Dusk Maiden of Amnesia #09 — And Then Teiichi Was The Flashback

June 3rd, 2012

 

Oh boy.

Impressions:

I’ve kind of checked out on this show at this point, and Momoe screaming like a chicken being tortured through practically the entire first half didn’t exactly give me a reason to focus. I would be remiss though if I didn’t note that the very first thing that he noticed when he got literally sucked into Yuuko’s memories was staring down at his newfound cleavage. Priorities, man. But that was just the last few seconds of the episode. Rewinding a bit, most of the first two thirds of the episode was just filled with utter generic nonsense… Momoe popping up to shriek, Yuuko flirting with him, Kirie looking dour and ‘trying’ to advance the plot by getting cut off halfway into every redundant infodump attempt. The usual.

Meanwhile for the last, ostensibly the ‘interesting’ part, nothing that could be said once couldn’t be said five times. Yes, you’re also Yuuko, Shadow Thing. I got that a few episodes back. Yes, Yuuko, I realize you can’t leave the school. I got that from the 30 seconds of watching you run in place trying to do that. I didn’t also need Teiichi’s later repeated analysis of the situation after seeing it once again. I don’t have any faith they’re actually going to make it to Yuuko’s death or… well… explain much of anything with this flashback either, particularly since all the other snippets seemed to be a completely random mishmash of scenes taken from horror shows, not entirely unlike how Fujiko’s been teasing its past events the whole time. Can’t take away the character’s one gimmick and force them to move on or develop. This is anime after all.

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3 Shouts From the Peanut Gallery

  • Anon says:

    Well I bet they will because the manga had always keep that a mystery and have yet to address it.

    It could had ended with the rooftop but no, they decided to skip the Mysteries (why? its actually something that would work on a episodic format) and go for “the plot”, of course the manga had not gotten close to anything that can be used so welcome to original ending.

    Why this was adapted so soon is beyond me … well not really, I get a pretty good idea but at the rate they are burning their bridges they will run out of them.

  • The Phantom says:

    I guess that we are into “anime-only” territory from now on… and “anime-only” ending after that.

    I doubt that this anime will ever get a second season after that, and will probably not be properly concluded either.

    I suppose that there is no escape from the imminent trainwreck.

  • anise_punter says:

    Well, it was either this or Stealth Momos, so you’re probably not regretting it as much as you could be.