Short Synopsis: Syamalan + Ryunka = Destruction.
Highlights: Awesome animation and music and a less annoying Senkawa. What more could you want?
Overall Enjoyment Value: 8,5/10
Now this is more like it! Senkawa acted much less of a teenager in this episode, which made him much more enjoyable to watch. It’s really such a pity that this series has to work with a typical loser as the lead character, because there aren’t many roads you can go to with such a guy, and he’s already overplayed a lot. I think it would have been better to make Senkawa more like the male lead of True Tears.
And the twist, where Syamalan died so easily after executing his plans was a pretty nice one. It also shows that the finale of the first season will be between its three main characters: Birdy, Senkawa and Nakasugi. It’s really a finale that can go anywhere: it can become utter crap, where Senkawa spends the entire episode in a pointless argument with Birdy over whether or not to kill Nakasugi, or it can become amazing, like the director has shown many times before with Noein and Escaflowne with the help of some heavy-hitting character-development.
I also love the use of music in this series. The director is very much like Bee-Train, in the way that he puts a lot of emphasis on the music, but the difference between the two is that the music here is at its best when the tension is slowly rising, instead of the actual climaxes in Bee-Train’s case. The composer, Yuugo Kanno, is relatively unknown, and he’s only composed the music of a small amount of series, among which Hataraki Man and Library War. It’s interesting, because I remember noting in the first episode of Library Wars how great the music was, and then strangely enough the music dulled out afterwards. Now that the guy has teamed up with such an excellent director, it’s great to hear what he can really do for a soundtrack.
It sounds like it’s a good episode. I look forward to it.
Conti by Watanabe Shinichiro…OH-MY-GOD
I haven’t seen the name since Eureka…nice come back!
Very nice episode. Like the calm before the storm, only it’s hit by the end of the episode. I like how Senkawa decided to get off his duff and do something already, and Muroto helping him be a hero was a cool twist (I can overlook the coincidence of them meeting up in the middle of the street). I didn’t think Shymalan’s plan would be so crazily ambitious (even sacrificing himself as one of the “vermin” he so despises) but there you have it. Looking forward to the next episode. It should be epic if Noein is anything to judge by it.
weew i though this was the finale 😛 i was like no way not a cliffhanger!!! 😛
good to know there is another episode 🙂
Neat way to build it up, hopefully it uses that build-up and becomes awesome. But I dunno, my hopes are up but I struggle believing it. This is even more annoying than a cliff-hanger ._.
I actually think Senkawa was still his childish self; his attitude is pretty much the same. Because he likes Nakasugi and knows her, he bitched out at Birdy for killing a weapon that killed many animals and people.
It’s pretty plain to see, no matter how strong your feelings are for someone – if they’re going to turn into a weapon hell bent on destroying the Earth, it’s probably better to destroy them. He’s such a hypocrite because HOW IS the ryunka already killing hundreds of people better than Birdy and the others getting rid of it? He’s just selfish and doesn’t think about the countless other people already dead by the time he got to that bridge.
I think that Shyamalan getting killed by the ryunka was a rather “safe” ending, because the general storyline goes mad genius/scientist creates/controls a super weapon and ends up getting killed by it.
guyz i wanna to ask about the name of scary song when ryunka awake.i wanna to know the song name.plz help me.thanks before^^