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| Rewatching the episode, you can see Ichigo clearly looking at Zero Two for three different times. And people said that her decision to change her mind was sudden and that what goro said doesn't make sense when they displayed that she was changing her mind during the episode but still conflicted. And of course, that without counting the time where she defended Zero Two of Nine Alpha. So yeah, she clearly care about 02 but what Nines said, after what happened between 02 and Hiro and her own love for him caused this problem. So yeah, what happened in the episode made entire sense. https://i.imgur.com/7WqUIjK.jpg https://i.imgur.com/I328PMB.jpg https://i.imgur.com/xkCk5aO.jpg |
Exeterna said: Oh my god watching goro is so sad , he’s so good guy yet fcking ichigo still didnt accept his feeling, i hope she really let go hiro this time. So i think klaxosaur is a mutated human , because i remember when zorome lost in the adult city and got examined later up he is called victim/ infected? I think thats how the kid could pilot the franxx because they had the yellow blood cell , too much of it will turn you into monster And the nines , why they got reversed position ? Its like they’re being pleasured /serviced or they’re masochist XD 02 hiro reunion were too fast i think and yeah strelizia goes trans am Are you a kid? Ichigo accepting Goro without loving him don't make any sense and she don't have any obligation to do it just like Hiro don't need to accept Ichigo or Kokoro don't need to accept Futoshi. Ichigo still loves Hiro but now she accepted their relationship and put their happiness over her own which is a really difficult thing for any person to do, even more here in a first love for a teenager that was only created to be a soldier. |
That might have been a little too soon, ya know? ;-) |
jfabritz said: Danae said: - Ichigo's resolution to try and protect Hiro from Zero Two suddenly disappeared. Zero Two is suddenly no threat according to her I'd imagine that the amount of story time was way more than 20 minutes, so Ichigo had been keeping Zero Two away from Hiro for quite a few days. What I think happened was that Ichigo finally "felt the mood". Hiro escaped from the hospital because he wanted to see Zero Two, no matter what Ichigo thought. Hiro was dwelling on Zero Two, even when Ichigo confessed to him. She saw there was something between them she couldn't understand. She only knew because she loved him, she wanted to protect him from anyone/everything, but not in a yandere kinda way. ;-) So, everyone else in the squad saw it but her and that is when she had to accept how it was. Yeah. Even in this episode Ichigo was worried about Zero Two. On three different times you can see her looking at her or paying attention to her. People don't perceive but she cares about 02 too. She felt betrayed by what she did to Hiro plus the fact that Nines said things to her so everything happened because of that. https://i.imgur.com/7WqUIjK.jpg https://i.imgur.com/I328PMB.jpg https://i.imgur.com/xkCk5aO.jpg |
| So did 02 know that Hiro was the kid from back then? I dont really get it. |
| Well, I'm kinda happy and kinda disappointed with this episode, happy for obvious reasons and disappointed because it only took 1 episode to fix everything, Hiro and 02 just apologized to each other, nothing really has changed, I expected more tbh, now I'll pretend episode 14 never happened. 02 has really toxic fans, we all knew Hiro and 02 would be together and Ichigo stood no chances but the fans went as far as threatening the staff and hating on even the voice actress of Ichigo, really pathetic. Am I seeing things or are the 9s have horns like 02 ? Or is it only their leader. thekillfra said: . caio_ken said: Are you a kid? Ichigo accepting Goro without loving him don't make any sense and she don't have any obligation to do it just like Hiro don't need to accept Ichigo or Kokoro don't need to accept Futoshi. Ichigo still loves Hiro but now she accepted their relationship and put their happiness over her own which is a really difficult thing for any person to do, even more here in a first love for a teenager that was only created to be a soldier. after two episodes Ichigo will already be fucking goro though among other things, she did not have the balls to refuse him because she uses him as a second option, it will be fun to play LOL Yeah, or Goro would die protecting Ichigo, that's a common option, but probably they'd be together by the end of the show, I'm more worried about my man Futoshi, he's stuck with a lesbian. |
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WordIsBond said: She didn't know. All she remembered was someone did all that for her and taught her her first words. She didn't know it was Hiro specifically but I think we're meant to think that she suspected it. She tried to ignore the banging on her door or whatever. Thank you. So she didnt know, but called him Darling just the same. And she couldnt have known that hed survive riding with her more than 3 times, but she was like 'meh' and lied about it; hence her apology about using him, no? Does that make sense? |
| My opinion of this show keeps going up and down. Obviously some episodes will be better than others, but it strikes my attention on how it can be such a roller coaster. Nice reunion w/ Hiro and Zero Two tbh. Less than 10 episodes to go though, hopefully it ends well. |
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| As much shit as I gave the last episode, I like the direction this show is going now. I do think they could have done a better job with how they set this episode up last week but it was nice to see it pay off with Trigger's over the top action. I'm looking forward to what they will do after that ending. |
| Everything is so rushed. Of course, is obvious some parts of this episode was made after the outrage from the last episode. It just have cool action scenes and nothing more. This episode convinced me to review this overrated anime. 2/5 pd: Goro best bro! |
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IVRBRK said: And what if it works with both??? LOL everyone knows the cohesion between the 2 pilots are essential stop being blind ( its not like they threw us 2000 métaphors in the first eps for that .Wups my bad thats actually what they did WHAT À COINCIDENCE) I understand the innuendo for sex and relationships, but how do you explain them running out of magma energy in that one previous episode after killing like 20 klax, but this time they have infinite magma energy? Didn’t the energy come from the tube things? Or did the mechanics change and the pilots are powering the mechs? |
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Zikander said: cupc said: Lol. I noticed that the nines have opposite role between male n female. And i thought the green haired nines who look like ichigo is a maleHow ironic that he's called Alpha  They do posses attributes to one sex or the other, but I think he’s actually a masculine female and shes a feminine male. |
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WordIsBond said: I also believe they should have shown 02 refusing the stand-in stamen. This would have went a long way to show 02's remorse and her change in character. See, I didnt even realize that she must have refused all those other partners. Youre right, that WAS a missed oppotunity. |
puppetmazter said: WordIsBond said: I also believe they should have shown 02 refusing the stand-in stamen. This would have went a long way to show 02's remorse and her change in character. See, I didnt even realize that she must have refused all those other partners. Youre right, that WAS a missed oppotunity. Lots of missed opportunity. I wanted to see Hiro reject Ichigo :( I was expecting him to properly reject her, but it seems like he didn't even answer her at all. I mean, the way Ichigo held Hiro's hand... it wasn't the behavior of someone who got rejected. |
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MomoSinX said: rebelakuma said: Hmmm.. i have a feeling that the twist is kinda the same in the story of Shinsekai yori and Qualidea Code. I hope not. That's a pretty overused twist already :( While Shinsekai Yori indeed had the same twist it was a bit different with Qualidea Code because the main enemies were aliens for real. The whole deception thing was secondary. I wonder how this show will explain though. The "human experiment went wrong" twist is getting real old so I hope they'll come up with something creative. Although it seems to point to this anyway since it was noted that the Crevase looked manmade. Hhahaa yeah, the "human experiment went wrong" twist is really getting old so I hope they can come up with something different that will blow us away. By the way, I thought that in Qualidea Code, the aliens that they thought they were fighting were humans and yes, with all those deception twist. Nonetheless, it just occurred to me that what if the klaxosaurs that they were fighting were humans instead with some deception thing as well. LOL, sounds very far fetched but I hope they will not do that. |
| I loved this episode as well! I literally started crying when Zero Two and Hiro reunited. Can't wait for the next episode! |
| yesssssssss I was worried that I had to wait 5+ episodes to wait for Hiro and Zero Two to reunite, but they did it in the next episode and it was damn sweet! Also highly satisfying. Reunion, a kiss, confessing each others love, went total badass YESSS But let us not forget who made that possible.. Goro. Goro didn't only save the episode but probably the show. Goro is the best bro. Goro is the bro everyone needs Goro is the ideal bro Goro is the man Goro is your man Goro is your friend till the end Goro understands your feelings Goro won't let you down Goro is the best bro Gobro Great episode, now I can sleep without an troubled mind :') |
| Ok, the episode was good and all, but for only once, I think it would have been better in two episodes Build up more the tension of the battle and the sh*tstorm that just happened in the previous episode, and then, this episode would've felt more satisfactory I still think the show is going on an easy formula, because after all the happened in the previous episode, the resolution felt a little wack |
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caio_ken said: Are you a kid? Ichigo accepting Goro without loving him don't make any sense and she don't have any obligation to do it just like Hiro don't need to accept Ichigo or Kokoro don't need to accept Futoshi. Ichigo still loves Hiro but now she accepted their relationship and put their happiness over her own which is a really difficult thing for any person to do, even more here in a first love for a teenager that was only created to be a soldier. Chill. I know its a 1 sided love , what im trying to imply is why ichigo doesnt show any sign or start falling for goro because he’s a kind guy , dont blame me i dont understand women , i havent dated yet , and whats important from my post is about the klaxosaur and the nines reversed position |
| Welp. Finally get to see this episode and I am happy for the two as well. They really make each other complete. But other than the predictable reunion, which was very sweet, the episode wasn't as great as you guys are making it out to be. Anyways, if this anime gets a happy ending for those two, I will be happy but I have this eerie feeling that we won't get that. |
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| Looks like at the end of the episode, Hiro got in the FUCKING robot. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) |
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| Well damn, that was a good episode. Completely makes up for how bad last week's was. Also, I still fucking despise Ichigo. She only caved in when she realized she was utterly defeated between Goro stepping in and seeing how she wasnt in any of Hiro's memories. Notice in the beginning of the episode she's like "dont worry Hiro, I'LL teach you how to pilot again from the ground up"...like that was his fucking problem. Glad that not only did 002 and Hiro get back together and talk things out, but the ship completely sailed too. And it comes with a new paint job and powerup. I'm pretty convinced at this point that the klaxosaurs aren't truly evil either. You could see the polar opposites in the way they acted versus Papa and the leaders. Papa suicide bombs an entire plantation full of people, and the other leader has that squad kamikaze themselves. (anyone notice that the guy in that squad with the grey hair was the one from the first cour who was terrified of 002 because his squad worked with her once, and his joint squad with squad 13 got their asses beat? He went full Kaneki then from the stress lol). Meanwhile the klalxosaurs went out of their way, with a big fucking hand, to save that giant ball of cores. My theory now based off the way the cores almost appeared to be embryos is that the klaxosaurs arent evil now. Those cores that got taken by the hand looked like embryos, and the one that got split open had a very human shaped golden object fall out. Most of the conflict between them and humans seems to stem from whenever the plantations do shit anyway. When they're harvesting magma, or on the move somewhere is when the klaxosaurs react. It's fairly obvious that Papa and the "adults" are the bad guys. I want to guess though that Papa and company are trying to wipe out/ascend humanity in their eyes. Papa mentioned liberating humanity now that they have access to the gate, so we'll see what he means by that. I think they mentioned something about backing up plantation 32 as well, so perhaps his goal is to basically turn all humans into data where they cant be harmed and dont have physical bodies. And doing this also involves destroying the planet for magma as a fuel source. Meanwhile, perhaps the klaxosaurs are actually trying to breed humans somehow and also trying to stop the plantations from using the magma so it can be habitable, or perhaps the klaxosaurs need the magma as a resource or nutrient to grow humans. I'm 100% convinced they're somehow creating humans since they aren't just out there in the wasteland, and that core definitely had a human inside of it. So it's not like klaxosaurs are eating people. The giant klaxosaur hand also wouldnt need to be so defensive over other low-class klaxosaurs since they're near infinite...however if the bodies of klaxosaurs are basically tools for incubating and growing humans inside what are considered the cores...then the cores would be much more valuable. So basically right now my theory is a mix of Papa being Amakusa Shiro from Fate/Apocrypha, and the klaxosaurs being the "aliens" from Qualidea Code. I also expect doctor Franxx to aid the children when the time comes. I think back in the day he was a bit more ruthless and just a cold hard scientist like when he wiped their memories and tortured 002, but I think now he's so interested on how much potential the kids have and how different they are that he sees them as the future and the way things should be. I'm pretty satisfied since the story right now is pretty much exactly where I expected it to be, though I thought this turn would happen right towards the start of the second cour. I expected Papa and the bunch to be revealing some mysterious, yet obviously sinister plan. I expected some information to be teased about the klaxosaurs to make you question what they really are, and I expected Hiro and 002 to renew their desires to want to leave and explore, which would then also be the trigger of events for everything else. Their desire to leave makes them want to question things like they used to, which makes them realize they might not know everything about Papa and the klaxosaurs, which means rebellion. |
Short_Circut said: MonkeyDJasper said: episodes productions are like 3 months before they air . The backlash didn’t affect this episode . Everything is always planned , they don’t just make stuff up on the fly . Oh ok then that's good to hear Sorry but its not, if you watch shirobako or see what happen with madchen marchen quality, each episode created each 1-2 week before on air.(from what i know cmiiw) Also it feel rushed for me after all drama they built, hopes fans reaction not effect the real storyboard. |
| LOL, I wonder how much influence the whole Ichibitch drama had on this episode. Honestly didn't expect them to address the love triangle so quickly, it all feels like a joke now. Was expecting them to stretch things out for at least 1 more episode. |
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Username23489023 said: Maybe they just got better at piloting so the mismatch no longer matters, and maybe Ichigo needed a bit more encouragement via the connection to give Hiro back to Zero Two? That said, I'm still wondering why Ichigo was able to fight Strelizia without putting Delphinium into stampede mode.ZBlastHistory said: Everyone worried about Hiro rush to battlfield on traning suit but how many people care about Goro alone there without mech, good thing they pick up Goro. Why Goro just don't come along with both on them to Zero Two? just get him on the arm after Hiro gone he can go back to pilot it because there is still a lot of enemy. The plot hole is that goro got out and made hiro pilot even though past experiences taught him that hiro cannot pilot ichigo. How did he know it would work this time? Why not carry hiro and shove him inside 002? |
| Holy shit this could be the third time i cried in an Anime.. It's just Beautiful! 5/5 |
| Didn't expect that Hiro and Zero Two would be back riding together this fast! Ichigo did show us she could be a good girl too. Plus, cool action as usual from Goro. Good ep with good action which Ive hyped for and also got to see the other Parasites as the '9'(?) I thought a man couldn't be a pistil and turns out they could (?) SeidouTZ said: Goro is reaching bro levels never seen!!! OT: Well that was rather disappointing... It had nice action and resolution sure, but there was no build up to it all. Ichigo just completely give in despite being so overprotective of Hiro last episode, the reunion with 02 as well as hiro realisation was rather soulless, the "your enemy is in fact also human" plotline is nothing particularly new and i doubt they will do much with it, this episode could had been interesting to display of the Nines capabilities but that fell flat... one of the weakess episodes of the series. Also for god sake give Futoshi some other lines that dont revolve around food. Good point, I couldn't agree more mate. I expected to see Ichigo played a big 'impact' in this ep but unfortunately we didn't see that. I'd say its not perfect but it was not bad too. |
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