Symphogear GX #04 — Could… Could You Wipe Your Face, Please?

July 24th, 2015

  

You have jam all over yourself.

My last Friday off, so coverage will go back to its usual work-delayed time, although this airs so late, and has been delayed most weeks further on top of it, that it’s not going to have a particularly big effect.

Impressions:

Better than last week, certainly, but they’re still really flailing with Hibiki this season, and it’s hard to really tell what they’re trying to do with her. She threw a little tantrum about Maria stealing her Gungnir (and glory), and just sort of got over her hang ups as soon as her favorite muggle was seriously threatened, so I’m not even sure what the point of the last couple episodes of her piffling about were. At least she seems to have the rarest power of all, both a budget and a fight scene against something other than the Noise, even if it was mostly rocket legs/hair grinding against each other… and a pretend water clone. This ‘shocking’ bit of her getting magically de-magic’ed also still pales to her getting her arm ripped off in the last season, and we all know how that turned out.

That last bit… hell, the whole episodes… would’ve worked much better had the gear-breaking been revealed earlier and that used as both an excuse to keep her from fighting and to fuel this newfound possessiveness with Maria nearly getting it blasted too. At least assuming they’re playing towards some kind of addiction angle (which would’ve worked well to bring Tsubasa back into things on a character level by providing a parallel to ol’ Deado) and not going to just drop that too after some bed rest and another Chinese training montage. Playing the what-if game is fun, albeit utterly futile. 

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4 Shouts From the Peanut Gallery

  • Paulo27 says:

    Fate Kaleid? Bet you’ll love this episode.

  • Rz says:

    This episode… Hibiki became useless. Her development from S1 and S2 is in vain :(

  • Sanjuro says:

    Shark teeth are the best.