Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Koi to Senkyo to Chocolate episode 10

Post number THREE day folks! Go me! Plus I have already started to pack. Yessie I have turned over a new leaf. I will get things done and on time. Why I will even get to work when I am scheduled to be there and not 5 minutes late AKA Tenchi Time. Yessie. A new leaf indeed.
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What do you mean you don't know who I am?!
Before everyone passes out from laughter lets get this episode up and posted. XD Up now is Koi to Senkyo to Chocolate episode 10. Spoilers for this show STILL being over the top.
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Yuuki slowly realizing that Chisato is a bit fragile.
Episode Summary: Through a series of flashbacks the viewer learns how Chisato and Yuuki became friends. He was having a tantrum on his first day of school and Chisato appeared to give him chocolate and calm him down. This works for a while but Chisato continues to only offer Yuuki the chocolate no matter the situation. One day Yuuki gets upset and refuses the treat. This sends Chisato back to a place where she didn’t want to share chocolate with her brother that ended with him getting hit by a car. Baby Chisato loses her mind and Yuuki accepts the chocolates to calm her down. He promises he is not disappearing and will remain by her side. Back to the present and Chisato is crying her eyes out that Yuuki got hit by a car. He appears a second later totally fine but she clings to him anyway. Yuuki sees Yakumo in the hospital as well but is unable to reach him as Chisato is a part of his arm now. Satsuki runs to the Snack Club to find out what happened to Yuuki. No one seems worried and claim he is okay. He proves this a second later when he appears in the club room with Chisato on his arm. Eventually it is time to go home and Chisato will not let go of his arm to do anything. Not to change, not to eat, not to go to the bathroom. Yuuki gets frustrated and tries to take a shower. He yells at Chisato that he is sorry it happened but he didn’t mean to hurt her. She starts chanting that he is going to disappear and he lied to her. Yuuki hits Chisato because obviously that is the only way to calm a person down. She runs out of the room and returns with a chocolate bar. Yuuki refuses to eat it and says that Chisato doesn’t love him. She is only using him as a replacement for her dead brother. Yuuki says that Chisato needs to eat the chocolate and be with him for him. Chisato attempts to eat the chocolate but throws up. Both spend the night getting no sleep and being miserable.
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Well that wasn't odd at all.....
Yuuki goes to school the next day and campaigns with everyone else while Chisato spends the day in bed. Yuuki makes his way to the club room where he finds Michuri and her underwear less self doing something under a table. Yuuki gives back the harmonica that they were playing with before his car accident. He asks who Kana is as it is etched into the instrument. She says that Kana is her friend and she came to the school to find her but can’t. She plays a sad little song on the harmonica and Yakumo runs in looking upset talking about Kana. He covers it up and says he needs to talk to Chisato. When Yakumo learns that Chisato isn’t there he talks to Yuuki about his wanting to help the financial aid students. Yakumo says to drop the subject until after the election. Perhaps then Yuuki can take up his personal..interests if he wins. Yuuki looks pissed. Yuina is seen in the security office talking about how stupid Yakumo is and that she will make sure the election goes the way they (she and the person on the phone) want it to. After all that jazz Yuuki goes to the hospital to get a check up. He runs into a girl who loses her contact lens. I have no idea who she is but if I’m suppose to know her I’m sorry. Yuuki decides to not look for the contact lens as he sees Yakumo going out the back door. Yuuki follows him and hears Yakumo very upset on the phone. Something about abandoning Kana and that wasn’t part of the plan. Yuuki continues his spying and follows Yakumo up to Kana’s room. Yuuki sees the girl…and is immediately clocked in the head. He wakes up handcuffed a chair and looking at Yakumo and his lackeys. Yuuki is forced to confess what he knows (which isn’t much) so Yakumo decides to explain things to the confused boy. See the Safety Commission can’t possibly keep a school that big safe. So they bring in spies to be the eyes and ears of the Safety Commission and find things out before they get too big. Kana was one of Yakumo’s personal spies…as well as Michuri. THE END!
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Everyone is miserable YAY!
I swear. I swear folks. Could this show get any weirder? I mean I am sure it could. I worry for Yume now. WORRY DEEPLY! Like maybe he is gay because he was raped by a bunch of women in some sort of gang war and he is afraid of girls or something. I DON’T KNOW! Run Yume!
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Um no one cares about Yuuki. Get that through your brain. XD
So spoiler alert from last episode….Yuuki was not hit by the truck. Or he was but it was no big deal. One would think he would have gotten a little hurt. Or maybe he got knocked unconscious by jumping out of the way. But the point is Yuuki is fine, he is made of rubber, and we all knew he was going to be fine by the previews the week before. Good job creating suspense!


While Chisato was a crazy cracker made of wheat and insanity I think maybe she made up for the fact that no one else gave a damn? Well Satsuki did too but she tried to play it cool when she found out the truth. Everyone else was just in the club room chillin. Like wow thanks guys. Can’t you feel the love (tonight) indeed. But yes folks.

Chisato…had a moment this episode. This moment lasted hours it seems and it bordered on a hospital visit for her. I would have been freaking out had I been Yuuki. Like yes Chisato went through something traumatic at a young age and apparently had not gotten therapy or proper care from her parents. But it is Yuuki that was almost hit by a car. It is hard to take care of someone else when it is you who went through the horrible, nearly fatal accident.
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A lot of hurting feelings up in here.
But at least we got some answers on why Yuuki seemed to brush Chisato’s affections off. He could have been nicer yes but it is clear why he wasn’t accepting this love. Because to him Chisato really never loved him. He was a replacement for her long lost brother. Perhaps that is why younger Yuuki tried to say no to the chocolate and never said no again because of the melt down. It must have been hard for Yuuki all those years, being the stable force in this girls unstable life. Where are the parents?!
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Punching things and screaming...not helping the crazy girl.
That being said don’t slap the girl! She is already fragile as it is. Yes your feelings were hurt and she lost her damn mind but no slapping! Everything else Yuuki said and did was the best he could do but that was uncomfortable. All these things needed to be said. I am not sure if Yuuki saying them sooner would have done much but Chisato has relied on Yuuki in unhealthy ways all these years and adding the new girls into the mix must have pushed her to her breaking point.
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Imagine this is Chisato...all day. Alone. :(
Yuuki going to school the next day like nothing happened was weird. I know he has a campaign to run but maybe he could have taken a mental health day with Chisato. And the club could have spun it that Yuuki was hurt protecting someone at school thus getting him more brownie points. It was just weird watching another day of campaigning going on while Chisato was home alone.
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At the 11th hour you step up to the plate?
Michuri was…odd this episode. Well we know now why she was crawling on the floor but is there a reason why she doesn’t wear underwear? But yeah she has barely been wallpaper on wall this series let alone a main character. Now we are supposed to care about her? Also I have not heard her talk so much before and her voice annoyed me. Like the annoying little girl over in Sword Art Online. Probably the same voice actress.
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When did Michuri become that special?
But yes Michuri can see colors on people and is here to find her friend. I see. I SEE! Maybe if there had been more effort in making Michuri seem important before episode 10 I would care. But I know very little about her and it is almost like she is just in the club…well we know why she is in the club but did anyone else question why she was there? Just odd. A bit too late for an explanation.


Yuina….I don’t know what the crazy person is up to either. She is not really helping out the Safety Commission in trying to regain power next year. She seems to be off doing whatever it is she wants to do. I don’t know about her folks. Me thinks this show should have been 24 episodes long and not 13 if they wanted to have such a huge cast with people with complicated backgrounds. Maybe she isn’t corrupt, she is just a robot clone girl with no feelings ya’ll.
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The wording was really off with that I think.
Yakumo was all over the place this episode. I didn’t like how he worded Yuuki’s desire to help the financial aid students as a personal agenda. Like oh yes that is the same thing as politicians making museums named after them. While I understand the logic in trying to get elected by appealing to the most people and putting your not so accepted (but needed) ideas aside….it just seems wrong to me. I am not sure why. But then Yakumo was so upset over something happening to Kana and I felt bad again for him. Not sure what deal he was talking about and maybe I should feel bad for Kana instead but he just seemed upset and not in control. Very unlike Yakumo.
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This might be overkill. Slightly.
And then Yakumo has his henchmen knock out and tie up Yuuki. Like you came and found Kana thus you must know all our secrets. This show is such serious business! My eyes were all @__@ the entire time Yakumo was talking. With this show who knows what he was about to say. I was actually afraid that he was going to say something about the financial aid students, that things could get worse for them if Yakumo got involved. Like sex slaves kinda bad.
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Undercover agent sounds better.
Yakumo explained that watching over 6,000 students is hard. So they hire people to be spies for them. Now it is unclear if he (they) were hiring adults to play the role of students or if he was just bringing in outside students to enroll in this school. Either way it is a bit X___X. Well maybe not as shady as I thought was going to come out of his mouth. XD Sex slaves indeed. While it must seem pretty…shocking to Yuuki it does make sense. Think of them as uncovered police officers instead of spies.
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Oh so the lack of underwear is her way of creating a distraction in case she gets caught. I SEE!
But the episode closed with the most alarming note. That sweet, innocent, and clueless Michuri is a spy. Since she was in the Snack Club before the election we can assume she wasn’t a plant to see if Yakumo would make a good candidate. But yeah. Not sure why she isn’t wearing underwear. But planting mics and being a spy. How much more can Yuuki’s little heart take? Are the two useless girls in the club the real sex slaves? Robots? This is all so weird. Brb hiding Yume before I watch the next episode. I am worried now.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

The relationship between Yuuki and Chisato was tense. Like School Days tense. Incredible, you are correct, Christina, that Chisato totally lost her mind, and clinging to Yuuki's arm all the time was definitely creepy! The fact that she was using Yuuki only as a replacement for her brother was sad, but understandable since her fragile mind/heart could only cope with her brother's death through Yuuki. I'll say it again, Chisato's parents need to send her to therapy and maybe get some medication.

Michiru is a spy? If so, did she develop any feelings for Yuuki during her mission? Or is the whole cat-girl personality a facade of the true Michiru?

Anonymous said...

First anonymous here

I have to reiterate and expand on Chisato needing therapy. Obviously, the girl needs psychological help. Do the parents know about her mental issues? Does Chisato tell them? Did Yuuki, the school, or anyone close to Chisato tell them? Or is seeing therapy a massive social stigma in Yuuki and Chisato's society that the parents are too ashamed to admit? I recall the suicide rates in Japan are quite common. Heck, there's a forest in Japan that people enter to end their lives-that's quite terrifying! The forest was even shown on Destination Truth with ghosts! The suicide in Japan is so bad, that the government is hiring Japanese celebrities for commercials, telling depressed people to get some help! In the end, would Chisato end her life because she couldn't stand the fact that Yuuki might not always be there for her?

Koi to Senkyo to Chocolate is getting way too serious! I like it better when it was a comedy D:

eternia said...

I thought her name is Michiru.. not Michuri. Planting bugs. I wonder why the snack club has never questioned what's she doing down there. But wait, she's acting like a kitten. And it's completely normal for a kitten to sleep face down under the table. It all makes sense now. LOL.

BTW, you are falling behind on this show, I have watched episode 11 days ago...

Christina said...

Sorry for that late replies! Yes I got totally behind on anime posts and comments. :(

Anonymous- I think this show needed to either be serious or a comedy because its mixture of both was not working. With shows like Clannad it might work but with this show it crossed a line into WTF this is way too much.

Chisato was so in need of therapy I don't see how her parents could miss it. Unless Chisato was so far gone and her act was that perfected. That she only slipped up around Yuuki. Still when her brother died they should have helped her out even if they were dealing with their own pain. I don't know...it was just sad to watch. But yes the suicide rates are so high in Japan. Maybe because people hide their feelings and people can't reach out to people if they don't know they are suffering.

Eternia- Such a slacker I am. I just finished the show yesterday! But yeah Ms. Kitten was just in the club room and no one really paid any mind to her. Like oh she is weird...so she fits in no questions asked!