In this episode, finally, the most awaited duel between Houki and Laura vs. Ichika and Charles (err, Charlotte) will finally happen! And it seems that we will now find out more about Laura and Houki’s abilities as a pilot!
To be honest, I was in complete awe when the battle happens. Ichika and Charles are in complete synch with each other while as for Houki and Laura, Laura thinks that Houki is in her way, and thus we can’t see Houki’s performance as an IS pilot. Too bad. As for the animation during the battle, it was amazing, like I said, I was in awe and cause me to get a lot of screen captures and some of it I might not use in this review!
Asides from the epic battle, we learned more about Laura that she is once a nameless test subject and an ace in the military, till the IS System came and turned her into a loser, till Chifuyu came. To be honest, I find her reason to hate Ichika too stupid. I mean, having your mentor’s inspiration is his younger brother? What’s wrong with that? Now I am quite bothered with Laura’s way of thinking.
Asides from that, the function of Laura’s special eye has been revealed. It turned out to be a special eye to enhance her abilities in using the IS and not something related to the Geass. But it also turned out to be a way to help her trigger her IS’ Valkyrie Trance System, a system which can cause IS to turn into somewhat a monster and cause her too loose control. To be honest, I find it quite an amazing system, so amazing that I do not know what words to describe this abomination.
Ichika has just used the Force!
Because of this abomination, we saw more Ichika badassery, which is always welcome. In this episode, I find the scene in which he only used his IS’ katana to attack the out of control Laura, epic, especially his motivation on stopping Laura. She is copying his sister’s fighting style!
At the near end of the episode, Charlotte and Ichika have a male bonding, which is a bit awkward considering that Charlotte is a girl pretending to be a boy. Seriously, the scene that happened in the bath tub cause to say that after this, an army of Ichika and Charlotte hentai doujins will be created in Japan and some guy will scan it and translate and some guy will decide to download it and read it during the dark. DON’T LOOK AT ME! And oh, she officially introduced herself as Charlotte to everyone, not Charles.
Overall, this is one heck of a episode. Like the previous episode, which involves a guy legally beating a girl because of their class, this tag match has been cancelled. Like I said earlier, the fights here are amazing and caused my jaw to drop on how well choreographed the IS fights are. At the end of this episode, it is official, Laura is now part of Ichika’s harem and kissed him at the end and declared that Ichika will be Laura’s wife!