Short Synopsis: Jin infiltrates Kakisu’s base in order to get his daughter back.
Overall Enjoyment Value: 8/10 (Excellent)
One of the many things I love about this series: it knows that it shouldn’t force its main characters towards the centre of attention all the time. It’s often said that a good story writes itself, and that’s really the case here. Akiyuki has a clear purpose in the series, but until his time comes the creators smartly focus on the rest of the characters of this series. In this episode, it’s about the people on Sentan Island.
Especially Kakisu is going crazy, and the next episode looks to be a big climax for him. In this episode, he kills the white-haired kid he captured when the latter starts talking about the former’s past.
It’s also a big episode for Akiyuki’s parents. When the series started, I really believed that they’d be your standard hero’s parents, who stayed at home while their son went on an adventure, but this episode shows that they’re very much involved with their own story. The two of them feel like proper characters, instead of plot devices.
“Akiyuki has a clear purpose in the series”
Really? And what is his purpose?
Just watch the show and find out. :\
His purpose seems to be to kill the Hiruken Emperor and to do something important in the Quickening or whatever (I don’t remember it being explained).
Best (and only) romance I’ve ever seen between two married forty-something people with a kid. Black Heaven sucked, so it doesn’t count. Only other awesome older people couple I can think of were the detective guy and the sick lady from Paranoia Agent. Cheers for Xam’d being nothing much like anything else once again.
It also amuses me that the parents got a romantic kiss scene before the teenagers.