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Previously on Weiss Kreuz...
Welcome to episode eleven! Blah blah blah, credits. Maybe if I slow down the speed enough I'll be able to get caps of Schwarz from the opening. I'll have to try that at some point and amend them to my, uh, thing for the credits.
Okay, credits are done. On with the episode! It starts with a bridge and a sunset and Omi's overlooking it, remembering what happened yesterday. Telling his brother to run, and then Aya's unholy death glare as he thinks, HOLY SHIT, "I'm the brother of a cruel criminal." Or, as the dub likes to say, "My brother is a sadistic criminal," in this really melodramatic tone. I get that Weiss Kreuz can be pretty melodramatic at times, but. That doesn't need melodramatics. It's just a fact. Really.
We get Aya's Death Glare in negative as well as Yohji's (Yohji wasn't even there, what the hell?) and Ken's, and then it goes back to Aya, because, you know, death glare. That is the glare he uses when he wishes he could kill you telepathically. But can't, because he's not that cool. Ouka interrupts Omi's melodramatics with a hand on his shoulder, and wonders if he's okay, that she's sorry she put him in such danger (it was actually the other way around, but she doesn't need to know that).
"Is something the matter?" she asks as he turns away from her. "Omi?"
"It has nothing to do with you, please leave me alone."
Actually, it does involve Ouka, in a somewhat indirect (and direct, at the same time) way. You'll see why in the next episode, which will be screencapped to hell due to certain red haired kittens who may or may not be voiced by Midorikawa Hikaru. But of course Omi doesn't know that either. ...Either of those things, really. Thus far, the only Schwarz members Weiss has come into some sort of contact with is Crawford, and really, that was only Aya and, uh, Omi. We the viewers have already kind of met them when we kind of met Schreient, but our POV =/= Weiss' and blah blah blah.
In this episode we'll get to witness Schuldig being a badass. :D
Abkunft (ahb-kuhnfd) - origin
German is a horrible language to render phonetically. The way Jay says it, that 't' ends up sounding like half a 't' and half a 'd' so it's like jfkdskds. Yeah. Keysmashing.Like romanised Hangul.
So in case you missed the memo, this episode is going to deal with Omi's origins. Yeah.
KONEKO. We now lead you to a darkened room, to a figure reclined on a bed and oh, that's Aya. Yeah no he's not reclining in bed with any 'come hither' looks or anything. He's probably contemplating all the different ways to stab someone that will cause great pain and blood loss. Or he could be thinking of Yohji. It's difficult to tell, Aya doesn't really change facial expressions between the two. Omi enters the room and Aya sits up, and usually when I do that it's either because I want to give the impression that I wasn't asleep, no siree, or so no one thought I was up to something. And he kind of looks at Omi like he's a giant turd or something. Which is probably the look he gives anyone with the last name of "Takatori", and hell, for all I know, it could be the look he gives everyone. I don't spend that much time gazing at Aya's face.
"What is it?"
I'VE SEEN HOW YOU LOOK AT YOHJI--I mean, "There's something I want to ask you."
Oh, there's that death glare. Poor Omi. He deserves sympathy for having a fucked up family, not your petty revenge looks. And let's remember, Omi didn't even know this shit until last episode!
"The way you looked at me when I let him go... That wasn't just a look of criticism."
Yeah no, that was a pretty damn obvious Death Glare of Death and Spontaneous Combustion, not to be confused with Aya's Glare and Aya's Death Glare of Death and Takatori. It's all in the subtleties, like how I can tell by Schuldig's expression whether he's staring at Crawford or his ass. Or if they were just maybe, you know, telepathically making out in that hallway.
Nee, Koyasu-san. Are you sure this isn't a BL series? This isn't my first time watching this stuff and I'm seeing subtext all over the damn place that I hadn't noticed until I decided to screencap everything.
IT WAS A LOOK FULL OF ANGER AND DEATH AND ANGER, BUT MOSTLY DEATH, LIKE THE ONE YOU'RE GIVING ME NOW. WHAT HAPPENED BETWEEN YOU AND THE TAKATORI FAMILY THAT MAKES YOU USE THAT LOOK?
It could just be the lighting in my room or something, but that look he's giving you is giving me Navarre vibes, which is hilarious because Koyasu also voiced Navarre, and Navarre is a myrmidon, so he's basically Death with a Sword, and what do you know, Okiayu, Midorikawa, and Kosugi Juurouta were also in that anime, as Abel, Marth, and Oguma, respectively.
That anime was so, so, so bad.
TAKATORI, replies Aya.
"I've been wondering about it for a while now... But now that I'm a member of the Takatori family, IDK WHAT I'M SUPPOSED TO DO!"
Well. Just because your family is mostly evil, doesn't mean you're evil too, though it's assumed. Nagi's a "bad guy" even though he hasn't done a bad thing except what landed him in an orphanage, but that wasn't really something he could control, but ANYWAY that doesn't mean Nagi is a bad guy just because he's in league with a guy who likes throwing priests into acid, a red head who likes gunsand their leader and likes to torture people with his telepathy, and an American who thinks he's better than everyone else and likes one of his subordinates.
Yeah.
WHY DO YOU HATE THE TAKATORI FAMILY SO MUCH, AYA? WHHHHHHHY?
I'M TIRED, GTFO.
Aya, he's not asking if you want to have sex, he's asking you a perfectly valid question.
So Omi ends this scene by staring creepily at Aya's back. Or maybe his ass. I don't know. It's hard to tell.
SHOT OF A GOLF BALL FALLING INTO A HOLE and goddammit I hate golf and I have a phobia of golf clubs thanks to this stupid anime.
Golf is one of the signs that we've switched over to Takatori's office. Golf is Srs Bsns. He's in his office talking to Hirofumi, so I guess the Prodigal Son did return home to his father after all.
AND THEN SUDDENLY THERE WERE EXPLOSIONS AND THE COMMISSIONER AND THE OTHER NAMELESS GUYS WERE KILLED. IT WAS HORRIBLE, FATHER. JUST HORRIBLE.
WHAT, HOW COULD THAT HAPPEN, THEY WERE ESSENTIAL FOR RIGGING THE ELECTIONS.
Takatori, you have freaky as fuck sideburns. Please shave that shit off. ...And show me more Schwarz. What, are they waiting outside your office door? Why do I suspect that that's the case? Crawford's probably standing there like an obedient dog waiting for the chance to tear his master's hand off, Schuldig's probably eavesdropping or trying to get into Crawford's pants in a discreet as hell manner... Nagi's probably thinking of Tot and Farfarello's probably thinking of who his next stabbing victim will be.
THEY WERE KILLED RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU AND YOU STOOD THERE LIKE A N00B AND DID NOTHING.
I'M SORRY, FATHER.
FIND OUT WHO IS RESPONSIBLE OR I WILL BEAT YOU SENSELESS WITH THIS GOLF CLUB LIKE I WILL DO TO TWO OF MY BODYGUARDS IN EPISODE THIRTEEN.
HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT?
CRAWFORD TOLD ME IT WOULD HAPPEN AND I READ THE SCRIPT.
OH. BUT ALSO, WHAT ABOUT MAMORU?
MAMORU? YOU MEAN TUXEDO MASK? NO WONDER THEY DIED.
NO, FATHER. MAMORU. MY BROTHER. HE'S ALIVE. NOT DEAD, LIKE YOU SAID. YOU LIAR.
STFU AND WATCH AS I KNOCK OVER THIS VASE.
Wow, all this anger and caps lock reminds me of Domon Kasshu.
"Never mention Mamoru's name again!" OR I WILL HIT YOU LIKE I DID THIS VASE WITH THIS GOLF CLUB AND IT WILL HURT.
SHOT OF A BUILDING. It's an important building filled with buffet tables and all sorts of other tables with white silk linens and this is important and OMG it's the 7th Annual Independent Party Convention. Well my subs say "Anual" and I almost missed that 'u' so...7th Anal Independent Party?
"Many major political and financial figures will be here tomorrow. DON'T FUCK THIS UP," says Hirofumi. Aya is making sure a floral arrangement is perfect when Hirofumi goes by, and he wants to pop his head off with his bare hands, but Ken grabs Aya and tells him now's not the time to go and kill people. Especially since they have company. Err, fans.
THAT CREAM SUIT. THAT RED HAIR. Could it be...?
"That man..." says Aya, and I don't know if he's talking about Hirofumi, who is wearing a hideous brown suit, or Crawford, but the way he says it is kind of creepy regardless.
"Too gloomy to be my fans," says Yohji. Gloomy, huh?Someone got denied for sex.
They are totes having a staring contest. A staring contest that includes telepathic sex. Or Schuldig is telling Crawford that that suit Hirofumi is wearing is utterly gross. Meanwhile I'm wondering why Schuldig has a bed head thing going on because his hair doesn't normally look that messy, and what were you two doing when we weren't looking?
oh and in case no one noticed Schuldig has a really, really sexy neck and collarbones thing going on om nom nom.
"Buzz, buzz, buzz." This line sounds corny as hell in the dub, because onomatopoeia just doesn't work in English like it does in Japanese. So yeah, Midorikawa can of course make anything sound sexy, including bees and flies and just, well, anything. You knew this already though.
"Three flies buzzing around," Schuldig says, referring to Aya, Ken, and Yohji. And probably a silent, Should I get rid of them? request.
"Leave them alone, flies don't live long." No, they're not worth your time. "They are destined to die."
And Crawford says that with this face:
Shut up I took this picture to appease the Crawford fangirls on the flist, I fully admit it.
AND THEN THERE IS A SHOT OF A CAR. A black car. Which means it's got evil people in it.
It actually has Hirofumi in it. What did I tell you?
"If only Omi didn't let him get away," says Ken.
WELL WHAT THE HELL DO WE DO NOW? says Yohji. THE TARGET IS OMI'S BROTHER.
Aya just gives the camera his Death Glare of Death and Takatori, and after a flash of some girl asleep in a hospital bed, it just lessens to a Death Glare of Death. (It's all in the eyes, you see, and how narrowed they are.)
I DON'T GIVE TWO SHITS ABOUT WHOSE FAMILY IT IS. I WILL COMPLETE THE MISSION.
Aya's got a bit of a one track mind about things.
So now we are in a Year Three, Class C room, which in case anyone cared, is Omi's class. Year three would be senior year of high school in America. (There's only three years of high school in Japan, the first year being the equivalent to tenth grade. Seventh, eighth, and ninth grades make up junior high.) We get a shot of Omi clutching a pen and then it cuts away to the outside of his school. What was the point of that? To show that Omi's your average seventeen year old and goes to school and all that good stuff? I mean that would make sense. High school isn't compulsory in Japan, but the majority does because, well, how can you get a good job if you don't? Not that Omi really has to worry about that but ANYWAY.
Omi wheels out his motorbike and oh, there's Ouka.
"W-What are you doing here?"
"My legs have a mind of their own. Before I knew it, I was already here."
She climbs onto the back of Omi's bike and wraps her arms around him. "Let's go on a date!"
Two boys walk past and basically say YOU GO OMI! and that just proceeds to further embarrass him.
"Take me somewhere where we can stay together until morning."
"What are you talking about?!" Fff, he blushes and she giggles.
Yohji, I think you need to talk to the poor boy about love and how love isn't embarrassing and stuff before he meets Nagi and falls in love or something and goes WHAT ARE THESE FEELINGS? Or at least tell him about girls. Tell him to stay away from love because love is for fools and she'll just die anyway.
So they go to an art gallery, and Ouka talks about how she loves the paintings and goes here when she's sad and depressed and lonely. She has no friends because people think she's a huge pain in the arse with a stick wedged up there to boot, and her father is just so busy.
"Omi, do you have friends you can trust?"
Well, he has Ken and Yohji. "Yeah, I do."
"The boys from the flower shop? What about your family? Do you have any siblings? Did you play with your dad a lot?"
Ouka has some issues, you can tell, when it comes to family. She's asking about siblings, which means she either doesn't have any and wishes she did, or she does but they're not exceptionally close and she wants that. And then the question about his father means she has Daddy Issues.
And seeing who her father is, you can't even begin to blame her.
"Not really," Omi says. "What about you?"
"I don't know what I brought this up," she says, as she looks like she just got punched in the face. "Hey, let's go to my mother's restaurant so I can change the subject! I hope you're hungry, she's an awesome cook!"
"Restaurant?"
"Let's go!"
Ouka, btw, looks like her mom. Ouka's mom is a pretty classy and refined lady. You can tell since she wears a kimono. No one wears those anymore except at festivals or important events maybe. She asks about the food and Omi's all OH IT'S GREAT.
"She's so spoiled, she's not easy to be with, is she?" her mother asks. LOL.
"Hey, that's not nice!" Ouka protests.
"Ouka is very kind."
"Yes, that's right. :D"
"I wonder... I had a lot to deal with. I was involved with someone, but we weren't married, and I had her. Perhaps she felt unimportant since she was little, since she had no father growing up or anything."
Ouka is horrified. Omi is just o.o
"Mama, don't talk about that! I'm totally fine! My father accepts me now, and I see him from time to time. He's very nice."
Since I've seen this show many times before, I always LOL when she says this because, well, once you see who her father is, you're going to wonder wtf sort of shit she is smoking. I won't ruin it for you, I'll let this progress to its natural conclusion. I'll let Ouka talk about him a little bit.
"He's a politician."
Ouka explains to her mother that something is bothering Omi, but he won't tell her anything about it. Ouka's mother tells her to not pry, that it's because he knows she won't be able to help him."
ffff Ouka's mom, I love you.
"Hey, why am I always the bad one?"
I love this episode, not just because of Schwarz, but because it shows us that Ouka isn't just an insufferable brat. She's actually human, with feelings and doubts. It's nice to see. :D
"Everyone has his own problems. No one else can solve them, only you can." Ouka's mom is very wise.
A SHOT OF THE CITY.
"Geez, I can't believe my mom, why is she like that?"
"Your mom is lovely," Omi says.
"You think? Did you like her?"
"Yeah, I had a great time today."
HERE. She hands him something, a slip of paper in an envelope.
WHAT IS THIS? It's paper, Omi.
IT'S AN INVITE TO THE PARTY TOMORROW. YOU KNOW. THE ONE YOU SAID YOU'D TAKE ME TO WHEN WE WERE BEING HUNTED BY SOME WEIRD MEN.
"The Independent Party?"
Omi, you shouldn't be surprised. She just told you her father is a politician. She says she wants to introduce him to her father, and gets him to promise he'll be there.
Omi rides on home, thinking on what Ouka's mother said about problems and such. We come to a four way intersection, where Omi stops, and a white Porsche goes zooming on by, probably breaking speed limits.
"Isn't that..."
Oh, would you look at that. It is Aya's Porsche.
MORE SHOTS OF THE CITY.
Aya places flowers on a window sill and oh, it's that girl again. What is she to you, Aya, your girlfriend? You visit her every day... He cups her face, kneels down by the bed.
"Aya, I've finally found Takatori."
Oh lawl, her name is Aya. Just like his! Well what are the odds. (This will all be explained in due time, children.) I love how Aya's face softens whenever he speaks to Aya-chan. It's like he's human. I know you went to the School of Heero Yuy and all but even Heero has more facial expressions than you do, and he's supposed to be emotionally deprived.
"I promise, I will..."
We are given a shot of the outside of the room, where there is a name plate that says "Fujimiya Aya". Well that's weird. Isn't that Aya's name? There can't be that many coincidences in the world. Maybe they're married? I mean he cares for her like they are, after all. Omi's just standing there like a creeper. Probably trying to follow Aya home or something. Or corner him. Who knows? They meet in the parking garage.
"Did you follow me here?"
NO, I JUST HAPPENED TO BE IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD AND DECIDED TO STOP BY of course I followed you here. "Who is Fujimiya Aya?"
GTFO OF MY BUSINESS.
"I know it's none of my business, but does this have anything to do with the Takatori family?"
Why yes, Omi. Yes it does.
"Is she your lover?"
"She's my sister."
...
Um. Aya. You're. What.
I HAVE NO WORDS TO EXPRESS HOW QUASI-INCESTUOUS THIS SOUNDS. I mean okay it could come off as EXTREMELY PROTECTIVE OLDER BROTHER WHO LOVES HIS ONLY SISTER but as someone with no one but two older brothers who do have their Protective Older Brother moments, if they ever did what Aya does--visit my hospital bed every day, whisper in my ear, take my name and use it as their own, things like that? I would be creeped out. Because that is obsession, pure and simple. And his obsession with Takatori is like Wesker's obsession for Chris' death and Aya's obsession for his sister is like Chris' obsession with Jill in RE5 where he spends most of the game moping over her.
You're fucking creepy, Aya.
Also, I ship it. God help me, I ship it.
There isn't much I won't ship in this show.
"Your sister?"
YES, OMI, HIS SISTER.
"The reason she's here is Takatori Reiji's fault!"
And Omi's eyes go all big and wide. "Takatori Reiji?"
Flashback to episode two, where Aya leaps onto the balcony and tries to slice Takatori in two with his sword before Crawford blocks him and pwns him. Of course we don't see Crawford act like a badass, but we do get to see Crawford smirk at him in his YEAH, FUCK YOU smugness. And then Aya tried to chuck his sword at the helicopter and well that didn't pan out, either.
"That's right. Takatori Reiji. Your father!"
And with that, Aya gets in his car and burns rubber in probably the coolest looking flounce ever. Whatever happened to just stomping your foot and walking away? Omi drops his helmet and then drops to his knees, and why do I feel the urge to sing some sort of depressive musical number? HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN TO ME? I MADE MY MISTAKES. GOT NOWHERE TO RUN, BUT LIFE GOES ON AS I'M FADING AWAY.
And then we get a shot of Omi's Simple Plan moment in the blind spot mirror and Aya's looking a little bit crosseyed again. You might want to get that looked at.
COMPUTER MONITOR. Pretty swanky hideout or something. It's a building. It belongs to someone who's got someone else's name on the lease to it. Make no mistake, it's Takatori Hirofumi's swanky place where he...contemplates life. I actually don't know what the hell he does. Oh, and for once it's Ken doing computer stuff instead of Omi. I guess he's getting ready for his date or something. Or he's still at that car garage contemplating what his life is and whether it has any meaning anymore.
"I bet he brings cute girls there," Yohji comments. "What a playboy."
"I wonder what Omi is thinking..."
"Probably suffering and listening to Linkin Park or something."
"Which to choose... That's something that Omi has to decide," says Aya, who must have just been standing there the entire time and no one noticed until now, or maybe he was listening outside the door or something like a creeper.
Ken and Yohji's looks at each other pretty much say, WHEN THE HELL DID HE GET HERE?
OMI EYECATCHER
BUILDING. We've seen this building though. Earlier in the episode. In case you don't remember it too well, that's okay, I was too busy fangirling Schwarz to really care. There's a bunch of people milling about, some in nice suits, others in hideous things. Omi's dressed in a bright blue suit with a shirt out of Victorian England and a tie from some Western. Who dressed you?
"Sorry I'm late."
It's Ouka!
Oh, and just to point out that there is no extent to my geekery, one of the extras in this scene? Yeah, he's voiced by Koyasu. He doesn't even try to disguise his voice. If you want, you can pretend Aya's there creeping about and shouting out things because he had some of the spiked punch. Ouka's wearing some red dress with ruffled sleeves and I wouldn't be caught dead or alive wearing it, but hey, it was the nineties, and the nineties, while slightly better than the eighties, still had no fashion sense.Now we just have Lady Gaga. But yeah, people remark on how beautiful she is and whatever. Omi is struck dumb, and Ouka asks if her dress is ugly.
"I like it, it looks really good." Omi, I don't think you would know what looked good on a girl if you tripped over it. I mean, look at what you're wearing. Nonetheless she takes it as a compliment and then we have some older looking gentleman and wait a minute, that's actually Hirofumi.
who the hell was responsible for drawing these cels
i want their names
so then if i decide to get an anime made
i will make sure they are not on it.
For a political party thing, there don't seem to be a lot of people. Just some people randomly scattered about. We have some lady with a Victorian era dress and fan combination and what is this I see?
Schuldig, stop borrowing ties from Crawford.
...
wait why is Schuldig taller than Crawford? Crawford is the taller of the two. Schuldig is ~5'10" and Crawford is ~6ft so what is this EVEN IGNORING SCHULDIG'S BEDHEAD HERE fjdksfjkds
oh but Jayden it's not that bad. well it still fucking bothers me because it's not right.
okay anyway moving on. Yes, Schuldig wears suits. He will be wearing one later on in the show, in fact. Sans headband. omai indeed.
(Personally I love how Schuldig looks so miffed by having to wear a suit.)
So blah blah, people, and now we're back to Ouka and Omi, who are drinking something probably not alcoholic and eating some foods, respectively. Some drunken guy comes over and Ouka is all :| because, well, drunk people at parties always ruin them because they don't know when to stop.
"You're beautiful as always, Miss Ouka," says Drunken Guy, although he looks like he's looking at Omi.
"Mr. Oda, nice to see you." Ouka's not looking at him, like he's offensive to look at or something.
"You never answer my calls. Have I been dumped?"
I WASN'T DATING YOU IN THE FIRST PLACE. I MEAN, LOL YOU'RE TOO FUNNY. "I'm sure you know a lot of beautiful women you can call."
"Women these days have no class," he says, as she gazes at Omi. "Not many women out there have your grace."
OH I'M FLATTERED OH LOOK THERE'S MY FATHER BRB
Ouka whispers conspiratorily in Omi's ear about how Drinks Too Much thinks he's hot shit because his father is the minister of finance. And then says she'll brb, she's gonna go get her father and bring him over DO NOT GO ANYWHERE, OMI, DO YOU UNDERSTAND ME?
"What a bitch," says dubbed!Drinks Too Much, before turning away to mingle with all the other extras.
Some old guy in fancy old fashioned Japanese dress talks about how his heart goes out to some dead people. We see Takatori, some guy in the background who seems fascinated by Takatori's sideburns, Manx in a kimono, and some guy with a goatee who is with her.
"Do you have any idea who did this, Commissioner?"
Guy with Manx answers, "No, not yet."
Wait, Jayden! He sounds familiar!
Well uh he does do the voice of Akio...
Oh, you mean you've heard him in this show before? That's because the guy with Manx is Persia, who is also the Commissioner of Police. Ain't that just convenient.
So then Traditional Guy is all YOU HAVE US WE'LL RIG THE ELECTIONS FOR YOU.
AWW THANKS GUYS.
HAY PAPA.
Oh, it's Ouka again!
"Miss Ouka," says Persia. "You've grown up!"
well yes, children tend to do that.
Some guy interrupts and starts talking about shit and leads Persia and Manx away, so it's just Ouka and Papa Dearest.
Yes, Ouka's father is Takatori Reiji.
Takatori takes his glasses off and then we have Takatori's Vision Of Ouka and she jumps into his arms and he hugs her and I can just picture Crawford and Schuldig keeping an eye on them and Schuldig going what the fuck is this? at Crawford. This is a man who told Crawford to kill Masafumi if he caused any trouble and probably wouldn't have any qualms about sacrificing Hirofumi, and yet here he is hugging Ouka like he's the only thing in the world.
Rule #5 of Weiss Kreuz - there is no such thing as "truly evil" in Weiss Kreuz.
Takatori: Ouka, I'm glad you came.
AAAAAAH THAT MAN HAS NO EYES
Ouka: Oh she's fine. There's someone I want you to meet. Will you meet him?
Takatori: I will do anything you ask me to.
no really he says that.
Smug evil bastard who told his bodyguard to go ahead and kill his own damn son if he caused any more trouble is acting like a father. Right in front of your eyes.
Takatori: He sounds very important. Is this someone your boyfriend?
Ouka: Well he's a friend and he's a boy, so I guess LOL.
Meanwhile Omi is standing there all awkwardly because well, what else is he going to do? Hirofumi, who looks about twenty years older than he actually is, claps his hand on Omi's shoulder and tells him to come with him, he'd like to speak with him. Also, am I the only one who thinks he looks like Giovanni from Pokemon?
Hirofumi wants your Pikachu, Omi.
goddammit now I want a Pokemon/Weiss Kreuz fusion thing. Totes putting that bunny up for adoption or something.
COME WITH ME, MAMORU. I WANT YOU TO JOIN TEAM ROCKET.
So Omi follows and it's at that moment that Ouka decides to bring Papa Dearest over.
PAPA CAN YOU WAIT HERE WHILE I HUNT OMI DOWN?
IN AN OFFICE...
"What do you want to talk to me about?"
WHO ARE YOU, MAMORU?
WHUT
Y U TRY TO KILL ME
UM WELL
YOU WORK FOR SOMEONE WHO WANTS ME DEAD. WHO?
WELL IF YOU'D LET ME FINISH A DAMN SENTENCE I COULD EXPLAIN MYSELF A LITTLE--
ANSWER MEEEEEE.
Wow, he's pushy.
"Don't you think there's anything wrong with arranging the hunting of humans?"
NO. YOU KNOW FUCK ALL, BOY. I'M TRYING TO PAVE THE WAY FOR FATHER'S POLITICAL VISION, WHICH HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH HUNTING HUMANS BUT FUCK YOU, OKAY? SOMEONE IS LYING TO YOU.
NO, FUCK YOU, BROTHER. YOU KNOW NOT OF WHICH YOU SPEAK.
C'MON, MAMORU. TELL ME WHO THOSE PEOPLE TRYING TO KILL ME ARE. I'LL GIVE YOU A COOKIE.
somehow I don't think he's going to listen to you.
"What you're doing is wrong, brother. Please confess and turn yourself in to the police."
This both angers and amuses Hirofumi. He LOLs. "You're young. You'll understand how I feel when you grow up."
"I will never be like you!"
oooooh burn /sizzle
Omi walks out and I assume manages to find his way back to the party so he can get drunk.
"What a brat. Isn't that what you're thinking?"
THAT VOICE. THAT VOICE I WOULD RECOGNISE ANYWHERE.
HAAAAI, SCHULDIG =DDDDDD
"Schuldig, when did you...?"
He has the tendency to appear when you least expect it. He's sneaky like that.
the camera then teases me by doing a sweeping up shot of Schuldig, stopping at his face. Rawr.
I can't help but stare into his eyes *_* om nom nom
oh, right, where was I? What was I doing?
"Let me handle this. I'll make your plan work out."
...I warned you all. Just remember that. Also I guess he combed his hair because it doesn't look as messy as it did before.
YES I PAY ATTENTION TO THESE THINGS.
So Ouka is walking walking walking, wondering where the hell Omi ran off to. She bumps into Drinks Too Much.
"Miss Ouka, would you like to go somewhere with me after the party?"
UM. NO. GO AWAY.
He grabs her. DON'T BE SUCH A BITCH.
He shoves her onto the balcony and asks her things such as, "Did you already do it with that kid?" and then says things like, "I'll make you feel good."
Omi shows up and dude tries to punch Omi's lights out, but Omi dodges and Drinks Too Much punches a concrete wall instead. Lol.
WHO WOULD WANT A KID LIKE YOU ANYWAY? I WAS JUST KIDDING! and he runs off, never to be seen or heard from again.
"You okay?" Omi asks, which causes Ouka to kiss him. And Omi is all wide eyed at this.
"What do you think of me, Omi? I'm just a friend, aren't I?"
"That's not true!"
"Liar!"
Then there's all this stuff about how Omi doesn't open up his heart and let her share his suffering with her and whatever before they kiss again and Manx is about to tell Omi something when she sees them and just walks away. Because, you know, lovebirds and all that. Omi thanks her for the kiss when suddenly...
SUPERMAN, IS THAT YOU? I mean Superman's the only one who can fly, right?
Guess again.
Omi turns around to see what the hell Ouka's problem is when FIST OW right into his sternum.
I must say, I am enjoying Ouka's expression, and how Omi looks like Schuldig punched him in the balls instead.
Omi falls into Schuldig's arms andI want him to hold me like that and Ouka looks a little less frightened. Maybe she knows he works for her dad? I don't know. I don't think she knows that. All she knows is that he can fly and he's taking Omi hostage or something.
I don't know what this says about me, but all I thought was, "Nee, Omi. Don't touch Schuldig's ass. You're in the perfect position to do so and I wouldn't blame you one bit if you did, but it wouldn't be wise to. Only Crawford can. Or maybe some hot chick." I mean I know he's unconscious, but...
"I'm borrowing him."
Schuldig then leaps from the balcony and bounces around and I still want to know how he can do that because that is awesome. Why can't I do that? It's not fair D: Ouka can do nothing except stare after him and did Schuldig just leap over a building? Does Crawford know he can do this type of thing?Of course. Crawford knows everything.
Ouka looks less concerned and more, "Wow, how did he do that?"
MANX RUNS OFF FOR HELP SINCE SHE SAW THE WHOLE THING. TO THE BAT CAVE!
pictured: bat cave
Ken: OMI FELL DOWN A WELL? Oh, you mean he's been kidnapped? At Takatori's condo?
Aya, Yohji, it looks like Aya's broomstick is on its way to your mouth... Or you were play fighting with the brooms again. The way you just looked at each other doesn't really help, either.
BACK TO SOME MYSTERIOUS PLACE...
Omi is getting the stuffing knocked out of him. By Hirofumi, of course. Who has his sleeves rolled up and his tie loosened, because believe you me, it's hurting him to do this, but he has no choice. Or at least that's probably what Hirofumi told him. THIS IS FOR YOUR OWN GOOD, OMI. TELL ME WHERE THEY ARE.
NO! smack.
Oh, Liebe, you changed. ...When did you find the time to change? There's no way you could've worn all that underneath the suit. Was Crawford hiding it for you somewhere? Why am I trying to find logic in an anime series?
om nom nom Schuldig if I were Crawford I would have thrown you up against that window and--
oh I'm sorry, where was I?
stop it, Schuldig. jfdksfds.
"They're here."
We get a shot of Hirofumi from a moved ceiling panel as he goes on and on about how long Omi can keep it up before he explodes in a torrent of whatever. We see that it's Yohji creeping on him from the ceiling. Ken's at the window where Schuldig was only moments before. Aya's right outside the room where Omi's getting flogged.
FUCK YOU, says Omi, after he gets smacked again.
Hirofumi does Not Approve and so he smacks Omi again.
"You are not my brother!" Omi screams, which stirs something in Aya and the rest of Weiss, where Yohji knocks the baton out of Hirofumi's hand. Ken, like any rational person, just jumps right through the glass pane window, because everything is like the movies and made of sugar glass. Aya's right behind him and slices before this happens:
whoa, trippy. He became two instead of one!
Everyone is, of course, wondering what the fucking fuck is going on, when a shadow appears!
there will never be enough Schuldig in my posts.
"Run." (Nigero can also be a command to escape, but yeah.) Hirofumi does, because why not?
The way that window is broken bothers me, and Yohji looks like he's trying to grab for something on Ken, and hasn't anyone thought to, you know, cut Omi loose? Especially Mr. I Have A Sword over there right next to him. Don't let the man in the green jacket stop you from doing that.
Ken decides he wants Schuldig to move, and oooh, the claws are out. He's gonna try and Shining Finger Schuldig, and wow, that sounds horribly dirty. Yohji whips out some wire to...help Ken? Hold Schuldig down? I don't know. What's the point?
Ken tries to slash at Schuldig... Only to have Schuldig simply step away. Yohji doesn't understand how Schuldig could do that--clearly he is a ninja. That's not all he can do, boys. You haven't seen what else this cat can do.
Finally I've seen your faces. I'll come for your lives someday. And because Schuldig likes being dramatic, he jumps backwards out the broken window and into the night, probably back home to Crawford. There's probably a reward waiting for him, too.
So it seems like they finally remembered that Omi's, you know, hanging there, so Aya cuts him loose.
"Can you get up, Omi?" Aya asks, as they kneel on the floor together.
"But why? I'm a Takatori..."
"Omi, you aren't Takatori Mamoru. You're Tsukiyono Omi." And this is the look Aya gives him. He's not glaring! =D
And Omi gives him a look of love or whatever.
If you don't come out of this series shipping anything, then... Well. I don't know what series you watched. But I definitely ship Aya/Yohji now. Though I remember when I first saw Crawford and Schuldig together--it was this episode, even--and I was all, "Yup, definitely fucking." ...well now I might have to say the same about Aya and Yohji. I don't know. I think I ship Aya/Omi too fffff.
BRIDGE.
Hirofumi is driving along and sees Omi, so he attempts to run him over. Omi instead shoots an arrow through his windshield and, uh, kills Hirofumi. The car veers into the bridge railing and crashes, and Omi has some tears over it as he stares up at the moon.
THE END OF EPISODE ELEVEN.
Next time on Weiss Kreuz...
I think you can guess who that Ferrari belongs to.
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Previously on Weiss Kreuz...
So now Omi's crying and Hirofumi is crying and OHAI AYA AND KEN. They come bursting through the doors and Omi tells Hirofumi to run and then shoves him out of the way. He then takes Hirofumi's gun and points it at Ken and Aya, who probably think by now that Omi's lost all of his marbles.
WHAT THE FUCK, OMI? asks Aya, who is Deeply Concerned.
"Mamoru, I will see you again, right?" And with that, Hirofumi runs, probably off to Takatori. Ken attempts to run after him and Omi threatens to shoot.
"He's... He's my big brother."
Ken: O:
Aya: /DEATH GLARE OF DEATH
Omi: /falls to his knees and sobs
MEANWHILE, Yohji is driving Ouka back to Tokyo.
Ouka: Omi...
Yohji: :| Damn you, Omi!
Welcome to episode eleven! Blah blah blah, credits. Maybe if I slow down the speed enough I'll be able to get caps of Schwarz from the opening. I'll have to try that at some point and amend them to my, uh, thing for the credits.
Okay, credits are done. On with the episode! It starts with a bridge and a sunset and Omi's overlooking it, remembering what happened yesterday. Telling his brother to run, and then Aya's unholy death glare as he thinks, HOLY SHIT, "I'm the brother of a cruel criminal." Or, as the dub likes to say, "My brother is a sadistic criminal," in this really melodramatic tone. I get that Weiss Kreuz can be pretty melodramatic at times, but. That doesn't need melodramatics. It's just a fact. Really.
We get Aya's Death Glare in negative as well as Yohji's (Yohji wasn't even there, what the hell?) and Ken's, and then it goes back to Aya, because, you know, death glare. That is the glare he uses when he wishes he could kill you telepathically. But can't, because he's not that cool. Ouka interrupts Omi's melodramatics with a hand on his shoulder, and wonders if he's okay, that she's sorry she put him in such danger (it was actually the other way around, but she doesn't need to know that).
"Is something the matter?" she asks as he turns away from her. "Omi?"
"It has nothing to do with you, please leave me alone."
Actually, it does involve Ouka, in a somewhat indirect (and direct, at the same time) way. You'll see why in the next episode, which will be screencapped to hell due to certain red haired kittens who may or may not be voiced by Midorikawa Hikaru. But of course Omi doesn't know that either. ...Either of those things, really. Thus far, the only Schwarz members Weiss has come into some sort of contact with is Crawford, and really, that was only Aya and, uh, Omi. We the viewers have already kind of met them when we kind of met Schreient, but our POV =/= Weiss' and blah blah blah.
In this episode we'll get to witness Schuldig being a badass. :D
Abkunft (ahb-kuhnfd) - origin
German is a horrible language to render phonetically. The way Jay says it, that 't' ends up sounding like half a 't' and half a 'd' so it's like jfkdskds. Yeah. Keysmashing.
KONEKO. We now lead you to a darkened room, to a figure reclined on a bed and oh, that's Aya. Yeah no he's not reclining in bed with any 'come hither' looks or anything. He's probably contemplating all the different ways to stab someone that will cause great pain and blood loss. Or he could be thinking of Yohji. It's difficult to tell, Aya doesn't really change facial expressions between the two. Omi enters the room and Aya sits up, and usually when I do that it's either because I want to give the impression that I wasn't asleep, no siree, or so no one thought I was up to something. And he kind of looks at Omi like he's a giant turd or something. Which is probably the look he gives anyone with the last name of "Takatori", and hell, for all I know, it could be the look he gives everyone. I don't spend that much time gazing at Aya's face.
"What is it?"
I'VE SEEN HOW YOU LOOK AT YOHJI--I mean, "There's something I want to ask you."
Oh, there's that death glare. Poor Omi. He deserves sympathy for having a fucked up family, not your petty revenge looks. And let's remember, Omi didn't even know this shit until last episode!
"The way you looked at me when I let him go... That wasn't just a look of criticism."
Yeah no, that was a pretty damn obvious Death Glare of Death and Spontaneous Combustion, not to be confused with Aya's Glare and Aya's Death Glare of Death and Takatori. It's all in the subtleties, like how I can tell by Schuldig's expression whether he's staring at Crawford or his ass. Or if they were just maybe, you know, telepathically making out in that hallway.
Nee, Koyasu-san. Are you sure this isn't a BL series? This isn't my first time watching this stuff and I'm seeing subtext all over the damn place that I hadn't noticed until I decided to screencap everything.
IT WAS A LOOK FULL OF ANGER AND DEATH AND ANGER, BUT MOSTLY DEATH, LIKE THE ONE YOU'RE GIVING ME NOW. WHAT HAPPENED BETWEEN YOU AND THE TAKATORI FAMILY THAT MAKES YOU USE THAT LOOK?
It could just be the lighting in my room or something, but that look he's giving you is giving me Navarre vibes, which is hilarious because Koyasu also voiced Navarre, and Navarre is a myrmidon, so he's basically Death with a Sword, and what do you know, Okiayu, Midorikawa, and Kosugi Juurouta were also in that anime, as Abel, Marth, and Oguma, respectively.
"I've been wondering about it for a while now... But now that I'm a member of the Takatori family, IDK WHAT I'M SUPPOSED TO DO!"
Well. Just because your family is mostly evil, doesn't mean you're evil too, though it's assumed. Nagi's a "bad guy" even though he hasn't done a bad thing except what landed him in an orphanage, but that wasn't really something he could control, but ANYWAY that doesn't mean Nagi is a bad guy just because he's in league with a guy who likes throwing priests into acid, a red head who likes guns
Yeah.
WHY DO YOU HATE THE TAKATORI FAMILY SO MUCH, AYA? WHHHHHHHY?
I'M TIRED, GTFO.
Aya, he's not asking if you want to have sex, he's asking you a perfectly valid question.
So Omi ends this scene by staring creepily at Aya's back. Or maybe his ass. I don't know. It's hard to tell.
SHOT OF A GOLF BALL FALLING INTO A HOLE and goddammit I hate golf and I have a phobia of golf clubs thanks to this stupid anime.
Golf is one of the signs that we've switched over to Takatori's office. Golf is Srs Bsns. He's in his office talking to Hirofumi, so I guess the Prodigal Son did return home to his father after all.
AND THEN SUDDENLY THERE WERE EXPLOSIONS AND THE COMMISSIONER AND THE OTHER NAMELESS GUYS WERE KILLED. IT WAS HORRIBLE, FATHER. JUST HORRIBLE.
WHAT, HOW COULD THAT HAPPEN, THEY WERE ESSENTIAL FOR RIGGING THE ELECTIONS.
Takatori, you have freaky as fuck sideburns. Please shave that shit off. ...And show me more Schwarz. What, are they waiting outside your office door? Why do I suspect that that's the case? Crawford's probably standing there like an obedient dog waiting for the chance to tear his master's hand off, Schuldig's probably eavesdropping or trying to get into Crawford's pants in a discreet as hell manner... Nagi's probably thinking of Tot and Farfarello's probably thinking of who his next stabbing victim will be.
THEY WERE KILLED RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU AND YOU STOOD THERE LIKE A N00B AND DID NOTHING.
I'M SORRY, FATHER.
FIND OUT WHO IS RESPONSIBLE OR I WILL BEAT YOU SENSELESS WITH THIS GOLF CLUB LIKE I WILL DO TO TWO OF MY BODYGUARDS IN EPISODE THIRTEEN.
HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT?
CRAWFORD TOLD ME IT WOULD HAPPEN AND I READ THE SCRIPT.
OH. BUT ALSO, WHAT ABOUT MAMORU?
MAMORU? YOU MEAN TUXEDO MASK? NO WONDER THEY DIED.
NO, FATHER. MAMORU. MY BROTHER. HE'S ALIVE. NOT DEAD, LIKE YOU SAID. YOU LIAR.
STFU AND WATCH AS I KNOCK OVER THIS VASE.
Wow, all this anger and caps lock reminds me of Domon Kasshu.
"Never mention Mamoru's name again!" OR I WILL HIT YOU LIKE I DID THIS VASE WITH THIS GOLF CLUB AND IT WILL HURT.
SHOT OF A BUILDING. It's an important building filled with buffet tables and all sorts of other tables with white silk linens and this is important and OMG it's the 7th Annual Independent Party Convention. Well my subs say "Anual" and I almost missed that 'u' so...
"Many major political and financial figures will be here tomorrow. DON'T FUCK THIS UP," says Hirofumi. Aya is making sure a floral arrangement is perfect when Hirofumi goes by, and he wants to pop his head off with his bare hands, but Ken grabs Aya and tells him now's not the time to go and kill people. Especially since they have company. Err, fans.
THAT CREAM SUIT. THAT RED HAIR. Could it be...?
"That man..." says Aya, and I don't know if he's talking about Hirofumi, who is wearing a hideous brown suit, or Crawford, but the way he says it is kind of creepy regardless.
"Too gloomy to be my fans," says Yohji. Gloomy, huh?
oh and in case no one noticed Schuldig has a really, really sexy neck and collarbones thing going on om nom nom.
"Buzz, buzz, buzz." This line sounds corny as hell in the dub, because onomatopoeia just doesn't work in English like it does in Japanese. So yeah, Midorikawa can of course make anything sound sexy, including bees and flies and just, well, anything. You knew this already though.
"Three flies buzzing around," Schuldig says, referring to Aya, Ken, and Yohji. And probably a silent, Should I get rid of them? request.
"Leave them alone, flies don't live long." No, they're not worth your time. "They are destined to die."
And Crawford says that with this face:
Shut up I took this picture to appease the Crawford fangirls on the flist, I fully admit it.
AND THEN THERE IS A SHOT OF A CAR. A black car. Which means it's got evil people in it.
It actually has Hirofumi in it. What did I tell you?
"If only Omi didn't let him get away," says Ken.
WELL WHAT THE HELL DO WE DO NOW? says Yohji. THE TARGET IS OMI'S BROTHER.
Aya just gives the camera his Death Glare of Death and Takatori, and after a flash of some girl asleep in a hospital bed, it just lessens to a Death Glare of Death. (It's all in the eyes, you see, and how narrowed they are.)
I DON'T GIVE TWO SHITS ABOUT WHOSE FAMILY IT IS. I WILL COMPLETE THE MISSION.
Aya's got a bit of a one track mind about things.
So now we are in a Year Three, Class C room, which in case anyone cared, is Omi's class. Year three would be senior year of high school in America. (There's only three years of high school in Japan, the first year being the equivalent to tenth grade. Seventh, eighth, and ninth grades make up junior high.) We get a shot of Omi clutching a pen and then it cuts away to the outside of his school. What was the point of that? To show that Omi's your average seventeen year old and goes to school and all that good stuff? I mean that would make sense. High school isn't compulsory in Japan, but the majority does because, well, how can you get a good job if you don't? Not that Omi really has to worry about that but ANYWAY.
Omi wheels out his motorbike and oh, there's Ouka.
"W-What are you doing here?"
"My legs have a mind of their own. Before I knew it, I was already here."
She climbs onto the back of Omi's bike and wraps her arms around him. "Let's go on a date!"
Two boys walk past and basically say YOU GO OMI! and that just proceeds to further embarrass him.
"Take me somewhere where we can stay together until morning."
"What are you talking about?!" Fff, he blushes and she giggles.
Yohji, I think you need to talk to the poor boy about love and how love isn't embarrassing and stuff before he meets Nagi and falls in love or something and goes WHAT ARE THESE FEELINGS? Or at least tell him about girls. Tell him to stay away from love because love is for fools and she'll just die anyway.
So they go to an art gallery, and Ouka talks about how she loves the paintings and goes here when she's sad and depressed and lonely. She has no friends because people think she's a huge pain in the arse with a stick wedged up there to boot, and her father is just so busy.
"Omi, do you have friends you can trust?"
Well, he has Ken and Yohji. "Yeah, I do."
"The boys from the flower shop? What about your family? Do you have any siblings? Did you play with your dad a lot?"
Ouka has some issues, you can tell, when it comes to family. She's asking about siblings, which means she either doesn't have any and wishes she did, or she does but they're not exceptionally close and she wants that. And then the question about his father means she has Daddy Issues.
And seeing who her father is, you can't even begin to blame her.
"Not really," Omi says. "What about you?"
"I don't know what I brought this up," she says, as she looks like she just got punched in the face. "Hey, let's go to my mother's restaurant so I can change the subject! I hope you're hungry, she's an awesome cook!"
"Restaurant?"
"Let's go!"
Ouka, btw, looks like her mom. Ouka's mom is a pretty classy and refined lady. You can tell since she wears a kimono. No one wears those anymore except at festivals or important events maybe. She asks about the food and Omi's all OH IT'S GREAT.
"She's so spoiled, she's not easy to be with, is she?" her mother asks. LOL.
"Hey, that's not nice!" Ouka protests.
"Ouka is very kind."
"Yes, that's right. :D"
"I wonder... I had a lot to deal with. I was involved with someone, but we weren't married, and I had her. Perhaps she felt unimportant since she was little, since she had no father growing up or anything."
Ouka is horrified. Omi is just o.o
"Mama, don't talk about that! I'm totally fine! My father accepts me now, and I see him from time to time. He's very nice."
Since I've seen this show many times before, I always LOL when she says this because, well, once you see who her father is, you're going to wonder wtf sort of shit she is smoking. I won't ruin it for you, I'll let this progress to its natural conclusion. I'll let Ouka talk about him a little bit.
"He's a politician."
Ouka explains to her mother that something is bothering Omi, but he won't tell her anything about it. Ouka's mother tells her to not pry, that it's because he knows she won't be able to help him."
ffff Ouka's mom, I love you.
"Hey, why am I always the bad one?"
I love this episode, not just because of Schwarz, but because it shows us that Ouka isn't just an insufferable brat. She's actually human, with feelings and doubts. It's nice to see. :D
"Everyone has his own problems. No one else can solve them, only you can." Ouka's mom is very wise.
A SHOT OF THE CITY.
"Geez, I can't believe my mom, why is she like that?"
"Your mom is lovely," Omi says.
"You think? Did you like her?"
"Yeah, I had a great time today."
HERE. She hands him something, a slip of paper in an envelope.
WHAT IS THIS? It's paper, Omi.
IT'S AN INVITE TO THE PARTY TOMORROW. YOU KNOW. THE ONE YOU SAID YOU'D TAKE ME TO WHEN WE WERE BEING HUNTED BY SOME WEIRD MEN.
"The Independent Party?"
Omi, you shouldn't be surprised. She just told you her father is a politician. She says she wants to introduce him to her father, and gets him to promise he'll be there.
Omi rides on home, thinking on what Ouka's mother said about problems and such. We come to a four way intersection, where Omi stops, and a white Porsche goes zooming on by, probably breaking speed limits.
"Isn't that..."
Oh, would you look at that. It is Aya's Porsche.
MORE SHOTS OF THE CITY.
Aya places flowers on a window sill and oh, it's that girl again. What is she to you, Aya, your girlfriend? You visit her every day... He cups her face, kneels down by the bed.
"Aya, I've finally found Takatori."
Oh lawl, her name is Aya. Just like his! Well what are the odds. (This will all be explained in due time, children.) I love how Aya's face softens whenever he speaks to Aya-chan. It's like he's human. I know you went to the School of Heero Yuy and all but even Heero has more facial expressions than you do, and he's supposed to be emotionally deprived.
"I promise, I will..."
We are given a shot of the outside of the room, where there is a name plate that says "Fujimiya Aya". Well that's weird. Isn't that Aya's name? There can't be that many coincidences in the world. Maybe they're married? I mean he cares for her like they are, after all. Omi's just standing there like a creeper. Probably trying to follow Aya home or something. Or corner him. Who knows? They meet in the parking garage.
"Did you follow me here?"
NO, I JUST HAPPENED TO BE IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD AND DECIDED TO STOP BY of course I followed you here. "Who is Fujimiya Aya?"
GTFO OF MY BUSINESS.
"I know it's none of my business, but does this have anything to do with the Takatori family?"
Why yes, Omi. Yes it does.
"Is she your lover?"
"She's my sister."
...
Um. Aya. You're. What.
I HAVE NO WORDS TO EXPRESS HOW QUASI-INCESTUOUS THIS SOUNDS. I mean okay it could come off as EXTREMELY PROTECTIVE OLDER BROTHER WHO LOVES HIS ONLY SISTER but as someone with no one but two older brothers who do have their Protective Older Brother moments, if they ever did what Aya does--visit my hospital bed every day, whisper in my ear, take my name and use it as their own, things like that? I would be creeped out. Because that is obsession, pure and simple. And his obsession with Takatori is like Wesker's obsession for Chris' death and Aya's obsession for his sister is like Chris' obsession with Jill in RE5 where he spends most of the game moping over her.
You're fucking creepy, Aya.
There isn't much I won't ship in this show.
YES, OMI, HIS SISTER.
"The reason she's here is Takatori Reiji's fault!"
And Omi's eyes go all big and wide. "Takatori Reiji?"
Flashback to episode two, where Aya leaps onto the balcony and tries to slice Takatori in two with his sword before Crawford blocks him and pwns him. Of course we don't see Crawford act like a badass, but we do get to see Crawford smirk at him in his YEAH, FUCK YOU smugness. And then Aya tried to chuck his sword at the helicopter and well that didn't pan out, either.
"That's right. Takatori Reiji. Your father!"
And with that, Aya gets in his car and burns rubber in probably the coolest looking flounce ever. Whatever happened to just stomping your foot and walking away? Omi drops his helmet and then drops to his knees, and why do I feel the urge to sing some sort of depressive musical number? HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN TO ME? I MADE MY MISTAKES. GOT NOWHERE TO RUN, BUT LIFE GOES ON AS I'M FADING AWAY.
And then we get a shot of Omi's Simple Plan moment in the blind spot mirror and Aya's looking a little bit crosseyed again. You might want to get that looked at.
COMPUTER MONITOR. Pretty swanky hideout or something. It's a building. It belongs to someone who's got someone else's name on the lease to it. Make no mistake, it's Takatori Hirofumi's swanky place where he...contemplates life. I actually don't know what the hell he does. Oh, and for once it's Ken doing computer stuff instead of Omi. I guess he's getting ready for his date or something. Or he's still at that car garage contemplating what his life is and whether it has any meaning anymore.
"I bet he brings cute girls there," Yohji comments. "What a playboy."
"I wonder what Omi is thinking..."
"Probably suffering and listening to Linkin Park or something."
"Which to choose... That's something that Omi has to decide," says Aya, who must have just been standing there the entire time and no one noticed until now, or maybe he was listening outside the door or something like a creeper.
Ken and Yohji's looks at each other pretty much say, WHEN THE HELL DID HE GET HERE?
OMI EYECATCHER
BUILDING. We've seen this building though. Earlier in the episode. In case you don't remember it too well, that's okay, I was too busy fangirling Schwarz to really care. There's a bunch of people milling about, some in nice suits, others in hideous things. Omi's dressed in a bright blue suit with a shirt out of Victorian England and a tie from some Western. Who dressed you?
"Sorry I'm late."
It's Ouka!
Oh, and just to point out that there is no extent to my geekery, one of the extras in this scene? Yeah, he's voiced by Koyasu. He doesn't even try to disguise his voice. If you want, you can pretend Aya's there creeping about and shouting out things because he had some of the spiked punch. Ouka's wearing some red dress with ruffled sleeves and I wouldn't be caught dead or alive wearing it, but hey, it was the nineties, and the nineties, while slightly better than the eighties, still had no fashion sense.
"I like it, it looks really good." Omi, I don't think you would know what looked good on a girl if you tripped over it. I mean, look at what you're wearing. Nonetheless she takes it as a compliment and then we have some older looking gentleman and wait a minute, that's actually Hirofumi.
who the hell was responsible for drawing these cels
i want their names
so then if i decide to get an anime made
i will make sure they are not on it.
For a political party thing, there don't seem to be a lot of people. Just some people randomly scattered about. We have some lady with a Victorian era dress and fan combination and what is this I see?
Schuldig, stop borrowing ties from Crawford.
...
wait why is Schuldig taller than Crawford? Crawford is the taller of the two. Schuldig is ~5'10" and Crawford is ~6ft so what is this EVEN IGNORING SCHULDIG'S BEDHEAD HERE fjdksfjkds
oh but Jayden it's not that bad. well it still fucking bothers me because it's not right.
okay anyway moving on. Yes, Schuldig wears suits. He will be wearing one later on in the show, in fact. Sans headband. omai indeed.
(Personally I love how Schuldig looks so miffed by having to wear a suit.)
So blah blah, people, and now we're back to Ouka and Omi, who are drinking something probably not alcoholic and eating some foods, respectively. Some drunken guy comes over and Ouka is all :| because, well, drunk people at parties always ruin them because they don't know when to stop.
"You're beautiful as always, Miss Ouka," says Drunken Guy, although he looks like he's looking at Omi.
"Mr. Oda, nice to see you." Ouka's not looking at him, like he's offensive to look at or something.
"You never answer my calls. Have I been dumped?"
I WASN'T DATING YOU IN THE FIRST PLACE. I MEAN, LOL YOU'RE TOO FUNNY. "I'm sure you know a lot of beautiful women you can call."
"Women these days have no class," he says, as she gazes at Omi. "Not many women out there have your grace."
OH I'M FLATTERED OH LOOK THERE'S MY FATHER BRB
Ouka whispers conspiratorily in Omi's ear about how Drinks Too Much thinks he's hot shit because his father is the minister of finance. And then says she'll brb, she's gonna go get her father and bring him over DO NOT GO ANYWHERE, OMI, DO YOU UNDERSTAND ME?
"What a bitch," says dubbed!Drinks Too Much, before turning away to mingle with all the other extras.
Some old guy in fancy old fashioned Japanese dress talks about how his heart goes out to some dead people. We see Takatori, some guy in the background who seems fascinated by Takatori's sideburns, Manx in a kimono, and some guy with a goatee who is with her.
"Do you have any idea who did this, Commissioner?"
Guy with Manx answers, "No, not yet."
Wait, Jayden! He sounds familiar!
Well uh he does do the voice of Akio...
Oh, you mean you've heard him in this show before? That's because the guy with Manx is Persia, who is also the Commissioner of Police. Ain't that just convenient.
So then Traditional Guy is all YOU HAVE US WE'LL RIG THE ELECTIONS FOR YOU.
AWW THANKS GUYS.
HAY PAPA.
Oh, it's Ouka again!
"Miss Ouka," says Persia. "You've grown up!"
well yes, children tend to do that.
Some guy interrupts and starts talking about shit and leads Persia and Manx away, so it's just Ouka and Papa Dearest.
Yes, Ouka's father is Takatori Reiji.
Takatori takes his glasses off and then we have Takatori's Vision Of Ouka and she jumps into his arms and he hugs her and I can just picture Crawford and Schuldig keeping an eye on them and Schuldig going what the fuck is this? at Crawford. This is a man who told Crawford to kill Masafumi if he caused any trouble and probably wouldn't have any qualms about sacrificing Hirofumi, and yet here he is hugging Ouka like he's the only thing in the world.
Rule #5 of Weiss Kreuz - there is no such thing as "truly evil" in Weiss Kreuz.
Takatori: Ouka, I'm glad you came.
AAAAAAH THAT MAN HAS NO EYES
Ouka: Oh she's fine. There's someone I want you to meet. Will you meet him?
Takatori: I will do anything you ask me to.
no really he says that.
Smug evil bastard who told his bodyguard to go ahead and kill his own damn son if he caused any more trouble is acting like a father. Right in front of your eyes.
Takatori: He sounds very important. Is this someone your boyfriend?
Ouka: Well he's a friend and he's a boy, so I guess LOL.
Meanwhile Omi is standing there all awkwardly because well, what else is he going to do? Hirofumi, who looks about twenty years older than he actually is, claps his hand on Omi's shoulder and tells him to come with him, he'd like to speak with him. Also, am I the only one who thinks he looks like Giovanni from Pokemon?
Hirofumi wants your Pikachu, Omi.
goddammit now I want a Pokemon/Weiss Kreuz fusion thing. Totes putting that bunny up for adoption or something.
COME WITH ME, MAMORU. I WANT YOU TO JOIN TEAM ROCKET.
So Omi follows and it's at that moment that Ouka decides to bring Papa Dearest over.
PAPA CAN YOU WAIT HERE WHILE I HUNT OMI DOWN?
IN AN OFFICE...
"What do you want to talk to me about?"
WHO ARE YOU, MAMORU?
WHUT
Y U TRY TO KILL ME
UM WELL
YOU WORK FOR SOMEONE WHO WANTS ME DEAD. WHO?
WELL IF YOU'D LET ME FINISH A DAMN SENTENCE I COULD EXPLAIN MYSELF A LITTLE--
ANSWER MEEEEEE.
Wow, he's pushy.
"Don't you think there's anything wrong with arranging the hunting of humans?"
NO. YOU KNOW FUCK ALL, BOY. I'M TRYING TO PAVE THE WAY FOR FATHER'S POLITICAL VISION, WHICH HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH HUNTING HUMANS BUT FUCK YOU, OKAY? SOMEONE IS LYING TO YOU.
NO, FUCK YOU, BROTHER. YOU KNOW NOT OF WHICH YOU SPEAK.
C'MON, MAMORU. TELL ME WHO THOSE PEOPLE TRYING TO KILL ME ARE. I'LL GIVE YOU A COOKIE.
somehow I don't think he's going to listen to you.
"What you're doing is wrong, brother. Please confess and turn yourself in to the police."
This both angers and amuses Hirofumi. He LOLs. "You're young. You'll understand how I feel when you grow up."
"I will never be like you!"
oooooh burn /sizzle
Omi walks out and I assume manages to find his way back to the party so he can get drunk.
"What a brat. Isn't that what you're thinking?"
THAT VOICE. THAT VOICE I WOULD RECOGNISE ANYWHERE.
HAAAAI, SCHULDIG =DDDDDD
"Schuldig, when did you...?"
He has the tendency to appear when you least expect it. He's sneaky like that.
the camera then teases me by doing a sweeping up shot of Schuldig, stopping at his face. Rawr.
I can't help but stare into his eyes *_* om nom nom
oh, right, where was I? What was I doing?
"Let me handle this. I'll make your plan work out."
...I warned you all. Just remember that. Also I guess he combed his hair because it doesn't look as messy as it did before.
YES I PAY ATTENTION TO THESE THINGS.
So Ouka is walking walking walking, wondering where the hell Omi ran off to. She bumps into Drinks Too Much.
"Miss Ouka, would you like to go somewhere with me after the party?"
UM. NO. GO AWAY.
He grabs her. DON'T BE SUCH A BITCH.
He shoves her onto the balcony and asks her things such as, "Did you already do it with that kid?" and then says things like, "I'll make you feel good."
Omi shows up and dude tries to punch Omi's lights out, but Omi dodges and Drinks Too Much punches a concrete wall instead. Lol.
WHO WOULD WANT A KID LIKE YOU ANYWAY? I WAS JUST KIDDING! and he runs off, never to be seen or heard from again.
"You okay?" Omi asks, which causes Ouka to kiss him. And Omi is all wide eyed at this.
"What do you think of me, Omi? I'm just a friend, aren't I?"
"That's not true!"
"Liar!"
Then there's all this stuff about how Omi doesn't open up his heart and let her share his suffering with her and whatever before they kiss again and Manx is about to tell Omi something when she sees them and just walks away. Because, you know, lovebirds and all that. Omi thanks her for the kiss when suddenly...
SUPERMAN, IS THAT YOU? I mean Superman's the only one who can fly, right?
Guess again.
Omi turns around to see what the hell Ouka's problem is when FIST OW right into his sternum.
I must say, I am enjoying Ouka's expression, and how Omi looks like Schuldig punched him in the balls instead.
Omi falls into Schuldig's arms and
I don't know what this says about me, but all I thought was, "Nee, Omi. Don't touch Schuldig's ass. You're in the perfect position to do so and I wouldn't blame you one bit if you did, but it wouldn't be wise to. Only Crawford can. Or maybe some hot chick." I mean I know he's unconscious, but...
"I'm borrowing him."
Schuldig then leaps from the balcony and bounces around and I still want to know how he can do that because that is awesome. Why can't I do that? It's not fair D: Ouka can do nothing except stare after him and did Schuldig just leap over a building? Does Crawford know he can do this type of thing?
MANX RUNS OFF FOR HELP SINCE SHE SAW THE WHOLE THING. TO THE BAT CAVE!
pictured: bat cave
Ken: OMI FELL DOWN A WELL? Oh, you mean he's been kidnapped? At Takatori's condo?
Aya, Yohji, it looks like Aya's broomstick is on its way to your mouth... Or you were play fighting with the brooms again. The way you just looked at each other doesn't really help, either.
BACK TO SOME MYSTERIOUS PLACE...
Omi is getting the stuffing knocked out of him. By Hirofumi, of course. Who has his sleeves rolled up and his tie loosened, because believe you me, it's hurting him to do this, but he has no choice. Or at least that's probably what Hirofumi told him. THIS IS FOR YOUR OWN GOOD, OMI. TELL ME WHERE THEY ARE.
NO! smack.
Oh, Liebe, you changed. ...When did you find the time to change? There's no way you could've worn all that underneath the suit. Was Crawford hiding it for you somewhere? Why am I trying to find logic in an anime series?
om nom nom Schuldig if I were Crawford I would have thrown you up against that window and--
oh I'm sorry, where was I?
stop it, Schuldig. jfdksfds.
"They're here."
We get a shot of Hirofumi from a moved ceiling panel as he goes on and on about how long Omi can keep it up before he explodes in a torrent of whatever. We see that it's Yohji creeping on him from the ceiling. Ken's at the window where Schuldig was only moments before. Aya's right outside the room where Omi's getting flogged.
FUCK YOU, says Omi, after he gets smacked again.
Hirofumi does Not Approve and so he smacks Omi again.
"You are not my brother!" Omi screams, which stirs something in Aya and the rest of Weiss, where Yohji knocks the baton out of Hirofumi's hand. Ken, like any rational person, just jumps right through the glass pane window, because everything is like the movies and made of sugar glass. Aya's right behind him and slices before this happens:
whoa, trippy. He became two instead of one!
Everyone is, of course, wondering what the fucking fuck is going on, when a shadow appears!
there will never be enough Schuldig in my posts.
"Run." (Nigero can also be a command to escape, but yeah.) Hirofumi does, because why not?
The way that window is broken bothers me, and Yohji looks like he's trying to grab for something on Ken, and hasn't anyone thought to, you know, cut Omi loose? Especially Mr. I Have A Sword over there right next to him. Don't let the man in the green jacket stop you from doing that.
Ken decides he wants Schuldig to move, and oooh, the claws are out. He's gonna try and Shining Finger Schuldig, and wow, that sounds horribly dirty. Yohji whips out some wire to...help Ken? Hold Schuldig down? I don't know. What's the point?
Ken tries to slash at Schuldig... Only to have Schuldig simply step away. Yohji doesn't understand how Schuldig could do that--clearly he is a ninja. That's not all he can do, boys. You haven't seen what else this cat can do.
Finally I've seen your faces. I'll come for your lives someday. And because Schuldig likes being dramatic, he jumps backwards out the broken window and into the night, probably back home to Crawford. There's probably a reward waiting for him, too.
So it seems like they finally remembered that Omi's, you know, hanging there, so Aya cuts him loose.
"Can you get up, Omi?" Aya asks, as they kneel on the floor together.
"But why? I'm a Takatori..."
"Omi, you aren't Takatori Mamoru. You're Tsukiyono Omi." And this is the look Aya gives him. He's not glaring! =D
And Omi gives him a look of love or whatever.
If you don't come out of this series shipping anything, then... Well. I don't know what series you watched. But I definitely ship Aya/Yohji now. Though I remember when I first saw Crawford and Schuldig together--it was this episode, even--and I was all, "Yup, definitely fucking." ...well now I might have to say the same about Aya and Yohji. I don't know. I think I ship Aya/Omi too fffff.
BRIDGE.
Hirofumi is driving along and sees Omi, so he attempts to run him over. Omi instead shoots an arrow through his windshield and, uh, kills Hirofumi. The car veers into the bridge railing and crashes, and Omi has some tears over it as he stares up at the moon.
THE END OF EPISODE ELEVEN.
Next time on Weiss Kreuz...
I think you can guess who that Ferrari belongs to.
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