Well, its been quite a while since I’ve written anything about Marie & Gali, I’ve been waiting for enough episodes to become available to continue covering the series. So, now that I’ve gotten my hands on several of the five minute long episodes it time to start covering this weird series again.
This episode begins with Marika waking up the next morning, she and Pet head downstairs where they meet a blond haired woman named Marie Curie who tells her that from now on this can be her home. Marie invites Marika to step out on to the baloney and have a look around, you can see the entire town from here.
When Marie sees that Marika likes the view, she tells Marika that she knew that she’d like the town of Gali Hubble. They soon sit down for some snack and are joined by Gali, and he gets a taste of Marie’s anger when he mispronounces last name incorrectly, calling her Kyuuri instead of Curie. Marika tells Marie that she wants to leave because she’s just supposed to be passing through, but from Marie and Gali’s reaction she thinks it won’t be easy.
A while later, Marika is riding the town’s train with Gali, he points out other residents like Newton and Leonardo da Vinci to her, Gali gets mildly annoyed when Marika recognizes the other names but not him. While riding the train Marika notices that the bridge that brought her to Gali Hubble has disappeared and she starts crying, Gali acts like Marika is crying because she’s fallen for him only to get another kick from Marie.
Marie’s kick sends Gali flying out of the train causing Marika to smile, and she thinks to herself that staying here a while might not be so bad. Well, that’s all for this episode.
Well, this episode introduces us to Marie Curie (Madame Curie) as a main character, Madame Curie was a Noble prize winning physicist and chemist. Madame Curie was awarded two Nobel prizes, one in 1903 for her contributions in the discovery of radioactivity, and one in 1911 for the discovery of the elements of radium and polonium. Marie was the first person to be awarded two Nobel prizes, and one of only two people to awarded Nobel prizes in two different fields.
In Marie & Gali we have quite a cast of strange and unusual characters led by Marika, a Japanese loli goth girl; pet, a living plush doll; Gali, a strange version of Galileo Galilei; Marie, a version of Madame Curie who’s roundhouse kick is as deadly as her mind. Well, it’s going to be a interesting ride watching Marika meet the many strange inhabitants of Gali Hubble.
Here’s a few new anime & manga motivational posters for the week of 6/8/2009. Feel free to share and enjoy these posters, but please at least give me a link or track back if you’re going to post them to a board or forum, Click on the poster to view at full size, enjoy.
This episode begins with Ui and Azusa hanging out, Azusa is getting ready to go to training camp with the other girls from the K-On! club, and she begins to have her doubts about camp after talking with Ui. Azusa and Ui start talking about the other girls, Azusa would like to have a sister like Mio, Ui asks her how about Ritsu? Azusa says no way, poor Azusa, Ritsu just happens to be there to overhear that comment. After Ritsu joins Ui and Azusa the subject turns to Mugi, Azusa asks Ritsu if Mugi is rich? Half jokingly, Ritsu talks about how Mugi’s family has servants and such, then when Ritsu calls Mugi’s house her family butler answers the phone.
A few days later, Ritsu and Yui stop by the school to invite Sawako to join their training camp, she says no way until she hears the girls talk about BBQ and the beach. When the girls head off to training camp, Mugi takes them to a even larger beach house than last year. Ritsu and Yui want to head right off to the beach to play, and both Mio and Azusa want to practice before playing, but Mugi casts the tie breaking vote in favor of playing first. Ritsu and Yui have a good old time playing and they drag Azusa into their beach fun. Mugi seems to enjoy watching the girls having fun, and Mio just sort of watches. After almost a full day of playing at the beach, Azusa says that they should have practiced first, but Ritsu says that it looks like she had the most fun.
Well, when the girls finally get ready to practice they see that Mugi’s house is well equipped with new music gear. Yui sees Azusa using a digital tuner on her guitar and asks her what that is? Azusa tells her its a tuner, and she asks Yui how she tunes her guitar and Yui shows her that she tunes it by ear, and she’s amazed that Yui manages to get perfect pitch by ear. After playing a song Ritsu’s out of energy and needs to eat, so the girls all pitch in and make a nice dinner for themselves.
After dinner, Mugi breaks out the fireworks and they play around with some sparklers, then Ritsu suggests a test of courage, a walk through the dark woods. Mio walks with Azusa and they hear some noises that scare the crap out Mio, but it turns out to be Sawako stumbling through the woods trying to find Mugi’s beach house. Later, when the girls get back to the house they all spend some time goofing off in the house’s giant spa. Once all the other girls are asleep Yui and Azusa spend time practicing the guitar together, Yui tells Azusa that she is glad that they met, and Azusa seems happy with this.
When the girls get back home, Azusa and Ui hang out and talk about the training camp. Azusa tells Ui that she expected to practice more but she was glad that she went, and she tells Ui about everything that happened at camp. Azusa gives Ui her impression of each girl, and she agrees with Ui that her sister Yui is warm and fuzzy. Well, that’s all for this episode.
I found the K-On! club’s second annual training camp episode to be good but not as good the first beach episode. The first training camp served to bond the four girls together as band members and as friends while version two of the training camp basically served to more fully integrate Azusa into Mugi, Mio, Yui, and Ritsu’s strange little world. Azusa still finds the K-On! club’s attitude a little too casual for her liking but I think she’s starting to understand why the other four girls seem to play so well together, not only are they band members they’re also good friends. I don’t have much more to say about this episode other than you gotta love a tanned tsundere Azu-nyan.
