Plot
Twelve-year-old Mitsuki loves to sing and she dreams of becoming a famous singer to fulfill a promise she made to Eichi, a close friend who moved away to American two years previously. Unfortunatly, she suffers from a tumor in her throat which makes singing difficult for her. One day Takuto and Meroko, two shinigami (gods of death), suddenly appear and inform her that she will die in one year. With this in mind, Mitsuki becomes more determined than ever to realize her dreams of becoming a famous singer and to reunite with Eichi. Asking for help, Takuto transforms her into a 16 year old to aid Mitsuki in following her dreams in the one year she has left to live.
Keywords: 12-year-old, death, death-of-parents, girl, grandma, little-girl, orphan, singing, spirit, stuffed-animal
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Zeb Smith is a gambler with a larcenous streak, but when an itinerant preacher takes a bullet meant for him, Zeb vows to fulfill the preacher's mission of building a church. Frustrated in his attempts to get donations, Zeb attempts to capture fugitive Doll Brown in order to obtain the reward. But he finds that there's more to Doll than meets the eye. When his old friend Bucky McLean shows up gunning for Doll, Zeb sees a chance to redeem them all... one way or another.
Keywords: trucolor
[first lines]::Narrator: Man, with his misdeeds, kindles his own hellfire!
[Zeb holds a gun on the Stoner boys]::Zeb Smith: You gents get your hands up just a little higher. You're not tired yet.
Zeb Smith: You can pick up your gun now, friend, but pick it up kinda easy like. I sure hope I didn't nick ya. I didn't aim to draw blood.::Dusty Stoner: For a Bible-toter, you're pretty handy with a six-shooter.::Zeb Smith: It kinda bothers me, too. Seems like the only kind of sermon I can make folks listen to.::Gyp Stoner: We ain't bad at that kind of sermon ourselves. If you're in town when we get back, we'll see who can be the most convincin'.
Gyp Stoner: First on the draw and first on the jaw, ain't ya!
Marshal Bucky McLean: Doll's real name is Mary Carson.::Zeb Smith: Then all you want Doll for is to tell where she can find her sister.::Marshal Bucky McLean: I want her so she won't find her sister.::Zeb Smith: Wait a minute, Bucky, you're stirrin' up too much dust. I don't savvy.
Zeb Smith: A man never starts killing until he stops thinking.
Full moon is a lunar phase that occurs when the Moon is on the opposite side of the Earth from the Sun. More precisely, a full moon occurs when the geocentric apparent (ecliptic) longitudes of the Sun and Moon differ by 180 degrees; the Moon is then in opposition with the Sun.
Lunar eclipses can only occur at full moon, where the moon's orbit allows it to pass through the Earth's shadow. Lunar eclipses do not occur every month because the moon usually passes above or below the Earth's shadow (which is mostly restricted to the ecliptic plane). Lunar eclipses can occur only when the full moon occurs near the two nodes of the orbit, either the ascending or descending node. This causes eclipses to only occur about every 6 months, and often 2 weeks before or after a solar eclipse at new moon at the opposite node.
As seen from Earth, the hemisphere of the Moon that is facing the Earth (the near side) is almost fully illuminated by the Sun and appears round. Only during a full moon is the opposite hemisphere of the Moon, which is not visible from Earth (the far side), completely unilluminated.
Sonata Arctica is a Finnish power metal band from the town of Kemi, originally assembled in 1995. Their later works (most notably The Days of Grays, Unia and a few tracks on Reckoning Night and Winterheart's Guild) contain several elements typical of progressive metal.
The band was founded by Marko Paasikoski, Jani Liimatainen and Tommy Portimo in Kemi at the end of 1995 (Tony Kakko and Pentti Peura joined in early 1996). Originally named Tricky Beans, they played hard rock rather than the power metal with which they grew to fame. During their early career, they recorded three demos which were never sent to any recording label — Friend 'till the End, Agre Pamppers and PeaceMaker.
In 1997 the band changed their name to Tricky Means, and from that point until 1999 their style was thoroughly worked upon and ultimately was drastically changed, acquiring strong emphasis on the keyboard melodies and relying on an easily distinguishable rhythm line maintained both by the bass and the guitar. Vocalist Tony Kakko developed a clean singing style which relies both on falsetto and tenor voices and second guitarist Marko Paasikoski left the band. Kakko has stated that the change of sound was influenced by fellow Finnish power metal band Stratovarius.