Watching Zero no Tsukaima with the brain turned off!

“Hey we’ve got Cy Young winners over here!”

What is it about Saito that women find irresistible? Is it because he is foreign? I remember when I was an undergraduate taking a course on cognitive development, girls always flocked to this exchange student for some reason. I recall being in a review session and this one dude was dumb as dumb can be, but people kept asking him questions. I do recall seeing him buying coffee at the student center, but don’t recall seeing him in any other classes after that… Or maybe it’s the big sword. Perhaps women in Halkeginia hold true to the “bigger is better” philosophy. “Chicks dig the long ball,” and Saito has performance-enhanced power and a talking Wonder Boy, so he must be popular at parties… at least in Halkeginia.

T_T

Damnit Louise… I, and pretty much anyone who wields a external plumbing, felt that one. _|-|O… It’s happened often, but that one looks to linger.

Great with a scoop of macaroni salad and a can of Passion Orange Drink.

Irukukwu. B^D~ I’ve given up trying to find any remaining redeeming feature in Zero no Tsukaima. Might as well watch it for all the wrong right acceptable fapfapfap remaining reasons–boobies. If there is one thing good that Princess no Rondo has done, it’s been the newer characters character designs. Massive mammaries aside, both Tiffania and Irukukwu look fabulous compared to the likes of Louise, Kirche, and Montmorency.

Irukukwu sounds more like a Hawai’ian dish involving tuna more than the name of a top-notch bishoujo. It would be on the menu at every corner BBQ shop and from every sidewalk vendor in O’ahu right next to the Loco Moco and their specialty Spam dish.

Point-and-click Louise, point-and-click…

Tiffania. B^D~ Now there’s a classic look: “A finger has found my breast!” I am grateful that Tiffania no longer sports that gaudy elf getup of hers. The whole leafy look wasn’t doing anything for me–sort of like seeing suffocatingly tight jeans on some emo kid. Not to mention the whole woodland motif was exhausted earlier this decade. It’s so-o 2003. Her Biggie fries and Biggie drink chest is still distracting and overdone, but I’ve decided to savor the rest of her character design and Noto Mamiko (just think Haruka, just think Haruka).

Alas, if I may, let me turn on that ol’ cerebral cortex for a moment. Considering how an important Tabitha has become, J.C. Staff has done a pretty lousy job explaining her character. I see what they’re doing–revealing things little by little, adding suspense and mystery–but it isn’t doing much for me. They’ve said so little about her past and have revealed so little about people in her past, yet they’re bringing all these things up now as if we should get it completely. Thank goodness for Wiki. Thank J.C. Staff for the confused headache.

If Maricorn’s always prepared, you’d think he would have sporks instead.

The boys must have read The Count of Monte Cristo in school or the Mythbuster’s episode about Alcatraz. Clearly the best way out of prison is via spoons, because apparently there was no way Henrietta would eventually give in, Colbert-sensei would play the airship card, or Louise blows something up even without her wand. (Side note: I lived in San Francisco for 2 years, and in Northern California most of my lfie, yet I’ve never taken the Alcatraz tour…)

Despite being in a tower, they are digging… Taking that plot hiccup, why didn’t Guiche just call his tsukaima? It’s a mole, right?

Siesta: Like a moth to a flame.

And of course Siesta just had to join in on the group sex gathering and impending rescue mission. She flocks to a crowd like savanna dwellers flock to the water hole.

What is it about Louise that people seem to like? Is it the tsundere aspect? Because that’s about all that I find interesting about her. I haven’t liked Louise that much since season 1 and never jumped onto that bandwagon.

Zero no Tsukaima power ranking:
Henrietta
Irukukwu (recency effect 4tw!)
Tiffania
Jessica
Tabitha
Siesta
Fouquet (teacher form)
Louise
Agnes
Sheffield
Montmorency
Beatrice
Eleanor
Kirche
Cattleya

Despite that poor showing in my rankings, I do give Louise major fist pumps this episode for sacking up and acting on her beliefs for a change. I grew sick of all her talk about noble’s ways of life last season. It was all blah blah blah Hime-sama let me spit-shine your shoes blah blah blah coming from her mouth. My affinity towards Henrietta stands, but it was definitely a nice change of pace seeing Louise stand up to her. Next time: pillow fight. Wet t-shirt contest is out because Henrietta has Louise beat before the Slip ‘N Slide is taken out. Now if it were a contest between Oujou-sama, Tiffania, Irukukwu, and a few others… that’s award-winning television right there. Louise can be a judge.

So are we doing the Save Tabitha dance for the next couple episodes and then “concluding” this season with the remaining few? Sounds like a plan. I am a bit curious what those last few will be about though. Sheffield, Void Magic, Door of the Devil, more Gallian mischief, more elves. See you in Zero no Tsukaima IV next July. At this point, graduations, baseball, tank tops, barbecue, and Zero Louise are the things that immediately pop into my head when I think of summer.

An order of Irukukwu for the road.

And now I feel like getting Hawai’ian BBQ for dinner.