Friday, June 26, 2009

07-Ghost Episode 12

Welcome to another chapter of Tenchi's blog post is late. This time I will just blame work for draining all my energy and faith in humanity. That and the 500 degree heat does not make me a very happy skippy person.

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Rarw to customers!

My Friday feels a little empty without watching Eden of the East. :( Hopefully my time management skills will improve slightly and I can add a few new summer titles to my viewing list. Or you know...finish Chrome Shelled Regios and catch up with Shugo Chara. Or you know...even research when said new shows are coming out. X_X

So instead of focusing on the things I want to do and my sucky time management skills on to 07-Ghost instead!


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Simply beautiful.

The episode starts off with a man down on his luck. While walking on some random street a gypsy looking woman offers to give him three wishes in exchange for his soul (WHAT COULD THAT MEAN?!). He wishes for a hot girlfriend, money, and the death of hot girlfriend when she gets greedy with her share of the cut. The gypsy woman appears and surprise she is a Kor coming to collect her soul . At the church of good looking men Teito is off probably thinking of Mikage when that other candidate walks by. After a few manly man moments of strength Teito comments he looks like Shuri Oak. This other candidate turns out to be his cousin or something Hakuren Oak. Teito scoffs a bit, saying that any member of the Oak family would be outcast for becoming a priest/bishop/hot church guy. Hakuren gets pissed off and stomps away, with Mikage dragon flying to ride on his head. While chasing after Hakuren two other candidates have a run in with Teito and are jerks. The nuns break it up but aren’t really on Teito’s side which is mean.

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Yes, heal me on the nasty dirty floor surrounded by a bunch of kids. This is wonderful.

Teito happens upon a random impromptu lesson from another bishop (who is not really hot) getting a Kor out of a woman. It is all sparkly and new to some people apparently. Frau gives Teito some good advice and tells him to work on his word attack thingy. It is then cut to Frau going off to some bar to kill that man from earlier, the one who offed his girlfriend. Lots of sparkly blood and Frau being a vampire. The nuns take Teito to the room he will be staying in and TADA his roommate is Hakuren. Both are equally happy about this situation. Teito then gets into depressed mode because he can’t use his Kor killing stick thing (called a Bascule for those who need to know). Teito is touched by the stand blood on is borrowed weapon stick thingy and thinks of all those who have gone before him and took this test. Hakuren and Teito then decide to go to a hall to practice their stick fighting stuff. They meet a bald guard who was a former prisoner. His name is not important but he decides to collapse anyway to get a little more air time. Teito and Hakuren take the unimportant bald man to the clinic where Castor and Labrador talk ominously about the situation.

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Bonding over baldy. Wonderful.

Teito and Hakuren arrive late to class but since they are hotties no punishment is handed out. Teito starts to wonder why his stick weapon Kor squisher is different than everyone else’s. All the students enter a hallway that has a magical water barrier (like the glass fishie tank you can walk under at Sea World). Except instead of cute fishies there are Kors flying all around. Hakuren shows off his mighty Kor slaying abilities and everyone is impressed. Teito finally understands that he can’t use his stick Kor squisher because he is use to fighting work attack things and not “healing” attack words (because those Kors are totally being healed true facts!). The teacher tells Teito to focus on his nonexistent faith on God and BAM Teito powers up his stick thingy so much it blows a hole in the hall way and breaks his staff. Surprise. It turns out the staff belongs to Frau. Or did. Hakuren gets massively jealous that Frau and Teito have a special relationship. Hakuren explains that Frau holds the highest score on this test and he is made of special. Then there is a random useless scene of Ayanami looking evil and plotting something. Both Teito and Hakuren get kicked out of the practice hall and Teito apologizes for causing scene. Hakuren smiles as he thinks Teito will be a worthy opponent now. But he still calls Teito a little kid and it is funny. Before there can be a slap fest there is drama at the church of good looking men. That bald guy from before is outside dead in his own pool of sparkly blood. Everyone goes GASP as Ayanami smirks. The end!

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Ayanami...doing nothing. Amazing.

Well…that was less magnificent than I was expecting. And I wasn’t expecting much. X_X
So…what is up with Hakuren Oak? Besides the fact he is Teito’s new roommate (SHOCKER), is taking the test for personal reasons (he wants to bone/be boned by Frau), and he is a relative to Shuri Oak. All and all…bad news for Teito.

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Yeah, someone named Frau!

I guess Hakuren would be more interesting if Shuri had more air time. But we saw Shuri be a butthead for a few seconds in episode one and now all his relatives have it out for Teito? When really it was Teito who started with the snippy remarks about who Hakuren is? Not buying into the MOG I hate your cousin so surely I must hate you crap.

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But had he said Mikage then I would have said MOG MOVE ON. Because I am mean.

And why did Teito automatically think that Hakuren looked like Shuri? If anyone he looked like Mikage. And given the last few episodes (I am not sure if you are aware of this but Mikage died..) I would have thought that Mikage would be on his mind and that we were getting a MOG moment. A little boy on boy hug until Teito realized his mistake. Tis was only a dream of course.

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Mikage is a traitor dragon!

And why does Mikage the cutest dragon like him so much? The only head he should be riding on is Teito’s or maybe Frau’s. Mikage doesn’t know who this Hakuren person is. Be a little more wary Mikage dragon. Don’t trust everyone who might look friendly.

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MMM tasty radioactive blood...

The animation was interesting this week. And by interesting I mean X_X. The blood was sparkly. I know I go on and on about yaoi but blood should not be sparkly. The blood on the naked greedy girl at the beginning was slightly normal looking but her boyfriend’s was more like radioactive strawberry jam. And Mr. Baldy was drowning in a pool of a Prostitute Red nail polish. Now the rest of the show had a different kind of crispness to it that I thought worked. Just not the random sparkle blood.

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Victories deserve man hugs!

There really wasn’t much plot in this episode. Which would be fine if this episode could be classified as something else. Not really funny, not really serious. But I guess since Teito wasn’t completely falling over because Mikage died it is a small victory?

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Frau needs a shirt that fits...

What was Frau up to? The whole licking the blood off in a creepy manner didn’t really seem like him. I like that we are shown that the ghosts go out and splat some people too. It’s not all kisses and rainbows and we can heal everyone. Sometimes it is sparkly blood and naked hookers and angry wishes. The world is a harsh, harsh place and sometimes Kors are cute little elf girls whose faces melt in random mirrors. But I want to know if Castor and Labrador go on these secret missions too or is Frau doing all the work.

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You know what would be better than a barrier? The Kors not being there at all.

Why at the church of good looking men…is a hallway full of Kors? I mean, weren’t they complaining that Teito attracts these nasty little thingies? And now there is a room full of them? Sounds kinda dangerous for a bunch of newbies to the church. At least get some baby Kors or slightly injured ones for them to practice on.

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:( Apparently I do not love my husband enough. I do not make things glow blue when I think of him.

I really thought it was going to take Teito a lot longer to master his staff Kor killing weapon. A few episodes of him failing completely and then him still not getting the hang of things when Teito and Frau go out on the open road together. Frau would show him the way and slowly Teito would improve. But only during the finally battle with Ayanami will Teito master the sticky wand thing and blow up Ayanami. Or…Teito thinks of Mikage and BAM he gets it. Rarw.

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MOG SO INTERESTING! But only not.

Speaking of Ayanami…was there a reason he and his crew of delightful followers were in this episode? Besides to make sure that no one forgets about them and how important they are? You know…how they are always talking about doing stuff and all we see them doing is flying around in their magic flying machine. Yeah they are boring. They need to kick it up a notch because they are boring me to tears.

Now that Hakuren and Teito are roommates/teammates maybe I will have another pairing to love. Even though Hakuren is there for Frau. And Teito hates them both. But still maybe it will be fun for now. Hakuren will show Teito the way of being part of the church of good looking men and Teito will….err….be the bright flower in his life? Yeah, I am sure they will benefit from each other somehow.

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Jealoooooooooooous.

So w got a new character with a past we are not aware of but surely it will be full of angst and devotion towards Frau. We have Teito who proves once again he is too strong for his own good. And we have Ayanami who controls Kors and gives people the ability to have sparkly blood. Next week I expect to see a little bit more action please. That or a funny adventure in the saga of Hakuren and Teito being roommates. Thanks for complying with my simple requests.




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