Level E 04 – Into the darkness

Yet another episode that I used the episode title, anyways, Prince will not make his appearance, instead we have four guys who some chick being eaten by their fellow student and decides to ask help to some hippie who referred to them on some Level E course in some shabby clinic that is beside a strip club!

Even though this episode focuses more on the story about those four guys who are scared because they witness an alien eating their student, we still have the same opening sequence. Could this be that the Prince is trolling us again? Anyways, one thing that I noticed about this episode is that the drawings are a bit “dirty” some might say rough, but the roughness of art added depth to the dark storyline that we are having right now.

Since the four guys are some generic group of punks, I will skip them and go to the aliens in this episode, the Conwell race, a race of aliens that eats their women for them to bear a child and this episode focuses on the urges of one Conwell. About it, I love the issue of self-control!

If I would place it in the real world side of things, you might interpret it as “doing that deed" and that the man can’t resist doing it with the girl he likes because his body can’t take it anymore and wants to do it. In this case, he likes the girl but he doesn’t want to eat but he must because it is part of his nature as an alien. 

This is one aspect of Togashi-sensei that I might say he is a genius. If you lay it down, here is how it goes. He likes the girl but still wants to see her everyday but wants to eat her because that is how they express their “love” with the girl but he want to see her but he must eat her to express his love for her. See what I mean? This sort of tragedy keeps me glued watching this episode.

Overall, the art, the darkness of the story and the good balance between comedy and drama in this episode makes this episode stand out from the rest of the other episodes and you can watch this episode even with no background knowledge about the first three episodes of the show.

Like what the previous episode noted about the Prince’s writing skills, yep, it turned out that this is one of Prince’s schemes, I mean, projects for the sake of humans understanding the aliens surrounding them…, which surprised me in the end and caused me to pull the same expression I had back at the climax of the previous episode! And since this story never worked for a video game company named, Zega since it is too dark, the Prince’s next plan is to create five kids who have strong sense of justice and will wear colorful costumes!

Yup, the next episode is yet another Super Sentai parody! Seriously, what’s with Japan and the amount of tokusatsu references these days?! Just earlier, I made a Bakuman review and mentioned about Niizuma doing Rider 1’s henshin pose, now this?! This is indeed, the year of Kamen Rider and Super Sentai!

Level E 04 – Into the darkness

Yet another episode that I used the episode title, anyways, Prince will not make his appearance, instead we have four guys who some chick being eaten by their fellow student and decides to ask help to some hippie who referred to them on some Level E course in some shabby clinic that is beside a strip club!

Even though this episode focuses more on the story about those four guys who are scared because they witness an alien eating their student, we still have the same opening sequence. Could this be that the Prince is trolling us again? Anyways, one thing that I noticed about this episode is that the drawings are a bit “dirty” some might say rough, but the roughness of art added depth to the dark storyline that we are having right now.

Since the four guys are some generic group of punks, I will skip them and go to the aliens in this episode, the Conwell race, a race of aliens that eats their women for them to bear a child and this episode focuses on the urges of one Conwell. About it, I love the issue of self-control!

If I would place it in the real world side of things, you might interpret it as “doing that deed" and that the man can’t resist doing it with the girl he likes because his body can’t take it anymore and wants to do it. In this case, he likes the girl but he doesn’t want to eat but he must because it is part of his nature as an alien. 

This is one aspect of Togashi-sensei that I might say he is a genius. If you lay it down, here is how it goes. He likes the girl but still wants to see her everyday but wants to eat her because that is how they express their “love” with the girl but he want to see her but he must eat her to express his love for her. See what I mean? This sort of tragedy keeps me glued watching this episode.

Overall, the art, the darkness of the story and the good balance between comedy and drama in this episode makes this episode stand out from the rest of the other episodes and you can watch this episode even with no background knowledge about the first three episodes of the show.

Like what the previous episode noted about the Prince’s writing skills, yep, it turned out that this is one of Prince’s schemes, I mean, projects for the sake of humans understanding the aliens surrounding them…, which surprised me in the end and caused me to pull the same expression I had back at the climax of the previous episode! And since this story never worked for a video game company named, Zega since it is too dark, the Prince’s next plan is to create five kids who have strong sense of justice and will wear colorful costumes!

Yup, the next episode is yet another Super Sentai parody! Seriously, what’s with Japan and the amount of tokusatsu references these days?! Just earlier, I made a Bakuman review and mentioned about Niizuma doing Rider 1’s henshin pose, now this?! This is indeed, the year of Kamen Rider and Super Sentai!

Bakuman 17 – Goblin and Kindness

It’s been a while since I wrote an episode review for Bakuman, but here it is, I just did a review for episode 17! Anyways, Mashiro accepts the summer job of being Niizuma’s assistant and along with it; he met Nakai and Fukuda, his other assistants. Naki here is the old guy on his thirties while Fukuda is that white-haired guy. Enough with the character descriptions, let’s get this over with!

Asides that it is pretty rare that I use the show’s episode titles, the reason why I used it is because of two things. First, Niizuma has been quite cocky and doesn’t listen much to his editor, instead he spends time drawing the manuscript and submitting it and because of this, CROW’s rankings slowly drops after the first chapter due to it being not interesting.

This is when the Goblin part of the title comes in. Eiji has been occupied with the praises coming from those in Jack’s editorial department because he is, accordingly, a genius with the said praise stuck in his head that at the end of the episode he admitted that he turned into a “goblin.”

Second, as for the Kindness part, if not for Mashiro not observing Niizuma, the talk about popularity will not be brought up which ended up with a pseudo meeting between Mashiro, Niizuma and Fukuda just to help their Niizuma fix his problem in making CROW interesting.

As for the new characters, Nakai is one of those pro-assistants who still want to become a full-fledged manga-ka and as seen in this episode, he is envious with the youth around him, makes me pity the guy. As for Fukuda, he is cocky and somewhat a good mix between Niizuma, and that guy who likes to draw moe in some episode that I forgot. Even though he is a jerk that deserves to be punched, deep inside he is good guy who works as an assistant and as a convenience store clerk at morning.

Asides from the new characters, this is one episode in which we saw Niizuma having the needed character development. I mean, for the past few weeks, he is acting weird, doing poses (in this episode, he did Kamen Rider 1’s pose that caused me to fanwank a bit and mutter his henshin phrase, Rider… Henshin), and leave his manuscripts lying on the floor. It was fun when it lasted but what’s next? Thank God, the writers heard my wish!

Overall, it is one worthy episode to be watched. Asides that we saw Niizuma finally having the needed character growth, we met Ashirogi Muto’s possible rivals in the form of the kind-hearted Nakai and the jerk Fukuda. Finally this show is getting much more interesting due to the change of pace with our characters! Now, when we will see episodes that involve Takagi’s own personal growth?

Bakuman 17 – Goblin and Kindness

It’s been a while since I wrote an episode review for Bakuman, but here it is, I just did a review for episode 17! Anyways, Mashiro accepts the summer job of being Niizuma’s assistant and along with it; he met Nakai and Fukuda, his other assistants. Naki here is the old guy on his thirties while Fukuda is that white-haired guy. Enough with the character descriptions, let’s get this over with!

Asides that it is pretty rare that I use the show’s episode titles, the reason why I used it is because of two things. First, Niizuma has been quite cocky and doesn’t listen much to his editor, instead he spends time drawing the manuscript and submitting it and because of this, CROW’s rankings slowly drops after the first chapter due to it being not interesting.

This is when the Goblin part of the title comes in. Eiji has been occupied with the praises coming from those in Jack’s editorial department because he is, accordingly, a genius with the said praise stuck in his head that at the end of the episode he admitted that he turned into a “goblin.”

Second, as for the Kindness part, if not for Mashiro not observing Niizuma, the talk about popularity will not be brought up which ended up with a pseudo meeting between Mashiro, Niizuma and Fukuda just to help their Niizuma fix his problem in making CROW interesting.

As for the new characters, Nakai is one of those pro-assistants who still want to become a full-fledged manga-ka and as seen in this episode, he is envious with the youth around him, makes me pity the guy. As for Fukuda, he is cocky and somewhat a good mix between Niizuma, and that guy who likes to draw moe in some episode that I forgot. Even though he is a jerk that deserves to be punched, deep inside he is good guy who works as an assistant and as a convenience store clerk at morning.

Asides from the new characters, this is one episode in which we saw Niizuma having the needed character development. I mean, for the past few weeks, he is acting weird, doing poses (in this episode, he did Kamen Rider 1’s pose that caused me to fanwank a bit and mutter his henshin phrase, Rider… Henshin), and leave his manuscripts lying on the floor. It was fun when it lasted but what’s next? Thank God, the writers heard my wish!

Overall, it is one worthy episode to be watched. Asides that we saw Niizuma finally having the needed character growth, we met Ashirogi Muto’s possible rivals in the form of the kind-hearted Nakai and the jerk Fukuda. Finally this show is getting much more interesting due to the change of pace with our characters! Now, when we will see episodes that involve Takagi’s own personal growth?