Saturday, February 27, 2010
Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu's 8th episode didnt contain much hilarious antics this time round and was rather serious in a sense. It starts with someone trampling with the Summoning System and disconnected one of the wires which caused the entire system to become unstable. When Yoshii attempts to summon his being, a huge number of his being appears around the school while the others had their beings obtaining an adult form. And somehow, the adult version of Yuuji and Tsuchiya's beings seems to have a relationship with each other and that causes Shouko to flare up. Tsuhiya even went over to Himeji's adult being and sticks his camera into the hologram:"I wonder if i could get a nude picture from this"
"Good thinking! Voyeur!"
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"Skeletal ..."
That was pure epic =/ well, so Yoshii was given the mission to use his summoning being, using his own iron bracelet to create his own field, to connect the wire back. The 1st mission wasnt successful as he encounters Yuuji's and Tsuchiya's beings (the student's beings are all out of control and evil after the unstability of the summoning system) along the way and was defeated. He then took many easy tests to boost up his points before continuing the mission and defeats Yuuji, Tsuchiya and Hideyoshi's beings. Just when Yoshii's being was close on completing the mission, he was ambushed by Minami and Himeji's beings and as he is able to feel the pain of the being on himself, Yoshii was nearly defeated but manages to defeat the powered-up Himeji's being when Himeji went to submit a blank test to revamp her points to zero. Yoshii successfully completes the mission but was also sent to extra lessons with Himeji as well. This episode wasnt particularly hilarious but was still serious and was more focused on the beings this time round as well. Himeji's being (after having the power up), really seemed quite cool. I do see some parodies this time round with Tsuchiya's left geass eye when handing a photo of Hideyoshi as a waiter to Yoshii and a evangelion styled setting with the attempt to breach the summoning system (being similar to that in NERV) and the explosion (the Angel's attack / downfall)... next episode seems to another funny episode after seeing the preview :D
Bakemonogatari's 14th episode has arrived after quite a long time, with the continuation of the Tsubasa Cat arc. Apparently, Shinobu is missing and as she was needed to seal away the oddity of Hanekawa, Araragi goes off to search for her, while in the meantime asking for the help of the others as well. Senjougahara didnt help Araragi this time round as she was helping out with the school festival as requested from Hanekawa and since the oddity had appeared from Hanekawa's stress, Araragi let her be and goes of looking for Shinobu. The Cat caught up with Araragi, apparently having gotten away from Oshino, suggests to help Araragi to find Shinobu and Araragi discovers that he had been looking at Shinobu as a little girl ever since and the Cat adds on that a human and an oddity can never be friendly with each other. She then tells Araragi that Shinobu wasnt the only way to seal her away and another way was to remove the stress, in which Araragi was shocked to hear that the stress wasnt Hanekawa's family problems, but was the fact that Hanekawa was in love with Araragi. So the next episode would conclude this series and the arc as well, still love their animation style too =X shall be waiting for it...