Anime in Focus: X episode 2

 <- This is the lady in charge of the seven dragons of heaven, a group of people who believe in sacrificing character development to bring in more fight scenes

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This anime is available for free on Funimations website HERE

Well, after my review on the first episode of this series, you may find it shocking that I actually watched the second. Well, you see, I was having an anime night with some friends, and there wasn’t anything else going on. This episode starts with us finding out how much of an antisocial jerk Kamui is. We get a flashback to his childhood, showing him as a nice young boy, along with some girl we saw in the opening episode.

After this, Kamui gets into a fight with some guy who weilds wind magic. It doesn’t go well for the wind guy, because Kamui’s power level is inversely proportionate to his character development at this point. Hence, our local wind caster gets bailed out by that chick that looks like Aoyama Motoko, who apparently DOES possess a sword.

Anyway, our lead wants to wield some divine sword or something, but the people in charge of guarding it don’t want him to have it because he’s a jerk. Quite logical really. Then we see some people talking to some really important looking lady, who talks about Kamui’s role in the fate of the world and how important he is. Her henchmen really hope some other guy is in charge of deciding the fate of the world, as would anybody who makes logical sense. Also, Kamui is apparently going to be the one who ruins the world or something. I dunno, if some antisocial jerk was going to be the one who decides the fate of the world, wouldn’t using a sniper rifle to get rid of him be a logical choice? Once again though, that would make for a very short anime.

Rest of the episode is about a couple of guys who were watching Kamui creating an alternate dimension that is not connected to this one and duking it out. Fight it moderately interesting, but like all of the other fights in this series, we aren’t really given a reason to care. Episode ends with a cliff hanger, but I’m not really pushed to care.

I really wish this show would focus less on introducing characters and having fight scenes, and focus more on the characters themselves and their motivations for fighting. Anime doesn’t follow the same rules as video games, you know!

Someday maybe: My anime watching friend said we might watch a third episode of this. Maybe.

Related stuff:
xxxHolic volume 1, manga (also by clamp)