Comet Lucifer – Episode 5 [Souls Come Together]

First off, my sincerest apologies for this review being so delayed. *bows*

Episode 5 begins with Felia in the company of her abductors. She is looking out the window of her makeshift prison cell when Mr. Creepy Pedophile enters, being weird and intimidating and just overall scary. He tries to get her to eat, but when she calls out for Sogo he flips his shit.  Mr. Creepy Pedophile is jealous and- I can’t even finish that sentence, his character disgusts me so much. Ugh.

Sogo and Moura have teamed up and are frantically searching for Felia. Moura can track Felia due to the choker it put around her neck, thankfully, so they head east in Sogo’s hoverboard to look for her.

Elsewhere, we learn that the Eighth Division Special Corps and the Administrative Council are working towards a “common goal.” It sounds like the Lima, Felia, can use her powers to grant the planet increased prosperity. This must be why Zoneboyle is after her. Captain Stewart is to retrieve the Lima and take her to the Administrative Bureau, but he is taking his sweet time.

Sogo and Moura finally catch up to Felia, and upon Moura’s transformation Captain Stewart wastes no time hopping into his new toy to face off against the bipedal mecha. When it becomes too much for Moura, it loses its mecha form, but is able to slip inside the armed tank-like machine where Felia is being held captive. Upon its reunion with Sogo, the two race off to find Felia.

Pack has beat them to the punch however – he is dragging Felia out into the blizzard for a rendezvous with the Cuculus, another military unit. Sogo is close behind and catches up to them quickly, and when Felia is knocked off the top of the tanker by an overenthusiastic Pack, Moura transforms into what I’m nicknaming its “Endless Waltz form,” since it reminds me so much of Heero Yuy’s Wing Zero in Gundam W: Endless Waltz.

Captain Stewart re-enters his new mecha and faces off against Moura once more. However, something is different this time around: Felia seems to be aiding Moura in battle from within her floating bubble of magenta energy. Perhaps this is why Moura’s bipedal form has wings this time around? Or because it seemed to merge with her choker when she was falling?

In the final moments of the episode, Pack threatens Sogo’s life from inside his purple mecha. Felia’s powers go into overdrive as she wraps Sogo in her protective energy bubble and whisks him away to safety, with Moura trailing behind them.

The kicker?  This episode is almost the halfway point in the season and… Felia can finally talk! Not only that, but it looks like she grew up about 10+ years. Her outfit and hair have changed a little, but the main improvement (for me personally) is that she can now talk normally. Huzzah!

Final thoughts:  I’m still not quite sure what to think of this show. It wants to be a blend of several different genres, and the end result is that everything feels rather scattered. There’s adventure, some mecha, some loli, a few hints of romance, but no one genre sticks out more than the others.

I also wish there was more of a plot. We know a smidge about Zoneboyle, the Administrative Council and the Eighth Division Special Corps, but I feel like we are still missing a lot about their organizations and what they are striving for, aside from capturing the Lima. They’ve had little screen time and thus little time to have their characters and motives fleshed out.

My other major issue with Comet Lucifer is with the characters. Sogo and Kaon aren’t too bad, but I found others to be really annoying. The creepy purple-haired hacker who called Felia (in child form!) his “mademoiselle” was the biggest turn off, and the sociopathic Pack was a close second. (Seriously, if you have seen this episode, specifically the scene where Pack beats the shit out of Sogo – that’s some unnerving stuff!)  And I personally feel that having Felia wait 5 episodes before she was anything other than a whiny toddler was way too long for my liking.

It’s a shame, because the animation is pretty and the music is decent, but the characters, poor pacing, and lack of a plot do this show in. I had started the season with high hopes for Comet Lucifer, but unfortunately this comet burned up before it could make an impact.

STATUS: DROPPED