It’s back after a long break. I can’t say I liked the episode. Much action, no question answered. The mystery is kinda intriuging, but it’s not like the episode actually grabs your attention or anything.

Jin is playing the piano, the tune that caused Sana to faint the other day. A laptop software indicates that he’s unable to achieve the right scale yet though, but Jin can’t figure it out. Chikura arrives to ask him what he was doing, but he just sidesteps the answer.

The phatom attacks the doujo, which is alerted after it detect intensive jamming. Most of the people move out to the moutains to fight, together with Chikura. They are faced with steve and riki in their Gladiators. Meanwhile Qing Lang and Kyoshirou press their attack on the dojo, where they faced Jo. Jin meanwhile tries to escape with Sana and Gara in their truck, but Qing Lang catches up with them and lands on top of their truck.

Meanwhile the fight outside, an RPG shot into a rock formation seemingly crushes the two gladiators. As everybody prepares to detonate the fallen rocks with dynamite, the gladiators reappear. Even a final attempt to blow up the dynamite causes zero harm to the gladiators. The fighters are decaminated.

(just a rough description of what went on, I’m not too sure, things happened too fast)

Reni arrives in her command helicopter, and drops a gladiator for QingLang, who succeeds in forcing Jin off the road into the forest. Jin tells Gora to protect Sana, offering his platinium credit card, while he gets into his own gladiator. A firefight occurrs, and Jin barely succeeds in protecting Sana from the phatom gladiators. Suddenly, Riki’s physical readings don’t look too good, and he loses control of his gladiator. Coupled with the arrival of Ishin helicopters, Reni orders a withdrawal.

Touraji regrets not arriving early enough, causing Chikura to pass away as well. Everybody else seems dead too. Touraji says that the best move is to bring Sana to his hometown, since everybody will help protect her. Jin hesistates at first because of his desire for revenge, but finally agrees to follow along, telling Sana that he has been protecting her, he will protect her all the way.

Meanwhile, the phatom are pissed for what happened to Riki. Apparantly the commander placed some improved neural transmitter into everybody’s gladiator, and somehow only Riki suffered ill effects. Kyoshirou is pissed enough to attack the commander, but is defeated immediately with a punch, leaving him to comment that nobody is irreplacable.

Meanwhile, the military have discovered the betrayal of Touraji and the Isshin. They soon surround the isshin with a carrier battle group. The phatom meanwhile prepare to take their own action, believe the military will fail. While the Isshin can just hide and lie undetected, it’s not Touraji’s way, who orders the Isshin to surface in the middle of the battle group to fight.

Thoughts

I must say things have been pretty disappointing. Where are the good things that this series seemed to promise. For a 12 ep series, it has to start improving fast.

The only thing vaugely interesting thing is Jin seemed even more evil and two-faced. It’ll be nice to know what he is planning.