Sea Slugs! Anime Blog

After a brief look at Pierre and Jun’s rooming situation, we see some more Apollo angsting about Baron. In a flashback, we watch as young Apollo and Baron steal some food and run out to the wilderness to escape. Apollo jumps into the freezing water to cool off, and Baron realizes that Apollo is special. As a naked Apollo walks towards Baron, Baron sees the boy is fiery like the sun (note the sizzling footsteps), and gives him the name “Apollo”. Too bad Baron is still stuck in that hairy plant stalk T_T. On the Shadow Angel side, we see “Toma e Panuruto” kneeling before a hooded/veiled winged figure hanging in chains from the ceiling. Toma tells the Elder, Johannes, that he had a dream where the fouled up world will be reborn with the Solar Wing being used to evolve the Tree of Life anew. All the other fugly Shadow Angels are very pleased, but Toma seems to have something up his sleeves…

The rest of the episode is dedicated to naked feet and reading music. Fudo makes everyone take off their shoes for special training and proceeds to own everyone who refuses. Fudo is especially stable, as he is like a pillar of light, stretching between heaven and earth. The pilots in Deava all have particular weaknesses making them easy to topple; even though this sounds strange, thankfully Rena-vision makes it much easier to understand (she’s not just some one-trick pony). Silvia and Apollo do their best to figure out the trick, while Jun and Pierre research by peeping on the girls’ legs in the locker room. Apollo realizes that Rena hears their footsteps like musical notes along the lines of the track, which was a pretty nifty juxtaposition. Just as we get a wacko zoom-in on some ants stomping around, another Cherubim Soldier appears with some Harvesters.

This time, they aren’t facing a simple floor routine specialist. This Cherubim Soldier is a rhythmic gymnast and carries a cute little staff wand that can cancel out gravity during twirls done with beautiful full vertical splits. Pierre is so happy to get to be the head (as Sirius and Reika get stuck on announcer duty), but because of his long feet, he is especially susceptible to the gravity cancellation field o__O. They switch out into Solar Aquarion, and Apollo puts them in the fugliest mecha posed evah, while everyone at HQ groans in disgust. This is not any more successful, however, and even Pierre’s severe case of athletes’ foot can’t help them. There’s some discussion about how this is just like a baby learning to walk, and all the pilots take off their shoes and circulate their human spirit through their feet into Aquarion. Suddenly they are all impervious to the field, and Jun gives the scientific explaination that since the diameter of the field is 1 km, if you can access the bottom of the earth deeper than that, you can stand (yeah, whatever). It’s then noted that Aquarion makes a really nice sound as it runs, as is also the case as it smashes the Angel’s face in!

I really like how Rena’s vision is supposed to show Apollo with a solar halo or something, but it just makes him look like a Kappa! In a further display of how much Deava’s management staff owns (aside from whiny Jean-Jerome), Fudo gets everyone to think that he can read their mind from their footprints, when I’m sure he just looked up their character bios from the SnA website. He then goes one step further in showing why Fudo-vision trumps Rena-vision and any bloodline limit in Naruto. He really is just a pervy old guy! We only got quicky gattai scenes this time, although the unique dialogue was still entertaining. Is there a prerequisite that Reika will freak out and end up naked in every single episode (not even counting gattai scenes)? Is that her only purpose on the show? Yeah, I know that she can supposedly identify the Angel’s weak points, but stabbing an enemy in the middle of the heart is pretty intuitive. I don’t know why, but Reika gives me these creepy Berserk vibes.

Jun has an interesting mobile persocon on his monitor. Secret outfit unlocked, banzai!

Oh yeah, and Akino is just fabulous. The musicbox Latin ED is also hot like footprints on a sunny track.