I think I made the mistake of telling Steven how much I was enjoying seeing him write about Melancholy at last. I figure if he writes about something, he either liked it or hated it, or at least he saw something in it he felt like analyzing. And from the all the questions he was asking about Haruhi, which were the questions we were all asking when we first saw it, I kinda got the vibe that he was, you know, enjoying it.
Me and my big mouth. So now he takes off and starts watching Shuffle. Shuffle! Of all things!
So if we’re talking gods and demons, you’d expect them to be real characters, right? I mean, the demon should be rambunctious and outgoing, kind of like Ryoko from Tenchi Muyo, right? Well, she isn’t. In fact, Nerine and Lisianthus both are rather shy initially. I’m guessing it isn’t going to stay that way, but so far nothing is going the way I expect it to. Very pleasing.
(…why yes, I am playing games with Ubu Roi’s head. Why did you ask?)
ARRRRRRRGHHH!
Oh well, if he watches any more of Inukami! just to torture me, I’ll get the last laugh. Unless he watches episode 2. That was pretty good.
Actually, at the end of ep 6 of Haruhi I felt a little bit sick. That’s the first of the two eps placed on the island, and though it might not turn out this way, it seemed as if the old man who owned the villa died because Haruhi wanted to play detective. That bothered me quite a lot.
I didn’t really finish that thought.
It is not actually the case that I switched because I was trying to bedevil you. But while I was writing about Shuffle it occurred to me that you might think I was, so I decided to have a little fun. (It’s nicely self-referential; the line about playing games with your head was the part that played games with your head…)
Hm. In that case, maybe I should tell you not to watch episode 2 of Inukami! No, wait, but if you were messing with my head by saying you were messing with my head instead of actually, you know, messing with my head, then perhaps I should tell you to watch it…. wait, I’m just going to go over here and babble quietly in the corner, thank you.
Ah yes, the Imouto-in-a-bag episode. You definitely need to watch the 2nd half of the detective saga. It’s probably the weakest of the stories, because Kyo varied from the original story somewhat, but there’s a scene in the 2nd half regarding that, which the fans debated a lot. In fact there’s a number of red herrings throughout the two-parter. (I do wish they’d kept the scene where everyone got drunk!)
If you think that the gang seems awfully blasé about the possibility that she may have unconsciously killed him, understand that this is one of the later stories chronologically, taking place during summer break of their freshman year. At the beginning of the baseball episode, Kyon makes reference to just having been in “a world-cramping incident.” It’s “only” one dead guy…this girl can remake worlds and alter eyes to shoot lasers.
I didn’t get much out of the parody in the second half though, because I’ve never seen Phoenix Wright.
Besides which, you stop here, and you never get to see the goodness that is Tsuraya (the green-haired laughing zombie).