10 Second Anime - Vatican Kiseki Chousakan - Episode 8

Roberto and Joseph wrap up the John Jordan prophet case in a very public way. Questions remain about Fr. Julia's involvement.

Episode VIII - "Only through death can we fully comprehend rebirth into eternal life"

Hmm.

We ended last episode with Roberto laughing maniacally and we started off this episode with Joseph seemingly at odds with him in front Fr. Julia. Right. Come on. Anyway, that obvious ruse didn't seem necessary at all since Fr. Julia was hardly in the episode. The job of establishing why our investigators needed to fool him just wasn't done, which is not surprising when we consider how quickly the mysteries surrounding the prophet John Jordan were wrapped up. If you can't show all the stuff that was done behind Fr. Julia and Kid Goldman's back, then we'll have to hear a whole bunch of yacking. So how do we do that? The conventional parlor room accusation scene can't possibly be used here, right? Oh ho, wrong!

As you can probably tell, I wasn't impressed by this worldwide broadcast of a murder mystery novel's penultimate chapter. Roberto's expert dissection of the so-called prophecies should have been good enough to sink the sainthood and prophecy ship for John Jordan, but his personal connection to Brono Puccini, the actual name of John Jordan and his murderous father, was totally unnecessary. Ah well, I suppose it was necessary to have someone give an actual interpretation of the "prophet's" paintings as guilty memories, but with the thousands of "psalms" John Jordan wrote, I'm surprised there weren't more guilty ramblings.

Still, it was a good exposure of the tabloid psychic trick of spewing many predictions but making sure the ones people remember are the correct ones. Just make sure you get your math and astrology correct!

Ultimately, the point of this story was to introduce the real mystery of the Immortal Bourbon Fr. Julia. He escaped by framing a whole bunch of the native believers and growing his own look-alike in a duplicate office in a hidden room. We better see him again, considering how largely he looms in the key visuals for this anime season.

Heh.

Oh, so there's that painting from the first scene of this mystery arc. It's nice to know that it was commissioned by an oil company trying to ruin a wind turbine farm.

Of course this show is going to make a pivotal "trust me" speech into a yaoi eternal love pledge.

So many paintings of Roberto's mother being killed. Even that "snake" one was the actual strangulation scene. Poor little Roberto.

Yay! A rubber excreting parasitic microbe living in monkeys explains everything! I suppose Fr. Julia got John Jordan to infect himself after that volcano painting. It does take a long time for the rubber to eventually kill someone.

So, not just Bourbon gold, but the Galdoune eternal life conspiracy is getting involved. The Vatican is ancient and has ancient enemies, don't you know.

This just folded in the erstwhile pregnant corpse we saw at the very start of all this.

Ah ha ha. Archbishop Saul is angry. He's going to punish them by making them work together. Wait! They already do that!

This is a change. They're eating gelato right before the yaoi couch preview. This is a metaphor for something, I'm sure of it.

Speaking of the yaoi couch preview, they foreshadow that they'll be seeing Fr. Julia again. That Galdoune conspiracy they just introduced this episode better have some legs, which is my major hint that Joseph and his little brother will get involved with that story too.