Just when it looks like Ray has shortened the series to 13 episodes, the retarded flock of birds flies to the rescue of Clawed Man and blocks all of Ray’s bullets. Clawed Man barely remembers Shino, but asks if Ray wants to join the Original Seven (to Fasalina’s surprise). However, Ray changes the heel on his fashionable pump into a gun and tries again to kill Clawed Man; unfortunately Joshua blocks the bullet with his arm so that Ray won’t become a murderer. Ray figures third time’s the charm and summons Vulcan to take out Clawed Man, but once again the bullets get blocked, as Michael flies out in Saudade of Sunday and rescues Clawed Man. Can’t a brother buy a break?
Outside the train station, Gadved summons the power of sparklies to beat down on Van. Gadved then proceeds to babble on and on about atonement and punishment, while taunting Van for not mastering Dann’s real abilities. Just when Van feels he can’t take it anymore, he sees Michael flying around with Clawed Man, and becomes overjoyed that he has finally found Clawed Man. Now Van gets his own sparklies, and cuts the throat of Diablo of Monday for the win. He then invites Wendy, fresh from a round of dumpster diving for her brother’s gun, for some dinner.
So, only one person left to be revealed in the OP, and the previews suggest that the newest ally will be Priscilla. I’m not sure how Armor pilots can see with all those sparklies, but shoujo characters can do it, so I guess it’s not impossible. It was also interesting how they talked about how Van and Gadved are enhanced, but to hear Woo and the Face Lickers tell it, you’d think that in this universe Naturals trump Coordinators. We’ll see what Van Yamato has to say about that.
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seeing that ep just makes me pised at all the people who betrayed Van. It makes it seem like He’s in the wrong. And yeah I too cant wait till Van Yamato goes seed mode on miheil’s a$$
jo jo: Who betrayed Van other than Gadved?
Are the face lickers boys or girls
OMIGOD bIRDS DO NOT, i repeat DO NOT fly INTO BULLETS! The writers are just abusing Ray with Deus Ex Machina. And i swear, Joshua that little prick…
Besides that, How come neither Van or Ray care why the Clawed man killed their beloveds… ok so maybe they don’t care why he did it, but rather the fact he did it and is still alive… but why doesn’t anyone else seem to care.
One face licker is a boy, the other is a girl, from what I can tell. The girl’s Meyrissa, but I don’t know if they’ve mentioned the boy’s name yet. Ray needs to up the caliber of his guns, because that was some weak sauce shooting.
So no one else thinks they are Thunderkitten ripoffs? >:) I’m glad Van has sort of/kind of made up with Wendy, and I LOVED the part where he looks towards the sun and calls himself Van of the Dawn again, just like he did in the first ep. Awesome. Oh and ten bucks says that the single bullet in Wendy’s gun takes out Claw Man. 20 bucks says a head shot.
20 bucks she points it at her brother!
20 bucks they are lined up in a row and she headshots both with one bullet!
Hahaha headshot hax!