Mysterious Girlfriend X Ep. 02

(Quick Preface, if you ARE going to start watching this, Get the SubDESU version, which is under the Japanese title Nazo no Kanojo X. The translation seems to be a lot better, they don't edit out the interstitial, and they translate the songs.)

I'll get back to Deadman Wonderland shortly (I've recently downloaded a different translation), but I just got episode 2 of Mysterious Girlfriend X and I had to say, at least this far, it's very interesting where this is going.

Akira is struggling with the idea of having his first girlfriend, and has no idea of what to do. He's asking his friends for "Hypothetical" advice, which isn't entirely helpful because they haven't got much experience either, and yet, he doesn't want to admit to anyone he's seeing the weird girl. But nicely, they haven't gone into the "wacky hijinks of trying to hide their relationship" thing. I'll be disappointed if they go there.

And Mikoto of course, won't have any of the "normal stuff". Everything is on her terms. Not even holding hands while they walk. She also demonstrates a new skill, which I will call Scissor Fu, a Martial-arts style of paper cutting. She carries a large pair of scissors tucked into the side of her panties, and she can whip them out and slice the hell out of anything in microseconds. Maybe there's an anime trope for the dangerous powers girls can have, dating all the way back to Lum's lightning bolts. Anyway, she's got it.

There is a Very Important scene in this episode, important not only because it's obvious "buy the BD bait", but because it completely explains what's going on with the drool thing. And I'm going to actually be a little cagy here because I am enthusiastic enough about this show to want others to see this. Basically she takes him someplace private, an abandoned building up beyond a shrine, and makes him close his eyes so that she can demonstrate just how special what is going on between them is. Remember what I said about how important visual metaphors are in this show? Well as I watched it, I thought the images of ants stripping a dead cicada were just part of showing how decrepit the building was, but after it was over, I realized, It's all about Pheromones.

What REALLY surprised me was that it worked both ways. That is the first time I have EVER seen a girl in anime get a nosebleed, and her reaction was totally unexpected, unless you account for how anti-anime girl she is.

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