Hmm... An interesting theory. Such a thought never crossed my mind. We haven't really seen any magic of such scale so far, have we? Everything has usually been related to the cybuddies, although it's true we don't really know what power the maiden's exactly possess to limit the Glittering's cybuddies.
If the preview is any indicator things are about to take a turn to the dramatic very soon.
I also overestimated Manticore, i thought her plan was greater than just a mere lie, and such an obvious one at that.
Indeed... Marino's plan wasn't actually well thought. But nevertheless she would have accomplished her goal if one of the maidens wasn't part of Glittering Crux.
Add the fact she doesn't know everybody behind the mask... she screwed herself when the Maiden Class President (forgot her name) noticed the lie. No one else caught it. Well... maybe Boss Guy noticed since he personally knew two maidens (fish girl and class president) and probably had the same information that all 4 maidens had to be born in the same year.
This in turn supports my theory that Marino doesn't really exist. Why is Mizuno a maiden and Marino isn't? Mere chance? Or my theory (thanks to those flashbacks) that Marino is merely a creation of Mizuno's power.
Things don't look too good right now. Mizuno is in a poor state of mind to defend her seal. She wants to leave the island because of the worthless mom and now she even thinks she lost Takuto. And maybe she feels a bit alienated from Marino as well. Who knows how this will turn out. It's true, though, that Takuto has been winning too easily until now, mostly, so maybe we will get another seal break to even the odds.
What comes to Marino, I'm beginning to think Zell is right. There's something strange about her. Not only is Mizuno shown alone in half of the flashback scenes but the mom only called for her as well. Maybe she split herself in two, creating Marino to keep herself company.
Mizuno-chan looked on the border of breakdown... only Wako's presence seem to save her for now. Though with the arrival of the Glittering Crux maiden things don't look good for her.
The repeated flashbacks without Marino seem to indicate she's a creation of the maiden's power as I thought before. But I wonder how it will affect them? Will Marino dissapear when Mizuno's power gets ripped a la fish-girl? I mean... fish was allowed to leave, so it means her power was stolen or destroyed.
On that note, fish girl is still in the OP so her return may be just a matter of time.
And honestly i don't mind the darker tone of the episode if it leads to some answers. I'm not sure you all realize this but flashy battles aside we still pretty much have no idea of what's going on here. They've been distracting us with pretty lights and pew pew lasers for far too long, i want some plot dammit!
Wow, for all his talk Head got whooped pretty badly
What exactly changed when the third phase commenced? And how did Mizuno create Marino anyway? And who is gonna sing the zero theme song from now on?
This show is pretty entertaining but i'm afraid it's gonna turn out like one of those "It's magic, i don't have to explain shit" kinds of series.
Wako - South Maiden had a song.Originally Posted by Archangel
Fish Girl - North Maiden had a song.
Mizuno - West Maiden had a song.
So going by that, the next one should be....
Keito - East Maiden - Will most likely have a song.
The single for Monochrome comes out this Wednesday.
I want the Glittering Crux Maiden dead.
Im sad to see Mizuno leave, at least her clone, Marino, is still there with her. Heh... interesting to see a theory of mine finally hitting jackpot.
That was quite interesting. I don't fortunately share Archie's feelings either: This series wasn't overly much based on logic from the beginning so I'm not expecting things to make sense or be explained at this point either. Takuto winning is given considering he's the Galactic Pretty Boy. I guess that flashback and remembering his friend who gave his dreams his everything till the day he died recharged Takuto's batteries, if you must seek for an answer. If you believe Head, that alone is quite enough, considering how, according to him, the machines are powered.
And I hate series that feel the need to explain everything anyway.
Marino remaining (in the story) was very nice. Having her disappear for good would have left a bad aftertaste.
Bitching:
- Keito's song is pretty meh, easily the weakest voice of all the maidens.
- Why can't there be any ginga bishoujos? Fucking misogynous Japan...
- We're at episode 17 and Takuto is still getting asspull wins?
- He didn't kill anyone on luck? Feels like bulshit to me, he used plenty of apparently deadly attacks so far.
Regardless i still enjoyed this episode and the overall series, I'm just pointing out a few annoyances I've found on the way.
So far he has only fought few opponents with the pilot inside. Most of them were in the cyber casket. How he won this one was quite nice in my opinion. I have no troubles with it. Surprisingly enough I also had nothing against his reluctance to kill the enemy pilots. I mean, just the previous day he was rubbing oil on the girl...
I agree on the maiden's song, though. I miss the fish and clone maidens.
Why do you assume using a cybercasket means you only control the cybody remotely? If everyone else gets physically transported to zero space then why wouldn't the driver himself be as well?
Actually I also thought they always transferred, but this episode had a few odd details. Like why say Takuto has fought against manned cybuddies before if they are all manned? Since Takuto has fought much more than any of the Glittering people, it would be a strange thing to say just to indicate he has fought cybuddies before. And why did Takuto hesitate only now, if the cybuddies have always contained a living pilot? He's not so stupid that he would have thought they don't only because he couldn't see them as well as he now saw this girl.
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