Summary:
After some completely unnecessary recap, we learn the thugs are the Bakushuukai. Really they are just a bunch of dorks who wish they were in the MCF and use a fake bomb threat to get Iku and Kazuichi to go with them. The Bakushuukai call up the LTF demanding the LTF destroy the books in the crates and hand over a list of the crate contents. On the phone, Iku tries to be clever by asking Asako to cancel their reservations at Tranzar.
Naturally this is code to let the LTF know Kazuichi is in Tachikawa. While that’s helpful, it’s not nearly as helpful as the tracker that Kazuichi has in his prosthetic leg. Ryusuke tells the useless police to back off, and Atsushi leads the team to retrieve Kazuichi. The LTF completes the rescue without firing a shot, and Atsushi recognizes that Iku did great. Later that night, Iku rejects Hikaru, but he was just trying to date her to pump her for information. We also see Iku finally sitting down to write to her parents, but it turns out they already know she is in the LTF.
Reaction:
Those Bakushuukai were such amateurs! They didn’t even hood Iku and the chairman, although the tracker in Kazuichi’s leg would have trumped any preventive measures. Then there’s the scrubby police that believed Ryusuke’s bluff about buying the whole building (to designate it as a library and allow the LTF to fire at will). As if any government office could ever move that fast! But man, the LTF is extremely well-trained in being able to take out the whole Bakushuukai team without firing a single shot or using a single flashbang.
I am still bitter that no one uses flashbangs, but Iku was great in shielding Kazuichi and being able to somehow hear Atsushi switching the firing mode on his SMG. However, I was snickering every time they referred to Kazuichi’s fake leg, because there were so many ways that scene could have been so wrong. I also giggle about how Atsushi thinks of Iku as a young gender-bend of himself. On a different note, I have to mention that the OP and ED for this series are so awesome and I can’t wait for the singles to be released.
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The recap was not needed and those posers got what they deserved. They didn’t even post sentries around a perimeter and thus deserved to fail.
Poor Iku was being led on by Tezuka. Still it will be fun to meet the progenitors of Iku. Iku will surpass that chibi officer Dojo.
It makes sense that those guys were total scrubs. I had thought in the last episode that it didn’t make much sense for the MCF to kidnap Kazuichi because of how much both sides were trying not to escalate. Figures it was some stupid rogue group with no skills.
The Iku and Atsushi speeches were awesome this episode. I don’t know what to expect from Iku’s parents, haha.
The ending has already been released.
I also thought that the “bad” guys were noobs! I mean, really … and something’s wrong with your side bar lols. All I see is numbers and words.
Blissmo, can you elaborate on the sidebar issue? I’ve looked at it in Firefox and two versions of IE, and it looks ok to me.
I think Bliss is talking about my name *BA DUM PSH* (and possibly my comments)…
Edit: It does seem like you enlarged the comment side bar though
Yeah, I see just letters and numbers and equal signs! And I’m using Mozilla .. or maybe it’s just cos my internet is PMSing …
No, Jesus159159159, I like your name now! After I’ve discovered that 159 repeats 3 times!
That is super-duper weird, and I have not heard of this problem before. Screenshot?
LOL!
dw
its fine now
i guess it WAS my comp PMS-ing