[DreamSword]

Episode #14: Beleaguer

"...then they can fight without holding back."

It's an unfortunate way that things tend to work. Propaganda is a powerful tool, even unto today.

As the trio of Joey, Psy, and Denton continue to be on the run from the feds, Hughes and Minami stand on very opposites sides of how to approach the job they've been given.

This episode is full of nice character dynamics playing out. There's the obvious, big things, like how Hughes is trying to keep everything as low key and peaceful as Minami wants to use as much brute force as possible, but there's also alot of smaller stuff like Joey calling Lina to make sure she's okay.

Often true to many scuffles though, brain outmatches brawn, and unfortunately, despite our heroes' best efforts, Hughes is a professional when it comes to this sort of thing, and he's not only able to keep up with all of the group's' tactics, but outplay them at many points as well. And all without ever having to raise a gun himself. Minami though, well, he has other ideas. And is often outwitted.

It's an episode that's all about the tension of the chase, and in that regard, I think it handles itself rather well. I'm never not impressed by just how well Heroman is able to balance its more talky nature with spurts of exciting action, and this episode is no exception to that.

This song with the unpronounceable name comes from Mass Alert, and serves as the anime's' second ending song. I like the song a bunch, but the visuals that go along with it... not so much. Like, I get the general idea: To provide a sort of snapshot montage of the character's' lives, but it's not only not exactly engrossing in the way it's done, but I feel it's a major step down from the rather creative credits sequence that came before it.

Also said ED has a massive spoiler in it, so that's not cool.