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Xiang Ying is still planning on killing Kishimoto.  Meanwhile, Ryo has spotted Tanya’s father, with the help of Umibozu.  He then takes Tanya out to the playground she always goes to, and she introduces him to her best friend, Kuma-san.  It seems that the bear who heands out balloons at the playground is actually Katsumi.  Ryo sends Tanya away for a while and goes and talk to Katsumi.  He tells Ryo that Kishimoto had gotten funds to build a school in the Ruzen Republic.  However, Kishimoto let a crooked construction company build the school and kept the money for himself.  Katsumi feels terrible for letting those children die and not doing anything about it.  He doesn’t want Kishimoto to die, but he wants the truth to be found out, to make Kishimoto see his mistake.  At Cat’s Eye, Xin Hong is worried about Xiang Ying and he wants to go and look for her, but Umibozu stops him.  Xiang Ying is still checking out the best sniping position.  The next day she has her chance to shoot Kishimoto, but when she wants to pull the trigger, she can’t.  Ryo is very proud of her, but Xiang Ying thinks she can’t be City Hunter if she can’t shoot.  Meanwhile, Ryo has asked Master Li to let the news about Kishimoto leak out to the Taiwanese Press.  Ryo and Xiang Ying then go to Tanya’s school with Tanya’s mother.  There, Ryo tells Tanya that he isn’t her real father, and Tanya already knew, but she thinks her real father is dead and really wanted a daddy.  Then Kuma-san turns up and exposes himself to a surprised Tanya and Irina, who are very happy, finally their family is together again.  xiang Ying starts crying seeing the family reunited again, but doesn’t understand why.  That evening, Xiang Ying is constantly practising her shooting, until Ryo comes to stop her.  He tells her that Kaori couldn’t shoot either, nor did she know any martial arts, and still she was a wonderful City Hunter. When they’re at home, Ryo finds Xiang Ying sleeping, completely exhausted.  He touches her chest and hears Kaori’s voice, telling him that Xiang Ying has a very fragile heart and to take good care of her.  Ryo then realizes it was Kaori who stopped Xiang Ying from shooting.  He leaves the room, leaving a tear on Xiang Ying’s cheek.

This was a good episode.  A lot of things happened, Tanya’s case is solved and Xiang Ying’s character has also been developed a bit more.  Ryo even got to talk to Kaori now ^_^  I’m really starting to like this series more and more.

  
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Laharl and Etna are walking through a forest, and Laharl is constantly getting attacked by demons.  He wonders why, but then he notices one of Etna’s posters and swear to find the one who put a price on his head. Luckily for Etna, he doesn’t suspect her.  Meanwhile, Flonne is alone in a desert and she can’t find Laharl and Etna, but she decides to continue searching for them, it must be a test.  Captain Gordon and his team also got word of the reward on Laharl’s head, and so they equip Thursday with a "Laharl radar" and go and look for him.  Laharl and Etna have also lost their way, but they soon reach a mansion, where a lady gives them a nice meal.  While they are eating she takes her sword and wants to kill Laharl, but at that moment captain Gordon arrives and they accidentaly stop her.  The woman then introduces herself as the demon slayer Sardia and she swears to destroy Laharl and get the money. She makes Etna and Laharl fall into a hole, filled with spears, but Laharl can make them float, so they arrive safely on the ground.  Captain Gordon’s team suggests to Sardia, to split the reward, but she then makes them fall into a hole too.  In the mean time, night has fallen, and Flonne is still lost in the desert.  Laharl and Etna are looking for a way out of the hole, and Etna makes a torch, but she accidentaly drops it and everyting catches fire.  Luckily a sprinkler system makes it go out again.  Only, it’s not a sprinkler system but a water trap, and everything gets filled with water.  Sardia is watching the whole scene through a hole in the wall.  Then she releases Mizuchi, a watermonster who likes to eat demons and Etna and Laharl are having a hard time to stay out of its range.   Laharl manages to ride the monster’s back and break the glass behind which Sardia is watching.  They can escape now, but captain Gordon has less luck, because the hole they are in also gets filled with water.  Flonne has reached the mansion and collapses, to be found by Sardia who wants her to help her to destroy Laharl, but of course Flonne refuses.  Laharl arrives just in time to save her and he is about to fight Sardia, when Mid-boss appears.  in the end, everyone ignores him and Laharl defeats Sardia without much effort.  He tells her she is his servant too now, and she has to lead him to the one who put a prize on his head.  Flonne is very happy now there is another servant, but Laharl tells her she is still the lowest servant.  They go on their way, but Sardia is still planning to kill Laharl.  Meanwhile, captain Gordon and his team manage to escape, but they are alone now.  Inside the mansion, Mid-boss is also still alone, talking to himself.

Don’t ask me why, but I didn’t like this episode.  That Sardia was irritating and Mid-boss and captain Gordon were only in it to fill some more time.  Perhaps I didn’t like it because there wasn’t much Flonne.

  
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Flonne wakes up Laharl because there is an emergency.  The prinnies have gone on strike until they get paid.  They need money, because they are the souls of sinners, and they can only come to rest when they gain the right amount of money by doing good jobs.  Laharl thinks Etna should pay them, but she says it’s his task.  Laharl doesn’t want to pay the prinnies and tells Flonne to cook in stead, but Flonne’s cooking is so bad that he soon decides to go and rob some rich folks’ homes for money.  Meanwhile, the old butler of Laharl’s father, Jenisky, has stolen the demon’s book which proves one is king and proclaimed himself king, but his son, Koganesky, isn’t happy with this because his father does nothing else but count his money.  Therefore he steals the book from his father and goes to sell it.  At the secondhand shop, captain Gordon and his team are selling their valuables to gain some money for the repairs on their spaceship.  Jennifer finds the demon’s book and buys it.  Then Laharl and the others arrive at the shop to sell the stolen stuff and Etna again has to try to keep the poster with an amount on Laharl’s head out of his sight.  Laharl notices a lot of stuff out of the palace at the secondhand shop and he angry someone dared to rob him.   Then he suddenly remembers something of his past and the demon’s book.  Koganesky appears and tells Laharl about the book and his father. He asks him to destroy his father, but Flonne thinks that Koganesky actually likes his father.  Laharl gets very angry when he hears that Jenisky has proclaimed himself king and is more than willing to take him down.  Then some demons try to destroy him (because of Etna’s poster) but Laharl is so annoyed he sends them flying before they can do anything.  At Jenisky’s palace, he quickly destroys his bodyguards and Jenisly himself isn’t a match for Laharl.  But when he wants to destroy him, Koganesky jumps in front of his father.  He doesn’t want him to die, he just wanted his old father back.  Laharl gets annoyed by the happy scene of father and son reuniting, and he sends them to another dimension.  Flonne is very happy that Laharl didn’t kill them ^_^ Later, Laharl is thinking about a time his father asked him if he liked him, and Laharl had said he hated his father.  Then the king had said it didn’t matter at the time, and Laharl wonders what he had ment.  At their spaceship, captain Gordon is watching the demon’s book and he seems to notice something.

In this episode we get to know more about the book one needs to be king of the netherworld, and about Laharl’s father.  Also we learn more about the prinnies and we finally see some demons react to Etna’s poster.  This episode was rather good because of all those elements that get exploited ^_^

  
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Laharl, Etna and Flonne are walking around, on their way to the castle, and Laharl gets annoyed by Etna’s stories and Flonne, who remebers the white flowers in heaven.  Laharl wants to go to an inn but there is no inn near, only the "makai hihoukan" (netherworld treasure vault).  Flonne thinks "hihoukan" is a very nice word ^_^; but Laharl just wants to sleep and doesn’t really care about the place.  A prinnie comes in and starts handing out an "extra" and gets hit by Etna: it’s the message that Laharl has arrived with a price on his head that Etna had the prinnies distribute.  Of course Laharl isn’t supposed to know anything about it.  Etna manages to fool Laharl by hiding the amount of money and everyone goes to sleep.  But that night the weird angel comes there and he accidentaly pushes some rock.  The next morning, Etna and Flonne have their personalities switched!  At first the prinnies are very happy, finally Etna cares about them.  She decides to give the others a guided tour, but after some games, that Flonne likes very much, Laharl grows tired of it.  Even the prinnies don’t like the change anymore, because Etna still makes them work very hard, only she tells them to do it for good, but the outcome is still the same.  Then captain Gordon and his team come in and they investigate the two girls, but since they can’t think of a solution, Laharl sends them flying.  Then mid-boss (who is at the place as a statue) tells Laharl he may save the girls, when they enter a certain door.  No one who has ever entered that door is known to have come out though.  The prinnies are very happy to hear about it and throw our three heroes in.  There, everyone sees their own weaknesses, but because Etna and Flonne have switched personalities, they manage to overcome their fears.  They encourage Laharl to blow up the place, but then three demons come who try to stop them.  Laharl blows it up anyhow and everything is fine again.  When they are leaving, a stone gets activated again, and now everyone has their personalities switched.

This episode wasn’t too good but I guess we need some lighter episodes as well.  We do get to know more about Etna’s plan to take over the throne.

  
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Someone is flying around, but his aircraft crashes.  Meanwhile, two people are fighting a monster, one does the fighting, the other supports him by singing.  They then talk about Orica, who can’t sing.  They are Ravateel, who sing to support and heal.  Orica is standing by herself, trying to sing, but it won’t work.  Then she sees the airplane crash and she goes and have a look.  She finds the boy riding the aircraft unconcious, and tries to heal him with her song, but he wakes up.  The boy introduces himself as Laina.  He is very excited when he hears Orica’s a Ravateel, and he doesn’t listen to her when she tells him her song didn’t heal him.  Laina comes from the big tower that’s standing in that world, and he has to get back up there, but the aircraft is broken.  When he is trying to start it, it falls even deeper, with both Orica and Laina in it.  They pass a girl, locked up in an airship who sees them falling.  They fell quite deep and it takes them some time to get out of there, but when they do thay notice they’re at Hotaru Alley, the place where Laina wanted to go to have his airship repaired.  No engineer wants to go and make it though.  When they reach the last engineershop in the town, they see Laina’s airship standing there.  The owner of the place, Cruze, found it and brought it there.  She only wants to give it back for 100 000 leafs, but Laina doesn’t have so much money.  When he and Orica are outside, thinking what to do, a monster attacks the town.  Laina is going to lure it away from the town and he tells Orica to get away.  He then lures the monster to Cruze’s place and they lure it away in the airship.  Orica decided not to be such a coward anymore and she hid in the airship as well.  Now they are triying to fly into brastiline, a place which is a mass of energy.  Any normal aircraft would break, but Cruze fixed this one so it can handle it.  The monster keeps following them though,so Laina goes out to fight it, but he isn’t strong enough.  Then Orica decides she wants to help Laina.  she also goes out and sings a song out of her heart.  It heals Laina and fires up his sword, so he can defeat the monster.  Then the airship breaks down again and it starts falling again.  The girl who’s locked up in an other aircraft sees it falling again.  She hopes it is Laina, who comes to save her. 

I really liked this story and I really regret there will be no more episodes, especially because it had such an open ending.  This story has a lot of potential, but I guess it didn’t have enough success to make more episodes.

  
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We see Tomari pack her suitcase.  Then she thinks back at the promise she made with Yasuna: to leave things the way they are for now, so they won’t cause Hazumu more pain.  The next day, Hazumu has four tickets for Sea Side Park and she wants to go the day after with Yasuna, Tomari and Ayuki.  Asuta feels left out again, but this time, even Hazumu has no compassion for her friend.  Yasuna is very excited about going, but it seems Tomari can’t go with them: she is leaving on training camp for 5 days.  Ayuki also says she has something to do the next day, so Hazumu and Yasuna want to go some other time.  Because you can only get a keychain from the park the next day, and Hazumu really wants it, Tomari tells the two girls to go together.  Yasuna asks Tomari if it’s really ok if she goes alone with Hazumu, but Tomari reminds her of their promise and tells Yasuna she trusts her because they are friends.  Ayuki then asks Yasuna if she will be successfull, but Yasuna says she thinks that being like this is fine. 

At home, Hazumu’s father is making his camera ready to take lots of pictures of Hazumu at the aquarium, but Hazumu’s mother stops him. Meanwhile, Jan-puu is sad because she and Sora have to go for a few days, and she wanted to go to Sea Side Park with Hazumu.  At trainingcamp, Tomari overhears some girls talking about a kiss, and she remembers the time when Yasuna kissed Hazumu and in her imagination replaces Yasuna for herself.  The girls then ask her what she’s thinking of and ask her if her love is Hazumu, and when they tell Tomari that it can never work between them because Hazumu has changed into a girl, she gets angry.

The next day at Sea Side Park, Yasuna and Hazumu are having lots of fun and one moment they come into a room with sea fireflies.  It is so romantic, and they are surrounded by couples, so Yasuna grabs Hazumu’s arm and leans onto her shoulder.  Then Hazumu says she wants to show this to Tomari, and Yasuna remembers their promise and lets go of Hazumu.  When they are buying souvenirs, Yasuna suggests to surprise Tomari and bring her souvenir to her trainingcamp.  They go there by train, and then Hazumu calls Tomari, because they don’t know the location of the training camp.  While Hazumu is calling home, a man who works at the station tries to warn Yasuna that a train is coming.  Yasuna grows scared though, because she can’t see him.  The man comes closer and Yasuna starts to scream.  Hazumu runs over and tells the man that Yasuna can’t deal with strangers very well.  While she is still holding Yasuna to comfort her, Tomari arrives at the station.  She sees Yasuna and Hazumu, but from her point of view it looks as if they are kissing.  Tomari is shocked and feels betrayed by Yasuna.  She acts as if she hasn’t seen anything and takes Hazumu and Yasuna with her.  It seems there are no more trains back home, so Hazumu and Yasuna have to stay at the training camp for a night.  That evening, Tomari runs into Hazumu in the bath, and Hazumu tells Tomari that she looks like a fine lady with her hair down.  That night, Tomari can’t sleep and goes outside, but Hazumu wakes up when she leaves and follows her.  They then go and watch fireflies together, and Hazumu is very happy, but Tomari can’t hold back her feelings anymore.  She undoes her pony tails and asks Hazumu if she really looks like a women.  She then leans in to kiss her.  Yasuna, who is standing a bit further, watches them kiss and now she feels betrayed by Tomari.  In her anger she crushes the figurine they got at Sea Side Park.

The friendship between Yasuna and Tomari didn’t last very long, they have become rivals again.  In fact it’s all Hazumu’s fault, she should make up her mind.  I think Tomari should have asked them what that hug was about, because this all started with a stupid misunderstanding.  Tomari looks a lot better with her hair down though ^_^  I’m curious what will happen now, Yasuna seemed rather angry.

  
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Hazumu is having a dream about when she was a child.  She sees a pink and a white circle, but then the circles turn into Tomari and Yasuna, who run away.  Then Hazumu’s mother picks him up and runs away with him, while he’s crying.  The next day, Hazumu is sitting in a drinking place with Tomari, Yasuna and Ayuki and can’t decide what to take.  Tomari says that he’s always been so indecisive.  Ayuki then mentions the festival that’s going on at the shrine, and the four girls decide to go together that evening. Asuta, who is sitting a little further, feels left out and asks them to meet him there at six.  Ayuki says to meet at five and tells the girls to wear yukatas.  Tomari’s in a pinch, because she doesn’t have a yukata, but she doesn’t dare to tell the others.  Therefore, she decides to go and buy one, but they are all too expensive.  Luckily she meets Yasuna at the shop, and she is willing to lend Tomari a yukata.  In the mean time, Hazumu and Jan-puu are getting ready for the festival, and Hazumu’s parents tell a story of when Hazumu was young and went home crying after the festival, but Hazumu can’t remember. 

When they arrive at the festival, both Hazumu and Jan-puu are very excited, and Tomari and Yasuna both feel relieved.  It seems they noticed Hazumu’s sad face before, when mentioning the festival.  The girls are having lots of fun at the festival, and have completely forgotten about Asuta, who is still waiting for Hazumu and dreaming.  Namiko-sensei is also there, dreaming about Sora-sensei ^_^;  After a while the girls get hungry and Jan-puu wants to eat cotton candy.  Hazumu asks her which she likes best, the white or the pink, and Jan-puu says she likes pink best.  She then asks Hazumu the same question, but Hazumu can’t decide.  At that moment, Yasuna offers Hazumu some candied apple, and Tomari offers him some takoyaki, and Hazumu can’t decide again and runs off.  Sora-sensei finds her alone and uses the antenna on his head to read Hazumu’s memory.  When Hazumu was young he went to the festival with his parents and wasn’t able to decide which colour of cotton candy he wanted to eat.  Suddenly it started to rain, and they ran home, without any cotton candy.  His mother told Hazumu that it was his own fault and that one day he would have to make an important decision and be unable to do it.  Hazumu then starts crying because she realises that she will have to choose between Yasuna and Tomari, but she can’t.  The two girls happen to overhear Hazumu and Yasuna asks a favour of Tomari.  When Hazumu returns, both Yasuna and Tomari are carrying a cotton candy, a pink one and a white one, and Hazumu can have both ^_^ Then the girls go at the annual ritual, where one has to choose between two cups.  Tomari and Yasuna encourage Hazumu to choose, and even though she lost, she is happy that she was able to make a choice.  Then the fireworks start, and while the three girls are watching them together, Hazumu prays to God to give her a little more time, and that the three girls can stay together a little longer.

With only three episodes to go, it is clear that Hazumu will have to make a choice.  I felt sorry for Asuta in this episode, but I guess, as the story is coming to an end, there is no more room for him in the story, now it is really focussing on the three girls.  I am really curious who Hazumu is going to pick, I still think it should be Yasuna, but that may be a personal preference.

  
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Dai is starting his training under Avan, but Avan intends to make him a hero in one week, by letting him undergo the Special Extreme Training Course.  Pop doesn’t trust it, he claims that everyone who’s undergone the training has died, but Dai is very exited.  First, he has to run, with three big rocks attached to him.  Next, he has to break a very big rock with his sword, but Dai actually breaks the sword ^_^; Then Pop shows him a few tricks and they train together and get classes on Avan’s main techniques: the Ground Gash, the Sea Surge and the Aerial Assault.  They have to medidate to increase their magical powers, but Dai’s no good at it and when they actually have to do a magical attack, he fails completely.  Avan then decides he will train Dai’s swordmanship and not his magic.  After training a lot with the sword, Avan lets Dai slash the rock again and he succeeds ^_^ then he falls asleep, completely exhausted.  The next day, Dai continues his special training and Avan uses his special technique, the Avan Slash. Pop then sees that he is really serious about making Dai a hero in one week.  Dai is walking around alone and Avan lets some big rocks fall on him.  Dai uses the Ground Gash to destroy them.  But the Ground Gash is the most basic of the three attacks, so Dai still has a long way to go.  That night, Pop asks Dai why he goes through with the training, to save the monsters, or for the princess of Papunika, but Dai doesn’t answer him.  The next day, Avan and Dai go to train alone in a cave, and noone is allowed to go in.  In the cave, Avan changes into a dragon, and Dai has to defeat him.  But Gome-chan, who had been worried about Dai, went in anyway, and when he sees the dragon, he goes to get Pop to help Dai.  Meanwhile, Dai is having a hard time agains the dragon, but then he remembers Avan’s lessons and realises he’ll have to use the Sea Surge to defeat the dragon’s flames.  Pop arrives at the cave and enters with Brass and Gome.  At the same moment the dragon attacks and Dai does the Sea surge and there’s a big explosion. 

This is a double episode and they stop at a crucial moment so I’m very eager to see what happens next.  It’s only the fifth episode, to of course Dai will survive, but how will Avan survive this?

  
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I also watched this anime during my exams, another humoristic anime ^_^ although I liked it I’m really disapointed in the ending and it gave me a bad aftertaste of the show.  The ending was too open, actually nothing is solved, everything will just happen the same over and over.  Things seemed to have changed a little though, because Ayumi didn’t disappear again.

I also wonder if Maika knew about Haruo being the demon lord.  Why else was she so desperate not to make his magical powers wake up?  I think, since the time is being turned back every time, there’s aways a little bit that changes, and maybe some people knowing a little about it, without realising it themselves.

At first (the second episode) I liked Yuri best, because she stayed calm even though she had those feelings for Haruo.  She was the only one hiding them. But suddenly they changed her character and she became the same as the others, which I think was a little stupid. 

Besides, all those girls having feelings for Haruo didn’t really have much to do with the story, since he falls for Ayumi anyway =_= There is some competition, but what for?

Michiru is really a bitch (I had just been giving my boyfriend a lecture about not calling anime characters a bitch, because they don’t exist, but Michiru really pissed me off).  There’s nothing good in her, she even wants to kill her sister, and what for?  Power.  Such a person I do call a bitch.

Overall, this series wasn’t bad.  They tried to put some story into it, and some moments were really good, but I really think they better ended it some other way. If you can’t stand ecchi shows, you shouldn’t watch this though.

Want to know more about this?  Random Curiosity

When Ryo and Xiang Ying go check the message board, it seems as if there is no new assignment for Ryo, but then Xiang Ying discovers a small strap of paper with a message for XYZ.  She decides to take on the mission herself and goes to look for the person who wrote it.  It’s a little girl called Tanya, who wants City Hunter to look for her father.  The description she gives of her father seems a lot like Ryo, and when he comes in she really thinks he’s her father.  Xiang Ying isn’t very happy, so Ryo tells her he isn’t really Tanya’s father, but he can’t possibly tell the girl.  He does have an idea about who her mother is: she looks a lot like a hostess from a club he knows.  Later Tanya, Ryo and Xiang Ying go to talk to the girls mother.  On their way their, Xiang Ying remembers a scene from her past: she had drawn her mother and father, because she was starting to forget their faces.  The guys in her organisation then made her shoot the drawing.  When they arrive at the club, Tanya’s mother, Irina, is very surprised to see Ryo, then she tells him she used his description because Tanya kept asking about her father.  Tanya’s real father is Kurahashi Katsumi.  Ryo recognizes that name: six years ago Katsumi is sais to have taken money from the Luzen Republic.  But Irina says it wasn’t Katsumi, but his boss, Kishimoto.  Xiang Ying decides to help Kurahashi, because she wants to see Tanya’s genuine smile.  The next day, Ryo discovers one of his guns is missing, and Xiang Ying is looking for a good spot to shoot Kishimoto.  She thinks that if he’s gone, Kurahashi won’t have any more reason to hide.

This is a double episode, so I can’t wait to see what will happen next: will Ryo stop Xiang Ying, will she shoot Kishimoto and then realize it doesn’t help?  And will Tanya realize that Ryo isn’t her real father?

 
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