Episode review: Bus Gamer 1
Three guys with a total different background have one thing in common: They need a enormous amount of cash. They all react to the same ad which involves playing a game to earn this sum of money. To make this happen they have to form a team and co-operate. They have to steal a secret data disk from the other team or protect their own. This sounds easy enough, but as they will soon find out; every game that involves gambling is about taking risks. They have entered a world where everything goes, but will putting their lives on the line be worth it in the end?
Episode review: Hakaba Kitaro 1
My impression of the first episode from Hakaba Kitaro was odd to say the least. Someone who works in a hospital comes across a dead body. That isn’t anything unusual in a hospital except for the fact that this dead person is still alive. The guy is asked to find the cause and the lead ends at the temple next to him where happen to live new neighbors.
The neighbors are a pregnant couple; however they are both not under the living and part of the ghost tribe which is on the point of extinction. In fact they are the only one left and suffer from a terrible disease. This is why they came to ask for help in the hospital. The guy is very scared and wants to report his neighbors but before he is able to do so, both of them die, leaving a newborn son with one eye in this world. The male mummy ghost however manages to give one of his eyes a body and to look after his son. The neighbor eventually decides to take the last living descendant in to raise him; however he is not aware of his real father still being there as well. The story continues when the boy named Kitaro is somewhat older and creepier. He visits some place every night and his adoption dad wants to know where he went. He manages to get a ticket and follow his adopted son, who warned him not to go. The guy doesn’t listen and ends up in hell. Unfortunately he only has a one way ticket….
Episode Review: Mnemosyne 01 (warning: contains spoilers)
Uniflame recommended this series to me because she thought it might be something I like. Reading the synopsis about it, I agreed, but having seen the first episode I am not so sure anymore, since it has a lot of elements I usually don’t like; still, my curiosity is stirred, so I might give it another go when I get my hands on the second episode.
The story introduces main character Rin, a private investigator of some sorts with a reputation to boot it seems. In the opening scene she’s chased by an assassin and killed, yet she wakes up in her bed the next morning as if it were just a dream.
Here her job is introduced, along with her assistant Mimi, who looks like she’s 12 but downs vodka as well as her employer. Of course with alcohol involved these’s a good excuse for some touchiness throughout the episode to fan-service the perverts, but nothing too out of bounds.
While completing a job – finding a lost fat cat – Rin stumbles across a young man named Maeno who is about to be beaten up. She rescues him and learns he has an odd case of amnesia.
Rin decides to help him find his missing memories and their trail – a trail of violence, extortion and a few dead bodies, mind you – leads them to a pharmaceutical company with mob connections.
When attempting to sneak inside, it turns out Rin’s butt (-lol) proves to be too much of an obstacle to bypass some infrared beams, and the two are arrested, introducing this episode’s villain: the pharmaceutical director with a preference for Lolita dresses outside office hours and the bizarre fetish of gaining pleasure from attaching vast amounts of piercings. Add a random female-female french kiss and we have a torture scene that could’ve been taken straight out of a kinky hentai flic.
But all’s well that ends well; Rin proves to be able to revive after dying, using this talent to unleash some zombies upon the unsuspecting director, and free Maeno. And guess what, the fat cat is found too!