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Faiz Episode 19
Obvious green screen is obvious. Seriously Faiz is so bold around the edges that it doesn't take a genius to figure out that it's being green screen. I think this may be the worst effect I've seen so far.

Naoya...what the hell? No seriously what the hell man? I have never seen somebody get a facial and have that much food on their face. Though it did lead to that hilarious drawing, which lead to another hilarious reaction by Naoya.

You know I just thought of something, exactly how big is this apartment. It houses three people and it appears to only have one bed. So are there rooms we haven't seen? Or do Yuka and Naoya sleep on the couch and floor?

Also why do we need subtitle when J is talking? He's obviously talking in English here and it's pretty understandable. I know in Japan they'd just usually pop subtitles up in Japanese so that viewers could understand him better, but this is an English sub. Why sub when he's clearly talking in English?

I think he's so sad because he's been wearing those ridiculous outfits.

Where the hell did that explosion come from?

And that's why she's been dirtying up laundry. Seeing it brings back memories of time spent with her mom. That leads to her remembering how her mother doesn't know her anymore, thus making the memory painful. In her sadness she latches out by ruining laundry. Makes quite a lot of since from a psychological standpoint.

Okay I know that the president was doing research on children who nearly died, and that Keiko was one of the children who popped up. But why is he sending an Orphenoch after her? If his goal is to attempt to turn her into one, then this just makes him even more a bad guy and makes him pretty much a jerk. As we've established even if you are part of something that nearly killed you, you can't just instantly become an Orphenoch. You may just turn into dust. This means that to test to see if Keiko and all of the other children in his research will turn into Orphenochs he is going to kill them all. The fucking hell? That's just detestable. And besides why would you want kids as Orphenochs? If the Orphenochs are your soldiers, why would you want kids as soldiers (and yes I'm aware in history children have acted as soldiers but still, different times)?

Well that was a quick fight.

Andddddddd J VS Takumi was short as well. Though I'm not going to lie I loved the finish of the match. The whole rider kick and punch combo was pretty cool, especially in the way it was executed. Definitely the action highlight of the episode.

But poor Chaco. He lost his pal. Oh well, he has a new friend now.

That was a very nice ending for Keiko's story. Chock full of the feelies it is. Not quite sure why Mari would think Takumi is worried though.

Well this was quite the lovely episode, much better then 18.

The story from 18 continued over to here and was much better presented. Whereas in 18 there was barely one and was just one large act of developing Keitaro, this one worked more as a story. Sure it was the second half of Keiko's story to get back her mother, but sometimes the second half can be better, this being an instance. The interactions between her and the others, and the ending with her reuniting finally with her mom were done very well and were pretty touching.

But it appears as if episode 19 is quite the flip from 18. While 19 had the story 18 didn't, 19 lacks any character development, something that episode 18 was pretty much built on. Also 19 had more action then 18 did. It was still fairly short, but it delivered. 18 only had one fight while this one had 3 (Faiz VS Clown and Yuji, Faiz VS Clown, and Faiz VS J). All three fights were handled well, the weakest of the bunch being the fight against the clown before J showed up.

So yeah episode 19 was much better then 18. I find it really funny how it's the utter opposite of what 18 was. 18 lacked any story and action but had great character development, whereas 19 had a story lacked any character development and had good action. Screwy ain't it?