After the reasons of why I love the show heres how the episode its self won for me. First off we find the whole quiet town thing was a set up from the beginning! Even the part about the sword being said to be the only thing that can kill the elder bairns. In fact in a very hilarious moment at the end of the show in the ending credits, one piece of the blade separates and falls off where Saya then tosses the whole sword away lol. The uniforms that were so goth looking were noted as strange even to the characters in the show. All those people that said this wasn't in the contract? They were referring to not knowing they'd be eaten alive and executed. EVERYTHING was a stage. The Shrovetide? An agreement of old between the people and beasts that allows elder bairns to eat a set amount of people but no more than the quota. However some of the feelings people developed weren't fake in particular the love Itsuki Tomofusa developed for Saya and the sense of kinship Tadayoshi Kisaragi felt with Saya. The rest of the "main cast" did everything for money and own self interest and gain.
Now for the action. It was well choreographed with top notch animation(how ever blurred, can't wait for uncensored!) and fighting. Tadayoshi and Saya was quite simply my favorite of the show! It was so brutal as Tadayoshi over powered her with a sword in one hand and then tossed her about with his other hand. Very fast paced. After Saya uses her focus to two cut Tadayoshi(each cut costing him an arm) and they have a moment they try to leave where my favorite part happens. We see on what a grand scale the charade was. After Saya slashed a daemon bunny in half it regenerates and multiplies itself into hundreds that head into the town devouring anyone not in the lead cast. thousands of people flee and more are eaten alive or tossed into a "bunny bag" and then ground into meat and blood, indeed quite a gruesome scene.... Then I wondered if people get away what'll happen? well first of all the set town or staged town is corralled in by a barbed fence and private security stationed outside. It reminded me of Shiki when the pink haired girl almost gets away. As people make it to the fence a gatling gun opens fire slaughtering the refugees. Fumito and the only other person in the town escape(Yuka) by white SUV as private security uses a p-90 to kill people running away in the streets. Truly cleaning up shop Dead Rising style. In the end Yuka and Fumito gets away. Just as Saya is about to destroy the helicopter they're fleeing away in, Fumito steps out blowing her left eye and skull open. Saya recovers on the shore of the destroyed town for a few days, remembering it all. Then she stands up and uses a piece of her torn skirt like an eye patch or bandanna(the way Kakashi in Naruto uses it to cover his swharingan) and immediately I see the determination of Big Boss in her eyes *cough* I mean eye.... then the music starts up and she pursues Fumito to end the fight. BRILLIANT!!!! Bloody(pun intended) Brilliant! I can't wait for the movie! I know alot of people thought it was good or bad, so very hit and miss, but I thought it was brilliant from beginning to end and I truly enjoyed and looked forward to it as my seasonal favorite.
Even the director thinks it wasn't the best saying he didn't know how to lead or influence the audiences. Well my friend you made me happy. Animation to story a favorite for myself. I'll put all the good pics below as squeezing them in is quite difficult and I don't have it in me. Anyway I officially started the Fall season with Shinryaku! Ika Musume S2. I adored season 1 and S2 looks very promising! I want to blog it but I don't want to find something I like even more and over whelm myself. I'll wait until I've seen them all. But it is very therapeutic to watch after Nichijou so I'll probably blog it :) The scientists make me laugh hard especially in the last ep. of season 1 so for that reason alone I'll probably do it. Time will tell. The Cowboys won off field goals alone LOL! Go Boys! Oh yea and I'm looking forward to the zelda symphony October 21st in L.A. I'll be sure to blog that! Anyway I guess thats it for now.
-Relic P.S. I'm looking for blogging help so I can do more shows but still being underknown we'll see how it goes. Take it easy any and ALL.
I hope you appreciate the pictures I take by hand as I re-watch the show, edit the picture, cropping each by hand painstakingly for the choicest parts, and then uploaded, and then re-uploaded here and then put on the blog. By the way I upload them by hand! Even though my following is small its all for you! enjoy :) the hours long process I go through!
