Honestly speaking, I was pretty surprised when Rika actually had went ahead to confront Kodaka about the fact of the club, perhaps she knew that he had already knew it long ago, and was just afraid to say it out loud, in an attempt to preserve the current relationship with everyone. There was the romance side of the story when Rika actually tells Kodaka that he himself is afraid to take another step forward even as he realises that there are people around him that has feelings for him, but he has taken an extra step to prevent himself from acknowledging the fact, possibly in fear of losing the friendship that he has finally formed with the others. It was pretty neat in seeing how Kodaka continues to reject the idea of "taking a step forward", when he clearly know that the members of the Neighbour club are already friends with each other and I believe he too, does know that there are others who harbour feelings for him as well. It was really late before the story itself actually touched on the topic of "friends" when it was already pretty obvious for the viewers, but the seriousness and the change of pace was a plus point and we'll get to see this aftermath when Kodaka now knows that Rika does acknowledge the fact as well.
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Shinsekai Yori never cease to surprise me, as a matter of their plot progression towards the end of the series. In the end, it seemed like Kiroumaru never had the intention to betray Saki and the others from the start by bringing them to Tokyo, but what was suspected of him when he came to Tokyo in the past was indeed correct. He had travelled here to find weapons of the ancient civilisation that could be used against the humans who had Cantus as their trump card but for Kiroumaru, his objective after having such weapons was not to overthrow the humans, but to maintain their current peaceful relationship with each other. He knows that with Cantus, his colony could fall to a single human if they were to be eliminated for whatever reasons and he himself has seen many colony fall mysteriously, most likely due to Cantus users and to protect his own colony from such danger, he sought the weapons from Tokyo but could not find any.
Looking at Yakomaru's point of view, his choice of wanting the human race eliminated wasn't as despicable as it seems to be. Both are intelligent creatures and have their own mindset, rights and knowledge, the only thing the Queerats are lacking are the power of the Cantus. And with that inferiority, they are forced to served the humans in order for them to survive even as both share almost the same level of intelligence And it is only "right" for them to fight and to obtain their rights back and be accepted as an equally intelligent species.
What came more as a twist was that it can be now accepted that Maria and Mamoru's child wasn't actually a fiend at all. And what Saki believes is that it is just raised as a Queerat, not knowing that it is a human instead. That hypothesis seems to be true after seeing how shocked it became when it sees itself in the mirror, looking just like the targets that he has been killing and hunting all this while. What comes as a follow-up question would be: so what exactly makes it able to avoid death feedback. What we believe is that the death feedback is genetically programmed in every human and the only exception is being a fiend. If the child is not a fiend, how is it able to avoid death feedback? Or only does it occurs inside the barrier, or perhaps only when the individual itself doesn't consider itself as a human. With the psychobuster wasted and Shun's advice, Saki might just bet on showing the child the faces of its parents, hoping to trigger some human emotions back into it, since Shun suggests something along the line, when Saki sees Shun as a cover over Kiroumaru at the start. I wouldn't actually be hoping that the child would die but there is still a possibility that the death feedback might return when it realises that it itself is human and that would be a cruel and sad ending, with the Group 1's fate being led to such disarray.
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Robotics;Notes has just became awkwardly awkward. So now it's like a gundam-like fight sequence that's gonna happen, with high school kids making a combat robot?! Now that's against the law isn't it. With SUMERAGI still active with its missiles and stuff like that, the whole story of R;N just took on a whole new level.
I did had a hint of a romance element being actually hinted here and there, but I didn't expect a romance scene right at the near end of the season. It just didn't fit quite well in the atmosphere, there wasn't much romantic development between Aki and Kai, there wasn't much mutual relationship development and BAM! we get a confession and a kiss out of the blue and that's it. It was so awkward that even if it didn't happen, there wouldn't be much changes anyway. It all seems more like a "oh I need some romance scene here" and in it goes, making it so weird and would've been better if romance wasn't even part of the genre in the 1st place. It wasn't impactful or even sweet in the slightest bit, and now we're down to the last few episodes. I shall forget about what exactly had happened at the end of the episode and see how exactly this is going to close as a series. Comparing this to the Steins;Gate level, I would say R;N has not quite make the mark yet, as a story and the way it touches the viewer's heart. I would dare say I felt more emotional seeing how Mizuka plunged to her death rather than the "I promise I would not die" scene of Kai and Aki. Oh well. :X
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I think I am pretty late on this since I actually just realise that GUMI Megpoid's voice bank actually belongs to Megumi Nakajima, the singer and seiyuu of Ranka Lee from Macross Frontier. Didn't actually quite expect it but seriously, GUMI's voiceback is good and sounds more natural and smooth as compared to Miku's but both does have their own uniqueness in their songs and voice so I still like both nonetheless.
here's Gumi's cover on Senbonzakura, quite fitting too :)
anddddd of course we have Miku's latest appearance in Kansai with Secret Police. Her 3D model looks real good now and with additonal movement sets and projected speakers... it looks so good!
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have been trying to get the sound right for the Secret Police guitar side over the last few days, could't actually quite get the right sound from the vibrato at the start... Oh well, guess my pickups can't actually make that sound :(
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