Maya is in an abusive relationship with the Occult
Summary:
This is what happens when you mess with the Occult
Ami’s dad spots Maya bringing home some tea and ramen, and invites her over for a scary story. When Maya blows him off, he asks Ami if she’s alright and the next day Ami invites Maya and Kozue over to hang out. After some gigantic onigiri and insights into how occult-crazed young Maya was, a news report comes up detailing a mysterious crop circle. Although Maya tries to sneak out to investigate the circle, everyone ends up coming along for the pre-party and stake-out.
Incredibly a UFO shows up, as the group is investigating a cow that’s been drained of blood. The group gives chase, and it’s just like old times when Ami’s dad would recklessly drive the snow sled. When they finally corner the alien, however, it turns out to be a fake. In fact, Ami’s dad hired JK and Smile to make the crop circle and stage the UFO hoax to rekindle Maya’s love of the occult (even though this didn’t work on Kozue either). Maya is pretty upset that Ami’s dad wasted her time, but Ami slaps Maya hard for being mean to her dad. This somehow leads to Ami’s dad slapping Ami for slapping Maya. I wonder what parenting is like in 2012…
Reaction:
Whoa, whoa, wait, how can that helicopter lift that huge light?
This episode was a total tease. First they made it look like Kozue was gonna go flying off the truck bed, then everyone was getting slapped and I kept hoping that Smile would join in and slap Kozue. And yet, nothing happened to Kozue! Damn that annoying girl, there is no justice in this world! As for Maya, I’m surprised she doesn’t really hate the Occult yet. She’s constantly getting beaten because of the Occult but she keeps coming back. It’s unhealthy. Someone needs to stage an intervention.
I found it interesting that Smile feared Ami’s dad, or that Smile and JK would end up working a part-time job together. The whole plot was extremely predictable from the moment the mud was shown on their shoes, which makes me suspect that this was a setup episode where real aliens will show up and bring Ami and Maya back together. The camera phone from the future was quite a hoot as well. I was saddened that future camera phones do not have sensitive enough sensors to bump the ISO up high enough to not need a flash. At least the future is good to JK, who will have three little mini-goth sons.
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Kabitzin – who has written 1971 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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Lol no kidding about JK and his asexually reproduced offspring. He’s like a low level lifeform that replicates IMO.
I wanted some more slap happy scenes. Well, when you blog about ep.8 which is more fun we finally get to see Maya’s tsundere occult blushing face finally :love: And a little bit of Chihiro & Goon action although not as much as I’d hoped.
Maya is a whore
WHAT only 2 comments!?!?! c’mon what is this?!?! Moar talky~talk!
Dude, you were probably the only one who noticed the helicopter in that shot, everyone else was probably laughing at Smile and JK trying to look remorseful. ‘Trying’ being the operative word in Smile’s case (the current face on his smiley badge is a bit of a giveaway, lol). I quite liked this epi, mainly for Ami’s dad, but I can see why you’d find Kozue annoying, though I find her less annoying now than in the earlier epis. And that fake little green (or should that be grey?!) man costume was hilarious!