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[ToonyMan]

DO YOU HAVE ENOUGH BATS MONGREL, WELL DO YOU, DO YOU??
Ah...end of Tsumihoroboshi-hen flashbacks.  I really miss Higurashi, but guess what I heard!  Ryukishi07 is taking a break on Higanbana now for a secret project.  I really hope it's When They Cry 5.

EDIT:
I found English previews of Higanbana on youtube!  Score!  I'll need to mark down this Ronove blog for future updates.

EDITX2:
Finished the first "short" story in Indignation (Haruhi book 8), all in one sitting.  I'm quite proud of myself.  In fact I'm so proud I'm going to share three documents I have held onto for my own entertainment purposes as I read.  As for the short story, yes of course it was good I'll read the next one at some point.

**Big spoilers obviously**  Probably contains false facts and bad spelling too.

Spoiler: HARUHI CHRONOLOGY (click to show/hide)

Book 1 - Melancholy - April 2004 (beginning of Kyon's first year of high school, year is from some prologue evidence but mainly the year it was written; NEW INFORMATION, INTRIGUES PRETTY MUCH CONFIRMS WHAT YEAR IT IS GIVEN THE DECADE)
-Kyon meets Suzumiya Haruhi, Asahina Mikuru, Itsuki Koizumi, and Nagato Yuki.  Starts the SOS Brigade and learns their true identities.  Attacked by Asakura, Nagato eliminates her from the world.  World almost wiped out but Kyon stops Haruhi and everything is fine.  Also friends with Kunikida and Taniguchi.  Knows the Computer Club President barely.  Has a sister.

Book 2 - Sighs - October 2004 (page 5, "half a year has already passed since I met Haruhi")
-They film a movie for the culture festival.  Carrier pigeons are extinct.  Tsuruya first introduced in the books.

Book 3 - Boredom - June to July 2004 (the Kyon is from October recollecting events that had transpired [this is from the prologue])
Arc Breakdown:
*The Boredom of Suzumiya Haruhi - June 2004 (page 4, "after school one day in June")
-Baseball game.  Tsuruya first introduced chronologically.
*Bamboo Leaf Rhapsody - starts July 7th, 2004 (page 44, "July was just unbearable" "the first week of the July term-end exams")
-Went back in time to July 7th, 2001 (page 56, "That.......um......it's three years ago.")
-Kyon and Asahina-san were frozen until July 7th, 2004 again.
*Mysterique Sign - second-ish week of July 2004 (page 80, "Haruhi had recovered from her melancholic state during the end-of-term exams"
-Kimidori Emiri first introduced.  Author notes that CCP might become more important too.  Kyon believes Kimidori was used by Nagato.
*Lone Island Syndrome - middle of July 2004, starts a few days before summer vacation (page 113, "It was midsummer, in the middle of July." "a few days before summer vacation began"
-Murder mystery on an island.  Koizumi is evil.  Kyon is quick-witted.

Book 4 - Disappearance - December 17th to 24th of 2004 (timeline diverged on the morning of 12/18 but was then restored)
-Went back in time to July 7th, 2001.  Met with older Asahina-san where we were then saved by a still pending future Asahina-san, Kyon, and Nagato.  Wake up on December 24th, 2004.  Normal timeline.  My name is John Smith.

Book 5 - Rampage - August, November, and then end of December to January 2005.
-page 18, ("Cause a real GAY will not be swayed no matter how cute a girl is. Please remember this: out of a hundred men, five are GAY." -Haruhi)
Arc Breakdown:
*Endless Eight - August 17th to 31st, 2004 (page 30, "To be precise, from August the seventeenth to the thirty-first.")
-15,498 times
*The Day of Sagittarius - second half of November 2004 (page 49, "It was finally the second half of November, and fatigue had taken over my whole body after the end of that school festival."
*Snow Mountain Syndrome - starts on December 24th 2004, goes into next year (page 108, "the time would be the twenty-fourth, right after the end of year ceremony."

Book 6 - Wavering - October, December 2004
-page 5, ("Speaking of waitresses, all my dirty mind could think of was that tight uniform she wore in the movie, giving me a great urge to want to molest her." -Kyon)
Arc Breakdown:
*Live A Live - during the school festival (page 3, "It was the day of the school festival.") it's Haruhi singing her song and stuff
*Asahina Mikuru's Adventure Episode 00 - it's the movie during the school festival
*Charmed at First Sight LOVER - during winter vacation, before Snow Mountain Syndrome but after Disappearance, definitely before 2005 (page 80, “This will be our last time visiting this place this year, so we’ll have to make this place sparkling clean before we can go home. Only then can we ensure that we can come back feeling at ease after the New Year,”)
-page 81 “Don’t you think it’s about time that I take off this harmless looking mask and change this image that I don’t even know when I created it for myself? It is after all very tiring trying to talk courteously to a classmate all the time.” -Koizumi
*Where did the Cat Go? - after Snow Moutain Syndrome, it's probably what the actual 'mystery' is going to be; yep  KOIZUMI IS THE CULPRIT
*The Melancholy of Asahina Mikuru - Janurary 2005 after winter break -page 178 "Damn you Koizumi! I’ll deal with you afterward by murdering you using big bets in poker! I’ll remember this!" - Kyon (narration)

Book 7 - Intrigues - January 2nd(prologue) and February 7th to 15th 2005 (page 4, "It is now the beginning of February, the cold winter is nearing its end."  "This is the story that starts January the second at the train station we always pass on normal days.")

Book 8 - Indignation - Early March? and
Arc Breakdown:
*Editor in Chief★Straight Ahead! - Early March? (page 6, "It was a day in the third school term, and the footsteps of the end of the year were gradually hitting my ears.")
*Wandering Shadow -

Spoiler: HARUHI CHRONOLOGY ABRIDGED (IT LOOKS NICER BUT HAS LESS INFO) (click to show/hide)

Bamboo Leaf Rhapsody (Boredom) - July 7th 2001
Disappearance - July 7th 2001
Intrigues(prologue) - July 7th 2001

Melancholy - April to May 2004
The Boredom of Suzumiya Haruhi (Boredom) - June 2004
Bamboo Leaf Rhapsody (Boredom) - July 7th 2004
Mysterique Sign (Boredom) - July 2004
Lone Island Syndrome (Boredom) - July 2004
Endless Eight (Rampage) - August 17th to 31st 2004
Sighs - October 2004
Asahina Mikuru's Adventure Episode 00 (Wavering) - October 2004
Live A Live (Wavering) - October 2004
The Day of Sagittarius (Rampage) - November 2004
Disappearance - December 17th to 24th of 2004
Charmed at First Sight LOVER (Wavering) - December 2004 HOW?
Snow Mountain Syndrome (Rampage) - December 24th to 30th? 2004
Where did the Cat Go? (Wavering) - December 31st 2004
Intrigues(prologue) - January 2nd 2005
The Melancholy of Asahina Mikuru (Wavering) - Janurary 2005
Intrigues - February 7th to 15th 2005
Editor in Chief★Straight Ahead! (Indignation) - early March?? 2005

Spoiler: INTRIGUES PLOTLINE AND NOTES (click to show/hide)

Letter #0 - “Please take care of the Asahina Mikuru beside you.”  page 45
Letter #1 - “In ＯＯ town, in the corner of the cross-junction from no. ×× to no. △△, walk south from there. There is a road without any roadmarks nearby. Place the specified object on the place where that road meets the market between 6:12PM and 6:15PM.”
P.S. Asahina Mikuru must go with you." page 66
Letter #2 - “Please scale the mountain. There you will encounter an oddly shaped rock. Move this rock approximately three meters to the west and leave it there. Asahina Mikuru knows what to do. Since it will be pitch dark after nightfall, it is advised that you go there before the sun sets.” page 96

Letter #3 - “Two days later (Saturday), please head to the footbridge on ** street in ** district before dusk and face south. You should see some common stock growing there. Please pick up the object beneath it and send it to the following address anonymously. Just so you know, that object is a mini transmitter.” page 129

Letter #4 - “Near the stream with the cherry blossom trees, you should recall a very familiar bench. Go there before 10:45 AM on Sunday. Bring along a small turtle with you. Before 10:50 AM, throw the aforementioned turtle into the lake. The turtle’s species doesn’t matter, but smaller ones are preferred.” page 129

Letter #5 - “Everything is now over. Please tell the Asahina Mikuru there to return to her original garrisoned time period. You’re free to decide what the destination time and location would be.” page 213
sent to Nagato instead of Kyon

Letter #6 - “When everything is over, please head over to the bench where you and I met during the festival of Tanabata. I’ll be waiting." page 187



Prologue
January 2nd (page 4), Kyon goes back in time with Nagato and Asahina-san to finish up Disappearance.  The Melancholy of Asahina Mikuru happens sometime after before February beings with Chapter1.

Chapter 1
A few days after February 3rd (page 27) on Monday Kyon finds Asahina-san(from eight days in the future) and Letter #0.  Future Asahina sleeps at Nagato's.

Chapter 2
On Tuesday Kyon finds Letter #1 and follows the instructions, injurying some 20something year old.  Talks with 'Koizumi' at night about Tsuruya.  Future Asahina sleeps at Tsuruya's.

Chapter 3
On Wednesday Kyon finds Letter #2 and follows the instructions and Tsuruya hands him the treasure map.  Future Asahina sleeps with Tsuruya.
On Thursday Kyon finds Letter #3, 4, and 6 and intends the SOS Brigade meeting after being absent for three days in a row.  Future Asahina relaxes in a kimono at Tsuruya's.

Chapter 4
On Friday Kyon should be doing a pointless treasure hunt.
Yep he had a picnic pretty much.  HARUHI CALLED NAGATO

Chapter 5
On Saturday morning he'll be searching with Koizumi and then the evening he'll do Letter #3 with Nagato (and future Asahina)
ANOTHER TIME TRAVEL OMG SQUEE  mailed memory chip, purchased turtle

Chapter 6
On Sunday morning he'll throw a turtle in a lake with Nagato (and future Asahina)
KIDNAPPING

Chapter 7
Finishes up Sunday, Asahina Michuru goes two days into the future.
On Monday he has a free day to do probably Letter #6.
Yeah it was Valentine's Day daaaaw February 14th

Epilogue
On Tuesday Kyon tells Asahina(present) to go back 8 days to 3:45pm and pushes her in the closet.

Amazingly the chronology checks out except for one chapter..."Charmed at First Sight LOVER (Wavering)".  Now Kyon has done some crazy tight scheduling, but CaFSLOVER was physically impossible to do unless Tanigawa has an ace up his sleeve in the future.

In any case, hell yeah, Kyon power.

I've had the thought of writing at some point but it'd probably be horrible Nasu shit where I right inane things and get popular for some reason, INSTANT SUCCESS.  Akiha is a tooth muahahhohoa sex scenes sex scenes rape pillage dried plum murder!!!!!!


...And then Kyon was a Masutaa in the Seihai Sensou.

[Leafsnail]

So Ougon Musou Kyoku: Cross is really good, but I've managed to seriously screw up my right arm playing it.  Argh.  How can mashing three keys (in search of that sweet, sweet meta-ultimate) cause such a horrible injury??  Guess this is definitely something I can't play till after the exam period.

Erika's voice sounds good too, now that I've heard her shouting accusations, firing cannons and using her meta-ultimate-swimsuitducttapeclosedroom attack.  Oh well, I guess that was worth temporarily disabling my arm for.

[ToonyMan]

I broke my fingers fighting G-Akiha in Melty Blood, same for Nero but not as bad.

DIE DIE WHY WON'T YOU DIE

[Tellemurius]

Finished Darker than Black then found another season.
GAAAHHHH!!!!!
ill never finish watching anime.

[ToonyMan]

Finished Darker than Black then found another season.
GAAAHHHH!!!!!
ill never finish watching anime.

Darker than Black was awesome.  Season 3 where??  Make sure to check out the OVAs and the Jet Black Flower manga too.

And listen to Cerberus Dog or whatever and Galaxy Train over and over

UNITZ UNITZ UNITZ

[Tellemurius]

Savage Dog Cerberus is the name and no i just discovered season 2.

[Leafsnail]

Well playing OMK against ToonyMan was kindof fun even if it was at half speed pretty much all the time.  So you could generally just see what your opponent was doing and block it.

[shadenight123]

kimiiro focus, because saying "Ecchi manga!!" wasn't a good title.
Basically a guy who starts photographing, as soon as he takes off his glasses, and as long as it concerns girls, he becomes a pro in taking photos.

[Micro102]

I picked manga that looked mildly interesting because I was bored, and I think I found some new favorites 

"Life is money" and "Sprite". Best read without spoilers, so be wary about reading them, you can always read the less detailed descriptions on the website(s).

Spoiler:  Life is Money (click to show/hide)

10 common people get put into a psychological war in exchange for money. Panicking too much will result in death. Anyone who dies will have their money split between the others.

Sprite is too good to spoil so no spoiler

[JoshuaFH]

Hey Leafy! I checked out the Kaito series you told me about. That was a single good OVA episode, but it's not really a series. Or were you referring to something else?

[Patchouli]

Add another entry to the late train.

Madoka and Penguindrum continue to stay on hold.

Watching Baccano instead. From recommendations, I'm watching the dub. I like it a lot.

EDIT: It was good. I think I've seen some of the episodes a long while ago actually, I just forgot.

[ToonyMan]

Time to finish week 2 in Fate/extra.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I'M FIGHTING ROBIN HOOD

Squeee

This is just like one of my Japanese animes!

I have to say if Nasu has one merit it's that he can not write a bad Master-Servant pair.  It's impossible.

[Leafsnail]

Hey Leafy! I checked out the Kaito series you told me about. That was a single good OVA episode, but it's not really a series. Or were you referring to something else?

Uh, I meant it was a manga that the author wrote before Conan.  He stopped after 3 volumes (and since has written a few chapters that have been collected into a fourth volume) because Conan took off so well.

Oh right yeah and I'm trying to master fighter game combos on the keyboard.  Some of them are awkward but at least I can activate the double SP moves and Meta Ultimates.  I also kindof have a vague idea how to use Ange (LEVIATHAN BELPHEGOR SATAN BELPHEGOR MAMMON LEVIATHAN then run away and tag out) and Battler.

Spoiler: Ange (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Battler (click to show/hide)

Almost every character is the wrong height for this move to make any sense, as shown here.  At least you get a special voice clip for doing it against Kanon.

[ToonyMan]

[UTW]_Carnival_Phantasm_-_10_[BD][h264-720p_AC3][0EEFE844].mkv

Yah!  UTW also explains the Hisui Brainwash Detective thing.
"Nasu apparently made a lot of typos with Hisui’s lines in a minigame that was in the pre-release version of the Tsukihime visual novel. Among them is a typo where Hisui, as a detective, declares “犯人を、貴方です” (“I’ll make you the culprit”; the “wo” is supposed to be “wa” instead, which would make the line mean “You’re the culprit”). The joke is that the typo makes it look like Hisui is declaring to turn the person into the culprit, instead of declaring the person to be the culprit."

Spoiler: THE CULPRIT IS YOU (click to show/hide)

EDIT:
Episode 10 was okay.  The beginning skit was kind of stupid but the second one totally made up for it.
DEFECTIVES HISUI

Next episode is called Final Dead Lancer, oh boy.

Also Fate/hollow is being weird!  TLWiki went down and then Beast's Lair is still down.  I might just go through what I did reading any stuff I missed and Chiitranslator the rest like I did with the beginning of Higanbana and Mahoyo, it worked quite well because you can always remember the series/game as a whole.

[Furtuka]

I went and started reading the Pokemon Adventures manga again, more specifically the diamond and pearl arc. And it was all of the happy/cute stuff one would expect from a pokemon story when suddenly-

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Holy crap did those two guys who've been following them for so long just die!?!? I had forgotten how dark this manga can get sometimes