Compl3te said:ThangLong said: Maybe we will see the last Valvrave Unit revealed there. I thought Akira got the last Valvrave unit?
Future Saki mentioned the Golden Seven in the time skip. Counting all the student's Valvrave and Unit 2 under Cain's command, we only have six of them currently revealed. That leaves the possibility of the seventh Valvrave which would either be hidden somewhere in Module 77, or be built in the future.
symbv said: The one thing I particularly love is the confrontation between Haruto and L-Elf. Haruto by himself will look too much like the usual robot anime MC who gets angst, timid or indecisive and here L-Elf provides a very good foil. His method may be calculating or even cold-blooded but he is also clear about the cost-benefit choice and his goal
L-elf is cold-blooded and calculated to a fault. I still remember the scene in episode 16 where he let Haruto know that Marie is piloting Unit 1. L-elf basically waved his gun with an expression that said "She is Valvrave original pilot and she will lose her memory or die to get us out of here, durrr... Who cares, let's go finish the mission, Haruto." However, L-elf's extreme indifference is quite endearing to some people. They even joke that he has autism. In that aspect, L-elf is quite similar to Makisima from Psycho-Pass, but I can never find the latter's madness to be something endearing.
The reason for that feeling is probably the viewer's acknowledgment, or rather, hope that L-elf is hot-blooded for one person (Lieselotte) and one mission (Dorssia revolution/revenge on Cain) only. L-elf's autism is also why teasing him with Shouko is so fun. Shouko has been known for cracking the toughest of shells; and L-elf is the toughest shell there is.
I think people still speculate the L-elf would be able to pilot Valvrave in the future based on the ED's picture of him in a cockpit. But I think it's unlikely that he can do so. The writers explicitly put in the rule that L-elf cannot pilot to make the struggle of Jior's young pilots workable in the story. If L-elf can pilot, his hax skills mean that anyone besides Cain would be wiped out. Back in S1, he used a mere fighter aircraft to kamikaze a battleship! Imagine what he can do with Unit 1 :D
symbv said: Now come to think of it, I have a stronger and stronger feeling that perhaps all the main characters may die, and only those who are revealed to be still living 200 years later survived. The first emperor of the new empire may not even be one from the main cast - perhaps instead of emperor we'd have Empress Lieselotte, sitting on the throne bearing the child she bore with L-Elf. I also have a feeling that despite turning into a Magius, Haruto will not survive, and I think it is Haruto that Saki was referring to when she first appeared 200 years later.
I think we can put Akira in the list of survivors. In the time skip, Satomi mentioned Ms. Renbokouji as the boy's godmother. Of course, someone can be married to Satomi, but his mannerism there did not seem like he was talking about his wife.
At this point, it should be safe to predict the boy is L-elf's descendant. The prominent white hair feature is a giveaway (some people speculate A-Drei but he is not a main character or important enough to warrant such focus). The question remains on who would be the other partner.
Haruto gets enough death flags to be in the bitter-sweet ending route. But I think Haruto would be in a comma, or missing in action rather than a clear death. I have a feeling that Haruto would become another Pino, eternally trapped in the Valvrave machine as its host.
symbv said: And the direction of the show also seems to be getting clearer. The native Magius seem to be some alien with this rune/Valvrave technology, and it has now taken over Dorussia, and to keep their body perpetually young they need sacrifice in the form of a young body and lots of runes. The ultimate enemy is now Magius and it seems that it will be confronted by an alliance of neo-Jior (those students) and the old imperial forces in Dorussia.
No matter how awesome the Magius look, they don't even possess the technology as capable as Valvrave. They probably haven't thought about using runes, their food source, as an energy for fighting machines before. Harutos dad knows something they don't.
It also stems the question on Pino and Prue's origin. Where are their real bodies? Are they the original Magius, the "original pair" as Cain put it? Maybe the first Magius on Earth has been assimilated into human society for too long that they can't retain their original power. Thus, Pino and Prue would probably be the only real Aliens arriving directly from their home planet. Btw, I think the Magius species is in some kind of crisis. Their persistence in getting the Valvrave might not be for the machines, but Pino and Prue. |