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Episode 17: Vanishing Age

Head's' true colors begin to come more to light as the Third Phase begins.

The tone of this one is a bit weird, because sandwiched inbetween two bouts of rather serious and straightforward storytelling is a wacky beach episode.

Not to say the beach aspect is out and out useless or anything, since it does establish the personalities of two new characters, but it almost feels out of place with the rest of the episode.

Because really, the majority of the episode is about Head and how he pulls a coup to make his group, Vanishing Age, the leads of the Glittering Crux Brigade. They'll be the ones to not only try and take out Tauburn, but also attempt to break the seals on both the East and South Maidens at the same time.

And while this is normally where I'd plug Vanishing Age's' theme, it hasn't been uploaded(the song from the PSP game is totally different). So instead, have "Glittering Star" which is a song that tends to just play for the Brigade in general, rather than any sort of specific group. Very theatrical in its sound, just as the group itself is in all that they do.

This was overall very much a "first episode" to our current arc, but I did overall enjoy it. If nothing else, it was totally worth it just to see Takuto fire himself like a missile at an enemy Cybody.

And yes, it turns out that even girls can be Galactic Pretty Boys.