Occult Academy - Episodes 7 to 13 (End)

Alright .. time to wrap this one up!

Episode 7

Maya runs into Ami's father. He wants to see her smile again, so he sets up a fake mystery circle and UFO for them to chase after. After it's discovered that he was fooling Maya and her friends, everybody fights.

Episode 8

Ami gets captured by a chupacabra. Everybody arms up to go rescue her. With JK finding the way with his dousing rods, they quickly find the chupacabras' lair. Butt kicking ensues and Ami is saved. Everyone makes up. Yay!

Episode 9

In a summoning class, the teacher summons and materializes the spirit of a little girl, Akari. She's awfully cute and just wants to go home. After some sleuthing, the gang finds her house. She sits next to the door and all hell breaks loose. Turns out she's a poltergeist. She froze to death sitting next to her door on Christmas Eve. After some searching, they find her father, who says that it's his fault that Akari died.

Episode 10

They stake out Akari's father's apartment. He finally lets them in and tells them that Akari died waiting for Santa outside. He didn't believe she would do it and left her at home alone. When they found her, it was too late. So they have a Christmas party for her. Everyone has a great time and then the cue is given for Bunmei to come in dressed as Santa. Instead of Bunmei, Akari's father comes in. He apologizes for not coming that night and gives her a present. Akari starts glowing and says thank you to Santa and then to papa. Later, Maya and Bunmei are in her half-destroyed home. She recounts the story she recently remembered. When she was small, her father asked her what she wanted for Christmas, and she said that she wanted a school where all of the ESPers and aliens and ghosts could go and she could study with all of them. So her father basically built the occult academy for her. She cries for a bit, then Bunmei holds her hand. She calms down and then vows to find and destroy Nostradamus' key and the people who killed her father.

Episode 11

When Bunmei gets home from work, Mikaze is there, cooking him dinner. She ends up coming on to him very strong. And somehow takes him to a local gathering of people from the neighborhood in black hooded robes. They area all convinced that Maya is the cause of all the recent problems and that she will open the gates to hell. They want to kill her, but can't since she has some sort of protective talisman. Mikaze gets Bunmei to say that he'll find it.

The next day, Bunmei and Maya go to another town to check out an artifact. Maya notices that Bunmei is feeling off and keeps getting food for him. Eventually he breaks down and starts accusing her of being Nostradamus' key. She kicks him about two dozen times and runs off. When Maya arrives at the school, we see the Vice Principal move toward her menacingly. The next day, she's found dead at the school.

Everyone mourns. Bunmei is bawling in his apartment, when the Vice Principal shows up. He asks if she killed Maya and she nods. Then Maya shows up. The VP is actually a white mage who was asked by Maya's father to protect her. The body that was found was a fake. For proof that it's really Maya, Bunmei demands to see the book she always carries. When Maya hands it over to Bunmei, Mikaze appears, freezes Bunmei, and thanks him for taking Maya's protective talisman. Mikaze reveals herself (pun intented) to be a black mage. The VP stuns her and they run. During the fight, Mikaze tells them that she killed Maya's father.

Episode 12

Maya runs. The VP fights Mikaze and loses, but is able to free Bunmei from Mikaze's spell with her last ounce of strength. Maya leads Mikaze to the school, where Bunmei meets up with her and helps her destroy Mikaze. Bunmei reveals that Maya's father is still alive. His death was faked just like Maya's.

Episode 13

Even though Mikaze has been killed, the future hasn't changed. Maya has invited the kid version of Bunmei to come perform his spoon-bending at the closing ceremonies. Bunmei is Nostradamus' key. When he meets himself, the gates of hell open. He finally decides to take action on his own, regains his powers, and destroys the aliens along with himself. Before he's completely gone, he asks Maya to take care of the boy version of himself. The future changes back to normal and the child Bunmei is now living with Maya and her father.

The End!


Over all, a very entertaining anime. They packed a lot into 13 episodes. I think it would have been better if it was 26 episodes instead, with a bit more build-up, but I liked it just fine.

Uraboku - Episodes 21 to 24 (End)

First off ... whoever does Luka's voice is officially one of my favorites. *doki-doki*

Other than that, I must say that this anime has been a huge disappointment. There was so much build-up, but it never actually got anywhere. It seems that the manga it's based on is ongoing, so that makes sense, I guess. The ending reminds me of the end they gave Inu Yasha. Basically, "Yay! That battle's over. Thing's are peaceful for now. Let's do our best~!" =P

I had too many issues with Crunchyroll to get a good screenshot, so I guess this'll have to do:

Yumeiro Patissiere - Episodes 46 to 52 (End)

Okay... I'm going to start catching up here. I've missed this blog. I really let scanlating take over my life for a while there. I really enjoy it, and will continue, but in moderation.

We'll start with Yumeiro Patissiere. I went ahead and watched episodes 46 through 52 in one shot.

Episode 46

Ichigo's grandmother's strawberry tart isn't in her book because the best recipes are taken to the sweet's kingdom and stored in the museum. So Ichigo goes to the sweets kingdom and breaks into the museum with the help of the sweets spirits. The end up finding out that the former curator of the museum is the same old fairy that gave Ichigo the spoon that opens her grandmother's book. She was also Ichigo's grandmother's sweet spirit. They retrieve the recipe and return it to the book, but it is written in the language of the sweets spirits. Ichigo decides not to read it because she wants to create her own sweets and not just copy from others.

I really don't like the Sweets Kingdom episodes. I mean .. the sweets spirits are a fantastical idea, but it really goes past any suspension of disbelief when she goes chibi and flies through an oven to go to a kingdom full of midgets.

Episode 47

Ichigo is practicing making her own strawberry tart, but she can't get it quite right. The strawberries just don't taste the same as her grandmother's. After journeying far and wide, all with the help of the heiress, she finds out that the strawberries her grandmother was using were fraises de bois, found in Europe. The dimwit had already seen them, but didn't try one because they weren't pretty. At the end they find out that Team Tennouji lost in the semi-finals.

In the end, another irritating episode. I wish the heiress would just go away. Characters like her are much more amusing in the manga, since you can't hear their shrill voices. It is kinda amusing to see Kashino sweat, though.

Episode 48

Everyone's shocked about Team Tennouji's loss. After watching the DVD of the competition, it's obvious that they lost because Tennouji-san was distracted. Ichigo goes with the heiress to find out why. Tennouji has locked herself in her room, but opens the door after the heiress yells at her. Tennouji then tells them that she was upset because she saw Henri-sensei with the head of the french team, being all lovey-dovey and telling her that she's the best student he's every taught.  Henri-sensei shows up and mocks Tennouji for losing her composure, saying that a patissiere doesn't need romance. He's even mean to Ichigo. The heiress and Ichigo both argue that love is needed (who saw that one coming..) and Ichigo vows to win the finals. Back at the kitchen, they try the competition's best recipe and are shocked at how great it is.

Booo. Evil Henri-sensei? Something's up.

Episode 49

The finals begin. It starts out with a little amusing part about Kashino being tricked into a making a racy commercial with the heiress. He doesn't know that it's racy until he sees it, though. ^_^  I'm taking the rest of my summary from wikipedia. "The finals of the World Cake Grand Prix has finally came and Team Ichigo and François clash in a three hour team battle with two subjects and themes; an entremet made of chocolate and plated desserts which combines hot and cold sensation. Finally, the match turns out to be a tie. The judges decides to make another match at the same day using batter as the subject and this time it will be an individual match. Andou clashes with Katie, Hanabusa matches against Isabella, Kashino battles against Dominique and the team leaders battles each other. "

Nothing out of the ordinary here.

Episode 50

The rematch ends in a tie, with Ichigo losing her battle in spectacular fashion, of course. The final re-match is a battle between one representative from each team. So it's Francois versus Ichigo. Francois makes her specialty, and Ichigo goes for a strawberry tart (surprise, surprise). Ichigo decides to make her own unique tart, using rhubarb, brown sugar, and ... corn meal, of all things. Ichigo wins by only a point. Henri-sensei tells them that he gave her a higher score because she made something new and that she customized it to each judge's tastes. Ichigo finds out that Henri was playing the bad guy so Ichigo would surpass her grandmother. He reveals that his grandfather taught her grandmother and Henri-sensei wants to do the same while she's in Paris. Two years later, we see Ichigo and Kashino standing by a river at night, holding hands, saying that they won't declare their feelings for each other yet, since they still have so much to learn.

Cute ending! The next series has started, called Yumeiro Patissiere Professional. Of course, they're only in high school, but whatever. I'll be watching it, too.