Sora no Woto episode 8 metablogged

I wasn’t sure after last week’s great epis­ode if they were going to go back to the light-hearted stuff or if the rest of the series was going to be ser­i­ous. The answer — for this week any­way — is more the former than the lat­ter. And based on how excited I was about the dir­ec­tion the series was going, I have to say that I was at least a little disappointed

Ran­dom Curiosity

Which seems to be the gen­eral fan reac­tion to the epis­ode. Cer­tain fet­ish­ers were delighted. Most of the rest of us…not so much.

I have to say that watch­ing Kanata per­form her phone watch was very funny. Les­son 1 Kanata, NEVER VOLUNTEER FOR SHIT! If I was Kanata I would have been really pissed at Noel for not check­ing on me. I mean, come on, it’s the job of NCOs to check on the wel­fare of the junior troops when pulling guard duty, she failed as an NCO.

Crys­tal Tokyo Anime Blog

I found it funny that the blog­spheres two res­id­ent army vet­er­ans, Cru­sader from THAT and Anime­writer here, both were quite adam­ant on bring­ing across that when in the army, you do NOT volun­teer for any­thing ever. Not only that but they both gave out about a rather lax Noel. It doesn’t mat­ter what coun­try you live in, all armies appear to work the same way.

I highly doubt that Rio would be the bearer of Iliya’s Trade­mark item if she were simply a rela­tion. I think they are lean­ing towards Rio being some­how related to the ducal line…but if it is as I sus­pect that Rio is being asked to be a head of state then she has quite a chal­lenge ahead of her. With the peace talks still involving even the men­tion of repar­a­tions then it must not be going well since there doesn’t seem to be a clear cut vic­tor from the last war. If on the other hand, Rio is des­ig­nated as being roy­alty but not named heir, and the other side is run as a mon­archy then Rio is prob­ably going to end up in a polit­ical mar­riage if things get real tense. Given how low the pop­u­la­tion is it might not be too far fetched to bring out pre­vi­ously unknown nobles after all the recog­nized ones were lost fight­ing the war

THAT Anime Blog

I’m a bit embar­rassed to admit that I hadn’t made the con­nec­tion from Rio to Roy­alty watch­ing the epis­odes them­selves. They made it pretty darn obvi­ous too, what with the bell-on-a-chain on both Rio and Prin­cess Iliya. What this means for Rio is up for debate, espe­cially with such an ambigu­ous state­ment as ‘Save Hel­ve­tia’. What has become clear is that she will be the main focus once the show starts hit­ting its finale, although I pre­dict an epis­ode on Kur­eha and Noel before we hit that finale.

Indeed, epis­ode 7 appears not only to be the cul­min­a­tion of what came before but also the start of the rest of the show–at least if the end­ing of epis­ode 8 is of any portent. Dis­cov­er­ing hints of the past is giv­ing way to how the future–what is left of it at any rate–is going to be saved, even if it’s only on a small scale. What Feli­cia said the mean­ing of her life has become at the end  of epis­ode 7, to make sure that those under her do not suf­fer as she did, may become a real live mis­sion in due time. Of course, link­ing the char­ac­ters to the story of the Fire Maid­ens from the start, espe­cially in the OP sequence, was a ready sig­nal that they were going to re-enact its events at some point.

Anime Diet

I cer­tainly hope this is the case. One thing I’ve been wor­ried about is Sora no Woto never actu­ally hav­ing a story set in its own time. The girls would stay on that moun­tain and gradu­ally reveal each of their pasts and the past of the world itself with no con­flict hap­pen­ing in real time apart from maybe a con­flict with their emo­tions. But if we take these fore­shad­ow­ing at its lit­eral sense, there’s cer­tainly a sense that the fire maid­ens story will play out. There’s been hints of the fly­ing mon­ster type creature and, if my memory is not mis­taken, there was men­tion of a spider in that fairy tale. Which cements my the­ory that the fire maiden story was based less on myth­ical legend and ori­gin­ally involved high-tech machinery.

I bet that they’re [the last 5 epis­odes] going to be com­pletely dif­fer­ent from what we’ve seen from this series so far. I really hope that the cre­at­ors weren’t too ambi­tious with it, I’d much rather have seen a finale that would focus on the char­ac­ters. For this final arc, the cre­at­ors are really going to have to take care to not overdo it and sud­denly have our five-some god-mode them­selves through this war. That’s the thing I’m most afraid of.

Star Crossed

Sorry Mr.Psgels but I don’t think I could dis­agree more. What’s worse is that he sug­gests Ride Back as an excel­lent example of how this should pan out. Now I per­son­ally couldn’t think of a worse way for this series to end. Ride Back ended its run by focus­ing on its rather dull lead char­ac­ter at the total expense of the main plot and res­ul­ted in one of the most hor­ribly anti-climactic end­ing in exist­ence. If Sora no Woto failed to answer its ques­tions and instead had some end­ing where Rio stops run­ning away from her noble duty or some­thing like that then I’ll be migh­tily dis­ap­poin­ted. In fact, I wouldn’t mind a god-mode end­ing if they man­aged to con­nect it prop­erly with the rest of the story, although I ser­i­ously doubt that will be the case. Because really, if life returns to the sea then I will facepalm.