天下制覇

I’m worried that 20+ year old Chinami can pass as a highschooler.

If only this was episode 3 so I could make an E3 joke. Oh well.

Impressions:

Not as impressive as the first episode, but it’s still fun to watch Maori go all Spiderman on the random grunts. It looks like we may actually be getting some kind of villain in the not too distant future who can stand against the girls. I’m not overly amazed (or interested) that Maori doesn’t really have a particularly happy home/school life, but at least she can relieve her frustrations by exploding the lights above people’s heads when they gossip about her. She also stoically suffers through Chinami’s antics, and there’s even some friendly girl bonding when Chinami comes to Maori’s aid after the little social reject clumsily tries to gather information on her own. I’m interested in what role her teacher has in all this given how she’s in the ED, but at the same time, I have the sneaking suspicion that this is something I should already know^tm from Code-E. I really need to sit down with the Wiki for that or something.

At any rate, nothing too surprising this episode. Maori and Chinami infiltrate a secluded rich girl’s school that has suspected connections to the Foundation and discover that it… in fact… does have connections to the Foundation and they’re trying to use it as an isolated test case to stimulate the growth of Type-E abilities in the students there. Then they beat up some security guards before Maori jacks into Chinami (oooooh the sexual tension!) and by their powers combined, they trash the Foundation’s recon van and then throw it at more security guards before running up the side of the dorm and leaping off into the forest. Shakespeare it ain’t.

If I can put in enough time to get comfortable with the Code-E-iverse in general, I’ll switch to full summaries, but I’ve still got this niggling feeling that I should know half the characters since there are very few (well, none really) introductions to any of them except Maori. At least that means that the plot, such as it is, is in motion already instead of a half dozen introduction episodes.

Preview:

Your pokes do not faze Maori in the slightest.