Shikabane Hime Kuro episode 6

FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT!!!

This episode was quite pumped with it, fights. What we see is Makina killing off the shichisei trap on her own and the emergence of booby-sama. We all saw how she PWNED the trap with her bare hands (and some help from the rifle) while she (he) plead for her (his) life. That was one of the better PWNAGE scenes I've seen from this anime. No mercy for the evil corpses. Destroy them. It's good that Makina gets her old killer self back... and Ouri too, but his skills still need more development.

Meanwhile, it seems that enemies are far from extinguished. Balloon Man will certainly give our heroes some problems, and booby-sama is the first. But hey, if Balloon Man really thinks that death is the ultimate happiness then he wont have an issue being crushed by Makina with her bare hands. There is no room for emoshit in anime, so you often hear me point out characters like the one in White Album and now this one. Why is it that there are emoshits but no one to crush them with their bare hands? Makina also did that emo SHIT too, though. Damn, emoshit after emoshit... wtf is happening? is it because of the recession? But there's none here in my little island so I can't relate.

See, there's one glaring fact in Shikabane Hime. The good guys PWN the shichisei in hand-to-hand combat. It has been proven time and time again. This is no execption. Though I like that fact, there must be more PWNAGE scenes, preferably with people killing the baddies with their bare hands. I repeat, bare hands. The PWNAGE is much more in-your-face that way.

Additional Note:
Look at the funny face of that little hime with the hammer.

Stay tuned.

Shikabane Hime Kuro Episode 5

Makina has never heard of the word "Mushin"

This episode focuses on the attachment of humans to their undead princesses. First, we get the continuation of the battle against the car-rental monster who forces Itsuki to reveal her beast form. However, the battle (anticlimatic as it is) wasn't important after all. I think it just served as a vehicle to portray Glasses-boy's acceptance of the true nature of the Shikabane Hime. But man, the guy's head over heels over the undead girl. 'Nuff said.

As it turned out, Keisei is actually not Keisei. Keisei is dead, the reappearance is revealed to be an impostor of the Shichisei. Ironically enough, Makina the emoshit still held an unsound mind regarding Keisei. Her ambivalence, which is rooted in her attachment to the dead pervert caused Ouri to fail ending the situation right there and then (when he had a REAL chance to). Not to say that's weak or something, but it's becoming clear that Ouri's finally starting to man up after listening to Glasses-boy's tall tales and it is Makina who's falling behind.

What happened to the Shichisei? Are they pussying out already? After the ballsy show of force during the first 3 episodes, it seems they have "pulled an Al-qaeda". Feeling overmatched by the Kougon, they resorted to sending individual attacks rather than launch full scale invasions like they did before. Also, the intentions of the two man sniper team are still under question. I took them out from my "Good guy" list because they tried to "kill Keisei", but they also provided the valuable intel to Ouri about the impostor. So as of now, they are tweeners.


Characters of the week: Glasses Boy and Itsuki. They are a good contrast to Makina and Ouri's weaksauce bond. Love is blind, isn't it? ;)

Stay tuned.