Monday
Nov302009
Kampfer Ep 8&9 - Sakura's Evil
Monday, November 30, 2009 at 11:13PM
Who Knew?
OK, better start from the beginning.
Did you do something with your hair?
Kampfer continues to perform like a silly romantic comedy with a bit of deadly combat thrown in. With the introduction of the White team, the Class Pres is moving closer to her goal of finding out just what the heck is going on. Episodes 8 and 9 explore her machinations to draw them out, or at least that's what I (and Natsuru) think. Time to explain.
With her, this could be an issue
Episode 8 is a date between Natsuru and Shizuku. At least that's what she calls it. Natsuru thinks it's a plan to draw out the Whites.
Shizuku does her best to convince him otherwise.
So...it's a date?
The episode on its own is unremarkable, until you watch it back to back with Episode 9. Under the pretext of another date, now with Akane, (cause Natsuru is a player, again, who knew) the whole team, including Sakura, get together for an overnighter.
And the wheel turns.
Hello, I must be going...
Shizuku has always suspected Sakura is involved with the Kampfer project, what with her connection to the suicide dolls (not the band). Episode 9 tries to confirm this subtly, but instead confirms it like a brick to the face.
This overshot "glance" by a mile
Sakura is clearly seen sending the Whites after Natsuru, who make it clear they know who Natsuru is, gender-wise. This plays right into Shizuku's hands, and pretty much confirms what she's been thinking about Sakura. So that evening, she plays her card, much to Natsuru's benefit (if he wasn't too big a moron to appreciate it).
She now knows how many fillings he has
In the end, Sakura does a full fledged personality flip and drags Natsuru-KUN off into the night.
IQ = 4
This leads to a series of majorly confusing questions
The last one is most depressing. I'm an admitted Tsundere fanatic, and I was so looking forward to Shizuku winning over Natsuru. Even I admit that was pretty unlikely all along, Natsuru himself being the biggest obstacle. But now it's clear that her actions are all a ploy to call out Sakura. The tortured logic goes like this - if she pretends to fall for Natsuru, Sakura has to play the encouraging friend, given that this will leave Natsuru-chan free if Shizuku hooks up with Natsuru-kun. But as Shizuku suspects, Sakura knows the Natsurus are the same, so loosing Natsuru-kun looses her Natsuru-chan, and therefore she is forced to make her move. This hinges on the assumption that her attraction to Natsuru-chan is genuine, which, give the last two minutes of episode 9, is seriously in doubt.
run
So in the end, I, the master of missing the obvious, have no clue where this is going. Sakura's conversion seems so sudden, did I miss some clues along the way or was this intentional? This is going to get messy, with only one possible outcome - GIRLFIGHT!
OK, better start from the beginning.
Did you do something with your hair?
Kampfer continues to perform like a silly romantic comedy with a bit of deadly combat thrown in. With the introduction of the White team, the Class Pres is moving closer to her goal of finding out just what the heck is going on. Episodes 8 and 9 explore her machinations to draw them out, or at least that's what I (and Natsuru) think. Time to explain.
With her, this could be an issue
Episode 8 is a date between Natsuru and Shizuku. At least that's what she calls it. Natsuru thinks it's a plan to draw out the Whites.
Shizuku does her best to convince him otherwise.
So...it's a date?
The episode on its own is unremarkable, until you watch it back to back with Episode 9. Under the pretext of another date, now with Akane, (cause Natsuru is a player, again, who knew) the whole team, including Sakura, get together for an overnighter.
And the wheel turns.
Hello, I must be going...
Shizuku has always suspected Sakura is involved with the Kampfer project, what with her connection to the suicide dolls (not the band). Episode 9 tries to confirm this subtly, but instead confirms it like a brick to the face.
This overshot "glance" by a mile
Sakura is clearly seen sending the Whites after Natsuru, who make it clear they know who Natsuru is, gender-wise. This plays right into Shizuku's hands, and pretty much confirms what she's been thinking about Sakura. So that evening, she plays her card, much to Natsuru's benefit (if he wasn't too big a moron to appreciate it).
She now knows how many fillings he has
In the end, Sakura does a full fledged personality flip and drags Natsuru-KUN off into the night.
IQ = 4
This leads to a series of majorly confusing questions
- If Sakura knows Natsuru-chan is Natsuru-kun, what is her purpose in coming on to Natsuru-chan?
- Why did she send the Whites after Natsuru?
- Is this change recent or has she been pulling the strings all along?
- WTF is with Sakura dragging Natsuru-kun off into the night, and is she using some power on him, or is Natsuru just going stupid male on us? (Answer - stupid male)
- Are they going to crush my hopes of a real Shizuku/Natsuru hookup?
The last one is most depressing. I'm an admitted Tsundere fanatic, and I was so looking forward to Shizuku winning over Natsuru. Even I admit that was pretty unlikely all along, Natsuru himself being the biggest obstacle. But now it's clear that her actions are all a ploy to call out Sakura. The tortured logic goes like this - if she pretends to fall for Natsuru, Sakura has to play the encouraging friend, given that this will leave Natsuru-chan free if Shizuku hooks up with Natsuru-kun. But as Shizuku suspects, Sakura knows the Natsurus are the same, so loosing Natsuru-kun looses her Natsuru-chan, and therefore she is forced to make her move. This hinges on the assumption that her attraction to Natsuru-chan is genuine, which, give the last two minutes of episode 9, is seriously in doubt.
run
So in the end, I, the master of missing the obvious, have no clue where this is going. Sakura's conversion seems so sudden, did I miss some clues along the way or was this intentional? This is going to get messy, with only one possible outcome - GIRLFIGHT!
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