Summary:
The duo books a hotel room at Hotel Venus in Saint Cabal, and Michiko makes a point of visiting an oracle. It seems like a scam, but Michiko still buys a lucky Forsa Fedra stone for Hatchin and some of God’s clipped nails for special powers. The old woman also prophesizes that Hatchin’s right leg would suffer misfortune and then Hatchin would chase someone running up a mountain into a dangerous situation with oceans and gunshots. Hatchin is completely skeptical, but when Hatchin steps in some dog poo, Michiko is convinced that the oracle was right. Michiko then commissions a portrait of Hiroshi and goes around asking if anyone has seen him.
The next day, Michiko steals some shoes for Hatchin, but Hatchin refuses to wear stolen shoes. To pay the 130 arca off, she gets a part time job at Ran Yin’s Chinese restaurant waiting tables. It’s hard work for low pay, but Hatchin lops off her pigtails and gets down to business. Hatchin even ends up chasing some deadbeat customers for Ran Yin, but suddenly the prophecy comes true as Hatchin is cornered by the deadbeat’s homies and held at gunpoint. Suddenly, Michiko zips in to save the day, and reveals she has found Hiroshi on the outskirts of Favela. Unfortunately, while the fellow in Favela looks like the portrait, the portrait didn’t really look like Hiroshi and Michiko rants that the oracle was a total fraud.
Reaction:
I noticed that at the end, Hatchin didn’t really get the money for the food or her old shoes back (which the deadbeat kid stole as well). I liked seeing more of Hatchin’s personality come out, and she seems so world-weary compared to the gullible and energetic Michiko. The scene with Hatchin covering up her drool on the bed was so awesome, even if it hit a little close to home (I, er, have a friend who does that).
I was excited that there were a plethora of outfit changes in the episode. Michiko looked different every time she appeared on screen, and most of her outfits were pretty nice. I did, however, notice that she got especially dolled up for when she thought she was visiting Hiroshi. I almost couldn’t tell that it was her with her hair up like that! I also thought the portrait idea was very funny, since Michiko was relating Hiroshi’s features from memory (and over a decade ago). I wasn’t sure who drew the picture of Hatchin, though, since it looked more like a pig than anything else. Did Michiko draw it herself, or did her description of Hatchin suck that badly?
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Kabitzin – who has written 1970 posts on Sea Slugs! Anime Blog.
One of the founders of Sea Slugs, I handle most of the blog admin tasks while wearing my I AM BOSS shirt. I like my action series well choreographed, and my romance series extra trashy. I also have a soft spot for puns.
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Deus ex machina already in the third episode? That’s pure FAIL. Look at Michiko’s saggy boobs! Hatchin looks like a pig, the drawing resembled her quite well. Maybe there’s something wrong with your eyes? The drawing of the guy looked a bit like Spike. Perhaps Michiko had watched Cowboy Bebop once too often, so she can’t t tell anime and reality apart?
Yeah, I also thought that Michiko was looking for Spike… Some say he didn’t die!
Best part for me was the bitchslap.
“I’ll blow you’re head off, old lady!” SLAP.
MICHIKO DEMANDS RESPECT.
And she doesn’t care who she has to step on to get it!
It Just Bugs Me(tm): where the Hell does Michiko get and keep all those different outfits? Does she steal a new one every day and possess a SCUMM inventory or something?
It keeps me awake at night, I tells you.
I assume she steals some and buys some. She did rob that bank in the first episode, so she has money. I figure she is just a bit of a shoplifter, like Winona Ryder.
It’s pretty fun going through the sorry realization that Michiko, for all of her toughness and bad attitude, is actually gullible and not too street-smart.
It occurs to me this could of have some connection to the fact she seems to have ended up as the fall guy and spent a decade behind the bars as a result…