The World God Only Knows #11 — “Be Calmed By My Saliva”
December 15th, 2010
I’m just glad it’s over.
Impressions:
Yawn. At least I was wrong and this arc ended here instead of being stretched out another episode. I’m counting that as a win. Not that this episode moved by any means. It began with about two minutes of an insert song and Shiori puttering around the library. I also question the time lapses in this show. Or maybe the book club was too stupid to call anybody to open the library and actually did spend an entire evening circling it, trying to find a way in. Maybe even the whole night since they were all there in the morning. They could have at least ended it with something other than that awful anime indirect kiss cliche too. Ugh. Of all the bizarre courtship rituals of the free-range Japanese anime female, I think that’s the one I detest the most. Well, that and the winter display of plumage.
At least the direction was either painfully pretentious or exceedingly bizarre enough to sort of be amusing to watch. See, it’s deep because she’s both protected and trapped by books. She’s scared and just needed a booster shot of male saliva to… not be. All better now! Great work on that one, Keima. I simply love how the big climax to the arc had literally nothing to do with him. Shiori just suddenly started another one of her dumps before he explodes out of a pile of books to shove his tongue down her throat. Doesn’t top the random daruma close-up though. Not that’s quality directing. "Okay, serious conversation, so let’s show a closeup of Keima’s eyes. Now Shiori’s eyes. Who else is in that scene… hmm… Ah! The daruma. Get him on it too. Magnifique!"
Who am I kidding? The daruma was probably the most lifelike character of this whole episode.
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You watch Adventure Time? Awesome.
Dude, try to do a Regular Show quote next time.