It turns out Accelerator actually wanted the tissues back.
Summary:
Index stumbles of the scene of Amata and Accelerator's battle. Amata tell his men to kill Index, but the distraction caused by Index allows Accelerator to hijack one of the Hound Dog's vans and driver and then escape with Index. Amata grabs a missile launcher to target the van, but Vento suddenly appears and Amata shoots Vento instead. Vento is unharmed by the missile, but Amata decides that he has something better to do and drives off, leaving a few soldiers to deal with Vento.
Accelerator order the driver to stop nearby the hospital and tells Index to find Heaven Canceler and ask for a battery for the Misaka Network communicator. Later, Accelerator calls Heaven Canceler from a phone booth. Accelerator wants to wipe out Amata and the Hound Dogs, but Heaven Canceler tells Accelerator to focus on saving Last Order first and bringing her to the hospital.
Wouldn't it hurt to send the cross flying since it's attached to her tongue? But then again, she does have a cross attached to her tongue.
Meanwhile, Touma and Last Order return to the scene of the battle but only find the wrecked van and bodies of several soldiers. Shortly after, more Hound Dogs arrive and they chase Touma and Last Order into an alley. Touma and Last Order enter a restaurant to hide, but the soldiers find them. Suddenly, Vento arrives and all the soldiers are knocked out. Vento then confronts Touma and attacks him by hitting the cross hanging from her tongue with her mace which generate energy balls that fly at Touma. Touma doesn't have much trouble repelling the attacks, and after getting Last Order out of the restaurant Touma decides to stand and fight, but Vento suddenly coughs up blood and is forced to retreat.
You sure you dropped your ring here? I'm not getting any readings on the metal detector.
At least she's motivated. We could care less about the reason.
At the Judgment branch office, Kazari and Kuroko are swamped with paperwork. When the two finally take a break, Kazari turns on the TV and learn of Vento's attack on the city, but soon after she loses consciousness.
Once a killer, always a killer.
At a chemical plant somewhere in the city, Accelerator is trying to find a chemical that would erase his scent and thereby stop the Hound Dogs from tracking him. A group of Hound Dogs track Accelerator to the plant, but Accelerator slaughters them. However, a couple of Anti-Skills witness one of Accelerator's killings. Elsewhere in town, Yomikawa is driving about trying to find Last Order and Accelerator, but she receives the report about Vento and subsequently loses consciousness. A while later, Yoshikawa locates Yomikawa's car, but then she sees that Accelerator is on the wanted list.
In a back alley somewhere, Motoharu is investigating a strange spike, and is forced to jump back when more spikes emerge from the ground. Motoharu thinks the spike are planted to kill all the unconscious people in the city, and near the spikes Motoharu spot a glowing white figure moving about.
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This was a very "busy" episode with lots of characters getting involved and the narrative jumping around between them, but it didn't feel like the story was building up. Things started off decently with Accelerator escaping with Index while Touma and Last Order are chased by the Hound Dogs, but after that things fell a little flat. Vento was pretty disappointing in her first actual fight. Her energy balls didn't really put Touma to the test, and then she started coughing up blood and retreated. I hope she has some other abilities other than the energy balls and making people faint (which obviously doesn't work on Touma), or otherwise she'll be a really easy target for Touma to sock in the face. Accelerator wasn't doing much more either and spent the rest of the episode killing Hound Dog grunts horror-movie style. I guess it's in Accelerator's character to brutally murder people who get in his way, but I'd rather see him murder them and then started doing something towards saving Last Order. Judging from the conversation between Accelerator and Heaven Canceler, it seems that Last Order has some sort of health problem. I thought she was supposed "conditioned" before she was allowed to leave the hospital?
Onto the other characters, Kuroko's rants on Touma was really random and somewhat out of place given everything else that was going on. There is also the spike and glowing white ghost thing that Motoharu was investigating which came out of nowhere as well, but it's probably part of Vento's scheme if we are to believe Motoharu. It was also a little strange that Amata disappeared after running into Vento, but I presume that he went to summon Hyoka (who might not appear next week either judging but the preview) as ordered by Aleister.
Overall, this was an okay episode, but the different parts didn't work together very well to build up the level excitement. Maybe things will be better next week?
I'm with you there. The constant jumping back and forth killed the built-up they were shooting for. Well more so with Touma and Vento as Accelerator's wasn't too bad. His parts reminded me something out of one of the Saw movies...
ReplyDeleteNot sure what the exact point was with tossing Kuroko into the episode but it was a waste and not needed. She was annoying as ever even with the little bit I had to put up with her...
Sadly, no more Last Order and Touma...
This episode has been better than most of the other episodes this season even if the jumping around was weird at times.
ReplyDeleteNEED MOAR MIKOTO!! :v
Its J.C. Staff's fault, Ventor't attack where supposed to flatten buildings like nothing, obviously with one swing making Mikoto's flashy railgun look like a kid throwing a rock.
ReplyDeleteAs Jhonny said above Kuroko was utterly useless and killed the mood and tension.
Yeah, J.C.Staff toned down a lot of stuff that would have made this episode better. The usual censors and laziness I guess? And that bit about Last Order, from the way it was (supposed to be) phrased, he was referring to Last Order's current situation in *this* context, as in there's a high possibility she would have gotten injured during this mess. The Frog face Doctor was assuring Accelerator that he would heal her if Accelerator rescued her and brought her to him alive. ^^
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ReplyDeleteLast Order and Touma was fun while it lasted.
@Moment
It was an okay episode... hard to say if it was better than most of the other episodes though.
@Wilfriback and Keiri
It would have been a much better fight if Vento actually started leveling a few buildings. Her attacks against Touma this episode were just crummy. Why JC Staff, why???
@Keiri
So in that phone call scene, whose X-ray was the doctor looking at, or was that just some random hospital background image that isn't important?
I think the reason why her attacks were weak looking was because she wanted to test the legendary imagine breaker to see what it an do. Cuz I think we saw her big blasts when she tried to escape.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if that cell phone that Last Order was forced to leave behind will end up affecting the plot!
ReplyDeleteI thought it was cute that Hound Dogs actually used a sniffer to track targets.
@Anonymous
ReplyDeleteIt could be... but if she could have leveled buildings, there would be no need to attack Touma directly.
@Kabitzin
Would have been funnier if the Hound Dog had real hounds to track Accelerator.
"So in that phone call scene, whose X-ray was the doctor looking at, or was that just some random hospital background image that isn't important?"
ReplyDeleteI assume it's just some hospital props that aren't related to Last Order. It wasn't described in the original whose x-ray scans they were.