Second, you’d probably noticed that I haven’t really been updating much.  Just like Horo who’s been busy and been stressing in real life, same thing is happening for me as well.  Been stressed to the point that I really don’t feel like playing or watching anything and slept for the most part of the day and go to work at the evening.

Anyways, I’ve started picking up on C# again since I should really learn how to program, got some ideals in mind that I was to start programming.  I started back up a few weeks ago after a co-worker was kind enough to give me a copy of Visual Studio 2010 (which, in my opinion, is actually a big upgrade from 2008 because of the nifty .NET 4.0 added features).  So I’m learning that right now and trying to get myself better at it.  Look forward to a few applications that I’ll be making when I get better at programming.

Other things that’s been happening in my life is that I’ve been watching some old series that I haven’t either started watching or didn’t finished watching (most of the series I’ve started from the beginning).  I’ve decided to wait until batches came out so I’ll just download the batches and watch them that way until I catch up (which might take me months depending on how motivated I am).  Current series includes: Air Gear, Nagasaret Airantou, and Ghost Hunt.  Those are only a few that I’ve been switching back and forth on, there’s many, many more that I’m watching but too many to list off.  What I might do is change the format of my little rant space here.  See, I was originally going to use this space to also review anime series as well but haven’t in a long due (mainly due to what I stated above) so I might review some older series until I’m able to catch up and actually decide to start downloading episode by episode of newer series.  Who knows, but stay tuned to find out.

Anyways, can’t really think of anything else to say currently so I’ll leave it here for now.

Well, well, well, look what the cat brought in for us anime fans to watch.  It’s the one and only catch-22 anime series of this season where there’s only one (yes, that’s right, only one (if you can’t read worded number’s, that’s 1 to you)) trap in this series (and thank god, I can deal with just 1 trap but no way in hell can I handle 2 or more).  If you want a quick impression summary of this series then check out bluesnow’s entry over at zokatu.com since this is going to be kinda long (but entertaining nonetheless, like any of my entries).

Anyways, just like how I like to start any of my initial review, a plot summary of what the series about.

Senou Natsuru is your normal, everyday high school student. However he’s been chosen to be a Kampfer, who’s objective consists on fighting other Kampfer with either guns, swords or magic, however, there’s catch; first you can’t chose if you´re a Kampfer or not, and second, you must have the body of a girl to use your powers. [ANN]

Alright, now that’s done, lets move onto the review, shall we?

So the series starts off with our heroine running away away from another girl shooting her trying to kill her.  WAIT, WHAT?! WHY!!! Just hold your horses, I’m getting there, I’m getting there, gez.

Anyways, after he was somewhat shot off a building the opening theme kicked in AND BEFORE YOU ASK ME ANYTHING ELSE LIKE ME FINISH!!!  Anyways, after the opening theme you find our heroine in her bedroom screaming her head off about her chest getting bigger, hair growing longer, and under that she never wear before.

Then a plushie started talking to her about how she was transformed into a female since all kampfer is females.

… Wait, what? You’re telling me that she, is a he?

So… that means…

So after we found out our heroine is actually a male that was transformed into a female because all kampfer fighters has to be females, the plushie continues to talk to to him and he’s in total disbelieve (and hell, I wouldn’t blame him, if I wake up one day and find my penis gone and my chest became larger and my hair grew longer, I’d be in disbelieve as well).

So, anyways, the plushie talks to him about what a kampfer is and that when his bracelet begins to grow it means he’s about to transform.  The plushie continues mentioning that he’s a messenger that was sent by the moderators saying that he’s something similar to an angel.

So what did Natsuru do?  Pick him up by his intestines, spin him around yelling out that he’s a guy and throws him against his stereo system.  Then he falls on his bed saying this must be a bad dream from which the plushie climbed up his bed asking if he wants to go back to sleep and does a drop kick to knock him out.

So Natsuru wakes up the next day and checks to see if his package is there and breathe a sigh of relief when it was there.

So he starts off his morning running to the bus but misses it but luck was on his side because the girl of his dreams, Kaede Sakura, run out and missed the bus as well.  Excited to see her like any guy would who’s not mainly enough would yelled out her name and she turned around an greeted Natsuru with a bright smile, so bright that even the sun is glaring off of her as well.

So our little virgin friend here decided to ask Kaede if she wants to ride the bus to school together with him (yeah, well smooth with the ladies there Natsuru).  Like a nice girl that she is, Kaede agrees and Natsuru’s blood starts pumping (alright, I made that part up but for all I know he probably had the biggest boner when she replied back to him).  So while they were waiting for the bus, Kaede noticed that Natsuru was was really happy and asked if something good happen from which he responded that he bumped into her.  And, of course, Kaede responded back saying that she’s glad that she bumped into him as well.

So while waiting for the bus you find out that the tiger plushie belongs to Kaede and she also saw Natsuru’s bracelet.  When she commented how beautiful it was to him, Natsuru had a rude awaken and guess what… it started growing.  Natsuru then remembers what that plushie said about what will happen when it starts growing so he quickly think of a reason to say to poor Kaede and pretty much ditched her but before he actually could because Kaede kept asking him questions and what not, the girl from the start of the episode shows up and took a shot at him.

So after the other chick confronts him, a bus some happen to drive by and Natsuru takes off with the other chick chasing after him and here’s the transformation scene where you see a guy grow breast and longer hair and changed into a female’s school uniform. *sigh*

So Natsuru is being chases around and even said to him self at the start saying it wasn’t a dream after all like he was hoping off (yeah, I was hoping you were just a figment of my imagination, but I guess I was wrong as well).

So during this chase he’s pretty much trying to dodge bullets and at one point actually jumped on top of a traffic light (yeah…).  Impressed, the unknown chick identify herself as Akane Mishima.

Before anything else can happen, Kaede comes running by looking for Natsuru and Akane turns her cut at her and was about to fire when Natsuru jumps down and shoots a fireball at Akane from which Akane finds out that Natsuru is a Zauber type (a person who can use magic).  While Akane continues to talk and about to fire her gun again, a telephone poll was falling down and Natsuru saved her.

So after he saved her life, Akane said this was boring and takes off and Kaede comes running up to Natsuru from which he runs off as well.

So at school, you learn that the school building is separated. One side is for girls and another side is for boys and the way you find this out because someone was calling for Natsuru because there was someone from the girl’s side calling for him and that random guy starts going on a rampage about the 2 idols of the school would make a big ruckus if it was Kaede or some other chick that came to the boy’s side.

Also went onto some other girl that Natsuru knew since childhood or whatever.  Not important, lets move on.  So after awhile of this nonsense went on, they started teasing Natsuru because of the fact that the girl looks like she was about to cry.

So Natsuru went out into the hall and met her and asked how she got over to the boy’s side.  Turns out that this unknown girl is a librarian so she had a pass.  So when he asked for her name, guess who… yes, that’s right, it’s Akane in the non-transformed flesh.

Cut to the half way point of the episode.  Wait, what?  Half way through already?  only dang this a big entry. But, anyways, lets keep moving, shall we?

So here we are, in the library and Akane and Natsuru is talking to each other about what’s going on. So turns out that Akane’s personality changes when she becomes a Kampfer. You also learn that there are 2 different color bracelets, a blue one and red one, which shows which side you’re on.  Turns out that Natsuru and Akane are part of the same side. You also learn about the weapon types such as gewehr, the Gun type, that Akane uses and the Zauber types that Natsuru uses. There’s also one more type, the schwert type, which they use a sword. You also learn that Akane has a real perverted mind.

So this and that happen, nothing too exciting, Akane starts acting like a pervert again and more misunderstandings,lets fast forward.

So you meet the student body president and more transformation. Lets fast forward again.

So now you learn that at first the transformation is random but you start to control the transformation and you see poor Natsuru having to go to the restroom and had to debate rather to take the skirt off or just flip it up.

Come towards the end of the day you see Natsuru transformed back to his male self and walking to Akane when Kaede comes running up to him. Akane takes off and Kaede asks Natsuru that if he knows the girl who saved her that morning to introduce that girl to her and Natsuru got all hurt because Kaede is in love with the female inside of him… wait, what? Never mind.

So back at home the tiger plushie is laughing at him because of the fact that Kaede is in love of the female Natsuru. The tiger plushie goes on to saying since he’s one and same it shouldn’t be a big deal but he rejects by saying that he wants Kaede to fall in love with his male self (yea… I don’t think he ever was a male to begin with).

So he also talks to Akane about what he should do from which you get into a whole scene of Akane telling Natsuru to just call her by her given name and so Natsuru responded back saying she can do the same and guess who came back? The badass Akane shows up and puts a gun to his face (yeah, she really love guns, if you know what I mean).

So another bunch of nonsense dialog goes on until they get attack.  By who? Who knows, just have to wait until the second episode comes out (and no, it’s not Kaede even though she just so happen to show up at that very moment, even though that would be pretty sexy).

So over all, the first episode got me pretty interested in the series and will give it a go to see where it takes me.

Anyways, since I’ve saw quite a bit of the episodes already, I think it’s time for me to say my 2 cents for these 2 series and the comparisons.

So, let’s see, Hayate no Gotoku and Lucky Star both started around the same time frame of April of 2007.  The only difference is that Lucky Star ended in Sept. of 2007 while Hayate continued on until Mar. of 2008.  So Hayate has more episodes then Lucky Star.  That doesn’t even include the extra OVA that was released a few months after the last episode aired.

Both series reference anime series, but how it’s reference is the turning point.  In Hayate, they actually become like the character’s they’re referencing to but they’re still playing as there own character which makes it fun to watch and laugh while Lucky Star might actually have a lookalike of a character or the girls might cosplay as one which is cute and fun to watch but not on the floor busting up laughing.

Also, the key thing that makes Hayate so great is the fact that they even change the art work style to match the art work style of the anime they’re referencing to in there own way which is sad to say Lucky Star fails to provide.

Other big difference is that you have an announcer in Hayate where the character’s actually interact with by responding to some of the comments that the announce says.  Hayate also got bouis points for referring to the viewers when something is happening or saying things like, “don’t try this at home.”  Lucky Star has something like that called the Lucky Channel that plays at the end of every episode and sometimes they’ll face the viewers to say something but only a few non-main character’s does that and it’s very small scenes.

Hayate this, Hayate that, what about Lucky Star? There’s gotta be something that beats Hayate!

There is, actually, cute girls and one of them plays H-GAMES!!! And yes, I am an avid H-Game player, I enjoy a few h-games here and there.  So there’s light at the end of the tunnel for Lucky Star in my heart but right now Hayate is winning it over with Hina being in the picture =D

First off, I’m going to say this now, if you haven’t watched Basquash at all and plan on watching it then I suggest that you don’t read this at all as it contains spoilers and/or confusions. With that said, lets jump on in.

First thing to get off my chest, how the fuck can she change in and out of her boy clothes into her girl clothes and back in only a matter of seconds?  I’m talking about Flora Skybloom (which everyone on Dan’s team knew as Alan until recently when everyone knew). But, anyways, from the last episode you saw her revealing herself to allow Dan and herself to get out of a situation where the town guards pretty much got them surrounded. Of course Dan is slow at realizing of what’s going on but took the fact that he was a she pretty real and pretty fast.  Cut to this episode, SHE’S BACK IN HER BOY’S CLOTHES!!!  How the fuck does that make any sense?

Probably one part that I always find in different movies and shit is that they always point out the most obviousness stuff like “troops all over the place.”  I mean, come on! We can see there’s troops all over the place! *Breaths in, breaths out*

So pretty much Dan and Flora was able to reach Rouge which turns out that her memories of Dan is no longer there.  Wait, what? No longer there? What the fuck does that mean? It means it’s no longer there meaning that some jerk with the power deleted all her memories of him! *Clears throat* Anyways, they get to her and she asked who he was and was even more confused when the other girls were calling his name telling him not to worry.

Ha, pretty much I was just laughing at this screen for the whole time the opening theme was playing, why? Probably because I’m a jerk… But, anyways, Dan is now even more confused because of her not remembering who he is.  But after Violette and Citron was able to blow Dan off taking Rouge with them, cut to the nerdy guy with glasses who’s a complete jerk setting everything up like a trap.

So,yeah, pretty much everything is pencil dick’s evil plans.  But how?  By using Basquash, of course.  What better way to cook up an evil plan and save Earthdash and Mooneyes by using Basquash?  Just play with me, here.

Anyways, the gang shows up and they got the “invite” to destroy Eclipse’s final concert and they went for it.  Come on, our boy Dan is in love with Rouge so it’s only fair, right?  Once again, just play along.

So What now?  Good question, why not CRASH THE CONCERT AFTER THERE FIRST SONG!!!

Yep, that’s pretty much how it went. Eclipse started singing, got through one song, then BANG! Bigfoots running around but wait, there’s more! Eclipse was actually waiting for them to play, guess what, BASQUASH! Yep, that’s right, the girl’s Bigfoots came out and a basket came out as well.  And guess who’s the only one who’s confused in the mixed… Yep, you guessed it, Rouge.

Of course, as they’re playing, Rouge’s memory slowly started getting back and, yes, you guessed it, they really start getting into Basquash, so much that they started glowing blue and made the same shape as the ruins.  Really?  Really, really?  Alright, I’ll buy it (I guess).

So, after those two play in the nude for awhile longer, they finally decided to “basquash” into the goal (during that time, of course, 4 girls yelled out “go”, although Miyuki quietly said it) which seemed to have awaken some stones… Like I said, play along.

So, yeah, happy ending for the two love birds in this episode?  Not quite as Dan gets shot down.  So what happen to Dan?  Who knows until episode 23.

So who is this feminist group that calls themselves Equality Now?  Well… It’s a group of nothing but washed up hags who wants to take away our freedom of speech.  So what does that mean?  It means they want censorship over EVERYTHING that might be discriminated towards women and girls in any way, shape, or form.  Even if it’s a news paper article about some girl who got raped last night and they caught the guy and they cut off his dick as punishment, they want that censored.  What’s worse is that they’re “armed” with what they call CEDAW (Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women).  Don’t know what that means? Re-read this paragraph again.

So this so call group is setting up some sort of temporary office in Japan to try to take away their free speech over there like they do to us Americans.  It’s honestly no wonder why the world is so fucked up to begin with.  With so many people who lives inside of a bubble and is too ashamed to show their body to the opposite sex.  In fact, it’s a sin to even talk about sex (according to that so called group).

So what does this all mean?  It means they’re going straight to the heart of a country that given us otakus the light of licensed anime in the US.  If it wasn’t for the pioneers of the fan subbing community back in the good old days when it’s a sin to even mention anime that anime wouldn’t be as popular as it is now.  It was because those companies saw that there is, in fact, a market out in the good old USA for anime.  Which is also another reason why we have some good eroge games and soon some really great eroge games (since Nitroplus has teamed up with JAST).  And this so called censorship group pretty much wants to put an lid on it.

This means what the pioneers and the current otakus has worked so hard for is being cocked blocked by a bunch of feminist who claims that it’s poison to the sociality?  What’s poison to sociality is the fact that we even have censorship to begin with.  I mean, come on?  Who is it really protecting?  I mean, they show some guy, his wife, and his children getting killed on CNN for crying out loud.  The censorship is a joke.  What makes it alright to show such stuff on CNN while it’s not alright to have it in my anime or manga?  I mean, come on, another prim example would be the crappy movie, The Last House on the Left, where it clearly showed an underage girl getting raped.  Why isn’t that so called Equality Now isn’t saying anything to the film makers of that movie?  Why aren’t they saying anything to CNN about showing clips of a women his her daughters getting there head cut cleanly off?  Or those tons of other media?  Is it because those who are producing those have more money?

If that’s the case, then it makes sense why they’re going after my hentai, anime, manga, and video games since they’re pretty high on the totem pole for that so called group to hit.

What do I think?  I think censoring everything and anything is a bad ideal to begin with because if we enact censorship then sense of pleasure will never end which will turn into violate people and actually ease our pleasure onto other people.  At least with other forms of media it ease our pleasure for whatever we’re in the mood for.  In a mood for killing a hooker?  Pop in that GTA IV game, drive up to a hooker, take her to a dark alley, once she’s done run her over and get your cash back and there you go, that ease my pleasure of wanting to kill some ho.  In the mood of slicing some heads off?  Pop in that game of Gears of War and start slicing and dicing, there my thirst for blood has been taken away.

Point being, censorship is bad when it’s going this far.

Articles in question that got me to write this post:
Equality Now: "We Should Censor Other Countries"
Equality Now: "Unprecedented" Criticism Over Eroge Ban
Equality Now Demands UN Hentai Ban
UN Demands Hentai Ban

So, this is what Akane-iro ni Somaru Saka is all about, random girl and random guy meeting each other on the streets and fate has brought them together…. Or not…

But lets not get too far ahead of each other now as this series can go either way at any moment right now. It’s anyone’s ball game.

So the beginning of the series started off with some girl name Yuuhi Katagiri walking on a sidewalk and bumped into a couple of guys by mistake. Even though Yuuhi said she was sorry the guy wanted to do something much more until they found out how cute she is without her classes on.

Comes Jun-ichi Nagase, coming up behind those guys and told them to back off.  Just then one of the guys stopped the other guy saying he’s the Geno Killer (which all Jun-ichi could says was, "not this again"). They gotten so scared that they ran away in a jiffy.

After the guys ran away they exchanged a few words the lady’s butler picked her up to take her home.

At home his sister gave him a bit of an hassle like brother and sisters normally do and the night came to an end.  Of course the name day for the new semester of school started he woke up late and just made it to school on time.

Now at school his teacher was giving him an hard time because his sister told his teacher to take good care of Jun-ichi.  While they were talking the teacher announced there was a transfer student coming in and comes walks in Yuuhi and they were both surprised to see each other in the same class.  The teacher asked Yuuhi if she knew him and she said that she didn’t but that he saved her.  The teacher was gotten surprised and said that he hoped Jun-ichi didn’t nearly killed the students (of course Jun-ichi declines it).

Here you meet Karen Ayanokouji, a rich girl who, from my eyes, always gets what she wants.  I have a good feeling she’ll probably play in a role where she’ll probably do something to get Jun-ichi and Yuuhi angry at each other but for now, lets just stick with the basic of this first episode.

So after the teacher left the whole class gathered around Yuuhi to asked her how she knows Jun-ichi from which Karen stands up and tells the class to settled down (probably because she’s jealous).  After which Yuuhi stood up, walk over to Jun-ichi asked him to go out with her from which the whole class was like, "HUH?!"

Cut to the next screen, Yuuhi is talking to Jun-ichi and his friends and they’re teasing Jun-ichi like they always do and keep bringing up those rumors.

So the introductions are done and here comes the next day where a few classmates are teasing Yuuhi asking her if she’s going out with him or not.  Now Karen is even more upset since Yuuhi is not giving her a straight answer so when Jun-ichi came in they asked him to clear things up.

When they pulled him up for the clarification his mind started racing telling him what to do and so… he kissed her… But… Yuuhi kicks Jun-ichi in the balls because he took her by surprised.

Day at school ended, Jun-ichi’s sister is yelling at him for being a moron and said she’ll apologies for him when someone came to the door to find out it’s Yuuhi at the door and she’s moving in, as Jun-ichi’s fiancee.  Where is the series going to go from here?  That I do not know but can’t wait to find out.

All in all, it wasn’t that bad of a series but it just too much just watching ONE race.  It’d be nice if the series went on and just showed the actual race instead of kept going into a flash back of all the characters which is a waste of time.  I’d like to see them move onto the actual Tour de France which you only see a glimpse at the end.

This series got a 6 out of 10 rating from me, I would of rated it higher because I liked it how it started but the long drag out race with a whole bunch of useless flash backs killed it.

Lets start off with episode 6 where you see the fun side (and sad side) of Yui Tabata!  You also learn why she hates Hayami so much.

Anyway, the series starts out showing Yui working on the farm fields then praying on some one’s memorial (which turned out to be her grandfather).  After the opening theme, Yui was making her way out when she noticed Hinata and Takuma walking.  As she’s about to yell out to them, she noticed Hayami joining them.

At school, Hinata and Takuma is talking to Hayami and Hayami is pretty much telling them that they can hang out after school but not during school because she doesn’t want to cause any problems, but they hung out at school anyway (how sweet).

So there they are, having a little panic at school when Yui comes up and start saying how it’s against the school rules to bring lunch since lunch is provided by the school.  She also goes on to telling Hinata that it’s bad to be hanging out with Hayami (although not in those words).  Thankfully, Hinata actually stood up for herself asking if it’s wrong to be hanging out with Hayami.  Yui was startled that she actually stood up and ordered her boys to “throw them away” but they don’t move an inch since Hinata is a part of the Kagura family.  So Yui stepped up and kicked the box lunch instead. Of course everyone is freaking out and trying to get Yui to apologize so the village elder won’t do something, but Yui wouldn’t.

After that screen you see Hinata and Takuma at Hayami’s place.  Hinata spoke out loud and said that she couldn’t “believe anyone could stay in such a worn down place” (quoted from BakaWolf-m.3.3.w subs), but then tries to take it back but Hayami didn’t care since there’s a lot of things she can do (such as turning her couch into a bed (you can watch a video of it, but it’s kind choppy, here)).

Hayami and Takuma gives Hinata the grand tour of the place and area.  When they went to where Hayami normally takes her bath and wash dishes, Hinata wonders why Takuma knows so much which then put some dirty thought in her mind thinking that Hayami and Takuma did something in the lake.  Hayami played it off by asking why anyone would with “that” (Takuma) pervert.  Takuma tries to defend himself by saying he didn’t intend on peeping which just makes Hinata wonder even more.

It’s start getting late and Hinata says that they’ll meet up again the next day, which Hayami asked if they were serious because Yui would “blow her top” if she sees them hanging out with her again.  Of course Takuma thinks it’ll work out some how and that Yui is kind hearted but Hayami doesn’t think so because no matter what, Yui would never forgive Hayami.

You then later find out why the whole village hated her, it was because her her family being greedy and would not provide medicines to those who need it unless they have money and pretty much took advantage over everyone.  This went on and lead up to Yui’s grandpa deaths.  Since the day Yui’s grandpa died, she could never forgive the Kohinata family.  The village finally stood up to the Kohinata family and the family was dismantled which caused them to separate.

Fast forwarding to the next screen, you see Yui, Hamaji, and Maki-san (if I’m not mistaken, but I could be wrong) on the bus heading to town.  They got to town and they heard voices that sounded familiar, then thing you know, Hayami comes out of the store in the cutest look/dress ever!!!!!!  Hayami noticed the other 2 girls standing by the door and everyone was surprised to see each other, of course Yui is the only one who think this is the worst thing ever.

After the break point, you see all 6 of them at a cafe and Hayami said that she shouldn’t have came in the first place and tried to go home but Takuma stopped her and suggested that they all over fun together.  Of course Yui refused and silence fell upon them until the waitress comes with 2 Plateau Whispers (looks like 2 huge brain freeze coming up in my eyes).  The 2 people who ordered such a huge thing are Hayami and Yui.

Yui didn’t thought that the ice cream would be that huge and when she stopped staring at it, she noticed Hayami already starting eating her ice cream, and fast too.  Now the race is on to see who can finish the ice cream first.  Naturally they both finished at the same time, and they stared at each other for a few seconds until a big huge brain freeze hits.  Takuma figures it must be a draw at that point.

After the cafe, they went clothes shopping again, Yui went to dry on a dress and started saying that she looks wonderful in it because she’s the one wearing it but Hinata had Hayami try on that same dress and thought she looked wonderful in, this pissed off Yui and told the sales lady that she wants the most expensive dress in the store.  Is this progress?  Otoha thinks so when she randomly showed up next to Takuma again when he was thinking about it.  Otoha showed up to tell him that there isn’t much time left and that made Takuma wonders what she means.

The episode continues with them walking down the street and they found them self in front of the arcade next to a punching machine (which is Yui’s specialty).  Yui challenge Hayami to it to see how’s stronger and Yui went first.  Yui gotten a score of 218kg, Hayami stepped up and gotten a score of 350kg (which is a new record), and made Yui depressed and decided to run off and head home, only problem is that she dropped her wallet.

Next scene you see Yui making her way to the bus stop and started looking for her wallet in her back but couldn’t find it.  She doesn’t know what happen to it and she doesn’t want to head back to the group, so she decided to just walk back to the village.

Anyways, fast forwarding a bit, Hayami said there’s only one path that leads to the village and it’s dangerous.  Hayami then told the group to head back to the village by bus and she’ll go find Yui herself.

Yui is going through the forest, feel down, and saw the frame of a building that was burnt down, and this is where you learn everything!  To make the long story short, lets just say that Yui is a bit nicer to Hayami now

Clannad episode 18… just 6 episodes left, so we’re running into the home stretch now. This episode does show a few things. Like, for an example, how Tomoya can’t stop thinking about Nagisa during his suspension from school.

The episode starts off with Tomoyo waking up Tomoya (like she’s been doing since episode 17 if I’m not mistaken). Since Tomoya is suspended from school, he really didn’t want to wake up but he did anyway. Why was Tomoya suspended? For fighting at school and saying that he started it to get Tomoyo out of trouble because he wants her to become the student consul president. Anyway, Tomoya and Tomoyo was sitting around the table eating breakfast and talking when Tomoya’s fathers come in and Tomoyo invited him to site down and have breakfast. At that time, Tomoya gets up and leaves because he doesn’t like his father. We still don’t know why he doesn’t like him but, eh, time will tell us sooner or later.

Since Tomoya is now awake, he decided to wake up Youhei, but not in a way that one shall wake anyone up. Instead, that way he woke Youhei up is by taking a pink boxers with hearts on it and puts it on top of Youhei’s head and telling him there’s a girl who wants to confess to him. Of course this wakes him up while running out and getting a nice beating. Youhei asked Tomoya if he thinks this kind of prank is funny and of course he says that it is (hell, I’ve been laughing my ass off too =) ).

Anyway, moving on. As the day past, and Tomoya thinks about Nagisa, the Fujibayashi twins shows up and had Tomoya escort them. They went to the game center where they got there horoscopes taken to see if they’re lovers, friends, whatever. Of course Kyou is trying to get Ryou and Tomoya hooked up together in any way possible, so she forced them to put there hands together to get the reading. Of course the horoscope said that they were just friends which pissed off Kyou thinking that Tomoya did something wrong. After words, they were walking down the street talking about horoscopes when Kyou decides to run off so Ryou and Tomoya could be alone.  And if you haven’t notice, Kyou has been really pushing Ryou and Tomoya together (I wonder why she just doesn’t go for him herself because you can really tell that she likes him). All alone, now, Tomoya asked Ryou if she’s really into those horoscope stuff which she replies that all girls are into it at a genetic level (sure….).  Anyway, they talked for a bit and they left.

Sun comes, Tomoyo is, once again, cooking for Tomoya and he questions her about it.  Then the Fuijbayashi twins showed up to give him food as well.  Tomoyo comes from behind to see who it is and Kyou freaks out.  Kotomi shows up behind the Fuijbayashi twins with food as well.  Poor Tomoya, and all 4 girls wants Tomoya to eat there meal.  While they were discussing over who’s meal Tomoya should eat and, of course, they worked hard at making it.  If that doesn’t make things worst, Fuko shows up with her meal as well (and it’s not a pretty sight).  Now you got 5 girls with 4 entrees who all work there dearest (with Fuko showing up out of now where with some… yeah…..) who wants Tomoya to eat it.  I bet you know what’s coming after eating all that food.

So Tomoya returns but turns out that Tomoyo is actually in a bit of a pickle.  It seems some people are going around and writing some awful things about her.  Of course, Tomoya doesn’t put up with it and instead decided to help Tomoyo by having a match with every sports club possible, starting with the baseball club. This, of course, was the edge needed for Tomoyo as now girls are looking up to her as a hero.  After the baseball match and a few other different matches, Tomoya and Tomoyo are walking to and Tomoyo told Tomoya about her past (which you’ll have to watch for yourself) and why she wants to become the student consul president.

The next day, Nagisa returns from being ill and everything’s back to normal (almost).  Tomoya just stands there, dazed, with confusion about his feelings for her (at least that’s what I think) and they talked a bit. Then it’s time for the tennis match!  And boy… does Tomoyo looks sexy in a tennis outfit.  Anyway, after the first round, she’s sitting next with Tomoya taking a rest when Tomoyo meets Nagisa again (although she doesn’t remember her clearly), which she then realized why Tomoya is going through all the trouble. Trouble happens and during the second round, the ball came flying through and hit Nagisa.  When the guy checked on her and was going to grab her to help her up to take her to the nurse’s office, Tomoya swap his hand away and everyone that knew him were shocked.  His true feelings for Nagisa is seeping through and even the twins knows it.

Moving on, in episode 3 you see Hinata forces a kiss on Takuma at the end, which is then continued in episode 4 where Hinata sees Hayami at the end of the bridge and to spite her some more, Kagura then hugs Takuma passionately. Of course Takuma is all confused about his feelings even more because of the events (plus he never even realized that Hayami was standing at the other end of the bridge because his back was facing her).

After the opening theme, it starts with with a girl name Yuki (who is Ma-chan’s sister) getting off a bus and noticed Ma-chan hanging around Takuma (along with the other girls…) and, of course, she starts getting pissed off thinking that Takuma is flirting with Ma-chan (can someone say, a misunderstanding?)

Yuki then joins the gang is tried to get ride of Takuma anyway possible. She then noticed how Hinata is always around Takuma and decided to use that for her advantage. Yuki told Takuma that Hinata wanted to speak to him privately and told him where to meet her, but, of course, she won’t show up because it was all just a lie anyways.

After awhile since he’s been gone, the girls started looking for him. Hinata remembered seeing Yuki talking to Takuma before he disappeared and started asking her question, which she refused to answered then ran away.

Back to where Takuma is located, he’s been pretty much laying on a rock waiting for Hinata (who won’t show up) but now that rock is being flooded by water due to the tide that’s coming in and he doesn’t even know how to swim.

You then see Yuki swimming in the ocean thinking about Ma-chan when her leg cramped up and started to drown. Takuma sees her and hesitated for a bit but then jumped in to save her, dispirit the fact that he doesn’t know how to swim. Of course, Takuma was in worst shape then Yuki when they were pulled out of the water and thanks to Ma-chan’s CPR, Takuma was able to survive.

Coming down to the end, you see Hayami swimming in the ocean. Takuma noticed her and calls out to her, but she stops him and ask about his feelings. At the same time, Hinata showed up and is now a three way… Who will Takuma choose? We’ll find out in episode 5.