Vampires and Shotgun Shells

Rosario + Vampire Episode three was… well as I mentioned last time I was expecting a loli in the next three episodes, and apparently I got one. Not only is this a magic loli with an awesome hat… it’s apparently of the bisexual type. We first meet Yukari while she’s busy stalking… Moka… yes that’s right.The little witch causes some trouble with a group of very unpleasant looking people,one of which is apparently her class rep. Moka dives in headfirst to save the kid, who’s about four years younger than everybody else due to her being as smart as she is. Yukari is pleased, very pleased… and while in the cafeteria proceeds to jump over the table and take Moka to a grope fest… and Tsukune just watches.

Yukari is apparently reluctant to stop groping Moka as we see her dragging the loli witch around and.. well yeah. Tsukune gets a bit beat up when he tries to complain about the mass amounts of yuri taking place, he’s allowed a) he’s human b) she attacked him with sentient mops, brooms and whatever else happened to be int he storage closet… So he takes a trip to the infirmary and guess who apparently works there… that’s right Kurumu the blue haired succubus. As if that wasn’t already a problem waiting to happen Yukari’s camped outside the window with a voodoo doll.Which effectivley leads to another nosebleed and a showdown with a trio of lizardmen bent on having some witch for dinner.

In Gunslinger girl Il Teatrino’s episode two stuff happens. Who’d have thought stuff would happen… but today isn’t about the people of the child welfare association. It’s about a guy named Pinocchio… who’s also int he buisness of blastingthings eventhough he’s only nine or so when the episode starts. Some old guy sends him to carry out a hit on some other guy. Pinnocchio intended to give him a couple silenced rounds but the guy ws waiting for him and he had to introduce him to mister knifey. Turns out that this guy had a daughter and she saw Pinocchio do it so he points his knife at her… and then decides to fill the loli so full of lead he could use her as a pencil later.

That was just a flashback though as the next time we see Pinocchio he’s a lot older. The episode pretty much shows us what the opposition is doing, Pinocchio just happens to be a terrorist. So far the hsows overall storyline is slow to set in but that’s nto always a bad thing… it’s just that season one did it a lot quicker. Anyway apparently Pinocchio has a fan of the loli variety named Aurora… she has her mother cook food for him and in general, follows him around. Apparently he’s not amused becasue he tells her to stop, but that could be the fact that he’s got two freelance terrorists crashing at his place for the next couple days… or it could be she reminds him of the other little girl he shot four or five times… The storyline points out that a Mercedes (the car) must be female because it’s a girls name… which should have been obvious since all cars are female. anyway, the episode does end with some of our gunslinger girls. Apparently angelica is recovering from her massive memory issues. (If you haven’t seen season one Angelica’s been conditioned a little too much and at one point you could walk in and talk to her for five minutes and all of a sudden she’s going ‘oh when did you get here?’ She’s also the first one of… whatever they’re called. We don’t see Henrietta but we do see Rico looking far too amused by a rocket launcher and Triela has a scene that’s a flashback to yesterday but she also has one where she’s standing in the parking lot looking nervous and all kinds of moe. In case you can’t tell Triela’s my favourite.

Rosario + Vampire Episode 2

Surprise surprise, no sooner do I review episode one than the second episode is released (with subs that is).This week the fight lasts longer than when Moka pasted orc boy. And we get another chromatic hair coloured monster girl. This one’s more ‘talented’ in a certain uniquely female aspect than even Moka’s vampire form…

The show’s quickly turning into a harem type, but even then I don’t really care since it’s amusing. And all of the potential harem members are guaranteed to be something awesome. Succubi, Vampires, I don’t doubt there’ll be a gorgon eventually. My other prediction is that Tsukune is some sort of monster himself, I’m putting my money on a half breed or some such but still there has to be a reason he wasn’t immediately killed like the Nya-sensei said all humans who entered the school area would be.  It’s still a good show so far, reminds me vaguely of Kaibutsu Ojou without the android… and stuff happens in a coherent manner and with a storyline. Plus they have the awesome bat that pops up for a ‘we’d get in trouble for showing you what happens next so let’s look at something else’ moments that take me back to Excel Saga. I also predict they add a loli in the next three episodes, you know they’re going to… I can’t even think of a show that doesn’t have at least one.  Lastly here’s hoping Tsukune doesn’t lose an arm during one of the tug-o-wars with him as the rope.

Three at once!

I fully intend to cover three separate shows in this post.

 Rosario + Vampire 

(Rosario and Vampire)

I had no idea what was going to happen with this show. Someo one I talk to on a forum a lot said that I should watch this as it would ‘restore my faith in Area Eleven’. I’d been wondering what happened to their spine since they censored Kodomo no Jikan and well Spice and Wolf is ‘censored’ but not the same degree. I’ll agree that it did asI have a screen shot I decided not to post because of what it could be mistaken for.   that said here’s the one’s I’m going to show you.

In case you can’t tell she’s biting him… she’s a vampire after all. Complete with cute biting sound effect. This show is just, whoa. The base storyline through episode one is our hero Aono Tsukune flunked school or he’d been sent to an all boys school. I’m a little vague on that deal as his mother says one thing but the flashback says another. ether way his father, who is very drunk, whips out a school application that some priest dropped. To make the rest of the story a little shorter he winds up at a bus stop that’s dressed liek a scare crow overlooking a lake of what appears to be blood. Enter Akashiya Moka, our pink haired vampire. She runs into him, literally, on her bike, okay more like with her bike. He winds up bleeding and she goes chomp… then apologizes. The school he’s to be attending now is a school for monsters, as if the name Youkai High school didn’t give that away. So he’s in serious trouble and the vampire performs a panty shot every fourteen second… and well it just improves from there without going for the outright nudity. He’ll be okay for a while though since the students are learning to blend with humans, as such they have to stay in human form and aren’t allowed to tell each other what their true form is. Of course there’s always some orcish brute who doesn’t give a frak about the rules. Oddly enough she refers to herself as a vampire instead of kyuuketsuki…

Zoku Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei 

(Goodbye Mr. Despair Extreme)

Season two of Zetsubou Sensei, just as whacked out as season one. Just as dark, just as hilarious. The beginning starts a good five minutes before the new OP, which is great. (rumba rumba rumba) It has absolutely nothing to do with anything though. In case you get worried they started some new storyline or something.

the actual episode starts with the only normal student in the class trying to force some sort of problem on herself so she fits in. Or more to the point, everyone worries about her. There’s a great joke involving her and Kiri Komori the (cute) hikikomori and Nami the normal girl. The show’s full of name jokes, and for people new to the series the version I picked up has a nice explanation tagged to the end of it. Anyway Komori never leaves and Nami is supposedly always truant, thus a meeting that never should have happened takes place. As per usual the posters around the room (and the chalkboard) are full of random information that changes every shot… nothing important so don’t worry about your plain imploding while you try to read ap age about fuzzy logic.

One to go.

Ookami to Koshinryo

(Wolf and Spice)

Odds are if you find this file it’ll be called Wolf and Spice since well I don’t know apparently fansubbers have decided to translate anime names into english… I’d rather they didn’t it’s hard enough finding stuff for shows when it’s just the romaji version of the name. Regardless, I liked this show despite the ’spandex body suit’ thing they pulled with Horo. She spends most of her screen time in episode one naked. Aside from a tail and fluffy ears, which are attached…  There’s a town that worships a wolf spirit named Horo, and she keeps their fields growing… although apparently even she’s not omnipotent and so the soil needs to rest on occasion so they get a few bad crops and start freaking out as humans tend to do.

Enter Lawrence Craft, traveling salesman. He arrives in this village which he’s been to enough times that he has a buisness associate named Chloe living and working there. Of course he shows up justin time for the festival. Just as the last patch of wheat in the field s cut he hears a thump in the back of his cart (which is covered) Lo and behold once he’s out of town he’s got a naked girl in the back… of course with the censorship the way it is she could be clothed… you technically can’t tell. Usually there’d be… details… on the… chest… but not uh further… *points at Elfen Lied* anyway it makes no difference. She claims to be a wolf god and he says prove it. Which cues one f the best liens in episode one and I’m not spoiling it. She turns her into a wolf, her left arm first and Lawrence freaks out slips and falls out of his wagon. Then Horo’s gone. DAN DAN DAAAAAAAAAN… you get to watch the show to find out what happens next. The show’s serious but light hearted enough to be funny at times.