Full Metal Panic! The Second Raid (Eps 7 - 9)
Happy New Year, everyone! I hope you all had a great holiday and got the chance to squeeze some Anime viewing between parties and family visits...
I am hoping to get some more blogging in this year, I think I'm on the right track, I hope that I don't lose momentum.
Anyway, with this thought in mind I thought it a good idea to continue with my reviews. So here goes nothing!
Back to Full Metal Panic The Second Raid which actually just got better and better the farther alone it went.
After Sousuke freaked out about the reassignment he finds out what is Wraith's true assignment which is to literally stop Chidori from falling into enemy hands. Wraith considers this guarding her but actually he just guards who she is and not her as a person. She can be in danger and the operative will not intervene because her ‘secret’ as a Whispered is not threatened. This is what Sousuke suspected. The next day Sousuke follows his orders and packs his stuff. Chidori is concerned about his failure to show up at school and when she starts to get a bad feeling she tries to contact him repeatedly. She thinks someone is stalking her and rushes over to his apartment to use the transmitter he keeps there to contact him but when she arrives the apartment has been vacated and she realizes she is all alone.
We go back to Sagara when he arrives on Merida Island, back at Mithril Headquarters. He meets with Tessa who tries to justify the pull out of Sousuke’s guard duty but Sagara gets pissed and he verbally attacks Tessa who pulls rank on him. She wants him to focus on the Albarest but he doesn’t want to so she orders him to do so and then yells at him for his selfishness in just wanting to be with Chidori with no regards to anyone’s feelings or safety. She kind of shows her true feelings of jealousy as she has a breakdown. We meet the new commanding officer that comes in to replace Urz-1 that died in combat in an earlier episode. The new commander doesn’t come to make friends and immediately takes command. Weber gets into a fight with him and Sousuke gets challenged into an AS fight, where he summarily gets his ass kicked because he can’t trigger enough emotion to kick off the Lambda driver. The new commander basically tells Sousuke what we already know which is that he hates the Arbalest and the fact that he is the only one that can trigger the driver.
At this point Chidori is freaked out. Seeing ghosts everywhere and not trusting anyone. She finds out Sousuke has handed in his resignation papers at school. This seals her fate and she goes into cloak in dagger mode. She packs her bags and tries to evade the people she knows are following her. She convinces a pervert to take her to a hotel and then removes all her clothes in case they are bugged and escapes from a window. She confronts Wraith and while she is holding him at gun point someone else shoots him in front of her. One of the yin and yang duo shows up and attacks her. After tricking the twin, Chidori bests her and we finally meet the puppet master of this series. Leonard Testarossa. Yup! That would be Tessa’s twin brother! Now comes one of the most emotional scenes of this series… Just one of them. Yu Lan is killed in front of Chidori and then in the next breath Leonard confesses his love for Chidori, forcing a kiss on her. She readily smacks him and he laughs at her. He doesn’t hurt her but exposes her vulnerability and airs the feelings that she harbors for Sousuke. When he leaves she has a breakdown where she accuses Sagara for the events of the night and accuses him of abandonment. She then picks herself up and moves on. Wow! That was a strong scene.
The series just gets better and better and the tension just keeps peaking. This installment of Full Metal Panic holds a very strong emotional punch. If you are looking for the comedy and fluff we found in Fumoffu, move on. If you are looking for the action and AS fights in the first season you won’t find it here either. This installment has just the right blend of action and emotional discovery that makes it one of the best series I watched in 2005.
I am hoping to get some more blogging in this year, I think I'm on the right track, I hope that I don't lose momentum.
Anyway, with this thought in mind I thought it a good idea to continue with my reviews. So here goes nothing!
Back to Full Metal Panic The Second Raid which actually just got better and better the farther alone it went.
After Sousuke freaked out about the reassignment he finds out what is Wraith's true assignment which is to literally stop Chidori from falling into enemy hands. Wraith considers this guarding her but actually he just guards who she is and not her as a person. She can be in danger and the operative will not intervene because her ‘secret’ as a Whispered is not threatened. This is what Sousuke suspected. The next day Sousuke follows his orders and packs his stuff. Chidori is concerned about his failure to show up at school and when she starts to get a bad feeling she tries to contact him repeatedly. She thinks someone is stalking her and rushes over to his apartment to use the transmitter he keeps there to contact him but when she arrives the apartment has been vacated and she realizes she is all alone.
We go back to Sagara when he arrives on Merida Island, back at Mithril Headquarters. He meets with Tessa who tries to justify the pull out of Sousuke’s guard duty but Sagara gets pissed and he verbally attacks Tessa who pulls rank on him. She wants him to focus on the Albarest but he doesn’t want to so she orders him to do so and then yells at him for his selfishness in just wanting to be with Chidori with no regards to anyone’s feelings or safety. She kind of shows her true feelings of jealousy as she has a breakdown. We meet the new commanding officer that comes in to replace Urz-1 that died in combat in an earlier episode. The new commander doesn’t come to make friends and immediately takes command. Weber gets into a fight with him and Sousuke gets challenged into an AS fight, where he summarily gets his ass kicked because he can’t trigger enough emotion to kick off the Lambda driver. The new commander basically tells Sousuke what we already know which is that he hates the Arbalest and the fact that he is the only one that can trigger the driver.
At this point Chidori is freaked out. Seeing ghosts everywhere and not trusting anyone. She finds out Sousuke has handed in his resignation papers at school. This seals her fate and she goes into cloak in dagger mode. She packs her bags and tries to evade the people she knows are following her. She convinces a pervert to take her to a hotel and then removes all her clothes in case they are bugged and escapes from a window. She confronts Wraith and while she is holding him at gun point someone else shoots him in front of her. One of the yin and yang duo shows up and attacks her. After tricking the twin, Chidori bests her and we finally meet the puppet master of this series. Leonard Testarossa. Yup! That would be Tessa’s twin brother! Now comes one of the most emotional scenes of this series… Just one of them. Yu Lan is killed in front of Chidori and then in the next breath Leonard confesses his love for Chidori, forcing a kiss on her. She readily smacks him and he laughs at her. He doesn’t hurt her but exposes her vulnerability and airs the feelings that she harbors for Sousuke. When he leaves she has a breakdown where she accuses Sagara for the events of the night and accuses him of abandonment. She then picks herself up and moves on. Wow! That was a strong scene.
The series just gets better and better and the tension just keeps peaking. This installment of Full Metal Panic holds a very strong emotional punch. If you are looking for the comedy and fluff we found in Fumoffu, move on. If you are looking for the action and AS fights in the first season you won’t find it here either. This installment has just the right blend of action and emotional discovery that makes it one of the best series I watched in 2005.
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