Tsukuyomi -Moon Phase-

[Shinji103]

Well I mean they need to hurry up and get a subbed version out to animesuki.com, and not in .ogm format. And besides, that means the Chinese sub still came out before the english sub.

[Aydan]

I have no problem with ogm, but I don't know why they would use it for a 1 language fansub.

All I have to say about ep 2 is uriuriuriuri, she is too damn cute.
I will get the sub by mahou later.

[Shinji103]

Yeah, sure I'll get the Mahou sub too, WHEN THEY FREAKING RELEASE IT!!!

And can anyone just point out where I can get episode 13 of Elfen Lied?

[Aydan]

hmm, I haven't really been following that one myself, I'll look around a bit.

[Shinji103]

I just finished watching the raw of episode 3, and the series still has a great deal of my attention (the reason for it not getting my full attention is because of Gundam SEED Destiny, School Rumble, and Elfen Lied ). Since we still have yet to get an avi version of episode 2 (many of us can't view .ogm files, me included), I'll include here a brief flow of the main points and events in episode 3, so don't read below if you want to watch the episode for yourself.

ep3

Hazuki has pretty much settled into Kouhei's house now, and she's still frustrated that he won't obey her commands. Kouhei's grandpa reveals to Kouhei that Hazuki is a vampire (you mean he didn't know? ). Kouhei also finally realizes that Hazuki bit him (this guy is a little slow, huh? ). Hazuki reveals that she wanted to make Kouhei her servant so she could leave the castle and look for her mother, who went out into the world. Kouhei isn't comfortable with the idea of helping Hazuki look for her mother, because when Kouhei was young, his mother promised to come back when she left once, but she died while away, so he doesn't think that Hazuki's mother would come back to her. Hazuki runs away, and Kouhei goes out to look for her before the sun rises. Back at the castle where Hazuki/Luna was imprisoned, two dark figures plot to capture Hazuki, no matter what it takes. Kouhei ends up taking Hazuki to the mountains where they find an old house that belonged to hazuki's mother. They find Hazuki's mother's cat, who leads them to a lake nearby where a sort of magic crystal plays back a message (or something like that) from Hazuki's mother. The last thing the message tells Hazuki is: If you (Hazuki) find a person you love, don't sign a blood contract with them (as in don't make them your slave ). As Kouhei and Hazuki head home, one of the two dark figures from earlier stand atop a house and watches them.

Basically, Hazuki's mom told Hazuki not to make a slave out of the person she loves (gee, I wonder who that person might turn out to be? ).

I give this episode a 10/10. We get some small humor at the beginning of the episode, but the main point of this episode is to reveal some of the plot. Character designs still look great (sometimes in an anime series, they reduce the quality of the character designs in certain episodes to speed up episode production), and it looks like there will be some more action next episode.

I just watched episode 1. The music by far stood out the most, wow! I'm not big on cuteness for cuteness' sake, but the overall premise interested me in this series. The opening cracked me up, It's just so bizarre. All and all, the cuteness and the gothic atmosphere balanced well. They could have done well going a more serious direction without the cuteness, but a lighthearted approach works well too. I'm hooked!

[Aydan]

After ep3,

Well... I have to say that this is turning out to be a pretty good show plot wise.
Magical and dark. Note that not many can pull off a magical atmosphere.

ep3

I though her mom said: "Hazuki, don't make a blood contract with anybody unless you know that they are someone you truly love".
This makes more sense, because if you make a blood contract you make another vampire. A vampire can suck someone's blood and then leave him or her to die, but if a blood contract is made you turn that person into a vampire. Why would you need a contract to make a slave anyway? Oh well, the last part is pure speculation, we'll see how they explain this in the rest of the show. Argh, we need more people subbing this.

This show moves up to a 9 out of 10 rating.

edit: lol @ my spelling

[Shinji103]

Yes, Aydan, we really do need more people subbing this series .

[CodeWordChobits]

Any idea how many eps this one is going to run? I don't want to start DLing it and have it end up like InuYasha... wich still has not freaking ended! *sigh* but back on topic. This looks pretty damn cool and all I hear is good... but I am not looking for a super long term commitment right now hehehe.

[Shinji103]

I kind of doubt that this series will last more than 26 episodes at most. The plot doesn't look at all like the InuYasha kind where it will take over 100 episodes.