天下制覇

Didn’t she have a whole host of other powers? What ever happened to those?

Impressions:

This was certainly awkwardly put together. Did they just decide to drop Ikaros losing her memory at the end? One would think after the cliffhanger and harping on it for half the episode, they would have bothered to address it. Also, apparently Ikaros didn’t even mean to initiate the deletion, which makes that entire development all the more transparently machinated. Plus, they decided to show that Chaos was misguided and had hope for redemption yet… and then immediately sealed her up with deus ex dealybobber. "This feeling… it’s warm… Oh, now I’m dead." I’m getting mixed messages here.

I’m sure I’m coming off far more negative about this than I really feel, but almost every major part of this show kind of got tossed in the woodchipper this episode in thinly veiled attempt to wrap up every single development this season in approximately five minutes. What came out was a fragmented mess without even any nice action scenes to make up for it. Hell, a lot of the faces were off-model this week too, which is rare for this show. This fight was far less animated and interesting than the last one against Chaos. She apparently got stupider at the bottom of the sea… or was watching too much Index as well… because the big finishing blow was her trying and failing to punch Astraea’s shield. After both of them were hacked by Nymph. Who gained super magical powers from Tomoki ordering her to not die. After ten episodes of Nymph feeling sorry for herself, I expected a lot better than a half-assed line like that and then her turning into an ubergod and instantly winning the day. Le sigh. I miss Tomoki’s heart bell.