#91 A pig will look a man in the eye and see his equal

Silver Spoon ch 7 : Springtime (7) [read here]

First volume of Silver Spoon/Gin no Saji will release in Japan on July 15th.

Yugo ignored his mom’s text message. That was polite. Also, I didn’t know that this school collected the students’ cell phones.

This time, the class is visiting the pigs. Yugo attempts to pet the pig, but it tries to take a bite from his fingers. Tokiwa can’t handle the cuteness of the piglets.

The teacher tells how the front of the mother pig produces more milk than the back. The smallest pig is pushed to the back nipple and never strives for anything better. She says people are the same and Hachiken Yugo agrees and names the smallest piglet Pork Bowl. Then they castrate the piglets. Fun.

Yugo’s middle school teacher is planning to visit him to see how he’s doing next week!

Don’t you dare resist.

Kuroshitsuji II Welcome to the Phantomhive Family ep 3-4 [watch here]

The Black Butler OVA’s are finally subtitled in English!

Episode 3 is about Grell and William’s past. They are chosen to take the final exam to become shinigami together. They must evaluate a writer named Thomas Wallis for one month to see if he lives or dies.

Grell and Will are incompatible, but by the end of the episode, Grell becomes attracted to Will and ends up saving Will’s life.

Episode 4 is of the Trancy Manor as I said in my previous post. We see Alois having a compassionate personality with demonic actions.

He is annoyed by the demon triplet’s constant whispering and demands them to speak up. Thompson, Timber, and Cantebury don’t have interesting conversations. Their comments are extremely honest, simple, and meaningless. They do, though, comment on how cute or not cute Alois’s actions are.

We also see Claude’s interest in Alois’s soul. He describes it as “A soul that dances like flames without getting burnt.” This is similar to Ciel Phantomhive’s description as “A soul that resides in darkness but stays pure.” Claude never consumes Alois’s soul in the end.

This episode consists of 3 short clips and is the last OVA for Kuroshitsuji II. The manga still runs. See my other posts on Kuroshitsuji.

#90 How may I serve your Anime today?

90th post! Yes. Nobody really reads this stuff though. If you do and appreciate my daily reviews, please leave a comment below. :)

Kuroshitsuji II Welcome to the Phantomhive Family ep 4 [watch raws here]

Here comes another episode of the irregular OVA series of Kuroshitsuji II. Episode 3 is still not subtitled yet.

This episode is of the people of the Trancy Manor. We hear Thomson, Timber, and Cantebury who work under Hannah speak for the first time. We also see more of Hannah’s experience with Alois’s little brother Luca.

This episode is only 13 minutes long and subbed in Chinese.

It’s funny how this website describes Alois’s shorts as microscopic.

[C] The Money of Soul & Possibility Control ep 7 : Composition [watch here]

We divert our attention from Yoga and turn it towards Mikuni and Msyu.

Mikuni had a business relationship with his father. Because of this, he turned his career from music to being a secretary for his father’s business. His main goal was to earn money to keep his dying sister alive. After his father chose to save the business rather than his daughter’s life, Mikuni’s sister dies. His life becomes wrapped around the business and uses financial district in his business.

Msyu aka Mashyu questions Yoga’s intentions and personality towards her. They both question what it means when the Asset is the embodiment of the Entre’s future. They meet the man they had their first Deal with and ask him as well. Msyu doesn’t really have many emotions of her own. She hardly knows the world outside of her own. There is a great deal of emotion when it comes to food. She also asks for a kiss from Yoga if they become 30 times closer than they are now.

Potential couple

Blue Exorcist ep 7 : Flock of Plovers [watch here]

Exams are coming up before summer vacation and the students of the cram school must take a week long training camp.

Rin asks Bon and his groupies what a Meister is. So there are 5 classes of exorcist: Dragoon, Aria, Tamer, Doctor, and Knight. Wait, when did this turn into an RPG game? Obviously, Rin takes the sword class of Knight. He uses the excuse that the sword is the keepsake of his father.

On to demon taming class. Kamiki summons 2 spirit foxes because she was a descendant of a shrine maiden. The only other person who tries is Sheimi who summons a green man spirit which she names Ni. It has a plant like resemblance. Sheimi takes this chance to befriend Kamiki who immediately takes advantage of Sheimi.

The camp is held at Rin and Yukio’s empty dorm building. Kamiki and Paku are attacked by a ghoul who is after Rin that we later find out is controlled by the teacher they met earlier. Paku is burned and Sheimi’s familiar, Ni grows the plant needed out of its stomach for Sheimi to use. Pretty nifty.

Rin comes in to rescue Kamiki from her own familiars and goes after the ghoul. He is thrown thrown through the glass shower door and is on the brink of pulling his sword. Yukio comes to save him obviously.

And we learn Rin’s tail is hidden by his shirt.

#89 Memorial weekend

I have a 4 day weekend, so took this chance to play LoZ Twilight Princess. It’s a very addicting and fun game. I also played Tatsunoko vs Capcom which my sister had some rofl fun button smashing and beating the crap out of each other.

Here’s a long post to make up for the last 2 days. The manga world still goes on even while you aren’t watching! Anime post will be posted Monday tomorrow.

Fairy Tail ch 236 [read here]

I still don’t understand how the tree is the source of the Fairy Tail members’ powers. This chapter is just about Erza and the tree man fighting. There’s not much to say about it.

Erza looks like she is losing, but she will obviously triumph in some way. We flash over to Jerald in prison thinking about Erza. I think they did this earlier in the battle when they flashed over to Lexus in the desert. It could be a sign that these 2 will come to aid, but it doesn’t look like it’s coming close to this event at all.

I’ve never mentioned it before, but the Fairy Tail manga series is always extremely detailed in every single panel. even though the actions are a little confusing and the attacking scenes are questionable, there are always high levels of detail.

Defense Devil ch 96 : The Arrival of the Angels [read here]

Legato dies an anti-dramatic death. I say it’s anti-dramatic since we thought he died earlier. Too much climatic deaths leading to people not being dead. That kind of ruined it all for me.

The angels are here with their fancy clothes and ready to kill everyone they see. They tell our heroes to leave in 2 minutes. Kucabara epically pulls out his pocket watch and gives them 2 minutes to run away. Just a suspense and scared faces.

Yotsuba&! ch 73: Chestnut Gathering [download here]

I always impatiently for this series. Read about the Yotsuba exhibit in Tokyo.

Yotsuba begins this chapter playing with a cardboard tube to see the hole in hand.

Fuka says that the most important thing about chestnuts is love! Her friend Hiwatari hits her and say it’s burrs. Time for a change of clothes.

They climb a  great flight of stairs to their chestnut picking location. Hiwatari, Miss Take as Yotsuba calls her, tells the not to touch them with their hands or it will hurt. Fuka and Yotsuba fail to listen. Yotsuba finds one with a maggot inside and becomes a little devious.

Omg. 8O

#88 Livestock’s only mistake is being born

Silver Spoon (Gin no Saji) ch 6 : Springtime (6) [read here]

Hachiken Yugo’s story is unleashed! He has no dreams, no intentions but to be as far away from home as possible.

And here comes Yugo’s personal feelings. The struggles of the rural and suburban lives focus on different things, but are still struggles.

Visiting the horse stables, Yugo learns more about the conditions for the animals through the horse veterinarian. Mikage’s uncle tells him that “livestock’s only mistake is being born.”

Komaba and Yugo apologize, but their pride is still unwavered.

My gosh, emo.

#87 At night, the battle becomes a staring contest

Naruto ch 540 : Madara’s Strategy [read here]

The once totally awesome Neji is now shown as a traitor among the Ninja Allies.

I wonder what they call themselves? The guys who aren’t on Madara’s side? I probably missed that part. For now, they will be called the Ninja Allies even though they have samurai on their side. :P

“At night the battlefield becomes quiet, and the battle is a staring contest” says Itachi. Itachi and Nagato (Pein) question why Madara hasn’t used their eye techniques yet.

So we finally learn Neji’s truth. Neji is actually still on the battlefield. He never left and he’s pretty much out of energy but still has enough to yell at Kiba. Fake Neji is actually white Zetsu. Looks like Madara’s plan currently is to use white Zetsu to imitate the enemy to assassinate one by one.

And the Jinchurrikis are confronted by the Hokage and Raikage! I say we should prepare for an epic chapter next Wednesday!

Also, we get a sweet page on the new Naruto Shippuden movie Blood Prison

Oh no, he’s blind.

Bleach ch 449 : Not Be Drug [read here]

Talk about bleeding profusely. Oh Bleach. You will always be like that.

So Chad also was cut by the man with the “Book of the End” Fullbring and did not bear any wound. Now he wants to train on his own.

Orihime is kicking butt. Her powers have increased along with Chad’s.

And that’s all that happens. 18 pages and it’s mostly drama and talking. Depressing chapter.

Whoa, whoa, whoa. Is this PG?
I probably have to change this blog labeling to PG-13.

#86 News Update!

The anime world is full of news, but I don’t really catch up. My bad.

FUNimation will release Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos dubbed early 2012 in theaters. They will also release it on DVD and Blu-ray in spring that year. The movie will air in Japan July 2, 2011.
Those who view the movie in Japan will recieve Arakawa’s volume 11.5. Those who bring the final volume 27 will also receive a “shikishi” illistrated by the author of FMA.

FUNimation has also licensed Kore Wa Zombie Desu Ka? anime.

After having 2 live-action specials, Detective Conan is receiving a live-action series.

The popular manga Ouran High School Host Club is also receiving a live-action show.

I have discovered [C] The Money of Soul & Possibility Control on Hulu! It’s actually named [C] – Control. New episodes Thursdays.

And that’s all the news for today! I don’t have anything else to post since nothing really happens on Mondays anymore.

#85 Grudges about food can go on for 7 generations!

I don’t see Silver Spoon(Gin no Saji) this week. I wonder if it’s taking another break.

Ao no Exorcist ep 6 : The Phantom Cook [watch here]

Omnomnom. Breakfast scene. I never wake up my siblings. Let them suffer if they wake up late.

Lunch scene? What’s up with the sandwich? For some reason, in a lot of gang mangas, there seems to be a great importance in a certain type of sandwich. I wish I could understand. Can’t they make their own sandwiches?

And Yukio has a fan club. Almost. It’s just a fan girl group for now, but I bet there will be one later on. All school life mangas do!

And they end up in the cafeteria that has insane prices for insanely good food. They ask the principal for help, but he gives 2,000 Yen for the month. That is approximately $24.51 in US.

Yukio takes Rin shopping for ingredients to cook bento so they would save money. That’s kind of cute. Rin has a talent of cooking so Yukio is using that for his plan to keep the fan girls away during lunch. Brilliant.

Yukio got angry? That little tsundere. I guess there is no other reaction when your brother kicks you first thing in the morning.

So this Ukobach was cooking for the Okumura brothers and left when Rin trespassed by cooking in the kitchen. Ukobach is adorable. All’s well after a heated battle of cooking.

The guys don’t even react when they saw Ukobach trying to cook the girls.

Stand up like a man!