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Space ~ It's not what I want.

         Well, Okay.  It's all ready October and I haven't published anything since the 15th of July, Whoops.  I don't want all these months having nothing in them so, I'll just post space taking pictures..


           Yes, I'll start up again now that it's October and the weather is getting a little less... Friendly.

I My Me! Strawberry Eggs.

Episodes:     13

How:   Netflix {Rental}

Grade:  A

Summary:  {From MAL}  Amawa Hibiki is a young man just out of college, with an education to be an athletics teacher. He's been having a hard time finding a job since he graduated, so all his money has gone towards living expenses. When his landlady demands his first payment to live in her living establishment upfront, he heads to the local middle school to get hired as a teacher. However, the principal refuses to hire him without hesitation. She will not hire men as teachers and makes it clear that she hates all men, saying they put no love into their passions and work. Amawa does not give up and with the help of his landlady, he crossdresses as a woman without a second thought, and gets hired, so he can earn money and also prove the principal wrong. Now, he has to keep his real gender a secret, and avoid strange situations, including the affections of his students (from both genders). 
 



How it is....




     This was actually the second time I watched this series, the first was quite a while ago and I had basically forgotten everything about it.  Well, other then Hibiki's dog always being in fear of being turned into dinner.
      At first glance this series is really a normal, school comedy with a few perverts thrown in. By the end however it was quite touching...
      After being denied the gym teacher spot at the school by the man hating principal and vice principal, Hibiki goes back to apply for the job in drag.  As a female gym teacher he proves himself worthy of the position by "coaching" the clumsiest student in the school to run a few meters.
     Her coaching has an unexpected side effect however, the student Fuko Kuzuha falls in love with Hibiki... it builds and builds throughout the episodes as Fuko ends up in Hibiki's home room, Hibiki sticks up for Fuko and helps her with other gym related things.
     It's an innocent, confusing love for Fuko, at first not even realizing it is love but... by the end she confesses to Hibiki which leaves the teacher a little...flustered.  Maybe Hibiki has also gotten a little too close to Fuko through the weeks or months of teaching.
    There's also quite a bit of other love stories going on, in the normal school based anime fashion.  Fujio likes Akira, Akira like Fuko, Fuko doesn't like Akira in that way and it's just a little messy. Also, in a normal school comedy fashion there are two perverted male adults who are always trying to get pictures of the girls in uniforms or just Fuko in general.  This show is very Fukocentric.
     In the end, after numerous attempts; the vice principal gets her proof of Hibiki being a male and exposes him to the entire school. Everyone is in shock and at first thinking he's just another one of the perverts living at the Gochiso apartments the students and everyone shun him, the male him and the female him.
     His faking the female role also fuels the Principal and Vice Principals argument that the school itself should go female only and they attempt to use the situation to get the parents and students to agree that there would be no more male students accepted to the school.  This however backfires when Fuko and the other students start to remember all the good times they had with Hibiki as a teacher, how much he cared about them and helped them with things.  The motion to turn the school into girls only is denied and...all is happy. Sort of.
     Hibiki gives a touching speech from atop of Gochiso and then he gets on a train to leave, Fuko and company chase after him and just wave him goodbye's as he goes.
    In other news, it turns out that the Principal hates males so much because she was hurt by one {go figure}. It's also hinted that the Gochiso landlady is actually the man who broke the Principal's heart.

Ninja Cadets

Episodes:   2

How:  Netflix Rental

Grade:   C-


Summary:   {MAL}During Japan's feudal era, there was a war between two ninja clans: the Byakuro and the Kabusu. One night, the Kabusu staged a fierce attack on the Byakuro castle in hopes of kidnapping the clan's infant princess. Their mission was foiled when a loyal ninja of the Byakuro flees the attack with the princess and disappears, eventually raising her to be a ninja. Several years later, six ninja trainees are given a mission to infiltrate the Kabusu-occupied Byakuro castle and retrieve a sacred scroll to complete their training. But their skills are put to the test when they encounter three members of the Kabusu, who use dark sorcery in an attempt to once again capture the princess - who happens to be one of the trainees. 


How it is.......

    The only reason this show gets a C is, I wish there were more episodes. It's REALLY incomplete and left me with too many questions...
    Really, above states it all... the six students going on their first mission get attacked by members of the Kabusu clan who are still going after the Princess.  They aren't entirely sure which girl in the princess, only going by the fact she has a scar on her shoulder or was it her back? I don't entirely remember.
    Anyways, the characters were pretty much...cliches.  Matsuri, is the hot bodied, fighter chick who is afraid of frogs: Hayashi, the quiet guy who gets bossed around by Matsuri and is talented in his own right: Pochi, the relatively useful yet young guy who hangs around Sakura: Sakura, the sword wielding, main character type girl: Kaoru, the dependable, older looking male of the bunch who is supposed to be the protecting the princess at all costs and Yume, the relatively useless, quiet girl who seems to be a better cook then anything.
    Nothing new there.

    The bad guys believe Sakura is the princess and with her use of the scrolls that they were going to get at the Byakuro Castle, who knows.. she just might be.  Yume and Kaoru are made into slaves by the main female Kabusu ninja {her name escapes me}, using some sort of spell to force the two to fight the other four and help them capture Sakura.  Which fails.
     Kaoru is not actually under the spell of course, just faking it to stay close to Yume who he seems to think is the Princess.  Uhg, I am not really sure which one is the Princess.  Sakura or Yume are both pretty obvious, but it would be a real shocker if it were Matsuri...Nah.
     The end is just the four students dragging themselves out of the rubble of what was once the Byakuro castle.  Yume, Kaoru and the bad guys are all gone and......
      Nice Start.
      Too bad there's not more.

The Secret World of Arrietty

How:  Netflix {Rental}

Grade:   B

Thoughts:    Maybe I am just not cut out to watch Miyazaki stuff, I've found most of the movies just "okay". They are all very nice to look at of course, but some of them are just kill me now boring.  Now with that in mind... I'll go on with this.
        This movie has a Borrowers feel to it, for obvious reasons... he was obviously working off that idea when the movie was made. Anyways...
         It's summer time and a young boy named Shou moves to the countryside to stay with his aunt while he's preparing for heart surgery.  During his stay, he meets Arrietty..  It was an accident really,  she was on her first outing with her father when he saw her.  Then he slowly coaxes her out into the "open" to speak with him and even befriend him.
       The plot is really simple actually, since Arrietty was seen by a human the family now has to move to a different house.  Even though Shou is pretty harmless there's a maid like woman who I forgot the name of is a bit on the crazy side...  she's bent on finding the little people and proving she's not insane.
      During the movie she captures Arrietty's mother Pod and puts her in a jar to show to Shou's Aunt and whoever else is around to see.  With the help of Shou, Pod is rescued and the Borrower family ends up moving out.
     It's actually a lot more heart warming then I can make it sound, Shou obviously cares for Arrietty and even tells her about his heart condition and the surgery that probably won't work.  Saying that the Borrowers fight for survival has motivated him to have the courage to have and live through the operation....
     Which he does and Arrietty and her family also find a new house to live in, hopefully undetected.

Gotta love the cat, at least he never eats any of the Borrowers. Though I am sure he'd like to....

The guy is Spiller, he's a Borrower that shows up at the house that tells Arrietty and her family that there are still Borrowers alive out there....   Maybe a love interest for Arrietty in the future.






What are Borrowers?     I never actually read the books, just heard about them in passing and all.  Borrowers are tiny people that live in the walls and under the floorboards of houses.  They try not to be seen by humans and only take items that won't be missed or could just be considered misplaced.
       Yep, that's it....

June - Better than last year.

This month went by way too fast.....


The weather was nice.....  Things were a little boring.  Plants are doing fine...for the most part. Just... boring I guess.  That's okay, compared to last June. Anyways, did go to the Greek Festival downtown to get my favorite.. Spinach Pies!


Now for what was bought....  Not a lot.

Natsume Book of Friends 15 -  I'm all caught up! Finally!  This one has taken a while to catch up on seeing I started so far into it's release and they don't sell it in the stores around here. Kind of makes me miss Borders, they always stocked this series but that was before I started buying it...












I forgot.....



Natsume Book of Friends 16 -  It was actually bought a couple months ago, I just forgot I bought it and failed to mention it in any previous posts. So yea, all caught up with Natsume.













Network Purchases ;   Kingdoms of Amalur:  Reckoning DLCs.  Both of them, they were on sale... I'd say finally, but apparently I missed them the first time they were on sale. Of course now that it's been around 2 years since I played it, I had to restart it to get into the grove of things... heh.


Free Games....

I said last month was dead, must have been right..... this month was rotting in the grave. One pick up..

Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time-  I haven't played it yet but...it's sitting there..waiting to be downloaded. Kind of a big download and my harddrive isn't that big...yet.  Need to do something about that.

Natsume Book of Friends 15 -                  7.34
Kingdom of Amalur: Reckoning DLCs -     9.98
Natsume Book of Friends 16    -               5.29




Total:                                                    22. 61

Free Games {The Growing List}

Ratchet and Clank: All 4 One
Darksiders
InFAMOUS 2
Quantum Conundrum
Closure
Joe Danger 2: The Movie
Spec. Ops: The Line
The Cave
MALICIOUS
Labyrinth Legends
Sleeping Dogs
Knytt Underground
Pinball Arcade
Saints Row: The Third
Deus Ex Human Revolution
Uncharted 3
Little Big Planet Karting
Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee HD
Runner 2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien
Hitman Absolution
ICO
Resident Evil Chronicles HD Collection
Galga Legions DX
Shadow of the Colossus
Dragons Dogma Dark Arisen
ibb & obb
Borderlands 2
DMC: Devil May Cry
Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons
BioShock Infinite
Remember Me
PayDay 2
Tomb Raider
Lone Survivor
Thomas Was Alone
Castle of Illusion
Skullgirls Encore
Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time