Empress : Kaiserin: Tactics 9

Montag, Dezember 12, 2005

Tactics 9

Injustice in this episode - I guess the animators refused to give us the ending we wanted, lol! It's the all-famous idea of "Science and Technology" versus "Supernatural and Magic" in the form of "Hasumi" versus "Kantarou". I think there's plentiful of contrasting issues surfacing in this pair -
Hasumi dressed in dark dull clothes with his black hair :: Kantarou dressed in lively colours with his silver hair
Hasumi looking all practical (neat haircut and wearing spectacles) and serious :: Kantarou looking all fanciful (silver hair and ruby colour eyes) and ~~too~~ hyperactive
I guess it's either you side with Hasumi or go with Kantarou's ideas. In other words, either you choose to live in a world of reality and be a practical person, or you believe in a mystical world of magic and supernatural, a world of colourful exotic folklores, legends and myths.

There was also feminism at play in the episode - young men as sacrificial objects to help protect the village (instead of the typical female gender). I guess Kinoshita Sakura-sensei felt the unfairness in the stereotyped idea of women sacrificed due to supernatural reasons eh? Unlike in Inuyasha where all sacrificed victims are females.

I was surprised that Kantarou did graduate from an university. Oops... Prejudice at work perhaps? ~~Somehow I feel that the revelation of Kantarou's education is taunting me. :(~~ I always thought if Kantarou knew magic and stuff he might have learn it somethere else (and not from an uni), but then again, it was already revealed that he was a scholar. So why should I be surprised? Maybe it sounded strange in context (language barrier), or it might have slipped my mind. In additional, Kantarou's compassionate nature went astray... Eh... My jaw was gaping open when Kantarou continuously and tenderly stroked the stone cat statue in the midst of a conversation. o_O It might look like something trival, but I think that was something abnormal... I wouldn't stroke a stone cat standing at the entrance of a shrine, no matter how much I like cats... That really wasn't the most natural thing to do...

Now onto more comfortable things - Haruka! Is the tengu a form of sex appeal in the eyes of the animators? Because he appeared half-naked at the start of the episode, with Youko trying to make him strip off his pants... *nosebleeds* I think Youko and the others were playing some "tiger roleplaying" stripping game unknown to us - and the episode ends with the peeps trying to make Haruka strip again. Sigh... Will the game never end? I think it's bad taste... =____________= I guess Haruka is really becoming a slave to everyone, including Youko! In the middle of the episode ~~where Haruka is finally decently clothed~~ Youko and Suzu went playing in the water, leaving Haruka the job of setting up the pinic spot and such. Girls' paradise - and poor Haruka. Kantarou was not around to help coz he was away investigating on a case; well, even if Kan-chan is around Haruka will still be bullied by the latter to set up the place himself, haha!

Some hilarious moments in the episode. I need to be brief, coz my eyelids are getting heavier by the second.
Hasumi who couldn't believe that Mu is a demon - he tried to convince himself it was a toy or something although he witnessed Mu moved, and commented "aah... this is well-made". *falls off the chair*
Hasumi again who saw Sugino reveals his whtie wings and flew away with Mu - Hasumi was an idiot to convince himself "aah... I get it! He's a foreigner!" (o_O Huh...!? When was foreigners known to fly. I guess this touches on the myth in old Asia that Westerners have the ability to fly just because they invented planes and stuff)
Sugino this time - at the moment where he flew off the screen... The breeze sort-of lifted up his robes... (Er, was that so darn intended, animators? *points finger at them suspiciously*) Nnngh... Sugino, a personal question for you. Do mountain gods wear anything underneath the robes... Oops... Someone better censored that! XD *flees far far away*
Last farnie moment - Haruka wanted to get even with Hasumi for being such an ~~SOB~~ irritating person, but Kantarou pulled him hard to stop him from hitting Hasumi and poor Haruka went smack right on his face. Haruka looked pissed at Kantarou immediately - and the tengu's expression is priceless! ^^

Crossover onegaishimasu!
1. opening setting - feeling of Juuni Kokki mixed with Inuyasha
2. starting shamisen music - music from Sakura Taisen
3. Hasumi - Kindaichi Shounen no Jikenbo [because Kindaichi always succeed in tearing off the disguises of the supernatural in all his cases]
4. the demon Tesso - Inuyasha! [except the IY Tesso was...er...pretty stoopid...]