YAMI TO BOUSHI TO HON NO TABIBITO
Genre: Shoujo Ai
How much seen: one episode, subbed
What it's all about: Sadly, this is another one where I'm really not sure - at least, not based on the one episode I saw.
The first half of the episode is straight-up yuri. Hatsuki is apparently lusting after her sister (? - damn you, Japanese tendency to refer to non-related people by family terminology). There's all kind of angst and cherry blossoms, and it leads up to Hatsuki attempting to stab her sister, and delicate filigrees of blood. Only delicate ones, because Hatsuki doesn't
kill Hatsumi, just draw blood.
So that's no sooner gotten sorted, for value of 'sorted' that primarily mean 'physical clean-up and even more angst,' than suddenly Hatsumi, who has been mute up to now, speaks, glows green, and vanishes. In her wake, this yellow chick-thing (hen-type chick, not woman-type chick) appears, and is rather annoyed at Hatsumi's disappearance. Hatsuki, who is apparently not stupid despite the angsting and sister-lusting, figures that the chicken knows something, and coerces him into bringing her along. Fortunately, due to the whole stabby thing, she got Hatsumi's blood on her, which means she was marked by Hatsumi's 'souma'.
So off she goes - and suddenly we're watching people get on a train. There appear to be spies, which may or may not be Russian, and crazy people, and the general impression is of a cut-rate knock-off of the Flying Pussyfoot from Baccano. We have no proper introduction to any of these people, nor do we care. Hatsuki finally appears, with Ken (the chick-thing) and Lilith (his superior, who is dressed as a witch and has long dramatic yellow hair), but by that point, it's too little, too late. I was hopelessly confused, and didn't care enough to get myself unconfused.
(The official summary of the series, according to
Anime News Network: "Eve is one of the caretakers of the Great Library, a repository containing all of the worlds in the universe within books. Each episode of "Yamibou" details another one of Eve's lives among the many worlds and follows the adventures of Hatsuki, Lilith, Gargantua and others in search of the girl whom they've known by different names." Really? I mean, if they say so, but this takes the whole 'introductory episode fails at introducing' thing to new extremes.)
Overall opinion: Yeah, no. There have to be better sources for girl-loving, that don't fail at making sense.
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Kay is showing off her gloriously sharp kitchen knife. We do like our pointy things around here. Heh. The one drawback is that occasionally bits of potato go falling, and we have to rescue them before Ziggy claims them for his.