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May 4th, 2012:

Sankarea Episode 5

Zombie attack engage! The rigor mortis has worn off (faster than I expected, but science be damned in anime) and Rea is on the offensive. Now Chihiro has a fiasco on his hands. Speaking of which, this guy is terrible at keeping secrets…basically spills everything (about Babu, at least) to his crazy grandfather in front of the rest of the family. And Wanko’s dragged into the deal with Rea while Mero is suspicious. I will say this, though…I did not expect his grandfather to be the creator of the resurrection formula (he’s crazy, but he’s probably telling the truth).

The disbelief...it burns!!!

Lots of info from the preview this week, though…Kinda looks like the grandfather is the correct human color, so maybe he’ll be lucid enough to tell Chihiro his secrets? Also, the scene of a mindless Rea eating hydrangea leaves and then her eyes return to normal…yeah, the hydrangea leaves weren’t a tough call because basically all of the fanart for this show on the web shows Rea eating a leaf. Plus, they needed something non-human to feed her, right? Anyways, should be fun to watch.

Just a final thing to ponder (god knows I’m going to be pondering it). How will this show end? Will Chihiro decide to finally let Rea rest in peace? Or will he continue to desperately keep her around and they’ll just continue a semi-normal life? Or maybe he’ll finally figure out a real way to bring her back in non-zombie form? I really can’t tell which way it will go.

Tsuritama Episode 4

This week’s episode solidifies Haru and Yuki’s relationship as friends. After the whole deal with the mind control gun, Yuki finally realizes that he likes having Haru around. Now, we just need to get the other two pulled into the party. Natsuki’s almost there. I like his character so far. He’s always paying attention, mostly to Yuki, always trying to help make him feel better in the guise of fishing advice or practice. He also acts as a sort of window for the outside world. Let me explain that a bit.

FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!

Yuki and Haru…they’re basically in their own world, but Natsuki makes you notice just how shy of a person Yuki is. He seems serious and pretty talkative with Haru because he basically has to take care of him, but Natsuki makes you realize that he actually sucks with people. Meanwhile, Akira sorta sets a plan in motion this week. It looks like his motivation for joining up with everyone is that he will be trying to force Haru to leave Earth by helping to catch the “big fish.” Should be any minute now that he joins up with everyone.  This show is really fun…I’m always curious where it will decide to go. Hope it can keep it up.