CLANND ~After Story~ - 1

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The series starts off with a dream has of when he was little. The setting would be a train and a flower field outside. It seems he is with his father. Then a voice is heard shouting, "Watch out, Tomoya-kun"! Now the setting goes back into the park where Tomoya, Nagisa, Sanae, and Akio are playing baseball. Upon waking up from his dream a baseball is seen to be flying towards Tomoya. Nagisa jumps in and Tomoya catches the ball before it hits him. Back in the game Akio is up at bat and hits a home run for Sanae, the ball ends up breaking a window.

Back at home the next day ( or however many days), while eating in the morning, Akio asks Tomoya to recruit a team for a baseball game on Sunday to defeat their rivals, the neighboring shopping district team. Nagisa informs Tomoya that Akio is part of the adult team. Akio goes on to tell us that the rival team has recruited a former high school national tournament player. Because of that their district team is on a losing streak. Sanae comments on her neighbor's behaviors due to the losses. Akio asks Tomoya to recruit people from the theater club since school is starting again. Akio states, "From the moment I saw the teamwork you guys showed me at the School Festival, I've been wanting to play baseball with you guys". Akio says since he is boyfriend he has to be nice to him too. Tomoya complains that his right shoulder is injured and can't play. then says, "You lit the fireball in my heart. Like the fireball". Tomoya comments on his comment and says that he makes no sense whatsoever.

Next scene shows Tomoya> and Nagisa on their way to school while Tomoya gives background information on what is happening. He is still living with Nagisa and talks about how as a senior in high school he should know more about what to do with his future, but he doesn't know what he wants to do.

The scene changes and it becomes it starts off with Kyou saying, "I'm in"! The room has changed to the drama club room, where Tomoya had probably asked if anyone would like to play in the baseball game. Sunohara starts bragging about how Akio> as good eyes for recruiting him. Tomoya praises him about his prodigy-athleticism. and Sunohara says how his talent leaks out even though he tries to conceal it. Tomoya turns around and mutters to himself that Sunohara is as easy to manipulate as usual. Sunohara upon hearing him yells out, "What did you say"?, Tomoya tells him to forget about it and tells him that he's super while making a reference to a advertisement for menstrual pads. Sunohara being the idiot he is does not realize this and says with a passionate voice and look, "Damn right I am"! Kotomi decides that she wants to play too. Tomoya> asks her if she knows the rules and she responds that she learned while watching Tomoya and Tomoyo play against the baseball team back in season one. Kyou asks Ryou if she wants to play too, but she refuses and will cheer from the side, Nagisa says she will cheer also. Nagisa tells Tomoya, "Good luck". Kyou says that Nagisa and Tomoya are looking more like a couple now and Tomoya and Nagisa turns away blushing.

The scenary changes again and this time Tomoya and Sunohara goes to ask Tomoyo. Tomoyo asks, "What do you want calling me to a place like this"? Tomoya replies saying that Sunohara wants to do perverted things to her. Sunohara is instantly kicked to a wall and a print is left behind. Tomoya says he guess there was no need to test her athleticism, and Sunohara complains saying is he a measuring tool. Finally Tomoyo asks what is going on.

Now Nagisa, Tomoya, Tomoyo, and Sunohara are walking home from school together. Tomoyo says she will only join if Misae joins the team too. Tomoya decides to talk Misae into it and Sunohara claims that she will join as soon as he asks her to. Then Nagisa noticed Yoshino is working on a telephone pole. Sunohara decides to invite Yoshino too. Sunohara> calls out to him but he doesn't respond. Sunohara decides to do a Yoshino call with the other three, but Tomoya doesn't know what it is. Sunohara explains it to him that it is like an encore. He thinks Yoshino will remember his musician days and respond back to them. The four starts clapping to a certain tempo and shouts Yoshino multiple times in a certain beat. Yoshino then climbs down and smacks Sunohara over the head with his safety helmet asking what kind of harrassment is this. The situation is explained and Yoshino turns them down saying he has work. Tomoya tells him to wait and says Sunohara looks up to him. Tomoya says, "His house is up north, so when he graduates, he probably won't ever come back to this town. So he wants to create a memory with the man he looks up to,Yoshino-san, before he leaves"(obviously it's one of those Tomoya lies that work). Yoshino realizes how thoughtless he was and decides to help out.

The four now arrive back at Sunohara's dorm and goes to Misae. Misae asks what is going on and Sunohara says, "Let's play baseball"! Misae says, "No. Bye". and closes the door. Tomoya says he thought it would've been better if Sunohara had stayed quiet. Sakagami then calls out to Misae, and Misae comes back out, Sunohara repeats the same line, but before he could finish, Sakagami knocks him out. Misae asks if she needs answers for problems involving the Student Council again. Tomoyo replies no and tells her that they want to play baseball with her. Tomoyo declares that Misae is her goal and her rival and wants to play baseball with her. Misae say that she can't refuse to a person with those eyes. The last person they recruit back outside is Mei, Sunohara's sister. Nagisa asks Tomoya to bring his father to play too so she can meet him properly, Tomoya stops and says maybe next time and walks away. Nagisa gives chase.

The day of the baseball game, Sunday, arrives. Everyone is in their gym uniforms, getting ready to start. Akio's team rounds and up and Akio thanks those that have come, but it would be pointless if they lost. Akio whispers to everyone that the loser has to eat Sanae's bread. Kyou not understand what he means asks Tomoya, who tells her that it's better off not knowing.

The game starts and the first batter says that Akio must've lost his wits to challenge them with his team. Akio says in return that it would be an interesting team. Akio pitches and it is a strike. Sunohara catches the strike and pain is sent through his body as depicted by the waves. Sunohara complains about the pain on his hand, and Kyou yells back that no one cares about his hand and he better catch the ball. Sunohara goes up to bat as a lefty and Tomoya finds it odd that he is a lefty. Kyou says that Sunohara is probably thinking being a lefty makes it closer to first base. The pitcher throws and Sunohara fakes a swing and bunts the ball. The hit becomes a pop-up causing him to be out. Sunohara complains that he can't hit a national pitcher's pitch and tells Kyou to do it. Kyou goes up to bat and hits it. The game progresses and Misae hits the ball, and Akio is up batting only to be striked out. Tomoyo's turn is up next and Tomoya says that he is counting on her. Tomoyo claims that this is her first time as a batter. Tomoya teaches Tomoyo how to swing a bat, and Nagisa is shown seemingly jealous. Tomoyo misses the first swing and Tomoya gives her advice. Tomoyo swings again at the next pitch and hits a home run. Akio does a little dance across the field. Tomoyo apologizes for losing the ball, but Tomoya tells her to run. Yoshino is stuck out afterwards.

Score is now four to zero, with Furukawa Bakery in the lead. Akio starts to pitch again but this time the batter lets go of the bat by accident. The bat flies out of his hand and hits Akio's leg. Akio screams in pain and is seen rolling in the dirt holding his leg.Everyone rushes over to see if he is okay. The batter apologizes and Sunohara accuses him of doing it on purpose. With Akio out they have to get a new pitcher. Akio chooses Nagisa to be the new pitcher.

Nagisa is now the pitcher and she pitches, the batter hits it and Tomoyo gets it, she passes it to Tomoya and gets the batter out. Tomoya is up to bat now and is struck out. Kotomi is up to bat now and she starts calculating probability and percentage of hitting. She also brings in physics involving length of her arm, motion, pitch speed, length of bat, and diameter of the ball. Kotomi does a Texas hit and runs to first base. Sunohara goes up to bat and Sunohara is out as he runs to the base. He is then denounced by Misae, Kyou, Mei, and Tomoya. Nagisa pitches again and the ball is hit toward Kotomi, she manages to catch it but doesn't throw it home. The score is then four to one with the Furukawa Bakery team still in the lead.

Kyou and Misae both go up to bat and both hit the ball. Sunohara says, "Our girls are amazing". Akio being ethusiastic shouts that they have runners on first and third base and wonders who is next up at bat. Nagisa is shown and Akio's mood drops saying, "Oh yeah, it's you". Akio tells her to do a squeeze but Nagisa misinterpret it as S-quiz and asks what is it. Akio says, "Don't worry and swing with all your might". Nagisa is struck out right after. Akio says there is nothing to worry about for their slugger Tomo-pyon is next. Tomoyo tells him not to give her a weird nickname. Kotomi and Ryou tells Tomoyo to hit another home run, but Tomoyo refuses saying she wants to hit like a girl. Tomoyo hits it and gets taken out. Okazaki is up to bat and Mei is on a base. Okazaki bunts the ball and is taken out. The game progesses.

Misae catches the ball from a hit and Akio says, "Great catch Misae-chan"! Misae yells back and says don't call her that. Tomoyo hits like normal again and is on a base. Yoshino back up to bat is filled with rage. A red aura is seen around him as he thinks to himself that he has not contributed at all to the game. He lets the first two pitches go by and swings his bat and hits the ball. After the ball is sent flying, Yoshino goes back and gives a speech about the gift of memory, before he could finish he is taken out because he wasn't running to the bases. Yoshino goes back and cries on a bench.

Akio says they have turned the tables around. Nagisa apologizes and Sunohara says it isn't her fault. Kyou, Tomoyo, and Mei all start talking about how Sunohara messed up. Misae is struck out and Nagisa is up to bat again. Everyone starts to give her advice and Nagisa swings her bat. She hits it and runs off to first base. Tomoyo goes bak up and hits it has hard as she can, despite that she gets taken out. Yoshino is back up and hits the ball and runs to first base. Yoshino once again gives off the same speech except calles timeout before hand. Mei hits the ball too afterwards having three runners on bases. It was Tomoya's turn to hit again, Akio tells him to hit it for Nagisa's sake. As Tomoyo steps up to bat preparing to hit, he looks up at the sky and the sun the scene changes.

Now everyone is back at Nagisa's house celebrating their victory. Food is prepared and as Kotomi puts it, it looks very delicious. Sunohara asks Tomoya who Sanae is and asks if she is Nagisa's sister. Tomoya says something like that and Sunohara says beautiful sisters. Then to celebrate their victory, they cheered. The light reflects off the cups and it becomes the sun again back out onto the field but Tomoya had already hit the ball. They start running and the ball is seen soaring through the air. Then a scence in the illusionary world is shown, with the robot looking up at the light that is the ball.

To be continued~

Preview:



Well this episode start off light and simple. It wasn't as dramatic, but was made into a simple comedy. They gave enough screen time for everyone. I, myself, enjoyed this episode a lot. The part that I found most amusing was when Kotomi was calculating the hit. The BGM is still the same as season one, the BGM from the game. It still fits the show perfectly and gives off a good vibe. Also elements from the first season is given so none of us will be left hanging. Sunohara getting kicked to the wall is the best! Who else was thinking something else when Akio got hit by the bat? I love you Tomoyo!!!

10/10

-Ricky
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Picture of the Day

Author: Rokou Posted under:


Although this picture is clearly fanart, I believe that many of you would still believe that Lelouch is alive and is the wagon driver. I wish I that is true, too, because he has sacrificed everything for almost nothing in return even if he had fulfilled Nunnally's wish of a gentle world; It was one without him. I guess this is just something I wanted to share with you people who still wishes that Lelouch is alive and well...in the countryside. And it still feels so random...

-Rokou
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ToraDora - 01

Author: Rokou Posted under:


















As the story begins, Ryūji Takasu narrates about something in the world that nobody has seen yet while he tries to stylish his hair with fluffy bangs to capture women's heart, according to a magazine. But he sighs and carelessly throws the magazine into the trash can, which topples over and reveals hidden mold; as he cleans the mold, he continues to narrate that the something is sweet and gentle, and it would be something you yearn for if you had your eyes on it. The scene transitions to Taiga Aisaka, who just woke up, she continues that the world has hidden that something so not anyone can get it, and sneezes at the end. The scene jumps back to Ryūji who is still cleaning the mold; he exclaims that someday someone will find it; then Taiga finishes that someone who is supposed to find it will find it. Thus their day began.

As Ryūji tidies the house, his mother, Yasuko Takasu, tries to trap his foot, but he easily escapes from it. His mother remarks on how cold Ryūji is, but Ryūji exclaims he already told her last night that he got school today; his mother complains about the dark room and tells Ryūji to open the curtains. Ryūji replies that they are already open and his mother looks out to the window, noticing the tall apartment building outside of their house. Because the apartment building blocks the sunlight, Ryūji complains, with a grinning face that his mother notice is similar to Ryūji's father, about undried laundary and mold everyday. But when being compared to his dad, Ryūji states that he doesn't want to be compared to such person. Eventually, Ryūji gives up the argument and leaves for school.

On his way to school, Ryūji explains that he doesn't wish to be like his father because the look in his eyes. Suddenly, a student bumps into Ryūji and when they saw the look in his eyes, the got scared and ran away after apologizing and leaving Ryūji with their wallets. Ryūji ends up returning the wallets to the lost and find; the clerk there comments that Ryūji manages to collect a lot of wallets everyday. Ryūji proceeds to check for his class, but his grin causes everyone around him to scatter, leaving an open circle. As he sighs, his friend, Yūsaku Kitamura, pats him on the back and tells Ryūji that they are in the same class, 2-C, again.

When walking to class, Ryūji sighs that starting a new class would mean he has to clear up misunderstandings with everyone again, but Kitamura exclaims that he knows and it won't be necessary for everyone. Thus Ryūji thanks his friend and glad that someone understand him. Before Ryūji could finish talking about his class, Minori Kushieda surprises Minori Kushieda and exclaims that she is in the same class with the two. Minori asks Minori Kushieda if he remembers her and he replies, looking away embarrassed, "Minori Kushieda, right?" She was glad he remembers and bids them goodbye. After his friend left, Ryūji doesn't pay attention walking and bumps into Taiga; everyone whispers about how the school's two most dangerous people have entered a decisive battle. But Ryūji sees Taiga like a doll since she is small, but he feels that he got a hateful feeling from her. Some girl in the back refers Ryūji and Taiga as the delinquient and Palmtop Tiger, respectively. Then Ryūji comes into realization that the name, Palmtop Tiger, fits her nicely, but he gets punched in return.

In class, the teacher announces to the class about anyone who didn't turn in the questionaire should come to faculty office especially Ryūji. Taiga sneezes and Minori worries if she is alright since she was late today. Taiga replies that she went to a doctor who told her that her sneezing is caused by house dust. On the other hand, Ryūji ponders on the fact that Minori and Taiga are friends and concludes the problem is with himself. Then Kitamura pats Ryūji on the back and tells him that it will be easier to clear up misunderstanding after watching a group talk about Ryūji and Taiga. Taiga, who was distracted looking at Kitamura, suddenly looks away and says its nothing when Minori asked her what's wrong.

After Ryūji goes to the office about his not turned in questionaire, he goes back to class and once he opens the classroom, he is surprised to see chairs and table flying in the air. Then when everything calmed down, a metal locker fell and opened; Taiga, curled together, rolled out. Ryūji pretended to ignore her and went to grab her bag. When Ryūji picked up his bag, Taiga asked, stuttering a bit, what he is doing, but soon she realizes she mistook Ryūji's bag for someone else's; thus she jump at him and held on to the Ryūji's bag tightly. They pulled on the bag for a while before she sneezed and released her hold. Before Ryūji could be angry with her, she walked out of the room and called him stupid before slamming the door. Ryūji ends up concluding she is a mess and the room is a mess, too.

At home, Ryūji is doing homework and when he opened his desk drawer, he saw a picture of his mother and his late father and had a flashback of his mother talking about his father. He exclaims that if it was not for the look, he wouldn't be in a mountain of trouble. Then he remembers the questionaire and searches through his bag, but finds a love letter from Taiga to his friend, Kitamaru. He waves the letter in air while acting out how he would tell Taiga about the letter, but suddenly, the letter seal came apart and Ryūji quicky resealed the letter and pretended he didn't open it. But he noticed something about the letter and held it under the light, there was nothing in the letter. He calls her a klutz again.

During the night, Ryūji wakes up to sounds in the house. He wonders who it is and it couldn't be his mother because she is at work. He walks out of his room and sees the window open; then in the refelection, he saw someone approaching and barely manages to block the person's wooden sword. As Ryūji gets a closer look at the person, he recognizes he knows someone that small; the person suddenly lose her balance and Ryūji trips past and switches the light on. He was surprised it was Taiga. After a moment of pause, Taiga continues her wood sword barrage on Ryūji and tells him to forget about the letter or else she would kill him while managing to make a hole in the wall. Ryūji saved himself by telling Taiga that the letter was actually empty. Before she collapsed due to hunger, she was shocked that the letter was empty as Ryūji exclaimed how lucky she is.

Ryūji cooks her some fried rice and noticing how fast she eats, he asks her how hungry she is. She replies that she got tired of the convenice store. He got curious about why her family doesn't feed her, but he paused and thought that every families has their own issues. Then he offered her a tissue to clean her face; she suddenly blushed and quickly took the tissue. Taiga remarks that nothing would've happened if he had quietly handed over the bag. But he ignored her and told her that there is still some rice left on her face; thus she blushes again and wipes her face clean. After a moment, Ryūji exclaims that love letter isn't even embarrassing and he brings out a box full of stuff, which Taiga questions about. Ryūji explains those are all his attempts for a girl whom he likes. After flipping through some stuff, Taiga discovers that Ryūji likes Minori. Thus they argue again, but is interrupted by Ryūji's family pet parrot, Inko-chan. Taiga calls it disgusting, but Ryūji eagerly expects it to greet guests by saying its own name; Inko-chan only managed to say Inpo, which made Taiga punched Ryūji again and Ryūji says that Inko-chan isn't feeling well today. Noticing the late hour, Ryūji tries to persuade Taiga to forget about him liking Minori and tells her to go home, but she says no and doesn't trust him. She continues to ask about love letters, but Ryūji ignores her questions and tells her that he will help her with any romantic questions tomorrow. She asks if he will really help her; He hurriedly agrees. Eventually, he ends up agreeing to helping her with anything and obey her like a dog. Afterwards, before leaving, she tells him that he can patch the hole in the wall with the letter and then she turns down his offer to walk her home because she can protect herself with the wooden sword.

Next morning, as Ryūji is preparing breakfast, he gets a call from Taiga who shouts into the phone, telling him to come over. He hangs up quickly, but Taiga calls him again and he picks it up again. Then she told him to look outside on the balcony and he was surprised that they were right across each other. She simply states that he agreed that he will do anything. But when he tries to explain about last night, she threatens him with her fist. Thus he changed his mind and told her that the seasoned rice would be done in ten minutes; when hearing her stomach grumble, he concludes that she wants some, too.

He walks to the apartment building and compliments how nice it looks inside. After no one answered the door, he realized the door was unlocked and when he opened it, he suddenly smelled something horrible. He finds that the sink reeks of filth, which made him shout Taiga's name and wanting to clean her sink. When he found her, she was asleep again. He compares Taiga to a handcrafted doll again and the house to someone's doll house, but it was too large to be someone's doll house. He checks his cell and says it will only take fifteen minutes to clean. When Taiga woke up, she was surprised her house is all clean. Ryūji started to explain how horrid it was before, but Taiga threw her pillow at him and called him a mongrel for trespassing. He got angry at her, but when he saw her sit down before the table with prepared food, he forgot his anger and remarked that she forgot her table prayers. She impatiently says them. He also comments that her nose stopped dripping. She quietly muttered that it is because the room is all clean. He doesn't hear her, but she tells him to shut up instead of repeating what she said. The last scene is the flower-petal like patch of that hole in the wall.

Preview






First impression

Episode one followed the first chapter of the manga. Sometimes when I hear Taiga's voice, I get reminded of Louise and Saito as Ryūji. One is dog and one is master. But the voice actors are different though. Although Taiga's voice is deeper in tone, very suitable for Taiga and her personality, sometimes it still reminds me of other characters Rie Kugimiya has voiced for. For example, when Taiga is shouting shut up to Ryūji, it reminded me of Shana from Shakugan no Shana. Well, from the looks of the preview and first episode, I have big expectations for this anime and it will definitely be blogged.
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