Summary:
Maria and Minoru wander into Cosplay Santana where they find more catgirls; Hakkoo is also there but she misunderstands Minoru’s request for an interview as a request for fanservice. Minoru notices that Hakkoo also has the Ua mark, but before he can touch her heart he gets kicked out by Santana. Meanwhile, Canaan is making a copper Eiffel Tower and Yuri stops by to mention that the the electrocuted geezer was a Borner and all his internal organs were taken away. This seems to be related to the BSL4 facility that Alphard is setting up.
Canaan tracks Maria’s gentle (golden) color, and the two go out to play while Hakkoo scams Minoru’s red bean bun. Maria flashbacks to talking about Canaan’s snake tattoo (someone Canaan loves has the other half of the tattoo pair) and deceased older sister. Unfortunately, their date is interrupted when the GreenShirtKid (GSK) tricks Canaan into attacking a dummy with a heart in a box and then kidnaps Maria. The flexible GSK has no color, but Canaan is able to detect him by tracking down Maria’s breast residue on his hands. GSK chats about iPS cells, but eventually Canaan is tricked into killing GSK to deactivate the fake Yunyun bomb on Maria’s head. Maria is disturbed by this, and Canaan notes that Maria is giving off the color of rejection now.
Reaction:
While amusing, this was a somewhat stupid episode. I was very skeptical when Maria’s one allowed phrase was “Canaan” when everyone knows it should have been “Sugoi.” I really want to know what the color of rejection is (red?), and why didn’t Maria have a problem with Canaan killing everyone in previous episodes? The part with Canaan hacking the electronic door was silly as well. It was odd that Yunyun was chatting with GSK, and I didn’t realize until afterwards that GSK was probably in the box. With all the talk of snakes and power of two hearts, I was so certain that GSK was going to say he had two wieners.
Not all questions were left unanswered however. I have solved the mystery of Hakkoo; she’s not mute, she’s just muted. As GSK demonstrated, you have to grab a boob in order to toggle the sound on a woman. In a very Shangri La way, I’m pretty sure that Cummings is a masochist and gets off from Liang’s pellet gun and various other tools of pain. On another note, I really thought that Maria’s hat was da bomb, but I guess I was wrong. Up until the bad blood between Canaan and Maria, I was looking forward to Canaan making a copper parfait in the next episode and really rubbing her date in Yuri’s face.
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I really need to readjust my expectations for this show, lest I completely stop enjoying it. Or, the next episode (at least) would return to the spectacular action that impressed me in the first place.
That might be the best thing to do. So serious. :3
I found one thing to be pretty good — Maria’s change of heart over the rescue as her mouth said “thank you” but her eyes said “oh wow I’m scared shitless of you” was very reminiscent of the kind of facial expression tricks they uses in true tears, but maybe not as subtle as I’d have liked. The brief period of action leading up to that was cool too, it always seems to be done in a way that really emphasizes Canaan’s superhuman feats of parkour.
gl: I think this episode had to do a lot of establishing where Maria (and Maria/Canaan) were concerned just so that would work. My guess is a falling out is necessary to the plot.
The truth is that Canaan shot the kid out of jealousy as soon as she learned that he got to second base with Maria before Canaan did… on Canaan’s date! If Canaan can hack an electronic door in 2 seconds, she can tell a Yunyun-in-the-box when she sees one.
It’s gonna be hilarious when Maria finds out that Canaan is capable of super-stalker feats. I don’t see how getting a restraining order will help against someone who can scale 5 floors easily and locate your breasts no matter where you hide them. It would be such an awesome omake to see Canaan mailing Maria copper cat’s cradle statues of the two of them making out or giant packages of film (I bet that stuff is expensive now).
was Yunyun chatting with GSK? I knew she was talking to someone, but didn’t know who it was or where the person was. What GSK did still made absolutely no sense though, as with most of what happened in this episode.
It’d be kinda weird if Maria screamed “sugoi” when Canaan was about to shoot GSK, but maybe that’ll actually get Canaan’s attention.
Would it be that weird? Maria went on a Sugoi rampage during the parade in the first episode, and that little kid didn’t think it was that weird.
I agree that Maria’s new hat was DA BOMB sadly Canaan thought little of it…
Still I hope Canaan realizes how incompatible she is with Maria, after all Canaan is joined to Alphard by their matching tattoos, and the red string of fate. Maria tied hers into the Eiffel Tower…
This show so far has been waaaay too random and crazy for me to take too seriously. What’s really great though is just how random it can be. There’s so many scenes where you are going ‘uh wtf?!’ that it really does keep you on your toes.
As for this episode, that youtube vid you linked on making a cat’s cradle eiffel tower sucks, it’s nowhere near as good as Canaan!
Either way the entire GSK thing was pretty stupid. Maybe there’ll be a plotpoint later on where GSK comes back to life, there’s a clone of GSK or something silly, but probably not.
huh.
The animation from Canaan looks just like Claymore
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