Occult Academy for me had the best first episode of the season. Of course I’m going to blog it! It’s great to see that all of the Anime no Chikara projects get progressively more interesting. Occult Academy once again is an ambitious series that really wastes no time with its limited format of only 13 episodes. A great mentality!
But there’s more. Take a look at Anime News Network, and the staff of the third episode: Osamu Kobayashi will be its episode director. You know, the director of Beck, Natsu no Sora, Paradise Kiss and his unique style. To make things even better, none other than Mitsuo Iso (Dennou Coil!) will finally make his reappearance to be the animation director. And to make things even better, if this guy is correct, the sixth episode will have Ryousuke Nakamura as its episode director. You know, from Mouryou no Hako and Hashire! Melos. Can anyone confirm somewhere whether this is true?
Either way, I’m already a fan of this show. This episode may not be as good as the first, but it still was witty, interesting and the chemistry between the two lead characters turned out to be really good. This series does really well in combining the occult from east (youkai, demons, etc) with that of the west (Nostradamus, the doom scenarios). When I first saw the lead male in the promo art, he really looked like one of those stereotypical scapegoats: you know, those who exist just to get stepped on by the lead character who is eccentric. It turned out to be a bit more nuanced than that, though: the guy is actually fairly normal, though a bit eccentric. It’s only the lead female who he can’t handle. Because he popped up naked in front of her and all. The lead female on her turn isn’t your typical tsundere in the way that she has very strong ideas and beliefs, and really likes to act when she puts her mind on something.
The thing I also really like about this series is its witty direction. I mean, take a look at that flashback at which Abe tells about why he travelled through time, and how he appeared with sunglasses and a holiday suit. Do you really think that that’s how he looked back then? I really think that he was trying to make himself look bigger in his own narration. The episodes so far are full of these nice details. This series also continues to go back to the backgrounds of its characters, rather than saving that for later. Again, a great mentality.
Rating: ** (Excellent)
It’s all fake. No Osamu Kobayashi or Mitsuo Iso. đ I’ve just checked NewType official site. Epsiode 3’s director is Kei Tsunematsu and animation director is Takashi (?) Shibayama.
However, Ryousuke Nakamura is really director of sixth episode.
Loving the show so far, definitely looking to be really interesting and fun! I do wish, though, that they’d tone down Maya beating up the dude. It’s unnecessary, and in reality if she swung a punch at him I am sure he’d be able to absorb it without problem being an adult male, and maybe even knock her down to her knees with a return backslap. At least this is how it would go from my own experience.
Spoons. Spoons everywhere.
Spoons?
Spoons!!!
Spoons all up in this bitch!
hay guys
I herd you like spoons
Fork
Sporks, how do they work????!!!
HAHA SPOONS
EBAUMS WAS HERE LOL
I’d spoon her.
Fucking spoons, how do they work?
even if she dies, she’s going to respoon.
I don’t get it, what about spoons?
I’d give her a piece of my spoon
Is it possible to bend a spoon backward ? i mean, sure you can bend it forward, but can you bend it backward without doing it wrong ?
Nice Spoon.
Also, would bending backward a spoon already bent forward considered unbending a spoon ?
Or would it still be considered bending it backward ?
Can it also not be considered as “unbending” ?
or is it still bending ?
MAGGAARE!
spoons are helpful for eating cerial
So, if a spoon wasn’t really a spoon, but spork, would the spork bend like the spoon, or would it spoon like a fork?
Who knew that the end foretold by Nostradamus was the collapse of the barrier around 4chan, allowing the college dropouts to escape. You saved me eleven episodes of suspense, boys.
fuck you guys
knives are where it’s at
At 25
what the fuck are you talking about. we are from ebaums
you just mad cause we spoonin on you
Can spoonbenders only bend spoon shaped things, or can they only bend metal spoon ?
also , is calling them spoonbenders wrong, because in fact, they can’t only bind spoons but anything metalic ?
Or is it that they believe they can only bend spoon, unconciously restricting their ability ?
If that’s so, can you re-devellop their ability by brainwashing them and making them believe everything is a spoon ?
That is pretty deep, bub. I am interested in whether or not the dude can still bend spoons, or if he has lost that ability due to aging.
Also, regarding spoon related abilities, if the spoon is backward, could he still bend it the rifht way, or would he be bending it backward ?
if anyone’s intrested i’d like to discuss spoon-bending further.
in my opinion, it’s because he had no breakfast.
hence, he encountered little spoon.
Maybe he can’t even recognise a spoon now.
you know, like, do they still use spoon when earth is invaded by aliens ?
Why is there an anime about spoons?
I heard that real pro’s bend ladles.
But seriously, I think the origin of spoon bending was the they were very easy to bend with sleight of hand and say “the curvature of the spoon caught my mental pressure” whereas doing the same thing with a fork would cause your spiritual pressure to leak through.
And about the episode again, I was just rewatching and the thought occured to me: If the dad’s notebook is protected with wards and charms that will protect Maya from all enemies, why didn’t the dad just carry the book or another item with those charms around with him himself? It could have saved his life, I am sure.
Does the spoon exist ?
There is no spoon.
My spoon is to BIG. ;_;
NOW I’VE LOST IT
I KNOW I CAN SPOON
The spoon was a lie
I swear to God there was a spoon in there
A spoon is a utensil consisting of a small shallow bowl, oval or round, at the end of a handle.
DAT SPOON!!
I just ate a spoon.
The spoon is a SPOON
There Is No Spoon
AHAHAHAHAHA
PRESENT DAY
PRESENT SPOON
sure is spoon in here
So i heard her cunt smells like ectoplasm.
Also /a/ said you know how spoons work… so – How do they work ?
At first I was like spoon
But then I was like SPOON
Spoons are sexy.
At 36, is your anus bleeding ?
Spoons are square!
>my spoon when I spoon
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.SPOON!.
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[________>c((_ )
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Your gonna carry that spoon.
Gentlemen, I like spoons.
Gentlemen, I like spoons.
Gentlemen, I love spoons.
I like teaspoons. I like caviar spoons. I like aggressive sporks. I like defensive ladles.
I like sipping. I like cupping. I like dipping. I like scooping. I like slurping.
In moors. On highways. In trenches. In plains. On tundra. In desert. On sea. In sky. In mud. In marshes. I like spoons
I love every aspect of spoons that takes place on this earth.
I like blowing away the steam from a piping hot soup as my ivory handled spoon is delicately held in my hands. When on a blazing hot day, my spoon is there for me as I enjoy a decadent banana split.
I like scooping of legions of peas with a swift motion and devouring them. When I chowed down on some of first curry, my heart leapt.
I like it when the infantry spoon through the enemy’s food with their spoons all in a line. I remember being moved when seeing new recruits, filled with panic, stirring an already mixed drink again and again.
Seeing a sugar cube being dipped slowly into a cup of coffee is unendurably exciting. Seeing a bowl of cereal being wolfed down the throat of a toddler was spectacular.
When the pitiful resistance came bravely with their small spoons…and we destroyed them and a good chunk of the city with the 4.8 ton spoon, I was at my height.
I like it when we are fed with the morning dew. It is a sad thing when the food one is supposed to protect is forked, and the desserts and stews get pierced and violated.
Gentlemen…I desire a spoon that is like hell.
Gentlemen, my companions in the spoon battalion, who follow me…Gentlemen, what do you desire?
Do you desire spoons as well? Do you desire a spoon of no mercy?
Do you desire a spoon that stretches the limits of iron, wind, lightning, and fire to the limit, one that will kill all the crows on this planet?
…
Very well…then we shall have spoons
We used all the strength in our bodies to clench our fists, but for us, who have waited and waited in the depths of darkness for half a century…A mere spoon is not enough!
It must be a great spoon!!
A whole-hearted great spoon!!
We are nothing more than a thousand remaining hungry men of a battalion…but I believe you are all veterans, each worth a thousand men.
In that case, including me, we are a million and one strong.
Let us drive away those that have forgotten us, let us pull awake those who have fallen in their sleep. Let us pull them up by their hair and pry their eyes open and make them remember…
Let us remind them of the taste of iron.
Let us remind them of the sound of our silver spoons scooping.
Let us remind them that there are things between the earth and sky which they would not even dream to be possible.
We will spoon the world down.
REV UP THOSE SPOONS, CUZ I SURE AM HUNGRY FOR ONE-!
I want to spoon with her
If I could be a vegetable, I’d be the vegetable that resembles a spoon the most. Since I don’t know which vegetable is that, I’d simply spoon.
Spoons, also known as Pig and Tongue,[1] is a fast-paced game of matching and bluffing family of card games of the Crazy Eights group, closely related to Craits[2] played with an ordinary pack of playing cards and several ordinary kitchen spoons or various other objects. It is played in multiple rounds and each player’s objective is to be the first in the round to have four of a kind, or to not be the last to grab a spoon. Once one spoon is taken, everybody attempts to get the remaining spoons.
Spoons is a game most popular among children and teenagers, though many adults play it as well.[1]
unlimited spoons works
JIBUN SPOOOOOOOOON!!
SEKAIII SAE MOO!
KAEETE SHIMAESPOON NA!
Dropped my spoon….
I really thought the male lead was going to be a wimp after seeing the promo art. It seems as if he’s hiding his talents instead and is fairly normal otherwise.
-That’s not a knife, THIS is a knife
-that’s not a knife, that’s a spoon
-Ah, I see you’ve played knifey-spoony before!
Hey cut that crap and go spamming elsewere
Jesus Christ, 65 comments?!?!?!
Oh well, about 59 of htem are about spoons, 1 of them is about someting very very bad and graphic (ew! I mean whoever wrote this: you’re sick man) and the rest are about this episode…
well obviously that spoon “guy” is something like Durarara’s Saika :p
you spoony bard!can’t resist it XD Like the episode.Reminds me a bit of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Whats with all the spoon spam?
Anyway, I loved this episode… for me even better than the first and probably the best so far of this season… This series is everything Highschool of the dead is not, it even does fanservice right (and the main char is hot, which helps)
9.5/10
yuri geller was a famous psychic
one of his things was bending spoons
turned out in the end he was a fraud
I CAN HAZ SPOONZ PLZ?
I haven’t watch this ep, but WTF is happening here with all the spoon >.>?
Is that a spoon I see?
Nothing. They’re just trolls very fond of spoons.
I lol’d at the spoon and the whole spoon spam >_> you’re bending it too slowly.
In Soviet Russia, SPOONS bend YOU.
I actually liked this episode way more than the first. The brief appearance of JK and unexpected end thereof thanks to Smile really cracked me up. ^^
I liked it better than the first episode as well; I thought the pacing was better this time.
What. The. Hell.
I think this episode was better but is it me or the characters are a little more detailed in this episode?
That’s called character development.
lol, I was talking about their design, the way they look.
my bad, i think it is my bad english because even if I understand I canÂŽt write it very well.
This series is great.
Also, spoon.
It’s odd how the guy sounds so full of himself in his (self-construed?) flashback. He’s such a pushover when it comes to our fiery lead, though.
But sure enough, it’s the pushovers in this series who are making all the “behind-the-scenes” moves. That principal’s adviser lady? Bad news, kids.
Actually, I don’t think you’re using the phrase “A great mentality” right. It sounds really awkward, even though it’s nominally grammatical. Maybe you could say that they got their priorities right or something.
Also, it’s not a holiday suit, but a birthday suit. Sorry for these rather anal corrections; I love your blog otherwise, but felt I had to correct a few things in your (otherwise) impeccable english.
awesome
Crap I only just got that Uchida was probably bigging himself up in that flashback, no wonder that seemed so OOC. Still, the spoons aside, I like how this show knows how to make fun of itself and I’m looking forwards to watching the rest. And lol at Maya’s comment on the word ‘tsundere’ in the epi 3 preview! đ
@85
He was wearing a holiday suit when he was on the beach – the hawaiian shirt, shorts, glasses, etc. He was playing up how cool he is, when is actuality he pretty much sucks – can’t even bend a spoon without nearly popping a blood vessel, I can’t see how he can use that as an offensive or defensive ability.
Oops. I misread it and thought he were referring to him coming down nekkid at the end of the first episode. Sorry about that.
I think that whole story is made up. Too many cliche scifi movie references it was like he was making that up as he was talking using various scifi movie to help. Wouldn’t surprise me if he is a (one of) bad guy and con artist from the future as those idiots who bend spoons usually are. They are hinting to much at the snot woman.
Wow czz…now that you mention it I can’t get it out of my mind. It would be a slap in the face to the viewers, though, if we get all excited about one thing then suddenly we are told it was a lie. It will be like we ourselves were lied to. The thing is, we saw on the Television that he was a child in the current setting though he obviously isn’t at the Academy, unless he is actually just pretending to be the kid who can bend spoons to back up his time travel story.