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Episode 3!

-Even tho we've been hearing this track since Episode 1, we finally got the proper opening sequence! I love Realxeyez, it's so damn addictive.

The echoes of one's culture, familal traditions, and personal habits: you can learn so much about a person by watching someone cook or cooking alongside another person. In a way, cooking is almost like a glimpse into a person's heart, a taste of humanity if you will! Which is why I love that 01 did a cooking theme so early on for a "Do Humagears have hearts?" episode. It's honestly one of my favorite "Humagear of the Week" stories. It's so simple how Nigiro wins the Boss over: he begins to use Boss's technique, not because it's more efficent(it's actually quite overcomplicated). It's like, the intention of wanting to understand the Boss by trying to imitate his special technique, it's so sweet? I love the bit about Boss's students not being able to keep up and become "heartbroken", to which Nigiro repiles he has no heart to break? That's golden. I love robots in fiction and how they're used to reflect upon the human heart, and unearthing the unique humanity hiding in even the most mundane of actions, so this story hit all the right buttons for me.

-Yua. She's not violently anti-Humagear like Fuwa, but she's got a far more...grounded stance on their roles in soicety than Aruto: they're tools. Use them when they're convivent, discard them and start over when they become an issue. In a way she's right: they are specially comissioned machines to do tasks, and (presumably) nothing more. But also like, it's really cool that she of all people was the person to say "It's up to us to decide how we want to interact with Humagears"? It adds a layer of nuance that doesn't make her stance feel purely "coldhearted", if that makes sense. (Saying that they can simply start over with a new Nigiro, it might sound harsh, but it could be her trying to aknowledge Nigiro's importance to the boss in her own way, perhaps....)