April 25, 2004

Kyou Kara Maou! Episode 2 - Decisive Battle! Beautiful Boy vs. Baseball Boy!



Cecilia, the token busty blonde so we men don't feel so guilty watching this.'It's what we all wear!' Yeah, sure, Conrad. You perv.Aaaaw, he's all angry!
Wonder why Yuuri got pissed off at his baseball coach?I hope they can all use magic, yes I'm shallow but I like big flashy fight scenes with spells.Wolfram's fire and Yuuri's water, should be a volatile 'marriage' if they go through with it.

Hmm, slightly suspect naming in the fansub I watched, I'm going to make up my own methinks...

Yuuri meets the previous Maou, Cecilia, in the baths - turns out Wolfram, Conrad and Gwendel are all her children (although Conrad is half human). Wolfram is a prejudiced little bigot, and after insulting Yuuri's lineage Yuuri slaps him - only to discover that this is a method of proposal - and then picks up a knife that Wolfram dropped - accepting a duel, apparently. As Yuuri prepares for the duel, he bonds with Conrad when he discovers Conrad named him, and Conrad gives him the blue pendant that was so prominent in the previous episode.

So, Yuuri gets to choose the duel. And he chooses... sumo. To Wolfram's great embarrassment. Unsurprisingly, Yuuri wins, and Wolfram gets very pissed off and starts thwacking away with his sword. Yuuri fights back the only way he can think of - by playing baseball with his scabbard, disarming Wolfram easily. After Wolfram gets all pissy (AGAIN) and throws a fireball at Yuuri and misses, Yuuri goes all let-my-power-awaken, grows his hair and beats up Wolfram with some magic water dragon things (I don't know what they were, but they were cool). So now Gwendel accepts that Yuuri is the Maou, Wolfram is engaged and incredibly pissed off, Conrad is proud of his boy, and Gunther is having naughty dreams about Yuuri in a speedo.

This show's great, it's just so silly but it's got some substance in there with the randomness. Wonder if Cecilia's going to try and assassinate Yuuri? She manipulated Wolfram into getting engaged to him and he's next in line to be Maou anyway, or so I gathered from the dialogue.

Posted by BluWacky at April 25, 2004 11:21 AM | TrackBack
Comments

Sure it's absurd, but somehow it manages not to be that crappy kind of absurd. I don't know how, exactly, and I'd be hard pressed to describe this show's merits to someone who hasn't seen it. However, it's one of the few things I'm actually enjoying in the new batch of shows this spring.

Posted by: GreyDuck at April 27, 2004 02:37 AM
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