[DreamSword]

Episode 11: Personal Uses of Cybodies

I dunno if anyone was really demanding an episode focused on Simone.

If you don't know who that is, it's the secretary of Kanako Watanabe, the rich green-haired lady who likes to harass Takuto.

And, yeah, this episode is focused almost entirely on Simone. We get her entire backstory to the point that other characters such the Power Trio and the Maiden Twins are barely even in it.

The episode itself isn't terrible or anything(although the ending is kinda questionable), but like, I just don't care all that much about this character who's been nothing but a one-note antagonist up to now. And it's not like her backstory makes any sort of radical change to paint her in a new light.

Really, the biggest highlight of this episode for me was the very brief scene where Sugata meets Head and learns a lesson from him. We've had little bits of foreshadowing about Head in previous episodes, but this one is a very much the blatant signal that he's about to become alot more active in the plot. It paints a very pretty picture, I will say.

I decided to highlight "Zero Time" this time around. While you can probably guess that it's the song that plays whenever there's an extended scene while time is stopped(most notably premiering in episode 4), it also plays during certain atmospheric scenes as well. And I think the thing that I like the most about it is that it's a very subtle song; almost coming across like ambient noise despite not counting as that. It creates a mood very easily.

Anyway, yeah. Not a bad episode, but by the end I just kinda shrug.