Sasami Mahou Shoujo Club - 09-13 and 15 - Someone Sub This. Seriously.
Okay, and I managed to catch up. And this show really has set such an incredibly good atmosphere for the final half of the series. Seriously, Sasami and Ani-chan are still dancing in my mind.
Episodes 9-13 continued to develop the girls. While they weren’t as emotional as the four episodes before, they still were great to watch. Washuu, Tsukasa, Misao and Sasami all got an episode dedicated. A few important things happened. First of all, when Washuu was threatened to leave the Mahou Shoujo Club, everyone started yelling. But for some reason, Sasami started glowing. Then, a few episodes later, Sasami mentions, half-asleep, Ani-chan in front of her father. It seems that her father also knows Ani-chan, and this made him go to the magical world. Then, in episode 12 Sasami and Misao actually reveal to Monta that they can use magic when Misao tries to confess to him. The first series ends with a rather scary image of Ani-chan being captured in thorns. Just what exactly was he doing?
Still, most of the first season revolved around developing the girls. With the second season, an actual plot came forward. First of all, Itaki took Sasami and the others with her to the magical world for a certain reason. If I understood things correctly, the people from the magical world are planning to separate all connections to the human world. I think they feel that the human world is evil, so it has to be separated. This can promise to be very interesting.
And seriously, why does Misao and Sasami’s relationship remind me so much of Narutaru? Cheerful girl becomes friends with shy girl, the two become best friends, and now it even seems that Misao’s going to cut her hair at one point (see: OP and ED).
In episode 15, it also became clear that Ani-chan actually is a good acquaintance of Sasami’s father. It also seems that he, Washuu and Daimon will be trying to stop the complot. I’m not sure exactly what, but I do suspect that that tree which sealed away some kind of evil has something to do with it.
I really like the direction this anime went: 13 episodes of introducing and fleshing out characters so that afterwards, the plot can really be introduced. I’m also hoping for Himawari to take the same path. But still, there’s one huge disadvantage of this, as this series has been so incredibly ignored. Someone sub this. Seriously.
Luckily, you decided to blog the series. Almost nobody plans to blog this because Sasami: Mahou Shoujo Club is so kiddie that many don’t bother blogging it. My salute to you and I hope you continue this.
Comment by Nanami Kamimura — October 15, 2006 @ 15:54
Heh, I’ll definitely continue blogging. This series is just too awesome to ignore. Who ever mentioned that childish shows are garbage? ^_^
Comment by psgels — October 15, 2006 @ 20:55
Matthew blogged the first season, he’ll probably blog some of the second season too. Some group, I think they called themselves muri, subbed the first episode of season 1 recently, I’m hoping they continue with it. :)
Getting the raws for the first season was really hit or miss since no one torrented it regularly. Finally after the season was over a batch torrent was put out. This season I got fed up with that and got Share running so I can get the episodes myself. I’ll be torrenting them all so they’ll be available much sooner this time. Might not be right after it airs though, seems to not be a whole lot of people on Share that have the episodes. o_O I’ll probably try getting Winny up and running too. :)
Comment by Maestro4k — October 15, 2006 @ 23:23
That would be great. I indeed noticed when I searched for the first season that there were actually no raws for the individual episodes of the second half of the first season. I wish you good luck in this. ^_^
Comment by psgels — October 16, 2006 @ 7:41