Sea Slugs! Anime Blog

Summary:
Zarofee is so hard to detect because he is a wussy, sneaky Guze no Tomogara known as a Jaeger. As Yuuji learned from lurking on Outlaw, Jaegers hang out strong Wanderers to form teams. It takes Yuuji a while to figure out what Zarofee is planning, but because they are wandering around town, Yuuji can’t escape without putting innocent people in danger. In a fit of brilliance, Yuuji suddenly starts screaming, and like an episode of Lassie, Tanaka hears the incoherent screaming and realizes that Yuuji needs him to warn Marjorie about Zarofee.

Anyway, the plan is to lure in the Flame Hazes to a small area where Bifrons can make like Virtue and blast them, while the glass roof overhead obscures the vision of the Flame Hazes so that Zarofee can use his melding trick to whisk Yuuji away. However, Yuuji realizes he never really wanted to leave the city, and protects the entire city with a gigantic Fuzetsu. He then proceeds to defeat Zarofee while Wilhelmina makes a trampoline for Shana to give a pantsu shot and intercept/destroy Bifrons. Before anyone can celebrate, however, the area under Bifrons sprouts a ring of crimson fire.

Reaction:
I guess this episode was supposed to be Yuuji’s coming out party, but I didn’t think it was that cool. Zarofee is so freaking weak that you can actually just choke him to death… And why does everyone insist on throwing the Blutsauger? The Blutsauger is not junk! Anyway, next episode looks like a thrilling showdown between Wilhelmina and Sabrac (thanks spoilerific previews), and there’s no Pheles to save her this time.

Speaking of Wilhelmina, it was really cute how she mutters to herself while “cooking.” Almost everyone got to help this time, although it was funny watching Ogata bowing along with Tanaka even though she had no idea what was going on. Satou now gets to just stand around looking cool with Marjorie, and Kazumi was not even featured this time (how sad). I wonder when Yuuji will learn how to fly, because it was not very cool how he had to be dragged off like a defiant puppy leashed with Wilhelmina’s bandages.