Sunday 16 November 2008

Telepathy Shoujo Ran - Episode 18

Someone was clearly listening to my thoughts that Telepathy Shoujo Ran was covering too much tired old ground, for episode eighteen has brought us... Divine treasure snakes!

After Ran was overcome by voices in her head at the end of the last episode, this time around those voices repeatedly make her run off places, on one of these occasions while also wrapping some kind of glowing tea towel around her head. In the meantime, the complaining idol is... well, complaining some more, Rin gets hit on the head with a coconut, the suspicious grandson of the man who discovered the island is... well, acting suspiciously, and the kind old farmer is actually full of hatred.


It's some documents that Akaza (said suspicious guy) is carrying that kicks off this whole divine serpent idea, as he apparently holds an unpublished chapter of his grandfather's book that explains what they're all about, and how (in typical supernatural style) they appear every so many years to grant a wish, which is why both he and the idol seem to be there, to wish for a big bucket of money and eternal youth respectively - Fair play to them really.

Of course, justice and morals win the day, and everyone lives happily ever after in the end... Apart from the grandson and idol I suppose, who really didn't get anything out of the trip for their efforts. So concludes another decidedly mediocre Telepathy Shoujo Ran story arc that I really can't find a lot else to write about, it all just sort of washed over me like a migration of grass snakes on some mysterious island.

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