Felia a cute. A CUTE!
Impression
Firstly, apologies for the late post! I’ve been very busy lately. And secondly, cat pigeons are a thing in this series?! I mean, I knew that there would be differences and technology and culture and stuff, but cat pigeons are just odd. I found the episode in general rather odd too, since I think I was expecting a bit more from it – a bit more than a shopping trip and being attacked by a scientist-hacker guy, that is. Usually, with this genre the story starts to go places at this point – something happens to the characters and there’s a massive shift in the setting as they set out on their big adventure. Which is probably still going to happen at some point, just at a slower pace than I envisaged.
I wonder how the lolicon hacker recognized Felia, though? Or was he after Felia because he was a lolicon, and not because she’s a ‘Lima’? Which we now know is a ‘unique being that controls the breath of the planet’. At the moment, it feels like Felia is less involved than the rest of the cast is making her out to be – Moura turned out to be the Bipedal Armor, and it’s linked up with Sogo by means of a crest he has on the back of his palm. Felia just happens to be the entity that Moura has been tasked with protecting, and for some reason I expected there to be a closer connection between the two than there has been in reality – I thought its transformation would have been linked to Felia instead of Sogo, and that that’s how Felia would be protected. Because as things stand. Moura is absolutely useless without Sogo. I guess she still has her telekinesis powers, though (when the cake flew in the air in front of all those people, you could immediately tell that doing it in front of all those people would be really, really bad). And of course, Felia a cute.
It would have been nice if Moura managed to properly establish its power level this episode, too – instead of fighting against non-human remote-controlled opponents, if Moura and Sogo had fought directly against the hacker dude we’d be able to establish its power level due to them being up against someone who isn’t a scrub, but also someone who isn’t a major enemy like Stewart is turning out to be. But of course, a proper confrontation will probably come later given that Stewart is now on a recruitment drive. Moura is clearly odd for a Bipedal Armor though, because so far we’ve seen two other types: (i) piloted ones; and (ii) remotely operated ones. But Moura is neither, because it doesn’t look like Sogo is ‘controlling’ it at all – it’s alive. It even growls! Well, whatever it is, it hasn’t been doing much to make me like it.