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Summary:
With Toa and Spirytus in their dragon forms, Kiril – the man in charge of the D Project – calls up Sakaki and demands to know why it’s not only the Album but also their own dragon that’s on a rampage. Sakaki calmly tells him that they’re still investigating and since it’s a state of emergency, details will come later. Frustrated by this answer, Kiril then contacts a Girouard military ship out in the ocean to call them into action and asks them to minimize damage. After Kiril hangs up, the ship’s captain Garnet notes that everything is going according to plan. Back in the city, Laina comments on how Toa is the third original as he, Sieglinde, and Akira join Howlingstar, Amadeus, and Machina on the pier. Spirytus quiets down for a moment while he appears to be talking with Toa, however Girouard military helicopters soon change that when then attack. Howlingstar wants to get involved, but to his frustration, Laina stops him because they haven’t gotten the order to do so yet.
Standing nearby, Jin can’t believe what he’s seeing and nearly gets hit by a falling helicopter that had itself almost gotten destroyed by one of Spirytus’ fireballs. Toa fortunately sees what is about to happen, dives in, and envelops the helicopter in a yellow field as she knocks it away. She then has to evade a barrage of missiles and gunfire, and all Jin is able to do is to yell for them to stop. Toa does suddenly stop moving, takes a couple of hits, and emits a wave that causes Spirytus and the remaining aircraft to become enveloped in similar yellow fields. This allows her to carry Spirytus away, and the ISDA detects that she’s going north. Worried that she’ll reach the sky over the mainland, Sakaki goes to Kiril and gets his reluctant authorization to Actualize. Laina, Sieglinde, and Akira are thus permitted to suit up and the dragons to transform. Each dragon lets its respective master onboard – Laina in Howlingstar, Akira in Machina, and Sieglinde in Amadeus – before beginning pursuit of Toa and Spirytus.
Spirytus manages to break free of Toa’s yellow field right as the other three dragons catch up, and Laina informs everyone that their mission is to subdue the two rampaging dragons. In the ensuing fight, Toa gets hit by a fireball that causes her to emit another shockwave. This one that reaches Gio in his holding tube and awakens him. When Machina then captures Toa, Spirytus’ interference sets her free again, and he continues to try to blast her with fireballs. Back on the ground, Kazuki reaches Jin, and Jin asks his former friend to stop the others. Right as Jin is telling Kazuki that it’s Toa up there, she crashes into the ground beside them. Seeing that Jin is scared of her, she gives him a sad look before flying off again. It is at this point that a naked Gio arrives on the scene, and he pushes Kazuki aside because he only cares about Toa. Gio then transforms into a dragon, and Jin makes a running jump onto his back so that he can go after Toa too. Watching Jin ride off on something that he thought was his, Kazuki can only yell out Jin’s name in frustration.
After finding out that both Gio and Jin are in pursuit of Toa, Sakaki orders the disposal of Spirytus because securing the Album and Jin are top priorities. Laina thus tells Howlingstar to kill Spirytus, and despite some reluctance, Howlingstar changes into his drill-like form and plows into Spirytus, cutting the dragon in half and destroying him. During all this, Jin and Gio manage to catch up to Toa, and when Jin reaches out to touch her, he gets transported to a world of blue skies and green fields. Toa is standing nearby singing, but when he approaches her, she apologizes to him because she can’t be with him anymore if he’s seen her true form. After saying goodbye to him, Toa approaches Gio who claims that he was born to protect her. The two are about to link hands and leave together, but Howlingstar’s attack in the real world breaks them out of this. Howlingstar tackles Toa, but she manages to free herself and knocks him into Gio, sending both Gio and Jin falling into the ocean below. Remembering how Toa had kissed him earlier and said that he wasn’t alone because she was there, Jin now calls her a liar.
With the mission is over since both Toa and Gio have been lost, Sakaki returns home in the morning and grabs a beer. He is surprised when a young girl welcomes him home, but when he looks away for a moment, she disappears. After watching the news reports of the incident on the television, Sakaki closes his eyes to get some rest, however his phone starts ringing at that very moment.
Preview:
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Well, most of the episode is spent on the battle between all the various dragons. I have to say that Howlingstar’s transformation bordered on ridiculous – it was like an “I have the power” moment – and all the CG dragons made me feel like I was watching some Saturday morning kids show. It didn’t bother me as much before, but it was a lot more apparent here that the designs aren’t the greatest (several shots of Gio and Howlingstar made their heads look too big), and I get the feeling that those special sequences that show each pilot boarding their respective dragons could become stock footage.
On the story side though, it seems that Garnet is with the Girouard military whose purpose isn’t quite clear yet. I was under the impression that she was an alien connected to Thanatos because of her place in the OP, but regardless, she’s still an antagonist. Gio’s arrival and rejection of Kazuki wasn’t a big surprise, though I did laugh when Kazuki yelled out Jin’s name after watching him ride off on Gio. Somehow I can’t take his character seriously anymore. Anyway, Laina calling Toa the third original seems to support the theory that she was one of the three that came to Earth on the day of the shuttle accident, and she could very well be the one who collided with it. With Toa now leaving Jin because he’s seen her true form, and it looks like Jin might be teaming up with Gio to find her. Based on one of the preview shots on the official site, it seems that the mystery woman from the OP and ED will also be making an appearance.
Looks good :0
Looks bad.
i kinda liked it, the cgi merged pretty well into the anime..
thou the dragon designs were not really to my taste.
This plot reminds me of Shrek.
So did Gio reject Kazuki?
Those CG dragons look like f***ing play-doh figures.
Goddamn I really like this show so far but those dragons are the biggest turn off ever.
Would have been better if they just used regular animation, what’s with the 3D obsession nowadays anyway?
Looks terrible.
Literally. An episode filled with dragon battles when the dragons suck, well. Must look terrible.
But for some unknown reason, this show is still good for me.
i dont know after 2nd episode i dont like this series
at first it looked cool and interesting with the first episode,but then the second wasn’t much, and now it seems ughh ridiculous with the 3D come on now why not regular animated dragons!
Good episode. If you don’t look at 3d cgs thinking of how it sucks, you would be able to enjoy it. It is nice to see that they were able to keep up the pace, can’t wait to see on what happens next.
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Seriously boring episode…the dragon battle thing is getting really old and the plot just isn’t interesting at all.
WTF CG DRAGONS???? …lol@fatestaynight flashback
YOU NEITHER INCLUDED PRINCE OF TENNIS NOR HUNTER X HUNTER IN YOUR POLL D;;;;;;;
blue eyes white dragon would fuck those guys up, no need for ultimate!
hmm girlfriend is a dragon an has to leave boyfriend 4 unspecified reason now boyfriend goes after her should make a decent plot outta this assuming he lives long enough
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Totally watching the episode just to see that. Lulz.
Er? That’s strange. o_o So the girl/dragon doesn’t stay with the guy, and he instead gets another dragon to help him. How strange, but at least it doesn’t follow the usual mold for this genre.
ahhhhh from the looks of these pictures you put up here Gio rejects Kazuki and accepts Jin 😛
This episode is made of gay and fail.
HALF ASSED or even 3 1/4 ASSED CGI NEVER WORKS!. people need to learn how to draw again . takepointers from gainax “even though once in ablue they use it” hand drawn will always BE KING!!!!!!!
Haha….so what….Jin jacked Kazuki’s dragon…XD
i really like the show, but the cg sucks, i wish hey were drawn, “High Quality”
What is with everyone bashing this episode already? Don’t even lie and say you have seen it. I will agree the dragons look hilariously bad though.
The series has promise I think.. if you get past the craptastic CG.
HENSHIN!
lawl.
This show is just awful generic junk, and horrible CGI doesn’t help one bit. I predicted that this has no potential after episode 1, and looks like I hit the nail with a meteor.
OH NO!!
I CAN FEEL THE SISSY DRAMA STUFF COMING…What a shame… a possible nice anime destroyed…Let´s start the ” RAMDOM DRAMA cliche for nothing” and kill the story…. T_T
The dragon’s design look Pokemon-ish for me.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! lol.
The dragon / pilot gattai sequences were absolutely fall-off-your-chair hilarious. This show isn’t demanding to be taken very seriously, so lets not expect the wrong things! I think this one will provide good bubblegum viewing with a bit of genre parody.
As for the mecha-dragons, they will take some getting used to—but aren’t they a bit of fun? Howling Star has Giga Drill Breaker, Amadeus looks kind of like Gamera, and Machina is leggy even as a dragon.
I think this still has good promise, despite the rather horrid CG. I’ll still watch it.
not the best of episodes but still good^^
Please…just stop blogging this. It’s not worth *anyone’s* time.
iTs interesting on how much trolls bad cg can attract…
The Dragons look awful. Complete crap. Horrendous. Worst CG in the history of CG.
Way too much man-love on this show so far too!
🙁
Again Omni can blog what ever he wants, just don’t read it if your not interested in. While this show is not outstanding it’s interesting plot-wise.
Beside some anti CGI biasness I don’t see why people are bashing this.
they are bashing this cause its GONZO, and people LOVE to bash GONZO 😛
People love to bash GONZO…
…’cuz GONZO does a lot of stupid things that they deserve to get bashed for.
wtf didn’t really like the CG….o well. why the hell did she leave him is it bcuz she is the one that collided with the plane that his family was on plus why was she so interested in him he didn’t give the blood transfer thing like the rest of so why is she drawn to him.. and GIO is a bastard how can u turn your back on the person that makes up half of u ..sigh
LoL… with this, Hero Tales, and Gundam 00 quickly getting put into my list of this season’s garbage I am quickly running out of action shows. It’s up to Rental Magica and Night Wizard now and I just don’t see those pulling through for me.
On a positive note, Genshiken 2 is freggin amazing so far.
but so bad why does Toa have to leave even Jin had seen her in her true form…sob~ it was just getting started though… but come to think of it…i never even think about a dragon can fall in love with a human… T.T||| XD lol~ i like this anime!!!
If half the people stop complaining about the horrible CG and actually watch this… Yes it’s a bit campy and the part where Howlingstar transformed reminded me of Kamen Rider but if you overlook it, it’s definitely got a promising storyline. I, for one, will stick with this and I want to know what the Gillard Army has anything to do with ISDA, ISDA’s true intentions and hopefull see Jin and Gio work together.
Story = win. Jin x Toa started too suddenly for being maintained over the rest of the show, now it gets interesting. There’s so much left unclear and I’m really looking forward to the next bunch of episodes. Yes, the CG’s are bad etc blabla, still, the drawn art (animation, character design, backgrounds) and music top almost every other show this season. Definitely continuing to watch this.
As for the show I don’t know… I am looking forward to it. It reminds me of Eureka Seven…minus the cool cgi. I think dragons…look okay. I don’t really mind I guess though I assume CG might be ‘easier’ than traditional animation so that’s why people use it nowadays.
The CG dragons are quite… horrible.
lol ^^;
So Gio claims that he was born to protect her… interesting..
haha
is it just me, or could there be a possible Gio/Toa relationship?
=P
ROFL. That pretty much sums this anime up.
Well the cgi reminds me of pokemon movies…..but the storyline itself has some promise…..we are already 3 episodes in and we have a lot of stuff going on. If we can get through one episode where Jin doesn’t need to be saved….in the next 2-3 episodes….i will hang around to see how it develops. Here’s keeping fingers crossed… 😛
the characters in this anime are way too lame. you have one guy crying cause he lost his dragon (who also pointed a gun at his best friend without knowing the reason why). then you have another idiot who wanted the dragons to stop attacking toa, but then turned into a chicken when she was in front of them, and when she took off he wanted her back again. i just don’t like how the story is done so far. the dragonauts want to capture jin and toa by any means neccessary, even if it means injuring them, and yet we don’t know why, and probably won’t find out till half the series is over already. this episode killed any interest i had.
nnnnnoooooooooooo! they can animate the toas eye!(when she was dragon form) ugh they should just ditch the whole CGI stick with normal animation…and remove those silly boarding scenes…omg! what is GONZO thinking >_
Hah *please do not* take pointers from Gainax. You probably haven’t seen You Are [Not] Alone (Eva Rebuild 01) but trust me, they use some seriously out-of-place CG mixed with what looked like *old* Eva scenes. Real bad combo.
Eva looked good in late 1995. 2007’s Rebuild doesn’t have nearly the same visual quality, modern standards considered. If you’re going to take a cue from anyone these days, take one from Kyoto Animation and their production of Full Metal Panic: The Second Raid.
This anime, started off too quickly. All of a sudden the emo boy likes the girl and the girl like him. Acting like they have known each other for a very long time. Too quick, could have been better, and the dragons were poorly animated it looked rushed. (I do 3d animation, I know)