Now this was just entertaining as hell. Really, all of the three big sci-fi shows this season really delivered excellent episodes to close off their first halves and they really surpassed themselves with it. Mouretsu went the politics route, Rinne no Lagrange toyed with the scenario, and Aquarion was the one who just went all out with its action. This was really an episode full of adrenaline, and very entertaining to watch as it yet again made excellent use of its romances.
.. with perhaps one exception. This is something that has annoyed me about other anime as well. I mean, on average, women are physically weaker than men. Having a really physically weak girl in the cast, makes sense. However, for the love of god: quit having women faint so often. I mean, not only does this just get pulled way too often, but it also pretty much puts the girl in question out of the picture for as long as she’s unconscious.
But I digress, when she woke up, the doll girl and her romance with the spy guy definitely made up to that. Then there was that bizarre part where Mikono got.. abducted and hold like a trophy, only to be rescued again (thankfully), followed by what can only be described as an orgy as six pilots fused together. I really was entertained throughout the entire episode.
Next episode should prove to be very interesting, because it’s here where the huge difference between Mari Okada and Shoji Kawamori comes into play: deaths. On one hand I have often been trolled by Kawamori’s deaths, and I often feel that these are a bit meaningless, if the characters turn out to be dead at all, where on the other hand Mari Okada loves making her deaths meaningful, and her scripts don’t use implied deaths at all. In this episode the death of two characters was implied, so next week will be a huge rope pulling match between these two. I really hope that Mari Okada wins, because I very much prefer how she handles death in her stories, but the two of them are both so over the top that it’s got to be a lot of fun to watch.
Rating: **+ (Excellent+)
I really want to recommend the first series to you, but it is certainly better if you watch all of this one first. If you watch the first series it would like being exposed to massive spoilers.
I don’t know what kind of deaths you are expecting, or hoping for, but you may end up disappointed. There most likely won’t be very many deaths at all, and the majority of them will most likely occur in the end of the series.
This series is very easy to predict if you watched the first one because Evol has copied the first series in almost every way with a few parts switched between genders to keep it a little fresh. I can’t see them deviating to far from what they first series did when halfway in nothing has really been changed thus far.
I also don’t know how you feel about Amata. If you think like me and feel he is one of the weaker parts of this show,then you will most likely enjoy the first series more, because the main character doesn’t follow all the typical cliches of your average male lead like Amata does.
Omg! Jin! Noooooo ;_; NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!
aisdjaoidsajldkajdlaksdjalds i really hope it’s a trap and he is still alive in coma or something. But they already used that with Shrade, so i don’t think that happen.
I believe Amata is the weaker male in the whole series, especially when Apollo was so unconventional.
In the preview they are celebrating Jin’s funeral, so yeah… he is gone. ;_;
I am not sure about the second death you mention but if you are thinking of Kagura, he was actually rescued by “flower magic” an instant before the Mithra Gniss exploded.
it’s really sad that Jin’s gone…(as in he’s dead)
i really think Yunoha could had been with him if he didn’t die in episode 13….*sigh*
they make such a cute couple! (although i know that love is forbidden at their academy)
can’t wait to see what happens in episode 14 >3
Two deaths?
It only looks like our little spy is done for.
By the way, in the original death also happened and was permanent. No worries there. I was expecting Shrade to also collapse, but since heroes don’t die offscreen I guess he’s just fine.
So now that the story revealed that Mykage and Fudou are very aware of their reincarnation I hope to figure out how it’s going to work this time. The original was very weird with their reincarnation patterns and as you have seen so is this one.
There were seven pilots not six XD Zessica-Amata-Mikono, Schrade+Mikono’s brother and Jin and his girlfriend.
And that was quite the twist with Mykage, because if he really is Toma then he sure went round the bend the last 12000 years – instead of coming to terms with his boyfriend breaking up with him another 12000 years ago, as the end of the last series said he did.
Phenomenal ending. There’s no term more suitable for what we witnessed than “element orgy”, is there?!
It sucks that they killed one half of one of the more interesting – and most improved – couples in the series in Jin, and death will affect more than Yunoha – he’s the last son of Altair, after all.
It’s also good that there was no more than a passing moment of Zessica’s jealosy, which took physical form last week. That’s obviously going to cause problems down the road, but not yet.
Finally, Mikage seems to have discarded Jin, and is showing interest in Amata (perhaps because they both have wings?). If Kagura is indeed toast, we imagine it is Amata who will be hounded by the voice-thrower next season, opening him up for development beyond “Main Guy Who Loves Mikono and Flies When Aroused.”