Rozen Maiden, xxx-HOLiC 165

Yeah, so... Not dead. Just busy. School's started up again and I want to do well. That's not to say I haven't been watching and or reading stuff every chance I get (because I do). My latest obsession is Rozen Maiden, something I never thought I'd like, but I'll be damned, I like it. I'm eagerly awaiting new chapters in part 2...
In other news... I KNEW IT! Clow isn't Watanuki's father, but is indeed a relative. I mean, wasn't that obvious? Especially the cooking part.
Anyway, I have an essay to write and then I have to go to work. More later... if I get around to it.

Inuyasha 558 "Tomorrow"

It's over. It's really over. And I'll be damned if the conclusion wasn't just about as satisfying as I could hope for... Really. I was pretty happy with the ending, amazingly enough. There was, of course, always my fantasy ending that I'd read in a fanfic or two where Inuyasha and Kagome would be going to see Sesshoumaru's first kid with Rin, but I'm a Sess/Rin fangirl and that's just wishful thinking. Ideally, of course, there'd be a bit more detail about my favorite two characters, but as I said... overall, I was pleased.

Two days ago I'd almost read the whole spoiler at Freelance, but I'd stopped myself. Starks was kind enough to put such a spoiler behind two cuts. Especially since it was the end and I simply could not wait to find out the fate of my beloved characters, I read the chapter at AdInuyasha.

Since it's such a big event, and it's still so fresh, and Freelance's nice scans aren't even out yet, I'll save my summary/pictures/analysis/rambling until a bit later.

I've been in this for a long time... It's such a big part of my life and fangirly-ness, I guess it'll take a while to set in...

I certainly love happy endings, I do... My summary will be fun to write... >_>

Naruto 404

Been a while since I wrote about Naruto, but I have been keeping up with it. Perhaps I should warn about spoilers before I say Itachi died and everything we thought we knew about him was wrong. It's actually kind of sad, really. In the end, he was protecting his emo little brother... Needless to say, Sasuke didn't take that news well... Battling with denial and the fact that his singular goal all this time was basically meaningless, he arbitrarily decides his group Snake (recently renamed Falcon or Eagle, depending on the translator) will take out Konoha... and hey, look, he just joined Akastuki to do this. Hilarious. I knew there was a reason I've always hated him...

But what I really wanted to mention was the fact that I was just beginning to get over Jiraiya's untimely death when the frog sage people show up in Konoha and tell Naruto that he is in fact 100% dead.

And my tantrum begins anew. WHY DO MY FAVORITE CHARACTERS HAVE TO DIE? WHY!? >__< JIRAIYA! YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO HOOK UP WITH TSUNADE AND LIVE A LONG LONG TIME BEING PERVY AND AWESOME!

*pout*

This recovery process will be a long one...

Inuyasha... Nearly Over. Seriously.

Well, that hit me like a punch to the gut. That's what I get for falling behind in Inuyasha chapters... It fucking ends. I mean, I knew it was coming... It still seems so sudden...

I'm actually choked up over this... THERE BETTER BE ONE HELL OF A CONCLUSION!!

xxx-HOLiC Kei episode 10

10 is subbed by Naked Xlation. This episode is way out there. I don't know what they're doing. No, what I'm thinking is they'd already had the anime planned out before the Kohane arc reached its conclusion in the manga... In any case, this episode departs a great deal from the original story. Basically, the media situation becomes unbearable and Watanuki (accompanied by Doumeki) fight through a mob of reporters to get to Kohane's house. They find her mother dousing her in cold water to 'purify' her because she was 'tainted' by Watanuki and his food.
He and Doumeki intervene and decide to take Kohane away from her mother. If her mother were even slightly less self-absorbed or obsessive, she would have objected to two strange teenage boys taking off with her daughter, but hey, where's the fun in that? Watanuki takes Kohane to Yuuko's shop where she spends the night. She takes a bath with Maru, Moro, and Mokona and eats dinner with everyone.

Kohane seems significantly happier the next day when she decides that she should return home. Watanuki asks why, and she says that her mother is worried about her. Watanuki walks her home and when they part, he gives her a good luck balloon that he got from the Yumekai. When Kohane gets home, she tells her mother that they can stop this, that they can end it here, and as she says that, the balloon pops.
Later, Kohane is at the house that caused the controversey, where she saw two spirits and the other mediums only saw one. Kohane apologizes to the murdered woman's spirit, who then departs. After that, reporters are mobbing her house again after the woman's remains are discovered and Kohane is proven to be right about the two spirits.
Yuuko and Watanuki hear an announcement made by Kohane's mother to the press that Kohane is retiring from spiritualist activities and do not wish to be bothered by reporters or television shows. Some time later, Watanuki runs into Kohane at Doumeki's temple.
He asks how she's been and she says 'good'. They talk about the woman in the tree and the murdered woman at the house and then Kohane's mother arrives. Kohane starts to walk away and Watanuki stops her to ask what wish she made on the balloon. She said she wished for her mother to stop suffering and be able to relax. Kohane then walks away with her mother who says nothing but puts her hand on Kohane's shoulder.
So it concludes, just like that... And as for next week, it seems that Himawari's secret will be revealed.
Isn't that kind of... sudden? Aren't there supposed to be 26 episodes? What the hell are they going to do with the rest of them? They've just resolved Kohane's story, and I imagine the next two episodes or so will deal with Himawari, but then what? They've removed all Tsubasa references, so what the hell else is left to tell?!

Argh.