So… Phi Brain is getting a second season. I did not see that coming. Despite that though, I’m pretty thrilled for it: Sato Junichi is going to do another 52 episode series. That is a lot to look forward to here. Now all that’s left to hope is that the source material is also up to it.
The most boring course of events will be that Rook will turn into some sort of damsel in distress after Kaitou saves him at the end of this first season. I really hope that there will be more to it than just that. It’s not just the predictability, but what’s more important is that that just throws away a perfectly good villain here. And there is also no way in which the creators will be able to top him. It would really suck if Rook’s role was reduced, because of how much he already did for Kaitou’s character development.
In the meantime we have yet another very good episode here. At this point, I have given up on the believability of this series. Heck, the creators just went ahead and completely rewrote the city map of Venice. Seriously? And that wasn’t even the weirdest part. that came with one of the POG givers coming up with a scenario where that organization was actually able to hijack and crash dozens of planes at the same time. The worst thing… is that I nearly believed him.
As a Gammon-centric episode however, it really rocked. Gammon stands out as a character because he is the only one here who gets more and more pissed off at Kaitou. These past episodes were all about developing the side cast in different ways. Cubic got a kick on the ego (on top of losing his pet robot… sortof…), Ana’s change was more positive as she grew closer to the rest of the cast with her episode. All of it put Kaitou in a good light, though. This episode instead show how he keeps standing in the spotlights of someone with such a huge pride as Gammon. The guy is talented, yet people never take him seriously and every time he has the chance to prove otherwise, Kaitou just bursts in from out of nowhere. I like where this is going here.
Rating: ** (Excellent)
“I’m pretty thrilled for it: Sato Junichi is going to do another 52 episode series”
Actually, he’s done 50 episode anime before: Goldfish Warning, Futago Hime, Maple Town Story, etc.
Yup, on top of Aria and Kaleido Star. Which is why I’m thrilled for it. 🙂
I want Gammon to vs. Kaito in a puzzle!
The last two episodes were probably my favorite of the whole series. At first i just watched it each week cause of the crazyness but as you said the characters truly do grow on you. I never thought I could have liked Gammon or Cubic as much as I do, because at first they were such obnoxious characters. But the cast works so well together.
Now if only this show got a bigger budget! There are so many distorted faced!
GAMMON VS. KAITO!ITS PUZZLE TIME!!!
Why do you refer to Ana as female? Not criticizing, simply curious. ^^
I liked this episode, but I think I preferred the last one… Even though I truly enjoy seeing the tension build up between Gammon and Kaito. I wonder where this is heading…