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Double rape face ^ ^!

If you like the action of volley match, this episode won’t disappoints as it focused mainly in the intense battle between both team. If we watch the first part of the match it was obvious that the combination attack between Hinata and Kageyama proved very effective. Due to how unpredictable the moves of ran, evade and spike tactics, they could make the Nekoma shocked with the improvement of Karasuno’s attack.

The team initial reaction

Gosh Kageyama has a sensor in his eyes, he even made Robocop jelly

who is the boss now

Kageyama asked for toss, he showed the other members that he could spike with higher accuracy. The funny thing is even though they belong to the same group, the other members felt intimidated with Kageyama’s talent. He was a perfect setter and he could also turned into a deadly spiker if he wanted to. Just watch the reaction of Tanaka, Sugawara, and even Asahina? when he scored.

 

During the break, Nekoma’s team discussed about how dangerous the new team of Karasuno. The coach specially mentioned Kageyama as he was the most skilled setter in Karasuno and his precise control over the ball was at the level of genius. However, they found out that the real trouble from Karasuno was Hinata who acted as the decoy. So, the coach asked Inuoka; their blocker, to give special attention to Hinata. Later on, the tactic succeed with the blocker finally took Hinata spike and turned the tide of the match

This move made me remember Sega Genesis game Super Volley Ball ^-^ .....    I felt old T-T

The good thing is Hinata was more or less getting more mature than the last few episodes. He started to enjoy the challenge and although his spikes were kept getting blocked, he did not succumb to despair like before. He said to Kageyama to give him another pass in which Kageyama replied as no problem (this also indicated how Kageyama also started getting softer to his peer)

I was kind of disappointed that the episode has to finish just when Hinata started to get the feel of spiking directly. Usually it was Kageyama who control the ball directly to his hand and he just need to spike without even looking. Now, he tried to watch the ball and tried to imitate Kageyama’s spike and after many failed attempts, his last one almost scored. Well, the next episode is going to be crucial for both team and I will patiently wait to see how Hinata and Karasuno team can overcome this match.

The ultimate episode for No Game No Life season one is in the air and it is closed with a bang. After activated her warbeasts power, Izuna turned into a monster with a faster and stronger physic. Both Sora and Shiro was stormed with a ridiculously fast attack from the berserk Izuna and with the games getting closer to the end, could you imagine how they could turn the table?

 

She's careless and clueless to anything. She is Stephanie Dola

Ultimately, Izuna shot Sora and Shiro and it seems this is the first time blank lose in a game. Out of nowhere, Izuna was shot by none other than Stephanie Dola!!!!. My jaw was drooping when I saw she turned out as the one who got the winning shot. Seriously, I did not see it coming and with a very anti-climatic end nevertheless. It turned out that Sora’s spell from the previous two episodes was an order for Step to obey the written order from Shiro. With a very calculated strategy, Blank made Stephanie moved undetected from Izuna and when she was on the firing range, she shot.

 

Just few episodes before you made your Sister naked in front of us -_-!

I have to admit that Sora and Shiro are extremely cautious individuals and they check their steps just even before the game started. In reality, they keep winning the game because they know attacking the other races head on would be impossible due to their weaknesses. So, the best bet for them is putting traps and plenty of insurance and making a trick to made the enemies forget about the least important member (in this game it’s Stephanie)

 

Facepalm is too ordinary nowadays :D

The episode also introduced another female representative from eastern federation, the shrine priestess. She was completely pissed off with the loss of warbeast territory to the Elkia and she threatened Sora that the eastern federation would take revenge for their loses. In order to ease the tension, Sora challenged her to a coin toss to determine who should take over the continents. Still, the ever-cunning Sora moved the tile before the coin dropped to make the coin toss end in draw. With the result, Elkia won the territory of warbeast but they remained independence and the alliance was formed between the two countries.

 

Once a troll will always a troll eh Sora?

Blank sibling announced that they intend to challenge the god, Tet, and in order to do that; they need to gather the entire race piece from the game’s world. Just before the episode closing, sora revealed the shrine priestess’ true nature as an old Deus (Deus was an equivalent words for God). And Madhouse definitely wants to torture us mentally by ending the first season with such a big cliffhanger as the Blank sibling prepared to play the game with the shrine priestess.

My impression for No Game No Life in this season was very good. I know that it is one of the anime that have no shame to ridicule itself to the utmost level. I could see that behind it hilarity and naughty theme, NGNL has it share of solemn moment plus it made me laugh and cringe for many of it jokes. Not to mention, NGNL tried it best to ridicule the main characters as gamers without any need for social life. As a gamers myself, watching NGNL made me laugh countless time due to weird and extravagance both Sora and Shiro personalities because of their love for games. I know I would like to wait for the second season and I was hoping more intricate storytelling and more fun jokes and exaggeration comedy. That was my opinion regarding the first season of NGNL. Now what is YOURS opinion regarding to the anime?

No game no Life episode 11 continued last week episode when both Imanity representatives discovered themselves in our current time. With the Blank sibling still frozen due to the stress of coming back to their real world, million life of imanity were at jeopardy. The funny thing is when Ino announced that the world is just an illusionary world; Sora regained back his composure and complained about how cheap the warbeast clan for using psychological weaknesses against them ;D.

The game for this episode was the mixed game of First Person Shooter, love simulator, and tag match. The rules for the game: NPC Gals would try to catch the players while they shoot them with Love-Love gun and made them disappear leaving trail of hearts. In addition, should Izuna shot one of Sora’s teammates, she would become Izuna love slave until she shoots all of them. In short, whoever shoots all of the other team members became the winner of the game

The Warbeast clan only had Izuna as their representatives against the Imanity that consist of Blank sibling, Stephanie Dola, and The winged Flugel Djibril. Yet, she was a very capable opponent and she could bring more than trouble to the imanity representatives alone. In addition, her inherent six senses enabled her to sense a danger from very far places. For instance, when Sora tried to snipe her, she could sense the incoming bullet and use her robe as the shield. In contrast to Izuna, Stephanie Dola was more or less became the but monkey of the episode. Really I did not know why she should enter the game while her presence only worth as an experiment for Sora to test the Love-love gun. As for the spell that Sora put to her in last episode, we still could not see how it would affect the outcome of the game.

One joke really got me hard when Sora realized that his love-love gun could make the clothes disappeared. As any “healthy” teenager would react, he tried shooting one of the NPC girl panties only for the girl to disappear right away when the panties start vanishing. Sora reactions afterward was priceless and it made Izuna felt angry with how he could still enjoying the game while his entire kingdom was in stake.

I was very excited when Shiro single handedly battle Izuna in a one and one shooting match. Even if she was not blessed with extraordinary physic like the, her perfect calcu

This is the final episode of Nobunaga the Fool and if any of you have not watch the last episode; I suggest you watch the anime before continue reading, as I will reveal the conclusion of the series.

First of all, most of my earlier predictions did not come true for the final stage. Mitsuhide truly believed that Arthur is the savior and he intended to kill Nobu for real. Arthur real ability was changing his appearance to suit the desire of the person who met him. For example, in front of Mitsu; he appeared as his deceased father and persuade him to join his round table. He was a brilliant strategists yet he still unable to see through Arthur intention.

Third, Nobunaga choose to become the real destruction king by combining the regalias and turned the Fool into a black dragon. During his battle with Alexander, who also uses the power of the dragon, he purposely drove the dragons to Palais Natura and killed Arthur by crashing the two dragons to him. Later on he commanded the black dragon to devour his people and create chaos to the land.

  

All AGREED!!!!

What truly astounds me was the revelation about Mitsuhide role in the series. As Nobunaga power grew uncontrolled, he challenged him in the battle of death. It is as if he was the real savior king and Nobunaga was the real traitor. However, Nobunaga was the real schemer and he knew that when the time came, Mitsu would be the person to stop him. He purposely devoured the people and all of the war armors but did not kill the living being. Then, when Mitsuhide fought him, he purposely loses so that Mitsu could continue their sacred promise from episode one (the unification). By the end of the match he told Mitsu that his boundless pains would make him a wiser king.

In my impression, Nobunaga The Fool really throw some of my prediction away. I like how the producer ended up trolling my guess and killed Da Vinci with the weirdest death scene ever (seriously his platform fall out in his standing position ^-^! he should see it coming). Then in the end, Mitsuhide was revealed as the real savior king, who ended the life of the destruction king and creates peace to the land (it was mind blown and out of my prediction^0^). The weakness from this episode was how short the ending sequence. I knew that having last two episodes before the last battle would take some of the ending moments. If possible, I would like to see the peace moment with Saru and Mitsuhide as well as the west and the east stars before the end credit. However, I knew the time slot would not permitted such luxury T-T

I am being honest here; the new episode was better than what I thought before. As the next episode will be the last for Nobunaga the Fool, the producer did not hesitate to make Nobunaga and Co launch a frontal attack to Arthur’s Palace, Palais Natura. They need to bundle the fight in a more efficient manner by cramming plenty of battles inside the 22 minutes. For instance, In the middle of the episode, Nobunaga and Hideyoshi dropped several war armors using melee attack. The battle was fast but filled with acrobatic movements of the giant armors and several slash and dicing moments between the opposing factions.

The episode started with Nobu interrogating Davinci about his real intention, in which the later explained his research as well as the world that Arthur wants to create. After Da Vinci told Nobu about the probability that Arthur only crated the world for him and his perfecta, Nobunaga gathered his remaining followers to storm Arthur Palace and end the war. Then, Himiko proposed that she would use Azuchi to create ladder of heaven

Another interesting point that happened in the episode was the comeback of Uesagi Kenshin. I know he has grudge with Alexander after losing the previous battle and it was the perfect moment for him to enter the battle and end their rivalry in a battle to death. Different with the last encounter, his newfound enlightening and acceptance of the dragon’s power turned him equal if not more capable than Alexander.

Just like what I predicted last week, Himiko’s death was really happened in this episode. In order to save Nobu, she used her last remaining power to send the Azuchi as well as Nobu’s The Fool and Jeanne’s Orleans to Arthur’s Palace. Unable to restrain the ley lines anymore, Himiko frail body fell in Nobu’s arms and with the last of her strengths, he gave her blessing to Nobu and Jeanne.

While I knew about the inevitable, I thought the producer gave a better farewell for Himiko. In contrast to Caesar and Ichihime death, Himiko was more endearing. If Caesar and Ichi deaths, while also inevitable, were forced to happen in one episode, Himiko’s death took more time to build the sentiment. Maybe, Hideyoshi and her assistants’ pure affection to her made the scene before parting looks more convincing with how they want her to live. Alas, Himiko wanted to participate in the last battle and she would not let Jeanne took all glory for herself.

Mitsuhide’s betrayal portrayed directly just as Nobu and Jeanne entered the palace. He told Nobu that he turned to Caesar and also admitted that he killed Nobukatsu. As the character with more development time, his betrayal may make more sense than Caesar’s sudden turn of allegiance. Still, I think there is more about Mitsu than what we perceive. I thought he was way too cunning to take advantage with. In short, if my hunch is not mistaken, he might end up using Arthur in order to bring the favor to Nobu.

I think we all have our own prediction about what will happen next week and the only way we know if by watching the last episode. I am more or less excited with the end result and I hope Gonzo could bundle the last episode with an unpredictable ending. If Nobunaga truly the destruction king, he might destroy the entire world and create a new world where the real Oda Nobunaga and real Jeanne the Arc born (ala KR Decade). Well for now I can only cross my finger cause it was all just my prediction but lets watch the next episode and see the result. In addition, I guaranteed you that I haven’t watch the last episode when typing this.

Have you watch the latest episode of Haikyuu!!? If you have, you must realize that the episode have slower pace than the usual. However, even with the school life episode, Haikyuu!! still manages to bring smile across my face.

For the comedy part, we are treated with how excited Tanaka and Nishinoya to have a training camp with the entire volleyball team and staff. Both Tanaka and Nishinoya excitement were related to how they could spend more time with the pretty manager Shimizu. Wait until you see their reaction when Sugawara told them that her home was close and she would not spend the night together.

On the serious note, the episode gives us more insight on Sugawara and the new coach Ukai. We all know that Sugawara is a good person. He was the type of person who befriend with everyone and the seniors really liked him. The problem is the team only needed one main setter and with Kageyama as the newcomer, he felt that his new freshmen abilities outshined him. He knew how much he likes volley and wanted to play as long as possible. However, he had to give up his position for someone more capable. In the end, he resolved to give up his main position as setter. He also mentioned that as long as the coach needed to replace the setter, he would gladly take the position as many as needed.

Similar to his experience, Ukai’s past made him hesitate about choosing the team's official setter. In his mind, choosing Kageyama as starter was the right choice. After all, Kageyama is extremely skilled and his tandem with Hinata would provide the team with lethal offense. However, he thought that Sugawara was more experienced and his appearance in the court would affect the team harmony. Not to mention that he was on his third year and this year might become his last appearance in High School volleyball matches.

Ukai felt dilemmatic regarding to the setter position until Sugawara met him personally and asked him to choose Kageyama as the official starter.

Another important point from this episode is the new characters from Nekoma, Kenma.

Hinata met him when jogging and through their conversation, it was clear that Kenma did not take Volleyball seriously. He only joined the club because his friends were the team members. Still, his position in the team was essential as he provided the team with amazing tosses, in which we can see when Nekoma obliterated their opponent. Not to mention that Nekoma’s captain considered him as the team’s brain; which means he have a knowledge that boast his team's chance of winning.

In conclusion, the episode told us about the difficult choice a person must made in life. Sometimes during the decision-making, we must sacrifice our own desire and demand. However, Haikyuu!!, in this case represented with Sugawara, told us how a little act of selfless request might affect the team. Asahina and Daichii who happened to hear his conversation became more determined to win upcoming matches. The episode ended with Karasuno team finally met with Nekoma face to face, as they were about to begin the match. While I think this episode was a bit slow, I thought next episode will become more intense and I just could not wait to see their matches.

Another series grew closer to the end, and I could not resist the temptation for another season. NGNL got back to its root as more fun and hilarity abound in this episode. Last episode we seen how Blank have won the match and gain the trust of Kurami and Fil. Now, the episode started with Sora asking all of them to do introductions. It was not just proper introduction though since the producers added many fun gags along the way. 

For instance, Fil said that she would not introduce herself to Jibril because the later purposely killed her race while flying across the elves’ territory only because the put the no flight zone warning. Instead of protecting Jibril, Sora asked her to apologize due to the fact that they need to solve all dispute when they work together. In regard to the punishment, Fil asked for Jibril to lick her feet while apologizing. The funny thing was how the producer used the censored picture, like when the television shows have internal problem, when Jibril did that. In addition, Steph wanted similar treatment to Kurami, because she did cheat her before. To her surprises, Sora said that it was Steph self-problem for being careless.

Again we are watching Sora, who regained back his inner perversion, told the ladies to do mixed bathing to strengthen their bond. The funny thing was; In order to persuade Kurumi bathing, Sora asked Jibril to explain about Japanese mixed bath tradition and how the process took no less than 30 minutes. Imagine how tired Kurami was hearing her lecture ^O^

Confidence crisis and the meaning of the word “decoy”

Haikyuu!! Episode 10 Impression

The new episode of Haikyuu!! focused the characters analysis back to Hinata Shoyo, the shrimp protagonist. The plot continues last episode match in which Karasuno team divided their group into two with the main team and the first year’s entry against their senior. With the powerful smash, Asahina obliterated the defense of the Karasuno main team. His comeback was welcomed well with the team. However, Hinata felt envious to the Ace’s tall built and strengths thus it affect the way he played. He lost his focus and start daydreaming until the Ace’s spike kissed his face.

Kageyama, who has become familiar with Hinata’s habits, got angry at his sudden change and asked the other team to focus their attention to him since he was about to give the next pass to Hinata. Therefore, Kageyama told him that he was indeed lousy yet, with him being the setter, Hinata had no problem to score before. Having realized that his position as decoy was as important as any position in the team, Hinata regained back his spirit and with another fake dodging movement, he took the toss and score again. Alas, the more experienced neighborhood association with the help of the senpais still reigned as the victor in the end. After the match, Ukai told the members that they lack in receiving and he promised exercises to build their receiving skills.

The episode strengths came from the volleyball action and the bonding moments. The episode did not lack some jump and spike moment and also, it covers how Hinata realized that his team need his position as decoy more than himself. In addition, Hinata learnt first hand that Kageyama would open the path for him so he should focus only on the match

One thing that I need to point was how amazing Kageyama’s toss was. He could bend his body and still capable of sending the accurate pass. It’s not just the Haikyuu!! Characters that gawking with awe. Even I have to pick up my jaw of the floor due to how unbelievable Kageyama’s pass if it was real. Heck I personally never saw anyone throw that kind of toss in the real volley match.

Another important point I want to talk was how Hinata moved away from his confidence crisis, which in this part he owed Kageyama some gratitude. Being a decoy, he felt that without Kageyama, he would never score any point due to his short stature. In addition, he considered his role as decoy as a role that is not important for the team.

However, volley was a team sport and not an individual one. Every person served the role to win the game and Haikyuu!! told us that no position worth less than another.

It was truly endearing to see Asahina told Hinata how cool a decoy was. Also, he added that other teams would praise the person who contributes for the team success and they would not look at the person position.

If there is one thing that I hate from this episode was the inconsistency of Hinata motivations after seeing Asahina’s power. I mean just one episode before, he said to Asahina that Kageyama would cover him and open the path for spiking. It was obvious that he was sure of his abilities to score because he had friend who would cover his weaknesses. Yet now suddenly he started to doubt his ability because he was smaller and weaker?? If he doubted himself, he should have never persuaded Asahina about coming back as the Ace before. Have he forgotten that his strengths came from his trustworthiness and his believe in friendship? I think it was unbelievable that the self- motivating Hinata needs Kageyama’s slap (literally speaking here) to snap out from his catatonic state and regained back his spirit

In conclusion, the episode closed the practice match between the Karasuno’s main against the former team. In this episode we saw how the team started to perform their role and how the next team formation will be. I am admitting that the episode was lacking the feels like the last one but it was still entertaining to watch Hinata realizing his worth.

As we are expecting the destiny battle between Nekoma and Karasuno, I am waiting for more surprises in the following episode.

 Fate and decision

The prelude for the last battle

 Nobunaga the Fool Episode 22 Impression

We are already at the 22 episode of Nobunaga the fool and only two more episodes remaining. I was truly worried with the current progress of the series since with a fewer airing time, could the producer create a good closing for the series?

 

Nobunaga the angsty king

Then, we have Mitsuhide who already lost the purpose of his life. Having lost the person he loved the most and with the realization that she still chooses her father murderer in her last breathe, Mitsu could not accept the bitter reality of fate. He was always Nobunaga’s trusted friend in most occasions but now with Nobu’s decisions only bring more death and destruction than peace, he started to question whether it was wise or not to follow him. Also, in this episode he finally told Toyotomi that he was responsible for Nobukatsu death and while Toyotomi hated his action, he could understand that he did that for Nobu’s sake.

I knew many would hate Mitsuhide’s lost of confidence to Nobu. At this moment, he looks like another backstabber who turned from loyal friend into an enemy. Nevertheless the situations took the worse for him and as a person with bitter fate, he had reasons for every decision that he made. I am not exaggerating but in this series, his characterization surpassed even the main character. Unlike Toyotomi or Jeanne who choose to remain loyal to Nobu, he was expecting more from his actions. He was expecting a just reason from Nobu and only considered the sacrifice was necessary as long as it was for greater good. In my opinion, I thought Mitsu as a person who would check everything beforehand and being unable to trust anybody a hundred percent; he decided to find the enemy’s motivation before he could decide his next moves.

I praised Gonzo for making Mitsuhide such a deep character, who progressed the most from this series. For instance, he was the person who started as Nobu’s loyal friend, who decided to hide his feeling for his friend’s success, who decided to kill his best friend’s brother to make him the ruler, who lost in many strategic battles, his love suddenly turned unrequited, he lost all his purpose, happiness, and motivation, now he had to decide whether he could still blindly follow Nobu or not. Unfortunately for him, his meeting with Arthur was not a wise one since Arthur could basically change his/her appearance and brainwashed any person s/he met. Indeed, by the end of the episode Mitsuhide was no longer Nobu loyal strategists but Arthur newest puppet and he might betray Nobu in the next episode unless he could pull more trickery than Arthur would expect. In short, Mitsu was well developed and the major of the time was spent to further his character’s progression.

In addition, we could also start to wave our good bye to our loli princess, Himiko cause her death flag was not just a warning. It looks inevitable if she would met her end in the next week and only miracle (or specifically trolling) could save her. In this episode, it was revealed that she sacrificed her life force to stabilize the leyline as well as increasing Toyotomi’s recovery rate. Toyotomi and Himiko’s followers realized that she did not have much time longer and here I am preparing for another funeral.

 

Toyotomi: Rest in <Himiko> Hei!!! I am not dead yet, monkey man