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Not bad for a first episode. To be honest, if I wasn’t totally hyped for this series, I may have thought this was a bit boring, but i did get more interesting as the series went on. I am expecting another Higurashi no Naku Koro ni with this series, which I don’t think is all that bad of me. Ya, perhaps I will start comparing them at every chance I get, but it’s only cause I can! I mean, we’ve already seen some creepy eye scenes and creepy children staring off at a distance mumbling freaky things to themselves as well as the whole title thing, except in this case, rather than Cicadas its Seagulls. I’m not in to the whole symbolism behind seagulls though because cicadas just seems more intense and disturbing; hearing annoying seagulls (or lack there of perhaps) just doesn’t produce the same effect for me.

Anywho, in this episode we were introduced to every single character in the series, which was a lot to handle, but at least it’s out of the way now. Except, I don’t think I was able to remember at least have of the names that were being said…I did like the way they were each presented though, with the snapshot and then name, I thought that was pretty clever. Some of the names that I do remember are firstly, our main character Battler, who is a bit of a pervert seems interesting enough. There’s all the extremely cold “butler” named Kanon, not quite sure how he keeps her job, but I guess it must be difficult to find butlers that will stay on an isolated island with you. It’s also quite a shock just to think he is a he! Jessica seems to be the only light in the dark story, which is a nice touch to the bunch. I’m really excited for Beatrice to finally really “appear” in the series, I’m curious to find out how they’ll handle her character in terms of interacting and just being part of the story. And last and perhaps least, there is Maria who is Extremely annoying as many have mentioned and whenever I try to think of anything about her I just hear her cries of Uuuu. I guess we’re all hoping she’ll be the first to die (as morbid as that sounds), but somehow I think we all doubt it will actually happen.

I’m pretty sure everyone basically knows that the series will revolve around murders, so I don’t think it’s much of a spoiler if I mention it, if it was I’m sorry. Personally, I’m excited for the action to start finally, I hope it turns out to be a bit like Harper’s Island with a nowhere near normal plot hopefully. The opening and ending were really cool, the songs were kind of annoying, but the rhythm sort of got stuck in my head, which is a good thing. Well, I’m pretty sure this will be one of the series I will blog as it does have a lot of potential as well as a lot of hype. I’m excited to see how this series fairs out…