Magical Girl Misaki - Flesh Encroaching Brainwash Read

When Misaki and Mikoto hitting a major traffic jam, Misaki summons the ability of the "Exterior" to brainwashevery commuter in their path to pull aside, thus clearing a path. Information technology's clearly a significant attempt for Misaki, pushing Mental Out to its limits. From in that location, we acquire virtually how her ability was developed at the same facility as Paradigm, perhaps the first Mikoto clone. Her nickname, "Dolly" is a reference to the first successfully cloned sheep.

Dolly 's handlers have been unable to make progress with her e'er since her friend "Mi-chan" (heavily unsaid to have been Kozaku Mitori) went away. The white coats (who distressingly see both Dolly and Misaki as merely test samples to exist used and tending of equally needed) conscript Misaki to be Dolly's new lab-issued friend.

Misaki uses Mental Out to brainwash Dolly into believing she's Mi-chan. Misaki was just every bit haughty back then, and then she'southward initialy feels his whole enterprise to be a hassle…until she becomes fast friends with Dolly. Similar the girl who was cloned to create her, Dolly is far more athletic than Misaki, as evidenced past her far superior garbage can aim.

At the same time, Misaki tries to impress upon Dolly the importance of growing into a refined lady—a losing boxing she picks up with Mikoto, to a caste. Without even intending to get along with the white coats, Misaki ends upwards restoring Dolly'southward "inner peace", allowing enquiry on her to continue without emotional anomalies.

More than than that, Misaki forms a existent emotional bond with Dolly, blushing when Dolly suddenly hugs her—and pointedly smells out the deception. The ii are simply playing around until Dolly suddenly collapses, her clone body shutting downward.

It's then, when she reaches her hand out for a distraught Misaki, that Dolly asks her her name. Information technology dawns on Misaki that Dolly knew she wasn't Mi-chan, just kept the fiction going considering she was happy to have a new friend, and grateful to Misaki for beingness one. Dolly'due south decease is a gut dial.

The white coats are then frustrated whenMisaki is the 1 in emotional turmoil, as if information technology never occurred to them she'd have these things called feelings. Call it professional detachment from ane's scientific subjects…but Misaki is man, for chrissakes! Showing no deference to them, Misaki uses her Mental Out on all of them and learns the truth: once they're done tinkering with her, she'll encounter the aforementioned fate as Dolly.

The Outside projection continues, with part of Misaki'due south brain removed and cultivated into ahuge brain, which serves every bit a booster for her powers—and which is what she used to part traffic back in the present. It'due south also the "DNA Estimator" the urban legends site mentioned. By the time she and Mikoto make it at Exterior, Kihara Gensei's forces take already infiltrated, forcing Misaki's associate Keitz to flee to the roof with 10032.

But Misaki is besides late: Kihara tunes the giant brain to his own brainwaves, bypassing the demand for length registration and enabling him to utilize Mental Out. He uses it to freeze Keitz, takes his phone, and uses information technology to trash talk Misaki, revealing that it was he who instructed Kiyama Harumi on how to utilize Level Upper.

He then removes all of the protection placed on MISAKA 10032, something First Guild immediately notices while playing cards with Accelerator in a infirmary room. So Kihara injects a kind of mental virus into 10032, which is instantaneously transmitted to all other Sisters in the network, knocking them all out.

Mikoto arrives on the rooftop just in time for Kihara to trigger her dormant esper powers. She's revealed to be his main target all forth, every bit he hopes she'll exist the commencement to achieve a stable Level 6. Several floors below, Misaki no longer has admission to Exterior, while Touma manages to track down Saten every bit she'south exiting the manufacturing plant with Xochitl.

The master pair of powerful lasses, and so, will need some outside help if they're going to have a run a risk of escaping Kihara's clutches. Mikoto looks completely out of control—half-Akira, half-Lilliputian Prince—or worse,under Kihara's control. Will spirited, virtuous youth win out over the greed and contempt of an onetime man with a Gorbachev birthmark? Nosotros shall see…

Now that Asuna has revealed herself, Kikuoka must respond some questions for her. It turns out he wasn't lying when he said Kirito was receiving treatment he couldn't receive anywhere else. They have him in a full-spec STL that is gradually rebuilding his damaged brain, though they still don't know if he'll ever wake up.

Even so, Kikuoka didn't bring Kirito to Rath HQ out of the kindness of his heart. As an SDF official, he has always sought new means to fight wars ever since the NerveGear came out. When fully copying the souls of fully-formed real-world adults failed (none will e'er accept they are copies), they had to utilise the copies of infant souls, and raise them in a controlled virtual surround where they'd accept their being—bottom-up AI.

While that in and of itself was a major accomplishment, information technology acquired bug for Kikuoka vis-a-vis his ultimate goal: to develop a new weapon for the defense force of Nihon. The AIs followed the constabulary—the Taboo Index—precisely and without exception. The Underworld was a utopia with no crime…until Alice crossed that border equally a result of her dealings with Kirito, whom they placed into the world after wiping his memory.

In consequence, Kirito was the chaotic element they needed in gild to "teach" their homegrown bottom-upward AIs to suspension the police force; even to murder. Alice, or A.50.I.C.E. (a rather tortured acronym I will non echo), was the first product of introducing Kirito to the projection: the first AI to dissent and resist the Taboo Index (fifty-fifty if it was accidental).

That, Kikuoka hopes, is the first step towards edifice an ground forces of artificial fluctlights capable of killing an enemy, which will hateful no longer having to sacrifice real-world soldiers in conflicts—a huge strategic reward that could elevate real-world Japan to the highest echelons of global power.

Of course, this opens up a tremendous ethical and philosophical can of worms; 1 so big Kikuoka himself isn't interested in pondering it across the limited scope of what is essentially a weapon R&D projection. But having experienced nearly equally much virtual life as Kirito, Asuna isnot okay with exploiting souls that are the cognitive equal to real-earth humans equally, well, cannon fodder. Perhaps they're not real humans, but they're close enough for it to be wrong.

Nevertheless, in the imperfect homo earth, two or more wrongs oftentimes make a right, and while Kikuoka is definitely putting out some serious supervillain vibes with his secret base of operations and yukata, his intentions to eliminate the human toll of war are noble. But he execution has yielded the creation of a new race of beings that aren't necessarily his to do with as he pleases.

Project Alicization is, in a style, ane massive crime confronting virtual humanity. While she loved Kayaba too much to impale him, Koujirou Rinko is however aware of the office she played in his crimes.  But when she confesses that part to Asuna, Asuna is forgiving, considering she doesn't feel she's in whatsoever position to forgive.

Asuna and Kirito, like Rinko and Kayaba, have besides committed crimes in their diverse virtual dealings. But all they tin do is accept that and move forrad, learning the lessons that had to be learned. And right at present those lessons are telling Asuna that Kikuoka is doing is wrong, even if it is saving Kirigaya Kazuto.

I imagine at some indicate Asuna is going to plug into one of those unused STLs, to reunite with Kirito and, if he ends up remembering her, confer with him on how they should deal with Kikuoka and his monstrously advanced experiment.

Even assuming Kikuoka had free reign to practice as he pleased, in that location are and so many complex variables in his arrangement that something unexpected is certain to arise. If and when it all blows up in his face, he'll demand people like Asuna and Kirito to clean up his mess.

After spending four episodes in the Underworld with Kirito, nosotros finally return to thereal world, picking upward correct where nosotros left it, when Kazuto got injected while protecting Asuna.

Asuna meets Suguha and Kazuto'southward mother at the hospital, where they're informed that he may never regain consciousness afterward suffering untold damage when his heart was stopped for five minutes.

Then everyone'south favorite morally ambiguous suit Kikuoka Seijirou shows up, telling Kaz's family unit that at that place'southward only i identify that can care for him properly.

They concur, and Kazuto is transferred to another facility, merely when Asuna and Suguha try to visit him the same evening, they aren't immune. Further, Asuna's monitor of Kaz's eye rate is out of range; he's justgone, and then is Kikuoka.

Asuna and Suguha meet with their friends in ALO to bring them up to speed, and with help from Yui they brainstorm to assess the places he's been and the places he could be at present. The group splits upward, with Klein driving Asuna and Suguha to a nondescript warehouse and helipad…only there'southward no Kazuto, at least not anymore.

Obviously at a dead end, Yui tells "Mama" Asuna not to give up, as "Papa" Kirito never gave up looking for Asuna in ALfheim. Like-minded, Asuna asks Suguha if she remembers anything her bro said nearly his job; she remembers that the machine he used was based on the Medicuboid, designed by Kayaba Akihiro, AKA Heathcliff, inventor of NerveGear and Game Master of SAO.

Asuna recalls someone watched over Kayaba while he was diving, then recalls her proper name: Koujirou Rinko. Yui finds Rinko at a lab in California. She, along with Kayaba, was a member of the Shigemura Lab, which developed the Augma headset. It stands to reason she might know about STL and Kazuto's wherabouts, so Asuna sends her an email.

Turns out Dr. Koujirou Rinko has already been hounded by Kikuoka to join him on a new project, then she travels to his location via helicopter, which turns out to exist aTotally Crawly Height Secret Floating Base of operations called "Sea Turtle." Rinko is accompanied by her blonde English-speaking, somewhat shifty assistant Mayumi Reynolds.

After going through a veritable gauntlet of security checkpoints, Rinko and Mayumi enter a command room that oversees the Underworld Kirito is currently living in. Information technology would seem to be an bodily physical environment, which explains why those crossing its boundaries into the "Country of Darkness" are so harshly punished.

In the command room they meet Kikuoka, donning yukata and geta as if he were at a seaside retreat. That's when Rinko reveals why she finally agreed to come up: her assistant "Mayumi" is actually Asuna in disguise. When Rinko heard from Asuna that Kazuto—whom she met following the death of her lover Kayaba, and who chosenon to destroy the World Seed—she decided she'd help Asuna whatsoever style she can.

And so now Asuna has managed to slip by a number of layers of carefully laid security and is in the very centre of Rath'due south performance. And she's PISSED. She wants to know where Kirito is,pronto. Considering everything she's been through thus far, including i would hope Kikuoka would be amenable to her request. Now things are starting to get interesting.

Frikkin' scientists, amirite? It's said Adam and Eve were cast out of Eden, merely the moment they tasted the fruit from the Tree of Noesis, Eden pretty much ceased to exist anyway. Eden is an impossibility in a earth where humanity is aware that at that place is far more than to the globe than the limited, tedious paradise they inhabit.

Cognition is simultaneously what makes humans humans and what constantly threatens to destroy them. It is humanity that developed globe-catastrophe nuclear weapons; it isalso humanity that maintains the delicate residue that has kept those weapons from being used for over vii decades and counting.

This week onDFX nosotros larn a lot more nearly Dr. FranXX, formerly Werner Frank, eccentric bohemian scientific genius. We besides larn that APE began as a collection of elite scientists, and they recruited him to piece of work on something that has always fascinated humans: how to brand immortality a reality.

Information technology's all as well poetic that humanity developed the ability that could massacre most of the human being populationin one day,while we still have a long way to get earlier we're all immortal. And yet, I can't help simply call up the same affair that staves off nuclear state of war is the affair that keeps us from advancingtoo far in achieving immortality.

That thing is fright. If there is ever a global nuclear state of war, it could end humanity. If there is ever a quantum that makes humans immortal, it willalso end humanity; just in a dissimilar way.

Simply that's the real globe. Here inDFX humanity advances far across the "rubber zone" of maintaining humanity as we know it, thanks to bright minds similar Frank and his colleague Karina Milsa.

Their efforts are beauteous, simply to quote the incomparable Dr. Ian Malcolm, they were so preoccupied with whether theycould accomplish immortality, they never stopped to ask whether theyshould.

The Magma Energy mining system developed by APE ends up gradually  desertifying much of the World'due south surface. But Magma Energy too grants humans—now essentially immortal—to build grand structures like Plantations in which to live. Information technology'south just evolution, right?

Only Magma Free energy has some other side result: the emergence of the inscrutable, ruthless Klaxosaurs. It'south as if the world was trying to correct humanity's technological overreach, and restore its mortality.

Still, Frank and Milsa's massive scientific intellects are re-purposed to developing anti-Klaxosaur weapons: a robot that would come up to be called the FranXX. At first it had a single pilot. I of the test pilots was Milsa, who loved Frank and married him, but was lost in a prototype accident when the robot went berserk.

Upon losing the just person in his life Frank had a shut connection to, he lost another part of his humanity, and then stopped caring almost the future of flesh and simply focused on how much further he could progress it; how much better he could make weapons with which to defeat their new enemy.

FranXX became piloted by male-female person pairs, restoring a measure of the reproductive bulldoze lost by the proliferation of immortality treatments. Mankind put themselves back into a state of godliness and thus rebuilt Eden and locked themselves in for an eternal stay.

Only the pilots, parasites of FranXX were involved in fighting the Klaxosaurs outside of Eden (or, in the example of Mistilteinn, simply beyond its borders). Meanwhile adults lived their countless dull lives in the Eden they congenital, and forgot all well-nigh Klaxosaurs in the beginning identify.

APE eventually located the Klaxosaur "leader," and sends Frank to investigate. Of his team, only he is spared by the "Princess", whom he regards as the nigh beautiful beingness he's ever seen. Simply she can olfactory property the blood of her Klaxosaur brethren on his hands, and exacts punishment in the form of trigger-happy off his arm.

This ordeal does non discourage Frank in the least. Considering how far he'd come up to come up confront-to-confront with such a fascinating being, it stands to reason he'd keep pushing to perfect mankind'due south defenses, non for it'due south own sake, only similar climbing a mountain, because it (existence discovery) is simplythere.

Frank seeks no earthly rewards or accolades; merely more noesis, and the self-recognition that he progressed the technology as far as he "humanly" could.

This brings united states to the present, where Frank is now known every bit Dr. Franxx, and he'south grizzled and partially mechanized. APE, still his bosses, wiped Kokoro and Mitsuru's memories without his knowledge or consent, thus in his mind impeding the path he himself set to accomplish the results they seek. Frank/Franxx never had any trouble achieving results. The problem lay in themeans with which he used to achieve them.

Regardless, results are results, and they've given him enough clout to allow Squad 13 to have a candid audience with APE in guild to land their wishes: for Kokoro and Mitsuru'south memories to exist restored. No can do, APE cites; they cannot restore what is no longer there; the memories wereremoved, not just blocked.

Upon learning this, Hiro gets upset, and tells APE they tin can no longer consider people who did such things to them their "Papa", i.eastward. their authority to which to be subservient.

When the APE members don't fifty-fifty carp answering Zorome's naive question virtually how many Klaxosaurs they'll take to kill to go adults (because the answer is "you volition never be adults") "Papa" lost their last advocate in Squad 13.

They may need Franxx'southward know-how and connections to accept whatever success at opposing APE, but that doesn't hateful Hiro volition e'er forgive him for what he did to both him, Zero Two, and whoever else he used as mere tools or variables in his grand experiments.

Nosotros as well learn how Zero 2 came to be: when the Klaxosaur Princess attacked him, he managed to come away non just with his life, but a clump of her hair…hair containing her DNA…which he used to clone her, thus, presumably, creating Zero Ii.

And then will he help Nil 2, Hiro, and Squad 13? Accept they rekindled his belief that humanity isn't actually human unless they can dearest, struggle, and dice? I hope and then; the kids demand all the help they can get.

The "Desperate Fight in the Macro Zone" concludes in epic, massively satisfying, and surprisingly moving fashion, proving that splitting information technology into two parts was a smart move. Hellsalem's Lot gathers on rooftops to picket the pandemonium unfold, confident the globe's largest private, Gigagigafutmassif will put the Rielmonster in its place.

Of course, using strength against Riel only makes him bigger and stronger, leading Giga to beat a hasty retreat and leaving the crowd without a champion to save them from certain ruin. Chain and the Werewolf Agency are in the midst of a week wine cellar-emptying girls' "night" out, and miss the whole thing.

Riel has long since had his make full of his situation, merely Gemnemo is unsympathetic; he wants his latest experiment to play itself out to its devastating conclusion, with him pulling the strings the whole way. Riel now knows how solitary it is "at the height" of the metropolis's food chain.

For such an activity-packed episode, the first human activity is by and large Riel fondly remembering one fine day in Fundamental Park (or whatever it'southward called in HSL) with Leo. When a batted baseball breaks Riel'due south arm, Leo goes to bat for him, not simply standing upwards to the bully that hit the brawl and laughed at Riel's arm, but headbutting him.

Leo didn't back down on that lovely, pastoral twenty-four hour period (it really is a gorgeous memory accompanied past an appropriately wistful musical score), despite being small and relatively puny; Riel, on the other hand, is disgusted with himself for running away in a similar situation.

Now that he's more than lucid, he can see Libra members not back down even though their opponent is orders of magnitude bigger and stronger. And with infiltration practiced Chain indisposed, it falls to lil' Leo and Sonic to deposit Li Gado'south weapon into Riel's behemothic body. Leo has to take his God's Optics to their absolute limit, but he'south not giving up on his friend.

Gado makes it clear that Riel is probably not fifty-fifty in command of his body any more, as Gemnemo is a command freak who responds to Riel's second thoughts past starting an operation that will eliminate his gratuitous will—merelynon his senses,making him watch and hear all the millions he'll kill.

Gemnemo, in the finish, is just some other bully who has exploited Riel'south need to be stronger for his own scientific gain. Thankfuly, Sonic gets to Gemnemo in time to terminate him, and Riel'south behemothic torso gradually shrinks, until he stumbles and falls into the Eternal Hollow.

In the backwash, Zapp tries to excoriate a contrite (and likely hungover) Concatenation for being AWOL during the battle, but Leo steps in to remind Zapp that he was indisposed besides due to his endeavour to swindle Riel when he was more homo-sized.

Five days afterward, Leo has a walk in the park, however picturesque and tranquil, simply seems lonelier without Mr. Riel by his side. All of a sudden, he notices something under his shoe: Gado'southward weapon shrunk Riel to the size of a mouse!

Just Riel is actually just fine being this size; for i thing, the view's not bad (Leo now appears awe-inspiring to him, matching his bravery and loyalty to his friends); for another, he wouldn't feel right being all the fashion dorsum to normal after the fuss he acquired.

Leonardo Watch, and his fifty-fifty skinnier, more skittish friend Mr. Riel, are weaklings in the macro world, constantly falling victim to shakedowns from bigger, stronger bullies. Leo acknowledges and accepts his depression strength and fighting ability as simply the way things are.

And then he's hit in the head by the baseball-sized vehicles of microbial hyperdoctor Li Gado, who lives in a suit the size of a flea. Gado is later his scientific counterpart Gemnemo (also a microbe) whose super-unsafe experimentation on "hyperaugmented accelerated cell sectionalization" will affect both microand macro worlds. He's counting on Leo to aid him.

Riel, who is upset with himself for running when his friend was in trouble, is approached past Gemnemo, who offers to perform the hyperaugmentation process to make Riel stronger; someone to take seriously, even fear, rather than be taken advantage of.

It just so happens that Zapp is the kickoff person to (politely) endeavor to extract some pocket cash from post-procedure Riel, who reacts quite extremely, throwing Zapp out of the diner with such forcefulness he ricochets off several cars in the street.

Riel isn't seeking the bullies who mugged him and Leo before, simply they discover him, and immediately wish they hadn't; he beats the pulp out of them all, even the guy with fractal fists. When the police arrive, they detect that any offensive activeness only makes Riel bigger, stronger…and harder to reason with.

Klaus, on a low-key mission escorting the SS-level symbiotic prisoner Domestic dog Hummer/Deldro Brody to the art museum, gets air current of the police boxing, but larn of Riel'due south special power to absorb all forcefulness used against him a scrap likewise late, after Klaus tries to contain him with a blood grid barricade and Dog/Deldro perform the "Hundred Fissure Fist of Me".

The strength of both Klaus' defense and Dog/Deldro'south criminal offense causes Riel to grow tokaiju calibration. All of these big, huge hulking entities stalking around, keen into each other, ruining the city around them…and it all started with a microscopic conflict betwixt a microbial mad scientist and the valiant hyperdoctor working tirelessly to stop him.

The usual ways of dealing with threats won't work here; they'll merely make things worse. The fate of both worlds may depend on weak ol' Leo, Li Gado's hastily synthetic super-weapon (that looks like an elaborate plastic toy), and perhaps Sonic the monkey.

With Mayuko doomed to live the residuum of her life replacing Ushio'due south mom, Asako in the hospital all the same growing her skin dorsum, and a lot of people either dead, turned to rock, or unable to call back Ushio, this entire 2d season has been i big fat DOWNER.

In that location seems to be no end to Ushio'southward torment, every bit one thing after another crops up to brand his life that much more than dark and tragic. But have Nagare, who "frees" Ushio and Tora from a JASDF send taking them who knows where.

As was teased previously (by his evil grinning), Nagare is now on Hakumen's side. There's no caption why, nor why he retreats as suddenly as he appeared when a HAMMR helicopter approaches (he sliced an armored humvee in half; he can't take out a chopper?)

So yeah, there'due south been a lot of piling on this season, and each episode has dug deep into the vast repository ofUshio to Tora characters from the first season, dusting them off and putting them back on the game lath, like the 2 HAMMR scientists who didn't die.

All the negativity of compounded ordeals early on on made it hard to enjoy this episode, but the showdoes,to its credit, throw us a few bones of both hope and levity, which are much appreciated—though Asako getting out of bed and wandering effectually boondocks with her skin however healing, looking like a damn mummy, is definitely not 1 of those bones. For the love of God, Asako,become back to the infirmary!

Rather, Ushio'due south first bone is the Stone Eater armor HAMMR procured from the Kouhamei Sect before shit went downwardly. They believe information technology will help them in the latest trial he must face: stopping the JASDF, all the brass of which take been fooled past a faux Jei Mei, to launch missiles at the stone pillar at the bottom of the sea where Hakumen is (barely) existence held.

It's pretty obvious by how she speaks and looks that this Jei Mei is not Ushio's female parent, but a Hakumen fake, and it'southward merely every bit articulate destroying the stone pillar volition accept the opposite upshot of destroying Hakumen'southward power.

You know you're in a plot-heavy prove when a armada of submarines makes an appearance in your supernatural activity fantasy shounen rom-com-a-drama!So much stuff going on.

After Nagare's tease and HAMMR, Ushio decides to stop past at home to…make clean his room for some reason. Naturally, he runs into an ambush past more agents of Hakumen determined to vanquish the stone Azafuse before they revive and join the fight.

In the procedure, Ushio'south firm is fuckingdestroyed (I can't believe that hasn't happened like 5 times already, because all his unsafe adversaries!), and fifty-fifty when he dons his arguably badass Stone Eater armor, he and Tora cease up in a tight spot.

So it falls to the shattered bits of petrified Azafuse to glom onto Tora like armor which, while lamer-looking than Ushio's, enables Tora to take out the baddies with ease.

Later on that, all that's left is for Ushio to collect a couple of mementos from previous episodes and go down to the cellar to re-enact the scene where he first met Tora, which was….weird. I approximate information technology speaks to how on-the-same-wavelength these two are—and how desperate for a moment of fun and levity among all the destruction and despair—that they'd do such a goofy thing.

However, after seeing Asako wander the streets in her bandages, I was actually hoping she'd stop up at Ushio's identify, even if, realistically, she's still probably likewise delicate to make it at that place. But she didn't, which sucks, because now Ushio is off to the Okinawan Sea to stop those JASDF subs from doing something stupid.

When Tora arrives, he's really bored and just wants to nail shit, despite the fact things are more complicated due to the presence of Bal-chan within the Hakumen experiment. The insufferably procedural mental attitude of the scientists continues, with the three preparing to seal the entire lab and detonate it in order to prevent Hakumen from escaping—without regard to whoever is still inside.

That'due south when Asako and Ushio are all like STFU with the science-y emotional detatchment, because it's getting really old. They manage to convince one scientist, Helena, to stay behind and try to stop Hakumen to let everyone to escape safely.

Asako works with Helena up in the control room, simply when Helena is seriously wounded, Asako has to take over getting the oscillator up and running. In one case they immobilize the Hakumen in its tracks, Ushio and Tora costless Bal-chan and smash the Hakumen to pieces. Just while everyone is in a skilful position to exist saved, Helena seems to know betwixt her blood loss and the encroaching poisonous gas that her own fourth dimension is upwards.

In her final minutes, she'due south enlightened by the power Ushio and Tora draw from each other, those they wish to protect, and the powerful enemies they face. Equally such, this episode becomes a kind of mission statement for the show and information technology's core chemistry as a whole. No one inUshio to Tora thrives alone. Ushio needs Tora and Asako; Tora needs Ushio and Mayuko (and vice versa all 'round); and Ushio and Tora demand Hakumen no Mono to realize their total potential.

Without Asako and Helena's help, Ushio and Tora wouldn't have been able to beat Hakumen. When the humans succumb to the gas, it's up to Tora to get them all out of the lab before information technology explodes. It's a "pain in the donkey", but Torahas to practice it nevertheless, or he wouldn't be able to live with himself. More than that, he'd accept a lot less fun without these humans around.

I was glad to come across Helena, initially a thoroughly unlikable and immoral mad scientist, redeemed this week, along with her less courageous colleagues, who surrender to the JSDF, catastrophe H.A.Grand.G.R.'s brief rebellion. They tin take solace in knowing their faithful colleague worked tirelessly until the end to get them data on Hakumen vital to developing a weapon confronting information technology.

As for Ushio, he's faked out by the Asako dummy Tora made from his pilus, and the real Asako is right behind him to hear him cry out for her. So naturally, the two offset grouse in each other's faces almost who was more reckless today, only at the cease of the solar day, aside from Helena, whose sacrifice made it possible, anybody is prophylactic and sound.

Back to Fugen'in we go, where information technology'south another day, another threat by Tora to eat Ushio, and another instance of Ushio successfully resisting being eaten by using his Animate being Spear. Asako and Mayuko go far to at-home things down, or at to the lowest degree join in the chaos, and Shigure celebrates how back-to-normal life has become, hoping it can stay that way at least a niggling longer until the final showdown with Hakumen no Mono, who is awake and biding his/her time. We tin look forward to that showdown this coming Spring.

Okay, now that I'm aware that this bear witness isn't catastrophe with 26 episodes, I'chiliad a lot more than on lath with episodes like last week's which deepen the bonds of the characters through conflicts not straight related to facing and defeating Hakumen no Mono (besides, Ushio isn't quite set up to face the boss still).

Terminal week was Mayuko's time to smoothen, and shine she did; but I've also been itching for a proper Asako-centric episode, and this week delivered. It also re-integrated Hakumen into its conflict by introducing a new adversary not yet seen in the world ofUshio to Tora:Sthe anti-Hakumen scientific arrangement H.A.1000.One thousand.R. (it's a tortured acronym).

That'south right, Asako and Tora: these guys are trying to Science the Shit out of the Hakumen trouble. Only they've apparently gone rogue, or so (as Atsukawa, from ep viii, reports to Ushio'due south dad), and this week let their hubris become the all-time of them, believing they can do whatever the hell they want in the name of scientific advancement.

They also don'tfight by the same rules equally Ushio and Tora'south quondam foes, employing unsporting tricks like tranquilizers on the former and a "Kirlian oscillation device" on the latter. But while Ushio is passed out when he's captured, Tora lets himself be captured, certain they'll take him and Asako to their base where they can and so rescue him.

Ushio uses his magic pilus to create a distraction, so make a double of Asako, letting the real Asako loose in the facility, adamant to salvage Ushio.

Everything about the scientists' approach one time they have the Beast Spear offends Ushio; poking and prodding with machines what he knows was a labor of love and cede. Heknew the people whose souls went into the damn thing, and these white coats are desecrating it; but he'southward too hopped up on tranqs to do anything about information technology.

With Tora locked upward too, that leaves it all up to Asako. She's temporarily sidetracked when she enters a lab where numerous youkai and ghosts are beingness restrained and experimented on, including a gentle, bluish-haired humanoid, Bel-chan, just this is a practiced opportunity for Asako to show off her profound decency for all beings, be they alive or dead. Like Ushio, everything about this place is only…wrong.

The Scientists have Ushio fighing a robot to test his levels and the spears when Asako is finally reunited with him, simply a particle of Hakumen they collected goes berserk, and all their fancy tech can't bring it downward, Ushio has to take a stab at it. And in true Ushio mode, while the scientists are pretty awful people, he withal protects them from the monster they created, because that'south his job.

All the same, he has to exist careful, because Asako's new friend Bel-chan is among the entities absorbed past the Hakumen fragment, giving him all their powers and abilities. Even though Bel is fine being killed and the scientists don't know a way to separate the skilful from the bad, neither Ushio or Asako are neat on the idea of killing him.

That hesitation almost gets them all killed, but Asako still has Ushio's hair tied around her finger. Once she pulls information technology, Tora—who'd been waiting impatiently in his cell, wondering if "that woman" forgot him—blasts out of his confinement in a very badass sequence.TORA-KUN HAS ENTERED THE BATTLE.

At offset I was a picayune surprised the fight didn't get wrapped up this week, merely any resolution would've been so quick equally to diminish the threat of the Hakumen creature. Also, information technology'south non inconceivable that Ushio's dad could nevertheless testify upwards to help out, since he's aware of H.A.M.M.R.'s treachery. Finally, I'm game for a function two if information technology means I get to sentry more Asako!

Despite how improbable it looked at the end of last week, Takeru (and Ikaruga's) chastity survives this episode, as her sister is early to choice her upwardly. Before she says "good day-farewell" (never a good thing for her) once more, she injects him with a muscle relaxant, telling him not to follow her because she loves him.

She may merits to know goose egg virtually honey or romance, but the fact she'south making this deal to protect Takeru and the others is a articulate sign she's evolved beyond the limitations of the design Alchemist intended. She's gone from making weapons to sacrificing herself to relieve her new family.

Naturally, as presently equally Takeru gets the utilise of his legs back, and the girls become their freedom (and clothes) back, he immediately sets about defying Suginami's wishes not to follow her. The 35th aren't going to heed her desire to handle things herself, not if there's a possibility they could lose her.

There's a lot of dandy stuff here: Ootori and Mari, usually at each other's throats, are even so able to fight together when push comes to shove. As for Usagi, she convinces Ootori that information technology doesn't matter how nighttime or dastardly Suginami's past was, or what she intends to do. All Usagi wants is to bring the Suginami the loves dorsum.

And while yes, Takeru finally makes Lapis blush by praising her, Lapis speedily changes the field of study as the platoon heroically deploys to rescue Ikaruga, all to a thumping techno runway that really got me fired upwardly for the boxing.

At Alchemist, Ikaruga reveals to Isuka her true intentions: to ensure the Elves are never resurrected, and to practice what she should have done four years ago: become her sister the hell out of in that location. Isuka says she doesn't want to leave, but she'south had modifications made to her that causes pain whenever she expresses emotions, so she's not in a condition to call back clearly.

She also shoots Ikaruga in the leg, which convinces her sister to apply the nanomachines she's implanted in herself to transform into some kind of Demon-Ikaruga who can wield antimatter. That'south a lot to swallow all at once, only and then again Ikaruga is a pretty smart cookie, sofine.

At whatever charge per unit, she gradually wears Isuka down into admitting she feelssomething for her sis. Unfortunately, that's just when Haunted decides to break upward the sisterly chat and coffin his arm into Isuka, a blow that turns out to be fatal. All along, Isuka had only been his pawn, and at present that she'due south of no further utilise to him, he wants to recruit Ikaruga. Her response is very advisable: a heartyGet To Hell and a bullet to the head.

Haunted exits stage right, but leaves a cyberdragon to bargain with the platoon. He should have summoned a pair, because with Usagi at the controls of a railgun, Ootori watching Takeru's back, and Mari replenishing Takeru'due south mana when he runs out of his own, the gang isjust able to take the dragon out and salvage Suginami.

I sayonly,because Takeru risks everything on the hope one big terminal blow using all of the mana Mari gave him would be enough to defeat the one dragon. I like that despite the clear skills and teamwork the platoon possesses, they only win by the skin of their teeth. Of course, they were fighting 1 comrade short.

When the battle is over, the gang can relax, to the pont Mari gloats nearly saving anybody with her last infinitesimal mana infusion, to which Ootori calls her a "fuel tank"…which is a pretty creative insult. Every bit usual, Suginami and Takeru stay above the fray, though she'southward glad to be among them one time more witnessing said fray.

And despite her earlier assertion she would not autumn for Takeru's smooth words, Sugidoes succomb to a comforting head pat and a request that she talk to her friends in the future when she has a trouble. She points out that not all girls like having their head patted, but tells him to continue doing information technology anyhow. It's not intercourse, only right then and there, it's enough.

Every bit next week'south episode is titled "Crazy Summer Time", I'll besupremely shocked if the girls aren't in swimsuits for at good function of it.

This week (and next) is dedicated to Suginami Ikaruga's personal crunch. But she tells Kusanagi she won't be "going gaga" over him like the other girls when he tries his noble "I'll carry half your burden" line onher. He has no idea what she's talking about, but he has noticed she's acted different from usual lately, and he would know: the 35th Examination Platoon started with just the two of them.

Back then, Kusanagi was beaten past her considering he wouldn't draw his sword on an unarmed opponent. That endeared him to Suginami, who above all seeks and love things that "stick out;" things that are unusual and beg for further report. And Suginami herself is very unusual compared to her beau platoon-mates; this calendar week we find out justhow different.

Managing director Ootori calls her a "designer child" created past the lab Alchemist with which Inquisition has always had tense relations. He also suspects Suginami knows of the whereabouts of something called a "Lost Matrix" which could theoretically be used to resurrect the elves, which is apparently a big bargain in this world.

Her twin sister Isuka wants to do merely that, and then now is the fourth dimension that Ikaruga finally seeks a bargain : Isuka gets the matrix, but she gets to lookout what becomes of it. Isuka, by the way, is no longer with Alchemist either, having thrown her lot in with Haunted and Valhalla.

Takeru and the other girls end up post-obit Suginami, merely only he and Suginami become away from Isuka'due south mercenaries; Ootori, Mari, and Usagi are taken into custody, stripped, poked and prodded by Isuka, who tin can discover nothing exceptional about whatever of them. She wonders why her sis has go "friends" with such "normal" people (We know they're notreallynormal, but Isuka is ignorant to their stories).

As for Ikaruga and Isuka'due south story, the two were engineered to exist the ultimate scientists; "weapons" with an uncontrollable "impulse for enquiry". Simply it was articulate in their younger years that Ikaruga got more and more curious nearly normal humans and their social structures, even "adopting" a wood elf she created (breaking the rules), which was later destroyed.

All this is to say that despite her antiseptic, inhuman upbringing and pre-programmed calling, Ikarugadoes have homo emotions, or at least more than her sister. She also has a grasp of right and incorrect, as she shows despair at the horrors of the lab and, much afterward, showing affection for her friends by non involving them in her diplomacy, thus protecting them.

Knowing her off-limits marvel would eventually get her labeled as a "defective" Suginami, Young Ikaruga stole the Lost Matrix and bankrupt out of Alchemist, leaving behind Isuka—who had no thought why she couldn't just stay and keep doing research with her. But as we know from Ikaruga, she and her sister conspicuously define "things that stick out" in different ways.

She read virtually a bird who lost her female parent, became a human, and had her own kid, becoming a mother, and couldn't help seeing herself in the fairy tale. She befriended Takeru, who thought and acted differently from almost everyone else. Even Usagi'sboobs "stick out", so to speak, though they're obviously not the simply reason they became friends.

Now, holed up in her rubber business firm with a bandaged Takeru, and fiddling hope of living past the next solar day or so, Ikaruga wants to become out performing one more experiment of human behavior she wants to effort before it'south all over: sexual practice, specifically with Takeru; leading to ane hell of a killer smash cut to credits.

Hey, remember that showGOD EATER? Which arrogancesometimes, when it feels like information technology, only not necessarily every week? Well, it's still effectually, and you know what? Those who have been patient with it, like myself, take been rewarded: the last two episodes accept been excellent. Episode five tore abroad the invincibility of the titular God Eaters, and Episode six stripped them of their weapons, making these supposed hunters the hunted, at the mercy of the elements and their own fear.

Fighting the Aragami, saving the globe; these are meaningless this week. The mission, theonly mission, for Lenka and Alisa, is tostay alive. And the harsh, rain-soaked, Aragami-infested earth doesn't arrive easy. Merely nosotros're drawn into this bones, visceral, at times pathetic struggle for survival.

Lenka saves Alisa's life by giving her CPR, and they then hole up in a hotel room. His God Eater is broken, her's is missing, and he'southward at the terminate of his tether, bleeding out in the corner. Alisa first considers leaving him behind to go look for her God Eater, just instead gets him on the bed and patches him upwards. It may be an uncharacteristic act of kindness, or a pragmatic move, seeing as how she just had i pill left when she woke up, and she took it. Later on that, she'll need Lenka.

The crux of the episode is that without her drugs, Alisa falls into a state of intense feet and helplessness, virtually reverting to when she was a small child happily playing hibernate-and-seek with her parents when an Aragami killed them before her eyes. I didn't run into this equally neutering or weakening Alisa as a character. On the contrary, I saw this as finally revealing who Alisa really is beneath the tough-every bit-nails exterior. The drugs don't merely repress her fright, they repress everything else that makes her a person, making her nothing merely a tool for killing Aragami.

Information technology'south gratifying to see the drape pulled back and to come across some bodily emotion in Alisa's eyes, vocalization, and body language. In a way, both God Eaters are rendered inert: Lenka because his Arc is dead; Alisa considering she'due south lost what the Cowardly King of beasts chosen "Da Noive",which had been drug-induced up to this point. Now, she'southward back to playing hide-and-seek, confronting Aragami she could pummel in her sleep under ideal circumstances.

What I capeesh nearly aboutGOD EATER's contempo foray into hopelessness is that it'due south so utterly and mercilessly stripped away all those platonic circumstances. Now the Aragami have all the advantage, but as they do over all the other helpless humans scattered around the rainy wasteland. Seeing the disheartened look on Alisa's face up, and the look of fright whenever the Aragami notice them, really draws usa into their plight, where even a uncomplicated gesture similar Lenka offer his cape thingy is given extra significance.

When her parents were killed, she was left all alone before she was old enough. Now, at least, Lenka is by her side, and while he'south probably scared too, he's not equally profoundly scarred by his past. He's for lack of a better term, just better-adjusted to this world, and doesn't need drugs to stare down Aragami. And that's exactly what he ends upward having to do, since even when Alisa finds her God Arc, it doesn't magically make her better in the head. She'southward however paralyzed by fear when the Aragami surround her.

Lenka is bandaged up, merely his Arc isn't long enough to reach the foes, and when it is, he's just able to deliver a tap to them. You can see the Aragami figuring out these guys are no threat; only food. Lenka knows when it's pretty much Game Over too, so he drops his useless weapon, puts himself betwixt the Aragami and Alisa, and either makes peace with his end or prays for a miracle. He gets the latter when Lindow comes out of nowhere and easily defeats the low-level baddies.

Afterwards making a slightly sexist remark about protecting people being "a human's job", he admonishes Lenka for virtually giving up and putting his life in someone else'southward easily. Lenka, not wrongly, protests that there actually wasn't shit he could do, unless his God Arc magically came back to life, which would be no less a miracle. He and Alisa are safe at present, and Alisa is sure to become back on the meds every bit shortly as they become back to Fenrir. But now Lenka, and we, know and empathise her a piffling meliorate, and the rough hand she's been dealt.

Back in Flashback Land, Aisha discovers Johannes has been falsifying reports, blah blah blah, then comes to his house, ostensibly to comfort him. Their relationship will eventually produce the bleak Souma, and their work will be insufficient against the budgeted Aragami explosion and apocalypse.

Alisa's flashback made perfect sense this week, and added to the power of her arc, only we didn't fifty-fifty see Johannes or Souma, then I continue to be perplexed by the evidence's need to end episodes this manner, aside from reminding the states that they're starting to figure out how doomed they are. At to the lowest degree it didn't interrupt annihilation important in the present.

I won't mince words: this episode ofGOD EATER brought it. Mayhap not from kickoff to end, as information technology started rather slowly, just fifty-fifty that slow start focused on the seemingly insurmountable task before the titular God Eaters. Aegis is simply 0.06% complete, and will require tens of thousands of cores from the kind of Aragami they defeated last calendar week. Fifty-fifty the bigger Vajra but cut that number to thousands. And this is as bodies are dropping all over the world. The episode championship "All In Vain" would seem to utilize.

Even so, these guys have totry, and if they're going to get out their and hazard their lives, all of them want to go later a bigger prize; the Vajra. Sakuya seems heartened by their enthusiasm, but in Lindow's absence it's her call, and she decides to permit the Vajra hunt.

From there, the hunt is on, and information technology goes swimmingly at first, with Lenka and Alisa taking out the Vajra's legs while Kouta and Sakuya blast them. Kouta is a little shaky, but Sakuya tells him to trust in the first-class God Arc he wields, and in himself.

When they hit the Vajra lair, they quickly find themselves surrounded by 3 Vajra, too as having about a dozen or and then bystanders who come out of nowhere. No matter; the three Vajra are killed by a quaternary, a "black Vajra" that even unsettles Alisa. There's something different about this guy, and it's not simply his looks: he'smuch faster,much stronger, andmuch smarter than the other Vajra.

The God Eater'southward day just starts to plain ol'suck from there, in a large way: no thing what they throw at this guy, he's ready with vicious counterattacks. No thing how many pills Alisa chomps or how much Lenka yells, they both get brutally smacked around and sliced up. It's the first example where the Aragami legitimatelyscared me.

Our outclassed heroes' only hope is to retreat, but Lenka and Alisa are so badly-wounded the one-time can simply crawl along while dragging the latter, and the Vajra isn't nigh to leave wounded prey alone. Lenka finally appeals to a higher power, if there'south ane up there, and it would seem that his terminal-ditch prayer was at least partially answered, every bit the Vajra doesn't but stomp them into jelly, but steps over them. The bad news is, doing and so collapses the stone formation upon which Lenka and Alisa prevarication, causing them to fall from a not bad height.

The cut to black, along with the dramatic music with a singled-out air of "This Is Information technology" make for a stirring catastrophe…if only thatwas the end. Rather curiously, later the credits we get some other extended flashback with Professor Shicksal and his ii colleagues equally they celebrate the continued funding of their inquiry, only to exist visited by a general who briefs them on the advent of savage beasts that have evolved from the "oracle cell" they're studying.

These flashbacks running parallel to the present-day story continue to not be my favorite, and the timing this week after a present-day cliffhanger was a flake…random. Still, the dark Vajra battle packed quite a punch, and has me eager to see what becomes of the God Eaters.

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