Shiki 18, God Only Knows 9

After several episodes of mounting hopeless and despair, Shiki 18 gives us some hope. Some of the victims refuse to lose. Another one is on the offensive. We start with a few who have already risen, in fact, it's hard not to include them, since just about everyone has already done so. We get lots …

Shiki 17, Kuragehime 6

Your weekly noitaninA fix. Gotta hand it to Shiki. Just when you think things can't get any worse, they do. While most of the episode is more of the same, living people getting bitten by the Risen, the remaining heroes all seem to be making some decisions, but the decisions all seem to be rather …

noitaminA revisited: Shiki 16, Kuragehime 5

Two weeks ago I did both noiaminA shows in the same post. It was so much fun I'm doing it again. We start with Shiki 16, which this week adds extra sorrow and cruelty to the already depressing story. It looks at first like we're getting a flashback episode. We start with a bit of …

Shiki 15, Fortune Arterial 6

In Shiki 15 Toshio has new challenges. As if torturing his undead wife wasn't enough. First, Seishin turns his back on Toshio for the whole unfortunate wife incident. He says that killing is never justifiable, no matter how noble the cause. We come back to this thought when Seishin returns and finds someone (probably Sunako) …

noitaminA night: Shiki 14, Kuragehime 3

Shiki 14 doesn't get any happier, but some progress is made. For much of the time it's more of the same. The vampires catch some new guy, or start polishing off the remainders of families. This time it's Kaori and Akira's father, done in by Megumi. Sadly, the kids know exactly what's going on, but …

A short one: Shiki 13, Bakuman 5

A short one. RL circumstances have made me cranky tonight. Getting the characters straight with so many delays in watching is not easy, but one thing's for sure. Shiki just gets bleaker and bleaker. I'm having trouble thinking up things to say about it. The deaths are coming faster and closer to home. There's not …

Shiki 12, Arakawa 2, Fortune Arterial 2

Shiki returns after a couple of weeks, and things get even bleaker. We don't see Toshio and Seishin this episode. Instead attention is paid to Natsuno and his friends and family, including the risen ones. Natsuno, though bitten, is still healthy enough to tell the kids to leave the village and, in an interesting scene, …

Shiki 11, Maid-Sama 25

The makers of Shiki certainly picked a good time to put the show on hiatus. Even though this week's cliffhanger was no bigger than the others, everything's ramping up now. And we didn't even get to see Natsuno. Much of the episode is devoted to Ikumi, the crazy lady who actually has it right. She's …

Shiki 10, Asobi 9

A very interesting episode of Shiki. We learn a lot about the Risen, the most important thing being they're not a cohesive group. The episode jumps back and forth between a three-day span. We jump back and see Tatsumi issue orders to the Risen to assault the clinic. In spite of their supernatural nature the …

Shiki 9, Maid-Sama 23

Shiki 9 shifts away from the threat of the girl with the mannequin and shifts back to Toshio. While I'm more interested right now in Natsuno's danger, we hardly saw Toshio last week, so it's only fair. Toshio's still working on the vampire theory and so has kept Setsuki, the latest victim, at the clinic. …