Now the title I gave for this episode is exactly what happened in this episode. A whole lotta nothin’. For a show about world destroying super powers, possession, spirit cats, and a character who uses a giant straw to fight villains, compared to last episode, this one was filled with an extensive amount of NOTHING.
Were you hoping for an explanation about Strange Juice’s backstory and reason she has superpowers? Did you want to see the main guy find the book or who was behind his possession? Did you want anything plot relevant AT ALL to occur? Well too bad. Instead you have this episode.
“Now Hideki,” you’re all saying “Surely SOMETHING must have have happened. I mean it couldn’t have been 20 minutes of a test pattern!” fair enough. I will tell you all about the nothing. Just know, you asked for it.
So the episode starts out with one of the girls acting very weird. She’s obviously hiding something, but from behind closed doors, she passes it off as just her doing normal things.
Meanwhile back with the main character he asks the obvious question to the cat of “if i can go back in time, how come I just can’t go back to right before my body was possessed?” To which the cat tells him (with the aid of breast jello. I’m not even joking) that he would simply fall back to the same spot every time as he’s not skilled enough to go to a certain place.
Meanwhile we cut to another subplot where the green haired chick is sad because, while she’s a medium, she’s actually a fraud and can’t speak to spirits. One of her friends sees a video about “Cheermancy” a way to cheer her friend up by putting on a pigeon mask and singing for her. However, she mishears her and thinks she says “Necromancy” and tries to use it to communicate with spirits.
Because someone spilled cinnamon in her room earlier, it magnified the main dude’s power and let him shatter the bottle she had asked the spirit to move.
So we cut back to the OTHER subplot where the girl that was acting weird from before tries to hide something, but after a bunch of “kooky” events it turns out she’s been hiding a baby bear. She says she found it in a box in the rain and one of the other girls she has about a week to find it a home and where it came from or she’s getting rid of it.
It turns out that this girl is a computer expert but is sad and lonely because she doesn’t go to school. We’re not sure why as of yet other than “Something crappy happened” that we learn in a flashback. So the fact that she’s happy with the bear is…you know good I suppose.
And then the episode ends with the fake psychic girl trying to call upon the power to break the bottle again in front of people, but there’s not cinnamon this time so it doesn’t work. And that’s where the episode ends.
God. For so many damn subplots, absolutely NOTHING happened.
To break it down, Girl who was sad is harboring a baby panda and fake psychic is sad she’s fake.
That’s really ALL that happened this episode. Which is strange, because episode 1 had SO much plot thrown at us that it was weird to see NONE this episode.
I SUPPOSE they were trying to give us character development, but it’s WAY too early in the series to devote an ENTIRE episode to non-plot related content. I’m actually interested in the plot related stuff. Will he get more spirit power? Why does the world explode when he gets turned on? Who are those terrorist guys and that leader who fell in the water? Is HE possessing his body? Where’s the book? Why is the cat there?
There’s a lot of questions that need to be answered and this episode felt more like farting around talking about NOTHING than answer them.
And the weirdest part, is that for a show about a guy who blows up the earth if he sees panties, there were hardly ANY panty shots this episode. Last episode if it were a drinking game i’d be dead. Not to say I was looking forward to it, but it’s odd to see a premise set up and then deviate from it so quickly into the series.
All in all, this episode was completely pointless and utterly unnecessary. I don’t know if this is going to be a running joke of the series or not, but i’m sure I will find out next episode. I’m getting a little annoyed that NONE of them can talk to him and there has been no progress on the location of the book. In fact I think he only mentioned it once this episode.
Anyway, I hope the episode is better next week because wow. I definitely lost 20 minutes of my life on this one.
Episode 4/10
-Hideki