Symphogear #11 — “Would You Like To Yell At The Moon With Ryoko?”

March 16th, 2012

 

Great. The antagonist has the same general plan as Chairface Chippendale

Impressions:

Well, they answered the questions about Ryoko/Phine… At least they sort of kept it brief, even if the episode wasn’t really that eventful. The key takeaway point here is that she now has a giant tower which she wants to use to destroy the moon. Le sigh. Basically, when they were first looking into all this crap with Tsubasa, something went wrongtm, and ended up awakening a whole lot of sleeping brains inside Ryoko’s head, the dominant/evilest of which being Phine, a witch. This is some Guilty Crown level writing here. At least they kept that part relatively brief. Maybe that’s a sign of how much thought went into it.

Other than that particularly awful twist, it’s about the same as many other episodes. The first half, including Genji vs Phine was pretty lame. At least both did show a little competence by going right for summoning Noise (which he can’t fight) and him disarming her before she could. He fell for the old "Pretend to be the person I’m possessing" trick though. Kurisu’s swan song was rather weak in the end-fight, probably not helped by Tsubasa and Hibiki standing there like stunned rabbits the whole time. One of your giant swords would’ve probably come in handy for wrecking the tower before it shot, eh, Tsubasa? And if she was going to be dead, they’d commit to it and not have distant sparklies. Then again, we’ve yet to establish competence in Japanese writing for these last couple seasons. Maybe the real real villain will end up being Loki and this was all just an elaborate trailer for the Avengers movie. Oh well, hopefully there’ll at least be a good fight next week to polish this off and get to Hibiki’s grave.

But seriously, destroy the moon? This is more like a corny 80s show than I thought.

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12 Shouts From the Peanut Gallery

  • Wilfriback says:
    March 16, 2012 at 9:55 am

    Motherfucking Loki is not amused with this.

  • Anonymous says:
    March 16, 2012 at 10:13 am

    Yukine Chris, Gundam Wing. Launching to intercept.

  • jingoi says:
    March 16, 2012 at 12:09 pm

    I miss the Tick, and Superman and those episodes of X-men they won’t show. Makes me hate disney’s PG with some TVMA hidden bs even more.

  • longhaul says:
    March 16, 2012 at 4:36 pm

    well it does like we will finally get more berserker Hibiki

  • Jay says:
    March 17, 2012 at 1:16 am

    Destroy the moon? How despicable.

  • CAPTAIN MAR-KLAC-VELOUS says:
    March 17, 2012 at 4:21 am

    oh boy when i saw cat out of the bag yea really so much quote travis touchdown “i’m going to need SHOCK treatment to get over this one!”

    so fine launch full attack on school while miku trying to get everyone to safety.
    here noise oh Tsubasa’s sidekick just arrive to rescue miku.
    get to elevator here come fine & shooting the doobi oh no bad idea.
    here genjuro vs fine genjuro doing well til ryoko voice appear in fine’s mouth.
    ow on genjuro’s guts but he ok & all comp are down.
    hibiki, tsubasa, & chris arrive see ryoko but she is also fine.
    to reveal it all FINE IS SPLIT PERSONALITY/SPIRIT THAT HAS CONTROL POSSESSED ryoko like over long time 12yrs ago.
    & reason she free due to tsubasa’s singing on ancient stuff (so yea blame on it tsubasa).
    yet main plan is bring tower to appear as a cannon to BLOW UP THE MOON!!!
    so yea all 3 vs fine while other watch.
    cannon on ready to fire & yet chris went all the way aka swan’s song.
    stop the blast, save the moon give small piece was hit, & going down.

    oh boy got wonder hmm 50/50 for if chris to survive give recall tsubasa survive her swan song?

    & yea hibiki look like going to snap.

  • Benigmatica says:
    March 17, 2012 at 5:06 am

    Man, Fine’s plans were similar to Neeba’s where he wants to use the Tower of Druaga as a cannon to destroy gods…

    Not this crap again! *facepalm*

  • Aza says:
    March 17, 2012 at 2:23 pm

    What I can’t comprehend is why didn’t they just let Fine destroy the moon?
    Nothing particularly bad can come out of that, and if she’s telling the truth (which she has no reason not to at this point), it would actually be a good thing. And then they could concentrate on defeating Fine instead.

    Cris, you have a stereotypical villain in front of you that declared her intention to conquer the world, and you go full kamikaze on a friggin space cannon? That doesn’t even pose a threat to anybody except a piece of space rock?
    What the fuck, girl, what the actual fuck?

  • shadow says:
    March 17, 2012 at 8:40 pm

    It anime is a shit, other more of the heroines of the anime
    the powerfull girls, really it suck.
    And for the next queen’s blade rebellion
    very bad combats and many fanservice ( tits and ass )
    the example of the warrior girl japanese without a men in the serie.

  • CAPTAIN MAR-KLAC-VELOUS says:
    March 18, 2012 at 2:57 am

    so now say series also mix with xenosaga?

    so it like mix of madoka, nanoha, xenosaga, etc who know what else tower of duraga?

    so now Ahh! After 10,000 years I’m free! It’s time to conquer Earth! now fine want blow up the moon yea we go like ONORE tsubasa (hey name is also would been spell tsukasa) for freeing fine?

  • arknoir says:
    March 18, 2012 at 10:26 am

    I hate you aroduc for the word ‘chair’ is not carved into the moon. You tricked me like this anime tricked me into thinking its like mai hime.

  • Mesousa2877 says:
    July 28, 2012 at 8:50 am

    No build-up whatsoever for Chris’s death RUINED this episode. THAT’S the real writing problem.

    She sacrifices herself for no real reason.

    Oh, and that scream at the end was unnecessary. Thanks for breakign my ears, Hibiki.