Shugo Chara! 66

Watch it on Crunchyroll (members can watch now, everybody else’ll have to wait a week)

Due to Crunchyroll changing things around again, it’s hard subs so I couldn’t turn them off and get clean caps. It’d be nice if they’d work on improving the video quality to match what they’re advertising before messing with other things, but oh well (^^;;

Anyways, back on track. Ikuto is still staying over at Amu-chan’s house, meaning more sleepless nights for Amu-chan, and more trouble trying to keep him a secret from her parents and everyone else. At the Guardian meeting there are rumors of a cat-eared person going around and making a fuss — someone from Easter, maybe Ikuto? After school, they find out that it’s actually a girl named Chiyoko (but call her Choco-tan after her otaku parents’ favorite anime character, Magical Choco-tan) that’s cosplaying as nekomimi heroine Cat’s ~~Eye~~ Ear, dealing justice to those who… don’t deserve it? Ooops. Turns out that Choco-tan’s doing it since she wanted to draw more attention than her usual quiet self gets.

Upon returing home, Amu-chan is greeted by the sight of Yoru and Ikuto tangled up in yarn… cats will be cats (^^;; Certainly doesn’t help things, as Amu-chan would prefer Ikuto out.. quicker the better so she can get a good night’s sleep.

The next day, Chiy.. Choco-tan is up to the usual as Cat’s ~~Eye~~ Ear, this time targeting someone drawing graffiti… or simply a street artist performing live. Oops. Depressed from messing up yet again, this is the perfect time for Lulu to(ry

And it’s Ran-chan and Amulet Heart this week… again… Not that I have anything against Amulet Heart (like the outfit), but c’mon, give Miki a chance once in a while, okay? (^^;; After Amu-chan’s usual lecture (thank goodness it’s not as long as Touma@Aru Majutsu no Index’s lectures), Chiyoko realizes that she’s been doing things the wrong way and goes back to normal cosplaying. The kids love it.. and so do the ooki na otomodachi watching.

Amu-chan herself realizes that she was making the same mistake as Choco-tan and comes home to apologize to Ikuto… but he’s not there anymore.

Wait a sec, there’s stuff that still has to happen before Ikuto leaves Amu-chan’s house (like the rest of volume 7). Given how things have been structured so far, they’ll probably be picked up later, after or during the course of more fillerish episodes as this week’s (yes?). We’re catching up rapidly with what’s been done in the manga (even moreso with PEACH-PIT on sick leave now), so there’s not much choice but to fill.

However, I’m not really complaining since Shugo Chara’s fillerish episodes tend to be cute and entertaining in their own way while throwing some of the main story progression in (you won’t complain about anything so long as Amu-chan’s cute, will you?). I would prefer if more episodes were done without the usual Lulu -> ? egg -> battle -> Amu-chan lecture -> x egg -> Open Heart (yeeesh, it’s still embarrassing to watch that), though. Well, they had to do something so they could sell more goods to the target audience… speaking of target audience, I wonder what the actual target audience (and their parents) would think of recent developments… a high school guy in the same bed as a 6th grader. Not to mention the key and hole thing from before (^^;;;;;;;

Next time, looks like another another fillerish episode. But the guest character seems cute, so all is fine (is that all you care about?).

…ah… I haven’t gotten volume 8 of the manga that came out last month (^^;; I still haven’t gotten any more of the first season DVDs besides the first boxset. I really wanted that Amulet Angel wallscroll that comes with boxset 3 (the one that comes with boxset 2 is a bit too suggestive… as in haitenai), but the boxsets are expensive to begin with and the exchange rate being < 90 yen = 1 dollar really isn’t helping out. Oh well…

Tags: Anime, Shugo Chara!

Saturday, January 17th, 2009 Anime, Shugo Chara!

2 Comments to Shugo Chara! 66

This week’s episode was pretty cute compared with some of the fillers that we’ve seen before. Choco-tan’s “?” chara transformation was actually really good compared with that deer boy’s chara nari. Thanks for blogging this episode!

Also, do you know if PEACH PIT is still sick? I’m just curious to see how long we’ll be watching fillers.