The Uglies...eat humans? I AM SHOCKED! Everything makes sense now. SHOW OVER!
I don’t even have time for this opening. Spoilers for utter stupidity and monsters doing AWESOME things…behind censors of course.
The Summary got a little out of hand. Forgive me!
Everything is to scale in this picture....yes indeed....
Episode Summary: Everyone is still very SHOCKED about Fumito showing up. The Ugly is so shocked in momentarily shrinks in size and sits quietly in the background. Itsuki questions if it is okay for Fumito to be here while everyone else is questioning why this show even got made. Saya seems to be regaining….I guess consciousness and the twins go on damage control. Shinichiro and Kanako did not get the memo it was beg for your life time and piss Fumito off. Well he is more mad that Kanako is touching Saya which is special as Kanako was dragging Saya away from the Ugly. After being dropped on her head Saya starts remembering that Fumito was behind EVERYTHING! Shocking. He found out that Saya was Queen of the Uglies and is unable to eat humans. Her “forbidden fruit” is eating other Uglies. Fumito also explains that this Covenant was the Japanese government giving permission to the Uglies to eat a certain number of humans but no more! Fumito set up this town so Saya could eat, drink, and be useless. The game would be to see if Saya would remain the same person if she had her memories and surroundings altered. If she won she would be allowed to eat humans and if Fumito won…well we don’t need to know that right?!
You lied to us?! MORE SHOCKING NEWS!!!
Nene and Nono ask if they can leave now that Saya has her memories back. Fumito says yes and the twins and Shinichiro are quickly killed off. Kanako runs for her life but is captured by the Ugly. For some reason Saya snaps out of lala land and tries to rescue Kanako. She goes as far to go INTO the Ugly and stab it from the inside. After being rescued three times Kanako runs off into the arms of Daddy Dearest. Only HAHA he is an Ugly too and kills her. Saya is like what he is NOT my real father. Good thing she has her memories back. Turns out Daddy is half human/half Ugly and because of that he was able to capture her for some reason? And connect with her. I don’t know but whatever. Turns out that Fumito harvested Saya’s blood to control all the other Uglies and summon them at will. Because that is how blood works okay. The name of this show is Blood-Control. Brain controlled Daddy starts fighting Saya. In between getting kicked around and strangled Saya has a conversation with Fumito. Basically the main cast had to survive and Saya should worry about dead humans. Fumito explains (slightly) that it was Saya who made this promise to someone (Watanuki doggie) about not eating humans but I guess she changed her mind. Daddy kicks Saya around but she manages to overpower him in his human form. He switches to Ugly form and Saya seriously gets her ass handed to her. Suddenly she gets that random vision of a flying sword. She grabs it…and it powers her up and she defeats Daddy. Daddy tells Saya that despite the fact that he was lying to her he was happy to be with her. He then dies and Saya is all sad face.
The crazy person who hired you...?
Saya chases after Fumito but he summons a bunny Ugly to take her out. She cuts him in half and continues the chase. Fumito has been guarding exit and they shoot at Saya. Itsuki decides to go hero on us and flings himself in front of some bullets. This ends well for him. But he also states that despite the fact he was a lying asshole he came to like the fake Saya. So he dies and no one cares. Since Saya cut the bunny Ugly in half that means it can multiple into 4839438975875 Uglies who run across town killing the “innocent” extras in fun and creative ways. While people are getting turned into corn on the cobs and smoothies Fumito is casually running people over in his car and talking to Yuka about her plans on being governor of Tokyo. Saya shows up after everyone else is dead and cuts the first Ugly into a million pieces which seems to kill the rest. Saya then flies in the air to chase after Fumito who is in a helicopter. Fumito is like NOT and shoots half her head off and we see it!! As Saya falls into the water Fumito explains the candy was made of Ugly Blood. It takes Saya several days to regenerate her head enough to move. All the while she is sad about the betrayal of everyone and cries. Watanuki dog appears to tell the audience that Saya’s wish was to remain herself and that the second part of her wish probably won’t go over well. Saya gets up and runs through the “town” eventually making it to a city. THE END!
MOG folks. It ended so very, very badly. And yet….I think it ended exactly how I thought it was going to. So much for surprises right?
Everything is so SHOCKING!
The twins and Shinichiro being taken out…SO SHOCKING. I even predicted in my head that one of the twins would push the other down to save herself. Not that it matters as they have all watched the extras get nommed. It would have been nice to see a little unity between the sisters. But no no folks. These characters are so bad we got to show them being evil to their own siblings. I am sure if they had saw the Watanuki dog they would have kicked him or something.
Kids being kids. You know, running prostitution rings and all.
But before they were eaten by the well behaved Ugly they were amusing. I loved the wild hand movements and how they claimed to just be silly teenagers. Shinichiro was like give me my money bitch and wasn’t very amusing. I think maybe given the seriousness of the situation he could have acted like he cared about being alive and maybe not the money.
I think Saya is either a very confusing person or a ill constructed character....
Kanako actually lived longer than I thought she would. For someone who wants to EAT humans Saya tried pretty hard to protect her ass. Saya was like let me crawl in this monster and save you!!! Of course since this is Saya her rescue ratio was like…zero: everyone in the entire series but hey she tried folks. Of course there is always the possibility that Saya was trying to save Kanako to kick her ass? Not sure why as Kanako was trying to help Saya…for her own selfish reasons of course but help nonetheless.
What the hell is this?! WHAT THE HELL?!
Itsuki dying was probably the stupidest thing I have seen in quite a while. I think Kyubey got shot less than that. Swiss Cheese Kyubey wasn’t able to talk after being blasted though. Itsuki managed to say that despite acting at first he grew to love Saya. And that deep down singing, stupid Saya is the real Saya. I am glad he wasted his life in protecting the REGENERATING GIRL from bullets. So stupid. So stupid indeed. Also I am pissed that we didn’t get to learn Itsuki’s reason for being in on this act.
So not counting the guards two people out of an entire town lived. Yay body counts!!!!
But did I cry for Itsuki getting shot 1567 times? No I wasn’t. And I wasn’t cheering that Yuka got to live. Because everyone in the main cast was an awful human being. Like oh okay Itsuki you are a great person for taking an unnecessary shooting for Saya. But where was that humanity when all of your “classmates” got shot? Oh it doesn’t matter because they weren’t main cast? Why couldn’t EVERYONE in on this game be given special I am not Dead talismans? They just had to be dead to affect Saya right? But yeah. No love for the main cast.
Kanako obviously knew nothing.....how did Fumito find and hire these people?
I am not sure how much information the extras knew. The main cast seemed to be missing some details too, like the sword Saya used was not important at all. But all the extras are stupid. Very very stupid. The second the bakery dude went missing it was time to LEAVE. I don’t know what they were told they were doing there but if they were promised safety by Fumito obviously they were lied to. Of course only stupid people would join and scenario that involved monsters and taming a human looking one. Maybe it is hard to use logic on stupid people.
Working with sleazy people can end badly? What is the word of the day people?!
I will however say that logic was not on the animators side at all. Saya went to a small town with one bakery, one restaurant, one café, and one high school. A high school that didn’t have enough students to fill the other classrooms. But then in this final episode there were about a million people being killed on the streets. Really now. REALLY?! There are that many stupid people in the world? Oh and where were all these people…the entire show? I never saw the streets filled with people or anyone else drinking Café De Blood. So…..yeah. I totally believe there were hundreds of people living in this town. I really do.
MMMMMMMM fresh corn.
I would be cheering on the creative death scenes if I could SEE them. I mean….eating people off your fingers like Bugles? Collecting people in part of yourself then changing into a blender to make a people smoothie? Amazing. Amazing. Not amazing enough to put aside the fact there couldn’t have been that many people in town but you know. YOU KNOW.
So now that I have talked about the basic rundown the show it is time for the fun to begin. The WHY THIS SHOW SUCKS portion if you will.
The truth being that this show sucks of course.
You know that random vision of Saya seeing a flying sword? Means nothing. Absolutely nothing. It was like CLAMP remembered they made it a big deal in the first few episodes and decided to give it a lame explanation. Or no explanation at all.
Useless tease of a plot that meant NOTHING!
You know that promise Saya was trying to remember? Or rather what Watanuki was hinting at? Well it turns out Saya’s wish was to remain herself. Well wish NOT GRANTED. Watanuki were you paying attention to Saya? The singing songs about bumblebees and sucking at everything Saya? I seriously doubt that is how Saya was before. Of course since we have no idea what Saya was like before maybe she like that. I seriously doubt that as Saya herself tells Itsuki this is not really her. So lame. Lame.
You know all that random talking Fumito made the entire series? Yeah that was pretty much the entire experiment. Trying to see if Saya would become more human if she had her memories changed. Because that won’t produce skewed results at all. I bet if you change every memory I have and give me a different upbringing I would be different too. Not drinking blood different but still. So not sure what that was supposed to accomplish.
What do you mean this show was supposed to make sense?!
You know how the twins, Shinichiro, and everyone was supposed to jog Saya ‘s memories?....No wait I want someone to explain that to me. Fumito changed Saya’s memories on purpose to prove she could be human right? So….why was the main cast supposed to help her remember over time if he was just going to make her forgot on purpose? WHAT THE POINT OF THIS ENTIRE SHOW?! I watched this episode 2 days ago and it still makes no sense to me. NO SENSE AT ALL!
And why is that? Can I have one answer please?
You know that forbidden fruit Saya “eats”? Other Uglies. Like I said before. And that makes no sense as other Uglies have nommed on dead and dying Uglies. So that is stupidest thing ever.
Just….there is so much stupid to cover and so little time. Well I guess I have enough time. I am just at 2k words now. Like if Fumito was controlling the Uglies why were they telling Saya what was going on? If they had the ability to tell Saya what the heck was happening why didn’t they explain it to her sooner in light of the fact that SHE EATS THEM?! None of this honor thy covenant crap. More like oh hi you are being controlled by a crazy man feeding you blood candy.
On the covenant?! That big deal covenant? Yeah it was the Uglies were allowed to eat a certain number of people. Only I don’t think it counts when the Uglies are being summoned by Fumito so why is it being brought up at all?!
So...Saya made a promise to not eat humans to protect someone. Now she wants to break that promise so she can eat Fumito? She actually likes humans except for him? Is that what I am understanding?
The magical talismans were never explained nor what the dead fake bodies on the ground. But SURPRISE Fumito gave the twins and Shinichiro fake ones because…because why? Why were they even in town? They did their part and died so why were they still there? Why am I even talking about this stupid show?!
In the end everything sucked. Sucked Sucked Sucked. And on top of that the basic reason on WHY this was all happening was not explained. Fumito and his “mysterious” reasons for capturing Saya are just left up in the air. Although I think they will be so basic it won’t be worth knowing anyway.
My eyes cannot see blood!!! Censor this!
But fear not folks. Saya’s past, Fumito’s reasoning, and the TRUE ending to this madness will all be revealed in the movie. Which comes out in June of 2012. AMAZING right? We get a really crappy anime with such an open ending and no real answers and the movie doesn’t come out for like 10 months. We surely have been rewarded for our time.
I have yet to read any other comments about this hot mess series. I am pretty sure people will be full of rage or think this is the awesomest thing ever. Hopefully there are more full of rage people. I think it is clear where I lie on this matter.
I hate you CLAMP. Go back and fix XXXholics now.
15 comments:
People are too lazy to write complaints because there are too many to be mentioned, LOL. (me included). But you cover them all pretty well, that's why I love your blog. You got real talent at blogging anime, I would never be able to write all those witty comments.
YEAH. This anime is BLOODy-Censored and BLOODy-Crappy.
Q: "Who's controlling them?!"
A: "The crazy person who hired you."
This screenshot+comment really fulfills my laugh of the day.
On to next anime!
I heard that the movie won't be continuing from where they left off.
At least you have Legal Drug to look forward too. Except it's now called "Drug & Drop" XD
Eternia- The amount of people saying the last episode saved this series scares me. Like no. It blew through every major plot point like OH BTW. Like nothing mattered.
Then there are people saying they threw up watching this episode. Um from what? From blurry blobs? Really now? And it was all about the bunnies. No one complained about Saya getting her face blown off. X__X People are weird.
The extras were so stupid the comments nearly wrote themselves. XD
Anonymous- If that is true I will scream. I will have to hold it in for like 10 months but it will be a long scream. All of that can't be for nothing! Unless it starts off with Saya's past and then moves forward to her ripping Fumito into pieces. Otherwise I will hate CLAMP forever. And by forever I mean for a few months.
:( That name change makes me sad. But at least it is getting picked up again. Drug and Drop what...hot guys? XD
Yeah, that's exactly it. Another anime blogger (http://otakuness.wordpress.com/) said that episode 12 saved ep 1 until 11.
I feel like commenting,
"Oh, puh-lease, are you serious?"
He pointed it out himself : a fatal flaw with Fumito. Just what the hell is he? How can he control the Elder Bairns? Considering that those uglies drank Saya's blood, shouldn't they be under Saya's control instead? Also, they don't have reason to bitch about human breaking the contract? Aren't they Fumito's lackeys?
"I heard that the movie won't be continuing from where they left off." OMG if this is true I too will scream. Because if this season was a teaser to a movie it was a waste of 5 hours of everybody's life because they could have done it in two episodes. But if this is repeated in the movie then why did I even watch the series? Why did it exist? Why? People only stuck with this because it was CLAMP and that makes the series a betrayal of trust -- CLAMP wasted their trust capital because people won't be watching something just because it's CLAMP next time.
Eternia I heard the same thing on another blog, that this ep redeemed the series. WTF? All it did was show that they had it in them to be interesting in the action/gratuitous violence depatrment all along but just chose to be boring because they were lazy writers. Boring with no character development because Saya's friends were all actors with no motivation behind their lines and Saya was constantly being drugged and reset so she never learned anything, until someone told her because otherwise this could have been a 24 episode season of nothing. 11 eps of someone not developing as a character and a plot not developing and nothing that happens means anything? What is that? Lastly, what stupid experiment was this? That someone could change? If you keep drugging them then you aren't really doing an experiment. You aren't really learning anything. So even the premise of the season was meaningless.
At least there was a talking dog with a peanut-shaped head.
Right. Right.
Also, the most lol'ed moment was when Saya fall flat on her back from one gun shot. Hilarious. Why did he bother running away frantically then? Just shot her, and away leisurely. Also, if the queen of Elder Bairns is this WEAK, and her minions are pushovers that can be controlled by single human, they would be exterminated long ago.
Wait? What's the purpose of this experiment to begin with?
CRAP. CRAP. CRAP.
wonder if i must buy the DVD for uncensored version.Just to see people being chewed up.
Well I also wonder if the DVD is also being censored =_="
Sure, the C stands for Censored, I said. Lol.
Btw i c the wikipidea saying the dog is Watanuki from XXX holic =O
Or everyones already heard about it...
Weeee! So many comments. Clearly this series has given us a lot of feelings. Not the feelings the creators were going for but sometimes hating on anime can be fun. XD
I think besides the entire cast being in our the whole thing I wouldn't say the last episode (or last two episodes rather) saved the series. Most of the information was pretty obvious. FUMITO WAS THE ONE TALKING!!! He basically said over the course of ten weeks (first ten episodes) this was a test to see if Saya would change. So everyone going MOG Fumito is on crack. Bad crack. Get your money back.
But that blogger does raise an excellent point. Why does Fumito have control over the Uglies when Saya's blood is used? Not that THAT makes sense but blood is magical obviously. He doesn't have very good control over them either as they constantly talk to Saya. But they deserve to die too as this would have ended a lot sooner had they just said ALL THE WORDS and not honor thy covenant.
I think the series had a lot of promise but in the end nothing mattered. Saya got drugged all the time so why did the main cast need to jog her memories? Why was the flying sword vision important? Even if the actors were just liars had they had more screen time their ultimate betrayal would have been more MOGness.
If the movie really doesn't pick up where episode 12 ends (after showing Saya's past of course) CLAMP is going to have a lot of angry fans on their hands.
I would love to see the uncensored version of this series. But people are already puking over the censored bunny drama so I don't know how much more they can take. XD
Poor Watanuki the dog. He thought he could get more screen time but this series was more of a trainwreck than the XXXholic ending.
I think movie is always like that??never continue from where it is...like Naruto Movies..lol...
Jz hope they make blood c season 2..unless they suddenly put different saya in season 2 that ll make me emo rage...=_=
swordlink- I think most movies are like that. I would just expect Blood-C to be different as the entire series seems to only exist to have an audience for the movie. Only the producers really gambled with the success of the series.
I think Fumito will find it hard to get a new town full of stupid people for Saya to kill...err let die. Yay for extras! Maybe their families will miss them...
If he kept let people die till no people already he going to govern wat??
Those uglies???who gonna cook for him them??lol
He only know make sweets and coffee.
Those uglies can only give him human sandwich or hotdog haha
swordlink- I am not sure WHAT the government was going to do with Saya. I think it is safe to say this experiment was stupid.
I mean...Japan does have a population problem. Fumito just killed off a great number of young people for no reason.
But at least this show killed people in interesting ways yes? Corn on the cob people so yummy!
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