Rage of Bahamut #02 — The Horse Whisperer

October 13th, 2014

  

This episode went a lot of weird places.

Inou’s second episode was about a love letter and involved basically no super powers at all. Just… love letter crap. Why? It has squandered its chances.

Impressions:

Yeesh. Where to start? Bipolar’s definitely the word of the day. Both the intro/OP and Elvis’s stuff in general are so overblown and melodramatic, and then it’s back to comical adventure time with Afro Cowboy and Demon Girlfriend, complete with pratfalls, goop, and really weirdly overanimated dancing. And speaking of the dancing, what exactly was that? It’s not really clear exactly what Amira’s personality is supposed to be. Absurdly naive deadpan alien to energetic prancing pixie in seconds, and back again. And no, alcohol doesn’t cover that. Even if it did, she sobered up instantly after stripping half her clothes off and cannonballing into a lake. Then has an empathic heart to heart with a horse and the bloody horse of all bloody things is the one with the strong moral compass that brings them back together. Christ. She and the horse even share a meaningful look as they flee.

I still enjoyed the episode a lot more than pretty much everything else I watched this week, but there are certainly some tone and characterization issues it needs to be figuring out. They could have also done a better job selling that the tail was a big deal and/or that killing her would get rid of it, because while I don’t have any problems with him being an underhanded coward, getting her drunk to create an opening to off her, I wasn’t sure how that would result in a tailectomy. I’d have also much rather seen him have a crisis of conscience after selling her out that the goddamned horse. Good god. What were they thinking with that one? 

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7 Shouts From the Peanut Gallery

  • Kadi says:

    I like Demon Girlfriend better as a scarecrow. She looks weird since she got the other clothes… like, her face does…

  • Rihan says:

    I think Demon girl is supposed to be the naive/curious/innocent shoujo type rather than deadpan, which I think adds to her chemistry with Afro dude.

  • kenuran says:

    Yeah i don’t really care for Favaro to continue trying to kill Amira after she keeps saving his ass. Also, since we already know hes stuck with her, I would have preferred if the knights had saw Favaro’s tail just to push that nail in.

    You know I wouldn’t have minded the horse basically saving the day if it actually came with them in the end. Gets sort of a running gag thing going where the horse builds more of a relationship with the female lead than the main character. That would have been funny. Its pretty jarring otherwise if they just leave the horse behind. Does its mean Amira can talk to animals?

  • algorithm says:

    “the bloody horse of all bloody things is the one with the strong moral compass that brings them back together”

    That was awesome. Let’s keep Favaro being an asshole and let all the other shows drown in moralfaggotry.

    • FlameStrike says:

      Lmao I can’t believe it but I’d be down with that. Favaro has been portrayed consistently as a selfish hedonistic ass so far, so him not changing his mind was acceptable.

      Amira’s true personality was surprising though. In ep1 she was that deadpan mysterious girl with a hidden greater mission. Now she’s lolololol pon pon way. I hope they start to portray her more consistently though.

  • jingoi says:

    Yes, keep favaro an a-hole for a bit longer, the anime world doesn’t need anymore shirous or sanjis.