Much Ado About Everything

I just finished watching these first two episodes of the new season of Bleach as fansubbed by Lunar. Well, they didn’t waste any time introducing new set of villains. Once again, they are mysterious and elusive. And they’re kidnapping Ichigo’s friends left and right. What the hell? I hope they get to the bottom of this fast, as it’s actually pretty annoying.

One bad thing about these new episodes is how they try to insert humour to mix with serious stuff. I don’t know, it just doesn’t seem to work for me. Maybe it’s because it is too soon. I mean they just got back last night, for God’s sake! If you’re going to allow humour, make pacing a bit better – or just concentrate on action.

Well, Fate/Stay Night 8 was a transitional episode.  No action whatsoever, but some humour, and a new master/servant pair is introduced, though just slightly.  Four women at the same time in his house, and the ensuing discussion was as if from some cutscene  in a japanese style RPG.  Amusing, and Toshaka is cute as always, but nothing really big happens – other than a relevation of a new master, as I mentioned.  There is some unexpected behaviour from Saber at the very end, and as a consequence the episode 9 preview shows some action.  I don’t know what else to say, really.

As for Canvas 19, this was one of the better episodes.  As we’re drawing nearer to the series close, obviously we’re going to see our male lead choose someone from his “harem”.  And the obvious choice – or normal choice should I say – seems to be forming  as there’s some major development, though more of an introductory one.  Kind of like we had episode 20 in Shuffle named “the person that Rin likes” -  we seem to have almost the same timing here.  Although Canvas is a better series, save for the music (I do like songs, but they’re no match for the Yuria’s You, never mind for the Innocence).