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FRIENDS come…

.. but some go.. and live separate ways.

.. then hating the indescribable feeling of loneliness.. missing someone who left a hole in your heart.

we may never forget the past, but we must leave it behind.. then move Forward.

Naruto New Ending Theme Song – For You (by AZU)

• October 2, 2009 — I just watched.. Jiraiya Gaiden (2)
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Perhaps my most favorite part in Toradora is the Christmas Eve Festival. It’s an episode of emotion overload. You could really see that Christmas is special to Taiga, as she tries to behave and turn herself from being a badass violent brat to someone who would do selfless love.

Actually, every characters tried to be good to one another, not intending and not knowing that they would all ended up hurting their ownselves..

The scene where Ryuugi visits Taiga as Santa Bear is truly, purely, deeply magical.. You could feel that it’s her happiest christmas ever! But then as she forced him to meet Minorin, and as she made the realization how she truly feels for him.. it turned out to be the most hurtful.. not enough words can explain the feeling.. aww (dabs some tissues).

And that’s the reason why I posted this, this holiday — to show the true meaning of christmas. Show the love and do something really nice to everyone whom you really cared.. love above anything else.. love before yourselves.

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Sayonara.. Arigatou Gozaimasu, Jiraiya Sensei

Naruto Shippuuden 133

• January 18, 2010 — For You (0)
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LEE and YAMATO always have the best reaction.. ever :)

WOAH! What the heck Sakura? And what is your ulterior motive?I’m pretty sure, you’ll get tons of hate letters from NaruHina fans.

….

Sakura: Oucccchhh…. I’m busted

Naruto Chapter 469

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Beware!  We might get an attack from the Ape Tribe.
Stop Illegal logging.
Stop polluting.
Let’s take care of our forest!
Let’s save the Earth!

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Naruto Chapter 468

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As long as there are those who believing that there is hope” … Jiraiya

Naruto cosplaying Jiraiya

*click to enlarge the pictures.


I just watched Jiraiya Gaiden. Jiraiya will be taking the limelight for some episodes this coming week. For now, they inserted Jiraiya Gaiden for giving him an exclusive good introduction that would make us understand the revelation of what he has to become on the next episodes.

We might all know him under the names pervy sage or ero-sennin. He always drops his jaw whenever he sees sexy and pretty women. Given the fact, that when he was a kid, his motivation to become a strong ninja was just to impress Tsunade and all the ladies in town!

So who would have thought that the soon-to-be-king-of-all-perverts would be the ‘chosen one’. He was given the prophecy “that he would someday have a student with the power to save or destroy the world”. That’s the reason for his wanderings (not in research for writing his Make Out Paradise series). He have been searching for the fated student to save the world.

Then he met these three kids — Konan, Yahiko, and Nagato. They were war orphans and Jiraiya took them assuming that he had met his destiny.  

One of my favorite scenes is when Jiraiya had a chat with a confused and guilt-stricken Nagato. His philosphy may be too deep for a child to understand, which he then simply said that he just have to ‘grow up’.

“But knowing what it feels like to be hurt is exactly why we try to be kind to others.
That what makes us human”.
…Chapter 373 The Student Teacher Era, page 09

But destiny seems to be cruel. Jiraiya got a news that the kids he had trained didn’t make it to see the end of the war. As much as he grieve for the loss, he hardens his faith with pure determination just like the hero named ‘Naruto’ on the novel he wrote “The Tale of the Gutsy Ninja”, which was very influential to Naruto’s father – Minato.

Minato daydreaming as Naruto, the gutsy ninja

Gutsy Ninja: Give up, on me giving up!

Jiraiya failed for few times, but he never loses hopes. Watch out for more of him as he takes the heroic path in fulfilling his destiny for world peace :-D

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Appleseed Ex Machina is an anime film that was directed and produced by John Woo (take note, John Woo!). It’s a love story of Deunan and Briareros. Both are members of E.S.W.A.T, fighting for peace and order on a city that survived World War III. It’s a futuristic city that used vast aritificial intelligence, and since half the human population of the city survived, they lived along with bioroids (genetically engineered humans) — Briareros is one of them. John Woo once again proves himself as a master of action movies. The fighting scenes totally rocks and the characters were still very much like from the manga. But of course, with very fine details of colors and shadow effects — somewhat like a mix of anime art and Pixar :-)

Afro Samurai is also an animated film based from manga, and casts were voiced by hollywood stars (Samuel L. Jackson as Afro, Ron Perlman, and Kelly Hu). The story only revolves on the “Number One” band. It was said that the one who possessed the band will rule out the world. Afro’s father wore the Number One band but was challenged by a gunman called “Justice”. Afro was then a child when he saw his father lost and brutally killed by Justice right before his eyes. Hence, vengeance was the only reason why he wanted to get the “Number One” band.

Last week, I’ve watched the live action film of Death Note, The Last Name. I never seen its anime or read its manga series, so I got so interested on its story while I was watching the film. It’s a story about the reaper’s notebook. Whoever owns it will have the power to command a reaper to kill whoever the owner wrote on the notebook. It’s a kind of film where you have to think while watching, else you won’t know what’s going on.. It’s kind of complicated but there’s a very nice unexpected twist at the end of the film.

I am also hooked with School Rumble series. I first saw it on Channel 2 and found the main character, Harima Kenji, very funny. He wears long hair, has goatee and mustache, and always wears a sunglass that make him look like a delinquent student. He’s very tough though, but always a shy guy when he’s around with his crush, Tenma. He saved her few years ago from thugs, but then Tenma mistakenly accused him as a pervert. That’s why Harima always wears sunglass for him not to be recognized by Tenma. It’s now their 2nd year in high school, and Tenma no longer remembers the incident. Harima went back to school just to get closer to Tenma. He always have difficulties expressing his love to her. So his grand plan is to deliver his message through manga.

You’ll also get to meet several characters that will make their love story more complicated. I’ve been wanting to know who will end up with, so it’s somehow kind of addicitive. Too bad, it’s only shown every weekends. But I got my daily dose of it by reading its manga (from www.onemanga.com — a haven for manga addicts!).. So you think I go home with tired eyes because of work? Hihihi :-)

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It’s very limited to have a sunny day in June. That’s why I can’t help myself take photo on those royal blue skies! I can just stare at them all day as each clouds passed by. They’re just simply too beautiful to look at.. they make me feel happy and grateful that we’re living with this kind of nature.

Dark clouds may with hold the blue skies but the heavenly light may shine down on those bravest men who pierce the dark clouds — Gentatsu Takatsuki, Samurai X: Requiem for Ishin Patriots.

• March 4, 2008 — i just watched.. samurai x (0)

I watched all the 95 episodes in the series and the OVA’s, but what I liked best is the movie Samurai X: Trust & Betrayal because..

- of its bittersweet love story
- because of the beautiful script
- because of the boring and yet sexy voice of Tomoe
- because of the wise and poetic philosophy of Hiko Seijuro
- and because of the amazing stunts of Kenshin in battosai mode (oh how I loved those battosai eyes!)

The story starts with a boy named Shinta who was taken by slave traders. While travelling, the group was attacked by bandits and all were killed except for Shinta who was saved by Hiko Seijuro. Seijuro saw the regret on Shinta for not being able to save the people he has with. So he chose him to become his apprentice and taught him the sword art Hiten Mitsurugi Ryu (which teaches the principle of a sword that protects). He also change Shinta’s name to Kenshin (which means heart of sword).

As Kenshin grows older and as the meiji revolution began, he left Seijuru thinking that that time would be the best time to help the oppressed people. Though he hasn’t finished the training with Seijuru, his remarkable swordsmanship was noticed. He was then hired as an assassin by Katsura who heads a revolution to overthrow the shogunate. Kenshin kills as ordered without knowing any information or background of his target. He just knew that they were right to be killed.

During one of his assignment, he killed a bodyguard named Kyosato Akira, who’s apparently the fiancee of Tomoe. This encounter leaves kenshin with the first half of his cross-shaped scar on his cheek.

One night, Tomoe coincidentally witnessed how Kenshin brutally killed a ninja. But Tomoe was still depressed on Akira’s loss at that time and was a bit drunk, and she fainted. Kenshin took her to the inn where he’s staying, and was hired to work as a helper at the inn. Katsura noticed how determine Kenshin was on being a battosai. Thus, he asked Tomoe to take care of Kenshin to balance his emotions so he can stay humane as possible.

A member of Katsura’s group betrayed them which led the shogunate to sabotage the group. At this crisis, Katsuro asked Kenshin and Tomoe to leave Kyoto. He asked them to live on a far off village and pretend as husband and wife to cover Kenshin’s identity as an assassin.

During these times, Kenshin develop feelings to Tomoe and thought of living a normal life. Tomoe is also starting to have feelings on Kenshin, but we found out (based on her diaries) that Tomoe’s initial motive is to vindicate her fiancee. Tomoe’s brother, Enishi, comes to visit her and told her that the shogunate spies have plan on killing Kenshin, which would then makes her revenge complete.

Tomoe went to the shogunate men and tried to stop their plan by killing their leader on her own. But she failed, and the leader confessed that he only used her to make Kenshin at his weakest state because of his emotions towards her.

On the other hand, Kenshin was visited by a comrade and told him that the bodyguard he had killed before was Tomoe’s fiancee and that Tomoe is a spy and is currently meeting the shogunate men to kill him (but not known to Kenshin, his comrade is the one who truly betrayed Kenshin and Katsura’s group).

On his way to follow Tomoe, Kenshin faced very skilled ninjas one after another and managed to killed them even he was out of focus because of his thoughts on Tomoe. He had accepted the fact that although he still loves Tomoe, he deserves her betrayal because of what he has done with her fiancee.

When he reached the leader, he was already badly injured and was nearly blinded because of the bruises on his eye. Both the leader and Kenshin were on their last blow, but Kenshin didn’t see Tomoe stepped in between them. The leader was only using Tomoe’s dagger, but Kenshin’s sword went through Tomoe and reached the leader killing them both.

Before Tomoe’s death, as Kenshin cradled her on his lap, she gave Kenshin the second part of his cross-shaped scar on his cheek. Kenshin vowed to avenge her by following again Katsura so that they can stop the shogunate in order for them to live in a world where an ordinary man would not have to carry a sword (as he had said to Tomoe before). And so after the revolution, Kenshin wanders and vowed never to use his sword to take another life.

Kenshin: We once fought for an ideal with our swords. It wasn’t for power or glory, but to create a peaceful world where people could live without fear. And if you should forget that, then what did we fight the revolution for? — Rurouni Kenshin, episode 3.

• June 28, 2008 — blue skies (2)