Chihayafuru 2 - 01
Chihayafuru 2 - 01
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A new school year has stared and the school clubs (including the Karuta Club) are working to attract/recruit the new 1st year students as potential new club members. At a club presentation, Taichi and Chihaya take the stage and receive a positive reception, mainly due to their appearance, which has appeared to garner favor with both the female/male students in the audience. However, Chihaya somewhat fudges the moment up when Taichi asks her to say a few words, leaving some in the audience to think that her looks is all that she has going on for her. One student, Sumire, takes notice of Taichi and plans to try and get him as her boyfriend to offset the fact that she had just been dumped recently.
Later at the clubroom, while the Karuta Club members (especially Chihaya) wonders if they’ll get any new members to join (the club has to recruit new members or forfeit the clubroom), a rather large group of 1st years stops by to hand in their applications, including Sumire. Though Chihaya gives a brief introduction to karuta, and even goes through the motions of a tutorial match with Nishida and with Kana giving some details as well, the experience of the what the Karuta Club does goes over what the 1st year student expected as they appear to not really be interested in learning karuta. Sumire seems to consider Chihaya a rival of sorts, which could threaten her chances with Taichi, even Kana isn’t exempt from Sumire’s gaze due to her appealing stature.
After the 1st years leave, the Karuta Club discusses what they consider important, making Chihaya realize that everyone has different priorities. The ground then goes around and talk about what is important to them: Taichi (focus on Chihaya’s goal to become the next Queen, Class A stuffs), Kana (the etiquette of Karuta), Tsutomu (the status of the existence of the clubroom with some new recruits), Nishida (high school championship and concern for Taichi attaining Class A). When it’s Chihaya’s turn to say something, she ends up saying everything that the other members have already said, which makes her appear greedy in wanting everything, particularly noting that she wants to help Taichi achieve Class A among other things.
While Chihaya is having a session to teach the 1st years some basics about karuta, back at the clubroom, Taichi and the others are about to do some practice matches when he asks to be excused to he can go practice at the Shiranami Society (for some days of the week), taking note of what Nishida and what Chihaya had said earlier and giving him a new focus. Sumire, who is in attendance at Chihaya’s session, gets a bit emotional when she reads a poem that makes her think about her situation and when she spots Taichi leaving campus out of the corner of her eye, it prompts her to leave the session and chase after him. She manages to catch up to Taichi on the train and engages him in some small talk, while scheming to make him hers. However, when the subject of relationships come up, Taichi surprises Sumire by saying that he would rather not have a girl choose him but instead he would want someone to devote himself to (possibly thinking about what Chihaya had said before). After Taichi departs at his stop, Sumire is taken aback by the statement, thinking in a way that she was just rejected, but decides to still chase after him as she also departs from the train.
Vividred Operation - 01
Vividred Operation - 01
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Akane lives with her sister, Momo, and her grandfather, Dr. Kenjirou Isshiki, who had created the Manifestation Engine, which has solved the world’s energy problems. One day, Akane and Momo find out that an accident occurred at their home and their grandfather has had his mind swapped into a toy doll/figure. This happens at around the time an Alone (unknown alien entity) suddenly appears and is making it’s way to where the Manifestation Engine is. Akane and Kenjirou begin to make their way to the site after he hands her a key, his latest creation. The Alone attacks the defensive forces sent out to stop it and easily destroys and almost takes out a civilian aircraft in the process but an air defense pilot sacrifices her plane to take the hit, though the pilot ejects from her craft before impact.
Akane notices that her friend Aoi is on the civilian aircraft and makes her way to the crash site on a nearby building with her grandfather’s help. However, when she rushes out to help Aoi, who is trapped in the wreckage as it teeters precariously on the edge of the roof area, Akane stops herself due to a fear of heights incurred in a traumatic event/accident when she was younger. The unstable civilian aircraft wreckage then falls over the side with Aoi still inside and Akane pushing though her fear rushes over the edge as well with her hover bike in an attempt to save her friend. Akane manages to reach Aoi then something occurs - the ‘key’ activates and oufits Akane with a powered suit/outfit that saves the girls from falling to their doom. Kenjirou contacts Akane and tells her the purpose of the key - which is to give her the power to fight against the Alone.
Kotoura-san - 01
Kotoura-san - 01
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Haruka has had a difficult childhood due to her ESP, which has allowed her to hear the innermost thoughts of those around her. This in turn caused Haruka to suffer for revealing other people’s thoughts, which were likely to be private and unknowing thoughts, as people blamed her for the trouble that she caused by speaking what was on/in people’s minds. Everyone begins to disassociate and shun Haruka, including her friends and people/teachers at her school. Even the (unstable) marriage between Haruka’s parents is broken, causing them to break apart and eventually causing Haruka’s mother to leave her daughter with Haruka’s grandfather for all the trouble that she has apparently caused.
Alone (physically and emotionally), Haruka begins classes at a new school that she transferred to. However, an encounter with a student named Manabe (particularly his thoughts) leaves her wondering what the boy is thinking compared to everyone else. Manabe finds out about Haruka’s ability and thinks of it as an interesting thing, unlike Haruka where her past experiences with it have proven otherwise, and works on trying to befriend the girl despite having some interesting thoughts/speech that seem to confuse/embarrass Haruka. An averted accident due to Haruka’s ability makes her not want Manabe to get hurt later on and she tries her best to get him to reconsider friendship. Manabe though just wants to be Haruka’s friend and Haruka accepts his offer of friendship.
