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After seeing a picture of a girl whose father she killed, Xiang Ying is out to meet that girl. She is very surprised to find out that Kayano Yume, the girl, lives in a big mansion. While she is hesitating to go inside at the front gate, Xiang Ying almost gets run over by a car coming out of the gate. Yume-chan comes out of the car, and to apologize she offers to drive Xiang Ying home, after taking care of some errands first. To her surprise, Xiang Ying sees Yume stop at Shinjuku station and write XYZ on the message board. Xiang Ying takes Yume-chan to the Cat’s Eye, where the girl tells Ryo about her father’s death. She admits she wants to avenge her father’s death, but there is something that’s been bothering her: when her father died, he looked happy. While she went to get the police, her father’s body disappeared. The company where her father worked doesn’t seem to exist, and right after his death there was a fire in her father’s room, distroying all evidence of his existence. Yume-chan asks City Hunter to find out who her father really was. Ryo tells her that they’ll contact her if they decide on taking on the job. Xiang Ying really wants to take on the job, even if it is painful. She believes Kaori is telling her not to run away from this. After Yume has gone back home old Chen tells Ryo about Yume’s father: he was an assassin, Mad Dog. He shouldn’t reveal this information to Yume-chan though, because her life would be in danger. Mad Dog’s partner, Dog Walker, will kill everyone who knows about this to ensure his own safety. Meanwhile, Xiang Ying has gone to visit Yume-chan and tell her that they accept the job. She brought the girl some ice cream, but when seeing the box Yume-chan gets into a shock. Her violin-teacher and guardian Haruka comes to calm her again. Yume-chan explains to Xiang Ying that Haruka had been appointed as her guardian even before her father died. Xiang Ying wonders if he knew he was going to die. Yume then apologizes and tells Xiang Ying that ever since her father’s death, she hasn’t been able to eat ice cream, because that’s what she was bringing her father when he died. When Xiang Ying is leaving the house, Yume-chan says she wants them to become friends. Xiang Ying hesitates for a moment, but then shakes hands with the girl but when she is walking away, she is stopped by Haruka who asks her to forget about the case and never to come back again. Xiang Ying suddenly tackles her and a bullet chases past them. They hear another gunshot, but then Xiang Ying recognizes Ryo, who came to help. Unfortunately, the attacker escaped. Haruka is in a shock, but that doesn’t stop Ryo from hitting on her. Xiang Ying stops him, and Haruka then tells them that they already hired a detective before to find out the truth and he did find out everything, but she couldn’t tell Yume-chan. Afterwards, that detective got killed, and now Haruka fears they will get killed too. Ryo offers her to come and live with them. Haruka and Yume-chan will be staying at the Cat’s Eye, because Xiang Ying thinks Ryo cannot be trusted. And indeed, he tries to sneak into Haruka’s bedroom at night, but Umibouzu chases him out. Xin Hong isn’t too happy about Yume-chan staying over. He thinks it’s unfair she acts so happy, while Xiang Ying is suffering so much. Haruka tells him that Yume-chan wants to be friends with him, but he says he doesn’t think making friends is appropriate seeing the circumstances. That evening, encouraged by Xiang Ying, Yume-chan writes Xin Hong a letter and leaves it at the door of his bedroom. Xin Hong thinks it a love letter though, and he angrily tears it to pieces. Yume-chan, who had been watching with Xiang Ying from around the corner just says she’s been rejected and then runs away. Xiang Ying gets angy and slaps Xin Hong in the face because he doesn’t think of Yume-chan’s feelings. Xin Hong tells her he’s more concerned about her than Yume-chan. Xiang Ying then goes to Yume-chan, who’s crying in her room, and she comforts her.

It’s been a while since I’ve seen this episode so I don’t really have anything to say about it. I’ll try to blog the rest as soon as I can, really.

  
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I was planning on blogging Kanon every week, while watching the show, but since I didn’t have the time, and we’re already up to episode 17 now, I won’t be blogging all of those separate episodes.  I did already write this review of the first episode, so I’ll still post it.  When the series is over, I’ll give my opinion on the show in general.

Unlike many other people, I DID see the first Kanon series.  In fact it was the second series I’ve seen in Japanese, and it’s the series that got me hooked up on anime.  Therefore I was very happy to hear about this remake, as not everything got worked out in the first series.  Now, when watching this series, I do know the plot of the story, but it’s still nice to see the characters again, with a much better design.  And since they do add a lot of new items, it’s still interesting to watch the show.  

 The story starts with a guy, Aizawa Yuuichi, arriving in a town.  He used to visit this town a lot when he was a child, but hasn’t been here over 7 years now.  He doesn’t remember all that much about the place, which he thinks odd himself. A girl comes to pick Yuuichi up, but she’s two hours late ^_^; she’s his cousin, at who’s place Yuuichi will be staying while his parents are working abroad.  She asks him if he still knows her name, but he plays dumb by guessing her name and calling her Hanako (a common girls’ name) and Jiro (a common boys’ name).  The girl gets sad, but when they are leaving Yuuichi does call her by her name: Nayuki. 
The next moment, we see a girl, who’s having a dream.  She tells us she’s seeing the same dream every day, red snow, and a red world.  She’s seeing a child crying, and she wants to wipe his tears, but she can’t move.  Suddenly the dream starts to change into another colour.
Yuuichi wakes up, from Nayuki’s voice.  He gets out of bed and goes into the hallway, where Nayuki is looking for her uniform.  Yuuichi tells her that her mother, Akiko, was washing it.  Even though it’s still winter break, Nayuki has to go to school because she’s the captain of the track team, and she has club activities.  Before Nayuki leaves the house, Yuuichi asks her to show him around town later, and Nayuki is more than happy to do so. Yuuichi is busy the rest of the morning helping Akiko shovel, and by the time they have finished, Nayuki is back and takes Yuuichi to town, showing him a lot of things.  When they arrive at the school, we see two girls.  One, Mai, is petting a dog, and her friend Sayuri comes to pick her up.  Later, Nayuki shows Yuuichi the hospital.  There a girl, Shiori, passes by with her mother.  Yuuichi doesn’t seem to like hospitals too much, saying he hopes not to have to go there.  When they continue their way, Nayuki and Yuuichi meet two classmates of Nayuki: Misaka Kaori and Kitagawa Jun.  Kaori is Nayuki’s best friend, and it’s more then clear that Jun has a crush on Kaori, but she just seems to use him as her bag carrier.  Yuuichi thinks Jun is an interesting guy.  The next place Nayuki stops is on a hill.  When they are watching at the town, Yuuichi tells Nayuki that he can’t remember too much of when he came here as a kid.  Nayuki tells him she’s sure he’ll start remembering more while staying in the town.  Then she notices a little fox that’s watching them, but when she’s wants to get closer to it, it runs away.  Nayuki tells Yuuichi about a legend about foxes that’s very famous in their town, but when she wants to tell him the legend, she can’t remember how it went.
Afterwards, the two go shopping, Nayuki has to buy food for her mother to cook that evening.  Yuuichi prefers waiting outside, and Nayuki urges him not to go anywhere while she’s inside.  Yuuichi gets the feeling something similar happened seven years ago, when a girl comes running towards him, telling him to move away.  He can’t react that fast though and she bumps into him, knocking him over.  Then she takes his arm and pulls him along into a café.  There she explains she was being chased.  When Yuuichi looks outside, he sees a guy wearing an apron looking around, and he guesses this is the guy she is talking about.  The girl then tells him what happened: she wanted to buy some taiyaki, but then she noticed she had lost her wallet.  When she was looking for it, a cat had come and the taiyaki seller had yelled out to scare it away.  The girl however got scared too and ran away with the taiyaki without paying.  Yuuichi tells her that she’s the bad guy.  He makes her go apologize and pays for the taiyaki.  Afterwards, he asks her about the wings on her backpack.  The girl doesn’t know what he’s talking about and start turning round and round to see them.  Then she introduces herself as Tsukimiya Ayu.  When Yuuichi tells her his name, she seems surprised.  Before leaving, Ayu makes Yuuichi promise to meet again.  Then she runs off to leave into the light.  Suddenly Yuuichi remembers Nayuki must be waiting for him, and indeed, when he gets back at the shop, Nayuki isn’t too happy that he left.  She’s still angry when they get home, but decides to forgive him when Akiko tells them not to fight.  Nayuki says they’re even now, since she made Yuuichi wait at the station the day before too.  That evening, Yuuichi notices he doesn’t have an alarm clock, and when he asks Nayuki if she can lend him one, she says it’s no problem: she’s got a whole lot of alarm clocks in her room.  Yuuichi asks if she collects them, but Nayuki tells him that’s not why she’s got so many.
That night, Yuuichi is having a dream of his past.  He had promised Nayuki to go shopping with her, but didn’t want to go in the end because it was cold.  He ended up going with her anyway, and back then, she also asked him to wait for her.  Then a crying girl came to him.  When he asked her what her name was, she tells him it’s Ayu.

Well, that’s it for the beginning of the story.  I’ve seen up to episode 17 now, and all I can say is that once again Kanon has become my favourite anime.  This version is much better that the 2002 version though, and I already liked that one so much.  If you’re not watching this show, go watch it! Now! 

  
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Hello everyone

I’m really sorry for not writing anything for such a long time, but I’ve been very busy for school.  Now my exams are finally over and I’ve got a week off, so I’ll be writing quite some reviews next week! ^_^

I watched this series while it was airing in Japan, but I’ve had lots to do these few past weeks so I didn’t have the chance to blog this series yet.  Therefore I’ll just treat it like a series I’ve seen as a whole and just give some remarks on the series.

First of all, I never thought Zero no Tsukaima would know such popularity among anime-fans.  It seemed cool to me, but usually those magical-fantasy shows aren’t too popular.  I think the whole "Harry Potter-hype" may have made some people watch this show.  The show starts of rather slowly, but they manage to work out all elements in 13 episodes so that’s good.  I know many people are now hoping for a second season, but I think everything got resolved nicely like this, so there is no real need for a second season.  If there would be one anyway, I’ll be sure to watch though ^_^

At first I didn’t really like Louise, but I didn’t really dislike her either.  I did think Kirche was a real bitch in the beginning, but she turns out not to be all that bad.  She’s a really good friend, certainly for Tabitha.  It was clear that this would be a love story, and of course Louise doesn’t want to admit her feelings, but she does get angry when Saito is just talking to other girls.  I know that’s a typical anime character, but I always think it’s irritating.  It’s clear that Siesta also has feelings for Saito, but I think he just sees her as a friend, and he just wants to talk to her, there’s nothing wrong with that.The love-potion incident was very funny: suddenly Louise became a lot nicer, I don’t understand why Saito would want to change her back, personally I liked her a lot better that way.  The kiss with Henrietta was also funny, I wonder how one can be so stupid XD I guess you need to be an anime-character to do such a thing.  Or perhaps Saito did it on purpose :p 

I immediately hated that Ward-sama.  I figured out pretty soon what was going on.  Furthermore, I just didn’t like his attitude, acting like he’s so perfect.  Of course he knew Louise was actually pretty strong, but he wouldn’t have been able to make her full power appear anyway, she needed her Gandalfr for that ^_^

Overall this series was really good.  I admit it was rather short and I would also have liked more episodes, but I think they managed nicely to put the story in 13 episodes without leaving us with questions.

As usual, for a more in-depth description of the series see Random Curiosity. 

Our heroes have finally arrived in Heaven.  When they want to go and see the Seraph, they are stopped by the army of angels and Vulcanus.  He accuses Flonne of committing a sin in the netherworld, by hurting other angels.  Laharl realises it was Vulcanus who led the humans to the netherworld and wants to attack him, but he lets the army attack.  They are easily defeated, but then Vulcanus calls some demons he’s made a deal with.  Of course Etna and Laharl defeat those demons, but Vulcanus escapes before Laharl can attack him.  Flonne wonders what’s going on and she suggests to go and see the Seraph for explanations.  At the shrine, Flonne is very happy to see Lamington-sama again.  She asks him why he hasn’t stopped Vulcanus of attacking the netherworld, and Lamington-sama says it was to help the netherworld.  Laharl gets angry from his explanations, because he thinks the Seraph is only trying to talk himself out of things.  Vulcanus however, thinks that Flonne and the demons have influenced the Seraph and he takes his sword to destroy him.  But of course Lamington-sama is stronger and he punishes Vulcanus for his sins, by turning him into a frog.  Etna thinks this is very funny, but Laharl gets angry with the angels for using such methods.  Lamington-sama explains he sent Flonne to the netherworld to awaken Laharl, because he knew that the netherworld wouldn’t know peace as long as Laharl was asleep.  He wanted Laharl to learn about love.  Flonne is surprised to hear this but she’s also happy.  Laharl on the other hand is getting more and more annoyed.  When the Seraph tells Flonne that she still has to get punished for her sin, Laharl and Etna get really angry, they think Flonne has done nothing wrong.  Flonne accepts the punishment and she asks Laharl to hold onto her pendant for her.  Then she gets enveloped in light, and Laharl takes the pendant: it doesn’t hurt him anymore.  When the light disappears…

I’m going to let you watch for yourselves (if you haven’t done so yet ^_^)  I’m a bit disappointed that not everything gets solved in this last episode.  The series as such wasn’t all that good either, but it was enjoyable enough ^_^

  
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Xiang Ying is angry with Ryo because he gets up when it’s already noon, and she wants to go and check the message board.  Ryo isn’t in a hurry though, he wants to eat a nice breakfast first, but Xiang Ying has already eaten and she goes to check the message board alone.  Ryo then goes to the Cat’s Eye to eat, and there Umibouzu tells him that Xing Hong also refuses to eat with him.  Then Ryo notices that there’s a new Chinese restaurant nearby.  It appears that old Chen is the master of the restaurant.  Chen himself then comes to great Ryo, just when Xiang Ying returns from the station.  Ryo suggests that Xiang Ying helps the old man in his restaurant, and Umibouzu sends Xing Hong along too.  Xing Hong is already used to serving people, ut Xiang Ying isn’t and she makes a lot of mistakes.  She asks Chen if she really is much of a help if he always has to apologize for her mistakes, but of course he tells her she is a great help ^_^  Xiang Ying then asks him why all the people in the restaurant seem to be having so much fun eating.  Chen tells her it’s because they are eating together with the people they love.  Xiang Ying doesn’t understand this, but she decides to keep working.  Then, the local yakuza boss comes in with two underlings, because Chen didn’t pay him to open a restaurant in the city.  Of course he doesn’t know the business is run by Chen, but Mochiyama, who is with him, soon recognizes Xiang Ying and Xing Hong and gets scared and tries to get his boss to leave.  When the boss finds a band aid on his omelet, he gets angry and starts to make an uproar.  His underling attacks Xiang Ying, but of course she defeats him and his boss soon enough.  When she is threatening the yakuza boss, the underling wants to attack her again, but Xing Hong knocks him down again.  Chen then comes to see what all the commotion is about and when the yakuza boss recogizes him he apologizes and even leaves Mochiyama there to help Chen.  When Ryo arrives that evening, chen serves a meal for him, Xing Hong and Xiang Ying to thank them for their help.  Xiang ying enjoys eating together, but she and Xing Hong finish their meals quickly and Ryo tells her to eat more slowly.  Later, Ryo is talking to chen and he tells her that not only master Li, but also his brother, before his death, asked him to look after Xiang Ying.  Qian De even wrote in his will that he leaves everything to Xiang Ying.  Umibouzu says that Ryo would use up all of that money in one week, but that seems rather impossible since the total amount  equals one year’s worth of the National budget ^_^ The next morning, Xiang Ying wakes Ryo up so they can eat breakfast together.  She starts to eat fast again, but then remebers to eat more slowly, to enjoy the food together with Ryo.

I liked this episode, it once again shows how much Xiang ying has to learn about normal life.  It was nice to see old Chen again, it seems he’s going to watch over Xiang Ying from now on.  Next episode seems to be another City hunter job.

  
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This series is one of my favorite series, so I really enjoyed watching it a second time and i’ve still been laughing just as much.  This series is so calm and it manages to be funny without any fanservice.  It’s even funnier than all those fanservice-series ^_^  I still don’t know which of Kozue’s personalities I like best, I like all of them.  Maybe I like Chiyuri-chan the least, because she’s just irritating with her men-fobia, but in the end she wasn’t all that bad.  The same goes for Tamami-chan.  If she really loves Kozue, why won’t she let her be with Shiratori, if she knows that makes her happy?  But in the end she realised this ^_^ well, she is a genius so what else can we expect?

I usually don’t like the loud characters, like Saki-chan, but for some reason I immediately did like Saki-chan.  She may be loud and rough but she’s definately not a bad person.  Nanako-chan is just too cute ^_^ but poor Shiratori had to go through some embarassing moments with her (tsk tsk, children these days :p)  I told you my opinion on Chiyuri already, so I’m not going to repeat myself.  And Natsume, well, she’s definately the cutest of all Kozue’s alters ^_^ and she only gets along with Shiratori, good job Shiratori ^_^ I understand why she would run away from all those noisy people.  Kozue is of course the  main female character and she is just… how should I say this?  She’s perfect: she’s sweet, will always help everyone, can cook, takes care of Narutakisou by her self, even though she’s a high school girl.  Like Tamami-chan says: Kozue is just lovely ^_^ I really like her character too.

Sayoko is so funny, I really laughed a lot, but it was nice to see how in the end she CAN make her own decisions, and how she does know what she wants.  I totally agree with her vision on love by the way: that is the way love should be, you love ONE person, and never again someone else.  Asami is cute, sometimes she can be too "genki" ^_^ but it makes a nice compensation for Sayoko’s gloomyness.  Momono, well, I don’t have much to say about her, sometimes she can be irritating, but she’s a good person.  And Haibara/ Johny… he doesn’t do all that much in the series, he helps keeping the things funny I guess.

From all the side-characters (and there’s a lot of them) I liked Buchou best ^_^ she’s so hilarious.  The way how she acts when someone insults her ^_^ and the fact she can’t stand garlic, she’s mysterious and still it is funny when watching her.  Shirogane-sensei was also an interesting character.  I still wonder what she does to the students in that room >_<

Overall, this series is really really good, I don’t rewatch bad series, so if you haven’t seen it yet, you should do so ^_^ if you don’t, you’re missing out on a great series.

If you want to know more about Mahoraba, go here for a more complete description of the episodes.

Vulcanos makes our heroes strand on the snowfield that crosses the moon.  There, they see many Prinnies, but when Laharl calls for the Prinnies to make him some food, they come to greet him and then leave again.  This annoys Laharl greatly, but then the red prinny appears and tells him to leave the Prinnies be.  Now Laharl gets even more angry and he leaves.  Flonne keeps talking to the red prinny, she noticed this prinny is different then the others.  The prinny denies this, but he does tell Flonne that he’s happy that Laharl has such good people around him, and that his hart has started to open for love.  Flonne is very happy to hear that someone else also thinks that way ^_^  Meanwhile, Laharl has chased away Etna because she made a joke about the prinnies running away from Laharl because he isn’t nice to them.  When Flonne goes to him end tells him he should consider other people’s feelings, he gets even more angry.  Flonne then goes and talk to Etna, who tells her why Laharl is like that.  Laharl’s mother, the Queen was a human and she was always telling him about love.  Once, Laharl became ill though, and the only way to heal him was to sacrifice the life of the one who loved him most: his mother.  After his mother’s death, Laharl started to hate everything concerning love.  Suddenly the moon becomes dark and three creatures appear from it.  They activate some kind of beam that sucks out the prinnies’ souls and leads them to the red moon.  Laharl notices the beam, and also Etna and Flonne are watching it.  Then Mid-boss appears with Laharl, and the red Prinny with Etna and Flonne, and they explain what’s happening: these prinnies have already repented for their sins, so their soul gets to go to the red moon, where they can find rest.  When Laharl hears this, he gets angry again and flies up to the beam to stop the prinnies.  Mid-boss tries to convince him not to, but Laharl send him flying and goes to the beam.  There, the three guardians of the prinnies’ souls stop him.  Mid-boss comes back and tells him once more that the prinnies have already repented for their sins.  Laharl keeps fighting the guardians, but then the red prinny also asks him to stop.  He tells Laharl that he should be compassionate to his underlings.  The talk of the red prinny reminds Laharl of his mother, so he stops.  When the red prinny is about to leave into the beam, Flonne asks him what his sin was.  The prinny tells them that he threw away his life, to save his child.  Everyone now realises who the prinny is.  Flonne says it’s cruel of her to leave once more without saying goodbye to her son, but the queen says that that’ s a cruel thing to say.  She wants to hold her child, but they already had to say goodbye once, so making it fast is also a way of showing love.  Then her soul leaves into the light, and Laharl keeps looking at it until it reaches the moon.  Flonne than realises Laharl must really love his mother and she thanks the queen for showing her an other vision on love.  The next day, Mid-boss appears again and is talking to Laharl about how he now is truely a great king.  Flonne notices how Laharl and Mid-boss look alike, but Etna doesn’t see it.  Then Laharl opens the way to heaven.

One more episode ^_^ I’ve been wondering if Mid-boss is perhaps Laharl’s brother?  They don’t give an answer to that in the last episode either, so I don’t really know.  Next time they arrive in heaven.  It may take a while before I make a summary of episode 12, because I don’t have it here, I’ll try to do it as soon as possible though. 

  
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I had already seen AIR, but my boyfriend hadn’t, so I watched it a second time together with him.  It’s a good thing I did though, because the second half of the story gets rather difficult and i didn’t completely understand the story the first time.  Now, for all people who are like me and who don’t really understand what happens, I will explain it here ^_^ If you haven’t seen AIR yet, shame on you! Go watch it NOW! Then read the rest of this article :p

Now, my explanation starts at the ending of episode 7: Yukito returns to Misuzu, he managed to put his feelings into his puppeteering, but Misuzu doesn’t respond.  Then the doll starts to glow and he sees a scene from the past, his mother tells him that he has to decide what he wants to do.  This happens because the power of his mother and Yukito ancestors are captured inside the doll.  Yukito then decides he wants to be with Misuzu, he wants to relive everything from the moment they met (now this is very important!)  We get more explanations through Kanna’s story, in episode 9.  The only thing Kanna wanted was to meet her mother.  Her mother dies before they can really be together though.  Furthermore, she is cursed, and Kanna, by touching her mother, is now also cursed.  Later, Uraha explains more: Kanna’s soul is not able to get to rest, first of all because of her mother’s curse, and also because the monks put another curse on her.  Now her soul will try to find another host on earth, but a human isn’t big enough to contain Kanna’s soul.  This is why, one: Misuzu is ill, two: not only Misuzu carries a part of Kanna’s soul, but other people as well (the children we see in the end).  Now Kanna wanted to meet her mother, Misuzu also wants to be with her mother, but she kept sticking to Yukito in stead.  Therefore, Yukito had to go in order to make Misuzu get along with her mother, BUT he wanted to relive everything, so he returns as the crow Sora.  The real Yukito is also still walking around, because that happened and cannot be undone.  Now, when Misuzu feels so lonely, suddenly Sora remembers who he was and Yukito appears very shortly to tell Misuzu not to give up.  Misuzu then decides she wants to be with her mother (Haruko) but unfortunately she later gets into the stage of forgetting everything.  Now, the final goad Misuzu reaches in the end is her mother.  She dies BUT everything is now solved, Kanna’s soul can rest, she got to be with her mother.  The crow Sora also flies up to the sky and the two children, they are like Yukito and Misuzu were, but because Kanna’s soul has come to rest, they will be able to live normal lives.

I hope my explanation was somehow clear.  If you didn’t understand whole of the series, even after reading my explanation it might be good to rewatch it.

For more info on the series and the movie in general see Satoshi’s Corner

When the humans fire their canon, Laharl activates his bracelet and repels the attack, destroying the canon.  Meanwhile, Jennifer tells Flonne about what happened in the past: the Defenders of Earth were created, because earth became over-populated, causing criminality to grow.  The original idea was to populate the universe, but suddenly the general had decided to take over the Netherworld instead: everything would be ok once the demons were all dead.  Then Thursday comes in, the General wants to see Jennifer.  Jennifer decides to go and talk to her father.  While the door is still open, Etna and Flonne manage to escape.  Flonne wants to find out what Heaven has got to do with all of this, and she soon finds a clue when she sees the canon.  But when they reach it, there are soldiers who capture them again.  In the meantime, Jennifer is with her father, trying to convince him that what he’s doing is wrong.  The General makes it seem as if he’ll listen to her at first, but then he knocks her unconscious.  Flonne and Etna are still in trouble, surrounded by soldiers, but Etna calls the Prinnies, who take the soldiers away.  Then Etna orders them to destroy the spaceship.  When Flonne goes to check out the canon, it gets activated again.  The next moment, we see Jennifer waking up: she is tied to an operation table and her father is about to do something to her to make her cooperate with him again.  It was Curtis who was firing the canon again, but when he wants to shoot,the Prinnies arrive and start to destroy everyting.  Then Laharl and Gordon arrive at the ship, but when Gordon asks where Jennifer is, Curtis only tells him that the General is transforming her.  Flonne imagines some kind of giant robot when she hears "transforming" and is very eager to see the transformation ^_^; Then Curtis shows that his arms are made of metal and he tells his story: Laharl and Etna aren’t interested in hearing it, so they leave to find Jennifer ^_^; Five years ago, Curtis’ wife and daughter died in a terrorrist bombing.  He survived, but had to have 70% of his body replaced by artificial parts.  Curtis is angry with Gordon because saving humans should be the purpose of being a defender of Earth.  Gordon says that by invading the Netherworld, the will probably save the humans, but it is still wrong if it costs the life of so many demons.  Curtis only thinks about his family that’s lost and doesn’t want to listen to any arguments.  He wants to destroy the defenders of Earth and become one himself to save humans.  when he wants to shoot Gordon, Flonne interferes.  She tells Curtis that demons also have families they love, and Gordon says thathis family in heaven won’t be happy seeing him killing others.  Then the ship explodes, and Curtis is trapped in flames.  When Gordon and Flonne want to help him, he tells them where they can find Jennifer, and asks them to leave him.  When Flonne and Gordon arrive, Laharl and Etna are already there, and the General shows them Jennifer.  She still looks the same, she’s just wearing a device that controls her mind.  He tells her to destroy the others and Jennifer starts attacking Gordon.  Just when Gordon is about to lose, Kurtis appears.  The General feels trapped, so he wants to let the device explode, but Kurtis manages to free Jennifer of it and jumps out of the window taking the device with him.  Gordon is shocked to see him sacrifice himself like that, and no one notices that the General is trying to escape.  They manage to stop him outside, but then the angel soldiers from heaven appear, and they help him!  Flonne repels their attack, but ends up killing some of them.  After killing the angel soldiers, Laharl demands an explanation from the General. He tells them that indeed heaven helped them invade the netherworld.  When they aren’t looking, the General managed to escape though, but Mid-boss is on his ship as well, telling him that it’s impossible for him to save earth, if he would even sacrifice his own daughter.  When everything’s over, Gordon makes a treaty with Laharl not to bother each other anymore, then he and his team return home, but they leave the big battleship behind.  Laharl is happy with the treaty, now he also has control over the humanworld ^_^;  Flonne then also says goodbye, she has to go to heaven to see what’s wrong.Laharl decides to go with her: he wants to conquer heaven too.  So they leave with the battleship, but the ship stops on some weird planet with a red moon.  Meanwhile, the dark angel, Vulcanus has seen everything and is getting worried.  The Seraph, Lamington-sama, tells him he’s done a good job.

Two more episodes to go.  I’ll get them up as soon as possible ^_^

  
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