This episode is entirely away from the main plot aside from a few scenes at the beginning and end of the episode. Instead, we get an entire Aria episode, which really was a neat way as the final Letter Bee episode of the year. Aria really benefited from this episode, and it made her a much more interesting character, which is bound to be useful as soon as Noir wakes up. Eventually.
Usually when a main character has this “sempai” he looks up to, it’s this sempai who has the most amount of parallels with his situation. Instead though, this episode showed that Lag and Nichi look much more like Aria and Bolt than Gauche and Roda: Lag lacks Gauche’s ambition or will to protect. Instead, both he and Aria are ridiculously innocent, they’re both running after Gauche like crazy, and both have some of the best dingo around, compared to Zazie or Connor, who rely the most on their own weapons.
The Gaichuu in this episode did suffer from the “Oh, those protagonists look very interesting while they talk to each other; let me just watch them and do nothing for a while”-syndrome, but granted we didn’t really have any clue as to what they were thinking. That is one of the minor flaws of this series: as Villains, the gaichuu have no depth at all, and they’re just a bunch of “Humans tasty”-villains so far. I really hope that the Cabernets will change this.
Also, whoa! I could have seen this coming, but for the artificial sun to consist out of human heart… that definitely gives a different spin to this story. For the first time, we actually get a glimpse of what the people from the capital actually did, and at this point it’s a lot more clear how valuable that sun is, and why people aren’t making more of them.
Rating: ** (Excellent)
Haha, I never thought about “why people don’t make more of them” beyond the assumption that it was prohibitively expensive to produce.
Interesting. What CAN’T you do with human heart in this world?
I called this so long ago it’s ridiculous ^.^, lets see if the rest of my statement was true as well (that the current sun is lag’s mother and that he is a bi product of the light and as such not human.)
Not “Humans Tasty” but rather “Heart tasty”. Which explains why they go after letters, or why they seem to always appear where the bees go.
The gaichuu lacking as Villains? LOL They are simply beasts, and it was explained back at Blue Notes Blue arc.
As for now, having introduced Garrard and Valentine, they had to skip a bit from manga plotline. So they shortened Niche’s return and jumped directly to Aria and Niche episode. They skipped like 5 episodes.
Beware: MANGA SPOILER
Spoiler Removed
– psgels
I think it’s best not to post spoilers at all, rather than to warn people. We don’t know where the adaptation intends to go, and it may backtrack or develop in an entirely different direction. Instead of leaving possibly poisonous breadcrumbs to tempt people with, just sit back and see if they time-shift material.
Well you’re right M. Actually I only wrote about the alternate version from the manga. It’s clear they couldn’t stick to the manga as they already introduced Garrard and Valentine as member of Reverse before, so it’s quite hard they will animate that part. Just notice they just skiped it all, so that’s why I posted that.
Psgels, if you think it’s better, just delete that spoiler. Btw, work out some spoiler tag too if possible.
I just mean that it’s not clear that they won’t move it around in some form, rather than skip it entirely. They took a hatchet to the story in the first season too, but they did get to the things they cut into eventually. I like Tegami Bachi as written, and I know the temptation of correcting the ship’s course, but it might inadvertently detract from someone else’s enjoyment if one doesn’t guess correctly. I understand the position you’re in here. I’ve read this entry several times contemplating how to write a useful comment without saying too much. If they go with an anime-original ending it’ll probably just get harder to guess.