Okay… whoa at the cliff-hanger of this episode. I never imagined Akai to be the person behind the serial murders, but it makes perfect sense now. The other beast from the sky was the one who killed the first ones, though when she was hurt and unable to, she made Akai take over her role. This is pretty easy to do, especially with a person like Akai.
The real meat of the episode was a bit disappointing though. I especially expected something better, seeing as it’s focused on Shinza, who was really funny in the first episode. Even though there was one hilarious scene in the episode, where everyone considers him dead, while he’s actually right in front of them and Ginjiro freaks out. In the rest of the episode, though, he went berserk in some kind of predecessor of modern mechas, which wasn’t very funny or deep, unfortunately.
There’s a bit of development on Sora’s and Seikichi’s side as well, when Seikichi finally understands that Sora really is from the sky after she saves Shinza from the berserking mecha. This wasn’t anything special, though. I do hope that the next couple of episodes introduce some fresh meat in this series, because I do feel that the formula is getting old, unfortunately.]]>
Ooedo Rocket – 07
