Slowing things down a bit, Abe takes in a little bit of the local flavor while Maya researches the tengu and kidnapping connections.
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The Review!
Content: (please note that content portions of a review may contain spoilers)
Maya's life has certainly been interesting to say the least since coming back to the school. After killing her dead father, she's had to deal with a time traveling teacher who arrives naked when he does these jaunts. And to make matters worse, he's not all that good of a time traveler either and seems to be unsure of a lot of things that he should have been briefed on. Maya's doing what she can to adjust to all of this and slowly but surely she's starting to accept more and more of the unreality of her situation when it comes to the things that appear around the school. While she wants to instinctively mock a fellow student for talking about tengu, remembering that it was mentioned on her first drive to the school causes her to wonder if there's more to the story.
Abe's life is certainly amusing to watch since he's seeing himself as Bunmei on TV and it brings back all sorts of memories to him. It has to be somewhat surreal to see yourself on TV like that in this context where it's a real live version of you from years ago doing that as opposed to it being a recording watched years later. Even worse for Abe is that he's still having trouble fitting into the basics of this time period, one that's only what, thirteen years prior? His ability to see glimpses of the future through his phone camera isn't helping either as he gets tempted by one woman and sees only certain death for him. Yet opportunity knocks around each corner and he can't help but to be hopefully.
While Abe is out there dreaming of dating and getting closer to it, Maya's trying to figure out what's going on with the apparent kidnappings in the area and coming across some useful bits of information on the region through actual research and book learning. It's fun to see her going through this kind of work while we see Abe and his date out and about town with some cute romantic music playing very lightly in the background. Unsurprisingly, the two arcs do cross paths slightly as we see Maya getting all hands on underground to figure out the tengu/kidnapping problem and it sets it up nicely for the second episode where hopefully she has more of a role. May does continue to delight in her straightforward approach to problem solving without being a wacky silly character as she does it.
In Summary:
This episode of Occult Academy isn't bad, it just lacks what has been making it so much fun by not having enough Maya. It is fun watching how Abe is dealing with his time in the past and the number of flubs he seems to make as well as the way he gets some regular clues about how bad certain futures would be for him. The episode works as a laying of the foundation kind of piece as it shows us more of the area and how Abe and Maya are getting along in their lives after how everything started. There are hints of things here and there, but the actual substance itself is light. Thankfully it's made up for in style as it's a very well animated and executed show, but it's an episode where you can easily feel your attention drifting.
Features
Japanese 2.0 Language, English Subtitles
Review Equipment
Sony KDS-R70XBR2 70" LCoS 1080P HDTV, Dell 10.1 Netbook via HDMI set to 1080p, Onkyo TX-SR605 Receiver and Panasonic SB-TP20S Multi-Channel Speaker System With 100-Watt Subwoofer.
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