Did I ever do a review of the first episode or did I think that the next episode would come out soon and there wouldn't be any need to do an episode by episode review of Denpa teki na Kanojo. Guess I'm going to have to go back and look and see but I don't think I did. So I'll just move onto the review of the second episode of the three episode OVA and probably go back to the first episode later.
It has almost been a year since the first episode came out so even if you have seen the first one you might want to go back and watch it again because you might end up with some questions about this second episode because I know I did. Denpa teki na Kanojo is a lot like Kara no Kyoukai in that it's a very graphic psychological horror series with a twist. In this case Mr. Blond as I like to call him finds himself involved in pretty grisly misadventures because of his classmates who seem to like a bit of blood and guts. To save his ass he gets help from a couple girls but this definitely isn't any harem show that's for sure. Ame is his constant sidekick as she see herself as Mr. Blond's protector and partner from a past life. In this episode called the Happiness Game we get to see a bit more of her since most of the time her face is covered by her massive bangs. This time around though Mr. Blond meets up with her at her new job as a moe maido with her hair pulled back and she's just a bit embarrassed by it.
The reason for the title Happiness Game is because in this episode girls are trying to get happiness points by stealing happiness points from others by pulling pranks and they are escalating in violence. What starts out as tacks in shows moves to more violent attacks like dead animals and bombs in mailboxes. Mr. Blond gets involved in this game simply because he's an unwitting target of the game and gets accused of molesting some girls on a train (he's saved by Ame's sister when she tells those involved that Mr. Blond wouldn't need to do that since she is his girlfriend and satisfies all his needs) because he's saved he ends up getting targeted even more since he hasn't lost his happiness points thanks to being saved. This leads Ame to believe that something more sinister is happening and takes off to investigate.
The pranks are traced back to the Vice President of the Student Council who turns out to be the leader of the game and is caught red handed locking other students in an old school club house. Her plan is to kill the students locked inside with a couple fire bombs so that she can claim some mega happiness points. She believes she isn't a murderer in the least and is just getting back her happiness points that were stolen from her and her family. Thankfully she isn't a murderer because Mr. Blond and gang save the classmates from the burning building and with that taken care of they later go to confront the VP only to find the President waiting for them as well.
It's at this point that we find out what is really going on and just how freaking crazy the VP really is. As it turns out the VP is the younger sister of a boy that killed himself because the President dumped him for a better boy. When the boy killed himself her family and life fell apart and she blames the President for this and has invited the President there to take her final revenge. Because she knows that no one can prove that she did or had anything to do with the recent increase in violence at the school she tells everyone why she is taking her revenge. At this point Ame does her thing and sets the VP straight in the matter of Happiness Points and proves that it wasn't the President's fault that they lost the happiness points but in fact the VP's brother who stole the happiness points and with that she was defeated. But it's not over oh no. After a little chat Mr Blond and Ame go their own ways for a bit and Mr. Blond just chilling out at a bus stop is confronted by the President who turns out to believe in the same idea as the VP and reveals that she now must get her own points back and shoves Mr. Blond into oncoming traffic.
Ame on her way to work senses something is wrong and bolts to find Mr. Blond, finding him laying on the ground thinking the worse has happened she rushes to his side. And you know what I'm just going to leave it at that and tell you to go find it and watch it as I highly recommend this series if you're into the horror genre you'll definitely like Denpa teki na Kanojo.
I covered the main plot but there is another little bit that involves Ame's sister after she saves Mr. Blond. She's dumped by the boy she likes because of her actions to save Mr. Blond and because she's feeling really down about things she suggests that she and Mr. Blond have sex but Mr. Blond tells her no and that she doesn't need to do that in order to feel better and he even goes and confronts the boy and lets the boy beat him up so that things with the boy and Ame's sister are resolved. It's a weird little subplot but does go to show how much of stand up guy Mr. Blond really is.
Damn good series and it's going to suck major ass having to wait probably a good deal of a year for the final episode like we did for this episode. Hopefully we wont but I'm not banking on it. Another hope of mine is that it'll get picked up for an American release but again I'm not banking on that happening either since it's not childish moe blog, mecha or a Shonen Jump title.
Check out the trailer here:
