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Shaman King Episode 7: Pailong, Fists of Fury

by battousai3345 on June 21, 2005 Comments

As Yoh and Li Pailong continue fighting, Manta runs looking for a katana. Yoh is seriously getting is butt kicked. Manta sees a gang and asks them to borrow their bokuto. Ryu steps in to save Manta and after some fighting, gives Manta the bokuto. Tao Jun asks that even so close to death, friendship is still important to him. He answers yes. Manta shows up with the bokuto and Yoh and Amidamaru get ready to fight again. This time, Yoh is able to free Li Pailong with his Shinkuu Buttagiri attack which cuts off the prayer flag commanding Li Pailong.

Li Pailong regains control of his self and sees the poster. He’s been dead for 17 years. He gets really pissed and punches the glass, amazed that he cannot feel pain. He remembers being killed for her family, and when Tao Jun tries to place another charm back on him, he destroys it and refuses to give her back control. He then attacks her and is about to strike with his Nunchuku, but Yoh steps in and saves her. He asks if revenge will really change anything. Yoh asks if there is anything that can be done to stop Li Pailong before he overexerts himself and becomes an evil spirit. Tao Jun says there is nothing she can do. The only thing that can stop him is someone who can defeat him. She’s given up. Anna reprimands her, asking her to take some responsibility since Li Pailong is her main spirit. She tries to think of someone, and then thinks of Pailong’s master, the man Pailong could never defeat, Shamon.

Anna is ready to try and using her prayer beads, becomes a Spiritualistic Medium. She takes a trance state and Shamon is fused into Yoh’s body. He appears as an only man, but still, Pailong cannot touch Yoh. The master tells him that his moves are flowed because he acts out of fury. He needs to calm down. Suddenly Yoh does Shamon’s Shadow Fist and knocks Pailong down. The master tells him to abandon his fury. Pailong asks why should he? He’s lost everything. The master replies that when he has lost everything, he won’t be able to feel anything. He feels because his devotion to Daodan Do remains in his heart. Pailong attacks out. The master tries to make him understand that if he lets his emotions show forth so openly, his opponents can easily judge his next move. Pailong won’t listen. The master has no choice but to perform the Shadow Fist Succession Technique, Sou Jyu Ken! Pailong falls to the ground. His Nunchuki break as the seal on Pailong is released and he returns to his true self.

Realizing what just happened, Pailong is very apologetic for bringing his master the whole way here to calm him down. The master explains that he was saved because of Yoh. Yoh fought to restore him to his former self. He then explains that his martial art, Daodan Do, should be used to save others, not to save himself. That’s how he became a hero to so many people in the world. Pailong doesn’t know what to say.

Tao Jun admits that she may have been wrong about Pailong and particularly about Yoh. He really is a good person. Anna is like of course he is, he’s my fiancée. Tao Jun walks away. She doesn’t have the right to use Pailong. Before she goes, Pailong asks her to continue as her kyonshi. He vows never to give into fury again. She agrees, but without the charm this time. Ryu is all impressed that Shamans can be so cool!

Ren watches on from above. He vows to get stronger so Yoh won’t be able to stand in his path.


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Shaman King Episode 6: Kung Fu Master

by battousai3345 on June 21, 2005 Comments

Ren's sister mocks her little bro - Yoh has proven to be too much for him, so she'll summon her own spirits to take care of him.

Meanwhile, Yoh's still pushing himself through Anna's intense training. As he runs and Manta rides his bike beside him, Yoh explains that this is good for him - the more he trains, the easier fighting with Amidamaru will become.

Suddenly, Manta sees a poster of an upcoming movie - White Dragon Revival: Fist of Anger - starring his idol, kung fu master Li Pailong, who fights alone against evil. Pailong has a superhuman body and can take on anyone! Yoh is less than enthusiastic about the movie and quizzes his friend about why he wants Yoh to see this movie so badly. Manta admits he wants to share the things he likes with his new friend.

At home, Anna refuses to give them any money to see the movie and then chastises Manta for being weak. Only the weak admire those stronger than themselves. Manta explains that long ago, Li Pailong died but his body was never found. Even now, the circumstances surrounding his death remain a mystery. After some convincing, Anna finally allows them to go, but on one condition - that she come too.

After the movie, Yoh and Amidamaru discuss how cool it was, but their fun is soon interrupted by Ren's sister's Kyonshi (frozen corpse). Together, Yoh and Amidamaru take out the corpse, but soon, Ren's sister appears before them. She's Tao Jun, a priest (shamans that can control kyonshi through commands), and wants Amidamaru for her little bro.

Suddenly, she calls her kyonshi, who is none other than Li Pailong. He has a prayer flag attached to his head. She tells them that he is her main spirit. Again, she asks for Amidamaru. Yoh informs her that Amidamaru is his friend, and therefore, he won’t trade him off like an item.

Li Pailong attacks with his specialty, Nunchuku, which throws Yoh back. Tao Jun explains that priests control the main spirits within the spirit’s own body while they control them. That way they can always be at 100% Hyoi (fusion) with their spirits. Yoh tries to attack but again is countered. Again, she asks Yoh for Amidamaru. He again refuses. She then commands Li Pailong to attack until Yoh is dead. Li Pailong performs Hojankyaku, which sends a pillar of light/fire (?) at Yoh as he’s falling to the ground. He then does Jonenkyaku to add to the impact as Yoh hits the ground. Manta is flipping out about how his idol, Li Pailong, could be used as a tool for evil. Anna tells him that because the Shaman controls the spirit, the spirit’s will is meaningless, so his body must act in accordance with the Shaman’s will. Therefore, it is not Li Pailong that is the bad guy, but Tao Jen. Li Pailong apparently was killed 17 years ago to become Tao Jun’s kyonshi, a present from her father.

This gives Yoh the opportunity to recover slightly, and build more anger at how Tao Jun treats her spirit. He calls to Li Pailong, telling Tao Jun that even if she is able to control his body, she still can’t control his heart. That hesitation will be what Yoh can use to defeat them. As he speaks, Li Pailong sheds a tear, and Tao Jun is amazed that as a corpse, he can have feelings. Tao Jun commands Li Pailong to kill Yoh, but Yoh is determined to free Li Pailong’s spirit. Manta asks Anna to lend Yoh some power, but she refuses. This is another trial he must overcome. If he loses to an opponent like this, he is not destined to become the Shaman King. She does not want to become the wife of someone who is not successful.

Amidamaru asks for a katana with a grip to cut the chain around Li Pailong's neck. Manta runs off as Tao Ren sets up for Li Pailong's final attack.

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Shaman King Episode 5: A Shaman Who is Mature for Her Age

by battousai3345 on June 21, 2005 Comments

As Yoh is recovering at the hospital, his fiancée, Anna, shows up unexpectedly. Horrified, Yoh admits to his friends that every memory he has of her since childhood leaves him in tears by the end. Regardless, Anna's goal is to live an easy life as the wife of the Shaman King. Therefore, she'll train Yoh herself. As they speak, Shamans from all over the world are gathering in Tokyo to determine who will become the Shaman King, the savior who will lead the world out of chaos.< br>
Anna proves to be a tyrant at training. She has prepared a hefty regimen that includes running 50km/day with weights, doing sit ups, and lifting weights. She even keeps Amidamaru tied up so he can't help, and has her own spirit watching over Yoh in case he slacks off. But Yoh's not doing this solely for Anna - he owes it to Amidamaru. He must train to make his Shaman powers more powerful..

Meanwhile, Tao Ren’s big sister has come to town and she’s ready to take on the boy that beat her little brother. She summons three spirits to attack Yoh, but he finds he's improved significantly through training and can easily beat them with Amidamaru.

After the battle, Amidamaru complements Yoh on becoming stronger, while Anna hands him more weights. Yoh's got a long way to go before becoming the Shaman King.



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Shaman King Episode 4: Hyoi 100%

by battousai3345 on June 21, 2005 Comments

Having all-but-lost the battle with Tao Ren, Yoh lies in a hospital bed with a bandaged shoulder. Amidamaru sits by him, ashamed that he couldn't do more to stop Tao Ren's attacks. Yoh tries to cheer him up - he did his best.

Ryo and his boys sit in the waiting room chatting with Manta. They were the ones to save Yoh after the final Chuuku Zanmai - rescuing Yoh on their bikes before he was killed.

Amidamaru and Manta ask about the Shaman King and why Tao Ren wants to be him so badly. Yoh explains the legend his grandfather told him ten years ago. At that time, Yoh was a young kid who didn’t want to be a Shaman, so he didn’t train very hard. He spent most of his days listening to music and living a relaxing life. His grandfather got really mad at him because after four years of training, the boy still couldn’t summon an earth spirit. Convinced Yoh was a failure, he told him the story of the Shaman King. No matter how much civilization develops, humans will never understand everything about the earth. As time passed, humans forgot about the spirits and acted on their own desires. No one knows how the deeds of humans will affect the earth. The Shamans must communicate with the spirits. Those that master the ways of the Shaman will be able to communicate directly with the King of Spirits, what some call God. Those Shamans act as messengers to the world to keep harmony and deter people from acting from selfish desires which lead them towards a path of destruction. The Shaman that will become one with the King of Spirits will become known as The Savior, or the Shaman King. Yoh trained hard after that because he believed if he became the Shaman King, he could live a lazy life.

Meanwhile, Tao Ren makes his way to the hospital. He must become the Shaman King at all costs to restore the Tao family's reputation. Tao Ren explains that when a spirit merges with a Shaman, there is one body but two wills. Therefore, the only way to use 100% of the spirit’s power is to use the spirit as a tool. He hits Yoh and sends him flying backwards, taunting him that when he dies, he will gain control of Amidamaru. Yoh stops and tells Amidamaru to go to the next world after Mosuke so he won’t become Tao Ren’s spirit. Amidamaru refuses to abandon his master and when Tao Ren attacks, they are able to repel and block his attacks. Yoh is now at 100%, when both his and Amidamaru's wills are one. With that newly released power, he uses his Amidaryu Gokoujin to end the battle. Both Shaman collapse. Manta runs to Yoh's side. When he looks over, Tao Ren is gone.

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Shaman King Episode 3: Another Shaman

by battousai3345 on June 21, 2005 Comments

As Manta is walking home from school, he sees a second Shaman atop a building. When he tells Yoh this, Yoh doesn’t seem all that concerned, although he does admit he hasn’t been training much lately. He’s currently doing some type of exercise to “beat the sun”, but passes out from the heat. Later, he shares some ice cream with Amidamaru and announces to Manta that they are friends now.

As Manta is walking alone that night, he again meets the other Shaman, known as Tao Ren. He mumbles something about the stars being the lights that guide us. Those that can’t see the light stray into darkness. He steps out into traffic, and a truck almost hits him. At the last instant, he calls forth his spirit, Bason, who comes out and slices the truck in half with his sword. Tao Ren says that there can be only one Shaman King.

Yoh has never heard of Tao Ren, although Amidamaru says the kid’s spirit seems to be that of a Chinese warrior and he’d like to fight it. Yoh and Tao Ren finally meet while crossing the street. Tao Ren believes that spirits are to be used as tools to make the Shaman more powerful. Yoh is horrified that Tao Ren could think of spirits like that and tells him to rephrase his wording. Tao Ren just laughs and walks away.

Later that night, Ryu and his gang meet Tao Ren, who tells them they are in his way. They attack, but Tao Ren is far too powerful for them all. Yoh steps in and begins his first battle with Tao Ren. The battle has Yoh calling forth Amidamaru into “Spirit Ball Mode” in which he can insert Amidamaru inside him to harness his powers. They fight for a while, but it is obvious that Tao Ren is more powerful. He performs his final attack, the Chuuku Zanmai, which is struck down by Amidamaru. Tao Ren then powers up to Hyoi 100%, thus being able to utilize all 100% of his spirit’s powers and attack again with his Chuuku Zanmai. This time he hits Yoh and knocks him down.



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Shaman King Episode 2: Waiting Samurai

by battousai3345 on June 21, 2005 Comments

Manta is reading a book on Shamans to Yoh. It says that shamans have the ability to put themselves into a trance and communicate with God, Spirits, and other spiritual beings. They are able to borrow strength to heal diseases or manipulate governments. Manta still doesn’t understand Shamans. Yoh tells him that as a Shaman, he has no interest in politics or religion. His purpose for coming to Tokyo was to find a main spirit, as a Shaman’s level is mostly determined by the strength of the spirits that aid him. Once he has a powerful spirit on his side, he will become a full-fledged Shaman.

Amidamaru is the first spirit Yoh considers asking to be his main spirit. Amidamaru refuses, telling him he is waiting for someone. Manta tells Yoh of the legend of Amidamaru – he is known as the devil because he disobeyed his shogun and killed all the people that came after him.

Manta takes Yoh to the museum where Amidamaru’s katana, the Harusama, is on display. There, the museum curator shows them the 600 year old katana and tells of how it is known to shed tears every night. Yoh and Manta decide to wait and see this phenomenon. When the katana starts to cry, Yoh realizes that it is not the katana, but a man sitting above crying over the sword. He introduces himself as Mosuke and explains that he was the one who killed Amidamaru. He was also his best friend.

600 years ago, Amidamaru and Mosuke were friends. Mosuke had forged a fine katana and the two displayed it to a shogun who offered them jobs. However, now owning Mosuke’s katana, the shogun plotted to kill him so there would only be one katana as fine as his. Not wanting to betray his friend, Amidamaru told him about the shogun’s plan and told him to leave. Mosuke asked Amidamaru to meet him the next night to give him a sword. Unfortunately, someone overheard the conversation, and the next night, they informed Amidamaru that Mosuke wouldn’t be joining him. In a rage, Amidamaru killed all the men to escape. Because of that, Amidamaru became known as the devil.

Mosuke is filled with grief that he could not forge a fine sword for Amidamaru, that he couldn’t meet up with him, and that he ultimately led his friend to death. Yoh offers Mosuke his body to make a katana for Amidamaru. With Mosuke’s spirit inside him, they create a katana. Yoh then delivers it to Amidamaru, explaining that Mosuke kept him waiting for 600 years. He couldn’t show his face after that long. Amidamaru understands and can finally rest in peace.

As Amidamaru is ascending to the next realm, he witnesses Ryu of the Wooden Sword, one of the town’s gang members, start a fight with Yoh. Amidamaru comes to the rescue allowing Yoh to channel him and defeat Ryu. Amidamaru decided to stick with Yoh after all.



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Shaman King Episode 1: The Boy Who Dances With Ghosts

by battousai3345 on June 21, 2005 Comments

Oyamada Manta leaves school absorbed in a book. He has a feeling that someone is calling him from the cemetery. Yoh asks him to watch the stars with everyone. Manta is confused - who is everyone? He only sees himself and the boy. Yoh says everyone and a bunch of spirits appear around him. Manta runs off terrified.

The next day at school, Manta tries telling some of his fellow classmates about his experience, but no one believes him. They tease him and laugh. Suddenly, the boy from the cemetery shows up in class. The teacher introduces him as Asakura Yoh. Manta flips out, trying to explain that he’s the kid from the cemetery. When Manta confronts Yoh about the cemetery thing, he denies ever seeing Manta. The rest of the class laughs at Manta’s persistence.

After school, Manta follows Yoh, but loses him after observing him watching water for several hours. Manta decides to go back to the cemetery to find Yoh. A violent man, Ryu of the Wooden Sword, demands that his goons make sure the kid who usually comes by the cemetery stay off his place. As he is lecturing his guys, they stare back at him in terror. Ryu has just stepped on the grave of Amidamaru, the famous legend about a samurai from 600 years ago who killed a bunch of people. By standing on his tombstone, Ryu might just be cursed with his spirit. Ryu is unimpressed and strikes the tombstone with his sword yelling ‘Nattou’ (Japanese fermented soybeans).

Manta witnesses the event and knocks over a can trying to leave quietly. Ryu accuses him of trespassing on their Best Place, and they decide to teach Manta a lesson. The next day, Manta shows up at school completely beaten up. His classmates can’t believe Ryu beat him up. Manta declares that he’s seen spirits, but still no one will believe him. Yoh comes up behind him and affirms the concept. After school, Yoh decides to take him back to the cemetery. He thinks that Manta must be a good person because evil people can’t see spirits. At the cemetery, Yoh ties Manta to a tree and tells him to watch. Yoh decides to face Ryu that night, channeling a spirit. He tells Manta to watch him closely, as he is a Shaman, and then calls Amidamaru. With Amidamaru, he takes out the men attacking him. Ryu attacks, and Yoh defeats him as well. Manta is intrigued.

The next day, Yoh and Manta repair Amidamaru’s tombstone.

Manta=Morty




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Shaman king is up

by battousai3345 on June 21, 2005 Comments

SHAMAN KING

.hack //Legend of the Twilight Episode 12: The Beginning of a Legend

by battousai3345 on June 21, 2005 Comments

The battle continues as the party quickly depletes their selection of items. They still seem to be doing no damage and the virus is still spreading. Shugo sees a confused but unharmed Koniyama in the distance and is immediately suspicious as to why he remains unaffected by the virus even though he knows Rena’s member address.

Meanwhile, the group begins to lose hope as nothing seems to be working. Shugo decides there still is hope left. He believes that the reason Koniyama is unharmed is because he received Shugo’s Data Drain. Maybe that’s the key to virus immunity. When the rest of the party waivers on this risky tactic, he assures them that he will be the only one to receive the Data Drain. He will not lose his sister again and is willing to sacrifice himself. The rest of the party is quick to tell him that they are concerned about Rena as well and will participate in the Data Drain. Sure enough, after the Data Drain, Shugo, Mileiyu and Hitaru are cured of the virus. Balmung still lies close to death, but encourages them not to give up. All monsters can be defeated.

After several ineffective attacks, Aura asks if Shugo does decide to use the Data Drain, he is to wait until after the virus completely takes over Rena. He has a lag time of about 1/1000th of a second, but if he can Data Drain during that moment, he can drain just the virus. He does, and the virus lifts from Rena and the monster disappears.

Shugo then sets his sights on Moruti, but as he goes to Data Drain, the girl hacker tries to stop him. With Moruti gone, The World begins to collapse… her final trap. Soon all chaos gates turn red and begin decompiling and eliminating all evidence. Logging out is impossible and there is 5 minutes to system shutdown.

Kamui explains the girl is the 4th of the hackers. The girl admits to meeting the Wandering AI. Both were interested in death. She was searching in the real world, but couldn’t find the answers she sought. She decided to then experiment with The World. At first she thought she discovered that death is like being eliminated. Rena asks if she thought that, why did she create a world after death? Rena and Shugo then try to empathize: they know of the feelings of wanting to go some place, even after death. Death and separation are similar, but even if you are separated, you can meet each other anytime in The World. The hacker girl wants to believe that… she wants to understand why another sacrificed herself to save her… but soon The World will collapse. Perhaps they’ll really die, or just sleep forever. Maybe death is like sleeping forever. (Sorry, I have to comment: wow, isn’t she the selfish little depressed child… let’s just kill everyone to see if we can unravel the mysteries of death. Geez, if you want to find out that badly, why don’t you just kill yourself? Should I feel sympathetic? Because I don’t. I’m amazed the other characters were so compassionate…)

The party then questions why Aura revived the Kite and Black Rose characters. Together, maybe the two still have the power to stop this. Rena puts her hand on Shugo’s bracelet and together they fly into the Chaos Gate. Everything disappears.

After credits:
Mileiyu runs happily towards Hitaru waving the three sets of clothes she just received. All party members wait for their final two to arrive. Soon Shugo and Rena log in and the party is reunited. The hacker girl looks on, reminded that friends can meet in The World anytime regardless of distance… The Hero of Legend revives.



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.hack //Legend of the Twilight Episode 11: End of the World

by battousai3345 on June 21, 2005 Comments

Moruti appears and immediately changes the appearance of the area. She can control all aspects of The World… all weird events, such as the Fountain of Illusion drying up and the difficult monsters were her doing. She can even teleport people to her, as Shugo soon discovers when he attempts to Data Drain and Komiyama appears in her arms.

Reki watches from his office inside the game. Phantom City has been dropped from the CC Company’s control. Soon he is joined by Kamui.

In Phantom City, the NPCs of the town start attacking Shugo and co. When Shugo decides he’s had enough and prepares to Data Drain, Sanjuro stops him. She’s the only connection they have to Rena.

Back in the office, Reki asks what Kamui found in the kids’ computers. She replies that they must have had an interest in death. When he turns his back to her, she stabs him with her spear. His character turns grey and disappears…

Moruti explains that she wants to know the true meaning of death. This was the only way… to create a true death when PC and NPC die. She demonstrates by PKing the NPCs.

Reki teleports back to the office soon after his death to continue his conversation with Kamui. Moruti used the kids to create death in the world. Reki teleports a frozen monster into the room and explains when a player is killed by this monster, a special gate opens and they’re transmitted to a special area within the server. The player is then caught in an illusion which makes them think they really are dead. It seems the kids created this program to understand perfect death.

Back in Phantom City, Balmung explains that perfect death is the antithesis of the World’s fundamental idea. Sanjuro adds that if perfect death could happen, The World would be different. Aura must have sensed this and revived the .hackers’ characters to fight against this. Therefore it must be possible to stop this World change and Shugo’s bracelet must be the key. That would explain why Moruti kept sending monsters after Shugo.

Back at the office, Kamui explains that when she searched the kids computers, the data clearly indicated that Shugo was the target. It seems that Rena has since become the target. If Shugo had been the one to have been caught in the death illusion and something went wrong, he could have used the bracelet to escape. Rena, on the other hand, does not possess a bracelet, and her illusion has currently been removed.

The Phantom City party deduces that if Moruti really wanted to learn the true meaning of death, Shugo is too risky to the chance of success, so she changed her target to Rena. The goal must be to eliminate Aura, the one being that can exist in the world anywhere, which inversely means she doesn’t exist anywhere. Moruti will use Rena to catch Aura. Inside the cave illusion, a large monster swallows Rena and teleports to Moruti.

At the office, Kamui explains that to fight back, first they must develop highly contagious virus that will not only corrupt data, but eliminate it completely from all CC Company’s backup servers. Then they will have to insert it into Rena.

Moruti initiates her World of Death scheme by injecting Rena and players who know Rena’s member address including Aura with a virus to delete their characters. Immediately, everyone’s hit points start decreasing, and none are able to log out. Soon, Aura appears and asks them to defeat the monsters while she uses her strength against the virus. Balmung heals the party and everyone take the offense again.

Reki and Kamui realize that a vaccine against the virus is now impossible. They can only stop it from being transmitted. They realize the consequences if they fail: Aura will no longer exist and they’ll either fall unconscious or possibly die. Kamui decides to teleport to the Phantom City to fight to the end with the one she loves… Balmung.

In Phantom City, the virus eats away at the party’s weapons and soon they are fighting barehanded. Shugo’s bracelet is still unharmed, but Aura cautions him not to use it, or Rena will also be affected. If that happens, she won’t be able to continue suppressing the virus. Kamui soon appears and uses a Level 2 Darkness attack. She advices the party that their weapons might be useless, but they can still use their items. She will fight to avenge the Knights.

Shugo attacks and is tossed into the city ruins. When he pulls himself together, he notices a silhouette hiding amongst the buildings



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