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OOOs 44: Man Catface is obnoxious in his human form. I mean he's obnoxious all the time, but he's super obnoxious in his fancharacter-style human body. I find it offensive.

Okay, so I have some little problems cropping up that, I dunno if they'll be explained or resolved in the next four episodes or not, but I want to mention it now in case they don't. Eiji's loosing control makes no sense. Or, it does, but the "cure" doesn't. This isn't a major-major problem, since I think I might know what's going on, but anyway: how does Eiji, who's slowly becoming a Greeed, need a desire to stop the transformation? Isn't desire, you know, what makes a Greeed a Greeed? Now, I figured what he's supposed to do is have a desire greater than the cores in his body. Like fight of the core's desire to be whole with his own desire. But these cores aren't sentient, and since they're already in him, it seems like giving them more desire to feed off of is a bad thing. Greeed essentially infect a host (usually with a yummy) then use the person's desire for power. Well, these cores aren't a Greeed, instead turning Eiji into one. So he's becoming a Greeed, a monster powered by desire, and needs his own desire to stop it? And, ignoring that, doesn't Eiji already have a desire? I mean, when that Greeed tried to destroy his dream by pullign it out of his head he pulled out the entire planet. And on a smaller scale, isn't his desire to help his friends desire enough? They say he has no wants, but he's constantly fighting for things. They may be selfless, but selfless desire is still desire. You'd think it'd make for stronger desire, too.

The only thing I can think of is if this is some plot by Birthday Man to make him a Greeed on purpose. Afterall the guy is just all over the place. Nothing about him makes sense, he's got this weird shrine to OOOs and what looks like the plate things the medals were forged in.

Second, and kind of minor but indicitave of OOO's general just not-jiving-well-with-it's-own-rules-iness, is Uva. The guy is reduced to a single core, yet this single core somehow manages to retain his conciousness. Now with Ankh, when he was split up, he became two different entities. Uva was split pretty one-sidedly, and yet he had no personality issues and stayed, mentally, intact in his one core. Why didn't his conciousness manifest in Catface? I mean, wouldn't that be just the best? Catface eats all the cores and finds all his dead friend's popping up on his body with him since all their cores are there? And it's not like Catface had the cores in him all the time. Also, if cores contain conciousness, how come OOO's never had any problems when he had, like, all of one colour? (I guess that's what the driver is for. Sort of like how Drivers in W filtered out the maddening effects of Gaia Memories) What decides where the conciousness stays in the cores? I thought it was cell medals, but Uva was literally just a core and survived.

Well, Catface is dead now anyway (the cat dies first? Offensive) and Maki has his cores. And Maki is a sadfaced dinosaur man. Again, this show is still good, but I feel needlessly convoluted and some stuff doesn't sit right. It's just at first I felt like there as an arc misisng that should've gone into detail about how cores and the mind of Greeed work. Well, there was when Lost Ankh was farting around. But now we're kind of going against that with Uva.

My SIC Tajador should be here tomorrow, so I'm gonna wait to finish the show until then. In the meantime I've tried going back to Agito but... it's good, really, but it's slow as syrup drippig down a backwards conveyor belt. In space. With a fan blowing up at it. (it's a space fan) I'm on episode 11 and have forgotten just about everything in that show, and it's not... grabbing me. The intro's so peepy and awesome and the show is just waking up from two hours of sleep following a twelve hour night shift.