I’m noticing a worrying decrease in animation quality with every progressive episode of this series, which seriously isn’t a good sign. I really hope hat Satelight are saving their budget for the later episodes, because amidst the beautiful shots the bad shots really stick out like a sore thumb. The graphics of this show unfortunately are of the kind that need a big budget, because otherwise they’re just going to look bad.
In any case, this episode didn’t have me as much impressed as I hoped to. The novelty of this series has worn off just about now and this episode lacked a bit of atmosphere. Guin, Remus and Linda get captured by the Mongol army, only to get rescued again by Istvan. It’s mostly just used as a building up episode, and not really that of an exciting one, although we do learn some new stuff.
As it turns out, these lands are very unfamiliar to the Mongol forces and they too have a lot of trouble trying to fend off all the huge fishes and giant sandworms, which seems to suggest that they don’t have these giant beasts in their home country (otherwise they’d know how to deal with them more efficiently by now). Another small clue was given about Guin and Istvan’s pasts: somehow the name of Landock is important to Guin, which Istvan once saw written on a very fast ship ten years ago when he was being a pirate.
Rating: (Enjoyable)
I liked this episode. It introduced several new characters to the story and also served to flesh out existing characters. It´s also nice how they introduce the viewers to new lore.
Like how the monogol thought that the “angel hair” was the souls of the dead and something to be feared, while to Linda and Remus the souls of the Parron people came to watch over them. It shows just how different the warring monogol perception of the world is to the peaceloving parron people.
The next episodes promises to be exciting. It´s titled “セム族の終結” – the end of the semu clan