Clone Baby Episode 2 – Im in your life, stealin your girlfriend.

The game of musical chairs continues as Masamune dives deeper into the truth.

You gots a purty face, thar, lil darlin'.

This episode picks up where the last one left off. Masamune yells and screams at Hiro to stop with his antics and his games, while his family watches at the table in confusion. His sister approaches him and asks him who he is before laughing while loudly boasting she got him and his facial reaction was hilarious. We are all now just as confused as our title character while we watch his family thank Hiro for having a great lunch with them and that he’s welcome to come by at anytime. While they escort him out, Masamune, who’s already angry and frustrated, receives a video message showing Marika is being held captive.

The majority of the episode is spent following Masamune chasing after Hiro, who he suspects is the one involved while his girlfriend-not-so-girlfriend Marika is tortured by an unseen man. Masamune’s evil little sister continues to toy with her science teacher who displays that she has evidence against her to stop her bullying and explains to her the theory behind clones and the need for one clone to kill the other, and then weaving all the subcharacters together through family relations and the like.

Clone Baby is definitely a confusing story. You have to pay attention to what’s going on or you’ll miss out because the pace of the story is so quick. One minute you’re at Masamune’s house, the next you’re at an obsessed hacker’s apartment, then you’re following the police, to be right back at Masamune having a fight with Hiro, to watching Marika be tortured. The drama also likes to change your perceptions from the previous episode, which adds some surprise factor, but can also make things confusing as well if its not properly explained.

You find out Marika is one of the detective's younger sister

In this episode we learned that Masamune is indeed a clone and that he had died in the “suicide/murder”, yet, Hiro can quickly assume Masamune’s appearance and trick others close to Masamune that he is indeed him. Then we have this new discovery that when Masamune is pushed to the breaking point, he goes through this red-eye-bloodlust transformation and has superhuman powers that can knock a man clear across the street.  Then we have these individuals with the clone mark for a necklace killing the clones, or “anyone who gets in the way”, and then the clones who are being wiped out one by one by these people… or other clones. That part I’m still not getting.

Then you find out little things, like the reason why the detectives are so passionate behind this case, etc etc. But, besides the chaotic storyline, the drama reeks of late-night drama qualities. Its still campy, its still has not so spectacular acting, and its still over the top. Marika’s actress can not cry even if you gave her like visine or something to make the tears fall. Watching her cry in this drama is like wondering if she’s laughing or what? There’s no emotion there, just tears and a ” baaaaaaw ” face. Then with the fact that she was tortured, beaten, almost sexually violated, thrown next to a dead body, and nearly killed — you’d think she’d be more emotionally distraught then, ” BAWWWW MASAMUNE YOU’RE NOT THE REAL ONE BAAAW “.

Now, I’m not saying Clone Baby is bad. Its not bad, but its not great either. It’s interesting. Its 30 minutes long and fast, so it keeps you watching. There’s a lot of mysteries you want to know about, like how come Hiro can trick others to believe his Masamune or why Masaumune is able to go into a bloodlust rage. How come these individuals are clone living with normal families and no one really knows? And if Masamune and Marika are clones, does that then make their developing ‘relationship’ incest? 😛

I’m waiting for next week with anticipation. It’ll probably be something to level off the emoness of Nino’s drama this week, which, all his family angst dramas tend to be. Boring and full of TEAAAAAAAAARS BAAAAAAAAAW.

Not only is he taking over his life, he took his girlfriend too! But isn't this all incest? 😛