ef ~a tale of melodies~ 09 was astonishingly poor. I was commenting on it in IRC as I went, and then I realized that my spoilers and hatred really didn’t belong in #animeblogger. Now they’re here! Enjoy.

“I’m bad at beating around the bush, so I’ll get straight to the point.”

This after 2.5 minutes of beating around the bush. 2.5 minutes is all it took for me to understand that Lucky Star was shit. 2.5 minutes is a lot of time. Stupid

“Make Yuu sad? Isn’t this what I wanted? Yet why… I wanted revenge… etc.”

Stupid bitch. You have no good reason to extract “revenge” when he did nothing to you. Maybe it’s the last shred of sanity in you causing you to feel rational remorse.

Yuuko’s self-mutilation

Aha! She’s been doing it herself, all along! What a manipulative piece of shit. Don’t feel bad, Yuu. Rape her.

“I didn’t want to be his little sister!”

Holy shit she only just now figured that out? See, this is why we need to understand things. Now we just need to have Amamiya-sensei realize that O NOES, he didn’t want Yuuko to replace his sister.

“It was just bad luck!”

But Yuu, this is anime, and everything is tied together with strings of fate, be they black or red. Bad luck? Come on. That’s like saying 9/11 was just bad luck^[1].

“I can’t accept it! But I can’t do anything but accept it!”

This is called a conflicting flag trigger. The game’s gonna—oh no wait, somehow that was supposed to make sense, and singularity was avoided by the script writer having no idea what negatives are.

“You finally took that thing out, eh, Yuuko?”

She should have answered, “I learn from my dear family members, and you always whip out your dagger right away!” Unfortunately, Yuuko is nowhere close to awesome, and is thusly incapable of awesome lines.

Amamiya’s euphoria

Oh my foul, I think he creamed himself.

Nice heavy breathing there, fellow.

oil pant + cigarette = burn baby burn

I’ll keep that in mind next time I’m smoking in my mom’s studio.

“OMG Sensei you’ll get burned to death!!”

Wait, seriously? Yuu, do yuu realize what he’s done to yuu and yuu(ko)?

Wow. This is all so stupid. And that is why, in spite of having two of the best episodes of anime to air this year, the show is still shit.

No comments on Kuze half of episode because it’s less funny. I’ll just say that the twins are fucking annoying in tandem.

Footnotes

these notes are like lelouch's head to the boot of this post's suzaku

1. Really, Jew knocked down the towers [↩]