So I am watching Yami no Matsuei,

[snarp]

because I am about ten years behind on anime, okay?

And I just got to episode 7, and how is Tsuzuki still (quasi-)alive if he makes such consistently bad decisions? I do not pity you, Tsuzuki! You are too stupid!

MURAKI: HELLO I AM THE EVIL SERIAL KILLER WHO RAPED AND MURDERED HISOKA (YOUR TRUE LOVE).

TSUZUKI: I WILL NEVER FORGIVE YOU FOR RAPING AND MURDERING HISOKA (MY TRUE LOVE).

*TSUZUKI THEN FOR SOME REASON JUST STANDS THERE AND GLARES.*

MURAKI: WANT TO PLAY POKER? WITH YOUR BODY AS THE STAKES OF COURSE. THIS IS BL SO THAT IS PRETTY STANDARD.

TSUZUKI: I DON'T REALLY WANT TO DO THAT.

MURAKI: OH SO YOU'RE SCARED.

TSUZUKI: FINE.

HISOKA (TSUZUKI'S TRUE LOVE): APPARENTLY I HAVE NO COMMENT ON THIS DEVELOPMENT? I MEAN I AM STANDING LIKE RIGHT HERE.

*TSUZUKI LOSES. APPARENTLY THE APPROPRIATE REACTION TO THIS IS FOR TSUZUKI TO GROW PUPPY EARS AND A TAIL AND LOOK SAD.*

HISOKA (TSUZUKI'S TRUE LOVE): HEY LET'S PLAY POKER GUY WHO RAPED AND MURDERED ME.

MURAKI: THAT'S COOL.

*APPARENTLY THE APPROPRIATE REACTION TO THIS IS FOR TSUZUKI TO GROW PUPPY EARS AND A TAIL AND LOOK HAPPY. YOU KNOW ACTUALLY I KIND OF THOUGHT THE RAPE STUFF WAS PRETTY SERIOUS BUSINESS LAST TIME IT HAPPENED.*

Basically, this is not a show that cares much about maintaining a consistent tone?

Comments

[coffeeandink]

I ... actually think the anime is way more coherent and sensible than the manga.

[inkstone]

Yeah, I agree with coffeeandink here. For me, the manga was kind of random, and then there was the stretch where she started taking long hiatuses, and then she came back and the art completely changed, and then she stopped creating manga, period, and instead went to work on videogames... but couldn't blog about it because the one time she tried to, a bunch of people started flaming her about the unfinished YnM.

I don't even know.

[snarp]

I feel kind of bad for them! I didn't realize the manga was unfinished, and after a couple episodes of the anime I just started assuming that something this badly-plotted was going to have either a nonsensical ending or none at all.

[dancing_serpent]

uh...only because they stuck to the Muraki parts of the manga and left the rest out. I prefer the manga over the anime a thousand times.

[snarp]

It's entirely your blog's fault that I was watching this in the first place; I was bored, remembered seeing it on there at some point, and went on Hulu. And last night had a dream about a bad guy who caused his victims to emit flower petals.