Yes. Anyone can be brainwashed. The gentlest of sissies can be fully transformed into a mindless killing machine within 3 days. Sagara's boot camp reminded me so much of my days in the army. Natsukashii na..... especially the foul language part. Well I'm just glad my sergeant didn't goad me on using some bikini idol. I thought their fixation on the rugby ball accurately portrays our fetish to clean our weapons in the army. We were just short of naming our M16s, Stellar, Stephanie etc. This ep was truly hilarious. A real gem.

Kimi ga Nozomu Eien Ep 1: Springtime of love again. This first ep starts off well. Already I can identify so much with the main characters just after 1 ep. There's some flip flopping in the choices the characters make but the motivations behind them are realistic, well justified and deep. Indeed, that was a lot of character development compressed in 1 ep. The liaisons are suitably complex and the characters have already displayed various dimensions of their psyche. There was much details and the subtle in the anime greatly enriched the profile of each characters beyond what was normally achieveable in 20min. Impressive indeed. Looking forward to the next ep.