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Vena: it's the tone really, the way he's presented has a glibness to it that doesn't sit right with everyone (e.g.: I don't care for it)...though to a point it's a matter of taste.

kuromitsu, Arya:

Spoiler for apologies?:

Didn't Kagura criticize Mikono for being on Vega? That's the one line that made me feel like I was getting a better sense of where we're going.

To build a castle on the sand: it makes me think that the natural order of things is supposed to be that each planet is supposed to have an incomplete set of "reincarnation pieces" -- maybe Altair gets 1/2 of each, and Vega gets the other halves -- but now that Mykage's stolen Altair's women Altair is now missing one of its allotted pieces (perhaps: whatever Mikono's carrying?). So the thing to apologize for is being born on the wrong planet?

...which is probably wrong in the details but I'd like to think is at least roughly on the right track for the big picture. It'd explain Mikono's mysterious need to apologize to Kagura, but not why she'd want everyone else to apologize to him. Not sure if bad writing or she doesn't get it either, but I'm looking forward to episode 16 to find out.

On Amata:

Spoiler for :

I'd like to think his wings are the wings that will overcome fate, still, but that being said there certainly are lots and lots of ways to overcome one's fate, .