Episode 22 - HS





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This is the kind of fight I'd have liked to see between Reiji and Aila once Aila threw the helmet away, not the kind of disgrace we were served. I wouldn't exactly call this a very artistic or exciting fight, to be honest, it was rather a very textbook fight that proggressed smoothly from the simplest technique available to the gunplas to the more advanced ones. Kind of like a poster fight, a fight that could be used in a commersial to advertise the Gunpla battle system.

One thing I found just a bit dubious was Aila's vast personality change. Based on the flashbacks and stories she has always been an orphan probably sticking to the streets rather than "enjoying" the facilities or foster care provided/assigned by the government. Until she was picked from the streets by the douche Doctor and had to enjoy the torture they called gunpla training. Quite understandably she was super gloomy in the flashbacks and most of the time even in Reiji's company, although we probably saw some glimpses of the personality she would have possessed if she had had a more normal childhood. However, now she's suddenly all happy-go-lucky. I think it would have been a bit more realistic if she was a bit more skeptic about her future. When a person has been kicked in the head for all her life, she shouldn't trust so easily the first hand offering a freebie. But then again, this show is basically comedy during the moments not centering on gunpla, so I guess it makes sense.