Otakuism

It’s been seven days since that man’s passing, and everyone is still feeling the effects. Simon is basically insane now, fighting against the continous Ganmen attacks with reckless abandon, screaming “kill, kill, kill, kill!” as he beats them to a pulp. The best, or perhaps worst, moment was when he yells at Rossiu, about where was his god when Kamina died, and that there is no god at all. All his god is is a ganmen. Pretty harsh stuff there. Simon’s cycle of self-hate and anger eventually causes him to even lose control of the Lagann. While it’s nice to see Simon not become pathetically worthless, he’s gone the exact opposite way, becoming nothing more than a revenge obsessed madman who doesn’t care about his own life at all. Even while he tries to compare himself to Kamina, even he knows Kamina was never like that. Good thing he’s saved by an un-assuming flower child from the sky.

I like Nia. Her design is awesome, being busy but unique. And she’s voiced by Yukari Fukui aka. Nono is loev. It’s pretty obvious now that Nia is the girl for Simon. She managed to stop his cycle of rage by telling him it’s more important to live than to die in vain, an idea the rest of the cast had been echoing the whole episode. Also had her own Kamina moment. Hearing her say “Who do you suppose I am?” was epic. I wonder how the rest of the crew will react to the news that she’s the Spiral King’s daughter. Pretty negatively probably. I wonder in Adiene will try to capture her or kill her, because her whole role in everything is ambigious now. And I don’t think she’s going to die at the end of this arc. One, we’ve already seen adult designs for her, and, two, another death would just be redundant. Simon doesn’t need someone else he loves dying just to become Garlock.

As for the other characters introduced, we finally get to meet the Spiral King and his four generals. Adiene is, of course, the best. Big breasts, eyepatch, and a scorpian tail? Automatic win there. Her mecha looks way too much like Ving-Sept from Diebuster, though. Hopefully she doesn’t die, she looks to awesome to die. And I found it funny how Viral was basically pushed to the side in the new OP. Really think he may defect at some point and join the Gurren Brigade for revenge. And if him and Yoko got together? Now that’d be ironic (since Viral is basically a foil of Kamina). Speaking for Yoko, you have to feel bad for her now. She’s basically been thrust into the leadership position of the group while still grieving for Kamina. She is handling Simon’s situation nicely, knowing to give him some space and that he’ll figure things out when he can. Hopefully that will be next episode so we can see him kickin’ ass again.