Episode 21 - HS




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Hmm... What to say. I guess Aila was, after all, super special despite the geezer's claim they could fry her brain if needed and get a replacement. However, she clearly ceased to be anything special in practice without the system. I don't know if it was because she hated the fights and gunplan in general and thus never really embraced the mentality of a player or achieved skills beyond what was necessary to work with the system. After all, as soon as she threw the helmet away, she put up a much lousier fight against Reiji than great many of Reiji's past opponents. I can't really blame her too much considering what a cold douche the Doctor was, with psychology skills falling below a Terminator's.

I didn't expect to see that sort of telepathic space in this show, though, even if it's so common in Gundam it's no wonder as such. But this is about a bloody game. To be honest I didn't care about the mushy parts at all, and consequently I was disappointed by the fight. I was hoping for Reiji and the others to get their act together and lecture Aila before the fight so that we would have had a stylish contest. Instead we got one where Reiji & Iori were repetitively saved by Aila not wanting to fight, and then they won when she threw away her best card and fought like a random joe from the streets.

A pity about the fight. At least Reiji offering the Iori household for Aila to move in was quite funny.