A Cyclops Who Likes Anime. A Shameful Cyclops

A Persona episode where something actually happens?!? Hahaha, no you gullible moron. The kids go to a resort for some reason, probably some stupid reason knowing kids these days, and while there the nagging girl saves a friend of hers who tries to commit suicide by using a Persona. She can use a Persona, amazing, I am shocked, this is my shocked face. Other than that not much happens at all.

BOTTOM LINE: I’m back baby

While Soul recuperates thanks to shards of Ragnarok inside of him, Maka talks with her dad and really puts the screws on. Meanwhile, Black Star and Kid learn about a super powerful weapon, Excalibur, and attempt to track it down.

Which they do.

Resulting in the best scene of the series.

BOTTOM LINE: Seriously, Excalibur is gold. Fucking gold.

Some new girl is introduced into the Night Class. No one knows who it is but the hints are hitting like rain drops that it’s some sort of guise for the pureblood vampire who killed Zero’s family and bit him. Other than that hee haw hee haw I don’t know.

BOTTOM LINE: Kinda good but kinda boring at the same time.

Hikari goes along with Yahiro, who seems evil but we all know he isn’t really evil because he’s just a little too over the top evil, and he locks her in his dungeon. I would have really liked to have a great D&D line here to bring it all together but I couldn’t come up with one in the past nine seconds so you get nothing. Kei and that other guy, not Kei and not Ryuu and not the male twin but the other one, go to get her back. There’s some words spoken but Hikari long ago escaped out of the dungeon thanks to the never-say-die combination of implausible physical strength and shoddy workmanship. At the end Hikari gives Kei a little kissu, following Yahiro’s advice, and then apologizes and Kei goes supernova it’s a whole thing I don’t have time to explain it I have to catch the Nexus port.

BOTTOM LINE: One of the better episodes. That’s it.

Where I apologize for the last two weeks (I was on vacation) and for the next week (I will be moving). What, moving again?! That’s right. There’s been a lot of rain lately, and I’m getting a little sick of the constant flooding in East Karana. I haven’t decided where I’ll go yet, only that it should be a little higher above sea level.

I know, they’re huge images. What can I say, the groups who release sensibly-sized releases are taking their sweet time. So you’ll have to put up with GIGANTIC PICS for some time. But this episode is worth it, if anything is. Right before Maka and Soul eat the big one, Frankenstein and Maka’s dad show up and just wreck the place. Like 80% of the episode is them just fucking shit up. It’s awesome!

Oh, and Medusa, a teacher at Shibusen, is the evil witch controlling the kid and Ragnarok. I saw it coming but it’s not a bad development.

Another Kohane episode. Seems she’s come under fire for being fake, and job opportunities are starting to drop while harassment from wackjobs increases. She doesn’t really care about it all that much, but her mom is going off the deep end. And since her mom is abusive and crazy, that means she’s even more abusive and crazy. Which Watanuki discovers when he goes to see her at home and has hot tea thrown at him. He doesn’t seem able to escape danger very often; this series must take place in Hong Kong, Connecticut.

They then reaffirm their great friendship and she goes on a program as the idiot who all the ‘real’ psychics can make fun of. When she disagrees with their GHOST SENSING she’s mocked and called a liar.

BOTTOM LINE: It was okay but the Kohane episodes have never been super great, mostly because they focus on Kohane instead of Watanuki getting screwed over by some kind of monster or spirit.

While on an extracurricular assignment (eliminating some demonic serial killer in Italy) Maka notices something funny going on inside a church. Inside, her and Soul find another Technician and his/her weapon (I can’t tell whether it’s a dude or not, sorry). And a bunch of slaughtered humans. Uh oh, it’s big trouble! The kid doesn’t seem so bad, if it weren’t for the witch floating outside constantly sending dark energy into him to convince him to kill.

Then there’s a fight. A great fight that initially gives Maka the upper-hand until Ragnarok (the kid’s weapon) starts slicing through Soul, and they get pounded into the ground.

BOTTOM LINE: Another totally sweet episode.

The crew heads off to Hawaii for vacation. Hats off to global travel! While there Ryuu learns that he has to babysit an important client’s kid. Oh the trials of rich kids. A tear. He makes them all play a pretend family, with Hikari as the dog. Owned. But she eventually wins the kid’s trust and love through Love and Understanding, the two primary weapons for any shoujo heroine.

Then at the end of the episode she realizes (wow what a surprise) that the kid is actually Yahiro’s brother. He’s the doofus who had the party earlier on. This would have been a decent twist if it wasn’t apparent two minutes into the episode. Oh well, I don’t expect anything in anime to have the intended effect. That would be foolish.

BOTTOM LINE: The dog part was surprisingly funny, and the end of the episode made me interested to see the next one. Which for this series is pretty shocking.

Kid (Death the, that is) comes to the school today. Soul and Black Star want to see this guy who’s been taking all the really dangerous jobs and completing them though, so they wait for him outside.

And keep waiting, because his rampant OCD makes him three hours later. By the time he shows up they’re really pissed, and they go after ‘em. Only Soul and Black Star are not a very good pair, despite what great buddies they are, and the fight is more to showcase their extreme ineptitude than Kid’s supreme abilities. Although those are on display as well, and yes, they are awesome.

BOTTOM LINE: For a throw-away, no story episode it was incredibly awesome!