Yeah, a real good episode, because Leda's the consistent character who we knew the least about after Ringo and Oji's backstories were revealed. (Luna and Braiking Boss don't quite count, as I feel their backstories will come at the very, very end). I think Kraco hit it right on the nose.

the kids were pretty touching, but the thing that got me is when Ringo and Oji had to part ways. Somehow a sad Ringo makes me sad...

Dio's "I'm going to get some air" interests me, because part of me thinks it was done solely so Leda could fight Casshern for a bit, to develop her more as a threat (because she did pretty damn well, I'd say). If Dio had been there when Casshern showed, it would all have been different. But another part of me thought that maybe they had Dio leave at that moment because he didn't want to have to see what Leda was going to do to those kids.

Still, the two of them are really a perfect match. And, yeah, you almost can't help but sympathize with them even though they're the bad guys...

So, if I'm getting this straight, some now dead scientists created Luna, along with the three siblings who would protect her code/whatever That Rock is. Later they would try to have reproducing robots, the Leda, Casshern and Dio project. However, I thought we'd been told that Oji was part of that project? Did he maybe only just make them? I can't see it being possible that Leda's maker wasn't involved in her child-bearing test... Or am I remembering something incorrectly here?

The staggering amount of flashbacks to Lyuze's past and shots of her sitting naked in the next episode preview, along with her ominous foreshadowing a few episodes back cast a dark cloud over the next episode...