13. June 2008 by Ria.

Now I had to watch this episode several times before I was finally able to find out what’s going on, ’cause I’m telling you, for a while, I was clueless. First of all, let me just start off by saying that this whole episode revolves around some dumb logo that Haruhi created to go on the homepage of her website that no one bothers to look at anyway.

Oh yeah, I also want you to know that the SOS Brigade is now into social services. In other words, if you have a problem, they will help out if all possible. Please, who would be dumb enough to go to Haruhi for anything except to give her a beat-down? Wait, some naive soul by the name of Emery just stumbled in, and she needs the gang to help her find her boyfriend who’s the president of the computer club.

Now why anime writers pick that guy is beyond me, since his only significant role was way back in episode 2, when Haruhi was blackmailing him out of a computer. In other words, they could have used any random guy, and it wouldn’t have made any difference.

Anyway, Emery should have come to see me about her problem, ’cause I would have told her that if she had to go lookin’ for some guy, then he obviously isn’t lookin’ for her, and she needs to get over it, and that would have been the end of it. But you know how Haruhi is, thinking that she can do anything, so she accepts the case.

So the gang goes over to the guy’s house, and immediately Yuki and Itsuki sense a closed space, not one created by Haruhi, but she triggered it by creating that weird looking logo which allowed some ugly lookin’ alien cricket to pop out of nowhere, create that space in some random person’s room, and take the guy hostage.

Hey, don’t ask me, I didn’t write this stuff, you’ll have to contact the anime writers for the show, and ask them what they were smokin’ when they came up with this one. As soon as Haruhi splits, the gang travels within the closed space to take out the monster. Now I can understand Itsuki, and Yuki going, after all they have all the power to defeat this thing, but why in the hell is Kyon hangin’ around? And Mikuru?

Oh my goodness! You guys definitely should have left her scared butt at home. She can’t do anything but whine, and she’s about to tear poor Kyon’s leg off, so Yuki and Itsuki better get down to business, before I get out my favorite pesticide (Raid), and take care of that giant cricket myself!

After a couple of rounds, the alien cricket ends up dead, and the computer club member returned, but it was a boring fight scene to watch. Who cares about some some giant insect swallowing up a couple of people? Call me when it decides to take over the world, ’cause that’s exciting stuff to watch!

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13. June 2008 by Ria.

Remember at the end of episode 8, Naruto threw a kunine knife at Zabuza, which brings us to this episode, where Zabuza is seen breaking his hold on the water prison jutsu, as a result of that cool move by Naruto. Now Kakashi is free to kick some ass, but before that, Naruto goes into great detail of how he put his plan together.

In the last episode, Naruto had his army of clones attack Zabuza, while he changed into the shuriken. One of the clones threw the shuriken to Sasuke, who immediately knew it was Naruto, and spun around so that Zabuza wouldn’t see him take out his own shuriken, so now there were two.

“Ok, stop right there, that is total BS Naruto! Yes, it was a great plan, but I didn’t see Sasuke pull out anything, and I even watched it in slow motion, so now what? Oh, the hand is quicker than the eye? Ok, then I’ll leave that one alone.” 

Anyway, the bottom line is that Naruto was able to break up the water prison-”Gee, thanks for telling us about that mastermind plan of yours, but couldn’t it have waited ’till the fight was completely over?” Now after Kakashi praises Naruto, he goes back to fighting Zabuza, and now because of the sharingan in his eye, Kakashi is able to predict his moves, and respond simultaneously.

Zabuza and Kakashi both create water dragons, at the same time, and everyone almost drowns. Then, Kakashi creates a water style giant vortex jutsu, and this time, Zabuza almost drowns. Now he is about to get owned by Kakashi, when this tracker ninja poser interferes, by putting Zubuza in a death-like state, and running off with the body.

Well, he didn’t quite run off, first he concocted some story about Zabuza being a rogue ninja for straying from the village, taking all of its secrets with him, and that’s why he killed him. But the fact is, this was just one big scheme to get Zabuza away from Kakashi, who was about to put him out of his misery. Actually, Zabuza is a rogue ninja, but we’ll find out more about that later.

So tracker ninja disappears with Zabuza’s body, but he’s not dead, and this whole fiasco isn’t over quite yet, but you’ll have to wait a couple more episodes for the next battle. Anyway, after all this ninja butt kickin’ Kakashi passes out,”What? SOMEBODY CALL THE JOUNIN NINJA HOSPITAL RIGHT NOW AND SEE IF THEY HAVE ANY BEDS AVAILABLE!”

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