Upon investigation into the suspicion of spies in Modenkind, Yukiho is suspected of being the agent.
Impressions:
Wow….I’m almost just speechless at this episode. I seriously had my mouth pretty much open throughout most of the second half of this episode, just staying like that, slightly open. I just couldn’t believe what was happening. I expected for there to be some Yukiho coverage in t is episode as it showed in the preview but really I didn’t think they would do anything above maybe her leaving or deciding if to leave or not, or just her feeling depressed because she can’t do much or feels down about herself. But my god, her being a spy was the furthest thing from my mind. I just couldn’t believe it. Even knowing that there had been a spy in Modenkind who did stuff, I didn’t even begin to suspect Yukiho. I thought maybe Makoto still had access or maybe it was Mizusa or something or hell even the creepy guy, but Yukiho? Wow….I just had no idea.
I really hope that somehow Yukiho comes around to being on the good side again. Although admittedly she wasn’t the most important character, or really all that interesting either, it’s still just a bit sad to see that she worked against everyone. It was interesting to see her kind of balancing Haruka and Chihaya, which seemed to be her only home previously. I was surprised at the end because it seemed like despite it all she kind of choose Haruka saying how she was her first friend and that was her one wish or something, but then seemed to leave anyways. I just hope that even though she already did things that will end up hurting Modenkind she’ll somehow redeem herself and come back to everyone’s rescue or something.
It does seem as if the story is really picking up now. I’m not sure if we’ll really see the big conflict yet, as it’s a bit early, but things are certainly getting to the point where they are building up to that conflict itself, rather then establishing everything. It seems as if there will be some huge horde of Epi-chan iDOLS to fight against, which may be interesting to see but I’m not sure how interesting or in depth the story will be then.
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Eh? Is it really, REALLY that surprising that Yukiho was a spy? They’ve pretty much been dropping hints since the very start of the series, and they’ve just been getting more and more obvious as they’ve been going along. I mean, it really struck me as odd back in the first episode where Chihaya was specifically looking for Haruka, and Iori was only sent out to fetch Haruka - no one seemed to care about Yukiho. In the first OP sequence, the shot with Haruka and Yukiho standing back-to-back with the iDOL eyes lit up has Yukiho standing with Nubliums eye. There was that episode where we saw Yukiho go out at night. Back in Episode 13, when Asuza told Makoto she was dropped we saw a silhouettes of what as clearly Yukiho appear from behind Imber, only for Makoto to turn up at Turiavita shortly afterwards. If there was any doubt left, I kind of thought the second OP was kind of heavy-handed with it…
Also, Yukiho is just Erstin Ho with a different haircut :P
Seriously, though, by the time we reached this episode, I was kind of glad that they’d eventually stopped procrastinating over something I’d thought was kind of obvious for quite a number of episodes before hand ^^;
Oh, and if you like this episode, you are going to love the next few. This show is on a major roll now.
Ya this is where it gets really good. And I loved the new OP with all the new shots and the song isn’t too bad. As Digikerot was saying this is the point where it just goes up and up no turning back. Its the point where all the “character development” episodes pay-off. (I seriously enjoyed most of the episodes running from 1-16, maybe its the Hime franchise influence or the knowing something will go wrong in later episodes thinking, I mean its sunrise!) This show needs more loving really, people are missing out.
I suspected the creepy guy to be a spy (though, as you’ll soon see, that isn’t necessarily wrong either). As for Yukiho being the spy, I never picked up on it either, though I had read things elsewhere where OTHER people thought she might be, and I was just like “well, we’ll see about that.”
Maybe I should pay more attention to things in the opening credits, but I usually don’t see them as prophesizing, just because I’ve seen enough that look like they are but ending up not doing so.
I’m sure this will be a series where, once I’m done and look back, I’ll be like “oh yeah! oh yeah! Oh yeah, that’s suspicious now!” when when I saw it the first time through it was like “whatever.” Heck, if anything it increases it’s rewatch value. I always love series where you don’t pick everything up on the first time through.