Short Synopsis: The attack on the headquarters of the bad guys.
Highlights: Turtle dude rocks
Overall Enjoyment Value: 8,5/10 (Awesome)
You know, I really consider this episode to have the best action-scenes of the entire series so far. Okay, so they still weren’t as well animated as episode one, but they were one thing: incredibly fun to watch. Really, so much went on, and more especially, the major characters involved showed their best sides. It’s strange, the fights definitely weren’t the most well animated, or intense, or had the best fight coordination out there, but they kept my interest throughout the entire episode.
This episode felt so out of place in this series, but yet it worked. The car-chase-scene, the motorbike, it all fitted, and just about everything in this episode was really creative. The characters aren’t deep at all, but they’re fleshed out just enough to make us care about them. And I think that that was why I enjoyed this episode so much.
The problem is of course where this series is going to go after this point. The fact remains that the two characters who made this episode so much fun to watch are dead now, and we know hardly anything about the big bad guy. Seriously, WHO IS HE?! This guy seriously lacks fleshing out. I really wonder where the creators can be able to take him as such a stereotypical evil overlord. But then again, I do have high hopes for the reunion with Kuromitsu, and the deaths of the final two partners of Kuro (I mean, there’s no way that those two are going to make it to the end of the series with this pace ;P).
Yeah it’s pretty obvious that all the other characters are expandable trash and what makes it so laughable is that they are given no room to grow at all, so you really don’t give a shit when they die. They did some horrible attempt at giving Kalta some depth with his amazing cooking skills and him talking about his favourite anime, but with him being such a poorly developed character it was like hanging a “kill me” sign on his neck. The only thing that was missing was him saying somthing like “HEY DUUDZ YOU KNOW WHAT, I’M GETTING MARRIED TOMMOROW”
However, despite the supporting characters being flat and uninteresting, it’s still an enjoyable action series, but it could have been so much more 🙁
you should read the manga