Stupid's anime blog: Date-a-live (& rants)

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The crappy love comedy between Yatogami Tohka and Tobichii Origami is starting to get seriously annoying.

Date-a-live is a seriously whacky show with a somewhat messed up plot. It somewhat tries to emulate a dating sim game, similar to "The World God Only Knows". (Although it's done pretty stupidly).

A dedicated team of (Otakus, other people with failed relationships, etc) help decide the "best" course of action for Shido to take in his Dates.

Still, the anime is rather attractive, with the cute character designs, and personalities that stand out, to boot.

(Images taken from InternationalSaimoeLeague.com contestants roster)

While the story itself isn't particularly well done, Date-a-live succeeds pretty well based on its Harem appeal, and light hearted comedy. At least for the most part.

Starting on season 2, after finishing 13 episodes, the same old plot device hits me again, as Tohka horribly misunderstands protagonist Itsuka Shido. From what this time? Some silly soapy romance drama she watched on television.

Now i know that Tohka has been set up as an insecure damsel, who's forever in distress, new to the ways of the human world. But still, it's really high time someone smacks her on the head, and tells her to learn to control her emotions. Every few scenes, Tohka bursts out crying, because she spilled something, or destroyed something, and is worried that playboy protag Shido will hate her. Now, if this happened a few times, I guess that would be fine. However, this lame plot device has been repeated at least 20 times over 10 episodes. It is really getting dull.

So as always, in this kind of harem genre, there always has to be some sort of misunderstanding (Yeah I get that, I hated it at first, but have gotten used to it. And it certainly is one of the easiest ways to make things happen for these kind of shows).

Scene from drama

What Tohka sees

In the drama, the man is cheating on the wife, and has packed his luggage, ready to go on a "trip". Tohka then sees Shido leaving with a packed luggage, and starts suspecting that he is leaving her.

She chases after him, and ooh guess what, meets him with Origami.

Well, what really happened was this...

Shido just wanted to send it for repairs.

Okay, enough about Tohka. Even worse than Tohka, Origami is an even crazier psychotic screw-up. She goes totally own tempo, disregarding organisational rules. Not only is she anti-social, but stuck in her own world.

As a member of the peace-keeping force, protocol required her to wait for orders before opening fire against the spirits. In her single minded drive for revenge for her parents, she disregarded all rules, stole a top-secret military weapon, and operated it in the amusement park, without evacuating any civilians. Against a spirit who did not intend harm in the first place.

On to the shitty relationship between her and Shido. In the first place, Shido doesn't even like her, only seeing her as a friend. And really, she's a burden. (She killed Shido in the third episode too)

I guess there are two types of "girlfriends" I really dislike. First is the absolute useless type, like I mentioned in the previous post. Next is the really sticky type. Most of them are Yanderes, which is probably why I dislike Yanderes.

Anyway, in episode 13 of season 1, Shido got forced onto a date with Origami. Well, his plan was to do horrible things, so that she would hate him and break up with him (Everyone knows that in harem genre animes, those things don't work).