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Short Summary:
Sousuke is called to base while he’s at school. Apparently Gates and company have kidnapped some people in Nanjing, China and escaped with the help of his ASs. Sousuke arrives at a briefing by Kalinin and Tessa who explain that the prisoners are being held in an underground facility. Arriving there, Sousuke, Kurz, and Melissa are first briefed by a Vincent Blueno before they are deployed along with some foot troops. They dispatch the enemies that they find, not knowing that Gates and company are hiding in the shadows. The ground troops break into the compound and free the prisoners, with Mao following them in. Just as Kurz is noticing that something is wrong, communications go out. Mao tries to get him back on the line, but soon has her own problems to deal with. It seems that one of the prisoners was really Xia Yu Lan. She quickly dispatches the troops and shoots Melissa. Elsewhere, it seems that Sousuke has been surrounded by ASs, including Gate’s own Venom.
I’m not sure I’d call TSR based on the novels anymore. I finally managed to read The End of Day by Day and A Dancing Very Merry Christmas over the weekend, so that I’d know what to expect. In actuality, I think TSR is more of an alternate adaptation of the novels, using most of the same characters, except Gates (someone correct me if I’m wrong). Key character example is Vincent Blueno. In the novels, he’s responsible for putting Dannigan and Gwen onto the TDD, and later escapes, requiring Mao, Kurz, and Sousuke to chase him through Sicily. Here, he still works with MITHRIL, but he’s not revealed to be a bad guy yet (though it’s pretty obvious). I hope that maybe they’ll still put in the Sicily part after this arc is done. On a similar vein, I also hope that this season has the same impact on Sousuke’s character that the events of The End of Day by Day did.
I enjoy a lot of the little things in this episode. There was the Ren cameo at the beginning. There was the fact that Kurz still has a female voiced AI. The samurai drama spider man at the beginning was also pretty funny.
More bloody violence this week (the throat cutting made me cringe), but only toward the very end, courtesy of Xia Yu Lan. Still, this was a lot more of setting up for what I expect to be an action packed, and probably bloody, episode next week. The animation in the preview looks wonderful (the animation for this episode was excellent too), and I really want to see the Arbalest vs. Venom fight.
I’m pretty sure the Sicily part still in there, the trailer showed Kurz in a standing in the balcony quoting the “Hector, goddess of revenage” line, which is suppose to take place after Mao got the bad guy.
By the way,did you read FMP: Sigma manga as well?
Well, all of the trailer’s scenes (after the initial fight) are of scenes from the novels (with the exception of Gates and the sisters in the shower), but none of them have been shown yet. I’m under the vague suspicion that when they animated the trailer, they just picked out parts of the novel.
And no, I haven’t read the Sigma manga yet. Waiting on Boku-Tachi to translate a bit more before I get into it.
Well, come to think of it Mao and Bluent have already met this episode. So, I wonder how Kyoto Animation will handle that part where Mao tricks Bluent into being alone with her? Mao is going to have wear more than just a wig to pull it off. Of course, K.A. will probably use the Sicily part in another story arc or something. 😛 It seems like a waste of animation and money to just not use it in the actual series. I don’t think K.A. would do the same thing like GONZO. In the 1st FMP series trailer, there was a scene of Kurz singing in a karaoke bar with Kaname and her friends that never made it into the series. Damn, I wanted to hear Kurz sing. 🙁
Well I don’t think it’s wasting that much animation or money if they just did one brief scene, especially for a trailer. Which is all the more reason why I think that we won’t be seeing most of those scenes unless they manage to somehow merge the storylines
I’m more interested in how they’re going to handle Hong Kong if they do it differently.
I was shocked when the Xia Yu Lan nurse character suddenly slashed one soldier’s throat, bone and all! And then, bloodbath all over ensued. Still less of Kaname, but it’s still action packed.
hmmm….I think I might know who the long white hair guy in the promo is….but, I could be wrong…
It looks like they’ll cover Sicily in the fifth episode since the official site has Sicily in that episode title.
Ah, thanks for pointing that out. I guess Sousuke and company triumph next episode, then chase after Bluent in episode 05.