Shinigami no Blog

Because I don’t want to watch anime that make you want to watch the next episode as soon as possible during my exams (and I need a laugh too) I decided to watch this show.  It was very enjoyable, I really laughed a lot ^_^

Miu is really irritating though.  In the beginning I still thought she was funny, but she can really be a pest.  For example, she told Ana’s last name (Coppola) in school, even though she new Ana didn’t want anyone to know, she made everyone miss the fireworks at the festival and when Nobue decides to let them watch those little fireworks at home she makes it go out.  She also threw Chika’s piggy bank out of the window, hit Nobue with a ball on purpose, made her get fired by making a mess at the family restaurant she was working and farted in the public bath (although that last thing was rather funny ^_^; Anyhow, I really don’t understand why almost everyone likes her best.

My favorite is Ana, although she’s a bit weird too.  She wants to learn to speak English again, but when she has the chance she doesn’t try.  And she knows so much about Japan but doesn’t want anyone to know.  That’s fine, but if she really wants to be English again she should just try a little harder.  Sometimes it wasn’t clear if she really wants to be English again or not.

Matsuri is just too cute ^_^ there’s not much more to say about her though.

And Chika is the only normal person in the whole story.  I don’t understand why she stays friends with Miu though, since she doesn’t like her behaviour either.

Now, for more information on the series see Matthew’s Anime Blog.  He nicely described all episodes with images ^_^

This game is a Kinetic novel, made by Key. You play as some guy who lives in a world where it doesn’t stop raining, because of a biochemical war that started 30 years ago. You are in a town, but noone is there but enemies. When you decide to hide in a building, there is someone there, Reverie. She’s a robot who has been waiting at the planetarium for a customer to come visit them and doesn’t understand you when you try to explain her that she has been waiting for nothing, because the world has changed and noone will come any more. You end up trying to fix the machine to look at the stars, because it’s broken after 30 years without maintainance. After you fix it you get to watch the stars and it’s really worth it ^_^ Anyway, after that, you want to leave, but Reverie insists on going with you (she wants to accompany you to your car).  But it’s very dangerous outside with old robots who don’t know the war has stopped and they are still trying to protect the city.

I won’t tell how it ends though; because otherwise it’s no more fun to play (or read if you want, because you don’t get to make any choices).  I really liked this though, it’s like a book on your computer.  The art is really nice too and the story was good, although it was rather short.  Another good game by Key ^_^

A girl is being followed by two men. She manages to escape and notices the message board.  When Ryo goes and check it the next day, he thus sees he’s got a client: the girl presents herself as Nagisa, and she’s being chased by Yakuza.  She confesses she often seduces men to steal their money, and one of those was a yakuza.  Meanwhile, Saeko has a lot of trouble teaching Xiang Ying normal manners.  She almost killed some guy who was hitting on her because she didn’t understand ^_^; Ryo then gives Xiang Ying the task of taking Nagisa to their apartment.  Nagisa wants to have fun on their way there, but Xiang Ying doesn’t let her: she says her mission is to take Nagisa to their destination without any detours.  Nagisa is still acting childish and Xiang Ying tells her that if she gets attacked she wont help her, because her mission is only to take her to the apartment.  Because of Nagisa’s behaviour, she managed to attract the attention of those yakuza again.  When Xiang Ying and Nagisa end up in a narrow alley, they are there and attack Nagisa.  At first Xiang Ying doesn’t help her, but suddenly something changes inside of her and she decides to help the girl anyhow.  The next day at the Cat’s Eye, she is pondering about why she helped Nagisa, when the girl comes in, wearing her school uniform.  She says she decided to go back to school and hands Xiang Ying a letter, asking her to be friends.  It later seems that it’s more of a love letter, and Xin Hong is not too happy about it, but Xiang Ying is very happy she managed to make a friend.

This was another Xiang Ying episode.  It was nice to see Ryo picking up his job as City Hunter again, although it was mainly Xiang Ying who did the job in this episode.

 
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My last exam is on Friday.  I’ve got some time now to write about a few episodes though.  The rest will follow after Friday, probably next week or the week after that.

Anyway, the episode.  When Saeko finds out that Ryo is now living together with Xiang Ying, she goes to check it out because she doesn’t trust him alone with a young girl ^_^; When she finds Xiang Ying in his bed she gets angry, but Xiang Ying explains it was her who crawled into Ryo’s bed because she couldn’t sleep in Kaori’s room.  Kaori’s memories were too strong. Ryo then tells her it’s ok for her to use Kaori’s room, it’s her room now.  Xiang Ying asks Saeko if she’s Ryo’s girlfriend and tells her that he only loves Kaori.  Xiang Ying has to go for a medical examination next, and when Saeko leaves for work, she tells Ryo he should find a job too.  When Xiang Ying hears that Ryo’s doing nothing but drink she gets worried about him and asks him to get a medical examination as well.  After the examination, Ryo is still wondering why Xiang Ying asked such a favor of him.  Meanwhile, Xiang Ying is getting another check up, and doc asks her why she wanted Ryo to get one as well.  She explains that she doesn’t want to die before him and cause him grief.  But fortunately for Ryo, everything seems fine.  Xiang Ying is still worried if she’s going to die before Ryo.  Meanwhile Chen, the helper of master Li is bringing Xiang Ying’s old medical reports. Doc finds that Xiang Ying and Kaori’s HLA antigens are a near-perfect match. This means that their compatibility is almost perfect and Xiang Ying will no longer need to take any medicine.  It also enlarges her chance to live long after the transplant, which makes her very happy. Xiang Ying starts smiling for the very first time ^_^ then Chen tells them that master Li has another present for Ryo.  He takes them to the station, where a whole new message board is standing.  With that, master Li is asking Ryo to start working again.  Ryo decides to take on the request. Master Li even gave him his first job: to be a good father.

I liked this episode.  It showed more about Xiang Ying.  She’s really starting to care about Ryo.  With thirteen episodes, the first part of the story is finished.  Ryo  will start working as city hunter again, and I’m sure Xiang Ying will help him with his jobs.

 
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