Strike the Blood

• Just noticed that "Failed Attack Mage" Meiga's family name is Itogami.

• Asagi applauds Yukina's Half-assed confession. So they're friends, now? Rivals? Friendly Rivals? Enemies? Fremenies?

• Only 5 episodes left? Kojou needs to level up fast if he's going to become a Worthy Opponent for Vatler before the end of the series. Maybe if he had 20,000 clones to practice on?

• Now I'm starting to think Asagi will be locked out of the loop until the finale.

edited 21st Feb '14 4:30:06 PM by giant_bug

I suppose that would prove your point Aya but you still fail philosophy.

Sayaka trying to be aggressive is surprisingly hilarious.

Checkov's Nosebleed? That's a new one.

Himeragi calling them a Battle Couple was great. The fact that she's been wearing the nurse costume this entire time was funny.

Yukina's right. He should be used to sneak attacks by now. Didn't La Follia do that one also?

Is Asagi in the loop now or out of it? I really have no idea.

Episode 19. In which there's some dere.

Always nice to have a protagonist who admits to having certain urges and who isn't a complete pervert.

"Wanna see?" You know, coming from a guy it's not nearly as bad as coming from a girl. Don't really see what problem she has. Oh, wait, tsundere.

When she awoke from the dream she looked a little older than she usually does. More like the one who got her there in the first place.

As long as Yuki lives, she's not gonna let Kojou hog all the glory for himself. Good to see that doesn't change no matter how many times she's captured.

I knew that nosebleed was going to affect something like that. If you guys think it wasn't obvious, I'll just say I called it.

Anyone sneak attacking like that pretty much admits they're out of the race.

Asagi was happier at that than I expected.

What's surprising about that? Surprisingly aggressive, perhaps, but not surprisingly hilarious.

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Now that this week's installment is over, I'd like raise a question harking back to Episode 4:

Everybody seems to remember Himeragi's famous line: "In other words, you used me as a fluffer?"

Does anyone here have the exact phrase she used in romaji? I'd like to look it up and see what Japanese for 'fluffer' is.

I think she's saying something like "Tsumari, watashi wa ateyou makoto desu ka?", except I'm not sure if 'ateyou' is what I'm hearing, and my online romaji translators come up empty for that.

Any Japanese speakers want to chime in?

edited 21st Feb '14 8:14:51 PM by giant_bug

Asagi knows that Kojou has a secret, and that he's moving in the same circles as Natsuki and company, but she doesn't know the specifics—she might think he's like her, for instance, and provides mundane support. I've heard hearsay suggesting that she learns about Kojou in the seventh novel, which probably isn't going to be animated judging by the number of episodes left, if it helps.

Fire, air, water, earth...legend has it that when these four elements are gathered, they will form the fifth element...boron.

Witch-lady isn't so much faling in philosophy as half-heartedly breaking the fourth wall. After all their world WAS created "five minutes ago"..

"No, the Singularity will not happen. Computation is hard." -Happy Ent

Also, saying "I'm leaving him to you, but I won't lose next time." translates to "I lost and I know it but I'm gracious about it."

Did you expect her to throw a fit or something?

Given that they work the same way, yeah.

Unless it's Sayaka, I don't expect anyone to throw a fit.

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Then I'm not sure what were you expecting.

IMHO, Asagi wasn't happy. She was being polite and/or giving the preamble to a formal declaration of war.

Episode 19:

• So... Schneewalzer rejects stuff. Making it super-effective against Genjutsu?
• An unique Familiar Time. So misty.
• Natsuki's back. That nosebleed helped. So thank you, Asagi.
• Meiga's gonna be causing some trouble soon. His last name's Itogami, so is the island his home turf?
• Even if she's a kid right now, don't call her "Natsuki-chan".
• Agreed, Nagisa. Yukina's so bold.
• Next arc: Alchemists. Will there be a fullmetal one?

EDIT: I like Aya's kimono. Also, Aya and Natsuki could've been friends. If only Aya didn't have such an agenda...

edited 23rd Feb '14 10:10:24 AM by Diamite

Episode 20. In which there's an alchemist.

"It looks like you don't remember some random event five years ago." You know, it kind of doesn't make sense that he'd say something like that if he didn't deliberately wanted to tip him off.

It was obvious Natsu-chan wasn't there, as he didn't have something impacting his forehead within a second after calling her name.

"There's something I'd like you to do." Gotta love her smile while telling him.

"And don't drink any other girl's blood." I wonder about Asagi there...

A maid outfit definitely suits her well.

"You even managed to tame her." You know, getting a different perspective on some things is refreshingly amusing at times.

"Could it be something else? Like a ring?" I wonder if she wanted him to figure the subtle hint out, or if she was just indulging herself.

That looked like it could potentially have been a little painful. But she was smiling, so it's all good, right?

Also, having her just die there wouldn't make much sense. Which makes me really wonder about Asagi there...

Not fullmetal. Halfmetal.

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I'm sure that making Yukina leave the Spear won't come back to haunt them later.

Kou actually backed off when faced with overwhelmingly bad odds. Commendable.

"Thank you Yukina" How courteous of him.

Kojou keeps giving Asagi a cold shoulder. Asagi keeps not getting a clue.

"That's the problem with girls who look bitchy but are lifelong virgins."

Yeah, good thing Kojou isn't stupid enough to keep info from Yukina.

"And don't drink any other girl's blood." - Yeah Koujou, be faithful to your waifu.

That's an interesting location to hide your base. And don't worry Kojou, nobody would have to force Yukina to do what you think she wanted to do.

So that's the Villain plan? I'm not too impressed.

Goddamit Asagi, if uy7ou just started to run when told too, this could all been avoided. Well, nice knowing you.

Next episode: I have the feeling Akatsuki will have to crash on the field trip after all.

Right Yuki-chan it doesn't metter if Kojou get trashed and killed by some abomination as long as he is faithful to you, after all drinking blood is nothing but way to pick up girls...

edited 1st Mar '14 3:51:25 AM by Tenzen12

If she didn't believe he can survive three days on his own she wouldn't go in the first place. I though that much was obvious.

In other news I find it really hard to feel bad for Asagi, since she wouldn't get hurt if she wasn't so stupid. Goddamit I was hoping we could avoid any examples of being Too Dumb to Live in this show.

To be fair I don't remember her being told it was dangerous, but she's meant to be pretty smart and she has that AI so you'd think she'd figure out something odd was going on from the pretty blatant hints and that she lives on Demon Island.

She was right there when Kojou and Natsuki-chan talked about the alchemist, she saw the guards. It be hard not to put two and two together. But she was too busy trying to get jewelry other of Kojou.

Goddamit Asagi stop being obnoxious so I can like you!

I bet she ends up getting possessed by that Nina lady anyway, so it probably works out for her

once again alchemy is cooler in Japan.

That was pretty much my first thought.

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Mine too, it's pretty much the only way she'd survive.

She needs someway to she can survive in action with everyone to do anything with the plot long term. She did pretty well as a muggle up to this point, so it was handled decently I think.

Im not sure she's going to get anything permanent our of this. That'd be kinda too convenient.

Im still pretty bummed that an awesome character like La Foila got put on a bus while Asagi keeps getting shorehorned into plots that have nothing to do with her.

Probably because Asagi is more interesting.

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No no, not really.

Hmm. Come to think of it, the alchemist lady seems to be good from what we've seen so far. It was Checkers who attacked Asagi. Hell, maybe she's planning on repairing her in apology.

Fire, air, water, earth...legend has it that when these four elements are gathered, they will form the fifth element...boron.