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omaewokorosu) wrote2012-02-10 04:47 pm
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[anime reviews] weiss kreuz kapitel, episode seven: entführen
Previously on Weiss Kreuz...
OP1 - "Velvet Underworld": DW, LJ
#1 - Lockvogel: DW, LJ
#2 - Fort Laufen: DW, LJ
#3 - Paradies: DW, LJ
#4 - Verrat: DW, LJ
#5 - Schicksal: DW, LJ
#6 - Fräulein: DW, LJ
I'm looking forward to the day where I will need an entry just for the "Previously on Weiss Kreuz" segment because it got too long.
(It'll be a master list of all anime reviews, not just the Weiss Kreuz ones.)
Standard crap: spoilers, pics, fangirling.
So episode seven opens with two kids running. One of them has the number seven on his head and he looks scared shitless; his friend has the number eleven on his and he looks less scared, but still pretty scared. What are they running from? I don't know, probably some weirdo. There's plenty of them in this series. Seven trips, because that's just the rule of anime, if you're being chased, you gotta trip at least once so that the bad guys can catch up a little bit. Bad guys run about as fast as zombies, and not the cool Crimson Head variety, but the braaaaains type.
Kid starts crying, screaming after his friend Teppei to wait, to not leave him all alone. Wait, this kid is a boy, right? Sometimes it's hard to tell because before puberty, everyone sounds like little girls. There's some creepy looking structure in the distance behind him, which is apparently an eight headed dragon or something? Uhm. Okay. Kid's clearly tripping, there are no dragons in Weiss Kreuz. Creepy old people trying to resurrect Satan, psychic assassins who are all touchy-feely, and weird scientific experiments, yes. But dragons? No. The kid starts running as a bunch of cars drive after him, and he comes across...something before going, "Teppei," and presumably collapsing or some shit.
BUILDING SHOTS. Omi's jogging or some crap when he comes across the kid from before. He collapses in Omi's arms, and Omi is, of course, a Concerned Citizen, because it's not every day that something like that happens.
Entführen: kidnap, according to my flash cards.
We find ourselves outside the Koneko with the sun shining from the heavens and all's quiet on the battlefield we call Tokyo. Yohji's got some coffee and he looks like he might've woken up like, ten or so minutes ago. He tells Omi it's almost time to open...
...and sees Omi with some kid in his bed, and Ken's there chaperoning or something. Ken probably came in, told Omi it was time to open the shop, and saw the kid and got sucked in via his curiosity. The kid's having a nightmare, screaming for whatever demons haunt him to stop, to please not kill him. God, what the hell were they doing to this poor kid?
I'm not gonna lie, this kid kind of looks like the lovechild of Ken and Omi. Hurr. He has endeared himself to me, and he hasn't even really done anything. It's 'cause he's adorable.
He sits up in bed, hands over his head, and finally wakes up to Omi, still in his jogging suit, and Ken staring at him. Kid pulls the sheet over his head and says, "Help, go away!" ...So do you want them to help you or go away? Poor kid's talking nonsense now, he's so shaken up. Ken, all calm-like, asks him what happened. Yes, let Ken-nii-chan make you feel better...
(Ken's really good with kids, okay? Okay.)
PLEASE DON'T KILL ME
Ken's not going to kill an innocent kid, Kid. You have nothing to fear. Omi says as much. It's not like Aya's in the room or anything--he can look kind of scary, what with him glaring all the time, like he's got only one facial expression and that's "eternally pissed off". Yohji gives Kid some instant soup to calm him down. Kid sees that they're not a threat and opens up a little bit. His name is Sakuma Shota.
Yes, really, his name is Shota. And yes, he's the kind of kid you'd involve in shotacon stuff.
Anyway, Shota is in the sixth grade, which would make him...eleven or twelve. He's a cutie for an eleven year old, most of them aren't as adorable. I want to pinch his cheeks and--
sorry.Just wait until we meet Schuldig and all the dirty things I'll be saying about him.
Anyway, Shota takes the soup and eats it happily, and aww, it's like having three big brothers. You guys are making me all warm and fuzzy. They ask Shota where he lives and he says, "Dei-en chofu," which no, is not Chinese though it certainly looks it. It's...somewhere in Tokyo. Like, uh, everything else. (Tokyo's actually a pretty big prefecture.) It's like saying, "Well, it's outside of London."
"Well what about your parents?"
"My dad's Sakuma Shoichiro."
Yohji knows who his father is--he's the head of Mail Order Angel, which is a mail order bride service. ...Why the hell do you know a mail order bride service, Yohji? Ken has no idea what "Mail Order Angel" is. At least I think that's what he's referring to. I hope Ken knows what a mail order bride service is. If not, then Ken needs to stop living under a rock.
ANYWAY, the four of them pile into one of the seemingly many cars Weiss seem to own--seriously! Yohji has his Seven and apparently what looks like a VW Beetle, Aya's got his Porsche, Ken's got some kind of hatchback plus a motorbike...
Maybe I should become an assassin if they can afford all these cars.
So Shota tells them that these people took him and his friend Teppei. They ran away but the guys caught Teppei and killed him. He starts flipping out and Omi tries to tell him to, well, calm down, but Shota insists they're going to kill everyone. No one knows who "they" are yet, but I'm sure it'll be revealed and they're probably tied to the Takatoris somehow, because Japan is actually quite small when you think about it. Omi wants clarification, and Shota tells him there are lots of kids in a dark basement. He clings to Omi, screaming THEY'RE ALL GOING TO GET KILLED, and Omi is very much OoO over it. Maybe Shota accidentally kneed him in the balls or something. I don't know.
"A mass kidnapping?" offers Yohji, who really should be paying attention to the road since he's, you know, driving.
"Kidnapping?" goes Omi, and OH LOOK A FLASHBACK.
Omi's gagged and thrown to the floor, there's a bunch of creepy looking dudes looking down at him, and Omi's sobbing into his gag as they reach for him. God only knows what they were going to do to him, but seeing as Omi's blocked it out up until this point, it was probably some horrific shit that would make the people at Rosenkreuz grin ear to ear, because Rosenkreuz is made up of a bunch of sick fucks. Omi is freaked because WHERE THE HELL DID THIS FLASHBACK COME FROM? Yohji turns around and asks him what's wrong, he don't look so good. And once again, Yohji, pay attention to the road, you're driving! You can see him in the rear-view mirror. Omi's all OH NOTHING and I'm assuming Yohji turns around and pays some fucking attention because god knows they don't need to crash a car and have it burst into a fiery inferno.
Where's Aya, you ask? Who cares, I'm enjoying the episode thus far, we don't need Mr. Aya I Have A Stick Up My Arse Fujimiya around. He's probably visiting his sister or creeping on Sakura or something.
Anyway, the VW is parked and god, it looks like a clown car. It's parked in front of this huge freaking house with some nice hedges and trees and man, why can't I live in a house like that? Maybe I should start my own mail order business or something. Shota's mum is on the porch wearing her slippers, which is a no-no as the slippers aren't supposed to leave the house, but I guess she was just so excited she forgot. They hug and she's crying and wow, how heartwarming. Yohji's combing his hair, I guess so he can be a flirt with Shota's mum, who's probably too old for Yohji anyway, plus she's married. Omi's just all :D to see Shota reunited with his family, and Ken is nowhere to be found. Shota's mum thanks them and Yohji turns on the charm.
"Tears don't suit a beautiful woman like you," says Yohji. "This cattleya I just pulled out of hammerspace will suit you better." This, for the curious, is a cattleya. It's in the orchid family, and it's also Yohji's image flower. Omi's pretty much REALLY, YOHJI, HERE IN FRONT OF THE KID, HITTING ON HIS MUM? HAVE YOU NO SHAME?
Back to the Koneko...
We're back to our regular Koneko fangirls, who are admiring roses. KONO BARA WA KIREI DESU~ I bet Aya was taking care of them all day or something.
Fun fact: every time I see roses, I think of Treize. I do believe he had a rose garden, and he bathed in rose petals... And before you say anything, Treize was all the manliest man to ever be a man, and he was also totally in love with Zechs. He probably worked out to "Man Out of You" from Mulan. LET'S GET DOWN TO BUSINESS. TO DEFEAT. THE HUNS. DID THEY SEND ME DAUGHTERS WHEN I ASKED FOR SOOOOONS?
okay anyway back to the roses. Holy shit ten bucks each? Let's hope that's not for individual roses. It'd be cheaper to grow my own. Ouka, showing off her I'm Rich And You're Not-ness, says she'll buy all of them. Yohji's all UM WHAT. "I'm not talking to you," Ouka tells Yohji. "Ring me up, Omi!"
And you wonder why you have no friends, Ouka?
So they're apparently watching the news or something, where a reporter reports that the body of a young boy was found in a field of reeds at Kobayashi river in Tochigi prefecture, and holy shit I know exactly where that is. The prefecture, not the river. I don't even know if the river exists because I can't find it on a map, but I gotta admit, I'm not really looking all that hard. I can always ask Juni because she's from the area originally, if anyone really cares. People from Tochigi have the coolest accents. Anyway.
Midorikawa is from Tochigi.
So the young boy's name is Kimura Teppei and he was in the same grade as Shota and GASP that must be Shota's friend! How horrible. So Omi grabs the newspaper that's just conveniently lying on the table and looks through it. Sure enough, there's Teppei's picture. Omi runs from the shop and Yohji questions where he's going, and in such a rush too. And--oh there you are, Aya. I was starting to think you'd left the show or something. I guess you were trying to find that ugly sweater of yours and, unfortunately, you found it.
ANYWAY. Omi's driving along, trying to piece this whole mystery together whilst battling his own flashbacks in greyscale. Omi shows Shota the newspaper and he screams and cries OMG THAT'S TEPPEI SOB and Omi goes about interrogating the kid. THERE WERE OTHERS. WHERE WERE THEY. WERE THEY IN A BASEMENT? ANSWER ME, KID. STOP CRYING. Nee, Omi, maybe you'd get better answers if, you know, you weren't traumatising the poor kid. Just a thought.
Anyway, Shota says that he was blindfolded, and then Omi goes on about facing fears and shit. YOU HAVE A FEAR OF TELEPATHS? HERE, LET'S HAVE YOU CONFRONT ONE. YOU WON'T GET OVER IT UNLESS YOU FACE YOUR FEAR--oh geez, I wasn't expecting your brain to turn to mush.
So Omi asks him to think of something--anything--from the place where he was, and Shota describes clanging and banging and all sorts of train-like sounds. Omi suggests HEY THAT COULD BE A RAILROAD CROSSING. And then he adds that there was an eight headed dragon.
As I said before, Weiss Kreuz has all sorts of strange shit, but one thing it lacks are dragons. Why the lack of dragons? I don't know. Go ask Koyasu. Don't look at me. I just write fanfiction and useless meta no one cares about.
Omi: A dragon?
Shota: /nods
Omi: OoO
I do believe Shota caused Omi's brain to BSOD and reboot itself.
So Omi's not doing anything and Shota's mother comes in, pauses briefly, and goes, "Please, stop!" Omi, were you doing something creepy off-screen or something? Are you showing him flashbacks? Honestly, that reaction is just so poorly timed, especially since she's pretty nonchalant when walking in and Omi's just too busy trying to comprehend when Godzilla sprouted seven more heads and kidnapped innocent children to be doing anything really, uh, traumatising. Did he lose his shorts again? I mean really.
Also love how she basically dropped the tray onto the table and yet it acted like it was put down neatly. And those slippers totes don't go with your pantyhose, lady. Nude ones would look so much better. God, don't you read Cosmo? I know they have Cosmo in Japan. I have it on my iPod's Newsstand app.
"Please leave Shota alone!" she says. Well, uh, whose idea was it to name your kid "Shota" when there's things like shotacon? I mean really. Not that Omi's old enough for Omi/Shota to be considered shotacon since... Well, Omi is seventeen and Shota's like, twelve. That's a five year age difference. Whoopee. (The thing that would make it illegal would be that Shota is under the age of consent to sex by a year.)
THERE'S PROBABLY OMI/SHOTA FANFIC SOMEWHERE. I'd write some for the lulz but my brain is adamantly against shipping Omi with anyone who isn't Nagi and do not ask why, I don't even really like Omi/Nagi and yet apparently it's my default ship for the both of them.
anyway.
So Omi...kisses his bike helmet? That's what it looks like even though he's probably getting ready to strap the damn thing on, when Shota's screaming out his window about how he felt like he was floating because his body swayed while he was blindfolded or some shit. Also I get that this was probably intentional, but Shota could easily pass for Omi's kid brother since they, well, look alike.
SCENE CHANGE TO a really fancy looking building and a bunch of kids tied up and gagged. And then a dramatic pan out of some ugly looking guy--
Oh wait, that's Takatori Masafumi. Whoops.
I always thought Hirofumi was the better looking of the two anyway.
So some guy on the phone is telling Masafumi that he had twenty kids, but Seven went missing and DEAR SWEET JESUS WHO SAID A SHIT BROWN TIE WENT WELL WITH A LIGHT PURPLE SHIRT? You have worse colour coordination than Brad fucking Crawford. Hell that shirt looks like the one he wears. Are you raiding his closet and stealing his clothes? I'm sure he has an issue with that. And all this time he thought Schuldig was just throwing out half of his wardrobe...
Masafumi: He got away?
WELL HE'S CERTAINLY NOT AT THE KIDNAPPING PLACE, SO I WOULD GUESS SO.
Um. What a fucking creeper. You're fucking creepy, Masafumi. Omee wa totemo fushigi na hito da.
...
YOU ARE NOT MAKING YOURSELF LOOK ANY BETTER.
Stay the fuck away from Nagi. Creeper.
So anyway, Kidnapper Guy is all OH SURE WHATEVER YOU SAY, WEIRDO.
Masafumi: I'm gonna make a ~new and improved~ experiment. So get me thirty kawaii ko--I mean cute kids. Yes.
Creeper.
Anyway, Kidnapper Guy informs Masafumi that, because of his strange want for children, he's going to have to raise the price. Masafumi does not like this. Kidnapper Guy (KG for short) continues on about how the police are conducting an intensive investigation... About what, I have no idea, but I suspect it might involve Chris Hanson. "30,000 yen each isn't enough." That might not sound like a lot, but that's actually 386,508 US dollars. Multiply that by thirty and you have...over a million dollars. I suspect it's not even his money, but Daddy Takatori's instead. Anyway. We have David Carradine (aka KG), Kojak, and That Guy From Duran Duran, according to outtakes!Persia. We'll call That Guy From Duran Duran "That Guy" for short. They're the kidnappers or kidsnatchers or whatever the fuck you want to call them. There is talk of ransoms being the hard part of any kidnapping and FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, PLEASE BURN THAT TIE.
So after that aggravating phone call, David Carradine kicks the table and calls Masafumi a jerk. "He has no idea how risky it is to kidnap twenty kids!" Well no shit. Do you think some guy with over a million dollars to pay for thirty kids is going to know all about the ins and outs of kidnapping?
"But it is easier not having to deal with a ransom," says Kojak.
"STFU," replies David Carradine, who I am half-expecting to pull out a Hattori Hanzo katana. He complains about how their share is so small once they divide it all amongst themselves, and oh, here, I'm playing the smallest violin in the world for you. Maybe you should have gone into a much more lucrative business, like being assassins or something. You could have all the Porsches and motorbikes and shit you want.
"Well it's a fail deal then," says That Guy, who really has nothing of import to say.
David: LET'S GO FOR THE BIG ONE THEN.
Kojak: The big one?
David: The kid who escaped is the son of a famous mail order magnate.
How come it seems like everyone except Ken knows this information? Seriously. Did they Google up on all the kids' families? David goes on to say that they're going to demand a huge ransom and kidnap him again and whatever. Then there is talk of them all leaving the country afterwards from That Guy and Kojak. Then they all engage in Evil Laughter that is totes not sexy.
If you want sexy evil laughter, you can't go wrong with Schwarz.
NOW BACK TO MASAFUMI, who is still wearing that awful tie and shirt combo. Ugh. Please burn that. Please. For the love (or hate) of humanity. He basically scoffs at the "petty criminals" and then turns to his lovely bodyguards/lab assistants/whatever/harem and asks Hell if she's finished the preparations for the experiment. Because he's an evil scientist, remember? She gives no answer, just a dramatic look up and fade to black.
...Andn ow we're in...someone's room. Apparently it's Omi's, and wow, it's pretty spacious. He's on the computer googling crap. There's a news report about the twenty missing children, how they were found mutilated and murdered in the woods near Mount Fuji.
...Oh god, over in the Suicide Forest? /shakes head. What a place to dump some bodies.
Omi looks behind at the TV and is all WHAT
Yeah, and some police are investigating and whatever. There are no leads, and if this is the woods that I'm thinking of, there's dead bodies literally found everywhere. It's a great dumping ground, and apparently it's a popular spot to kill yourself because it's a pretty dense woods, so it's kind of...dark. But there are nooses and shit hanging from trees and things. It's creepy as fuck, too.
CUE FLASHBACK to kid!Omi running. Running from what? From some guy with glowing red eyes apparently. At least they're not glowing yellow eyes, because then you end up either becoming petrified or you, uh, die.Oho, Harry Potter reference. Kid!Omi freaks, present-day!Omi freaks, everyone freaks. All the way into the eye catcher, which is of Omi. Omi's walking along and overhears a conversation.
Dude: We have your child. We want 500,000 yen for him.
kid!Omi: Help me, Daddy! Help me!
So kid!Omi is sobbing into a phone to his father to save him 'cause he got kidnapped and yeah, someone please give this kid a tissue or something, he's getting his weepy uke tears all over the damn place.
Dude kicks kid!Omi and laughs at him, saying his father isn't going to pay, said he "wasn't worth it". What a fucking asshole. They decide to try and kill kid!Omi 'cause his father screwed them over and, well, he's kind of useless to keep around since he ain't worth shit. They rub salt and lemon juice into Omi's wounds by saying HAHA YOUR PARENTS DON'T LOVE YOU and kid!Omi, proving he is actually quite badass, kicks the kidnappers away--while still tied up, mind--and runs. Well at least I think Omi kicked them. We're seen with a guy leading kid!Omi out of this hellhole. Some guy wearing a suit and glasses.
Everyone wears a suit and glasses in this series. I am convinced of it. And with one exception, they're all on the side with all the cookies. Damn them.
So Omi chases after himself in this flashback. It's one of those interactive flashbacks though. And though we're not shown this man's identity, Omi recognises him as...
"HELP ME, DADDY!"
well not quite. I was going for "Persia" there. I am actually loling at the juxtaposition. Which I will tell you about later, at the end of the Takatori arc.
Well apparently Omi was sitting on a couch in between Yohji and Ken, and Aya's sitting on the back of the couch presumably brooding, when he suddenly has an outburst, causing everyone to pretty much go WTF. And you can't blame them, because, you know, one minute someone is quiet and the next they're all HELP ME, DADDY, YOU'RE MY ONLY HOPE.
Yohji asks him what's the matter, and Omi's all OH IT'S NOTHING.
oh btw Weiss have a mission. They're shown these pictures of seemingly innocent and cute as hell children, and then footage of those same children covered with white sheets as their families grieve over them. These children are the twenty missing kids who were found mutilated and murdered, just as that news reporter said earlier. Well whaddya know, the news reported actually knew what he was talking about! Omi's all :|, Aya's...brooding, Yohji's all relaxed, and Ken's...well, Ken. Apparently all of the kids had their blood drained from their bodies and their skin was all peeled off.
Here's some puppies. Have some more. You might need all the puppies you can get after reading that.
(They're Siberian husky puppies because that's my favourite breed.)
Persia goes on to say that Kritiker knows who kidnapped the children. They are David Carradine, aka Katoh Michio; Kojak, aka Sano Kenichi; and That Guy From Duran Duran, aka Yamagami Shinji. The police, of course, fail at investigation, so we must turn to Weiss for some ass kicking. Everyone else is ready to kick ass except Omi, who is shivering under a blanket. And you call yourself an assassin? Pull yourself together, man!
WELL I GUESS YOU'RE ALL IN, goes Manx, who is wearing a longer skirt than usual today. I betcha she got complaints about the much shorter one. She goes on to say that they found their hideout, but they don't think they're still there. Well, that's...not really helpful. How the fuck is that helpful? That's like saying WELL SCHWARZ LIVE IN GERMANY, BUT THEY'RE NOT THERE RIGHT NOW. Well then, uh, where are they? And as Manx continues on, Omi is pretty much on the verge of hyperventilating since he's having flashbacks every five seconds. What a pain in the arse.
SCENE CHANGE TO A BUILDING. It says something entirely in kanji that I can't read because fuck you, kanji, that's why. Manx comes out of it holding a book, but it's not a library. And now another scene change to a sunset and a boat and Manx and Omi overlooking the water.
Omi: It wasn't my father who saved me. It was Persia.
SPOILERS (highlight to read):
So Omi asks if Manx knows about his past, and she does, of course. Understandably, Omi wants to know why his father is a deadbeat and decided to not pay his ransom. It's because your father is a douchebag. That's why. Of course Manx would love to say that, but instead she says, "Oh, your memory is coming back."
"Don't change the subject!" cries Omi. "Persia gave me the name 'Omi Tsukiyono', didn't he?"
...maybe.
"What is my dad's name?"
I'll give you all a hint: we've seen him several times already. :D
"Who am I... Who am I...?"
24601? Does that make Manx Fantine then?
(It doesn't help that Omi's voice actor, in the outtakes, started singing "Who Am I?" from Les Mis...)
NO, OMI, YOU ARE NOT 24601 NOR IS YOUR NAME JEAN VALJEAN (Jyon Barujyon?). BESIDES WHY DO YOU WANT TO REMEMBER THIS SHIT ANYWAY? questions Manx. "Anger begets anger."
Maybe you should tell that to Aya.
"Just forget all of your painful childhood memories." In other words, REPRESS THE PAINFUL MEMORIES. Because that's totes healthy. Next you'll tell him to repress his emotions and then he might as well try blowing himself up while trying to self-destruct whatever machinery he's standing on/in.
Somehow that joke is less funny when I'm making it for Omi.
"You'll be happier!" says Manx, who happily ignores my Heero Yuy reference thank god. "Persia thinks so too. He's always concerned about you. Believe in him."
Well um that's kind of creepy. I'd think that if I didn't know who Persia actually was.
The scene ends with Omi sobbing into Manx's chest. I bet Yohji's jealous as hell. "Why the hell does he get to sob into her breasts?"
Because Manx is like a mother to him, okay? Stuff it.
IT IS NOW NIGHT IN TOKYO, and we get a shot of more buildies. The same building as before, actually.
"Bombay isn't convinced, but I've managed to persuade him not to seek you out," says Manx. And in case you forgot, Bombay is Omi's codename in Weiss.
And now we're back to the park, because all Manx did was call Persia. Omi's still having flashbacks and is being all emo and shit when his phone rings.
"Omi, where the hell are you? That kid's been kidnapped again!"
"What?!"
Cut to a phone with I guess a tracer on it. A guy in a suit and glasses informs us that the tracing is in place.
And perhaps this is a bad time to mention this, but Shota's father kind of reminds me of Victor Newman from The Young and the Restless.
So Shota's mom is crying and her husband is trying to reassure her that Shota will be okay. So Omi shows up and wants to know where Shota is. His parents are all :|...;^; and Omi's all D: OH NOES
The phone then rings, and his parents (and Omi) rush to it. "Hello, this is Sakuma," Shota's dad says.
"If you want your son back alive, get five million yen."
WHERE THE FUCK DO YOU WANT ME TO GET FIVE MILL FROM, I DON'T HAVE THAT KIND OF GREEN.
WELL YOUR SON WILL DIE OTHERWISE. DO YOU WANT THAT TO HAPPEN?
NOT REALLY.
I'LL GIVE YOU BETTER INSTRUCTIONS LATER. JUST HAVE THE MONEY. /click
HELLO? HELLO? DAMMIT, ANSWER ME! HOW DARE YOU JUST HANG UP ON ME IKE THAT.
The police dudes just shake their heads. No trace. Figures.
WHERE ARE WE GOING TO GET FIVE MILLION? says the wife.
IDK, says the husband. I WILL TRY MY BEST, BUT I THINK I ONLY HAVE THREE MILLION. I COULD TRY LOOKING FOR SOME SPARE YEN UNDER THE FUTON MAT THOUGH.
BUT THEN OUR PRECIOUS SON...
Omi does not approve. WHY. WHY DIDN'T YOU SAVE ME? Oh he's having flashbacks again. Omi, you might wan tto see someone about that.
So then Omi goes on Google Maps in a fit of teary rage or something and mutters about how they don't know what it's like for family to betray them. He plans on rescuing Shota himself because he thinks Shota's parents are low lives. Well. He does some calculations and comes up with a location. Well, locations. See, his Google Earth-fu isn't an exact art just yet. He calls up Ken, who just so happens to be in the same car as Yohji and Aya, and tells them to check out all auto repair shops near railroad crossings. Everyone is pretty WTF over this. I don't blame them--that's, well, a lot of places. And how do you know they're still there?
MAKE SURE THEY HAVE A BASEMENT.
WTF IS GOING ON?
I'LL TELL YOU LATER. JUST DO THIS.
Let's do it, then. I mean what else are we going to do? Do you guys have any better ideas? No? Then JUST DO IT.
So Omi sends them the location where he suspects the bunker is and I guess Aya's car is equipped with the Latest Technology and can receive it. Don't look at me, I'm going by what I see. He's got a built-in GPS. This is Japan. Why not?
Anyway, Aya's all THIS LOCATION? WTF.
"But there could be a dozen of them," says Yohji.
JUST STFU AND DO IT, shouts Ken. Geez, Ken. Calm down. Just be like Aya and keep calm and collected.
TRAINS. Ken talks to some guys, shakes his head. Nope, not here. MORE TRAINS and Aya with his hazards on. He investigates a seemingly abandoned...something. Place of sorts. Yohji's being himself and flirting with the receptionist by pulling roses out of hammerspace. "I love fast cars and fast women!"
While the Japanese does translate to "fast women", it is not a reference to prostitutes. Not that my girlfriend knows about, anyway, because I asked her.
"OMAI!" goes the receptionist, because Yohji basically just asked her to take him for a "ride". Yes, all aboard the Yohji Train.
And then Ken bursts in, ruining the moment, telling Yohji to stop being himself and to get back in the car. Caught red rose in hand, he leaves, but not before blowing the receptionist a kiss.
She is pretty much o_o
I guess she's never been hit on before or something...
ANYWAY. Omi pulls up to...somewhere. I know I'm viewing this on a shitty assed CRT monitor with max brightness, contrast, and "lightscreen" on (whatever the hell that is, it just makes everything 100x brighter), and things are STILL DARK AS HELL. He goes down some stairs and decides WELL THIS ISN'T IT EITHER.
Then he sees some lights and is all OMG EIGHT HEADED DRAGON. And then he notices a tanker, and Shota's disembodied voice tells him, "Our bodies were swaying, like we were floating..." Well grats, Omi, looks like you found it. Especially since now we're reintroduced to David Carradine, whose actual name I can't be arsed to remember or look up. Because I don't care. Omi's gonna go all Kill Bill on his arse. ...Or maybe that should be Aya, since he has a katana. He's asking Sakuma (Shota's father) if he has the five million yen. And then we see Shota all tied up and gagged and I guess we're lucky that this isn't One Of Those Anime, and now of all times is the time my brain decides to go, HAY JAYDEN, SHOTA LOOKS LIKE MIRA MUNAKATA.
Mira was cuter.
Sakuma's got the five mill, Shota's not gonna die, Omi's relieved, blah blah blah.
"I don't care if I lose my house or if my company goes bankrupt... So long as Shota... So long as Shota is--"
"Relax, old man--"
"DAMN YOU, I'M STILL TALKING! HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO DEAL WITH YOU IF YOU INTERRUPT ME WHILE I'M STILL TALKING?"
In case you couldn't tell, I really, really, really like the Weiss Kreuz outtakes. :D
So then the power goes out, which means Weiss has arrived, and some creepy shadow appears over Shota, grabs him, and then... Shota's gone! He got...kidnapped from the kidnappers? Oh the irony! So then they start running, trying to find the kid, and Omi appears with Shota in tow. He tells him to run down this alleyway and go home. Kojak's spotted the kid, and Omi decides to take care of them. That Guy from Duran Duran seems confused when Omi says he is Weiss, probably wondering why a bunch of assassins decided to call themselves "white", but that's like asking Schwarz why the hell they're always wearing white. Just go with it.
Omi tries to dispatch of...I believe David Carradine, though it could also be That Guy, and Kojak tries to fuck Omi up, but Aya appears and disposes of him. Yohji wraps his garrote around That Guy's ankle and reels him in, and Ken finishes him off. David Carradine is all that's left, and Omi finishes him off with his crossbow. Supposedly.
TO THE KONEKO!
The TV has a report about how Shota was kidnapped and rescued, blah blah blah, no one cares since we never see Shota again anyway. Ken shuts it off because who cares. In the end, says Ken, Omi saved him. Ken's wearing short sleeves, Yohji's wearing a tank top, which means it's probably a little on the hot side (it's around...June I think, by this point), and Aya's wearing his goddamn orange turtleneck. What the fuck, Aya?
Anyway, Ken asks where Omi is and Yohji says he's probably still asleep, which is where he wants to be. That's where I want to be too. NOW SOME SEAGULLS and Omi is angsting.
And that's where the episode ends.
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Our first official appearance of Schreient.
And Schwarz. :D :D :D
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I'm looking forward to the day where I will need an entry just for the "Previously on Weiss Kreuz" segment because it got too long.
(It'll be a master list of all anime reviews, not just the Weiss Kreuz ones.)
Standard crap: spoilers, pics, fangirling.
So episode seven opens with two kids running. One of them has the number seven on his head and he looks scared shitless; his friend has the number eleven on his and he looks less scared, but still pretty scared. What are they running from? I don't know, probably some weirdo. There's plenty of them in this series. Seven trips, because that's just the rule of anime, if you're being chased, you gotta trip at least once so that the bad guys can catch up a little bit. Bad guys run about as fast as zombies, and not the cool Crimson Head variety, but the braaaaains type.
Kid starts crying, screaming after his friend Teppei to wait, to not leave him all alone. Wait, this kid is a boy, right? Sometimes it's hard to tell because before puberty, everyone sounds like little girls. There's some creepy looking structure in the distance behind him, which is apparently an eight headed dragon or something? Uhm. Okay. Kid's clearly tripping, there are no dragons in Weiss Kreuz. Creepy old people trying to resurrect Satan, psychic assassins who are all touchy-feely, and weird scientific experiments, yes. But dragons? No. The kid starts running as a bunch of cars drive after him, and he comes across...something before going, "Teppei," and presumably collapsing or some shit.
BUILDING SHOTS. Omi's jogging or some crap when he comes across the kid from before. He collapses in Omi's arms, and Omi is, of course, a Concerned Citizen, because it's not every day that something like that happens.
Entführen: kidnap, according to my flash cards.
We find ourselves outside the Koneko with the sun shining from the heavens and all's quiet on the battlefield we call Tokyo. Yohji's got some coffee and he looks like he might've woken up like, ten or so minutes ago. He tells Omi it's almost time to open...
...and sees Omi with some kid in his bed, and Ken's there chaperoning or something. Ken probably came in, told Omi it was time to open the shop, and saw the kid and got sucked in via his curiosity. The kid's having a nightmare, screaming for whatever demons haunt him to stop, to please not kill him. God, what the hell were they doing to this poor kid?
I'm not gonna lie, this kid kind of looks like the lovechild of Ken and Omi. Hurr. He has endeared himself to me, and he hasn't even really done anything. It's 'cause he's adorable.
He sits up in bed, hands over his head, and finally wakes up to Omi, still in his jogging suit, and Ken staring at him. Kid pulls the sheet over his head and says, "Help, go away!" ...So do you want them to help you or go away? Poor kid's talking nonsense now, he's so shaken up. Ken, all calm-like, asks him what happened. Yes, let Ken-nii-chan make you feel better...
(Ken's really good with kids, okay? Okay.)
PLEASE DON'T KILL ME
Ken's not going to kill an innocent kid, Kid. You have nothing to fear. Omi says as much. It's not like Aya's in the room or anything--he can look kind of scary, what with him glaring all the time, like he's got only one facial expression and that's "eternally pissed off". Yohji gives Kid some instant soup to calm him down. Kid sees that they're not a threat and opens up a little bit. His name is Sakuma Shota.
Yes, really, his name is Shota. And yes, he's the kind of kid you'd involve in shotacon stuff.
Anyway, Shota is in the sixth grade, which would make him...eleven or twelve. He's a cutie for an eleven year old, most of them aren't as adorable. I want to pinch his cheeks and--
sorry.
"Well what about your parents?"
"My dad's Sakuma Shoichiro."
Yohji knows who his father is--he's the head of Mail Order Angel, which is a mail order bride service. ...Why the hell do you know a mail order bride service, Yohji? Ken has no idea what "Mail Order Angel" is. At least I think that's what he's referring to. I hope Ken knows what a mail order bride service is. If not, then Ken needs to stop living under a rock.
ANYWAY, the four of them pile into one of the seemingly many cars Weiss seem to own--seriously! Yohji has his Seven and apparently what looks like a VW Beetle, Aya's got his Porsche, Ken's got some kind of hatchback plus a motorbike...
Maybe I should become an assassin if they can afford all these cars.
So Shota tells them that these people took him and his friend Teppei. They ran away but the guys caught Teppei and killed him. He starts flipping out and Omi tries to tell him to, well, calm down, but Shota insists they're going to kill everyone. No one knows who "they" are yet, but I'm sure it'll be revealed and they're probably tied to the Takatoris somehow, because Japan is actually quite small when you think about it. Omi wants clarification, and Shota tells him there are lots of kids in a dark basement. He clings to Omi, screaming THEY'RE ALL GOING TO GET KILLED, and Omi is very much OoO over it. Maybe Shota accidentally kneed him in the balls or something. I don't know.
"A mass kidnapping?" offers Yohji, who really should be paying attention to the road since he's, you know, driving.
"Kidnapping?" goes Omi, and OH LOOK A FLASHBACK.
Omi's gagged and thrown to the floor, there's a bunch of creepy looking dudes looking down at him, and Omi's sobbing into his gag as they reach for him. God only knows what they were going to do to him, but seeing as Omi's blocked it out up until this point, it was probably some horrific shit that would make the people at Rosenkreuz grin ear to ear, because Rosenkreuz is made up of a bunch of sick fucks. Omi is freaked because WHERE THE HELL DID THIS FLASHBACK COME FROM? Yohji turns around and asks him what's wrong, he don't look so good. And once again, Yohji, pay attention to the road, you're driving! You can see him in the rear-view mirror. Omi's all OH NOTHING and I'm assuming Yohji turns around and pays some fucking attention because god knows they don't need to crash a car and have it burst into a fiery inferno.
Where's Aya, you ask? Who cares, I'm enjoying the episode thus far, we don't need Mr. Aya I Have A Stick Up My Arse Fujimiya around. He's probably visiting his sister or creeping on Sakura or something.
Anyway, the VW is parked and god, it looks like a clown car. It's parked in front of this huge freaking house with some nice hedges and trees and man, why can't I live in a house like that? Maybe I should start my own mail order business or something. Shota's mum is on the porch wearing her slippers, which is a no-no as the slippers aren't supposed to leave the house, but I guess she was just so excited she forgot. They hug and she's crying and wow, how heartwarming. Yohji's combing his hair, I guess so he can be a flirt with Shota's mum, who's probably too old for Yohji anyway, plus she's married. Omi's just all :D to see Shota reunited with his family, and Ken is nowhere to be found. Shota's mum thanks them and Yohji turns on the charm.
"Tears don't suit a beautiful woman like you," says Yohji. "This cattleya I just pulled out of hammerspace will suit you better." This, for the curious, is a cattleya. It's in the orchid family, and it's also Yohji's image flower. Omi's pretty much REALLY, YOHJI, HERE IN FRONT OF THE KID, HITTING ON HIS MUM? HAVE YOU NO SHAME?
Back to the Koneko...
We're back to our regular Koneko fangirls, who are admiring roses. KONO BARA WA KIREI DESU~ I bet Aya was taking care of them all day or something.
Fun fact: every time I see roses, I think of Treize. I do believe he had a rose garden, and he bathed in rose petals... And before you say anything, Treize was all the manliest man to ever be a man
okay anyway back to the roses. Holy shit ten bucks each? Let's hope that's not for individual roses. It'd be cheaper to grow my own. Ouka, showing off her I'm Rich And You're Not-ness, says she'll buy all of them. Yohji's all UM WHAT. "I'm not talking to you," Ouka tells Yohji. "Ring me up, Omi!"
And you wonder why you have no friends, Ouka?
So they're apparently watching the news or something, where a reporter reports that the body of a young boy was found in a field of reeds at Kobayashi river in Tochigi prefecture, and holy shit I know exactly where that is. The prefecture, not the river. I don't even know if the river exists because I can't find it on a map, but I gotta admit, I'm not really looking all that hard. I can always ask Juni because she's from the area originally, if anyone really cares. People from Tochigi have the coolest accents. Anyway.
ANYWAY. Omi's driving along, trying to piece this whole mystery together whilst battling his own flashbacks in greyscale. Omi shows Shota the newspaper and he screams and cries OMG THAT'S TEPPEI SOB and Omi goes about interrogating the kid. THERE WERE OTHERS. WHERE WERE THEY. WERE THEY IN A BASEMENT? ANSWER ME, KID. STOP CRYING. Nee, Omi, maybe you'd get better answers if, you know, you weren't traumatising the poor kid. Just a thought.
Anyway, Shota says that he was blindfolded, and then Omi goes on about facing fears and shit. YOU HAVE A FEAR OF TELEPATHS? HERE, LET'S HAVE YOU CONFRONT ONE. YOU WON'T GET OVER IT UNLESS YOU FACE YOUR FEAR--oh geez, I wasn't expecting your brain to turn to mush.
So Omi asks him to think of something--anything--from the place where he was, and Shota describes clanging and banging and all sorts of train-like sounds. Omi suggests HEY THAT COULD BE A RAILROAD CROSSING. And then he adds that there was an eight headed dragon.
As I said before, Weiss Kreuz has all sorts of strange shit, but one thing it lacks are dragons. Why the lack of dragons? I don't know. Go ask Koyasu. Don't look at me. I just write fanfiction and useless meta no one cares about.
Omi: A dragon?
Shota: /nods
Omi: OoO
I do believe Shota caused Omi's brain to BSOD and reboot itself.
So Omi's not doing anything and Shota's mother comes in, pauses briefly, and goes, "Please, stop!" Omi, were you doing something creepy off-screen or something? Are you showing him flashbacks? Honestly, that reaction is just so poorly timed, especially since she's pretty nonchalant when walking in and Omi's just too busy trying to comprehend when Godzilla sprouted seven more heads and kidnapped innocent children to be doing anything really, uh, traumatising. Did he lose his shorts again? I mean really.
Also love how she basically dropped the tray onto the table and yet it acted like it was put down neatly. And those slippers totes don't go with your pantyhose, lady. Nude ones would look so much better. God, don't you read Cosmo? I know they have Cosmo in Japan. I have it on my iPod's Newsstand app.
"Please leave Shota alone!" she says. Well, uh, whose idea was it to name your kid "Shota" when there's things like shotacon? I mean really. Not that Omi's old enough for Omi/Shota to be considered shotacon since... Well, Omi is seventeen and Shota's like, twelve. That's a five year age difference. Whoopee. (The thing that would make it illegal would be that Shota is under the age of consent to sex by a year.)
THERE'S PROBABLY OMI/SHOTA FANFIC SOMEWHERE. I'd write some for the lulz but my brain is adamantly against shipping Omi with anyone who isn't Nagi and do not ask why, I don't even really like Omi/Nagi and yet apparently it's my default ship for the both of them.
anyway.
So Omi...kisses his bike helmet? That's what it looks like even though he's probably getting ready to strap the damn thing on, when Shota's screaming out his window about how he felt like he was floating because his body swayed while he was blindfolded or some shit. Also I get that this was probably intentional, but Shota could easily pass for Omi's kid brother since they, well, look alike.
SCENE CHANGE TO a really fancy looking building and a bunch of kids tied up and gagged. And then a dramatic pan out of some ugly looking guy--
Oh wait, that's Takatori Masafumi. Whoops.
Masafumi: He got away?
WELL HE'S CERTAINLY NOT AT THE KIDNAPPING PLACE, SO I WOULD GUESS SO.
Um. What a fucking creeper. You're fucking creepy, Masafumi. Omee wa totemo fushigi na hito da.
...
YOU ARE NOT MAKING YOURSELF LOOK ANY BETTER.
Stay the fuck away from Nagi. Creeper.
So anyway, Kidnapper Guy is all OH SURE WHATEVER YOU SAY, WEIRDO.
Masafumi: I'm gonna make a ~new and improved~ experiment. So get me thirty kawaii ko--I mean cute kids. Yes.
Creeper.
Anyway, Kidnapper Guy informs Masafumi that, because of his strange want for children, he's going to have to raise the price. Masafumi does not like this. Kidnapper Guy (KG for short) continues on about how the police are conducting an intensive investigation... About what, I have no idea, but I suspect it might involve Chris Hanson. "30,000 yen each isn't enough." That might not sound like a lot, but that's actually 386,508 US dollars. Multiply that by thirty and you have...over a million dollars. I suspect it's not even his money, but Daddy Takatori's instead. Anyway. We have David Carradine (aka KG), Kojak, and That Guy From Duran Duran, according to outtakes!Persia. We'll call That Guy From Duran Duran "That Guy" for short. They're the kidnappers or kidsnatchers or whatever the fuck you want to call them. There is talk of ransoms being the hard part of any kidnapping and FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, PLEASE BURN THAT TIE.
So after that aggravating phone call, David Carradine kicks the table and calls Masafumi a jerk. "He has no idea how risky it is to kidnap twenty kids!" Well no shit. Do you think some guy with over a million dollars to pay for thirty kids is going to know all about the ins and outs of kidnapping?
"But it is easier not having to deal with a ransom," says Kojak.
"STFU," replies David Carradine, who I am half-expecting to pull out a Hattori Hanzo katana. He complains about how their share is so small once they divide it all amongst themselves, and oh, here, I'm playing the smallest violin in the world for you. Maybe you should have gone into a much more lucrative business, like being assassins or something. You could have all the Porsches and motorbikes and shit you want.
"Well it's a fail deal then," says That Guy, who really has nothing of import to say.
David: LET'S GO FOR THE BIG ONE THEN.
Kojak: The big one?
David: The kid who escaped is the son of a famous mail order magnate.
How come it seems like everyone except Ken knows this information? Seriously. Did they Google up on all the kids' families? David goes on to say that they're going to demand a huge ransom and kidnap him again and whatever. Then there is talk of them all leaving the country afterwards from That Guy and Kojak. Then they all engage in Evil Laughter that is totes not sexy.
If you want sexy evil laughter, you can't go wrong with Schwarz.
NOW BACK TO MASAFUMI, who is still wearing that awful tie and shirt combo. Ugh. Please burn that. Please. For the love (or hate) of humanity. He basically scoffs at the "petty criminals" and then turns to his lovely bodyguards/lab assistants/whatever/harem and asks Hell if she's finished the preparations for the experiment. Because he's an evil scientist, remember? She gives no answer, just a dramatic look up and fade to black.
...Andn ow we're in...someone's room. Apparently it's Omi's, and wow, it's pretty spacious. He's on the computer googling crap. There's a news report about the twenty missing children, how they were found mutilated and murdered in the woods near Mount Fuji.
...Oh god, over in the Suicide Forest? /shakes head. What a place to dump some bodies.
Omi looks behind at the TV and is all WHAT
Yeah, and some police are investigating and whatever. There are no leads, and if this is the woods that I'm thinking of, there's dead bodies literally found everywhere. It's a great dumping ground, and apparently it's a popular spot to kill yourself because it's a pretty dense woods, so it's kind of...dark. But there are nooses and shit hanging from trees and things. It's creepy as fuck, too.
CUE FLASHBACK to kid!Omi running. Running from what? From some guy with glowing red eyes apparently. At least they're not glowing yellow eyes, because then you end up either becoming petrified or you, uh, die.
Dude: We have your child. We want 500,000 yen for him.
kid!Omi: Help me, Daddy! Help me!
So kid!Omi is sobbing into a phone to his father to save him 'cause he got kidnapped and yeah, someone please give this kid a tissue or something, he's getting his weepy uke tears all over the damn place.
Dude kicks kid!Omi and laughs at him, saying his father isn't going to pay, said he "wasn't worth it". What a fucking asshole. They decide to try and kill kid!Omi 'cause his father screwed them over and, well, he's kind of useless to keep around since he ain't worth shit. They rub salt and lemon juice into Omi's wounds by saying HAHA YOUR PARENTS DON'T LOVE YOU and kid!Omi, proving he is actually quite badass, kicks the kidnappers away--while still tied up, mind--and runs. Well at least I think Omi kicked them. We're seen with a guy leading kid!Omi out of this hellhole. Some guy wearing a suit and glasses.
Everyone wears a suit and glasses in this series. I am convinced of it. And with one exception, they're all on the side with all the cookies. Damn them.
So Omi chases after himself in this flashback. It's one of those interactive flashbacks though. And though we're not shown this man's identity, Omi recognises him as...
"HELP ME, DADDY!"
well not quite. I was going for "Persia" there. I am actually loling at the juxtaposition. Which I will tell you about later, at the end of the Takatori arc.
Well apparently Omi was sitting on a couch in between Yohji and Ken, and Aya's sitting on the back of the couch presumably brooding, when he suddenly has an outburst, causing everyone to pretty much go WTF. And you can't blame them, because, you know, one minute someone is quiet and the next they're all HELP ME, DADDY, YOU'RE MY ONLY HOPE.
Yohji asks him what's the matter, and Omi's all OH IT'S NOTHING.
oh btw Weiss have a mission. They're shown these pictures of seemingly innocent and cute as hell children, and then footage of those same children covered with white sheets as their families grieve over them. These children are the twenty missing kids who were found mutilated and murdered, just as that news reporter said earlier. Well whaddya know, the news reported actually knew what he was talking about! Omi's all :|, Aya's...brooding, Yohji's all relaxed, and Ken's...well, Ken. Apparently all of the kids had their blood drained from their bodies and their skin was all peeled off.
Here's some puppies. Have some more. You might need all the puppies you can get after reading that.
(They're Siberian husky puppies because that's my favourite breed.)
Persia goes on to say that Kritiker knows who kidnapped the children. They are David Carradine, aka Katoh Michio; Kojak, aka Sano Kenichi; and That Guy From Duran Duran, aka Yamagami Shinji. The police, of course, fail at investigation, so we must turn to Weiss for some ass kicking. Everyone else is ready to kick ass except Omi, who is shivering under a blanket. And you call yourself an assassin? Pull yourself together, man!
WELL I GUESS YOU'RE ALL IN, goes Manx, who is wearing a longer skirt than usual today. I betcha she got complaints about the much shorter one. She goes on to say that they found their hideout, but they don't think they're still there. Well, that's...not really helpful. How the fuck is that helpful? That's like saying WELL SCHWARZ LIVE IN GERMANY, BUT THEY'RE NOT THERE RIGHT NOW. Well then, uh, where are they? And as Manx continues on, Omi is pretty much on the verge of hyperventilating since he's having flashbacks every five seconds. What a pain in the arse.
SCENE CHANGE TO A BUILDING. It says something entirely in kanji that I can't read because fuck you, kanji, that's why. Manx comes out of it holding a book, but it's not a library. And now another scene change to a sunset and a boat and Manx and Omi overlooking the water.
Omi: It wasn't my father who saved me. It was Persia.
SPOILERS (highlight to read):
| The ironic thing is Persia is Omi's father. |
So Omi asks if Manx knows about his past, and she does, of course. Understandably, Omi wants to know why his father is a deadbeat and decided to not pay his ransom. It's because your father is a douchebag. That's why. Of course Manx would love to say that, but instead she says, "Oh, your memory is coming back."
"Don't change the subject!" cries Omi. "Persia gave me the name 'Omi Tsukiyono', didn't he?"
...maybe.
"What is my dad's name?"
I'll give you all a hint: we've seen him several times already. :D
"Who am I... Who am I...?"
24601? Does that make Manx Fantine then?
(It doesn't help that Omi's voice actor, in the outtakes, started singing "Who Am I?" from Les Mis...)
NO, OMI, YOU ARE NOT 24601 NOR IS YOUR NAME JEAN VALJEAN (Jyon Barujyon?). BESIDES WHY DO YOU WANT TO REMEMBER THIS SHIT ANYWAY? questions Manx. "Anger begets anger."
Maybe you should tell that to Aya.
"Just forget all of your painful childhood memories." In other words, REPRESS THE PAINFUL MEMORIES. Because that's totes healthy. Next you'll tell him to repress his emotions and then he might as well try blowing himself up while trying to self-destruct whatever machinery he's standing on/in.
Somehow that joke is less funny when I'm making it for Omi.
"You'll be happier!" says Manx, who happily ignores my Heero Yuy reference thank god. "Persia thinks so too. He's always concerned about you. Believe in him."
Well um that's kind of creepy. I'd think that if I didn't know who Persia actually was.
The scene ends with Omi sobbing into Manx's chest. I bet Yohji's jealous as hell. "Why the hell does he get to sob into her breasts?"
Because Manx is like a mother to him, okay? Stuff it.
IT IS NOW NIGHT IN TOKYO, and we get a shot of more buildies. The same building as before, actually.
"Bombay isn't convinced, but I've managed to persuade him not to seek you out," says Manx. And in case you forgot, Bombay is Omi's codename in Weiss.
And now we're back to the park, because all Manx did was call Persia. Omi's still having flashbacks and is being all emo and shit when his phone rings.
"Omi, where the hell are you? That kid's been kidnapped again!"
"What?!"
Cut to a phone with I guess a tracer on it. A guy in a suit and glasses informs us that the tracing is in place.
And perhaps this is a bad time to mention this, but Shota's father kind of reminds me of Victor Newman from The Young and the Restless.
So Shota's mom is crying and her husband is trying to reassure her that Shota will be okay. So Omi shows up and wants to know where Shota is. His parents are all :|...;^; and Omi's all D: OH NOES
The phone then rings, and his parents (and Omi) rush to it. "Hello, this is Sakuma," Shota's dad says.
"If you want your son back alive, get five million yen."
WHERE THE FUCK DO YOU WANT ME TO GET FIVE MILL FROM, I DON'T HAVE THAT KIND OF GREEN.
WELL YOUR SON WILL DIE OTHERWISE. DO YOU WANT THAT TO HAPPEN?
NOT REALLY.
I'LL GIVE YOU BETTER INSTRUCTIONS LATER. JUST HAVE THE MONEY. /click
HELLO? HELLO? DAMMIT, ANSWER ME! HOW DARE YOU JUST HANG UP ON ME IKE THAT.
The police dudes just shake their heads. No trace. Figures.
WHERE ARE WE GOING TO GET FIVE MILLION? says the wife.
IDK, says the husband. I WILL TRY MY BEST, BUT I THINK I ONLY HAVE THREE MILLION. I COULD TRY LOOKING FOR SOME SPARE YEN UNDER THE FUTON MAT THOUGH.
BUT THEN OUR PRECIOUS SON...
Omi does not approve. WHY. WHY DIDN'T YOU SAVE ME? Oh he's having flashbacks again. Omi, you might wan tto see someone about that.
So then Omi goes on Google Maps in a fit of teary rage or something and mutters about how they don't know what it's like for family to betray them. He plans on rescuing Shota himself because he thinks Shota's parents are low lives. Well. He does some calculations and comes up with a location. Well, locations. See, his Google Earth-fu isn't an exact art just yet. He calls up Ken, who just so happens to be in the same car as Yohji and Aya, and tells them to check out all auto repair shops near railroad crossings. Everyone is pretty WTF over this. I don't blame them--that's, well, a lot of places. And how do you know they're still there?
MAKE SURE THEY HAVE A BASEMENT.
WTF IS GOING ON?
I'LL TELL YOU LATER. JUST DO THIS.
Let's do it, then. I mean what else are we going to do? Do you guys have any better ideas? No? Then JUST DO IT.
So Omi sends them the location where he suspects the bunker is and I guess Aya's car is equipped with the Latest Technology and can receive it. Don't look at me, I'm going by what I see. He's got a built-in GPS. This is Japan. Why not?
Anyway, Aya's all THIS LOCATION? WTF.
"But there could be a dozen of them," says Yohji.
JUST STFU AND DO IT, shouts Ken. Geez, Ken. Calm down. Just be like Aya and keep calm and collected.
TRAINS. Ken talks to some guys, shakes his head. Nope, not here. MORE TRAINS and Aya with his hazards on. He investigates a seemingly abandoned...something. Place of sorts. Yohji's being himself and flirting with the receptionist by pulling roses out of hammerspace. "I love fast cars and fast women!"
While the Japanese does translate to "fast women", it is not a reference to prostitutes. Not that my girlfriend knows about, anyway, because I asked her.
"OMAI!" goes the receptionist, because Yohji basically just asked her to take him for a "ride". Yes, all aboard the Yohji Train.
And then Ken bursts in, ruining the moment, telling Yohji to stop being himself and to get back in the car. Caught red rose in hand, he leaves, but not before blowing the receptionist a kiss.
She is pretty much o_o
I guess she's never been hit on before or something...
ANYWAY. Omi pulls up to...somewhere. I know I'm viewing this on a shitty assed CRT monitor with max brightness, contrast, and "lightscreen" on (whatever the hell that is, it just makes everything 100x brighter), and things are STILL DARK AS HELL. He goes down some stairs and decides WELL THIS ISN'T IT EITHER.
Then he sees some lights and is all OMG EIGHT HEADED DRAGON. And then he notices a tanker, and Shota's disembodied voice tells him, "Our bodies were swaying, like we were floating..." Well grats, Omi, looks like you found it. Especially since now we're reintroduced to David Carradine, whose actual name I can't be arsed to remember or look up. Because I don't care. Omi's gonna go all Kill Bill on his arse. ...Or maybe that should be Aya, since he has a katana. He's asking Sakuma (Shota's father) if he has the five million yen. And then we see Shota all tied up and gagged and I guess we're lucky that this isn't One Of Those Anime, and now of all times is the time my brain decides to go, HAY JAYDEN, SHOTA LOOKS LIKE MIRA MUNAKATA.
Mira was cuter.
Sakuma's got the five mill, Shota's not gonna die, Omi's relieved, blah blah blah.
"I don't care if I lose my house or if my company goes bankrupt... So long as Shota... So long as Shota is--"
"Relax, old man--"
"DAMN YOU, I'M STILL TALKING! HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO DEAL WITH YOU IF YOU INTERRUPT ME WHILE I'M STILL TALKING?"
In case you couldn't tell, I really, really, really like the Weiss Kreuz outtakes. :D
So then the power goes out, which means Weiss has arrived, and some creepy shadow appears over Shota, grabs him, and then... Shota's gone! He got...kidnapped from the kidnappers? Oh the irony! So then they start running, trying to find the kid, and Omi appears with Shota in tow. He tells him to run down this alleyway and go home. Kojak's spotted the kid, and Omi decides to take care of them. That Guy from Duran Duran seems confused when Omi says he is Weiss, probably wondering why a bunch of assassins decided to call themselves "white", but that's like asking Schwarz why the hell they're always wearing white. Just go with it.
Omi tries to dispatch of...I believe David Carradine, though it could also be That Guy, and Kojak tries to fuck Omi up, but Aya appears and disposes of him. Yohji wraps his garrote around That Guy's ankle and reels him in, and Ken finishes him off. David Carradine is all that's left, and Omi finishes him off with his crossbow. Supposedly.
TO THE KONEKO!
The TV has a report about how Shota was kidnapped and rescued, blah blah blah, no one cares since we never see Shota again anyway. Ken shuts it off because who cares. In the end, says Ken, Omi saved him. Ken's wearing short sleeves, Yohji's wearing a tank top, which means it's probably a little on the hot side (it's around...June I think, by this point), and Aya's wearing his goddamn orange turtleneck. What the fuck, Aya?
Anyway, Ken asks where Omi is and Yohji says he's probably still asleep, which is where he wants to be. That's where I want to be too. NOW SOME SEAGULLS and Omi is angsting.
And that's where the episode ends.
NEXT EPISODE:
Our first official appearance of Schreient.
And Schwarz. :D :D :D
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