I’m noticing on other blogs that this is the point where they’re jumping ship. Frankly, I can’t blame them one bit. This second arc is really setting off an example of what happens when a so bad it’s good show just becomes bad. I remember watching shows like Secret Life of the American Teenager and Valvrave purely on the basis that they were funny to laugh at. But then, the writers had the idea that their show would suck less…
I remember what I said last week about the textbook comparison, and that analogy is in full swing here. With all of the sporting events in this episode, the show always goes into such detail about what the characters are doing as if this really is an example in a hypothetical Magical Physics book. They always discuss it in terms like “Watanabe is manipulating her relative position using a particle-based form of magic that allows her to say in place-blah”,…
After a break, I hope the show has changed enough so I have new things to disc— “Well, criminals and terrorists are cowards to begin with.” “And that big brother… well, he’s a badass.” “It’s very becoming, and you look lovely, but I don’t think it’s appropriate.” “But it’s like gender doesn’t even matter anymore… looking at you, Miyuki…” “Onii-sama…” —well, nevermind. I didn’t write an article for last week due to a combination of illness and sloth, with hallucinations…
SOMEBODY DIDN’T WRITE AN ARTICLE THIS WEEK (says the man who hasn’t written on M3 in over three). So Mahouka’s first arc was fairly remarkable in that it somehow made Sword Art look marginally intelligent. Oh sure it was fun to make sport of Tatsuya’s blatant over-powered Gary Stu shtick for a couple weeks but then suddenly everybody became overpowered, completely confounding the whole “Blooms Vs. Weeds” plot angle they’d been playing up. Then Mibu and the French Dadaist terrorists…
Yay, it’s a new arc. Boo, there are still old tricks. I feel like in a normal show, this would be seen as a breather episode. Characters are more concerned with sports and stuff with the terrorist plot in the background rather than the center of everyone’s mind. This would be the point where the cast get to relax for a week… except it seems like they’ve been doing this for the whole show. The whole deal with Blanche last…
So this episode of Code Geass was pretty by the books, with a few surprises here and there. It was out of left field how Lloyd revealed he had a Geass in front of Lelouch, and then Tamaki went crazy and cut off that dude’s arm. Kallen needs better wr—Wait, this is the Mahouka blog. I forgot. From the barrage of shows like Guilty Crown, Aquarion EVOL, and Valvrave, I should have known better. I should really distinguish this show…
…according to Tatsuya’s standards. So apologies to all of my white supremacist fans who were misled by the blog title. But that drives Mahouka’s plot into a wall, by casting this type of conflict as a black and white view where the people fighting for equality are either evil or stupid, and the people fighting against it are painted as valiant warriors of justice who will not let so much as a piece of their school uniforms be stained by…
On this week’s session of Mahoukey Pokey, we have more of characters sitting in rooms and talking about skin-deep politics for twenty-two minutes. I know that sounds vain of me, because that can describe plenty of excellent shows that have aired and are airing right now. The “I don’t like this show because it’s nothing but talking” complaint usually depends on what the characters are talking about exactly, as well as how they express themselves through conversation. For instance, I…
So, is anybody else in the mood for dogmatic discourse on class issues that come from surely has to be a myopic viewpoint? That one speech at the end of the episode swallowed up what would have been just another bad entry, causing this anime to be painted as propaganda or whatever. There are many things that must be assessed when viewing Tatsuya’s speech on equality being a means to a contemptuous end, and how there is justification in the…
Super-speed is a bona fide physical technique and not any kind of magic whatsoever, so says the holy Tatsuya amongst his imouto apostles. Any who challenge his mighty reign as the new savior shall be vanquished by feats and powers that were unsheathed from between the lord’s buttocks. Do not cross his ascension to the throne amongst his lowly Blooms, for he shall conquer all with his lack of strong emotion. Some would call Tatsuya a bland man, or perhaps…