The Third: The Girl with the Blue Eye

[Yukimura]

The Third - 22 by FnT

It's been a while, I really should catch up with this show...

[Kraco]

The last fight should be drawing near. Hopefully.

Episode 23 xvid - FnT
Episode 23 h264 - FnT

[Yukimura]

Well the next episode is the last so unfortunately it's going to be over. From the preview it looks like Iks has been holding back immensely, but I guess he didn't want to mess with the staus quo of the world until now.

Unfortunately I don't think we'll be seeing Paifu of Milly anymore, which sucks b/c they were both excellent charachters, but I'm sure there'll be a falling action revisiting of all the other charachters after whatever is going to happen happens.

[Kraco]

This was quite an interesting series in how it did have heavy action yet you can't really say the action would have ever been the center of the interest. Even the Honoka's sword dancer title refers to the fact how her sword skills are mainly spiritual and philosophical for her, despite the immense potential in use. Just like most of the fights eventually did have some other meaning as well.

Keeping that all in mind, it also explains why the last fight might end just like Jyouganki predicted (and the preview suggested) and with no regrets of the potential of lost action. Iks's purpose hasn't been altogether made clear, and so it has always been hard to predict his actions. Well, other than to expect him to do nothing like it has been in the past...

[Board of Command]

Anyone else notice that this is another differently-animated episode? Weird.

[Kraco]

Yeah. It surely caught my eye. Although I don't think it was as gross as the one near the middle of the series. Let's hope the final will be like the best of the episodes and not a different one. They always say that series often run out of money near the end, so let's hope they just decided to save some yen for the last episode...

[Yukimura]

The Third - Final Episode by FnT

Well as endings go, it wasn't as random as some other endings I've seen but I do like to have some type of closure. However I liked how looking back from this last episode the show makes sense as a 'This is what life is like on this planet' montage. The stories have just enough to do with each other to be tied togeather at the end as an excuse for what I'm guessing passes for God to not blow up the planet or something. The fairy kind of spoiled it for me though, b/c a) she was supposed to be gone already and b) what was this connection between her and Honoka.

All in all it was a good time and I'm glad I watched it.