- Wait. Wait. Wait. Amagami SS has a new OP. Wait. #
- Amagami is winning. #
- So it has been two weeks since the last Amagami. Tonight I took 117 screencaps. That's about 90 more than I normally take. #
- Updated thematic. Found out that it caused every image caption to become bloated. Spent the last 3 minutes fixing that. #
- You'll love my full feed for the blog: http://ryanime.com/feed/ #
- The World Only God Knows EP 1 – http://ryanime.com/2010/10/09/the-world-god-only-knows-episode-1/ #
Month: October 2010
Amagami SS – Episode 14 – Ai’s Math Skills
Since we were buffered for a week for some strange reason, I decided to put an intermission up last week. Tokyo Broadcasting ruined that, but let’s move on. Ai was back this week in less than full spirits because of her last math test. It seems that if she failed on it again, she would need to take remedial classes and not be able to attend swim practice. We also have a tiny revelation about what she thinks about Junichi.
The biggest surprise was the new OP for this week. It no longer features each girl in order of arc appearance. I found it strange. It also seemed to focus on the class president more than any other girl but that simply may have my imagination.
Summaries! Where art thou summaries?
At the time of writing, nobody else had posted even the slightest review of the second episode of Ai’s arc. That seems strange of course because it’s been out for at least three days now. School seriously gets the best of everyone, doesn’t it?
Fine. You have this one.
As Junichi, Umehara, and Kaoru went to check out the rumored cute new library assistant, they come across Ai borrowing a math book for her removal exams. Seeing this, Junichi offers to teach Ai math. During one of those tutorial sessions at the library, Ai mentions her brother, who hasn’t been paying attention to her lately. Ai wants some advice from Junichi, him being a guy and bit childish and perhaps understanding of her brother. After a bit of misunderstanding concerning her, Sae and Miya the next day, which made him apologize to her in a perverted manner infront of Ai’s teammates, he advises her to spoil her little brother a bit, since her little brother only wants her attention. To thank him, Ai then offers to Junichi the toy she was supposed to give her brother as a present, with Junichi showing her how to use it, awing a few kids at the park. That night, after checking on her brother Ikuo, Ai thinks of Junichi before going to bed, and, seemingly falling for him, wishes it is morning already.
From Wikipedia’s Article on Amagami SS Episodes.
Slugs posted a summary! Hooray!
aI think Junichi is a Kid!
Looking over that summary, a professional wrote it. Let’s begin this episode though. Umehara invites Junichi and Kaoru to join him in the pursuit of the cute girl in the library. When Kaoru suggests that Junichi use his anti-straight-forward role to make everyone move away from the checkout desk, he gets slightly agitated at that thought and causes a commotion. Ai happens to be nearby checking out a library book and then she pulls them all aside because they’re drawing attention. Ai needs help in math because she failed a test recently and if she doesn’t pass the next one, she’ll have to stop swimming for remedial classes.
Then Junichi, the super hero, jumps in and offers his only strength: math.
There is a brief departure from the library for just a moment where the arc air time stealing Haruka comes to visit Hibiki in the pool. She comments on not seeing Ai.
Back in the library, Ai talks about her brother. She has those eyes that get me going. She says that her brother seems to ignore her but still wants her attention. At least this reveals a partial understanding of why she is so mysterious but there must be more. Oddly, she also explains to Junichi that he seems childish and like a kid. Which is why she thought he might be able to help her out.
The next day, Ai, Miya and Sae are having lunch. After Junichi asked Miya if she knew anything about Ai’s brother, she brought it up at the table. Sae comments on how she thinks they’re both lucky to have brothers because it would be fun. Recall the last arc where Junichi said to Sae, “You’re like a sister,” and Sae replies, “No, I don’t want that.” Her mentality about siblings has changed between the two arcs.
And then the comedy starts. Miya introduces Sae and of course shy, she pushes her self against the table during a sitting bow. This cuases Junichi to stare, causing Miya to launch into her meat-bun rant.
It was priceless. If you didn’t see it, you missed out.
Ai wasn’t extremely pleased with his comments about her and Miya’s size, so she quickly left. More things happen but not much of serious interest that isn’t already mentioned in the summary.
Finally
Ai is interesting. She’s addicted to the swim club. She has trouble in math. She thinks Junichi is a kid. These things don’t explain she looks so mysterious. Something else must be lurking behind her demeanor and I must know. The way she teased Junichi in the first episode is odd too. Would you do that to someone you met only a few hours earlier? Maybe, if you’re daring. Maybe, if you’re mysterious. However, she feels like she’s falling for Junichi at the end of the episode. That’s surely a sign of things to come, isn’t it?
Committed.
The World God Only Knows – Episode 1
Ryanime beat me to this series first post due to me having technical difficulties but I shall not back down!
Katsuragi Keima, a young boy who loves girls… that’s pretty normal… is what you guys are probably saying right now, but no he doesn’t love real girls, he loves the girls in games. He has already cleared ten thousand girls in dating simulations and is refered to as the God of Conquest in the internet/gaming world. Keima is eager to prove himself as the god when he receives an email from Dokuro Skull, asking Keima if he could clear a girl for him. After accepting, things become drastic-like, a gigantic gust of wind appears, blowing Keima into a wall and a girl gently floats down. She is a demon who has come to Earth to recapture loose souls that have escaped from hell, loose souls plant themselves in the heart of girls that are in distress. The only way to get the souls out is to replace the distress in the girls heart with love, for that to happen devils need a partner who can do this and that is where Keima comes into play.
Katsuragi Keima is a pretty interesting character, from what we know from this first episode, he feels that games are more important than his classes. Obviously someone who’s got the balls to openly play a game in the middle of class is someone who has got to be interesting.
Obviously, Keima goes all in blind with his title as God of Conquest on the line. His pride would simply not allow him to decline the request.
I guess the only thing that makes her look like a demon in any way would be her head accessory, the skull. She’s now Keima’s partner until all loose souls are captured and if Keima dies so does Elci, we all have enough common sense to know that Keima wont be dying because he’s the main character and all but we can never be too sure.
Well, this is rejection at its fullest, I guess this kind of reaction was foreseen due to the crazy leap Elci just took Keima on.
The first target is Takahara Ayumi, Keima absolutely rejects the idea of capturing her because he believes the Track club members must have their hair tied up and be in bloomers.
Well in most anime’s bloomers are the norm while in PE class, so I guess its ok if its for the track club too. What I really wonder is, why does the bloomer incident only happen once? If Keima wont recognize the track club if not for bloomers and their hair being tied up, why does he still go with the capture even though Ayumi’s no longer in bloomers for the rest of the capture time?
The full line was, “If its ranking you’re worried about, You’re already in first place, In my heart.”
After the kiss scene the loose soul comes out and Elci manages to capture it using a really tiny bottle. I wonder how that actually works, but since this is an anime I don’t have any real arguments to hold against it.
In the end, Ayumi’s memories of the capture is erased and Keima believes he can go back to his easy life style. Although from what we know, Ayumi’s memories should be erased but why did she blush when Keima congratulated her? Did she truly lose her memories? I sense alot of foreshadowing!
Lastly
I like the series so far, the OP was great even if it might have been a rip off of Eden like Ryanime claims. I’d estimate this series to be on the top five list of this season, since I’ve watched pretty much every new anime that has come out already for this season. Although this anime’s going to only be 12 episodes, the second season of this anime has already been decided to be aired for Spring of 2011 before the first episode even came out, now that’s some great confidence. Keima’s going to have to deal with the Real world a lot now that Elci’s with him 🙂
Side Note
I want a PFP!
Weekly Tweet Recap 2010-10-09
- Needles has joined the team! http://ryanime.com/2010/10/02/needles-here/ #
- I half .6 GB of anime screenshots on my drive. Getting pretty sad. #
- Fail! Only God Knows This World copied Eden's Opening! #
- The new Youtube iframe player is really nice. #
The World God Only Knows – Eden Theft
I was again slightly bored so I decided to try out one of the new series premieres. This time it was The World God Only Knows.
The premise isn’t bad; the main character, Keima, is an otaku who has conquered just about ten thousand girls in dating simulations. He calls himself the God of Conquest because of that and offers his advice to people playing games he has conquered. He’s also very eger to prove himself as when he receives an invitation or a challenge in his mind to conquer a girl, things start going crazy. A girl falls from the sky who also happens to be a demon. She must capture loose souls that have escaped hell but in order to do that, the hate in the hearts of the host girls (where the loose souls infiltrate) must be replaced with love, which is where Keima comes in.
The Case In Point
Since I hadn’t looked at the series before hand, the OP is what made me want to comment on this. It blatantly ripped off Eden of the East. I understand that kinetic type is popular these days, but Eden seriously pioneered it for the OPs in the anime and both movies.
Those are the two major instances of theft. Compare that to the original anime OP of Eden of the East.
You can see some very similar imagery there. The faded bars breaking imagery a part, the overlaid images; dynamic and static images and so on. To a lesser extent, the movies use this type of graphics too, but less and less.
Side Notes
While I don’t think I’ll cover anymore of this series, the girls deserve some attention.
This is of course the new lovable demon that Keima must associate with because he was being stupid. She isn’t really an air head, but her personality is pushing me to think of her as one.
Each episode features a girl for Keima to conquer. This one happened to a track girl. He says, “Track girls must wear their hair up in a ponytail.” Well, since I’m a sucker for ponytails, they really should. The climax of this episode hinges on the fact that Keima can notice these fine details about people. I’m not going to spoil it since it’s so new, I don’t think many people have seen it yet.
That’s all I have. Really, I just wanted to rant about Eden of the East since it’s awesome.
One-time Commit.
Amagami SS – Intermission
How about a big appluase for my new brainwashed zombie slave co-blogger, Needles! He was one of those surprises I mentioned last week.
Anyway, on with the news. Apparently Amagami SS is taking a break this week. According to the episode list, episode 13 was aired on September 24th and episode 14 will be aired on October 8th! That means they skipped October 1st.
Since I don’t have anything new to add, I thought I’d introduce you to my new favorite ED, Koi wa Mizu-iro by Yukana.
Due to some silly idealistic copyright system some country has, apparently constructive critiques and criticisms aren’t allowed. Stay classy, Tokyo Broadcasting. Stay classy.
The ending of Ai’s arc is fantastic. Those questions, what are you doing? and what are you looking at? are made up of win-sauce. The reference to poker face is interesting. I’ve commented heavily that I think Ai is mysterious. Right after saying poker face, they cut to Ai with her mouth periced and then she has the grin of mystery. After that, there is a cut to Ai in a field surrounded by trees in the wind on a partly cloudy day. Certainly her entire atmosphere is cloudy. The way she is colored in this scene though is mysterious. Her hair covers her eyes, and it’s darker than normal too. Her body is partly covered in shadows as well. Finally, she has her hands behind her back. Next Junichi is walking away on the city side walk while Ai stares after him, which seems normal until we see her shocked face. The rest isn’t as novel, a scene of her swimsuit and her in outer-space walking around. The ED ends with the final smile of Ai as she turns around.
Hopefully that can abate the Amagami addiction for four days. Good luck!
Mysteriously Committed.
Needles Here!
Hello readers of Ryanime★, as the post says I am introducing myself to you guys, or apparently I am supposed to do that. I am a friend of Ryanime in real life and have been asked to help him out in writing blogs to make it look more alive. Instead of just one person ranting about anime, we have a few mean and sarcastic people posting now. To be honest this is going to be the first time I’ve done anything like this, but hey, it can’t be that hard… right?
Well, on to the boring things that most people never actually care for, I am currently 17 years old. When I have free time I am either reading some kind of manga that interests me, or playing a MMORPG game. When I say free time, I mean just about the whole day. So I read manga and play MMORPG games to pass the time. I am the type of person that goes with the flow I rarely get up and lead others, unless its absolutely necessary that I do. When someone asks me a question and I am given two or more choices I am usually indifferent about the whole thing. Now that I think about it, I’ve done an online test to find out what kind of element I was, apparently I turned out to be blue.
Its actually kinda accurate so I guess you can say I am just like what it says in the picture. Ha, sorry I’ve made you waste some part of your time reading this post.