Empress : Kaiserin

Tactics 18

Welcome to the world of Ichinomiya Kantarou: MONEY! XDDD At first I was deceived by that scheming man that he was against science because of some righteous principles... And of course, it didn't turn out that way. He expressed his anger strongly about people using science to mislead people into thinking so theoretically when it was actually the work of youkais. But as proved once again, Youko is the person who understands Kantarou best - Kan-chan was angry because the "Mystery Society" was affecting his youkai-busting business... =__= Aha, now it sounds more like Kan-chan, lol. There was this scene about Kantarou fighting with Hasumi over the truth about the supernatural and stuff, and Kan-chan didn't seem to get the idea of doing research without earning money. Lol, Kan-chan is sooo money-minded... Luckily Haruka didn't pick up this bad trait of his!

Hasumi and Rosalie remained in the story after their previous appearances in the previous episode. However, Rosalie didn't get much limelight as compared to yesterday's, except she gets to pick on Suzu (like calling her "loser", "idiot" and the whatnots). Hooray! Revenge! XP This is a war between bitches! We also get to witness a fight between Hasumi and Rosalie, since the father-figure is still convinced that Rosalie's ability to see creatures of the supernatural world is due to her inner turmoils and hence the hallucinations. Rosalie is of course upset and flung her doll at Hasumi before running away. Seriously now, it seems that Hasumi is really determined to "cure" Rosalie, and had coaxed her into telling him her kept emotions so that she can "get rid" of those "hallucinations". I have a strong feeling that Hasumi was really treating Rosalie as part of his experiments! He was very certain that he will be the person who can cure Rosalie - all due to his pride. If he was having intentions to be her father, I believe he would rather listen to his daughter and not be so stubborn towards his beliefs... Sigh... I don't know... Let's watch on.

Introduction of a minor (I believe she'll only be appearing in this episode) character, Ayame. Kantarou should be happy to know that someone actually read his works, lol! Oh wait, he is happy! And very proud! XD Imagine Kan-chan in shiny shiny background saying the phrase boku desu! [That's me!] so full of pride, whahahaa! What a shiny shiny Kantarou appearance. Okay, I'm swooning now, XP Oh, and it's surprising to see Kantarou blush when he first met Ayame. Haha, priceless moment! Ayame was Hasumi's student, so it seems, but believed in the existence of youkais - because she used to be able to see them when she was young. And my, my, Kantarou was really gentle to her, and when the Kenkegen appeared, both were so enthusiastic to see the youkai. Kantarou especially. I felt his passion of befriending youkais. Awww... Kantarou was having those lovey-lovey eyes and self-indulging: "I had wanted to meet the Kenkegen ever since I was young..." Lol, he had scary eyes like those when he first met Haruka. XD

Speaking about Haruka, he didn't help at all in any of Kantarou's youkai-busting activities. He was busy playing with Youko and the rest. =__= Nnnnggggh?! I love the part when he was playing "Japanese badminton" (I really don't know how they call it in Japan, sorry... It sounded ugly, I know...) with Youko. Haruka, determined not to lose the game because of the forfeit, gave his best, and smacked the feather-like thing (what was it called again?) right into Youko's face... o_O Poor Youko... The collapsed fox-demon was stammering "Haruka... You're banned from this game..." Whahahahahahahaaaaaaa!!!

Mu and Sugino also appeared. And Sugino paid the price for wearing such ugly ponytails! *cough cough* *just kidding* He earned a bald spot on his head due to the Kenkegen! Whoa. I thought that was a little cruel to him, lol. Mu doesn't have to worry - she doesn't have any hair! XD (Oops...! Don't let Sugino know I said that XP) In the end, Ayame finally managed to see youkais again - Mu and the Kenkegen. Hasumi did also see Mu, but I can't believe he used the excuse of Mu coming from a foreign country! OMG... o_O That's one lame excuse!! I actually hate Hasumi a lot, especially in this episode, because he took all the credits from Kantarou during those visitations to the victims' place when Kan-chan was the one "busting" and taming all the youkais in those households. Hmm... Hey, wait a minute, Kantarou is actually not bad a person - he did all that for free too! But after that Mu scene, I think revenge was already executed. We all witness the fact of Hasumi's stubbornness towards scientific theories turned into an element of humour. Thumbs up to the script! ^^

Tonight's episode concludes with the Kenkegen visiting Kantarou's home after his failure of busting/taming the demon. Nooooooo~~~~~ Haruka's hair~~~~~~ Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! *kills herself* But it seems that the most impactful "hairstyle" comes from Kantarou, when both Youko and Haruka gave that (o_O) look. BUT WE DIDN'T GET TO SEE WHAT IT WAS LIKE!!!! *WHINES* Lol, I guess Kinoshita Sakura-sensei was too over-protective of her Kantarou! ^______^

Crrrrrrrrrrrrrossover desu yo!
1. the Kotofurunushi - the judge from Akazukin Cha Cha with the hairstyle of Rukia (from Bleach) XD

P.S. I hate part of tonight's subtitles. Bleeeeh. The "haunted" instrument was actually the Japanese "guzheng" called the "koto", but the subtitles called it firstly a "harp", then later on a "zither". "Zither" is close to the description of the koto, but isn't "harp" a little too far-fetched? o_O

posted by empress @ 7:24 PM