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Lara crying over that pocket watch hit me harder than the whole mind-dive sequence. All season she's been the one with the plan and here she's just a person holding an unfinished thing her dad left behind

The team making fake coffee out of dandelion roots for Lara was such a small thing to spend five minutes on and I loved every second of it

EDVA showing up in human form and then Elena's punch going straight through her is the kind of moment where you realize the team has no answer yet. That whole exchange left me uneasy in a good way

That dial-up screech during the hack made me flinch at my own desk speakers. Whoever decided a 56k modem was the right sound for a data entity attacking deserves a raise and also an apology from my ears

Yoko roasting that fish into charcoal was weirdly the most human moment of the episode. Also the fact that Lala is a vegetarian and nobody knew until now says a lot about this team

Haruka abandoning the plan made me want to pull my hair out. Pragmatic Eleanor was right and nobody listened. Still a solid payoff once the siblings finally moved together

I actually yelled when Akira transformed. Three episodes of him standing around feeling useless and then he just goes and saves her. That made the whole island setup worth it

Alan screaming it's not a cat got me more than it should have. That little ATV thing having a whole base inside still makes no sense and I'm fine with that

Akira catching that missile and pushing it into the sky got me. whole theater in my head started clapping. I've been waiting for him to look like a real lead and he did it

Moments like Marsha refusing to leave Lulu alone and Akira deciding the same thing is the kind of small human beat that makes the big beam attack land. This is the first episode where I think the two halves actually clicked for me. The stakes felt personal instead of just loud. Elena still bothers me though. That coldness read as flat to me not interesting

Akira holding up an entire cliff while getting blasted is the moment he stopped being the little brother for me

Episode ini berfungsi sebagai perkenalan Yoko Nishina. Episodenya sendiri oke-oke saja. Sebagai episode pengenalan karakter, menurutku ini cukup solid. Untuk Yoko sendiri, dia merupakan karakter yang baik, meskipun terasa agak bland.

Episode ini memperkenalkan karakter baru, memberikan lebih banyak lore, sekaligus mengakhiri arc pertama. Untuk visualnya, seperti biasa, penggunaan 3D masih terasa uncanny. Namun, justru karena menggunakan 3D, animasi saat pertarungannya terlihat mulus. Andai saja mereka hanya menggunakan 3D untuk mechanya saja. Untuk ceritanya sendiri, lumayanlah, meskipun masih tergolong standar. Overall, an okay episode.

the Omega Cannon firing and clearing everything in one blast was such a good payoff for how much Akira has been taking hits all series

Genuinely torn on EDVA pulling out a nuke. Cool shot but this show went from fighting robots to genocide in one episode and it feels like a jump

Episode ini melibatkan warga sipil. Biasanya aku kurang suka episode seperti ini karena ceritanya jarang berakhir dengan baik, terutama jika warga sipilnya karakter yang hanya muncul sekali. Namun, untungnya episode ini tidak terlalu buruk. Kalau bukan karena bagian akhir dan Akira menunjukkan kekuatan ENIA , episode ini mungkin akan terasa seperti filler. Overall, a decent episode.

Episode ini berfokus pada Lala. Kita mendapatkan sedikit backstory dan motivasinya, sekaligus perkembangan karakter. It's nice! Awalnya, episode ini terasa seperti episode karakterfokus biasa, tetapi menjelang akhir terdapat adegan penting yang membuat episode ini episode penting. Overall, a decent character-focused episode

Episode ini berfokus pada Haruka yang terlalu overprotective terhadap Aira. Dari segi cerita, memang tidak banyak perkembangan, tetapi ada kemajuan dalam character development. Animasi dan adegan aksinya juga sangat bagus. Overall, a good episode

Episode pertama oke saja, cukup standar untuk anime sejenis. Ceritanya juga masih terasa standar, aku menantikan bagaimana perkembangannya ke depannya. Dari segi visual, mereka menggunakan kombinasi 3D dan 2D. 3D-nya sebenarnya terlihat bagus ketika diam, tetapi saat bergerak, terkadang terasa uncanny dan mengganggu saat menonton. Untuk mechanya sendiri, kalau bisa dibilang mecha bentuknya lebih seperti mechanical Stand. Desainnya bagus dan menarik. Overall, untuk sebuah premiere, ini adalah awal yang cukup oke saja untuk anime mecha.