Why register?     Futakoi Alternative  14 OCT  If there’s one
thing I can credit Futakoi Alternative for, it’s for
consistently surprising me; the show changes gears so rapidly
throughout the 13 episodes that it’s basically impossible to
predict what will happen next. Just when you think the show is
running along the lines of some GAINAX tripfest, the series will
abruptly switch to slice-of-life. The creators will wait a few
episodes for you to get used to that, and then swerve violently
into the angsty romance genre. Then, just as you think that the
show is going to consistently do the opposite of what you’re
expecting, the anime will follow formula to a “T” and shit out a
hackneyed hot-springs episode… just to prove you wrong! I can’t
think of any show more wildly schizophrenic; even FLCL had the
decency to be dependably bizarre.  The show feels almost like a
game that my brother and I play when we’re watching something
especially lame and predictable. At random moments, one of us
will spout out something a