Chaos;HEAd Episode 2 Overview
Author: nova
«17:55:32» {!aurabolt} Go back to watching Nova animu.
«17:56:04» {!NovaJinx} what’s nova animu?
«17:56:14» {!aurabolt} Chaos;Head. That show is about you.
I took a look at the huge wall of text that I dared to call “Episode 1 Overview” and hoped that I wouldn’t end up writing such a massive thing ever again. Well, Episode 2 of Chaos;HEAd sure proved that at least this time over there really isn’t going to be a need to do that.
For starters, I have to say that the second episode of the series was rather weak. Of course it’s too early to start jumping to conclusions that the rest of the show will be shit; one should always be a bit sceptical about the first episode(s). That being said, I could not help feeling a bit disappointed. Character animation quality was the most obvious difference, but that aside the atmosphere and intensity of the opening episode was nowhere to be found this time over.
After a short recap from the first episode, the second installment begins right from where its predecessor ended. Meeting the bloodthirsty, batshit insane pink-haired girl at school, Takumi is terrified for his life (sure can’t blame the man though, I mean seriously). If his world wasn’t shaken enough already, the girl (named Rimi), appears to be his close friend and a classmate – except that Takumi doesn’t remember ever seeing her before until the murder scene. Just what the hell is going on?
Back at Takumi’s personal batcontainer (looks like the crazy girl let him off the hook for today) Seira-tan does her very best to convince dear Takki that the Devil Woman is just a delusion, and that 3D-world is just an irrelevant thing anyway. Hang in there delu-uh…girl! However, just as soon as Takumi manages to forget about the nasty shit, the Devil Woman appears, first as an illusion and then (hands up who didn’t see this coming) the real deal. But no worries, because my man Takumi here gathers enough spine to drive the evil out. Oh man, in his shoes I’d be going nuts or at least packing my stuff and getting the hell out of town.
Meanwhile at the local police headquarters investigators working on the murder cases in Shibuya got lucky enough to get a hold of surveillance camera footage featuring Takumi running away with a tool of murder in hand. What this basically means that our good ol’ nerd is going to go BRB FBI rather soon. Poor dude, the Feds were pretty much the only thing that was still missing from Nishijou Takumi’s A Series of Unfortunate Events – already featuring one batshit crazy otaku girl and a bloodthirsty murderer pretending to be his old buddy.
Unaware of the hounds on his tail, Takumi spends his day hanging around with the insane otaku girl Yua, helping her stock up on a bunch of anime goods. As expected, Nanami runs into the two on the way, but like any sensible nerd’s sister, doesn’t take the fact that her hikki onii is walking around with a girl without a grain of salt. Of course, before Yua and Takumi part ways, they exchange e-mail addresses, although Takumi is at least a bit reluctant about it – must be his gut feeling finally getting a chance to warn him about something not being right. Back at the base Takumi gets a mail from Yua but with Seira-tan’s help does the right thing for once – DELETE FUCKING EVERYTHING.
On the next day at school Yua does her best to follow poor Takumi around and pester him with her crazy 3D-talk. Man, this girl is so bad news! FFS Takumi, get your butt together and realize that already. Anyway, Yua get Takumi to walk back home with her after the school’s over. Seeing her waiting for him, our heroic otaku gets his head full of dangerous thoughts – or is my nasty feeling wrong after all? Yua sure is a nice person and all, encouraging such a useless, container-dwelling otaku and bravely expressing her feelings to him.
Yeah, right. On the way back home Takumi notices some disturbing similarity between Yua’s bag and the one he’s seen before somewhere, related to the New Gen murders. Soon enough Yua accidentally drops her bag and a ton of article extracts and files on New Gen fall out. Takumi comes to a realization we all have known long since – this girl ain’t right! Yua decides that it’s too late to put up a facade and shows her true self – apparently a some sort of investigator on New Gen murders. She pulls up the stake Takumi took home from the murder scene a few days ago and tells him that the timestamps on his IM-discussions do not match. It becomes apparent that it was Takumi himself who sent him the pictures of the murder he witnessed in person – as a chat user named Shogun.
Although the episode was lacking in many ways, it introduced a bit more mystery – just what the hell is going on? Does Takumi possess precognition powers of some sort or just a power to send messages back in time to warn himself of things that will happen? Hell, I don’t have the slightest clue but I can’t help but to look forward to following episodes. Chaos;HEAd still holds the cards to be a great mystery series – it’s just up to Madhouse whether they realize that potential or not.
