10 August 2010: I'm losing interest in Shiki
I'm not sure I want to know what Megumi has in that enormous purse.
I was mildly impressed with the first episode of Shiki, and really liked it after watching it a second time, but after that initial episode I've kind of been waiting for the show to get more interesting. Mostly I've been waiting for Haruka Tomatosauce's character to reappear in earnest.
Look, it was either this screenshot or one of catdude.
Let's get a four things straight, okay:
- It's vampires. It's completely obvious, and if you haven't figured it out by now you clearly are not trying very hard.
- If vampires weren't bad enough, this village has the bad luck of having the worst doctor. Where in Hell did you go to medical school, guy?
- The people in this show have either the best hair or the worst hair I've ever seen. I'm undecided.
- That dude with the cat ears that leaned on the horn in the middle of the night in order to wake up a complete stranger so he could ask for directions? He's lucky he didn't try that shit in America. He would have gotten a first-barrel-rock-salt, second-barrel-buckshot response.
Swing and a miss.
Really, I can sympathize with Megumi and her intense frustration at being trapped in a small-town Hellhole she can't wait to escape. None of this ever would have happened to her if that dude she liked had taken lessons from Bing Crosby. Poor kid.
