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Nov 13 2010

Categories: episodic review, twgok
Tagged: the world god only knows

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“Seriously, the game design for life is flawed!”

Another great episode. Manglobe is picking up steam, quite the opposite of the 2010 Miami Heat. Keima’s addiction to gal games as well as Kanon’s mental damage as well as Elsee’s innocent nature are nicely brought out in this one.

(Can a devil be innocent? I don’t think so. I’ve been reading Sandman Slim by Richard Kadrey, and it’s about this dude who was having a happy time in life with his lover before his jealous business associate comes along, kills her, and sends him to hell. He stays there for eleven years, getting stronger, and comes back to Los Angeles to hunt and torture those who fucked around with him… including a hawt demonic librarian and an anime/manga addicted trap who passes for a twelve year old girl. This book has everything. Well, I would have made the librarian moe at shiny red fire trucks, but that’s just me. Of course, no better way to avenge your dead lover than by bonking every pretty girl he crosses paths with. Needless to say, I’m enjoying The Vanishment of Yuki Nagato.)

IANAA (I Am Not An Arborist) but pretty sure you can’t rescue trees by tying pink ribbons around them. Unless Elsee infused said ribbon with the unholy powers of hell. See, we need to know these things. Don’t skimp on details!

The look on Keima’s face was priceless. It’s the same look any guy gets when he hooks up with the crazy but hawt chix0r that he’s been resisting because she’s insane. Then when they’re hooking up, he wonders why hasn’t he done this earlier. Then the next day comes, and she’s left like twelve voice mails, eight hundred texts, and one dead courier pigeon. And he knows exactly why the previous night was a mistake.

(And just so unrealistic that he uses a PFP. PFP isn’t even a big gal game console. And who uses a PFP to check e-mail and listen to music? I think Manglobe should have updated the series and made it less dated by replacing Keima’s PFP with an iPhone. Kinda amazing that a three year old manga already feels so dated.)

(Another thing that feels dated? Seriously? TV and radio? Whut’s dat? Idols should be on Facebook, Twitter, and celebrity nipple slip sites.)

(By comparison, watching Sister Princess now is like watching Steamboat Mickey.)

The montage of Kanon failing then e-mailing Keima is fantastic. Reminds me of a girl I knew who kept spamming me every time she tripped and fell, missed a Muni bus, lost her cell phone, overdosed on donuts, misread a movie time, got involved in a drive-by silly string attack, had a bad hair day, or any general fail that would have caused Ayu to go “UGUU~~”. I think because I was the only person who would pat her on the head afterward instead of laughing at her. So I sympathize with Keima. Part of me wanted to scream at him, “RUN FORREST RUN!” especially after she starts drawing bad sketches of him in her notebook.

Why did I put up with it? Cleavage.

(Kidding! Joking! Mebbe.)

(But cleavage reduces all men to rubble. Even PFP-addicted gal game otakus, men hardened by being trapped for eleven years in hell, and onii-chan gal game-addicted little sisters.)

The wipes this episode? Fan-fucking-tastic. Reminds me of cancerous moe blobs… oh wait…

The auction scene has so many tropes, including “bidding ridiculously at the last moment,” “auctioneer tosses out the rules for the new mystery bidder,” “bidder gunned down,” and “slow motion montage of guy getting gunned down by tommy guns as if this were Boardwalk Empire.” Oh, #facepalm.

“USO DA!”

Is it too late to work Kanon into Higurashi somehow? Can we make a trade of Shion for Kanon plus a haremette to be named later?

“And suddenly we’re behind the school building talking about love.”

Disappointed that Kanon’s clothes are repeating. She’s an idol!!! She should never wear the same thins twice on-stage, unless it’s a nekomimi meido outfit. Fire her Grace-like manager. This is just unacceptable fail.

I am also disappointed that the wooden shack behind the school isn’t used more in Amagami. Sure, Junichi takes Haruka there in the anime, but apparently, he takes all the haremettes there. Come on, girls, isn’t there a more romantic place than some smelly equipment shed in the back of the school? One that just so happens to have a dirty mattress in it?

(I would have made both the Ai and Haruka arcs six episodes long and not done the diet girl arc. Seriously, is there anything moe about a girl who self-loathes because she can’t stop eating cupcakes? If I want to see that, I’d just turn on TLC or Lifetime. And we already have a childhood friend arc with Kaoru. Gosh.)

“Girls shouldn’t go out alone at night!”

The hypocrisy of this is just so great. Love how Keima’s mom berates Elsee for staying up late even though when she was Elsee’s age, she was going around causing a ruckus with Eikichi Onizuka.

Turtle named “Keitaro”… turtle prominently featured in an anime with a typical loser harem male named “Keitaro”… mmm…

I have a red scarf just like Kanon’s. Actually, I have many scarves as I made the stupid mistake of going to an university that was buried in snow for 80% of the time I was there. I know this is admission season, so for anyone deciding on colleges, my advice to you is that it’s not really about where you go to college but what you do in college. Go somewhere warm! Avoid any colleges where it snows more than a month, and avoid everything in Texas. When you see hawt girls wearing halters and tank tops all year round (instead of eight layers of sweaters and coats), you’ll thank me.

That’s a funny looking iPad and a funny looking version of the Google Maps app.