天下制覇

She really is just like a cat.

Impressions:

It’s impossible for me to take Lingyin seriously in her IS suit. It’s the little half-tie. It just… It just looks ridiculous. Like she should be waiting tables at Japanese Hooters. Once Kurogane showed up, she did regress a little bit into blushing and squirming around in Ichika’s grip. I have no idea if that’s actually its name, but I think the first black mech in all shows is required by law to be named Kurogane. It’s not cute when you’re in a 20 foot exosuit with a giant double glaive. One would also think that a state-of-the-art military academy that effectively houses dozens and dozens and dozens of weapons of mass destruction (if not hundreds if every single student has their own IS) would have a little more defense against attacks than… none.

It was still a pretty fun episode from start to finish with pretty much constant action until Ichika ran straight into a beam using the power of only the density of his skull. I do wish that Lingyin were differentiating herself a little more from Houki other than being slightly more emotional and squeaky, but maybe now that they’re actually interacting with each other, they’ll be able to play up the slight differences a little bit better. Ichika shield meter does still annoy me though because it’s a painfully obtrusive plot device. Let’s also not read too much into Lingyin ‘giving it’ to Ichika from behind, making his ‘sword’ grow. I wouldn’t be able to stop if I started getting Freudian with this show.

Preview:

A boy? Who do you think that you’re fooling?