There's quite a lot of people on my flist feeling shitty right now, seems like. I love you all. ♥ Feel better soon.
Am turning into a Hasshi anti, I think. D: It's beyond the point where I'm just not that into him to me being all "GO AWAY HASSHI GO AWAY!!!!!" whenever he shows up on Shounen Club. "I KNOW YOUR MUM, HASSHI!!!!" I'm becoming one of those people I hate. :/
Merlin
Oh man, I love Gawain and the Green Knight! Rock on, plot. I love the duels in this series, there's always so much tension in them. And Excalibur! *____*
I'm not so hot on the rush to portray Nimueh as misunderstood etc etc. Not that I don't think there's a place for that kind of villain but because it doesn't really fit with what we've seen of her so far - she's gleefully sadistic, completely obsessed with revenge... she's obviously quite insane. I can see Uther driving her to that but in the confrontation with him she still appeared pretty sane to me and it just doesn't jive with the rest of her appearances.
Next week looks like Arthur finds out Merlin's magical? :DDDDD Drama!
Go-onger
This is basically just the Childcatcher in a funny costume, isn't it? DDDDD:
For someone who spends all his time with Hant, Gunpei's really bad with children. Hant, on the other hand, is a little bit creepy in how good he is with them. Forcing sweets into their hands as a way of getting them to like you? When parents want to warn their children against Stranger Danger, they hold up pictures of Hant. Actually I think you could just use "Hant is a little bit creepy" as the summary for all his episodes.
Um, I really wasn't expecting that connection to the movie even now it's extremely obvious when I think about it that they'd do that. HI TAKUMI HI I LOVE YOU.
Kiva
It's funny, the first time Wataru put up the barbed wire and wore masks and rarely left his house he was trying to keep the world away from himself. This time he does it he's trying to keep himself away from the world.
When Ramon goes flying backwards after being attacked by King, his hat stays on his head. loooool what, is that thing superglued on? I suppose you could make the argument that the human appearances of the Arms Monsters are a sort of illusion (rather like Hajime's human appearance in Blade) and since the hat's not really there of course it won't be affected but I reckon that'd just be overthinking lazy production. lol at you, kiva. ♥
re: the IXAs, after the way they'd basically turned Nago into comic relief, I think this episode made kind of an awesome point regarding his and Kengo's personality changes: maybe Kengo's turned into the resident bad-ass of the series but Nago's taken his place as the person who truly gets Wataru and we were all so hung up on Kengo's change that nobody really noticed. And Yuri gets to henshin again!! *_____* I'm loving her interactions with Maya right now.
Next week: Suddenly,
incest!
I PULLED A MUSCLE IN MY NECK. IT HURTS SO MUCH. Jesus is a Hasshi fanboy and is punishing me.