Seikimatsu Occult Gakuin, episode 3

Fumiaki-chan made her fall for him.

Oh the sweet future they will share. =']

New character Fumiaki fell in love with

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But she's a horrible driver. (Even though she has a kick-ass car...)

Maya is NOT AMUSED with her small amount of screentime. And neither am I.

This episode was significantly weaker than the prior ones, partly because of the lack of Maya. The episode was focused on Fumiaki, and the most of it felt pretty pointless.

It started off hilarious with Fumiaki complimenting Kawashima about her hairstyle, which was apparently her weak spot, causing her to fall for him and trying to kiss her. While trying to push her away, Fumiaki takes a photo of her with his cellphone to see what his future would be like if he'd hook up with her...

Well that gave me a good laugh.

That night, Fumiaki went to eat curry somewhere and fell hard for the waitress. After eating curry at the same place a number of times, he went with the waitress for a bit of sightseeing in the city. Nothing partivularly interesting happened until Maya got attacked by something, and that was the end.

I'm a little disappointed about this, but I'm guessing the waitress might become somehow important to the rest of the plot. If not, they wasted almost an entire episode on an insignificant character, and I can't see that happening. Ah well, on to next week to see what was attacking Maya.

Seikimatsu Occult Gakuin, episode 2

Uchida Fumiaki, our naked, time-travelling agent.

Maya's future?

This was actually pretty creepy! O.o

Maya decides to be a regular student instead of the school principle.

After 2 episodes, Seikimatsu Occult Gakuin turned out to be much more than just a well-illustrated comedy series. This week it had, besides comedy, mystery, action, genuine horror, and even a touch of drama! It's amazing how this series manages to take itself seriously with such an amount of hilarious comedy without looking ridiculous. The funny parts are really funny but the horror and the mystery still works! I'm having even higher expectations now!

About the episode. It starts where it left off last week: with Fumiaki-san landing on the school roof wearing nothing but his goggles. Maya, who witnesses this happening, runs off screaming as a response. Now here some good advice when going to a job interview;

1. Wear clothing.

2. If you're not wearing clothing, and people run off screaming; don't follow them.

Good thing Fumiaki wasn't really going for the job of a history teacher anyway. In fact he's an agent from the future, who was sent back in time to save the world from being ruled by aliens by changing the past. Somehow the fact that the future world is being ruled by aliens has something to do with Occult Academy, and the prophecies of Nostradamus. Now that's interesting!

Fumiaki carries a mobile phone from the future, therefore, if he takes a picture of something with it, it shows what that will be like thirteen years (1999-2012) in the future. The first example of this is Maya using it to take a picture of herself, only to see the cellphone show a dirty pile of bones. Which means that if things continue the way they are, Maya will be dead in less than thirteen years, (assuming that she's already dead for a while when all that's left of her is a pile of bones) and even though series seem to leave that part aside for now, I think that's a rather shocking development. Let's just say that Maya is about 17 years old in 1999, than if she were to be still alive in 2012, she would be about 30, which is pretty young to die, so that means she probably didn't die a natural death. Add that to the fact that she's getting death-threads now...

Prior to the death-thread, there's also this scene of the vice-headmaster-or-whatever-she-is and this other guy discussing that Maya might find out their plans (whatever that may be), and that she's getting in the way. Are they planning to kill her?

I think the mystery in this series is building up nicely, and the story seems way more complex than I expected after seeing episode 1. I wonder what episode 3 will bring us!

Seikimatsu Occult Gakuin, episode 1

That is one fine school campus is it not? Maya's dad must have been a pretty rich guy...

Dead people coming back to life are scary. Dead principles coming back to life are scarier.

The second main character makes his great entrance. Just to let you know; he's not wearing anything other than those goggles.

Ehm... Yeah. That was quite something. x'D Not quite what I expected though, but that's not a bad thing! ^^

Maya, our main character is the daughter of the principal of Occult Academy; a project for which he abandoned his wife and daughter. Sounds pretty serious huh? But after mentioning that at the very funeral of this principal some evil spirit takes posession of his body, making the dead man attack his own students, looking like a drooling, green zombie, does it still sound serious?

I'm really wondering where this story will go, and what kind of anime it is. So far there has been comedy, drama, horror and possibly even the start of a little romance (read: Naked man landing on the school roof). So what's it gonna be? I guess mostly comedy, but we'll see. At the very least I will probably be watching this anime until the end, even if only to find out where it's going, but so far, I really like the feel of it.

Art & Animation are also big plusses. Not only is the animation very smooth, the movements look quite natural rather than elegant. I like that in an anime. The art is quite unique and pretty realistic for an anime. Not much is known about the characters' personalities so far, but I know that I already know Maya, though she's much less stuck-up than I thought. She seems very clever and I guess it takes a lot of guts to cut your very own father's head of with an axe even if he's already dead.

Looking forward to episode 2. ^^