Higurashi no Naku Koro ni 17

See, 17 already!

Anyway, the episode starts out and Shion calls Satoshi, Satoshi tells her he’s sorry about the other day and that its his fault. During the conversation Satoshi asks “Mion” who is really still Shion, to take Satoko to the Watanagashi with her so that Satoko can have one last good night. This is what was referred to when Keeichi did the same thing to kill the uncle. After, he starts getting paranoid and talking about how Oyashiro wont forgive him, even though he’s decided to stay because of it. Anyway, he tells his aunt about this cabinet thing thats out in the forest with a bunch of other thrown out crap, and she comes that night to get it, and he’s right behind her with his bat. He beats the shit out of her and blood splatters everywhere and you find out soon after he smashed her face in so much that the police cant identify her body. After Shion helps Satoshi reserve a big stuffed animal for Satoko’s birthday, Ooishi shows up wants to question Satoshi. Shion gets in the way and tells them who she really is, and then throws out some bullshit about her and Satoshi being at Angel Mort all night talking. The cops take her and Satoshi to the station anyway for individual questioning, once Shion is done she leaves only to see several members of the Sonozaki estate waiting for her. She asks where Kasai is, he’s her bodyguard guy who helped keep her safe, and they dont respond. The men take her to the estate and she is escorted by Mion to the ‘underground shrine’ which is the torture room you have seen earlier in the series that Mion uses during the stabbing nails into Keiichi scene, har har. Anyway, after trying to stand up for herself, even Mion cant help her and she becomes quite serious. She explains that both Kasai and the uncle who was letting Shion work at his store under Mion’s name are both behind the large doors in the room.

She ends up finally begging for forgiveness so that they wont hurt Kasai, the uncle, or Satoshi. Mion asks her how she will show her forgiveness, and decides for her bringing out the fingernail removing thing introduced earlier in the series as well. According to Mion, for each nail she tears off they will distinguish that repentance, so she has to tear off 3 nails. Anyway, she does it, and its painful, albeit not anywhere nearly as bad as people make it out to be. After that she goes back to town to work and Ooishi talks to her again. He tells her that he believes Satoshi killed his aunt and disappeared, and that he wasnt able to buy the stuffed animal for Satoko. Anyway, Kasai (who they really did let go without anything because she took off the nails) tells her that they found out there was someone imitating the murders of past years and that it wasnt Satoshi. Albeit, we saw it happen and saw that it WAS Satoshi, so blargh.

The next episode though, i believe Shion is going to kill Satoshi, cuz if you look its got her crazy face and it says something about her demon finally coming out. So yeah.

Higurahi no Naku Koro ni 16

Im an episode behind, meh, too bad. Ill get 17 done by today or tomorrow probably.

The Detective Chapter – First Love
Anyway, this is the beginning of the new arc thats going to replay the 2nd arc through Shion’s eyes. So it starts off with Shion sneaking out of her boarding school and driving away with some awesome Yakuza guys from their family. She explains about how she was hated by the family because the ‘rules’ were to strangle one of the babies if there were twins, so as to make the whole ‘whose gonna be heir’ thing simpler. Anyway they shipped Shion off to a boarding school so she would be away from them, and took Mion to the main house to get her ready to become the heir to the Sonozaki Family. Shion isnt allowed to be in town, but she calls up her sister and they agree to have their uncle treat Shion as Mion while she works at his shop. After hearing about Oyashiro’s curse and such, Shion asks Mion more about it and meets her in a library. Both being twins, they look exactly the same, but Shion being the disguise master she is, wears a gigantic blue hat so that noone can tell that the two long-green-haired girls with the same exact body and face are related. And it works perfectly. Later on though, Mion calls Shion and warns her that Oni-baba (lol) found out about Shion being in town and wants Mion to bring her to the house. Shion goes shopping, ends up knocking over some bikes infront of the store because they tore her bags open, and is then assaulted by Kishidan (minus one member) who speak only in the funny sounds japanese thugs can make. A kid who looks like a younger Keeichi but with blonde hair shows up and yells at the three guys, and before he gets the shit beat out of him a police man comes as well and the bikers run off. After that, the kid starts talking to Shion thinking its Mion and we are told that this is Satoshi.

After the half-way break Shion and Mion are talking on the phone again, and Shion learns more about Satoshi and his family, as well as Satoko. Then Shion goes to one of Satoshi’s baseball games and brings some refreshments, and two random players stare at them with such amazement and awe that i can only imagine what kind of flavors she brought with her. Here she meets “The Director”/the doctor guy/the captain of the team. After a talk about how Satoshi’s aunt it beating the shit out of Satoko more lately, Satoshi gets a symbolic out and after that game stopped coming to the games. On her way home from…somewhere at sometime, she runs into Rena, but she’s Shion so she doenst know her. Anyway, it starts to rain as they meet up and so they wait at a bus stop, because as you all know, Japanese people melt if they get touched by rain. Rena explains Oyashiro’s curse in her ‘zomegs i experienced it and i was really fucking paranoid’ way, and that Satoko is experiencing the feelings of the curse starting. After that, Shion decided to go to school in Mion’s place one day and try to talk to Satoshi because she wants to be close to him. He basically tells her to fuck off in his own nice way, and then Satoko accidentally spills her Bento and starts crying for Satoshi. Shion flips the fuck out and throws her around and beats the shit out of her while everyone just watches, and then finally before she takes the chair to Satoko’s head Rika and then Rena get in the way and keep her stuck with a chair over her head. Satoshi finally gets there and apparently elbows Shion so hard she goes flying into the wall and then yells at her while holding his sister. That night Shion calls Mion again and they talk about it, Mion’s a little pissed that now everyone thinks she just beat the hell out of her friend but doesnt seem all that mad. And Shion wishes for Satoko and her aunt to disappear during this years festival. END.

Binbou Shimai Monogatari 04

A day of perfume, Asu, and open house.

The episode starts off with an old man watching his dog pissing, or doing all sorts of other things, all over a pole (the first screenshot). Other then that, Asu gets a letter and throws it away, Kyo finds it and its a letter from the school about Open House. Anyway, after the opening (Mom died and dad left us, boo hoo) Kyo remembers waiting for her dad to come to open house when she was younger, and how lonely she was when he didnt come. Later on, Kyo finds a lost wallet out infront of the apartment and Asu volunteers to take it to the police station (lets not look at the ID at all for some reason). It ends up being the yet-to-be introduced neighbor lady’s and so Asu gives it back, and neighbor lady takes her to a restaurant for some cake. Asu declines in the end and makes them get a box to take it home to eat with Kyo, on the way back the neighbor asks questions about Asu and her family and such. Anyway, Kyo asks the neighbor lady to borrow a suit, and ends up with this pink one that shoots out little flowers because of the perfume that shot little flowers her. Yes, little flowers go shooting all over off of Kyo, poor girl. Anyway, as usual Asu finds a way to ruin everything for her older sister with her blatant disregard for Kyo’s feelings, and tells her not to bother coming. After they go to the bath, Asu is all omg over how her sister smells like she should (ummm) and so Kyo understands that Asu just wants Kyo to be herself and not try to be a replacement mother or anyone other then herself. So she ends up going to the open house by leaving school early and shows up in her middle-school uniform, blarghles.

Anyway, next episode, the owner tells them to GTFO. Why? I dunno, but thats what next episode previews are supposed to do right?

Today in Class 5-2 (Kyou No Go Ni.) ep.2

Yay, they had my favorite chapters they left out of the first one in episode 2! (so i guess that means 3 wont have any, cuz they were already used up in these two)

Oh sorry – I wrote a semi-long review of the episode but apparently “Save as Draft” doesnt save shit. And im not about to re-write all that. So in short -

It had my favorite chapter in the entire manga “Smile” in this episode, its when they try to get Aihara to smile or laugh for once….sadly though, she never does…literally, not once the entire manga. Also they had “Observation Diary” which i liked a lot too. Aihara is doing an observational diary on Satou with Yuki (i think) and they mess with him to see what he’ll do. Aihara ends up biting him and ‘gobbling’ on his ear as she would put it. He wakes up and she tells him it was some other kids in the class that are their friends who were messing with Satou’s ear. And then my third favorite period was “changing clothes” in which Satou ends up squirting milk all over Megumi causing a loli yum-yums type of look. He ends up spilling his …i dont know what, on Yuki after that too, so Megumi and Yuki go to the infirmary to let their clothes dry and lazy around waiting. My second favorite character, Natsume (obviously) , ends up coming in and talking to them during lunch. The two girls attack her and steal her clothes, so she just takes a nap in the bed with nothing but panties on (where did her bra go?) and some scary spinal cord art. Satou comes in looking for the other two girls for some reason, see’s Natsume sleeping and starts poking her face to wake her up. She just ends up rolling over to the side and pulling up the blanket and revealing her Love*Love panties and putting him in a bad position, seeing as how the two girls return pretty much right then. Anyway, other amusements occured as well, such as the first period in this episode “Super Ball” which involved skirt-flipping with those little bouncy balls they sell at like 98 cent stores.

And lucky you, you get a whole 9 screenshots! Last time for this show there was only 6! ITS LIKE SHOPPING AT JUSCO, ONLY BETTARS!

Honey & Clover II ep.4

Ive always been a fan of the whole Mayama/Rika/Yamada/Nomiya thing since it started. Maybe because its the only one i can really take seriously at all, watching Hagu is just comedy in itself so it cant get all that serious unless they give her a few feet of height and some less loli characteristics.

Anyway, the episode is almost competely just Mayama, Rika, and a little of Shuuji for more Rika background. Apparently her home life wasnt too good, she had a big dog she was always with but from whats said, i doubt her dad was good at all. Anyway, huge “omg Rika is going to kill herself” stuff from just about everyone that was shown in the episode for more then 30 seconds. You know though, i think Mayama is pretty scarily stalkerish (i mean he IS a stalker and all, but he just makes it seem even MORE creepy) in this episode. Especially when he freaks out at Rika after they did the happy dance all night in bed. Which, first off…Its not like he figured out what was going on DURING the sex (about how she wasnt taking him and suicide and all that), so he just waited till after to bring it up, dick. Secondly, how would you sechs Rika anyway? I mean she’s all messed up on her body and it hurts to touch any of her scars and she’s not very lively. So i guess if you like that sort of dead-body, grave-digging, morgue kind of sex then it’d be great? Anyway, i dont think Rika would give it up that easy, even to get Mayama off her back (although apparently he got ON her back because of it, but meh), afterall she’s all horribly “omg Harada i love you even though your dead and am so devoted and will even kill myself after this last job just to be with you”. Whatever.

Anyway, the actual episode was great, i didnt like the whole yum-yums at the hotel, but it happens and Mayama would have raped her within the next few episodes if she didnt let him go at her so i guess it was inevitable. He’s kind of scary really though. I mean he’s probably my favorite male lead in the show during serious episodes, but that doesnt make him an “alright stalker”. I think Rika wasnt afraid because he just threw her on the door (and hard at that, poor Rika) or was yelling at her, but because he had been going thru her email and internet history for months. lololol. ONE HOUR PHOTO OH NOES ROBIN WILLIAMS. But meh.

So yeah, ghewd episode, lol. Next episode looks like it will, once again, go back to Yamada-Nomiya. Which, after this episode, im pretty sure will end up happening and im all for it. Yamada shouldnt get with a crazy stalker guy who will throw her around if he’s unhappy with her, Nomiya might mess around eventually but still atleast he wont beat her or go thru her shit all the time.

Oh, so anyway, in the episode Mayama and Rika end up going on business to Hokkaido (i think, i watched it many hours earlier, so i dont remember anymore, lol.) and ended up stopping at Rika’s old home on the way back. Harada demolished the house for her, and were shown the flashback, blah blah. In the hotel they are staying at Mayama and Rika reenact a scene that Rika and Harada probably played out a lot, in bed. She tries to leave early in the morning, but Stalker King Mayama has some kind of OMFG annoying beeping thing on her purse if she tried to take it. So that goes off, he barges in, throws her on the wall, and yells at her. Through going through all her stuff he found out that she was planning on going alone to Spain and he figured out she wanted to kill herself soon after the project there was completed. He ends up crying, tells her to leave, and probably cries some more after that. After they meet up in the lobby of the hotel they part, and….as the Stalker King must do – he checks on the hotel and flight Rika has set up to go to Spain, and both are set up now for 2 people. Meh. Oh and Schuu remembers how he was going to push her off of a roof one time. O: