Gee, this looked much easier in all those Indiana Jones' movies!

Beware of Yuusuke-- he has a *stick*


And here we have the matching pair to my 'Mikael on the stairs' cel! This is Yuusuke shimmying up the support rope (geez, it looks more like support string here! ) of the Stairway to Heaven while trying to reach Noelle. Those stairs kinda remind me of the neverending spiral stairs to my old high school. *turns her face up and up and up as she looks at the ascending stairs until she gets dizzy*

This cel comes from episode 25, Because I Want Everything, I Need Nothing and the scene is a rather major spoiler--

It seems that everyone who is anyone is going to end up on the Stairway to Heaven by the end of the show. In this scene we have Yuusuke confronting Mikael-- and Yuusuke doesn't look too happy about it! Can you blame him, after all he's looking up at Mikael chasing Noelle around and around the stairs, and then suddenly the great big Book of Chaos lands on his head, and then Mikael is coming down after him trying to kick him off the stairs! (Although why Yuusuke thought it would be faster to try and climb hand over hand up that teensy wire rather then running up the stairs is beyond me! It seems he did it easily enough, however, which is something that rather bugged me about Tenshi ni Narumon... the characters never hung down properly! They defy gravity! )

I bet Yuusuke is wishing that he was on top in this situation, eh?

Tadaima! Now that was ecchi even for you Charon!

Okaeri-nasai! *GLOMPHS* MIKAEL! *gleefully jumps on him and they go rolling across the floor*

Well, someone sure is happy. *smiles shyly and mutters to herself* I wonder if I'm invited? *the conga line comes bursting into the room* We found Kael-sama! Ooh...

Wheee! Yuusuke! *glomphs* Ooh, Kael-san and Hael-san are following Papa & Gabriel!

If you're blue-haired then it seems there's nothing to do but be glomphed! *sighs* Err, not exactly. *covers Noelle's eyes but leaves his own wide open*

I'll hug him, and squeeze him, and pet him, and call him George! A little privacy here? *turns the light off*

*talking loudly over the indistinct yells and curses in the background as the ex-conga line members go stumbling around in the dark* And here we have an example of how the cels are presented in my cel book! Don't they match rather well with Mikael looking down at Yuusuke and Yuusuke looking up at Mikael? I got the Yuusuke cel as part of my Bet cel lot and the Mikael cel came as a freebie in a completely different lot in my large Yahoo Japan package.

Yuusuke has a halo and he's not afraid to use it!

The cel is A-6 and unfortunately did not come with a cel bag. (Although I luckily managed to find one for it.) Doesn't Yuusuke-- and all the characters in fact-- look kinda shiny in the last episodes of the series? I do like the open jacket look though. Below is the matching screengrab. (More or less-- it might be a few frames off.)

Huh? I thought it was supposed to be a *red* string of destiny?

Included is the matching sketch, although they didn't bother to draw all of Yuusuke in. Hey, at least he's in better condition then Raphael who seems to be missing his head in alot of the sketches!

I'm sure I left my lower body around here somewhere or other...

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