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01 December 2009

Angel Wings Ch 60A Kindred Soul/Unexpected Instructors

Dragon Power? Simon Legree on the 'Angel'? As of 1 Dec 09 this is my latest chapter for Angel Wings. Enjoy it folks and I'll hurry up Chapter 61. Check out my stuff over at GAIA too. Sayonara and Kami bless you all this holiday season. Sorry- no pix because blogspot ain't cooperating- again! See ya soon- K&K


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keiman and kei
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Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Adventure - Updated: 11-27-09 - Published: 05-08-08 - id:4243950

AW Ch 60 'A Kindred Soul' or 'Unexpected Instructors'

Wow!Mar's been injured and now that worst of all combat weapons is almost in Zorin's cronies' hands- Gundams! Almost as terrifying as the 'God Guns' or the Angels' new toy- the r-- whoops! I almost let the neko outta the sack folks! This chapter will put two close tomos at loggerheads with each other and nai it ain't Vacuumhead and Firebrand either! Some old tomos returned and the Boss decides to head for Onsokamaru! Who's in sick bay and how did she end up there? Why is Yuri Donovan furious? Who are the newbies? Did the truckers succeed?

ANGEL WINGS

DISCLAIMER: OK Griff darlin’, it’s all yours. First I wanna thank Mr T for the use of his Angels and stuff. Then I wanna thank everyone else who has been allowing us to use their creations here like Thom Beers for the use of his ice road truckers Hugh, Drew, Rick, Eric, Alex and Bear. I took the liberty of naming the 3WA academy in Furool City on Shimougou after Mr Haruka Takachiho in honour of his creations- the Angels. How was that, Yuri? Great, kiddo. Oh hai it sure was, Kei! Now since we left ya up in the air last time let’s get to Ch 60 without any further meandering, shall we? Why is Zack Zero back and oro does he want with Suba Marina Oki? Can Mandy keep her big mouth shut? A hint re the titles- Aw do ya expect me to spoil it for ya? Oro does this all mean? We’ll find out momentarily gang. The Boss Red Marshall’s on the warpath again! Here ’tis:-

CHAPTER 60

'A Kindred Soul' or 'Unexpected Instructors'

"Have the good captain brought up to my quarters. He appears to be civilized so you needn't use a muzzle nor the shackles. Just the force beam cuffs. I'll be waiting." ordered the Red Marshall.

When poor Leth regained conciousness his wrists were encircled by some strange kind of glowing energy and he was seated in an armchair in some sort of sitting room. He pulled and pulled but the beams held despite his tremendous dragon strength.

"Strange. These light beams resist my strength yet they seem so flimsy. Their composition is like nothing I have ever before encountered." he mused aloud.

"That energy beam's base is a metal called 'Kelvinite', Captain. That stuff's a thousand times stronger than steel and a few hundred times harder than adamite, oro (what) you would know as diamond. If you promise to be a good little boy I'll have 'em taken off. Gonna behave yourself? (He nodded) Swear?" said the redhead.

"By the sacred honour of my clan, Madam." he intoned.

"OK 'CC', you can release him." she said and the beams vanished!

"Magic and sorcery?" asked an awestruck dragon.

"Nope. Just science and technology." replied the Boss who was now wearing her Marshall's uniform jacket over her torn sweatshirt and cutoff jeans. Kei still wore the same red ankle boots she'd used on the hapless dragon warrior.

"As you can see I am a Marshall in the 3WA and 'United Galactica' so I outrank you several times over, Captain. Sorry for the boot in the gut I gave you but dammit you asked for it, boyo! Of course I did forget that a kick while in deep space is fifty times stronger than it would be on the surface of a world so I apologize for knocking your ass out. I meant to simply boot you in the gut. Oro (What) the Hell are you gawking at, D'Greele?" said Keirran O'Halloran.

"You knocked ME out with one kick? We're in outer space? You are a Marshall and you are in charge of this fiasco? Is all of that true?" asked an astounded dragon.

"Quite correct on all counts, sir. This is indeed our commanding officer, Marshall Keirran Maureen Deirdre O'Shaughnessy O'Halloran of the 'World Welfare Works Association' which is the peace keeping arm of the 'United Galactica Federation of Galaxies' and we are in outer space. This is K-Class patrol starship 'Lovely Angel 2' and the Boss's kicks do pack quite a wallop especially when she delivers them in deep space. I beg your pardon, sir. I am the 'Central Computer Programming Unit' of the 3WA and the 'UG', however, everyone usually just calls me 'CC', Captain Lethbridge D'Greele of the 'Symphonian Dragoon Guards' or would you prefer Leth? (The dragon dragoon nodded dumbly) Excellent. You need not look so shocked, Leth. I analyzed your brain's sine waves and I have now recorded that information into my memory banks. May I wish you both a most pleasant good evening. Sayonara my tomos (friends)." intoned the for once civil 'CC'.

Kei nonchalantly tossed her jacket on the floor and plopped down onto her sofa. Her booted feet rested atop her glass coffee table. Her deep emerald aizu (eyes) searched his reddish golden orbs. Kei indicated the replicator.

"A drink, Leth? Just call me Kei or Boss. Everyone does. We don't stand on ceremony around her, me boyo." she said.

"Yes, thank you. A tankard of cold ale would be very nice, Boss." he replied.

"Ale. House. Cold. In a tankard." she ordered and a foaming tankard of icy cold ale magically appeared.

"Your ale, Leth." she added and poured out three fingers of 'Jameson's for herself. Leth stared at the girl. "We can replicate any damned thing we want but for me nothing's quite the same as real genuine Irish whiskey. How's your ale?" asked the Boss, downing her brew in one quick gulp. Leth took a sip and then drained his tankard.

"Hey! That is damned good stuff, Boss! (He stared at her) So it is true then? You really are in command? Really and truly?" he said.

"Yup. Cross my heart and hope to die. Marshall Keirran Maureen Deirdre O'Shaughnessy O'Halloran, 3WA, 'UG', commanding. At your service, Captain D'Greele. More ale?" replied the redhead.

Leth held out his tankard. "Yes, please! I never tasted its like before!" said the astonished dragoon.

"Of course not. It's oro (what) we call 'aoishi (blue) ale' but it's really a potent 'Romulan' fortified liquor and it ain't unlike old Terran Erin or Ireland's 'poteen'. However, a replicator can duplicate anything. (She handed him a fresh tankard) Go easy on it though because it's got quite a kick, Leth." she chuckled.

Leth laughed. "How strong can this brew possibly be? A hundred, a hundred twenty proof?" he asked and took a helthy swig.

"Try three or four hundred proof, tomo (friend)." answered an impish Kei. Leth went even more green than he already was and spat out his last swallow all over the Red Marshall. She glared at him and then grinned. Then they both began laughing like hyenas.

"Then there was that time Yuri almost got hitched to a godfather's kid but I spoiled the nuptials (just in time!) by blowing up the church on the day of the damned wedding! The vacuumhead still swears that I done that on purpose but I didn't! That church was the front for a major counterfeiting ring. (Kei chuckled) I can still see her face when I crashed the party wearing that nun's habit! Yuri must've thought that I'd really and truly taken the bloody vows!" howled a far from sober tro-con.

"Yeah only most nuns don't run around with submachine guns, you dipstick! Hello there, Captain D'Greele. Wing Commander Yuri Donovan, her exec. Please call me Yuri. By the way how's your tummy tum feeling? I heard that the airhead booted you in the gut. (Leth stared at the newcomer) I also do double duty as the ship's medic and I'm as close to a real doctor as you'll find aboard. We do have three 'doctors' but they are just time lords. (She turned to the repper) Tea. Earl Grey. Hot. Please." said Yuri who seated herself at the kitchenette's counter after picking up her repped cup of tea.

"Very nice to meet you, Miss Yuri. My-- gut is feeling just fine now. In retrospect I guess I really deserved that kick. I was trying to take the law into my hands. Dammit I really did want to end the 'Shadow Master's life. Haru, Elie and Musicaa would not have been very pleased at all had I done that and I am certainly glad that no authorities were around when I attempted that litle stunt!" replied Leth D'Greele. Both tro-cons gave him curious looks before grinning. Poor Leth wondered what the Hell the big joke was. Then they explained.

"We ARE police officers, Captain and out here we ARE the law. This is a K-Class patrol starship and we're both tro-cons , trouble consultants and we are fully empowered to take whatever actions are necessary to maintain peace and uphold intergalactic law." explained Yuri quietly. Leth repped himself up a sixth tankard of 'ale' and laughed heartily. "Sure and I suppose that means doing some 'eliminating' should the need arise?" he chortled. Suddenly the tro-cons' smiles vanished from their faces.

"If we deem it necessary you're damned right it does, me boyo." replied Kei woodenly.

"Absolutely necessary is oro (what) she means, Captain." added the svelte wing commander.

"Just call me Leth. I think I'll turn in early, ladies. Good evening to you." said the dragon warrior. Yuri tossed her teacup down the recycle chute and got to her feet.

"I'll see you to your quarters, Leth. I'll talk to YOU in the morning, Kei. Good night. C'mon Leth. Upsy daisy." So saying she propped the tipsy dragon against her shoulder. With his arm around her shoulders and her arm around his back she gently propelled him to the lift and then up to the newcomers' suite on Level Four. She pressed the door klaxon and waited. Suddenly the door flashed open.

"Mr Leth! Are you intoxicated, sir? Sssh! Please be quiet. Everyone's sleeping. Thank you very much for seeing that he got home safely, Miss. Not every cleaning lady would take the trouble to help out like that. Good night, my dear." said a small stubby grey blob that had answered the door. Yuri fumed but then she decided that in the dimness of the hallway that her uniform must resemble a chamber maid's outfit. Before she could reply to 'it' the portal had swished shut leaving her alone in the dark corridor.

Inside the suite Griff (for of course it was he!) had put Leth to bed in a lower bunk. Ruby awakened and rubbed his aizu (eyes).

"What's up, boyo? Is that Mr D'Greele? Boyo! He smells like a brewery!" yelped the frog-like creature in the top bunk. Griff put a finger to his lips.

"Sssh! He's in his cups now but he'll be OK by the morning. Go back to sleep, Ruby. Whatever you do please don't wake up Miss Elie after I finally got her to sleep. Mr Haru and Mr Musicaa insisted on checking out this vessel and I hope that they don't get into any trouble. Good night." whispered Griff but Ruby had already dozed off.

At that moment on another level of the ship-- "Halt! Who goes there? Come back here or I'll fire dammit!" shouted Rukia Kutschki.

"Good luck Haru. You're on your own this time." said Musicaa and he dashed for the gantryway stairs. Haru bolted down the corridor and headed for the lift banks. He didn't quite make it.

Leth D'Greele laughed aloud in his sleep as he recalled the circumstances of his initial encounters with the 'Deadly Dynamic Duo' and then ruefully recollected how he had failed so miserably at trying to outdrink the Red Marshall.

"Oro's (What's) the big joke, D'Greele?" asked John Raven.

"Just reminiscing, Raven. Have you known the Boss and the Duchess long?" asked the dragon dragoon guard.

"Only a few years, D'Greele but sometimes it feels more like an eternity. Don't worry, my friend. You too will soon get used to them." chuckled the 'ISSP' commander. He was rudely interrupted.

"Soup's on! Come and get your grub!" bellowed Goat Smith's voice over the PA system. A tall lanky guy leaned over and whispered in John's ear.

"I hear tell this is goona be a 'real' not a 'repped' dinner, John." drawled Captain Han Solo and Captain Gene Starwind nodded in agreement.

"Yeah I know and that 'usually' means that Her Royal Eminence has more bad news to give us!" added Gene glumly.

There being no room for him at the demons' table (Arigatou Kami or Thank God!) Raven opted to join the 'Rave Master's party. The 'Cowboy Bebop' troupe, the Alchemists' band, the 'Pokemon' gang and 'Crybaby's (Prince John) Royal contingent were their tablemates. A pert and pretty brunette with a heavy 'surfer' tan jetted over to their table. She smiled and pulled out a PDO (personal data organizer). She began reading a litany of tonight's menu.

"We got Beef Wellington, Bruschetta, garlic potatoes, candied yams, veggie medley, cornbread stuffing, corn pudding, Waldorf sald, fruit compote, Sauvignon Blanc 2117, java and for dessert we have a vanilla souffle. You guys can have anything else you want but it'll be 'repped' not 'real' homemade cooking. Edward Appledore! Stoip throwing rolls into Alphonse's armour! Control your kid, Faye! (The 'cowgirl' looked daggers at her) Sorry about that, folks. Ready to order now?" asked Perpigillian 'Peri' Winkle Brown. Doctor 6's Terran Miami Beach companion had been pressed into service as a waitress along with Mireille and Kira the 'NOIR' girls and Clover, Alex, Sammy and Mandy the three 'WOOHP' spies and their bratty schoolchum when Moonie and all of her sailor/soldier scouts had come down with the mumps!

Rin, Misty and Ash had all contracted chicken pox while Genie, Merrill, Melissa and Ila the 'Rune Soldier' treasure hunters, 'Derringer' Merrill Stryfe and 'Stun Gun' Millie Thompson the 'Insurace' girls and even Bulma Brief (Saiyaan Vegeeta was her hubby) had inexplicably come down with measles at the same time!

Sick Bay was so full up that Yuri had opened SB substations on Levels 4 and 1. Her mumps' patients she isolated on Level 1 right next to the suite housing her measles' patients.

Everyone finally decided on Tracy Edwards' home cooked dinner extravaganza and for once there was no bad news. It seemed that this feast's purpose was a 'thank you' for John Raven and his men as well as a chance for Kei to announce some good news for a change. They were lifting off for 'Romulus' at 0400 hours, 4 AM ashita (tomorrow) morning that being the only time a 'window' would be open for the next 18 solar monts. Raven was invited to bring his troops along and accompany them but John politely declined this offer. His 'ISSP' and 'KASP' troops had their own missions to complete so by midnight he and most of his forces had returned to their 'Onsokamaru' camps.

Lt Moran and two of his 'sappers' had elected to remain aboard in order to instruct the operators on the new 'Double O Riser' Gundams. The operators of course were Captain Jonathan Harlock and his ward Lt Neko Olson.

At 0400 exactly Gene smoothly lifted off 'Onsokamaru' and the 'Unholy 4' (Kei, Yuri, Mar, Kome) breathed a collective sigh of relief. Marlene Angel had recovered sufficiently from her near fatal ordeal to be permitted to sit in the 'Star Room' (Observation Lounge) on Level 7 for a few hours each day. The interim 'navvie' (navigator) was Zoe Morton with Nami Richards assisting her. Helping out Leila in the galley was Nyssa the Trakken girl in place of Zoe. Nat, Kome and the 'railgun' crew practiced constantly. Yuri, Sakura, Temari, Winry, Izumi and Ten Ten were rushed off their feet nursemaiding all the patients. With Yuri so busy and Mar still convalescing they needed a new executive officer so Kei chose Light Yagami whom (it turned out) was a brilliant strategist and a superb statistician. The sight of Ryuuk (his Shinigami death god who followed Light everywhere. He had no choice so long as Light still had the book.) was more than a bit unnerving at first, however, in a few days the bridge crews had become acclimated to the terrifying Shinigami and just ignored him. Kei spent every single waking moment on the 'holodecks' (Level Eight) running endless 'God Gun' scenarios hoping that she never had to use them. Jon Harlock and Neko Olson were drilled nonstop on the Gundams by Lt Sebastian Moran and his two callous cadre. InuYasha was appointed new security chief. Kei had reluctantly allowed Kouga the wolf youkai demon to be their new quad gunner in place of Neko. The 'Blonde Bomber' (Minnie Mae 'Kitten' Hopkins) was supervising the construction of portable bombs and grenades. Rally's scanning partner was newcomer Elie whose other companions had all become fighting instructors. Revy Roberts the 'Creature from the Black Lagoon') and Emma 'Queen Emeraldas' (Jon Harlock's niece) were giving marksmanship lessons to passengers and crew alike. There were 'no' exceptions. The mages, magicians, sorcerers, sorceresses, wizards, alchemists and the like were ordered to conduct magic lessons and hold mystical sessions. Again there were 'no' exceptions.

"Those durn fools are just showing off if you ask me! Looks like we are 'all' going to be 'dogs of the military' whether we like it or not!" observed Pinato 'Granny' Rockabelle.

Of course she was right. Granny is hardly ever wrong you know. Everone aboard was preparing for the big upcoming battle against the forces of Grand Admiral Thrawn and Count Dooku.

Granny was in the galley telling (and showing) Leila how a 'civilized' lady cooks dinner. Four levels above their heads Captain Kiva Nerese of 'Starfleet' was fuming!

Her 'USS Coriander' crew's orders were simple and concise. They were to maintain the mighty 'God Gun' on Deck 6 which in a way really WAS Deck 6. Kiva and her crew ached for action, however, orders were orders so they had better just grin and bear it, make the best of it and hope. A few long hours after liftoff Kiva took a break and went down to the bar leaving Mr Bishop in charge of the detail.

"Ka-Mi! Do I ever hate that blasted 'God Gun'! Ever try swabbing down a two miles long deck and then having to swab the walls and ceiling too?" complained Kiva. The Bjorn captain was covered with grease and grime from head to toe.

"Tell me about it, mum! That Sebby Moran's a slave driver! Simon Legree could pick up pointers from him! I'm getting so woozy from that liquidy 'Ataron' gas we need to be immersed in to pilot those bloody 'Double O Risers', Cap!" agreed Neko Olson who'd been undergoing intensive training to learn to pilot those two new Gundams along with her 'Uncle' Jon Harlock.

"Gimme a double rock & rye, Griffy and keep 'em coming! Holy Mother Mary! I 'loathe' railguns!! Now Solo's got us doing double speed drills on the shimatta (damned) things!" cursed Lt Cmdr (Acting Commodore) Naturle 'Nat' Badgiruel Edwards (Tracy the chef from last evening was her husband). The nekomata human/trill/shapeshifter glanced over at the newcomer.

"Solo? I thought you were the gun team crew chief, Nat?" said a confused Neko.

"I was dammit! That is until Her Royal Eminence's new 'grand vizier' (Light Yagami) decided that Han had had more railgun experience than I had! Now he's crew chief and I've been demoted to loader. Where's that drink, Griffy?" complained Nat.

"Here you go, ma'am. Sorry but when I left him this morning Mr D'Greele was still feeling a bit under the weather and I'm worried about him, ma'am." explained Griff. Kiva grinned malisciously.

"Why? What's wrong with the great sky dragon now, kid?" she asked.

"Well it's true he was a little 'in his cups' last evening when that nice chambermaid delivered him home last evening. I have never seen her before so the girl must be new and-- I say! There she is now! Excuse me! Yo! Come over here, my girl! That's an order! (The new 'maid' came over) Tell the captain here (he pointed to poor Kiva) exactly what happened to Mr D'Greele last night. I say! Speak up, woman! I just gave you an order!" shouted the grey blob angrily. He was not used to uppity servants like this girl. It did puzzle him, however, why the captain, lieutenant and lieutenant commander suddenly leaped to their feet and saluted this violet-maned chambermaid, a mere servant! After all Lt Cmdr Edwards was an acting commodore so wasn't she the ranking officer there? Musicaa grabbed Griff and boxed his ears. Then he whispered in the grey pudding thing's ear.

"You dim-witted dolt! That's no chambermaid! That's the executive officer- Wing Commander Yuri Donovan! Next to Reds she's top dog aboard this crate, stupid! Light's only filling in for her during this kids' epidemic we have aboard. Leth probably got himself drunk on that blue ale stuff we all ahd only he got to meet the big cheese and we didn't, not yet anyway. Now behave yourself and gimme a Skotch & soda. Thanks." said the leader of the 'Silver Rhythm Band' and he politely stood up until Yuri had taken a stool at the bar.

"White Zinfandel, please. Your Mr D'Greele will be right as rain in a day or so. He made the cardinal error of trying to outdrink the Boss and nobody can accomplish that feat, my tomo (good friend)." said Yuri.

"How's the 'God Gun' detail going, Kiva?" asked the exec.

"Fine, mum. (Kiva glanced at the wall chromo behind Griff and Ruby) Look at the time. Well I'd better get back to work. Later gang." replied Kiva.

"Yeah. Lt Moran's gonna be sending out a search party for me if I don't get back to class. If you'll excuse me, ma'am." said Neko.

"Kami! The pirate will have kittens if I'm late back for drill. Hold up, Kiva and I'll ride up with you. Nice to see you, Wing Commander." said Nat and she too dashed off. Yuri smiled ruefully at Musicaa.

"Well? Don't you have somewhere you gotta be, Mr Musicaa?" she asked and sipped her white wine. Yuri unlike others of her geneology (Gaels/Irish) rarely touched anything stronger than wine or beer.

Musicaa grinned at her and lit a cigarette. He offered her one and Yuri accepted it. He lit it for her and chuckled.

"Somewhere to be? Me? Nope. I'm laying low for awhile,Miss Yuri. Last night Haru (Glory aka the 'Rave Master') got caught by that soul reaper babe (Rukia) and she took him to see that big doggie thing (InuYasha was new security chief). He wanted to know why Haru was hanging around the armoury and when Haru told him he was just out for a moonlight stroll the doggie put him on KP duty. Imagine that! The 'RAVE Master' scrubbing pots and pans!" he chortled. Yuri stared back coolly.

"Funny. I thought you were with him on that stroll? Well, weren't you?" she asked.

"Yeah but I ducked into a stairwell and hot-footed it back to our place. Discretion is oftentimes the better part of valour, Wing Comm- I mean Miss Yuri." he answered.

"You can drop the 'Miss', Musicaa. Just call me Yuri. Didn't the Boss tell you that we don't stand on ceremony around here?" she replied. He pointed at the retreating forms of Kiva, Nat and Neko.

"Then why'd they all salute you?" he asked and Yuri shrugged her shoulders. She drained her glass and signalled Ruby for a refill.

"Kiva's with 'Starfleet', Nat was with the 'Earth Alliance' and Neko's been in quite a few different armies. Disciplinary training's a hard thing to forget, tomo (good friend) mine. (Yuri patted his forearm and stood up. She polished off her second Zinny and waved off another refill) I'll have a quiet word with InuYasha. He's your 'big doggie thing', Musicaa. I'll tell him that Haru's not a spy and he'll rescind the punishment. We certainly can't have the 'RAVE Master' getting dishpan hands now, can we?" she giggled.

A striking young redhead was sipping a strawberry ice cream soda at another table in the rec room. She glanced across at the big guy who was shring the table with her. Taller than Haru but not as tall as Musicaa or Leth he was impressive. His name when she had asked Faye Valentine was James 'Jimbo' Hawking and he was Gene Starwind's first mate on his 'Outlaw Star' freighter ship. Now he mainly co-piloted when needed or just lounged around. Faye had told her that from one fellow gambler to another 'Jimbo' knew where to find the best action aboard the 'LA2' but she also told Elie that gambling was not permitted by the 3WA and 'UG' higher-ups either. This was of course, as we all know, a bald-faced lie of the highest water!

"Where can I find some action around her, Mr Hawking? Miss Valentine said you knew all the places aboard ship." asked Elie suddenly. 'Jimbo' and Faye exchanged winks and the 'cowgirl' smiled impishly. She mouthed the name 'Junpei' and pointed at the deck floor. Hawking raised his glass for a refill. Faye took the refill from Griff and walked over to 'Jimbo' and Elie.

"Here ya go, 'Jimbo'. Did you tell this kid about the big game going on downstairs? The 'Elf FragmentsPoker Session' with Junpei?" said Faye stifling a giggle.

"No, not yet. Faye, that's pretty high stakes, ya know! Can this kid handle it?" asked a suddenly serious James Hawking. An actor extraordinaire is our 'Jimbo', that he is!

"I've got plenty!" cried Elie brandishing a wad of 'Symphony Notes', the currency of 'Symphonia'.

"Put those away before somebody sees them." seethed Faye.

"OK I'll give you the details, kid." said 'Jimbo' and Faye folded her arms and stalked away.

"My advice to you, kid, is to forget it. That game's not for you, trust me!" said Faye, ordering another double Skotch.

"You sure about this, Miss Elie? (Elie nodded eagerly) Go to the third lift car over there and tell it to take you to 'Sublevel 2. Western Quadrant' and then locate Slot 10-R. You can't possibly miss it because it's got a mammoth M-17 tank in it. The guy there is named Junpei. Tell him that you have a spell fragment from Elfland. You understand that? (Ellie nodded again) Good. Don't forget it. That is the code we use because both the 'UG' and the 3WA frown on gambling, Miss Elie. (He pointed at Elie's twin thundersticks) Better leave those noisemakers with me. No weapons are permitted belowdecks. (Elie reluctantly unbucked her weapons belt and handed it and her twin blasters over to Hawking.) Good luck, kiddo." said 'Jimbo' and crossed his fingers. Elie crossed hers and hurried over to the lift banks. She'd no sooner left when 'Jimbo', Faye and half the rec room's occupants burst out laughing. It seemed everyone was in on this prank.

"You do know oro's (what's) going to happen when she recites that doggerel litany to our Junpei, don't you?" asked Jamie Wilson and Hawking nodded.

"And do you know oro's (what's) going to happen when Miss Elie tells anyone who sent her down there to say it, don't you?" asked Goat Smith. Again 'Jimbo' nodded albeit no as confidently as before.

"Well she's the one that wanted some action and Junpei is just the guy to give her some for sure!" chortled Faye Valentine who was already three sheets to the wind.

END of Ch 60. Ch 61 soon. Getting interesting eh? Wonder how our heroine’s gonna get outta this one? Read on and r/r/s away as always. Have a wunnerful day and sfn/sys/jm/Kami bless you all for your interest and assistance. Hooble-toodle-doo! Toodles tomos watashi-K&K

I dickered over this chapter’s titles. Let me know if I got ‘em right eh?

Hope ya had a happy and safe Guy Fawkes' Day! Happy Thanksgiving. Dunno if the Japanese even celebrate it but Naruto does.

PS- I really do appreciate all your loyalty and support over the years my tomos watashi all! And you can take that to the bank folks!-K&K

See ya next blog post. Toodles-K&K

This chapter brings me up to date. Then I have to wind up this one and think about my next one folks- K&K

18 November 2009

Angel Wings "Monsters on the Angel?'/'RAVEing Lunatics?'

AW Ch 59 'Monsters On the Angel?' or 'RAVEing Lunatics?'

Wow!Mar's been injured and now that worst of all combat weapons is almost in Zorin's cronies' hands- Gundams! Almost as terrifying as the 'God Guns' or the Angels' new toy- the r-- whoops! I almost let the neko outta the sack folks! This chapter will put two close tomos at loggerheads with each other and nai it ain't Vacuumhead and Firebrand either! Some old tomos returned and the Boss decides to head for Onsokamaru! Who's in sick bay and how did she end up there? Why is Yuri Donovan furious? Who are the newbies? Did the truckers succeed?

ANGEL WINGS

DISCLAIMER: OK Pluu darlin’, it’s all yours. First I wanna thank Mr T for the use of his Angels and stuff. Then I wanna thank everyone else who has been allowing us to use their creations here like Thom Beers for the use of his ice road truckers Hugh, Drew, Rick, Eric, Alex and Bear. I took the liberty of naming the 3WA academy in Furool City on Shimougou after Mr Haruka Takachiho in honour of his creations- the Angels. How was that, Yuri? Great, kiddo. Oh hai it sure was, Kei! Now since we left ya up in the air last time let’s get to Ch 59 without any further meandering, shall we? Why is Zack Zero back and oro does he want with Suba Marina Oki? Can Mandy keep her big mouth shut? A hint re the titles- Aw do ya expect me to spoil it for ya? Oro does this all mean? We’ll find out momentarily gang. The Boss Red Marshall’s on the warpath again! Here ’tis:-

CHAPTER 59

'Monsters On the Angel?' or 'RAVEing Lunatics?'

"Sorry I asked!" said a visibly shaken Hugh who now busied himself testing his brakes. Rebecca took a quick pull from her 'medicinal' flask.

"Wanna trade places, Ivy?" she whispered but the Dark Knight shook his head.

"Sorry but I feel safer with a man of God than I would with a blasphemer, Rebecca dear." he replied and Becky smiled ruefully.

"Well we did say we wanted to help out so I guess I will just grin and bear it. Good luck, Lord Ivy." said the shaken redhead.

"May God protect us." replied Ivy solemnly.

"Don't you go starting up now, milord. One preacher's quite enough." chortled Hugh.

"How does the road look up ahead, Lord Drew?" trilled Rebecca after they had rumbled on a few hundred more metres.

"I dunno." was his reply.

"Then find out you idiot! I don't wanna become part of this tunnel's wallpaper down here dammit!" trilled the Polar Bear angrily.

"All clear ahead, Hugh. I'm sending you a picture." trilled Drew.

"Got it, Lord Drew. Keep a wary aizu (eye) out for trouble. Thanks." trilled Rebecca.

Meanwhile Eric and Bear were engaged in a heated discussion over who should drive the reverse rig while the hanyou and the youkai looked on worriedly.

"I insist, Bear. I will go backwards." said Eric.

"No no, Eric. I insist that you lead us." replied Bear.

"I don't like riding in that beast at all but I sure as Hell don't wanna ride up that hole backwards!" howled InuYasha.

"You dumb mutt! Whassa matter? Little mongrel got claustrophobia or are you just plain scared?" needled Kouga.

"I'll show you who's scared ya mangy wolf!" shouted the big hanyou angrily.

After Jon Raven had separated the two combatants he whirled on the truckers.

"Will you two make up your shimatta (damned) minds already! Hugh and the minister are gonna be at the first kilo marker soon. Maybe it will be best that the old one leads and the younger one follows. Do it and that's an order, boyos!" snarled an impatient 'ISSP' crew chief. Rick and Ichigo's sled had left ten minutes ago. Finally Bear and the hanyou left carefully followed by Eric and the wolf.

"How do you like riding backwards, ya mangy wolf?" chuckled InuYasha.

"It's a little bit like that train ride we took on 'Kagura', Mutt. Not too bad once ya get used to it." trilled Kouga.

"That was a damned roller coaster, stupid!" said Ichigo. "Rick's sick again, Bear so I'm sending you a strip. Looks peaceful enough ahead- so far. Boy am I glad that we only got a few more miles left to go. This cave is really spooky." added the soul reaper teenager. Unlike the demonic trio Rick DID have claustrophobia and it was getting worse. Ichigo glanced over and grinned.

"Only a few more miles and we'll be topside. Hang in there, Rick. Take deep breaths, keep calm and for Heaven's sake use those damned barf bags! I just had this skysled cleaned for Christ's sake!" yelled Kurosaki.

"Sorry Ikki but closed in places really make me sick." replied Rick.

"It's Icchi Rick not Ikki. Just take it easy and you'll be fine." said Ichigo.

Two rockslides and three near cave-ins later Hugh and Alex arrived on the surface preceded by Drew and Naraku's team. Alex had been holding an impromptu prayer session until Moran politely told them to back off so the Titan-sized Gundam could be unloaded. All went well and soon 'pattern enhancers' (transporter markers) ringed all hands as well as both rigs, the skysled and the first of the Double O Riser Gundams. He turned to Rebecca and saluted.

"We'll have Lt Ari beam your group up first, ma'am. That is after your second group gets here." explained Moran who had been sent up ahead of the convoy by skycycle so Raven's exec could oversee their arrivals. Moran's 'KASP' patrol team was busy handing out repped food and beverages to the grateful truckers, their guards and their escorts. Moran picked up the vidmike from his skycycle.

"Lt Ari? Moran here. First shipment here and prepped for pickup. I'll advise you when the second one arrives so stand by. I'm sending up the Gundam groups one at a time. Over." trilled Lt Sebastian Moran, a direct descendant of Professor James Moriarty's infamous sidekick Colonel Sebastian Moran. Raven's 'borrowed truck push' Lt James Moriarty was likewise a direct descendant of the dastardly Professor James Moriarty, the 'Napoleon of Crime' as Sherlock Holmes once described him.

However, neither lieutenant was in any way like his namesake ancestour thank Kami (God).

"Roger that and willco. Ari out." trilled the Terran actress who was currently serving as the 'Angel's transporter officer.

"Roger. Moran out." trilled the exec. "Moran to Chief Raven. First package received and addressed. Awaiting second parcel. Over." he trilled.

"Good work, Seb. Advise me when you are ready to execute transfer of both parcels. Raven out." trilled his superior.

"Roger willco, sir. Moran out." trilled his young lieutenant.

"Steep upgrade ahead. It should be visible on your vidscreen, Bear." trilled Rick who had finally recovered enough to return to his scanning duties.

"Yeah pal we see it. Thanks." trilled InuYasha. "Hey old man! Rick says we got a little hill up ahead." he said to Bear who frowned.

"Respect your elders, Dog Boy! Trill Eric and Wolfie and tell 'em about the hill. Tell Eric to drop his gears down to five on my mark. Got all that?" said Bear and the big hanyou nodded.

"Yeah. OK. Hey animal! We got a hill coming up. Tell the ladies' man beside ya to drop his gears down to five on the old man's mark. OK?" trilled InuYasha. A few seconds passed.

"Yeah, I just told him, Dog Breath. He said to have Bear tell you, you tell me and I'll tell him. Does your puny canine brain comprehend all that stuff, Mutt?" trilled Kouga.

"Stop screwing around on the comm relay you guys! That 'little hill' is 'Dead Man's Leap' and its one Helluva lot steeper than it damned well looks! At the top it drops off by forty degrees to a slick downhill slope. Hugh almost fishtailed there so be careful and keep the chatter down. That's an order, demons. Moran out." trilled the exec.

"Roger that, sir. I believe they both heard you. Kurosaki out." trilled Ichigo.

"Ready? Three, two, one, mark." relayed InuYasha to Kouga to Eric. At that same exact instant both Eric and Bear dropped into fifth gear and climbed slowly to the top of the 'leap' where each trucker downshifted to the lowest gear on their gear boxes. Feathering their brakes and intoning prayers like monks they both reached the 'leap's foot safely. An hour later they merged into waning daylight preceded by Rick and Ichigo's sled. Soon the second parcel was all ready to go.

"Moran to Chief Raven. All systems go, sir. Ready to execute. Over." relayed Lt Moran to John Raven.

"Well done. Proceed with mission. Relay me when completed. Raven out." trilled Raven.

"Roger willco, sir. Moran out." trilled his exec.

"Lt Moran to Lt Ari. You have the first set of coordinates, correct? Excellent. Beam them up, ma'am. Over." trilled Seb Moran.

Hugh, Alex, the 'Dark Knight', Rebecca, Naraku and Drew vanished along with their cargo, rigs and skysled.

"Success, Lieutenant. Got 'em. All safe and sound. God almighty! That thing is huge! You sure there's nobody inside of it, sir? Yeah? OK I'm ready for the other one whenever you are. Over." trilled Ari.

"Well done, Love. You have received the second set of coordinates, ma'am? Good. Energize. Over." trilled Moran once again.

"Second set received and contained. Man are these things eery! Sorry Seb but I'm placing a Level Ten force field beam around both of those monsters. Got a message for you. Please advise Commander Raven and his adjutant as well as all your men are cordially invited to dinner aboard the 'Angel' at 1900 hours, seven o'clock this evening, Lt Moran. Over." trilled Ari.

"Roger that, Ari. See you at seven. Moran out." trilled the young 'KASP' officer.

"Moran to Chief Raven. Mission accomplished, sir. We are invited to dinner aboard ship at seven and I think we'd better be there, John. Maybe we'll find out oro (what) Reds is up to next. Over." trilled Moran.

"I think you may be right, Seb. Better post a guard at that tunnel entrance although by now Dooku and Thrawn have probably written off both this place and those two Leviathans as a lost cause and conceded them to us. I'll have Jimmy (Lt Moriarty) gather the troops down here and get them aboard the 'Angel' by seven. You do the same with your men topside and I'll meet you in Reds' rec room bar at seven. Raven out." trilled the 'ISSP Ganymede' commander.

"Roger willco, John. Moran out." trilled the 'KASP' lieutenant.

Accordingly ay 1900 John, Sebastian and James along with most of their 'ISSP' and 'KASP' sappers and officers were seated in the rec room at the massive bar aboard the 'Lovely Angel 2'.

"No doubt about it, lads. This has got to be the best stocked tavern in the cosmos and Reds always has the very best liquors to boot." announced John Raven.

"Amen! I'll drink to that!" agreed a hulking seven and a half feet tall dragon sporting grey 'railroad tracks' (captain's bars) on his shoulders. Captain Leth D'Greele had been picked up by the 'Angel' several days ago when he'd been discovered on a tiny asteroid accompanied by an ash blonde teenaged boy named Haru Glory, a feisty red-headed girl named Elie who appeared to be slightly younger, a twenty-something dark-haired youth named Musicaa, a roly poly frog-like thing named Ruby, a chicken roquette-shaped greyish thing named Griff, a white carrot-like nosed 'dog' named Pluu and a huge giant of indeterminate age who kept shouting about 'shadow stones' and revenge. In Jon Harlock's opinion they had all just escaped from the 'Arkham Asylum' looney bin on 'Quorostan Ten'! Fortunately as it turned out most of them were heroes on their own world and pretty damned good fighters except for the whiny frog, the grey coward and the sleepy dog.

However, with the sole exception of the 'shadow stones' lunatic who was confined to a brig belowdecks all of them were billeted together. When Jon and Emma had interrogated the thing in the brig they were both certain that he was definitely from 'Arkham'.

"I am the 'Shadow Master' and I will destroy the Universe! You cannot keep me here! No prison can hold me! I am omnipotent! I shall seek out the 'Memories of the Stars' which will point the way to the hidden 'Shadow Stones' and when I possess them I will use the 'Ultimate Shadow Stone' to release their 'dark bring' forces and I wiull rule the Universes!" bellowed the Titan.

"His head is bewitched, lassie." said Jon and he shook his head. "Poor laddie." he added.

"He's a whack-o that's for sure. He's as nutty as a fruitcake, Uncle Jon." agreed 'Queen' Emma Emeraldas, Jon's niece. A disturbance in the rec room snapped Raven awake.

"Please! Allow me to put him out of his misery, sir! Please!" begged Leth D'Greele. Yuri shook her head and looked around for assistance.

"No way! When we can send you guys back home that thing belowdecks goes back with you. Until that time he stays confined to the brig. He is clearly insane, poor guy." said Wing Commander Donovan firmly.

"He ain't the only one, vacuumhead. Wait'll you hear the load of Jacarondan crapola that 'Whitey' (Haru) and that screwloose redhead (Elie) just laid on me! He's a 'Rave Master' whatever the Hell that is and she's their world and the universes' only hope of survival! The 'sane' one with the silver lasso (Musicaa) agreed with 'em! Those pets of theirs are baka (crazy) too! The sooner we get rid of these looney tunes the better I'll like it dammit! (Kei spun to confront D'Greele) Now you get back to your quarters, dragon! That thing downstairs is under 3WA jurisdiction ever since it came aboard and as ranking 'UG' officer that means me! (The Boss pointed to her own chest) You try to 'ice' him and you'll answer to me! I will arrest you and I will put you in jail- in another brig! Savvy? Now get the FXXX outta here!" snarled the Red Admiral menacingly.

Instead of doing the intelligent thing and simply obeying her Captain Leth D'Greele of the 'Symphonian Dragoon Guards' drew himself up to his full height and glowered down at Keirran O'Halloran with fire in his red aizu (eyes). "I am Leth D'Greele, a captain in the 'Symphonian Dragoon Guards' while YOU are a mere female- a foolish girl! Begone from here at once lest I report your callous impudence to this ship's commanding officer!" roared Leth.

The Boss was of course livid with rage and soon her face's colour matched that of her fiery crimson locks. They contrasted quite nicely with her intense emerald green orbs. Poor Leth was still pointing out his 'railroad tracks' on his epauletted shoulders when Kei's right boot thonked into his midsection. Slowly Captain Leth D'Greele crumpled to the deck floor.

END of Ch 59. Ch 60 'A Kindred Soul' or 'Unexpected Instructors ' soon. Getting interesting eh? Wonder how our heroine’s gonna get outta this one? Read on and r/r/s away as always. Have a wunnerful day and sfn/sys/jm/Kami bless you all for your interest and assistance. Hooble-toodle-doo! Toodles tomos watashi-K&K

I dickered over this chapter’s titles. Let me know if I got ‘em right eh?

Hope ya had a happy and safe Guy Fawkes' Day! Happy Thanksgiving. Dunno if the Japanese even celebrate it but Naruto does.

PS- I really do appreciate all your loyalty and support over the years my tomos watashi all! And you can take that to the bank folks!-K&K

See ya next blog post. Toodles-K&K

This chapter brings me up to date. Then I have to wind up this one and think about my next one folks- K&K

04 November 2009

TV Anime Guide for Nov 09 Updated 1 Nov 09

Monthly Anime on TV Viewing Guide for Anime Programming on ComcastOnDemand Channels:

NOVEMBER 2009- Updated 1 Nov 09

If you're a Boss fan (Bruce Springsteen not our Boss Kei O'Halloran that is) you might like to know he has a younger sister Pamela an actress. Currently she is starring as a female Jason Voorhees (Angela Baker in her case) in two Friday the 13th spoof films- Sleepaway Camp II and III. There was an original SC but she ain't in it. There were also SC IV and V and VI comes next year. It's called Reunion so Pam may be in it. Dunno about IV or V. She may be in them as well. It runs on Fearnet under Free Movies so be warned- blood and guts galore!

COD/CE/AdultSwim/Action

Code Geass (Ep 22)
Death Note (Eps 2,3,4)
Ghost in the Shell/SAC (Eps 15 to 18)
InuYasha (Eps 144 to 148)

COD/CE/AnimeSelects is back. CE/FunimationAnime/AnSel now has Eps 9 to 12 of GundamSeedDestiny and Eps 5-6 of Vampire Princess Miyu. Sadly Anime Network is no longer available OnDemand. Sorry.

Regrettably I will no longer be listing anything anime nor cartoon from COD/Kids. There are just too many to keep following them. Again sorry for the inconvenience. Be warned, however, that many anime/cartoons/movies/series here can be pay per view especially the stuff under COD/Kids/All Movies.

COD/CE/IFC/Anime

IFC Alert: This just in folks- IFC has added Basilisk a Hieian Era Samurai/Ninja anime series to its lineup. For us it's Tuesdays at 11:30 PM ET. Check your TV schedules in your area.

COD/CuttingEdge/FunimationAnime ( Some are listed under Movies&Events too):

These titles are available under both Cutting Edge/Funimation Anime and Movies & Events/Funimation Anime. These titles are first episode free and 99 cents per each successive episode:

D. Gray-Man (Eppys 32 to 36)
Heroic Age (Eppys 21 to 26)
Buso Renkin (Eppys 21 to 26)
Nabarino No Ou (Eppys 11 to 15)
Tower of Druaga (Eppys 5 to 12)
Blassreiter (Eppys 5 to 11)
Nana (Eppys 12 to 16)
Dragonaught (Eppys 1 to 8)
Hunter X Hunter (Eppys 1 to 6)
El Cazador (Eppys 1 to 6)(NEW)(Bounty hunter finds amnesiac girl who is wanted Dead or Alive)

These Funimation Anime titles are free:

Drama-Comedy:

Air Gear (Eps 7-8)(NEW)(Young folks training to be pilots)
Case Closed (Eps 37 to 39)
Fruits Basket (Eps 13-14)(Pleasant little kids romance ditty with little plot)(New)
Negima! (Eps 6-7)
Shuffle! (Eps 6-7)

Action-Fantasy:

Galaxy Railway (Eps 25-26)
Mushi Shi (Eps 23-24)
Sasami (Eps 21-22)
xxxHolic (Eps 11-12)(Addicted to Sorcery & Witchcraft? This your mug of java)(New)
Solti Rei (Eps 7-8)(NEW)(Not sure what this one is yet)
Tsubasa Chronicles (Eps 7-8)(Tsubasa is a submarine I think)


Darker Than Black (Eps 21 to 26)(Contract killers w/ supernatural powers working for evil)(FREE)

Ah My Goddess (Eps 9 to 12)(NEW)(A goddess enrolls in school)(FREE)


All pay per view anime available under Movies & Events/ Funimation Anime(includes above ppv titles)

Movies-Specials:

These are $2.99 each to view:

Big Wind Up (Eps 14 to 16 and 17 to 19) (Video games anime)

King of Bandits Jing OVA (Ultimate bandit saves world)


This next section of COD/Kids may have changed. Remember onegai that I only keep the Kids/Movies and Kids/Free Movies updated now. As far as I know all the kiddie stuff and teen stuff under Kids is still there albeit later eppys than I have here. Ditto for the Free Movis and Premium Channels sections for kid stuff. Check it out if you're interested at COD:

COD/PremiumChannels/Starz/StarzKids

Hansel & Gretel
The Pagemaster
Ferngully (Amazon Adventure)
Chronicles of Narnia 2/Prince Caspian
Iron Giant
Wall-e
All Dogs Go to Heaven 2
Batman & Robin
Follow That Bird!
Thunderbirds on Patrol!
Secret of NIMH II
Comic Books Unbound
Anime: Drawing Revolution
Bolt (Travolta's a dog/Hannah Montana's a cat)
Wubbzy's Big Movie
The Witch's Dance (Princess Sydney wants a witch to turn her into a pumpkin!)
The Happy Cricket

COD/PremiumChannels/Encore/Kids

The Pagemaster
An American Tale (Spielberg's Russian mouse adventure animated film)
Daffy Duck's Movie and DD- Quackbusters
Ferngully
Dr Seuss- Grinch w. Jim Carrey
Persepolis (Unusual anime re a girl coming of age in Iran)
Nightmare Before Christmas (Xmas meets Hall-o-we'en a la Tim Burton)


COD/PremiumChannels/Encore

Resident Evil 3
Mimic
Tokyo Raiders
Cowboy Way (Raunch anime re horny cowboys- Rated X)

COD/PremiumChannels/Starz/AllMovies

Spiderman 3
Underdog
Untraceable
8 Women (A superb mystery- French w/ English subs)

COD/PremiumChannels/Max/Movies

Incredible Hulk
Fantastic Four 2 (Silver Surfer)
New Wolverine flick (Sneak Peek)
The Mummy 3/Dragon Emporer (stars Jet Li)
Kung Fu Panda
Jumper (Goku's DB powers of instant transmission- don't let Uncle Sam find out!)

COD/PremiumChannels/Movieplex

God's Gun (Yeah a Western but well if you've read my ff's you'll get the irony)
Nightmare Before Christmas (Tim Burton has 9 due out soon so don't miss it)
Sneakers (Robert Redford a computer nerd? Better believe it. Dan Ackroyd too!)
See balance of titles at beginning of guide above.

COD/PremiumChannels/HBO/Movies/AllMovies

AI (Artificial Intelligence- Animated Androids)
Babylon AD (Vin Diesel in futuristic NYC. Based on game)
City of Ember (Kids saving subterranean city)
Max Payne (Mark Wahlberg is still invincible. Even against Aesir birds!)
The Dark Knight (Batman and he's got Arkham Asylum game out now)
The Incredible Hulk (Not as incredible as Bill Bixby/Lou Ferrigno were)
Hellboy II- The Golden Army
Kiltro
Nancy Drew
Kung Fu Panda
The Golden Compass
Titan AE
X-Men

COD/Kids/CartoonNetwork (No change from May for any of Kids shows):

Ben 10 Alien Force (Eps 1,2,25,26)
Total Drama Island (Cartoon but animeish fun. Better than 'Survivor' reality game show which it mimics!) (Eps 18 to 22, Total Drama Drama Special Eppy)
Secret Saturdays (Cartoon or anime? Very like old Johnny Quest shows)(Eps6,7,11 to 14)
Bakugan (Eps 8 to 16)(Dueling tops to save the world BION! Small fry fare)

COD/Kids/DisneyXD

Iron Man (Cartoon but animelike)
Titles: Grim Reaper

Spiderman (Ditto as above)
Titles: Menace of Mysterio; Alien Costume- Pt 1; Spider-Slayers

Pucca (Chop Socky fun cartoon)
Titles: Chop Chewie; Chef Napped; Tame That Toon; Fab Abyo

Yin Yang Yo! (Cartoon like 'Avatar the Last Airbender' and pretty decent)
Titles: Camp Magic Pants; Clown-Fu Fighting; Skirting the Issue; For the Love

X-Men (Could be anime or cartoon. A great series and great flicks. Hugh Jackman (Wolverine in films) hosted the Oscars)
Titles:The Cure; Slave Island; X-Men: Cold; Unstoppable

Aaron Stone
Titles: First Strike, Hero Rising (Parts 1-2), Timeout, Rockin' the Free

COD/Kids/KidsWB

Thundercats (A very rare anime and Mama has been after it for years!) (Eps 112 to 116)

(Entire Thundercats series now available on 7 DVDs for $60 at mytvshowdvds.com)

Batman Beyond (Animelike cartoon w/ old Bruce training new Batman) (Eps 201 to 207)

The Batman (Cool animelike cartoon w/ Rimo (Ray's bro) Romano as the Batman) (Eps 212 to 213 and 301 to 303)

COD/Kids/Bomerang

Nothing this time I'm afraid.

COD/Kids/Free Movies

The Trojan Horse(Famous novel w/ kids as characters)
The Song Spinner
Muppets From Space (Don't miss the houseflies and chimps in space flicks either. Hunt for them. They are there- trust me.)
GI Joe- Mission (Their first meeting with COBRA)(Animated film)(Don't miss the movie!)
Halfback of Notre Dame
The Ugly Duckling
Kids: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Nemo's a kid?)
X-Men: Ascension
X-Men: Dark
The Witch's Dance (Princess Sydney wants a witch to turn her into a pumpkin!)

COD/Kids/Kids Movies(Pay Per View films)

Aladdin (Robin Williams is the genie) $2.99
Dr Seuss' Horton Hears A Who (Jim Carrey is Horton) $4.99
City of Ember (Save the glittering city!) $4.99
Kung Fu Panda (Jack Black the fighting panda) $4.99
Madagascar 2 (Lost animals again) $4.99
Open Season 2 (Deer leads animals against hunters again) $4.99
Pocahontas (Indian girl loves nature and Smitty) $2.99
Return to Neverland (PP must rescue Wendy from Hook years later) $2.99
Wall-E (The Oscar winner of 2008) $4.99
Atlantis the Lost Empire $2.99
Inkheart $4.99
Pink Panther 2 $4.99
Tale of Desperaux $4.99
TMNT (The turtles are back) $2.99

The Wiggles (13 movie skits @ $2.99 each)(Regular eppys are free at Kids/PBS Sprout. The Wiggles are a down under Aussie music quartet for kids. Meet Greg Page, Anthony Field, Jeff Fatt and Murray Cook who join Sprout's morning lineup weekdays at 6 AM ET starting Monday 24 August. Sure to appeal to the small fry!

Many more- Check the onscreen guides

COD/Kids/4KidsTV

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Back to Sewer)
Titles: Back to Sewer #6; Hacking Stockman; Search for Splinter- Pts 1-2; Turtles Space- Pt 1

Yugioh 5 D's
Titles: Duel to Remember; Lockdown Duel (Pts 1-2) Fire It Up; The Takeback (Pts 1-2)

Chaotic (Weird one but a cartoon) (Eps 147 to 149)
Dino King (Another oldie weirdo cartoon) (Eps 140 and 142)

COD/Kids/Kabillion

Spiderman
Titles: Cosmic Quantum-Ep 7 and 18 (CQ is in almost every Kabillion section here); Spiderman- Disabled and Scam; X-Men: Mutant, Past, Rogue, Wolverine and X-Impulse

Transformers
Titles: CQ- 18; Rocket: Earth Day; Surf: Kalani David; Transformers- Eps 13, 19, Sound

Godzilla
Titles: CQ-Ep 7; Dennis the Menace- Band; Godzilla- Eps 6 and 9; Rocket: Earth Day and Rockin', Skateboarding

Men In Black
Titles: Men In Black- Eps 7 and 9;Rocket: Earth Day; CQ- Eps 7,12,18

GI Joe
Titles: CQ- Eps 7,12,18; GI Joe- Eps 11-13; Rocket: Earth Day; Surf: Kalani David

New GI Joe:Rise of Cobra coming 7 August to theatres. Don't miss the preview on Adult Swim at midnight ET Sunday night!

Ghostbusters
Titles: Ghostbusters- Eps 3 and 6; Rocket: Earth Day; CQ- Eps 7,18

Code Lyoko & More
Titles: Code Lyoko- Earth, Seeing, Start; Kiteboarding; Surf: Kalani David; CQ- Ep 18

COD/FreeMovies/Trivia&Games (FREE)

TV Trivia: Disney Ch 1; Friends 2; Jr. 4; Seinfeld; TV to Go 1

Channel 1 Challenge: A&E Challenge 2; Anime Challenge 2; Kids Challenge 2; Life&Home Challenge 2; Music Challenge 2; Sports & Fitness Challenge 2

Quizzo: Entertainment 1 to 3; History Round 1 to 3

Scene It? Trivia: Disney 5; Disney Channel 1; Disney to Go; Friends 2; Harry Potter 5 and 7; Jr. 4; Movie 5 and 6; Seinfeld; Star Trek; TCM 4 and TV to Go 1

Trailer Trivia: Various movie trailers with a special Tom Hanks category

Movie Trivia: Disney 5; Disney to Go; Harry Potter 5 and 7; Movie 5 and 6; Star Trek and TCM 4

Brainteasers: Animated Phrases 2 to 4; Pix Puzzles 2 and 3; Word Puzzles 2 and 3

Recreational Games: Same as before plus Darts 501

Big Brain Trivia: Brain Game 15 to 19 (Beg/Int/Expert)

COD/Kids/ActivityTV

Origami (Japanese art of paper folding)
Hometown Recipes (Like Chicago style pizza)
Cartooning Lessons

COD/FreeMovies/TMC:

Mortuary (Widow Denise Crosby & her kids move into haunted mortuary- she was Lt Yar on Trek)

COD/FreeMovies/A to Z

COD/KIDS/FreeMovies:

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Nemo is a kid?)

Fantastic 4

Ghost Warrior

Ninja Vengeance

Pray For Death

X Men: Dark

X Men: Ascension

Canterville Ghost (Cpt Picard as a ghost? Far out!)

Erik the Viking (The Vikings a la Monty Python)

The Witch's Dance (Princess Sydney wants a witch to turn her into a pumpkin!)

COD/Top Picks/ Hall-o-we'en Cartoons (Asstd spooky cartoons for kids and adults)

COD/TV Entertainment/AMC and TV Series/1967 The Prisoner (Eps 1 to 17 of this fine 60s cult classic starring Pat McGoohan as #6)

Don't miss AMC's The Prisoner 2009 6 parter over three nights beginning at 8 PM ET on Sunday 15 Nov 09 with Jim Calveziel as #6 and Ian McKellen as #2- in the Sahara Desert near Namibia.


That's all the FREE anime/cartoons on demand but there quite a few Pay Per View Ones here:

COD/PremiumChannels/DisneyFamilyMovies:

These run a basic subscription of $5.99 a month and only two really touch on anime this time around.

Phoenix & Carpet (A firebird and a flying carpet a la Boronov's symphonies)

G Force Sizzle (sneak preview of new animated film which is like GI Joe)

COD/PremiumChannels/TooMuchForTV/Imports:

This service runs $14.99 a month guys and gals:

Step Up Love (Eps 1-2-3)(Guy/gal discover themselves. This series not for the younger generation unless they are over 17)

(Most of these PPV animes are definitely not for the kids!)(Fireman Sam is OK for them)

I promised to add this one under KIDS.

COD/KIDS/PBS Sprout/Fireman Sam-
These are from Season 2 and feature a revamped format, better characters and new voices.
Jupiter and Venus have blue lights and the firehouse has been repainted. Norman's mom
Dillys and Bella are better looking and Sam's brother puts in some appearances too.




Mother's Helper
No Nurse Like You
One That Got Away
Paper Plane Down
Seeing Red
The Wrong Smell

TMFT has other non-anime fare too and it's pretty raunchy so be warned gang!

COD/Movies&Events/X-Men & Wolverine:

X-Men, X-Men 2 and X-Men 3 are $3.99 each
X-Men:Origins;Wolverine is $5.99
(Also available under Top Picks)

COD/TopPicks/Hall-o-we'en Cartoons:

These are free:

31 Days of Hall-o-we'en
Bobby's World: Pumpkin
Code Lyoko: Horror movie filming episode
Two dozen more- Check the onscreen listings.

This one ain't:

Coraline and Coraline 3-D are $4.99 each

Here's a few I missed from Premium Channels:

HBO:

Hellboy II- The Golden Army
Kiltro (Warrior is a demon)
Madagascar & Madagascar 2
Shrek

MovieQuest:

Brazil (Strange Monty Python flick)
Legend of the Red Dragon (Jet Li as a warrior)
Return of Sabata (a Western but wow! Maverick wasn't this good!)

This is getting tiresome already man! Show of hands onegai of those who think we should stick to adult anime and anime related films only? After all how many 12 year oldsters we got here anyway?

From now on I'll post this list twice monthly and I'll keep it under 'Files' rather than 'Messages' or 'Blogs' (at www.Eons.com/groups/group/anime-a-holics/Files)

The 'teaser' beginning of the chapter on blog's first page and the balance in the comment/reply is how I'll post my fanfiction chappies from now on unless it's a short chapter that is.

SYFY's AniMonday (11 PM to 1 AM ET) is a double eppy of Monster (Doctor running from the law for a crime he did not do- sound familiar?) followed by Macross Plus (Computer generated hologram singer in love with two test pilots. Concludes next week).

Good news from SYFY folks! AniMonday has been expanded from 9 PM ET to 1 AM ET with the first two hours called Chiller. Chiller will feature unusual and scary anime film masterpieces beginning with Blood:The Last Vampire which spawned the Blood+ saga and a brand new live action film now running in theatres. Looks like 24 August will be Chiller's debut. If you get SYFY in the SE PA-USA area you are still getting Star Trek-TNG reruns from 9 to 11 ET on Mondays dammit!

Hey WitchBlade the film (with Sarah Pezzini not Masane Amaha- yech!) will hit theatres in a year or so while DragonBall and Death Note are already out there showing. Many more anime based flicks are coming soon and they are filming Bebop with Keanu Reeves in Dave's role as Spike Steigel. For Jett I'd pick LF- Larry Fishburne or even MF- Morgan Freeman. Denzel Washington or Samuel L Jackson don't fit the mold. How about Miley Cyrus aka Hannah Montana as 'Ed' and Lindsay Lohan as Faye Valentine? (Rafe) Donnelly could be Tommie Lee Jones. Hey I oughta be a Hollywood cast finder eh? Gad, I wonder how much of a muckup they'll make of the 'Bebop', 'Swordfish II', 'Redtail' and 'Hammerhead'? I don't think Ed's power scooter had a name although we all know the computer she wore on her head with 'goggle monitors' was named 'Tomato'!

Here's the new Saturday night CN/AS lineup which begins earlier now for us at 12:00 AM ET following Star Wars the animated series at midnight. All times Eastern of course:

12:30 AM to 1:30 AM Bleach (two eppys)
1:30 AM to 2:30 AM Fullmetal Alchemist (Just restarted)
2:30 AM to 3:00 AM Morabito (Balsa protects Chagum from Mikado)
3:00 AM to 3:30 AM Death Note
3:30 AM to 4:00 AM Ghost in the Shell/Stand Alone Complex
4:00 AM to 4:30 AM Blood+
4:30 AM to 5:00 AM Big 0 (Big Giant Robot fare)
5:00 AM to 6:00 AM InuYasha (2 eppys once more- yay!)

Sad to see Naruto eliminated in favour of Ben 10 Alien Force which dominates Saturday evenings on CN. It follows Total Drama Island and 6Teen which is about teens in a shopping mall. Now Ben 10 has been replaced with reality TV shows and Total Drama Island the animated Survivour series.
All of this mish mash has now been changed! All for the worse with crappy reality TV shows! They showed Naruto in the Land of Snow film this past weekend. Hope he's coming back soon.

In both Code Geas and in FMA some of the characters have a special logo in their eye a la Code Lyoko's XANA logo in the evil characters' eyes.

In both Death Note and Bleach there are specific hints as to character origins. In DN Ryuuk tells Light Yagami that any user of the DN book can neither go to Heaven nor Hell after death. So what's left? Shinigami World meaning that DN book users after death become Shinigami death gods- right? Guess what live TV series is a DN parallel series? Hint- it's on Showtime.

In Bleach Rukia's Squad 13 captain (the one that is always sick as a rule) tells a subordinate that Ichigo's friends are special with unusually high spiritual pressures. He goes on to say that he would not be at all surprised if after death they became soul reapers themselves after they had passed on to the Soul Society. Renji Abari committed a minor faux pas in this week's eppy. While fighting one of the Arrancar Hollows he told him that by the time Kiske arrived the Arrancar himself would be dead. He apparently forgot that all Hollows are already dead to begin with. For that matter are soul reapers really alive or dead?

Ichigo, Urryuu and Chad have just met three Arrancars and their pet in the Wako Mundo desert on their way to Las Noches (The Nights) which is Aizen's HQ fortress. Seems not all Arrancars and Hollows are bad because these guys gave 'em a lift and are guiding them to LN. Live and learn guys. Why are they in WM? Aizen has Orihime of course! (see new post for more)

Discovered why Moribito theme music is so familiar. Group is Arc 'n ciel who did the GTO theme Driver's Edge. Early OT and ET for Death Note are done by Nightmare group which is what the Black Knights and Brittanians' Gundamlike fighting suits are called.

In FMA Ed has learned truth behind the Ishbaal massacre of fifteen years ago while brother Al has just discovered the identity of the Homunculi leader from the snake chimera Marta seconds before she was murdered by the #7 Homunculus- the Fuehrer King Bradley himself. He is Pride- the seventh deadly sin! But- who is his boss? Rose of Lior has become pals with Lira the girl alchemist who used to be with Yochi the state alchemist army lieutenant and she's now called the Holy Mother but she has gone mute and who's her baby's father? The climax seems to be fast approaching and it promises to be exciting so don't miss it gang! Hohenheim the Elrics dad is back and going after Dante. Al has become a deadly time bomb courtesy of an unknowing Scar and an evil Kimlee the Crimson Alchemist who used the red stones in Ed's SAA watch to transmute the souls in Scar's arm into a philosopher's stone!

Another Bleach note- why did Aizen want Orihime kidnapped? What or who is the sojioque he has stolen which will awaken in the winter? Who is the lad newly born from its power? What does Kiske know which he ain't telling? Can Ichigo defeat his Espada nemesis? Don't ya just love that jutsu used by Captain Toshiro Hitagawa- reign over the frosted heavens! then the name of his zambatou? A version of it is used by the evil Dragon Emporer in Mummy 3 when Jet Li turns a field of snow into jagged ice stalagmites. Of course he has mastery over the five Chinese elements- fire, water, earth, wood and metal! If there are only five elements in Chinese philosophy then how can there be an avatar or guardian of the air- Avatar the Last Airbender? Air is not one of those elements! And who's the looney tunes Espada poor Rangiku is stuck with?

Just saw an unusual style of skillfully blended live action with animation film called Immortal. About an Egyptian creation god (Horus) who must procreate in seven days or lose his immortality forever so he comes to AD 2095 NYC and mates with a BetaZoid/Vulcan type alien (Charlotte Rampling is a doctor in this one gang).

Getting into DLs and ULs and burning CDs again. Trying to get into attaching videos to messages like I do pix now but it's damned tricky folks!

Am currently reading a Farmer novel- Other Log of Phileas Fogg and it's like something outta Dr Who! There's a 'distorter' which works like a beam transporter only forget about sneaky moves with it! When it activates it bongs loudly many times at both ends! Seems Terra has two ancient alien races- Capellians and Eridaeneans- who live about a millenia each unless they get killed. They wage a constant war on each other to remake Terra into Utopia (Eridaeneans) or ruin it and rule it (Capellians). Fogg and Passepartout and Ayouda are Eris but Fix and Nemo are Caps. Somehow or other Fogg's trip around the globe is no mere bet but a race to save Earth! Anyone who has read it and/or the Riverworld sagas may comment if they wish.

Sherlock Holmes returns in the personage of Robert Downey Jr as the famous sleuth. Hits theatres soon.

Mama's new read is Helma from the Tros of Samothrace series. Ho hum so far. Waiting on Dan Brown's Lost Symbol coming soon I hope. Tros is getting interesting now- very interesting with refs to English countryside landmarks.

I have just added three plums to my anime vids collection: Complete DVD sets of Noir, Gasaraki and Tactics. I already have the complete set of Black Lagoon on DVD and partials on Blood+, Cyborg 009, FMA, Bleach and a few others. I have the first 7 eppys of Morabito and am on the lookout for the set. Bobby has the complete set of Trigun and Mama has the complete set of Gunslinger Girl and Witchblade. Anyone else have any new acquisitions to talk about? If so blog it here or post some messages folks.

Now have Bebop movie on DVD and VHS. Just got GS Innocence 2 and Haunting in Connecticutt. Thundercats came at last for Mama. Still have yet to watch DB Evolution film.

I will leave you with this. I invite everyone to visit the Forums in SciFi.com (syfy.com after 7 July) under AniMondays/RaveMaster and read all about my newest fave anime series- the Rave Master. I burned the RM OT 'Rave-olution' by Reel Big Fish for Mama for Mom's Day and she has not stopped playing that CD since then. She adores it and she loves RM and Gundam 00 which precedes it on Mondays AniMondays on SciFi (now SYFY) Channel.

Bobby's fave on the History Channel 'Ice Road Truckers' returns next season (currently on COD/Science&Nature/HistoryChannel/IceRoadTruckers) and 27 September Mama's fave Dexter returns to Sundays on Showtime. This weekend Michael C Hall who portrays Dexter will star in Gamer with Gerard Butler and Ludacris in theatres. Ludacris was in Max Payne while Butler is the Phantom of the Opera. This is Hall's firt anything since Dexter. When will my Angels ever return- who knows? Maybe I'll watch them tonight- nai Nora Roberts' Blue Smoke is on OnDemand. It's the female version of Ron Howard's Backdraft albeit it is set in Baltimore MD rather than Pittsburgh PA. It's all about a gal who becomes an arson investigator and features Scott Bakula (Cpt Jonathan Archer of the Enerprise) in Bobby DeNiro's Backdraft role as senior arson squad leader and Caterina's boss. Reena is Alice Witt reprising the Backdraft role played by Alec Baldwin if I remember aright.

By the way Discover Channel (Ch 64 on Comcast) has dropped (at least for now) Josh Bernstein's Into the Unknown series from their lineup. Josh was on a morning TV talk show this past Wednesday and he may be returning to the History Channel soon. A shame to lose his show since good archaeological shows are few and far between these days. I grew up with Bold Venture and Marlin Perkins' Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom as well as the Wonderful World of Walt Disney. Today's Disney crap would make Walt upchuck! Imagine showing stuff unsuitable for the entire family on network TV in prime time!

SYFY is airing Destination Truth which is like JBs old Digging for the Truth on HC. DT is hosted by Josh Bates or Gates and looks pretty good. Anyone know why SYFY considers wrestling science fiction stuff?

This just in folks! Josh Bernstein has revamped his website and is now using Twitter too. He has a fab group called JBs Group at YG. Dan Brown is on both Twitter and FaceBook now. What do you guys think about my starting an anime recipes file and a golf tips corner either here or at AH1 or somewhere else? Animeinfor.org is the only place I have ever seen an anime recipes section. As for golf tips- what can I say? I love golf- passionately even if I don't play as much as I used to. Gomen but I just remem,bered this. Kudos to Robert the artist for hire for finding Dan Doh- probably the only anime series about golf itself! Sadly there are no dubs of it just subs. It can be found at VEOH and hulu quite easily. I'll post a pix or two soon.

Another great show was In Search Of narrated by Leonard 'Mr Spock' Nimoy and I recall an eppy of theirs re the Knights Templar and Foucault's Pendulum. If anyone knows where I can find a copy of those gems on VHS or DVD onegai let me know. A big domo arigatou in advance for your assistance. Gotta really go now and get some blogging done and maybe post Chapter 50 at last.

Just saw Kurosawa's masterpiece 7 Samurai and started reading Angels & Demons after I finished Bored With the Rings (a LOR satire) and Fritz Lieber's Knight & Knave of Swords which was about the two unlikely Norse heroes Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser- think of Arnie Schwarzenegger teamed up with Bruce Willis! Next chapter real soon now. Have a great day and weekend. Sayonara for now folks.

Dororo just ran on COD/FreeMovies. It was based on a manga about a warrior cursed as a demon trying to get human again and the gal warrior who aids him. Several more Japanese and Korean subbed films under FM like Triad Elections. Saw Sho Kosugi in Pray for Death which was about a modern day Ninja going on a bloody quest for vengeance in NYC! Cool!

Looks like COD has some good movie fare this month. Here are just a few:

Angel Unchained; Army of Darkness; Evil Dead 2; Haunted; Haunting of Julia; Candyman (Don't miss Tony Todd in the new Transformers flick); Dracula (Gary Oldman); Mindwarp (w/ Angus 'Phantasm' Scrimm); Waxworks and Waxworks 2; Wishmaster and Wishmaster 3 and 4; Buffy the Vampire Slayer; X Files and X Men; Devour and Fly Me to the Moon (Houseflies on Apollo rocket). Go ahead. Give 'em a whirl. Gotta go now.

Almost forgot Planet of the Apes and Beneath the Planet of the Apes- both classics!

Has anyone seen G Force yet? How about Haunting in Connecticut? Someone has suggested at FaceBook that our anime is dead. Boy did that ever open a potboiler of contention! If anime is dead well nobody told Hollywood! DragonBall, Watchmen, GI Joe, Blood:TLV, Transformers2, the list seems endless eh?

How about Tim Burton's 9 and Pandorum eh?

I have now posted up to and including Ch 57 of Wings. I am trying to get Xmas and Wings rewritten and published. Think they will sell? A note to budding authors- Avoid 'author mills' like AuthorAmerica and AuthorHouse. All they want is for you to pay them to publish YOUR works! They guarantee nothing! Likewise avoid AbsoluteWriters Water Cooler for info and inspiration. They are quite negative and attempt to discourage a struggling author!

Don't miss Showtime's Inside the NFL tonight at 9, 10 or 11 PM ET. Play Beat the Insiders at beattheinsiders.com and join my group there- Saint K's Anime Friends. I'm on FaceBook now you know. This is getting to be more like a newsletter than a guide. Any suggestions? I am considering a monthly golf tips column and a recipe file a la animeinfo.org. Comments?

Sports fans! I just started a group at Showtime's Beat the Insiders and it's called Saint K's Anime Friends. Come & join me there and at FanIQ.com if you like. By the way my Saints are the highest scoring team in the league with 120 points in just 3 games. They are at 3-0 and lead their division. Our offense is #3 and our defense is #10. Quite a rise from #19 and #30 last season eh? Drew 'Divine Wind' Brees and his '4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse' have outscored Detroit 45-27, Eagles 48-22 and Bills 27-7. In that last game TO never got close to a ball! The 'Saintly Terrors' are stepping up at last to complement our offense. Enough re that. Oro do ya think of a recipe file here and/or a golf tips column maybe once a month? Don't worry because I have tons of recipes and loads of advice for duffers. Sorry there's been no Ch 58 of Wings yet but I've been really busy with blogs, surveys, polls, reviews, guides, posts and now sports NFL groups. Soon I promise you will see Ch 58 and maybe even the end of Wings before Xmas.

A pet peeve here folks. Why is it that in most anime the characters either walk (InuYasha) or run (Bleach) everywhere they go? Didn't the Japanese ever hear of transports? I'd love to see how Kagome could get an SUV through the well! Cars in the Soul Society's Seretai? They've got wide enough roads there surely? And Ninjas and Samurai never seem to have carts, chariots or wagons although Samurai rode horses which was why they made the Zanzabatous like the one used by Zanza on Kenshin. Balsa did ride a stallion for awhile on Morabito and on Code Geas Lelouch's 'brother' Rollo does have a motorbike w/ sidecar. Trains are the transport on FMA although Mustang and Hawkeye did have a car in last week's eppy. DN and Blood+ have cars, boats, trains, planes and the like. So does GS and Bebop. Naruto has modern stuff but no transports. Guess it's to each his own meaning whatever the creators decide.

Cult classic from the late 60s has come to IFC on Fridays at 8 PM ET. Don't miss The Prisoner with Pat McGoohan. In November AMC will air the new Prisoner series with Jim Caveziel as the Prisoner (see new post for more on this 6 eppy show). First eppy airs Sunday 15 Nov 09 at 8 PM ET on AMC (Ch 57 on Comcast).

Latest read was Danny Brown's excellent fifth work The Lost Symbol (soon to be a flick?) which was quite good if a bit wordy. Damned thing took me 3 days to read! With 2012 in the theatres it was quite apropos. Hints: A famous statue stands in front of the CIA HQ building in Langley and is a pivotal part of the storyline. There are a lot of hidden details in Washington DC and Dan Brown's a history buff as well as a secret society expert. He more than proved that in Angels & Demons and then again in the DaVinci Code. By the way he's got a very entertaining website at www.danbrown.com so if you like tricky logic puzzles and codes by all means visit him there.

Oro am I reading now? Sax Rohmer's Shadow of FuManchu. He is the old-fashioned Darth Vader and the leader of a group out to save the Earth from its inhabitants. They are called The Seven. His nemesis is a Scotland Yarder named Sir Denis Nayland-Smith who with his trusty sidekick Dr Petrie pursues Dr FuManchu the same way Holmes and Watson pursued Prof Moriarty all those years. His latest escapade involves collecting scientists and killing anyone in his way. Looks like the Brits, Yanks, Russians and Aussies will have to band together to defeat Fu and Huan Tsung his sidekick. Some pair- Fu was at least 90 when Smith met him 60 years ago (Fu has the secret of eternal life. Has he discovered the FMA Stone?) and his pal's in his 80's! Geriatric? Far from it! Smith's on his own this time unless you count his scientific buddy Carter who is about as useful as Zorro against Darth Vader! What a wimp!

Well that's it for this time. Enjoy and toodles tomos watashi-K&K

Sorry no pix this time. Blogger's having problems again.

17 March 2009

TV Anime Viewing Guide Update for March 2009


Monthly Anime on TV Viewing Guide for Anime (and some cartoons) Programming on ComcastOnDemand Channels:

MARCH 2009- Updated 17 Mar 09

COD/CE/AdultSwim/Action

Big O (Ep 22)
Code Geass (Ep 12)
Death Note (Eps 23 to 25)
Ghost in the Shell/SAC (Eps 1, 2 and 3)
InuYasha (Eps 120 to 123)

COD/CE/AnimeSelects/WickedAnime

Aquarion (Eps 6 to 10)
Black Cat (Eps 19 to 23)
XXXHolic (Eps 6 to 8)

COD/CE/AnimeSelects/Sci Fi Scramble

Burst Angel (Eps 17 to 20)
Escaflowne (Eps 25 to 26)(Includes final episode)
Shingu (Eps 1, 2 and 3)

COD/CE/AnimeSelects/DramaClub

BECK (Eps 21 to 24)
GTO (Eps 31 to 33)
Piano (Eps 1-2)) (Gal piano whiz, moody teacher, gal loses interest in piano, stops practicing, etc.)
School Rumble (Eps 18 to 20)
Suzuka (Eps 19 to 23)

COD/CE/TheAnimeNetwork

Azumanga Daioh (Eps 8-9)
DN Angel (Eps 2-3)
Fumoffu (Eps 8-9)
To Heart (Eps 10-11)
Valkyrie (Eps 3-4)
Wedding Peach (Ep 22)
Clannad (Ep 1)(This anime's new to me too)

COD/CE/IFC/Anime

Gunslinger Girl (Eps 1-2)(Read my blog re GG. Orphaned cyborg girls trained to kill. The Social Welfare Agency- Section 2 of the Italian government is a junior version of Ghost in the Shell's Section 9. Cool dialogue and great music!)

COD/PremiumChannels/Starz/StarzKids

Nothing this time tomos. Sorry.

COD/Kids/CartoonNetwork

Total Drama Island (Cartoon but animeish fun. Better than 'Survivor' reality game show which it mimics!) (Eps 9 to 13 and Winners Special episode)
Secret Saturdays (Cartoon or anime? Very like old Johnny Quest shows)(Eps 3 to 9)
Blue Dragon (Another could be an/car but a good storyline and characters too)(Eps 22 to 27)
Bakugan (Eps 1 to 4)(Dueling tops to save the world BION! Small fry fare)

COD/Kids/DisneyXD

Iron Man (Cartoon but animelike)
Titles: Data In-Chaos Out; mGrim Reaper; Silence Companion
Spiderman (Ditto as above)
Titles: Menace of Mysterio; Sting of Scorpion; Spider Slayer; Spider-Slayers
Pucca (Chop Socky fun cartoon)
Titles: Chop Chewie; Pucca's Fishy Tale; Tame That Toon
Yin Yang Yo! (Cartoon like 'Avatar the Last Airbender' and pretty decent)
Titles: Camp Magic Pants; Inconvenient Tooth; Skirting the Issue; Smorks
X-Men (Could be an or car. A great series and great flicks. Hugh Jackman (Wolverine in films hosted the Oscars)
Titles: Captive Hearts; Deadly Reunions; Puccaptra; Slave Island; X-Men: Cold
Aaron Stone
Titles: First Strike, Hero Rising (Parts 1-2), Timeout

COD/Kids/KidsWB

Thundercats (A very rare anime and Mama has been after it for years!) (Eps 107 to 112)
Batman Beyond (Animelike cartoon w/ old Bruce training new Batman) (Eps 112-113)
The Batman (Cool animelike cartoon w/ Rimo (Ray's bro) Romano as the Batman) (Eps 208 to 212)

COD/Kids/Bomerang

Fantastic Four (Ep 5)

COD/Kids/Movies

Voltron: Fleet of Doom (A classic anime)
City of Ember (Save the glittering city!)

COD/Kids/4KidsTV

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Titles: Notes Underground (Ep 3); The King; Back to Sewer #1; Shredder Back (Parts 1-2)
Yugioh Exclusive
Titles: Mechanical (Part 2); Settling Score (Parts1-2); Noah's Secret; Yugi 5 D's #1
Chaotic (Weird one but a cartoon) (Eps 127-128 and 141)
Dino King (Another oldie weirdo cartoon) (Eps 134-135)

COD/Kids/Kabillion

Spiderman (Cosmic Quantum- Eps 4 and 17. CQ is in almost every Kab section here)(Kids Who Rip- Eps 3-4)(Spiderman- Eps 8 to 10)
Action Extreme (Code Lyoko- Ep 15)(CQ- Ep 17)(GI Joe- Ep 8)(Godzilla- Ep 3)(Ghostbusters- Ep 10)(Men in Black- Ep 1)(SpiderMan- Ep 8)(Transformers- Ep 12)
GI Joe (CQ 4)(GI Joe- Eps 8-9)(Kids Who Rip- Ep 3)
Transformers(Transformers- Eps 11-12 and 15)
Godzilla (CQ 4) (Godzilla- Eps 3-4)
Code Lyoko and More (CQ 4) (Code Lyoko- Eps 15 and 18-19)(CL is re kids travelling to and from a virtual world 'Lyoko' (which means travel or trip in Japanese) ruled by a rogue program 'XANA')
Ghostbusters(CQ- Ep 4)(Ghostbusters- Eps 10-11)
Men in Black(CQ- Ep 4)(Men in Black- Eps 1-2 and 14)

COD/TopPicks/Channel 1 Challenge

Anime Challenge 1 (Try your luck at anime trivia)

COD/Kids/ActivityTV

Origami (Japanese art of paper folding)
Hometown Recipes (Like Chicago style pizza)


That's all the FREE anime/cartoons on demand but there quite a few Pay Per View Ones here:

COD/Movies & Events/AnimeNetwork

These run $3.99 per volume:

Mahoromatic (Vols 4)
Tsukihime (Vols 2-3)

These require a $14.99 monthly fee. Check with Comcast but I think that covers all of this particular channel's offerings:

COD/PremiumChannels/TooMuchforTV

Elf Princess Rane (Ep 1)
Step Up Love (Eps 1-2)
Grenadier (Touch 4)
MD Geist 1
Hills Have Size (Ep 2)(Hills are 'yabbas' as Danny says her big bro calls 'em in 'Hocus Pocus'!)(Most of these PPV animes are definitely not for the kids!)

From now on I'll post this list twice monthly and I'll keep it under 'Files' rather than 'Messages' or 'Blogs' (at www.Eons.com/groups/group/anime-a-holics/Files)

By the way Eons Help is correcting our blogs posting problems. They are tweaking the systems which is why we cannot carry out certain actions here. I am posting chapters under blogs thus:

The 'teaser' beginning of the chapter on blog's first page and the balance in the reply.

Hope you guys and gals like this new method of posting tv lists. A reminder that Sci Fi's
AniMonday at 11 PM ET is a double eppy of 'Gurren Lagann' (BGR anime) and a double eppy of 'The Rave Master' (a hilarious swords/sorcery anime a la InuYasha and TWHE as well as Onepiece. Cool series especially the location names like 'Hip Hop City' OK the 'Rave' gives Haru Glory's sword power but to defeat the evil ShadowGuards will require four 'Rave Stones' which have been scattered all across the world like the shards of the Shi Kon no Tama in IY and the spell fragments on TWHE!) .

Anyway that's all the anime for tonight. Tomorrow at 2:30 AM we'll have HellGirl followed by WitchBlade. Hey WitchBlade the film (with Sarah Pezzini not Masane Amaha- yech!) will hit theatres in a month or so as will DragonBall and Death Note is already out there showing. Many more anime based flicks are coming soon and they are filming Bebop with Keanu Reeves in Dave's role as Spike Steigel. For Jett I'd pick LF- Larry Fishburne or even MF- Morgan Freeman. Denzel Washington or Samuel L Jackson don't fit the mold. How about Miley Cyrus aka Hannah Montana as 'Ed' and Lindsay Lohan as Faye Valentine? (Rafe) Donnelly could be Tommie Lee Jones. Hey I oughta be a Hollywood cast finder eh? Gad, I wonder how much of a muckup they'll make of the 'Bebop', 'Swordfish II', 'Redtail' and 'Hammerhead'? I don't think Ed's power scooter had a name although we all know the computer she wore on her head with 'goggle monitors' was named 'Tomato'!

Well that's it for this time. Enjoy and toodles tomos watashi-K&K