Last episode on Mirai Nikki (which was two weeks ago: blame inconsistent fansubber schedules, or perhaps the release of Crusader Kings 2), Yukiteru was trapped in a building that was being blown up by enemy diary users.  The floor was collapsing out from under him, and he was presented with a choice: grab for his [...]
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love is in the air~ (but it’s Mirai Nikki style so it’s more like *kiss kiss stab stab*)  The episode begins with a flashback, because God knows we can wait to see if the main character plummets to his death or not…Anyway, the flashback shows Seventh as children; Mar comes to Ai’s rescue when she’s [...]
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Written by: Leenina at Sea Slugs! Anime BlogSummary: This episode opens with ample back story for Seventh; it seems when Ai was younger and abandoned by her parents, Marco took her to live with him in Mother’s Village. The two ended up forming an inseparable bond which only grew stronger as they surmounted later obstacles, including Ai’s sexual abuse at the hands [...]
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A few hours after posting about my slow internet speeds, they suddenly returned to normal. This allowed me to clear my anime backlog, get hold of Mirai Nikki when it came out, and make this post on time. This, along with a sudden and inexplicable surge in blog views which led to today being it’s busiest day [...]
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Marco is awesome. Mainly because he is the first person who tells Yuuki how pathetic he is to his face and wants to screw with him. He had some great lines at the end too, telling off both Yuuki and … Continue reading →
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With Yukiteru at risk of falling to his death as this episode begins, it's perhaps a little unfair of Mirai Nikki to take us through a character's back story at this exact moment in time, but that's exactly what we get as episode seventeen of the series opens by telling the tale of Seventh, aka Ai and Marco; a pair of orphans who both suffer the harsh cruelties of life before finding one another
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Overall, Seventh were by far the most interesting opponents that Yukiteru and Yuno faced so far. It’s probably because of this that this arc has been my favorite so far. This episode also delved a bit in their past and gave them a pretty nice closure. The creators made good use of how they as [...]
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「家族割り」 (Kazoku Wari) "Family Discount" Sometimes in an anime, a character will say something that’s been obvious to the reader all along, but never muttered aloud on screen. The interesting part comes in seeing how the characters react to it.
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