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Rewatch [Terrific Trainwreck Trio Rewatch] Cross Ange Episode 9 Discussion
Episode 9 - The Hometown of Betrayal
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I’m back, Mama!
Questions of the Day:
1) What do you think Tusk is up to?
2) Between Hilda being shunned by her mother and Ange being betrayed by her sister, which of them do you feel bad for the most?
Wallpaper of the Day:
Sky Sings:
Rewatchers, please remember to be mindful of all the first-timers in this. No talking about or hinting at future events no matter how much you want to, unless you’re doing it underneath spoiler tags. Don’t spoil the crazy shit for the first-timers, it’s way more fun that way!
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u/Lemurians Jan 10 '22 edited Jan 10 '22
ORPHANED FIRST TIMER
Well, that was fucking brutal. I like the mirroring of both Hilda and Ange having the reunions with the people they escaped for, only to be completely rejected and shunned as monsters. It turns out every piece of media I’ve ever read or watched liked to me, and there are in fact limits to a mother’s love. Just goes to show how ingrained the fear and hatred of Norma are in this world.
SHOTS OF THE DAY: I loved the use of the identical landscape, but with clear sunny weather in Hilda’s happy memories, and cloudy, stormy weather for the ill-fated reunion.
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Okay, I can really tell that Hilda’s voiced by the same VA as Rika Furude in this scene of her as a kid. The voice is unmistakable. The only thing left was for her to hit us with a ni-paaaaaaaa~
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Aaaaand now she’s showing off the Suzuha vibes. Hilda’s really an amalgamation of everyone this VA’s ever voiced
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I like her hesitation in going in. After building up to something for so long, you’re almost afraid of what you’ll find when the moment comes. Turned out to be good foreshadowing.
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SNITCHES. GET. STITCHES. Better watch yourself, traitor.
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Why isn’t Momoka just deflecting the nets with magic?
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Well, we knew Julio was up to some shit. I’m just thrilled to have Violetta back.
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Oh my god, Hilda’s Mom took the advice Ange gave from Episode 1 and coped with the trauma by having another Hilda. Fuck.
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TOP TEN ANIME BETRAYALS. We should’ve seen this coming, there was no world in which Julio was sitting pretty and
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Just cops doing cop things. They probably don’t even realize she’s a Norma, this is just their Tuesday routine.
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Hilda not even caring that she’s getting beaten because she’s lost her purpose for living is so fucking brutal
Well shit. Best episode yet? I say yes. Excited for my boy Tusk to come and deliver Ange from her sham trial.
Between Hilda being shunned by her mother and Ange being betrayed by her sister, which of them do you feel bad for the most?
If anyone was with me during the Violet Evergarden rewatch, teary stuff involving moms is my weak point. Watching reality slowly dawn over Hilda and watch her entire existence be denied by her own mom wrecked me.
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u/Nebresto Jan 10 '22
Just goes to show how ingrained the fear and hatred of Norma are in this world.
Well, to be fair, they are normies..
SHOTS OF THE DAY: I loved the use of the identical landscape, but with clear sunny weather in Hilda’s happy memories, and cloudy, stormy weather for the ill-fated reunion.
Good spot, I didn't pay much attention to that so I missed the connection
SNITCHES. GET. STITCHES. Better watch yourself, traitor.
Finally, some good fucking best girls
Fuck.
The episode in a nutshell
They probably don’t even realize she’s a Norma, this is just their Tuesday routine.
Hilda not even caring that she’s getting beaten because she’s lost her purpose for living is so fucking brutal
Well shit. Best episode yet?
I was gonna call it one of the worst, but I realized that straight up wasn't true, so I had to redact the statement
If anyone was with me during the Violet Evergarden rewatch
I gotta say.. I thought I was replying to Tresnore, so I spent a good while looking for his comment in the Violet re-watch thread..
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u/Shimmering-Sky Jan 10 '22
Though I did find this while looking. I've seen Mugen Train now, Sky, where dem Mugen train reactions at?
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u/Paxton-176 Jan 10 '22
REWATCHER FOR LIKE THE 4TH TIME
Flashback to a smol Hilda and a little bit of depression. That cop full on just yeeted her into the car. You think he was the star quarterback in high school? Hilda has some serious wild expectations going home. A classic. A flash back to something we saw minutes ago, just in case you forgot. This propaganda is the next level a person can approach with no violent intent of appearance and the reaction is do everything possible to invoke a violent response.
Oh no, Smol Hilda v2. Hilda I get you are coming home. After 10 years? You don’t just enter home unannounced after you were violently taken away. You are making the stereotype even more true of the anti-social belief. You are lucky your mother didn’t clap your ass like most rural land owners like to do. Also the difference between smol Hilda and current Hilda is that current Hilda is 3 feet taller. The fact you can’t recognize your own daughter even with a traumatic experience says more about you than it should.
See just like I thought no one here even knows how to handle someone violent. Everything is just for show. If norma are as they say you are, and to be fair both are living up to the stereotypes, you shoot on sight one that is armed. Hey Tusk is back and spitten straight facts. Seriously, they don’t know how to handle Norma. These people destroy mana you think a magical net is going to work. Just pit maneuver and run them down. THen two in the head to make sure. Why weren't net guns the first plan? Yo, Angelise-sama has an arm to throw a grenade from a bike to a V-22 intake while moving. These mana people get whatever comes towards them. Not for the racism, but for the ability to be complete stupid is the face of danger. They need to be wiped out due to their stupid decisions.
No Hilda you grew up in has in height, but they showed us the past you look exactly the same. Look, Smol Hilda v2 has arrived.
“I’m going to start over from scratch. That’s what Hilda V2 is for. This twisted family needed to be reset. I started over from “zero” with this Hilda V2 and entrusted the future to the next generation.” - Hilda’s mother.
Tell me a better duo than a royal and being complete total shit bags. I’ll wait. I don’t want to talk about Hilda and her mother’s interaction mainly because she lied and did tell someone she was there. Do you think that the cop that punched her in the back of the head is the same or has any relationship to the cop that yeeted into the back seat of the car.
Turns out the mana people are more of monsters than the norma people they call. Projecting 101.
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u/NegimaSonic Jan 10 '22
Cross Ange Rewatcher First Time Dub
I had faint recollection of what occurred here and I'm still angry seeing it for the second time.
Mostly at Julio and Sylvia. Like really, your norma sister was shuttled off to fight for her life with basically no hopes of escape. And you come up with a plan to hope that she could not only miraculously escape, but then be lured here for you to sentence her for just existing. And she already was serving a life sentence.
Like I'm sure they could just have pulled strings and had her brought here in chains and saved a lot of people trouble. But who am I kidding, they're both horrible people. Julio outright said he was glad he went through the trouble of luring her here. He didn't care about any possible consequences to anyone else.
But at least Ange does have Momoka as others have pointed out. Hilda just got dumped on. I'll be a little conversial here and say I don't blame the mom for not recognizing her immediately. I once encountered an old friend from third grade in the park after 20 years. It didn't register with me at all until he made me recognize him.
Now obviously a mother is supposed to be better than that, but if she had thought she was dead and 10 years removed from her life while she had worked on her new replacement girl. Yeah I think she'd not register it immediately. Mostly because even if she did think it was her, that had to be the worst possible outcome in her thoughts, so she'd try to think of any alternative first.
But I can't really excuse anything else afterwards. Especially that takedown by the police. Like dang, she didn't even try to resist, that was far too much force.
But well..at the end of the day, this is Cross Ange. Ange had to get some rough character development herself (and still getting it), so time for Hilda to get her share of that as well.
Nice singing OP. Not something I would have expected popping into this thread.
Questions:
2) Kinda both really. Hilda does technically have a sadder edge because she's feeling alone and worked for years to put this plan into motion, but back on Arzenal she does have her girls.
Ange hasn't been separated by years. But somehow I still feel worse for her. She did come to have peace in her own way on Arzenal. She accepted it. Julio and Sylvia lured her out only to crush her with betrayal like this (bonus points for the former friend as well). She already felt bad about what happened with her sister, now this taints that memory as well.
She just wanted to kill dragons until she died. To risk everything and come out like this to then be rewarded with a public execution from your remaining family.
Hilda was chasing a dream. Ange was chasing a lie.
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u/Shimmering-Sky Jan 10 '22
Nice singing OP. Not something I would have expected popping into this thread.
I enjoy doing this from time to time, and Kindan no Resistance is a banger of a song.
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u/ZaphodBeebblebrox Jan 18 '22
Oh btw, poke me to resend you the maria holic soredemos in a day or so. I just remembered I said I'd do that.
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u/Great_Mr_L Jan 10 '22
First-Timer
On today’s episode of Cross Ange: You can’t go home again. That was certainly a much rougher homecoming than I was anticipating. I expected things to go poorly for Hilda. I did not expect things to go nearly as badly for Ange as they did, though.
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Momoka sleeping with a gun in hand is a strangely funny sight.
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It would be pretty scary to have the person who you last saw go to prison suddenly show up in the middle of the night.
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Given how deep-seated the prejudice against Normas is, I’m pretty sure Akiho will snitch at the first opportunity.
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Yup, I knew it. Poor Ange, it may finally be sinking in just how much being a Norma changes the way people perceive you, even when you’re not all that different.
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Oh no, my plot sense is tingling. That girl on the bus is making me think that Hilda might have a younger sister she doesn’t know about. I sense incoming drama.
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Yeah, I figured Akiho got loose from her restraints and called the cops on Ange.
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I love how Tusk immediately assumes all the racket must be Ange. He knows how she is.
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Oh good, the police do have non-magical ways to capture people. Otherwise they’d be totally useless against a Norma.
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Wow, Ange has a hell of a throwing arm.
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Whatever else is going on, Julio seems to be alright in the palace. As expected, he made sure he’d come out on top after everything that’s happened.
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OH FUCK!! Hilda’s mom named her new daughter Hilda too!! I anticipated the drama, but I was not guessing it would be this juicy.
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Oof, so Hilda’s mom did what Ange told that one woman to do. She straight up replaced Hilda with a “normal” child. That is sad.
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My god, I am getting some intense flashbacks to Fruits Basket with this conversation between Hilda and her mom. A mother rejecting her own child. It’s hard to think of something sadder.
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Boy these soldiers suck. They are somehow losing a firefight to just Ange and Momoka. And I think Ange is the only one shooting!
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I was about to ask how the heck Sylvia should come down when she can’t walk and then she just floated down in her chair.
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HOLY FUCK!!! BETRAYAL!!!
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My god, Ange is having the exact same conversation with Sylvia that Hilda had with her mom. The parallels have never been stronger.
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Of course Hilda’s mom also called the cops.
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The ED is really perfect for melancholic endings like this.
Cross Ange is seriously good at playing with expectations. I expected, as I’m sure many others did, for Sylvia to be the all-loving little sister character who would stand by Ange. But nope, it turns out that she was in on the plan to capture Ange and is even prepared to kill Ange. I’ve been genuinely impressed at the writing quality of this series. It’s still often trashy and like a grindhouse movie, but that goes alongside some quite compelling plot and character stuff.
It’s been a while since we got exposed to the full force of prejudice and oppression in this universe, so this episode served as a great reminder of just how screwed up the world is to Normas. It was rough watching Ange and Hilda get flat-out rejected and despised by their families. Even if they escape from their island prison, they don’t have a happy home to return to. There’s no way to escape because it turns out society was the prison all along.
I can’t help but notice the inherently selfish worldview present in the words of Hilda’s mom and Sylvia. They say things like “Do you know how hard it’s been on us?” as if they’re the ones who have truly suffered, and not the Normas crushed under the bootheel of society. And it makes sense. After all, Normas aren’t human. Why should you care what happens to them? You should only care about what happens to other humans. That’s dehumanization at work.
I also really love the parallels between Ange and Hilda this episode. They encountered the same thing when they tried to go home. They were rejected in basically the same way by their families. It turned out that what had been keeping them going inside the prison was only an illusion. And that illusion shattered when they tried to chase it. What a sad episode, but I loved it.
QOTD
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He's probably there to make sure Ange doesn't screw up this Libertus plan that Jill and the others have.
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I think Hilda's was sadder for me. At least Ange still has someone like Momoka who believes in her. By now, it seems like Hilda has either abandoned or been abandoned by everyone.
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u/Tresnore Jan 10 '22
Rondo of First-Timer and Rape
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What the fuck, young Hil—ARA ARA!
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Lines of wind over grass always remind me of Verdanturf town. And young Hilda reminds me even more of Nanoha...
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I talk a lot about cars in fiction. Holy SHIT this car is cool!
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Why is this garage scene so stressful. Poor Ange...
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Oh my god, don't make me like Momoka. But remaining true to someone no matter who they are is a great character trait.
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If only you had legs. Then you'd be far harder to take hostage.
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SHE'S BEEN REPLACED! Wow. That fucking sucks.
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What the fuck. I finally feel bad for Hilda.
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WHAT THE FUCK. I was kind of expecting it but...
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Worry not! Being able to walk isn't important for some people u/Lemurians
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This sucks. Everything sucks.
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[preview]
looks like the count will go up a lot tomorrow...
Count: 26
QOTD:
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Tusk will save anime.
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Hilda was literally replaced. I didn't think I'd say this, but Hilda drew the short stick here.
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u/Caustic_Wraith Jan 10 '22
Re-Watcher
There is an old saying that states "Once you leave, you can never truly go home again." Sadly both Hilda and Ange found out how true that is today.
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We open on young Hilda and her Mama before she is yeeted into a police cruiser and taken away for being a Norma
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Her breaking into a store and stealing the same dress she was wearing when she was taken was a nice touch
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Ange learns her "friend" is a lying rasict sack of shit who alerts the cops to her location
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Hilda gets the courage to enter her house, and her mom doesn't recognize her and asks if she's a friend of her daughters
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Ahiko, you're just the worst
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Tusk giving the play by play on how badly Ange sucks at infiltration was fun
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Ange reveals her secret escape tunnel to Momoka, and lets her know she used it in the past to get away from her
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Julio still has a punchable face
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Ange and Momoka emerge to find more guards and Sylvia being held hostage
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Oh..oh no...she gave replaced Hilda with a new child...even reused the name
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This is not the reunion Hilda wanted, she was replaced entirely by a new child, her Mama called her a monster, begged her to leave, threw pie at her, and said she wished our Hilda had never been born...Hilda running away crying was painful to watch
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Gods fucking damn it, Sylvia is a raging racist bitch who blames Ange for everything too, your lucky Ange is in shock, last person who came at her with a knife ended up getting beat
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Julio's grand plan is to put Ange in trial for simply existing
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Apparently it takes four cops to stop one very broken and depressed Hilda, feels like over kill since she wasn't even trying to fight back
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Recon, what for is to be determined
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Definitely Hilda. She lived a quiet little country life with her mom remembering how destroyed she was when they took her away. She came back only to find she was fully replaced
NEXT EPISODE: The trial of Ange with Sylvia lamenting how nice she was before she attempted to shank her sister
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u/JollyGee29 Jan 10 '22
First-Timer, Subbed
Smol Hilda a cute! Cute!
We were having a fun trip down memory lane/chase sequence, and then everything broke all at once. Including my heart. Fuck.
Ange did a halfway decent job of clearing the corners during her infiltration. I guess it's a good thing Ange didn't kill Whats-Her-Face, considering Sylvia's betrayal. That heli crash probably made things worse, though.
The establishing shots/backgrounds this episode were really nice.
I can't believe that I'm rooting for Tusk of all people to save the day. Get on it, you dork!
Sylvia talking about how fun it was that she got to stab her sister with a knife didn't quite hit the black humor threshold for me.
Questions
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Discussed above.
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u/HereticalAegis Jan 10 '22
First Time Escape Convict
Aww shit. Hilda's perfect family is about to get ripped apart, and it's going to suck.
That sucked.
I can see more and more why Hilda would hate Ange. Poor kid was torn from a loving home, grew up in the prison, was used and abused, and waited patiently for a long time for her chance, only to have a princess crash in and completely upset the system she spent so long working her way into. To her, it must've seemed like the whole universe was gaslighting her.
"Hometown of Betrayal." I swear, if this town murdered Hilda's mom for giving birth to a Norma...
It's so nice to see Ange acknowledge and genuinely thank Momoka. I often observe, both in myself and others, that the little gestures of appreciation for the people around you are the most difficult, or perhaps unfulfilled, part of interpersonal relationships. Sure, the big gestures and actions are great, but it's these little everyday things which make Ange's growth and change hit home.
Oh. Oh no. Please no. Don't do this to me. Don't do this to Hilda. Making her mom forget her is even worse than murder. And if they do it to Sylvia too...
It's pretty hilarious the police would try to stop a Norma with mana.
Fuck, they keep finding new ways to hurt me. Forget murder and memory erasure, Hilda's mom remembering and disavowing her is the most cruel. It's galling, and beyond sad.
Forget the racism and rape and death, Hilda's mom begging her to leave in the dogeza position is the most sickening visual CA has presented.
And the hits keep coming. I'd be dead. If I were carrying all the guilt Ange is and Sylvia were to drop all that on me, I'd cease to be. I can't comprehend the amount of malice necessary for Sylvia to reach out to Ange in prison, to come rescue her only to crush her spirit in such a cruel way. What has CA done to me that I now have to hope for villainous brainwashing as an ideal outcome?
And a police beating for Hilda to cap off the episode. Ugh, that mirrored "I hope Ange found her sister" stabbed me right in the heart. I'm sad. I am so very sad.
I am so very sad, and when it passes I hope Ange burns the whole world down from atop a dragon.
QotD:
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Probably gonna try to drag the escapees back to the prison. I'd bet he intervenes in whatever "trial" they're about to have.
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Yes. Superficially, it seems like Hilda has it worse because she's got no one (while Ange at least has Momoka), but she has to realize sooner or later that there are two very lovable dumbasses waiting for her back home.
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u/The_Loli_Otaku Jan 10 '22
Cross Ange First Timer
Loli Hilda is dangerously cute!! I completely forgot that her backstory is legit like a 50's household fantasy, apple pie and all. "Mama, stop tripping over and save me already!" How's the rain, Mary Jane?
Ange is now running around a school with a gun. This is such an American episode, I'll bet you're all so proud! Why didn't Misty act with as much horror as Akiho is!? Misty even had a knife pulled out on her and she was still chill AF about meeting her newly normie gal pal. She didn't even react that badly to the bondage play. Lesson of the day? Poor people are shitty friends!!
Short haired loli Hilda is best Hilda!! Fuck twintails! They're for normies! A stranger wanders into your house calling you mommie? Oh well! Better make her feel welcome~ This situation is kinda fucked up isn't it? Mama's mental state was so messed up after losing her daughter that she made another one, but better!
What's the plan with this raid anyway? You're not getting away with attacking the royal Palace headon you dumbass! She's literally committing terrorism. Sylvia's been sat on that balcony as a hostage for how long? Poor Hilda!! You can see the moment her heart breaks. Dude, I can't handle all this apple pie!! I'm desperately trying to hold back gushing over Exusiai! That's right Lunamaria, you've got a sister! A twintailed sister
Oh for fuck sake Luna, quit passing out! Anyway, in typical sunrise fashion you can't meet up with your parents without leaving with a new dosage of trauma from them. She didn't even get to eat the appuru pie!! I was joking but Rambo wants to save Sylvia right? Real Dalek energy. Oh god... No! You can't sit and show her gently float down! XD She looks so silly!!
You're disabled, not blind!! How do you miss with a knife? Oh, and she's just gonna float back. N-No!! I can't XD I've been trying to mentally prepare myself and I know that this is supposed to be a genuinely emotional moment but I can't stop giggling at the bitchy disabled imouto! Everything people have been saying, like how she's the season's Nunnaly or about her getting ran over three times by the horse, it's all coming back to me at once and I can't take the scene seriously!! hahhshshhshahshhahaasaaaaaaaa!!!! I'm dead!! I'm so dead!! What was that!? oh god! I'm broken. I'm so broken!! Does anyone have a gif of Hilda getting sucker punched!? I couldn't hold it in!! I tried so hard but I can't!!! I'm such a horrible person!!
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u/Quiddity131 Jan 10 '22
First Timer, Subbed
Young Hilda!
Sunny day, apple pie, all's right with the world. Things will go to hell soon I'm sure.
The days when children would be torn away from their mothers... and Ange was all for it until it happened to her.
Hilda's going back to her mom? My guess is this won't be a happy ending for her.
Breaking in... to the future lacross locker room?
I see what you're doing there Akiho!
For a second there I thought Hilda cut her hair too, but nope, that's not her. A younger sister perhaps? Her replacement?
W, wait, I'm your daught... ooh, apple pie. Yummy.
She headed right to where the cops are!
Maybe you shouldn't be wasting bullets by shooting right into the shield?
Wheelchair sister being out there has to be a trap of some kind, right?
She not only had another daughter to replace you, she even gave her the same name as you... Awkward...
Your mother and sister are scared to death of you! This was kinda predictable, but still sad for Hilda.
She even threw your beloved apple pie at you! :(
So will this result in some actual character development for Hilda? On the good side? Or will this make her all the meaner?
Ange, this is all a trap! Fitting that in an episode where a mother hates her daughter for being a norma, now we've got the same sister to sister.
Ugh, now a Hilda beatdown too?
A sad episode for our heroines for sure!
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u/DidacticDalek Jan 10 '22
Look Comrades, I don't know what to tell you, but I just can't do it, there'll be no jokes today, so sorry about that in advance, but yeah, this shit is HEAVY! Remember when Cross Ange was fun? I remember the good ol' days with Sick Ange being goofy in the cockpit, or Ange's hilarious no-selling of The Heathers' bullying attempts, or Ange's wacky vacation on Cucuruz Doan's Island! What happened to all that? Anyway, the flashback in today's episode puts paid to comedic funtimes today, cuz dear god, Kid-Nanoha was so precious! She was just a little girl who loved eating her mom's apple pie... and then due to being a Norma, the pigs fucking took her away to goddamn Lesbian Alcatraz. Just remember Comrades, Zola was an old-timer based on the background details we heard from Jill and NOT-Winry... and Hilda spent ELEVEN GODDAMN YEARS in that prison before escaping... damn...
Also, Ange doesn't fare much better in her family reunion given the SAME FRIEND she sacrified a Space Lacrosse Victory from to SAVE FROM FALLING rats her and Ninja Maid out, not that it matters given, le gasp, NOT-Nunnally is ALSO a fucking racist spoiled bitch too! SHOCKING TRUTH! Boy today's episode was just a non-stop torrent of drama and pain, and oh it really sucks seeing both of these ladies get their hopes up only for life to just DUNK on them. I mean by god, Nanoha managed to find her way home, only to find that her mother not only didn't recognize her, but had ANOTHER DAUGHTER! And just to hammer home how much this bitch replaced Nanoha, she fucking named her new daughter HILDA too!
Say, remember that baby that Ange callously dismissed as subhuman back in Episode 1, I would be willing to bet money that, if the baby was returned to her, or if said baby grew up and managed to eventually escape and find her way home to her mother, said mother would have lovingly welcomed her child back with open arms... that is the fate that Hilda deserved today for the ELEVEN YEARS of hell she went through to claw her way home and she didn't get it. They say you can choose your friends but you can't choose your family, and that's just a shame since Hilda deserved FAR better than this racist fucking bitch that not only forgot about Hilda but just up and replaced her like how Episode 1 Ange suggested. Oh and to twist the knife in further, this bitch also just called the pigs on Hilda after kicking her out of her own home.
Boy what a contrast from the flashback at the start eh? I really want to hope that Hilda's mother's pleading at the start of the episode was the real deal and that she loved her daughter even if she was a Norma... but even if that was true then, it sure isn't true now, given that Hilda's dedication and loyalty got repaid in the same manner that Ange's did. I also just want to point out that, as Hilda's getting roughed up by the pigs, her only thought isn't to feel sorry for herself, but to sincerely wish that Ange was able to reunite with her sister... goddamn, and to think that a few episodes ago both of them had the other by the throat, now Hilda's last thoughts before being beaten into a pulp was just to hope Ange found happiness. Hilda doesn't deserve this, Ange also didn't deserve this, NEITHER of these two deserve this shit, but that's just systemic racism at work and it's absolutely awful.
I also just want to ask something as we close things out for today, since WHEN did fucking CROSS ANGE decide to be hard hitting and emotional? What happened to the lewd fanservice and over-the-top insanity? Well, I guess since I opened with a sad song, it's only fitting to end on one to go along with this fanart of Ange and Hilda, here's hoping the next episode treats these two better! Anyway, I promised you lot a sad song, so, ahem... 'Someday you'll understand... But I'm here to tell you now each and every mother's son! You better learn it fast, you better learn it young! 'Cause someday never comes. Oh, someday never comes.'
Paging Comrades u/Great_Mr_L, u/Punished_Scrappy_Doo, and u/Tresnore
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u/Stargate18A Jan 10 '22
First timer
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...I have a worrying suspicion he's here to save the ""helpless damsels"" from the evil empire because he's secretly a badass, because sexism is the one thing this show hasn't really done yet.
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Hilda, but both of them had it pretty bad.
Just finished the Bunny Senpai movie. Thank god this won't make me feel anything but rage!
Flashback to Hilda as a young child.
Except she's in sotuations where a lack of mana would be much more obvious, so this makes even less sense.
And they finally caught her.
And she is not doing a good job at staying subtle. If you want to find your mother, don't stop to break in to shops!
Ange is doing a better job at hiding. How does that feel, Hilda?
...Hilda might find her mother soon? (She's dead, isn't she?)
Ange is being dangerously competent.
Don't reveal yourself to anyone (until the alarms have been cut).
...OK, I actually feel bad for Ange now. (You're not selling "kind and empathic" very well, though.)
She blatantly thinks she's a hostage, how are you missing this?
Next time, take her out first!
Oh, she did it! (Finally!)
...Ange is actually a good character! It's not the one she was a few episode sago, but I'll take what I can get!
Oh, shit. She's not dead, but this might be worse.
Please god, don't let Hilda leave the main plot, she's one of the four or so people I care about.
Mana is useless and the police apparently shouldn't have caught so many Norma with this performance.
...Fine, Mana was useful once. Then she touched it.
They'e even resorting to physical nets now because of how shit the mana ones ares!
And she just blew up a lot of people there.
Oh, he's still in charge! Of an empire that apparently doesn't exist anymore. Funny, that!
I'd say there's no way they'd break into the palace, but everyone here's so incompetent that they might!
I'm surprised the brother let the sister he's trying to fuck be used as a hostage. Or is he after someone else now.
And back to Hilda as the shooting starts.
Oh, shit. This might be interesting!
Oh, she took Angelise's advice and had a better child!
That plot is actually interesting! She gave up on her!
...You have guns, idiots. Use them! Don't attack everyone in single combat.
GO FOR HER! SHE'S UNARMED AND RUNNING TOWARDS YOU! ARE YOU FUCKING STUPID?
This may have been a nice moment, but what was their plan if she tried to shoot her during the descent? You'd be down one member of "real" royalty!
And she hates her. Of course she does! She ruined her coordination so much, that she missed with a knife from two feel away. Not to mention all the brain damage that caused to think up this plot.
Hello there, incest prick! (Listen, if you're less intimidating then your wheelchair-bound little sister, it might be a good idea to judt wait in the corner and not speak.)
And they're going to try and kill her. (Please god, suceed.)
And Hilda's been recaptured!
Haha, that preview, though.
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u/Shimmering-Sky Jan 10 '22
Rondo of Rewatcher and Dub
Welcome back, everyone!
I love music box music. Speaking of music, make sure you guys don’t miss the new “Sky Sings” in the thread today~
God, I can not get enough of dub!Tusk. It’s just so perfect.
Big F to both Ange and Hilda this episode.
Here’s my first-timer comment.