Originally posted 27 Nov 2010 – Seishin still can’t get on board with Toshio’s methods, and this is driven home when he meets exactly what he’s been talking about: Toru, who is killing to live, not out of evil or hatred. Do vampires have just as much a right to kill humans as humans have [...]
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Other possible episode titles: Seventeen Bad Decisions. Seventeen People Who I Thought Would Live Through This Series But Won’t. Seventeen WTF Moments. Seventeen Hundred Lingering Questions. Sotoba: Population Seventeen (Or Less). Remember that whole Doc killing his undead wife thing? Turns out, Monkenstein is still feeling pretty bad about being friends with a murderer – [...]
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Is it at all ironic that someone who doesn’t wear pants wears the pants in the Kirishiki relationship? So, um, WE ARE ALL FUCKED. Muroi is . . . surrendering himself to Sunako, or something; Ozaki has become Mrs. Kirishiki’s vampire sex slave (with the snipetastic blessing of Mr. Kirishiki, as if he really has [...]
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This is NOT a good sign for the humans How did I NOT expect Shiki to troll us once again by not talking about Akira’s fate? I should know by now =.= Yeah, he’s probably going to die, but I want to see REAL PROOF OF HIM AS AN OKIAGARI! Aside from that, the story [...]
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Every time we think that Shiki has reached rock bottom in terms of the rise of the... well, Risen, so we find that the next episode pulls us even deeper still into the mire. For a large portion of this episode our focus moves to follow Seishin Muroi, who aside from having nightmares following stumbling across Ozaki's experimentation on wife is also finding himself with numerous other problems to
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This episode was much faster paced than I’ve become accustomed to from Shiki – clearly everything has now reached a fever pitch and the final few episodes will be concentrating on the pay-off of all this painstaking build-up.  Still, this episode was full of ‘OMG, what on earth are you doing!?’ moments – everyone is [...]
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I remember how during the first half, a couple of people noted how the first OP of this series showed the people who would end up dying in this series… Yeah. That suddenly got a whole new dimension here. I mean, if that was the intention of the creators, then they could have just as [...]
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