Well, things got serious here. This was the episode in which all hell breaks loose. There are two episodes left, so this was about time, things look promising, but I still feel like this could have been more.
Overall, things would have been bad if this episode had been delayed till next week, however with two episodes, or fifty minutes, the creators can do some interesting stuff with it because it doesn’t take that long to just stop a world destroying superpower: there will be more. In the meantime this episode was fun and action-packed, so the creators did get that right.
In the meantime we have Dizelmine going totally ballistic. The more I think about it, the more issues I have with that. To list them:
– It was… rather overacted, especially for him. Where did that sudden outburst come from? I’m not really that convinced that he went mental, just because Madoka stopped him. He was able to interact with Vilagulio perfectly fine before.
– The “this guy is evil due to another more evil guy behind the scenes”-twist near the end of the series is a difficult one to pull off. Why? You just poured so much time into showing who he is, and why he does the things he does. And then you suddenly create an even more evil character from out of nowhere, who has had absolutely no development whatsoever. The result is that the creators are going to have to give a new character impact from out of nowhere. It has been done plenty of times before with success, but when the guy is such a stereotypically evil bastard with no other sides things will get a lot trickier.
– Just have Dizelmine kill Vilagulio. That shows that he really is serious and that something snapped with him. If you don’t show him actually dying, you’re just going to obey the golden rule of anime (no character is dead unless confirmed so).
I’m also complaining so much for another reason: a lack of other things to keep me interested. I mean, after how awesome the conclusion for Mouretsu Pirates was, I guess that I got my hopes up too much for Tatsuo Sato’s other series. And the characters indeed are great, but the plot has lost all its creativity ever since Yurikano disappeared. And unfortunately, this is because the creators focused too much on getting that epic world-threatening ending. Please put some creativity in the final episodes because the characters are too good for just a standard climax.
Rating: 4/8 (Nice)
Tatsuo Sato is just an adviser here. But in Mouretsu Pirates he was in charge of everything.
I got a feeling that conntact with that wierd mashine wchich was connected to vox was the cause of the break down of Dizel. My theory is that if you have any sort of “darkness” or old resentment in you Vox will amplify it to the point of insanity and that is what chappend last timethe earth was destroyed. Dizel probably had intended to use his new vox in amore positive fashion, but Moid tricked him as far as what effects using it will have on his mind.
Exactly my thought, i don’t know how Psgels missed this even though they did show us this machine before being used on Lan and explicitly mentioned it could drive the user mad .. which is exactly what Moid used it for .. he used an old grudge Dizel had against Vila as a catalyst for his madness which he manifested because of the machine he was using in the previous ep (near the end of ep 9) that involved awakening the potential of the Voxes.
This makes Moid the main bad guy not Dizel who is as much of a victim as Vila is/was.
And regarding that .. it was hinted over and over that Moid is up to no good (several times) but he was good at hiding his intentions from those around him, he tried the same thing he did with Dizel twice, once with Modoka in the first season .. and a second time with Lan in the second season and failed both times .. this time it worke .. because of Dizel’s old grudge (which the normal/sane Dizel forgot about completely) and his zeal (which persisted even after he went mad).
So no .. they didn’t create a villain out of no where .. this was really nicely built up to.