Kaleido Star:New Wings Episodes 6-7

Episode 6
May continues to try and impress Leon this time with her ice skating skillz. He is unimpressed but on a whim he decides that Dracula will be on ice. Sora and May are to compete and whoever wins is to be Leon’s partner. Of course Sora doesn’t know how to ice skate and her inline skating skills prove unhelpful. So she gets May’s ex-trainer to train her in 3 days. While training Sora May’s trainer goads her former pupil into thinking that Sora could surpass her and that helps push May’s performance over the top. Although May is more skillful Leon begins to see Sora’s intangibles.

Episode 7
Rosetta tells the boss that she will perform in the trapeze show in 3 days or quit Kaleido Stage. Only it is revealed that she has never been on a swing before. Sora skillfully talks her into taking it slow and the boss gives her 3 years to become a trapeze star. This episode was mainly filler but Rosetta is a lot cuter this season so thats fine by me.

Dominion: Tank Police

A one-shot manga by Masamune Shirow about China in 5 years a future where air pollution is so bad that people have to wear gas masks outside. The plot centers around the police who as the title implies use tanks to try and enforce the law, namely to try and arrest super criminal Buaku.

tbc

Kaleido Star: New Wings Episode 3-5

I’ve finally got around to watching the dvds after picking up the thinpack months ago. Anyway straight to the action.

Episode 3

Two characters are introduced in the episodes – Leon who is like having a pre 07-08 Kobe Bryant as a teammate only 10 times more contemptible and May Wong who sees herself as a superior Kaleido Star to Sora. The former has been set up as the heel while the later is still merely a comical character, breaking a Muteki Kaban Musume-like SD face every time she sees Sora.

Episode 4

Rosetta makes a comeback to the show and is having agent problems but its revealed that her agent is her mother and everything is cool before I can hand her OJ Mayo’s agents number. Also Leon is cutting on everyones minutes and May gets a cake to the face.

Episode 5

May and Sora compete to be Leon’s partner by seeing who can perform the spinning screw thingy and their rivalry is finally shaping up. Being a Kaleido Star doesn’t give you much clout at least in Sora’s case as she is bumped to training in the rain because May got to the gym first. This causes a fever and she screws up her audition while May completes the maneuver however Leon shows that he is on a different class and won’t acknowledge either. To rub salt into the wounds Leon calls out Layla and Sora goes apeshit deciding to make him eat his words.

Also it is revealed that May calls out all her special moves be it on the stage or not including when moving furniture and cooking.

dunk shoot

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They Reminisce Over You: 1

They Reminisce Over You – is a reference to the Pete Rock & CL Smooth song of the same name. This column will look back at some older shows.

Bartender 1
Very relaxing show. I thought all monologues would wear thin after a while but it worked well. The episode (and I guess it’ll be a recurring theme) was more about the crusty old customer than the bartender (or GARtender if you will).

Bartender Recipe:
Add water (Aria) 70%
A pinch of bread (Yakitate) 20%
and some mushi (Mushishi) 10%
stir, enjoy.

Blazing Transfer Student OVA 1
A relatively obscure early ’90s Gainax OLA that parodies ’70s anime with messy bold lines, retro character designs and jerky movement. Its about a blazing transfer student who tries to save the lead girl from the thug basically. The plot isn’t one of the shows strong points but it makes up for it with entertaining fight scenes and awesome reasoning battles – I’ll cap it later but the first one is: So, if your teacher told you to die, you would die, right? in response to the guy saying the teacher said he wasn’t late. Props to Wildarmsheero for piquing my attention with his post or it would’ve flew under the radar.

Kaiba 2

Butter is was big pimpin’. That is all.

Just kidding. Anyway this episodes brings up more questions namely what happened to Kaiba’s body – my guess is that its got something to do with the gun and who’s that twirly thing because its been too long since I watched the last episode.