Category: Nijuu Mensou no Musume

I must say that this series is getting more interesting with every episode. The first episode was a huge disappointment for me because it didn’t really show the thought-pattern behind Nijuu Mensou’s plans, though thankfully the past two episodes have put a much bigger emphasis on planning and back-ups, in case something goes wrong. With this episode, I finally see that Nijuu Mensou isn’t inhumanly strong or smart. He’s just paranoid and a perfectionist.

I can indeed see why Chico will end up as Nijuu Mensou’s successor. Due to the way she’s raised, she’s ended up rather paranoid as well and doesn’t take anything for granted, and yet she’s willing to work hard for the person who saved her. This episode mainly meant to bring her a bit closer to Nijuu Mensou’s crew, and flesh out the different characters a bit.

What I’m waiting for right now is to see the always-composed Nijuu Mensou screw up. Obviously, this has to happen sometime, and I’m rather eager to see Chico, as she takes over his position. It’ll be interesting to see Chico evolve, and meet the other two girls we see in the ED. Like I said before, I like series that don’t play all of their trumps in the first episode.

Out of all the series that aired this spring-season, Nijuu Mensou no Musume was the series that I had the most doubts of whether it was worth blogging or not, even more than Toshokan Sensou. The first episode was really bad for my suspense of disbelief, and yet it seemed to scream “potential”, unlike the mentioned-above Toshokan Sensou. Thankfully, the second episode was a lot better, so I’ve decided to blog this. I’ve always seemed to end up with 12 series each season as well. It’s a nice number that manages to cover enough different series without being overwhelming for myself.

This episode wasn’t perfect by far. Yet again, I spotted some scenes that didn’t make too much sense:
– Why didn’t the police leave one of their men behind to guard the treasure, in case of a decoy? Were they that stupid? They seemed to have more than enough men for it.
– The creators need to watch a bit more discovery-channel: shooting the tires of a car does NOT make it magically stop. It just makes the ride bumpier and the car needs to go to the repair shop afterwards, but it can just drive further without any problems.
– This is the same question I asked after the first episode: why has nobody who’s against Nijuu Mensou ever gotten the idea of using some kind of flying-device as well? I admit that it’s a pretty neat way to escape ground-forces, but if that zeppelin were to be assaulted by a (say) aeroplane, it’d be screwed. Of course, this is just my guess. Seeing the wit of this episode, I can imagine how Nijuu Menshou has found some tricks against this. It’d be interesting to see that in action, though.

That’s one of the reasons why I decided to blog this: the faults may be faults, but it’s interesting to point them out, much more than in usual series. What’s attracted me the most in this series is the character-development, though. Not only in Chico’s case, but this episode also showed a much more interesting side of Nijuu Mensou. His crew also gained a lot of depth, and came across much more believable. What I’m hoping for now is for this series to actually show the background of this Nijuu Mensou: how did he become so awesome in thievery? Especially since you can nearly hang a sign on his neck, saying: “Hello, I’m about to get killed off”.