Seikimatsu Occult Academy 3

"Road racers have to accept challenges, right?"

This Fumiaki/Bunmei-kun/#6/overly-romantic-nice-guy-centric episode is probably the funniest of the three, but definitely lacking in supernatural whoop-ass. Perhaps it’s because there’s just not enough Maya and too much #6, aka guy-with-Oedipus-complex, swooning over some girl who is just too annoyingly cute and reminds me of his mother… I can’t help but want to believe all of her cutesy-demeanor is fake, that she just might be something evil and monstrous, even though that would be too obvious and overplayed. After-all, with this girl in the picture, where does Maya fall? ): Of course, she’s too focused on her dead father to worry…

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I wasn’t really impressed with many of the characters before, but obviously I spoke too soon, as they’re slowly growing on me now. Aside from Maya, JK and the meganekko (she shall be called Meganekko thanks to forgetfulness) are probably my favorites because they bring in a few extra laughs. There will probably be some sort of repetition with these characters - Maya goes out hunting for a supernatural being while Meganekko gets taken/possessed/falls victim to said being, Maya enlists the help of her childhood friend, Smiles, & JK, and #6 happens to be around while Maya &  the being face off. Also, Maya abuses #6 on the side, especially in this fashion: “You really do like the occul–*SMACK*”. But, if there are more appearances of the”Yubaba and Zeniba” twins (Landlady & Restuarant Lady) and other weird characters like them, as well as a good progression with the plot, it should offset the repetition.

I'm sure you guys would rather look at her cleavage than her hideous hairdo...

My favorite scene of this episode is probably the interaction between #6 and the vice-principal. At first I thought it was a little random for him to complement her hair and stare it like that – has he seen the back, did he know she has an awkwardly placed bun on the back of her head? – but her reaction was the best, it makes you forget that there’s a probability of her being the antagonist of the show. I almost felt sorry for her. But that cellphone is the best part of the scene. #6 should just use it with every girl he meets! “I hook up with her” –> dead. “I hook up with her” –> happily married and still alive with children. “I hook up with her” –> domestic abuse daily (with the wife abusing the husband, of course). That phone’s even better than the iPhone! Something I find interesting is that if he hooks up with her – and dies, and strangely enough their family sticks around his dead body long enough to become a skeleton, but I digress –  the future isn’t too bright for her either, which makes me wonder about her place in the show. My initial assumption was that she was an alien in disguise, which sounds really stupid, but it would have been pretty funny… My guess is that she wants to prevent Maya and #6 from finding the Nostradamus key, but why? What do you guys think?

Parental issues seem to be a recurring theme. Allow the Oedipus/Freudian comments to commence!

The scene when #6 tries to call his mother was probably meant to be sad, but I didn’t feel my heart breaking for him or anything. Honestly, what can he say to her? “I’m your son from the future, when you’ll probably be dead and aliens rule the world. Also, I can’t do the spoon thing anymore, sorry. Oh yeah, can I talk to myself and see what happens? Maybe the whole timeline will collapse on itself.” Also, he seems completely different from the overconfident person he presented himself to be to the resistance group with the leader who is most likely Maya’s father. Back then (Or in the future then? Forward then? The time-issue makes it confusing…) he was like, “I was the top of the class, I can do this, too easy,” and now (Or back then?) he’s more like, “Aaah, I don’t want to do this… no one likes me anymore because I can’t bend a spoon with my brain… I hate the 90s… I miss my mom…” I don’t like the 90s much either (except for some movies, cartoons, and baby-doll dresses), and it does suck that some girl keeps hitting him with various objects, but I wish he’d take his mission a little more seriously instead of frolic off with some girl.

"Natsuki gets 300K just by going to the hotel with Papa three times a month..."

With the way the episode ended, we will hopefully be able to see what #6 is truly capable of. The way he was contemplating over his spoon – “But once I couldn’t…” - indicates he could no longer do that sort of thing, or he messed up once and everybody forgot about him, so what makes this Abe Minoru so damn awesome? His profile says he has psychic abilities, unless my memory is unsurprisingly failing me, so if he doesn’t save Maya in the most badass way possible – unless she saves herself, which would be unsurprising as well -, I’d probably lose faith in this lover-boy.

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