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Jul 17 2010

Categories: episodic review, katanagatari
Tagged: amagami, katanagatari

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Watching Suzaku penetrate Lulu? Double rainbow. Watching Shichika penetrate Nanami? MY EYES! THEY BURN LIKE OLD SPICE!

(Eh, a simple tweet doesn’t do this episode justice. Let’s do this right.)

But do you know what’s better than a double rainbow? (Besides the mystical triple rainbow?) A double post featuring Amagami! Maybe I should have titled this post… amagami 3 / katanagatari 7. Because they are a double rainbow.

And, yes, he’s sucking on her the back of her knee, and she’s making noises not suitable for little kids. I don’t know how else to describe it. We have Junichi sucking on the back of Haruka’s knee, and we have Shichika penetrate Nanami. Couldn’t resist a double feature post. Could. Not. Resist.

(This is like Kyou and Tomoya in the gym storage shed only a million billion gazillion times creepier. I mean… where do the writers come up with this stuff? I mean… wow… just wow. This brought back memories of that horrible Cruel Intentions movie with Sarah Michelle Gellar. It had that scene where SMG told the other girl to kiss her, but not on her lips. And it wasn’t on her knee either. Or something else happened. I don’t remember. I may have to Netflix this.)

Infused with the Akutou Bita, doesn’t Nanami strangely resemble Tony Stark / Iron Man? Both depend on this weird, strangely glowing foreign substance to live, and it’s also slowing destroying them from within. It also gives them inhuman powers… my gosh. Nanami is the perfect killing machine, far surpassing iPhone 4’s antenna.

(I was debating what was a worse art decision… not giving Nanami nipples or showing shapely melonpan when none have been hinted at. I’m sure Shichika wasn’t rattled at seeing his suddenly developed older sister. Not at all.)

Cheered at all the game references, especially this not blatant enough one for Muramasa The Demon Blade. White Fox even did the world map the same way it appears in Muramasa (and, really, this anime is basically Muramasa with less blades) and the awesome da-da sound effect that’s so prevalent in Muramasa.

(Best part of Muramasa? Momohime. Second best part? Torahime and her bird-like helmet. Third best part? Fox spirits. Fourth best part? All of them. In the hot springs. Fifth best part… it was the last Wii game that I’ve purchased. And it came out in 2009. Not looking good for the ol’ Wii.)

Reminded me of the old Gunsmoke game. Man, I loved that for the NES. But pretty much any bullet hell shooter.

(No, not getting Star Successor… I’m already high on anticipation for Continuum Shift. And StarCraft 2.)

“Perhaps I should break him.”

Nanami is awesome in her evil mode. Unparalleled. She’s like the unholy bastard child of Isaiah Mustafa and Kana Minami. Unstoppable. I am disappointed Nishio Ishin decided to off her so soon… I think the consensus between most of my readers and I after episode 4 was that she would be the final boss. Unquenchable. How can this episode be topped? The only boss that could be more epic than Nanami is Hitagi Senjougahara.

“Weeding is my hobby.”

I will never look at RoundUp the same way again.

And we get General Grievous as the next boss? Maybe this is like that fail whale cutting preview… and we’ll get 45 minutes of Shichika sucking the back of Togame’s knee instead.

“Don’t look so happy after I bully you. What kind of fetish do you have?”

I think Togame would get along with Mugilicious. Very well.

(I don’t consider Togame a tsundere. She’s like a faux tsundere as in she really wants to be a tsundere but just can’t pull it off. It’s not genuine. I don’t know how better to say it.)

I never thought of that for a role play fantasy… hey, you pretend to be a hostage, and I’ll pretend to feed you soup. Then let’s say you have an itch behind your knee and the only way to make it feel better is…

(Amagami is the most bipolar harem anime I’ve ever watched. Sometimes, it wants to be sweet, gentle, and generic, like a 2010 version of To Heart. Other times, it just creeps the fuck out of me. And they haven’t even gotten to the yandere storyline yet. That’s almost as big of a turn as finding out that Nanami merged with Akutou Bita and became the feudal Japan version of Iron Man.)

The Meow Meow Attack was good, except I’ve seen Yui do it like 200,000 times to Azu-nyan already. And, really, it works so much better when the victim is a hug-able little girl.

(I take it this omnibus is going in order of the girls presented in the OP… which makes Miss Yandere last.)

Knew Togame’s plan… obviously, if Nanami’s strength is her eye, then fight in the dark. Even Sumeragi, Matt Millen, and Mike Dunleavy would have figured this one out. I’m wondering why Nanami didn’t figure it out… most likely, she did. She could always stipulate to fight during the day, but she wanted to lose. I’m just glad that the strategy didn’t involve Nanami’s knees.

Is Togame going to be like Samson? Is she going to turn into a horrible strategist after losing her hair?

(I liked this scene. I don’t know why. Maybe it’s how the hair burns, or how Nishio Ishin turned this series around yet not turn it around. Not sure if this is a stroke of genius like @oldspice or just a reaction to seeing the back of the knee sucking scene.)

It’s an abandoned shed! It’s very romantic! Who said chivalry is dead?

(Is the economy so bad in Japan that they can’t afford an hour at a love hotel?)

God Mode Nanami is God Mode Nanami. I figure this scene is a metaphor for the upcoming 2011 NBA season for the Miami Heat. I saw that Penny Hardaway wanted to join the Heat… dude’s 39, and I think I could beat him. Just depresses me that I was young enough to remember Orlando assembling a super team of Shaq, Penny, and Horace Grant… and that got them nowhere. I really don’t like watching my sports stars getting old. Reminds me too much of my own mortality. Wait, Jose Canseco looks like that now? How many ex-wives are suing Shawn Kemp? Shaq weights how much now?!

“For someone like you, this is enough. You are already dead.”

We desperately need to get Nanami into Fist of the North Star. I’m still not clear if Nanami would have killed Shichika. Seemed like she left enough openings for Shichika to penetrate her, yet she didn’t do much to attack him directly. Was she doing this because she didn’t want to die alone on the island? But massacring so much innocent people to get here… sheesh, she is fucked up. Congrats! You’re joining the Yandere Pantheon with Yuno Gasai.

Only a little creepy that she’s missing a heart. Still have a hard time accepting that Nanami’s not going to be the final boss… who will it be? Togame? Nanami comes back to life like a bad Sunrise anime? I’m intrigued. I just hope it’s not a shitty manimanimanimani ninja.

“Good job killing me.”

OH GEASS NO!