Occult Academy episode 8

Poor old Smile and JK. They were both big fans of Tokyo God­fath­ers. RIP Satoshi Kon. I’ve still not seen any of his movies. I have seen Para­noia Agent and Mag­netic Rose though, both of which are very good. Espe­cially Mag­netic Rose, highly recom­mend that if you feel in the mood to have your mind blown. I’ve also noticed that the first anime he worked on, Roujin Z, is one of the many assor­ted 80’s and early 90’s OVA’s that I down­loaded on a whim, so I guess that decides what I’m watch­ing next. Gotta wait until I get to Eng­land though to watch his movies. DVD rental ser­vices in Ire­land have a pretty miser­able selec­tion and sure as hell don’t have any Satoshi Kon movies.

Any­way, back to Occult Academy.

So this epis­ode tries to explain why there was a dead cow on the ground with all the blood sucked out of it in the last epis­ode. TK doesn’t have any vis­ible fangs, unless his dows­ing robs have suc­tion capa­cit­ies, like alien powered straws. How­ever that explan­a­tion was far too simple for Occult Academy and decided to explain it using the Chubacabra. Everything I knew about the Chubacabra prior to this epis­ode was from an epis­ode of Dex­ters Labor­at­ory I watched as a kid, so I had to wait for some tsun­dere explan­a­tion ser­vice from Maya before we got the full deal about them.

How­ever some­thing is clearly up with these Chubacabra. I watched that epis­ode of Dex­ter Labor­at­ory quite a long time ago now so my memory is rather fuzzy, but I dis­tinctly remem­ber them being a bit more fear­some than they were depic­ted in this epis­ode. These were quite pos­sibly the weak­est and more dis­ap­point­ing mon­sters I have ever seen. If Kozue had brushed them with her hand while look­ing for her glasses she would have at least knocked them out or broken sev­eral bones in their body. The dad had brought out a nail­gun that shot 4 rounds at a time, and yet they were clearly wasted on these creatures. Even when he shot the big one, the first shot took it’s head clean off and all the other 4 nails did was bury into the under­side of it’s recently decap­it­ated head.

I mean, look at this. That thing is the size of a fuck­ing upright Rhino with fangs as long as my arm. Those fangs should have gone straight through that poor help­less school­girl killing her instantly, or at least res­ult­ing in ser­i­ous internal bleed­ing and sev­eral dam­aged internal organs. Yet all that happened was her clothes got a bit dam­aged. Now I know when it comes to anime girls, they sus­tain dam­age at a rate of cloth­ing dis­in­teg­ra­tion, but remem­ber that this thing was meant to have drained a cow of all it’s blood. Do you know how big a cow is? They’re huge fuck­ing lum­ber­ing beasts and pretty intim­id­at­ing things to try tackle. Even a pla­toon of those chubacab­ras couldn’t take on a cow. I doubt they could take on a chicken.

No, some­thing is up here, and I have a the­ory!

There is no such thing as the Occult.

Let’s look at this from the alien per­spect­ive. They obvi­ously can’t land instantly on Earth. They first need to land on earth and cre­ate the Nos­trada­mus Key, or some­thing along those lines. Now while they’re on earth they need to come up with ways to pre­vent people from dis­cov­er­ing them and any super­nat­ural occur­rences that may occur around the area they are in, because obvi­ously there will be resid­ual energy flow from their con­struc­tion factor­ies that will res­ult in strange things. To pre­vent this from hap­pen­ing, they hire a bunch of earth-knowledgeable people and make them pass these things off as some­thing nat­ural to earth.

How­ever, how do you pass off some­thing like moth­men as being nat­ural on earth? That’s simple. Go to one place on the planet that people will actu­ally believe these occur­ances are actu­ally occult non­sense and won’t go inspect any fur­ther. When you con­sider Mayas vast know­ledge of Occult stor­ies, any­thing can be twis­ted into being the Occult some­how. Heck, the whole school was foun­ded under the a loony who was con­vinced these things really exis­ted. Per­fect place to set up your raid­ing base. What you will need is someone on the ground, help­ing them out.

And we have exactly that. I have my doubts the vice-principal knows that she’s help­ing the alien inva­sion. Maybe she thinks it’s a gov­ern­ment job (it wouldn’t sur­prise me if the ali­ens had infilt­rated the gov­ern­ment). One of her most import­ant tasks is to des­troy the evid­ence that makes itself known to Bun­mei. If they kept any of their mater­ial that made it into the human realm were recovered and kept for the com­ing years, it would be picked up by Bunmei’s futur­istic phone and he’d know some­thing was up. Everything he’s pho­to­graphed so far has been dead in the future, except for two people. One is the vice-principal, who was kept alive by the ali­ens for the ser­vitude, but hardly in liv­able conditions.

The other per­son that was alive in the future is their oper­at­ive on the ground, the hybrid alien JK. He has been loy­ally fol­low­ing orders and car­ry­ing out his mis­sion of dis­tract­ing Maya and Bun­mei from ever dis­cov­er­ing the ali­ens secret. How­ever it’s been com­ing increas­ingly clear that the ali­ens don’t trust him any­more. Per­haps they don’t trust his increas­ingly intim­ate rela­tion­ship with Smile or some­thing. Either way, they haven’t told him about their latest plans, which is why JK had no idea about the dead cows and the task was left up to the vice-principal. Which would also explain why JK wasn’t in the best shape in the future. He was cast aside by the ali­ens and is now try­ing to live in the post-apocalyptic future with his three asexual repro­duced kids.

::Fake Edit:: It was only after the proof-read did I real­ise I’d called him TK through­out the post. How­ever can you blame me when he’s bust­ing out moves like this? GET CHANCE AND LUCK!