The OP was finally shown this week. The song is from Ali Project, and let’s just say it wasn’t… “refreshing”.

Flavor: Sweet

Whoa, another great episode. This week is a continuation of the rocket story, where Shouta is now the one who sends a shigofumi to Asuna. After reading his rather nice letter, she goes to the rooftop and decides to make the final preparations so the rocket could be finally sent to the skies.

The ending to this one also caused quite an impact with Asuna getting shot by a cop when she wasn’t trying to do anything wrong (the girl took her knife out so the guy thought she was planning on attacking his partner, but she just wanted to remove a blanket that was on the rocket’s way). We also get to see a bit of her traumatic past life with her father and how that led her to end up killing him.

Next week is a new arc, so I can’t wait to see how this one turns out.

Er…

Oh, thanks a lot, Mihato!

Flavor: Sweet

So, there were a hell lot more of fanservice moments this week, and most of them involved yuri or something truly weird. Not that it was a really bad thing though, since most of these scenes were pretty funny, like when Shinra was licking her sister and then Mihato comes and rescues both Miyu and poor Ren who was starting to feel uncomfortable with such a scene, as shown in the snapshot above. However, I still found that masochist schoolgirl sort of disturbing.

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Flavor: Sour

You know, I didn’t really pay that much attention to this episode. I just knew that the damsel-in-distress of the week was some boy who was seeking revenge for his otou-chama or something like that. The group gets sent to a prision, then they escape from it while fighting with some weird-looking guys commanded by a bald dude. Yes, there were some more action scenes this week… except they felt like they didn’t have any action in them since most of the fighting stuff wasn’t animated. At least the episode ended with another somewhat cool speech from the awesome Rahzel.