Costumes in anime have generally always been rather questionable. The mature series are often fine, but there are also tons of costumes in anime that make you ask “…why”. Seriously, most of the good guys of Uraboku wear normal clothes, even the red-haired guy’s outfit can be attributed to some fashion statement. But Zess, where the heck do you get the inspiration for your clothes from?
Seriously, most of the comedy in this series just doesn’t work, but this guy is comedy gold. His shirt in this episode looked like he violently ripped off the sleeves or something. It’s just hilarious how this guy just acts all cool with a continuous serious and deadpan expression, yet goes overkill at such weird times. My personal favourite scene of him so far was when he summoned that gigantic dragon to just take care of a bunch of weak bad guy underlings.
In any case, a big weak point of this series is definitely the cast of villains. This episode showed a bit more of them, and yet we hardly got to know more about them aside from what kinds of powers they have (oh, and that one of them likes hot guys). Who are they? Why do they do the things they do? There hasn’t even been a hint of this so far, and their characterization just feels bland. These people seriously need more work.
The good guys however are the ones who make me keep watching this series. This series continues to explore them, and build further on their stories. This especially was a good episode for the side-cast, and even though a terrifyingly large amount of people here have suicidal tendencies, the creators did a decent job in making it believable. It’s nowhere near amazing yet, but at least it’s still going into the right direction. It’s going to be interesting to see whether this show can pull off a strong second half.
Also, the golden rule of anime: characters don’t die unless we see this confirmed. The next episode is going to be the first test for this show how annoyingly it will try to hold on to this rule. The problem is especially with Tsukumo: if this guy lives, then the main bad guy will be absolutely pathetic in his job. On the other hand, it will be very cool if those guys actually died, and I admire the balls of the creators if they go there.
Rating: * (Good)
it would’ve have more impact if tsukumo dies…heck..id even start liking the series… but seeing a life support in the preview completely shatters my expectations -_-
If Tsukumo doesn’t die it’ll probably be because of the protective charm that Yuki gave him. They did specifically mention it in the episode and show it when he was being attacked.
And even if he doesn’t die there’s still what happened to Shusei.
If you’re in the opening credits, you aren’t dying in episode 10. That’s just a fact.
Libera: Yeah, but that also brings forth a ton of other complications: the guy was cornered in the middle of the night with nobody near him whatsoever. When the bad guy fails to kill him because of that charm, won’t he just… take that charm away or something, or just keep attacking him until it breaks?
And what if that charm indeed fully protects him? Then all of the good guys can just wear those charms and the enemies will never be able to do anything to them. The series stops being urgent because there really is no way for the bad guys to win anymore.
Lane: this rule has been broken in the past. 😉
Of course, whether Uragiri has the balls to do it as well remains to be seen…
I like when shows have the guts to kill off a main cast members ( of course it has to fit in with plot LOL) It’s like the show Lost. When they killed off their first main character you knew suspense and goodness was to follow. It kept you on the edge of the seat because it made you realize that no one character is infallible or safe. But alas, it looks like Tsukumo will be recovering in a hospital-alive.