[DreamSword]

Episode 9: Dream

...I got nothin' for this one.

No, really. This episode did absolutely nothing for me. The best I can really do is just kinda summarize what happens.

Akane uses a Kaiju to put the kids into a dream where she's their BFF. With Yuta it's a repeat of the first episode, with Sho it's a repeat of when they talked about Red King, and with Rikka it's just kinda them hanging at school.

The issue is that this entire episode is designed to try and make the viewer feel sympathy for Akane, which, guess what, I don't. And frankly, why should I? So the Alliance have learned not to be friends with a psychopathic murderer. Oh woe is her. Her life must be so hard.

It's incredible to me that Malcolm from Syber-Squad, a show which wasn't even all that focused on character depth nor drama, did the angle of the tragic loner way better than anything Akane ever could have. I can't go into too many details as of right now, but come the end of the show? Oh yeah, I'll definitely break down why I feel Malcolm is done much better.

But hey, we get to see Zenon, I guess.

And the fight it debuts in isn't even a fight. It's done in one stroke. So even the action side of this episode is lame.

Maybe I'm just a heartless jerk, but this episode did nothing for me. The character moments don't lend anything good, the atmosphere drags, and the action is lame. It's the first episode in the whole show that I just straight up don't like. Maybe there's some hidden gem to it that I missed? Lemme know.