Fourteen Sick Wants Love #03 — More Abuse of the English Language

October 17th, 2012

 

I don’t know. Is it easy for you to talk in English?

Impressions:

The first half was a little overly spastic. Basically the thinnest premise possible tossed up to let Rikka wave her umbrella around. At least doofus snuck off to go ogle the cheerleaders, perhaps the first time besides his wet dreams that he’s shown actual interest in anything. Of course, now that the one he keeps having big boy dreams of fiveways with her and her clones over is directly coming onto him, I have no doubt that he will go running screaming for the hills. The playacting with the whole troupe getting into it wasn’t bad though. Anything that gets the show further from the wet towel helps.

The second was concerned with Rikka’s disciple, Sanae’s intro some really horrible singsong Engrish. I’m not sure I’d know how to answer "What do you think of yourself" either, honestly. It’s like one of those demented interview questions where you are asked about your true nature. Maybe it was supposed to be "What do you think of, Rikka?" which still doesn’t make a great deal of sense. "Yes" seems like a perfectly acceptable answer there regardless of understanding. Anyway, Sanae’s fairly annoyingly cloying too, but just about anything’s better than Yuuta. Probably mostly due to the obnoxious speech tic. It could’ve used more hair flails too. I’d rather see more of her messing around and playfighting than Yuuta, but they could stand to take it down a notch or two. Like Rikka, she’s less written to be a character and more a little too obviously fabricated for marketing purposes.

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8 Shouts From the Peanut Gallery

  • algorithm says:

    No big sister, not worth my time.
    Rikka talking in elvish would work better than the obnoxious bullshit she is spouting.

  • Nanaya says:

    http://tenka.seiha.org/images3/chuu23/6.jpg

    This is a tomato. Very clearly a tomato. Definitely nothing else. So then why am I so suspicious about this image?

  • GF202020 says:

    Why does that girl have bags tied to her hair?

  • Pp1T says:

    >Maybe it was supposed to be “What do you think of, Rikka?”

    No, because she was asking “Catherine” about what she thought of Rikka. I think you missed what was going on in this scene.

  • KLAC-LACUS says:

    well now i say get more hmm to see give yuuta tried rikka’s food everyone goes wow.

    rikka want to start a club then tried both cheer & drama but nope call in long twin hair tails servant.

    yea that hair is so WHAT so now then club still not yet clean room/spare battle of rikka vs sanae.

    next day now club is official cause shinka join in the rikka’s club.

  • Kefit says:

    >Like Rikka, she’s less written to be a character and more a little too obviously fabricated for marketing purposes.

    Never thought I’d see someone else who agrees with me about this due to the Kyoani kool-aid effect. Lack of character agency is a weak point in pretty much every Kyoani production I’ve seen. Thankfully chuu2koi is peppy and fun and chuu2 enough to remain very entertaining despite this flaw.

    Sometimes I wonder if the presence of chuu2 is the only difference between this show and k-on. I’m not sure I want to think about that idea any further.