[Traece]

So...

Spoiler for Tales of the Abyss 17:

This series I'm not really enjoying as much as the others. Mostly because a lot of it is... Strange. My biggest complaint from this episode is that Van manages to show up randomly again, and of course when his sister is all by herself. Either Van just has superb timing, or his character is made out of 42nd Fon Particles that make him the answer to everything. (If you don't get that joke, read a good book series). Of course, no random pop-up would be complete without Asch randomly showing up and getting some action with Van (and by result of his failures, holding his ribs with Natalia <3). Now if only Luke and Tear actually got some time together, especially since she's SUPPOSEDLY going to die (though don't be surprised if she doesn't, this anime is made of dreams, fairy tales, and flying tree-people servants) and Luke certainly isn't going to find any more of her (unless of course somebody works their replicating magic on her. =D). Most of my disappointment was really from the fact that the most romantic thing that happened in this episode was that Tear and Luke spoke to each other about Tear's impending demise in a dark room with beds, and he made her cry out of sadness (not the kind of crying he needs to be getting. Happy ftw). Besides that, I felt like this was a pretty good episode even for an episode that sort of felt like it was just getting necessity out of the way for the sake of good stuff. I don't really have much to say about it besides the fact that Van and Asch can't randomly appear with nearly as much awesomeness as Ogata from White Album. Now that guy can randomly appear.