WHEEEE.
why wheeeee?
Cross Game: Episode 36: To Girls' Baseball! WHEEEE.
Well I am LOVING the spin the anime has taken. (Still hoping that Aoba can go back to her seishu roots though.) I think Aoba's role in the anime is awesome awesome awesome. Girls rule. Lots. Megalots. Yay for Aoba!!
Okay nevermind. I love her role in the manga too. She's the person they always mention quietly because she does too much for her team but will never ever play at koshien. (Here I say: BOO ON YOU, BOYS!! DISCRIMINATION!! But then we remember that we do like boys. Very much, very much. Especially the good looking ones, and the ones who cook well, and are smart enough to buy the kind of chocolate you like on Valentines. And I suppose that without discrimination, we women wouldn't be as awe-inspiring at the times when we kick some male butt.)
Unfortunately,
If Adachi loves me, and I do so hope he does, then Koh and Aoba shall somehow end up somewhat together even if they are too wrapped up in Wakaba/Wakaba-incarnate-Akane to realize just how CUTE they are together especially when they start arguing because you can just see the little clouds of fluff and fluff and fluff and (well there's definitely some funny parts of it too but mostly its just) fluff and fluff and fluff.
I do so love romance in a good sports manga.
I do so love Adachi.
I do so love Cross Game.
And I love the storyline so much that this episode deserves some screenshots and some fangirling because of the awesomeness of Tsukishima Aoba. Right before the next episode comes out, too. Awesome.
Oh she is awesome. She's humble and everything (haha - except in front of Koh.) Look at that look of concentration on her little Aoba face. She's totally awesome with a baseball in her hands. AOBA YOU ROCK MY SOCKS OFF - YAY FOR AWESOME LADIES!!!
Naturally she gets picked for tryouts. How can she NOT get picked for tryouts?!?! Oh just look at their faces when they see how she pitches at the tryouts.
YEAH SUCKA SHE
IS THAT GOOD. Don't just stand there with the little =O expression on your face, just fangirl over her already or something!!!
....I like that coach with the frowny face who appreciates her worth. Smart man. And 130 km/h is just WICKED. Look. Her baseball pro-ness is acknowledged by every one. Whoohooohoo.
And then of course, some weird batter is disappointed with her batting results and wants to be given a second chance against some real pitchers and not some machine. Well lucky for her she picked Aoba to be her pitcher for the second round of tests.
Stupid woman. (And she's Shimano's relative - nya~haha~haha~hahahahahahahaha. That IS funny.)
Are you kidding me, crazy lady?!! Why on EARTH would she be afraid of you?!
Oh, I love this girl. She is awesome. If you didn't know already. She backs up-
SHE PITCHES-
Poor stupid Shimano's cousin. She never knew it was coming. I guess we'll give her that.
Well...duh. Strike. What else would it be?? Never underestimate her, you crazy lady.
Hold on?? Hold on for WHAT? For her to pwn you again? Wahahahahahaha. I do so love this.
SHE'S SOOOO COOOO~OOOOOOOL.
Look she doesn't even need to say anything.
SHE OWNS~ Just watch her burn rubber.
Eat dust, Shimano's cousin.
SHE PITCHES AGAIIINN~
Aaaand there it is agaaiiiinnn~
Aaaaaaand agaaaaiiiinnnnn.
Three strikes, you're out, so long sistah!! Don't come back!!
Aaawwwwright. After tryouts its back to Seishu grounds and Seishu boys. Okey dokey. No problemo. More Koh screentime for me. Well so the whole darn episode is so Aoba-friendly, so why not continue along the Aoba fan vein? Yaaaay. Look, now she's pitching for Azuma's practice 'cuz you know, she's even awesomer than a pitching machine. Awesome. (I use a lot of awesome.)
Sheee pitchesssss.
But we gotta remember Azuma's some sort of batting monster too, so we still gotta give her credit even when he hits it waaaaay far in a spectacular home run fashion.
But see like I said, she's awesome. Look. Look at this face.
So TRUE, AOBA!!!
Well, okay, so it's another homerun from Azuma. No biggie. He can't go easy on her and that's a compliment to her pitching skills. We know this because he's Azuma and he's like that but then Koh says-
Wow. I sense a disturbance in the force. What is this?!?! A love hexagon? Octagon?!?! Nonagon!?!? Koh KNOWS THAT AZUMA LIKES AOBA =0
Wait, that was a few episodes back.
Anyway,
All together now!
Awwwwwwwwwww. That's nice, Koh. Even if you haven't admitted that you may/might/must have feelings for this awesome lady. Now, if you do THAT, you will be the greatest man in the history of Adachi comics. Because I say so.
When Adachi comics start to talk like this you just KNOW something bad is going to happen. Because no matter how cool the lead female is some bad stuff has still got to happen to her. It's the Adachi way (and I like it.)
But for now, Aoba pitches and Azuma hits and its a FOUL BALL - which means, no homerun -
Yaaaaay.
And this, ladies and gentleman, is why I like Azuma too.
He's awesome. In an Azuma way. Not in a Koh way, which is an entirely different thing, but in his cool, weird-eyes and all way.
Wellll either way, Azuma-praise is hard to get so when you get it, you feel happy.
Right there, see? She's smirking. Yaaaaay. So she's pitching happily now. So Koh turn his back 'cause he's satisfied. And Coach Maeno wants Cold Sprays for the baseball team.
Koh is hilarious when he trys to market. Really, now.
Hahaha. I shall leave this episode at that, because after all I've spoilt for you I refuse to spoil the best (the worst....?) part of the episode which involves Aoba. Since this episode is obviously just for her. Just watch it yourself if you haven't already. Noooow.
Waitaminute-
Oh. Yes. It IS HERE, ladies.
And what is here? Cross Game chapter 154. And it's going to kill me dead just like the rest of them. This series is an Adachi masterpiece. Really now. Up in the list of MUST READ-MUST WATCH-OH COME ON series. To me, this is THE most underrated anime and manga of 2009. (However I only say that because, you know, Fullmetal already has its own crazy fanbase, which includes me in its crazy homg-edward-elric-roy-mustang-homg-homg-all-the-bishies-and-the-awesome-kickass-lady-characters-like-riza-n-winry-homg.)
Ignoring the fact that Akane shows up (which is really, really weird. What are the chances that soba-neighbour-who-has-cancer-who -moved-in-next-door-to-hero even looks a fraction like Wakana? Oh. Please. Even if her being there adds this weird freaky dynamic that just messes around with everybody and makes Akaishi look dumbly cute. Cutely dumb. These lovely Adachi people don't deserve to be tortured this way! Give them one Wakana and one of her only because the character development of just about everyone else was going about very nicely until she showed up and scared everyone into hiding and epileptic fits. Okay. Fine. She does contribute to some development between Aoba and Koh. And she is a very nice person. Still. Too much of a good thing. I think it's because she has cancer. Cancer?!?! What are the chances of that!?!)
Well. Anyway. After thinking about Akane a little bit more I guess she isn't too bad. As in - she isn't detrimental to the story in any way and she doesn't hurt the cross game watching&reading experience. Because NOTHING can hurt the cross game watching/reading experience. Because it's too good for anything.
Yeahman. Oh, and as I write this, my computer - no, more like my internet connection - is trying to toy with me. I would swear. But I don't swear in blog language. It's just too weird to type out swear words.
Stupid internet connection.
Stupid is not a swear word.
Anyway.
CHAPTER 154.
Thank you, Asami Mizuki, for totally making my day (well. Night. Since it's night now.)
He just casually mentioned that KOH was the only boy she ever wrote about in her journals (well basically because she was real prone to insulting him just about all the time, but you know. That's not really the point. We don't care about what she writes, it's WHO she writes about that matters. The point is,) KOH!! In HER JOURNALS!! It's like painting the signs (whichever signs it may be) in neon colours. Oh it is happening, peoples. My Cross Game babies are going to admit one day that they are in love with something other than baseball, Koshien, and Wakaba.
"It's funny though. Elementary school. Middle school. High school...how much do you need to insult one guy??"
"...how long has she been watching..."
"...what he does??"
-Mizuki.
Oh I'll tell you, Asami Mizuki. Or you can figure it out yourself cause you a smart mountain climbing man.
I hope you're enjoying this, Aoba.
-Koh before his awesome coolio pitch of baseball doom.
It's a Christmas miracle. Someone really loves us Kohba/Aoboh/Oh it just sounds stupid when I acronym-mitize it fans. Adachi really loves us. I really love Adachi. It's a two-way deal that benefits both of us.
And also special mention to Junpei for telling Aoba to sit up and pay Koh some compliments....when it's over. Not when they WIN, like she's hoping/saying/you can tell it's Aoba my gosh of course she would want them to win, but when it's OVER. She looks at him like she doesn't know what on earth to say, because OMG it's another cliffhanger.
WHAT WILL ADACHI DOOO~OOO~OOO??? I DO NOT KNOOOO~OOOOO~OOOW. I GOTTA WAIT UNTIL THE NEXT CHAPTER, but I gotta feelin'.
That tonight's gonna be a good night, that tonight's gonna be a goo~ooood night, that tonight's gonna be a good-good niiiii~iiight.
But somehow I have a feeling that Adachi's not going to give us a happy baseball ending for this one match. Or maybe that's just me. I'm hoping it's just me, cause my babies have to go to Koshien. Otherwise what's the point??? To break everyone's hearts!?!?
Waiting for another chapter and another episode is just going to kill me dead. Just like Fullmetal.
okay, here I start again: WHEEE.
why wheee?
well.
CHAPTER 149.
SKIP BEAT.
Yesssss. WHEEEEEEEEEE. Or, SQUEEEEEEEEEEE. Whichever term of goo you would like to express yourself with.
so WHEESQUEEEE!!!! I shall not spoil because (well in case you haven't read it yet in which case you shall go read it now now now.) its the way things go. And since I'm too lazy to link a picture I'm just going to tell you about it without telling you anything. =D
first word: FINALLY.
second word: OMG.
third word[s]: KYOKO IS OBLIVIOUS, REN IS CHILDISH, and OMG.
haha. I had actually been expecting something along the lines of this chapter after the previous chapter, so this was a bit of an anticlimax, but still. Well it was okay I guess. I miss the younger days of Skip Beat where there was honestly more acting (which was the coolest thing everrrr) and less....Shotarou. Stupid Sho. I hate you, go strangle yourself with your emo chains and hairgel.
Oh.
No.
I think I am going to THROW UP.
Shu Fei, Shu Fei, Shu Fei, Shu Fei.
IT's HERE AND I HATE IT.
THE LATEST INSTALLMENT OF FMA. MANGA CHAPTER 102
OH MY GOD.
SHU FEI.
ROY
ROY'S
youhavetoreaditreaditreaditandtrynottothrowup
ohnooonononono
SHUUUFEIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm going to need lots of happy happy rainbows and sunshine after this chapter.
Oh. My. God.
WHATISTHIS.
This CANNOT be GOOD for my HEALTH.
sunshine unicorns happy happy angels christmas love stars cookies cream and ice cream shopping food shiny things happy people
I'm going to go insane before the next chapter even comes.
Not even insane in a good way.
Well bye now.
Gosh.
LexaLee
