Short Synopsis: 044 finally gets the chance to talk with Luka
Highlights: They were a bit sudden, but the love-scenes worked really well.
Overall Enjoyment Value: 8/10
Okay, one episode left! This show has the potential to make for a solid ending. This episode introduced enough subplots for this series to work with to fill one episode. I predict that the first half of the next episode will be Luka vs. Daxus, and the second half settles the score between 044 and Daxus, with both of them probably dying. In between, the cult leader and Garcia also probably have their minute in the spotlight, and this fits about perfectly in 20 minutes.
This episode was of course mostly about settling the score between 044 and Luka. Where he seemed like a raging gorilla in the previous episode, he came back to his senses in this episode, and seeing 044 trying to heal him worked really well. Although this episode was a bit rushed, it did get across the main point: Luka is a terrorist, nobody would care about him, and he lived his life probably without being loved, which is why he probably was able to just throw his life away for the cult. And then his big enemy comes and tells him that she genuinely cares about him. I can see love coming from that, especially since he already was in such a confused state.
Overall, the past season has been a really interesting one. For most of the seasons, I have too much series I want to blog for the amount of shows I pick up. For the past summer-season, this was the complete opposite: I had too little series that I really wanted to blog, so I could experiment with a few series. In cases like Mission-E this rather failed; looking back, I don’t really see what was so special about blogging it. However, I’m glad I decided to stick with this series. It’s been a really interesting short series. It’s never going to make any top-10 lists, but the intensity and direction-style has made this series worth watching.
One thing that I did notice in this episode: the lip-synching was really off… let’s hope the final episode will do this better.
About the problem, that still no english fansubs are available for this show: the raws for this show are mostly horrible (and not just the ones from horribleraws), so even our group (from germany, which needs english translations, too) decided not to sub this show, until there are better raws available. But there usually are dvd-releases after a tv-premiere and YOUR blog still makes high hopes, that after all one group will catch this show to translate it.
What I want to say: Thanks a lot for still blogging ULTRAVIOLET: CODE 044 and keep up the hope for us! 🙂
Im having the hardest time find this anime
Luka and 044 have similar lives, he has no family any more, she’d never had a family, they’re both lonely and are living to fight.