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Animation: 10/ 10 (what can I say? If it stays like this, then wow!)
Story in this episode: 10/ 10 (I loved it – the three of them are so brill)
Humour: 11/10 (If it’s even possible, it made me laugh even more than before)
Overall Rating: 11/ 10 (I may be biased as it’s my fave character’s prologue)
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Yay, episode 03, the final prologue episode! So without any ado, let’s get going with the summary!
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~Summary~
The episode begins with a random thief, looking like a superhero, jumping from a window with a bag of souls – he’s then shot at and turns to find his pursuer – Death the Kid ^^. Kid’s twin guns take their human forms and they all strike a pose, which Kid then criticises as Patty’s slightly to the right of their Totem-pole-like creation. Lupin (the thief) is looking totally bemused at this point, while Patty apologises with a super cute “I’m sorry” and Liz looks slightly embarrassed. Only a few minutes in and I’m already laughing XD. Apparently Kid wants everything he does to be done perfectly, regardless of the time and place – aww he has an obsessive-compulsive disorder, how sweet, lol.
At this point Lupin’s noticed a man-hole cover and jumps down with his loot while Patty starts to laugh, and Kid continues lecturing them, oblivious. “Symmetry is the greatest form of beauty!” Forgetting the thirf completely, Kid goes into a rant about symmetry – that’s why he like having two guns as weapons – however when they’re in human form they look different – height, hairstyles and – to prove his point he grabs, um their chests – different cup sizes XD. Haha Liz doesn’t like that and does her own version of the shinigami chop. She has a go at him and brings the three stripes on one side of his head into the limelight – oh no he’s not symmetrical?!
Poor Kid starts cursing himself for being worthless and mopes on the floor in a way akin to Tamaki from Ouran HSHC! Patty finds this hilarious (and so do I =P). It seems this is routine as the two sisters go and cheer him up pretty quickly – guess it helps to know what to say. Kid then calls Shinigami-sama with a pretty light show, who greets him by saying his stripes are cute – how these two are father and son is a mystery to me, heh heh.
We then see Soul, Maka, Black Star and Tsubaki at Shibusen – apparently there’s some gossip. Meanwhile Death the Kid is on his way to the pyramid of Anubis to take care of a witch who’s creating mummies, obtaining ingredients and such by making them attack people. Kid’s pretty excited ’cause of all the symmetry involved. Back at Shibusen, Soul and Black Star are desperate to find out who’s taking on the Anubis pyramid mission and charge off to find out.
Kid arrives at the pyramid on his super cool skateboard and marvels at the symmetry of the pyramid ^^. They enter the pyramid, Patty totally relaxed, Liz totally nervous and Kid, well just being Kid – he realises that the picture frame at home may not be completely level and has a bit of a nervous breakdown. Desperate to go check he gets dragged further into the pyramid by Liz. Their pace gets faster and faster until they run into some mummies and Liz freaks a little as on of them licks her face – ready to transform they find Kid’s missing. Oh my, where is he? No need to fear he’s left a note – he’s gone to check on that frame – I suppose when you gotta, you gotta, right?
Even without him, they take turns transforming and slowly but surely take care of the mummies – you go girls – girl power – woo! We get a shot of the witch – yowch, creepy! – she revives the Pharaoh and then gets eaten by him, giving the audience at home a play by play of what’s happening – “I’ve been caught.” Hmm all the characters in this series are a little weird… don’tcha love it?
At Shibusen, Maka and Tsubaki wonder where Soul and Black Star are – still running of course. They go from place to place trying to find out who the mystery person is – do you think they’ll get their answer?
Death the Kid is back at home at this point, and happy to find that the whole picture frame issue was just his imagination. He’s now ready to return to the pyramid, where at that moment Liz and Patty have divided up the souls they got from the mummies (equally or else Kid would have another fit, don’tcha know XD). Despite Liz’s protests they head even further into the pyramid, as they hear a voice. Upon arriving they see a severed hand twitching on the ground and wrappings shoot out of the Pharaoh’s tomb towards them.
Back with Soul and Black Star, they finally get an answer to their great quest – Shinigami-sama’s son took the mission (as we already knew) – the two are kinda surprised, to put it lightly.
Death the Kid returns to the pyramid and in his search for Liz and Patty finds a super cute ball – he likes it (symmetrical) until he notices that one eye has an extra eyelash and discards it brutally, lol. He finds Liz and Patty, and upon seeing the scene excuses himself for intruding – fanservice for guys lol – for girls like me, I guess Kid’s expression could be fanservice in a way… Luckily we’re thrown back into reality when the stuff holding the girls attacks Kid. Stopping the attack easily, he frees them and they transform into their weapon form.
All of a sudden Kid lets himself get hit, because the Pharaoh is symmetrical… someone’s gotta cure him, seriously! Unwilling to shoot and damage something so perfect he lets himself get beaten up – as a fan it’s not really something I like watching – but – when the Pharaoh comes out of his tomb to deal the final blow personally, Kid notices that he’s no longer symmetrical. Put bluntly, at this point he gets totally p*ssed and goes for it. YAY! And when he gets angry, his power is pretty cool – he even makes a hole in the pyramid.
As the three leave, Kid’s still annoyed as the number of souls was uneven so Liz has one extra than Patty, but sets it aside to look at the perfect pyramid once more. Oops, he broke it. As he broke something symmetrical, poor Kid sinks into the bowels of depression once again – until the sisters cheer him up – “Anyone would break a pyramid or two.” You gotta love his expression at this point – too cute! lol He looks really grateful, until he notices that they’re cup sizes are different again, and gets annoyed at the lack of symmetry – living with this guy has gotta be a blast! =D
Shibusen: Soul and Black Star look kinda unnerved that the mission was completed – Shinigami-sama punishes Kid for destroying a pyramid by confiscating all the souls they collected, and guess what? He’s depressed again XD.
The prologue is over… and now the story begins!
~End of Summary~
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~Viz’s Word on the Episode~
For an episode I had eagerly anticipated, this didn’t disappoint. Not only was the humour at perhaps the highest levels so far, but the relationship between this meister and his weapons was something absoultely unique. Their randomness and the bouts of depression, Patty laughing like a lunatic, Soul and Black Star running around Shibusen – all in all, the prologues have been nicely linked in a way that connnects all the main characters and sets up the upcoming story really well.
Considering it was just the prologue, I’m expecting pretty good things from this anime – not only does it feel like a mix of Naruto and Bleach, and perhaps even a little D.Gray-man, it’s successfully combined elements that work really well for me – I hope you guys feel the same!
Please join me for the next episode!
Viz signing out!
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