Kateikyoushi Hitman Reborn episode 153

Finally the end of the fillers. It was about time.

Don't take me wrong, because I actually liked these fillers. It was probably the best theme they could have choosen for a filler arc, despite it still appearing a bit out of place in the main story. The arc dwellved deeper into the mistery of the arcobaleno and allowed us to get to know them better, as well as their personalities. The Arcobaleno arc was a good watch, and also allowed for some less serious moments, which really reminded me of the show's earlier seasons and episodes. ^^ Overall, I'd say it was ok.

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"Otakus are basically islamic extremists that traded
religion by an unhealthy passion of anime and manga. Well, otakus don't blow up towers, so they're a bit different."

Kateikyoushi Hitman Reborn episode 152

Ok, so I didn't make a post about episodes 150 and 151 because it's been a mad week.
I'll talk about it now anyway. Contrasting with episode 149's hardcore battling, 150 and 151 were mostly calm episodes. Not much action, specially because the real action was psychological. The episodes mostly dealt with Tsuna and everyone's feelings towards loosing against Reborn, and gave us some insight on their states of mind. They had respectively a feel of "lost battle" and "calm before the storm". Finally, we learnt of Verde's plan of obtaining the Vongola Rings to power his newly developed box weapons is revealed and the other Arcobaleno judge him as a traitor, coupled with some ass-kicking in episode 151

So, moving up to episode 152. The Arcobaleno dispatch the last of Verde's minions, but he's got more in store for them. He manages to capture them using a substance similar to the non-trennisete radiation. It ends up being just Tsuna and company versus his perfected box weapon prototypes. Normally, they would be fine, but let's just suppose that Verde sucked most of ours friends' dying will flame out of them? Yeah, that's tough.
Tsuna then realises he must carry out his resolution by himself and rekindles his flame by deciding to protect all of his friends. All of the guardians also get back their power, and they manage to stop the radiation incapacitating the Arcobaleno. All's fine? Not quite, because Verde makes the pods they were strapped to self-destruct.

Of course, there's no way charactres will be killed during a filler arc, so they're ok, managing to escape with one of Viper's illusions. The episode finally ends with the combined forces of the guardians and the arcobaleno crushing Verde's box weapons and himself. Only to discover that it was actually a robot of him(?!)
Argh! Why does this always happen when the antagonist is a scientific genius? Cough, anyways... I enjoyed the episode. If they wanted it to be dramatic, they could've done better, but oh well, you can't have everything. The episode was really about Tsuna rediscovering his resolution, and what it means to him. That aspect was definitely achieved.

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"Otakus are basically islamic extremists that traded
religion by an unhealthy passion of anime and manga. Well, otakus don't blow up towers, so they're a bit different."

Hello world! Well, hello web in this case...

Humm, my first entry and I already feel like I'm getting bored. Go away short attention span, shoo, shoo!

Well, where was I? Ah, yes. Why am I here. Anyways... as i'm sure it's quite visible in the front page of my blog, I'm a bit of an odd person and I like anime. Among other things. I recently noticed the number of people that seem to have blogs for basically anything. Heck, I'm even the reader of another anime blog. And so I thought: Why not make one of my own? And here I am.

I'm going to cover many different anime in this blog over the time i expect it will last, share my opinion on them, and hope to know yours as well. But it's not just anime I'll be blogging. No sir, I'll also be writing entries about comics, movies, and games I'll go trough. I lacked a way to show my appreciation for anime and other forms of entertainment before creating this blog.

I hope to make this a fun blog for people to read and share opinions with me. =)
So, for starters, my opinion on two recent anime episodes i saw recently.

Pandora Hearts 22

Pandora Hearts is a very nice fantasy anime. Now the two aspects of this series that I appreciate the most are all the unique and special characters and the plot and its influences.
Pandora Hearts has many influences from Trough the Looking Glass and Alice in Wonderland. Not going to bother you with actual plot details, but it's interesting and seems well built. The characters all have their objectives, features and their unique quirks that make people either love or hate them. Though I only hate about 2 of them.

On the episode itself... Rejoice, for there is yet another flashback! Ok, we learn a rather shocking truth this episode. Not as shocking for those that had been putting the pieces together, but nonetheless, shocking. Alice and the wicked and senseless Will of the Abyss are supposely twins. I had been wondering something like this for quite some time, so it doesn't make me stupified. I was too busy harvesting my anger for Vincent to be stupified. And there are other questions that i'd like to see answered soon, but seems we wil have to wait to learn what did the Will of the Abyss ask Break to do, and how her and Alice are connected to Glen Baskerville.

As a side-note, the character exploration of Break in this episode and the last was done well, giving us a better insight of what goesn on in his mind, and how he became who he is now.

Kateikyoushi Hitman Reborn! 149

What can I say about KHR? It's funny, action packed and i love it! The series started on a much more comedic standing, but the plot naturally progressed and evolved using the existing setting to a very good action/drama/humor anime. It's impossible to hate any of the protagonists, though getting annoyed with them is a completly different thing. The characters are all unique, some silly, some sadist, some loyal, and some just straight crazy. In resume, a funny and very enjoyable cast is part of the best the series has to offer.

The villains are great, and the abilities and strenght of the characters get more awesome every new arc.

Talking about the current arc, it's the Arcobaleno Trial we've all been waiting for, Reborn's trial. To top things off it's a battle royal against all of the guardians. I couldn't take my eyes off screen after the part where Reborn beat our favorite always loved sadistic prefect, Hibari, with a single shot. Unfortunatly for our heroes, things go from bad to worse after that. the other guardians follow wight behind Hibari, falling one by one. With Tsuna ridden with self doubt if he can actually fight with the man (baby) with whom he has a bond that's even deeper than just student and teacher and reaches a level of trust and friendship, things are not looking good. Facing reality Tsuna eventually fights and outmanuvers Reborn. All that was left to win the trial was for Tsuna to land the final attack... which was stopped by Tsuna's own feelings that restrain him from hurting Reborn, despite recognizing that the fate of the world hanged in the balance. The episode ends with a bang, with Reborn finishing the fight with a single shot and coldly stating that Tsuna is not fit to be boss.

What I thought of this episode? It was very good. The hardcore fighting action was almost top-notch, with Reborn not even giving any of the guardians time to employ all of their techniques. To complement with Reborn's feelings in fighting against Tsuna, the episode shows his revolt, anger and the miryad of thoughts that crossed his mind when he was transformed into an arcobaleno and what it meant to him as a person. Despite me not being a big fan of fillers, I'm really enjoying this one, and the way it dwelves deeper into the Arcobaleno mistery.

That's all I have to say for today. Overall, i saw one one good episode, and one great episode. So, yeah, I'm actually quite happy right now. ^^

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"Otakus are basically islamic extremists that traded religion for an unhealthy passion of anime and manga. Well, otakus don't blow up towers, so they're a bit different."