Short Synopsis: Ignoring her orders, Nakiami pays a visit to her former comrades.
Highlights: Mostly building-up again, but that’s exactly what this series is good at.
Overall Enjoyment Value: 8/10
This episode continues to shed new lights on the world of Bonen no Xamdou. It seems that Nakiami joined the Zanbani when she was just young. If her country (I think it was called Tessik) wasn’t attacked for whatever reason that’s still undisclosed, she would be its leader, or at least the princess, since we don’t yet know what happened to her parents. I guess that when they lost their country, she and her comrades went their own ways, where she joined the Zanbani and the others went into the black market. I wonder, by the way. Could Tessik Village be the place where that old woman who is behind all of the Xam’d lives?
This episode yet again showed how much damage the attack of episodes 1 and 2 caused. The death toll is already at 1300 and still rising. It also confirmed that humanforms were originally just humans, as this episode shows how the scientist of the OP transforms the girl who lost her family in the previous episode into some kind of mismatched humanform. The interesting thing was that Haru stood right next to her. This might be a reason for her to become more involved with the war, now that she’s seen one of her friends as such a humanform.
This episode also featured some strange props that Nakiami’s former comrades had with them. A strange ghost-like thingy that’s supposed to protect an airship and some kind of thirty-year-old seed. Now let’s see what it’s purpose turns out to be.
Oh, and for some strange reason, I really liked Akushiba in this episode. He may be cold at times, but I don’t think that he just went to deliver Haru’s letter, just to defend his nickname. ^^;
ooh cant wait to get this episode ^^)/! hmM, more build up huh :x~
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Yeah, great episode as usual. When some sort of climax eventually happens, you can tell it’s in the hands of a skilled storyteller.
Very nice background and character development this ep, particularly Nakiami (which isn’t even her real name). Eureka Seven based their religion/culture on Tibet, so it’ll be interesting to see what direction they go in this time around. The flower in the letter at the end was very subtle (with Nakiami being unable to read or write, just another neat fact about her character).
And Haru evidently joins the military (presumably to search for Akiyuki and/or to help stop the war). Can’t say I didn’t see that coming, but still a nice development, just the same.
“but I don’t think that he just went to deliver Haru’s letter, just to defend his nickname. ^^”
What do you mean by that?
The guy’s nickname is something like the ‘Bullet’… So he takes it as a matter of pride when his speed was questioned.
Did get a laugh out of the ‘falling in love’ jab.
Can kind of see the ‘joining the military’ bit happening yet I do like how the series is showing the aftermath of the previous battles and the mentality of those who survived and those who didn’t. (The walking ‘dead’)
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