This is to test the lj-cut before I submit to a community. I swear, lj HATES me.

Also I actually had time to write THIS, but I'm having a writer's block with 42_Souls.

           
 

( Remember the kimchi and mugunghwa? )

A lot of major things happened this episode, but obviously even more stuff is gonna happen later.

( Ho SHIZ )So what happens first is what we see at the end of episode 44. Maka saves the day, Chrona is awed, Marie is still kinda fighting with Stein, and Medusa is just amused.

Maka doesn't think things through completely and just attacks Medusa over and over again. This gives us a bit of humor with Marie. I saw the RAW, so I'm asuming it's because Marie says they should attack orderly, strategically or that it's hard to take on both adversaries at once. But Maka could care less and just attacks.

Cut to Black Star who is taking down traps, jumping into pits, being all badass and chatting with Tsubaki. We see more of him later. And sadly, we do NOT see Giriko or Justin, but understandably so considering what's to come.

Cut back to our trio vs. Stein and Medusa, Maka and Soul decide to do a group resonance with the piano.

No, no awesome piano scene. We see him go BAM once in a suit and that's it.

We do get an awesome souls connecting scene. OUt of the no where wind and all.

Maka is the first to attack, but Stein blocks all of the attacks that are directed to Medusa, causing the fight to be shifted to him instead. Medusa watches from the sidelines.

It's a sad fight since no one is able to give him a good blow. All during the fight, Maka and Marie call out to him and we see another one of Stein's metaphors with a radio between him and Medusa. That radio looks oddly familiar... 

FIrst he uses his soul-electricity thing to knock out Marie, and then Chrona and Maka.

The two are flung against a wall RIGHT UNDERNEATH MEDUSA. She talks to herself again (lawl) and stabs her sword on the wall she's standing on. The sword becomes a moving arrow and travels down to Maka, hovers just a feet above Maka. Medusa says her goodbyes and is about to stab Maka through the chest/abdomen...

But Chrona notices the arrow just before Medusa is about to take the finishing blow and pushes Maka away in time. However, the way the two were positioned (Chrona was leaning against the wall behind Maka while Maka was kinda bent over on the edge of the block thing) Chrona was stabbed instead. 

Cue big major GASP WIDE EYED moment (I totally saw it coming but I was pretty excited. I'm sick in the way I enjoy seeing my favorite characters suffer because it brings drama.). Maka is thrown to another block thing where she sees Chrona dangling by the arrow. It's interesting how they animated this part, because Chrona literally looks like a doll just hanging there. Whether it's intentional or not, I don't know, but it adds a nice sort of "Oh God" kinda feeling.

The arrow pulls back and Chrona falls to the ground and Maka rushes over to cradle the girl/boy in her arms. Maka's crying a lot (adorable face. It's odd, they gave her not an anguished mortified face, but kind of like a kid who doesn't get why Mommy has to leave kinda face) and both a fading Chrona and Ragnarok (now dying Ragnarok is SAD) try to consolidate her, explaining that they did this because they wanted to and that Chrona is grateful (actually I'm not sure what Chrona said but I'm sure it's something like that).

Then they DIE...no they don't. Trust me, just keep watching.

Maka is PIIIISSSED off. Scary pissed, too. Soul is trying to calm her down, but it doesn't work as the room he's in is flooding with black blood. He shares and exchange with the devil in his room and eventually is engulfed in the black blood.

Maka continues to attack and is about to land another attack before Marie stops an attack between her and Stein.
 
Marie takes this chance to use her soul wavelength to calm Stein down. We're back to the radio sequence. Marie is floating naked and she holds out a hand for him to take. Stein takes her hand is pulled back from insanity.

YAY!

Medusa knows she's trapped now that she has Stein, Marie, and Maka against her (oh, btw, Maka somehow snaps out of her anger. I dunno why, but okay, no insane!Maka).

Marie turns into a weapon for Stein to use and they fight.

Now at this time, Rachel, I think, somehow dispells Medusa from her body. Now Medusa is...not a snake, but a floating translucent form of her adult self and it's REALLY confusing. You'd think she'd be a snake again, but no, she's not. She's just as confused herself (I think she explains just how she's pushed from Rachel's body but I'm not a Japanese speaker).

Maka takes this chance to use her...witch hunter? Or was it her demon hunter? Anyway, she slices at translucent Medusa and Medusa is defeated!

Now, what I like about this part is that Medusa doesn't go off pitifully. She goes off with a sadistic smile and a nice speech. Phew, at least BONES didn't make her some whiny bitch at death. Medusa is my fav villian, chyea.

Medusa dissolves away into some black splotches (no soul? Or was that her soul? Doesn't make sense...) and everyone takes a small breather before going to Arachne.

Stein reassures Maka that Chrona will be fine and he'll make sure Chrona will be.

I don't really see how, considering Chrona pretty much lost A WHOLE OCEAN OF BLOOD and Ragnarok kinda dissolved away...yeah...

Oh well, it's anime.

We end here, and if any of you guys read spoilers, we should be seeing Black Star next episode.

Especially since we end with a shot of Mifune and Black Star (not face to face, but it's implied they'll duke it out).

My Thoughts

So there's a lot I can praise and I lot I can RANT about.

An okay episode. Honestly, I should stop getting my hopes up for the Soul Eater anime.

All of it felt very rushed, and I honestly think they should've ended with Chrona's supposed death (and add in shots of what's going on outside Medusa), yet at the same time I'm kinda glad they ended it quickly. I know they only have a few episodes left, so it's understandable.

I've been annoyed by some anime shot laziness, but whatever. What can I do?

My prediction that Chrona won't die was correct. LIKE HELL THEY'LL KILL OFF A POPULAR CHARACTER. Hell, BONES revived Ed from FMA like...3 times!

I'm a bit surprised by Medusa's death (and how there's no FRIGGIN SOUL LEFT). I guess how they set it up, Medusa HAD to die, but I thought it would be a lot more epic like her last "death".

I'm also pretty excited for Black Star vs. Mifune. In the manga...Mifune dies, THERE I SAID IT. But he HAD to die, and a lot of fans didn't like his death, but he HAD to die. If Mifune was just severely injured, he would've got back on his feet and kept fighting. He stopped because he received a fatal wound and could only walk a few steps with the aid of Tsubaki before his AWESOME death. I hope Angela becomes part of the main(ish) cast. That would be awesome (and adorable. Black Star taking care of a little girl, pbth!).
 
Er, anyway...

Here's to hoping that the last few episodes won't suck! And I said this last entry, but I really hope Maka is the SOLE fighter against the kishin/Arachne. She's just not strong enough at her level. I hope we get this beautiful teamwork sequence with EVERYONE (think Sailor Moon).

Holy crap I must post journal to express my FEELINGS!!

About anime. I'm so lame 8D

Edit: OKAY, so LJ-CUT really does hate me. So just highlight the text if you want to read.

( SPOILERS thus the cut )Okay so the episode was basically so-so. Obviously since I'm a sub reader, I could only get so much out of RAWs. 5 years of obsession helps with picking out little bits, ya know?

So here be the overall plot.

It opens with Maka and Soul, Maka running through the forest and chatting with Soul (any smart passer-byer would try to stay away from the seemingly schizophrenic girl). I'm not sure what they chat about, but I think her feelings on what they're going to do and I caught "Chrona" in there. They reach a cliff and do SOUL RESONANCE! And then it cuts to our M+C duo. Marie and Chrona finding their way to Medusa's...odd...lair. Marie is direction challenged as always, giving us a bit of comedy relief before the drama that will take place.

They reach her lair, and I don't remember exactly where they cut off to the others, but they do. They cut to Black Star and Tsubaki who discuss what I believe to be strategical plans to reach Medusa. A bit of the battlers, a bit on Eruka and the mouse sisters, and a long bit on Justin and Giriko who are still duking it out. From how they portray it, they're pretty much equal in power and Giriko is going bonkers. Literally, he has this face and it's strange.

We cut back to Marie and Chrona, and I think I'm mixing up orders now, but either before the cut or after they're descending stairs (or blocks) and a block falls down about to crush Marie. Until, that is, Chrona comes in and protects her, using his/her soul/black blood to protect Marie and disintegrate the block (I got all excited and orgasmic).

Cue in long talking scene between Marie and Medusa about...a lot. I think a bit about Stein, a bit about everything. Think typical shounen random talk scenes. Yes it was long, yet it was tedious. There was a point where Medusa sits on Stein's lap like a little child with her daddy. Marie was obviously jealous (and disgusted). Then Medusa directs her attention to Chrona and tries to draw Chrona back using that innocent "I'm your mother" voice. Chrona is conflicted for a while before ultimately choosing her friends over her bitch of a mother.

Medusa is totally unamused (I love her unamused face. It's a mix of "grr" and "whatever") and she stands up saying she'll have to kill Chrona.

FIGHT SCENE. Marie is a hammer. An awesome hammer. She definately deserves to be a death scythe, because she easily deflects Medusa's attacks and even destroys the block Medusa was standing on.

Medusa jumps over to a new block while Stein falls out of view until later (he looks like a stoner who's just there for the lulz.).
 
Chrona attempts an attack, but all her attacks are deflected. Medusa and Chrona have a one-to-one once more as Medusa uses her arrows to entangle Chrona into this...thing. Ever watched Sailor Moon? That one big scene where all the sailors die one by one? Think of how some of the girls were entangled in that ice. It's like that. BAD analogy but why would I care. MY ANALOGY.
 
Medusa continues to clobber Chrona, trying to kill her, even somehow nullifying Chrona's black blood abilities (that is, to harden her blood or use her blood as a weapon.) Marie tries to intervene, but out of no where comes Stein who's believes that Marie had died so is in despair and confusion/insanity over basically everything. Again, I was watching the RAW version, since it JUST came out so I'm not sure what he said at all. He mentions water at one point, probably to illustrate how he felt. He explains how he's confused, unsure, all that.

He ultimately concludes to kill, or something. I'm not sure. He just goes inSANE.

Meanwhile, Chrona has been slashed at with Medusa's sword (yes, she creates a sword out of her arrows. It's like one GIANT arrow like in the preview and it looks awkward with her tiny body. It's kinda lame, but whatever, it's anime.) and he/she can't manipulate the black blood. It's kinda odd how Ragnarok basically had only 2 lines in the entire episode. One of them was here where he basically said, "Snap out of it, Chrona!". So Chrona shouts bloody needles (or whatever the move is called) but finds that Medusa is able to just walk over his/her blood unscathed. Of course, Chrona is confused and Medusa explains just what she did (the move I explained earlier was this strange, pink electric shock). Medusa lifts her sword, about to kill Chrona off with one slice (and here Chrona is screaming his/her head off, a scene which makes me wonder just why Chrona was exactly my fav), but, of course, it's very predictable...

Maka comes and saves the day. 

HURRAAAY.

I just kinda rolled my eyes because it was REALLY obvious. 

And thus, begins the battle of the century. Medusa has a shocked expression since (1) Maka appeared out of no where without Medusa even sensing her and (2) Maka was able to block Medusa's attack. With an awesome battle cry might I add?

My Thoughts

So the episode was an okay. I mean, this whole anime original ending stuff is OKAY. It's not OMG ORGASMIC, nor is it vomit inducing. This episode was fairly enjoyable. Some of its major problems is the LONG WINDED TALKING. Usually I don't mind, but because I don't understand what they're saying and I'm more excited for the fight, I found it very tedious. That's just me. Another is how Chrona does not seem to be developing power wise. He/She used to be one of the major enemies and is now reduced to screaming. I don't expect Chrona to be able to defeat Medusa, I just wished he/she got in some successful moves. Even if it was just one. 

Now I really like Maka. She's different (that is, not  whiny bimbo) and very adorable (she's a bit of a girl, a bit of a tomboy). But that ending was so predictable. Of COURSE she comes to save the day. Of COURSE she saves the damsel in distress (or...man-damsel...er). And of COURSE she's suddenly able to hold up on her own against Medusa (well, I'm being a little unfair. Medusa's powers have probably decreased and Maka has become stronger). Luckily, we have a second part to this battle. I dunno, I just felt that it would have probably been more exciting if Maka came in and saw Chrona slashed/down for the count/impaled (see episode 45 preview). 

There's about 8 more episodes to go. Let's see what happens. I swear if Maka is the only one to defeat Kishin at her current level I will scream. If she dies I'll sue.

Soul Eater episode 45 preview

HOOLY CRAP. Soul Eater always did have awesome previews (that get my expectations way too high).

Big key moments:

Stein battling Marie, Maka, and Chrona. And using his hand over face creeper move.

CHRONA GETS IMPALED. And Maka is craddling him/her in his/her own pool of black blood. And it's not stopping, because remember, Medusa's strange electricity move.

Due to Chrona's sudden possible death (I highly doubt he/she will die. Something MAGICAL will probably happen. Like how BONES screwed FMA up real bad) Maka becomes EXTREMELY enraged. You'll see an expression unlike Maka it'll freak you out. She becomes PISSED and attacks Stein (I think) with all her might.

Meanwhile Soul is becoming engulfed in darkness (insane!Maka mode?! 8D?!)

And I want to say there's more but I don't remember. So just watch the episode dears! I'm real bad at summarizing.

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Yo nonexistent readers! After that weird Wall-E post (which I still love like crazy) I've decided that I might as well take advantage of this, and shamelessly advertise my fanfictions.

Mostly Soul Eater for now.

How to Deal?

His eyes were what drew her in.

MakaxChrona

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4569099/1/How_to_Deal

The First Time is Never Easy

A tied up and gagged man was laid down before Chrona. It was her first easy human kill.

Chrona centric

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4569119/1/The_First_Time_is_Never_Easy

That's all folks~

Okay, I don't care if anyone doesn't read this.

I NEED A PLACE TO RANT. BAD. 

Oh...my gawd. 

I.

LOVED.

WALL-E.

Best animated film Pixar has made since Finding Nemo (and Ratatouille...and Monsters Inc...and more, but I'm just trying to reach farther back). 

Reasons to love:

(1) Important message about consumerism and the fate of our planet. 
(2) Innocent, sweet, and painful romance that involves a lonely Wall-E and an emotionally hollow Eve (but eventually comes around).
(3) The future of humans. Though painful to look at, you can't help but laugh a little. 
(4) Amazing animation as expected of Pixar.  
(5) Wall-E! Come on, the little robot makes you want to hug your binoculars!
(6) The drama! It's not over the top, it's just right for me. The scene where the SPOILERScaptainstandsupeventhoughhe'sobscenelyobeseSPOILER was dramatic with a comedic flare. Also, Wall-E has to be the sweetest. I love his love struck eyes when he looks at Eve; it's like a devoted man's eyes when he's in a serious relationship (uh, yeah). 
(7) It's really funny. Maybe not OMGMYSIDESARESPLITTING, but the slapstick humor fills in the void of any dialogue and really fits.

Reasons to dislike:

(1) If you're tired of the enviromental message, maybe it's not for you.
(2) Your type of genre. It's sci-fi, but not like Star Wars sci-fi. It's just a very plausible future. 
(3) Maybe you liked a different movie better.
(4) It's a kids' film (though still very mature). 

Those aren't really reasons, but possibilities why people might not like Wall-E. Like, I liked Juno but my friends didn't because they didn't like how the actors talked (which isn't so accurate, but we do that) and maybe just the whole idea of pregnant girl and blahblah...I still like/love the film, it's really good and it's realistic). I keep going "whatthehell'syourproblemGRAAH!" but then, I don't like Twilight and most of my friends do (that or they didn't read it yet. It's not a good book people; read something by Sarah Dessen, she's much better. That ain't no perfect romance if the boyfriend blames the girl for doing things HE did.).

The following are spoilers, so if you want to watch the movie and haven't, STOP. The stuff above are ones that could be picked up from the trailers. 

So first, Wall-E. Must I say again? I LOVE THAT ROBOT. He's like a love-struck 5 year old (who gets pierced and electrocuted by the auto-pilot and then crushed, much to Eve's distress). He does seem more human than everyone else (with the exception of the two people who finally stop looking at their screens and realized that they actually have a pool in their ship, and fall in love with each other while watching Wall-E and Eve dance, which was an amazing scene.). 

Eve is adorable. I love her laugh, it's so...it's just the kinda laugh that tickles me. It's so adorable. I find it funny she's larger than Wall-E, but oh well. She changes from an unemotional...well...robot to a more human (actually, should i say human? It's like defining a fact that humans have feelings and other things don't.) and loving robot. She even ignores her mission (retreiving the plant and taking it back to the captain) to help Wall-E who was nearly killed (eh...permanately shut down) by the auto-pilot. She's sleek, she's clean, she's shiny, and she can fight. 

Their romance? Adorableness just oozes from the screen. That one scene where she watches the security camera footages of Wall-E accompanying her and taking care of her, and how she slowly started to fall (or sorta refall) in love just made me want to squeeze the living daylights out of my cheeks. And again, Wall-E's love-struck look made me go aww (and how he saw her. No wonder he's so love-struck she looks really nice in that foggy view). The scene at the end where Wall-E just lost all of his memories and it's like the tables were turned. Eve trying to put some sense back into him while he just continued with his duty (his precious collection! The poor cockroach. Only this movie can make a cockroach look cute.). And then their second "kiss" (it's more like a little static shock between them, but his reaction the first time was so cute). What I love the most is the innocent romance. Yes, I'll say it again and again, the innocence. The most they wanted was to hold hands, though not the same as two people holding hands, but the concept is there. That part was so sweet and I was holding back tears (since I was with friends and it would be embarrassing to come out bawling like a baby).

And I continue.

Wall-E seems to just spread his love everywhere. From that weird robot with the eye who he waved to (and then waved back feverishly later) to the cleaning robot who was just the thing that saved them from disappearing into space. He brought a whole new character into the monotonous life of the robots (seen by the cleaning robot who actually GASP, went off his line!). One of my favs was the massaging robot who just broke down security robots until he was panting like crazy (weird). Even to people he spreads his love. Like the first person who actually noticed that there was a pool was an obese lady whom he accidentally interrupted her convo (he was trying to get to a sleeping Eve and he accidentally cut off her signal with the floaty screen thing). Then she gets another guy to notice that the same robot was spinning around in beautiful harmony with Eve, and then ROMANCE! And then splashing in the pool, doing something with their feet besides wiggling. 

And of course, the captain's triumphant realization. He was the one who started to become facinated by the past Earth, so much that he tried to go back, only to find out that the Earth was destroyed by years of continuous abuse (ahem, like today!). Of course, when realizing that finally, a plant that was growing after 700 years = Earth was habitable again. Then the epic battle between him and the auto-pilot. Though he can't pronounce manual right, he's pretty quick to act and perceive. 

The movie ends in a hopeful note, showing a mass of plants that had grown in Wall-E's absence (or maybe they were there before and he just wasn't around there). Wall-E regains his memory and with Eve they share a tender moment (that makes you wonder how can robot love be so adorable?!). 

I totally recommend this movie, as it does convey a VERY important message (seriously, we need to act. I know we can't live without electricity, but this is just the beginning. Hell, I can't live w/o the internet (for lotsa reason, I'm an anime fan living in the US), but we need to try to reduce our consumption and make use of public transportation (which I realize is harder in the US, because it's a bigger country than places like Korea or Japan where going across the country would just take 3-4 hours by subway). Also, this movie has a great romance story involved. It's not overbearing, just right, especially being a kids' movie. Sometimes we just need to be reminded that the most important thing for a couple is each other's precense, not the physical stuff, but the emotional.     

That last on was fun =) took a long time, but fun.

I wonder if anyone will actually read my stuff *day dreams*...

I've always wanted to write up recommendations and get all insightful in stuff (It's a Friday and I just finished a huge research paper for English. I'm running on 3.5 hours of sleep, not bad compared to my friends who had 1 hour of sleep, 1.5 hours, or just didn't sleep at all. Anyway, I need to do something unproductive now or I'll scream). So I present my own anime recommendations starting with a simple genre: slice of life.

LJ! Whoopiewhoop~

I tried making one a while ago, but apparantly I was under 12 (I was 14). Now it accepts me.

The hell.

Anyway, this journal isn't for my deep inner mind. No, it's for my stupid ramblings and--HA, like I'll let poor people like you suffer through that.

Ignore my horrible humor.

As an anime fan, I've always wanted to comment on stuff and crap like that. I also like to share. Cuz sharing is caring~ however that song went.

I wonder if anyone will bother reading this? Oh well. I can just write stuff like...

...

I can't think of anything. See, this shows how creative of a person I am! Yeah...

So let's see where this goes. I think I might end up abandoning this thing after...1 hour. =D hmm....