Summary:
The D-pulse that brought Alto’s VF-25 down also jammed up the communications on the Zentradi mothership. The Macross unit turns out to be the 117th Research Fleet’s flagship Global. There’s a queen Vajra inside, and Ranka is kidnapped and brought into the egg room. Inside the ship’s ruins is a cracked picture of young Ranka, and between this and Grace’s instructions to Brera, it seems that Ranka is some kind of human-Vajra experiment. Naturally, all the data in Global was recently erased.
Speaking of Grace, she has jumped over a mountain and loaded up a huge bomb known as the Dimension Eater. Her plan is to detonate the bomb to kill the Zentradi 33rd Fleet and Sheryl in order to cause an uproar of hatred and suspicion. However, Mikhail is on to Grace’s treachery, and when the bomb goes off Mikhail and Sheryl are able to hitch a ride with the Vajra ships that warp away with Ranka. Alto is left behind, but he will probably grab the L.A.I. pack and jump on out of there next episode.
Reaction:
It only took 13 episodes, but finally we’ve moved past the character development and fan-wanking episodes. A lot of stuff happened this episode, and as I suspected the whole thing was Grace’s plan. We saw Grace go down with the bomb, but I bet that was just a robo-Grace and the real manager is somewhere else making evil plans and skimming money from Sheryl’s concert sales. We also had hints of Ranka being some kind of crazy prego-Vajra-queen-human experiment, so I hope Alto is ok with having a step-son that has tentacles.
I wonder what is in store for Mikhail. The Mikhail x Klan Klein angle was pushed again, but there are hints of Mikhail x Sheryl (although I think they are more flirty friends than anything else). It amazes me that Mikhail was able to snipe the gun out of Brera’s hands, and yet he did not notice the fleet of Vajra ships behind him. Talk about tunnel vision… As for Brera, it is so hard to tell where his allegiance lies, and the only consistent thing about him is that he wants to bone his maybe-experimental-sorta-sister.
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Alto-hime has an armor pack in the preview though I am quite eager to see who that pilot of the VF-171 is going to be. I have some hope that it is going to be Sheryl now that she will be unemployed for a while, and also because I suspect that they are pushing us to take Sheryl’s stint as pilot seriously.
I think Brera-nii is going to make Ranka’s love life very difficult from now on… Most of the time Brera kills people with out much to say, but with Pilot-hime, well I guess the sis-con doth run strong in that one. Time will tell once Brera makes his first meeting with Ranka I, Queen of the Vajra stick.
Sheryl said NOM.
Didn’t Brera and Ranka actually meet up at the end of one of the earlier episodes? We know they at least saw each other since Ranka was singing Aimo and then noticed Brera accompanying her on his harmonica.
That shot of Ranka in the preview in the bubble reminds me a lot of Sara at the end of Macross Zero…
And I found it pretty ominous that the cute little baby vajra has started to grow arms…
Those aren’t arms…
At this point it’s quite clear that Ranka fails as waifu materiaru. Not only did her lack of hygiene result in a living cell phone, now its growing tentacles. A little mold I can overlook but this… hell no! Perhaps she’s even breeding this little tentacle monster on purpose for lonely hours.
Speaking of mold, I might actually understand why her hair isn’t only green but moving. I admit I have quite a bit of sympathy with Mommy Monster attacking her when Ranka approached the eggs. “KILL IT WITH FIRE!” might be quite reasonable and the quarantine bobble is very fair.
Maybe Ranka is even the cause of Sheryl’s sickness? If that’s true, there shall be no forgiveness.
I can’t believe the green-squishy thing has arms! XD
EVOLUTION COMPLETE!
I will still love Ranka even she does turn out to be a Vajran Hive Queen and grow blades out of her back or whatever.
Was totally waiting for Vajra to pop out of Ranka’s stomech when she was clutching. Oh well!
Ranka-chan, I choose you!
It’s about time this show really took off, this episode was on fire. And Alto decided to man up when it came time to play hero and dropped the mopey I-don’t-care-about-the-girls bit, so props to him.
As for Grace, I’m not sure she’s going down so easily. But then again maybe she wasn’t really the mastermind anyway. Remember she’s been working with Leon. I suspect Cathy’s going to stumble onto some juicy data before too long.