Oh, you’ve got to be kidding me!
Don’t get me wrong. This episode was really good; probably the best of the entire series. The plot finally got pushed forward a lot and the production-values were just better than they’ve ever been. But at one point, a brainwashed Sanae carries away an unconscious Mayuki… you guessed it. She gets changed back by his love. Seriously, the romance is really going to ruin this series unless it gets developed very fast.
Thankfully, the rest of the episode made up for it. We finally know a bit more about Mayuki’s strange power. A number of years ago, a strange thing called “Hyugake Gentoushu” (yes, I have no idea what that means) struck down earth, and hit the young Mayuki, just after he was born. Because of this, he can see with his “mind’s eye”, in other words, he when he does into Hyugake Gentoushu-mode, he doesn’t see regular things, he sees truth, hence why he was so easily able to solve the different mysteries. This episode also showed that there’s more to this, though: a strange low-voice appeared from out of nowhere and somehow a dragon-like thing manifested for a second. We still don’t know what’s up with them, and Mayuki’s mother also has some kind of connection to everything…
One thing that I must praise this episode for, though, is the fight-scenes: they were really well-done, and kept me at the edge of my seat, and it seems like the budget went all out on them. Also, I had to find Seiran’s combat-outfit amusing. ^^;
Now that this series has entered its second half, it really needs to pay attention to properly develop the different characters. I want to be able to see a change with the first half in the second half, and I want to see the characters evolve, just like in El Cazador. The creators will really need put in effort and move this show into an interesting direction, in order to make up for all the humps and bumps we’ve seen up till now. This episode was good, but can they keep it up?
Looks like the anime is at par with its manga in terms of being a confusing labyrinth, though I have to say the anime turned out to be more bizarre o__o
Seiran’s battle outfit… hahaha. I saw it in the manga before, and I was amused about it myself LOL. I think that strengthened the fact that they were target a *ahem* specific audience with all those elements xDD
i like that pic at the top left corner,that’s all i can say,fansubs still stuck at episode 5
when i saw seiran’s outfit for the first time i laughed so hard that i almost fell off my chair! it makes me laugh even now, it was just so… gay *dies laughing*