SHAMAN FILES vol 27:
Okay, so this is what I got (all summed up): Anna and Yoh have been traveling the world, particularly visiting lawless areas, promoting love and peace. There was also something mentioned about lonely or inexperienced parents. Kinda weird. I used language blocks and translation pages so it's not perfect. In fact, the only part I'm pretty sure of is the love and peace because "love and peace" is written in English in Yoh's bio in vol 27.
See, I can't actually read kanji. Sure, I know some, but not enough to translate. So I just matched characters and such. I also checked out the japanese wikipedia page and ran the info through two different translators. I'll keep working on the translations and try to make them more accurate. Anywho, promise kept. Eventually, I'll see what I can do about completely translating the whole thing and listing each of them for you guys to see.
Besarki: Chapter 7, the most pointless chapter yet. Woo! I wrote most of this at school and the kid next to me kept looking over at me. I was like, "GOD DAMMIT! THERE'S NOTHING TO SEE HERE!" Didn't know what to name this chapter so I went with six thirty. Allow me to explain. I am random, and yet I connect things. My thinking: Anna is in this chapter. Anna once mistook a telephone for a microwave. I cook ramen in the microwave. It takes six minutes and thirty seconds. Thus, the title was born. However, I'll probably rename it later.
A quick note to xmegaminoiax and Reviewer101...you guys are funny. Because Reviewer101 is anonymous, there isn't really much of an outlet to have a conversation so of course I'm not mad. Even if you were both signed, though, I probably wouldn't have minded. Hee hee.
Oh, and xmegaminoiax, happy early birthday. Everyone say happy birthday in your reviews or send a nice happy bday PM! DO IT!
I wanted to hammer out an attack chart for Hana and Anna, and so here it is.
Anna
Summon - Naka-Oni
-----Oversoul - Naka (Raft)
-----Oversoul - Naka (Flight)
-----Oversoul - Naka (Burrow)
-----Oversoul - Naka (???)
-----Oversoul - Naka-Oni (Solidify)
-----Oversoul--Hyoui Gattai--Naka-Oni - Mana Beam
Dismiss - Naka-Oni
Seal ((Spirits))
Reishi (Limited)
???
Hana
Call - Matamune
-----Hyoui Gattai--Matamune - Oni Goroshi (Weak)
-----???
???
???
Guide:
Bolded text is the ability type. Italicized is the spirit ally. Normal text is the attack or ability.
Charts are subject to change.
The ???'s mean that the skill either hasn't been revealed yet and is kept hidden because it's a plot point or something to that effect. OKAY! ON WITH THE POINTLESS YET SOMEWHAT CUTE CHAPTER!
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If I was standing on the balcony
And you were walking down below
I'd feel rather depressed and out of place
And lonely just to watch you go
~Fuzzy Blue Lights, Owl City
2009
Happy new year.
You're a week late.
Yeah, I know. Sorry.
Whatever.
So harsh.
You should be used to it.
I am. It's still harsh, though.
Forgive me.
Okay!
Sarcasm, Yoh.
Seriously?
Yes. Seriously.
Wow, I didn't even notice. I must be really used to it.
That or oblivious.
You wound me, Anna.
My apologies.
Hahaha.
What's so funny?
You.
I fail to see anything humorous about this situation.
What situation? You forget that I can't see.
For starters, you took that in the wrong context.
I know. I was just joking around.
Idiot. And no, I have not forgotten that. Besides, I can't see either.
That's because your eyes are closed.
Same difference in the end.
If you say so.
Sigh. I do still find that strange, though. You are absolutely blind, but you can somehow still see Hana.
I don't know how that works either. It's pretty weird.
Explain that.
Explain what?
What do you think?
If I knew, I wouldn't be asking.
Yoh...
...?
Forget it.
Huh?
Just, don't worry about it. You don't know any more about this than I do.
Any more about what? I'm confused.
Pretend I didn't say anything.
O...okay...
You're better off.
If you say so.
...
...
...
...
...
So...
So?
Uhhh...how are you?
Fine...?
That's...good.
Yoh...?
Yeah?
Again, wrong context. I was asking why you asked that.
How was I supposed to know that?! You're so confusing!
I disagree. You merely seem to be growing dimmer with each day that passes.
Jeez, cut a guy some slack, will ya?
The last thing you need is slack.
Ah! At last I have found an advantage to being dead!
An advantage?!
No more torture, I mean training! Ahahahaha!
...
Hehehehe.
...
Hahahaha.
...
Ha...huh? Where'd you go?
...
Hello? Anna?
...
Anna...?
...
Did she wake up?
...
Hellooooo?
...
Huh. Did I say anything offensive? If I did, I'm sorry.
You'd rather be dead that endure my training?
Ah! There you are.
Answer the question.
Jeez, Anna. Don't get so worked up all the time. I didn't mean it.
You better not have.
Of course I didn't. Being dead sucks. I have a son I've never met, a wife I haven't seen in seven years, friends who've probably forgotten me--
No one could ever forget you, Yoh. Never.
You wouldn't, I know that, but what about the others? Horohoro, Ren, Manta.
Manta?! Manta never shuts up about you. You're all he ever talks about. Okay, so he talks about Hana too, but that's because he's your son.
Really? Ha. That's kinda funny.
I'm not joking.
That makes it even more funny.
Honestly. If he cared about you any more, I'd feel threatened.
Hahaha. Well, I'm straight so you'll never have to worry.
Unless Tamao sneaks in from behind.
You're paranoid.
Can you blame me?
Yes.
Thanks, Yoh.
Hey, no problem!
Yoh...
Anna.
Everything's a joke, huh?
Compliments of Chocolove.
Oh, god. Not him.
You're so mean, Anna.
This is Chocolove we're talking about.
Hey, you haven't seen him in years. He could be different.
He could, but I doubt it.
Anna strikes.
Baka.
How Anna of you.
Hana says that very same thing when he thinks I'm not listening.
How is the little guy?
He's doing all right. He's mellow like you.
And violent like you.
Poor guy. Born to a father everyone adores and he inherits a large part of his mother's personality.
He'll never have anything to fear.
You think I fear nothing?
Now you're putting words in my mouth. Ha. That's an odd phrase.
You're a moron, Yoh.
Why are you always insulting me?
You bring it on yourself.
All fear the great Anna-sama, the queen of cruelty.
Oh shut up, Yoh.
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Hana
"Rock...paper...scissors..." My hand waved up and down as I determined which choice would be best, "shoot!"
I chose rock. Matamune picked paper.
"Darn it! I lost again."
"Perhaps if you picked something other than the item I used last, you would win some," Matamune suggested.
I shook my head. "No. I just suck at this game."
"Shall we play something different?"
"Like what?"
"I will leave that up to you."
My hand flew to my chin as I contemplated. I didn't really know any games besides that one. Okay, so I knew a few but they were all boring.
"Uhhhh...how about...noooooo...well there's...ew, no. I hate that one...oh, wait, never mind."
"I spy?"
"Oh! I forgot about that one. Okay. Let's play that. You go first."
Matamune nodded. "Very well." His feline eyes grazed the Italian landscape for a few moments, then he looked back at me and smiled. "Okay. I spy something silver."
"Hmm..." I looked over all the areas he had searched. "Is it a car?"
"No."
"A plane?"
"No."
"My shoes?"
"Your shoes are black."
"No, look. There's a little silver right here..."
"That's still not it."
"Darn it." I turned around and gazed behind me. There wasn't much there. Just a few shrubs and my sleeping mother. A mental light bulb formed above my head.
"Oh! That weird band thing Kaa-san wears on her head."
"Yes, actually. Very good, Hana-chan." He seemed pleasantly surprised.
I have to admit, I was pretty proud of myself. That one was hard. "Heh. Okay, my turn." I had it in an instant. "I spy something brown."
"Tree."
"Darn it!"
"I spy something orange."
"Oh, is there an orange tree around here?" Oranges were my favorite fruit.
"Not that I know of."
"Then I guess that's not it."
"You guess correctly."
"Okay...oh, that's easy! My clothes."
"Correct."
"Okay. This is getting boring. Let's do something else."
"Such as?"
"Erm...I don't know. Let's look over this list Mari helped me write."
"Very well. Shall we practice?" The old cat opted.
"Sure. Okay. How do you say hello...buongiorno or ciao... Ciao? Isn't that goodbye, too?" I flipped the page and found that it was. "Wow, they can say hello and goodbye with the same word. Ha."
"Japanese is very different from the romance languages, Hana."
"Romance languages? What the hell is a romance language?"
"The languages in Europe and the Americas are based off of latin just as our language comes from chinese."
"Um, okay. That's good, I guess."
"It was only trivia, Hana. Plus, it may help you. You may notice that many of the words in different languages sound the same." Matamune was too smart for me. I didn't pay attention to his lectures much anymore, to be honest. He'd probably be all burnt out if he ever found out, though.
"Okay. Well, I'm gonna throw rocks at Kaa-san now."
"That's not a very good idea, Hana-chan. Your mother will be very displeased."
"Kaa-san is always displeased," I muttered, crawling over to her and picking up some pebbles from the ground.
I crept always closer, staying as quiet as I possibly could. When I kneeled right next to her, I lifted my arms and prepared to place a rock in the center of her hairline.
Her own arm suddenly snapped up and grabbed my own. I screamed in fright and dropped everything in my hands, leading to a shower of rocks and a notepad that pelted us both.
Kaa-san's eyes were suddenly glued to me. Though they looked blank to the naked eye, I could see the taunts and jibes hidden within them.
My expression turned accusing. "You were faking," I growled.
"I wanted to know what treachery you planned against me while I was asleep."
"I don't know what that means." The sentence made me sound pathetic but I held my angered expression.
"Treason," She said, correctly guessing the word that had confused me even though I hadn't even hinted that it was only that one word. It's like she read my mind or something.
To my surprise, a small smirk crossed Kaa-san's face, though, as I couldn't explain or understand it, I simply let it go. Ignoring it like I would anything else.
With the sun setting over us, Kaa-san led me and Matamune into the expanse of land that the locals called Italia.
Besarki: Yeah, this one is pretty boring. It was more of an author's note chapter I basically wanted to list some stuff, but couldn't do that without a chapter, and so, here it is. Fear not, though, next chapter picks back up again. Those who liked chapter 5 will like chapter 8, too. Coughbattlescenecough. MUHAHAHAHA! Also, there will only be ONE more Yoh-Anna conversation before the Yoh POV chapter.
I was reading the lyrics for the first opening song in the japanese version of Shaman King and I saw the line, "In the redundant daily lives" that is awesome. Like, that is an amazing line. Wow. Sorry, I felt like sharing.
Oooo! I just ordered KZB vols 15 and 16 from Japan this morning. Weeee. I'm so excited. I got 27 a while ago, as you probably know, and it came in no time so I decided that I wanted to get 15 and 16, the reprint of the Osorezan Revoir arc with the shaman files included. Cost me like 50 bucks, but I don't even care! Hahahaha! -Goes nuts-
Didn't know if Buongiorno was one word or two. Gomen to any diehard Italians out there. :)
OMG! Bribery! If you leave me a nice review, meaning that it's a review that says more than just "please update" or "UPDATE OR I'LL KILL YOU!", though you can leave that as part of it :D, then I'll reply and send you an updated list of Hana's attacks with one of the ???'s revealed. Most of you leave nice reviews now, so this should be nothing different. HOWEVER! If you don't want it, and would rather wait and be surprised, then say so in your review.
Getting to be more of a review glutton, sorry. I just love them so much. Most of you have stories of your own and know how exicting it is to get reviews. Ha. Sorry.
Eh...this was crazy boring. Another preview is in order I think, though this is just the song I'll use for that one chapter...
It's been about a year now
Ain't seen or heard from you
I been missing you crazy
How do you, how do you sleep?
I found the letter you wrote me
Still smells just like you
Damn those sweet memories
How do you, how do you sleep?
~How Do You Sleep, Jesse McCartney
(Don't really like him, but this song fits)
Hint: This has nothing to do with Yoh. CHEW ON THAT!