Shugo Chara Episode 2 – Egg of the Heart

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Summary

Amu continues to be as stubborn as ever, still not acknowledging the fact that Ran’s genki-ness actually represents her wannabe-self. Afraid that her classmates would ridicule her for her out-of-character love confession to Prince Tadase, she was relieved to see that her classmates welcomed this surprise and accepted this other side of her personality. A little while later in class, Nadeshiko Fujisaki, the Guardians’ Q Chair, personally invites her to their After-school Tea Gathering, as Tadase is especially interested in her eggs. Hesitant to attend this gathering at first, Amu decides to take this chance to return the Humpty Lock and see her prince again.

PE time comes and mischievous little Ran decides to volunteer Amu in demonstrating “how to handle bars” to the third graders, earning her some vicious scolding. With Amu still unable to fully accept Ran in her life, her blue egg hops away in fear of being rejected as well. Amu decides to look for her egg after class, unwillingly sacrificing the time she was supposed to allot for the Guardians’ Tea Gathering. Ran is saddened by the fact that Amu still doesn’t see Shugo Charas as anything but nuisance in her life.

Amu’s second Shugo Chara makes its surprising appearance during their art class, as it turns her into a painting prodigy. Unlike Ran however, this Shugo Chara gives her a hard time as it doesn’t seem to approve of her. After some chasing, it introduces itself as Miki, and reveals how its hesitation stems from the lack of belief Amu has on them (her Shugo Charas). If Amu doesn’t trust her Shugo Charas, and how it represents the great possibilities of her own abilities, they will disappear sooner or later. Amu shows her dere-dere side as she places her trust on her Shugo Charas, while maintaining her tsun-tsun stubborn self as she insists that she hasn’t fully accepted them. Miki then happily tags along with her. Unknown to Amu, a villain is just around the corner watching her every move. Ikuto on the other hand is lying somewhere by the green meadows, recalling how the Humpty Lock responded to Amu, who probably possesses the Embryo. She has THREE eggs after all, an extremely extraordinary case.

Amu heads to the Tea Gathering, and gets mesmerized by the shiny Prince Tadase yet again. The guardian’s introduce themselves together with their Shugo Charas, King’s Chair Tadase Hotori with Kiseki, Queen’s Chair Nadeshiko Fujisaki with Temari, Ace’s Chair Yaya Yuiki with Pepe, and Jack’s Chair Kuukai Souma with Daichi. Rather than the fact that all the Guadians possess Shugo Charas, Amu was even more surprised to find that these Guardians actually know everything about her, personality-wise and Shugo Chara wise. They are after all the one in charge of the student’s personal information.

They cut to the chase as they finally reveal their intention of having Amu join the Guardian Society, as there’s still no one in their group who can Chara-nari. Tadase just used his Shugo Chara powers in the last episode, but he still hasn’t undergone the actual Chara-nari for him to be able to use its power to its fullest extent. According to the “Egg of Our Hearts” picture book authored by the founder of Guardians (the first King), each and every child has this egg in their hearts, which disappears when one gets older. One’s pessimism also puts this egg on the verge of turning into a batsu-tama (X egg). Amu’s chara-nari ability will then come in handy in bringing back this egg back to its original form with the cutesy little wings and heart~

Even Tadase’s convincing power and shining radiance was not enough to persuade Amu into joining the Guardians, for the simple reason of not wanting to wear their royal cape which she thinks will tarnish her image. Amu knows her weakness and just runs away, before she gives in to Prince Tadase’s puppy-dog-eyes pleading. Amu thinks it’s also better this way, as she doesn’t want to stand out any more than she already is at this point. She also thinks of wanting to be just a normal little girl, which is obviously fated NOT to happen.

While Amu thinks about how she’s gonna give back the humpty lock to Tadase, she comes across Suzuki, the guy he saved from the thugs in the first episode and was also the guy having difficulty in the horizontal bars earlier in PE. Filled with much shame than an incompetent guy like him doesn’t have the right to become a fan of the COOL and SPICY Amu, Suzuki also thinks there’s no way his dream can come true at this rate. With hope now turned despair, his dreamful egg now turns into a batsu-tama. Amu unconsciously draws out the power of her Shugo Chara and fills Suzuki’s negative heart with much hope and love from rabu rabu Ran.

Suzuki regains consciousness as he gets his egg back and Amu scolds him to have confidence in himself. Amu goes all tsuntsun as she tells him that having fear is but normal for a person, so they aren’t much different in that sense. Suzuki is certainly touched by Amu’s words and is able to receive her spice power. It pierces through his heart and gets over the top of his head actually, as he starts dreaming like mad about how he can be a rich bostad once he becomes the president of an IT company, and more importantly, become Amu’s greatest fan. Amu sends him flying as he approaches her like some maniac, a scene also witnessed by the rest of the Guardians. She once again runs away in shame, but Nadeshiko will never give up in persuading Amu to join them. Back at home, Ran rejoices at how Amu was able to chara-nari again, but Amu once again denies having enjoyed this experience. Little Miki then insults her for being uncute and stubborn, a common remark for a tsundere like Amu.

Thoughts

Fun fun fun! I am so loving this show~ despite the lack of justice for hottie Ikuto so far. But goodness… I can’t believe I’m writing out all these cheesy stuff about eggs and all… in the summary LOL. Tell me right now if this somewhat lengthy and cheesy summary is of no help, and I’ll be glad to shorten it and get rid of the cheesiness, to concentrate on my thoughts.

In some ways, they have made the pacing of the anime, slower yet faster, compared to the manga. Slower in that they fill in some scenes which weren’t really elaborated on in the manga, and faster in the sense that they’ve already made Amu chara-nari twice thus far, when she shouldn’t have been able to do so till the end of volume 1. I’m still not complaining though, since seeing this transformation at the start of the series keeps it more exciting and interesting~ Though… it takes away much of the “realistic” aspect of Amu’s power, as ironic as that sounds. At this point we see her as a great mahou shoujo who didn’t undergo much adjustments when she used up her Shugo chara powers. But well, so long as they can keep the development of Amu’s character and her power solid, then there won’t be any problems with that. Amu is after all, still unable to wield her power out of her own will. She’s still as stubborn as ever. Filling in more Ikuto x Amu scenes will always be a nice welcome though :p

Have to admire Amu for the strength that she showed in this episode. Not only did she smack some sense into Suzuki, but she actually resisted Tadase’s charms and not fall prey for his puppy-dog-eyes pleading. I think most people will agree with Kuukai’s remark about Amu being such an amusing character. She’s not the usual annoying tsundere, you’ll actually enjoy her being tsuntsun because it’s just so funny LOL. How she suppresses her fangirliness, and continues to be stubborn despite being dere-dere deep inside :p Even little Miki found that amusing.

As I’ve also mentioned before, all of Amu’s Shugo Charas, or almost all Shugo Charas for that matter, are really adorable. Now we have Miki join Amu, who’s somewhat the opposite of Ran in terms of personality, since she’s the silent meanie type :p Ran represents Amu’s honest and loving self, aka deredere, while Miki is the cool counterpart. It’s actually still not known if Miki is a he or a she, but wikipedia mentions about leaning to her being female because of admiration or crush towards Kiseki and Yoru (which we’ll be seeing much later). We’ve only seen a glimpse of Kiseki in this episode, but I think it’s enough to see the royalty prince aura he has. He’s the complete opposite of Tadase, the obnoxious prince type. But still, cute

Nadeshiko, oddly reminds me of Yunoki from Kin-iro no Corda. She’s like his female counterpart, with a less darker aura at that. More than Tadase, I think Amu’s weakness (in terms of resisting the urge to join the Guardians) will be Nadeshiko, who certainly has some crafty little tricks up her sleeves to get Amu into joining them.

I found it nifty that they’d be featuring Suzuki in this episode, since they sort of connected some stuff in the first eppie, with Suzuki as Amu’s fan and all. Have you guys noticed Suzuki’s emoticon-ness? Much of the expressions and “moves” he shown from the first episode is like reminiscent of some onion head emoticons I have grown to love, like this and this :p

I’m just a bit sad that we didn’t see much of Ikuto in this episode… though at least we see him softening up as he reminisces how Amu got the humpty lock from him. And, we’ll be seeing sparks fly between him and Amu in the next episode!! More Amu x Ikuto moments, finally! :3

This is quite a late reaction, but… I love the seiyuus in this show! It’s only now that I’ve realized that Ikuto’s seiyuu is the Yuichi Nakamura, the voice behind hawt Abe from Oofuri as well. And then we have Yoru (Ikuto’s Shugo Chara), whose seiyuu is no other than Miyuki Sawashiro, who is behind the voice of some prominent roles in this season’s animes as well, including Mayuki of Suteki Tantei Labyrinth. The Shugo charas are now cuter and more dangerous than ever, with these voices which will make you grow weak >__<

And now for some cheesy stuff… I intentionally placed this near the end of my thoughts because you guys might run away or something I can’t help but compare the “egg of our hearts” concept they have in this series with people’s creativity, passion, and desire for knowledge… especially with regards to imagining things beyond the normal frame of mind. We usually think of things unimaginable way back our childhood days. Thinking about being capable of flying, having superpowers or what. But as we grow older, we learn about the truths in life, and things we cannot do in the realistic world. So, we sort of confine ourselves to the boundaries of “reality”. I’m not sure if Peach Pit intends to awaken the inner child in us or something, but I believe it’s one of the little tidbits we can get from this show. Enjoying Shugo Chara by itself is already a sign of this, I believe. Awakening our minds to endless possibilities in our life, and such… :3

There’s still much stuff to be revealed in this series… like the mystery of the torn pages of the egg book, aside from Ikuto’s character and the villains of the show. I am so looking forward to the coming episodes!

Before I finally end this, I’d like to give people a friendly warning on this show. Ladies and gentlemen, there is a TRAP in Shugo Chara, lurking in the midst of the characters. It’s still quite early to reveal who this trap is, but just so you won’t be completely shocked later on

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