Stupid timezones, I've feel like I've arrived late to a party - but still it's great reading everyone's comments. A few personal highlights:
Rodore's depth of insight at the Spring. Our little
Ojo-sama has grown up...
The girls wading into the Spring side by side. I'd expected them to enter individually (except possibly for Alti and Kaimu) - Chor,
corps, whatever, seeing them share such an intensely personal moment said so much about the bond between them. Totally agree with Kaoru Chujo about the sounds of the water - my one slight niggle is that the merge of the "Tempus Spatium sound" with the background piano was a bit jarring.
The "well, here we are" mixture of awkwardness and acceptance on the train ride back. Given the momentousness of what had just occured, I liked the normality of the scene in the plebs' carriage (compared to the art-gallery emptiness of
the trip there). And gratuitous cute kids normally irritate me, but the sincerity of the little girl and the reaction she evoked were spot on. Referring back to the discussion about lack of adult females, I wonder if that was deliberate to show how isolated from normality a Sybilla's life is?
Even more than the kiss through the wall, the touching of hands. So simple, so effective.
Yeah, and of course A+G - ep26 better show them happily growing old together or else
I agree with the comments about the restrained kiss; I felt it was both very masculine, and fitting for two old comrades who've shared so much while still suppressing their feelings (note to self: buy "Kuwashima Hōko made me gay" T-shirt)
Simoun + Maaju Pool = WIN. Total, utter, balls-to-the-wall class. Tempus Spatium save me, I think I'm turning into a mecha fan.
And finally, the tantalising possibility that
After six months living and breathing Simoun I was scared to watch this episode - what if it didn't deliver on my expectations? For that matter, how
could it? But deliver it has. I almost don't care what ep26 holds, I am so happy with this show right now that I'll be content with just about anything. I'm just looking forward to seeing how life turns out for these characters I've become so attached to.
Quote:
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Originally Posted by Kaoru Chujo
There appear to be two kinds of eternity: a fruitful one after succeeding in the Emerald Rimaajon, and a painful one of just refusing to choose.
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Yet knowing this, Yun still chose/accepted her path (someone could write a whole essay on the theme of duty in this anime). Hearkening back to the words of Aaeru's grandfather, I wonder if her tears were partly her grieving for the possible futures she's turned her back on?