Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei - ep06

Although they didn't get to finishing the arc, the conclusion of the battle on the school ultimately leaded to revealing the reason behind Mibu and Kirihara's fight that Tatsuya broke up. First the issue is the reason behind Blache's attack was to obtain the research of the first magical high school. That as they approach the building Leo stays behind to guard the entrance to prevent anyone else from entering. Then Erika engages the enemies on the first floor while Tatsuya and Miyuki go ahead to the record room where a group of four is trying access the database. This result with them arrive in time just as they break the computer's security so that they can begin copying everything. Now with the plan impossible to carry out they try to make their escape but the only one that was able to was Mibu but she is intercepted by Erika down below. This bring an end to the fighting with her defeat.

Now with Mibu resting in a bed in the nurse office the get to hear her story on why she did this. That everything start a year ago when Mibu was impressed by Mari's skill and asked if she would train her a give her guidance. However in they way she was turned down Mibu took it as Mari rejecting her because of the fact that she was a course 2 student. Although Mari remembers thing differently that she turn her down because Mibu was more skill in pure swordsmanship that she was and want her to find an opponent fitting of that skill. However this event leads to Mibu's association with Tsukasa who's older brother is a leader of a blache branch, which is something that Tatsuya already knew.

This leads to a planned assault on the blache organization for various reason. The first being that if they don't do it themselves then they are going to have to charge Mibu with her crime. The second being is that Tatsuya will not let anything compromise his daily life with Miyuki. This leads to the question of who was going at first Tatsuya was planning to go alone but of course that won't happen because Miyuki will go where ever her brother does. Jyumonji join next as a represented of the ten master clans but Mari and Mayumi want to go as well however can't because of their position in the school. This also leads up to the final person joining Kirihara the one that started the fight with Mibu, and we see his real reason for starting that in the first place and why he wants to come along. That he was moved by Mibu's swordsmanship because of it purity but a year ago it became tainted. This leaded to him become frustrated by Mibu and taking it out on her by picking that fight with her. However after learning that Blache was responsible for tainting her Kirihara wants revenge for what they done. That with this they have their final member for the assault.

Date A live II - ep05

New things get start on the next arc but it seem like this one is going to be troublesome for Shido. The reason is that she is a lesbian or it might just be that she hates men. It is more likely that she just has a phobia of men since her eyes dilate when she first caught a glimpse of Shido. Which makes it impossible for him to seal her power if he can't even get close. This is where thing get complicated for Shido because of this dislike of men, Kotori force him to cross-dress. Sure this would allow him to get close but there is the potential that this will backfire horribly. That all that has to happen is for Izayoi Miku to realize his true gender and then she will take all her power back by breaking the seal like what happen with Touka. Which means winning her over isn't enough Shido will also be expect to eliminate her hatred for men.

This leads us to Itsuka Shido days of cross dressing as his own cousin Itsuka Shiori, as he works on the preparation for the culture festival. That during this time he can get closer to Miku although he is almost immediately found out by his manner of speech. However fortunately she just accepts it as part of Shiori's personality. That before the meeting ends Shiori injuries her self which leads to Miku give Shiori her handkerchief. This gives Shido another opportunity to meet up with Miku as Shiori in a more private setting while having tea with her. The result in Miku trying to get Shiori to change school, but when she resist her subliminal suggestion her first assumption is that Shiori is a spirit. This also bring up an interesting point why is are there no male spirits not that I'm complianing is it just that they are only women. This would make sense on why Miku can't associate with men because their might not be any where she is from. Getting back to the point it is decide that Miku and Shiori are going to have a competition during the culture festival. If Shiori wins Miku will allow for her powers to be sealed, although if Miku wins Shiori and all the other spirits that he seal will become hers. Then to make thing worse the AST are planing to crash the party to capture Touka and Shido but how will they find him as a women. There also the fact of how will Miku react to realization that Shiori is a man and not a woman.

No Game No Life - ep05

This episode mostly focus on Shiro and Sora daily-life as the new ruler of the Inamity. Although it most entails them shoving all their responsibilities onto Steph. That the time that the events of the episode take place Steph has reached her limit and tries force them take proper responsibility by beating them in a game. However her plan backfires on her time and after time, it also clarifies the grounds of which the games are played upon. That in this world it has nothing to do with luck when you win, it just that the rules of the game is determine who win or lose before anything begins. This also revels that Kuuhaku hasn't been shoving all their work on to Steph without a reason, is that they have been researching the other races of this world by reading every book in Steph's grandfathers library. Unfortunately they haven't come up with much of anything, this is when Steph informs them of the fact that her grandfather lost the National library to the Flugel. That if they weren't already planning to have them be the first race they were going to fight, then it is set in stone now. However the interesting thing is that traditional the Flugel always play the same game, it will be interesting to see what game this is and question is will Kuuhaku challenge this Flugel or will they provoke this Flugel into challenging them. This makes a difference because the challenge gets to make the rules of the game, but which every happen it going to amusing when the games begin again.

Nobunaga the Fool - ep17

Now with their return to the eastern star, there is a major focus on Himiko's connection to Nobunaga. Where they go into how they first met in this spirit realm but Nobunaga arrival there through unconventional means caused him to forget Himiko when he left. This moment is what also leaded to her falling in love with him. Other than revealing Himiko's past they also get into the fact that she is dying, that she is not just stressed from traveling back and forth between the two planets. It seems that all the previous queens of Yamatai have suffered from the same problem that the die young. That these past two trips have shorten her life, but she doesn't want Nobunaga to hold himself back on her account. This is also why she provokes Jeanne into declaring war over who gets Nobunaga, because she wants someone to be there to take her place when she dies. It seems Himiko is preparing Jeanne to take this role because she doesn't believe that she has much longer and it is possible that she has chosen Jeanne to be her successor when she dies.

Then you have the matters on the western planet with Caesar and Mitsuhide being captured. That we get into the story of what Caesar is always wearing that mask, that he first started wearing it because of an injury he received. However since it intrigued the ladles he continued to wear it even after his injury as long since healed. Which end Caesar shallow story, this transition into Mitsuhide story where his father committed Sepuku although we don't know what the detail surrounding this event. It just that this is the large reason that Mitsuhide is currently serving Nobunaga. Although toward the end of the episode the two are seperated where Caesar is taken away and Mitsuhide is left alone. However shortly later he hears a commition outside and see the two guard knock out with the key to his handcuffs laying at their feet. This leads to him escaping but the question is what are the reasons for Nell and Bianchi for helping him. It seems that they are serving their own agenda, but their timing is perfect since it is done when Arthur is unleashing a massive invasion force on the east. Which is perfect for Mitsuhide since he needs to catch a ride back and he can't really go around looking for Caesar.

Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei - ep05

Now that Mibu has had sometime to think about what she wants the school to do about, it seem apparent that not all that much thought has gone in it. The reason is Mibu is unable to declare specifically what she wants improve. Although it seems that there isn't much ground to declare unfairness because the Kendo and Kenjutsu club have equal space for their activities. Then on the issue of funding the magical club achieve greater results them the non-magical club and they are reward for their success. The on the issue on instruction it just that their aren't the resources to provide more teachers. In the end Mibu fight is on an ideological level of the discrimination between the two course be referred to as blooms and weeds.

Then this disagreement of ideological beliefs leads to the assault the next day on the school. Where the group that Mibu was truly trying to recruit him to ends up capturing the schools broadcast equipment. This leads to the moral committee involvement, although Ichihara Suzune is there to represent the student council but she is against the use of force because it will just make things worse. Then in consulting with Jyumonji he is willing to negotiate but doesn't see the need to break school property to do so. This give guide lines to work within by contacting Mibu and declaring to her that the both the Club leader and the student council has agree to negotiate. Then as it seem that Mibu is preparing to let them in, it becomes clear how underhand Tatsuya is since he didn't speak for the moral committee that means that they will still be punished for their actions. However this is dismissed when Mayumi appears and pardons them. Which leads to this Mibu and the others leaving with Mayumi to further discuss terms of the debate that they wish to have.

It seems that this debate that they are going to have is nothing but a ruse, since no-one is there from the assault on the broadcast room even though they went this far to get their voice heard. Although this debate allow Mayumi to talk about something she wants to address which is the uses of the terms bloom and weeds even-though the uses of these terms have already been forbidden by both the school as well as the moral committee. This gets into the issue of fairness, that currently course 2 student aren't allow to be part of the student council and there is nothing that she can do about it since the ruling can only be changed at the time of general election. Then at this moment the school is attack and it seems that the members of the coalition were prepared for this since they knew it was going to happen. Although Tatsuya and the others were prepare for something like this before the debate even began. It looks like the arc might end next time with the confrontation of Blanche.

Date A Live II - ep04

In this episode there are three fights that are going on. Firstly the battle between Kaguya and Yuzuru is mostly ignored. However most of the focus is place on the conflict between the two ships Fraxinus and Ashcraft. Which is interesting since Fraxinus is under-command of Kannazaki which for the most part been seen as being useless and largely incompetent. This lead to very little faith in him but the crew still follows his order even-though they are very hesitant to do so. It seems despite Kannazaki character he is very capable of fighting off this enemy, which leads to fleeing once Kannazaki is able to critically damage their ship.

The Kannazaki battle is linked with Touka's battle with Ellen Okamine the enemy spy. Ellen boast that she is the worlds strongest wizard, it also it appears that she is appalled that Touka compare her to the AST. It seems that her self proclaimed title is earned since she defeats Touka with very little trouble. Then as Ellen is about to take her spoils of war with her to do god knows what to Touka something unexpected happens. That Shido is able to summon Touka's sword Sandalphon which is the manifestation of her powers. Although he doesn't know how he was able to do it but when he summoned it he destroyed all of Ellen's minions that were holding Touka down. Then the effects of Kannazaki battle come into play since he doesn't know how to use Sandalphon. That means he can't protect himself or Touka but with the damage done to the enemy ship it disables the bandersnaches which allow for Shido and Touka to make their escape.

This leads to the conclusion of the between the Yamai twins. Shido desires to save them but he can't seem to get their attention. This results in him trying to use Sandalphon but he swings it but nothing happens. This causes Touka to show him how to use it when they swing it together to cut the twins storm which gets their attention. Now with their attention direct at him he gives them a perspective of the only choice they have is the third option is have their powers seal but in return neither one of them has to be sacrifice for the other. Then before they give Shido their answer although it's already clear what they are going to decide the enemy ship makes it appearance to capture both Touka and the twins. However they get destroyed by Kaguya and Yuzuru combined powers and the single act defines the choice they made to remain together. Now that everything is finished it seems that the is a storm brewing on the Horizion because of Shido summoning Sandalphon, while raising the question of why Shido will need to die. This single question seems to be linked to the nature of Shido's ability to seal the Spirits powers and ask the question is her really human.

No Game No Life - ep04

The game continues from where they left off from last time with the turned queen converting an enemy knight. The going from here Sora has sown the seeds of revolt in the enemy faction. This is useful because the elf magic is only make white piece turn black. Now that the revolt has begun the black piece that turn white have now turn to red. That with the inclusion of this third faction that immune to Kurami's greatest spell Sora can win by doing nothing since this internal struggle will destroy the black king. This happen when the mad king forces his army to fight who were once their friends and allies. That once everything is finished Kurami breaks down when she fails because everything she did to receive an alliance with the Elfs is now meaningless and she still can't believe they won with any magic assistance.

Then it appears that it's a simple matter of crowning them but there is a problem since the adviser believes that there can only be one king so that they both can't be ruler. This leads to Sora and Shiro having to duel it out over the right to become King since they want to be king for their own reasons. However after many thousands of games later it is realize that they can both be ruler that there is nothing in Tet's laws that state it can only be one person. Then with this resolved they go about crown both of them.

Then once it is done, they try to avoid the work by having Stepth do it all in their stead. However when brings up the fact that there are rumors going around that the council is making backdoor deals with the others races. Kuuhaku deals with quickly by using the power of the pledge to assure their loyalty where they all force to lose if they want to remain in their position. Then they get into improving the quality of life of the people by dealing with matters of state using knowledge from their world. Thing for this arc are coming to a close with Kuuhaku making an announcement to the people on the state of the world and how they fallen this low. This is summed up by stating that Humanity is the strongest because it is the weakest. This is a prelude to Tet arrival with Sora declaring War on the other nation and alluding to the fact that the first ones to challenge them is going to be the Flugel a race of angles that prize knowledge over everything else.

This gets us to the return of Tet and the siblings future goal which is allow Tet to have his rematch. Although there special condition to challenge Tet since it would be over the right to be god. This means that they are going to have to beat to other fifteen race to allow Tet to have his rematch since that is the reason he brought them into this world because he had no desire to save Inamity from it's dire situation. That at the rate things are going it seems like this series will have to be at least 2-season long if not longer. The interesting question is what will the next game be.