This episode was completely saved by the last thirty seconds. The majority of this episode really was Clain, trying to see exactly how annoying he could be, and this just kept going on and on. I mean, we’re more than halfway through right now. At this point he really isn’t striking me as a good lead character for this series.
At the very least, this episode wasn’t as bad as the previous one. This episode thankfully went back to the Fractale system in order to flesh it out some more. I especially liked the way in which the antenna was able to catch the Fractale system even without the use of a balloon. It’s this discovery that’s part of the fun of adventure series. On the other side of the spectrum though, we have that new guy from the Lost Millennium introduced. The creators really needed to have been more subtle with this guy. He tried to be all ambiguous but it was obvious that he was a bad guy right from the start because of his character designs.
Overall, now that we’ve passed the halfway mark, I unfortunately have to say that Fractale has my least favourite first half of all Noitamina shows I’ve seen since Toshokan Sensou. I do have to add that I can’t comment on Nodame Cantabile’s finale because I haven’t seen that one, but unfortunately Fractale is suffering from very poor balance. Unfortunately the same thing that made Kannagi such a chore to watch, though not as bad. The thing is, this series spends so much time on randomly fleshing out the main characters… and yet it gives no time at all to give some character to the people from the Fractale system, the refugees, nor the other factions of the Lost Millennium. It’s the typical problem in which the creators have such an interesting setting… so they end up focusing on the least interesting part. In this case, Clain.
So yeah, I was glad to at least see that that old guy was Clain’s father so that we can at least get some good story on what happened to Clain’s parents. He could have outright told Clain that they were related, but I’m glad that the creators chose not to. Clain would probably have gotten even more whiny if he found out.
Rating: (Enjoyable)
by saying “not as bad” do you mean,this show is better,or worse,than Kannagi at this point?
sorry,my reading is quite bad.
I don’t like that he was Clain’s father. First, it’s too much of a coincidence, and second, it wasn’t used at all. It would’ve been the same if he wasn’t. The notion that people would voluntarily leave their children to… sit around in a cabin somewhere else is underexplored.
MDs, with that I mean that while this series is very unbalanced, it is not as unbalanced as Kannagi.I originally thought that the difference between the two would be larger, though.
Are you sure the camera guy is Clain’s father? Obviously he had a picture of Clain’s family, but you’d think Clain and his did would recognize each other.
not really, he only saw his doppel there is no rl for them, only vl so there is no need to know how he really looks, same as in our realitly