That’s probably what I look like after watching each ep of YoakeYori

Ok, so as much as many others and I have been bashing this show, it hasn’t reached complete train wreck status just yet, last week’s beach episode proved that. However, beach episodes are relatively hard to screw up as it’s just filler. This week’s ep finally got into some major plot developments and was the make or break point of the series.

The episode begins with some high political tension as the moon and the earth try to reconcile some of their differences. Delegates from each side have a heated debate, supposedly about food and resources being scarce on the moon. The representatives of the moon feel like they’re getting screwed over and the representatives from the earth feel the moon is demanding too much, it’s just like real politics! XD The debate is calmed down when the tea arrives and the earth president cuts in nonchalantly to break the tension.

But of course, no one (besides me >_>) gives a damn about politics, we want Feena!

And Feena is what we got, albeit so horribly generic that it was somewhat painful to watch. Typical harem cliches were used to suggest FeenaXTatsuya, ie. hands touching as they reach to grab something, Tatsuya walking in on Feena in the bathroom, Feena putting her toothbrush in his cup, Tatsuya buying her a cute coffee mug…etcetc. But however unconvincing, at least they seem to be progressing a bit.

Or so you’d think! Until political pressure gets in the way as the relationship between the two begins to raise some eyebrows. It’s suggested that some tragic historic event was based around the same situation.

This is where Wreath comes in, FINALLY! Goth lolis ftw? She has a telepathic link with some unknown voice that tells her to disrupt the relationship between Tatsuya and Feena so that history doesn’t repeat itself. Now I’m not sure how getting hit by an ice cream projectile, eating at Samon’s and almost getting owned by a car accomplishes that…but at least she got some screen time!

The episode ends with Tatsuya getting lectured by his onee-san and Feena gets lectured by Karen on their growing relationship. This causes the two begin to distance themselves, with Feena being unable to even look Tatsuya in the eyes =(.

Thoughts

Another meh-ish episode, as is to be expected at this point. The attempt at plot and character development wasn’t a complete failure, but the genericness of the montage killed it. The lovey-dovey suggestive scenes that were used have all been played out before in mass and since it lacked a creative spin or high quality animation it was rather unimpressive. But generic development is better than no development at all…I think.

The political aspects of the show are actually quite interesting and I’m saddened that they probably won’t be using it as a plot device very often. I think they would have been much better off restricting the TatsuyaXFeena relationship politically rather than using some unknown historic tragedy, which I’m betting is Tatsuya’s father and Feena’s mother. I’m hoping for a best case scenario of them using this and combining it with political pressure to cause maximum angst! This show has a serious lack of angst =(

Although I said I’d try to not comment on it, animation disappointed yet again. The character designs continue to be generally deformed and inconsistent. Backgrounds are at a complete loss, it’s been a while since they’ve introduced any new venues or done any revamps to the existing ones. But lacking animation can always be overcome by superior plot and character, so I STILL have faith that we’ll get a ZnS-like ending.

Not much else to say regarding this episode or the series in general, I don’t know why I’m still watching it but I’m too far in to drop it now XD Though I wish I had chosen to blog Gift ~ Eternal Rainbow instead, it’s far more interesting and has Da Capo vibes

Wreath ftw! She even has a passable chibi form…the fork on the other hand =\

~ Shirukii ~