(L) Yumeria

[relentlessflame]

Originally Posted by Go-lytely

Ep 7 was pretty dark. I hope the rest of the series doesnt go this direction.

Nate?

I for one enjoyed episode 7. It provided a bit of momentum to the plot that many people have said was lacking. Granted, it mostly came down to techno-babble, but it is interesting (if not a bit obvious).

Spoiler:

Interesting that, not only is Mikuri responsible for bringing everyone into the dream world, but he is likely responsible for creating the dream world itself. In fact, Faydoom may have began as a figment of Mikuri's imagination through his power to change "cause" (destiny). Everything that is happening, his relationships with the girls (even the fact they like him at all), Mizuki's parents leaving and her moving in, Kuyo coming back from North America, Mone herself... all are possibly because of Mikuri's power. I'm not sure how far they're going to go with this, but it's a profound problem. Mikuri's "holy s**t" reaction at the end of episode 7 doesn't even begin to cover it.

Incidentally, this is sort of similar to Sakura's power in Da Capo. I wonder if they're going to play it out in a similar way?

Originally Posted by Neon01

Couldn't agree more, but sadly I think the others here are right - he'll end up with the red-haired girl.

Oh come on - Mizuki is awesome! She's sweet, kind, cute, smart, about Mikuri's age, and has a huge crush on him... they're the perfect match! That being said, I'm still thinking that he won't end up with any one person by the end of the show.

[vio5555]

Originally Posted by relentlessflame

Oh come on - Mizuki is awesome! She's sweet, kind, cute, smart, about Mikuri's age, and has a huge crush on him... they're the perfect match! That being said, I'm still thinking that he won't end up with any one person by the end of the show.

Yeah, i get the feeling its going to be completely open ended like Hanaukyo Maids or Hand Maid May.

[Seiryuu]

First off, would AJ please make one correction... The term is "LOLI", not "LORI". It's a reference to an old book called "Lolita", where a guy becomes obsessed with his landlady's underage daughter. Lori doesn't have any meaning. Just thought I'd mention it.
Also, as to why the girls got so furious at Tomokazu in the beginning of ep. 5... Tomokazu didn't have a nosebleed, but he never does. However, he wasn't carrying anything, and I don't think he has back problems, so there must be some ... other... reason that he's doubled over like that. Probably the same reason he bends over again after his fantasy about the girls going to their bedrooms, to sleep ... together...in their swimsuits...(pardon while I get a tissue to stop the bleeding.) Anyway, I think the way he's standing is the key to why he got the s**t beaten out of him.
On a side note, ep 6 stalled on me, could someone reseed it so I can see what the heck you all are talking about? I'd appreciate it.

[monir]

Hey, episode 7 was great. It was a little "dark" as go-lytely put, but this episode finally gives the series a little direction. Not that it needed. The series was already enjoyable. I guess the animators are setting up the conclusion and this episode can serve as a platform. Nice hypothesis there Relentlessflame. The series most likely will end up with a happy ending; so Mikuri most likely ends up with everyone. No loosers, no winners. Reminds me of Photon.

[Hayamaneko]

for a plot-heavy ep, episode 7 really didnt do much. They still have to fight Faydoom or whatever in order to save mankind, but now they know why. I didnt really get all of it since, well, AJ sucks with translations :P

[dreamless]

I wouldn't call ep.7 dark, but at least it has some more plot development than previous episodes...

I still absolutely love Tomokazu's personality, since it seems he's more and more like me now

[CelestiaLegends]

:P Another series that saves the world! Well ok I havn't seen one in awhile, oh well yumeria's great :P

About the Loli and Lori thing, I don't think there's a La-set of sylabbles in japanese, so maybe they used ri instead? (then it's be Rori...lol :P) just a guess :P

[brightman]

Originally Posted by CelestiaLegends

:P Another series that saves the world! Well ok I havn't seen one in awhile, oh well yumeria's great :P

About the Loli and Lori thing, I don't think there's a La-set of sylabbles in japanese, so maybe they used ri instead? (then it's be Rori...lol :P) just a guess :P

The katakana is RORI, that's true. But the fact that AJ actually writes it as "rori" or "lori" shows that they don't seem to know what it is...

[Kensuke]

Ep. 7 was darker and revealed more about plot than any of the previous episodes, and also I hope that Yumeria takes this direction... as long as there is at least some fanservice, most likely there will be.

Just a thought... Maybe Nanase has same kind of split personality like Neneko (assuming that Silk is Nanase) since in real world she is always happy, but in dream world she is more serious and she has different voice.

EDIT: spelling...

[eMpTy265]

Well...

now we know why Neneko was all freaked out at the middle of ep.2 after Nate was standing on the lampost...

Spoiler:

This episode (ep.7) was a little darker in nature than the rest of the episodes, but yet it provides the much needed momentum for this series...

It's also nice to see Mikuri being more serious for once... and yet still screwing up his entry. =P

Now hopefully I won't see him doing stuff like energy blasts or anything DBZ'ish... or else I'll have nightmares...



Spoiler Level 2:

It seems like in ep.8, we'll see Nate in the dream world as well... although she doesn't actually fight.

I particularly liked the ending... where Nate actually tries to sing like Neneko in order to be friendly with the cat. =D

(I'll stop here... or else others will want to kill me for spoiling the plot...)

oh... and ep.9 looks more relaxed... and hopefully some more Mizuki-Mikuri development...

[Go-lytely]

Ep 8 another plot mover. We find a little more about Kuyo's past and for some reason they are still trying to hide Nanase's identity from Mikuri. There were some great injokes for anime fans in there from Laputa to I think a series by Leiji Matsumoto. Ep 9 looks to go back to the funside with Mizuki wearing bunny ears and some guy that looks like he came out of the Monopoly game.

[kj1980]

Originally Posted by Go-lytely

There were some great injokes for anime fans in there from Laputa to I think a series by Leiji Matsumoto.

Actually, that is a late 1970s anime/manga "Space Adventure Cobra," written by Terasawa Buichi. If you get a chance, you should see the movie where Cobra goes out against Crystal Boy. It is amazing how much detail the makers put into effort to make this anime - especially the backgrounds which are breathtaking...even for 1970s.

The writer for "Yumeria," - Mr. Kuroda Yosuke was a very big fan of Cobra when he was watching this back then.

[CelestiaLegends]

Spoiler:

A bit about nanase, I just noticed this while rewatching it for the fourth time (no, I don't like it THAT much, I was using Mone as an image in my photoshop pic :P) I noticed that at the end Tomokazu says: Is it really ok for us to be laughing like this when were saving the world...(or something to that extent) and nanase says "well it's ok isn't it" (not exact words, but) so I just noticed that :P nanase's not supposed to know yet...I think.

Also the pic with mone:

http://www.angelfire.com/anime5/celestialegends/

Just wondering if it's any good ^_^

[brightman]

Some useful thing I noticed this episode... Neneko apparently has purple eyes while Nate has green eyes... That's a good thing to pay attention to if you're confused about what Neneko's personality is at the moment.

[Auriacan]

i just wish i could get my group together to actualy release yumeria... one thing after another has been preventing us from doing so...

[7thMethuselah]

Yeah it seems the story is developing

Spoiler:

Although I didn't get the entire power thing Kuyo suddenly got. Apparently she has some power in her family to aid Tomokazu. Btw I must say Mone has an awesome way to go to sleep, apaprently she can just jump in and out the dream world if she wants too, not to mention that it appears she knows more about it than we do(she knew she had to block everything at the entrance). Neneko/Nate dual personality is really weird. Can someone explain to me what the entire destiny thing is that Tomokazu has, I don't get it...

PS The "body language" part was hilarious it really freaked me out .

PPS Another moment of utter cuteness in the series whenNate tries to lure the cat in taking the cookie at the end.

Yumeria is really becoming one of my favorites: comedy, ecchi and so kawaiii (the finger thingie in the OP is so cute) i love it

[CelestiaLegends]

YES! I know what you mean about the finger thing. *does the finger thing*

Spoiler:

Mone is FROM the dream world rememer?

About the storyline, I think pretty much someone from the future came back and told him it got screwed by the dream world guy. Stop him. He goes ok. We will stop him. He goes to dream world. He messes up. He kills bad guys. Cute ending song.

[corp20]

AnimeJunkies I was wondering if you will come out with a version 2 of the 7th eps? I downloaded it and I didn't notice at first but the video seemed well long horizonal. Or am I crazy? Did any one else notice this? (not bitching to AnimeJunkies but I want to know.)

[spudman]

Originally Posted by corp20

AnimeJunkies I was wondering if you will come out with a version 2 of the 7th eps? I downloaded it and I didn't notice at first but the video seemed well long horizonal. Or am I crazy? Did any one else notice this? (not bitching to AnimeJunkies but I want to know.)

I use a 16:9 display, so I noticed the weird size straight away. Seems they used an odd resolution for that one when compared to the rest. I just forced the aspect ratio for playback and it looked fine after that.

[suguru]

Originally Posted by spudman

I use a 16:9 display, so I noticed the weird size straight away. Seems they used an odd resolution for that one when compared to the rest. I just forced the aspect ratio for playback and it looked fine after that.

I had the same issue, I ended up going into VLC's preferences and forcing it to go 16:9, then it looked fine. It's strange it was only a problem for ep7, ep8 had the normal 16:9 aspect ratio again without having to force it to be.