It was an entertaining episode, I’ll grant you that. As a good blogger’s duty’s all about highlighting underrated shows that might have dropped off the radar as a result of underexposure or consistency (with Bamboo Blade coming to mind), when I take into consideration how episode 17 brought to light the series’ strengths very well, I feel duty-bound to write about it as a result. But what is this show about, anyway?

To my knowledge, the general idea that those who aren’t interested in it have is that it seems to be just another, milder, member of the fetish persuasion, nevermind how the example I linked to is already so far gone that I’m using it ironically here. For all the “I have no idea why, but FUCK YES I’M WATCHING A GIRLY SHOW!” fans there’s the intially-nonplussed ones to balance them out, and if you’re in the latter group and reading this, here’s the hard sell in a paragraph:

At its basics, Shugo Chara is about believing in yourself that believes in you. It’s all about doing the impossible, seeing the invisible, touching the untouchable, and breaking the unbreakable. Yes, I just compared it to Gurren Lagann. No, you’re not going to get much sense out of that statement until you read further, so hold your bile for the end.

The following are a bunch of shows that wouldn’t really fit anywhere else, or stuff that I got lazy of thinking of categories to pigeonhole them in, and therefore making this quite the mixed bag. Some might say I already ruined the whole category thing by throwing in Blue Drop there with my previous post. I digress. With this are reviews of Shugo Chara, Bamboo Blade, Moyashimon, and Ghost Hound.

Shugo Chara! was an embarrassing affair, a show that I found a whole lot more engaging and entertaining than its intended audience, i.e. my little sister, found it to be. Maybe the magic didn’t really work, pun unintended, because she wasn’t as familiar with Japan’s school life, acting nonchalant for the most part, not laughing where I expected her to, or being as interested overall like I was.

For the record, my sister turns 12 mid-December. Yours truly turns 21 late November. What this all really means is that my liking for the show isn’t unlike the horde of male otaku during the recent Shugo Chara event. Although I’m pretty confident that my fondness for the show stems from more than just a fetish with creepy undertones, of which I don’t have, in case you were wondering.