Posts in Mahoraba Category
April 17, 2005
Okay, forget what I said last week since they properly finished Shiratori's story after they were through with Natsume-chan this time :)
You're not supposed to learn Natsume-chan's name until later in the episode, but since I've been constantly talking about her for a while now, oh well ;)
After the story bringing princess number 5 in... Natsume-chan sits by herself in a room reading a book, while Shiratori waits outside, thinking about what happened. Tamami-chan comes up and says he's done it again. And Kozue's changed into "that girl" this time. She doesn't know her name since no one's ever heard her talk. Natsume peeps out to see Tamami-chan and Shiratori smiling, trying to be friendly.. and she closes the door. I'd do the same, probably ;) She's quite, and she seems pretty harmless so Shiratori's relieved for now... Tamami-chan is not satisfied with that, if it means Shiratori won't do anything for that girl ;) So Tamami calls everyone together for a little strategy meeting...
Everyone rushes to meet, looking very excited. They all want to get Natsume-chan to speak, but haven't been successful at all... *enter 4-koma mode* Momono tries first.. but Natsume-chan just ignores her, reading.. then Sayoko goes... and does nothing.. then Asami-chan is next.. and goes neko mimi mode. No response from Natsume.. Johnny and Tamami-chan then put on a puppet show... That gets indecent towards the end ;) None of it works at all, so it's Shiratori's turn..
Shiratori sits in his room with a blank sheet of paper on his desk. He can't think of a thing... he's only got a few days to finish up the project Shirogane-sensei gave the class to do over summer break -- write an entire picture book. While the others have some ice cream outside, he just limps around, all sullen. I know how you feel, Shiratori ;) Momono thinks of dragging Shiratori to join them, but Kozue says to leave him alone, so what she says goes, of course.
Later on, Shiratori sees Kozue looking over the plants in her little garden, talking to them while she waters them. And they're talking back to her... or so it would seem, but it's just Sayoko, who's hiding under the floor as usual. But that gives Shiratori some inspiration to draw something...
And after going through a few ideas Shiratori finally comes up with his main character. An extremely kawaii~ (moe~) plant-like girl with a flower on her head (who's not got anything on, btw...). Shiratori, you got some good sense there ;) Now there's the story to think up...
As the title implies, it's time for a treasure hunt! Kozue finds an old map of Narutakisou in her great-grandfather's diary and it seems to be a treasure map... though hard to read, and not really leading to any treasure at first... so everyone gives up for a bit, and Kozue, Shiratori, and Tamami go off to grab something at the shopping district nearby. While walking there Kozue tells them a bit about her great-grandfather. He was a very nice and caring guy, but he died when she was very young. Shiratori seems to remember something from that time... At the shopping district, Shiratori goes to buy some stuff to fix the door Momono broke, Kozue, a nice big watermelon for everyone, and Tamami, something from an electronics store. The watermelon guy tells the group a bit about the history Narutaki-sou. It was standing even after the war, and when developers tried to buy it to build big buildings, Kozue's great-grandfather stood up to them and that's why Narutakisou is still around even today.
After returning, Tamami takes out the extra-big zoom lens she bought for her camera to enhance the text on the map. Seems like only people like Kozue and Shiratori can find the treasure... no.. they just had to fold it the right way to find the location of the treasure ;) So the treasure is.... photos of the people who lived in Narutakisou before. So they were sent on a wild goose chase, and Kozue's grandfather and the residents then did the same thing, and left a photo of themselves there.
The previous residents of Narutakisou have an uncanny resemblence to the current residents. Though with Sayoko and Asami switched ;) Kozue and everyone else decide to put a picture of themselves in there for the next group of people to find...
This time was an anime original story, and didn't seem out of place at all. I wonder if there's something to the fact that Shiratori looks exactly like Kozue's great-grandfather or not, as well as the the other Narutakisou residents looking like the previous... We'll see :) And next time, "At Summer's End".
I'm going to forgo an exhaustive summary this time, if y'all don't mind, since there wasn't really any story progression, just a fun day at the beach ;)
It's summer and too dang hot, so the gang goes to the beach to cool off, and we get our required swimsuit episode. Tama-chan was awesome once again this time. She's pretty amazing, being able to split that watermelon like that perfectly while blindfolded ;) Sayoko and Asami didn't have good days.. Sayoko's sand castle got washed away (she's got a thing for art) and Asami almost drowned how many times? ;)
The episode followed the manga chapter pretty closely, 'cept for a couple of differences... The "Lovers' Cape" portion of this episode is original to the anime.. and you saw a certain character which will come into the story later as we get into other things.. and that's all I'll say for now ;)
Next time, "Narutakisou's Treasure". Sounds like something original to the anime.
Sorry Tamami fans, it's all Momono this time ;)
Momono sits at her desk, trying to write a letter it seems, but she's thrown away everything she's written and can't write a word now... She goes to a cafeteria at a college to eat, and the place is full of nothing but couples having a good time (I know how you feel, Momono). There, a couple of friends sit with her and talk things over. They seem to be all ラブラブ, unlike her.. She then goes to watch a movie -- a love story, of course -- she walks out before it's over, though, and goes to the 商店街 to drop off a letter.
Please see Satoshi for a full, detailed summary of what happened this time, then read below. Back to the usual next time :)
I'll add just a bit and mention that in the manga "The Punisher" uses a steel bat to beat down "Hot Stuff". Dunno why they'd change that... ;) And adding a definition here, "Hot Stuff" likes any girl and every girl.. except ツルペタ girls like Asami. His only redeeming point, I suppose.. Anyways, back on track ;)
I wasn't expecting Shiratori to remember something from his childhood with Kozue. Quite a 急展開. Even through 8 volumes of the manga (that I've read) he hasn't remembered a thing, nothing. Now that they've teased it, I wonder what exactly happened between Kozue and Shiratori to make him forget what happened back then. Something having to do with Kozue developing alternate personalties, perhaps... Well, having these kinds of developments makes things interesting for people who've read the manga, doesn't it? ;)
Next time is Momono's character development story. It'll have something to do with the air mail letter she got. You'll see her in a way you've never seen her before ;)
Apologies to the Tamami fans out there. I had to take a lot of caps of Ryuuko ;)
After the little story about the fourth Umeboshi princess showing up, we see Shiratori out after drinking a lot with Momono and Tamami.. Momono and Tamami wake up and they hear Shiratori mumble だめだよ梢ちゃん, immediately getting their interest.. They come up with a little something to do to him ;)
And after they're done with him he turns into Shiratori Ryuuko-chan. He's just a bit surprised when he wakes up and sees that they've made him into a girl (he makes a good girl, doesn't he?). Tamami snaps a few pictures, of course. But there's one thing left to do... make him wear Momono's Love 20000 勝負下着! Shiratori runs out, screaming "Nooooo!", and Momono orders Tamami to chase. Tamami turns around snaps a picture of Momono holding the underwear, saying that she (Momono) always wears that kind ;)
An embarassed Kozue-chan asks Shiratori out on a date using the ou-sama ticket she got. Shiratori clasps her hands and as he says "If it's okay with you" he gets cut off by a familiar yankee-sounding voice, and as Saki-chan punches his lights out... Shiratori wakes up from that rather bad dream.
Shiratori goes to get ready to go out shopping with Kozue and soon the "d" word comes to his mind as he's brushing his teeth.. Momono comes up behind and says it, "date", which gets Shiratori thinking about it even more. Preparation complete... "for what?" Tamami asks Momono, reminding her, in the usual Tamami way, not to interfere with something that'd make Kozue happy. All they can do is watch over them... with camera in hand, of course ;)
After school, one of Shiratori's friends (I don't remember his name from the manga, if he had one) acts very jealous that Shiratori's in a house with such beautiful ladies. You could put him in the same category as Fukuyama and Folgore -- all he thinks about is girls, girls, girls ;) Shiratori goes back home on the train exhausted. Then he gets off a stop too early.. and when he gets back to Narutakisou everyone's there to greet him... they're going to have a little competition. The name of the game? Hide-and-seek, かくれんぼ. The おに -- the person who's "it" -- will have one hour to find everyone to win. And if you win, you get a certificate that allows you to be 王様! Shiratori doesn't really want to participate, but if he doesn't it's an automatic loss for him. And for this time... he's the oni ;) Kozue walks in asking what's going on. Shiratori somehow hopes that she'll get him out of it but she wants to play ;) But then he realizes that if he wins he'll be ou-sama. And we all know this: 王様の命令は絶対！ The king's orders are absolute! So that means he could stop Momono and Johnny from partying in his room every night.. he could order Tamami to stop abusing him.. he'd have more time to do work for school. Now he's fired up and ready to get 'em!
Somehow I forgot this, but anyways, I added what Tamami said to Buchou ;) And I should also add here that Momotato, you'll get to see what you want a bit later ;) Buchou actually isn't introduced in this story in the manga (first chapter of volume 2), she comes in later on in volume 3.
Tamami looks over her large collection of Kozue pictures when she hears Kozue talking to Shiratori outside. Shiratori's once again had a rough night and is off to school pretty tired. At school he's glad to be away from the craziness, but he forgot something very important -- his homework. And we all know what means, don't we? ;) Shirogane-sensei takes him outside and does... whatever she does to him. When he comes home to try and rest he finds Tamami in his room with a favor to ask of him. He doesn't want to go, but she produces an embarassing picture of him and Kozue (as Nanako)so he doesn't have a choice. As they tell everyone they're leaving, poor Sayoko is being dragged back into her room by Asami to make some more of those flowers ;)
