Temporal Vortex

Asuna Vesperina Theotanasia Entheofushia.

Yes, Now I’m contented that what happened with the first Mahou Sensei Negima anime was wrong. Really wrong. It was just confirmed that Asuna was once a princess. To be clear, she is the Twilight Imperial Princess of Ostia in the Magic World. Her ability to cancel magic is innate[Chapter 220]. It was NEVER granted by any demon [according to the 1st anime].

I surmise that she was the one that triggered the radicals in the Magic World to take action. She holds a mysterious power that could threaten the Magic World. In that case, she must be the target of the enemies that Ala Rubra fought. Based on Rakan’s explanation to Negi, even though Nagi is regarded as a hero who stopped the “rebels”, it looks like they failed to protect Asuna’s origin/ the floating ruins of Ostia.

I don’t know the reason why she forgot her memories(maybe someone did some spell on it). It was once said by Setsuna that it looks like Asuna was just remembering her fighting skills from the past. It might be true because she came from a royal family. She can now summon the true sword more often than that of the harisen during adeat after gaining some of her memories.

By the way, what happened to Anya?~ I thought I saw her with Fate. hmm…

Hmm, probably almost anyone who watches anime knows what Sunrise is. It is an Anime Producer Company. They are very notable for their trademark works. That is MECHAS. Mechas is a genre of anime which has something to do with robots, might it be humanoid or whatever in any sense. Gundam is the very example of that they’ve done many series of Gundams already and they haven’t get tired yet of robot designs. I don’t know how they do researches but their group really is something. They can come up with something spectacular that has something to do with robots and war. Maybe these guys are just war-mongers. Code Geass on the other hand deals with rebellion. You really can notice similarity with the animes that they produce and make.

There is not mecha? Ah yes, that is InuYasha. Even so, it involves fist-fighting and “Vengeance” to Naraku. They are quite violent, no?

Anyway, let’s get to the topic. Maybe Sunrise decided to break their culture. They decided to make Code Geass because they saw Death Note relished by the viewers because of its JUSTICE concept. Now they tried to make an anime to break the ice that does parodies just like Lucky Star which grabbed many otakus out there. (not that it’s moe though.)

I’m seeing a glimpse of Gintama every now and then because my brother watches it for breaks whenever he is bored. Gintama has a very vague story line. It doesn’t have a clear plot what’s gonna happen next in the show. It is very random so I didn’t like it at first. As the show progresses/as I see few more episodes, I grew to like it because the plot line is very unpredictable. I just laugh about everything when it just doesn’t make sense anymore. The producers seems very whimsical and I was convinced by that when I watched the raw episode 50 - I guess, the episode where the characters talk of what’s gonna happen to Gintama. It was very fabulous when I saw the DragonBleaPiece part. Their parodies were blatant than any other shows, my brother and I are just surprised when there would be a different opening which was a parody.

I can say that they allocated an amount for Gintama’s production, it’s just that I feel that Sunrise is still focusing with their mecha stuffs. Right after Code Geass, Gundam 00 Season 2 would be aired. Gintama stayed too long on the production because it has an average rating and liked by hardcore fans. Not because Sunrise focus on developing it’s story line.

I don’t know if they could still fix the story line of the anime after all the parodies they’ve done. It’s very sad that comedy genre animes have good episodic plots but not for the entire anime. I hope they could end it decently just like every mecha animes they had produced.

By the way, I read this interesting article about the shortage of wooden swords sold in Hokkaido. They say that it was because of Gintoki’s popularity. It is just a possibility though because the buyers were foreigners and maybe they did buy the sword solely for the sake of souvenir for their kids at home[better than the real one].

I have been searching for manga now and then of Gakuen Alice. I have found this link recommended by OneManga for the anime. They do the scanlations yey~! They translated from the part where the anime ends so I can follow it even though there are some missing links like seeing a penguin [which is Amanatsu in anime]. I also saw some 15 year old drawings and I don’t know if they did really aged in the academy after several years. I found out that they just ate an age-altering candy. By the way, they’ve got the scans at rapidshare so it’s very accesible, it might be slow to download though.

The sad part is that they haven’t finished translating yet and they’ve only got chapters 29 - 46. The manga is supposedly 99 chapters and ongoing according to Wikipedia. It was a very short read I did. I kind of feel discontented with what I read because I stopped right in the middle of something. There were few characters that were introduced and this “Second Alice” of Mikan hasn’t been introduced yet. That is the part I want to read. It was so stubborn of me, I really want to read it and I ended up being spoiled XD.

There is a new villain other than Reo this time so I think it is still worth reading. There were also a lot of character developments for the other class members Iincho, Ruka and Natsume. Iincho had often scenes because something terrible happened to him. It was shown in the manga that Iincho really plays a big part on the class. He is also an important friend for both Mikan and Hotaru[eventhough he is always low in dialogues]. Ruka is very determined to win Mikan’s heart and he does everything to protect her. Meanwhile, Natsume is so concerned with Ruka and Mikan eventhough it means hiding the truth from them.

They’ve also got this character named “ZERO” . I don’t know why anime producers/ mangakas are fond of that name.

For those who don’t know the series yet, it is better to read my first post about this anime because it has the brief introduction than what I’m going to tell here.

Well, because I don’t see too many interested, then I’ll do it on my own… I’ve wanted to do this right after the very first airing of episode 1 but there were no fansubbers and I’m not sooofluent to understand several Jap words to just watch the raw vids.

The first scenes/introduction of the anime seemed to me like Gurren Lagann because of the title says about the world(setting of the anime) because he speaks of beastmen and human’s world which is ruled by the beastmen ( sounds familiar right?) The opening theme of the anime is very funky and it’s not too fit for the anime (for me).

I gave time for this series to have an entry because it really is interesting. Usual RPGs have heroes that fight monsters, find more allies and anything else just to save the world. This anime is different. It does the opposite. The heroes of this anime wants to destroy the world and it makes me nuts. I don’t why Morte really really hate the world but isn’t there any other method to save the world(which is sometimes the plot of other RPGs). Yeah, yeah, whatever, let’s give them the stage so that they could continue the production. The job for us is to find out if they did a good job.

The 4channers seems not to like it and says that it is just a mediocre anime. It is decent for an anime of this age. It doesn’t have that much impact when I watched the first episode but who knows? It might do something really nasty at the middle to grab many admirers? That is why I’m planning to watch closely this series. It seems to be very confident that it will hit the market. Hmm… Maybe because they’ve got the manpower of some of the known people, seiyuus and Production IG.

The plot is very vague( just as what Kyrie stated himself in the episode 1). I don’t know how they would make the story revolve but so far… I don’t see the importance why Toppi got involved in the party other than he was just drag into the trouble. I think they should focus first on character development before having others on the party. I didn’t like it that way as well because I think that’s the reason why Chrono Cross has too many characters. Anyway, it is known that they are only 6 in the party but the reason why they joined Morte should be a valid one right?

Because I heard there would be a third installment for this series, I finished the 2 previous season just this June so that I would be able to ride on the same boat with everyone. By the way, I also watched this on crunchyroll because my brother insists that it is just somehow a modernized tsundere Akazukin Chacha. Even so, Omni-senpai has Louise as his banner at his site so I tried to give it a shot since he is also choosy when it comes to what to watch. A friend of mine also recommended it to me but I didn’t have time during those days. It is about magic so maybe I could see some cool spells.

Just like what others said about the series, I also didn’t like much the second season because too many insignificant characters were introduced. Because of that, I wasn’t able to see Tabitha and Kirsche that much. I always thought that it would be cool if the students would be the one to always defeat the enemies.

The war thing made the show kind of insipid. If only they focus on the Magic Academy alone, then the series would have gone far on ratings even it is not that long in episodes.

I hope the season 3 would be great just like the first one. Oh well, I’m planning on finishing the series so whatever happens… The show became so much senseless when they tried to focus it with the war. Since it is already finished, they must not put up one again. Please…

If ever there is a thing they must focus other than the Academy, that is Saito’s origins, the Void Magic, and other things that revolves around Louise since she is the protagonist here…