Xebek’s Blog

Modenkind heads to Iceland where signals have reported a previous unfound iDOL waiting.

Impressions:

Wow, this episode was just full of exciting and interesting things. It’s probably the most action and plot oriented episode so far. There were just so many things shoved into it, but it didn’t really have any flaws because of that either. All of the different things fit in perfectly. There was first of all just the whole topic of finding a new iDOL. That alone is pretty big, considering the supposed limit on how many there are, with each iDOL being so unique and important, one more would bring a whole slew of possibilities. Then, of course there was the exciting fight sequences win Triabeater attacked. However instead of just the normal excitement, it shot up a notch with the introduction of even more iDOLS, man made iDOLS at that. That not only just makes it exciting itself, it gives Triabeater a huge advantage in the whole overall fight plus opens up all kinds of possibilities of making iDOLS and the differences between them all. Then finally the continuing story and struggle about Chihaya and her connection to Imber as Haruka and her meet up in person, Haruka being oblivious to who she is. Everything together just really made this episode one of the best so far, and the way the excitement and plot has been going, it really seems as if the series as a whole will be taking a step up for the episodes to come. I’m not saying each one will be as good as this, but the way things are going it’s likely that they will all be a bit better from this plot development.

I was quite intrigued by the end when Chihaya and Haruka actually met up. Of course Haruka would have no way of knowing that Chihaya was just earlier trying to kill her, which makes the encounter all the more interesting. The cliffhanger at the end was just perfect, although its obvious it won’t end in Chihaya shooting Haruka there, even the preview showed the two of them together so that means it cant end there like that. Anyways, it will be really interesting what kind of effect this has. If it changes any of Chihaya’s views or if Haruka finds out the truth and so on.