Mushi-Uta

Well... That was a most unsatisfying ending....

The show is a basic Good Organisation Vs Bad Organisation with a couple little twists thrown in.

 The SEPB Vs The Mushibane.

Which one is the good one?  It really depends on how you look at it.
     You have the SEPB which is made up heavily of Hosts, going around and killing the insects of other Hosts. On the death of their insects the Hosts become zombie slaves {Fallen}.... they have no emotions, free will or memories of any kind.
     However, If left be the Insects will slowly eat the dreams of their host and then "Mature"... Maturity kills the host and pretty much turns them into a monstrous creature.
     The Mushibane really seem to just not fully understand what the Insects are doing... Having strange pipe dreams that Hosts and Normal people could live together in harmony. Wishful thinking of the uninformed...

Who we have...

Daisuke Kusuriya; Codename Kakkou.  The "good guy".... Sorta. He works for the SEPB in rounding up other "Hosts" and taking them to the "GARDEN" {a prison of sorts.}. Taking the guise of a student he enters a High School in search of the leader of the Mushibane.

Rina Tachibana; Codename Lady. She's the leader of the Mushibane. Seemingly a normal High School Student, She has friends...She paints... She gets crushes... On Daisuke.  >_>

Shiika Anmoto; Codename Winter Firefly. The only Fallen to have their insect brought back and only person to have ever escaped from the GARDEN.  Four years before the story begins Kakkou kills her insect... She's a very powerful Host, Possibly the most.
       Happening by Daisuke one day who instantly falls for her, not remembering her from years earlier. She also saves the Mushibane from the SEPB {it's not shown though} and ends up living with Rina/Lady.
       Love Triangle.

Keigo Haji; Leader of the Local SEPB Branch. Pretty much an ass the entire show but... has a soft side it seems.  He has a younger sister that lives by eating his dreams....

The Original Three; Not really touched on a lot but, It seems they are the reason the Mushi exist. As shown at least one of the three can blend in well with Humans, It's Rina and Daisuke's Homeroom Teacher.

The Devourer; One of the original three and Daisuke's Homeroom Teacher. She's the one who brought Shiika's Insect back and helped her escape from GARDEN. Wanting to allow the insect to mature so that she could eat her dream....





The End;  Shiika looking for Rina runs first into the Devourer who plays the reveal game, Then saved by Cicada {I forgot her name} who also plays the reveal game {She loves Haji}and attacks Shiika. Cicada's Mushi ends up dead but Shiika is also gravely injured.
      Rina goes to the GARDEN to try to free all of the Fallen, This goes horribly wrong when her Mushi starts to Mature and the Devourer ends up..well...Devouring her.
      Daisuke....Uhg.
      Lets just cut the torture and say.... Rina ends up dead, Shiika in the hospital and still free, Daisuka/Kakkou back to work with the SEPB.   Shiika still doesn't seem to know that Kakkou is Daisuke but... She's supposed to meet Daisuke a year later on Christmas at the Planetarium so not all is bleak.





Favorite Character{s}: 
          Asami Minagawa; Rina's bubbly friend in HS, She ends up becoming a "Host" thanks to their Homeroom teacher. She's quite the Mushi Fanatic, Maintaining a website about them and even searching them out for photos. Sadly, In episode eight one of the SEPB destroy Asami's Mushi which was inside her camera.. A computer bug?
    
Least Favorite Character {s}:
          Daisuke; Yep.  I don't like him.... Can't quite pinpoint why I don't but he just seemed like a bad... "Main Guy".





Want More?  Not really.
Berry Ranking:  2 out of 5.

Crunchy Viewing

Voices of a Distant Star 

This was about 25 Minutes worth of sad...

Set in the future, It revolves around Mikako and Noboru. Middle school students and friends, Their relationship just blosseming into more... As Noboru is entering High School however Mikako is sent off to join the UN Army to fight Aliens.
      Into space she goes, Sending Noboru texts with her cell... the delivery time lengthens the further she gets from earth. With Mikako being in space and Noboru on earth, Her rate of aging slows drastically...
      As time goes by at a normal pace on Earth, Noboru grows older having tried and failed to move on with his life he still waits.. In the meantime he joins the Military to hopefully be reunited with Mikako someday.
     In the end,  Mikako {still 15/16}is over eight lightyears from Earth and fighting the Enemy Alien and Noboru has now aged to 24 {+} and from what I gather is hoping to be going to rescue Mikako's group.
     It's amazing how much emotion was packed into just 25 minutes... I really would like to think Noboru goes off into space and find Mikako so they can reunite.  Even if he is nearly ten years older then her now...

Mushi Uta  1- 5

Bugs.....  I bet Merry could handle these pests. They eat peoples dreams....and if killed the host slips into a "Dream Loss" type state.  These Mushi Dream Demon like things actually come out into the physical world to protect their hosts.
     More thoughts and details when I get to the end....




    

Crunchy Viewing.

I'm pretty random with CrunchyRoll Anime, I just watch whatever whenever and may never finish it.....

                                                               Seikimatsu Occult Gakuin

 Episode 1~   "To stop a lamie, You have to cut off the head.... of the one it first possessed."   Maya Kumashiro comes back to the Occult Academy for her fathers{the principals} funeral.  A tape her father recorded before his death was played during his funeral contained a spell that went presumably wrong, Resulting in a lamie possessing his dead body and him running rampant on campus. Maya with minor help from an old friend Ami, the janitor Smile, some strange guy JK and glasses girl Kozue track him/it down and extinguish him/it.

    The Vice Principal seems hinky somehow and a strange, naked guy floats down from the sky in a ray of light while Maya is standing on the roof at the end.

Episode 2~ "In 2011... The earth is ruled by Aliens."  Yep, Naked man is actually Agent 6 a time traveling agent from the future sent back to find the Nostradamus Key and stop the alien invasion. He'll be posing as a History Teacher during his mission. He supposedly graduated top in his class and has psychokinesis... really weak psychokinesis it seems. Perhaps 6 is actually his power ranking or something, he can't even bend a spoon anymore.

     Maya finds her fathers diary in his house while she's being attacked by a spectre of some sort {Agent 6 was no help during this either.} Probably something the Vice Principal sent after her because ya.. she's still hinky.  By the end of the episode Maya decides to help the Naked Agent find the Key with the hopes of finding who also killed her father.