Is This a Zombie? #11 — Maid Vampire Ninja Orchestra vs Sky Whales

March 28th, 2011

 

That would be more exciting if either actually did anything.

Impressions:

Fantastic. Half the bloody episode of Ayumu feeling sorry for himself and refusing to wake up. Just what I was hoping for. I’m like the bloody nosferatu when it comes to feeding on pure undistilled whiny angst. Can’t get enough of the stuff. Why can’t every show just be a bunch of characters whining and feeling too sorry for themselves to do anything? That would be fantabulous!

Elsewhere, it turns out that once a vampire drinks Eu’s blood, if they play music, it kills monsters. But only when dressed up as a maid with the entire vampire ninja maid orchestra backing her. So off she goes to play the violin at an entire squadron of sky whales while Mael whips out the triangle. Meanwhile, Ayumu and Haruna need to go through a double transformation so that… Ayumu can punch him lecture him until Eu just suddenly up and changes her mind and kills him. At which point he asks to be reincarnated as a penguin. 

God. This show is trying so hard to be serious while pulling crap like maid vampire ninja orchestras fighting sky whales with the power of music that it’s physically causing me pain. I still have no idea why Eu didn’t want to kill him to the point where she would endanger entire city’s worth of people, or why Ayumu yelling that Zv1 didn’t understand her made her finally decide it was worth killing him instead of letting said millions of people die. She was apparently ready and willing to sacrifice the city for… whatever her morals were… right up until Ayumu’s big ol’ "you don’t get my girl" speech. Ah, the power of horrible writing. Hell, they didn’t even do anything with the army of maid vampire ninjas. Not that an army of maid vampire ninjas needs to justify its existence, but I expect more than "Look, a giant monster! Oh, it’s gone." with only the most tenuous of connections to what the characters that matter are doing. It basically amounted to nothing more than "Here’s a picture of some maids with violins. We can’t justify it, but it doesn’t matter anyway. Okay, bye." I’ve seen eyecatches that were better integrated into the story than that.

And it’s off to the hot springs next week. Well, at least it ends by going back to comedy, the arena in which where it didn’t blow. That’s something to look forward to… I suppose. It can’t be any worse than this godawful arc, can it? By the way. What ever happened to Kyouko, eh writers?

FYI, while Teletama, the primary broadcaster, has episode 12 scheduled for next week, episode 11 and 12 are going to be aired together on Tokyo MX and MIE TV tomorrow to put those stations back on their normal pre-tsunami schedules. So basically, the last episode’s due out tomorrow. In semi-related news, Kaiji, X-Men, Ring and C have all had the initial premiere dates listed in the season preview confirmed finally. Links have been updated, babies kissed, etc.

Also, Dragon Crisis may be (probably will be) delayed an hour or two today depending on how quickly I can get to it. I have a critical medical procedure that needs to be dealt with in about an hour. Dental cleaning… not to be taken lightly. I could probably write the bloody post without even watching the episode though. Now that’s a dangerous temptation.

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15 Shouts From the Peanut Gallery

  • jingoi says:

    Is the manga/novel is better than this?

    • Anonymous says:

      i say is about same. thought the LN good at explaining thing

      • feal87 says:

        Not true, completed the second volume of the manga just some time ago and the events change slightly in order, flavor and a lot of details. (with some additional content till now)

        (the whale appear after encountering the old-zombie and not before and other big changes)

  • Derek says:

    omg… this is teh best anime of the season :O

  • sage says:

    By the way. What ever happened to Kyouko, eh writers?

    Damn I still miss those breasts…

  • FlameStrike says:

    LOL!!! Now this was just bad. It had me face palming. Almost so bad it was good, but not quiet. Well, in terms of plot and any attempting any type of serious story, it failed horribly. I was going WTF WTF, untill I realized I just needed to turn off my brain and ogle the Vampire Ninja Meido team playing music. The Ayuma vs Night guy fight was pretty well done, but it made no sense plot wise. So in order to enjoy it I had to turn off my brain and just watch the fight. Gah, I hope this show goes back to comedy. It takes a lot of effort to ignore blatantly stupid or random writing and focus strictly on enjoying the good parts. They shouldn’t even try for any type of seriousness.

  • Tylon says:

    She finally speaks (biggest shock of the series)… What an easy job for her seiyuu.

    Meido cosplay is the official dress code for “Ninja orchestra”? I have no idea what is going on…

  • Sarukah says:

    “Please make me a penguin; I love penguins.”

    I think that was when I finally yelled WHAT and gave up on trying to make any sense of anything this episode. I mean, that line. Wow.

  • keifun says:

    I have to say, the preview conversations are the only consistently good part of every episode.

  • Aex says:

    Once again, too bipolar. That is the major problem with this show. The comedy is lost because you think it’s gonna be serious, and the drama is lost cause you thought it was gonna be funny. I’m as lost as everyone else as to why Eu finally decided to kill IdiotZombie1. Nothing changed aside from he didn’t hate her anymore, but she still had to kill a “friend” which was supposedly her whole reason for NOT killing him again. DAH! You’re lucky you’re so ridiculously cute Eu… Also, Vampire Ninja Orchestra = WTF???

    This whole arc has just been awesomely dumb. Well, at least Eu is back, and we got to hear her talk. Definitely best part of the episode.

  • chad001 says:

    Yuu TALKS!!! Nuff said.

  • Dandadda says:

    HOLD UP!

    Why hasn’t anyone mentioned the ginormous elephant in the room!?

    How the hell did Eu speak and we not have catastrophes happening all over the place!?

    That was the entire plotline and then she speaks, not whispers, SPEAKS, and NADA HAPPENS! ZILCH!

    TOTAL FAIL BLOG!

    Aside from that I thoroughly enjoyed this show!

    Good Day

    • Aex says:

      I think that was their way of saying she’s emotionally stable now so she can talk. And she didn’t really give any commands or declare anything. So long as she’s really careful it’s probably fine, but she just didn’t want to put the effort in before.

      Yup, that’s how I justify this nice, big plot-hole to myself. *nod*

      • chad001 says:

        Well, if you really listen word for word, she doesn;t say any actions. Just yes, no, I’m in pain, ok, etc. She doesn’t say “Die” or “ELEPHANT THROUGH THE WINDOW!” or anything involved with actions.

  • sage says:

    I find it all sorts of amusing that, after you complained so much about Sera’s violin scene from the last episode, it turned out to be a Chekhov’s Skill.