The good and the bad.

I really have no idea what the writer for Kakumeiki Valvrave is thinking. Honestly speaking, with a group of children in the school declaring their independence just because they have the Valvrave as a bargaining chip, this story could have already headed into a deadzone. Just as I thought things couldn't get any worse, I literally face-palmed myself once again after the latest episode.

And so the episode shows how the students are enjoying their independence with all their freedom and stuff like that, and somehow, they appear to have enough food supplies to last them even after they have separated themselves from the colony. The first of their worry came when some temperature sensor on their module started to screw up and resulting in the entire module to experience cold winter almost immediately. This then later results in conflicting parties on the declaration of independence and an argument arose between the girls. In an attempt to stop the heated argument, Shouko decides to sing "twinkle twinkle little star".

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=.=lll

wait. what?! Are you kidding me? ... That was as awkward as it already is and somehow the plot management made it seem very normal and to portray Shouko as a carefree individual. But seriously a song?! That didn't even fit the atmosphere at all. Or I would say, it ruined it.

That wasn't the end, until the students decide to take a video of themselves singing a song, with Haruto driving the Valvrave like as though it was a mascot. That was out of the blue and had no significance to the plot at all! I watched this series to see how a marvellous writer had planned the plot to be, and to see some mecha action with the Valvraves, but all I got from the past 4 episodes was it acting like a mascot and nothing else.

The ending of the episode did however deliver a small hope to save the series, where they are already bringing in the other Valvraves, and what's more, Saki seems to have developed feelings for Haruto? To me it seems more like she was trying to investigate Haruto's body switching abilities by kissing him though. Nonetheless, the Valvrave's AI seems to pick up the kiss too, so I guess it does possess a certain level of intelligence?

Hopefully this series gets saved in some way or if this state of plot development continues, I really can't bear to continue this any longer :X

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Was rather disappointed over this week's Date a Live episode too. Only a few episodes in and already a filler episode? The whole business of having Shido make Spirits fall in love in him to suppress their powers was a basic plot starter but I'm definitely looking at more things that the plot can deliver, in terms of perhaps the secret of spacequakes, the exact phenomenon of Spirits, and of course, the outcome of this harem series. I wouldn't be surprised if Shido didn't choose any specific girl in the end, (this kinda always happen in harem series anyway) but if he did, I would be guessing Tohka personally. There's still more spirits that will appear as the OP has already hinted, but I guess, knowing the secret of Kotori and on the mysterious girl in AST combat suit that appeared at the last scene actually makes me more curious and to find out more.

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Suisei no Gargantia does seem to get rather monotonous after some time, where all we see is still Ledo and Chamber being left on Earth, away from home, and being taught by everyone how to live on Gargantia itself. The plot is good, with the interesting transition and use of different communicating languages, but I am too, looking out for more in this series itself. The debut of the series with Ledo and the others fighting the enemy definitely caught my attention and I would actually quite like to see more action of Ledo and Chamber. In the episode of pirate attacks, even though Chamber was totally overpowering the opponents, it was exciting to see some action here and there but at the same time, hoping for more. Do hope that the series wouldn't be just showing Ledo get accustomed to living on the Gargantia. There is still a possibility that Ledo might leave Earth for him home once again (perhaps at the end?) or that his enemies actually tracked him all the way to Earth, and that his comrades all begin living on the Gargantia... A possible route for the plot to go but at this time, no one actually can predict what's gonna happen next with this original series.

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Hataraku Maou-sama is still as good as ever, the slice-of-life pacing is good and with occasional comedy and serious business all mixed together, this is currently the series I'm most looking forward to every week. With Lucifer now practically a NEET, he actually managed to lure Maou and the others to find his gaming console for him which he had lost when he came to this world. Seems like Emi and Maou are now more open to Chiho now and it was pretty funny to see Emi getting prank called halfway in work by Lucifer's internet hacking skills. Now that is pretty clever for a devil to learn :D We have a new girl arriving at Maou's house, no idea who exactly is she yet, but her seiyuu's pretty prominent yea, with the same voice of Saten from Railgun, Yui from SAO, Elsie from Kaminomi, Sena from Sukunai and many more.

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Even after actually appreciating the fact that Railgun S is following the main plot rather closely and with the Sisters arc having shown so quickly in this series, I was still surprised how detailed and gory they had tried to make the sisters experiment so brutal and sad at the same time. For most of the time where the first Sister (shall refer Sisters as Misakas instead) that Mikoto had met until the experiment, they were frequently focusing on the badge that Mikoto had gave to Misaka, stressing that even as a clone, Misaka still has feelings for "siblings" and really do treasure that first gift alot. Which makes it even more sad when she died at the hands of Accelerator while trying to retrieve the badge that had fallen off while she was fighting Accelerator. The violent part wasn't just the final smashing of her by a train but the scene where Accelerator actually tore her leg off. It wasn't exactly graphic but it was something I wouldn't expect to see in the Railgun series. Which now makes me think that: hey, this series means serious business" Would expect to see Touma soon, which either depends whether they decide to follow the Index route or the Railgun route. Nonetheless, I am expecting a serious fight between the 2 Level 5s next week.

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quite an addictive song after listening to this multiple times :)