Now I understand why Marco got his Seirei before Luna did, even though he was introduced later than she was. Marco’s purpose in the story isn’t focused on mystery. What we have here is a nice, unique guy. His element lies more in his background and personality, and the way he interacts with others. Luna’s purposes are to let Pinon have the first tastes of friendship, and her mysterious side.
We get our first major clue to this mystery during this episode. Luna has always been silent about where she came from, and Pinon never asked her about it. Indeed, she’s not a normal human. She’s some kind of water spirit. Quite possibly the water-version of Narcia, the forest witch. For some reason, if she uses Narcia’s key, she can transform to this form. She considers fish as dear friends, therefore, it’s hard for her to see her friends locked up in ice like that. If you also combine this with the fact that we saw her swimming with full freedom at the beginning of the show, it must mean that she either was able to transform, long before she got the key, or she’s always been free in water, without having the need to breath. I’m suspecting the latter, though I’m curious why she would need Narcia’s key to change back to her true form. After all, Narcia did it in order to hide her true form from the ocean, not backwards. Maybe Luna has fallen under some kind of spell?
In any case, I think that we’ve left the lightest of the episodes behind us, and they’ll actually be continuing to get darker and darker as they progress. The Seirei of Darkness only proves this, when it seems that he successfully managed to exploit Pinon’s weakness: his constitution. He distracts Pinon by summoning the usual guardian, in order to break the seal of darkness. You’d wonder why he needed Pinon to be in the neighbourhood in order to do this, couldn’t he just have done it without Pinon ever noticing? In any case, he seems quite happy, as nobody’s able to stop him now. Narcia indeed begins to notice a suspicious darkness coming from Popolocrois Forest.
Marco was quite funny during this episode. I especially like his spontaneous reaction to everything happening around him, and that he isn’t afraid to show his surprise when something doesn’t appear to be what he expected. He’s also got quite a big role in this episode, despite it being focused at Luna. It’s the same with the Fire-Seirei. Even though it was supposed to be Marco’s turn to shine, the episode actually featured Pinon, learning to trust and count on others. Same here, Marco gets some development as well when he finally steps out of Pinon’s shadow by getting helped by Bobo. It seems that he got quite annoying of Pinon, who kept standing in the spotlight. He was even making sarcastic jokes about this.
Interesting detail: Papu remained quiet when Chappii (the Water-Seirei’s name) appeared. We also see no scenes at which Chappii gets scared of him. He also remained suspiciously silent near the Fountain of Truth.
There’s also one thing I like about Kotoro: each and every one of his inventions has at least one major flaw. It’s also the thing in which he differs from his father. When Gamigami makes a mistake like that, his machine still ends up doing what its supposed to do. That’s what makes him a genius. Kotoro’s mistakes, meanwhile, are much more disastrous. And so he ends up with an drill, in which the passenger’s seat ends up spinning alongside the drill, causing the driver to get quite nauseous. Punpun has been getting rather dull these times. She should just use violence, grab Pinon and run off to somewhere unknown with him. She needs to get a bit more into the action, rather than fangirling over Pinon.
