SHUFFLE! - 19 November 24

Filed under First Impressions, SHUFFLE! by Omni | 93 comments

Summary:
Rin has another dream of eight years ago, and leaves in the morning to go out with Asa. Kaede picks up the breakfast that he didn’t eat, and then we find out what happened eight years ago. Kaede lost her mother and Rin lost both of his parents in an accident. The shock of her mother’s death caused Kaede’s health deteriorated quickly. Not wanting her to die, Rin originally told Kaede that her mother’s death was his fault. As a result of that, Kaede made Rin’s life a living hell (slashing his curtains, dropping a box cutter on his face). But then one day a few years later, Kaede, while destroying one of Rin’s boats, found a postcard from her mother. On it, it said that the parents were coming back because of Kaede’s sickness. Kaede realizes that their deaths were her fault, not Rin’s, and runs out into traffic. She almost gets hit by a truck, but Rin pulls her out of the way to safety. Kaede can only cry and apologize over and over to Rin. And so, now in the present, Kaede does everything for Rin’s sake.
Rin is spending more and more time with Asa and less and less time at home. Asa faints during one of their dates, and he worries about her for the rest of the day, paying little attention to anything else. It seems that he only perks up with Asa is around or calls on the telephone. Primula has been noticing changes in both him and Kaede, and tries to tell Rin about them, but isn’t able to. After Rin calls one day to tell them that he’ll be eating with Asa and Ama, Primula is shocked to find that Kaede was stirring an empty pot the entire time. An afternoon sometime later, Primula is looking for Kaede and goes into Rin’s room. She finds the stickers of Asa and Rin from their date, but Kaede has markered Asa out of the picture. Downstairs, Rin brings Asa home, but Kaede wants her to leave, and slams Asa against the door. While Rin holds back a screaming Kaede, Asa has an attack, and crumples onto the floor.

I didn’t think it was possible for this series to get any better than it already was. Boy was I wrong. This episode reaches new levels of animation quality (for this series) and plot depth. After we learn about what happened eight years ago and why Kaede is devoted to Rin now, the rest of the episode weaves together the Kaede and Asa stories. Kaede slowly reverts back to the ways of her psychotic childhood and she was scary back then. I’m surprised Rin was able to put up with it for that long. But her situation in the present does end up being mostly Rin’s fault as he completely neglects her and only seems like he’s having fun when with Asa. I guess my only (minor) complaint about this episode is that despite what happened last episode, Asa and Rin seem to get along fine.
So in my opinion, the more crazy Kaede gets, the less likely Rin will end up with her. And since they’re portraying Asa as the victim here, I’m still pretty inclined to believe that he’ll end up with her (or no one at all). Granted, this isn’t quite the way I thought things were going to happen, but I’m very happy with the outcome. Hopefully they’ll be able to carry this momentum into the end of the series and deliver us one helluva ending.


 

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  1. flou at 2:53 pm on November 24th, 2005

    O_O Kaede went crazy! Yay conflict!

  2. Fodica at 2:53 pm on November 24th, 2005

    Miss Psycho freaks the hell outta me

  3. Ari at 3:23 pm on November 24th, 2005

    Yay they go into Kaede’s story finally. She has been so neglected in these past episodes. She’s psychotic but I still love her.

  4. Zimmer at 3:28 pm on November 24th, 2005

    Damn, this series gets really good after all the happy lovey dovey stuff, I need to watch more once more fansubs come out, :P

  5. Rasmiel at 3:48 pm on November 24th, 2005

    Okay, they’ve REALLY strayed away from the game storyline O_O

    I didn’t know Kaede could be THIS psychotic.

  6. endlessnow at 4:15 pm on November 24th, 2005

    I think the perfect ending now would be Rin ending up with Asa and checking Kaede into a mental institution.

  7. EliteF22 at 4:19 pm on November 24th, 2005

    Holy Geez!! How could Rin live with little Ms. Psycho there after SHE DROPPED A BOX CUTTER ON HIS FACE!!! Seems that there’s a possibility that Kaede’s not in love with him, but is devoted to him for being so nice to her. Looks like next few eps. will have her figuring out her own emotions and what they mean.

  8. Fodica at 4:23 pm on November 24th, 2005

    Btw, anyone getting any Da Capo -vibes? Humor in the beginning and all of the real drama near the end, with the nice exception that the sis-con doesn’t always win ^^;;

    Rin x Asa for the win ^_^

  9. phil at 5:09 pm on November 24th, 2005

    Go!!! Kaede :D I love Kaede going a little Crazy, Asa got what has been coming all along to her :D

    Anyway, I did feel a little Sorry for Asa, But i’M excited!!! to Care, I want more Crazy!! Kaede :D :D

    Rin x Asa is really starting to annoy me, good thing its not going to happem.

  10. nyte at 5:16 pm on November 24th, 2005

    Oh wow, this is coming together nicely. I still feel bad for Kaede despite her being little Ms. Psycho. Rin has been neglecting her for a long time now.

  11. Rasmiel at 5:19 pm on November 24th, 2005

    “Seems that there’s a possibility that Kaede’s not in love with him, but is devoted to him for being so nice to her.”

    Nah, Kaede definately loves Rin. It’s just that Kaede herself doesn’t want Rin to love her back because of a certain reason which I won’t spoil (Not that hard to figure it out tho).

  12. Jade Maehara at 5:22 pm on November 24th, 2005

    Anyone know if Shuffle! is going to be licensed anytime soon? I do much prefer the japanese voices in Anime to the american ones, but it’s always interesting to see which voice actors they cast in the american versions.

    This episode is FANTASTIC! It really introduces Kaede’s story with a bang, and it’s still open whether Rin is going to end up with Kaede, Asa, or none of the girls. Hopefully we haven’t seen the last of Kaede’s mental side!

  13. Dragoon at 5:50 pm on November 24th, 2005

    awesome Keade went Psycho hope she kills everyone but Rin and Sia then they can be together woot!

  14. bj0rN`- at 5:52 pm on November 24th, 2005

    I’m starting to like Asa even more! LoL! Just wonder why is Kaede like that. T_T
    Well~ As what I think, Rin ain’t ending up with anyone in the end.

  15. DaveJS at 6:00 pm on November 24th, 2005

    I knew Keade went a little Psycho, but I didn’t know she was like that. All in all, I’d say this is a plus toward Asa :)

    As for the person who asked is Shuffle is going to be licensed soon. The answer is most likely no. Since it’s a regular length series, 24 or 26 episodes, it won’t be licensed until after its over with and then some.

  16. XellOS^_- at 6:08 pm on November 24th, 2005

    length of a series doesn’t affect if a series is going to be license or not. neither is if it was still broadcasting or not. Mabhorah anyone?

    That said Shuffle will most likely NOT be license. It is a romatic drama, those type don’t usually get license for the NA market. It is the sic fi, sword and sorcery and comendy type gets license.

    I had Kaede peg as pyscho girl after ep4 But even i didn’t think she was go pycho that much.

  17. Jade Maehara at 6:13 pm on November 24th, 2005

    It’s a shame they don’t license romantic drama’s and similar types of anime. People who can’t understand Japanese or can’t be bothered to download fan-subs won;t ever be able to watch some of the best animes out there (like KGNE and Da Capo). It seems any H-game that get’s turned into an anime just get’s left out.

  18. Ale at 6:20 pm on November 24th, 2005

    Nah, Kaede definately loves Rin. It’s just that Kaede herself doesn’t want Rin to love her back because of a certain reason which I won’t spoil (Not that hard to figure it out tho).

    Omni implemented spoiler tags anyway. Like this:

    Show Spoiler ▼

    You use spoiler> and spoiler/>, adding in front the minor sign like in any forums (I don’t think it’ll come out here:

  19. Anza at 6:33 pm on November 24th, 2005

    Crap now I have to watch everything from ep 11 when I stopped watching when it got boring ;_; Well Conflict YAY XD Kaede ebil… never saw that one coming, Sia or even Asa? Hell yes. Kaede? NO WAY!!

  20. Dan at 6:35 pm on November 24th, 2005

    And I thought this was going to be another “tenchi-syndrome” type show, but oh man, I never expected something like this!

    This is sort of like the game “School Days” when I think all the endings are good where the main protaganist ends up with a girl, it is, in fact quite the opposite…and bloody…

    Good job by the creators of the show. Now I can see this is an original work based from a Bishoujo game. Great!

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