Newsletter 153, February 12

Most I'm going to do here is plug the Ghost in the Shell Night... and someone make sure to catch Melissa is she spins and falls again from excitement

Claymore
Slayers TRY
Maze
Tenchi Muyo GxP
My- Otome
Fate/Stay Night
Ranma ½ S3

Claymore 9- Showing that Clare took Teresa’s head and asked the Organization to make her into a Claymore, the flashback finally ends. Present day, Clare is assigned to a team that’s going to take on an Awakened One, better known to most folks as a Voracious Eater. She ends up meeting with the group, and is quite soon picked on for not only being late, but also the fact that of the group, she’s the lowest number and the most inexperienced. Nonetheless, the group heads off to take care of the yoma problem. Along the way, the group stops to rest for the night, and Clare is tested… and while she does have some skills, she doesn’t exactly do spectacular with the test. Once morning arrives, the claymores set off, and soon come across their prey. The only problem- not only is the Awakened one beyond what they expected, it’s also a male Awakened One…

Slayers TRY 23- After seeing and leaving behind the total damage at the temple, Lina and the group must get to the transporter to chase after Xelloss. Xelloss, on the other hand, has now taken the weapon and revealed his betrayal to the gods, which basically consists of “sorry, but we Monsters can’t have you destroying the world for us”… is this guy a good guy or a bad guy, really? Then again, Xelloss’s side is his own… and thus a fight between the gods and Xelloss breaks out. Meanwhile, Lina and co are back in Almace’s old hideout, and they run into Jillas, who’s built a tank to finally take out Lina. Nothing is working against it, and then Jillas decides to blow them all up. Filia tries to play the tragic heroine, by saying she’ll accept all the hatred and pain that her race has caused, just as Jillas sets off the self-destruct button. Problem is… well, not only does Filia manage to protect him, but the bomb is just fireworks. Now viewing Filia as his savior, Jillas gets the machine back up and running, and all are transported partway to the gateway, before Filia ahs to take over and finish flying them there.

Maze 2- Thank goodness there’s only two OVA’s… Anyways, continuing where the first episode left off, after the male Maze ends up doing the kings’ daughter (Mix, I believe), the younger brother Knots decides to play with the now-female Maze, who manages to escape from her captivity (insert the fany Randy giving a description of the night which is edited out by bullet shots). As she hangs with Knots, the other are still navigating through the underground maze, the old guy playing Quizmaster. After quite some time, the others manage to escape and all are back together… minus the old man. At this point, its revealed that there’s a seal holding the tower together and sealing away the Phantom light power (which is basically the magic in this series). Mix starts to break the seal; the old guy riding the wyvern out of the labyrinth completes the destruction. However, Gorgeous shows up that this point to destroy Maze, and thus mecha and beast are summoned. The problem… female Maze is losing pretty badly to Gorgeous’s creature. Things change, though, when the sun sets and the male version returns… after throwing a ton of insults at the princess, the mecha finally gets up and is able to kick some ass, taking out the tower. Thus the king decides to reform, and it finishes off with several people trying to claim the female Maze… and Mix wins by saying she did it with Maze.

Tenchi Muyo GxP- After Seina’s crew rescues a drifter, they receive a box that must get to Lady Seito. Only problem is, pirates are after that box as well, and the idea of this episode is that Seina and crew are chased all over for endless days by the pirates, as rations run down to nothing, even cuasing NB to betray at one point… and after all seems lost, with pirates on their tail, rations next to nothing, and the crew overall going slightly insane, leave it to Ryoko and Ryo-ohki to take out the pirates and rescue Seina. Add Ryoko to Seina’s harem now… with three beautiful women all trying to seduce him but kill each other, once again, is this guy in Heaven or hell? (we’ll take both)

My- Otome 2- After seeing Garderobe Academy, and getting the princess shipped off to her proper area, Arika decides for sure that she wants to get in. Only problem is, the council has to approve her. Not wanting to wait for approval, and in nothing but the sheet, Arika takes off to convince the council to let her in. Ther only problem… after she stumbles across a girl doing something not exactly smart, the entire Academy ends up chasing her. Meanwhile, Nina is on trial for summoning a Slave unapproved, and is also trying to get into the Academy, with Sergay (her surrogate father) trying to push everyone in favor. With the whole Academy chasing her, Arika finally manages to stumble into the hall to ask to be let in (a ton of girls in a plie behind her), and the council is against both her and Nina… until Duke Nagi steps in, and proposes a match between the two girls to see who will get in.

Fate/Stay Night- With Saber now sum,oned, she goes off the kill Lancer, but he gets away, especially after his true identity is reveal due to an attack. Saber next goes after Archer and Rin, to end that threat, but Shirou, who’s rather confused, asks her to stop… and she finally does. Rin finds out just how poorly suited for this Shirou is, and decides to show some kindness and takes him to a church, where the supervisor to the War is, and thus Shirou is clued in on the who Holy Grail War thing. Kit’s also revealed that the fire ten years ago which killed his parents was no doubt caused by an unworthy one touching the Grail… and that the only way out of this is to get the Grail himself. The next problem: should Shirou not fight, he may also be unable to touch the Grail and cause disastrous things to occur. Thus Shirou gets and understanding of what exactly he’s been entered into.

Ranma ½ S3 6- With Soun Tendo being made into a councilman, he’s immediately given the task of catching a certain pantythief. Only problem is, he fears that Happosai may take advantage of this… and naturally he does, having Genma and Soun accompany him on his raids. However, Soun finally manages to catch a break when he’s assigned to guard and antique bra. Happosai of course goes after it… and we soon find out that it’s a cursed bra, and it covers the eyes of Happosai, as the ;legend states it belonged to a rather jealous wife. However, when the ghost sees Happosai. She decides to remove the bra sisnce he’s so unappealing… and then she spots Ranma, and hypnotizes him so as to seduce hi, and we find that she’s something like a serpent in true form. No one seems to be having any luck against the ghost (with Happosai having been sent elsewhere), and Ranma decides to sacrifice himself to save the others (as he’s currently in female form and not being able to beat the ghost). As Genma rushes over with hot water, he slips and spills it on himself, transforming him from panda to man… who apparently looks a lot like the ghost’s late husband. Genma runs and becomes panda again, and enter Happosai, who’s been driving the ghost crazy. This causes the ghost to vanish back into the bra, which soon disintegrates, and brings Happosai way down as we walks away, saddened (Genma and Soun cheering). They think they’ve seen the last of him, but soon enough, Happosai returns with a bag full of panties off a raid, and Soun’s career is once more in jeopardy…

Rollcall:
Jeff
Dave
Tom
Erin
Nick
Andy

woooooooh!!!! GitS!!!!