This episode, it’s Yase’s turn to get some fleshing out. Also with some material from the second OVA, but again it succeeds to add so many things. Whereas the second OVA was very cryptic, this episode really puts things into perspective, and really explains why Yase acts the way she does.
I’d also like to highlight something else here: a common pitfall for anime is to just take one episode to develop and give backstory, only for the creators to really not know what to to with the character in particular afterwards. That is not the case here. Even the side-characters feel dynamic: we see different sides of them and they all still feel alive, rather than just cardboard cut-outs after they’ve lost their place in the spotlights. That’s another sign of great storytelling.
Oh, and this capital is an awesome place, in which stuff can’t be destroyed other than letting it float away into oblivion. This episode was also about this concept, and how people who value stuff versus the people who don’t value stuff deal with things. This again ties in with the parents disappearing to form one big hole, even though this series at first seems completely random.
Rating: 5.5/8 (Excellent)
Can’t wait to see where all this build up and character development is going
Y’know you can say ”expand on a character” in other ways than ”fleshing out”. It’ a bit barbarian. : D
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Good, the show finally started to make sense last episode so I can finally start enjoying it for what it is, and this was a great start to that. I’m not sure about any of you, but not knowing what was going on until episode 4 was REALLY annoying. I just couldn’t appreciate the show because I was so confused. It loses points for that with me (it’s a problem I had with Baccano! too, but that show ended up being well worth the 3 episode confusion). But yeah, great episode, because the cast is relatively small, characters can get developed and NOT fade away into oblivion, which is always a good thing.
The show started making sense after episode 2 for me. Everything since is just nice clarification.
Once you accept the fact that the series isn’t really trying to go in a linear plot progression at the moment, it becomes easy enough to accept that there’s important information we don’t have yet but will and accept things as they come.
Honestly if you don’t watch or try to relate things too much to episode 0 then episode 1 struck me as perfectly followable, as did 2. They just didn’t really flow together all that sensibly.