fight against the electro; Tokyo Esp episode 7 Impression

For the opening act, Rinka took Ayumu one on one in a training match. Well in the first encounter, Ayumu was like a totally jerk ass who act a bit like misogynist. What surprised me was how he managed to beat Rinka using a simple maneuver although later on it was explained that he used his Esper Magic to read Rinka's mind. His power was a bit similar to Murasaki while his was more on the future probability. To make it simple, he could predict what will happen in the near future that way he could read Rinka's next movement. Even if she was more skilled in combat, he could use the move that deflected the attack and used the opening to counter.

It reminded me of Yu Yu Hakusho a bit

After finding out about Ayumu power, Rinka devised the plan to win against him. She knew that while he could read the near future, his reaction time was slower than her plus he did not have a strong physical body either. So, Rinka trained rigorously with his father to increase her speed and reaction time. In the other place, Murasaki practiced her clairvoyant using a card until she found the weapons that Rinka used when fighting the Yakuza. Out of sudden her power activated and she could imagine how Rinka used the Tonfa and she ended up replicating her movement, which unfortunately took a victim :P

I like the angle of the video ^-^

We got a bit of glance of Ayumu's mother who worked as a politician. What ironic was she hate espers very much and considered them as a monster. It made Ayumu quite sad because she did not know that her own son was an esper and with the election date got closer, she already planned an agenda to get rid of esp user in the Tokyo. I think this slightly portrayed the idea that even in the Tokyo Esp world, being different will be treated unjustly and discriminated. Even if the cause of the Esper Magic was from the third party influence (the professor), normal civilian like Ayumu's mother judged esper as a pest that need to get rid off.

Even her father had to taste her special throw

In the next training match, Rinka used a passive stance. This time around, Ayumu was at total disadvantages as every movement that he used only end in his lose. When he took the initiative to attack, his future reading only made his movement slower. In fact, Rinka used Ayumu's aggressive attack to counter every move and beat him up. Not only that Rinka's training made her faster than Ayumu but also his future reading failed to see any winning chance, which secured Rinka's victory. Not enough with the embarrassment from Rinka, Murasaki beat him using her clairvoyant magic. She could imitate the moves of the previous owner of any material that she grabbed and what interest me was she grabbed a nunchaku and performed its previous owner's moves to him. 

And stop looking at mah face, I am just a figurant XD

The last part of the episode was what made this episode a bit more interesting. When Murasaki and Ayumu walked from training, they came across Ayumu's mother who introduced her agenda for the passerby. Suddenly, a staunch built man with a rough and long medium hair struck the podium with lighting. He was an esp Magic user specialist at inducing electricity and he intend to kill Ayumu's mother. This was the difficult part came in as Kobushi and Rinka was not in the scene and Ayumu and Murasaki lack real combat experience. The tension came when Ayumu's magic showed an image of the bulky man electrocuted his mother and he had to think faster to save themselves from the man. The clock kept tickling until he realized to break the water pipe and let the pouring water to create distraction and in the nick of time, Murasaki performed a spinning kick to the man.

The Dude preparing to perform special beam canon

The problem was solved but now Ayumu mother knew that her son was also an Esp. Will it create tension between them? As cliché as it is sound, we were nearing the end of Tokyo Esp for the first season and I was still not finished writing most of the newest episode. I think it will be a very late update for the series while the fall season was already started. I think I need to find a new series and start from the scratch