Tokyo Majin Gakuen Kenpucho: Episode 6
Rating: 9.7/10
Impressions:
I get more and more excited every time I watch this show. The fact that the series is still in a semi-eposodic format, with the main plot stil seemingly untouched, tells me that this series will be at least a double season show (eg. 24 or 26 episodes). And seeing as how these action-less episodes are still impressing me, when it gets to main storyline and everything starts coming together with monstrously large battles (hopefully), I will be stoked! The first episode seems pretty far into the story, though the ambiguous guy remains the main threat in that episode and seems untouched, therefore indicating it is not too far into the plot.
I really love how this episode is executed, with the nicely done flashbacks in dark and raspy ochres, as well as the awesome accompaniment music during scenes with little progression. The music greatly emphasizes the nie paciong of the show, whereas without the tunes, it would be long pauses and the pace would seemingly be a lot slower. Overall, the quality is still looking good, and the little snippet fight at the end (with the awesome jumps and such) show that there is plenty of goodness to come. I just hope now that we get a little less story and some more ass-kicking.
If this is indeed a 24 or 26 episodes series, the first half of the show should be episodic and used to develop characters. So far, Tokyo Majin is doing a great job of introducing characters, and not in the generic way of focusing on one character each episode. I’m glad that everyone is involved, and if the producers are smart, they will switch to episodes where everyone is split up and forced to do their own thing. Variation is gold in media! And when the fighters (eg Tatsuma) start getting their focus, I will be expecting a lot of action! Though in this case, a lot of the budget will probably be saved for the latter half of the series, where the real fun begins!
Plot Outline:
(Please don’t trust me fully on this, I watch these raw (and check up on the subs when they come out) so there will be heaps of mistakes…but I do my best to get the basic point of the episode across!)
- At home, Toono is still thinking about the recent incident of Aoi fainting at the pool, and how she was powerless to do anything
- As Aoi is getting treatment in the hosptial, Kisaragi is still wandering around looking at shrines
- Through various flashbacks, we discover that the person who has forced Aoi under his hypnosis is an acquaitance of her’s, who used to get bullied severely, before a dog he adored was killed
- This had caused him to slip away from reality and allowed him to turn into an oni(?) of sorts, and start attacking people
- Toono figures out the identity of the insane guy and informs Tatsuma and company
- The insane guy (have no idea what his name is) attacks the hosptial where Aoi is but comes up against a strong barrier
- While his familiar continues attacking, the insane guy goes off to seek Tatsuma and the others
- He finds them and captures them in his dream world, where he calls upon all his stuffed animal minions to attack them
- Tatsuma and co. manage to defeat the insane guy’s puppets, while the nurse at the hospital manages to calm the familiar
- Aoi then calms the insane guy down, reverting him back into a mere depressed person
- Elsewhere, Kisaragai has been defeated by the ambiguous guy, but his life is spared!
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aww man i wish the subs wold hurry up! i cant wait to see the next episode!
Kyoko (Toono) heard that there was a string of cases where peopl who graduated from this particular middle school ended up going into comas or something.
She investigated and found out they were part of this group that bullied that one guy whose name I also forgot. However she foudn out Aoi also went to that school.
It turns out Aoi was the only one who actually was nice to that guy although they only seem to have met for that one time when she randomly appeared with food for the dog. Hence, the dog (Chibi) is a symbol of friendship between them and when the dog was beaten, the guy simply couldn’t take it anymore.
In the end those feelings of hatred were used by mysteriousguywithalotofmakeup to give him those powers, and the dog was used as a symbol/avatar.
The nurse was awesome. XD I was once again captivated by the music. The amusement-park theme was eerily apt. And I think this ep confirms that this arc and the one before happens after ep 1. Tohno has flashbacks of incidents in ep 1.
Hoping we’ll have more action next ep.
is it just me or does hiyu like holding carrying aoi?
hey, um, as far as the first episode goes in plot time it is actually between like the 2nd and 3rd episode, in the fourth or third episode one of the characters (aoi, i think) is talking to that one guy with the practice sword(i forgot his name) about why they split up when they were hunter that monster, and also the one ‘mysterious transfer student’ (again i forgot his name, but i oddly remember that) has a flashback like sequence (ep 4, i know that for sure) after the car is thrown against the whatever they were standing on and he helps the one girl with a pole thru her chest(in the flashback sequence he sees that girl (the one victim of the spider thing) and remembers how he failed to help her even though he felt some worry about her when she ran past him and that other guy (on there way to the roman shop, ep2)) yah, i just thought i should mention that, maybe the vid i watched had bad subs, idk, but if i did not then im pretty sure ep1 is in between ep2 and ep3
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Kyo blushing was so cute I wish I could of hugged him. XD Anyways beside him I also liked the guy who took Aoi. Just my 2 cents. I’m happy the animation isn’t going down also. Man, those stuffed animals are tough. SD
Where can i watch subbed episodes 6 and above? youtube doesnt have 6+!