[Source:
Wikipedia]
Yukiteru "Yuki" Amano is a loner who never really interacts with
people and prefers writing a diary on his cell phone with his only
companion being an imaginary friend named Deus Ex Machina, the God of
Time and Space. However, Yuki soon learns that Deus is real when he
makes Yuki participate in a battle royal
with eleven other people. Within this "Diary Game", the contestants are
given special diaries that can predict the future, with each diary
having unique features that gives them both advantages and
disadvantages. Within the next 90 days, the contestants must try to kill
each other and survive until there is only one person standing, the
winner becoming the new God of Time and Space. In order to survive, Yuki
tries to find allies, with one of them being another diary user named
Yuno Gasai, a girl who is madly in love with him. As the game continues,
Yuki soon learns that not everyone can be trusted, not even Yuno, whose
obsession to keep both of them alive no matter the cost terrifies him.
Yet despite her faults, Yuki continues to trust Yuno since he manages to
survive the game thanks to her. Originally, Yuki had no desire to win the game and stoop as low as
the other contestants who either cheat, lie, manipulate or kill in order
to win. However, that all changes when late in the game, Yuki's parents
are killed. Yuki suffers a breakdown over his parents death until Yuno
seduces and convinces him that if he becomes the new God of Time and
Space, he can bring his parents back to life. Now having a reason to
win, Yuki becomes a ruthless, backstabbing, and manipulative terrorist
who causes the deaths of thousands of civilians and destruction
throughout the city in order to kill the other contestants. Yuki's
actions shock his friends, in particular Aru Akise, who had suspicions
about Yuno and her motives. By the time Yuno and Yuki becomes the last
contestants, Aru and the rest of Yuki's friends chastis him on how he
has become just as bad as the other contestants. Aru tries to warn Yuki
that Yuno is manipulating him and that she has an ulterior motive.
Refusing to accept the truth and wishing to bring his parents back, Yuki
kills them until Aru manages to stop him and gives Yuki a clue over
Yuno's true identity before he is killed by Yuno herself. Eventually, Yuki learns that the Yuno he known is actually an
"impostor" as this "Yuno" is actually from a parallel universe who won
the Diary Game. In that universe, Yuno and Yuki were the last
contestants and Yuki committed suicide so that Yuno will be the new God
and resurrect him. But Yuno became distraught and more insane when she
learns that while she can resurrect the dead, she cannot bring back
their souls. With the help of Muru Muru, Deus' assistant and now Yuno's
after she won the Diary game, both of them travel back in time to Yuki's
universe and manipulated it where she killed the Yuno of Yuki's
universe and took her place so she could play the game again and find a
way to bring back "her" Yuki. As Yuno is about to kill him, Yuki is
saved by Minene Uryu, one of his allies and another Diary user who he
believed died in the game but was saved by Deus, who had suspicions that
the Muru Muru in his universe is not the one he knows but the one from
the parallel universe working with Yuno, and gave Minene some of his
powers before his death. Their plans foiled, Yuno and Muru Muru travel
to another universe to start over again but are followed by Yuki and
Minene who are trying to stop them. Finally, Yuno and Muru Muru are
stopped when the former learns in this new universe, all the terrible
things that happen to everyone in the previous universes never happen
including one where her parents were never abusive and lead to her
insanity. With Yuno's Muru Muru stopped by Yuki's universe's Muru Muru
and the help of the new universe's Diary users, Yuki convinces Yuno to
come to her senses and surrender as he loves her. Realizing her
mistakes, Yuno instead kills herself, believing this is the best for him
and making Yuki the new God of his universe. In the end, despite becoming the new God of Time and Space, Yuki
refuses to rule his universe as he has lost everything that he ever
loved and cared; his friends, parents and Yuno. But in an unexpected Deus ex machina,
the Yuno of the new universe arrives and invites Yuki to her universe
as Yuki's Muru Muru had given Yuno and the others of the new universe
their other universes memories which convinced that universe's Deus not
to hold the Diary game and instead make Yuki and Yuno his new heirs. The
series ends with Yuki reuniting with Yuno, his friends, parents and the
Diary users in a new, happier universe.
Episode 03
"Early Predicament": Keigo sends Yuki and Yuno to an amusement park to act as bait for Uryu.
When Yuki asks Yuno why she keeps following him around, she reminds him
of the day they met, one year ago. Yuki was depressed over his parents'
divorce and, to cheer him up, Yuno offered to marry him in the future.
Yuki agreed, thinking it was a joke. Although Yuki realises Yuno's still
hiding something from him, she refuses to divulge anything more. That
night, Yuno invites Yuki to stop by her house. While searching for the
bathroom, he opens the door to a room containing many decomposed
corpses, an act which changes the future of every Future Diary owner
drastically. Terrified, Yuki runs home, only to find Yuno right outside
his door. Meanwhile, Uryu finds evading the police difficult, despite
her diary's ability to secure escape routes. Exhausted and cornered, she
is approached by a mysterious man, who offers to save her and takes her
to a hut in the woods. There, he reveals himself as a Future Diary
owner, drugging her and torturing her to get information on other diary
owners.
Episode 04
"Handwritten Input": Yuki is unable to tell anyone about the corpses he saw in Yuno's house,
fearing she will find out through her diary. The next day, Keigo, Yuki
and Yuno visit the Sacred Eye cult, where Uryu is being held prisoner.
The cult's leader, Tsubaki Kasugano, is the holder of the Clairvoyance
Diary, a scroll which tells the future as seen by her followers and has
foretold her death by the end of the day. Since Yuki has already evaded
death twice, Tsubaki asks that he stay with her for the night in
exchange for handing over Uryu which he accepts, much to Yuno's
resentment. At night, Tsubaki's followers fall under the mind control of
Yomotsu Hirasaka, the diary holder who captured Uryu and close in on
Yuki, Yuno and Tsubaki. Yuno starts hacking at the followers with an axe
and poses an ultimatum to Yuki: join her or die.
2:30 - 3:20 Last Exile: Fam the Silver Wing 1-2
[Source:
Wikipedia]
Taking place two years after the events of Last Exile, Last Exile: Fam, The Silver Wing
is set on Earth, the original home world of the colonists of Prester.
The new story focuses on Fam Fan Fan and Giselle Collette, two vespa
pilots who work as Sky Pirates where they capture and sell battleships
for a living. Fam and Giselle get into an adventure when they and the
Sky Pirates rescue the Princesses of the Turan Kingdom, Liliana il
Grazioso Merlo Turan and her younger sister, Millia Il Velch Cutrettola
Turan, from the clutches of mighty Ades Federation. Led by Empress Sārā
Augusta and Premier Luscinia Hāfez, the Ades Federation is on an all out
war against the nations who are descendants of immigrants who came back
to Earth by Exile ships. As Ades was the only nation to stay on Earth
when the planet was in state of chaos and ruined, Luscinia believes the
immigrants of Exile have no right to return to Earth since their
ancestors abandoned Earth when it was in chaos only to return when Earth
was viable to live on again and force the original inhabitants of Earth
off their lands to form their own nations. To return these lands to
their original inhabitants, Luscinia leads the Ades Federation to
conquer the immigrant nations and destroy their armies with Turan being
one of them. After Luscinia kidnaps Liliana, who has the ability to control an
Exile, Luscinia summons an Exile to destroy the capital of Turan,
killing its soldiers and the King of Turan, leading to Turan
surrendering to Ades. With everything she cared for lost, Millia is
given refuge by the Sky Pirates where Fam promises to help Millia regain
her kingdom.
Episode 01
"Open File": Fam Fan Fan and Giselle Collette are Sky Pirates who ride smaller
vanships called Vespas where they capture battleships with other Sky
pirates led by Giselle's father, Atamora, with Dio also a member as
well. Meanwhile at the Grand Lake, the Princesses of the Kingdom of
Turan, Liliana il Grazioso Merlo Turan and her younger sister, Millia il
Velch Cutrettola Turan, are preparing for a peace treaty with the
powerful Ades Federation led by Premier Luscinia Hāfez, Liliana
childhood friend. However, the peace treaty is a ruse to capture the
princesses which the larger Ades fleet attacks the unprepared Turan
fleet. The Sky Pirates learn of the attack and head to the Grand Lake
where Fam offers to rescue the Princesses in exchange they surrender
their flagship Lasas to them which Liliana agrees much to Millia's
shock. Thanks to Fam and the Sky Pirates, the Ades fleet is tricked into
shooting each other due to smokescreens and faked light signals and the
fleet is fooled into believing the Lasas has sunken. Now under the
safety of the Sky Pirates, Liliana orders to head back to the Turin
capital Iglasia to prepare for Luscinia's next attack.
Episode 02
"Fool's Mate": Liliana forms an alliance with Atamora's Sky Pirates in helping the
Turan fleet against the invading Ades fleet while she has Fam and
Giselle escort Millia back to Iglasia who is holding battle plans for
their father, the King of Turan. Liliana plans to use the Lasas in a
surprise attack to scuttle Luscinia's flagship, the Impetus which will
cause a disarray within the Ades fleet. With the civilians fleeing
Iglasia, the King asks Fam and Giselle to send Millia to the Imperial
villa in the East for her safety. As the Ades and Turan fleets battle,
Liliana acts out her plan but it fails when Luscinia's assistant Alauda
boards the Lasas, kills the crew and kidnaps Liliana. Learning of her
sister's abduction from Dio, Millia begs Fam to go to the Impetus and
rescue Liliana. With Dio acting as a decoy, Fam, Giselle and Millia
sneaks inside the Impetus and confronts Luscinia in the command center.
Instead, Luscinia tells them the history of their planet Earth, the
Exile ships and the people who boarded them. Liliana begs Luscinia to
stop the war as she's willing to surrender but Luscinia won't change his
mind for his vision of peace. Luscinia recites a Mysteria which sends
Liliana into a trance and surrounded by light, forcing Fam, Giselle and
Millia to escape. When a beam of light from Liliana hits one of the
planet's moons, it drops down to Iglasia to reveal it is an Exile ship
and destroys Iglasia, killing everyone there including the King. By the
time Fam and Giselle wake up after crashing their Vespa, Fam finds
Millia mortified seeing Iglasia destroyed and blood flowing from the
capital into the sea.
3:20 - 3:45 Fate/Zero 1
[Source: Wikipedia] Fate/zero takes place 10 years prior to the events of Fate/stay night, detailing the events of the 4th Holy Grail War in Fuyuki City.[1]
The War of the Holy Grail is a contest in which seven magi summon seven
Heroic Spirits to compete to obtain the power of the "Holy Grail,"
which grants a miracle. After three inconclusive wars for the elusive
Holy Grail, the Fourth War commences. Founded by the Einzbern, Matō, and Tōsaka families centuries ago, the
Einzbern family is determined to achieve success after three successive
failures, no matter the cost. As a result, they have elected to bring
the hated magus killer, Kiritsugu Emiya, into their ranks, despite his
methods and reputation as a skilled mercenary and a hitman
who employs whatever he can use to accomplish his goals. Though
Kiritsugu had once wanted to become a hero who could save everyone, he
has long since abandoned this ideal upon realizing that saving one
person comes at the cost of another's life. For the sake of humanity, he
will ruthlessly destroy anything and anyone who threatens the peace of
others. However, Kiritsugu finds himself deeply torn between the love he has
found for his new family - his wife Irisviel and their daughter Illya -
and what he must do to obtain the Holy Grail. Meanwhile, Kiritsugu's
greatest opponent appears in the form of Kirei Kotomine, a priest who
cannot find any sense of fulfillment in his life and sets his sights on
Kiritsugu as the possible answer to the emptiness he feels.
Episode 01
"Summoning Ancient Heroes": Eight years ago in Germany, Kiritsugu Emiya and his wife, Irisviel von
Einzbern, welcome the birth of their daughter, Illyasviel. Though
Kiritsugu fears he will lead Irisviel to her death with the upcoming
Fourth Holy Grail War, Iri assures him that he is a good man who will
end his torment and fulfill their ideals. Three years ago, the priest
Kirei Kotomine learns that he has been chosen as a participant for the
Holy Grail War; his father Risei, the war's moderator on behalf of the
Catholic Church,
and another participant, Tokiomi Tosaka arrange for Kirei to become
Tokiomi's pupil in magecraft in order to give Tokiomi an advantage and
help Kirei get over the death of his wife. One year ago in Fuyuki City,
Kariya Matō visits his childhood friend Aoi Tōsaka and her daughters,
Rin and Sakura, but he is shocked to learn Sakura has been adopted by
the Matō family as the Matōs want a heir that uses magic and is
horrified to discover on what has been done to her. Confronting his
father, Zōken, Kariya strikes a deal to become a mage in the upcoming
war and win the grail in order to free Sakura and return her to her
mother and sister by having his body implanted with parasitic worms that
give him magic. In the present, at the
London Clock Tower,
Kayneth Archibald El-Melloi dismisses and humiliates a thesis by one of
his students, Waver Velvet, who theorizes anyone can be great mage by
hard work and practice other than by their bloodline. Angered by the
humiliation, Waver decides to prove his teacher wrong by also joining
the Grail War by stealing Kayneth's artifact which is needed to summon a
Servant and heads to Fuyuki City. As Kirei, who has now summoned his
servant Assassin,
Hassan-i Sabbah,
and Kiritsugu learn of each other's skills, they are disturbed by how
they cannot know what the other man's goals for the war are. After
receiving the scabbard of Excalibur, Iri is now hopeful that they can
now summon
King Arthur
of the Saber class but Kiritsugu worries that Arthur's chivalry will
clash with his pragmatic methods. As Kiritsugu, Tokiomi, Kariya and
Waver summoned their servants, Kiritsugu and Iri are stunned to see the
summoned King Arthur is actually a girl.
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5:15 - 6:05 Gosick 16-17
[Source: Wikipedia]
Gosick takes place in 1924 in a small, French-speaking fictional
European country of Sauville. The story centers on Kazuya Kujo, the
third son of a Japanese Imperial soldier, who is a transfer student to
St. Marguerite Academy, where urban legends and horror stories are all
the rage. There he meets Victorique, a mysterious yet beautiful and
brilliant girl who never comes to class and spends her days reading the
entire content of the library or solving mysteries that even detectives
can't solve. The series mostly focuses on Kazuya and Victorique getting
involved in different mystery cases and their struggle to solve them, at
the same time forming important bonds with different people.
Episode 16
"The Felling Maria has a Fly’s Head": Victorique's father have her taken from the academy to a convent known
as "Beelzebub's Skull" in Lithuania. Kujo learns about her whereabouts
from Grevil and takes a train going there to look for her. Guided by a
woman who resembles a lot like her, Kujo manages to find where
Victorique is held and learns from her that the woman is most likely her
mother, Cordelia.
Episode 17 "The Box Lies in the Spiral Labyrinth": Victorique reveals to Kujo that her father brought her to the convent in
order to bait out Cordelia and Brian. As the two escape, they become
separated by an illusion. Victorique encounters Brian, who reveals that
he is planning to stop her father and the Academy. Meanwhile, Kujo runs
into Cordelia, who entrusts him with a ring and some words of
encouragement for her daughter, then Marquis Albert de Blois himself.
Albert attempts to force Kujo to surrender Victorique to him, but Kujo
refuses and leaves. The floodgates shielding the convent are opened by a
time-release trap set by Albert, flooding the entire area, and Kujo
barely escapes with Victorique.
During summer vacations Yondaime is organizing an event and Narumi helps
with the promotion of the band. But the other founder of Hirasaka-gumi,
the man who gave it its name, has returned to Tokyo. It seems something
had happened between Hirasaka and Yondaime. Hirasaka acts friendly
towards Narumi but then mobilizes a group to impersonate Hirasaka-gumi
and blacken its name, endangering the realization of the event.
