Posts in Da Capo Second Season Category
September 25, 2005
Very much late this time, I know. If y'all want something that'll probably be more entertaining than reading my thoughts go over to life line by line where moyism has gone on a DCSS blogging spree over the weekend. Moy, you joined the Mosaic Ero Fantasy Alliance or something? ;)
Ahem.. getting to things this time. It's time for finals and Mako is very much distressed afterwards. Jun'ichi gets everybody else together to celebrate the end of finals and announce something: he'd like for everybody to come with him for an onsen trip. Actually, Nemu's idea... Poor Kotori :( Meanwhile, Aishia trains her magic in a place where nobody will find her, making all sorts of odd things. She tries to make some ice cream since it's so hot, but it doesn't quite work (^^;;) Back home Nemu puruses various places to decide where to go on the trip with everybody... though the real purpose is to spend some time alone with Jun'ichi. Aishia interrupts as usual just as the mood was getting good (^^;;) They ask why Aishia isn't going back to her home for the summer -- she's got to train and become the best mage... Jun'ichi takes her away and gives her the usual lecture. She actually doesn't seem to have a place to go back to... as they talk a very scary Nemu emits a very scary aura behind. As jealous as ever, ain't she? (^^;;)
Alice is your quiet reserved ojou-sama type. Also quite cute :) As all y'all know, that would be my type (well, the quiet and reserved and cute part). As she rides to school she spots Jun'ichi and Aishia running to try to get there on time and ends up giving them a ride. Along the way we find out that Aishia and Alice are both from northern Europe. Aishia immediately takes a liking to Alice, so Aishia kinda invites herself to go over to visit her sometime, and Alice agrees (is that really a good idea given how destructive Aishia usually is?).... Nemu's working at the hospital Moe and Mako's family runs, and while walking around there with Moe comes upon a young girl all by herself. She's Madoka-chan, 5 years old, and is usually like that according to Moe. When Nemu goes to ask Madoka-chan why she's not playing with the other kids she runs away...
Nemu's back at home and, seemingly.. well... saying some very suggestive things -- see 3rd screencap above (^^;;) But no, she and Jun'ichi are not doing that, you pervert -- Jun'ichi's just giving her a backrub. Aishia pops up out of nowhere after Jun'ichi mentions that he'll take Nemu out to have cake -- they'll be going over to Alice's house for it... So Jun'ichi, Nemu, Aishia, and Mako meet up with Alice at the hospital the next day. While there Madoka-chan's refusing to eat and Moe's trying to calm her down. Alice notices a circus flyer in Madoka-chan's room and picks it up. It must be important to Madoka-chan since she tries to take it back, and in the process it rips.... They all eventually go over to Alice's for tea and cake. Seems Madoka-chan's been there for half a year, and since her parents are working overseas they never visit.. Aishia notices a photo of Alice in a leotard -- Alice used to be in a circus. Aishia gets a idea (uh-oh...) -- why don't she and Alice put on a circus show for Madoka-chan to make her happy? Aishia'll do her best!.... We know how that turns out (^^;;)
It's pretty much the same "Aishia runs into [character]", "Aishia wants to help [character] with magic", "Aishia ends up doing something stupid", etc., etc. pattern as we last week this week. Just change the character to the meganekko manga-ka, Nanako. Aishia, Nemu, and Jun'ichi find Nanako chasing after a goat -- is anybody besides me and Jagi-san reminded of a certain goat with an attitude from Futakoi? Said goat is eating Nanako's next work. After it gets retrieved (after much Aishia service) Aishia finds out that Nanako is the manga-ka of her favorite mahou shoujo manga, Chiffon, and asks to read what Nanako's worked on. However, it isn't finished -- Nanako doesn't know what to do and the deadline's approaching. So now of course Aishia wants to help out. Watch out, Nanako (^^;;)
We haven't seen the last of airheaded Aishia, as she's back in full force causing trouble again this time. This time we focus on Tamaki, the miko girl with an uncanny knack for sensing when things are about go to wrong. And able to change into said miko outfit with bow and arrow in an instant, as she does during lunch at school with Aishia and everybody else watching. Turns out Tamaki's aim wasn't off as she said, t the chair she stuck the arrows in would've broken if Nanako had sat in it. Aishia is convinced it must be some kind of magic and follows Tamaki home to the shrine, wanting to be a miko... Here we go again... (^^;;;)
Jun'ichi and Nemu are out of it after marathoning a show all night long -- they turned into otaku? Jun'ichi was enjoying that mahou shoujo show earlier... -- as Aishia runs off to school. Aishia joins the miko club (there's a miko club?) there in their activities and puts all her effort into it. And as expected, she starts to overdo it, telling the school's very sucky baseball team that she'll grant their wish and make them win -- but of course they don't. Aishia goes to Tamaki for advice and she tells her that the strength of the feeling is what's most important in granting wishes... Aishia takes it in completely the wrong way and goes to "help" the baseball team with a magical homing baseball of some sort. Very destructive (^^;;) Tamaki once again saves her from danger.
Quickly since I'm behind here.... So Nemu and Jun'ichi still can't make up with each other. When Jun'ichi apologizes Nemu seems happy but when he tells her that Aishia's there because she was going to see Sakura's grandmother, Nemu starts yelling -- Sakura's grandmother isn't hers, she says... The next day Aishia runs into a very familiar looking face in a park -- not Yoriko, but Yoriko's owner, Misaki. She talks about Nemu and Jun'ichi, saying much the same thing that Kotori said, and also tells Aishia about the magical sakura tree...
Since I'm behind due to connection issues the past few days I'm going to try and keep this short. Go read Omni's entry if you haven't already for a better analysis of things ;)
We continue where we left off last, with Nemu and Jun'ichi not getting along well at all, and with the misunderstandings on Jun'ichi's part continuing as well. Jun'ichi tries to not think of things by acting rather weird then going out with Aishia. Aishia gets separated from him and runs into Kotori, who tells Aishia what kind of relationship Nemu and Jun'ichi have. Kotori also says that "they're lovers" -- seemingly admitting that she knows she can't compete with Nemu... When Jun'ichi and Nemu meet again at home the misunderstandings continue, even though both are trying to figure things out...
"Misunderstanding" would be the theme this time, with Jun'ichi and Nemu not quite getting along and not trusting each other. Nemu and Jun'ichi's misunderstandings start with Jun'ichi doing the required "accidentally enter into a room full of not completely clothed girls" since there was a rumor going around that Nemu would be examining the guys for the physical exam. He also sees Akishima-sensei seemingly being rather nice with Nemu... Yes, I did say "physical exam", so y'all know what that means -- much service ;) It seems the director learned some things about odd camera angles from Zettai Shounen or something. See Omni's writeup for screencaps of the service and such (I tend to avoid service-laden screencaps here). Hijinks ensue as Mako is rather concerned about not getting any bigger, and Miharu's rather unhappy with Kotori for "betraying" her since Kotori has grown some. For some reason "Chichi wo moge" comes into my head about this point as I'm watching ;) Moe-senpai makes an appearance, though minus the usual nabe... but as usual with no bra on, giving the guys who saw her some rather bad nosebleeds. Anyways.... Kotori brings up Jun'ichi when it's her turn to be examined by Nemu, but Mako comes in and mentions the reason he had barged in earlier.
Miharu's chougenki as usual this morning, so much so that she has a feeling that something good's going to happen during the day. When she arrives at school with Jun'ichi and the rest she finds a letter inside her locker and lets out a big scream. But she won't tell anybody what the letter's about... leading Jun'ichi to speculate that it was a love letter. During class he seems rather happy that Miharu's finally found a significant other.
At lunch, Miharu isn't quite her genki self. She won't eat the banana pudding Kotori made so something's up. Jun'ichi tells everybody about the letter Miharu got that morning -- telling everybody that it's a love letter -- but Miharu still won't say anything about it. Aishia, being Aishia, decides to go off on her own and use her magic to see what's written in the letter. Jun'ichi chases her and grabs her at the top of some stairs and both end up falling down them. So it's to the nurse's office...
Miharu comes in to check and see how Jun'ichi and Aishia are doing. The nurse apparently has something to say to Miharu, but they can't talk about it in front of everyone. And that gets the speculation about who sent that letter to Miharu fueled even more -- now they think the nurse has his eye on Miharu (^^;;;) Miharu's the topic of discussion as Aishia, Jun'ichi, and Kotori walk from school. Aishia asks Jun'ichi if he's got a significant other -- he quickly changes the subject back to Miharu...
Spoiler-ish screencaps ahead...
And continuing where we left off last week, "Aisia is a troublemaker and complete airhead", part 3 :P
Aisia doesn't understand why Jun'ichi hasn't taught her any magic yet. After watching a mahou shoujo show with Jun'ichi's watching (good taste, Jun'ichi) she decides to take the initiative, as a character in the show said, and asks Jun'ichi to teach her. Of course, all he can do is make Japanese sweets, that's all. Aisia can't believe that, though (^^;;)
She goes to Suginami for some advice on how to make Jun'ichi teach her magic (not saying exactly that, of course). His advice -- that great mages don't just use their magic, and that the mage she's dealing with is probably a "cleanup hitter" to speak in baseball terms -- probably isn't what she needed to hear, as it makes her all that much more fervent in her effort. Good FMA reference by Suginami, btw ;) She spies (not very well) on Jun'ichi afterwards, and he repeats the only magic he can do, but she still doesn't understand (^^;;)
After reading Nanako's manga (with a very Jun'ichi-like guy as the hero) she comes up with another plan -- cause problems that would make him use some powerful magic. Doesn't work, of course. Jun'ichi and Aisia end up taking the trash out together and Aisia tries to cause yet another problem for him... after getting chased by bees Aisia tells him he should've used his magic so now he's on to her plan and chases her. She ends up climbing on the nearby dump truck and falling in, and Jun'cihi gets stuck in there with her. The truck moves away as Suginami, Kotori, and Mako arrive to hear Jun'ichi yelling for help -- the truck's headed to take its trash to be compacted so if they've got to hurry. Suginami's got a plan, of course ;) While on the truck it seems that Aisia, finally, finally, understands that Jun'ichi's no big mage or anything. They get dumped into the trash compactor, but Suginami and the rest arrive just in time to stop things.
And on the way back with everybody something's different about Aisia. She calls Jun'ichi "Jun'ichi". No more goshujin-sama?
And thank goodness for that :)
Now with the Aisia craziness over, it looks like we'll move on and give some of the other girls some screentime. Next time, Miharu gets a letter. What kind? And from who? It's going to be some kind of love letter, isn't it? ;)
To sum it up quickly, we've got "Aisia is a troublemaker and complete airhead" part 2 this week ;)
Jun'ichi's planning to take Aisia to school with him, but as he oversleeps she goes out on her own to see what school's like. She's convinced it's some kind of magic school like Hogwarts (^^;;) And then the trouble starts as she goes around the school, using her magic to cause various odd things to happen. Those odd happenings are the talk of the school once Jun'ichi finally arrives, very much late. Supposedly a ghost of a young girl is the one behind them... After Miharu comes in to tell everybody to come have lunch with Aisia, Jun'ichi realizes what's going on and runs out with Miharu to try and find Aisia, and after running into Kotori she helps out as well. The rest of the class follows after them...
After Aisia wakes up from taking a nap in the nurses' office Jun'ichi finally finds her. She runs towards him but trips, and Jun'ichi catches her. The mob following heard her say goshujin-sama ("master") so they're not too happy with Jun'ichi, giving him quite a beating. Suginami shows up to help out, for a price, of course. He pulls a smoke bomb out of nowhere then uses the old blend-into-the-wall trick to hide them from the mob. Jun'ichi's going to have to come up with a very good excuse for what Aisia did and said (^^;;)
On the way home, we find out why Aisia was so set on going to school. She hadn't really been to a school long enough to get many friends since she was moving around so much... But this time she'll be okay since she's got friends with her. And she'll study even more to use her magic better! Jun'ichi tells her no more talk of magic or magic at school. But she still doesn't get it, thinking Jun'ichi's using some kind of magic to make everybody at school happy..... (^^;;)
Well, we know Aisia's definitely a 天然ボケ now. Nothing else to really say since it was all comedy this time, 'cept for the mention of Aisia not really going to school. Though I will say again that she needs to stop with the goshujin-sama stuff. Use "onii-chan" or something, please... But she was still pretty cute :)
...and where the heck does Suginami keep all the stuff he randomly pulls out? He's gotta be a ninja or something ;)
