Devil Survivor Craze

So I'm down south again for what's supposed to be my "study vacation", though the term itself sounds horribly ironic. Judging from the fact that I woke up at 11am and the only thing I've done is watch the latest episode of Devil Survivor 2, you can see how productive this whole thing will turn out to be.

You may recall my Devil Survivor 2 obsession from last year, from playing the game during winter break, and my ongoing obsession with the anime. I commented on how the gay tension was so high that at one point I wished the characters would just kiss and get it over and done with. Given that, I don't know what the fuck was up with this episode.

The story's been sort of okay, and one of the female leads has to let her body be possessed by a demon-god so that she'd have the power to face the enemy. Except of course the fragile human body can't contain demon-gods, so she's gonna die in the process. Predictably, the protagonist reaches out to her in the last minute, and cries something along the lines of "NOOOO, DON'T DIE. DON'T CHOOSE DEATH. I WANT YOU TO LIVE. I WILL PROTECT YOU, YOU CAN'T GIVE UP" and whatever other generic shounen-anime dialogue there is.

Then the protagonist holds her in his arms as they levitate in the sky, and I feel it's like the producers are trying to make up for all the gayness that's built up throughout the show. Except not really, because only minutes before the protagonist saved the girl, he was tangling with his "boyfriend", and as his "boyfriend" was being targeted the protagonist quickly shoves him out of the way before exploding shounen-anime-last-minute powers and saving everyone.

Then after the whole sequence was over you hear the "boyfriend" declaring "[the protagonist] is mine" and that he will kill the girl if she gets in his way--- and I'm like, "I think he's jealous..."

Yeah, I've enjoyed the Devil Survivor 2 anime. I started watching only because the NDS game Devil Survivor 2 was one of my favourite games of all time--- and the anime was only vaguely reminiscent of the game. Not that it mattered, because the only reason I kept watching was because I liked the gay tension that had built up between the protagonist and the 2 most attractive male leads. I had noticed pretty soon that they had given one of the side characters major screen time, and now I know because he's the "crazy boyfriend".

Anyway, there are like, 3 episodes to go, and I can't wait to see the ending. In a way though I do really want the series to be over because the build up to the finale is tearing me up, and I want to see exactly who will live and who will die, since the producers have conveniently killed off a bunch of major characters because it made the story easier to contain.

Yay Devil Survivor craze.