Spork of DOOM!

[telophase]

This is for yhlee and anyone else interested in sporks. Screenshots from Kyou Kara Maoh, no spoilers. :D



KKM is a bizarre series about Yuri Shibuya, a young man in our world who gets sucked down a toilet (no, really!) and sent into a fantasy world, where it's revealed that he's the Great Demon King, destined to lead the mazoku kingdom to greatness, or some such thing.

This is Yuri, in his formal getup (his school uniform, with a cape and epaulet). The flustered man behind him is the majordomo, Gunter, who is a wee bit fixated on Yuri. And his underwear. Don't ask.



At any rate, Yuri discovers a little bit late that the Great Demon Kingdom has a few idiosyncratic formal gestures that don't mean quite what they do in our world. So if you, say, lose your temper when someone insults your mother and slap them, guess what? You have just formally proposed marriage!

Which is why the eternally pissed-off Wolfram here is Yuri's fiance.



Yes, he just rode a horse into the dining room.



Right after Yuri accidentally proposed to Wolfram, he also manged to accidentally challenge him to a duel by picking up some silverware and pointing a knife at Wolfram. Plot ensued. Now, a whole season later, Yuri's a bit more wise to the ways of the Demon Kingdom, but not so much that he doesn't clear up tableware for fear of causing international incidents. So in this case, when a girl shows up claiming to have been engaged to Wolfram since childhood when he romantically slapped her in a rose garden, and knocks the table over, Yuri automatically starts to clear up, much to the horror of Gunter.



Whereupon it is discovered that pointing a knife and a spork at someone means that not only are you challenging them, it means you have declared the intention to take their lover away, as the three tines of the spork represent the three people in a love triangle.





This is sort of par for the course for Yuri.

Comments

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

I see Conrad's brain is shattering in self defense in the background.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Oh yes. His mother, however, is absolutely thrilled about the duel to come. :D

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Of course she is. She lives for that kind of thing.

Is Gwendal off in a corner, muttering?

[magicnoire.livejournal.com]

I like the facial expression on the guy in the background of the last screencap.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

He is refusing to deal with it. The quote is, "Problems of the heart are entirely outside of my jurisdiction."

[telophase.livejournal.com]

That's Conrad.

He looks like that a lot, thanks to Yuri and Wolfram. XD

[blades-of-ice.livejournal.com]

Oh, KKM, you never cease to amuse me.

I think I like it mostly for Conrad and Gwendal. And their reactions to things Yuuri and Wolfram do.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Like many people, it was the knitting that won me over. XD

[gweneiriol.livejournal.com]

*falls over laughing* I LOVE this series SO much and the way Conrad's holding his head in the last picture just KILLS me cause I imagine he's doing this a LOT more since Yuri arrived. :P

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Conrad's life is a whole lot more interesting. :D

[ninja-tech.livejournal.com]

I love this series. I don't even know what season I'm on, but somewhere around episode.. *thinks really hard* 64? Yes. I enjoy reading your KKM entries. :D

Sorry if this is kind of a weird comment - my brain has taken leave without notice. >_

[telophase.livejournal.com]

This comment can't possibly be weirder than the series.

[yhlee.livejournal.com]

Hahahaha! That's pretty hysterical. Thanks for screencapplng this. =^)

[telophase.livejournal.com]

It is entirely due to you that now whenever I run across a spork somewhere, my reflex is to go "I must tell Yoon!"

[ninja-tech.livejournal.com]

You speak the truth. *nods wisely*

[cicer.livejournal.com]

I really need to rewatch my KKM DVDs. I forgot how spectacularly cracktastic this series is. (I too love Conrad's 'orz' face in the last screencap. Poor, long-suffering Conrad.)

[telophase.livejournal.com]

:D Yeah, the only real failing this series has is in thinking it needs plot. XD

[katmaxwell.livejournal.com]

I love KKM. So very, very much.

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

Conrad basically has three expressions: Lovelorn, awesome and facepalm.

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

Gwendal is my hero. Though I love the one where Gunter basically goes on a solo mission.

[octopedingenue]

oh god this episode KILLED ME. The spork! The Utena shoutouts! The Wolfangst when Yuuri suggests Wolfram could possibly contaminate himself with girlcooties!