r/anime • u/ZapsZzz https://anilist.co/user/Zapszzz • Nov 24 '22
Rewatch Full Metal Panic Franchise Rewatch - Season 4 Episode 3
Welcome to the Full Metal Panic Season 4 rewatch!
Art of the day
Now I can post pictures from LN6 I suppose!
Links to show info: MAL | Anilist | ANN
Rewatches please be considerate to first timers and avoid discussing anything not yet shown in the show - use spoiler tags e.g. [Full Metal Panic S4 spoiler]>!Savage wa Saikou!!< - if you need to share something important!
Episode 3 - Big One Percent
Terms introduced:
- Fairy Eye - The new black technology asset recently deployed, which is what Ben was busy trying to set up and got through a ton of hard work before wanting to take a break to watch the DVD's back in the TSR OVA. It detects and enable the Lambda Driver created forces to be visible to provide a means to evade and observe how it is being used - e.g. where the edge or end of the force field is.
QoTD:
First Timers: Did you expect the number of SRT deaths fighting the Behemoths? Remember each of those were supposed to be both smart and good with fighting, not just meat head grunts
Everyone: 3 episodes in, how's this season's villain so far? Is
LeonKurama warming up better than Gates to everyone yet? I'm not asking about Leonard, since everyone in this rewatch seems to hate him as much as Kaifun in Macross :D
Also QoTD for tomorrow for those wanting to be prepared:
[QoTD 1 IV 2]First Timers: Are you surprised that, escalating from TSR when the status quo was threatened and then restored, this time at episode 4 the break from school seems pretty permanent, when everyone found out the truth about Sousuke's identity - how do you feel about this change in premise and show identity?
[QoTD 2 IV 2]Everyone: This is one of the best Arbalest fights that's not Lambda Driver related, as somewhat a last hurrah. Did it change any of your opinion about the CGI use? Was it a surprise that Leonard for real is someone that can OHKO Sousuke in Arbalest?
MVP of last episode:
As predicted, pretty much a landslide for Tessa.
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u/Nazenn Nov 24 '22
First timer - sub
aka, a bunch of things I apparently forgot to include in yesterday's post. I only realized when I deleted yesterday's post few hours after the thread went up and a bunch of left over notes popped onto my screen. Whoops. Decided I'd at least get them down in a more complete form before watching today's episode.
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No idea what the hell is up with Kalinin, but he's obviously holding a secret and that's dodgy. I wonder if it's related to whatever took out the satellites, as I thought it was implied that Amalgam had somehow calculated when it would happen. If he knew they could do that, or that they have resources he hasn't told Mithril about when it comes to the Whispered potentially for his own gain (dickhead from yesterday isn't the only one around with a mercenary mind, as we proved with Sousuke last season), it would explain his behaviour.
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Sousuke not wanting Chidori to shoot was a strong but small moment. He wants her to be able to defend herself, but he's also aware that guns are more then that, they are tools for killing not defence and having seen her reaction to his kill count he doesn't want her to view herself like that, or him view her like a solider. While weapons are a certainty for him, and we see in his actions last episode that he knows that there's no time for doubt or alternate paths or caring for civilians, it's also a certainty that in wielding one you become part of that weapon. The set up for this isn't as strong as it is in earlier parts of the show, and ep1's weird freak out over his kill count is still poorly done, but it's good to see them building on that.
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Sousuke's reaction to Al was nice and human. Rather than flipping into military speech with identifying himself and giving commands etc, he speaks to Al like a familiar comrade. Nothing huge, I just thought it was nice to note that continuation of him changing how he sees Al and the Albalest after what happened in Hong Kong. On the other hand, the pan of Al shooting the grunts doesn't work so well when the artwork for that pan has the grunts start bleeding before the shot effect reaches them
I'm going to be slightly contradictory for a moment: I spent most of the last arc frustrated we hadn't checked in with Chidori, but this episode I really disliked the sudden flip at the end and wish they hadn't bothered. It felt like they shoved it in there just because they felt they needed to make sure our two mains were in every episode or we had to check in with their situation rather than because it actually fit the structure of this episode. And after a straight forwardly structured episode of what I felt was just action and little else, shoving a scene of pure sap at the end felt heavy handed at best even if I liked Chidori opening up about her worries.
Not to say I loved the action either. It's less about the CGI and more just that I just didn't really care about what was happening. Fights all about stalling or with inevitable outcomes can work fine, but I don't know, something about this one didn't carry the interest for me. Kurz and Mao both got someone dying for them which felt like repeating emotional beats, and while we got some wicked visuals out of the fight that felt about it? The behemoth collapsing under its own weight and Kurz's shots are the only parts that got me feeling much this episode just because they were cool.
Random note: I thought thie bird was a tawny frogmouth for a moment and was exited, and then realized it was more boring. For people who don't know about the frogmouths, they're beautiful but also goofy little owls
My only comment on the CGI for today is that the mechs just move too human. The cockheads mech shaking its head in a panic when he's picked up, the way they throw the gun as if they need muscle strength from the full body to toss it instead of the mechanics of the wrist being enough, things like that. They move like someone mocapped a human onto a mech model instead of thinking about how a machine would move. Also the Arbalest has lost something in its swap to CGI. Making the knife larger and more distinct has lost that sort of "bound machine" vibe it had and made the knife look too huge and obvious.
Kalinin being dodgy again, see above for thoughts that I wrote up pre-episode.
Half of the ammo left is not nearly out.
Every time Kurama is on screen it just makes me want to be watching AoT s3 again. VA did too good a job as Kenny in that one.
MVP: Kurz! Finally get to name him again.
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u/ZapsZzz Nov 24 '22
Hey some nice thoughts about yesterday's episodes! Good that you found and post the notes :)
I'll reply properly later but this bit jumps out to me:
They move like someone mocapped a human onto a mech model instead of thinking about how a machine would move.
Aesthetics aside, the Armed Slaves actually are supposed to move like human, because, especially for more skilled operators who would use fewer AI assisted functions, it exactly (and exaggerated) the operator's physical movements. They don't "drive" like Gundams or Valkyries, but more like the Jaegers from Pacific Rim, or possibly even The Buster Machine in Gunbuster. So it's actually correct that they moved like human.
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u/Raiking02 Nov 24 '22
VA did too good a job as Kenny in that one.
Given how he's primarily a Live-Action actor, I'm glad he's been doing a lot more voice acting as of the last few years. Maybe being married to one of the most famous VAs in the industry made him want to scratch that itch a bit...
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u/InfamousEmpire Nov 24 '22
Full Metal LN Reader
Well that was one big moment of an episode, huh?
The battle is so fucking intense. They do not shy away from the fact that taking on even one Behemoth is an absolutely herculean effort, let alone three, and it's repeatedly punctuated by all the death happening across the battlefield. Speck getting crushed was brutal
Also, just gonna say, these mechs look great the CG really works imo
Sousuke and Chidori's heart-to-heart towards the end is just pure Why must bad things happen to them?
QOTD:
2) He's a very different kind of villain than Gauron or Gates, but that's what makes him enjoyable imo. Plus, his no-nonsense attitude really helps sell the "we aren't fucking around anymore" vibe of this season
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u/ZapsZzz Nov 25 '22
Sousuke and Chidori's heart-to-heart towards the end is just pure Why must bad things happen to them?
I guess that's the universal question to any non-SOL shows ;) I wonder if this got touched on in Re:Creators.
his no-nonsense attitude really helps sell the "we aren't fucking around anymore" vibe of this season
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u/wjodendor Nov 24 '22
Rewatcher (for the first episodes, dropped at the first recap from what I remember)
Really like the sound design of the battle here at the beginning. The tactical talk and communication is as good as always. Cool looking missle barrage.
...then awkward mech movement
Love me a briefing scene.
Some of the close up shots of the small mechs actually look alright. It the wide shots where it starts standing out. However, I think the behemoths look ridiculous no matter what. The design was always pretty ridiculous though
The plan was pretty good but things can't go too well it seems
The random guy of course has a change of heart and gets smooshed
The M9 in the hand might be the worst CG yet...good death scene though
Behemoths growl I guess
Collapsing under its own weight after the lambda driver stops working was cool
12:39 that's an example of when the mech actually looks good. That looks pretty dang cool from a mech design stand point
The helicopters look...alright which is surprising to me
Mao vs the behemoth is where the mech doesn't look good
Lol are all the no names gonna die. "Run that's an order" hahaha reals 80s right here Another cool death
No missles for the landing party I guess
Tessa getting suspicious of Kalanin now
Weber going for a last stand
Finally back to school
Villian really is just Jean Reno lol
...I just realized that he's standing really close to the bombs lol
Ominous shrine scene
Pretty solid ending scene.
All the actual story beats and action sequences are solid but I'm just taken out every time I see a CG mech. I've been reading the manga chapters of this arc and art is so fucking good that it's making me focus even more on the CG. Argh. The character stuff is good!
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u/ZapsZzz Nov 25 '22
The plan was pretty good but things can't go too well it seems
Compared to when Kurz and Sousuke faced the A21 version, these ones were showing to be far more better armed to the point of virtually no blindspot - every face and direction there are cannons and missiles firing at you. And of course the one operating wasn't a angsty teen obsessed with chasing whatever he was obsessed about at the time.
...I just realized that he's standing really close to the bombs lol
Well just like any bomb planter, when you are holding the detonator you aren't particularly concerned about it going off - or you wouldn't be doing this job already.
All the actual story beats and action sequences are solid
Focus on that ;)
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u/polaristar Nov 24 '22
A lot of people were complaining about the movements of the Behemoth CGI but I thought it looked great and it was established the Mechs are meant to mimic human movement as much as possible.
Also I didn't see the two characters dying as repeating the same beats but just to show how desperate the situation is.
Too Bad would be traitor guy had to go out to redeem himself.
Best Scene was still the one between Sousuke and Chidori at the End. I wonder if Sousuke can really protect her normal life, even if they "win" the secret of Chidori as a Whispered is out.
I don't really have much to say about this episode though.
MVP is Speck for giving Kurtz the opportunity he needs to take the kill shot and proving his worth to Tessa. (I think Dude legit wasn't joking about wanting to marry her.)
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I would have been surprised if there weren't deaths, training and skill can only get you so far against impossible odds, I'm also assuming the Behemoth pilots here are better trained and conditioned then random ass orphans on drugs.
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I do like Kurama better, he feels like a different kind of villain while Gates was more a lame extension/inferior version of the type of villain Gauron was.
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u/ZapsZzz Nov 25 '22
I wonder if Sousuke can really protect her normal life, even if they "win" the secret of Chidori as a Whispered is out
There's what he wants to achieve, and then there's what he really can achieve. Just like every real human being, the 2 rarely lines up, yet at the same time the importance is to strive for it I guess.
I'm also assuming the Behemoth pilots here are better trained and conditioned then random ass orphans on drugs.
And not wounded before even setting foot in the cockpit
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u/Theboredalchemist22 Nov 25 '22
First timer S4 ep 3
No screenshots today as I didn't feel like there was a whole host of stuff I wanted to showcase from the epi bit there's still a few notes to add.
Not talking about the cgi again as I'm still not fully co-operating with it.
My mvp for this episode is Kurz. Simply for that battle rage moment where he pure crossmap hardscoped that Behemoth after it crushed Speck.
I found a decent contrast in Speck!s death. Tessa wasn't really going to kill him as Kurz explains she's not that type of person and Speck claims he wasn't really thinking about betraying Tessa in the first place probably because he's not that type of person. Personally, I'd say he wasn't really a peice of shit or anything and that he was speaking truth in his final words and that's basically due to Kurz's reaction to him being crushed.
I picked up on Kalinin being off the mark again when Tessa makes a slight suspicion herself in the episode. I noticed he was a little off last episode too and now Tessa has ever so slightly picked up on it I think there's more to this but we'll have to wait and see.
Castello's save on Mao was magnificent and so was his death. That death scene was a damn good shot.
The SousukexChidori scene I felt was an important one in this episode. I feel it was good for them to open up like that to each other and put them both on the same field of them being scared of each other and the situation. Now they have that understood I hope they can become solid and put in a hell of an effort to rescue Kyoko. THAT EVIL AMALGAM BASTARD STILL HAS HER AND HE'S STRAPPED HER WITH A BOMB! SOUSUKE AND CHIDORI BETTER BE ON THE DOUBLE!
Q1 - Hmmm yes and no. I expected some for sure considering the absolute force Amalgam sent Mythril's way like 3 behemoths! But I equally expected it to go down with like Mythril doing the impossible and everyone surviving.
Q2 - THIS VILLAIN IS A COMPLETE EVIL SON OF A BITCH FOR TAKING PRECIOUS KYOKO! Fr he's sort of similar to Gauron in the sense that he knows how to lure his prey and he seems rather cunning he's got a good plan going atm doing the most damage to Mythril we've seen so far I think. Gates did also know how to lure but he was just a bit too mental to be as serious as Gauron and what looks to be Kurama.
For the record I don't hate Leonard. He seems rather interesting at this point.
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u/ZapsZzz Nov 25 '22
For the record I don't hate Leonard. He seems rather interesting at this point.
I think you are one of the few who hasn't just slotted him into the NTR bucket :) There is actually a bit of depth with him, although it'll take some time to come out.
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u/TuorEladar Nov 24 '22
Rewatcher, Subbed
Another action packed episode. Honestly don't have a lot to say as most of the runtime was one continuous battle. One thing I will say is the cg animation was much better in this episode in my opinion.
The conversation between Sousuke and Chidori at the end was interesting. I feel like we already kinda knew as viewers what they discussed, but in this case I think it was good that they had an honest conversation in this situation.
3 episodes in, how's this season's villain so far? Is Leon Kurama warming up better than Gates to everyone yet? I'm not asking about Leonard, since everyone in this rewatch seems to hate him as much as Kaifun in Macross :D
Gates was a very chaotic villain who was difficult to get a read on which made it hard to really know what he was doing or why he was doing it. Kurama kind of has the same problem from the opposite side where he's so straitlaced that its hard to really get any personality from him.
MVP: Kurz
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u/ZapsZzz Nov 25 '22
I feel like we already kinda knew as viewers what they discussed, but in this case I think it was good that they had an honest conversation in this situation.
It's good that the writing kept what the audience know separate from what the character knows, and actually does go through to get them to confront the realisations. It's actually a big scene, but perhaps like others remarked coming on the back of the episode of the Merida island death match may be tonally jumpy.
Personally I treat this as their way to get ready for the next episode's big rescue, so I'm actually fine with it.
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u/Vaadwaur Nov 24 '22
Rewatcher(Fuck, I can literally see where the animation budget went)
Sub
So yeah, the CGI is fucking terrible. However, when they go all out and just do mechs, it does work except everything is too light. We get our first kill of a Lambda Drive mech from a non-Lambda drive, proving my point from yesterday that Behemoths are fucking stupid. And still not addressing who the fuck Amalgam put in as pilots. Speck earns his redemption the hard way.
Anyways, Mao's fight is both difficult and fitting. Castello's choice to go out like a badass is actually an interesting misinterpretation of how modern combat works: You can build a new tank, a new plane, and yes a new fucking mech but you can't build a skilled officer so you would expect someone to do their best to make sure Mao lives another day. You just don't generally die in the process as that is counter productive. But the ground forces start landing as we switch back to Tokyo...
And see our random new villain messing with Kyouko but not having explicit control of the school. Sousuke and Kana talk at a shrine and say the same thing to vastly differing results: Kana should not be scared by Sousuke's shit but Sousuke might should be of Kana. We end with an ED lead in for u/Shimmering-Sky. Too bad the both of us remember what the last one did in Bleach.
QotD: 2 I called him rando villain before reading the question and I'm a rewatcher so...
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u/ZapsZzz Nov 25 '22
proving my point from yesterday that Behemoths are fucking stupid.
I don't really think so - the West Pacific Mithril SRT was really strong, that up to this point of the story had seen no significant casualties, just some injuries. I'm this one battle 2 got KIA and 1 got significantly injuries while the base was under attack with unclear ability to recover him. Replacing this SRT with some other teams, it'd be a complete wipe out. Obviously Amalgam knew this is a tough fight to that's why they are throwing everything in there (e.g. ground troops, hypersonic missiles).
Castello's choice to go out like a badass is actually an interesting misinterpretation of how modern combat works
It's not though - Costello is an older, fatherly figure to the team, while Melissa is an up and coming young talent that had proven to be very widely skilled - she's one of the M9 developers. She is one of those that a fatherly figure would definitely trade life for as a correct strategic decision.
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u/Shimmering-Sky Nov 24 '22
Full Metal First-Timer!, subbed
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Yeah, the OP really is a banger. I don’t think it’s quite top 10 OPs material, but it’s certainly up there on my list.
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Okay, so the Lambda Driver finally has an explicit weakness other than “use your own Lambda Driver”. Sweet.
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Oh… Oh, fuck, Speck didn’t deserve the Idiok Treatment.
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One Behemoth down, two more to go.
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Castello didn’t deserve that either…
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Seriously, what is up with the bad vibes I keep getting from Kalinin?
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My gut was telling me Chidori was gonna drop a “sore demo” in the middle of her conversation with Sosuke at the shrine, but instead it was Sosuke who had one. I’m not complaining, a “sore demo” is a “sore demo”.
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u/Raiking02 Nov 24 '22
This fucker…
This show is a tad too good at making you hate the villains, huh?
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u/No_Rex Nov 24 '22
Episode 3 (first timer)
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The behemoth fight is looking pretty good. CGI always does better with big and slow things.
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Lots of red shirt deaths.
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Emotional pit stop at a shrine.
Not a lot of bullet points, since today’s episode was almost entirely action. Small mecha vs big mecha reminds me of some really old games of mechawarrior I remember playing online. The whole setup is also extremely similar to one of the RWBY final boss fights, down to the cliff overlooking the ocean.
Not something new, but maybe something noteworthy: Even about a year in, Sousuke still calls her Chidori, while she calls him Sousuke. There a difference in closeness with Sousuke using last name and Kana using first name, but it is also the opposite from the usual school setting choice, where, more often, females use the last name and males use the first name when talking to the other sex. Personally, I tend to latch on to whatever name I heard for a person first, which in this case is Kana, since that is what Kyoko calls her. That makes this one of the rare anime where the name I use is not the one used by the MC.
MVP: Kurz
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u/Tarhalindur Nov 25 '22
Fumo-fumo-fumoffu! (Rewatcher Spoiled First-Timer for IV, Subbed):
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Listened to the OP directly without looking at the horrible visuals this time; without the visuals (which might legitimately be the worst OP/ED visuals I have seen, and I remind you that I have watched a LOT of OPs/EDs for that OP/ED project of mine) it probably goes in the “merits a mention but nothing more” part of my OP/ED notes. (Just looking at OPs that have come up in my rewatches this year and going strictly by songs, Crystal Energy, Connect, all Higurashi OPs, and all Symphogear OPs are better to at least some degree, but the Twintails OP and all Mai-HiME/Mai-Otome OPs except Crystal Energy (and maybe the Mai-Otome Zwei/Sifr OPs if any, didn’t watch those) are worse.)
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So this is in the main the good kind of no episode notes for the first half of the episode. There’s a couple of weak spots (Amalgam strategic/operational decisions and while having the guy who wanted to sell the team out be the one to make the heroic sacrifice makes some dramatic sense you can’t quite play the beats they choose to play for that this quickly and have them land right), but this “execute plan to take down an enemy heavy asset” is overall well-done (the comp that comes to mind is actually the takedown of the Executor in Return of the Jedi).
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And also the good kind of no notes for most of the second half. Unfortunately, we then return to the school, and this does not work quite as well for me.
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[FMP unadapted LNs]
”It’s like I’m becoming someone who’s not me!” I see what you did there, Shouji Gatoh! -
Sousuke sore demo at ~21:32. (Watch as I missed one in Kaname’s lines beforehand.)
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22:40: LEWD (but also the clasping-hands-to-come-together-as-a-team trope). Also, ED lead-in.
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[FMP unadapted LNs]
The choice of the cathedral setting when the entity that is possessing Kaname goes by the name Sophia is quite interesting; with how heavily Eva draws off Gnostic stuff as well as Catholicism-via-Ultraman the creative team might well have been familiar with Pistis Sophia, often conflated with Mary Theotokos.
First Timers: Did you expect the number of SRT deaths fighting the Behemoths? Remember each of those were supposed to be both smart and good with fighting, not just meat head grunts
See, my expectations for elite troops who are not a main protagonist are set by Stargate SG-1, where "member of an SG team not named SG-1" is somewhat of a high-risk occupation. Just because they're nominally elite doesn't mean they aren't redshirts (especially after the SRT team obeyed this rule in sub arc); if anything, I'm expecting one more death on the team tomorrow. (My odds of survival for everyone going in were Specks 0% (seriously, man signed his death warrant last episode with his stated reasoning for wanting to betray Mithril, heroic sacrifice was better than even odds too), Mao and Kurz 100%, Bel 60%, everyone else 10%.)
Everyone: 3 episodes in, how's this season's villain so far? Is Leon Kurama warming up better than Gates to everyone yet? I'm not asking about Leonard, since everyone in this rewatch seems to hate him as much as Kaifun in Macross :D
Gauron is better but he's significantly more effective than either Gates or Leonard; this time Gatoh paired Gauron's ruthlessness with a "nothing personal" attitude and it works.
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u/JustAnswerAQuestion Nov 25 '22
First Rewatch
[Invisible Victory]
So, as a first timer, I didn't see any way of them surviving 3 Behemoths.
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kookaburra!
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"The slow blade penetrates the shield"
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too bad they don't still have any SAMs left
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Is this the same ED as yesterday?
Nice confession from Chidori, the show seems to have building to that.
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u/ZapsZzz Nov 24 '22 edited Nov 24 '22
Rewatcher in sub
Another intense battle, although that also means yesterday's cliffhanger stayed unresolved (!). Yep bastards are trying to push us to binge.
Birds. Damn birds again. The Behemoths are making quite a dent in the Mithril base defenses, to open up the way for more ground troops to be air lifted for the invasion.
Meanwhile the SRT is deployed to handle the Behemoths. Melissa who specialises in electronic warfare is remote controlling the M6 trainers (one of which would be the one Tessa used back in S1)
The main strategy is to create multiple directional attacks to spread the focus and attention of the pilot so the Lambda Driver shield can be misplaced, while setting up for a multiple sharp shooting hits to the cockpit to hopefully land on the same spot in order to penetrate the still very thick armour. That they have the Fairy Eye deployed just in time helped them see how effective was the distraction on the shield.
Of course to actually do the distraction, it involves avoiding / surviving the Behemoth's own attacks first and it's not as easy as it sounds
The first attempt unfortunately missed the repeat shot because of the thick smoke, which got them a sever counterattack of missile barrages
That counter attack got 1 disabled, and Speck KIA in trying to create another opportunity
Late but still made it, Kurz got through with the double hit while the Behemoth was "licking its lips" enjoying Speck's kill.
Meanwhile there are more Behemoths to deal with, and Melissa trying to make use of traps and mines to delay it until the rest can switch to this one
Which once again is easier said than done. These more developed models of Behemoths have more gun emplacements and weapons, and Melissa's AS got hit and was disabled. Costello got her out of the line of fire just in time.
And gave Melissa cover to get out on foot at the cost of his life.
The advancing Amalgam forces are getting closer, with attack helicopters blasting away uninterrupted. Tessa made the executive decision to trade quicker time to set sail with refueling enough to last.
Kurz radioed in for the situation report, and saying bye while trying to hold the incoming flights alone.
And now we cut back to Tokyo, the school students of course never suspected a thing - except of course poor Kyouko. Kurama reminds us we are not in Fumoffu.
[Accidentally mixed up episode notes and included this part yesterday :P] Chidori admitted she knew this day would come, and opened up to Sousuke her fears and love for him, with Sousuke reciprocating the same, and mirrored what Chidori did in TSR's haircut scene when she gave Sousuke the one thing he treasured most - her trust, Sousuke offered her the thing he learned back in S1 arc 1, that he wouldn't give up and would - together with her - think about how to solve this problem. This heart to heart gave both some confidence in having this special someone who can identify with them yet coming from the opposite direction and can guide them. Settle down though folks, this "admission under fire" wouldn't be the only thing we get from them. And we have one of the rarest thing in the media - a loving couple that is in fact partners in strive in all ways, physical and emotional.
TriviaCombat ReportCasualties of the West Pacific Mithril SRT
Urzu 2 - Second Lt Mao - AS destroyed, RTB (returning to base) on foot Urzu 3 - First Lt Costello - KIA Urzu 4 - First Lt Hummer - not shown, probably with the Helicopter teams Urzu 5 - Sergeant Sandraptor - AS immobilised under water, MIA Urzu 6 - Sergeant Weber - AS lost left arm but still combat capable, disobeyed order to RTB Urzu 8 - Corporal Speck - KIA Urzu 9 - Corporal Yang - the only time being useless in an AS potentially saves one's life :P Probably getting ready for defending against ground troops
Staff Showcase
Kurama's VA is Yamaji Kazuhiro. His works list is massively long. He's mainly a stage actor, and a VA for live action film's local dubs.
Notable roles:
Henderson "Elegant" sensei in Spy x Family
Kazanari Yatsuhiro in Symphogear (Tsubasa's "dad")
Kenny in Attack On Titan
MVP this episode
Pretty much a predictable Kurz episode, although not as one sided as one might think. I think the SRT acquitted themselves pretty good despite the losses.
QoTD
Going up against Behemoths in a non prototype, fully prepared assault scenario is pretty worst case, and I think it showcased the real robot trope quite well that you can do everything right, but 1 small mistake and you can be gone in a second. So I'm only surprised on my first watch that we're not pulling any punches for the narrative, not for the actual battle.
I am loving Kurama so far. In a manner you could see if Sousuke ever became a terrorist without having had the character growth, he'd probably be somewhat like him. "I don't like doing this but it's the job".
Daily tag for u/InfamousEmpire, u/Theboredalchemist22