Penciled in the schedule for the season ending posts, and because their endings are kind of scattered across two weeks, decided that rather than the 3 shows a week I've done last season to wrap things up, I'll just post them at the regular pace starting 22 or 25 this month until the second week of October, unless there's more episode delays, and also that works fine because there's a lot of image posts in store for some of them. Also need to start finding what I'll be covering here for the Fall season, and a post-2005 spooky title for the Halloween week.
(ep 10) Wild how this episode begins with the editor of the magazine thinking about the summer vacations of his childhood as I was getting a bit cold and realising the time to play Boku no Natsuyasumi has passed. Ah well. Still, as Makabe and Adatara drag the editor into repeating those same vacations, that means Midori is out of a job, so she needs to make money in other way, and Niikura has an idea: videos. Overall, we get another of the Tekaridake Troupe plays, Tatewaku being rejected by Izumi after running into her fanclub, and then having to deal with the end of Summer in his class, them having nothing to show for it until Ryouta steps in, and at the end, why you shouldn't go to the beach during a Thyphoon.
(ep 22) Y2K is now retro and the only reason I don't feel old is that I've accepted that a long time ago. Sakurako walks in on the club to find them around what's certainly not an iMac G3 they found in "storage", wondering what to do with it, until she tells them retro stuff is in and they can refurbish and sell it. This gets Tenkubashi rolling on the glory of electronic innovations, although that's not quite what "retro" is, leading to him getting on a head to head with Sakurako on who can sell things they find faster. Unfortunately for him, more people want a Game & Watch than induction motors and a Diatone hi-fi (because Techmoan wasn't looking for one, surely). This story also settles settles this show's biggest love story: Tenkubashi and Panasonic. Second story has Sakurako helping an old lady running a old-style candy store with her rat problems scaring costumers away, although it's not exactly the rats and this certainly proves the show isn't on England, where they'd have that device for that purpose. As we're entering the last two episodes, it's time for the final showdown to save earth. This week's lesson: the history of showa-era appliances and the audible range of living beings.
(ep 10) Well, did Marx predict this? I'm sure he saw Engels doodles and predicted some of the stuff that would be going on with anime, but not the Ruu Theory of Value, surely. Where was I? Ah, yes, Ruu's incredible Isekai method of learning things, because Mizuka really only has time for her sister, and needs all the help she can get with her grades. As thunder strikes and the lights go off, Kiyoraka legs give in and has Yuu take her to the toilet, and Suzu tags along out of jealously to Yuu's surprise, and Kiyoraka senses that as an opportunity to spread some chaos around. Meanwhile, Mizuka was left alone with Ruu, who was terrified never having talked to her, but Mizuka knows what to do: talk about the weather... but maybe not like that. Second story, maybe one of the best so far, has Yuu's mother running into Atori and inviting her in for tea, unknowing they're acquainted or that Yuu has a lot of Atori body pillows, which she has to hide before letting her in her room. So, she throws them across the yard into Suzu's room (who has a Yuu body pillow), but because she's Yuu sets in motion an incredible sequence of events that involve a ghost, Yuu getting herself into nosebleed moments trying to cover everything up and Suzu waking up at the worst time possible. This show is really hitting a stride in the past weeks.
(ep 2.8) A nice wrap-up to the story from last episodes with Reno being handpicked to wear the no.6 suit, and Furuhashi coming to his aid when he needed the most, before he's consumed by the suit by trying to everything on his own, the second part returns to Kafka and mirrors that, he also has some doubts of his own regarding his permanent kaijufication while still wanting to help everyone. Concerns shared by Hoshina, who knows he can't stop Kafka from transforming, but what he can do is make him stronger enough he can help without doing so. Bit of a tough order, but let's see where it goes. Another solid episode from a show I feel might be running a bit out space to not rush things if it's really only getting 11 episodes, although it has been a pretty messy season with a lot of pacing issues anyway.
(ep 10) After the incredible looking last episode, we go back to a more regular episode, but since Nagi is busy, it's up to everyone's favourite bookworm researcher to lead a field trip. Ruri is a bit heeeh about it, but Shouko loves it, and they have a good time searching for manganese (as we know, the material manga is made of) on the old abandoned tracks between the mine and the factory. I think it's kind of fun how Imari came to a possible explanation on why manganese was on the tracks through the book she was reading - one thing this show has done very well is showing how you can find explanations for many things from many different sources, be it actual research and the scientific method, but also old maps and documents, or even well researched fiction.
(ch 19) Hey, I was mentioning a "recent spooky title", and here's a chapter about the Kisaragi station, which was a key point on Mysterious Disappearances, one of the shows on Halloween week, when this was just starting. Supernatural magnet Kugutsu ends up in the station of legend, calls Mokume who really wants in on the action. The resolution, where Kugutsu gets out of his jam by being completely uninterested in all that and Mokume desperately trying to get on it is pure Urban Legend Files.
It was from last week, but AnimEigo has another of their interviews with the pioneers of the industry, this time, Stu Levy of Tokyopop.
Uchuujin Muumuu manga was picked for english publication.
