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OP: 「キミへ ムカウ ヒカリ」(Kimi he Mukau Hikari ) by 新居昭乃 (Arai Akino)
Watch the OP! Mirror 1 and Mirror 2
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Summary:
After the kiss from Shizuno, Kyo finds himself alone in the pool. He’s talking to his friends later outside a convenience store about her, but they don’t know who she is. Time is acting weird, as his friends disappear one by one. The scene then changes to the classroom, where Kyo finishes his chemistry midterm before anyone else (and apparently perfectly). In the hallway, he thinks he sees Shizuno, but when he chases the girl down, it’s just someone who looks like her. After some swimming at the pool, Kyo is confronted by Kawaguchi and his two friends. They tease him about his looking for Shizuno and then Kawaguchi proceeds to beat Kyo up. Kyo raises his fists but doesn’t fight back. It seems that they all used to be part of a swimming medley team, but it got broken up because of Kyo. Floating the pool, a bruised Kyo yells for Shizuno, but she doesn’t actually appear until he’s in the shower. The two of them are transported onboard the Celebrum organization’s Oceanus ship. The commander of the ship is actually the student council president Shima. The Zegapain Altair is sent to help the Zegapain Garuda, and Kyo is able to take out the first wave of flying enemies with his gun. The Altair is then attacked by three Anvarl types. He scores direct hits on two of those, but has to take out the third with the Altair’s fist. Before they go back to the real world, Kyo asks Shizuno about the kiss, and she responds by hinting that their relationship is like that. Shizuno ends up doing the promotional video for Kyo, and lots of people come to watch. They all seem to know who she is now – an exchange student who came a week ago. Ryoko tries to capture Shizuno’s smile, but she only does it after looking at Kyo.
ED Sequence
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ED: 「リトル グッド バイ」 (Little Goodbye) by ROCKY CHACK
Watch the ED! Mirror 1 Mirror 2
They moved the OP to its rightful place, and the images changed slightly. When I talked about it last week, I didn’t think the song fit very well as an OP (it would be terrific as an ED), but it’s really been growing on me. Anyway, the actual ending song, by ROCKY CHACK, does it’s job of closing out the episode very nicely.
This episode has a lot of clocks, and there was a lot of moving back and forth in time and everyone’s memories kept getting altered. They seem to be hinting that the world that Kyo is in is the virtual one whereas the “game” may be the true world. This premise is reminiscent of The Matrix, but with mecha. We also get introduced to Lucien and Mei Yen, who are piloting the Zegapain Garuda (which looks almost exactly like the Altair but with different colors), and we also get to see the launch sequence for the Zegapain. I can see that becoming stock footage very soon…
I enjoyed the episode overall for all the ShizunoXKyo moments, but the battle was a bit lackluster. Nothing really interesting happened during the fight other than Kyo blowing up bad guys. And on that thought, the explosions are the weakest part of the otherwise great animation; they remind me of the crappy ones that were in Tactical Roar. So there’s certainly room for improvement on the fighting end, but the rest of the episode is pretty solid.
Are both of them bathing naked? o_O”
Zegapain FTW! Kudos on the speedy coverage, hope to see your article up soon ^_^b
YES YES YES YES Zegapa\n rawks
both in the same cubicle. i wonder how it spices things up. and she’s wearing a swimming suit.
yay for zegapa\n
He’s in the shower and she appears beside him, naked. And then they go to the other world and do battle.
O_o what kind of fools goes into battle with hot naked girl next to him. Fighting is the last thing on my mind at that point.
wait…NAKED!!!???…
Kyou is a pimp.
on ANN the theme for the anime are, Romance, Meccha, Shounen. So which girl does he end up with? usually the girl the Main character ends up with is the one featured the most in the opening sequence and the ending, it looks like they show more of the short haired one so will he end up with the short haired girl?? i’m all for Shizuno
only complaint i have on this series are the explosions…they look a little flat 🙁
So I guess the question we should be asking, is why the need for the fake world and which of his friends is real?
There’s a lot of speculation going on that Ryouko may not be real. For how much they show her in the OP and ED, she’s probably going to play a big part, but it’s unclear what that part is as of yet.
To me, she doesn’t really feel that *special* in the sense that she had her memories changed just like everyone else. In terms of relationships, Shizuno obviously has an advantage over her, and Shizuno definitely exists in the other world.
But like I said, it’s too early to tell…
So, whats the difference between the Kyou that self-destructed in the beginning and the Kyou that was living in the “Virtual” world?
Oh great…..romance between Kyou and Shizuno. Now I’m really gonna stick to Zegapain for a while. I wanna see how those 2 might end up being together in the end. Hopefully its not going to end like Aquarion even though the ending really isn’t that bad. As for Kaito’s question….I’m wondering about the same thing too. Both Kyous may or may not be the same person. They may explain it later on in the anime. Anyway, since Shizuno is now being known in school…..and since she’s ‘beautiful’, I suppose lots of people may try to date her :P. Well, regardless of what happens, I still hope to see Kyou x Shizuno……..
OMG… hair-bun meganekko. That looks… just… silly…
Hey Omni, are you going to be blogging The Third?
Gimme a few minutes, lotsa stuff incoming…
Got it.