#angelise ikaruga misurugi

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Ange: Give your mom a hug!

Jack: Oh, yeah, okay. [gives her a half-hearted, one-arm hug]

Ange [looking at him with an intense stare]: I spent 37 hours squeezing you out of my body, and this is what I get?

Jack: Oh, I just, uh…

Ange [completely dead serious]: Give your mother a hug.

Jack: Okay! [immediately hugs her properly this time]

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Pokemon team for Angelise Ikaruga Misurugi from Cross Ange: Tenshi to Ryuu no Rondo!

Full team consists of: Dragapult, Scizor, Skarmory, Noivern, Iron Valiant and Genesect

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Iron Valiant sprite source: https://reliccastle.com/resources/1101/

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Crossover Ships

Angelise “Ange” Ikaruga Misurugi from Cross Ange

Yui Komori from Diabolik Lovers

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Angelise Ikaruga Misurugi (Cross Ange: Tenshi to Ryuu no Rondo)  » January 21

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Cross Ange Pride Icons

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Cross Ange, episode 6: “Momoka’s Here!” (2014)

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Day 5. Anime you're ashamed you've enjoyed. I don't know why but I've seen and I've enjoyed Cross Ange.

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Sketch dump. Just a few random characters, started with Ryo over there and Ange was the last one.

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[Jack’s Parents]

Since there is no information on who Jack’s parents were before they died during the Zero Reverse event, I have come up with my own idea for them.

The mother: Hilda

During her teenage years, Hilda was a duelist from the poorer sections of New Domino City. Before Jack, she was the owner of Red Dragon Archfiend and faced many opponents with the card in her hand.

Originally, she felt contempt for the upper class and how they looked down on her and those like her. When she crossed path with Ange, however, she began to believe there was hope for a better future.

As a girlfriend, and eventual wife, Hilda was completely devoted to Ange. She was quick to fall in love with the other and took on a very protective, almost possessive, attitude towards her.

The other mother: Ange

Ange was a talented up and coming duelist from the Tops of New Domino City. Like most, she held prejudice towards those of the lower class and thought them as nothing more than crooks and troublemakers.

It wasn’t until she met Hilda in a small dueling tournament and faced against her did she begin to change her narrow minded views. After their battle, the pair soon developed a close friendship, which evolved into something deeper over time.

A strong-willed young woman, she abandoned her old life in the Tops and married Hilda. When she became pregnant, she sold her best card, Stardust Dragon, to help them get by. The woman who bought it was a researcher visiting from the Tops named Yuriko Fudo, Yusei’s mother.

The son: Jack

One night, Ange had a dream of a dragon made completely of crimson. It touched her stomach and its wings disappeared in a bright flash of light, the creature vanishing soon after. A few weeks later, she discovered she was with child. No one could understand how it was possible, but Ange and Hilda’s shock soon turned into excitement and joy.

Jack was very much loved by his mothers, often referred as their Little Prince. Even as an infant, he showed a strong interest in Red Dragon Archfiend and Hilda promised to give it to him when he was older.

On the day of Zero Reverse, Ange and Hilda put Jack into a small crawl space under the floorboards of their home. After making sure he was safe from the disaster happening around them, it wasn’t long before the couple met their end.

When things began to settle down, Jack was eventually discovered and taken to Martha’s orphanage. On his tenth birthday, she gave him a small box that was found with him. Inside was Hilda’s Red Dragon Archfiend card and Ange’s wedding ring, the only mementos he has of them.

In terms of personality, Jack takes the most after Hilda, having inherited her brash and confident attitude and devotion to one person (in his case, Yusei). Due to being very young when his mothers died, Jack does not have a lot of clear memories of them.

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Angelise Ikaruga Misurugi (part 1)

Series: Cross Ange

Icon count: 99

Splitting this into long-haired Ange and short-haired Ange, I’ll post the other half once I finish them.

Please like or reblog if using!

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Quick Ramblings (Anime Edition)

Lately I’ve been watching a lot of older stuff along with some of my backlog from the last two-ish seasons. Nothing this season really clicked with me save for In/Spectre, and I’m waiting for more episodes of the dub to come out before watching it. 

All in all this has been a rather quiet season in terms of anime, at least for me. I’ve been a lot more focused on updating fanfics and my original stories for the past two-ish months to really watch any anime that I couldn’t just binge. A few things in Spring has my interest, but that’s Spring...

Anyway... onto the anime Allen’s been watching these past few months.

I’m about half way through Cross Ange and I’m having a blast with it. It’s trashy, it’s riddled with fanservice, it’s premise is honestly stupid, and even the mech battles are a little lacking, but this is an show that knows it’s trashy and over the top, so I don’t have an issue with it. 

For a quick summary, Cross Ange is about an Angelise Ikaruga Misurugi, a princess living in a peaceful kingdom of magic-users, at least until its revealed that she had no magical talent and was immediately shunned and exiled from the kingdom as a member of the magic-less Norma caste. Taken from her home and forced to train and work as a mech pilot to kill dragons, she grows into a cold killing machine, with only anger and revenge keeping her going. The story goes into depth about a conspiracy regarding the Dragons, Ange’s origins, and a few other things, but again, I’m at episode 13 at this point. 

This is actually my second time watching this show, but stopped after episode 12 last time, mostly because something came up for me IRL and by the time I got back to Cross Ange I realized the dub was out and I was just waiting for that to wrap up. Speaking of, the Dub is pretty good, Ange sounds great, the voice actress being able to do spoiled princess and cold-hearted badass parts of her very well. And the rest of the cast sound good too with Hilda being my favorite, my favorite moments being the ‘on-the-next-episode’ segments, which are hilarious. To paraphrase one of them:

Ange: Hey, it’s been like 10 episodes since someone died, and we just became friends soooo...

Hilda: I don’t want to be friends with you anymore.

That aside, this show it just a fun romp. It’s trashy, it’s over the top, it takes itself almost too serious but not in a way that feels like they’re reaching. Like the seriousness only adds to the cheese of it all. I haven’t finished it yet, but if you want something fun and trashy to watch with your friends, this is definitely the perfect show for it.

Against my better judgement, I decided to look back at the original Fate/Stay Night anime. It’s been years since I’ve watched it and all I remember is a 3D-rendered dragon in a mid-2000s anime. And while that is bad, it shouldn’t be all there is to that anime. As of 10 episodes I can confidently say it’s... not... terrible. A lot of the complaints I remember hearing about this anime seem to be blown out of proportion, at least given the point of the anime I’m at. It’s got plenty of time to make me cringe even more than it has now, but that cringe mostly comes from me being a 26-year-old man watching anime that was probably a lot cooler to 13-year-old Allen that the 26-year-old Allen currently watching this now. For a mid-2000s shounen series, it’s okay. Not great, but okay.

This anime might get a Rambling in itself drafted up when I finish the Gacha Rambling, but for now I’ll just say I have two main issues with this anime: Shirou Emiya, and the World-building of the Fate universe. Shirou feels incompetent not due to how he behaves, but how the writers make him behave. The second issue... requires me to talk about Fate and its writers as a whole, but the short version is I wish Fate/Stay Night wasn’t originally a porn game. It’d make things a lot easier to explain and maneuver around if it wasn’t.

Also, I do prefer this English voice cast to Unlimited Blade Works. The UBW cast if fine, even great, but Sam Riegel as Shirou and Liam O’Brien as Archer is just too perfect a combination to beat.

Finally started watching Ascendance of a Bookworm, an isekai anime about a librarian being reincarnated as a frail, sickly girl. Her one goal being to write and curate books. The only issue being the world she reincarnated into has little in the way of mass-producing books, as neither the printing press or typewriting has been invented year, and paper is rather expensive. So she uses all sorts of schemes, ideas, and plots to try and get books made on some reasonable level, each time a failure, but each failure doing more good in the long term than she thinks. 

This anime has a very mellow feel to it. Not something I watch for the plot, but just to see this cute anime girl finally make handmade paper and read a book. The stakes are really that high, the premise is rather simple, but... it’s comfy watch for me. I’m about 4 episodes in and I’m glad to hear we’re getting a second season of this show by the time I finish this first season. Can’t wait to watch more of it. 

So Granblue Fantasy got an anime. Two seasons actually, but I only finished up the first one since that was the one that’s fully dubbed. The story revolves around Gran, a young skyfarer wanting to travel the world to see his father. Through this endeavor he gathers many allies and friends, along with a girl named Lyria who saves his life after they first meet. The story takes off from there in a sort of island-of-the-week format. There’s a few other girls like Lyria wanting to meet the other girl that might be tied to her past, or Gran and crew constantly running into the Evil Empire(tm) of this world, but it’s more episodic affair than anything else, each three-ish episodes covering a new island.

I like the anime for its action, but that’s really it. I feel like this was at a time before Gacha games got the more dark and surprisingly in-depth lore and story-writing that games like Girls Frontline and Arknights has, but that makes it more of a comfortable watch than anything. A feel-good anime, but nothing wrong with that.

Also, I can only imagine the amount of hype that happened in episode 12 where all the characters teamed up to take down Leviathan. I don’t even play Granblue Fantasy and I was getting hype when I saw Boxing Grandpa punching debris as projectiles to take out monster fish. This was a fun anime to watch, and I say that as someone who doesn’t play Granblue.

Last up, I’ve been watching BOFURI: I Don’t Want to Get Hurt, so I’ll Max Out My Defense. It’s a fun anime about a young girl named Maple taking a tank build to it’s logical extremely. I won’t lie, I’m watching this because it’s not an isekai and has a pretty simple plot to follow. My favorite part of the anime is when the admins and game devs try to patch the game so Maple’s Tank meta won’t break the game in half... only for her to come up with some new nuttiness that makes her even scarier. 

Imagine walking around a field, minding your own business, then you see this tiny shield girl riding a flying turtle while summoning acid rain to kill a mob of monsters without even moving. This woman is unstoppable and I love it.

But yeah, that’s it for anime. Next up, I’ll hopefully have the Gacha Rambling wrapped up by Monday. In the mean time, I’ve got work to prepare for.

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1st Ep of Cross Ange

I had steered clear of Cross Ange because I had heard a lot of negative comments surrounding its first episode, especially by what happened at the end.  Then on the other, I’ve heard it being recommended as a good anime with a strong female lead.

Since I’ve hunting for a good anime to watch with a female lead, I decided to see the first episode for myself and come to my opinions about it.

SPOILERS FOR THE FIRST EPISODE OF CROSS ANGE BELOW

Okay, first let me say that I have not see any later episodes.  I have just finished the first episode at the writing of this so it’s possible my opinions about this anime may change later.  Like I could singing its praises or cursing it with hatred later.  This is just my take based on the first ep.

Meet Angelise Ikaruga Misurugi (I’m calling Ange because that’s a mouthful) was born as a Princess of a land where everyone can use mana.  She’s well beloved by the people of a peaceful country, she has loving parents and siblings, and is blessed with beautiful looks and a good spirit.  

However, things aren’t as well as they seem.  There’s another race of humans called Norma.  These are women who are born without the ability to use Mana and are dangerous because they can easily overcome mana shielding.  They are hated and treated as less than human and taken away somewhere.  

We see a seen where a woman is desperately trying to protect her child who is deemed a Norma from the authorities.  Ange goes over to try to make peace.  You’d think that such a kind princess would order the men to leave the mother and child alone.  No, she doesn’t.

DAMN!!!!!  Holy shit!  She’s talking about a BABY like a pair old shoes.  Throw them out and buy new ones.

In fact, Ange believes the world would be a better place if all the Norma were dead.  Oh, there can be any irony or consequences from this way of thinking.

Que her 16th birthday where they have a Baptism Ritual which is supposed to show the light of her mana.  Not really sure what its supposed to do, but it doesn’t happen the way Ange expects.  She’s a NORMA!!!  A norma of all things and it’s something her parents had been trying to hide.  The truth is revealed by her brother Julio who has their father arrested and sends the guards after Ange when her mother tries to lead her to safety.  Unfortunately, while protecting Ange, her mother is shot and killed.  

Just like the baby was torn from it’s mother, Ange is torn from her mother’s side.  

And whisked away to where they take all Normas.  Then we come across the controversial scene.  I’m not going to post any pics of it.  If you want to see it for yourself you can watch it Crunchyroll or there may be a clip of it on Youtube.

Basically, she’s stripped down and endures a forced cavity search.  People are calling it sexual assault or rape.  I didn’t get the vibe that the person doing the search is taking any perverse pleasure in it and the accomplice actually looks away before its started.  Cavity searches are common in prisons to search for contraband and that does seem to be where Ange was taken.  And it can be a traumatizing when forced on a person.

My take from this is that the creators wanted to show how far Ange has fallen.  She goes beloved princess to something less than human in the public’s eye.  Where she was able to command people to carry out her whims, in the prison scene, she has absolutely no power whatsoever and is at the mercy of others.  And she suffers degradation just short of rape.  

Was the cavity search gratuitous?  No.  Yes, she’s stripped, but her hair and other items are conveniently placed so you don’t see anything and nor do you see any entry or penetration going on.  It’s enough to let you know what’s going on and how it affects the character.  

Was the cavity search necessary?  No.  Everything before the cavity search was enough to demonstrate how far Ange has fallen. It could be considered a fan service thing based on how much of it we see in the opening and that Ange’s mother’s breasts was almost hanging out of her nightgown during their touching mother/daughter scene on the balcony.    

Is this a show deal breaker?  Again, no.  I’m not too easily triggered, but I can see where some people might be put off by this.  Again, I don’t know what happens beyond this episode so for all I know Ange or another character may get raped.  The story’s got me intrigued enough that I want to see episode 2.

So that’s my take on the controversy around Cross Ange’s first ep.  TTF.