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If there’s one thing this series is good at, it’s making me wish I had a giant Ganmen to beat the shit out of things with. Especially when they show the pilots connected to the arm thingies inside the cockpits. I suppose I would also need a cause worthy of owning such a tremendous amount of power, such as fighting for the survival of humanity, but alas this is just anime.

I’ll spare you all from doing just another recap of the show. Odds are that if you’re reading this you’ve already seen the episode and are just wanting an opinion from an outside source, in which case would be me at this particular moment in time.

Does anybody else find the action in this show to be really difficult to follow as they switch ‘cameras’ entirely too fast and always to an extremely close up shot. I can’t say that im 100% sure of what’s going on during the chaotic battle scenes, but the really neat sketchy art style they have going on during them pretty much makes up for that.

So the new beastman general person is a chick that’s part scorpion ? She doesn’t look very scorpion to me, except the tail of course…. And the fact that her Ganmen can seemingly morph into a scorpion. For that matter what exactly is Viral, he seems devoid of having any beastliness in him at all. I suppose his teeth are sharp … lol.

Pretty irritating how the blonde dude with the 3 hot sisters is now the new self proclaimed leader. Shouldn’t that position be delegated to Simon? I always thought of him as sort of second in command due to his relationship with Kamina. I’d find it rather insulting if I were Simon. Then again, it just goes to show how society and nature frowns upon a passive personality. Passive personalities are generally viewed as weak and therefore Simon was not made leader, even though hes shown incredible strength thus far in the series. If only his Lagann wasn’t broken or something. I mean for god’s sake this episode was the second time he’s rushed to Nia’s aid without a Ganmen, yet his crew still thinks of him as a coward.

I can’t say im surprised that the Gurren Brigade members now accept Nia as part of them. How could the damn spiral king have a completely human daughter anyway? Unless of course the Spiral king is human too … which would just be weird, but they haven’t really shown him very clearly so it’s definitely possible. Either way it was pretty obvious that they would accept her due to her humanity and the King’s hatred of her. An enemy of an enemy is a friend to you, is an old saying isn’t it ? lol.

Come on Simon stop trying to be like Kamina and find your own strength !