RD Sennou Chousashitsu - 02
As usual, the shows I’m not blogging this season:
- I’ve heard many diverging opinions about the manga of Vampire Knight. The arguments against it say that the manga is just your average angst-fest, and how it’s nothing special. The only argument in favour of it that I could find was “Bishies! Bishies! Bishies!” Really, just as with Haruhi Suzumiya, it feels like the fans are hyping the wrong parts of the series!
- Monochrome Factor is really weird, though the main female lead gets really on my nerves.
In any case, it was pretty obvious that I’d end up blogging this series. Personally, I LOVE series with a high amount of imagination, and RD has along with Kaiba been the most imaginative series of the new season. It’s going to be difficult as usual to try and understand it, but I see this as an interesting challenge.
The OP also rocks, and the ED as well. In any case, this episode shows us more about the female heroine Minamo Aoi and it introduces the concept of cyber-diving, as the power of the house for the elder-care needs to be restored. Meanwhile, Masamichi is still an old man (I like how this series doesn’t play all of its trumps in the first two episodes, yet packs a punch).
It turns out that Minamo grew up in Australia with her grandmother, while her mother worked on the “Metal” in Japan. If I had to guess, then she came to work at the home for elders because of her brother (Souta) and her mother’s influences. But I think that the fact that her grandmother used to know Eiichiro and Masamichi also played a role. She also turns out to be someone who likes to learn a lot, although she is your typical girl who hit puberty. Still, she isn’t as annoying as some of her counterparts, and my only real gripe with this series is the really strange placement of fanservice. We get random crotch-shots, panty-shots that come out of nowhere. That’s not something I expected from Production IG and the director of Chevalier. I mean, they had nudity before, but it has always felt rather natural up till now.
There’s also one bit that I failed to pick up: why did Minamo’s grandmother age, while Eiichi still looks the same as he did, fifty years before? Is this because some people have access to better health-care facilities than others?