Episode 26 - “After that” and “After this”

This is the final episode for Bamboo Blade titled “After that” and “After this”.

A year has quickly left and it is time for new freshmen to come. Tamaki is still hardworking as ever as she practice in her family’s dojo and in school. However, she is suddenly put into a dilemma when two new freshmen came in to the club for a demonstration. (Tamaki is as cute as ever!!! *Squeal*)

Soon all the second year students arrive but none know how to entertain the first year. Luckily, Kirino-senpai and Sayako-senpai came. The Kendo club then gave the first year a spectacular play of how the Kendo club trains. They, especially Tamaki, spark interest in the two first years. They then realize that the two first year are actually siblings of Toyama and Iwasa. It was also revealed that Dan-kun replaced Kirino as captain. (it is surprising but at the same time not…)

Then another good news hit the Kendo club. The supposedly quitted sensei came back to replace the pregnant Yoshikawa-sensei who is going on maternity leave. (yup, she’s pregnant! Isn’t that cool? Wait till you find out who the father is…) The Kendo club is overwhelmed by the return of Ishida-sensei, especially Kirino.

From that onwards, the Kendo club, together with the two first year, strive hard for the competition. On that very day the competition starts, it seems that Tamaki has met another strong rival? (well one could have guess with all those special effects concentrating on them)

Ok and that’s the end of Bamboo Blade. This anime started good and ended off with a nice little twist in the end. (nice!!!)

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...Tamaki and her supposedly new rival...

Episode 25 - Kendo and the Thing That Kendo Brought

Ok we start off with Tamaki praying to her mother. (what a filial child!!!!) It seems that she finally regain her confidence in Kendo. (yay!!!)

The girls are finally going to another competition, this time the team are so much more united. As usual, our klutzy teacher forgot the directions to the place where the competition is held. Luckily, Yuji(he is as handsome as always...*sigh*) spotted the bus going to the competition.

In the cramped bus(shows how big the competition is...), Tamaki accidentally grab hold on Yuji when the bus jerk(get off Yuji!!!!..but they are so cute together... *sobz*). Yuji realised Tamaki was stressed out, whci is pretty rare. On the other side, Miyako grab hold of Dan-kun's head(I still can't accept the fact they are lovers..),worse off when she saw Carrie, she started squeezing Dan-kun.(*lmao*)

When they reached the competiton area, Ishida-sensei had a flashback about the time he was in this competition defeating his senior. Somehow, he looked very forlorn. When the team went to register, Ishida-sensei met up with his senior and they talked about the past.

At the registration area, the girls encourage each other to reach the end so they can face off with each other. Then Miya-miya saw Carrie and went off to find her, they had a small whispered quarrel.

When the competition started, unlucky Azuma got Tamaki as her first opponent.(I do not need to say anything, you guys should know who won..) At the other side, Miyako faced Carrie, after a serie of attacks, she caught Carrie off-guard and got a point.(guess all the work spent beforehand paid off..^^) Finally, Miyako won her first match.

By now, Sayako and Kirino won till their fourth match and was eliminated, Azuma is her first match (poor her..), Miyako lost in her second match and Tamaki is the only one left.(no surprises here..^^)

In the boy's match, Dan-kun faced off Yuji. Looks like Dan-kun improved a lot as Yuji had a hard time defeating him, he even scored a point against Yuji. After the close fight, Yuji still won.

Outside the competition, Miyako fought with Carrie again, this time Carrie will be using two shinai. Even though, Miyako was at a disadvantage, eventually she won againt Carrie.

Finally the time for Tamaki to faced her one true opponent had come. Her name is Suzuki Rin. They started off strong, each countering each other's attacks and Tamaki scored the first point but Rin eventually caught up. During the last attack, Rin used her Jodan, in order to counter Tamaki used Chudan and defeated Rin. Therefore, they each won a fight.

In the end, Ishida-sensei said something wierd to his senior and left(I wonder if something bad is gonna happen...). When Kirino ran out, he was already gone. Next, we were showed a empty house (Ishida-sensei's ??) and Ishida-sensei walked out of it, meeting his friend and talked about a new job. The episode ends like this. (What's is the new job? Is Ishida-sensei going to leave? Please dun leave, I can take back all my nasty words!!!!!!)

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..a pic of the girls in Kendo form..

Synopsis

This summary is for Bamboo Blade. This anime talks about Kendo revolving around 5 girls, 2 boys and 1 pathetic teacher. In order to win a bet made with his senior, the teacher had to find a group of kendo girls team to compete in competitions. He was very desperate and was almost reduced to beg girls to join. Just as there was no hope of winning the bet, he met a girl who was a prodigy in Kendo. The story starts from there where the team met lots of obstacles but managed to stay together as one.




The opening song is Bamboo Beat and the ending song is Star Rise both by Ryou Hirohashi. (she is a female...)

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..a pic of the girls to start off the series...