So, to sum up last episode; Osamu got a taste of power, it went to his head, and now things are fucked.
Osamu pretty much realizes it was a bad move to go back and fight, especially when Chika gets turned into a cube. However, I’ll give the episode credit, this actually is a character moment. Osamu realizes he got too big, thinking Chika’s power made him so strong, and he’s shellshocked by it. But then, he’s reminded by his friends and superiors that he can kick himself about it later, he’s got a job to do. So he snatches cube Chika and runs for the hills. On a weird side note, the episodes have narration now of the people in the cubes.Its just…a very odd choice, and makes me also wonder how they can narrate the stuff they weren’t there for. This show is made of weird decisions (looking at you lip sync in opening).
We get to see Osamu move, and actually use his wits and strategy to avoid the two Rabits after him. He times their attacks, uses his own skills, and gets pretty far for being well..not that strong. Of course, he still gets beaten down, but I guess its something. However, just as all hope seems lost, he’s saved by the true hero of the episode: Replica.
Replica makes his own Rabit, which fights the other two and beats the snot out of them, letting Osamu take Chika to HQ while he holds them off. I come to realize, Replica is the most useful character in the entire show. He knows so much, he can fight, split himself for communication and using triggers…he’s a badass little droid thing. But alas, we leave off Osamu carrying Chika cubed to base. The Chika rescue arc continues.
The rest of the episode focuses on Enendra, or as I like to call him, the Nnoitra-one. The B squad guys keep fighting as the lab techs scan him and the room to ry and figure out his abilities. They do track his weak points, known for some hardened trion he uses to guard them, but he figures out what they’re up to and so makes a bunch of dummy ones. He may be loudmouthed, but he’s go some smarts at least.
However, this guy also is very dumb. On realizing he can’t kill them or do damage, he doesn’t try to simply leave the room, but keep attacking them again and again until he finally figures out what’s going on. Meanwhile, Border’s able to figure out he can turn his trion into gas as well as liquid and attack someone inside their own body. Which is a pretty dangerous power…good thing its trion bodies XD. However, once he finally breaks out of the room and is going to go on a rampage, Shinoda gets there with a pretty cool method and one liner.
Now, we’ve been told Shinoda is THE MOST POWERFUL PERSON IN BORDER. More then Osamu, Jin, Jin’s rival, that weird monster guy we haven’t really seen yet. So, obviously, he has a lot to live up to. He’s got the jacket, the laser sword, and the cool lines. What else you got, chief?
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That is actually some weird mixture of awesome and hilarious in how ridiculous it is. By cranking up the AC, they push the gaseous body away so he can’t attack them that way. Just…wow…that is nothing I’ve seen in anything ever. Truly humans are a force to be reckoned with. Anyways, with that neutralized, Shinoda hits with sword beams literally everywhere to take out his vulnerable space. He actually pulls off being a cool guy for the most part.
So he’s totally defeated..but no not really. He managed to take his vital piece away at the last second, and repositioned himself so he could hit them with his gas attack. Well..that made this entire fight kind of flaccid. I mean, I get the idea of wanting powerful villains, but this feels kind of cheap, and a lame way to continue the fight out longer. Now, if they do manages to top this with something more awesome, that’ll be something; but until that happens, lame move, World Trigger.
I’m not tired by world Trigger as I once was, partially because I only have to review it every other week, but also because its at least got something entertaining to watch, even if its not much. I don’t hate it for being a shonen anime or having shonen tropes, I just feel its missing alot of things to really give it an identity and personality. We had some moments with Osamu, which were good, but so far its just ok. If I were a kid, and this was on 4kids or Foxbox, I’d watch it but only after flipping through channels first.