Obvious storyline is overly repetitious

Aizen = black
Purelyshin = blue

I can’t believe the amount of time this show has emphasized Kanako being a lesbian. This episode showed me that Kanako is a total lesbian 500x each 10 seconds. It’s too much and isn’t needed. I don’t even care if she’s a lesbian or not but for Chris sake just get on with the damn show and show me something USEFUL and GOOD so that I won’t feel like dropping the series. That’s right. I feel like dropping it – from blogging and probably from watching it as well. The same goes for Kurokami. It just isn’t original to me and doesn’t contain any “wow” factor anymore. The producers of this show should understand that if they show something for this long something new should pop up. It’s like eating chocolate. If you eat chocolate for a week or a month, you’re bound to get sick of it. Hell, it’ll probably start to taste like shit as well. What I want is something new and unique, and these two show aren’t giving it to me. But I’ll digress and say that one symbol I noticed was the exploding secret door of God-sama. Probably represents the opening of Mariya’s past to us. Or it’s all just coincidence.

I loved the confiscated closet crap monster that emerged and tried to snap at Yonakuni. This is probably just because I’m really longing to see any sort of antagonist in the show. There’s a serious lack of urgency. So far the animation quality and the art direction have been trying to give a sense of suspense and unease through stylistic choices….but all in all Maria+Holic really lacks any sort of foil to its main characters (of which I do enjoy). They are getting more creative with Kanakos lesbian hemophobic (yes, hemo…not homo) nasal explosions, but that’s like saying someone is getting creative about how to beat an almost dead horse.

Let thy panties be shown

… somebody shoot her.

And this week we have yet again incontestable evidence that Kanako is a borderline multiple personality disordered psychopath. Behold, she has the ability to switch mental states between a fierce man beast, nosferatu and a freaky 1980’s gremlin all in under 20 minutes. I’m beginning to really see Kanako as an effeminate anime boy with an ample chest. The signs are all there.

Wow, Kanako……just wow.

I had more pictures that I would have took but since this episode sucked so much I decided to delete some. I would have made a lot of sexual references but I just can’t with all of the repetition of Kanako being a lesbian. What happened was that Ayari, in the past, had her panda panties shown to everyone by Mariya accidentally tripping. I tried to add in a few more images for reference. Mostly because I have a visual sense of humor and found them redeeming. This one is just for reference to the apparent Ayari “PANDA CHAN INCIDENT.”

Since 1192? Those are some antiquated panties.

Well, this time something similar happened. Mariya accidentally pulled her front chest and exposed her breasts. Was it really an accident? I think so as Mariya even said that Ayari was heavy. What questioned me was why he kept on holding her and not just placing her back on her two damn feet. Well, that will scar Ayari’s life again. Plus, when Ayari was falling Kanako saw her panties. It was pink. I really felt like face palming on this… but couldn’t because I had hope that some sort of “wow” factor will bring me along side this show again. Something kind of did happen but I don’t know what. Besides that, I also recall another blogger saying that Matsurika probably had a similar experience to Ayari because she told her that she understood how she felt (i.e. Matsurika knew the embarassment of having a girl’s body shown in public). Well, that assumption can definitely made and understood by why Matsurika became a cold blooded machine without emotions. But eh… this series, so far, has only shown that Matsurika showed her bewbs to one person: Kanako. Does that mean anything to Matsurika? I hope not.

PRAISE GOD-SAMA! SHE’LL SMITE THIS ANNOYING CHARACTER!

That’s what I would have loved to have seen but the show ended shortly afterwards. While it was approaching this scene, this episode showed how Kanako is a big pervert who was staring at girls fighting and running and hence showing their bare body parts. In other words, while she was staring she had a large nosebleed. More or less she made the school gain seven more mysteries. I really do wonder how much blood Kanako has left. Hopefully not enough to survive anymore. As Mariya and Matsurika were the analytical prince and princess, they were able to foretell how each place that Kanako made a mystery of filled with blood. Regardless, Kanako was told the seven secrets of the second girls dorm and now something is supposed to happen to her. I can only cross my fingers and hope that she gets stoned. The worst (or best) that can happen to her is that she’ll be moved to another dorm away from Mariya or have her memory erased. I’m not sure but the next episode should explain it. In all truth, I think I might just finish this series… but if another one comes out and people also call it a failure, I’m not going to watch it. As for Kurokami, if it starts to suck more than it already does, I’ll drop it midway (i.e. episode 12). We really need a larger plot. This show is rich in subplot, formulaic characters and visual interest. The entire show has reminded me of fluff episodes from Revolutionary GIrl Utena….down to the silhouettes, watercolor stills and abundance of rose petals. The sacrilege level definitely peaked in this episode. I actually laughed out loud at this part, but I love gratuitous institution face slap moments

I half expected to see a giant Rei Ayanami in the last part of this.

Ok ok, Japan has long flirted with the idea that nuns….generally Catholic nuns….or at least generic religious nuns are all apparently hot. Exhibit A below. Nuns generally don’t wear form fitting uniforms and arch their backs like street walkers, at least not where I am from. Which is not Japan.

Can everyone say fetish?

And this last image is just for laughs. I think that if you were to represent Maria+Holic in three images….this would be one of them. Since I’ve made it this far I will finish watching this season of Maria. If there is another one….I wont touch it unless it gets good reviews. There needs to be more conflict or at the very least a development of the hinted relationship between Kanako and Maria…romantic or otherwise. I’m anxious to hear what other people think of this show. Why do you like this show? I might just be biased towards darker dramas.

This has to be against code.

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