Shugo Chara 6-8: Help Amulet Spade help you.

I share your sentiment on tests, they do indeed suck.

So I just killed off two essays from my to do list, but bloody work seems to get in the way more than usual. Finals are coming and soon there will even less time than before. Ah well I was able to catch up with Shugo Chara to evaluate Feldwebel Amu’s progress on the Ikuto front. Progress is steady and Ikuto is slowly being worn down. Utau shows up belatedly and infrequently, and thus she is of little consequence to out brave Feldwebel. In fact such is her talent that she is not half bad at ballet.

In my younger years I often blew my nose and farted in the general direction of ballet dancers. Then I realized how much strength you need to actually do it, so even if it is still alien to me I approve of Amu-chan learning ballet. That flexibility will come in handy for infiltrating the corporate building Ikuto calls home. Much strength will be needed to knock out Ikuto and whisk him away out of that fortress. As such ballet will greatly aid Feldwebel Amu in executing infiltration tactics like a good Stosstrupp. She will need all her skill and cunning to kill that lousy teacher of hers. The man annoys me with his mere presence. I hope that Amu-chan figures out who he really is as shoves a grenade up his ass.

Punishing of subordinates is an art mein Good Feldwebel. Try not to leave them permanently damaged.

Yes, you are the main heroine. You are elite and this show is all the better for it. Under no circumstance should you ever follow the Yaya way.

Still even if that worthless hack of teacher’s demise is a bit ways away, Amu-chan’s concern for Maika was touching. However I did find the whole adults have dreams too speech a bit misleading. It’s not that adults stop dreaming or give up on dreams, but rather cold hard reality forces us to dream smaller. So what if Ms. Orie lost her prima status like luckless grunt I am sure she got her Purple Heart equivalent. Besides she still has a car and can put her daughter through ballet school, not bad I say.

Feldwebel Amu can now use her Amulet Spade aspect for volk and fatherland.

Most inspiring, at this rate you’ll make hauptmann in no time at all.

Thank goodness Amu-chan is the main heroine in this series had it been Yaya I would have tossed it way like a live grenade. Amulet Spade is preferable to giant rattle Yaya. Still Amu-chan needs to name her brush to acknowledge it as a instrument of her will, I suggest Scharnhorst. Blue really is her color though. Good to know that Ikuto owes Feldwebel Amu a great debt of gratitude for completing a better clean up operation than he could ever hope to accomplish.

Good to see that conquerors run in the family. We salute Ami on her path towards being cool and spicy.

Most excellent. Close combat is a vital part of your stosstrupp training, the next test is to smack Utau with a entrenching tool.

Ami’s adventure with the charas was a interesting diversion, though I would not like to see it again. Amu-chan is a good onee-san to Ami. Good to know that cunning and intelligence run in the family. Mama and Papa dumped off baby sitting duties to our good Feldwebel and Ami is a master of extortion and coercion. While Amu-chan thinks that she is merely putting on a good sister facade, I feel compelled to correct her error, for it is not a facade it is duty! Duty is a trait that Utau sorely lacks and thus Utau is doomed to failure. The bearer of the one key and the sentinel of the one lock are fated to meet. Sparks will fly and a kissu will be had, so it is written and so shall it be. Utau fights for a lost cause and bitter shall be her tears of anguish. I hope that Miki’s comment on Kiseki is just the flutter of a heart bearing a crush. Hopefully Ami-chan’s last comment was genuine, for all female aspirants to greatness ought to be cool and spicy.

Target acquired, gun elevation 25 degrees. Fire for effect, fire for effect…

No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!

Despite Watarai Misaki being the focus of a filler episode, I do not hold a grudge against her. Rather I supported her efforts to peel off Tadase under a cooperative front if only to ensure that Amu-chan’s focus is solely on defeating Utau and claiming what is rightfully hers. Besides it was an excellent test of Feldwebel Amu’s close combat prowess and every Feldwebel needs a good battle buddy. Not only does Watarai provide some decent enough intel, but she reminds Amu-chan of her most cruel rejection by Tadase. Sadly I suspect Watarai has made a critical error and is walking into a trap by making Fujisaki her main enemy, though confirmation pending until episode 9. It was most heartening to see Watarai and Amu-chan get along so well. Indeed both looked most dignified when smashing through the Yamabuki Line. Waratia’s selective hearing and rapid target acquisition are most impressive as is her perpetual genkiness. My only complain is that Watarai failed to snatch Tadase and pave the way for Amu x Ikuto. Nevertheless it is good to see that Watari likes Amu-chan the most, indeed the yuri compels her.

Hey you caught the bouquet, you know what this means…and it better not be Tadase.

Yes! The Yuri compels you! High Command looks forward to collaboration with Feldwebel Amu for the duration of her campaigns.

Hopefully they carry out what is written in the next episode, if not may the yuri compel Fujisaki.