#Symphogear ep6: *nom nom nom* a full stomach equals maximum fighting powah! #anime
14 Feb 2012 22:37

#Symphogear ep6: *nom nom nom* a full stomach equals maximum fighting powah! #anime 

Which is why I was amazed at what Hibiki could do while operating on
fumes. That was one hell of a way to finish the last 5 minutes of an
episode. Who would have thought that this season I would be getting
my main doses of GAR & Badass from a mahou shoujo with such a silly
concept?

Everything in this show is so fluid right now. The organization that
Hibiki works with will be undergoing a flux with the new Pro-American
leadership above it now. Tsubasa is recovering and learning to accept
her rival/comrade. Miku is developing more and more distance and
distrust for Hibiki following her constant disappearances, secrets and
that little misunderstanding involving Miku seeing her in the hospital
room with Tsubasa (from across the street?! Come on! Is there no
such thing as privacy in this Japan? It's a hospital room!). And
most of all Hibiki's skills and power are skyrocketing. She took a
fired up Crystal and her fancy Nehulstan armor and pounded it into
chunks!

I was beginning to think that this would be a purely character
development focused episode until the last five or so minutes. You
can see Hibiki steadily being transformed and pulled away from the
normal life she so desperately tries to protect and honor. As Miku
gets more insecure and feels more distant, Tsubasa is learning to
respect and mentor the firey little mahou shoujo.

Hibiki herself is taking a very traditional shounen battle manga style
arc in her character development. She reminds me more and more of
Naruto based on her problems and talents. Whatever that berserker
side of her is, it is something that gives her great power and gets
her out of tight jams that she wouldn't be able to handle in her
amateur state, but it does so at the expense of her control. Much
like Kurama does to Naruto in his series. That berserker trait is
also something inherited that she can't run from and that she's going
to have to master eventually.

Poor Crystal is definitely a loser villain now. She's already been
practically discarded by her master, and she is simply outclassed by
Hibiki no matter how hard she tries. She is a sympathetic character
though. I wonder what the hell was going on in her flashbacks. I
couldn't tell if that was her family that she was being detained with
or not, but it's obviously THE thing that's twisted her. I look
forward to knowing more. I just wonder how long that's gonna take
because it looks like Hibiki has royally f*cked her up.

Look at me saying things like "looking forward to" in reference to
this series. This is why I love anime. As much as I can become jaded
or dismissive of something in this medium, it always finds a way to
surprise me. Symphogear has found itself in the strange place of
competing directly with a show for my attention. The vastly superior
in prodcution levels and expectations, Rinne no Lagrange. And right
now Symphogear is barrelling ahead. Gobbling up mecha and power armor
anime, mahou shoujo seems to be my genre of choice this season. Go
Symphogear! Go!


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