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I wasn’t aware these mechs were going full-on Nerf.

Impressions:

I’m still having a hard time getting into this show, but this episode was a significant step up from last week in a number of ways. The writing had… issues… shall we say, but at least it was a fairly action packed episode, and not ‘action’ like I have to use for Shana. Nothing overly impressive, but at least solid production from the start to the end. It’s still struggling to figure out what its tone wants to be though. If they want to be light hearted, fine, go with that. But then don’t turn around and give a speech about how the characters spent the entire episode suffering and pretend like it has any kind of meaning. And certainly not any that requires a glowing hand-clasp while floating through space.

The mechs being completely impervious to all damage isn’t really helping to add much meaning to these action scenes either. At least in Freezing, grievous bodily damage inconvenienced them for a few minutes. Here, Madoka took a beam sword straight to the face… twice… and suffered absolutely no damage for it. Lan took a boomerang laser-club to the face and got wailed on a little bit and again, absolutely nothing. Madoka had the bright idea to wrap a powerline around her opponent’s neck, which for some reason, freaked him the hell out. What kind of world is this where power lines are more dangerous than 40 foot long beam swords? Then Madoka started singing off-pitch while she was running away. All of that was leading up to the aforementioned ‘touching’ moment of Lan shouting out how sorry she was that Madoka was suffering on her own. Suffering is not the word I would use to describe that tone-deaf singing, unless you’re referring to how I felt listening to it. Another interesting moment was Madoka saving completely oblivious city folk after showing A.) The robots crashing through the city, and B.) The city folk watching them not five minutes prior. Evil Bishie #01 also appeared to forget that he can fly at one point.

Preview:

Oh no! Boats!