Okay, so the summer season may be one big flop for A-1, this had no effect on their shows of the spring season whatsoever. In fact, this was the best animated episode of the series so far. Okay, so they had to go with a ridiculously long recap of the previous episode to make it all possible, but it was some budget well spent.
We’re now getting to a crucial part of this series though: the part where the special powers of the lead character reach epic proportions and he starts to lose control of them. That’s pretty much the biggest cliche out of the entire series, so the next episode really needs to make it more than a convenient way for the main character to have super powers. It’s already got the perfect set-up for the aftermath done, but after showing exactly how huge Rin’s powers can get, the creators really need to balance out the next number of fights in order to make them not get repetitive by having Rin spamming blue flames onto increasingly stronger opponents.
Ah, but heck: this episode finally made Rin reveal who he is in front of his friends. I am really looking forward to that aftermath in the next episode. Yeah. It’s a bit ironic: this is a shounen series, it airs at the prime time slot, and yet I find myself much more interested in the character interaction than the well animated fights.
Rating: ** (Excellent)
The animation for the fight scene was so godly, it reminded me of A-1 Pictures’ work on Birdy 2. I’m so glad I decided to keep watching this show.
“Okay, so the summer season may be one big flop for A-1”
It’s interesting you say that, since both Uta no Prince and iM@S are doing extremely well in pre-orders. Prince-sama will be a 10k+ series while iM@S might end up being A-1’s best selling produced show, even more than AnoHana.
If the anime follows the path of the manga, there should not be any real fight for the next 6-8 episodes more or less IIRC, especially not one involving the main casts (not counting minor scuffles). Most of the time it’ll be building up the next big arc and developing the main casts.
But it seems that the anime is planning an original ending since ep 15 starts to diverge from the manga. So, who knows.
Excelent chapter, for a shounen show it have very good character development.