Nobunaga the Fool - ep06

After Nobuhide's it seems that there is only more tragedy awaiting the Oda clan. Then Nobunaga's absents during the preparation for his fathers funeral outrages the adviser. Then his action at the funeral drives them to point where they can no-longer tolerate his action and they seek to eliminate Nobunaga to make Nobukatsu ruler in his place. Also Nobunaga actions drive Jeanne to the point where she is determined to leave because she doesn't understand Nobunaga and doesn't even want to anymore. Although in leaving she finds Nobunaga meditating beneath the waterfall in his grief. Also at the same time she see an assassin prepared to kill Nobunaga but Himiko push Nobunaga out of the way only to die in his place. While at the same time Mitsuhide is taking the same action against Nobukatsu. Now with both Nobukatsu and Himiko gone shortly after his father, the question is how will he deal with this when he will have no time to grieve with war still closing in around Owari.

Log Horizion - ep19

This time there is much drama because most of the attention is focus in on the battle. It seems that the faction that departed from Akihabara split into three different groups. The first group is leaded by Crusty and there job is to eliminate the main force of the goblin army but also prevent the enemy from scattering once it is defeated. That to ensure this second objective is met Shiroe is leading the second division which is overseeing the battle to make sure non of the goblins escape. This leads to the point of the third division which heading to reinforce the training camp so that Crusty's division doesn't get flanked by enemies coming from the sea. That Marie's group is hard press to hold their ground.

Later it become clear how press they are in protecting the town and prevent any goblins from reaching Crusty's division when the second wave comes from the sea while another division is passing through the forest. Which leads to Minori's group having to deal with the forest group by themselves. While for the most part they are able to hold their ground until they start getting overwhelmed by stronger enemies. Which leads to Rudy sacrificing himself to take the heat off of Touya but this leads to Rudy reveling his secret that he is really one of the People of the Land and not really an adventure. That it turn out that Isuzu knew of this but decide to keep his secret. However the big issue is how to prevent him from dying since if he does there is going to be no resurrection for him and will have lost their friend.

No-rin - ep05

Things get start with Kousaku and the others further training Ringo in the art of being a farmer. Although is this merely to set the stage for the introduction of more characters. However before they get to that they need to create a premise for this meeting of the big four. This is started when Minori runs out of Miso to prepare breakfast which connect to the theme of soybeans. This leads Kousaku and Kei going to class B to get some Miso but Ringo tags along because she curiosity about this class B. This leads them into meeting Suzuki Akari giving them their miso but in return they have to try out this new non-eatable yogurt. Which leads to revealing Suzuki as a fujoshi, which means the whole experiment was a farce to put Kei and Kousaku in a potential BL situation. However before they leave she informs Kousaku about F-class being on the move.

This leads to Kousaku scouting out the situation with class F but Minori and Ringo follow him because they are curious about what he is up to. This is when the second of the big four appear with the rest of F class. This where it become clear that each class focus on a different farming field, but can you call being a lumberjack being a farmer. Although it appears that Rintaro Miyamoto the second of the big four has a long standing grievance with Kousaku with him being Minori childhood friend. This ultimately leads to a strange conversation about him bathing with Minori until about the end of middle-school and trying to justify it. What even worse is that Ringo doesn't take this news well but save by Kei appeasing the lumberjack with stories of mountain woman that enjoy the outdoors which leads F-class heading back into the mountain to search for these woman.

Then the third of the big four introduces himself to Ringo as she is checking the soybeans that they planted. This leads to Kousaku going after her because she is late. This leads him into finding her with Hanazono Kaworu, which leads Kousaku to believe that he is a womanizer from his previous encounter with Minori. Which leads him into a game against him to protect Ringo from him. However it turns out that this is what Kaworu desire all along because his true goal was Kousaku all this time and merely use Ringo to get to him. Unfortunately Kei was to late to stop the horrid end results of Kaworu's plan. Things end with only three of the four being introduced, and so far it seem that each of them have unique personalities the question what will the fourth one be like.

Magical Warfare - ep05

Things starts of with them going straight into the test, instead do what you would expect by having the four of them test as a team. Thing are change up with the test being about their proficiency at using their celestial magic, which leads to splitting them up where their celestial magic is the only thing that will allow them to get through. However during the test Takeshi runs into Oigami, this leads to Takeshi being hostile towards until he realize that Oigami doesn't even remember him. Then the ghost trailers sabotages the examine, which cause everyone to fall though to the lowest level. This leads to Oigami meeting Kurumi as well, but he soon vanish because he is disqualified. Although the ghost traliers action are in Mui's and the others favor because it helps them complete the test by allowing them to work together even though their goal was to appraise Takeshi's strength. However this also proves that Momoka and Wizard Breath may not be the champions of justice that they make themselves out to be since they erased Oigami's memories which is the same thing that Ghost trailers did to Mui's brother. It also seems that Momoka knew this entire time about the infiltrators and allow it to happen. The question is can Takeshi really trust either of these faction.

The rest of the episode revolves around the drama of their little group. First with the arrival of winter break and Kurumi wanting to return home to keep their promise to Gekkou that they would visit the shrine together. However after being here and not having to deal with the Gekkou's hatred for him, leads to him staying here and Kurumi going home. Although it isn't clear if Ida decide to go home as well, but with Kurumi's return it also point to thing getting more complicate with event suggesting that Gekkou has join up with the Ghost Trailers to chase after his brother. It seems that Gekkou is going to be joining the school in April. There is even more drama where upon her return she finds Takeshi in bed with Mui, although it was just that Mui had a fever and was having another delusion that Takeshi was her brother. This leads to Kurumi having a fight with Mui where it ultimately results in Takeshi reveling the truth to Mui about his relationship with Kurumi. That he believe that it is about time that Kurumi is able to stand on her own, that it is as much for her own good as it is for his that they end this lie. Although it is doubtful that Kurumi has told Takeshi about Gekkou's arrival to the school in Apirl with everything that has happen and it is likely that this will create even more friction between the two of them.

Nobunaga the Fool - ep05

Now the plot is thickening with the advisers making plans to assassinate Nobunaga, coupled with the arrival of Julius Caesar who desire the destruction of Oda castle so that he can have Ichihime. This leads into the conflict between Nobunaga and Nobuhide over that action they should take. Nobunaga believes that they should go to war and expand Owari territory while his father favors stability. That the very act of going to war threatens this stability that he favors, this means that the only thing that Nobunaga can really do is try to learn more about the shinki. Also to do this he needs Himiko's help but as things are going it seem his marriage to her is going to be in name only, or at least for now which is only nature because you can't think of a child as a woman.

Then with the ground tension in the castle combine with Nobunaga increasing desire to go to war with his growing power leads to a drawing of another card. This time it is the reverse tower which is supposed to symbolize conceit and divine anger. That this card seems to perfectly symbolize Nobunaga and with Mitsuhide over hearing this he set a plan in motion that would allow Nobunaga to act. That as Nobunaga is preparing to make the first move by attacking Takada Shingen he is poisoned by taking a drink from a tainted sake cup before going into battle. Which ironical Takada attack just as he is poisoned.

That with Nobunaga incapacitated his father Nobuhide has to rise up and go to battle in his stead. That with this poisoning it is also protect him from future assassinate attempt because he will be under a more watchful eye, that if the advisers try anything they will be suspected of being spys for Takada and be executed because of this association. While it turns out that the person that really poisoned Nobunaga was Mitsuhide so that he could go into battle at the most opportune time so that he could be see as a hero and not a fool. Although things don't exactly go as planned with the arrival of Julius Caesar, with this event Nobunaga can't fight both Caesar and Takada. Which allows for Caesar to progress to the castle unopposed however he is ultimately stop by Nobuhide sacrificing his life to protect the castle which ultimately cause Caesar to retreat under the force of Nobunaga's divine anger. Which leads to the truth of the reverse tower card, symbolize Nobuhide's death and Nobunaga's anger of the loss of his father.

Log Horizon - ep18

Now with their arrival at Akihabara it time to have the princess approach the people. However first they have to get her to change her clothes, this was probably done to make the princess fit in a bit better with the adventures. It also seems that they are going about it a bit differently than how the princess initially conveyed that she would do by asking for help by going from person to person. That instead they are going to have her request for aid by giving a speech, to convenience the adventures to aid Eastal in their crisis. That Shiroe starts things off with a good cop, bad cop routine by emphasizing that they have no obligation to help Eastal at all. Actual by doing nothing they would be able to better defend Akihabara but they really aren't any real danger from the Goblins.

This leads into Lenessia presenting the crisis that her people are face with, and apologizing for the fact that Eastal was going to try use the adventures as their shield. Then in response to her honesty and sincerity they honor her request for a call to arms. This leads Crusty making this into a formal quest presented by the round table with him taking up the role as commander. While Shiroe is taking up the role as tactician. This leads to them splitting up their forces with Crusty going by sea and Shiroe going by land to set up a command center. It seem that the greatest threat now is that they don't know where the goblins will strike next since they don't have a real tactical goal. This leads to them having to cast a wide net, so that they can quickly respond to the threat. It should be interesting to see how this battle is carried out.

No-rin - ep04

Now that they have gotten past the introduction phase of the story, they are now revealing the true nature of the plot. That they real point of the story is to help Ringo smile once again, although it doesn't really get to be a focal point until the end. However they hint at this issue when Kousaku see Ringo trying to pull the corners of her mouth into a smile. That this is his first hint that something was quite right with her. Then the plot leads into events that diverge from this main issue with the fields being attack. That initially because of Yoshida's account they believe it to be an orphan child has done it out of hunger. Although it doesn't take long for Minori and Kousaku to dismiss this idea and believe that it was done by a monkey.

This leads them into various plans to deal with the problem from electrical fence which are practical but there isn't the money to implement it. Then the ridiculous from Yoshida with her philosophical argument that monkeys are people too, which equates to doing nothing. Ultimately they go with Kei plan which is to hunt it, however the way he phrase it make it seem like he is going kill the monkey. How it turns out to be as ridiculous as the other plans because he gets an anime-otoku to knock the monkey out with his blowgun made from his anime posters. Although once they capture the monkey the issue become what to do with it, but it seems that Yoshida has already thought about that and she knows of a zoo that will take him in. This also brings back to the him point that with this resolution Ringo hasn't smiled, that now that Kousaku thinks about it he hasn't seen her smile once since being here.

Now Kousaku is seriously concern about Ringo and wants to talk with Minori and Kei on what they can do for her. Although Minori misunderstand the nature of this talk because she has her mind in the gutter. Which make things quite awkward when Kei come by later seeing the redecoration job that Minori did to her room. Then it just makes her more depressed when Kousaku want to talk about Ringo. However they take him serious once he explains the issue, that they need help her smile even-though it might be a selfish wish. Then through this desire to see her smile does Kousaku learn that Ringo has lost the ability to make any-other expression, this is probably part of that she entire retirement. In think of a way to help Ringo he has a dream, that this dream gives him an idea of how to help Ringo by showing her the dead field that they inherited from their senpai's. That this field in a way represent the current Ringo, however through the efforts of their club they have managed to bring some of the field back to life. That maybe by working in this field Ringo herself will find a way to be reborn and learn how to smile once again. It seem this is where our story truly begins.