What we all really want in life.

CRAWLING IN MY SKINNNNNNN~

C-C-Character developement?! Never thought I’d actually feel sympathetic for Takumi but at least now it’s slightly understandable that he became such a withdrawn and detestable human being. Considering the circumstances it’s not surprising he thought he was responsible for the accident, kids often think their to blame when such disasters directly related to them happen. Although those kids don’t normally have superpowers. It also raises some questions about his semi-phenomenal nearly cosmic powers precognitive abilites; though he may have predicted the future, is there also a chance that he shaped it as well? Perhaps some sort of powerful ill intent lies behind Taku that’s been guiding him from birth to become such a withdrawn person for some malevolent purpose, giving him the power to “curse” who he wishes. Supernatural children are creepy…

That is the single most awesome badge I’ve ever seen. Plus it’s GOLD.

And we begin to see hints of the bigger picture emerging. The mysterious N.O.Z.O.M.I (which means “wish” or “desire”, I think. All I have to go on is the amazing teaching machine that is fansubbed anime. Yeah~) organisation seems to have some sort of link with Taku’s doctor or his past. In all fairness, a doctor could easily forget one of his patients after such a long time, but the fact that Taku mentioned it makes things seem a bit more sinister than that. (More importantly, why would a doctor see a kid who’s undergone trauma only once over a period of a few years? I’m pretty sure that they would want to keep the number of children who grow up to be disturbed serial killers/introspective, delusional otakus to a minimum). Taku is completely insecure and paranoid; his voice never really grated on me before, but when describing his “symptoms” to the doctor (still don’t understand how sleep-walking would justify any of the PIME TARADOX that occured last episode), his constant stuttering and the wavering of his voice just pissed me off. Especially as the doctor was so old and kindly HE’S REALLY DEADLY NEVER TRUST A GRAY-HAIRED DOCTOR WITH A BAD MEMORY. It was just weird to watch him spiral into despair and to hear the conversations around him echoooooo. Although if I were the doctor I would prescribe him with some Valium just to get him to shut up about how he thinks he’s sleepwalking because his detective friend told him that he was typing complex messages and links into his computer without knowing it. How could Taku believe that a sleep-walking excuse would be more believable than plain old memory loss? (Maybe he should have said something about the delusional version of a computer game babe that seems to appear every now and then. No?)

I’d accept her book, if you get my meaning. *wink wink nudge nudge*

Still not sure what the point of Rimi’s existence is, except for the fact she’s a moe, easily-scared, high-school clone of Seira-tan. Gray-Haired Goth Girl’s much more interesting, especially with her belief in ancient myths and legends (alas, an epic name like Gurajiooru doesn’t seem to exist in the annals of history. At least according to Google and Wiki). There must be a problem with me when the most likely scenario seems to be that a devil king is being resurrected in order to bring about the apocalypse. Love the artistic effect of having a cross divide up FES’ face.

Damn you, Edward Elric!

I lol’d at how Taku managed to clean up the image only to further incriminate himself in the case. What confuses me is that I originally thought that Seira-tan was just Taku’s wishful delusion, but this week she surfaced whenever he was 1. Alone and 2. Facing some sort of crisis. There’s a very purposeful mind behind that moe moe smile, but in my opinion, she’s simply an avatar through which he can either reassure himself or make decisions.

OH GOD IT’S IN MY EYE GETITOUTGETITOUTGETITOUT!

I didn’t expect us to get an explanation of the “Those eyes, whose eyes are they” phrase at this point in the series, but not only is it unexpected but surprisingly simple in meaning. Rather than all that philosophical crap I talked about in the first episode, it seems like there may actually be someone (N.O.Z.O.M.I organisation?) or something (Gurajiooru?) watching Taku from afar; it would also explain the sudden sense of paranoia that seems to surface within him whenever he’s alone. Or better yet…

I think someone on the Chäos team doesn’t like Wiki.

Dissociative Identity Disorder. The idea of multiple personalities would make more sense; we already have Seira-tan lightly influencing Taku’s decisions and the “eyes” watching him could even be considered as another personality that resides within his fractured psyche.  I hope we get to the point where he starts having stuttering conversations with his evil, sadistic, alter-ego Mr Hyde. What’s interestnig is that Yua actually believes this is the case and feels sympatehtic towads him. Other than a picture of her without her glasses (or was that her mother? Or twin sister?) we still have no idea what Special High-School Detective Kusunoki Yua’s stake is in all this. Also, what the heck’s with the giant Gero Gero frog?

Mmmmm delicious swords.

OMG “A Crucifixtion of Faith” is soooo~~ AWESOME!

Now that we have that out of the way, pushing aside the fact that FES is a myth reading, gothic, rock chick, with legions of hypnotised followers ready to do her bidding and embrace her to the ends of the galaxy (Damn you Macross Frontier. I can never take anyone singing for anything seriously anymore. Hell, she even had a glinting earring on.), there must be some measure of truth to what she’s saying in that, basically, “shit’s about to go down”. As for her part outside of surprise boob-pressing Taku, I’m not sure.

“Do they really intend not to let me, the only loli to appear in the show so far, speak?”

Random crazy loli Kozue-chan is random. I have nothing to say (neither did she) except for the fact that grabbing your head and shaking it while looking at burning school clothes can’t be a good sign.

IRRITATING.

This Nana’s appeal has long since disappeared in the 15 minutes of screentime she’s had so far, and it’s gotten to the point when just hearing her voice is reason enough for me to understand why Taku’s such an anti-social person. And not even sis-con can redeem her at this point. It also brings to my attention taht we’ve had no mention of Taku’s family beyond the hospital visit and the fact that (I think) Nana’s being sent to check on him every now and again. Did he just cut himself off from them like he did the rest of society? I wouldn’t have expected so; a mother like Taku’s would probably just worry even further if her son grew increasingly reclusive. Also, Taku’s laugh is pretty goddamn disturbing, and the girl with the giant blue sword looks pretty goddamn badass.

“Judgement will come upon this city.”

For once, the raving homeless lunatic might actually be right.

And yet another OP character! Who’s yet to say anything even though he appeared in the first episode. (though only for around 2 seconds). Perhaps he too has precognitive abilities, though that’s where the similarities between him and Taku end. I actually respect the homeless guy.

Hell yeah, vampires. Next on the list has to be zombies to bring this show to the next level of awesome.

Whatever happened to the detectives trying to stop this from happening? Oh, who cares, they were useless and boring anyway.

Takumi Delusions Awards: Part 3

Unfotunately, nothing worthy of the bronze medal this week. Delusions were disappointingly sparse. However…

#2 Nurse Seira-tan

I’d let her take care of me anyday *wink wink nudge nudge*

#1 Clothes Slowly Falling Off Of Goth Girl + Surprise Boob Press

In the back, a voyeur enshrouded in darkness.

Next Time:

Wheelchair Zombie? Please let it be a wheelchair zombie.