I’d read good things about KK #13. Read that it was the best episode since the first episode. Even read some comments that it felt like a whole new show. So I watched it, somewhat skeptical, but with a renewed hope in mind. Conclusion? No, it still sucks. Nothing’s changed. The show still looks cheaply animated, we didn’t lose the dumb synchro scenes, the Konbini-voyeur quickly went from ambiguously evil to clearly evil, and the story still sucks.

Who needs real backgrounds when you get just throw a splotch of color onto the screen instead?

I always feel exasperated after watching an episode of Kurokami, because it always feels like they leave good opportunities on the table and instead proceed in the way of teh suck.

This was the first solid episode of Kurokami in a very long time. Coincidentally, there was no action here, and the writers simply used the time to flesh out the relationship between Keita and the konbini voyeur. You’d think it’d be a recipe for boredom, but the story was surprisingly engaging, not overly outlandish, and we at least got an episode off from having to watch the stupid transformation sequences, and Kuro’s terrible fighting “skills.”

Keita and the Konbini voyeur used to be best friends back in the day. “Best” is a relative term, because I didn’t get the impression that they were that close. But Kobini voyeur was apparently a real misanthropic, arrogant jackass, the type you’d expect to go on a school shooting frenzy, and Keita was his only friend. So I guess by that definition, they were “best” friends.

I’ve been admittedly lax in my posting about Kurokami. I figure there’s only so much interest in me writing about how crappy the show is week to week. Fortunately, episode 11 was actually a pretty good episode, so my post might be better than my recent Kurokami posts have been. Unfortunately, this post is about episode 10, which was not a good episode.

While the episode focused mostly on Kuro, Hiyou, Keita and his doppelganger mom, off in the distance, it seems Reishin’s got what he wants. Kokona or Makana or whatever the squirt’s name is the Holy Key, so there’ll be some hell to pay.

Because they’re either tipping off the “final battle” way too early, or this show isn’t really 24 episodes (hooray!). If that were really the case, it would be the best thing to happen to the show since the promising first episode.