anyone else. Of course, when Ayeka realizes that Tenchi is missing and Ryoko is nowhere to be found as well, she puts two and two together and comes up with three. She, Sasami, Mihoshi, and Ryo-Ohki go out searching for Tenchi and Ryoko who have snuck off somewhere for a "romantic" getaway from the gang. When Ayeka catches up to Ryoko, sparks begin to fly and...hey, is it really such a good idea to fight in a place where a fragile seal keeps a demon of untold destructive powers locked away? No Need for Partners!: Kiyone, Mihoshi's partner, is a brilliant Galaxy Police detective on her way to the top. Well, she was until she got Mihoshi for her partner. After that everything went downhill for her. Of course now that Mihoshi has gotten herself killed in the line of duty pursuing the most wanted criminal in the universe, things are going to get better for her again, right? It would if Mihoshi really did get killed. No Need for Resident Officers!: Poor Kiyone, if it weren't for Mihoshi, she would be at the top of the GP chain right now. Unfortunately for her (and fortunately for us), she is with Mihoshi stationed at a dumping ground (i.e. Earth). With their low salaries as GP resident officers, they also have to take part time jobs on Earth to be able to pay rent and put food on the table and rush off into space whenever an emergency arises! No Need for a Carnival!: It is the night of the festival and Tenchi is taking Sasami for some good old R&R. With Washu running a high-tech horror house, Ryoko running scams all over, Ayeka in a shooting gallery (complete with Ryoko doll for targets), Kiyone and Mihoshi running a food stand (with borrowed equipment from Washu), you can tell one thing for sure-it's not going to be just any old, boring festival! For the Ryoko-Ayeka rivalry fans, here is another chance to see kiddie Ryoko and Ayeka flashbacks. No Need for a Genius!: Washu, who has been imprisoned for several hundred years, decides that she is behind in her work and creates a mechanical version of herself. But just before she is able to copy her mind data on to the robot disaster strikes in the form of Mihoshi. Now with Washu's design and Mihoshi airheadedness, it's the ultimate walking disaster area and Washu has to destroy her own creation before it ends up destroying everything else! No Need for Memories!: One day, when the snow fell into the Masaki residence, it brings about painful memories to the Masaki's that they would rather forget. On the other hand, Sasami seems to be enjoying herself playing in the snow while Ryoko is miserable and can't stand the cold. While playing in the snow, Sasami discovers that Ryu-oh, Ayeka's tree has begun to regenerate itself again in the midst of the lake where her spaceship crashed. When Tenchi collapses, Sasami uses the sap from Ryu-oh to help him get better. During his fevered sleep, he remembers that it was during a day like today, when it was snowing, that his mother died. When he wakes up, he runs of to her grave site to find that his grandfather and his dad are already there visiting. No Need for an Arch Rival!: Nagi is probably the most dangerous bounty hunter in the entire universe. Whomever she targets, she always gets her man. In all the time that she has been a bounty hunter, no one has ever escaped her grasp-no one except for Ryoko. Now, she has managed to track Ryoko down and has kidnapped Tenchi. Her only demand for Tenchi's safe return-a duel with Ryoko. Unfortunately, her partner, a cabbit named Ken-Ohki, has befriended Ryo-Ohki and refuses to fight Ryo-Ohki. That means that their duel is going to be a really messy one on one hand to hand combat! Time and Space Adventures: Part I: Washu invents a machine that can pick from the countless possibilities of time and space, an ideal one for whoever uses it. Unfortunately, with Ryoko, Ayeka, Mihoshi, Kiyone, and Sasami messing with it and giving it their ideal world all at once, things have gotten out of control and the gang has been split in countless different dimensions with Washu at the core trying to piece everything together. For the first world, it’s feudal Japan with Ayeka as the princes, Tenchi the prince, Ryoko the bandit, and Mihoshi and Kiyone as the 2 competent constables. Time and Space Adventures: Part II: Time and Space Adventures: Part III: No Need for a Rebellion!: One peaceful day in the Masaki residence, a Juraian battleship suddenly appears and arrests Princess Ayeka for rebellion by order of the new Juraian Emperor and has detained Ryoko for piracy. It seems that while she is on vacation, a new emperor has been selected and he has declared Ayeka and Sasami as fugitives. Of course, none of the others are willing to let it be, so Tenchi and the gang goes off to rescue them and in the process, gets on the universe's most wanted list! No Need for an Escape!: Kiyone and Mihoshi are summoned to the Galaxy Police HQ after Tenchi and the gang's escape. There, Kiyone is questioned about Ayeka and Sasami. Feigning ignorance, she discovered the truth behind the recent events. The new Juraian emperor, it would seem, is a legendary Juraian prince named Yosho who came back to reclaim his throne. Of course Yosho can't be a fake because the Juraian power that he wields is proof enough of his heritage as a Juraian Prince. When Mihoshi blunders (again), Kiyone finds herself trying to evade every GP officer in HQ as she tries to escape! No Need for Hiding!: The gang, in order to avoid detection, hides out in a planet and takes up new identities in a bar. With grandfather Katsuhiko as the bartender, Ayeka and Noboyuki as the host and hostess, Tenchi the waiter, Sasami and Kiyone as the kitchen staff, Azaka and Kamidake as the bar mascot, and the rest of the girls as drinking buddies, they scam their way to getting enough cash to fuel Yagami to get to Planet Jurai. Of course, they eventually get revealed when Mihoshi's clumsiness accidentally blows up their bar and they are chased by the galaxy police as the terrorists who blew up a local bar! No Need for Hunger!: When the Yagami’s engine blows up and the food supply runs out, the gang decides to send the person who has been eating all the food behind everyone else’s back. Of course, you can’t really expect Ryoko to behave when she’s by herself now do you? Instead of just buying food and returning to Yagami, Ryoko decides to eat at almost every single high class restaurant, get drunk, gamble and just relax by a pool resort. By the time Ryo-ohki manages to convince Ryoko to buy food and return to the Yagami, all the money is gone. To alleviate this situation, Ryoko decides to rob the Bank of Jurai… No Need for a Ghost!: In the Sea of Sargasso, the Yagami suddenly losses power even though there is no cause for it. At the same time, mysterious things begin to happen inside the ship and ghostly girl comes through Sasami’s window and befriends her. “Would you like to play with me?” it asks her and takes Sasami away into the old abandoned pleasure cruise ship. Meanwhile, the gang is searching for Sasami and enters the ghostly ship and Sasami takes this chance for her, Ryo-Ohki and the ghost girl to play pranks on them. After that, they go off into a world that was created using Sasami’s memories. They all have as much fun as they can have, but all good things comes to an end and the time finally comes for Sasami to return to the Yagami, leaving only fond memories for the ghost girl to keep. No Need for Runaways!: While eating at a beef bowl place, The Yagami is stolen by two would be hoodlums. When the Yagami is spotted, every available Galaxy Police vessel begins chasing them down. With the Galaxy Police chasing the Yagami and the rest of the Tenchi gang behind the Galaxy Police, it would take a miracle to get them out of this...that or a super genius! No Need for Swimsuits!: The crew have secretly docked in a beach planet and are working secretly to pay the docking fee and parts that Washu needs to repair the Yagami. Ayeka, Ryoko, Sasami, and Tenchi are wandering the beaches selling ice cream, Noboyuki and Grandpa are at a stand selling flavored ice and drinks, and Mihoshi and Kiyone are working as life guards. Suddenly, an announcement is made for a swimsuit competition with the winner receiving 100 million Jurai. All the girls enter in hopes of winning the prize. Of course they didn’t expect Nagi to be competing there as well. When things didn’t go as planned, Ryoko gets mad and decides to steal the prize money instead! No Need for Knights!: When the gang is cornered by a Juraian battleship, they head off to a forbidden area under Grandfather Katsuhiko's suggestion. Here, they discover the place where two knights loyal to the one true Juraian Emperor lie and that the key to their awakening lies with Azaka and Kamidake and the Juraian Emperor's powers. Here, the gang is shocked to discover that grandfather Katsuhiko is actually Yosho, the man who is supposed to be sitting in the Juraian throne! No Need for Karma!: Resting in the old Jurai villa, Tenchi, Ayeka, and Ryoko try to come to terms with the revelation that grandfather Katsuhiko is actually a long lost legendary Juraian prince. As everyone else decides on what their next move is going to be, the impostor is revealed to be Kagato, an old friend of Yosho's who succumbed to the darker side of the Jurai power and Yosho all alone, is confronted by Kagato. Kagato, having gotten stronger during his banishment, easily defeats and nearly kills Yosho, kidnaps Ayeka and tells the rest to come to his palace...if they can! No Need for Ryoko!: Ryoko, still gravely injured from her battle with Kagato, tries to come to terms that Tenchi may be lost forever to her after he has found out that he is actually a Juraian prince. With Nagi aiding them in their quest to get to the Juraian Throne World and the entire Juraian military hunting them down, Ryoko decides to give Tenchi what she believes is best for him and aid him in rescuing Ayeka so that they can live happily ever after. Risking her life for him, Ryoko manages to take Tenchi and the knights Azaka and Kamidake to the Juraian palace. The episode ends with Ryoko dying as Ryo-ohki takes her away. No Need for a Showdown!: With Azaka and Kamidake accompanying Tenchi towards his confrontation with Kagato, they sacrifice themselves one by one as they stay behind to face the powerful knights protecting Kagato and trying to prevent Tenchi from reaching the throne room. With the evil knights overpowering both Azaka and Kamidake, it would seem as if they had slept for way too long, but in the end, the win by a narrow margin. In the throne room, Kagato and Tenchi face off with the fate of Ayeka and the entire Juraian empire at stake. Tenchi, losing badly, almost gives up hope and the sight of Tenchi nearing death, causes Ayeka to tap into her Juraian powers to confront Kagato. It proves to be a futile effort on her part however, but just seeing her in danger causes Tenchi to finally tap into the true powers of his heritage-the power of Jurai and that of Earth and uses that to finally defeat Kagato once and for all! No Need for a Conclusion!: Kagato is dead and order has been restored throughout the universe once again. Ayeka has once again been restored as the crown princess of Jurai. The Jurain guardians Azaka and Kamidake now live their lives protecting the royal sisters. The log guardians, with the help of Washu has, have successfully been brought back to life. Kiyone and Mihoshi have both been promoted to the rank of Detective Sergeant and now each leads her own division. Washu has been elected as honorary president of the Science Academy and a month later, she was discovered to be trying to invent a weapon that would destroy the universe and was consequently thrown out of the Science Academy. Nagi is still out there chasing Ryoko's shadow. Yosho and Nobuyuki are still living happily. Tenchi went back to school and the time he spent in space has been regarded as excused absence. Ryoko, no one really knows what happened to her... Tenchi Muyo in Tokyo (TV2 also known as New Tenchi Muyo or Shin Tenchi Muyo) Tenchi, about to attend a new high school prepares to leave home and go to Tokyo where he will also be trained to take over the shrine from his grandfather. While there, a new girl named Sakuya finds an interest in him. Elsewhere, an ancient princess awakens from her the long slumber forced upon her. Free of her seal, it is time for the world to once again know her wrath. Between this, school, shrine training and keeping Sakuya from being sent to the hospital by the bevy of beauties Tenchi has hidden at home, things may be a little too much for him to handle this time around. I never really did like this series. By far the worst one in my opinion. I mean, for god's sake, they turned it into an animated sentai series with Ryoko, Ayeka, Kiyone, and Mihoshi destroying the monster of the episode. Some people do like it (mostly people who have never seen the OVA's or the first TV series). It is a TV series that is set in a completely different reality than the other TV series or the OVA's. Separation Anxiety: Four's A Crowd: Long Distance Lunacy: The Eternal Pledge: Money! Money! Money!: Play Date: The Day We Met: Tenchi Anniversary: The Guardians of Old: Ryoko's Big Date: Moon Mission: Stupid Cupid: The Eye of the Destroyer: Tokyo or Bust: Love Match: Carnival!: Drifting Away: Game Over: The Lonely Princess: Old Friends: Real Friends?: Sakuya's Secret: Here, There, and Everywhere: Yugi's Shadow: The End of Time: Payback: Tenchi Muyo the Movie: Tenchi in Love! The merciless criminal Kain has escaped from sub-space where he has been captured! Kain, who was deprived of his freedom by the Jurai royal family and the GP (Galaxy Police), demolishes GP headquarters and attacked the Jurai King…. His next target is…Earth! Around the same time, on Earth, Tenchi’s house suddenly disappeared. What’s even worse is that Tenchi’s body is disappearing too…! Something must have happened to Achika, Tenchi’s mother, in the past! So the gang must leave for a journey to the year 1970. (Action/Comedy/Drama/Science-Fiction) This is the Tenchi movie that I liked most of all amongst the 3 that were made. This movie is based on the story lines of the first TV series (Tenchi Universe here - see above). The basic plot is kinda like Back to the Future, but with Tenchi's mom getting herself murdered by a creature who has hated the Jurai blood line for over a hundred years. Oh, and did I mention that Megumi Hayashibara does the voice of Achika (Tenchi's mom)? A definitive must have DVD, especially since it's only 15 bucks! Go get this one now kiddies! Go, run to the store nearest you that sells anime DVD's! Tenchi Muyo the Movie 2: Daughter of Darkness (also known as Natsu no Christmas Eve or Midsummer's Christmas Eve) On a hot summer day, a fetching young girl named Mayuka appears to Tenchi calling him Daddy! Jealousy and envy follow as Ryoko and Ayeka battle for Tenchi’s attention with an apparently new rival. Who could the mother be?! Hiding in the background, Yuzuha, the Demoness of Darkness, is about to get her revenge against Yosho for a grudge held for over 700 years! She begins her plan by using Mayuka to steal Tenchi away to the Dimension of Darkness. So it begins again, Tenchi must fight to save his friends and Mayuka, daughter or not! (Action/Comedy/Drama/Science-Fiction) This one is supposed be loosely based on the OVA series. I say loosely based because there are a lot of glaring inconsistencies. For example, Although it is true that Kiyone was introduced in the Mihoshi Special, she never really appeared at all except in flashbacks so how the hell did she just magically appear in here without so much as an explanation? Also, Ayeka doesn't know that Grandpa is her brother (maybe it's just the dubbed version). Another thing is that the powers of the Light Hawk Sword come from Tenchi, so how can being in the world of darkness and away from Jurai trees prevent Tenchi from using it? My least favorite of the three although I do like Mayuka's character. This too is still only 15 bucks so if you are going to buy it, buy it more for the impressive Tenchi dictionary that the DVD comes with! Tenchi Muyo the Movie 3: Tenchi Forever (also know as Tenchi in Love 2) Tenchi walks into the mountains and disappears. After searching all over Japan for Tenchi, Ayeka and Ryoko finally locate him in Tokyo where he is now several years older. Tenchi appears to be in a parallel world with a mysterious girl named Haruna, and doesn’t remember Ayeka and Ryoko! What is the mysterious connection between Haruna and Tenchi’s grandfather, Yosho? It’s up to Ayeka and Ryoko to discover what Haruna wants with Tenchi and to rescue him before he disappears forever! (Drama/Romance/Science-Fiction) My second favorite Tenchi movie of the three. Some people absolutely hated this because if you are an avid Tenchi watcher, it is hard to get used to the animation style used here (had a friend who refused to watch this just because of the way it looked) and that it doesn't have much action or comedy on it. What it does have is drama-lots of it. That and Ayeka and Ryoko actually working together looking all over Japan for Tenchi. It also resolves which one Tenchi like most of all. It has an excellent, excellent story. If you enjoy Tenchi just for the action and comedy and nothing else, just rent this one, don't buy it. Either way, it is a definite must buy for me. Trigun A gunslinger so dangerous, a $$60,000,000,000 reward has been placed on his head! Vash, also known as the Humanoid Typhoon, has been credited with the destruction of several towns, but miraculously, there is no record of him ever taking a life. However, only two things ever happen to those who catch up to Vash- they either crawl away wounded (mostly from self-inflicted damage), or they stagger away in disbelief that such a dork could possibly be the man they are looking for! (Action/Drama/Comedy) Trigun is pretty kewl. I loved it instantly! A must watch. Good thing fer you guys is that it's on Adult Swim so you don't even have to go out and spend money on it. The dubbing is pretty durn good (done by Pioneer, er, Geneon, so what do you expect?). Every single person I've ever talked to who's seen this series absolutely adores it. I've yet to see it, but with such unbridled support for this series, it doesn't look like you can go wrong by adding it to your collection. The $60,000,000,000 Man: Vash the Stampede is the most dangerous gunslinger in the planet of Gunsmoke, and Meryl Strife and Milly Thompson of the Bernardelli Insurance Company have been sent out to mitigate the damage that he causes wherever he goes. In order to do that, they have to find him first. Rumor has it that he is a big tall, blonde man with a mohawk, a womanizer with an army of bad guys under his command and if you make him mad, he will begin destroying entire towns on a whim. Meryl and Milly begin their search for the legendary gunman. Now if only that blonde moron in the red trench coat and big shiny silver gun would stop screwing around and get out of their way! Truth of Mistake: Rumor has it that the richest man in town who owns the water rights (Planet Gunsmoke being a dessert planet) has hired Vash the Stampede as the body guard for his special guest. Meryl and Milly investigate only to find the same donut snorting idiot from the last time "pretending" to be Vash the Stampede. When they hear that he was hired to keep a blonde man in red with an extremely accurate aim (could it be the REAL Vash the Stampede?), they decide to stick around and hire themselves as body guards as well. Peace Maker: Vash looks for a man named Marlowe in a city without any crime at all. Reputed to be a legendary gunsmith, Vash only finds out that he has become a hopeless drunk after the murder of his wife and child with the murderer using a gun that he made and gave to him. Now Vash has to restore Marlowe's faith in humanity and the common good and get him to stop drinking his life away. Love and Peace: ~in the works~ Hard Puncher: Vash the Stampede comes across a dying town and its inhabitants decide they could really use the 60,000,000,000 Double Dollar reward on Vash's head! With the entire town gunning after him, Vash decides to run away! With the casualties mounting (due to self infliction), the mayor realizes that they can't capture him by themselves and decides to ask for some help from some rather unsavory characters. Now Vash has to save the town and its citizens from the backup! Lost July: The Town has been saved and Vash donates the reward for the capture of the Nebraska Family. Finally, the townspeople have enough money to hire engineers to fix the broken plant and revitalize the town’s economy and save it from becoming a ghost town. B. D. N.: Vash takes the train headed for the city of May. Without much action going on in the train, you would think that it's going to be a peaceful ride right? Wrong! Just then the Bad Lads Gang lead by Brilliant Dynamites Neon attacks the train and without Vash helping them all of the train's defenses are easily overcome. Vash wakes up just in time to attempt a rescue of all the passengers from BDN and his gang! And Between the Wasteland and the Sky: With the passengers held hostage by the Bad Lads gang, Vash has to make his way through them to reach BDN, their leader. Going through the countless Bad Lads members, Vash gets himself shot in the process before he could reach BDN and challenge him to a duel. With the fame that can be his if he manages to beat the legendary gunman, BDN accepts. If he losses, BDN will stop the train and let everyone go. Now it would be easier if Vash doesn't have to worry about BDN trying to crash the train by driving it into a gorge so that he could break the central safe. Then again, this is Vash the Stampede were talking about so everything will end up just fine, right? Murder Machine: We meet Nicholas D. Wolfwood (one kick ass character in here although I've been told that he is completely different in the mangas). On the way to May, the bus is attacked by ancient machines-lost technology designed to eliminate intruders. The robots mindlessly patrol the area that they accidentally wandered into even though there is nothing to patrol there anymore. When they realized that they left a little girl behind, Vash, along with Wolfwood, jumps in for the rescue. Quick Draw: In order to help out a single mother struggling to keep her business open, Wolfwood enlists Vash’s help in getting the money by entering him in a quick draw competition. To get back at him, Vash in turn enters Wolfwood in the contest as well. They both do so well that the man who oversees the competition forcibly enlists Wolfwood’s aid in getting the sixty billion double dollar reward on Vash’s head. With Wolfwood as his opponent, Vash is going to have a hard time getting out of this situation. Escape From the Pain: Vash has taken a contract to kill. Millie and Wolfwood befriends a pair of runaway lovers who just happens to be Vash’s target. Will Millie, Meryl and Wolfwood be enough to stop Vash from carrying out his assignment? Diablo: Vash gets a visit from a man who calls himself Legato Bluesummers and tells him that he has come for his life. When the head of a murdered man that Vash recently visited is found near Vash, he is immediately arrested for murder. Sitting in jail, Vash is visited by Meryl and Milly when a heavily armed man comes to town looking for Vash. The man, Monev deGale, has been given orders to terminate Vash with his freedom as the reward and will do anything to kill him. When Vash just keeps running away, he begins destroying pieces of the town itself and an enraged Vash must put a stop to his rampage. Vash the Stampede: Meryl and Milly type up their report on all incidents including Vash the Stampede that they have witnessed. Included in the report are incidents from Dankin town, to the train incident with Brilliant Dynamites Neon, to Monev deGale. As she is typing up the report, Meryl just can’t help but wonder why so much trouble keeps falling into Vash’s lap. Why is it that trouble keeps on looking for him, even though he doesn’t seem to be the bloodthirsty killer that he is believed to be nor does he seem to be the kind of man who would level an entire city? Little Arcadia: An oasis in the midst of a desert planet is a rarity in itself. One could almost say that it is a paradise within a hellish land of sand. Greedy people naturally covet it and when a couple who has spent years cultivating the land into the desert paradise it now is, Meryl and Milly gets involved (to keep Vash from getting involved and causing another incident). What's worse is that one of the bad people turned out to be the couple's own son. In a struggle of moral proportions, the son finally sides with his parents and takes the deed of the land to the bank to have it notarized. There, he finds out that his parents have named him as the owner of the land and have entrusted the future to him. Demon's Eye: ~in the works~ Fifth Moon: After leaving Meryl and Milly behind, Vash is trying to find Legato and put a stop to his murderous rampage. He then receives a challenge and demand from Legato-be at Augusta, one of the seven great cities, or everyone else will die! While in there, he is faced with two members of the Gung-Ho Guns. Not only that, but Legato and Hornfreak are watching their battle from the outskirts of the city. At the last moment, Legato decides to step in by activating Vash's angel arms- the fearsome ability that wiped out July years ago. In an instance, Augusta is reduced to rubbles and the power of the angel arms creates a whole in the surface of the fifth moon! Rem Saverem: Years ago, there was a colonial ship that came from Earth. There, two young ordinary seeming boys lived and worked with the crew of the ship as they search the universe for a habitable world to unload their cargo of people in suspended animation. They are Vash and Knives. With a woman named Rem Saverem taking care of them, their days seem happy enough, but they know that there is something wrong. Some of the crew treat them differently than Rem and Knives begin to draw his own conclusion about himself, Vash, and the rest of the crew. When one incident between two of the crewmembers happens, things begins to go wrong. Rem leaves Vash and Knives in an escape pod as she tries to salvage as much of the ship and their cargo of humans as possible. As the ship blows up around them, Vash learns that it was Knives that caused all of it. Goodbye For Now: It has been a while since Augusta has been destroyed (2 years according to the manga) and Vash is now living peacefully in a small town where no one knows him. Of course the town also happens to be under the control of a fearsome bandit-a man with a large hand cannon and a blonde mohawk, a man they call Vash the Stampede. I guess it is a good thing that Wolfwood has just arrived in town looking for Vash. When Lina, the 12 year old girl he is living with is kidnapped by "Vash the Stampede," it's up to the real Vash and Wolfwood to rescue her. Hang Fire: In a town where there have been a feud between two powerful rival families going on for years now, Vash, visiting a friend gets involved when the station he works for, owned by one of the family is hijacked by the rival family. Vash must now attempt to subdue all the hijackers without harming them or allowing them to harm the hostages. Things aren't always as simple though, when one of the hijackers refuses to stop or allow Vash to interfere with mission to avenge his innocent daughter caught in the feud just because of her family name. Flying Ship: With the help of the typhoon, Vash returns to a home of sorts. The last flying ship powered by Plants and hidden from the rest of the world by clouds of dust and sand. There, Vash returns to the place he has called home for the past few decades. The people there are filled with suspicions about Wolfwood who has decided to tag along. Refusing all contact with the outside world, they have closed themselves off - not only their homes, but their hearts as well. When the ship is attacked, their doubt is seemingly justified. Unfortunately, it is far worse than that. They are being attacked by not just one, but three members of the Gung-Ho Guns! Out of Time: ~in the works~ Alternative: Vash, Wolfwood, Meryl, and Milly are traveling the world again and this time they end up in an orphanage with nothing but…orphans. When something strange occurs in the nearby town, the townspeople decide to go after them and the orphans. Paradise: As the rift between Wolfwood and Vash continues to widen, Wolfwood's mentor, one of the Gung-Ho Guns named Chapel, contacts him and orders him to take out Vash in the name of Knives. Bearing the difficult decision of betraying his mentor or betraying his friend, Wolfwood agonizes over it and with Milly's help, finds his answer. As Wolfwood warns Vash and takes on his mentor, Vash is ambushed and takes on another of the Gung-Ho guns-a sniper called Caine the Longshot. Sin: After the death of Wolfwood, Vash leaves behind both Meryl and Milly and heads of for parts unknown. Unfortunately for him, he doesn't get a chance to mourn the loss of his friend before the last two of the Gung-Ho Guns attack him one after another. Midvalley the Hornfreak attacks him first and starts using the citizens of the town as hostage/target practice with the help of Legato. When Vash finally manages to defeat Midvalley, he still has Legato Bluesummers to deal with. During their confrontation, Legato forces him to make a terrible decision-kill him to save everyone and break his vow or choose his vow over the lives everyone else. Live Through: Meryl and Milly try to help Vash deal with his own self doubts and the sin that he had committed. They work in a small town all the while helping Vash recover both physically and mentally. The three of them spend peaceful days in a sleepy town as Milly works enough for all three of them, Vash retreats even deeper into himself and Meryl tries even harder to pull Vash out of his shell. It remains that way until someone identifies Vash as the Humanoid Typhoon who destroyed two of the great cities of Planet Gunsmoke and causes everyone else in town to form a mob trying to lynch Vash. Meryl defiantly stands against the mob and her action finally gives Vash the answer and the courage to live on. Under the Sky so Blue: Vash finally leaves Meryl and Milly to face his brother, Knives, and put an end to all things - the entirety of their lives from the very beginning of men living on the Planet Gunsmoke to their present day. The final showdown comes in the form of Vash and Knives in a gunfight unlike any other. Carrying Wolfwood's cross into the battle, Vash fights with a clarity and willingness he never had before. True Love Story (Romantic Drama) This is based on a PS2 dating sim game. The story itself is average. The character designs are, well, nothing spectacular. An ok show for watching just once or so though. Story 1: Yuuta is an average high school student living out his high school days with his buddy, Momochi, from the photo club. Hina is a girl in the tennis club who has a slight crush on him although he doesn't seem to realize it though. When Hina injures herself one day, she couldn't practice and goes home early. When she and a teacher runs into Yuuta on the way out of school, the teacher asks him to walk her home. On the way there, by the sea, she asks him if he will go with her to the sea festival to which he turns her down saying that he has something very important to do on that day. The next day, Ruri, Yuuta's sister drags him away to meet someone. That someone turned out to be Yako, a childhood friend of theirs. They didn't realize that she and they are in the same school. Hina sees them and runs away thinking that he already has someone important so that she doesn't have any chance at all. Story 2: Ruri drags Yuuta to go shopping with her and Yako for swimsuits. After shopping, she decides for him that they will all go together at the public pool. Why else would they buy swimsuits if not to go swimming in them. In a cafe, when Ruri leaves the two of them alone, Yako makes a comment on how everyone seems to be going crazy about the sea festival. Yuuta tells her that he's probably the only one who is not since he has something important to do that day. When Yako doubts him, he gets mad and leaves them. At the pool, Yuuta is surprised to find that Arimori, one of the school's idols is going with them. After the pool, they run into Hina who runs away when she sees them thinking that he is on a date. At school the next day, Yuuta runs into the weird girl from the bikini shop again while killing time until he meets up with Yako. Meeting Yako, they go to a scenic spot where Yako seems to be trying to tell him something, but can't. Elsewhere, Hina promises herself and her crocodile doll that she will go to the festival with Yuuta no matter what. Story 2: Hina spends an entire afternoon trying to find Yuuta so that she can have lunch with him. At the same time, Yuuta looses his lunch and is wandering around hungry. Just when the two of them are about to meet, Ruri and Arimori comes along with some food and shares it with him. Waiting for him at the gate after school, she still manages to walk home with him. Seeing a balloon stuck to the tree, Yuuta climbs it and falls off. He laughs it off saying that he isn't as good at it anymore to which Hina replies that he was really good when he was a kid. In the end, she isn't able to ask him again and on the day of the festival, Hina goes with Yoko, her best friend as Yuuta and Ruri goes to visit their mother's grave. On the way there, he finally realizes what Hina means and realizes that she is the girl he used to play with when he was little. After getting home, he finds a handmade postcard from Hina inviting him to the festival with her and he rushes off to the beach to find her. He manages to find her and that is where he tells her that he remembers now. Hina then confesses her feelings for him and he accepts them in return. Tsukuyomi (Action/Comedy) Onii-sama, Be my Servant: Kou is an occult magazine photographer. He is on and assignment with Hiromi, his editor and an Onmyou mystic named Midou Seiji to take pictures of a German castle called Schwarze Quelle (Black Lake) that is supposed to be haunted by the ghost of countless souls who died there during the black plague. Interested in capturing a picture of the little girl he saw through his camera lens, he goes there with his co-workers and enters the castle ground looking for her. When he finds her, she introduces herself as Hazuki and she has been waiting for him. Promising to let him take pictures of her, she demands to first give him a "gift." Attempting to kiss him, she is stooped by Vigo, someone who seemed to be a servant at first, but turns out to be something more. Seiji's interference from outside the castle is the only thing that spares Kou's life as Hazuki quickly seizes the chance and gives him a vampiric kiss. Call Me Master: As Seiji fights Vigo, Hazuki is surprised to find out that her vampiric kiss did not turn Kouhei into a servant and he refuses to break the crystal that imprisons her in the castle. As they are arguing why Kou should break the crystal, Vigo notices them and has revealed that he is also part of the castle and started using the castle to attack Kou for trying to run off with Hazuki, whom he calls Luna. This allows Hazuki to blackmail Kou into helping her. As long as she is by his side, Vigo can't attack him and if he doesn't break the crystal, she'll leave Kou to fend for himself. Left with no choice, Kou goes with Hazuki to break the crystal as Vigo chases them around while Seiji fights Vigo outside the castle wall as well. When Kou reached the crystal, a dragon appears to protect it. When Kou manages to hit the crystal with a rock, the Vigo that Seiji is fighting flickered for a moment and Seiji realizes that it is not the real Vigo that he is fighting and redirects his effort towards the source of power, giving Kou a chance to break the crystal. Afterwards, Hazuki disappears and Kou returns home with everyone else. Much to his dismay, he finds that Hazuki is waiting for him in his house with his grandpa when he gets there. Big Brother, Let's Live Together, Okay?: Hazuki, living with Kouhei and his grandpa got into an argument when she was asked what she wanted to do now that she has been freed from the castle. When she said that she wanted to find her mother that promised to take her back two years ago, Kou got mad and said that she had been abandoned and Hazuki stormed out. When dawn began to arrive, Kou started feeling guilty and went out to look for her. When they met again, Kou promised to help Hazuki find her mother and the two of them went on a road trip with Hazuki stuffed into the cramped trunk of the car to keep her from bursting into flames. When they finally reached the place where Hazuki used to live, they found it abandoned. About to loose hope, Hazuki noticed a cat and followed it to the lake. There Hazuki's mother's spirit appeared before them and Hazuki and her mother finally are able to have a reunion. Afterwards, Hazuki’s mother entrusted her daughter to Kou and the two of them drive off as an ominous figure watches Hazuki from a distance. Big Brother, I Feel Like a Kiss: Hazuki, now living with Kou and his grandpa, also works at night minding the family store and doing chores around the house. She has proven to be quite popular with the customers, particularly the guys. With the custom made uniform Kou's grandpa made and the cat ears that she always wear, is it a small wonder that she is so popular? During the day, she sleeps under the house in an enclosed compartment. All this time, the strange woman that has been sent to retrieve her and take her back to Quelle Schwarze has been watching her and Kou's activities and waiting for the full moon. When the full moon came, Hazuki began feeling the urge for blood and tried to get it from Kou. When Kou wouldn't let her suck his blood like a good servant should, she storms off looking for a fresh victim. Kou lets her go off on her own until he realized what she was about to do and gets himself into a fight with a couple of guys that Hazuki was intending to be her new servants. After beating them up for kicking Kou's butt, Hazuki is confronted by the strange woman who has been secretly stalking her. Big Brother, Full-Full-Full Moon: Elfriede, caretaker of Quelle Schwarze castle, has finally revealed herself and requests that Hazuki, whom she calls Mistress Luna, to return to the castle. When Hazuki refused, Elfriede decides to use force to return her to the castle and transforms her mouse familiar into a monster and attacks Hazuki. When the monster gets knocked into the unconscious Kou, it just disappears in a burst of light and Elfriede stops her attack. When Kou wakes up, he is immediately entranced by Elfriede and asks her to be his model which makes Hazuki mad and the two immediately start arguing, which led Elfriede to believe that Kou is not a servant, but a vampiric lover. Elfriede then retreats, telling Hazuki that she will return in a couple of days. Later on, while attending the store, Elfriede shows up at the store to agree to Kou's offer which makes Hazuki even madder and she begins throwing a tantrum, breaking most of the stuff in the store. Elfriede then leaves once again with her suspicion confirmed that Kou is no mere servant. He is a vampiric lover, an Ama Lamia, and the key to her own freedom... With Big Brother in Kyoto...Heh, Exciting, Exciting!: Kouhei, his grandpa, Hazuki, Hiromi and Seiji are headed for the Midou main house in Kyoto. There, Hazuki meets Hikaru Midou, Seiji's arranged fiancé and her younger sister, Kaoru, Kou's arranged fiancé. The two of them are trained to be spiritualists and sparks fly instantly upon meeting Hazuki because she's an "evil demon" as well as someone trying to take Kou away from Kaoru. While Kou's grandpa and Seiji asks the head of the Midou house for some help in saving Haiji, the cat Hazuki received from her mother as it is the only link to Kou's mother's whereabouts, Kou and Hazuki are out buying souvenirs after getting paid for a job with Hiromi. While shopping, they run across Elfriede again and she manages to slip Kou a piece of paper before being chased away by Hazuki. When Kou tried to meet her, Hazuki is waiting for him and he had to run away from her while in the shadows, Hikaru and Kaoru, suspicious of Hazuki, follows them. When Kou meets Elfriede, she sucks his blood believing that it can set her free. When Hazuki manages to find him, Hikaru and Kaoru are right behind her and thinks that she has harmed him and begins to attack. The battle takes a long and Hazuki and Elfriede doesn't notice the sun rising. Fortunately, Haiji, newly replenished, arrives to save her with the help of Kou, Seiji, and Kou's grandpa. In the end, they explain everything to the sisters as they leave for Tokyo with Elfriede in the shadows commenting how she envies Mistress Luna and how free she is unlike her. But I Wanted It!: After having returned to Tokyo from Kyoto, everything is setting back to normal. Kouhei is secretly having Hiromi look for Hazuki's mom and at the same time, Hazuki is complaining of neck pains because she is used to sleeping in a bed instead of a futon. Not being able to use the evil eye on Kouhei and his grandpa, Hazuki instead uses it on Hiromi when she comes by to drop some more clothes for her. Later on, Hazuki has another encounter with Elfriede. After requesting that she return to the castle once more, Elfriede bares her soul to Hazuki and tells her how jealous she is of her. Being a Lude, a vampire made, instead of being born as one, she isn't allowed to have that same freedom, nor does she have any friends. Afterwards, Kouhei gets home to find that Hazuki has used the evil eye on Hiromi and they get into an argument about Hazuki using her powers on people to get what she wants instead of just asking for it. As Hazuki tries her hand at getting something from Hiromi by just asking, Kouhei gets another job to pay Hiromi for the bed. When Hiromi finds Hazuki, she is sulking, believing that she can't get anything from anyone without using her powers. Hiromi picks her up and shows her where Kouhei is working in order to pay for the bed, even though she has told him that she doesn't want any payment for it. Mother Came For Me! I'm so Happy!: Count Kinkel has personally come to retrieve Hazuki by using the exhibition of his collection as a cover. Meanwhile, Hazuki and Kou are on the rooftop looking through Kou's telescopic camera lens when Kou recognized Hazuki's mother. Hazuki and Haiji immediately run towards her, leaving Kou behind. When Kou and his grandpa, Ryuhei finally get there, Hazuki is gone and Haiji is passed out on the road. Suddenly, Hazuki's mother appears before them and informs them that it was merely an illusion to trap Hazuki because her real flesh had been destroyed long ago and that the one who kidnapped Hazuki, Count Kinkel, may know something about Haiji. Reaching the building and unable to get a hold of Seiji, Ryuhei and Kou storms through the building and splits up to find Hazuki. While Ryuhei is confronted by Elfriede, Kou is attacked by Vigo who has been partially revived by the count. As Kou runs away from Vigo, he runs into Ryuhei and Elfriede. Elfriede seemingly attacks Kou, but instead kills Vigo a second time. She then sucks Kou's blood and explains that the first time that she has sucked Kou's blood, it set her free from her master's spell. This time, it just might give her the strength to kill him and free herself permanently. Big Brother, Free me from my Dream: Elfriede and Ryuhei confronts Count Kinkel as decoys while Kou runs to where Hazuki is to rescue her. Reaching the room where she is, a barrier of vines suddenly appear to keep anyone from waking her. As Kou struggles to set her free, Hazuki dreams of her mother. Her mother keeps on telling her that her true name is Luna and that Hazuki should fade away once she gazes at the full moon. When the time for Hazuki to awaken arrived, Count Kinkel immediately overpowers Elfriede and Ryuhei and rushes to where Hazuki is who is now under a spell as Luna. Under Count Kinkel's command, Hazuki as Luna, attacks Kou and sucks his blood which sets her free. This causes confusion in the count's part which allows Seiji, who has just arrived, to combine his power with Ryuhei and drive Count Kinkel away, but not before he takes Elfriede away with him. As Kou is rushed to the hospital due to life threatening wounds that has been inflicted on him, Count Kinkel realizes that he is a vampire's lover, a being that could upset the vampiric hierarchy and vows to kill him the next time their paths cross. Ill Never Forgive You...Especially Since You're My First Servant!: Kou is in the hospital being operated on by the doctors in an effort to save his life. Outside, Seiji places the blame on Hazuki for what has happened even though Ryuhei keeps on telling him that Count Kinkel is to blame. Back in the house, Hazuki reminisces about her time with Kou and blames herself for what has happened, while the presence of Luna continue to haunt her. Arriving at the hospital to see how Kou is doing, she meets Hikaru and Kaoru who has come from Kyoto to see how Kou is doing. Visiting Kou after his operation, Hazuki notices a shadow of death surrounding Kou. Seiji, Ryuhei, Hikaru, and Kaoru decides to perform a lengthy ritual to try and drive the shadow of death away. Seiji, however, refuses to let Hazuki in, whom, he blames for everything. While the ritual is performed, Hazuki is outside being tormented by the presence of Luna when her mother's voice manifests itself and comforts her while telling her of a way to save Kou. Arriving just as the ritual is about to fail, Hazuki kisses Kou and gives him some of her life force in the process. At the same time, Count Kinkel is torturing Elfriede for her disobedience and plots to bring Kou to where he and Hazuki found Haiji and kill him there. Big Brother, You Have to Rest!: When Kaoru messes with the train with her shinigami, Kaoru and Hikaru stays over at Kouhei's place where sparks begin to fly between them and Hazuki. When the two of them decide to visit their grandpa who is staying in the hospital for a while, Hazuki decides to guide them there so that Kouhei can rest. She goes out in a cat costume and nearly fries herself in the heat since there is no holes in the suit to keep the sunlight out. Reaching the hospital, they find that grandpa is in a serious condition that just suddenly deteriorated. When they can't reach Seiji through his cell, Hazuki decides to find him. When Hazuki finally brings Seiji back to the hospital, they both learn that grandpa was just playing a trick so that a certain beautiful nurse would come and take care of him. With all their misadventures that day, Hikaru, Kaoru and Hazuki slowly begins to get along better as the two of them returns home. He is the Only One I Won't Forgive!: Count Kinkel attacks just as the least expect it. Sending Kouhei's editor as a messenger, he invites them to the house where Hazuki met up with her mom. There, they also discover that Hitomi has fallen into his hands. giving them illusions, he forces Kouhei, Hazuki and Seiji to fight each other until they almost kill each other off. When he finally reveals himself, Hazuki, really mad at him, sucks Kouhei's blood to give her a boost of power and easily blasts him away, forcing him to retreat. As the sun rises, they see grandpa tied up in the backyard and Kouhei runs to set him free while Seiji watches over Hazuki. In the house, they find Elfriede tied up. When they released her, she tells them to watch out. The count is a daywalker! Just as Elfriede warns them, the count attacks Kouhei in the broad daylight. Oniisama, Let's all Defeat the Count: Everyone soon realizes that because Count Kinkel can manipulate light, he can make so that sunlight just passes through him. When Hazuki threatens to walk out into the sunlight, Kinkel decides to give them two hours to decide on his offer. If Hazuki and Kouhei comes with him, he won't kill the others. As the time passes, Elfriede, Seiji and grandpa comes up with a strategy to beat him. All they have to do is wound him a little and that will be enough to make him susceptible to sunlight. They manage to hold him down, but he escapes back into the house. With the others injured, Kouhei and Hazuki are the only ones left to chase Kinkel in the house. After catching up to him, they find out that he has been faking his injuries as well and walks out into the sunlight again to keep Hazuki from attacking him. Unfortunately, Hazuki runs out into the daylight and wounds him. Elfriede shows up and summons her creatures to keep him in place and make sure that he burns up in the sunlight as she bids farewell to him, her father I Want to Walk...with Oniisama Twelve Kingdoms See 12 Kingdoms Twin Angels ( Action/Hentai/Horror) 1: 19 year-old Mai and Ai Amatsu are the last in a long line of legendary warrior-guardians. Using ancient, mystical techniques, the twin sisters are charged with keeping the laviscious forces of evil at bay! The matriarch of the Amatsu clan has instructed Mai and Ai to guard Onimaro, a 21-year-old half-demon, at all costs. But Onimaro has become infatuated with the twin warriors and follows them everywhere! The sisters soon discover that Onimaro’s demonic side has reached a crucial juncture in his development. If Onimaro selects the path of darkness, he will become the next Demon Lord-a being of unparalleled power and evil. Realizing this, the forces of evil have dispatched demons to retrieve him, and to obtain fresh victims from the mortal world…. 2: Mai and Ai embark on a trip to Tenjin Shrine-followed by pesky Onimaro-leaving behind the protection of their warded home and most powerful weapons. After all their training is nearly completed, and the shrine is guarded by powerful priests. What could happen? However, the shrine has been compromised by the forces of evil, and has become the focus for the inter-dimensional gate between Earth and the Demon World! Summoning Oniyasha-Doji to eliminate the interfering Amatsu sisters, the demons intend to capture the half-demon Onimaro, tipping the cosmic scales in their favor. Now, as they face a horde of anxious demons, the sisters prepare to take their final exam as supernatural warrior-guardian! : Twin Signal Robotics expert Dr. Otoi built Signal to be a powerful companion for his young grandson, Nobuhiko. However, a mishap during Signal's programming led to an unexpected glitch. Every time Nobuhiko sneezes, Signal transforms from a temperamental adult robot into an adorable, chocolate-loving little baby. Despite this little problem, days are usually happy and fun around the Otoi household, where robots, people and animals live in harmony. Except for the occasional feud over the house cleaning chores or the affections of the female robot Elara, everything is relatively peaceful. However, one day Signal is attacked by Pulse, one of the Doctor's previous creations and the prototype for Signal. Despite being critically nearsighted, Pulse is loaded with weapons and has been reprogrammed by Dr. Otoi's mysterious rival. He's on a mission to steal the most recent robot technology and obliterate anything that gets in his way.- (Action/Comedy) I didn't really like this one. It pretty much bored me to tears. The plot is so generic and there is almost no character development. Just your standard two humanoid robots duking it out with a small amount of hi-jinx thrown in. Totally boring in my opinion. : : : UFO Princess Valkyrie Summaries for this series is still in the works. (Action/Comedy) Bath House Where The Maiden Lives: Transforming Princess Warukyuurie: Cat-eared Maid Chief Sanada-san: Sanada, the chief maid of Valhalla has arrived to continue her services under Valkyrie. She isn't mad at all that she has been reverted back to a child or that half her soul now belongs to Kazuto. As a matter of fact, she is absolutely enamored by that fact. What she is mad at is that Kazuto is "cheating" on Valkyrie with a certain Miko who is also a childhood friend. To make sure that his eyes never stray from Valkyrie, Sanada has taken it upon herself to follow Kazuto around and turn all the females he meets that might tempt him into cat-eared girls as well who are loyal to her. When Kazuto finds out what she has done and that she is heading for Akina, Kazuto and Valkyrie heads on over there to stop her and clear up the misunderstanding. The town may be a mess because of Sanada, but at least, with all the cat-eared girls that Sanadda created, they no longer have a shortage of workers in the Tokino bath house. The Thing Which Aims For Your Wings: Princess Memorial: Degenerate Princess Raine: Cat-Ear Relaxation Trip: When the cat girls that are serving Valkyrie starts getting stressed out at the daily lives the lead and the attention that their ears and tails get, they decide to ask Sanada for a relaxation trip which she promptly turns down. When Valkyrie tells Sanada that she wants to go on a relaxation trip also, she is forced to agree. The next day, Sanada gets a bus to take all of the cat girls along with Valkyrie, ___, Akina and Hydra on a trip to the sea with Tokino and the space pirate trio watching over the Tokino household. There, enjoying the beach, they are graced with the presence of another princess when Raine crashlands on the beach that they are on. Spending a fun time together, the cat girls spends their time having fun in the sun (which includes them barbecueing a shark that tried to eat Sanada and eating it instead) and getting closer to one another. As the day ends and the party they are having winds down, Aiko, the blond cat girl feels her uncertainties disappear and realizes that becoming a cat girl maid in service to Valkyrie is the probably the best thing that has happened to her as well as all the other cat girls. Akina’s Small Transformation: Rika-chan’s Diary: The Story Of The Mail Order Asteroid: Takino Bath House Space Branch: Warukyuurie Fantasy Adventure: UFO Princess Valkyrie: December Nocturne (Comedy) Key of Time: When they Tokino household finds out that the weapon that Valkyrie carries with her and uses as a toy in her child form is actually a powerful weapon called the Key of Time that can manipulate the flow of time itself, they are slightly worried, but pays it no mind in the end. After all, she knows how to use it and even helps out by reversing minor mistakes to make them as if those mistakes never happened in the first place. Unfortunately, there is a limit to everything. When she attempts to cure Shiro's hangover, the Key of Time goes wild and transforms Shiro into a gigantic drunken monster stumbling across the city and knocking down building while merely attemptin to stay up. Battling it out with him to keep damages to a minimum, Valkyrie is forced to transform into her adult form. Managing to take back the Key of Time which fled from her grasp, she takes control of the situation and reverses all of the damage that has been done. As she is about to return to Kazuto, she is struck by a strange vision of her homeworld. Mechanic Princess Chorus: Electric Wave Princess Chorus: Maiden of the Ghost Planet: Valkyrie Ghost: Meemu Night Flight: Meemu, the stuffy and highly reserved Queen of Valhala comes to earth to visit the Tokino bath house to see how things are going between Kazuto and Valkyrie. When they try out the presents that she has brought with her, things go awry as the bath salts regressed everyone using them to a younger state and that the effect wil last for approximately three days. Valkyrie, with Kazuto regressing to childhood, reverted to her normal self and is left to take care of everyone while teenaged Meemu decides to make the best of the situation and go out and experience life as anormal teenager on earth. Going out and enjoying her time with a bunch of boys vying for her attention, she meets a boy whose hobby is to photograph the scenery of the city. She agrees to be his model for the day and as they separate for the night, she agrees to see him again the next day. They spend the next day exactly like the first and Meemu seems to truly enjoy her time with him. When he asks to model for him again, Meemu, knowing that the effects of the defective bath salts turns him down. That night, Meemu decides to see him again one last time and takes him for a night flight view of the city using a power that she has forgotten to use and will lose again once she returns to normal and explains to her that she has to return to her homeworld far, far away. The next day, while taking scenery pictures once more, he spots Meemu and stops her only to realize that the older woman he is talking to cannot possibly be the girl he has been spending time with and whose pictures he has been taking. First Super Karaoke Competition: When the only TV set in the Tokino bath house finally dies and Valkyrie can no longer watch her favorite TV show, they find the answer to their problem through the first Karaoke competition that the store owners of the district has set up with a big screen TV as the first place price. Realizing that the more people join in, the bigger the chance they have of winning the prize. In the competition, Raine, Chorus, and the Space Pirate Trio performs as well as Akina (who wants to lose the reputation of being tone deaf) with Hydra. Little Valkyrie, wanting to get her hands on the consolation price of the Pyonko-chan doll, gets in as well with the cat girl maids as her back ups. When that fails, she reverts back to her normal for with Kazuto's help and sings once more which prompts the Valkyrie ghost to appear and sing that same nostalgic song that Valkyrie is singing. The song that Valkyrie ghost is singing also appears to be directed to Kazuto as well and when Valkyrie realized this, she could no longer hold on to her normal form and reverts back to being a child. Afterwards, with brand new TV in their possesion, the group wonders what prompts Valkyrie Ghost to appear in the competition, or rather why she keeps on appearing at all while Valkyrie happily plays with her new Pyonko-chan doll. Nekomimi Hakkouda Mountain: When the kids that little Valkyrie plays with tells her that they are going to be leaving for a mountain climbing trip, Valkyire, who doesn't go to school gets jealous and wants to go as well. Upon hearing this, Aiko, Keiko, Yuuko and Eiko, the four main cat girl maids under Sanada suggest that they all go for a mountian climbing expedition which Sanada quickly agrees to since it is what the princess wants as well. Going into the mountains with Kazuto and the space pirate trios in charge of watching over the house, Sanada with Valkyrie as well as the rest of the cat girl maids, ___, and Akina with Valkyrie goes off to their mountain expedition. There, looking at cute bunny, they miss their turn and wind up getting lost in the mountain with a blizzard scattering all of the cat girls. In the end, the only thing that saves them is Sanada's cat wistle and Raine showing up again out of the blue and crashing into the mountain which showed them the way to the lodge that they had reserved. Strongest Super Girl Akidora: Vexed that Valkyrie Ghost has overwhelmingly beaten them, both Akina and Hydra have begun to train harder than ever before. When Akina tries to invoke a complicated and powerful spell, it seemed to have failed until Hydra walks into the barrier and the two of them begin arguing once more which triggers the magic and the two of them fuse into one being. Going to the Tokino bath house, they soon learn that when they are arguing, they can fuse into one being and when they start getting along again, they return to normal once more. Calling themselves Akidora, they decide to go to school while testing out their newfound powers that the combination has given them. As one, they posses all of Hydra's physical skills and powers as well as the wide variety of spells that Akina has. The fusion also seems to boost their individual powers by a bit. Walking home with Kazuto in a hope to recapture a time when it was just the two of them, Valkyrie Ghost appears once more and Akina and Hydra fuses themselves together and defeats her overwhelming. The strange thing about it though is that when they have beaten her, they both see a vision of four moons and each moon seems to have a princess... Twelve Dark Moons: Four Lost Princesses: Valkyrie Flying in the Sky: UFO Princess Valkyrie: (Comedy) The Maiden and the Spectacles: When Pharm, one of the 8 princesses of Valhalla suddnely shows up and becomes their teacher all of the sudden, thye just can't help but have an ominous feeling about it. Pharm is quite cute and is adored by many of the students, and soon has a fan club dedicated to her. Soon, everyone seems to be wearing the spectacles that she is wears, marking them as belonging to her fan club. When these spectacles begin showing up in the cat-eared maid unit, Sanada sees this as a declaration of war. Trying to find out more about the "enemy," they send Rika in to do some investigating and she is captured. Using this as an excuse, Sanada and the rest of the cat-eared maids mount a "rescue" mission and goes up against Pharm's army of spectacled maidens. Things begin to go out of hand though and it is finally up to Tokino and Warukyurie to put an end to the insanity. Having had a talk with Pharm, everything begins to go back to normal as the spactacles of her fan club begin to fade away from memory. : When Inarva comes to the Tokino household, she brings with her the judgement of Valhalla and with that, the dimension of punishment for all of those who has broken the rules and etiquettes of Valhalla. Of course, this means a problem to everyone from Valhalla since Inarva has always been stiff and inflexible in her depiction of the rules as it is written in the book of law that she has. : : : : Ultra Maniacs Nina Sakura is a magical girl from the Magic Kingdom who has come to the human realm to study and improve her magic. A failure as a magic girl, she cannot do anything without her magical electronic organizer. In the human realm, along with trying to improve her studies, she also helps out her friends using magic while trying to hide it from her classmates. On top of that, she must also locate and collect the 5 holy stones that will qualify her as the princess of the entire Magic Kingdom. As she learns more about magic, she also learns an even valuable lesson in love and friendship. (Comedy/Magical Girl) It's a cute magical girl story that is touching and magical at times. If you liked shows such as Cardcaptor Sakura or Full Moon wo Sagashite, check this one out. I guarantee that it will not disappoint. OVA: When Ayu Tateishi sees Nina Sakura, the transfer student crying in the hall, she goes over to see what is wrong. Instead of being bullied like she originally thought, she has lost something precious and describes to Ayu what it looks like. After meeting up with Tetsuji Kaji, a guy in the baseball team that he likes and his buddy, Hiroki Tsujiai, Ayu discovers what Nina was looking for and returns it to her. After that incident, Nina follows her around to learn what kind of person she is. After a while, she finally decides that she is a nice person and it would be fine to tell her the secret she holds. After the girl's tennis team gets into an argument with the boy's tennis team, Nina shows up and proposes that they have amatch to decide how thigs will be done. When Ayu is forced to take the match against Hiroki, she begins to panic since she cannot beat him. Trying to figure out what to do, Nina reveals to her in private that she is a magical girl from the Magic Kingdom and she wants to use her magic to help her out. Of course, there is a reason why she is going through an earth school instead of a magical school - she sucks at magic! Instead of raising her athletic ability and just that, she turns her into a guy. Forced to play in a body she is not used to, Ayu looses completely. Even still, Hiroki decides to change thigs on his own accord and leave things the way they are instead of either team getting 3 courts and the other only one. Ayu and Nina: Ayu has a huge thing going on for Kaji and Nina decides to give some magical help and speed the romance along. Using her magical electronic pocket organizer, she creates a love potion chocolate and gives it to Kaji. Unfortunately, Hiroki, his best friend, eats it instead and suddenly gets thte hots for her Ayu. Trying to keep her away from Hiroki, Nina creates a magical ring that uses electicity to repel boys - all boys! Having shocked Hiroki, he looses all memories of obsessing over Ayu. Now, Ayu has to make sure she doesn't make any contact with any boys. When she encounters Kaji by the steps, she trips and Kaji grabs her to keep her from falling down and shocks himself. In the nurse's office, While starig at Kaji's sleeping face, Hiroki walks in on her and embaraces Ayu. By the end of the day though, the magical ring looses its power and vanishes. Boy Meets Girl: Talking to Hiroki, Ayu is relieved to find out that he didn't say anything to Kaji. When Nina's mom calls, Ayu is invited to go to her house where she finds out that Nina is just a half magic girl. Her mother is a normal human while her dad is the one that came from the Magic Kingdom. She also meets Yuta, a childhood friend of Nina from the Magic Kingdom who loves playing pranks on Rio, their cat familiar, everytime he comes over. Yuta also instantly likes Ayu and asks her out with the added threat that he won't stop showering her with roses (literally) unless she agrees. During the date that she was forced on, Ayu slaps Yuta for being an arrogant ass who uses his magic to put down Nina, make kids cry, and get attention for himself. When Ayu gives him a second chance, he stops being impressed with himself. By the end, he uses a magical camera that shows a picture of the one that the person whose picture was taken likes. Borrowing it, Ayu tries to take Kaji's picture, trips. and accidentally wastes it. Afterwards, as Yuta accompanies Ayu home, she gives him the picture and that was taken. The reason that Yuta comes over all the time is that he likes Nina. Change Over: This episode was used as part of the OVA. Nina changes Ayu into a guy to beat Hiroki in a match over a dispute between boy's and girl's tennis club. Afterwards, Ayu, as a guy, is invited to a club to get together with a bunch of girls. Ayu agrees to run interference against Akiho, the baseball club manager who is using the get together to get closer to Kaji. At the same time, Jun is in the cluba dn Rio decides to tag along with him and begins messing with him and getting him to order food. Back with Ayu and Nina, after messing around and running interfferance, she learns that there is already a girl that Kaji likes. As the party ends, Ayu gets an unexpected kiss - her first kiss - froma girls! D.C (Da Capo): Meeting in the local convenience store one night, Ayu and Nina looks back on the first time that they ever met. Unable to contorl her magic scooter, Nina is spotted by Ayu who runs away from her while trying to convince herself that it was just a dream and people cannot fly. After she runs into trouble with some high school punks, Nina, chasing after her to give her back the wallet she dropped while running away, rescues her using magic. When Nina follows her to her house, they become fast friends as Nina stays the night since she can't find her way to where she is supposed to tive with the 200 year old map that her grandfather gave her. Trying to give something Ayu in exchange, Nina screws up the magic again. The next day, Ayu is surprised to find out that Nina will be attending the school that she goes to and Jun is fully convinced that Nina is the magic girl he say the night before in the convenience store. Enigma: Nana's grandfather has sent her a letter telling her that one of the holy stones, an item that can increase magical abilities is hidden somewhere in her school. It is in a secret room that people normally cannot access. At the same time, a strange magical girl also arrives looking for the same thing.Of course, that same girl just happens to be unintentionally driving their teacher insane by appearing and disappearing in unlikely places. Because of that, Ayu and Nana gets free study and they use that time to look for the hidden room while enlisting Hiroki and Kaji's help. At the same time, Jun is sneaking around trying to get proof out of them. After a scare in the secret storage room, Nana finds out that their teacher's mysterious ghostly girl is actually Maya, one of her childhood friends from the Magic Kingdom. In the end, the holy stone was never there and it was just a mistake. However, believing the holy stone is really there, just somewhere else, Maya transfers in. Fight Over: When the tennis and baseball club goes off for camp together. Nina comes along asan invited transfer student while Jun forces himself along so that he could stalk Nina. Just before the test of courage, she gets a call from her grandfather telling her that there is a holy stone nearby. Forced to search the forest with Jun as her partner, she gets her chance to get away when he sees Maya who has come over for the same reason, flying in the background. When Ayu sees Maya's hand climbing out of a well, she gets scared and runs off prompting the teacher to go iinvestigate. After learning that the holy stone there is not real, Nina wanders off and finds Jun trapped in a pit. When she tried to rescue him, he tries to take her picture and she looses control of her magic board, knocking Jun out. When the teacher finds them due to Nina's magic, they manage to convince Jun that he was hallucinating because he hit his head hard when he fell down the pit. Gigantic Pets: When Maya creates a potion to make the rats in her place disappear, she screws it up and makes a potion that makes things larger than they are. She doesn't realiz this until she tried to use it on the cactus that their teacher has. The shock of realizing her mistakes causes her to spill the entire bottle on Lulu, her pet chameleon. Upon seeing the large cactus in the flower bed, Nana figures out that Maya is behind it. When Rio comes along, he discovers the remnants of the potion and drinks it. When Maya leaves Lulu to them so that she can figure a way to reverse it, Lulu, in invisible for, wanders off looking for food and eats the entire cafeteria. Attempting to alleviate the situation, Nana decides to use her own magic until Maya manages to come back with a potion to dispel the effects of her original potion. Now if they can only remember that Rio is still inthe gym... Hello Little Girls: When they find out that Nina is having difficulty inthe human world, three magical tots decide to come over and help her. When Nina finds them, she sends them back into the Magic Kingdom. Unfortunately, they decided to stay and sneak around. When Lulu comes on over, it surprises the trio and interupts the magic that they are attempting to help find the holy stone. When Maya notices that Lulu is gone and goes searching for it, she finds the trio and screws them up even more, causing their magic to go haywire. Nina and Ayu, having iscovered them due to the huge disturbance that they are causing, Attempting to reverse everything before more people come over, Nina uses magic and with little help, was able to reverse everything as if none of the chaos has ever happened in the room. Item: When Yuta finds some information about the holy stone, he goes off to visit Nina and tell her about it. When he visits her in school, but when she and Ayu yells at him for using magic to pull pranks, he gets mad and sotrms off right into Maya's house and offers to help her find the holy stone instead. When Nina and Ayu finds out about Yuta and Maya going after a magic stone, they rush off to try and beat them to it. With Yuta's help, Maya manages to find the red holy stone. Just as when Maya manages to find it, Nina also spots the stone. Using magic, she manages to get the stone away from Maya. As she and her grandfather (watching from his computer inthe Magic Kingdom) celbrates, Yuta disappears into the crowd. Jack Straw: After having the red holy stone taken away from her, Maya looks through some black magic sites and gets an idea to send a cursed doll to her to punish her and prevent her from looking for the other holy stones. When the doll is sent over, it never scares Nina at all. As a matter of fact, she think that it's cute instead of creepy. All it does is scare Ayu when she comes over. When the doll is given some poison to slip into some of Nina's food, it finally manages to suceed, but couldn't allow her to eat it after all that Nina has said about it. In the end, it ended up drinking the poison itself and the poison turned out to be just a potion to make you cough instead of being a deadly poison. Knight Spirit: When Maya comes home one day, she finds out that her obsessive butler Sebastian has followed her from the Magic Kingdom. He constantly pesters her by trying to do everything for her. He even goes o far as annoying her and everyone else around her in school. When Nina, Ayu, Hiroki, and Kajigoes to the library, Maya is also there to with Sebastian fawning all over her. When she tries to brew a magic potion, Sebastan gets in his head that it will grant any wish and tried to take it so that he and Maya can never be seoarated. Instead he manages to spill it on some books and it turns out that Maya created it with summoning pictures to life in mind. With a buffallo running around the library, all that Nina and Ayu can do is run around. Maya forces Sebastian to clean up his mess and he manages to catch the buffallo. Afterwards, Maya packs Sebastian off and sends him back to the Magic Kingdom. It turns out that the reason why Maya brewed up that concoction is she wanted to be like a street magician, her, a real magic girl, wanting to be like a magic performer! Lovesick Night: With vacation coming up Ayu is a bit depressed that she won't be able to see Kaji for a month. That is why she is so excited when he and Hiroki invites them to a fireworks festival. Wondering what to wear, Ayu goes over to Nina's place where Nina uses magic to make a Yukata for her from a magazine. In the festival, Nina finds out that there is another holy stone might be somewhere there. When Kaji sees Maya wandering there as well, he goes out to invite her. When she nearly falls into the water, Kaji grabs her and at that moment, Ayu walks in and misinterprets what she sees and wanders off depressed. She doesn't even realize that she has wandered off into a boat. When she collides with another boat and the water coming has begun to dissolve the paper her yukata. When Nina rescues her, Hiroki hears them talk about magic and sees Nina use it to save Ayu. As they go home from the festival, Hiroki confronts Ayu about being a magic girl. Magic Vest: Giong to the flea market, Nina's mom has a booth this time around and will be selling some of their old stuff. Helping her as always, Ayu is there as well. Kaji and Hiroki also helps in their own way by donating stuff for them to sell. After having sold a vest that belongs to her dad to Mikami-sensei, they find out that it is actually a magic vest that compels the wearer to tell the truth and tightens around the wearer if they lie. Now they have to go find Mikami-sensei before anything goes wrong - like his date with Tamura-sensei, the school nurse. Unfortunately, it's already too late as he blows the date with the help of the magic vest. When Nina and Hiroki manage to retrieve it, Nina wonders if she should make Hiroki wear it to ask if he really did see her use magic that night and if he really will keep her secret. Rellying on the fortune teller (Maya in disguise), she puts her trust in him and makes sure that he doesn't put it on. Negative Girl: Luna, a good friend of Maya has come over from the Magic Kingdom to help her look for the holy stone. Luna is a bit weird (to say the least). She has bad luck and has such a dark and gloomy personality that she is considered creepy, even as magic girl from the Magic Kingdom. When they run into Nina, Ayu, Kaji and Hiroki in the mall, Luna immediately falls for Kaji when he picks up her purse and returns it to her. From then on, she has been stalking him and doing things for him. Of course, being weird, she does weird things for him, like giving him a skull necklace for luck and tossing out his coffee because it might have poison among other things. When they confront Luna and Maya, Maya finds out that Ayu likes Kaji as well, and vows to help Luna just to get in Nina's way. With Maya helping Luna, Nina has to use her magic to keep Maya from magically altering Kaji. When Kaji discovers them fighting in his backyard, she gives h im a love charm that looks like a shrunken head. After receiving it, Kaji apologizes for whatever it is that he and his firends did to make her mad and asks her to stop giving him weird and repulsive things. Of course, Luna is shocked by this and wanders off depressed, until she spots a new destined love for her. Orange Stone: There are still foru other holy stones that have yet to be discovered and Nina must find more of them because if she doesn't she can never have a chance of competing with the others. Meanwhile, Maya has a suspicion that there is a holy stone near Hiroki and starts getting close to him in order to get it. When people spot them together, rumors starts flying that the two of them are an item. Seeing the two of them together, Nina starts to get a bit worried. When Kaji and Hiroki goes off to the beach to use the beach house that Hiroki's family has, they invite Nina and Ayu along. When they spot Maya in there and Hiroki tells them that there is nothing going on between them and that she seems to be looking for something with her electronic organizer, Nina immediately realizes that there is a holy stone nearby. Changing into her magic girl uniform, she didn't realize that Jun has been stalking her again and has taken a picture. On a flat out race against Maya, Maya manages to get the stone this time around. Pinch Hitter: At an important game for the baseball team, Ayu, Nina and Rio attends to cheer Kaji on. With the game at 2 to 1 at the top of the 9th inning to their school's disadvantage, Kaji gets hit in the head as he is up to bat. Knocked out cold, he is taken to the hospital where he doesn't regain conciousness for a long time. All the while, Akiho is tehre with him because they grew up together and she knows his mother. When Kaji regains consciousness and mistakes her for Ayu, Akiho gets mad and refuses to let Ayu see him when she comes over for a visit. Attempting to deliver the message that Ayu wrote for Kaji, Nina tries to do it through magical means without the use of her electonic organizer that has been broken since before the game and she actually succeeds. When he gets the letter and reads it, he immediately calls her to let her know that he is fine. The next day, Nina's grandfather is pleased to note how much her magical abilities have increased as the principal reactivates her migal electronic organizer. Quest: When Hiroki sees Rio transform into a human, Nina gets worried that her secret might get out and there is no excuse, she is forced to tell him everything since he has kept her secret the whole time. When Ayu finds out, they start talking about a way to transform pets and Nina agrees to transform their pet. Nina gives them a pet transformation cookie that she made. Tama, Ayu's pet became a cute, shy girl that seems to like Rio while Hiroki's black cat, Shinnosuke, turned into a good looking guy who is obsessed withhis owner. When it's time for Hiroki's mom to come home, they tried to get Shinnosuke to eat the dispel cookie, he runs off and causes trouble for everyone. Having cornered him, Rio manages to convince him to return to his cat form. As they are about to go home, Nina dispels the magic in Tama as well and it turned out that she is actually a dog. R & B: When NIna's mom gets and invitation to a club that is run by someone that the principal knows, Nin decides to try out a new spell that she can now perform since she has leveled up a bit. With Nina's mom as the chaperone, Nina uses her new spell to turn them 6 years older than they really are and go there to experience clubbing. At the same time, Maya also recieves the invite and a magical pill to turn her 6 years older as well. There, Nina senses something wrong in the space surrounding them. When they get separated, Ayu is swept of her feet by a strange man who enchants her so that she would be able to dance well. It turns out that it was Yuta who followed them there to see Nina's 20 year old form. When they discover that the rip in space holds a holy stone, Nina and Maya races off to get their hand on it. In the end though, the blue holy stone that choses a magic girl with a beautiful heart chose Nina. Now there are only 2 holy stones left If she could get at least one more, she would be a shoo in as the princess. Stand By Me: When the principal has to return to the human world from visiting Nina's grandfather, he decides to come with him as well for a visit. Of course, when he said visit, he meant come over to make life miserable for Ayu so that Nina will spend less time with her and more on magic training and looking for the holy stones. When Nina refused to listen to him, he seals her away and transforms into Kaji, confesses to Ayu that the one he likes all along is Nina. At that point, Ayu figures out that she is actually talking to Nina's grandfather. After talking to her, he returns to Nina and tells her to at least try to do her best and that there are only two months left for her to remain on the human world - only two months until the princess is chosen from the 7 candidates and for Nina to makes sure than no one else can take the lead away from her. Tangle: When Ayu starts wanting to know who the girl that Kaji likes again, Nina offers to help her out by making a candy that forces whoever ate to say only the truth for two hours. When Ayu is alone in the room with Kaji, she gives him the candy, but because she kept looking at him as he is about to eat the candy, Kaji pops the candy in her mouth and Ayu runs off without learning anything. Nina, wondering how things went, goes back to see how things are and sees Kaji tossing the cookies that he received in the trash without eating them. When confronted with this, J+Kaji reveals an ugly side of his personality and tell Nina not to tell anyone or else. When she tried to tell Ayu, Ayu refuses to believe her and she begins to think that Nina is just saying that because she like Kaji. When things get cleared up betwen Nina and Kaji, he starts giving her the cookies that he receives instead of tossing them out. Coming over to meet Nina after her practice, Ayu finds the cookies that were given to Kaji and convinces her that there is something going on between Nina and Kaji. Untangle: With the shadow of suspicion that Nina likes Kaji and the way that the two of them seem to be getting seen together more lately, Ayu just doesn't know what she should do. At the same time, with Nina, Ayu and Hiroki spending so much time recently, he's starting to think that there is something going on between Ayu and Hiroki. The truth is, Ayu and Hiroki has been sticking closer to Nina because she has recently just leveled up a bit and has been showing off her magic to them, like the love thermometer. When Nina finds out from Kaji that the one he likes is Ayu, she tells him to confess, but when he does, Ayu, thinking of all the things that Nina has done for her, refuses to give Nina a chance to be with him. When Nina hears about it, she rushes back to Ayu to clear up the misunderstanding and get them back together on the right track. Having convinced Ayu that she isn't in love with Kaji, Ayu runs off to find Kaji and accept his feelings for her. Virgin Love: The day after Kaji and Ayu got otgether and became a couple, the rumor has already spread all over the school. At the same time, Maya is at it again with one of her strange black magic creations. While Hiroki is helping Nina with her English studies, Maya, with a strange plant that eats the hearts of young maidens, steals Ayu's heart away from her and turns her into a robot like shell. When Nina investigates after hearing about it from Hiroki, she finds out that it was Maya that did that to Ayu as well as several other girls from school so that she can lure one of the holy stones to where she is and get it for herself. In the end, remembering Hiroki's encouragement to her when they were working on English together, Nina manages to get the upper hand on Maya and take her 4th holy stone. The next day, wondering how to explain things to Kaji, Nina tells her to go ahead and tell him what really happened and about her being a magic girl. At the same time, Nina has something to tell her as well. Wonderful Night: When Nina decides to tell Kaji about her and Maya being a magic girl to explain Ayu's strange behaviour, she also resolves to tell all of them about the holy stones and being a princess candidate. Before she could, her grandfather wisks her away, but she has already made up her mind to tell them all about it. In her house, she tells them about the holy stones and how she is one of the 7 candidates to become a princess of the Magic Kingdom. She shows them the magic Kingdom and of the prince she will have to marry should she be chosen as the princess of the realm. To help her resolve things, Yuta shows up and gives Ayu two pairs of tickets for a night flight. Riding a flying chariot pulled by a white swan with Hiroki, they don't seem to be interacting at all. Yuta, following them, decides to shake things up to get them talking. After the ride is over, Nina's resolve to become the princess becomes stronger after talking to Hiroki. Elsewhere, in the club that they found the blue hily stone, the orince is there to find out more about Nina and Maya and he has taken the form of the owner. X-Day: With her time in the human realm getting closer and closer to ending, Nina resolves to enjoy the last few days she has remaining to enjoy life in the human realm. It will probably be the last time she could come over and see her friends and be free. When the costumer party is gettting closer and closer, everyone is getting excited and people are starting to plan what costume they will be wearing. Maya, who hasn't come to class since losing the 4th holy stone to Nina, has been staying at home to make a strange potion. At the party, dressed up as Sherlock Holmes, Nina ends up dancing with a handsome stranger while searching for Hiroki. At the same time that this is happening, Maya leaves the party and unleashes her most recent magic - the power to summon the darkness by sacrificing people into the Labyrinth of Darkness. Yes, I Like You: Using the Labyrinth of Darkness to gain power, Maya was able to steal the 3 holy stones in her possession. Upon gaining the 3 holy stones from Nina, the 5th one appears and Maya takes that one away with Nina unable to use any of her magical item. When the light appears in the Dark Zone, the principal manages to drag everyone out. Afterwards, even after attaining all 5 stones, nothing is happening. Nina's grandfather appears to warn her about her folly. refusing to listen to him, Maya sends him to the Dark Zone. When Nina shows up to help her grandfather, she, Ayu, Kai, Hiroki, and Yuta follows him in the Dark Zone and ends up getting stuck in there as well. On the outside, Jun and Maya's familiars attempts to convince her to dispel the magic she has wrapped herself in. In the Dark Zone, the moment that Nina professes her love for Hiroki and he for her, the 5 holy stones that have left Maya appears in front of her and chooses her. With their help, they manage to escape. After the holy stones have placed themselves with Nina, the prince appears. Zoom In: It turned out that the strange boy that she danced with in the costume party was none other than the prince. They first met 10 years ago, during the only time she ever got to go to the palace, she played with the prince and saved him. Ever since then, not a single day has passed when he hasn't thought of her. After Nina gets an invitation to the palace for the purpose of announcing the choice, Ayu finds out that all the memorie pertaining to the human world will be erased. Arriving at the palace after saying farewell to Hiroki and asking him to say goodbye to the others, Nina arrives to see that only Maya is in there to congratulate her. All the others have either been disqualified in one way or another or does not want to come knowing that they will not be chosen anyway. After Maya leaves, Nina apologizes to the prince and tells him that she could not have been the girl he played with 10 years ago. In fact, it was actually Maya that he was remembering. Maya, in return, has always been in love with him since that time that she has danced with him 10 years ago. With Maya as the princess, Nina manages to return to the human realm and continue her life with Ayu and the rest of her friends, while in the Magic Kingdom, Yuta and Luna has caught each other's eyes while attending Maya's coronation ceremony. Umi ga Kikoeru (I can Hear the Ocean) As Morisaki is traveling back to Kochi and is about to meet his friends from high school in a reunion, his thoughts drift back to those days he spent with his friends. Mostly, he remembers Matsuno and Moto. He and Matsuno became friends after they had met each other while protesting the cancellation of their field trip in Junior High. From then, they became friends. Around the time that high school came for them, a new student transfers in from Tokyo. Moto is not only a beautiful girl, but smart as well, although a bit socially inept. Matsuno instantly fall in love with her and constantly tells him about it. He, on the other hand is just mildly curious about her in the beginning. Then came the trip to Hawaii when he and Moto first had an actual conversation. She had lost her money and borrowed some from him because she and Matsuno had seen him working and Matsuno told her how hard he works to save up some money. After getting back from their trip, time passed on as Moto seems to have forgotten about the debt and have actually made friends with another girl whom she is now constantly with while in school. One day, during Golden Week, === calls him saying that Moto has hijacked her from going into a concert to going to Tokyo to see her father. Going there to talk some sense into her, Moto refuses to budge, and he ends up going with her to Tokyo to meet her father whom she was seeing for personal reasons as well as to get money to pay him back. While there, she realizes that her father doesn't care much about him and that people that she used to know there aren't really what she thought they were. Returning back home, they stopped talking once more and time passes on while rumors about them going to Tokyo together began to spread. Matsuno tells him about the rumors and how he had confessed her love for him. She turned him down in the harshest way and Morisaki gets mad and confronts her about it. After a while, the three of them started to grow more distant as Moto began to concentrate more on her studies and refuses to participate in any social events. During the final school festival, Moto is being confronted by all the girls in her class about her behavior as Morisaki listens on. Making himself known after it was over, Moto gets mad at him again and slaps him then runs away. Matsuno shows up just in time to see Moto running away and asks what that was all about. Telling him what had happened, Matsuno gets mad at him and punches in him and since then, the three of them had not spoken to one another. Now, after years had passed, their graduating class is about to get reunited once more. Morisaki meets up with Matsuno and the two of them catches up as Matsuno asks for his forgiveness for that punch so long ago, telling him that he got mad at him because he had held back his own feelings for Moto all because of him. In the reunion familiar, but older faces meets once more as Morisaki, Matsuno, +++ (the girl who led most of the confrontation against Moto) wonders if Moto will show up. When === arrives, she tells him that she had met Moto earlier and that she was on her way to Tokyo to meet someone important to her. Morisaki instantly realizes that she was trying to see him again and that they had missed their chance once more. On the way back, waiting for the train, Morisaki sees Moto waiting on the other side and he runs to get there. There he looks for her and finds her waiting for him as all the years peels back for the two of them. (Drama) Made by Studio Ghibli (which gives it the seal of being a very good film), it is the bitter-sweet memories of youth and the regrets of chances never taken and loves lost to time. Beautiful scenery, believable characters and realistic plot development makes this a plus for any collection. Get this if you can, even if you have to go way out of your way to do so - it's that good! Urusei Yatsura Movie 2: Beautiful Dreamer Something strange-stranger than usual-is happening at Tomobiki High School, but with wacky classmates like Lum (a beautiful alien princess with a “shocking” personality), Ataru (the lecherous loser she loves), and Mendou (the suave scion of the wealthiest family on Earth)-anything can happen! When Ataru, Lum, Mendou and the rest of the gang discover that they’ve been reliving the “day before the School Festival” over and over again, they may be confused-but they aren’t surprised! But things are getting worse, and if they don’t find a way to break the chain-they’ll be trapped forever… (Comedy/Fantasy) Uta Kata Ichika is just a normal middle schoolgirl trying to make the most of what is probably her last summer in Japan with her friends. She wishes to make wonderful memories of summer with them before she leaves for Italy for the next 5 years. She has also been having strange dreams of a girl who claims to be another her. One her last day of shcool as vacation closes in on them, they clean up the old abandoned school building and Ichika finds a stange mirror. The mirror's reflection suddenly warps and the girl from her dreams appears before her in the mirror. Pulling her into the world of the mirror that is a reflection of our world - the world of the djinn, she is given the ability to use the power of the spirits and summon the djinns 12 times. This is an ability that is hers to use...or abuse however she likes. As she uses them, she begins to feel a growing darkness within her slowly slowly slithering its way to the surface. (Magic Girl) I think of it as a darker reversed version of Carcaptor Sakura where instead of Sakura having to catch all of them, it's Ichika having to use all of them. Ichika is forced to deal with many painful things all at once as she begins to use them. Most of these deals with aspects of human nature. An interesting twelve part series, it is worth seeing at least once. : Ichika is an average middle school girl who has been having strange dreams as of late. She dreams of a girl she has never seen before who bids her farewell, and calls her "the other me." Cleaning the old school building, Ichika accidentally leaves her cell phone behind and goes back to retrieve it. Heading in the room with the large, supposedly cursed mirror, she quickly finds the phone through the mirror's reflection, but when she turns around, the phone is not where it should be she looks again at the mirror to see that it is where she saw it. Suddenly, the reflection starts to warp and the girl in her dreams shows up claiming to be the "other her." She extends her hands and pulls Ichika through the mirro r where she is able to retrieve the cell phone and finds that the charm that her beloved tutors gave her has changed appearance. With the change in appearance, she is given the ability to use the powers of the spirits 12 times. Going back through mirror, she heads back home with Manatsu, the girl in the mirror in tow. : Manatasu now lives with Ichika as she has explained to her parents that she is an e-mail friend of hers from another city who has come to stay with her for the summer and they seemed to have accepted it. While there, a journal of Ichika's experiences with the usage of the powers of the spirits needs to be recorded by Ichika who has decided to avoid her tutors because she is afraid that they would be disappointed if they saw the precious charm that they gave her has been altered. Going to the school morning exercise, she and Manatsu meets Miki, an old classmate with her friends and she exchanges e-mail with Ryo. Later on, while doing her own summer homework, she gets an e-mail from him and they talk outside as he treats her. When she and Manatsu tries to leave because he was being a bit too pushy, he becomes enraged and starts chasing them. Running to the park instead of home to keep him from finding where they live, he catches up to them, but finds that Miki has caught up to them when she figures that something fishy is going on. They start arguing which becomes a physical argument and Ichika runs off again and uses the power of Luna, the moon spirit to illuminate the night and get people to notice them. There Kai, one of her tutors shows up and deals with the situation which is resolved when they realize that he and Miki just had a slight misunderstanding. : : Ichika and Manatsu decides to go out to the sea with Michiru, Satsuki and Keiko. There, they start having fun in the beach and even help out in the store that : Going to the fireworks festival that night, Ichika lends her yukata to Manatsu who has never worn them. On the way there, they meet up with Keiko, Satsuki and Michiru as well as Nozumu, a former classmate of theirs and his friend. The whole time, it would seem that Satsuki and Nozumu have something going on in the background and it seemed obvious to Satsuki's brother who tries to push in them in that direction. Later that night, while waiting for the fireworks festival to start, Nozumu, Keiko and Satsuki goes of to buy some more stuff and Nozumu tells Satsuki to wait across the street once she finishes buying what she needs to buy. When Keiko finishes though, Nozumu is waiting for her and drags her somewhere else and leaves Sastuki waiting for him. Having returned to where everyone else is at, Satsuki gets worried that the two of them have yet to return and goes off to search for them. Ichika and Manatsu leaves too to use the power of the spirits once more and help in the search. Using the djinn of fire, she spots Satsuki as she sees Keiko and Nozumu kissing. Having returned to normal form, Ichika consoles Satsuki and realizes that at times, just merely watching is not enough. : On the way back from the library after doing her summer homework that she doesn't intend to turn in, she and Manatsu spots Sei confronting Saya. Ichika runs away and in the proccess, breaks the neclase that Sei gave to her as a present. Feeling even more depressed , Manatsu convinces her to use the power of the spirits and the djinn of th eheaven helps her realize that even as it is reaining in that afternoon, it doesn't mean that the sun no longer exists. Unfortunately, Ishika catches a cold because she and Manatsu were running through the rain. Walking up, Ichika feels all sweaty and decides to wipe all the sweat away from her when the doorbell rings and Manatsu, half asleep from watching over her, runs out the room and invites Sei in. Completely naked, Ichika covers herslef up in blanket and pretends to be asleep while dreaming of asking Sei what his relationship is with Saya in all her natural wonder. After Sei leaves, Manatsu apologizes for putting her in an embarassing position and gives her the present that Sei has left behind. Opening the bag, she realizes that it was the necklace that she had broken and lost when she was eavesdropping on Sei and Saya. : After Ichika had recovered froom her cold, Manatsu gets it as well. When the doctor visits them to look at Manatsu, Ichika asks him if there is an illness that causes a person's eyes to glow. In the dark, Ichika looks at her reflection to see that her eyes are glowing red and tries to convince herself that Manatsu is not to blame for it. The next day, after Manatasu has recovered, Sei comes over to tutor Ichika and she can't help but feel jealous everytime he looks at the window into Saya's house where she is watching them from a dark room. The next day, when it is Kai's turn to tutor her, he comes in at noon when Saya is working at Ichika's request to Sei the previous day. Still feeling jealous of Saya, she asks him to go outside instead of being where they can see Saya's house. In the temple, while taking about Sei, a strong gust of wind scatters Kai's report and Ichika runs off to use the power of the spirits to gather them again. As she runs off, Kai notices that her eyes are glowing red. Gathering the papers using the djinn of the wind, she sees Saya walking down the street and a jealous rage overcomes her and she uses the wind to almost kill Saya before she is able to stop herself. : Fearing another side to her that is beginning to manifest itself, Ichika has resolved to never use the power of the spirits ever again although she still can't quite throw away the charm that Sei has given her. At the same time that she is fearing that her jealous side is comming out and controlling her, she begins to dream that old dream with Manatsu in it. This time, however, instead of Manatsu simply bidding her goodbye underneath the moonlight by the beach, she kills Manatsu by strangling her to death with the moon and the sea taking on a crimson hue. The next day, she heads of for school without Manatsu to do a community service. She and her entire class goes to the hospital to give wreaths of dried flowers. When she goes to the patient that is assigned to her, the patient freaks out that it wasn't a real living flower and Ichika's malevolent side surfaces once more and uses the power od the flower djinn. Surrounded by flowers, the woman collapses due to anaphylactic shock, the primary reason why she is in the hospital in the first place. At the same time, Manatsu tries to reach her when she felt something wrong and sees Saya hovering above the hospital watching Ichika. Going back home, Ichika passes by the old school building and finds that the mirror that Manatsu came out of is gone. Back home, Manatsu discovers Ichika throwing up in the bathroom. Romantic Concerns: Keiko invites everyone to go with her to Enoshima and they all decide to go there by train the following day. Going by train, they spot Michiru's little sister with a boy and she decides to not go with them and leave her little sister alone. There, they go through all the romantic hotspots and meets Michiru's little sister at the shrine famed as a place of romantic requests. Going through yet another place where lovers put their names on a lock and leave it chained there, Satsuki finds one with the names Nozomu and Minami in it and reasures herself that it is just someone with the same name as Nozomu. Unfortunately, her suspicions were correct when they discover Nozomu there on a date with a girl named Minami. Broken hearted, Ichika begins to hear her crying deep within while she sits next to her in a restaurant. Unable to control herself, she runs off with Manatsu chasing after her. Suddenly she changes with the aid of hte djinn of lightning and saps all the electricity in the entire island. In the darkness, while everyone is unable to use any electronics, Keiko and Satsuki begins to comfort each other. Sei reaches Ichika just in time to see her finally calm down and revert to normal. With her eyes still glowing red, he gives her a pair of sunglasses and promises to tell her what is going on with her. : Trying to tell Ichika what is going on with her lately, Sei is whisked away by Saya and tells him that waht he is about to do is against the rules. Asking if she is attempting to repeat the same thing that she has done to him, Saya turns him into stone to keep him from interfering. Feeling all alone, Ichiko withdraws even more into herself and nearly jumps off a cliff when the charm that Sei gave her refuses to leave her side. The only thing that saved her is Manatsu managing to catch her in time. The next day, they go to a buddhist shrine where Ichika's parents have talk with the monk in there. They tell him that it would seem as if the dream that they had 16 years ago has come ture. during that time, before Ichika was born, they had a dream of a girl in the beach asking them that should they ever have a child, if that child were to bring home a friend during summer, they must treat that child as if she were also their own child. Having realized that her destiny was written for her even before she was born, Ichika freaks out and activated the powers of the djinn of darkness without thinking. Natsumi fear is unfounded though as the power doesn't rage out of control, but instead summons the spirits of the dead allowing her dead grandmother and pet dog to give her comfort and ease. Afterwards, unable to reach Sei, Ichika calls Kai who gives her an excuse. Hanging up, we find that he is with Saya and they have the mirror along with a petrified Sai. : Ichika begins to dream once more. This time, it's just her and Manatsu blowing bubbles. Once she stops blowing bubbles, Manatsu just vanishes without a trace. The next day, Keiko and Satsuki, along with Michiru invites Ichika and Manatsu to go with them to the hotel pool to have some fun. There, Ichika is still her depressed looking self and Michiru asks her what is wrong with her and that if it has anything to do with Manatsu since she has been acting strange ever since she has shown up at the beginning of summer. When this happened, she begins to feel herself getting taken over by the power of the djinn once more and is tranformed by the power of the ocean djinn and nearly causes a tidal wave to destroy the town. Trying to stop the tidal wave, Ichika throws herself into the path and is swallowed up by it. Manatsu, against the "rules" that Saya enforces, jumps in to her rescue and saves her as the wave dissipates. Having violated the rules, Saya puts her to sleep to keep her from interfering anymore. : Having returned home with an unconscious Manatasu with some help from Michiru, Ichika finally realizes that they house next door that Saya lives in is an empty lot that is for sale. Saya never lived there and only appeared at the beginning of summer and made look like she has lived there for a very long time. Going inside, Ichika discovers the mirror and Sei in his petrified state. Saya then appears before her and reveals to her that she is the twelfth djinn - the djinn of today who reflects the world. She puts him to the same test that she had done to Sei six years earlier and asks her to choose, either destroy humanity or destroy herself. The djinn whose powers flowed through her was a test. There are seven virtues that when turned inside out and corrupted, becomes the seven sins of humanity and Saya, having had Ichika experience them all wants to force her to make a decision on which one should be saved. When she refuses to sacrifice either, the way that Sei did six years ago, Saya tries to kill her, but Manatsu and Kai, both a fragment of Saya, and Sei interferes. Sacrificing themselves for their respective partners, they return to being mere fragments of a mirror and Saya is unable to do anything to Ichika anymore. Having awoken up, Ichika has made a resolve to be left behin in Japan with her friends with her parents having moved to Italy due to her fathers job. As she wonders what happens to Manatsu now and if she can meet her again, Saya is looking through the window at another child that she plans to put through the same test. Twin Summers of the Early Winter: It is winter now and Ichika's birthday is fast approaching. Her parents are in Italy and Sei is off to Germany for his studies. Still missing Manatasu, she found out from Michiru that she has seen her and both Keiko and Satsuki has seen her last week. Wondering why she has yet to appear before her, Ichika looks at the mirror fragment that used to be Manatsu only to discover that it has vanished. In Germany, Sei is surprised to see Kai. Their reunion is a happy one, but both of them kow that it will only be for a short time. In Japan, Ichika heads back to the empty house to see if Manatsu is there and finds her waiting for her when she got back to her house. They spend their time happily. When the first snow of winter arrives, the two of them goes out on the streets to play with the snow. As night approaches, Manatsu tells her something that she already knows. She cannot stay for long. This was only a way for Manatsu to give her a proper farewell and be with her on her birthday. The next day, Manatsu is gone. With the fragment of mirror tha was Kai, Saya's mirror is made whole again. Ichika celebrates her birthday with Michiru, Keiko and Satsuki. As the season passes, Ichiko knows that the moment she shares with her friends will not last, but it is best to enjoy them while the moment is there. Back  Next  Reviews Page  Main