Tokyo Magnitude Ep 8

Summary:

Taking place where Yuuki had suddenly fallen unconscious. Mari runs to get help where Yuuki can be treated at a hospital. Horrified and tired Mirai keeps on visualizing Yuuki dead in her nightmares. This happens twice, though the second time she wakes up she finds herself outside resting on bedrolls and looked to the one beside her, where her brother's bag rested. Getting up she searches for her brother, where she finds him playing soccer with some other children. She calls him over and tells him not to leave her side and to continue to rest, even though the doctor said it was alright for him to run again. The two of them talk and share fits of laughter. Mirai also shares her nightmare how she thought he had died. They then get up to return to Mari, while Mirai tells him to promise her that whenever he is having the slightest pain, or he isn't feeling well, tell her immediately.

Elsewhere Mari listens to the news about her home, and is suddenly called by the receptionist to receive her documents that she had requested. When she returns to where Mirai was previously resting and then takes Yuuki's backpack in search for them. Eventually she finds them and they start off again to return to their journey back home. Mirai decides to carry Yuuki's backpack since she wants him to rest. She remarks how it's surprisingly heavy.

While walking through the park, Mirai notices how Mari is acting usual, and decides to try and reassure her by telling her that her family is waiting for her back at home safely. Mari wipes her eyes and thanks Mirai and asks if she wants her to carry the backpack. Mirai refuses since she said that Yuuki was able to carry it, and that she's his sister. She then runs off to catch up to Yuuki leaving Mari behind with an uncertain expression on her face and follows after her.

Impression:

My god this episode was driving me insane, freaking me out, making me sit at the edge of my seat desperately waiting to see if Yuuki was alright or not. It was so nerve-wracking not knowing if Yuuki was alive or not. I was freaking out because I couldn't tell whether it was a dream or not. And when Mirai started acting a bit out of character, I was starting to wonder if she was pretending that he was actually alive - or maybe he isn't...I'm still confused.

Mari knows something that she hasn't told the children yet, I don't know what it is, but I'm starting to worry whether she found out that their parents are actually dead, or that her mother and daughter are not alright, or even possibly that Yuuki is dead and Mirai is facing illusions since she doesn't want to believe it. Either way, I'm looking forward for the next episode. I'm hoping that Mari's family is alright. It'd be devastating if they aren't. Mirai character has changed drastically - though I'm not sure if this is because, (like I just said) she is pretending that Yuuki isn't dead.

There was something that made me concerned about this; especially since when Mari went to where Mirai was previously resting, she called out Mirai's name alone, not Yuuki's. And this happened twice.

And Mari is also acting strangely. She's too quite, and I don't remember seeing her smile (other that the nightmares moments). There's something going on, and I'm not comfortable with what the answer could be.

Umi Monogatari Ep 8

Summary:

The childhood flashback begins, where the two girls are playing hide and seek. Joyous laughter and horrified screams from being startled, and of course dancing with the whales - life couldn't get better.

While Kanon returns to the surface with Warin, the sea being explains how Marin and Urin aren't blood related in any way, and how they sea beings are born from sea shells, so they don't know how their parents are. However Marin waited for Urin to be born and acknowledged her as her little sister.

Back where Marin is resting, she keeps on telling herself that Urin is waiting for her as if trying to reassure herself, still unable to transform.

When Kanon returns home, her mother tells her that Kojima came by to see if she was alright since he saw her swimming in the ocean. Though not too long later, Kanon receives a call from Ooshima who requests her to meet up.

Kanon learns the truth that Kojima never actually dumped her, but she has indirectly done so, but never clarified it. Ooshima also confessed that she never felt this way for anyone and that she really wants to be Kojima's girlfriend, and asked if Kanon was still in love with him.

Indeed Kanon is still in love with him, it was just her own fault from misunderstanding his actions of kindness.

Back in the sea, Marin returns to the fallen shrine that is now in ruins. Matsumoto becomes suspicious from the amount of ominous energy. Marin ignores him and tries to break her way into the strange looking bubble that suddenly starts to drag her in, harming both Sam and Warin when they came to her rescue. When they are safe, Warin scolds Marin for acting so rashly and that she can't go and save Urin without her maiden powers. Warin then suggests that she returns to Kanon house where she can probably learn from Kanon, who has darkness in her heart - and yet she can still use her maiden powers.

With that done, they all retreat leaving Urin alone, who is told that the sea beings have left, and her asking why did they have to do. How she hates being alone. The eerie voice that she speaks to tells her that no one will ever come back, no one will return...No one.

Impression:

I was surprised that they actually put in the Opening since it looked as if it wasn't going to have one this episode - but it proved me wrong. The episode overall was pretty boring, and it was cute to see Marin and Urin when they were younger.

I'm not sure what's lacking in this anime, but I'm starting to get bored because of how slow the plot going - though I'm not certain whether it's a good thing or a bad thing. The last two episodes didn't entertain me, and I'm starting to not want to blog this anymore. However I'll give the next episode one more chance to see if something will kick in, though according to the preview, it doesn't look promising - but then again, I could be underestimating this.

Umi Monogatari Ep 7

Summary:

Surprise, surprise; the servant who had disobeyed Sedna's orders and was turned back into its original form was actually the Elder Turtle's daughter, who will join their team. However, every since Urin disappeared, Marin been depress and is determined to save her - alone.

Immediately she decides to return to the sea in search for her younger sister and bring her back. Kanon who wishes accompany her is told to search somewhere in her house for the Porterius Ring, that will allow her to breathe underwater, which she eventually found.

While deep under the sea Marin reunites with Warin and Sam who joins her in search for her sister - however frustrated and desperate, Marin claims she wants to do it alone so that she proves to Urin that she sincerely cares about her.

But before she could swim off into the eerie worn down shrine, a monstrous squid appears and attacks them. Marin refuses to backdown and is determined to get by it - however her powers aren't working and is hopeless in this battle.

Luckily, Kanon appears just in time and battles the giant squid, and then tries the purifying method that Marin usually does - and successfully purified the beast, who turned out to be a pug that belonged to a fisherman who she knows of, in the mean time searching for his dog. She returns the dog back to the surface where he is reunited with his owner.

Kanon, Marin, Sam, Warn and the two turtles all hurry into the shrine where there is overflowing dark energy. The Elder Turtle is suddenly startled to see the seal removed, where then right on the cue, loads of energy erupted from the once sealed coffin, where then revealed Urin within a cocoon.

Marin desperately cries out for her sister to come back and return to her side and tells her not to accept that dark power. As she takes a step closer Urin lashes out a blinding light where the cavern starts to collapses as they are blown away, leaving them no choice but to retreat.

Impression:

The episode was pretty good. The quality was really good and I'm happy to see that Kanon is starting to accept the role of the Sky Maiden. I think that Kanon makes a better priestess since she has a grip of what reality really like. For Marin, she's thinks - or rather thought life was good and bright where happiness will always be around them. But with her sister gone, it's definitely a wake up call for Marin, which will help her develop her own character.

Marin was acting very reckless this episode, and I was entertained (strangely enough) that she couldn't use her powers and that it was up to Kanon to take care of things.

It seems next week going to continue getting interesting, it seems that there will be a flashback about Marin's and Urin's childhood. I suspect it'll be somewhat boring and cute at the same time. Well whatever, I'll bare with it.

Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 Ep 7

Summary:

As Mirai, Yuuki and Mari continue their journey back home, today they saw robots rescuing people as well as meeting a boy named Kento, who eustastically studies them. They meet him several times due to Yuuki constantly following him every time he spots him.
However, as exciting as learning about what the robots do, and making a new friend who makes you think twice about how you feel and treat your family; a problem occurs asYuuki starts to stumble and get headaches, as well of refusing to eat and vomiting. Though as all of these things are happening, Yuuki refuses to rest completely and continues to run about - even at the point he felt like he wanted to fall, but kept in mind that if he didn't run and get help, somebody could get killed.
Eventually, by the end up the day with both his sister and Kento safe thanks to Yuuki running for help due to Kento's rash actions of trying to save a robot rather than save himself, along with Mirai who went to help him - and ends up getting a terrible gash on her leg. Yuuki has no more energy and it warn out. With his fever or whatever happening, he had reached the point where he has collasped and fallen unconscious.

Impression:

[Summary may sound rushed, but I wanted to see how short I can make it without having to write an insanely long one like I usually do. My original summary got too long and so I decided to try and edit it to the point it can be as short as possible.]

Kento's character came into handy of making Mirai think more about her parents and wonders if she has been a bad child. This shows that her character is developing, and it has been thanks to Kento's influence as well of the earthquake's.

I'm starting to worry about what's going to happen to Yuuki. If it were a real life situation, and they were traveling alone, without Mari - he'd probably end up dying.
But since Mari is here,there's a better chance of his surviving. Though if it happens to be a Heatstroke as Mari guessed, well things aren't going to run smoothly as planned.

It seems like the aftershocks are getting weaker, so that's a good sign. With that conflict almost over and done with, it seems that now it'll be all about Survival and Edurance and the battle against Health Problems.

Kaichou wa Maid-sama! Anime Adaption Announced!

It has been finally, and OFFICALLY announced that there will be a
TV Anime Adaption of Kaichou wa Maid-sama!

"The October issue of Hakusensha's Monthly LaLa magazine will announce on Monday that a television anime adaptation of Hiro Fujiwara's Kaichou wa Maid-sama! shōjo manga has been green-lit." - ANN (Anime News Network)

OMG! Finally! It's finally being adapted! I can't wait to see this! I am SO happy!
Whenever it comes out, I'll definitely be blogging this!
Waaah, we have to wait till LaLa's October issue!!!!! We there you go fans of Kaichou wa Maid-sama! We finally got the anime we've been waiting for!!!! \^w^/

Story Summary: (from manga)

Ayuzawa Misaki is the student council president of the former all-boy school, Seika High School. In order to protect the girls, she battles the boys everyday. On the other hand, she secretly works at a "Maid Cafe". But a popular boy from school, Usui Takumi, found out! Living in between the double identity of a Maid and a student council president~
What should we do Goshujin-sama!?

*quote announcement from ANN
*quote summary from Onemanga

Umi Monogatari Ep 6

Summary:

The two shrine maidens continues their search for Urin, while in the mean time the eclipse lasts longer than usual as the mysterious rare butterflies flock the island and another servant that serves Sedna appears.
Marin suffers due to the darkness and had become vulnerable, causing her to bring out the dark side of her mind thanks to the Eclispse.

Unfortunitely, as they search for Urin, she had already been completely possesed by Sedna, the ring had disolved and sunk into her skin, the accesory which Sedna has secretly hid herself in and revealed a mysterious tatoo where the ring once was and disappears with the butterflies.

Back with Marin and Kanon, when all that was happening; the sea maiden admits that she is scared of the darkness, which hides the beautiful sky, the sea...everything. When things couldn't get worse as it has come so far, the servant appears before them. Marin who is still not acting like herself, declares that the servant is unforgivable and that she will seal her imeaditely - only her powers did not work and she should not transform. Kanon quickly tells her that they got to run away.

The two of them run to the cliff where that singing person is who gives them advice when she sings (I think) and helps Marin step back into the light and cause both hers and Kanon's powers to activate, and the two of them transform - only when they look to see the singer she is no where to be seen, but is actually watching over them.

Eventually they reunite with Urin: Kanon notices instantly that the ring is no where to be seen, as for the others, they don't pick up any suspicion of Urin not being herself.
Later while eating their meal, Marin confesses to Matsumoto that she could not use her powers at one point. Shortly after that, the elder turtle asks Urin what happened to the ring. She replies that she lost it, Kanon acts it out saying it's not big deal since she threw it in the sea once. When Urin leaves the table, Kanon notices a strange tatoo look on Urin's finger where the ring once was.

The turtle and Marin discuss about the eclipse and what happened, the turtle tells her that Urin should return to the sea where Sam and Warin can take her of her. Marin imeaditely protests, not wanting to be seperated from Urin.

In the evening, the butterflies arrive at Kanon's house and the servants appears through the door where Urin is waiting for her, where she speaks with the servant and takes back the power asking who she is (the servant) who'd go as far as reject and not use the power of darkness. Before the servant can answer, Urin takes back the powers and reveals that the servant was a sea turtle. Just seconds after that, Marin and Kanon come hurrying over to what happened. Urin declares she going back to the sea, and that she despises the sky beings, specifically Kanon and leaves. Marin chases after her only to see her gone, no where to be seen.
With that, Urin returns to the sea saying, "Goodbye"

Impression:

I was rather confused why Kanon couldn't just battle the servant anyways, but whatever - that's just how it played out.
I was actually glad that is was Kanon who noticed how out of character Urin was acting, and realized that there was a strange tattoo on her finger where the ring once was.
Another thing we were able to learn that creatures that get possessed or recieve Sedna's powers have the choice depending on their will power (I guess) to use her powers or not.
I was actually disappointed that the servant had to turn back to her orignal form (she was cute).

Overall I think this episode was pretty good, but I'm looking forward for next week's since it looks like there's be alot more things going on.

I have to admit it, but it was somewhat ironic that Urin was going to be possessed by Sedna, and fall into her hands - and will probably be the key to reviving her or whatever supposed to happen.

Lastly, that one person, whoever that *points to image* freaking character is, indeed she had caught my attention for the last few episodes, but now I can't help but wonder, "What the hell is she?". Clearly she given the two girls advice, and help Marin to step back into the light. Anways, I'm not sure how big this character's role is, but here's a fact we recieved this episode: SHE IS NOT NORMAL.

Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 Ep 6

Summary:

Ever since Mari heard about the fires in Sangenjaya, she can't help but worry about her mother and her beloved daughter, Hina.
Desperate to see if if they are alright, she tries calling them, but fails - and it didn't help that the news wasn't reporting anything about it. They then try at Mari's office where she tries the phone over there, where it failed to connect as well. Then when things couldn't get worse, she collapse leaving Mirai and Yuuki panicking, unsure what to do - especially when they hear someone coming with something heavy that could be used as a weapon. Not wanting to take a risk to see who it could possibly be, the two of them cover Mari under a blanket and hide behind one of the fallen cabinets, with Mirai holding a golf club ready to use if needed to.
A girl (or it is a lady ^_^*) enters the room with a bag and a metal baseball bat, and notices the blanket that Mari was hidden under. Unsure whether she should lift the blanket or whack it with her bat, she raises the bat cautiously, only to be startled by Mirai who thought she was going to hit her and ends up swinging the bat wildly and stumbling into the wall after tripping onto a box.
Mirai and Yuuki take this chance to try and wake up Mari again - only to their surprise, the girl with the bat knew Mari.
In the mean time, while Mari was unconscious: she dreamed about returning home, happy to see Hina and her mother safe...only then when suddenly a burst of flames engulfed the house, surrounding both her daughter and mother, Hina screaming for her in terror - only to then to be engulfed by the flames.
Mari wakes up from a voice - and sees that it was actually her co-worker, Aya taking care of her - with the children no where in sight, Aya tells her that they went off but didn't say where they were going.
Worried that Yuuki and Mirai decided to go alone since they both want her to get back home faster so that she can see her daughter, she heads out to find them though she isn't fully recovered yet just after an usually strong aftershock occurred.
She finally finds the two of them with a motorbike, talking about how it would be able to get Mari home faster...only to fall (since it's quite heavy) down to Mirai's side. Once more the children grab the handles and try to pull it up, only to be helped by Mari who tells them that they should return the back since they wouldn't be able to travel all together if she rides it.


Impression:

The episode was very slow paced, but we got Mari's past out of it - which explained why she didn't want to leave the kids behind (or at least that what it looked like to me).
Another thing I liked in particular - Mirai's character has gotten better, the less pouting and negative energy - the better!
I can't help but worry slightly about how Mirai got whacked in the shoulder several times AND got hit on the head making her bleed - I'm not sure how this will affect them in the next few episodes.

I'm unsure what's going to happen next, but other than the fact I found the episode quite boring, I can't really complain since it gave us more background to Mari's character.

Umineko no Naku Koro ni episode 2

Summary:

Starting from when we last left off~

Episode I-II - First move.

All the family members are at the dinner table fretting over who exactly gave Maria the white umbrella when Maria tells them that it was in fact Beatrice, of course everyone else doesn’t take her answer seriously.

At dessert time, Maria takes out a letter that ‘Beatrice’ gave her, sealed with wax and Kinzou’s ring emblem.

Remember who he gave the ring to?

Maria does her psycho look (have I mentioned that I HATE this girl?) and reads the letter, wich says that Beatrice is the Ushiromiya’s alchemic advisor and that Kinzou has terminated their contract and in such she is to get her gold back and all that the Ushiromiya’s posses as interest.

Kinzou added a special clause in order to give his family a chance to keep all their wealth and honor, the special clause of course is to find the gold. (which location is hinted on the epitaph under Beatrice’s painting)

The special clause also includes that if anyone finds the gold, all that was collected will be returned as well, and by anyone it means the servants are included.

Since the ring is in Beatrice’s possession, this means that the Ushiromiya’s inheritance has been passed down to another person.

All Kinzou’s children are very upset by this and go this door and demand an explanation (for this bullsh*t!) meanwhile Kinzou is (laughing his head off) wondering who will be able to win this game whilst doing his evil grin.

After dinner, Battler and his mom discus whether Beatrice is in fact real or that maybe one of the 18 in the house just making them believe there’s one more person out there. They reach the conclusion that it must be one of them (by applying the “turn around the chessboard” way of thinking, aka. “Put yourself in your enemy’s place”) since

if the 19^th person does exist why did “she” go trough the trouble of secretly handing a letter to Maria? A person that doesn’t want to be seen doesn’t need to prove that they do exist.

While discussing this, Battler’s father tells his wife that the conference will start and that it will probably last the whole night, he also wants to tell Battler something if he’s awake when the conference ends. When Battler tells him that this is not like him, he tells him he fears he will be killed this night. Meanwhile, Krauss shows Natsuhi one of Beatrice’s gold bars, proving that they do exist.

Oooh shiny!

Jessica finds her mother in a hallway suffering from a headache and gives her the charm Maria gave her, Natsuhi thanks her.

Outside, the younger members of the family are going to the guest house when George invites Shanon to a play cards with them. (Jessica says: Bring Kanon too! :D)

Shanon goes to the servant room to ask Kanon but he tells her that Krauss has changed the work schedule and that he and Shanon are to patrol the guest house in the midnight shift while Gohda patrols the mansion and Kumasawa and Genji spend the night at the guest house. When Shanon tells Kanon that the kids want to play with them he tells her that inviting “furniture” to play unnecessary.

Kanon says: No playtime for chairs and tables!

It turns out that Shanon and George are in love with each other so much so that when outside at the rose garden, George orders Shanon to take the ring that he is giving her (since Shanon says she couldn’t possibly accept it –since she’s nothing but a chair after all XD-) and tells her that the next day he will be expecting her answer but that wasn’t an order, all that she needs to do is place the ring in any finger she wants.

Shanon is patrolling the guest house when a golden butterfly passes by behind her.

Muahahahahaha

The next day, Kanon and Genji go to the kitchen only to find out that Gohda hasn’t gotten there yet and that the phone line is dead. Genji goes to inform Natsuhi about this and wakes her up and makes her aware that breakfast is not ready yet……and of the strange marking on her door.

But where is my damn breakfast?!

Natsuhi asks Kanon if he has found Gohda but he tells her that not only is Gohda still missing but, now they can’t find her husband (Krauss), Rose, Ruddolf and Shanon. Eva suggests Natsuhi to check Kinzou’s study and Genji gives her a key because it would be difficult to speak to Kinzou trough the door.

She enters his study and finds him staring outside his window, they have a conversation on whether Natsuhi longs for her family or his husband’s family to which she answers that she is Natsuhi Ushiromiya and the only family she longs for is the Ushiromiya family, Kinzou mumbles that if Krauss had been a woman and she a man…but doesn’t say the rest …Natsuhi tells him that she will protect the Ushiromiya’s honor without fail, Kinzou tells her that the one winged eagle is engraved in her heart and that she truly his daughter even when not connected by blood.

Once she ends her conversation and goes into the hallway, she meets Eva and Genji who tells her that there is something strange with the shed and that it’s locked. When they get there, there is a weird symbol drawn on the shed.

Eeeeerie

Back in the guest house, the kids are playing cards (don't they have Monopoly or something??? D:) when Genji suddenly comes in and asks Dr. Nanjo to go with him to the shed, the kids follow them and Maria stays at the room because she wants to watch TV.

She’s watching Higurashi No Naku Koro ni! XD

They get there only to see a horrible scene…

They should have just stayed and watched TV with Maria. :/

Rudolf, Kyrie, Rosa, Gohda and Krauss have been killed.

It seems all of them have been dead for 6 hours and that the culprit disfigured their faces after killing them.

George asks if there are only five people there, his father tells him that there are six people…

Damn it! D:<

Impression:

Holey moley! I did not expect so many deaths in one episode, let alone episode # 2!!

Maria Maria Maria, I hate her weird creepy looks and her annoying voice....uugh I'm biased, I don't like little kid voices like that.

Watching this episode bored me until the deaths to tell ya the truth, mostly because I felt it was only repetaing what we already knew from episode one, that there is a with that gave Kinzou gold bars and they had to find it according to the leyend. We at least know now what exactly will happen when they do find the golden bars, that is, if they start like NAO!

Anyways, next episode should clear some things up...or maybe not...yeah, I'm leaning towards the later. >_>

Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 Ep 5

Summary:

Mirai, Mari and Yuuki take shelter at Mirai's school where they meet a kind elderly man who is volunteering to help people; with his wife who's in shock - not wanting to believe her grandchildren were killed and happens to mistakes Yuuki and Mirai as her grandchildren and witnessing Mirai's classmate mourning her mother's death in the school's church where Mirai originally wanted to show her brother the beautiful stained glass.


Impression:

I'm not sure how I should summarize this since nothing intense or dramatic happened. But this episode was definitely an emotional trigger. As soon as I heard the old man's story about what happened to his grand kids, I couldn't stop crying - actually to be truthful I really started my teary moments when I first saw Mirai's classmate.
Out of all the 5 episodes so far, since is the most emotional one yet. There were no shivers nor goosebumps, nor dramatic suspense. This episode I found was dedicated to those who would die in such circumstances (which is a terrible thing, if only we were able to built our city's structures to hang in through these kinds of earthquakes, not as many lives would be taken.)
Since I'm a very emotional person who'd cry to just about anything that is...well, emotional, or at least considered sad - well as expected I cried and had to keep on wiping my tears away since it was making my vision blur and I couldn't read the subtitles.

Tokyo Magnitude, if you haven't started watching it yet - I highly recommend it to you.

Umi Monogatari Episode 5

Horrifying Indeed

Summary:

Swirling the oversized ring around her finger, Urin can't help but deal with that fact that the ring would not fit properly on her finger. Kanon who notices her playing with it boredly, takes the ring decides to find a chain where she can put it through. Thus she creates a makeshift necklace and hands it back to Urin, who was absolutely delighted about what she had done for her.

When it's time for the Solar Eclipse, it's time for making money off tourists - but also to be conscious as the island gets bathed by the shallow darkness.
The Elder turtle and the three girls go back to where Sedna was first released. He reads a special language that has the history of the events recorded down for only Turtles like himself can understand. He explains how that the Solar Eclipse makes people who have evil aura very vulnerable, since Sedna will not miss her chance of obtaining the power of evil. He pointedly said this to Kanon so that she can be cautioned and on guard - and if Sedna obtains what she needs, Kanon will not be able to transform or use any powers of the Sky Maiden.
Speaking of losing the ability to love, Kanon recalls the time when she and Kojima "ended" their relationship, mainly because she felt that she was being a burden to him and told him that she didn't mind if she were to be dumped.

Later, the three of them and the turtle are all set to watch the elispse. Marin can't help but wince at the sight of the sun being overcomed by darkness. Just as the eclipse starts, Kanon recieves a call from Kojima, unsure whether to answer or not. Marin asked her whether she still loves him - causing her to flinch and glance warily back at the ring where then Urin defensively holds the ring away from her, Kanon then says that she doesn't care about the ring and this kind of level of "darkness" is not something to worried about. Shortly Urin lectures her.
While all this is happening, suddenly Marin gets possessed by an evil mind, who then suddenly said very cruel things to Urin, while she mentally tried to stop it and was horrified of all these things that were being said. Upset, Urin runs away just before Marin could control herself again.

The sun is almost completely covered by the darkness, Urin stands by the ocean as jealousy over comes her, causing her to tear off the necklace lace and drop the chain into the sea. She then places the ring onto her finger - only as soon as she did that, something terrible happened.
The ring starts glowing and deformed itself into the perfect fit, a deadly amount of evil energy starts to emerge from the ring. The moon glows eeriely crimson red, as the ocean turns black as a specific spot begins to glow as mysterious purple butterflies appears, swirling around like a twister.

Impression:

CLIFFHANGER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! \oO/
Well, I had spoiled myself slightly by the trailer, but since the second episode I was certain that it was Urin who was going to be used as a pawn. The fact that the relationship between her and Marin was being stretched due to how she is so used to just the two of them and such, not being able to recieve all the love and affection alone anymore, and then having Sedna (I'm going to guess she's the one who made Marin say all those horrible things) drop the bomb, (quite litterally) and then flawlessly push her into the state where she is most vunerable.

I really, really - no seriously: really like the way things are going with this anime. I don't know whether it's just me being a fan and enjoying the storyline and such, but I can't help myself about being excited for what is yet to come.

There was one thing that caught my attention, though I might be thinking into it too might, but there were some parts of the episode where the quality dropped a bit - but that's just me, I can't help but notice it (or at least, "assume so".)

The next episode looks like everyone thinks Urin is okay, but to me - ah ha ha, she's totally brainwashed and being possessed. I'm really looking forward to seeing who that lady (or should I say girl???) who came out of the sea (which I did not mention in the summary). I'm debating whether she's a Lobster that was "cursed" by Sedna, or maybe is Sedna herself.
One more thing before I finish this up, this person here:

Is it just me alone, or are there other people who finds this character very suspicious? For some odd reason I find that person being related to Sedna in some way...*shrugs* I must be thinking too much into this.^_^*

Umi Monogatari Episode 4

"World Domination Pose"

Sparkling Sea-Men are the new Bishies

Summary:

With a storm taking place above the sea - while down below, Warin goes through a sunken ship in search for a weapon, claiming that she wants to save Marin and Urin while her friend Sam tells her that they are probably fine. Warin ignores him then questions Sam if he had felt that strange aura after Urin and Marin went to the surface and that she feels something bad is about to happen.

The next day, the elder turtle gives Kanon a map to a treasure that will purify her. Marin tags along while Urin is held back by Matsumoto and is told that she'd be a burden to the two of them if she goes as well.
Mean while, Marin and Kanon tries to find a passage way, when Marin suddenly starts talking about a starfish and a cucumber, when then she finds a hidden passage and falls. Kanon follows only to slip and cause the two of them to tumble down the tunnel and into an open area where then they hear a sound. Kanon tells Marin to wait behind her while she checks to see what it is - as it turns out to be a beautiful cave and a large shipwreck in front of them. While Kanon goes on how the turtle may be right about the treasure, she thinks about how she wouldn't have to hunt poisonous snakes or be a fortune teller - she is snapped out of her fantasy when Marin calls out to her to eat their lunch on the ship.
The two of them eat lunch, but then hears the sound again. When then a shadowy figure appears to attack them, only to stop - as Marin realizes that it was Warin as Warin realizes that was Marin.
While Warin gets all defensive and tries to get Marin back "saving her" from Kanon who repeatedly tries to explain to her that Marin followed her along - neither commenting on the fact that Marin claimed her as a friend. Before you know it, the two ladies start argueing while Marin tells them not to fight. Sam comes in to tell Warin to stop and had mentioned that Kanon is a cute girl who doesn't look evil. Kanon however is completely turned off and kicks him and starts releasing evil aura as she rants about how she hates it when guys do that.

Suddenly, thanks to her evil energy - she "revives" the pirate captain that is a woman who declares that she will represent Kanon's evil aura to Sedna and swings her sword after her, who then revives the skeletons to attack. Quickly, Marin transforms while Kanon starts chanting, "transforms" yet she can't. Urin and Matsumoto appears, and Marin quickly tells Urin to escape when then she's attacked then saved by Warin who tells Kanon to stop acting like an airhead and battle - though not realizing that Kanon had just finally got the magic stone to react, only to die out again when she started raging out.
Suddenly water come crashing into the cave, sweeping everyone off the ship except for Kanon and into the water below. Once more the skeletons go after Kanon, leaving Marin having to stop them. It didn't take long when Marin gets caught by two skeletons who tries to choke her. Luckily, Warin stabs them both in the head and frees Marin.
Kanon who is watching the scene from the surface, can't help but smile as she realizes that Warin really cares for Marin, which helps her transform and create a massage blow, wiping out all the skeletons including the captain.

When everyone escapes safely - Kanon quickly breaks into the surface for air and looks down into the water where she sees Marin smiling at her.

Impression:

> > Summary sounds kind of rushed, I'm sorry about that.
Fu fu fu, well I just started shipping Kanon x Sam (Why not? XD) I absolutely laughed at how he flirted around Kanon. That was probably my favorite part of the episode (lmao).
The episode was cute - and funny (as usual). It seems that Warin doesn't trust Sky Beings, which makes me wonder if something bad happened that she witnessed or was a part of that was related to Sky Beings, but then again - that might be just me thinking too much. ^_T*

Sam on the other hand - is a complete flirt: and I seriously hope we will get to see more of him *coughbecauseIwanttoseearelationshipgrowbetweenhimandkanoncough* since he's funny to watch, but then again he isn't a main character - so we probably won't get that much.

Urin: I'm going to mention on thing about this child.
With the way things are going, how she is being left out - ignored or rather not gainning enough attention from Marin, the dark emotion of Jealousy is flaring and that I must say, I find is completely foreshadowing the fact that it will be her, Urin who falls into Sedna's hands and serve her.
Or at least that's my theory ^_^*.

Kanon, I was happy to see that she actually wanted

Warin, she's some kickass warrior with one hell of an aim when it comes to throwing spears. It so appears she likes to targets people's heads and throats. O_o* One hell of a vicious, violet warrior indeed.

There was one more thing I wanted to mention before I finish this entry, was that I loved the symbolism they did here:

It totally represents the difference about the Sky and the Sea Priestess. That was probably my favorite symbolic scene of the episode. (Well it's probably the only one too but I wasn't really looking out for symbolic features...>_>*)

Anyways, I'll be continuing tuning in for this Anime. So far it has been keeping me interested and entertained, so there's no sign of dropping it any time soon. ^_^