shakugan no shana second 5
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An episode with no melonpan, no Flame Haze-like substance, no, uh, storytelling.
Shakugan no Shana without the mysterious of the Flame Haze world, without any decent harem elements, without any melonpan is just a sub-par slice-of-life series. Hell, floating bacteria is more interesting than watching Shana and Yoshida mope around for 24 minutes. I can sum up this episode in one clean sentence: Wilhelminia tries to cheer up Shana by cooking her a home cooked meal. I love to see someone write 3,000 words about this episode because I’m having trouble writing 30.
Melonpanriffic
Quality cabbage is… quality. The only thing I really enjoyed about this episode was the cabbage and Shana’s reaction to it. Both the eye tick (which was pretty good) and the tsundere-thawing “if it’s you, I don’t mind Sait– err– Yu– err– Wilhelmina .” Kyrios dammit, you should be thawing to Yuji so we can frickin’ move on with this arc.
I’ve mentioned it before, but how can Wilhelminia be such a culinary disgrace to meido everywhere? Fortunately for her, Mayu’s stint as a meido was even worse in Ninomiya-kun. The cabbage looks like a prop for the Halloween movies.
Another bright spot in this deary episode is more screentime for Chigusa and Wilhelminia. I’m still upset that neither got screen time for the fanservice OVA. Is there anything better than Wilhelminia, wearing just Tiamat, enjoying sake in a hot springs? Yes, maybe it’s when Chigusa asked Wilhelminia if she wanted to stop by, I was thinking of something other than cooking.
Going to the well… I think the thing I don’t like about this arc is that everyone is regressing. Shana stood up to Yoshida eventually, why can’t she to Konoe? The tsundere is supposed to evolve, not regress! And, worse yet, she’s dragged Yoshida down with her. So we’re only left with the annoying Konoe. It’s almost like all the development from the first season has gone up in smoke.
(Unfortunately, I do have a parallel for this: Dune Messiah. Just regressed everything that Dune developed for the characters in like the first 100 pages of Messiah. Never, ever a good thing for any literary work to be compared wtih Messiah, unless it’s something like, “the anti-acidic paper burns just as nicely as the kind used for Dune Messiah.”)
Another troubling aspect of this episode is that Eita and Ike are the voices of reason. Eita because unlike Yuji, actually has some hormones in him. Ike because he’s actually trying to advance the plot. Hell, I’d send him my Yoshida image collection if he sped this up faster.
There’s more to food than just practicality. There’s nutrition! No wonder Shana is so small if her diet is just melonpan and ramen.
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Have you ever abandoned a series under review before?
Wow. I thought we had to get some action by the end of this one…I swore it was coming around every next corner of Konoe’s mansion…
Sounds like my Shana dissaffection is paying off so far. For the sake of those who are watching it, I hope things pick up.
I have faith for the series.
If Yakumo wasn’t voicing Konoe I’d probably hate her, but… it’s Yakumo.
we waited millenions just to see shana turn emo? I dont freakin’ believe this…
I’ll just not watch this episode. Pretend it never happened.
For every awesome series that comes out of J.C.Staff, they drive another series off a cliff. It’s still very possible for Shana II to pick up again, but I wouldn’t blame Jason if he stopped blogging this like he did with Nagasarete Airantou earlier this year.
At least there’s still Kimikiss.
The past two episodes have been horrible. I am not sure when, or even if, the show will pick up again but it had better be soon. The last two Rie Kugimiya shows I have watched were dropped (Zero II and Hayate) and this could be the trifecta.
Right now Shana is the second worst series I have watched this far (at least 4 episodes), barely beating out Myself;Yourself.
Damn, they will have surely 24 episodes and yet they’re waisting time in this crap. Damn you all JC Staff.
>> Have you ever abandoned a series under review before?
Yes, Pete Zaitcev, I have.
>> The last two Rie Kugimiya shows I have watched were dropped (Zero II and Hayate) and this could be the trifecta.
Hayate’s good! Zero II was awful. Though Rie Kugimiya’s definitely an one trick pony. Can you imagine her as anything other than a wrathful loli?
>> Right now Shana is the second worst series I have watched this far (at least 4 episodes), barely beating out Myself;Yourself.
That’s definitely an ominous sign. Even more ominous: I think Night Wizard is better so far than Shana. Space rabbits 4t… w… ?
In a way the slowpoke can be understand, its a city with 3 Flame Haze and Bal Masqué so its not like the “Tomogara of the week” can be used.
Right now they are doing building up and trying to further characterization but because its s-l-o-w … also it did not helped they just press the good old reset relationship button that thrown out almost everything there was of the first season.
The only I have is as SnS2 can pick up so could ZnT2 and we all know what happen.
And at last is not as god awful as KimiKiss, now there is a show that have issues.
Shakugan no Shana II has been thoroughly disappointing so far. I said two weeks ago that everything could have been solved if Shana just beheaded Konoe right then and there, and I still stand by my beliefs. Seeing her and Yoshida doing nothing but being emo was bad enough for one episode, but two? Come on, why do they think we’re watching this series?
“I’ve mentioned it before, but how can Wilhelminia be such a culinary disgrace to meido everywhere? Fortunately for her, Mayu’s stint as a meido was even worse in Ninomiya-kun”
you forgot Hisui and her plum sandwhichs.
Seeing her and Yoshida doing nothing but being emo was bad enough for one episode, but two? Come on, why do they think we’re watching this series?
I agree completely. I wasn’t as negative about episode 4 but episode 5 bothered me because it was the exact same episode. I was just wishing for the episode to end so I could watch better anime, whicch right now is almost everything
Hayate’s good! Zero II was awful. Though Rie Kugimiya’s definitely an one trick pony. Can you imagine her as anything other than a wrathful loli?
I should try and get back into Hayate. Show started feeling repetitive around episode 20 and when I learned it was 50 episodes I dropped it cold. Zero II I dropped much quicker, only gave it 4 episodes. As for Rie Kugimiya, she has been type cast as the tsundere loli and will probably never be able to break out of this mold.
There was Melonpan! In Shanas Bento!
I´m not giving up on this series yet, the episode wouldn´t have felt “empty” hadn´t it come right after ep. 4, on itself I would call it “calm”. And I like that once in a while. Also, Wilhelmina screentime FTW.
Man, this blog is dangerous for my career. It’s totally NSFW, but it’s melonpan fanservice crack.
Worshipping at the Church that Melonpan Built, even when it could get you fired.
Well things did happened … the butler bracelet and “the repeated room” of the mansion, also there is the comments about Yuugi being more powerful and capable ….
Problem is that Shana and Yoshida that decided to catfight for Yuugi decided that Konoe is too strong for then and so they are doing the whole “sisterhood of emo” instead of “alliance to drive Konoe away”, its like the entire first season never happened.
Wilhelminia bits are not bad because she was the least developed character of the first season but I think we could cramp this 4 episodes into 2 without loosing anything important.
Hmm, not really expecting the series’ pace to pick up juuuuuust yet (I have a long patience for these kinds of things), but there’s hope! It seems that we have to endure one more slice-of-life episode though (the preview sounded pretty ominous, despite the study session setting).
The entire time I was watching this I kept thinking to myself: I rather go cry myself to sleep watching the newest Bleach episode (A drug no matter how bad seems to keep pulling me in.) then watch another CRAP slice of life edition of SNS2.
I really could use some Margery Daw fanservice to distract me now.
This episode reminded me of just how cool Wilhelmina is. The two years since the first season was just too much. She may not have a hot body like Shana, but shes got cool oozing out of every pore. Her name, her suit, but most of all its the way she talks and gets things done. When I first saw Wilhelmina appear at the supermarket on my screeen, I couldnt help but let out a “YEEEAAAH!”. Oh Wilhemina, how ive missed you! Your helplessness in the kitchen, your unwillingness to let anybody help you and your lack of outer emotion. Im soo GAR for Wilhelmina.
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Oh yeah, and this season isnt going as well as id hoped.
You know how we were promised ‘more action’ by Wilhemina during the movie promo? More fool, I, for believing her. Unless ‘more action’ means ‘more Shana pouting’ scenes, they’ve underdelivered so far. Heck, if it wasn’t for Shana’s eyetwitch at the attempt at a ‘cabbage roll’ and the commentary that Tiamat and Alastor had, along with the Chigusa ‘mentoring’ Wilhemina bit, I’d have fallen asleep halfway through.
I really hope this picks up – as it is, Hayate AND Lucky Star at their worst have yet to be this boring…
Team Uruchai is disappointing me. Stop moping and start plotting.
Wilhelminia needs her own cooking show.
I think I’m enjoying this show because it’s in such a high resolution. Now if only that high resolution were put to good use by showing awesomely epic battles…
Bad. Bad, bad, bad. And judging from the previews, we’ve got most of the next episode being the same crap, before anything actually happens.
For crying out loud, hurry up with S2 of Code Geass. We need more Pizza Hut maniac table-humping goodness!