Shine Or Die: Director’s Cut With Commentary!
Xuanwu: This was an early idea for the opening.
Erin: It was the twist that got the characters of Hellsing and R.O.D together. The story went straight to the Wells plot instead, for the sake of being streamlined.
Joker: Agent Paper, the British Library has a job for you.
Yomiko? What is it, sir?
Joker: Our original edition of Dracula is overdue. We need you to go to the patron’s house and retrieve it.
Yomiko: An overdue book? Understood, Mr. Joker. But…couldn’t this be handled by someone a little more…normal?
Joker: Ah…no. Anyone else would get killed on the way up the front steps.
Yomiko: Oh, it’s like that, isn’t it.
[The main trouble with this is, Integra would have her own copy of Dracula…]
Posts from April 2006
Not Quite Victoria’s England 92/120
Cameo is one of the characters from Okashina Okashi.
Hakim: Hey! I object!
This doesn’t make any sense! If I died in 1897, how would people in 1997 know to come to 1897 to kill me in the first place? Isn’t that a plot hole?
Death: No…this is a plot hole. (I’m Death, by the way.)
Cameo: This definitely isn’t our Tokyo. Time to try the next one.
All’s Well That Ends Wells 91/120
A lot of things happen very quickly here, so let me break it down for you, character by character:
Yumie activates the time machine.
Heinkel grabs Nenene and follows.
Yomiko, of course, flies after her.
Alucard grabs Integra, who has begun shifting rapidly, and follows as well.
Seras hefts the ailing Pip (oh, the volume 7 irony) and brings up the rear.
Emma and William realize that there’s not going to be a punch line. Again.
Day of Silence 2006
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All’s Well That Ends Wells 90/120
Note from The Future: Should’ve given this one a sound effect. A surprising number of readers missed the fact that Hakim just took a bullet to the head.
All’s Well That Ends Wells 89/120
Heinkel (thinking): So that’s why she’s been so aggressive. Yumie’s been trying to make up and meet this dumb writer!
Heinkel: Yumie, you stupidhead! Get the time machine!
Yumie: {Watch me, Sumiregawa-sama! Maybe you could write a book about me! I don’t need royalties, I just want an autographed–}
Heinkel: Just go!!
Shine or Die: Deleted Scenes #2
Shine Or Die: Director’s Cut With Commentary!
Erin: In the original idea, Alex was the Iscariot agent who showed up.
Xuanwu: But we realized that Yumie/ko had to be in there. Besides, Anderson gets enough love already.
Erin: The only downside is that this battle never got to happen…
Anderson: You’re a witch! In nomine Patris and so on…
Yomiko: Um, this isn’t really the best way to attack me.
[bonk] [bounce]
Yomiko (thinking): Well, I did try to warn him.
Robin: Actually, technically, by our definition, Yomiko is a witch. But that’s for another crossover.
All’s Well That Ends Wells 88/120
[whoosh]
Yumie: {At last, I’m free! Free to do what I’ve wanted to do for so long now…}
{Sumiregawa-sama! I’m your biggest fan. It’s an honor to finally meet you. Let me shake your hand!}
All’s Well That Ends Wells 87/120
Heinkel: Yumiko, you have to wake up Yumie.
Yumiko: This was supposed to be a peaceful trip. All I wanted was some books signed.
Heinkel: Well, that’s changed now. And there’s no way we can get home on our own.
Yumiko: All right.
On one condition, Heinkel. We’re taking Sumiregawa-sensei with us.
Heinkel: Fine, fine.
All’s Well That Ends Wells 86/120
[SLICE]
Alucard (thinking): And that takes care of that.
…Spoke too soon.