Xebek’s Blog

Some of the SMS goes against the commands of Mishima, the new president.

Impressions:

This episode was pretty good. The SMS becoming pirates was pretty big. I was honestly surprised Altoh didn’t go with them. It seems like something that would fit his personality, but I guess not. I’m not too sure what the new SMS pirates will really be able to accomplish, its not like they had the same info Ranka did when she left, they know hardly anything actually, so it will be interesting to see what they do, as they have to do something or they would have made this huge fuss for no reason.

The romantic aspect of this aspect to this episode, and really the entire series at this point is really complicated and confusing. On one hand this episode seemed to almost confirm Sheryl being who Altoh picks. He had that talk with her at night, and at least kissed her and maybe more. However at the same time, she’s dying. It’s kind of hard to be with someone who’s dead and the way they explained things, it seems like she’s pretty much a goner. They said her condition is curable at first, but once it reaches the stages is at inside her, it can’t be. The options are to have her die or somehow go back on what they said. I think it’d be better if she died. Not that I hate her character or anything like that, but the drama about her dying would be cheap if she didn’t actually do so. Ranka seems almost completely out of the picture. Although she could easily come back and probably will and there will be a whole thing about the Queen bit, Altoh didn’t seem o have any emotions towards her leaving. When they talked about fighting to protect he seemed to be thinking of Sheryl. Things are definitely complicated, because as it stands now it seems that Sheryl will die, Ranka will be back but Altoh may not be with her, as being with Sheryl, having her die, then jumping over to Ranka seems odd.