Don’t get me wrong: I like Izumi, and feel he’s both delighted and transcended his male damsel-in-distress archetype. That said, it’s not his name on he show, so to have a whole episode where he’s [...]
Read the rest of this entry Entry meta

Oh, sure, it might be kind of boring, and it might have the silliest title we’ve seen yet from this series (pretty sure we passed nine coffins by episode 2!), and it might be implausible that our heroes have suddenly developed psychic abilities where the vampires are concerned, but I think this episode might also [...]
Read the rest of this entry Entry meta

Aya, couldn't resist at all, I watch straight Shiki, from the first episode to the ninth. At first, I thought it was a higurashi-like. But it is not. This is not a chinese puzzle, this anime is pretty good, I like the feeling during each episodes. Very intense for me, chilling in the idea because I'm trying to be at their place. I don't think Higurashi can be like that, because they're too
Read the rest of this entry Entry meta

Summary: After a brief montage that includes Seishin’s crappy novel, Megumi looking longingly and Natsuno riding towards his vampiry death, the rest of the episode focuses on Toshio and Seishin. After explaining to his friend that the vampires likely suck the blood of their victims over a period of a few days while injecting them [...]
Read the rest of this entry Entry meta

Episode 09 – 「 第柩話」 (Dai Kyu Wa) “The ‘Coffin’ Episode” If the previous episode of Shiki was about the confrontation with the vampires from the group of teenager’s perspective (namely, Natsuno, Kaori, and Akira), this episode shifts the focus on how the two grown-up characters deal with the “enemy”. Unfortunately, even though Ozaki and [...]
Read the rest of this entry Entry meta

Not exactly sure why, but this image vaguely reminds me of the Super Smash Bros. commercial from way back when. Except that, you know, all the vampires are happily frolicking and sucking the blood out of an old woman instead of kicking each others’ asses. A minor difference, really. (Also, I never thought about this [...]
Read the rest of this entry Entry meta

So rather than going right into the resolution of lasts week’s cliffhanger with Natsuno, this weeks episode focuses entirely on Dr Ozaki and Monk Muroi’s stake out of the clinic.  Most of the episode was pretty standard – build the tension, have a few info-dumping conversations, introduce yet more characters……but the latter section was really [...]
Read the rest of this entry Entry meta

This was a very happening episode as per Shiki standards, which are usually on the slow side. I mean, cliffhanger much? The story went ahead chronologically yet to our agony we didn’t find out what went down with that ventriloquist brat! She’s hard to miss right? Look at Sekijitsu’s homepage and your eyes would go [...] Related posts:Shiki 8 Shiki 7 Shiki 4
Read the rest of this entry Entry meta

Although the end of Shiki's previous episode seemed to spell peril for Natsuno after his discovery of the truth surrounding all of the deaths in the village, we actually get to see next to nothing of him in this ninth instalment of the series, instead focusing our attention once again upon Doctor Ozaki and his own efforts after figuring out that vampires are causing the aforementioned spate of
Read the rest of this entry Entry meta

And the resolution to our cliffhanger is… After last week’s cliffhanger, I’m sure everyone is dying to find out what happens next. You want me to tell you now, right? It’s a matter of our main character living or dying, afterall.  Well, guess what? We have to wait another week. [...]
Read the rest of this entry Entry meta