Gate season 1 episode 1

 Itami Youji is 33 years old and an otaku. He only works to support his hobby and will choose his hobby over work. Itami is going to a doujinshi exhibit and is looking for information using his phone when he hit a pole. He dreams of an elf, a mage and a goth loli. He wakes up and continue walking. A gate like structure appear in Ginza, Japan, and dragons appear from it. While walking Itami get a glimpse on it. At the same time an army with goblins, orc and human from old generation come out of the gate and start attacking civilians. I fear that the doujinshi exhibit might be cancel, Itami decide to act and goes to help the people. A police office shoots a soldier riding a dragon but the soldier is not dead and dashes towards the police officer, Itami subdue him and kills him with his own dagger, the pic is the one above. Itami goes to a police box near the Imperial Palace and tells the police officer there to let the people in the Imperial Palace and barricade them. While the two are arguing the police officer gets a call which tells  him that the civilians take priority. Soon the police force and the JSDF arrive and defeat the enemy soldiers and captures them. Several days later, Itami, who was a JSDF soldier, gets a commendation from the Minister and is promoted to the rank of second lieutenant. At work Itami makes a new acquaintance, Kurata, also a JSDF soldier. Kurata was also at the doujinshi exhibit, so Itami befriends him immediately after knowing that he was there, at the exhibit I mean, and that he bought some stuff there. Itami and the unit he is in gets new uniforms and they must go beyond the GATE. Coming out of the gate it is a battle immediately.

 Well, well, well. This episode is always fun to watch because you see Itami at his best. It does differs a bit from the manga but since we are talking about anime I will not compare them any further.  The graphics is good and with quite some hairstyle. The story is a never seen for me as I will always imagine soldiers fighting with sword separate from soldier  using gun. But I think I will find out the difference very soon. The vehicles graphic are really great and the facial expression are quite good. The story did lag a bit behind but the start with the little preview and the end where the fight is about to begin was great. Those three girl will spice things up am sure of.

  Over and out for now  

Non Non Biyori Episode 12

 The last episode of Non Non Biyori. Well there is another season but this is a story for another time. This episode does not have an ending type of ending but is still nice.

 Hotaru is feeding the rabbit when Komari arrives. Both of them are going on a picnic together. After setting up for their picnic the two girls start to trade bento. Komari feels a bit unease as her's didn't turn out alright. When Komari opens her bento, Hotaru is left speechless as all she sees is black. Seeing that Komari is feeling sad Hotaru tells her that she will eat them. After trying the first bite Hotaru is close to give up but Komari's face saves her every time and she finishes her battle, more like trial. Hotaru gives her all to say the the food was delicious, but on hearing that the food was good, Komari removes pancake baked with okonomiyaki batter, the final weapon.

  Hotaru and her parents are going together. They meet up with Kazuho and the other villages to clean up the area. Kazuho tells Hotaru to go and play with the others. While Natsumi, Komari, Subaru and Renge are wating Hotaru arrives and Natsumi tells them that they can go now, to pick wild vegetable. While on their way Hotaru notices a "No trespassing" sign and ask if it was ok to go there. Komari and Renge tells her that it was okay because the mountain belong to Renge's family. While picking vegetable Hotaru does not know what is edible so Komari tells her to pick them together with her. Natsumi is asking her brother is he got anything and show him a sour kind of plant, wood sorrel. Renge is busy picking mugwort as there are many kind of food you can make with them and they are really easy to find. On searching for more mugwort, Renge stumbles on Subaru eating grass. Thinking that this is really the countryside, Renge is reassured when Hotaru tells her that she loves this place. On searching for more vegetable they find a bed of flower called Renge. Renge like the flower and says that she can't eat them anymore so Natsumi makes a flower crown with the flowers. Seeing as it it really nice Renge runs to Kaede an Kazuho to show them and ask if it is "funky". On their way home Renge ask Komari to play fairies with her but Komari says she would rather be a human. So Renge ask Natsumi and she is more than ready while saying it is a bit.

 Wel this last episode had a very light and good feeling with it. It showed us that Komari cannot cook at all. Hotaru would do anything for Komari, seriously sodium carbonated, that's a big NO. We can also see the bonds between the villages that are more than ready to go and help with cleaning of the road. OHHH! And for the first time a man spoke on this show, I think.The changes in Hotaru is quite visible in this episode. It showed us how much Hotaru adapted to village and how much she loves it. Renge owning mountains is quite a shock or rather difficult to take in. I never knew it is possible for people to own mountains.