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Cross Ange Episode 13 – Libretto du Senketsu

Cross Ange Episode 13 – Libretto du Senketsu

Ohai, Cross Ange. Welcome back— OHMYGOD! WHAT IS WRONG WITH HIS FAAAACE!? Before I even get to the story elements I have to say this episode was all kinds of atrocious in the animation department. Cross Ange ain’t the most spectacular looking broad, but yegads they turned Embryo into Bishounen Slenderman in that shot! Then we also factor in weird silhouettes that come out of nowhere (was some DRAGON person hiding in the resort house?), and Norma who when shot…

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Cross Ange Episode 12 – Putting the ‘Onsen’ in ‘Nonsense’

Cross Ange Episode 12 – Putting the ‘Onsen’ in ‘Nonsense’

After that rather mind… something or whatever (unsure if it is right to call it ‘mind-blowing’) last episode, we return to a damaged Arzenal this week. Instead of dealing with what the hell happened with DRAGON Princess, Ange makes Commander Jill live up to her promise in Episode 10 to spill the beans on the story of Arzenal. Unsurprisingly she does that in a hot springs, but surprisingly it’s pretty comprehensive. In essence it’s the dog and pony show of…

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Cross Ange Episode 11 – Whoremonic Convergence

Cross Ange Episode 11 – Whoremonic Convergence

Initially only present in the OP and ED, we finally see that DRAGON Princess for the first time. She of course is some wunderkind with not only a Paramail but also in vocals that control DRAGONs and fire twin-shoulder death spirals powerful enough to destroy roughly half of Arzenal. If that’s not enough, Ange unlocks the Vilkiss’s power by singing as well. Then they cancel each other out and then that scene above, with the background montage spanning multiple storylines…

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Cross Ange Episode 10 – Mel Gibson’s Passion of the Norma

Cross Ange Episode 10 – Mel Gibson’s Passion of the Norma

What an incredibly brisk episode this was. We start with a public event of the torture and execution for Ange which quickly is quelled. Ange and Momoka are rescued by Not-Kira, the former gets disciplined plus detained for a week as punishment, and fully reconciles with Hilda (apparently brought back right after her dirt road beatdown last episode) as they bond over Norma things. Things like say… someday getting back at the world for being so stupid with their rabid…

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Cross Ange Episode 09 – The Episode without a Snarky Jibe for an Article Title

Cross Ange Episode 09 – The Episode without a Snarky Jibe for an Article Title

Cross Ange is a show that is either run by sadistic misogynists or the maddest set of geniuses. This episode is a tense affair, because it is already established how hated Norma are on the mainland. All that needs to be done is to show how awful the aftermath is, once the steel-toed shoes drop on the baby Norma surreptitiously placed in its descent path. Mark my words, it is quite awful, and yet somehow establishes a thematic consistency, reconnecting…

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Cross Ange Episode 08 – Bitch Party at the Threshold of Hell

Cross Ange Episode 08 – Bitch Party at the Threshold of Hell

I don’t even know where to start with this episode. The very beginning of it, right after the intro, gave me such dread, discomfort, and possibly made me dyspeptic. For some reason, the humans of the world have deigned to give one public holiday for Norma to enjoy without having to worry about killing DRAGONs, and true to Japan it necessitates a swimsuit festival episode. All the Norma doing happy things, with gaudy Hawaiian BGM playing, brought memories of those…

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Cross Ange Episode 07 – Bathos

Cross Ange Episode 07 – Bathos

What the fuck is all this convergence, Cross Ange? You’re not only your usual self with all the crazy fanservice, catfights, and so forth this week. You also have an actual mecha battle, character development, AND allusions to plot movement. This is freaking me out, because I anticipated another load of nothing this week with the only two highlights being Ange with a cold and this girl, Salia, being well— I had to watch this episode twice before I could…

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Cross Ange Episode 06 – The Handmaiden’s Tale (scrawled in Pidgin English on a used sheet of toilet paper)

Cross Ange Episode 06 – The Handmaiden’s Tale (scrawled in Pidgin English on a used sheet of toilet paper)

Yep, my suspicions were true. We’re back to Arzenal again this episode, Not-Kira’s absent, and to top it all off, we have a maid episode. Turns out that strange maid person in the intro (noticeable in the first shot after the title and in one shot with the dog), smuggles herself into Arzenal this week to… I’m not really sure. I guess she’s been having a sad because the mistress she’s been servant to for ages is gone missing and…

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Cross Ange Into (the Muff of) Darkness (aka Episode 05)

Cross Ange Into (the Muff of) Darkness (aka Episode 05)

We’ve reached a singularity on Cross Ange. After the shaming, laming, and taming, of the show’s titular shrew, she undergoes an event that includes the word ‘inflaming’. This is either due to the snake venom Ange readily receives very very near her nether-regions or her ignited passions because of the Not-Kira Yamato (aka Tusk/Tasuku/Tosku/etc) who rescued her. Either way, as was stated last week we now have Fukuda’s third island episode where two potential star-crossed lovers have to work together…

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Cross Ange Episode 04 – Holy Frozen Tits in a Sardine Can, Batman!

Cross Ange Episode 04 – Holy Frozen Tits in a Sardine Can, Batman!

As I anticipated episode 04 of Cross Ange, the thought crossed my mind on whether it would end up like Gundam SEED Destiny, where a series of strung-up, intense, events would subside into boring falderal. I was honestly expecting it here, since this was a lull episode where we learned more about the characters, Ange would soften up, and everybody is happy and moves on with life. Then I was blindsided by a picture of this scene. Oh boy, another…

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