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SAKI and I listened to Aimo together at a bus stop this morning.

Transposing Chikane and Shimako into Tales of MU is like, the best thing since sliced bread. Discuss.

Majime na Lolikit

I just watched Ouverture, and I gotta say, wow. It was so much better than the two Rozen Maiden shows… in fact, so much so that I was amazed. The fights between Shinku and Souseiseki were fast-paced and high-powered, unlike the weak shit that comprises most of the so-called “fights” in the TV series. There wasn’t much of Suigintou fighting, but what there was was good—her powers are clearly the most awesome, being reminiscent of Nero Chaos in a sense.

Anyway, the OVA had only a few seconds of Kanaria (and she was completely lacking in the second episode) so that’s a major plus. Suiseiseki wasn’t too emo, and had some pleasuredrone moments in the first episode. Shinku smacked Jun around a bit. And finally, the whole bit with Shinku practically raising Suigintou was… well, for lack of better words, touching.

It would be nice if they did more episodes like these two, devoid of crap and full of character background.

I wouldn’t mind two episodes dedicated to Suiseiseki and her brother and their incestuous relationship :3

Also, I hope they do another TV series. Terrible though Kanaria is, I kind of want to meet the real Bara Suishou, and find out more about who Laplace’s demon is, and Shinku needs to bring Souseiseki and Chibi-chibi back to life. Of course, more desu is never a bad thing, either.

Eheh…
And, with that, I head for a bit of studying and then bed. My second AP is tomorrow.

EDIT: tagged this and the last relevant posts with the ‘majime na lolikit’ thingy.

My old piano teacher died, so I got emo and impotent and Shirukii-chan beat me. And yes, the people who are making Kyoushiro to Towa no Sora connections (myself and Shirukii) really need to stop.

TONZURA KOITE

I’d let Matsuri slip on my banana peel any day.

SCAFFOLDS FALL, EVERYONE DIES

Apparently, Matsuri’s kickass ability is that she can age things(?). She rusts the metal scaffolding to make it collapse and causes a brick to crumble to the point where she can pull it apart with her bare hands. Furthermore, she can jump like a mother-fuckin’ ninja and do mid-air maneuvers, sans shadow clones. Whether or not she would beat Uzumaki Naruto isn’t even a question, but can she break through Konata’s beautiful hurricane kick combo?

PUT MY HOOD TO YOUR POLLOW AND

J-J-JAM IT IN!!

(obligatory sex joke with F/SN reference)

“I HAVE NO REGRETS”

This makes Matsuri more sure of herself than Ayana or whichever whore sang the ED of Kanon 2006. This also makes Matsuri as sure of herself as Momochi Zabuza. Meaning that she has followed Addie Bundren’s father’s advice and gotten ready to die. (Hey, Mike, if you’re reading this? Please, yell at me later for making Faulkner references on my blog? I really need to stop.) My question: as Matsuri isn’t exactly a vampire, does this make her not exactly living dead?

MEMORIES OF CREAM LEMON ESCALATION

Matsuri’s fingering someone. If you don’t get it, good.
If you do get it, well, I’m fucking hilarious.
If you don’t get it, good. And I’m still fucking hilarious.

“WAKE UP, WHORE. I DON’T PAY YOU TO SLEEP IN CARDBOARD BOXES.”

When Scruffy says for the doll to sleep with him, he means in a bed. The danbooru is “moe” and all, but really, it’s a tight fit for the both of them and their kama-sutra rituals. I like the doll, actually. Thanks to the character design style, her face is way too angular to appear ultra-loli, and she actually doesn’t look too rozen. Of course, I have no idea what “rozen” is, or whether it’s good or bad or what. I must be like, the only person alive who has not seen that show.

ARC VIBES

I remember when Arcueid Brunestud left her “bai bai” note. It was a little less symbolic and artsy, some scrap of paper with the letters scrawled on it. Not only is Matsuri badass enough to deface art with her emo goodbye, but she’s so badass she doesn’t even leave! She’s so badass, she goes and lies down on Dorito-kun’s bed! And he’s so badass, he doesn’t bang her. As Shirukii-chan says,

Dorito-kun is presented with a prime opportunity to bed Matsuri, yet they opt to stare at his -fake- sky instead. Fail.

Replace “fail” with “rock on” and you get my version of events.

MOST BADASS CEILING, EVER

(This explains the inconsistency in lighting at the beginning of episode one. Nice.)

Majime na Lolikit

So they play the “real” OP for us this time. And wow, while the song is nothing special (nor anything good) the sequence itself is epic. Maybe I’m a soraphile.

In terms of what the episode had to offer… it seems like they’re feeding us fairly stock character with a fairly stock storyline, originalities being terminology and soraphaelia. But fuck, I have no complaints. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: the beauty of this show is better than sex. I’d say something about Anse, but it’d be yet another Faulkner reference, and I’m not a girl. Anyway, point is, so long as they keep bombarding me with skies and beautiful backgrounds, I’ll be happy.

Really. I will.

Welcome to StrikerS. We will light you on fire now.

WE CAN’T STOP HERE. THIS IS FIRE COUNTRY.

The series starts pretty well, with shit on fire. I like fire. It burns, you know?

There’s also a little girl. She’s not on fire.

MIKURU BEEEEEEEEEMU!

And wait, now there are lasers and more shit blowing up!? This show wins, clearly.

So now the little girl is all grown up and ready to kick ass. Or something. Skates-tan clearly knows the value of stretching. Otherwise she’d get cramps, ya? And everyone knows cramps suck. Shooty-tan will get cramps. She’s not stretching.

I’M NOT STRONG ENOUGH! LEAVE ME TO DIE!

So they break through the window just in time for angst. Because it’s like… the same building that got lit on fire, right? So Skates-tan is all, “Unh! Life story!” Yeah, whatever. That shot is too damn blue, bitch. Save it for the ocean.

AIN’T GOT TIME FOR THIS SHI–

FUCK, CRAMPS. DON’T SAY I TOLD YOU SO, ‘CAUSE YOU DIDN’T.

Man, I hells of knew that the lack of stretching on Shooty-tan’s part would fuck her over. She tries to be all stoic and shit, but her legs give out on her. She drops to her knees and is all, “Unh! Support casting!” Way to be useless. YOU HAVE A GUN. USE IT FROM LONG RANGE. God, what a slacker.

UNNNNH! I CAN’T DO IT! DEATH NOTE 25 WAS JUST TOO MUCH!

The episode ends with Nanoha herself showing up again to comfort the still-angsting Skates-tan. I had been hoping for some seriously GAR tough love or shit, but NO. The episode ended on a lameass sappy note.

I mean, come on, Death Note 25 wasn’t that depressing.

Get over yourself, bitch!

Next episode better be less angsty.

And more laserysplody.

_lolikappa

“KUU!!”

Fill in the blank. He’s ______________ .
a. friendly
b. dangerous
c. a creepy madman swinging a sword around

Do you choose to go with him, Shiratori Kuu?

LOLPWNED

I like how they didn’t even bother drawing the vines separately. They’re all like, “let’s save all our budget for those feathers later in the episode, and just draw a rough shape in MS Paint and fill it greenish.” It’s classy (and looks shitty as hell). There’s just like… this blob of green around Kyoushiro’s midsection. wtfslimegirlraep?

OUR POWERS COMBINED, …!

So the AAs group together to form a super robot formed of each one’s strong part (the loli’s legs, Setsuna’s right arm, Chikane’s left, and Kuu’s… head…? So Kuu’s strength is her brain? How come I was never aware of this before?!) and proceed to pwn the sky. Those feathers (hot snow?) start falling, and the world is perfect in the eyes of one fucked up mad scientist. Hey, now would be an alright time to fanboy about Chikane some more. See, she’s the “sword of the left hand,” and left-handed swordsmen include… oh, Link, for one. Link, being pure win, relays that to Chikane through left-handed swords. Mmmhm.

“MY CUTE CIELO!”

Yeah…? Cute, eh…? I don’t know what kind of hobbies you have, but earlier you told your little brother that he intoxicates you. … while having a flashback to lying in bed naked with him. And then you told him that he should always be crying. That’s creepy shotacest right there, boya.

“NOT THERE KYOUSHIRO, IT’S NOT CLEAN!”

Hot. Surprise. Freefallingthroughhotsnowskyfromgiantmechandcrumblingstonespiralstaircasesex. HSF, for short. Did I mention that it’s hot?

Episode Summary

Kazuya sexes Kyoushiro, USSR, Himeko, and Apron-kun get pwned, Chikane is hot, Kyoushiro… uh… here, let’s put his thoughts into a song by Tom Petty:

“I wanna free-fall… out into NOTHING! I wanna leave… this… world for a while!”

And so ends the episode.

Thoughts

The only way for Chikane to have been even hotter this episode is to, instead of having said “yes” to Mejingjord, having said, “I have given my life for her, and she for me, and we will continue to, for we are the priestesses of the sword.” Well, even without TOTALLY OWNING with a direct KnM reference, she manages to be pretty damn cool. Parts of what she says tie into her last words to Himeko in KnM; she isn’t ashamed of her feelings, she won’t run, she won’t hide, she can tell them to anyone, and she will protect them.

If only this show had more focus on Chikane and her character mattered at all, the show might be good. A major problem with Setsuna/Kuu/Kyoushiro is that they are flat, whereas Chikane, who was the strongest main character of KnM (and, in my humble opinion, one of the strongest anime characters across the board), is well-developed, and… has a character.

I hear people enjoying the show, some for reasons that for me are reasons to dislike it, and some for what I believe are shallow reasons: a friend of mine likes it for the seiyuu. The main reason that I dislike this show isn’t the poor animation quality. It’s not even the crappy premise… KnM proved to us that “priestesses saving the world with robots” could work. It’s that the “empty” (thanks, Kuu) characters and unbelievably bad execution combined make me think “wtflol” at every point along the way. That’s not how anime should be… comedy even shouldn’t be “wtflol.” It should leave you with some clue of why you’re laughing.

This, a more or less serious romance-drama, makes me think “wtflol” and that’s a major mark against it.

Thoughts for the last episode?

I’m going to watch it soon (have it downloaded already) and blog it. I’m making no predictions. All I know is I want something for Chikane and Himeko other than “a brief scene where [they] reunite and bid farewell.”

Thoughts on the show as a whole through this point?

TedFox puts it quite well: “bla bla…”

(Oh, and I apologize for a lack of screenshots. There were too many awesome moments for me to capture, my brain overloaded, and my fingers went numb.)

FOOTJOB

Everyone’s favorite Sagubooru tag, desho desho?

BDSM

My favorite Sagubooru tag, according to JokerAI.

LOLI

She’s what, five? And he’s what, thirty?
The old blood of notdotq reawakens!!
Time to find a sacrifice for Ololikitsune-sama.

HIGHLIGHT OF THE EPISODE.

If only there were someone in my life to look at me with eyes like that…
In all seriousness, the episode was so bad that this one meaningless shot of Chikane’s frown was indeed better than all else put together. It’s great that she’s got her will back, and it’s great that she wants to get with Himeko again. As Shirukii puts it, “I’ll be consoled as long as [Himeko] and [Chikane] are reunited followed by a full night of sweet, flute aided, yuri love.” The fact that anyone else enjoys any other aspect of this show is beyond me. Himeko’s cello? Apron-kun’s chest? Bah. Chikane > everything.

KAZUYA IN BATH = HOT

So, what do you do if you’re a super-powerful evil scientist who plans to destroy the world?

TAKE A BATH WITH SOME HOT CHICKS.

HIMEKO WANTS TO FIND CHIKANE’S TRUTH

I haven’t seen her looking so badass and determined since what, episode 11 of Kannazuki no Miko, when she runs into Orochi, leaving USSR behind and cutting down any obstacle she encounters. That was sick. Anyway. She’s back for more, and she might find herself a bit overwhelmed this time… seeing as she has no magical girl powers now, and Kazuya not being in love with her the way Chikane is, and that meaning that he won’t hold back, etc. etc.

HIMEKO = MORE BADASS THAN APRON BOY

Apron-kun! A friend of my brother’s has recently started calling everyone and everything “-kun” and it’s kind of funny. Last night when we said good night to eachother, he was like, “night-kun!!” It was classic and pleasurable. Seven times.

KAZUYA, NOT BEING POLYGAMOUS, SHOULDN’T BE DOING THIS.

And what do you do next if you’re that selfsame super-powerful evil scientist who plans to destroy the world? Well, you marry all those girls. Talk about strong harem lead.

I don’t think many of you get the message (seeing as more than zero of you are still watching/blogging this show) but this show is fucking horse excrement. If you agree with me, Shirukii, how the fuck can you be optimistic about the ending? How the fuck do you manage to sit through this shit? That goes for all of you out there. I appreciate the links to Kyousora.com (because I’m a total whore) but please, save yourselves.

Some of you call this quite interesting.

This isn’t the awesome show that Kannazuki no Miko was.

When I’m done watching it, I’m marking it “stupid” in my genres, along with Suzumiya Haruhi and Joshikousei. And giving it a 0.

Yes, I haet.