Ushio and Tora Episode 2: Rock Eater - Bobble Reviews

How many times do I have to tell people? Only accept musty old book shipments from companies you trust!

Don't think you're shopping smart when your two-bit bargain brand ships you a stone samurai you didn't even order.

We now return to our regularly-scheduled boy-meets-kneecaps program.

Yeah, also, the spear

As well as our regularly-scheduled antics!

That's it. Tora's officially lame and he's never gonna be cool or metal again. You can't recover from that face.

You remember the girls from last week? Well, Betty and Veronica are back to school as usual after yesterday's "scary dream." After yesterday's """scary. dream.""" Today there's another little errand on their to-do list. Aw, they're going to the school library to organize boxes or something! Have fun and stay safe, girls! Oh wait, never mind, their school library, despite everything, is just an old decrepit haunted house because nobody likes books.

Pictured: daylight, as filtered through centuries of dust.

Who should they find there...but the stone samurai!! Its eye sockets are filled with creepy red lights that make their skin crawl!

Eh. Back to boxes.

Before you know it, five of the gals are "mysteriously missing," loads of cop cars arrive, and they go searching everywhere...but they're all hidden in plain sight, trapped and made invisible by the stone samurai's barriers, wherein they will eventually be turned to stone and consumed so that the samurai in there with them may feed on their fear!

what an awful roommate am I right ???

Luckily, Ushio knows what's up. He knows the gang's got a mystery on their hands! The spear's speaking to him, and Tora, whether he likes it or not, is gonna help him. He cuts class and gets some sweet deets on this week's villain.

Things are getting REALLY SERIOUS.

So Ushio STORMS into the library with THIS FACE...

...and thus begins the battle segment of today's mystery. He destroys those dumb barriers and muscles his way in. With all the gals already turned to stone, it's time to get straight to defeating the enemy.

I guess that's a problem!?

OH! NO!

Ushio asks Tora for help while the Stone Samurai and the Rock Eaters are sucking his guts out, and he's like, "NO!" But then after a while he goes, "YES!" Because he really DOES care!

"Hey, Tora, I lost my Power Spear and I might be about to die, so please take those two girls to safety. None of the other girls, just the two whose names I know."

Ushio could be on his deathbed this time.

Which is a shame. I was very much looking forward to eating him myself after the series is over.

But of course, this spurns Tora into action because he wants to eat that boy so bad that he would kill (other people) to even reserve the possibility of sometime later doing so. He leaps around, hits stuff with his tail and sits there using electric shock powers, and then also, Ushio suddenly gets mind powers that let him make his spear move from a distance, and it spears the rock that Ushio's turning into, which you would think would fatally wound him, but it actually breaks the rock and the samurai gets destroyed and he and Tora go flying several miles straight up into the air.

But watch out! The ROCK Eaters are chasin' ya!

*wiggle wiggle wiggle*

Tora kindly tells the boy that creatures of their ilk are weak to spit. He could just dribble on them, or maybe nibble on them, but he has to destroy them in a dignified way so he just spits on his weapon and skewers them instead, causing blood to go everywhere. Nice!

Then he frees all five of the young ladies from the rocks by stabbing them in the rocks. They're all naked, even though Ushio is clothed and they were clearly wearing clothes in their rock forms. Cool!

And look! Shaggy and Scooby even got on the news! It was a roaring success!!!!!