Dear Diary, Like Hell I’m Dead

Diary of a Dead Kid

Dear Diary — er…Journal,

Otonashi, not Kyon, here speak­ing. Well, here’s some news for you.

I’m dead appar­ently. I woke up on the floor to see some girl, not Haruhi, aim­ing her gun at another girl. She told me I’m dead, and this was the afterlife.

Like hell I’m dead. I stood up and went over to the girl she was aim­ing at. Bad idea.

STAB

After being stabbed in the heart, I get ‘killed’ again for ‘dis­gra­cing Yurippe’ or some­thing. Okay, what? I then went to go find a respons­ible adult some­where in this place. I got the principal’s office and… Well, Just look to the pic­ture below.

I believe I can fly

…

What. The. Hell? So I’m just sup­posed to accept the laws of anime that this should all be nor­mal? You know what? Fine. I’ll just accept this and move on.

So I end up join­ing the After­life Bat­tle­front. Hey, it’ll buy time to regain those memor­ies I lost. Memory loss for the main char­ac­ter is totally not uncom­mon, and know­ing Key, my past will prob­ably be either messed up, involve break­ing little girls hearts, or both.

I also learned about NPC, or non-player char­ac­ters. They’re just…there. Serving no appar­ent import­ance in the story just to make the school more school-like. Well, if I go and do what they do, I’m going to dis­ap­pear and turn into a barnacle. Again, what?

I was went on my first oper­a­tion. I’m sup­posed to go and shoot Ten­shi, our enemy, at her legs. I failed of course. Don’t worry, oth­ers came to my res­cue before she could ‘kill’ me again. Did I men­tion that we had an all-girl-band dis­tract the NPC dur­ing the oper­a­tion? Why exactly do we have to dis­tract them? Are they going to inter­fere or some­thing? Or did they just want to show off in the first epis­ode the band?

Insert Cap­tion Here

–Otonashi

My Thoughts

The epis­ode was pretty good. Of course, it’s the pilot, so it’s not sup­posed to be spec­tac­u­lar. You can really tell that their try­ing to aim for KyoAni fans with this series. Otonashi and Yuri just scream Haruhi and Kyon to me. The plot is inter­est­ing enough though. I can already sense that Ten­shi isn’t as evil as they make her out to be. I’m inter­ested to see­ing those tear-jerking epis­odes that will even­tu­ally come up. I’m hop­ing we’ll get more focus on the other After­life Bat­tle­front mem­bers as well. Oth­er­wise, they’re just…there. Also, I liked the way there presen­ted the next epis­ode pre­view. Haven’t seen some­thing like that before. I’m going to con­tinue watch­ing this series and see where is goes. P.S. Donate for the Dol­lars Chat!