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Category: Sabikui Bisco

Seasonal Selection: Sabikui Bisco Episode 12 (End)

Exactly what we were promised by last episode is what gets put on the screen this time.

Really, there’s only so much I can say about this. All the pieces were in place. We had Bisco resurrected (though I suppose there’s the twist that he’s now some sort of hybrid with the Rust Eater, since he sheds spores that sprout into completed Rust Eaters with his now super-powered shots), we had Kurokawa as the God Warrior, and we had everyone else on scene.

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Seasonal Selection – Sabikui Bisco Episode 10

Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind is a masterpiece. The movie more or less launched Studio Ghibli (since that’s what most of the team involved with it went onto become), and while it is quite strong, the Manga is leaps and bounds above even that, standing as one of the fictions I most absolutely respect. What I’m saying, in context, is that if you’re going to flagrantly steal from somewhere, you could do a whole lot worse than Sabikui Bisco lifting from Nausicaa.

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Seasonal Selection – Sabikui Bisco Episode 7

We found the Rust Eater! And, predictably, that’s far from the end of our woes. Getting it starts with an action scene, fighting the Pipe Snake (Giant human-teeth-having finger-and-limb-fringed flying amphisbaena) with Pawoo once she gets the picture that Bisco isn’t trying to decieve or hurt Milo. The monster is brought down, and the mushroom that is supposed to be the Rust Eater is discovered growing on its body.

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