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Seikimatsu Occult Academy 4
This episode is full of shit...
Probably one of the better episodes of this week (HotD was boring beyond all belief, even a Mad Max reference couldn’t make it any better…), Occult Academy is showing a good pace - each episode is just a bit better than the last, and even though I didn’t expect it, I found myself falling in love with the characters. This episode pretty much had everything in it, both comedy & supernatural, as well as a great demonstration of beautiful animation & artwork. In the cave, the tree had a very impressive, gorgeous glow, and surrounding area of nature in the whole show is always nicely drawn & animated. It’s nice to know they didn’t decide to go with the off-model route and cut back on the animation quality after the first episode.
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The Vice-Principal is a character who worked her way up as one of my favorites of Occult Academy. As Joojoobees noted, her voice actress (Kobayashi Yu) does an amazing job with this character, who seems to have an awful case of love-sickness and PMS. I feel for the VP because, honestly, who hasn’t had an unrequited love before? (If you haven’t, or even worse, were on the other side of an unrequited love, please go die.) I’m not rooting for her, but I admire her honesty and creepy… weirdness. After all, although she is more at Stephanie Meyer’s level of writing (higher, actually) than Jane Austen’s or Nicholas Sparks’, we can all agree she writes better than the majority of Naruto fanfiction writers out there. Most importantly, she is definitely better than that faker, What’sherface.
Like I said, full of shit... '3'
Not much to say about What’sherface that isn’t already obvious. I’m just curious as to who/what she really is, what’s her game, and why Numbuh 6 doesn’t realize no girl really trips that much. But seriously… it should be obvious that she meant for him to get lost in that cave, but how did she get him to trip & land against that perfect spot? A little too coincidental, but it was a nice way to get rid of her and bring back Maya, because Lord knows there wasn’t enough Maya in the last episode. She & #6 make a great team – he runs away while she does all the work. The most important reason Maya needs to be around more is that she just spews out myth-related information here and there, which I really like, because I love the occult and supernatural, so whenever she mentions something I already know about, it makes me happy; but when she mentions something I don’t know about, it’s all good, because then I’ll look it up in my encycopledia of mythological creatures or online. I’m a total loser & reki-jo, so my favorite anime/manga are ones which make/encourage you to do research.
Max & Monica continue their journey to rid the world of clowns...
Speaking of great teams, Smile & JK are definitely the coolest so far, or at least the ones with the coolest nicknames. Sure, JK (“Porco Rosso”) isn’t the prettiest boy around - his make-up and hair do not do a single bit of good for his complexion - but he’s useful, funny, and a non-douchey musician. (It was interesting how the background music changed a bit to suit his weapon.) He’s unique, simply put. Smile, not the most uniquely designed character, hasn’t been around enough to judge, but he’s the kind of guy most girls will fall for - cool, laid back, big wrench. I like his design (jumpsuits are unusually cool), but mostly his giant wrench, although whatever needs a wrench that big is beyond me. Anyway, they’re the unlikely duo, and if there isn’t fanart or fanfiction pairing them up together, I would be disappointed… Not that I’ll be looking for it, or anything…
Use the Eternal Sword, revive the tree, merge the two worlds!
Unfortunately #6 can’t really do anything, but I’m starting to like him anyway; partially because I feel sorry for him, but also because his patheticness is just a bit amusing. At least he has the willpower (if that’s what to call it) to behave normally after falling into a pile of poop, to pull a cellphone out of said pile, a la Jurassic Park 3, and to walk around normally with no stains on his clothes as if nothing happened. Doesn’t What’sherface smell anything? (Maybe it’s because she’s full of shit, so she’s used to the smell…) Based on the sneak-peeks of the next episode, it’s going to feature more of Meganekko, who might be added to #6′s small, pathetic harem. It’s probably because of the lie he told What’sherface about saving her, but I’d much rather prefer Meganekko to have a crush on Maya instead. After the Black★Rock Shooter OVA, I wouldn’t mind a little extra girl’s love ;)
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“If you haven’t, or even worse, were on the other side of an unrequited love, please go die.”
LoL! Don’t you know, all true love is unrequited?
Joojoobees´s last blog ..Occult Academy 4 – romantic fantasies
Oh man, that makes me sad, Joojoobees!
A good roundup vivi-chan~ I do feel for the VP but still on the fence about her real motives behind bombing the cave and simply being a nemesis to Maya. Fumiaki should just use his phone on Mikaze to know what she’s up to but of course, I don’t expect him to use his brain that often. =.=;;
tyty, Kyo~sempai! ♥ You’re right, #6 doesn’t seem to know how to use his brain, unfortunately. It must have fried up when he lost his esper abilities… And the VP is just as confusing…
I wish I could cry, but I ran out of tears a long time ago…
Aww~ *hugs* ♥
That’s good, because that means you can move on … to laughing at the ridiculousness of it all.
Joojoobees´s last blog ..Occult Academy 4 – romantic fantasies
Glad to see the 3rd episode went somewhere!
Oh! I finally get it; ‘I’ mad the Mad Max reference! Sorry I was a bit slow on that.
Haha, indeed…
BTW, unrequited love is pretty annoying for the target =3
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I like Maya, but her aggressiveness can be a tad overwhelming at times. And some of the looks she gives is….whats the word I’m looking for….creepy, or it gives an unsafe feeling. Its like looking into the eyes of death itself.
I really hope they hurry along with a backstory about #6. He is really starting to become the boring tag along no namer of the series. They need to give him more substance. Something a little more than, Oh hey, I used to bend spoons as a kid, and then one day in the future, I fake bent spoons for change, and then this company came, and said I was hot stuff. Everyone died, so Im left.”
It sounds like a lot, but really, there is nothing to him. And what pisses me off about him the most, is his hideous hair, jesus I just want to shave him bald rather than looking at that ragamuffin he calls a hairdo. lol
Great review regardless.
Lol great episode, like you said I really loved the pacing in this one. I loled a couple of times as well, from Fumiaki’s cowardice mostly but it was good to see that the comedic flair is still there.
We always get to see the truth behind how he was brought back into the future. As expected, he’s not at all a big shot and more or less lucked into his situation.
Oh and was that Ahnuld lugging him back to HQ?