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!