So it seems pretty obvious the new male is really a female..... That shirt she wore during practice seems like a really tight shirt that will flatten her already flat chest even more I guess.
Oh and I think it's safe to say Ichika is gay.
Pirate girl..... Don't really have an idea of what her problem with Ichika could be. She's a good change of pace though since every girl is an Ichika lover.
Indeed. I also drew that final conclusion from this episode. At least I've never seen a guy of any significant age that would ever grab another guy's hand in a normal situation and then continue to walk hand in hand. You only grasp another dude's hand during a handshake or saving him from falling to his death. Minor cumulating evidence is, of course, his density to female advances and how he shows zero interest in girls, beyond treating them as regular friends or classmates, yet is immensely happy to meet other guys.Originally Posted by Idealistic
The latter of course by alone means little - I think I'd be happy to have some of the attention diverted and to have somebody around to joke with - but together with the other evidence it doesn't look good.
The archetype German military girl was a welcome addition, I agree. God knows she will also fall in love with him after a while, but perhaps in the mean time some antagonism will be serve the nonexistent plot well.
Complete with a howitzer, it seems.
Man, too bad Cecilia can't make a sandwich right.. what's more is that it shows she doesn't put enough effort in to try her own food before giving it to Ichika. Either that, or her elitist pride carries even into the kitchen. Everything she does must be good. What a pity.
Don't quite know what the teachers have in mind yet, but they're obviously gathering talent in response to the latest drone incident.
If it's not Isuzu-chan Mii~
Chifu being there in the classroom standing up at all times is a tad disturbing, feels really unnatural.
But maybe it's because we always get to see the classrom right at the beginning of homeroom time.
Dunoa is a nice phonetic approximation for "Dunois". I wonder why they would create such an obvious reverse trap and have no one wonder or question her manliness. Unless she's a trans, but I do not see that show trying that.
I'm starting to like the comical effect homeroom teacher.
All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening. And then: Golf.
Oberstleutnant Germany-san is a total bitch.
this episode was hot, so much ass in "swimsuits" and oh wow, that friend's sister (from the headband family) looked really good in that sloppy outfit, I prefer that look over her properly dressed up one, haha (I guess I have a thing for ponytails and whatever you call Ran's style with flick of hairs left and right and that "updo" hairstyle etc.)
and I liked that everyone (especially Shinonononono) was more outgoing this time.
btw If France-kun turns out to be a girl, which is pretty obvious so far, I'll make her my favorite...
Ran (friend's sister) and Cecilia are on top atm.
we don't walk around and slap each other's faces 8[The archetype German military girl was a welcome addition
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So they announce there's a 1 (2) in a billion male pilot and nobody bothers to check if it's bulshit or not?
I'd go over there and claim to be Jesus.
Those boobs are too big to pull that off.
Ichika.. seriously, it could have been a lot worse. Cecilia could have offered you some home-cooked dinner.
If it's not Isuzu-chan Mii~
'Charles' is hot. Ran too.
Hey hey, you do not question the president of the Dunoa company's son!
Indeed.
I guess the question now is her real name Charlene or Charlotte? Probably the latter, I'm pretty sure the Japanese have never heard the other name. The new ED sequence though...wow. I never thought no-socks school uniform could be that awesome. The looser ponytail does a lot of things for me too, even if we're unlikely to see it in the show itself. Pretty sly of her to get Ichika to feed her.
It's been totally obvious since her first appearance that Charles was a she, but I did not expect her to have breasts that would rival (if not best) Cecilia's. The mystery of control garments...
Houki still has that market cornered, it's the only thing she has going for her anymore.
It's still really funny that Ichika got out of being paired with a girl, and now realizes he is paired with another. He gets bonus points for immediately saying he'll cover for her, and displaying that he actually does study. I also liked that Cecilia thought that giving precise degrees to angle one's body was "simple and easy to understand" instruction.
"Charles" aside, I thought the bits about Chifuyu, the tournament and Germany were quite interesting. Chifuyu's rough on him, but it's been more and more apparent so far that Chifu really cares for her brother. They (whoever that is, maybe even Germany?) tried to use kidnapping against her to get her distracted and lose the match. Instead she forfeited and became indebted to the German Army. She obviously made them a considerable force to reckon with from Laura's boasting and otherwise nastiness. Then when her obligation was complete, she left just in time to watch over her brother at the academy. Chifu handled it very nicely too, calling Laura out on being a self-important, stuck-up bitch just like the students she was berating.
Laura does seem to have a good idea about what is really going on in the world however. I also wonder what her eye does.
As such:
Charles > Cecilia = Fan > Chifu > Ran > Laura > Maya > Houki.
Charles is awesome.
Peace.
Laura is a psychopath, there's no doubt of that. I may have to take back my prediction of her falling for Ichika as well. Although if he beats her in an easy looking manner, the situation might change. She seems to be worship Chifuyu because of her unbeatable strength, after all, and no doubt considers herself above the other students.
I'm gonna quote this post amusingly when Germany goes full dere
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Well they really had their asses kicked. I still think it's crazy how ridiculously fast Ichika's energy went down.
Also Charles +1
A nice situation for Houki: To get her date (as far as she believes), she must win, but that means the ultimate psycho bitch will win as well. Well, she might not really be winning in any case as I doubt the German one can cooperate with anybody to any extent. We don't yet know if both members of the team need to be standing for them to win. If not, Laura might as well plan to sacrifice Houki to be able to fight alone.
I didn't really get the fight between Ichika and Laura in this ep, though. Wasn't Ichika's sword's main function to bypass any defences? If it stopped at the repel field yet still ate his own shield energy, it's a completely useless piece of junk. A huge weakness yet the strength that was supposed to compensate doesn't work... Some engineer somewhere needs to be fired.
My guess is that it will bypass the shield no matter its remaining strength, but since the repel field isn't actually a shield, it just stops. I was kind of hoping that the weakness of the A.I.C. would be melee attacks, but that didn't appear to be the case. That makes the sword completely worthless. Drains his own shield (as does the speed boost!) and is easily countered. I suppose it is a huge testament to Chifuyu's skill that she could dominate the competitive world with such a terrible weapon and loadout, but it isn't doing Ichika a whole lot of good.
I'm glad Houki finally got some character development beside insisting she is his childhood friend. It sounds like Houki is hiding considerable skill because she doesn't want to fall into the old pattern that Laura now uses. However, Charlotte is still on the top. She managed to fend off Laura for quite some time using her second-gen machine. She doesn't rely on high technology to win her battles, she's a lot like Maya-sensei, who destroyed Cecilia using a second-gen model. They both seem to have a strong instinct for tactics. She might not have hit Laura, but she kept her occupied and unable to fire the majority of her weapons. I like that the second-gen systems rely on more traditional weapons. The highly specialized weapons (Cecilia's bits, Fan's air cannons, Ichika's POS sword, etc.) seem to have as many weaknesses as they do strengths. Machine guns and rockets still work pretty well.
Chifuyu was very cool this episode. She blocked Laura's attack using a weapon alone, no I.S. activated. Makes me wonder if she even still has one.
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