Charlotte Episode 8: Encounter - Bobble Reviews

ANNOUNCEMENT ONE: I'm been busy, so my schedule is somewhat awry (as any folks with gratefully-accepted regular patronage to this site may have guessed)! I'm back at the bear office, you might say. It's tough. But I can persevere.

ANNOUNCEMENT TWO: I will no longer be announcing whether or not I review episodes of Charlotte. I've done that like four times.

ANNOUNCEMENT THREE: Looks like it's back to work for Light Yagami, too...back to schoolwork, that is!

More like back to W-W-W-WACKEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You know how his sister died, right? And how her magical pizza sauce brought tears to his soul because he learned she was a kindred spirit and totally not just a bargain-bin saccharine imouto? Well, the show does too, for about a minute, or less, at a time.

Here's a line that could possibly be interpreted as solemn and mournful...

And here's the same wackiness!

For a good chunk of this episode, whenever the wackitude in this episode isn't the exact same stuff as before, it is...well, it's a certain anime style that I know a lot of people like. But those people also like anime. Read the banner. Does it say that Beeble Bobble likes anime? No. It doesn't. And there is no separate entity named "Beeble Bobble" secretly moderating this website.

See this picture? Yeah. It's that type of humor.

First order of business: everybody watches the orange-haired girl's new idol single.

Cool lyrics!

But then they forget about that because there's a supposedly-much-better musical act to see! It's the pretentious band that white-hair-girl-who's-not-named-"Charlotte"'s crazy brother really likes!

Surprise, surprise! Light has a chance meeting with a member of this famed group ZHIEND! He finds her by walking down the street, seeing her blind with a walker, thinking "she's blind," standing stock still, and staring as she walks down the street. He doesn't even stand to the side that much. Somehow, that amuses me more than

(not to make any anti-Christian claims or anything)

So these two go to a food place, and she does the thing where she drinks and throws her head down and goes, "KI-HEEEEEEEEEUGH!" She tells Light about her dramatic backstory that I mostly forgot.

She was wronged by...Ulysses S. Grant?

Long story short, they hit it off to some extent. They even get an opportunity to go see "Charlotte"'s crazy brother! When he hears ZHIEND's music straight from the ZHIEND's mouth, maybe he'll be...c-c-c-ured!! Some would say...it couldn't be done! But such types don't believe in the power of miracles.

Although at some point you also have to stop saying "painkillers wore off for the 57th time"
and start questioning the quality of your healthcare provider.

So the lead singer starts to sing for the troubled man. It soothes the savage beast. 'Tis a thing of beauty. It's way more moving and eloquent than Idol Girl's silly song, although I guess those two are supposed to be thematically related or something, because they're, like, both songs. Thus ends my review. Let me leave you off on these pleasing, all-English, certainly-not-sung-by-a-native-English-speaker-of-any-sort words.