[Locke]

Getting very close to running out of TN episodes of Kuuga I want the Grongi translated! D:

Anyway, just watched episode 16 and eh... It was fun and all but I'm not sure how much I enjoy character focus in this show, being that the guy playing Ichijou is about the only good actor in the entire show.

Plus everything about his latest character arc was just...bizarre, what am I meant to take away from this? His Mum practically goes blind and passes out...and is then back to work again the next episode and despite everyone telling Ichijou to go see his Mum, he doesn't go see her and instead they have a two line conversation so vague it barely counts as language. I thought perhaps it was supposed to suggest that their bond was damaged and there was a breakdown in communication but that annoying police girl seemed overjoyed in hearing a conversation that amounted to:

"Hey."
"Hi."
"Oh...I didn't think you'd actually pick up."
"I know."
"Yeah."

Just what the fuck?

Plus this whole bike aspect is just really poorly plotted, they spent ages establishing that the bike given to Godai was like the batmobile but on two wheels that for some reason had a button that changed the paint job but without the bike getting damaged, without the bike no longer having a use they've just replaced it with a new talking bike, making sure to establish that the bike beneath the armour has changed forever...just for the armour to then fall off, what is the point?

I know this will probably become clear later in the series but so far the most complicated mystery has been surrounding bike armour, how have you managed to make this last two episodes as it is? Let alone even more.