Weekly Anime and Tokusatsu Blog: 2/29 to 3/6 · 6:05am Mar 6th, 2016
Welcome to my weekly anime and tokusatsu blog! Each week, I will comment on what I have watched since the last posting.
Please do not recommend anime at me or ask me about anything not mentioned either in this blog or on my userpage. Between my Netflix queue, my Funimation queue, my Crunchyroll queue, and stuff I've collected on DVD over the years, there are several dozen anime series I've got backlogged.
Also, now that this blog covers tokusatsu as well as anime, please don't ask me "Are you watching (insert currently running toku show name here)? If I'm watching it, this blog will mention it. If I'm not, it won't. Also, I follow the TV-Nihon fansubs of Super Sentai and Kamen Rider, meaning it's late in the week before I see each new ep (and I'm not current on Kamen Rider Ghost yet).
One Piece
Picking up where I left off at episode 365, with the Mugiwara Pirates about to face Oars. While I still think Thriller Bark drags on way too long, I do have to admit that this is the funniest arc in One Piece to this point, mostly because the villains are outrageously quirky and silly.
At this point, the pirates are split up into two groups and three stragglers: Zoro, Franky, and Brook on the roof; Usopp, Chopper, and Robin on the ground, Nami still unconscious and in Absalom's arms, Luffy chasing after Gekko Moria, and as for Sanji...
Sanji makes the idiotic mistake of trying to fight Oars by himself, which frustrates Zoro, Franky, and Brook. Chopper is terrified, Usopp is confident Sanji can escape, and Robin wonders if perhaps they got too carried away and wound up changing their enemies' intentions.
Anyway, Hildon the bat is trying to find anyone to listen to his news that Thriller Bark is heading in a dangerous direction, but none of his masters are interested in anything but doing their own thing.
The Mugiwara crew tries fighting Oars, giving it everything they have, but in the end, he leaves them all badly beaten—and even no-sells a salt star shot directly into his mouth. Honestly, they're gonna have to drive this bastard into the ocean to kill him. Which doesn't even seem possible.
Perona finally wakes up, assesses the situation, freaks, and decides to pull a Screw This, I'm Outta Here—in other words, she's the only person in Thriller Bark's entire crew with any sense. I didn't like Perona at first, but I'm kind of warming to her now. 
Nami finally wakes up just as Absalom is about to "kiss the bride". Lola crashes the "wedding" and attacks a confused Nami in a rage. There's a funny moment here: rather than being horrified to find herself wearing a wedding dress she had nothing to do with putting on, Nami thinks it's actually pretty cool. 
Anyway, Nami retreats from Lola's furious attack, but when she realizes Lola isn't even coming close to hitting her, Lola whispers that she's actually come to rescue Nami, and tells her to run away while she buys time. However, Absalom blasting Lola through a wall brings Nami to a halt. Enraged by Absalom's merciless and cruel treatment of the woman—well, zombie warthog—who loves him, Nami goes on the offensive! Absalom completely misreads the situation, puts up no defense whatsoever, and is KOed in one shot. Lola wakes up, sees her chance, and takes Absalom by force while Nami watches with a cute smile.
Meanwhile, the rest of the crew has recovered and is preparing to counterattack the giant Oars. The BADASS WE ARE THE STRAW HATS AND WE ARE ABOUT TO KICK YOUR ASS THEME (you know which one I mean, you're humming it RIGHT NOW) plays, so you know shit's about to get real.
Wedding Nami learns of the peril her friends and the rest of Thriller Bark now faces with Oars running wild, so she runs straight out to...
...raid the treasure room. 
It's already been raided, but she finds two helpful zombies who can tell her exactly where it all is.
Franky comes up with a retarded plan (that apparently only Usopp and Chopper know the details of) to "combine" the Mugiwara Pirates like a giant mecha. It's...it's just too silly I can't even.
Once the comedy act is over, Sanji, Zoro, and Robin begin the real attack. Elsewhere, Brook is searching for enough salt to take out Oars. (And some milk to recover his own health, because calcium. Because he's a skeleton.)
Working together and attacking various weak spots, the Straw Hats topple Oars.
Meanwhile, Perona is loading every scrap of food and treasure on Thriller Bark onto the Thousand Sunny. How nice of her! But she plans to steal the ship and escape to save her own skin. Boo. However, a huge, mysterious figure appears on the deck of the Sunny, clutching a bible and asking for the whereabouts of Gecko Moria with cold malice...
Naruto Shippuuden
Picking up at episode 155. Didn't put as much time into it this week because "training arcs" in shounen anime get monotonous—I overestimated how long the training arc would actually last without anything substantial happening. Basically, Naruto is training with the frogs to learn how to add nature energy to his chakra to use Sennin Jutsu—the power Jiraiya had to use in his disastrous fight with Pain. Meanwhile, the Akatsuki are finally making their move on Konohagakure, with their plans nearing fruition. The only Bijuu they still lack is Kyuubi...or so they think. While attempting to extract the Hachibi from Killer B, they discover Sasuke was fooled, and they don't actually have Killer B.
Naruto's training essentially involves being whacked on the head every time he starts to turn into a frog until he stops turning into a frog, learning to stay perfectly still, eating bugs, and sparring with the Elder Sage Toad. During his time on Mount Myoboku, the Elder Sage Toad gives Naruto a copy of Jiraiya's first novel, from which Naruto's parents chose his name. While reading it, Naruto is overcome with memories of past conversations with Jiraiya. He also discovers that using Sage Mode, he can perform the perfected version of his Rasengan which would have torn his chakra points apart and ended his ninja life otherwise.
Elsewhere, the Raikage, enraged by his brother's disappearance, Konohagakure failing to deal with their rogue Uchiha in Akatsuki, and pretty much emotionally unstable in general, makes a whole bunch of declarations, including convening a Five Kage Summit, and sends some interesting people to dispatch a message to Tsunade.
While the intelligence and medical divisions of Konoha are attempting to uncover the secrets left with Jiraiya's dying message, Pain and Konan attack the village. The situation in Konoha deteriorates to a widespread state of emergency within minutes, and Tsunade recalls Naruto to the village immediately. Danzo seizes the opportunity to terrify and antagonize the Village Elders into challenging Tsunade's authority. When they barge into her office to tell her to leave Naruto with the toads and not "pour oil on the fire", Tsunade delivers an EPIC fuck-you speech to the cowardly trash. With Tsunade barking orders to all her people to deal with the situation and deliver information to the Elder Sage Toad, somehow nobody notices Danzo has infiltrated her office. As soon as it's empty, he murders the messenger toad before it can return to Mount Myoboku, firmly seating himself as a traitor to his village—not by betraying them to the Akatsuki, but simply by interfering with the village's safety to advance his own myopic agenda.
With Tsunade and Shizune both otherwise occupied, Sakura is charged with the weighty task of taking command at the overwhelmed emergency hospital as wounded flood triage faster than the medic-nin can keep up.
Oh, and Naruto's apparently a Jedi now. So there's that.
Detective Conan
Episode 809 continues the Kamaitachi Inn case.
The landlady's father-in-law has been murdered using the antique scythe from the storeroom. The killer was only able to get hold of the scythe due to Yamamura's incompetence—since the scythe appeared to be unrelated to the case, it was no longer in police custody and he sent the forensics people home. Technically he was within his rights, but really? Seriously?
Conan and Heiji both discover irregularities with the crime scene, such as inexplicable blood on a slashed shoji and a deep groove in the snow leading from the annex to the fence, which ends at the edge of the hot spring bath. There are other strange things going on—someone shot out the light in the party room with an air gun, there aren't enough BB pellets to account for all the popped balloons, and so forth.
We also get a hilarious moment of Kazuha being incredibly stupid and Ran calling her out on it.
After an offhand remark about the luminescent paint on his watch, and another about kudzu gruel, Heiji and Conan both realize the tricks the killer used, then recreate the incident from earlier. I'm not even going to bother trying to explain the whole thing, because it's pretty far out there even by Aoyama's standards, but the killer is who I suspected from the beginning.
At the end, we get some more hilarity from Heiji and Kazuha.
Episode 810 is the first part of a three-parter—one which actually advances the plot! 
Beginning with this episode, the search for Rum's identity begins in earnest.
"I am Bishamonten, the god of war who will destroy the woodpecker."
With these words, a chilling case involving the Nagano prefectural police and a violent murder in the woods gets underway. The "woodpecker" refers to a famous strategy used during a battle fought in the Nagano area during the Sengoku era. (See Wikipedia for more information.)
Anyway, Nagano prefectural detectives Yamato Kansuke, Uehara Yui, and Morofushi Takaaki (the asshole with the waxed mustache) take Conan-tachi on a tour of the Kawanakajima battlefield and sites associated with Yamamoto Kansuke. During the tour, they see a man's severed head float up out of the river, which sparks off our case. The head turns out to belong to someone the detectives knew well, a fellow detective from their prefecture. He used to be Yamato's boss, but during an incident in the past, Takeda (our victim) shot and killed a childhood friend of Yamato's who was firing off a gun wildly and causing casualties. Yamato has resented Takeda ever since.
A mark carved into the victim's forehead seems to implicate a secret group within the Nagano Prefectural Police called the "Woodpecker Society", which Uehara has heard of but knows very little about except that they have a fearsome reputation.
During the investigation, another police detective who gets a little too close to something someone is covering up is murdered...
During this episode, we're introduced to Nagano Prefectural Police First Division Chief Inspector Kuroda Hyoue, who is immediately established as one of the men who could possibly be Rum.
Squid Girl
In episode 8's first segment, Ikamusume comes down with something, worrying the others. Unfortunately, they completely misread the situation as summer fatigue, and instead of helping her, they actually kinda put her through hell and make things worse. Even worse, Ika herself misreads the situation, not comprehending that she has a summer cold that's turned into a full-blown flu, instead believing herself to have some weird nonexistent shrimp-craving disease. It culminates in Eiko trying to "cure" her by having Sanae come over in that creepy as fuck shrimp costume.
The second segment of episode 8 finally addresses the fact that Ikamusume's "hat" is actually an important part of her body that she'll die without. Moreover, the fins on her hat not only move, but are absurdly powerful for their small size. Naturally, Eiko immediately exploits this for her own selfish gain. Also, Ikamusume builds a sandcastle that looks like poop. And can move. And attacks other sandcastles. Yeah.
In the third segment, Ikamusume learns about umbrellas. Not much to say about that.
Speaking of which, I'm only just now realizing that almost every episode of Ikamusume has an object of significance from the episode appear on the beach with Ika-chan in the ending credits. This time, it was the umbrella.
Episode 9 begins with Takeru and his friend playing everybody's least favorite asshole kid game, ding-dong ditch. I fucking hate ding-dong ditch, and if I ever caught the kids that tried to pull it on me, I'd beat the shit out of them. Fucking turds.
Anyway, Ikamusume tries to do it and gets royally busted, learning a valuable lesson about playing annoying pranks on others. She also makes a new friend in the process!
The second segment of episode 9 teaches Ikamusume about makeup. Sanae's creepiness reaches new heights as, upon seeing Ikamusume wearing lipstick, she tries to steal a kiss from her. Freaked out, Ikamusume throws her lipstick into the ocean, and Sanae swims out after it. 
Isn't that a little far to go for an indirect kiss?
Chizuru gives makeovers to the Lemon House staff, and Ikamusume does something to her face that looks like a parody of Maori war paint or something. With permanent magic marker. I can't even.
Also, for some reason, Lemon House is visited by a lot of...oddballs on this particular day: a pair of ganguro girls, some cosplayers (which the subtitles incorrectly identify as cross-dressers—WTF, Crunchyroll?), a visual kei band, and geisha apprentices, and some girls wearing way too much white face powder. Seriously, is the circus in town and decided to hit the beach all at once?
In the third segment, Cindy and Sanae get in a fight over Ikamusume. When Eiko tries to pull Ika away to put her to work, she gets dragged into this weirdness. Also, Sanae reveals just how much of a pervert she really is when she flat out demands to be tentacle-raped by Ikamusume.
Then Sanae and Cindy want to have a fight to the death with Ika-chan because Chizuru had one. Then the three stooges from Cindy's lab show up. Basically, this is the one episode where Ikamusume is the only sane person—she even pretty much has Eiko's entire personality for most of this one.
Anyway, the Three Stooges manage to disintegrate Lemon Beach House entirely, which provokes Chizuru into a terrifying rage. When Sanae, Cindy, and Nagisa witness Chizuru's fury for the first time, they're all scared shitless, and Nagisa starts to realize that maybe Ikamusume isn't the biggest threat to mankind on this beach...
Noragami
Episode two has massive amounts of fanservice. Hiyori's still passing out all over the place in the most inconvenient places and at the most inopportune times, but she's getting used to being a disembodied soul half the time, even finding the fun in her new state of being. She also has an extremely tense and combative relationship with Yato; each one treats the other like a joke, and they constantly press one another's buttons.
Yato obtaining a new Regalia in episode 2, his subsequent defeat of a Phantom, and the music that plays during the entire thing...it feels VERY much like Persona.
Doubutsu Sentai Zyuohger
Before I get into this week's episode, I have to say something.
While I love Zyuohger so far, it doesn't really feel like a major anniversary series. It doesn't seem like they're doing anything special beyond slapping the "40th Anniversary Super Sentai" thing on the title card. Boukenger had the "Let's Meet the Super Sentai!" endings. Gokaiger had, well...everything. Zyuohger, so far, is mostly just throwing in minor nods to past Super Sentai that only hardcore fans would notice:
- The animal theme is similar to Gaoranger.
- The blocky mecha looks like some of the pre-Zyuranger mecha.
- The various add-on attachments to the base suits for the Beast powers are reminiscent of Abaranger and Kyouryuuger.
- ZyuohEagle's wings are reminiscent of Jetman.
- ZyuohEagle, ZyuohShark, and ZyuohLion/ZyuohTiger are obvious nods to Sunvulcan's VulEagle, VulShark, and VulPanther.
- The enemy responsible for growing the monster looks like Insarn from Gokaiger.
- The way the mecha work is almost exactly like Shinkenger.
There's obviously a few other things I might have glossed over, forgotten, or missed, and we ARE only on the third episode, but it just feels like they should be doing...I dunno, more. Y'know?
But anyway. It's an amazing Super Sentai even so.
On to the episode...
The Zyuohger are searching for the missing Mark of the King. Amu uses their search as an excuse to trick Yamato into taking her shopping. When he finally gets fed up with her screwing around, she says that she's doing it because all they've been doing is searching haphazardly without any leads or clues, and it's getting them nowhere. Yamato realizes she's covering her homesickness and despair with a false smile (at least, that's what he thinks; I'm 99% sure she's just goofing off). He then has a dizzy spell, after which he sees something far away: a couple who have a cube-shaped stone!
Yamato is developing a Zyuman ability: the vision of an eagle. Fascinating.
Meanwhile, a Deathgalien hunter named Bowguns shows up to cause trouble. In true Super Sentai form, this one has a truly obnoxious verbal tic, ending every sentence with "-de guns!" Bowguns starts blowing up moving cars on the highway, which means he's killing a LOT of people. Possibly even whole families. Super Sentai monsters don't usually actually cause obvious, blatant on-screen death to this degree. This plus the fact that to the Deathgaliens, killing humans is a game, is kind of making this into one of the darker entries in Super Sentai.
Sela, Leo, and Tusk show up and transform to fight him, but get their asses kicked.
Side note: the Deathgaliens' ship is pretty interesting:
Back in town, Yamato and Amu find the couple, and there's an amusingly cruel scene with them, then they get hold of that cube-shaped stone. It's not the Mark of the King, unfortunately, so they just accidentally caused a couple to break up for nothing. Yamato apologizes for getting Amu's hopes up, but Amu says she wasn't really expecting this to be the end of the search in the first place. While she wants go to home, the reality is finding the sixth key to the Link Cube is a pretty tall order, so for now she's decided to simply get used to living in the human world.
All her goofing around is suddenly less silly and more sad. 
Bowguns shows up on the same road as the bus Yamato and Amu are on and blows up a car right behind them. They realize the situation is bad, and Yamato tells the driver to keep driving and not slow down. The other Zyuohger arrive, chasing Bowguns, who ends up right on top of the bus! Yamato climbs up on top of the bus and transforms, and we get a duel on a moving vehicle. Amu opens fire on Bowguns from below, then jumps off the bus. The other three catch up to them. Leo starts berating them for not showing up when Bowguns attacked. Amu then hilariously points out that he could have just used the CubePhone to call them. Then Bowguns finds them and they transform to fight as a team. During the fight, when Bowguns has them pinned down, Yamato is suddenly able to deflect his shots like a Jedi! The others are stunned, but Amu realizes that Yamato has developed the vision of an eagle.
When Naria shows up to give Bowguns a Continue, he causes a landslide that buries CubeElephant and CubeTiger. The remaining mecha form the combination 1-2-3 for ZyuohKing this time, just like in the first episode. However, a landslide caused by Bowguns traps Zyuohking. Things are looking bad, but the other two mecha dig themselves out of the dirt by reverting to Cube form and bashing through. Nice! Since ZyuohKing is trapped from the waist up, Yamato breaks the gattai and reforms Zyuohking with 1-5-4. While this formation can easily dodge Bowguns' shots, he's still destroying a lot of forest and they can't get a clear line of attack.
Suddenly, the cube Yamato found earlier begins shining and changes form! Yamato realizes that while it isn't a Mark of the King, it is an item from Zyuland. The little yellow cube changes into a new support mecha, CubeKirin, and attacks Bowguns. CubeKirin then becomes a bazooka accessory for ZyuohKing, with which they easily destroy Bowguns.
After the battle, Yamato has another talk with Amu, and suggests that from now on, the best approach to their situation might be to keep looking for the way back to Zyuland, but also for the Zyumans to keep learning about the human world. This suits Amu just fine, as she just learned about vacuum cleaners and is having fun vacuuming the house.
Goddammit, Amu. Stop trying to be my waifu.
Engine Sentai Go-Onger
Engine Zenkai Go-Onger!
Ichi-ni-san-shi-Go-Onger!
3-2-1 Let's Go-Ongeeeeer! GO-ON!
Change Soul, set! LET'S GO-ON!
Several years ago, I started watching this and stalled out in the mid-30s episode-wise. In 2014, I tried again, only to stall out at episode 17. It's not the show's fault, by the way, it's mine—for years I habitually fall into "toku funk" and by the time I snap out of it, I'm watching a different show entirely.
Here it is, 2016, and I'm picking up where I left off at episode 18 instead of starting over again because why start over a third time? I know what's going on in this show, I don't need to reset to zero again.
Anyway, Go-Onger is one of the more divisive Super Sentai. You either think it's refreshingly light-hearted and funny, or you think it's ridiculous and goofy. It's easy to see where both camps are coming from. I had my doubts when I first saw the Duplo mecha designs. And let's be frank: it's a Super Sentai about a ragtag bunch of nobodies making friends with giant talking robot cars and trucks that look like something Playskool made. So yeah, it's goofy as hell.
And I love it. Oh, and it has one of the most awesome and catchy opening themes of ANY Super Sentai.
To sum up the plot (for those who've either never seen it or only watched the INCREDIBLY different—or so I've heard—Power Rangers version): A racing circuit genius and his two friends and supporters meet giant sapient vehicles called "Engines", who come from another dimension called the Machine World, one of several different dimensions connected to Earth. They landed in Earth after being chased by their enemies from Gaiark, a faction that seeks to spread pollution and dirty any planet they encounter. On Earth, they can only remain at their true size for a limited time, so they break down into "Casts" and "Engine Souls", and give their new human partners the power to fight as Engine Sentai Go-Onger. Shortly after Sousuke, Saki, and Ren begin fighting as Go-Onger, they're joined by aimless part-timer Hanto and soft-boiled beat cop Gunpei, who gain their own Engine partners. The series focuses on the Go-Ongers' many battles against Gaiark and the friendships they forge with each other and their Engine partners. In time, they're joined by Hiroto and Miu, brother and sister ace pilots whose Engine partners are flying vehicles, and who together are the "Go-On Wings".
The diverse mix of characters between the Go-Ongers and the Engines is well-balanced. The Gaiark Pollution Ministers (the Big Bads) are the very definition of Quirky Miniboss Squad. Seriously, they're like Team Rocket up in here. The mecha designs actually get kind of cool as they just pile more and more cars and trucks with giant Duplo eyes onto the robot (wow, that was a contradictory statement). Sousuke is actually probably my favorite Red in all of Super Sentai. And then there's the Go-On Wings. Go-On Gold and Go-On Silver remind me of Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune. Go ahead, make your pithy joke about the lesbian "cousins" or whatever. I'll wait.
Got it out of your system? Good.
They remind me of Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune is that when they appear, they show up and outclass the core team, belittle and demean them, and generally act like total assholes because they're supposedly more skilled and more mature than the five heroes we've been following up to this point. (And to be fair? They're right. The Go-Ongers, well...they're dumber than Naruto to a man. But endearingly so. You gotta love these dumb kids, even while you at their stupidity.) And, like Uranus and Neptune, they do eventually mellow out somewhat, and reveal their own flaws and insecurities and grow as characters.
Also, I love Hiroto's hair. I wish I had Hiroto's hair.
One thing in particular of note: for how silly and campy this series is, some surprisingly HOLY SHIT things happen, such as Yogostein ordering the execution of his lieutenant, Hiramechimedes. A hallmark of Super Sentai is when you can actually feel sorry for some of the villains—you know they've done it right when you sympathize and root for certain enemies (Hiramechimedes here; Candelira and Luckyuro in Kyouryuuger, etc.) Of course, the whole thing was part of a huge, complicated scheme that ultimately ended in an even WORSE fate for Hiramechimedes, but you still kinda have to feel sorry for the guy. And admire his sheer resolve and persistence.
Oh, and then there's Kegalesia. You can't NOT like Kegalesia. "Nan de ojaru no?"
Kamen Rider Ghost
Bacchiri minaa! Bacchiri minaa!
Let's face it, 2015 was a bad season for Super Hero Time all around. Ninninger was unwatchable garbage, and Ghost is a disappointment with ugly costumes and really annoying characters that PROBABLY could have been better if the pacing and editing were less jerky and the costumes were even remotely decent.
Still, Ghost is at least watchable if you make it past the second episode.
So apparently this is Yuyu Hakushou reimagined as a Kamen Rider series, right down to a hero who ends up dying in the first episode and fighting to earn a chance at resurrection. In order to return to life, Takeru must collect 15 "Eyecons" that contain the souls of Luminaries in 99 days, but there are evildoers after the same Eyecons who want to use their power for much darker purposes. There's even a little Bleach thrown into the mix, with ghosts and evil ghosts and things humans can't see going on all over the place and the hero becoming an evil spirit hunter by happenstance.
Pardon the unintended pun, but Ghost's driver belt is an eyesore. Also, it's weird that Takeru uses his own soul in a toy eyeball to henshin. His "Ore Mode" costume is not particularly impressive, and the "Musashi Mode" costume is even worse. For that matter, all the different forms Ghost takes are hideous, mostly because for whatever reason, they decided the best way to do a Kamen Rider this time would be to have him wear a hoodie.
A hoodie. I'm...what? 
The characters aren't especially great either, though they do have their moments. Our main characters are Takeru/Ghost (covered above), who has a lot of "idiot hero" qualities; Akari, his Cool Big Sis slash love interest type person, whose Scully-esque demeanor is overplayed to the point of being obnoxious; Onari, the overly excitable monk who tries to help with paranormal research (his name is literally "Fart" in Japanese, folks); "Ojiisan", the spirit guide who gave Takeru the power to henshin, and Yurusen, an annoying little flying eyeball ghost who you just want to punt into orbit. Oh, and there's lots of just really bad, garish costumes and acting on supporting characters and extras. (Like, REALLY bad acting—the "scientist" in episode two and the sweaty, screaming salaryman in episode 4. *cringe*) Also, every time the action jumps location shoots, it's handled awkwardly—there are some serious editing problems with this series.
I did not like this show at first. After two episodes, I was convinced I hated it. The third episode showed me that perhaps it's worth watching more of, but this is definitely not one you'd want to watch through more than once. It's weak, but shows hints of trying to be a better show underneath all the suck and badly designed props. At least the opening theme is good.
Another thing about Kamen Rider Ghost that's unusual: this time, since the Rider is a ghost fighting other ghosts and humans can't see ghosts, normal people can't actually see the fights between Ghost and the Ganma. So there's often shots of Ghost fighting Ganma with ordinary people just going about their business all around them as if there isn't a guy in a Rider costume fighting a monster right in front of them. The only time the extras react is when something inevitably blows up as a result of the fight.
Things pick up at the end of episode four when a second Kamen Rider, Specter, appears. His costume and driver belt are similar to Ghost's, and he's collecting Eyecons just like Ghost is. Like many second Riders, he comes across as a complete asshole at first. He also kicks Ghost's ass and steals Eyecons from him, heedless of Ghost's reasons for needing them. Of course, also like many second Riders, he's not quite as big a jerk as he seems: He is actually Takeru's childhood friend, who, along with his little sister, fell victim to an accident caused by an experiment Takeru's father caused ten years in the past. He's searching for the same fifteen Eyecons Takeru's looking for so he can bring back his sister, who is trapped in an Eyecon.
In other words, Specter's backstory is a combination of the Elric Brothers and Danny Phantom.
Oh, and apparently Billy the Kid qualifies as a Luminary.
Eyecons collected through episode 7:
GHOST: Miyamoto Musashi, Robin Hood, Isaac Newton, Beethoven, Billy the Kid
SPECTER: Thomas Edison (stolen from Ghost), Oda Nobunaga, Tutankhamen
How do you watch Go-Onger?
3793723 I find using my eyes to watch it works best.
(Fansubs downloaded years ago.)
An error with formatting has nearly everything after Squid Girl Ding-Dong-Ditch in italics.
3793726 Well eyes would be important, unless you can see with your ears.
3793730 Fixed, sorry about that. I didn't proof this one as carefully as I should have, apparently
Shitkids will be shitkids and deserve to be treated like shitkids.
That's all I have to say on the matter.
Considering that in Negima?! (second season) Setsuna was almost tempted into a probationary contract with Negi on the grounds that Konoka had already formed one with him and that it would count as an indirect kiss with her, I'd say no. Konoka gets points for this being a troll anyway.
Tagged just in case.
If you think Thriller Bark is dragging on too long, wait until you get to Dressrosa.
If it makes you feel ANY better, once the first arc of Ghost wraps up, the second becomes more 'profound' I guess is the right word? I'll wait if you go that far to see what you think. And while some costumes are a little megh, I don't think to badly of them. If anything, they're like guilty pleasures - Beethoven's in particular. Can't help it, sometimes it doesn't take much for me to like something. Hope you come to like it more soon!
Had that happen to me once. Busted the little shits and called their parents. Incredibly satisfying to give the 'disappointed adult' glare to a bunch of young teens.
3794618 Funny story: About a week and a half or so ago, I thought I had a case of ding-dong ditch happen while someone else was over here, and we both talked at length about how annoying that is.
Then about five minutes later, my doorbell box started buzzing like a hornet's nest.
Turns out it wasn't ding-dong ditch, my doorbell had gotten "stuck". I went outside and rang it and it fixed it.