Crystal Blaze – 04


Heh, this episode finally featured an actually funny fanservice joke. When the horny doctor first appeared, I feared the worst, but his nurse’s BSDM have turned out to be quite hilarious. Especially the dog’s outfit was brilliant. Really, if series as Kanokon realized this, they would have been quite fun, though instead they just can’t think beyond the tried-and-true formula of groping, blood-noses and panty-shots.

Fanservice aside, I’m still surprised at how much I’m enjoying this show, seeing as it’s turned into one of the dark horses of this season in the rest of the anime-community. The budget is indeed quite low. Studio Fantasia is no Satelight or Madhouse, so the drawings and animation are quite simple. And yet this has never had a weak episode so far, in my opinion at least. This episode again was a great one, and it finally pushes the plot forward again.

We learn that the one who changed all the women to glass was indeed that little girl. This time, she kills Yuumi, who indeed went on her solo-debut, dropping Seiji without him even knowing it. The glass women like her and Sara were meant as humanoid weapons. Hence why the bad guys are so interested in retrieving her. They’re currently in the process of testing out their work, which has finally shown its fruits.

One thing I also like is how this series has managed to make characters likable who would have been really cliché otherwise. Especially Shu and Manami would have been incredibly annoying if they didn’t receive any development. Manami, however, turned into a really sympathetic character, who’s just finding out how naive she’s been in the past episodes. She’s a girl with real fears, instead of contractor-like behaviour (a la Darker than Black) of knowing what to do in any dangerous situation. Shu meanwhile turned into quite a refreshing main character, who neither is a stereotypical ambitious guy nor a carefree “cool dude”. This guy doesn’t care about being the best; he just cares about the people around him. For some strange reason, both of them have really turned into my favourite characters in this series.

5 thoughts on “Crystal Blaze – 04

  1. Manami turned out to be a sympathetic character? With what reasons do you mean by this? The series hasn’t revelaed any of her past unlike Ayaka.
    Rememebr when she even gave terrible comments to Ayaka and didn’t even say sorry after? Honestly, so far Manami is one of the annoying characters i’ve ever seen. Makes me want to drop the series everytime I see her.

  2. I see the thing about Manami, giving terrible comments to Ayaka more as a part of Manami’s personality, and how she lacks any sort of subtlety. In my eyes, she’s a character who means well, but is still way too naive to live in such a city, which gives an interesting dimension to this series.

  3. I agree, I think Manami really missed the point in ep. 03. IS IT MORE important finding a person and getting it done OR doing it “your way”? Sometimes, doing it “your way” might be too slow/DOESN’T EVEN WORK and it might be too late. I think she needs to get over herself.

  4. Ayaka seems kinda slow, I mean she saw Sara as the glass maiden in the beginning. I don’t get why she ran away from Sara ???.

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