Monday, November 28, 2011

Mirai Nikki episode 8: Yuki is a great judge of character!

:( I hates the rain. I know it is a necessity to life but I prefer it rain while I was sleeping. Or on days off when I have nothing fun planned. Because working in the rain and cold is just bleh. Maybe it is just at my store but the rain brings in and out the worse in customers. Already lazy people ordering pizza who don’t care if I get wet don’t really care about tipping me. 1 dollar is not acceptable any other day of the week but especially not when it is raining. I feel as if I have said that before….but sadly it has not changed.

But at least I saved 40 bucks on my new tires. And my other tire apparently had a nail in it and I got that fixed for free. Around the holidays every little bit of money helps so I am grateful for that. Turn that frown upside indeed!

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Dry your eyes Yuki. I am here to save you. Or kill you. Either way I hope to sleep with you.

XO I stayed up until 3 am but no one had this Mirai Nikki episode subbed. Well one site DID have it but all the words were way too close to the bottom for me to read properly. How DARE these people have lives and not update things when I need them. THE NERVE of them. XD But now it is almost…err tomorrow so what am I complaining about anyway? Spoilers for Mirai Nikki episode 8. I hear that Yuno is always right or something.



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The God of Time is great at math!

Episode Summary: Deus himself has a meeting with the eight remaining Diary Users. Surprisingly he does not point out that Yuki (really Yuno) is the reason they are all dead. One Diary owner speaks up and asks if he can transfer his Diary to another person and Deus is like X____X. Yuki is walking to school as it has been a few weeks since all the FUN took place. Keigo cop helped Yuki out with his lies (that burglars broke in and hit momma in the head) and all is well. ALL IS WELL! Yuki joins Yuno as they walk to their new school. Yuki hopes to make new friends despite not having any to begin with. Yuno has decided that Yuki sucks and should stop using his Diary. Yuki agrees and acts like people standing across the street are suspicious. Yuki gets to class and is horrified that he does know someone. This kid named Kousaka helped sacrifice Yuki to Minene in episode 2 and seems to think everything is Yuki’s fault. Before the entire class can think Yuki is the baddie a girl named Hinata and her sidekick Mao come and save Yuki. In true Yuki fashion he manages to ruin things. Hinata is a pretty forgiving girl and even helps explain to Yuki later what the teacher is talking about. Something about a new serial killer tearing people apart and what not.

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You might want to rethink that buddy.

Yuno is less than thrilled to find Yuki with Kousaka, Hinata, and Mao after school. She wants Yuki to go home with her but Yuki follows the group to a closed off crime scene. It only has blood splatters so the group does not find it that interesting. They instead play at the park and Yuno writes DIE in the sand like a normal person. Hinata and Yuki go to some sorta of walk bridge where Hinata declares Yuki her friend. He gets all melty while Hinata runs ahead of the gang. Mao thinks it is cute Hinata and Yuki are friends but warns Yuki not to fall in love with her. Hinata runs into the woods because she hears something strange and it happens to be a bunch of dogs with huge metal teeth. Yuki gets worried and checks his diary despite Yuno saying NO. He reads that Hinata is going to be attacked and forces the group to run towards her. Only they find an arm and Hinata’s body on the ground. They all begin to freak out when TADA someone mysterious appears. Earlier in the episode Hinata talked about the weirdest kid in class being some kid named Aru. Aru likes to pretend he is a detective. Well he has followed our heroes into the park and seems to know Yuki. Despite that being WEIRD they all run to a building with tons of glass windows. As the group runs we see the Diary User from earlier, the one who wanted to lend his someone else. He makes a fabulous meal for his dogs and while eating noodles thinks to himself how the plan has begun. There is a picture off to the side and it looks sorta familiar…

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MOG I have been fooled for the 3rd time?! How does this keep happening?!

Once inside the building the group notes the big glass windows and how the dogs are trying to break in. Aru takes the time to explain who he is and how he has put together that Yuki is connected to all the weird crap that has been happening in town. But instead of blaming Yuki he concludes correctly that people are out to get him and Aru is here to protect him. When the dogs try to break in Yuno suggests leaving the others behind as she and Yuki escape. She points out that someone close has to be controlling the dogs. Yuki is like Yuno you is crazy and have NEVER been right about anything. Yuki then uses his Diary to correctly predict how the others should reinforce the windows. The dogs eventually leave and Kousaka is like MOG you are so cool. Mao then takes Yuki hostage and hands Yuki’s phone to Hinata, who still has both arms. She talks about how she has the Breeder Diary and that Yuki wasn’t even the target this time but he is so stupid he can’t help but be one. No no the one the girls are after is Aru. They want the Diary he has. THE END! Oh and the side story is how Aru hit Mur Mur with his bike and she forces him to take her to an amusement park. And that someone was messing with his bike HMMMMMMM!

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This is a good way to start off a friendship, by befriending a stalker!

I am going to start this off with…I understand Yuki. I understand how he is a normal person. He didn’t become the hero like so many other boys do in fantasy animes. He didn’t take the news of all this crazy with a WEEE I am going to be awesome attitude. He took it as MOG WAIIIIIIIII and cried under his blankets. Because he is a normal human being playing a game with crazy people. So up until this point I have understood where he is coming from.

And I can also understand his need to make friends. Well maybe not as he was a loner at his old school. But I understand the need of wanting to have a group of people you can pretend are your friends. And maybe after all that Yuki has gone through he just wants to talk to people who aren’t screwed up in the head. I really get that, really.

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WEEEE! We bonded over seeing a crime scene in the park YAY!!!

But Yuki is probably the stupidest most naïve person on the face of the planet. I can only think of a handful of people (in animes) who have been a worse judge of character that Yuki. One would Ms. Sailor Moon herself but she usually did end up being their friends after purifying them.

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Yuno just because you have been right about everyone else so far does not mean you are right now. GOSH!

Yes Yuno is crazy. No I would not want her as a girlfriend. And maybe someone should call the popo because there are DEAD BODIES in her house. But home girl has been right about 239032843 percent of the time thus far in the anime. So why doesn’t Yuki listen to her? Either she knows the future (because she has played this game before) or she is just some sorta crazy person who is ALWAYS right but Yuki. Homegirl is always right. In face I would assume every single person talking to me after the game started is a Diary User and wants to kill me. Suspect everyone and live longer!

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Me thinks she should just take his Diary away if he is going to keep messing up.

And it is hard to say if Yuno is in the wrong for not warning Yuki. If she has played before thus recognizes everyone surely she could say Um Yuki they are a Diary User. Instead she just says they COULD be one and let’s go without giving Yuki a concrete reason to believe in her. But maybe Yuno has already done the Homura says Kyubey is EVIL timeline and things didn’t work out. It is hard to say what is going on. Only that Yuno needs to tell Yuki flat out what is going on because subtle does not work on him. Or maybe Yuno is just tired Yuki not believing in her. I know I am.

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The dogs were apparently not that hungry.

This episode was a bit much at times. It was like they tried to cram way too much into 22 minutes. Maybe this is how it happened in the manga but the introduction of 3 new characters plus a random side character was way too much. Not to mention Hinata’s dog loving dad in the background. It was just….rushed I think.

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Yes let's be best friends after this!

Like the way Hinata and Mao became “friends” with Yuki. Like dumbass should have known these girls were not normal. He did pull Hinata’s pants down in front of the whole class. She had the right to be embarrassed for a while and who embraces a new kid so fast anyway? Maybe that is the point, to show the viewers how stupid Yuki is for believing in a 8 hour friendship with a girl who can’t even afford a shirt.

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Did everyone forget about this? I am thinking yes.

Also I am not sure what was up with including Kousaka in their stroll to the park/dead body scene. No one really had any ties to Kousaka and he was picking on Yuki. So why did everyone embrace him and take him along to the park? Is he a Diary User too and this was one big plot to drive Yuki insane? Because if so….they is all dumb because Yuno will slice your asses up!

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Wonder why el crazy man gave up his Diary....

I wish there was more of a build up to who exactly was controlling the dogs. But once we saw that picture it was like oh Hinata. No wonder she was basically intact even though the dogs “attacked” her. I saw Cabin Fever, I know what attacked by dogs looks like. Still I wanted more mystery even though we knew one of those people was out to get Yuki.

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Dramatic pointing time!

But oh snap it’s not Yuki this time. It is Aru that the Diary User is after. Well actually it was stated the Diary he had. Did Aru steal it? There is just something about him that seems…off. Like he knows what is going on but is not a part of it. I attempted to count all the people at the end of the episode to see who is Diary user and who is not. Aru’s “segment” in the closing song is number 13. Plus he is seen sorta standing there and not being a part of life like everyone else does. No doubt he has something to do with these games but I don’t think he is a Diary user. Not sure whose he stole but you know. I don’t know everything.

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Maybe mom got all the sense bashed out of her head....

So in conclusion Yuki has the worse mother ever because she questions NOTHING, Yuki inherited this stupidness from his mother, and Yuno is probably crazy because she has gone through this game 3892832 times and Yuki hasn’t changed at all. XD Yay for fun!

3 comments:

eternia said...

I wonder if mommy has regained consciousness. Such a bad son you has, mom. Walking together with the crazy girlfriend who hit you.
The logic fails:
-why did Kousaka tag along with them when he's obviously not their 'friend'?
-The teacher doesn't care that a male student has stripped a female student. Is it daily occurence?
-Hinata was showing super shocked face and screaming like chicken when she's sorrounded by the dogs. WHY IS IT? Isn't she able to control them? Is she putting an act? But there's no one to witness her act! Don't tell me, she's putting up that act to fool us dear viewers instead of someone in the anime? X_X
Only gag comedy story do that.

Christina said...

Eternia- I did find the Hinata GASP moment straight out of a sci-fi movie. It would have been better to just show her going into the woods and then show us the dogs.

But Kousaka going along with the group was X___X. Maybe he is a diary owner too and that is why Hinata and Mao accepted him. But Yuki in his blind quest for friends should have found it a BIT odd that the kid who tried to kill him was off having fun in the park with the group.

I think with the introduction of so many characters things should have happened slowly. It just all happened at once and I was like X___X.

Anonymous said...

I read the manga years ago and downloaded the entire anime, but life got in the way and I didn't watch it.

Until now.

I remember thinking Yuki was a retard, but watching it now in anime it's even moreso. Every episode Yuki stupidly befriends someone and ignores Yuno, every episode she is right and saves him. Every single time.

Yet the guy still can't trust her, even though he thinks she's cute at the very beginning and she's probably too good for him.

It was faster in the manga. 8 episodes in, and I don't know if I can actually watch it all, I might have to start fast forwarding through.