Summary
The Gund Arm Inc employees were going to plant Quetta boarding the space ship that Miorine took from her last business trip. When they were talking about the journey, a sirene wailing. After checking the problem, they found out that there was an emergency in room eleventh; the life stock room. Suletta immediately volunteering herself to check the problem and headed alone to the place. Everyone thought that she was being very motivated with her job. However, none of them know that she was actually afraid if her presence there was no longer needed so she took any works available for her. In the life stock room, Suletta had finished duck-tapping the wall's problem until she heard someone talking in the hallway. Miorine was talking to Nika asking her to surpass Ms Belmeria Winston in the future as she believed her capabilities in engineering. While she was looking through the room eleventh, which was opened, she just mutter "unbelievable" and continued moving. Actually, Suletta was hiding behind the cow; hoping that Miorine didn't see her being in the room. However, she didn't notice that the lower gravity in the room somehow made her ponytail flew in the air; making it quite visible for Miorine.

Suletta ...Sadletta

President Deling met with lady Prospera in plant Quetta. They talked about a project called  Quiet Zero and Prospera took the Gundam to the plant because she believed it's data could complete the project. Lady Prospera took something from her inner pocket which alerted Deling Bodyguard; Mr Rajan, who immediately readied his gun and asking her to show her hand. Mr. Godoi tried to protect Lady Prospera and told them that it has been more than 20 years from the last incident which means Gundam should be no longer considered as a threat like before. Deling called Rajan name and he instantly lowered his gun. afterward, Prospera took the Flash Drive inside her inner pocket and told Deling that inside it, there was a structure Data of Aerial; which should help the project's completion. Delling warned Prospera that he still own the right of the project and the lady accepted his condition.

So any theory that she might be Erict was dying down

The scene changed to the hijacked spaceship where Guel "Bob" Jeturk worked. The earth terrorists were taking the crews as hostages. The captain of the ship begged the leader; Naji, to spare his crews and they could take the ship if they wanted. However, Naji only asked them to continue doing their job while helping the terrorist sneaked inside the plant territory. Guel could not hold himself and asked them why did they have Jeturk's old model mobile suits as their troops artillery. As far as he know, it was impossible for Earthians to gain access to the mobile suits even if they were outdated models. Just then; Sophie (Gundam Lfirth Ur pilot) kicked him in the chest, threatening him to stop looking after her.  The other crews could only asked Guel to stop asking unnecessary questions and stay silent for his safety.

Char-sempai would be proud 

Back to the plant Quetta, Lilique and Suletta brought boxes of lunch with them. As Suletta tried to take one box, Ojelo happened to reach the same box. Suletta gave the lunch for him and let the other Earthians took their foods first. Unfortunately, Nuno took one box and Ilia accidentally also took two boxes (with one she meant to give for him); which mean Suletta had no boxes left for her own lunch. Suletta didn't have the courage to tell them that she got no lunch box at her hand and had to satisfy her hunger using the remaining bottle of drink. She tried to cheer herself that she might be at fault for miscalculating the boxes. In the bridge, Nika told Miorine that she would put the Aerial in hatch number three. Miorine asked her to tell Suletta about it while she was preparing the video. Nika commented that she should tell Suletta directly. "Why?" Miorine asked. Nika told her that lately she didn't interact with Suletta anymore and she was curious if they were in a fight. Miorine told her that she didn't do any wrong. Nika just remarked that not everyone could act like her; especially Suletta.  Meanwhile, Vim Geturk met with Deling and told him about Sarius about to make press charges for the use of GUND Format. He asked Satius to sanction the Grassley for unstirring unrest. However, Deling replied was way different from his expectation. Deling said that instead of worrying to her daughter's company, Vim should be focused on finding his missing son. Vim got angry and told Deling that he never like Deling's way of claiming everything; which prompting for his bodyguard to ask him leaving. He was actually got angry on purpose though as he used the commotion to put a transmitter device behind one of Deling's man. Later on, he told Shaddiq that he already put the transmitter and asked him to start the operation within two hours. Unknown to him, Shaddiq asked Sabina to contact the Dawn of Fold in order to start the operation right away. 

20 years passed with one Big Mac every breakfast

The Dawn of Fold received the signal and Saji told Norea to get ready. Norea went to Sophie's cockpit and she found her watching at the duel video between Suletta and the house of Grassley squads. She got excited to meet with Suletta in order to find out which was the better pilot between them. In the next scene, we got a scene of a space ship where Kenanji worked as the captain. He was the ace pilot during the last incident (which cost the life of Erict Samaya's father). The passage of time had change his image from a fit Ace pilot into an overweight captain. He got a sudden called that one of Jeturk spaceships nicknamed the Wormblood headed to the moon. He was wondering how could a patrol ship headed to the moon while it was supposed to protect another territory. In the next scene, The Gund Arm crews was about to do meeting. Miorine asked about Suletta's whereabout yet none of the other knew where she was at that moment. "unbelievable" muttered Miorine as she wondered about her Groom's problem.

Sadletta part 2

Suletta was hiding herself in the toilet. She called lady Prospera and told her mother about her sadness. Never once did she think that being around her friends made her scared. Prospera told her to meet her and Aerial in C Block hangar 78.. Before she finished talking someone banged the toilet door. She hastily asked her mother to close the call and opened the door. In front of her Miorine was having an angry look on her. Instinctly, Suletta closed the door but before it completely closed, Miorine grabbed the door and tried to pull it open. Suletta tried to pull the door in order to close it while Miorine shouting that she heard Suletta's conservation with her mother and she wanted Suletta to tell her problem directly. Suletta who was panicked let go of her grab and made Miorine fell. Carefully checking outside, She saw Miorine with a murderous glare on her; making her instantly flees the scene.

Stay away...I am bout to turn into a werewolf!!!

Miorine tried to catch her and a chase scene happened between them with Miorine kept stumbling and bonked her head in the anti-gravity hallway. As Miorine knew that she would never catch Suletta (who had a better stamina), she was slowing her speed and panting as if she lost her breath. Suletta; who was worried for her condition, came closer to check on her and in an instant; Miorine grabbed her stomach. Suletta protested that her move was a dirty trick yet Miorine argued that it was her cunning mind that caught Suletta. As the anti gravitation drifted them backward, Suletta asked Miorine if she didn't want to use her help because she was stupid. At this time, Suletta tried to say everything that was on her mind. Including if Miorine only used her as a shield and if she was only worth like a weed to be picked on later. With a sad look, Suletta said that if she knew what she would encountered in the school, she would rather not coming there. Then, slowly she tried to push Miorine away

Suletta ran away from an angry waifu

HOWEVER, Miorine grabbed her hand again in an instant and chewed her instead. She said that she was not like her usual self. She said that Suletta always told her if she moved forward, she might get two in return. Suletta slowly replied; even she felt afraid to move forward. At times, she had to because she didn't know any better option to do. Yet it was scary for her to do so. And after that she remarked that someone like her would never understand. Miorine bonked Suletta head and buried her head to Suletta chest; then she punched Sulleta's chest repeatedly and said everything that she had on her mind. At first she was saying that it was Suletta who made her making the company; which including making regular report to her ignorant father. She was the one who made her unable to run away because of her stupid motto. However, as Suletta apologized; Miorine shouted that she was not understand her words at all. She was actually content with everything that happened to her. She was happy because Suletta; with her caring personality, somehow changed her life. Then she moved her hand forward and gave a hug to Suletta.

Miorine catches wild Suletta just like a Pokemon trainer xD

Suletta was a bit shocked to see her reaction. Miorine asked her to promise taking care of her. Suletta face changed as Miorine confessed her inner feeling to her. She then accept her request of kept depending on her and also Mio asked more requests like being together forever and to never losing a duel match for her. As she requested Suletta to text her three times a day, Suletta asked if she was crying in her chest yet Miorine asked her not look at her face at the moment. Miorine asked if she didn't believe any of her words. Off course she knew that it didn't matter anymore and In reply, Suletta hugged her back saying that she trusted her as well as she is her Groom. Meanwhile the Dawn of Fold started their operation. The Spaceship entered the Plant territory and they sent three mobile suits while camouflaging as if they had a problem with the signal. Meanwhile, Both Gundam Lfirt Ur and Lfirt Thorn was deployed.

Miorine after tastings a bit of Mercury's love spell

Suletta and Miorine walked pass the hallway. Miorine said that Suletta gift was kind of ugly but she also said that it was just like a present that she expected coming from her; a happy smug face was pestered on her face as she said that. Suddenly an emergency state was displayed in the boards. Sabine warned Shaddiq that the ensuing battle might cost Miorine's life. However, Shaddiq calmly said that their sole target was Deling and if luck was with her, she would survive the outcome. Both Suletta and Miorine looked at their phone; they saw an emergency B1 which means that a hostile force was attacking the plant. In the hangar, The crew asked Prospera to evacuate too yet she just calmly replied to prepare the newly built Aerial ready to sortie. Outside of the Plant both the Gundams shot their big laser gun creating a a huge scar on the plant. The plant was trembling from the laser effect and it disconnected the C block. Suletta and Miorine happened to be closer with the impact and the shock made them fell. In the other place nearby, Vim Geturk was very angry because Shaddiq had backstabbed him by ordering the mission faster than the expected time. In the Dawn of Fold bridge, Naji asked Norea to rendezvous with the other three while he asked Sophie to provide distraction. Nevertheless, Sophie wanted to kill Deling's directly and disobeyed his order by heading closer into the plant. At the same time Suletta just woke up from unconsciousness. She tried to reach Miorine; yet the nearby automatic steel door closed; making them separated by the door. Suddenly she felt a shiver as she turned her head around and found out that Gundam Lfirt Ur was looking at her through the colony glass windows. Sophie was very excited to finally meet the Witch from the Mercury



Review

After waiting quite some time finally we got another Gundam episode. It was not as grim as I thought this episode would be because I saw no war casualties in this episode. I thought we might see one of the important characters like Deling got his demise in the Christmas. Instead, they gave us a Christmas full with fanservice for Miorine and Suletta supporter. I made quite a long paragraphs to tell the detail of the episode's romance because I know the confession part was technically the culmination  of their relationship progress. They were no longer holding back in this episode as Suletta told Miorine everything that she felt. She didn't want to be used and left behind. Miorine knew that Suletta was precious for her and knowing that she might leave her; she confessed her feeling. She always considered Suletta more than she tried to display with her being a tsundere. As she asked Suletta to stay forever with her, she meant that wherever Suletta go, she should tag along. Another promise that she wanted was for Suletta to never lose a duel; which technically means she never want anyone else to be her groom. For Miorine, Suletta IS the only groom that she wanted.

A wordless hug would be even more powerful to behold

Even though I didn't shed any tears during the confession part, I really enjoyed how much their relationship bloomed. I remember correctly at the second episode that Miorine didn't think anything about her betrothal with Suletta. Yet, she now clings on the only happiness that she had. She even had the same grin that Suletta had from the last episode as if showing that they were really a fated couple πŸ˜‚ With both of them acknowledge and accepted the other feeling, they could now be considered as lovers and no longer as bride and groom pretender. Shaddiq showed his darker side in this episode as he considered Miorine as a mere casualties should she didn't survive the attack. For the last episode, he had no problem with Miorine's feeling if her dad kick the bucket now he didn't even bother if the same person that she loved became a war victim. What a way to define you villainous persona. His character had reached a further heel just like Elan who had showed his worst side. 


 The Title Drop

The focus of romance in this episode was quite strong but there were also interesting part in this episode. For example, President Deling and mama Prospera did actually work together to made the Quiet Zero project a reality. It is still unknown what that project is but we could expect something big ready to be unveiled soon. I enjoyed the build up momentum that we would get the conclusion of Suletta and Miorine fate at the following finale of the first cour. Will they stay together for the second season? or will they got separated? In addition, the ending part where Suletta had to be separated from Miorine was kind of sudden. Just after they managed to fix their misunderstanding, they were parted by accident and to make it worse, Gundam Lfirth Ur cornered Suletta; making this episode once again end in a big cliffhanger. It was a great episode once more and like usual, we had to wait a little more to see the first cour conclusion.



If you moved forward you got two, a recognition and a wife; Witch from Mercury episode 11 Impression

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Synopsis 

The first scene showed a flash back from the last episode especially during the time of the Jumi's story in the Bejeweled city. After the opening, Ruri and Shiloh had reached the room of Clarius. The room when Hotaru-hime used to stay for producing teardrop crystals. They noticed Hotaru's voice inside it and opened the door revealing a figure in front of them. The owner of the Gem store;Alex was stood in front of them;waiting for their arrival. Nearby, Hotaru-hime was resting and Lady BlackPearl was nowhere to be found. 

My money is all on the girl side πŸ˜…

Ruri instantly knew that he was Sandra and he changed his form into Sandra. Seeing her able to switch between different person made Shiloh sad because his naivety for trusting Serafina endangered his friends live and she really worked together with Sandra all this time. Ruri asked why there was no presence of Lady BlackPearl. Sandra told them that she asked for Serafina's help to defeat Lady BlackPearl. Off course Ruri couldn't believe that because lady BlackPearl was the strongest Jumi. Once again Ruri asked why did Sandra tried to vanquished their fellow tribe and Sandra explained that the Jumi themselves started their own demise and revenge is just a part of her motive. Before long she introduced her master, the lord of Jewel; the mermanoid like creature that they encountered on the Mekiv cave. 

Serafina > BlackPearl > Sandra (in term of power level) > Shiloh (the weakest )

The lord of Jewel explained that everything he ate would fuse together inside his stomach. Sandra then said that in order to create another teardrop stone, they need to gather a large quantities of Jumi's core and feed them to her master. Shiloh suddenly realized the horror as it's mean he had shallow Jumi's cores. Ruri told her to released all of the Jumi's core from the lord of Jewel's belly and he explained how Hotaru-hime never considered herself as a sacrifice. In addition, she even asked them to stop Sandra's (Alexandrite) rampage on gathering Jumi's core. Alas Sandra would not change her mind and she summoned two jewel beasts while taunting them that she would personally deal with them after they managed to finish the Monsters off.

Good-bye Sandra...few minutes later..wow you re back so early

Ruri charged on and try to fight one monster while Shiloh tried to fight the other. After Shiloh fell due to the beast attack, Ruri threw the sword of Fate to
Shiloh and let him finished the monster using the sword. Suddenly Serafina came into the room with a black jewel in her hand. She had defeated lady BlackPearl and Ruri just couldn't hide his disbelief that the strongest Jumi fighter lose to her. Shiloh shocked and a flashback just started in his mind. He remembered back at Gato Grotto, Serafina suddenly looked excited after he told her about his Jumi friends. He remembered the time when she saved him from Sandra's stab and when she suddenly came to his house after missing for a while. He could not believe that Serafina really used him as a way to get closer to Ruri and Shinju-hime as well as to be able to pinpoint Diana's location.

Mama Sandra part was emotional and well-delivered

Sandra asked Serafina to give the BlackPearl core to the Lord of Jewel. He then proceed to eat the Black Jumi core which making Ruri angry and charge headlong to the Lord of Jewel. However, Serafina interfered and try to hold his attack. Meanwhile Sandra kept Shiloh busy and use her spell to make him got on his knee. Back to Serafina, using her jumping attack, she managed to knock out Ruri. The lord of Jewel's body turned brightly yet he said that he need one more jewel. The injured Ruri said to Serafina that it was ok to sacrifice his core so that he could safe Hotaru-hime at least. Sandra suddenly said that it was not needed. She then took her own core and give it to the Jewel Lord. Serafina shocked and instantly went to dying Sandra. She hold her tears asking why did she had to do the sacrifice as it was not even part of their deal. Sandra reminiscence the time when she took an orphan and raised it as her own daughter who was in fact; Serafina. Serafina could only bit her lips and tried her best not to cry while Sandra body dissapeared in the light.

Yeah but u lack strengths to do so xD

Ruri was badly injured which meant only Shiloh remained to fight Serafina. Serafina mentioned that Ruri's core already cracked yet she wanted him to live and continue as Hotaru-hime knight. Shiloh couldn't accept her offer, saying that he was Shinju-hime knight. Therefore, he shouted and asked Serafina to give back the Jumi Cores and tried to fight her. However, with Serafina already beat even BlackPearl, it didn't take long until Shiloh got several injuries in the battle. For the last time, Serafina asked him to protect Ruri but he insisted that no matter what he would not let any Jumi got sacrificed for the teardrop crystal. Serafina could not wait any longer and stabbed Shiloh right through his chest using her spear; leaving him in a semi comatose condition. After the scene, there was a shrieked from the lord of Jewel and the bright light illuminated the room. It seemed like he was taking so many jewels more than what he could handle.

A donut version of Shiloh

When both Serafina and Shiloh opened their eyes, they found themselves in an unknown space with many Jumi's core floating and circling them. Both Hotaru-hime and Ruri's Core also left their body and joined the rest of the stones. An image of the Jumi was shown to them. The first image was about Esmeralda talking to the other Hime that she wanted to help Hotaru-hime. However, since she was unable to shed tears, she tried to smile in order to cheer Hotaru-hime instead. Another image showed the part where Marina was injured and Sapphor was nearby. He felt down because he was the Hime but he was unable to heal her. Marina tried to ease his sadness by saying that his presence was enough for her. The last image showed the part where lady BlackPearl personally asked alexandrite to hurt her if she didn't manage to find the sword of mana. Pearl wanted to shed tears in order to replace Hotaru-hime. Alexandrite said that he didn't want to hurt her but he promised that if thing didn't go well, he would fulfilled her wish. 
At least they made a good architecture πŸ˜‹

The images gone and both Shiloh and Serafina realized that all of the Jumis care for each other.  The space image diminished and all of the cores was dropped to the floor. Shiloh was on verge of tears seeing that all jumi person's were pure and basically innocent (including Sandra). Serafina told Shiloh not to cry for Jumi. Unbeknownst to her, she was also on the verge of crying. Shiloh tried to wipe Serafina's tear but his hand fell..he realized that his lower body started to become stone. Just before he was completely stoned, Serafina confessed that she felt really guilty for betraying them. Shiloh tried to calm her by reminiscing about their time when they journey together. He even complemented her cooking. As he turned into stone completely, Serafina couldn't hold her tears anymore and  soft tears poured down to her cheek. Soon after she also turned into a stone.

What made me wonder is how easily they could create Teardrop crystal after being revived

By miracle, their tears turned into a teardrop crystal and as the crystal dropped to the floor it revived every Jumis in the room back to their human form. Both of Shiloh's and Serafina's love to the Jumi had transcended the racial boundaries and created the legendary teardrop crystal; reviving everyone that had been killed (including Sandra who immediately tried to take her leave). Esmeralda was relieved to see everyone (presumably she was seeing her sisters). Meanwhile Ruri reunited with Shinju hime and saw Shiloh and Serafina had already turned into stones. Shinju-hime asked every Jumi in that place to give a bit of their life force to create more tear stones. The last scene showed Bud and Corona who was looking through Shiloh's home windows. They saw a big rainy storm in the horizon and remarked that maybe the Jumis were crying at the moment. After the storm subsided, the sky was clear and the sun shined throughout the land. At the very end they noticed someone was coming home.

Review

Finally the Teardrop Crystal had finished with a bittersweet ending or maybe in the edge of a downer ending. I am glad that at the very least they give an explanation about the reason why Serafina helped Sandra too much. The emotion when Sandra found the abandoned Serafina and raised her, taught her how to fight was a spot on. Serafina was torn apart because Sandra was her parental figure while she also started to bond with Shiloh and his friends. I guessed it was good in term of giving us a reason for her conflicted behavior.

Yup she just put him in comatose state and be sad about it 

The anime didn't animate something crucial in this episode like what really happened to the Lord of Jewel..it just showed that he screamed and then a white light just fill the room. Leaving us wondering what really happened to him and make us had to search thoroughly for his fate. They didn't changed him into the last boss like in the game which really disappoint me.. Even the last battle between Serafina and Shiloh was cut short as if they just wanted to censor the bloody part although it could be a great last battle if they animated it well.

They didn't show Shiloh live or not..everything is vague

As for the ending I was quite dissapointed because they tried to leave it hanging.. The Jumi tribes(especially Shinju-hime and Ruri) don't feel sad seeing Shiloh's sacrifice for them. Did they know that it was curable so they didn't feel anguished seeing Shiloh's and Serafina's fate? Did they somehow cured the petrification through the teardrop crystal like the one in the game? The anime didn't show anything about it...it was a shame that the episode had to suffer important details. Alas it had it own charm though with how well they played our emotion through the somewhat downer-like ending. There was a scene in the ending title with Shiloh and Serafina stood in front of Shiloh's home yet the picture didn't clear and we got no part where they were healed .it seemed that the writer wanted us to interpret the ending by ourselves.

Final verdict

Well I tried to sum the entire series into the final mark up..what is it strengths and weaknesses will be summarized here.

Pros
+ Cute designed characters
+ Didn't stray too far from the original story
+ Decent soundtracks
+ The ending part made a good twist since it's deviate from the source material

Cons
- Very predictable scenario especially for those who played the game (expect for the last episode)
- Some parts didn't animate well..mising lots of good details. The battle/action part was stale 
- Lack of supporting characters' development due to the abundance casts and their limited importance to the plot.

Final score is 5 out of 10. I can't give much more due to how uninteresting some event/ episode of the series..Such a shame since I had a big hope for this one.

The stone couple; The Legend Of Mana; The teardrop crystal episode 12 [END] impression

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Synopsis

Shinju-hime and Ruri entered the place as if they were summoned by Hotaru-hime's radiance. Just as Shinju-hime got closer to her, both of their core started shinning and Shinju's core turned into black color. After a brief introduction between them, Hotaru touched Shinju-hime's core and asked for the real persona to appear..After a few moment, Shinju-hime turned into lady BlackPearl. Florina asked Pearl about the current situation of the Mana sword but from her reply, it seemed that she was unable to get the sword. As for the sword of Fate that Ruri had, Pearl obtained it from an ancient nomad tribe and she was the one who gave it to him before.
Lady BlackPearl is Hotaru-hime ex-knight and now she is Ruri's Hime xD a bit confusing relationship they had xD

Ruri told them his experience when he was still alone and ran away from the chase of shadowy creatures. As he was fell of in the desert and the creatures caught on him, Pearl saved him from the creatures. Lady BlackPearl introduced herself to the young Ruri and told him that she was in the middle of important journey. In addition, she asked if there was anything that he wanted. At the beginning, Ruri wanted to have a friend to accompany him on his journey. However, since Pearl couldn't accompany him due to her solo mission, she gave the sword of Fate instead. 

This is actually a picture of a young boy trying to wake up a 1000 years old lady 


Florina home gave a chance for Ruri to asked something that bother him. Then he told his past when he met Lady BlackPearl unconscious in the dessert. At that time, her Black core suddenly had a shine despite the fact it was black colored and after a bright radiance, she turned into Shinju-hime that we all know. In short he wanted to ask how Shinju-hime born from her core; creating a dual personality inside one body. Hotaru-hime already made a firm resolution to hear whatever Pearl would say regarding her dual personality. Pearl then told a story in the past about her and Alexandrite. He was Sandra in the past and he was also the one who kidnapped Hotaru-hime. She met with Alexandrite in the dessert at night questioning his motive for taking Hotaru-hime with him. Alexandrite told his motive that he wanted to save Hotaru-hime from dying. On the other hand, Pearl reasoned that she was ready to lose her life for the continuity of the other Jumi's life. 

Said by a Jumi no less 


They were in deadlock as even though Pearl begged for Hotaru release, Alexandrite argued that she was already at her limit. Lady BlackPearl said that even though Hotaru-hime might had to sacrifice herself, she was fully aware of the risk and she could not let the other Jumi suffered in the war. In contrast, Alexandrite planned to put her In a Pandora box and let her rest for eternity as the time inside the box was frozen from the outside world. He even said that a doll gem like Pearl would never understand because she lacked the emotion of caring and only worked on any assignments given to her. He mentioned that as a doll gem, her core lose it's radiance and turned into a lifeless core without shine on it. After a bit of heated argument, Alex used her knife to stab the Black Pearl core and it left a wound on her core. Lady BlackPearl surprised at his betrayal and fell unconscious in the desert until Ruri found her. As Ruri tried to wake her, the core in her chest shine and turned her into a different entity.. The new pearl lose all of her previous memory and she felt afraid not knowing anything. In order to ease her worry, Ruri told the new BlackPearl that he was her knight and he gave her the name; Shinju-hime.

It's a bit disappointing that even Black Pearl lose to a simple knife stab

Florina cried after hearing the truth. For lady BlackPearl had to endure suffering and lost her identity in order to save her from certain doom. She made another resolution and asked Lady BlackPearl to stop Alexandrite. At first Pearl wanted to kill Alexandrite yet Hotaru halted her intention as she wanted to heal the pain that had been devouring his heart instead. Hotaru felt weaker and she gave an artifact to Shiloh. The artifact contained the city of Jewel and she begged Shiloh to help the Jumi. As they made Hotaru-hime resting, Lady BlackPearl told Ruri that it was the time for the new generation to take the lead. She grabbed her core and turned back into Shinju-hime. Shinju had remembered everything now. How she come into existence and how she got the name. As she wanted to go alone facing Alexandrite, Ruri stopped her. Both Ruri and Shiloh convinced her to stay with Hotaru-hime as she was her knight all along and someone need to accompany her while she was resting. Shiloh decided to go along with Ruri as he also wanted to know about Serafina's Objective for helping Alexandrite. After Shinju asked Shiloh to help and take care of Ruri, Shiloh used the artifact to reveal the new map of the Bejeweled city.

The fun fact is this anime actually played the hard mode

Just as they entered the city, Shiloh could see the memory of the Jumi from the past. For example,  Shiloh saw the past when Lady BlackPearl arrived in the city for the first time and how Diana greeted her. Then another memory showed the part when the Jumi fought against the empire armies and how Pearl got hurt from the ensuing battle. Fast forward, he saw how Diane asked Sapphor to find a Hime who could cry and produce the teardrop crystal. The next image showed Hotaru-hime who used her tears to rejuvenate Pearl. Hotaru-hime got the position as a Gyokuseki Hime and she made an oath to readily gave her life force to ensure the survival of the Jumi tribe. It means she had to sacrifice her life bit by bit to produce the teardrops crystal. 

So the canon story is Shiloh asked for Ruri assistance..not BlackPearl

Times kept moving on and the war between the empire and Jumi tribe still rages on. However, as she kept crying to produce the healing crystals, her main core started to crack and she fell unconscious. Alexandrite was around when she was unconscious. The news that Hotaru-hime collapsed due to the constant usage of her life force made the Jumi people felt uneasy. After all, the amount of the teardrop crystal kept diminishing while the only person who could create it was in the verge of dying. 

Every Jumi actually connected to one another..this episode completed the arc background story

Lady Pearl talked with Diana that it was time for her to protect Hotaru-hime in return. She planned to find the holy sword; The Sword of Mana in order to finish the war as soon as possible. She also asked Diana to spread a rumor of her being kicked out from the city so that there will be no uproar after her disappearance. She asked Alexandrite to take care of Hotaru-hime while she was out, searching for the aforementioned holy sword. Instead of protecting her as Pearl's request, Alexandrite opted to take Hotaru Hime with him creating another unrest to the town's civilians. The scene moved forward to Esmeralda's sisters finding out about Lady Pearl's mission to find the legendary sword in the tower of Leires. Soon the townspeople could not wait any longer and with the disappearance of Hotaru-hime as well, they moved away from the Bejeweled city. Esmeralda's older sisters knew that the city was doomed and they planned to run away from the city bringing their little sister along. The last scene that Shiloh saw was Rubens finding out that Diana had turned into a statue after crying. All of the images as if flying into Shiloh's mind telling him exactly what was the events that happened on that deserted place. 

Review

We are close to the end of the anime and now the revelation started to show. Sandra real identity was one of the biggest shock that the writer wanted to give for the watchers. Not only that she was a Jumi, her alexandrite nature also allow her to change gender as easy as picking up clothes. That's why he had two names Alex as a shop keeper and as well as her boy version and Sandra as the Jumi huntress. Both of them was only half of the truth because her (or his) real persona was a being named Alexandrite. Alexandrite had a bit character background here as he was the one who witnessed Hotaru-hime's sacrifice and he was just trying to alter history and save her.  I thought it was a good plot twist if I happened to not knowing the plot.

The Jumis started to lose their hope

Another revelation on today episode was the birth of Shinju-hime. Even as the game Players, I still forgot about the part when Shinju was born. Fortunately, the anime did make us easier to understand about her double persona. Both of Shinju and Lady Pearl was the same person altogether. The only difference was Shinju born through Pearl's injured core. After sustained the damage, the Black Pearl got the BlackPearl's core radiated a shine light and made another Jumi that we know as Shinju-hime. This episode revealed the mystery of her dual personality as well as giving us the conclusion of her role in this anime. 

Diana cried for Hotaru and how every plan had ruined. Which made her turning into a stone

Sadly, despite answering some of the mystery for the anime's plot, the episode still lacking thing like Serafina's role in this anime. After her face-heel turn, we had not seen anything more from her as if she had just too little importance in this series. We barely even saw her fighting anything expect of trying to hold Shiloh of during Sandra's decision to take Diana's core. The next episode Will be the last episode of the legend of Mana; The Teardrop Crystal. Actually I am not sure with how they could handle the last episode well. However, with only 22-24 minutes airing time left, I think they may work the plot fast ..a rushed finale is a bit obvious here.

Sandra's true self and the origin of Shinju-hime; Teardrop of Crystal episode 11 Impression

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Synopsis

The scene started with Hotaru Hime (also known as Florina) had a nightmare. In her dream most of her Jumi friends; Rubens, Esmeralda, Sapho, and Diana acted very different to their real counterpart. Rubens for example turned into a bloodthirsty knight who loved war and enjoyed slaying his enemies. Esmeralda loved her sister's core so much that she prefer them being Gems rather than being Jumis. Sappho made Marina knell in front of him and Diane made the crying Jumi hime into her personal tear making slaves. Alex (Sandra's boy version) opened the casket where he lock the princess and see Hotaru-Hime talked in her sleep; asking for help.
Ok so..when will you start fighting Serafina???

Both Serafina and Shiloh were running in Geo looking for Ruri and Shinju-hime. Finally, they caught a glimpse of them and called them. Just after seeing Serafina, Ruri instantly brandished his sword and asking why she was here. Shiloh try to protect Serafina by saying that the one who steal Esmeralda's core was Sandra not her. Serafina then took them to the Jewel store where Alex worked there as Gem appraiser. Alex explained that they were at the store during the night of Undine talking about the Jumi Core. The man said the Serafina was looking for Jumi core to help her friend but since he had no Jumi's core in store, he just give a quick tour about the stones that he displayed in there.

I just realized that Sappho's girlfriend. Is even cuter than him πŸ˜‚


Shiloh asked if they wanted to met Diane. At the beginning Ruri forbid them to join..but since Shiloh said he had something he wanted to know about Jumi, he let them follow. They met with Diane just below the Merchant Kriestie's palace. Diane talked to Shinju-hime if she remember anything yet Shinju didn't remember her past live. Then Diane told them a story about a long time ago when the Jumi race was in a great war (the time before Ruri was born and Shinju-hime still on her Lady BlackPearl persona). At that time they were at the great war and there were many casualties from the Jumi side. Thankfully, many of the Jumi could be revived using a crystal teardrop. However, as the war grew bigger and more and more casualties arrived on the medical bay, the amount of the crystal teardrops kept diminishing until none left. Diane talked with Hotaru Hime to produce more teardrops as she need more teardrop to sustain the need. Being the only one capable to produce them made Hotaru home's core started to crack as the more she produced the tear the less her lifeforce remained. 

CSS: Core Stealing Slash 

Just as they talked a familiar voice just entered the room. Sandra told Diane why did Hotaru-hime had to endure everything. She would die if kept crying that was the reason why Sandra kept Hotaru Hime away from Diane. The party just realized at that time that the Jumi huntress was also a Jumi and she did everything to protect Hotaru Hime from her eventual demise. After debating about Hotaru home's fate, Sandra tried to take Diane's core. Shiloh tried to help her but Serafina blocked his way; which in the end make Sandra succeeded in taking of her Jewel and ran away. Soon afterward, Serafina also ran away without telling her reason. Ruri said that Shiloh was too kind and trusting thathe ended up being taken advantage off. Ruri didn't get angry to Shiloh yet he asked Shiloh to not meddle anymore with them in the future. then, both Ruri and Shinju Hime said goodbye and left Shiloh alone.
What are u?? Alundra?


Back to Sandra and Serafina, they gave Diane's gem to the Jewel monster. After Devouring the jewel, he said that at least he needed one more gem to create the legendary teardrop crystal. The scene moved to Shiloh who walked alone in the street of Geo. He heard a small sound of someone asking for help. He heard the sound coming from a gem palace so he entered the shop and kept looking for the source of the sound. He looked at a big chest with gem ornaments on it and opened it. Inside, a sleeping girl was murmuring and asking for a help. Shiloh wake up the girl and she felt thankful because Shiloh had just woke her up from a terrible nightmare. Just then a creature just appeared on them. She complained to the girl that her constant nightmare kept happening and it made her kept getting kick out from the dream world. The girl did not know what make her kept getting the same nightmare over and over again. The creature introduced herself as dream spirit named Belle. Then Shiloh introduced himself following with the girl who was none other than Hotaru Hime; the flourite Jumi.

What actually Rubens will do if they got no shortage of the teardrops
 
Belle explained to them about what was dream meant and he also explained that her plea for help had reached Shiloh which means that he was the answer for her trouble. Belle then said that she only need a good dreams to get riddance of the nightmare but in order to get it, Shiloh had to enter her dream and fixed what was wrong with her dream state world. Just as Belle snap her finger, the flourite Jumi fell asleep and Shiloh get teleported inside her dream. 

Esmeralda: Oni-sama why did you grab me??

In the first dream, Shiloh encountered Rubens who had been slaying his enemy with crazy look in his face.Just as Ruben called his name, he tried to attack Shiloh. Shiloh managed to deflect the attack fortunately. Ruben asked why did he know his name. After telling him that he was a kind person who prefered to sacrifice his fiance rather than hurting a leaf man, Rubens regained his sense. Then, Shiloh got teleported to Esmeralda place. Esmeralda stood in front of a mirror admiring her sister's Jumi. Esmeralda just noticed Shiloh arrival and she called his name. Shiloh wondered why she had not change the core back to their real form yet Esmeralda explained that they can be turned back any moment because they got plenty of teardrop crystal ATM. Shiloh got angry and told her that her sister had sacrificed their life so that she could run away from the hunter. Just after hearing Shiloh's word, she realized about what really happened in the past and turned them back into her Jumi's sister.


I lost...to the mighty Shiloh's word of wisdom.

The dream interior changed again and Shiloh just saw a figure of Marina begging for a teardrop crystal from Sapho. Sapho rejected her plea making Marina ran away from that place. Just then, Shiloh came and told him that she was a precious person for him. Sapho first said that he only cared for himself until Shiloh explained that he used to feel a big regret for acting cold to Marina. In addition, Shiloh told Sapho that his selfless nature even made him sacrificed his life to make sure the basket fist; his friend could have a more peaceful life and away from the hunter target. The last dream took Shiloh to Diane who was whipping the Jumi himes. She kept forcing them to cry in order to produce more teardrop crystal. Unfortunately, one of the Hime didn't even shed one piece of teardrop. With her hand, Diane took her game forcefully. Once again Shiloh came and told her that she was not that kind of person. Even though she had to kill her emotion, she only asked for Hotaru Hime because he cared for the other Jumis and she would never kill any Jumi for that. Dianr remembered her past life, thanked Shiloh and then disappeared from Hotaru-hime's dream. As Shiloh closed his eyes, he was back to the real world. Belle congratulated him for fixing Hotaru-hime's dream and then she took her leave. Then Hotaru Hime woke up with a smile on her face. It had been quite some time since she got a decent dream. Just then Ruri and Shinju-hime entered the room.

Review

We re close to the anime finale so some important mystery will be covered in this episode. First of all, I am kinda disappointed with how Shiloh actually trusted Serafina and not taking countermeasure for her betrayal. I thought he would be more cautious against her but in reality he was just as naΓ―ve as ever. Sandra revelation as a Jumi was not shocking for me and since they need one more (maybe) they may try to get either Ruri or Shinju-hime stone in the next episode. As the way dream sequences goes, I think they really crammed every Jumi's alter ego in fast succession so that all can be solved in the most easiest way possible.

Whut.. years with same nightmare every single night?...yeah that suck

Talk about Sandra, she was the prime example of an antiheroes who took the mask of a monster to protect someone that she loved. She also uses the persona of the boy named Alex who opened the Jewelry in Geo. If you combined their name, Alex and Sandra will be an alexandra or we can called it Alexandrite one kind of precious stones which was also Sandra main core. Unfortunately, for those who already played the game, this revelation was nothing big.. unless you had never experienced the game, the spoiler that Sandra was also a Jumi might made a big storytelling. Two more episodes let's hope they can wrap this series in a decent finale.

Shiloh, the dreamwalker; Legend of Mana Teardrop Crystal episode 10 Impression

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Synopsis

Sarius Zennelli; the Foster father of Shaddiq as well as the head of Grassley Technology, went to the Cathedra demanding answer why Delling still allowed Aerial in the academy. After not getting satisfying answer from Delling's men, he went back only to meet with Vim Jeturk onboard the plane. Vim Jeturk ordered a wine for them and Sarius just rejected the offer as he was not in mood for drink. Vim said that the drink was a symbol of a pre-celebration; then he went closer to Sarius' ear saying that he was planning to assassinate Deling. It has been two months after the event of the Grassley team against the Earth house and the scene opened in Miorine's garden, in where Suletta had been tending the tomatoes. She was in a very good mood lately as Miorine trusted her with taking care of the garden while she went to do the business trip. As Shaddiq came to greet her, they talked about how long did Miorine jobs took place and Suletta thanked Shaddiq for postponing many duelists that came to take her position ever since she had won the last fight. Just as they talked Chuchu called her and instantly scolded her because she forgot that they would test the new prosthetic legs that Gund Army inc developed.

Suletta is confirmed as a lesbian xD


Suletta met with the Earthians accompanied with Ms Belmeria Winston from Peil technology. She worked as a tester for the prostetic leg designed for people who might had lost their leg. Suletta tried the leg with making it run and jump some obstacles. The test was a success and the Earth house was estatic with the progress. Belmeria said that the prostetic leg passed for the review and only waiting for health and safety standard. Chuchu praised Miorine for actually made the Gund arm Inc a real working medical company although at the beginning she was not sure with her leadership. The next thing they should be done is making a new PV yet it seemed that Suletta forgot to ask a permission for the new shooting location. Her funny way of speaking "Suletta..Forgetta" (that she forgot to book the place) had made her friends burst in laughter.. After the meeting, Suletta was putting a tick on her wish list which was written "tell a joke that made everyone laughing". Unknown to her, Nika stood behind and read it out which send her to further embarrassment. Nika glad that she had another wish list achieved and she asked if Suletta had another ready to be fulfilled. Suletta took two phone keychains with a small idol on it. One was in a red color with the word "hot" it while the other was in a blue with the word "cool" on it. She planned to give the blue one to Miorine so that they would have a matching keychain. When asked if whether she would love her present, Nika's gaze wandering as if she was not ready to answer that question yet she replied that she would be happy to. Suletta face said it all that she had started to fall in love for real to Miorine and accepted their engagement fully.

Suletta testing the next Robocop project :D


The scene moved to the other place in where Miorine made the company report to her father. Delling Rembran gave some scolding to her not to take the investor trust lightly. however, he also praised her cost effiency in handling the fund for a two months old company. After the meeting she met with Till (who accompanied her along) and the two of them look at the refurbished space ship that they would bring back to the academy. They just need to find a navigator to send it back to the academy and just then a familiar voiced said that if the next destination is no longer Earth. The lady who wanted to help Miorine escaped to earth; Feng Jun, stood in front of them. In private Feng Jun said that she could still take her to earth if she wanted yet she politely rejected the offer as she had already made a company and had to make company's report to his annoying father back and forth. Miorine told the lady that she must have after something as she knew that Feng Jun was the member of space assembly league. Feng Jun convinced Miorine that their jobs was only investigating on what they found out about the Gundam so Mio should not be worried about them. Instead, Miorine invited them to join their cause 

Cowwa-Bungga


In the Grassley's room, Shaddiq and his squads were hearing the Deling's assassination plan from Sarius. Sarius didn't believe that Vim would actually make the plan worked. To his surprise, Shaddiq told Sarius to go along with Vim's plan as he knew that with Deling's out of picture, it didn't matter with the duel and holder stuff anymore as he was the planner of the academy's hierarchy. Sarius warned Shaddiq though that should he fail, he would lose his position in the house of Grassley. The scene moved to the Gund Arm inc employees (Suletta and her friends) did not get the permission to film their company's  video in the rooftop. Suletta suggested that they used the dueling committee's lounge instead as she was the current holder; therefore she had a right to use the room. Nearby, Petra and Lauda were looking at them. Petra still hold grudge to the Mercurian girl because she was the cause of Guel's getting expelled from Benerit house.  In addition, they were worried about him as he had gone missing for the past two months. In the other place, Guel had already change his identity as Bob and found himself work as a maintenance officer in a spaceship. After his father unenrolled him from the academy, he left the academy secretly and threw everything related to his past including his name and status as the ex- successor of the Benerit group. One of the ship's crew asking Bob to get ready finishing the job as they would carry a cargo at Plant Quetta, one of the Benerit Group's factory. He just sighed as he had to face his past sooner than what he expected.

Our Best boy ..Please had a happy ending Bob the builder :)


In the desolate Earth, a blue haired girl walked across a corridor that looked like a remnant of an old school. She entered a room where another girl was just watching the PV of the Gund Arm inch in her gadget. She mocked with how they made the video by imitating it. The blue haired girl whose name was Norea asked the other girl (Sophie) about the location of their leader Naji. She met with Naji in the Potato plantation and told him that "the prince" called him directly. Then, he contacted the prince; whom was none other than Shaddiq zenelli, and asked why did he contact him directly and not using the go between like usual. Shaddiq explained that the current situation was very important and he asked for his aid to eliminate Delling Rembran. In addition, he explained that the target would be in plant Quetta for the next five days and the security patrol in that area would be softened during that time. While initially surprised with Shaddiq's plan, he asked for the flight route and a meaning of transport for them. Shaddiq went outside his room and told his go in between person; Nika Nanaura, that her father figure send a regard to her. Back to Asticassia, Secilia Dote complained with how the Earthian was currently using the lounge as a filming area. The Earthians with Suletta were watching a video presentation from Miorine and they praised how well she delivered the presentation. They said the she was already at a different class from them and Ojelo remarked that one of these days, she would even grew beyond Suletta. Off course Suletta tried to deny that and saying that she was on the husband role in their relationship. Belmeria called Suletta to check on the Prosthetic leg again. Suletta thanked Ms Belmeria for helping them with the fine tuning since Ms Nanaura was not around. Yet, Bellsan replied that she would gladly help them anyway because they were really working on the same ideal that she had aspired to be. To use Gund Arm format for the good of humanity.

This Camille wont punch you if you called "him" a girl


Suletta walked back to the plantation with her hand holding the accessories; a smile was beaming in her face as she walked until she was startled with Elan Ceres greeting her out of sudden. He told Suletta that he already finished his business and he even praised her. Suletta said that something was off with the way Elan talked yet he brushed it off saying that she was the one that made him change. This Elan was very different as he moved even closer stepping past the boundary and touched her chin. As Suletta said that she didn't want to make Miorine angry, Elan replied hat the marriage between them was just a gimmicky wedding anyway and she (Miorine) never set her heart on it. Then, Elan took even more riskier move as he tried to kiss Suletta in the mouth. At the last second, Sulleta pushed Elan away and ran away quickly while saying sorry. Afterward, Suletta just could not believe with what she had just experienced. The person that she used to have feeling for had a very different persona and she seemed very frightening. In the Peil house, one of the 4 Peil CEOs just talked with the original Elan Ceres about their newest "Elan Clone" and she said that she liked him since he had a similar personality to the original; which was wickedly sinister. Back to Suletta, she noticed that there were two men inside the garden. She instantly entered the space and asked them to leave by pushing them away. They tried to explain but Suletta said that she had a responsibility to make the place clean from anyone. 

Elan number 5 really need a happy birthday A.S.A.P 😑


Just then, a door opened from the room inside and Miorine asked Suletta to let them be. She told Suletta that she had taken an initiative to come home earlier and asked the two men to take care of the garden from now on. Suletta was shocked to find out that she was easily replaced although Miorine told her that it would make less work for her. Miorine seemed more distant than ever since coming back from the work and as Suletta told her that Elan asked her for a date, she just calmly replied that it's ok for her to date him. Suletta just could not believe what she heard afterward as Miorine told her that he (Elan) would also join them as the second pilot in the company and work with Suletta as a work colleague. She didn't even look at Suletta face and talked as if there was no big deal. Suletta felt heart broken as she learnt the harsh truth that Miorine didn't think much about their relationship at all. The keychains that was in Suletta's hand fell of to the floor; the same accessories that she was so willingly want to give to her beloved friend.

Miorine thought that this was the same Elan before. Suletta experienced first hand that he was not


In the outer space, the Mothership where Bob (Guel) worked had unknown signals incoming . Those were two new Gundams with codename Lfirth Ur and Lfirth Thorn. The pilots were none other than Norea and Sophie those two girls from the Earth. One of the Gundam just flew near to the ship bridge and got its rifle ready. Back to the Grassley rooms, Shaddiq and his team were talk about breaking Benerit apart and they said that he had always wanted to do it for long time ago. The Communicator in the ship bridge told the crew that they were under the Dawn of Fold jurisdiction and they took the ship hostage. Bob just saw once more the thing that used to change his fate; a Gundam.


Review

The episode may start on a happier tone yet it seemed that the dark cloud started to grew bigger in the horizon. First of all, Vim was about to do another assassination attempt. And this time he had Sarius and Shaddiq on his side ensuring that the next plan will be a success. The fact that Shaddiq went along with the assassination attempt means that Miorine was right all along. The long haired playboy really could not be trusted as he really had no problem killing Miorine's dad despite the fact that he already started communicating with his daughter. I felt like they want to break Miorine's heart soon by sacrificing him in front of her. Second, I'm seeing that there were so many interests within the three houses of technology in this anime. Vim Jeturk from the Benerit group wanted to assassinate Deling to get his position. Meanwhile Shaddiq from Grassley house had a different interest too. While he looked like he wanted to support Vim, actually he wanted to break Vim's company; Benerit group. The house of Peil also had their own interest which was getting the Aerial at their hand. However, the house of Peil was more cautious and wait for the right moment instead of joining forces like what Benerit and Grassley did. About the Dawn of Fold, they posed as the next opponent for Suletta in the next episode and their interest was not explained yet expect that they had no problem assassinating Deling. It seemed that they too had a grudge against him. I don't know where did the earth achieved the data to reproduce the Gundam Lfirth series. However, I speculate that Nika might send Aerial data secretly to her father figure Naji during her time examining Aerial. As for Prospera, the Mercurian Mama met with Deling just before the ending credit role started. Yet, her intention was still unknown at this moment. Did she call Deling Rembran to assassinate him personally? or did she actually try to save him from an assassination's attempt?

When she started to smile more, the harder it is to see her cry


his episode really made me excited with the Witch from Mercury world and tension building. Not only that there were possibility of a hell break lose on the next episode, the relationship between the main characters (especially Miorine and Suletta) might take a major sharp turn during the last two episodes in this season. Will their misunderstanding got solved directly ..or will it spiraling into a even bigger chaos. What will happen if Miorine see the man that he used to hate killed in front of her and the one holding the gun is Suletta's mother? Will it possible for Gund Arm.inc to suddenly started selling weapon instead of trying to save live after that vital event? So many possibilities but one thing is clear. The next episode will be so full with tension and I feel that soon more blood will be spilled. This episode delivered many good scenes and emotions. Suletta was confirmed that she think about Miorine more than we thought. The fact that her facial change while talking about her means that she might think of her more than just a pretend bride and groom. And by the end of the episode boom..her emotion was killed on spot. Another best thing happen in this episode was the new cast member Mr. Guel "BOB" Jeturk. I am so happy seeing his transformation first hand from a prideful and Jerk individual into a more down to earth person. The embarrassment he felt after losing and get treated badly from the other students had made a serious impact on how he treated other persons. He was not only complete as well developed character; he also look way happier than before and he had become selfless (cue of him giving the other crew the food first).  As a viewer we got our emotion getting played with and I am glad that the writer really made us care with the characters. We got more involved in their struggle and emotion which means that the series was a big success on selling them. In addition, I thought this episode was closed with a good cliffhanger. The problem is we had to endure another two weeks to watch the next episode.

Suletta Forgetta; The Witch from Mercury episode 10 Impression

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