[June 24 : Day 1] Time Warps

The second half of this day was spent on Tatami Galaxy or its Japan­ese name: Yojou-Han Shinwa Taikei. You can’t find this anime if you don’t know its Japan­ese name.

The first thing I noticed was that they talked way too fast! It must have been faster than even Zetsubou-sensei! But any­ways, I really thought that I was going to like this more than Kaiba but the oppos­ite seemed to hap­pen. I think what made me like Kaiba more was that each epis­ode in Tatami Galaxy was just a restart of Watashi’s first two years in col­lege. Don’t get me wrong, it was inter­est­ing but it’s just not as grat­i­fy­ing as Kaiba has been.

The setup is quite inter­est­ing. We have a match­mak­ing god that I think is the cause of the time warp, that along with Watashi’s desire to change his messed up life. The first epis­ode basic­ally sets the trend for later epis­odes. At the end of that epis­ode Wata­shi states that if he joined a dif­fer­ent club or circle then he would have never met the source of his dis­aster, Ozu, and would have had the rose-colored col­lege life he dreamed of pre­sum­ably with Akashi. After that, each epis­ode explores the dif­fer­ent life paths Wata­shi said would lead him to his desired life but the fact is that each choice still fol­lows a sim­ilar pat­tern. In essence, the same stuff is basic­ally going to hap­pen but with slight differences.

Des­pite that, it still man­ages to be enter­tain­ing. I at first was put off with Ozu’s demonic demeanor but as the epis­odes  passed I found him to be slightly funny but still mis­chev­i­ous. The char­ac­ter that really grossed me out def­in­itely had to be the guy who had an obses­sion with boobs. I mean, hav­ing a wall of boobs and drink­ing out of baby bottles (cuz it’s like breast­feed­ing) is going way too far. I really love Akashi and her hatred for moths XD her whole per­son­al­ity is great and she really is blunt about things. What really con­nects her and Wata­shi is the prom­ise he made with her. Now, I don’t think that Wata­shi feels much for Akashi. He may like her but I don’t think it’s any­where near love. On the topic of love, Ozu has men­tioned that Wata­shi has had a girl­friend before but Wata­shi doesn’t say much except for the fact that it failed. Hope­fully, more light will be brought upon it.

What I’m wait­ing for the most is when the epis­odes start to have pro­found changes. I can’t wait to stop see­ing that for­tune teller lady. As it’s going, it looks like there may not be away to escape from Ozu and he’s going to have to accept that fact. Instead of focus­ing on the past, he may have to just look to the future for change. But we’ll see soon… it’s a good thing I’m mara­thon­ing it. I won’t have to wait weeks to see the end of his endeavors

Watched: 4 epis­odes out of 11