Strike the Blood

Episode 14:

• Green Pumpkin Astarte.
• Yuuma's the daughter of someone famous, eh? Also, she in Kojou's body (Yuujou) could give Drac a run for his money when it comes to style.
• La Folia, you troll.
• Asagi's gonna have a rude awakening.
• Vatler just wants to spill some blood. So he'll support baddies when given the chance.
• Hmm...Natsuki's absence is worrying. Was she really taken, or is she planning a Big Damn Heroes moment?
• At the end of the day, I must ask; where's Nagisa? She's obviously not with Yuujou, so...

Sayaka/La Folia is fine too.

Mogwai, bringing you Asagi fanservice. Thanks! Plenty of fanservice from the other girls too, La Folia's being particularly amusing.

The mechanism for the bodyswap was very interesting.

That's possible, yes. I never thought that deeply.

New episode out!

Good stuff, I didn't expect that this anime can suprise me anymore and yet. Well see for yourself.

Yukina was badass AND adorable, Kojou was his usuall smooth talking self, and LA Foila had awesome battle too.

And that ending, of god, that ending.

This episode delivered.

Episode 15. In which we find what was lost.

"You're looking rather adorable these days." I don't know. I kinda prefer his normal look.

Yeah of course that's the first thing La Princess thinks about...

So, not even Le Bleu could control that. I think another Bleu might've been able to.

That's exactly like in the opening. Except with less blood on Natsu-chan's blouse.

Gratuitous naked mental conversation.

While you may get wrinkles from laughing (or rather that the laughing shapes the wrinkles you do get), they would show a happy face. There are worse ways to age.

"There's not a great difference in difficulty." Cocky. I like it.

It's very refreshing to see the criminals being taken away by the police rather than being killed.

Listening to Kojou trying to sweet-talk Yuki into letting him drink her is kinda funny.

There's the blood.

And I can live with those being her final words. I'd still prefer them not to be, though.

edited 24th Jan '14 2:30:01 PM by AnotherDuck

Gotta love La Folia's priorities there. To bad she'll never get a chance. I think she even knows it.

You know, I kinda wonder how cool a real holy sword would be.

First arc where Koujo didn't get a new familiar? Or a drink for that matter

edited 24th Jan '14 2:51:11 PM by kiukiuclk

Episode 15:

• La Folia has priorities.
• How confident of you, Vatler. Of course, he does have the bite to back up his bark.
• What~? That was all you sisters could do? Just...go to jail, okay?
• Yuuma wasn't as tough as previous threats. Also no Familiar Time this arc.
• Well, at least everything ends without major trouble. Now, let's see what the Hallow Fest's all abou-
• -What? Wait... Why did that... N... Natsuki...

La Folia wouldn't work nearly as well as she does if she had any realistic chance of winning.

And I wouldn't rule out the new familiar yet, guys.

I foresee a healer Familiar.

Anyway, talk about interesting developments. I can't be the only one that thinks it would be nice if at least one of them stays dead, right? Yeah.

edited 26th Jan '14 1:30:46 AM by fillerdude

How awful, I'm sure that Natsuki-chan will survive.

I thought this episode was a little dull, mainly because of Yuuma. That whole, "I was created to fulfil this purpose even though I don't want to and I can and have made choices for myself yet I'm going to do it anyway even though I know it to be wrong. There's also no brain control or anything tying me to this task, so feel free to easily talk me out of it," type of character just drags down the enjoyment.

@ Gilphon

I think your mistaken in assuming that there's going to be a single winner. As in Campione!, our protagonist really has no obligation to play by normal rules.

Given that the author's written a questionably-cannon side-story involving Yukina and Asagi's daughters figuring out time-travel so that they can mess with their parents, I'm guessing that everybody will get their fair shot.

As far as episode 15 goes, it'll be interesting to see if anything sticks. Otherwise, it looks as though the pace is picking up: This novel got finished in only three episodes versus four.

New episode out:

- Natsuki-chan lives! But she lost her time and reverted to an child! And now dangerous criminals are after her.

- I wonder what's the cause of Akatsuki wound not healing.

- Akatsuki mother is awesome. "Call me Mom!"

This is a good arc.

Episode 16. In which there are mothers.

I think there are a lot of dark haired girls who look very similar to each other. Yuki, Natsu-chan, Nagisa, Yuuma's mother... The series' tendency to put everyone in fancy and/or cute outfits doesn't help.

Natsu-chan mysteriously disappears. I'm sure that won't be important.

Surprise! You're a mother!

Good time for backup to arrive. A little too good time...

I like how the first thing Asagi considers about the mysteriously appeared girl being her daughter from the future is that she doesn't look like her or Kojou. That's some confidence.

"I'm not prepared for this, but I'm not nervous!" Right...

That mother reminds me a little bit about Kyoukai No Kanata. Or Infinite Stratos. Actually, it's a pretty standard mother as far as anime is concerned. Doesn't make her less awesome, though.

"Keep her busy for a while." Kojou's so nice. Not that she's going to have trouble keeping her busy, though it might be troublesome for herself.

Why be so tsundere you have to explain you don't like being thanked for something in a way that makes it obvious you are by the lousy excuses?

edited 31st Jan '14 4:02:14 PM by AnotherDuck

Give Sayaka some slack. Her background gives her ample reasons to be so tsundere. And again, Yukina is quick to switch gears when Kojou collapses. Just, any of you, give him some blood already

She's ridiculously stereotypical tsundere, overreacting to just about everything. With the one exception of her actually being able to look at Kojou's scar. Even if she was still blushing.

Between Sayaka and Asagi we got way to many tsunderes s here.

edited 31st Jan '14 4:19:06 PM by Shlugo_the_great

Asagi's cool, though.

It's not like I dislike her or something. She's just your typical "classmate with a crush" character.

You have to admit that this is WELL animated tsundere though, instead of like A Certain Screwed Up Indexgun franchise. The tsun doesn't clog up the action and it certainly doesn't stop the OTP from happening.

So it took me some time to realize the girl at the beginning was Nagisa, and I also didn't see any particular resemblance between Yuuma and her mother. This series isn't particularly good at visually differentiating the characters, I suppose.

Yeah I think neither Sayaka nor Asagi overstay their welcome and are good supporting characters. Their tsuntsun isn't really annoying.

BTW I like how Akatsuki mom already wants Yukina to call her Mom. What a supportive mother

I thought she was Nagisa. Or at least, was wearing Nagisa's body. One of Curried Bread's familiars, probably.

edited 31st Jan '14 4:46:13 PM by Rem

NOW can we call her Natsuki-chan?

edited 31st Jan '14 6:56:46 PM by giant_bug