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This Episode
Kobato’s contemplating on the bottle Ioryogi had just awarded her and was thankful that she had passed the test given to her.  Meaning there’s a big chance in making her wish come true.  Once again, her innocent dawdling made the little blue fellow spat at her and bid her to start working her ass off collecting wounded hearts.   But the dense girl ended up asking everyone she met on the street resulting into a crestfallen Ioryogi.

Exhausted from her fruitless endeavor Kobato ran into a couple of young kids playing and ended up caddying for their game.  But then she bumped into Fujimoto after helping out another mister who was weary giving out tissue samples to the public.  Only then she realized that he was the same guy who saved her from before.

By some dumb luck she also met Sayaka sensei and thus, she found herself inside Yomogi school with the kids.  The comedy began when Kobato and Fujimoto met once again! Suspense! Watch it!  Very cute scenes after! ^^

Kobato got her first wounded heart collected, that which took her by surprise until Ioryogi told her the real score behind.  It was from the kid at the nursery whom she helped  cheer up unknowingly. She got a 100 mark from the magical fella as well for the accomplishment.

Random Babblings

The Ioryogi crawling out of Kobato’s bag reminded me of Sadaku breathing fire! Also whenever that fellow talks, I honestly hear Kurogane everytime!  Think about it, both of them were short-fused right and obviously the same voice.  Why do I have the feeling that Kobato is straying away from the manga?  A new character will appear in the next episode, probably from one of CLAMP’s works but is it not too early to butcher the promising anime story? :\

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This Episode

The premiere episode mostly focused on the manga’s first chapter which gave a little backgrounder about the legendary Fairy Tail as a guild and the introduction of the two of the main characters in the story Natsu and Lucy. Well, Happy included but does it count like one? Thought not, but it plays an important role too! ^^;

It all started with the nauseated Natsu, motion sick caused by traveling from any transportation, in this case train. He and happy came to a town where he hoped to find Igneel. He came across Lucy who saved her from the cheap charm casted by the man claiming himself as the Salamander but was a phony as Natsu had confirmed it.

The blonde girl Lucy can into Harjion (?) for it is said to be famous for magical stuff stores but was dismayed to have found only one. She was kinda insulted that despite flaunting of her natural charm wih the scrawny store keeper, a meager discount is all that she got.

Thanking Natsu, she paid for the food he and happy devoured gratitude. She also told them of her desire to be a part of Fairy Tail to be lined up among the most famous mages. The same wish made her accept the offer of the phony Salamander as he claimed to be a member of Fairy Tail and would help Lucy with her passes in. It turned out that his group thrives on beautiful ladies and selling them as a merchandise for bucks.

Natsu overheard about the claim on Fairy Tail and that he cannot let pass. He came to the rescue and found Lucy there too. After a brief wave of motion sickness again, he taught the guys their lesson. Lucy with Happy’s help tried to escape but as the flying transformation magic of the feline wore out, Lucy fell in the water where she found her stellar keys that fake mage had thrown. She called for snooty Aquarius and she washed the ship onto the shore flushing Lucy and happy along.

Meanwhile, Natsu amazingly displayed his fire eating ability and showed a bit of his dragon slayer moves making a statement not to mess up with Fairy Tail’s name. He sure saved the captive girls including Lucy, took care of the fake Salamander’s group but he overdid it a little throwing the port into chaos and right there and then the town authorities arrived. Natsu grabbed Lucy and sped away asking if she want to join Fairy Tail and without a thought Lucy gave him a resounding yes!

Random Babblings

I can’t totally say about the animation quality because I can only manage an LQ streaming unfortunately but it sure is well written for the first episode. It captured the fun mostly like in the manga but why is it that I am irritated by Lucy’s voice! I like Natsu’s! The seiyuu’s voice fits the role very well! Happy’s? Erm, just fine, I guess. Why do I like the ED Theme rather than the opening?

Anyways, this is just the first installment. Meaning,, we have a lot more episodes to critic on! Hoping the story would stay loyal in the manga as it is now!

Quick Update

Watch Fairy Tail Episode 1 (Subbed) [ HERE ]

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A little overview:

The anime started with Kobato’s arrival on what appeared to be a park’s playground where Ioryogi, her mystical buddy stuffed in a blue canine toy, gave her a  pep talk pertaining the mission they are about to carry out.  Innocently airhead Kobato seemed to anger her usually cranky partner and always ends  up receiving the wrath and a blow of fire from the fellow.

As the day went on, she met different kinds of people under various circumstances: a lady on the run who missed out one of her garbage bags from a collision with Kobato, a situation which made her qualify for a flock of raven as prey.  Easily deceived by kind words, she almost got into trouble with two guys whom Iroyogi perceived to have an ill intention against her.  Fujimoto came in to her rescue, thus, the first informal meeting.

Fate must have really been at work since our heroine came to work at the very same food stand Fujimoto’s working at.  It so happened that she broke something from the  stand while trying to help out the kids get their  ball back.  She is awesomely clumsy!  The funny thing which happened next was that she was asked by a customer to do the nabe (hot pot dish) for them.  She had it all wrong and hey is chocolate even an option for the recipe?  Despite having been horrified by the way she made the dish, the customers and even her boss thought she had just created something that tastes out of the ordinary, thank goodness.

Her last encounter for the day is with an old lady sitting for a wailing baby.  Kobato tried to help but scared the baby even more until she gave out a very soothing song  fit for a baby’s lullaby.  On the process, people gathered to hear her sing.  And on a detour, Ioryogi finally gave her a winged bottle for her to use as vessel for the mission.

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For the first time, I felt nostalgic thinking about Cardcaptor Sakura since this is a Madhouse production.  Cuteness is inevitable! True to their word,  CLAMP aided the anime to at least look much similar to what was being illustrated in the manga, though of course minor flaws are observed  from time to time, Kobato’s noticeably ragged and bristly hair for example.  Ohkawa is on the script if I’m not mistaken, so, Yay!.

Kobato’s voice suits the role perfectly in contrast with Fujmoto’s which is kind of unexpected.   I so  love Ioryogi’s best!  Kurogane? Haha, magnificent!

Kobato as an anime is really refreshing!  It has a balanced theme of comedy and the episode doesn’t have dull moments and considering the many events taking place in a matter of 20 minutes or so.  Nice!  I’ll try to watch it on real time if I could because I sense hope in this anime considering the not so great ending of both xxxHoliC Kei and Tsubasa Chronicle most especially.  Hopefully, the momentum could be kept.

Lastly, Maya Sakamoto really rocks!  I  love the Opening theme though it could have been better as I hoped but it matches Kobato’s character in a sense.  The ending is kinda slow, not that notable.

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I didn’t get to write my insights on the final chapter (232) since I honestly was disappointed of how CLAMP  sort of cut the chase short.  Following the series for years was worth it until the last chapters. We all would agree if I’d say that we expect something to turn out real right but to my amazement, the already super complicated manga plot was  made even more perplexed.  I bet that left most of the fans fuming about the lack of concrete explanation from CLAMP… a tragic but happy ending but definitely with issues unsolved till the end.  It felt like taking the plunge and never fully surfacing again.

Anyways, the epilogue somehow explained a few things about Syaoran and Sakura and the rest of the gang, Fai, Kurogane and Mokona.

It goes a little something like this:

Things had turned out almost normally in the Clow country.  The vanishing people vanish no more making the place full of life again.  Syaoran still came to that old home when he was with Fujitaka.  Because of the choices the clones took, they sacrificed themselves and paid the heavy price of having their existence in every dimension erased (probably as I’ve understood it), no wonder why the supposedly Syaoran’s family portrait has only him and the empty chair where Clone Sakura (mom) used to sit and Clone Syaoran (dad) used to stand.  Sad.

Sakura resumed life normally in the palace, back when Touya wasn’t still king and this time Nadeshiko (mom) was still alive and Fujitaka (dad) whom Clow Reed once stood for assumed his rightful role as King and father to Sakura.  Wait, not in the present Clow I presume…?

Syaoran and Sakura met once again and finally settled that thing from before, the word.. I love you that was left unsaid by their other selves.  The group geared up for travel once again through the help of a Mokona earring (was it Modoki’s? I’m lost, but seems like it hopefully) but this time, Sakura wasn’t able to come by choice believing it would be best judging from the dream she had.  Both wanted to meet the other them once more though they have the clones’ memories inside them. And hey, am I just hallucinating or they did just revealed both their names are Tsubasa? And Fai and Kurogane’s just tag-a-longs now.

I hope I have gotten the gist right and hopefully scanlated version would be out soon!  Nonetheless, it was a satisfactory finale for TRC.  Now, I only have hopes for xxxHOLiC (so lackluster nowadays :C ) for some decent answer and I’d wager we’d see more crossovers of them in some CLAMP’s latest and ongoing works.

This annual observance is equivalent to the Moon Festival of the Chinese, Kinro Kansha no Hi of the Japanese and simply Thanksgiving for Americans.  I just thought it would be interesting to witness and get yourself involved in such occasions!

See here – - > [Chuseok/Chusok] to find out more of the festival.

I love traditions not… maybe a bit but exploring other than our own is exciting isn’t it?  It is especially true when you would have the opportunity to wear traditional costumes, eat traditional food and celebrating the event in a traditional manner.

In this case, I wanna wear a hanbok, they’re lovely!  Not that I wanna do some cosplay! Whatever. :P

By all means, Happy Chuseok to all our Korean friends out there!

Song Pyun (Korean Rice Cakes) everyone?

You know how it goes when you set your priorities first and as always real life should be on the top of the list.  I’ve had a blast during those times off and I am quite satisfied with how the things are going on right now.  I was happy, I had fun!  It’s just normal for all of us to go through rough times and keeping up with busy schedules.  I just wish there could be more than just 24 hours a day and 7 days a week!  I hardly had time even for myself!  So much for my bad habit!

I think it wouldn’t hurt if I spill a little secret… I don’t wear any watch ever though I have a couple of them somewhere in my closet!  Surely that’s odd for a mindset but no one can ever force me to even try.  I don’t approve of something that would limit my time and that stubbornness usually would get me late for appointments and yeah I almost wanted to regret having tolerated as such.  Thank goodness, I still have my phone and notebook to tell the time and worse, I’m not friendly with the calendar either!

Cutting the blab short, I’ve missed a lot of things.  I haven’t had my usual anime dose and neither my manga fix.  I also had my hands off the forums for a while but still that thing which kept me busy helped get through my obsessions and made me realize what’s more important.  I could never be happier discovering the part of me which I thought wasn’t there. What I’ve been through is a freeing and a life-changing experience and it still is.  It was special.. thanks to You.

My writing seemed to have rusted a bit, obviously since I had no idea what I’m typing here anymore.  All I know is that I wanna fix  my schedule and try to fit everything else.  On the side note, I have to write more to be able to teach effectively.  Yes, you heard it right, I have turned into some pedagogue overnight!  On how the hell did that happen, I don’t have the slightest idea!

I want to take this chance to thank hundreds of friends who haven’t forgotten to drop by my site everyday despite my absence.  To Stranger most especially for sharing her time and effort updating the blog with awesome Shugo Chara summaries and Quinn,  Mimiko and everyone!   There’s no way  I could ever repay you aside from my sincerest “Thank You!”

I’ve been warming up getting ready for the comeback!

Until then and my best regards!

Fairchild~

I’m pretty excited about this since I’ve been following the manga for a while and it has brought me happy memories too.. as to why, Naisho! :P

Only one thing’s certain, I love Natsu! :3

Fairy Tail the Anime is to be produced by A-1 Pictures and Satelight and  at the moment, my anticipation is growing stronger by the minute.  I really enjoyed the manga and hopefully the animated version could do justice to this Mahima sensei masterpiece.

There had been screenies before claiming it was from the actual animation but I guess that was just fan made and this very news nailed all the speculations.  What’s certain is that Fairy Tail would be an anime to watch out for in October!  It was confirmed in the latest chapter release of the manga and here’s [ ANN's article ] for more details should you be interested.

Subarashii desu ne?

Here’s a quick glance at the preview Wink Magazine has, the publisher of the bi-monthly manga and by the way it’s scheduled for release on the 15th of July.

Is that Mui in the art with the flute? Think again! ^^

Check out the third English volume here:

[ BOTWG VOL. 3 ]

In real time, I’m referring to the original Korean version, Volume 9 has also been made available for the public. I’m not so sure of the contents yet and how many chapters does the said volume would include but to date we are anticipating [ Chapter 71 ] on July 15 on Wink.

Chiresakura and the gang, the only faithful scanlators of this awesome manhwa had already been out with Chapter 60 and I’ve seen spoilers already for chapters 61-69 courtesy of Teqq-san over Soompi which I have been following for a while.

The entire story’s just warming up and I can’t wait to get my hands on the English volumes soon!