What I'm actually looking forward to would be a presumably 2nd season that would reveal about the true world or the "truth" that the world of Little Busters! hold. As unfortunate as it has been, I've been spoiled by the plot and have hence stopped looking at more spoilers since about 50% of the show has been ruined by that. Basically it was about the "truth" of the world that the unknown person has been writing notes to Riki and Rin, asking them to complete various tasks to reveal the truth to them, but what exited me was the latest Riki flashbacks where various unknown scenes about the different story arcs were seen and that makes me more curious about what exactly it this truth that they were talking about.
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For Robotics; Notes, it has been a roller coaster ride over the past few episodes with that sudden plot development. Even I was so surprised by it that it actually felt that the ending seemed a little forced in an attempt to leave an impactful ending. They didn't quite explain Tennouji Nae's skills in taking down the terrorists, or even a follow-up of what they had said about S Braun in the previous episode. It was nice to see how Steins;Gate references were used in Robotics;Notes itself, coupled with Nae's appearance, it all seems like a different timeline to begin with, or perhaps a different world line as a matter of fact.
Aki's speech about the giant robot becoming the saviour of the planet was elaborate and quite out of the picture I would say, especially when you have a gun pointed at you. Doesn't seem like a right choice of words isn't it... Together with the rest of the students, JAXA engineers etc joining in to rebuild Gunz-1, the overall atmosphere that was brought up was a little cliché. Kinda exaggerated? Overall, it was a relief to see that Misa has still retained her old self, only being manipulated by Kimijima Kou himself and the SUMERAGI is really one hell of a giant robot. Seriously that just look like a military weapon at 1st sight! Not quite sure about the significance of Sister Centipede too after Misa decided to send "it" over to Aki and Kai, wouldn't the real Airi there be shocked when she sees her AI self? And with Airi having awakened, why does Sister Centipede still exist? A standalone program by its own? Or a similar entity to Kimijima Kou? A couple of episodes more and hoping that the ending would be benefiting to the series as a whole.
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What came as the more shocking twist and a plot twist was Shin Sekai Yori itself. Heading into the last few episodes in the series, it has been a joyful, confusing and enjoyable series. Looking at how Saki and the rest are finally heading to their final destination to find the biological weapon to kill the fiend and how Kiroumaru has brought them to Tokyo to look for it, it all seems too normal of a plot and even I had suspicions on Kiroumaru after he was the only alive in his colony. The suspicions weren't as high since I do see that Kiroumaru has been warning Saki and gang about the dangers of Tokyo and was clearly hating Yakomaru to the point that I believe he would follow Saki to kill it and the fiend as well. All until Inui actually brought up a good point in thinking that Kiroumaru might not be as trustable as it seems.
Looking at Kiroumaru's own trip to Tokyo with his own troops, it does seem fishy that even as his troops started to succumb to the monsters living in Tokyo, he still perseveres on, perhaps in search for something, which I believe is the bio weapon itself. Perhaps in the past, Kiroumaru already had the plan to overthrow humanity, and that he was looking for the virus too but was somehow unsuccessful and had to turn back after looking much of his troops over in Tokyo. Another major twist to the series was that Saki actually could remember and see Shun now, which makes me think if the Shun that she sees is real or not. There wasn't a concrete evidence that Shun is totally dead, or that he could have just turned into Cantus itself and flows through the air, manifesting himself as much as he wants outside of the Holy Barrier, what comes more unsettling was when Shun tells Saki that the fiend that they were out to kill, might not possibly be a fiend. Does Shun actually know what the real definition of a fiend meant? Or it could be just a mental illness or somesort? A possible conclusion I could think off was that the kid is just a normal human that was being brought up by the queerats and was taught to kill the humans as enemies. And that the term "fiend", merely generalises individuals who do not have death feedback or are immune to it, acting like anomalies in the world.
Inui seems to have lost his life to the bogworm as well, leaving Saki now being alone (with maybe Shun) and Satoru is now being stuck with a possibly sly Kiroumaru. A few more episodes to go and this is getting more exciting as it goes.
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Makishima Shogo, the next man of bio terrorism, now being closely followed by Kogami and the rest of Division 1, is about to unleash a deadly strain of virus that will destroy lives of millions with the lost of the main food supply from hyper-oats. Sounds deadly enough and fortunately, Kogami is on track and is on his way to stop him.
I wasn't as surprised to see that Akane was being shown the secret of the Sibyl System itself, since I had the feeling that with her stability of he rown Psycho-Pass, it's likely that the system would take note of her as as exceptional individual. And it is true that her Psycho-Pass remains calm even after being shown the truth of the Sibyl System, but she's unable to deny the whole system itself even if it was not a perfect system and the bare sight of real human brains being used to judge criminals and individuals. It was a difficult choice, where choosing the destruction of the system might be a politically correct answer or even a humane answer, but what actually causes the dilemma was how the society has already been brought up. The Sibyl System has already created something called peace and security of mind, even if it was fake, but it did gave many people more happiness based on their lack of fear for criminals running along the streets. The initial failure of the system had already created riots all over the state and Akane knows that the complete collapse of the system would mean a complete collapse of the current social stability right now.
I just had the gut feeling that Akane belongs to one of the anomalies too, just like Makishima Shogo, where his will and Psycho-Pass doesn't match up, and for Akane's case, it's a more gentler, and calm Psycho-Pass where even stress can't change the level of her Psycho-Pass by much, which might be something that the System desires too. Given the choice of whether or not to join the system, there is a possiblity that she, having learnt so much about human wills, might decide to make the system more perfect by contributing herself to the system, or perhaps Kogami too?
Whether or not the Sibyl System would remain or be completely disregarded will depend on the outcome of Akane's decision and to whether Makishima Shogo would be judged or added to the system as an anomaly. It certainly doesn't feel right when a criminal like Makishima would in return help to judge other people in whether they are criminals or not.
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Took a trip down to Kino and JCube Gaming over at Dhoby Ghaut last week, finally got the recent volumes of Hayate no Gotoku!, with the bonus volume 0 also released together with it. There seems to be a volume 99 hanging around but now I wonder how the series would continue if there was actually a real volume 99.
multiple color pages to boot! awesomeness :D
and of course since JCube's card shop does have some luck to it, looted a SAO pack from there and tadah! a lucky RR card. Planning to sell this away or getting trades for madoka cards too :) Thank goodness I ain't a hardcore SAO fan or I'll possibly be playing this series too.
This is really an interesting vocaloid song by Kagamine Rin and Len. Two different lyrics that harmonize with each other. Really unique :D
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