Episode 07: Film Noir
This week, Lag and company travel to Blue Notes Blues, a northern village covered in ice and home to the Maka legends, because of rumored Noir-spottings there. While Lag is chasing Gauche, Zazie also travels to BNB for a letter delivery, offering to do Lag’s job for him as well. Zazie doubts Lag’s ability to take on Gauche, but as the episode progresses, we reveal that Zazie is as much worried about his friend as concerned about his abilities. While Zazie is actually getting work done, he stumbles upon Noir, who shoots Zazie and his lion-wolf-thing-buddy Wasiolka in the face. So rude. A one-sided battle ensues, in which Noir mops the floor with Zazie, but Zazie continues on in the name of friendship!… But since he’s Zazie and not Lag, he does that in a totally cool, tsun-tsun way. Of course, he still ends up beaten up, lying alone in the snow… but I’m assuming someone will saves him. Maybe Jiggy deus-ex-machina Pepper will save him, the way he does everyone else? We’ll see.
Lag, meanwhile, finds a giant Gaichuu carcass and two bullets from Noir’s gun embedded in the ice, and of course he decides to use his Shindanjuu on the bullets so that he can get in touch with Gauche’s heart. The problem? Shooting thin ice isn’t the best idea, and Lag spends most of the episode in his own icy Gauche-theater under a pile of broken ice. The episode is devoted largely to a giant Gauche-flashback in which we learn lots about Reverse :O. I won’t spoil that here.
Niche senses that something is wrong, saves Lag, and they make their way back to the village, where Niche reveals she was born– two hundred years ago! (Surprise!loli isn’t a loli!)
Overall impressions: 4.7/ 5.0
Actually, nothing about this episode irritated me! It was really good, very exciting and informative, and all my favorite characters made appearances :P. The only bad thing is that we’ll have to wait a week until we know what happens next… in episode 8, Blue Notes Blues!
Gallery and preview after the cut!
Preview: Blue Notes Blues
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