[DreamSword]

Episode 9: Setting Off

With the city in utter disarray, Sword and Sophie head out west to find El Dorado.

A big part of this episode involves the two leaving their old lives behind in order to further their missions and their bond, and I dug it.

Now, granted, stuff like this is usually best saved for a halfway mark of a story, but in the case of Vanishing Line, I do feel that they offered just enough to get me to buy into it, especially since I've been liking these characters so far.

While unexpected, the musical montage at the halfway point was rather nice, and general tone and atmosphere of the episode in general was rather well done. The bit at the end with the deer, while sure, a bit on the nose in regards to symbolism of Sophie and the head Sister, was rather effective.

It's the sort of episode that so easily could've had me rolling my eyes throughout the entire thing had I not been liking the cast; Heck, another show I finished recently trying to pull something like this at episode 9 would've made me incredibly annoyed. But here? While not the best example of something like this I've seen, still overall worked for me.

I don't exactly have a good way of ending this off other than saying that the episode was nice, so instead, have a random tidbit: I realized earlier today that Knight really reminded me of someone. And who is that someone?

He's literally just the Vanguard class from Dungeon Fighter Online.