Giant Killing 18-19

"Why does it always rain on me?"

So, this week marks two very special occasions. The first is that “Giant Killing” is officially the most used tag on this site. The second is that I’ve finally waited so long to watch an episode that another one is released by the time I get around to it. I was fortunate in that watching these two episodes together really felt like a joint episode. A forty minute build-up to the game against the Osaka Gunners, also, is Microsoft Word positive that it’s spelt forty and not fourty? Seems weird to me for the word to not include its full root word, but oh well, I’m not the magical software so what the hell do I know. I honestly can’t believe how long I put off watch episode eighteen, it’s like the opposite of when HOTD 4 came out and I thought it sucked so badly that I just wanted to get it out of the way. I’m either very early with my posts, or extremely late. Fortunately Bass doesn’t mind about my lateness, actually I haven’t talked to Bass in over a week; I’m so lonely….

Akasaki mad! Akasaki smash!

It could be worse though, I could be working for Kyokai who actually requires people to write posts (foreshadowing). I’ve been disappointed at a lot of what I’ve seen anime wise this week, though I’m not quite sure why; Occult Academy was good, HOTD was better than last week, Amagami SS was belly-kiss-irific and Shiki was a giant troll. I can’t really figure out what’s not to like this week, even Bleach and Naruto had good chapters, though Bleach really needs to get over one line of dialogue every six pages. Bakuman was freaking sweet. *Looks at Kimi no Iru Machi* IT WAS YOU! That manga is a fucking asshole, no joke. Not only does it follow the Suzuka disease of overstaying its welcome, but it even goes as far as troll its readers over and over and over again. I’ve gotten to the point in that show where I can’t even stand the main heroine anymore. I miss the random heroines that show up and are both hawt and intelligent, is that so much to ask for in a woman? Well, not too intelligent or they’ll figure out that they’re just being used. And we can’t have that now can we. [/sexism]

It's that random trainer again, his new name is Waldo.

Oh who am I kidding, a silly internet HTML joke will never stop my sexism. If I don’t continue to be sexist on a regular basis or drink a pint of Guinness on a monthly basis (at least) the Irish Government will come and take my passport away. For the second time; who am I kidding, as though the Irish Government has the time or the funds to come and track my ass down just to ask for an underused passport back. They have enough problems as it is. Maybe that’s why I spread the word rather than fear. Man, you know what sucks? Not being allowed to have a driver’s license because of hereditary blindness. Do you know what sucks more? Not having a drivers license to prove your age at bars so instead you have to bring your passport where a slightly annoyed waitress will suddenly perk up to ask; “why does your voice sound like, weird?” Only to then hear me talk and find out that I don’t have an accent and just slur my words like the drunken Irishman that lives in my arteries.

Great......AC Milan vs. Inter Milan.

Half a millennia later and hey-o Giant freaking Killing! I would like to believe that I was right in understanding that Tatsumi wasn’t satisfied with his team after multiple ties, but I didn’t word it in exactly that way last week so I’m wasn’t right. However Tatsumi’s effort to rebound his teams character during the half time show with Ashlee Simpson worked out better than expected and lead his team to a….defeat, but, they looked better and had more possession! Of course all of these ups and downs look meaningless in comparison to the Gunners well-oiled team of characters that belong in the Universal Soldier movies. I would’ve been interested to see a 4-5-1 team go up against a 4-2-4 team but I suppose I’ll just have to settle with ETU doubling up the midfields on Osaka and throwing Sera and Natsumi together up front. Something that I will say I called a few episodes ago. To be honest 4-5-1 formations are extremely difficult and are certainly not the best idea for a team as dysfunctional as ETU. Though as Tatsumi said, it’s better to be dysfunctional together than separate in mindset.

Hopefully Fu-chan can get more character depth soon.

So Osaka did to Kofu what Portugal did to North Korea, a little something called anal rape. I would say that I feel for Kofu, but that would sound weird so I won’t. I would like to take this time to mention that Giant Killing has the most unrealistic broadcasting of football that I’ve ever seen. There are close-ups of players from the front when they’re running. The change of camera angles throughout the game was, yes, more like a television show than a game. Real football sticks to the sideline, the only times that the camera will go behind the goal like that is for replays, free kicks or penalties. Football certainly doesn’t have profile shots of every single player running with the ball. It also doesn’t run in slow motion; this is the impression the broadcast in Giant Killing gave me. I must admit, when Dulfer did his end-level boss face during this episode I went: “OH SHI-” before quickly realizing that there’s going to be a bigger fish before this series is over. Unless this game takes six episodes, which if that is the case you can expect a monthly post when the game is over.

Sunset, right on time!

Andohbtw, holy shit Tsubaki’s long lost twin brother. I thought that the secret family relations in the previous episode were bad, but now not only have we discovered Tsubaki’s true father, but his true brother as well. What the fuck is this, Dexter? Kubota looks like a cross between Tsubaki and Akasaki…….OH SHI-! Anyway, the pacing in episode nineteen was ridiculous. I couldn’t believe how slow it was, since the match day was happening  before the half-way mark I expected to be into the game by the end of the episode but it just goes to show that you can’t underestimate the time it takes for two men to shake each other’s hands, TWICE! Not to mention the absolutely ridiculous sequence of every ETU player getting their name called out, that’s great for when you’re at the arena of your home team watching football in the real world, but when it simply drags the pacing in an anime to a crawl, it’s pretty annoying. Though I must admit I laughed when the scene cut away right when Hama’s name would have been announced, he just can’t get any love on or off the field, can he?

Why can't you be voiced by Nakata Jouji?

Dulfer has some hairy hands; I thought about tweeting this but I decided that it was unlikely that any of my twelve followers would get that reference. Twitter, never had so many people said so little to so many in a way that can completely fuck your image up; looking at you Jim Carrey. Seriously, some people need to get an agent just for their twitter, I swear it’s like trying to muzzle up John Carmack. And we all know that it is impossible to muzzle that guy, to add a metaphor onto a metaphor, muzzling John Carmack would be like asking Apple to stop being a bunch of assholes; impossible. I wouldn’t call myself a Microsoft fan boy; however I would never use a desktop computer that wasn’t running Windows 7 at this point. Call me crazy but I find Windows 7 far easier to use than a mac. I would like to mention that my iPhone has nothing to do with this; compatibility is a hell of a drug. So kick-off will happen again at four minutes into the next episode (yay recap!) and hopefully we’ll see ETU show Osaka the old blue screen of death; let’s just hope that the Gunners aren’t mac users.

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• Kyokai says:

  August 10, 2010

  Because you lied when you were seventeen. Ah, good memories, better listen to Travis again. And, hoho, you do work for me too now. xD

  I'm glad my wishful thinking became true with two forwards. Hopefully, this game would not last more than 3 episodes. There has to be another big game for the final Huzzah!

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