Owari no Seraph Episode 2 [ Where’s My Boyfriend?! ]

Let’s clear something up in Owari no Seraph: Yu is gay. Yu is a homosexual character. Yu was in love with a dude and is almost clearly gay. If he gets with a girl then he is bisexual. But there is no way this guy is straight. He is not straight. Please. Just. No. I have never been so convinced in two episodes people were in love than in this show. I do not normally ship yaoi but how do you not ship this? It’s just a thing. A canon, sexy thing.

I have to be honest, I am unabashedly in love with this show for reasons I cannot explain. It’s not that the plot is particularly innovative and the most interesting thing I’ve seen, but god does it have a lot going for it. Everyone says that Yu is a lot like Eren but I have to disagree: Eren was in general more . . . compassionate? He loved his fellow humans and had a strict code of what he thought fighting should be. Not to mention that Yu can wield his anger a lot more effectively whereas Eren is crippled by it.

I think one of the reasons it’s so easy to like this show is how pretty it is. I took a lot of screencaps and I’ll probably download the raw just because hardsubs ruin my day. Right now nothing beats watching the fluid animation in this show. It’s only once a season you get to open up a video file and see something so genuinely beautiful as Owari no Seraph. Right off the bat though, guys, this was supposed to be an apocalyptic story about this kid who would move on to try and murder all the vampires. Why did you turn it into a school show?

Rewinding a bit, not all humanity was actually wiped out. It was reduced to 1/10th the population, meaning that billions died and the human population is stagnating somewhere around that one billion people mark. While that many deaths is certainly a big deal, I really hate being misled by anime PVs and descriptions. Is it too much to ask to keep up the dystopia and entertain me with the soul crushing things going on? That’s why I like Attack on Titan, the only school they’re in is the learning to murder giant monsters type.

Yu, ladies and gentlemen, is on probation for not being friendly. Of course the goal of this episode is to get him a friend so he can join the magical vampire assassin group, and low and behold he meets a boy who has the same goal. Even worse is that this guy is so painfully interested in him sexually by the end I don’t know how to take it. He literally falls on him and squirms. I know in this particular case it might be friendship but this show: Yu is so gay. And that’s not bad. It’s kind of hot? Which is weird for me since normally I’m not particularly interested in yaoi. . . bring on the boyfriends, show!!

Most of this episode is really rudimentary stuff, hot head main character has to make a friend, a vampire attack happens where he can show himself. For the most part he actually can’t kill it even if he manages to get into a super cool fight scene, where for some reason the vampire chicks butt is the most clear screenshot I can get most of the episode. God this show is so pretty. And the opening is definitely one of the better ones this season. Have I fangirled how pretty the animation is yet?

Anyway, after intense fighting with vampires Yu and his new friend Yoichi both get accepted as vampire hunters. This is awesome for me because it means new fight scenes, but it’s not good for the shippers because Yoichi is doing what a girl normally would: Totally being a substitute boyfriend before, inevitably, Mika comes back. Because he isn’t dead. We all know he isn’t dead. He’s a vampire, and he’s coming back for his boyfriend.

Will it be boyfriend time next episode? We’ll see, in any case I’m excited for this series and hoping the animation stays pretty and the plot gets intense.

Oki