[DreamSword]

Episode 6: San Antonio

This is an episode that starts kinda weak, but only gets better as it goes.

Upfront, it's so strange that they decided to title this episode "San Antonio" when said area only has to do with maybe 3 minutes of the entire episode?

Anyway, Team X-On is on the move trying to rescue more members of the Allen family, but unfortunately, the villains keep beating them to the punch. While there are some new faces(whose names are never revealed), others return.

Though the newbies feel like blatant ways of just showing off more superpowers(a fish man, a guy who can phase through matter, an illusionist), it was nice to get more personality out of characters like Flaming Fury and Dead Wing(the man bat from the first two episodes).

Where things start getting good though is when we're introduced to a new character: Margarette, who hasn't seen her daughter Nina in 20 years. A good chunk of what makes the majority of this episode work is not just the atmosphere but also alot of great little character moments sprinkled about. Eleanor having "WTHX-ON" as her laptop password was great.

Really though, the scene that was probably carried best by all of this is when the group decides to head to LA to find Nina. The scene with everyone in the car talking about their own relationships with their families was fantastic. It's also here that we learn that Lisa calls her wheelchair "Big Wheel" which is a shout out to the (in)famous Spider-Man villain of the same name. And it's also here that was finally meet Wraith(pictured above).

With how active the villains are in this one, I felt it only appropriate that the song of the post be "Here Them Come" which plays whenever the villains are on the move.

The climax of the episode works well enough: Mother and Daughter reunited and making amends, and then a standoff between our heroes and antagonists. Where it got real good though, was when a familiar song can be heard faintly from above...

Both when I first watched this anime and now that I'm rewatching it, I got super excited at the prospect of the two plots finally intersecting. And it also helps makes sense as to why Margarette and Nina are the last of the Allen family to be kidnapped; I-Guy has been putting a stop to pretty much all crime in LA, so of course the villains have to do a concentrated push here! It's a great hook to end the episode on, and makes me excited for the next.