Assassination Classroom First reaction Episodes 1 and 2

Click to discover my thoughts on tentacles and the like

Top Ten Villains round 2. #1 The Ultimate Villain.

Yeah I know I'm being vague but work with me here.

Another end of the list and another big bad that I think takes the cake and before I reveal it I want to point something out. This one....This villain is something That I never wavered on being number one and I have no issue that between both lists and even among villains yet to come this hateful yet adorable contender is gonna be hard to take down. The comedic humor of Dr Nefarious. The Recklessness of The God of Revels Xenagos. The Ruthlessness of Medusa. The Arrogance of Handsome Jack. The Sheer intimidation and lack of humanity of Lucifer. The Size of Thanos. The Impact Of Ultron. The Insanity of The Master and The Cold methods of Scarecrow.

Who else But the True Ultimate Villain.

The Ultimate Despair.

 

 #1 Monokuma

TITANIC SPOILERS FOR THE WHOLE FRANCHISE. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!!!

WHO the hell else was I going to put here? Johan Liebert? Well I'll get to him later. I mean really If you've played Any of the Danganronpa games you know as well as I do how massive this villain is. I mean his design is meant to be a mockery of mascot's like teddie but it does have the same iconic effect. It's simple and memorable. It is literally an icon.

Let me set the story for you.



A group of teenagers going to a school for the best at what they are. Wake up years later with their memories erased of what happened since they got here and the only thing they know is that they are barricaded into the school and a deranged mechanical teddy bear has forced them into a game. If they want out of the school then they have no choice but to murder someone and not be found guilty in the investigation. Throughout all of this he's keeping them fed and making sure they're not in danger of being hurt by anything except each other.

This of course includes things like throwing different motives at everyone to make them want to get out. Including showing them special videos more or less saying their loved ones are in severe danger, to making it seem like there's a traitor among them to literally just offering them a bribe to kill someone. The whole time though he's been broadcasting them killing each other to the world to prove that even the best of the best are mindless killers when pushed. So why aren't the police coming to rescue them? Well...

Well He kinda caused the apocalypse through a massive cult of despair, and I mean who wouldn't follow this guy? He's hilarious. Voiced by Brian Beacock (Takato from digimon tamers. Sorry for your loss of childhood) He brings an immense joy to the role and honestly it's like watching Mark Hamill perform the joker. It's one of the most joyful villain performances ever and it's a massive MASSIVE part of why he's this high on the list. It's an insane amount of fun to watch and you can tell he had a blast doing it. That being said there is another part to this.

For the record I already said massive spoilers so...you've been warned.

It's revealed that the Junko Enoshima from the beginning of the game that died was in fact Mukuro Ikusaba. Her twin sister who she killed effectively to take the pressure off of herself and so she could control monokuma without having to worry about anything else and knowing her for shits and giggles. Junko Enoshima is the woman who started the apocalypse and the despair uprising first at hope's peak and then across most of the world literally causing chaos and death and yes despair across the world. Well except for one place but I'll get to towa island.

She Is known as both the ultimate despair and the ultimate fashionista. This is something they don't bring up but I think that has more to do with this then some think. They never explain her motives other then she's bat squeak insane, but I think the fashionista thing has something to do with all of this. Her fame, the people who look up to her (again more on that in a minute) and her charisma is what allowed her to manipulate people into joining her cult and what caused the beginning of the disaster. Her charisma and manipulation is one thing but she's got one thing very unique to her.

SHE'S FUCKING INSANE!!

What I'm about to say is in the actual and original definition of literal. She gets bored of her personality. Dead serious she actually gets bored of how she acts to the point where she rapidly and constantly switches between very odd and distinct attitudes. One second she's a queen and acts very uppity. The next a Rockstar and swears every three seconds. The next She's hyper depressed sounding. The next A super adorable one. The thing that sticks? Her desire to spread despair and cause pain and misery. For obvious reasons she's very similar to monokuma in that she is Insanely fun to watch. Just wondering what personality is gonna come out next and what exactly is gonna come out of her mouth. Here's the kicker when she's found out and she's lost she doesn't try to cheat or freak out that's she's lost. She's starts drooling with giddiness and with the exact look on her face you see above she hits the execution button and....again take it away youtube.

That it not a sane nor good woman. Even in death and absolute failure she was delighted. Because she caused herself despair. Any little bit of misery added to the world even to herself is such joy to her. That is pure evil.

Well ladies and gen......Wait. Didn't I say something about towa city and people following her?

 Also #1 Monaca Towa

JESUS CHRIST What the hell is that!? O.O

That ladies and gentlemen is what happens after Junk dies and someone takes up the mantle of ultimate despair. For a character introduced in a side game not even Dangan ronpa 2 (which did feature more added to the story, a cyber junko and in my opinion a generally better experience if you played the first game) She is basically a continuation of Junko but again I'll start at the start.

She was born into the towa family. How rich and powerful are they. They have an island named after them. That rich and powerful. Anyway the father of the family cheated on his wife and as a result Monaca was born. Her real mother abandoned her and her father and brother took her in. They never really saw her as a person though. I Suspect The mother of the family left after the cheating incident and they took that anger out on monaca. Despite her smiling and joking she was miserable. She honestly felt like dying and this is why I understand monaca a bit more then junko and why I had to at least tie her with junko.

 After being physically beaten by her brother and father (Despair girls the dangan ronpa side game is FUCKING DARK!) She faked it being worse then it was and went around in a wheelchair pretending to be paralyzed and enjoyed the new attention and pity she was getting. That's when she met the others.

 

She met four kids at hope's peak elementary and basically well.....convinced them that herself and the other four should jump off the roof and kill themselves. she herself wouldn't but she wanted to prank them into killing themselves. Like I said. DARK. Anyway they are saved when of all people Junko saves them and basically raises them herself and convinces them to kill their own parents and join her. Monaca Knows she's being used but doesn't care as she now a major part of towa corp and manages to mass produce monokumas and weapons for the disaster while blackmailing the actual head of towa saying she'd expose to the world that while towa island was generally unaffected they were fueling the disaster the whole time alongside junko.

 

ARE YA STILL WITH ME!! Also my god I'm using caps lock a fuck ton on this one anyways.

 

After junko's death the "Warriors of hope" wanted revenge so they kidnapped Makoto's sister (Read main character of first game.....'s sister) and put her into their hunt. You see Monaca not only didn't care about revenge against adults, Revenge against Those who killed junko or even Just wanting to build a children's paradise like junko had told the kids and like the others believed. She wanted to become Junko Enoshima the second. To become her successor. To Take her place.

 

In this time and facing against both makoto's sister and toko fukawa from the first game her associates started dying off but with no witnesses sans the two aforementioned girls Monaca's allies didn't know it was the Monokumas taking them out not Komaru and toko. And of course only one person has control over the monokumas. Monaca. I'm guessing to prevent them from turning on her after defeat she figured "fuck 'em" and tried to kill them as they fell in combat. granted it is confirmed that they all survive til the end but still dick move. Dicker move still being how she manipulated some of them if they didn't listen. After the first two fell the third Kotoko had some doubts to which monaka responded by saying her trigger word causing her to go into a panic fit and BEAT THE SHIT OUT OF HER! When you're watching a girl with severe mental trauma getiing her ass kicked by a girl in a wheelchair you think two things. First What the hell is the problem of the one doing the beating? And second What issues were the writers trying to get out of their system?!

 

But that's not even it. Secondly she tried to seduce the 4th kid and by god it worked. I won't even get into that bag of confused and angry cats but that's not even the grand plan with her. Her idea as it was from the beginning was use the monokuma robots and children with Monokuma helmets who she convinced to join in the children's revolt. Her idea Was to cause all the children to kill their parents and have the remaining adults either kill the children or if they fail hell child army. What makes this even worse is that the Monokuma helmets on the kids are controlling them against their will. Strictly for the purpose of having the adults kill innocent children. And as the extra kick in the junk the controller that makes the robot assault monokuma's that have been attacking the citizens when broken will explode the helmets. Surprise she kept that to herself. And then when Komaru had the controller and wasn't going to break it. She showed her her dead parents and if it wasn't for toko The population of towa city would have shrunk drastically.

 

And let it be said this wasn't just to kill a bunch of kids for lolz. This was to start a war. She wanted to start a war between the one place unaffected by the disaster and the future foundation (aka the good guys) Let me be very clear on what I'm saying here with shitty ms paint.

 

 

First yes that took like five minutes and yes this is why I don't edit much. Second YES I WENT THERE!

 

Here's the thing I do agree the johan is a great villain but his main issue really is the fact that for all the massive evil manipulative things he does he does a lot of jack in that series too. He's kind of like kefka. Awesome while he's there but not there enough. As for Monaca she has a few cutscenes in each chapter of the game. Dangan ronpa has it's issues but the villains are not it. Monaca and Junko are both Incredible villains and both as well as Monokuma deserve positions At the top. And with Dangan Ronpa 3 on the way, Junko being an AI inside two robotic bears and Monaca possibly becoming the new main villain. Why Do I say this?

 

That's ominous.

Top ten villains round 2 # 8 Medusa gorgon

I've mentioned at number ten a villain so goofy yet effective You have to enjoy him in Dr Nefarious. And a devious yet very deranged rollicker and lover of fun at any cost in Xenagos. Now however we get into a different kind of villain. The one you love to hate.

If you've seen my review of soul eater you may recall I mentioned Medusa Gorgon

and her offspring Crona. Now while medusa is in her present actions more or less a twisted scientist who experiments with people both mentally and physically. Now I love this kind of villain and fun fact The name of this blog site is named after the bleach chapter that introduced a similar character in Mayuri Kurotsuchi.

Love this villain but I've long since stopped paying attention to bleach so uh let's just get back to business.

Like I said Medusa is a scientist determined to spread madness and one of the ways she has is by using her own child as someone to spread it against their will. Lemme describe Crona gorgon to prove just how fucked up medusa is. Keep in mind medusa made crona this way.

Keep in mind this is an anime so the pink hair is normal.

First of all they are insanely skinny and seem to be malnourished. This is proven in the fact that during a flashback it's shown they were basically kept in a small black room around the age of five to kind of convince them to do what they're told and fed little. Some of which gets eaten by that thing on their head. that thing on their head is raganrok. Ragnarok is their blood. It is a weapon (weapons meaning a living being that can turn into a weapon in this context) who was melted down in weapon form and mixed with her blood. So it's not just her own offspring she's a dick to.

Medusa basically fused a bully into their blood that steals their food and hits them but here's the kicker. Who knows what other things they did because crona....well

I think I used this joke before but eh.

They have no gender. The english dub says it's a guy but they also said that they did this to avoid calling them an "It" which they said would be disrespectful. They with lack of a better term mutated their own child to cause them to become deranged and turned their blood into a weapon just so they could become a demon god (or kishin)

One of the other things with Medusa is their ability to manipulate people. I mean their child is one thing but they also disguised them self as a nurse in the weapon school to experiment with them as well. Because mutating their own child for personal gain just wasn't enough she wanted to experiment on EVERYONE ELSE'S TOO!!

And not just kids. She seduces another teacher named stein (and yes it's a Frankenstein joke) who was already a bit wobbly on the sanity part and tries to bring them to the dark side. tricking another witch into believing shibusen (said weapon school) killed their sister when they did. threatening to kill a somewhat innocent witch name Eruka who is scared out of her mind most of the time because of her. She forces crona against their will to implant a magic hex inside of stein girlfriend which warps him even more so. Dies.....then comes back by possessing a little girl. Betrayed her own sister leaving her for death ( to be fair on that one her sister arachne is kind of a bitch too but nowhere the uncrowned queen here.)

Here's the kicked though. She evantually takes arachne's body for her own once the little girl becomes more of a hassle to her ( she was okay in both versions but she did use her as a kind of hostage) she then fucks around for a while (fusing her child with a being of pure madness and helping to turn a priest to the dark side as well may I add ) And makes crona basically nuke a town in russia. afterwards she in a weird moment...

Welcomes them home in a loving manner and makes them their favorite food?

What happens here is up to debate but in the end this was the final straw for crona. I sincerely doubt that they just became good but crona's actions were to her delight anyway. Crona snapped and killed medusa with her last words being " I love you" Whether it was to cause such a whiplash they'd go nuts and kill her and emphasize their guilt to make it worse even after (kill me and taint yourself how very johan/joker of you) or not is again debatable but considering her it wouldn't surprise me at all.

The only real downside to medusa as a villain is that she never really gives a reason for why she wants to spread chaos other then she's so smart she's insane but honestly she's so determined in her mission to spread chaos that she'd do anything. romantic manipulation, Mutating children including her own child. manipulating innocents and semi innocents (seriously what is your deal eruka) and then the very johan-esque death just to make her child even more deranged.

Jesus christ what a bit...

O.O

She also makes this face....intimidation....forgot to mention that one.

ISWT Review: Soul eater

Oh yeah I review anime too don't I?

Not sure if I mentioned it But I'm a pretty big Otaku. Perhaps not as big as I used to though with things like Doctor who and Gaming taking over a very large chunk of my time. But I do still find time for anime every now and then and it's getting hard to find good anime these days. With so much being either insanely cute shojo or the often brainless Shonen like Naruto or the once pretty good bleach. But on the subject of shonen every now and then something pretty good pops up having a lot of action while still retaining dignity....well for the most part anyway. This I would say is one of them.

Soul eater is An action series for the most part but it does delve into some very odd areas for what it is. Namely involving two characters but I'll get into that when I do. The series takes place in a city called "Death City" Ruled by well death.

And yes that is what death looks like.

He now looks like the cross between an anime mascot, A skeleton, and a pair of foam fingers you'd fine at a baseball game because he wanted to open a school to train kids to fight off things like witches and Kishin or Demon gods and well his old form scared the hell out of kids so he changed into this one. The school named Shibusen or the DWMA depending on whichever version your watching ( I'll get into the translation issues later ) is home to our main characters Maka Albarn, and Soul Eater Evans ( Obviously not his real name but a rather silly decision nonetheless ) Training to be a death scythe be collecting 99 evil souls and a witch's soul.


The two face off against kishin, witches and the like by having soul turn into a scythe which maka then proceeds to beat the ever loving snot out of with. Yes the thing about soul eater is that it's based heavily on teamwork with one character being a weapon user or meister with the other having the power to turn into a weapon of any real variety. There is however another shtick to this show and after the first episode it presents itself. There are sort of three main characters or is it seven? Basically the first three episodes introduce three meisters and their weapons. The aforementioned maka and soul, Black star and tsubaki, and Death the kid and his weapons Liz and patty.

I'll get into characters first to get it out of the way. Maka albarn is a very nerdy girl but also very friendly while being able to throw the book quite literally at soul or black star if they're being an idiot. She's brave, intelligent, and basically the default main character with everything considered. If it sounds like she's nothing out of the ordinary then it sounds about right but....for some reason she's my favorite character. Maybe it's because she's a pretty decent female main, or because she's a relatively nerdy character but for some reason I just find her very likable. Maybe that's just me though. as for Soul eater Evans he's a punk kid. as you'll notice the meisters and their weapons are kind of polar opposites as is the case with soul. He's a punk with a good heart and probably my second least favorite of the main characters. Not bad just kind there.

Then we come to Black Star and Tsubaki. Black star SHOULD by all right be my least favorite character being a very obvious comparison to Naruto with his loudness and well let's be honest immense stupidity but for some reason he comes off as both a parody and the character done right. I know that sounds contradictory but he just seems more likable because it's a lot more blunt while still giving some decent development to him. He's not as likable as maka but better then the third meister. His weapon tsubaki is a polite and just all around nice person. Once or twice she got mad at black star but past that she's very easy going. I like her she's likable but when she's in combat she gets serious and it all works. Nothing special but very good nonetheless. Then we have Death the kid and the Thompson twins. Liz is a very cowardly but common sense and voice of reason character while her sister patty....is out of her goddamn mind.

I'm going to just let this picture speak leagues about Patricia Thompson.


And then there's death the kid or kid as I'll call him. He's the poster boy for Obsessive compulsive disorder (or OCD) and that's really about it. He's way too one note for me since he really doesn't have a personality past that that's worth mentioning. With the twins he's entertaining though not as much as patty.. for a meister He's fun enough to watch fight especially with his bizarre way of holding guns upside down but his personality just does nothing for me and the symmetry thing gets old. I will say the fact it kicks in during serious moments as well is nice for actually having continuity but it makes it get old even faster. He's meant to be the generic cool guy and that's the best way to put it. He's a bit better in the manga later in having more to do which I'll give credit for. Oh also he's death's son....Go figure.


I'd go more into the plot but really it's fairly simple but satisfying all things considered so I won't spoil anything. But really it comes down to the villains VS the heroes. I've gone over the main heroes and while there are some side good guys they're all generally good all in all so I'll skip them. The villains on the other hand are also kind of hard to pin down.


I'll start off with who I think is the main villain; Medusa gorgon. A witch and a very crafty and sneaky one at that. Medusa is very good at what she does. She's intimidating and pulls of some faces that are rather impressively creepy and I gotta say she comes off very demented rare times but most of the time is very calm and cunning. And then there is crona their....uh offspring. Crona is arguable in which side their on....in more then one sense. Crona starts off evil but becomes good and is a very tragic character once you get into their character....notice I'm not using gender specifics well that's because well....

That says is all right there. A great character nonetheless.


Then we have Arachne. She has an awesome intro and then proceeds to do nothing except be killed by the last main villain. She does way more in the manga and I'll keep it at that.

Then there is the main villain asura. He does even less then arachne and reminds me of itachi uchiha so this character can bite my ass! Seriously I do not like this guy but if I have to give him something like arachne he has one of the best intros in anime in history and like arachne does alot more in the manga. Still reminds me of itachi though.

Actually come to think of it the term "better in the manga" is a good way to describe this series as a whole. While the anime is excellent and the fight scenes are kick ass due to very good and fluid animation the manga has such better character development for both the villains but the side heroes like Kilik,ox and Kim. Which in the anime barely exist and have massive development and even with Kim have part of an arc dedicated to them basically. Compared to let's say Naruto which.....well has Tenten done anything yet?

The only thing with the manga is it can be rather crude. meaning there is some forms of nudity.....though not a terrible amount nor do I think what is in is usually used for fanservice. Though this will take me to my next point. The fan service. It's there though I will say past the first three episodes is few and far between. that being said if you see this character....

 And you don't like Fan service. Run...run fast.

But that being said it's nothing that ruins the anime by any means but it's something to be noted.

So I've gone over the characters,I've said the story is something I won't go over though for the record is pretty good all in all but again better in the manga, the animation is excellent so what's left? The music.


My god the music fits the style and tone of soul eater so very well and I gotta tell ya it's pretty damn good all in all. In terms of character themes a lot of rap and hip hop or alternative with hip hop added in. I'm not a terribly huge fan of the genre but it works quite well for what it's meant to do. also I am a sucker for how it's done. look up either of death the kid's themes on Youtube and you'll see what I mean It's very catchy and thematic and it works. Also I have to mention this; The artist who does the hip hop style tracks in the soundtrack is the same artist who did the rap from Persona 3 and anything else persona related. Lotus juice who may I add is pretty kick ass musically speaking.



In the same way that full metal alchemist split it's anime and manga soul eater has some massive changes between the two as well. For the most part the manga is much better if a bit more crude in the fan service nudity department but has much more for the side characters with Kilik, Kim, Ox, Arachne, and Justin to name a few of the people who actually have a purpose compared to their anime counterpart to the point of counting them in the anime more as just a special guest from the manga. Also it goes much further into the story then the anime with certain things and in total the story is a lot longer.

 So let's gather the score here. Great animation, Between very enjoyable and well made characters and a few annoying and just kind of meh characters. A story that does it's job well in the anime and better in the manga. And finally a pretty fitting and kick ass soundtrack at times. Soul eater is a pretty good anime series, a better manga and all in all a pretty good ride. Though to be fair when other shonen series include shitheads like Sasuke Uchiha it's not a hard war to win.