Faiz 28.

I'd forgotten all these Faiz characters were actually supposed to be teenagers.

Also man, Kitazaki lives up to the hype. That dude is creepy.

Faiz 30.

You know, Kusaka really hadn't been that big of a shitstain for the past dozen-odd episodes. Things were going ok. But now he's back and shittier than ever, ready to ruin the show for me again.

Le sad sigh. And just when I thought Takumi and Kiba could finally be bros.

Also this preview has got to be kidding me, was Mio's hilarious death just a reference to Mari protecting Sawada all along? Because damn girl, you sure got a thing for covering dudes who don't really deserve it that much?

If this is the episode I think it is, then yeah. This was the stupidest bullshit misunderstanding in a series full of bullshit misunderstandings.

Come on, Decade! Stick to ruining your own show! :p

It's really quite something.

You know what, I don't even know how this happened. Kusaka, Tsukasa...they're not even close, what the hell? Haven't even seen Decade...

I think to enjoy Faiz, some degree of enjoying the bullshit communication is required. It's a rough ride otherwise, I'm sure, haha.

I'm honestly still liking the show a lot, I think the cast as a whole is strong enough for me to overlook a lot of the Real Stupid Shit that goes on sometimes (and boy does it go, RSS runs rampant in this show). But when Kusaka pulls out the whole "blatant lies and manipulation" party trick (which everyone always buys for some reason despite how transparent it is and how untrustworthy he is) it's enough to sour things for me pretty quickly. I mean, the m i s u n d e r s t a n d i n g s would be frustrating enough without this asshole actively trying to make it worse. Guess it's that that bothers me more than the mismatched communication in the first place.

That being said, the fact that Yuka and Keitaro still don't know each other's names has gone way past dumb to unrealistic levels of contrived though. They don't interact enough lately for it to be a big deal but it is still unbelievably stupid.

There's just...the more I think about it, I become increasingly convinced that Faiz really isn't much better than Kiva, even though I'm enjoying it far more than I was Kiva right around this point in the show. It's definitely more consistently written and I think its characters are better, but there's still so many little just...dumb little things and contrivances going on all the time.

Maybe I'm just more forgiving because Takumi doesn't feel as stagnant as Wataru. And because romance bullshit isn't taking up so much of the plot. I mean, there's still a fair bit of that going on, I guess, but at least Takumi isn't actually involved in any of it.

And for all the crap I give Kusaka, he's so much better written than 753.

Also, Kiba is kind of really great. Dude is really making me want to order a horse man shf.

The key to "enjoying" Faiz is accepting the fact that it's written by Toshiki Inoue - the most bizarre and potentially cynical man in toku. This guy:
http://imageshack.com/a/img922/5510/syEohm.jpg
Which might explain a lot, really.

Bullshit. When you're drunk, you call people more often, even if it's only to yell at everyone

I was really enjoying Faiz as I watched it. It was only when I stopped and looked back on the entire experience that the true horror sank in.