Kita ze Inbou! - キタぜ陰謀!

[ Episode 2: Rocket ]

Oh man this was such a good episode. First off is the OP. I’ve always been a ALI PROJECT fan so this song did wonders for my ears. There’s nothing I disliked about the song and thankfully the full version was released early so I can listen to it to my hearts content.

As for the episode itself there wasn’t any “WTFs” like in the last but it was still awesome nonetheless. My suspicions were pretty much confirmed in this episode but they went a little beyond what I thought about previously. I had first thought that Asuna’s father was simply pimping her out but as it turns out she was being forced to into child pornography which pretty much stopped at taking pictures from what I gathered. It wasn’t until her father was going to use her little sister, Miku, that she decided to kill him and quite frankly I don’t blame her for doing what she did. Though I don’t think she should have killed Shouta but unfortunately she seemed mentally stretched at that point. The scenes of her in the bed showed just how much of a broken doll she was and I can’t help but think that made her have the twisted and feral look she had when she used her knife the first couple of times.

Her death at the end of the episode was probably an inevitability but the way she died was rather stupid. That dumbass cop came out of no where. Not only that but the idiot shot her after she had already rushed over to the rocket, pulled out her knife, and cut it loose from the rocket so that it could launch properly. Anyway, other than that I had no problems with the episode whatsoever. I’m glad that the rocket was successful and that Asuna was able to receive Shouta’s shigofumi as well as being able to leave her own shigofumi to her little sister. The ending is bittersweet but still it wraps up the themes of this arc nicely and Miku was able to receive Asuna’s purest feelings.

On another note I really didn’t expect Fumika to pull out a gun! Now I’m wondering if she’ll ever use it. Anyway, I’m quite looking forward to the next arc now after such a wonderful first one. ^__^