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Anime Relations: Hyouka

More Kanya festival time! Satoshi enters a quiz show and uses that opportunity to advertise the Classics Club. While in the quiz show, a fellow participant starts up a conversation with him and tries to low-key persuade him to help solve a mystery the Go Club has.

Ibara is still at the Manga Society, but a senpai is trying to brew up some trouble by throwing out insults about how stupid and useless their booth is. She confidently stands up to her and they start having an argument about the qualities of manga (or something like that). A club mate sets up a flier outside, advertising their argument, which seems to reel customers in. Ibara then promises to bring in a manga to show her what a real masterpiece is.

Chitanda goes to the clubroom, drops off her stuff, and goes off to the Newspaper Clubs os he can ask if they will advertise the club. Oreki sees her photographs of her in cosplay (fanservice moment!!). Suddenly, a student from the gardening club comes in and buys an anthology. Oreki gives him a fastening pin so he can fix his broken fly, so he gives him a water gun in return.

The club gets back together and reviews the progress for the day and Satoshi asks the girls if they can participate with him in a cooking contest. At the end of the episode, we find Ibara in her extra kawaii room, trying to find the masterpiece manga, but cannot.

I can feel a plot growing in this episode. We see the return of the senpai who was smoking in the clubroom and find a pattern of not only items being stolen from other clubs, but students exchanging items with Oreki as they come by. I loved loved LOVED the little oreki x chitanda fanservice bit at the end. it's always extra adorable seeing him blush :3 finally, i really hope ibara takes down the manga society senpai because she very much pissed me off. :c

Anime Relations: Kokoro Connect

The episode skips over the events of what happened last episode and shows a scenario of two of the characters having switched bodies so the group skips three periods to help them. When they return back, the group goes to give an excuse to their teachers why they were late, and here we meet a vital character: Mr. Go/Goto.

Back in the clubroom, while Nagase is fretting over the fact that the class president saw Taichi feeling her boobs (lol), Mr. Goto comes in the room... But he's not exactly himself. A being named Heartseed has taken over his body and reveals that he can control the switching and will stop it when he has been satisfied. The gang has no choice but to agree with this. A week passes, and Iori sets up basic rules for them to follow when they are in another's body.

While in class, Iori and Taichi switch bodies while Iori volunteers to help the class president, so while in Taichi's body, Iori volunteers him as well. As they are out with the class president, she confronts Taichi (which Iori is still in) about whether or not he has romantic feelings for Nagase. Iori, feeling feisty, shouts out, "I have feelings for Nagase and she is mine!" ...And thus the episode ends.

The episode this week was very well balanced out. The plot seems to be progressing very well as of now. We find out who is truly responsible for what has happened to the five of them and how long until it will end. There was also some very humorous moments, my favorite being "Taichi" proclaiming his love for Nagase. Can't wait for the next episode!

Anime Relations: Arcana Famiglia

There was about no progress in the story other than Felicita being officially accepted in the Famiglia and being made the head of the Sword serie.

Nova, Liberta, and Felicita are out looking for a white kitten Nova found and for its owner. For a while, the only leads they have is the perfume of the cat and the expensive ribbon around its neck. Suddenly, Felicita's Arcana activates and she sees into the heart of the kitten, which shows a brief image of a blond woman. Debito then finds out who she is and leads them to her, where she gives Felicita a dress in exchange. While walking home, Nova proposes that Felicita needs to work on controlling her power before the duel.

The epiosde was more of a cutsie episode for me, and didn't really go anywhere with the plot. I thought that Nova was totally moe in this episode, especially with the cat, when he saw Felicita in her dress, and when he had to sing the sailor song. Hopefully in the next episode, we will get somewhere with the plot of the story and something interesting will happen.

Anime Relations: Hyouka

In today's episode, the long awaited Kanya Festival finally begins! The group starts off having a sleepless night and on the morning of the big day, Oreki's sister gives him a pen and says that "the Cultural Club always gets into trouble!" (Foreshadowing, perhaps?) We get to the school and find out that there have been too many anthologies ordered, having 200 rather than the expected 30. Thus, the group splits up, trying to find a better stall and to advertise their product more. Not much gets succeeded, other than watching Chitanda being constantly distracted by all the booths in the fair. We also get a peak at Ibara's manga lab, where there are some fin Vocaloid cosplays. At the end of the episode, a punk-looking boy visits the Classic Club and Oreki sells him a copy of their anthology. He also asks to have the pen his sister gave him, since he needs an accessory for the fashion show. In return, the punk gives Oreki a pass to "flaunt his stuff" on stage; not that he needs to.

Not much was really accomplished today other than to introduce the setting of the Kanya Festival and to set up the plot for what it seems to be a new arc. Oreki's sister gave some foreshadowing that the club will end up in trouble, but it hasn't been clear what predicament they will be in. Perhaps it will have to do with the Fashion Show?

Anime Relations: Naruto: Shippuuden

In this episode, audiences are presented with the first Naruto Shippuden battle that has occurred in a few weeks: Darui vs The Gold-Silver brothers.

The episode begins with a bunch of talk between the three comrades fighting and the Brothers. It then shows the Raikage, who is fretting because of the overwhelming power the Brothers have. One of the comrades, a blonde male ninja, becomes reckless and attacks while Kinkaku attacks him with the rope, which records his Spirit Word: Hot. Sasui, a subordinate of the Raikage, then gets touched by the Kinkaku's rope where her word is "cool." (Literally. Her word is the word "cool.") The bonde male ninja now begins to fret as he can't figure out what his word is. All of a sudden, Kinkaku uses the fan to cast a Fire jutsu on him which forces him to say hot, so he gets sucked into Ginkaku's gourd. Sasui tries her best not to say her word, but ends up not saying anything at all, and gets sucked into the gourd because of this. Darui ends up getting hit by the rope too and immediately knows his word: Drab. However while he is having a little monologue, he accidentally says while he is saying "rabbit." (japanese wordplay; i will never understand.) while getting sucked into the gourd, he beings saying "apologies" a lot to his comrades and during this, his spirited word gets changed to "apologies."

Darui pushes Ginkaku into the rope who immediately says his Spirit Word and becomes sucked into the gourd. Infuriated, the remaining Brother exerts his Kyuubi chakra and changes form into something similar to Naruto's kyuubi form.

The battle was very interesting indeed and I was looking forward to it very much. Darui's intelligence and luck helped him out in this battle. There's also a new ending, which I think is very unikable compared to the last one.