Is there really no limit on Gamigami Maou’s brilliance? It really seems that he manages to come up with a genious invention at every friggin single episode! Ah well, not that I’m complaining. ^^;
Today’s models are a stylish radar in order to track down Hyuu, brilliantly code-named as the “love-love-sensor”, and a giant zeppellin, Gamigami-style. Especially the former was just awesome. It indeed tells Hyuu’s exact location, and displays this on a giant radar-screen. Gamigami’s only mistake was that he forgot to put up some kind of index, which means that he can’t even understand his own invention. It gets only greater when later in the episode, they finally manage to reach Hyuu, though it seems that they took a huge detour in order to get to her. ^^;
In any case, about the episode. It’s clearly another character-development episode, in which the episode doesn’t have too much plot progression, so that it can really focus on the character development for some of the different characters. In this case, Hyuu, Pietoro and Narcia. Apart from that, Gamigami, Ston and Sanda are just totally awesome once more and queen Sania shows some motherly affection.
Pietoro gets blown away by a huge gale of wind (Hyuu’s work, she unknowingly blew Pietoro away) and he ends up in some kind of desert, or sand plain. As the desert is a very nasty place if you come there unprepared, he starts having visions after quite a short time. These are all visions about the Popolocrois Castle, and the friends he made there. (Interesting note: no Hyuu in these visions). Still, his stubbornness gets himself back to civilized areas. The creators used an interesting little trick, which really worked out well. Pietoro struggles further, he has no idea where he is, and so, he doesn’t even notice that he’s near civilization. When he starts calling out people, Shirokishi and Narcia just used the right timing to run into him. It’s a nice effect, and it makes more sense than when they would’ve found him in the middle of the desert.
Narcia, meanwhile, as she is separated from Pietoro, gets a few lessons about loneliness. She’s extremely lonely without him, though a helpful townswoman comforts her a bit. Overall, she learned quite a bit from this.
Hyuu, meanwhile, still has her own problems. As last episode showed, she flew off randomly. She’s been doing that ever since, and she came to realize that she’s a Wind-kind, destined to be lonely (this really went well with Narcia’s struggles). She even blasts Gamigami, Ston and Sanda away when they come in the Zeppelin to look for her (which also blasted Pietoro away). (Interesting note: before she did this, all kinds of birds were following her. After the blast, even the birds wouldn’t come near her. She then spends the night in the open again, having nightmares about Ston and Sanda’s true feelings. In the end, however, she realizes that she really needs the three of them. Especially after they show up the next morning in the barely working remains of the zeppeling. It’s funny if you imagine that Gamigami spent the entire night trying to get that thing back to work. ^^;
This episode also featured Queen Sania’s theme song. It’s been a long time since we’ve had another one, but I still love them. Things are also going very good at the new location of Popolocrois castle, as the first plants start to grow. Shirokishi leaves again, though. In order to search for the great sword. I wonder if he’ll ever find it.
Overall, it was a very nice, laid-back episode. Not too many thing happened, characters got some healthy dose of character-development, and Gamigami, Ston and Sanda were just as great as ever.
