Natsume Yuujinchou (夏目友人帳) Episode 6

Episode 6 (click the title to see the megaupload link)
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Title : Swallow at the Lake Bottom (Jap: "Kotei no Tsubame" (湖底のつばめ) )

Air Time : August, 11 2008

Name Released : Tarusaru and the rest of youkai who dwelled in Futaba Village

Episode 6, halfway to go~

Natsume and his two friends were cycling in the bright of the sun. They passed a dried dam which was a village before. The village's name was Futaba Village. Now that it's summer the water was mostly vaporized and the sunk village could be seen. Natsume saw a shadow that possessed him soon and fainting him.

That night, he got better though Madara sensed something different about him. A group of youkai from the village from earlier came for their name. The head of the group is Tarusaru who convinced Natsume to return their names before the village resubmerged.

Natsume did so and for that Tarusaru showed him a mirror from which Natsume could see that he was being possessed by an Ayakashi.

The ayakashi attempt a fight in which she was easily defeated by a right hand punch of Natsume, breaking its bird-shaped mask. I'm glad it's broken

I forgot to mention about how the punch was so effective. This punch continued until now. >.<

So, the Ayakashi explained the reason why she possessed Natsume and that she meant no harm to him. She only wanted to meet a person whom she liked and indebted to when she was little. After getting nagged for a while, Natsume agreed to look for this person, with only surname Taniozaki as a clue.

So he started asking his friends about the man of futaba village. Fortunately, Kitamoto knew a thing about this man since his father lived there in the past and promised to ask his father.

On his way home, the Ayakashi introduced herself as Tsubame.|

The text means a joke not Tsubame's monologue. Don't get the wrong idea

She explained how she became like this and how she met this kind men until midnight. She was once a swallow, living with her 4 other siblings. One day, she fell off her nest and a human helped him. The smell that lingered on her made her parents abandoned her and her siblings. One by one, her siblings died leaving her behind. Eventually she became a demon.  

Taniozaki mistaken her as a stray dog or cat and continuosly feed her everyday without fail. That way, she could stay peacefully.

The next day, Kitamoto gave the address of the Taniozaki guy to Natsume who rushed into searching of this man. They met him but sadly he cannot she Tsubame. Natsume felt pity on her and wanted to help her although Tsubame said seeing the man is more than enough. And so Tsubame stayed a while longer with Natsume who grew attached to her.

It's sad to see her ignored

On an evening Tarusaru from before brought a sake to his home, and told him about the festival in Futaba Village. The thing about the yukata that enabled a youkai or ayakashi to assume human form for one day caught Natsume's interest.

And so Natsume decided to go to Futaba village without knowing the danger that awaited him. Madara who looked like he just passing by stopped them and argued a little. He couldn't stop Natsume from joining the festival, but at least he could ensure his safety.

Tarusaru' true form. Like the saying " a wise tiger hides its fangs".

Wearing a mask, he joined the race for the right to have the yukata which was hung on a tall withered tree. Of course as a human, Natsume couldn't compete with the Youkai.

However, Madara came to help him in the end after watching him for a while. It's kinda cheating and I wonder why the youkais agreed that Natsume won.

He immediately went back and gave the yukata right away to Tsubame, telling her to meet Taniozaki in the neighbourhood festival. Tsubame was grateful and bid a farewell.

The next day he met the Taniozaki and asked whether he met a girl during the festival. He did met Tsubame and shown Natsume a photo.

She was there and Natsume was happy that he cried. I guess her perseverence touched him.

That's it for episode 6. Tsubame was pretty cute, I should say.

Natsume Yuujinchou (夏目友人帳) Episode 5

Episode 5 (click the title to see the megaupload link)
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Title : Heart-Colored Ticket (Jap: "Kokoro-iro no Kippu" (心色の切符))

Air Time : August, 4 2008

Name Released : Santo

Yo, Episode 5~

Natsume felt that he began to understand his Grandma, little by little. On that day, he thought he might found valuable info regarding his Grandma through her heirloom.

What he found was an old borrowed book with a piece of ticket inside.

Maybe intrigued by the old ticket, he brought it all the way to school and stare it like forever until he was snapped out by the petty quarrel between Nishimura and Kitamoto.

Sasada who became curious of those things after the last episode started asking him question when she saw the ticket. He thought he might found out something if he went to the the place of the destination as written on the ticket. And so he went to the bus stop where he was caught by Sasada, who might have followed him. Tanuma (the guy from episode 3. Remember the priest's son?) helped Natsume escaped from her. (I don't know why he could be there, probably just passing by).

At the presribed place, he found a furry youkai called Santo. Seems kinda slow-minded and mistaken Takashi as Reiko at first. Natsume had a hard time convincing him that he was not Reiko.

And so, Natsume gave his name back and the memory of it flew into Natsume.

In the past, Reiko made a promise with Santo that she would help him made up with Mikuri, Santo's friend. At this point, we don't know what it was. She said she would help on the next day but apparently she didn't come (for a reason or simply no reason) and Santo was made waiting all this time. (poor thing...)

Natsume decided to continue what her Grandma had started and so they started searching for Mikuri right away although the sun was setting. On the way to a lake, where Mikuri was supposed to live, Natsume and others were attacked by the rampage of frenzy plants (looked like whip). Presumably, that were Mikuri's grudge.

They arrived at the lake, and what awaited were a freaking huge catfish which had grown in size because of its lingering hatred.

Apparently, Mikuru was also targeting the Book of Friends. Since the opponent was in water, it was one tough opponent even for Madara. Well, in the end, the protagonist prevailed. Madara out-leveled Mikuri and it changed back to its original form.

Mikuri seemed like he had no idea what happened after he changed into a huge catfish. He hated Santo ever since he gave his name to Reiko. Seems trivial to me to cause a lot of trouble like this. Well, the the two best friends made up again. So do the guys in the school.

At that night, Natsume continued to browse through his Grandma's heirloom and what he found was a bunch of ticket which meant another promised she had left. Oh god..

That's it for episode 5. Ah~~ the joy of friendship

Natsume Yuujinchou (夏目友人帳) Episode 4

Episode 4 (click the title to see the megaupload link)
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Title : Shigure and the Girl (Jap: "Shigure to Shōjo" (時雨と少女) )

Air Time : July, 28 2008

Name Released : Shigure

Seems like long time no post, at least for this anime part, and for the fourth one

One fine day, perhaps in summer, Natsume came across a Kappa, the river dweller of Japanese Myth Story.

A Kappa. Body of a tortoise, face of a duck, posture of a human. Oh yeah it's bold XD

It was in extreme exhaustion, pleading for water. And so, kind-hearted Natsume poured him some. Natsume didn't know that he was being watched by the class president, Sasada.

The girl was looked like up to something, wasn't she?

That night was the day for the haunted house (they called it 'test of courage') event (Remember episode 2?). The basic rule was for them to walk in pairs around the school in search for the exit. There were several frames showing the class president intermittently looking at Natsume in suspicion. 

Just before the event the class president came close to Natsume, telling him the story behind this old school building they're in. There was once a god of fortune who loved humans and brought them wealth.

But, someday a greedy merchant who wanted more wealth locked him in his cellar. The merchant gained profit as the god grew to resent people and in the end become the evil spectre. The merchant went bankrupt and it was said the spectre of the god still wandering around the school building which was build above the cellar.

The story finished and it's time for them to draw lots. It was just the beginning and yet a lot had been disappeared (Sounds creepy)

Natsume paired up with Nishimura, his friend he usually hang out with. In the midst of the test, they were startled by one eyed "thing" (Not sure what it was but it was dressed up like a student) and fell down the stairs (Ouch!).

Looked like Masked Sasada. I wonder if it's really her.

Nishimura went unconscious and was taken by a Youkai (Shigure was his name) while Natsume encountered him and being threatened until the class president come.

OMG. Umbrella head guy.

It seemed the class president had come to a conclusion that Natsume can see those things, and began to confront him. Natsume couldn's say a word, he couldn't decide whether he should teel her or not. Luckily, Madara came in his cat form and knocked Sasada out.

Madara then briefly explained what happened in the school building and then took form a female student ( he said it's more convenient but why girl form?).

Pretty nice so to say

And so Madara went. Meanwhile, Sasada began to regain consciousness and the two continued the test together. In the mean time, Sasada started talking about her past, about her meeting with Shigure, and why she was obsessed in holding this test of courage.

Previously, he's a bucket-head guy. Hoho...

They completed the test in the end but no one came back. Seemed like everyone had been kidnapped by Shigure. The house crumbled all of a sudden and the roof was where Shigure and the rest were. Natsume had no trouble returning the name back (Except he was stunned a little when Shigure approached him).

As usual, Natsume was able to read the youkai's memory and knew what truly happened. Shigure was just afraid that defiled thing like him would defile a pure girl's heart just by touching her. That's why he always tried to drive Sasada away whenever she looked for him.

Sasada was able to feel Shigure.

The kappa from earlier came up again. But that was the least important (I don't know if Sasada saw it or just pretended not to see that). And the last frame for the day.

That's it for episode 4.  Looking forward to writing the next episode. =D

Virgin Snow (첫눈 - Hatsuyuki no koi, Cheonnun)

Posted by green_butterfly

This movie was released in 2007, but I just finished watching it just now, haha.. 

This movie tells a story about Kim (Lee Jun Ki), a Korean boy who moved to Japan with his father. His father is a potter. At first, he couldn't understand Japanese at all, and lazy to study. One day, he met Nanae (Aoi Miyazaki) in a shrine and he fell in love at the first sight. Nanae helped him after he fell off his bike. 

Nanae was helping him to wash his injury.

Kim attended school as a new transferred student there and he saw Nanae also in the same school as his. After that, the two became a good friends. Nanae was used to paint, and her dream was to become a painter. Their friendship developed faster despite of the language barrier. Kim studied hard to learn Japanese and Nanae also learned Korean. One day, Kim and Nanae made a promise that Kim would make a porcelain, and Nanae would paint on it. 

Unintentionally Kim threw the Nanae's paniting tools away to the river. Then he jumped off to the river and took it. So sad for him, the box was opened and the tools went into the river..haha..But, he bought a new one for Nanae.

Kim made promise that he would make a porcelain and Nanae would paint on it. But, his smile is very weird, isn't it?? haha..It's because he couldn't make a porcelain at all, haha..

They made another promise to walk in Doldam street in Seoul together.

They were enjoying rain..

Suddenly, Kim's grandmother fell sick and wanted to see her grandchild. Because of that, Kim went back to Korea. After her grandmother's condition was better, he went back again to Japan, but Nanae has moved already from her house without saying a word to Kim and couldn't fullfill her promise. Even her best friend also didn't know what happened to Nanae. 

After a few years, they met again in the Doldam street in Seoul. 

The story was very sad. But, I like the ending, it was happy ending. Plus, Lee Jun Ki is very handsome in this movie, very cooool..!! Haha..

Hope you enjoy this movie..!!

If you haven't downloaded it, download now, here is the megauplaod link:

http://www.megaupload.com/?f=MQR11YW0