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Tokyo Ghoul started to feel more like a horror anime than an action anime for me. The anime tried to build tension through new characters who acted as friend then suddenly trap the main character. And this episode was the exact example for a betrayal of a friendly person. So following the episode last week it started when a mysterious guest entered the cafe, the man wore a stylish suits with a purple colored hair. Just when he arrived, Toka immediately start scowling and asked him to leave. With a sinister smile he tried to talk to Kaneki and later on left the caffe. Toka later warned Kaneki that the man was a parasite of ward 20 and he should be wary with him.

The episode then pictured Toka having lunch with her human friend and how she ended up vomiting her friends food. Of course we already knew that every ghoul; including Toka faked their likes for human food. The scene switched to Kaneki who was sitting in the park while reading book. The purple haired guy came and introduced himself as Tsukiyama Shu. He later on try to convince Kaneki that people kept misunderstood about him and he had no bad intention to Kaneki. He told Kaneki that he also read the same book from Kaneki's favorite author thus inviting him to come to his mansion.

Later on Tomo, the person who Kaneki helped to collect the suicide victims' bodies came to the bar. He basically taught Kaneki some self defense and then later on took Kaneki to Helter Skelter Bar. In the bar, the owner of the bar, Itori, told Kaneki about the chance of a half born ghoul lived in the world. She explained that half blood ghoul possess higher power than the full blood one. It means Kaneki and the little girl from the previous episode had higher potential to become stronger ghouls. Back to the bar, Itori told Kaneki about Rize incident. It looks like someone tried to trap Rize and killed her as an eyewitness saw someone standing above the building which construction fell to Rize during the first episode.

The thing that I dislike about a character like Kaneki was his gullibility toward a person who tried to befriend him. I mean Toka already warned him to stay away from Shu. Yet, just with a little convincing, he still went to his place although he had another reason to see Shu since he want to know Shu relation with the Ghoul inside his mind; Rize. It was a bad decision to come to though and he was never knew that the parasite already planned a scary agenda for him.

Now the main event start, when Kaneki woke up, he found himself in the middle of a Colosseum like arena. He was the main attraction and the one who set him up was none other than Shu himself. A giant and fat Ghoul entered the arena with a giant cleaver like saw in hand. Of course his main interest was to slaughter Kaneki and there were many spectators in the arena who wanted to taste Kaneki's blood. It kind of scary development when Kaneki's realize that he could not use his feet after getting knocked down due to the coffee paralyzes effect that he drank earlier. When Kaneki was in a grave danger his one eyed ghoul unleashed his hidden power and he ended up knocking up the giant executioner. The crazy part was how Shu killed the big executioner after knowing that Kaneki was a half blood Ghoul. He became completely obsessed with Kaneki and wanted to devour him alone.

The episode had a concrete storyline. It started slow with new characters, Shu and Itori, introduced to the audience as they interacted with the main character. Then after sudden event, the episode exploded with a frightening experience of the Kaneki who was about to get slaughtered. It ended just abruptly with the host of the tournament killed the scrapper with the most scariest intention ever. A decent episode yet I want to know what kind of experiences we will see in the next episode.

The match between Dateko and Karasuno started in this episode. I have no doubt that the episode will bring the best match to the table and Haikyuu!! surely gave us the good match. Alright I'll try to give my honest opinion about the episode. The first part is very slow; before the start of the opening theme, they flashback to the last part of late episode when Nishinoya performed his rolling thunder. For some viewer, it was good to memorize last episode closing. Yet for me I thought they could skip the introduction to make the battle with Dateko have more additional minutes.

Then comes the main part of the episode. The first important event that I could note was how fast the reaction of Dateko central blocker to their opponent's movement. When Hinata made the first score, Dateko main's blocker, the giant without eye brow; Takanobu Aone, automatically jump to whatever part of the area that the setter sent the ball to. Hinata did scored yet he still managed to tip the ball. It proves how good the blocker reaction to the ball movement. Knowing Dateko reputation as an iron wall, it did not surprise me that they had a blocker with lighting fast reaction.

With the match getting more heated, Dateko managed to block Karasuno spikes from Nishina to Tanaka. Eventually, when Hinata spiked, the Aone used his fast hand reflex to thwart his smash. If we look at the turn of event, we might think that Karasuno would lose to Dateko yet, they had not shown their trump card for the Dateko players. Karasuno still own the duo combination (Hinata and Kageyama) or the what the Aoba Josai teams called as a “freak quick”. Consistently, Karasuno trapped Dateko by hiding the quick attack and let them thought that they used normal spikes to attack.

The middle part of the anime was very interesting. When Kageyama told Hinata the time for showing their hidden move, the match became very interesting. This was the first time Dateko experienced the duo “freak spike” and their reactions' were priceless. Hinata's spike was very fast and unpredictable that their iron walls did not even jumped or moved when he scored. It was truly a shock for the Dateko players and the spiked itself made them considered Hinata as the main treat.

Suddenly, the entire players of Dateko targeted Hinata as the threat and his every movement was marked. The funny thing was he played as the decoy so with them targeting him, the other Karasuno's players have a freedom of movement to score in the area that not guarded by Dateko's players. The last part was impressive as Karasuno mimicked Kenma's high school fake spike with Hinata being the decoy smasher. When Asahina jumped and saw the vision of the blockers gone from his sight and later on spiked the ball in an empty space, I felt very impressed with the teams decision to give him the chance.

The match was impressive and while there's not many comedy in this episode, I think it was still a very decent and solid episode. The episode might not gave any background information for the characters but it still gave us how the team matured. There is even a particular scene that flashback to the first episode, in which Kageyama gave his reckless toss to his ex-team. In addition, Hinata finally accepted his position as a decoy and no longer felt disappointed with his roles. A good B+ episode from me.

Wow the episode 16 was very powerful. It was filled with so many emotions and I do know that I could feel the sadness and the loss of the Haikyuu!! character. I know Tokonomi might not stand a chance againts the new Karasuno team. Yet, the motivation from the players was admirable and yes that including the girls team of Karasuno High Volleyball clubs. I felt the producer really wanted to tell me that even with the less important screen times for the woman team, they would not let the team's match ended without a good closure.

First of all, I really like this episode because it gave us the detailed background story of Sawamura and his friend Ikejiri. It told us about their match during their junior high when their volleyball team advanced to the second round. They gave us a moral story that a winning team was not created in one night. Even with a good motivation, they still could not win the championship because of the lack of skills and training. Somehow, it taught us that only having a winning attitude was not enough. We have to endure the bitter reality of losing and sometimes, it was very sad to be the part of the losing team. But the important thing was just like Ikejiri's word “if we never believe we can win, we will never win”. Despite the fact that they still lose the match, they kept fighting and did not lose hope even in the final match points. The main point is no matter how dire the situation, never give up. Never lose hope for when you started to doubt over yourself, it's all over. "You are the person who responsible with the outcome of your life so don't hesitate". I think that what the producer wanted to tell me.

Second, the girl team of Karasuno High finally got their one and only match. Well, I knew they would not get the attention for the series but it seems that their motivation for winning was real. However, their journey would not continue. It was obvious that today episode wanted to tell the audience the emotion of losing a match. The part when they showed the images of crying players really got into me T-T. I have experienced the feeling of losing before so pay no mind for my sentimentality ^-^. Even Hinata knew the feeling of the losing team due the fact that he also lose completely during the match between his Junior high team against Kageyama's ex-team.

So, Hinata already earned the reputation of an amazing player that most of the other team would give special attention to him. This condition actually benefited the Karasuno team with the fact that he actually act as the team decoy, the posibility that the other team would surely targeted him. It made the other players of Karasuno had higher chance to move around and score.

Ok so next episode we will have the match of Karasuno against Dateko. The match which Karasuno lose three months ago. The match where Asahina lost his spirits and love for volleyball. I think the next match will be more interesting to watch. If I have to say about this episode, the comedy was not too exaggerated but the drama and the story was a good tearjerker. I would say the episode as a solid one and a have high expectation for the next one.

Tokyo Esp started the episode with the continuation of last week battle as the real heroine, Rinka Uroboshi, psy kicked one one of the terrorist espers. The battle aftermath was a really good one with her dealing one after another espers using her acrobatic movement, she looked extremely experienced dealing with esper but the origin of her Physic ability and her main motivations to help other were actually the main points of this episode.

The story flashback to the day Rinka fell from her apartment room to the room bellow, completely naked nonetheless. This was the first event when Rinka experienced her esp condition as her hair turned completely white and sometimes her feet kept going through the floor. Suddenly a young man entered her room and introduced himself as Azuma Kyotaro. He told her about the events that made her magical powers born. He was also the person who told Rinka how she should consider the power as a gift not as a curse and how she could use the power for the benefit of humanity.

It revealed that every Esper in Tokyo Esp experience the same event viewing a group of shining fishes swimming in the air and  after the fish get through the person body, their supernatural powers born. While the origin of the flying fish remained a mystery, at least we knew the source of the espers' magic. In addition, we still did not know about why it could fly in the sky or how could it effect the person's magical power who see them.

In another case, her father also gained psy-power though for him, his magic only cause more trouble than convenience. Seriously, he turned into a human magnet for god sake. Whenever he moved, every matters made from steel chase him. And the funny thing is it was not his body that the magnetic field but his hairs so hard steel matters like steel ironing or television kept hitting his head. Not to mention that Rinka had to psy kick him in the head in order to pass him out when his power went out of control. It had some of it funny moments too  like when she Rinka had to tied her father to the bed before going to work because she afraid if he went outside, he would cause similar problem with the first time his magic unleashed.

The last part of the second episode was more about the thief that broke the museum in the night and a man wearing a crow mask was the culprit. It turned out that Kazuma was the man behind the mask. It was very funny watching Rinka totally kicked him because she was still believing that he was innocent. Later on, Kazuma revealed the real culprit and the event continued with the fight between Rinka against the thief, black fist. She was the person with the glowing giant fist from the last episode so she would certainly become her friend later on. Since this was the first time Rinka used her power to fight, the black fist easily cornered her but with the help of Azuma, she could finally psy-kick her and turn the black fist thief to the police.

Well comparing to the last episode that full with actions, maybe I felt rather difficult to find which event truly stunned my watching experience. Yet, don't get discouraged as this episode was still very interesting to see as it gave us lot of information regarding the characters' background story. We finally got the character introduction of Rinka and Kazuma, it told us that the flying glowing fishes that appeared in the last episode was the reason of the spiritual powers. In regard to last episode, this also tell us the beginning of the entire Tokyo Esp saga like how Rinka first got her psychic power, what motivated her to help others using his abilities, and how she encountered her ex-rival turn friend the black fist. Tokyo Esp still manage to give many interesting scene for the second episode and I am actually wanted to see how the series concluded.

The third episode of Tokyo Ghoul was like a breather episode after two intense episodes. If you expected plenty of action, you might get disappointed with the episode. However, the episode will get the viewer to understand about the ghouls, who assimilate in the human society as well as their method to hide their presence in the real world. Too bad though the word “anteiku” was still not properly explained in this episode. I don't know whether it was the Ghouls' world or Ghouls' organization. The word was still a bit vague to decipher right now

The first thing we watch was a conversation between the doctor and his patient. When the patient went out, out of the sudden someone threw him back to the doctor office. A man dressed in white suite entered the room then threatened the doctor while his wife and daughter cowering in fear in the hidden spot behind the doctor. Later on, the episode revealed that the daughter, Hinami, was a half born ghouls just like Kaneki, which means that one of her parent was a ghoul. 

The following scene took place in the coffee shop where Toka worked. Hyde was recovered from his injury and after thanking Toka and explained about what happened, he left the place. Toka gave a warning to Kaneki that should hide discovered their secret as Ghoul, she would not hesitate to kill him on spot. In the last episode, we could see him overhearing Kaneki conversation with the old manager and it seems that he already realized about Kaneki's condition. Well, the good thing was he knew about Kaneki's dilemma and he was not afraid to him though he had to act as if nothing truly happened after last episode incident

Another important event that I want to tell you is that there was an organization called GCC in Tokyo. The people worked there were specialized in exterminating Ghouls and they more or less capable of dealing with them even if the later had better physical power. There were two important GCC agents introduced in this episode. One was a stout and fine looking detective Amon Kotaro, whose jobs merely focused in investigating the clue regarding the Binge eater (Rize); the other was Mado, a scary old man who acted as the ghoul exterminator. Their combined power were real nightmare for ghouls that even the old manager, Mr Yoshimura asked Toka to accompany Kaneki getting his mask done as quickly as possible.

The real fact was although some ghouls, for example Hinami (the daughter), did not hunt and attack human, they still need to eat human flesh. The only solution for them to get raw human meat without attacking humans was through collecting a suicide victims' body. It was truly surprised when knowing that little Hinami ate human fleshes like eating a cake. It was explained that she was a half blood ghoul so her existence was at least similar to Kaneki; yet it was obvious that a ghoul could only ate human flesh to live on so, both Toka and Mr Yoshimura more or less also ate suicide victims' bodies to stay alive.

I know the episode gave us so many jargons and unfamiliar words that could confuse us. However, I still consider the episode as a decent episode as it gave further detail of the ghoul society. Kaneki was more or less started to accept his newfound condition and with the way the episode started to explain some of the term used in this episode, sooner or later we might know about the origin of the ghouls. I hope the next episode bring more entertainment and excitement than this one.

Here are some jargons appeared in this episode that I could explain to you from watching

Anteiku : the words is still too vague but from the explanation. From mr Yoshimura's explanation, Anteiku provided food for Ghoul who did not hunt for people. In the other hand, Mr Uta, the mask artist said a place called anteiku

Box carrier: Toka refer the box to Mado's case of weapon. So it is likely she refer to Mado

Doves: Doves was the term used by ghoul to call the GCC inspectors such as Amon and Mado

Ward 20: the district where the event of the anime took place or the area of Kaneki and his friend lives.

Mask : The ghoul who lived in the human society need the mask to stay hidden from GCC inspectors. The mask appearance was like a normal mask although how the ghoul wore them was still unexplained as most ghouls in this series did not seems to wear one