The Emerald Girl escape mission; Legend of Mana Teardrop of Crystal episode 6 Impression

Synopsis

Legend of Mana; Teardrop of crystal is already at the 6 episode with another 6 episode before the anime closed its curtain. The episode opened with Serafina woke up from her slumber and preparing to start her day. While eating her breakfast, someone just called her name from outside. It was Esmeralda; a girl with a young hair she befriended in the town of Geo. Serafina asked why she called her even though the class has not started yet and she just replied that they already promised the teacher to help sorting book at the library yesterday. Both of them then heading out and greeted the town people on the way to the School. Moved forward to the Library; Esmeralda said that Serafina had blending quite well with the town folk although she just lived there for the past two weeks.  Serafina later told her about the magic class they should attend next. There was a bit of the color change in Esmeralda’s face as if she didn’t like to join the magical class. Yet, with a bit of Serafina encouragement, she promised to try her best in class.

Bonjour!

BONJOUR!

Bonjour!

In the Magic class, the instructor of the magic class asked the students to perform a magical attack using the medium of fire elemental spirit; Salamander. They need to play a flute imbued with the spirit and asked his assistance to help them burning the dummy target. In Serafina turn, she managed to contact the spirit and perform the fire magic; destroying the upper part of the target. Not only that Serafina was able to command the Salamander to burn the target directly instead of throwing the fireball from her flute, she also managed to make it to like her. In contrast, Esmeralda’s nervousness made her unable to hear the spirit and she failed the task. Not being able to hide her frustration; the instructor reprimanded Esmeralda that she should has listen to her and calm down a bit. Esmeralda later told Serafina how she wanted to be a full-fledged magician as soon as possible. However, with her current progress, it might take a while for her and it made her quite sad. Serafina encouraged her and said that she doesn’t look okay with that expression and then she suggested that they should looking for a place to eat instead.

Ruri's mind "he left for a bit and back with a harem?"

The scene moved to Shiloh who had just asking a town people about a Jumi’s whereabouts. Just as that time, Serafina and Esmeralda entered the building and Serafina noticed him. She called him and asked him about his current condition. Shiloh thanked her for helping him recover earlier and he asked her to follow him for a while because he intended to introduce his Jumi friends to her. Shiloh took both Esmeralda and Serafina to meet with Shinju-hime and Ruri. Just as they met and introduced themselves, Ruri noticed the feeling of having another Jumi nearby and he pointed out that Esmeralda was a jumi herself. Esmeralda admitted that she was a Jumi and she apologized to Serafina for hiding this fact even though they had been friend for some time. She revealed that it had been a while for her talking with another Jumi and the last jumis she had interaction with were her deceased three sisters.

One Esmeralda is not enough; We Demand Four

They went to a quitter place and listened to Esmeralda story about her escape from the Jumi hunters. Back then, the bejeweled city was attacked by the Jumi hunters and Esmeralda and her sisters were trying to escape from them. Being the youngest from the four sisters, the other tried to protect Esmeralda from the Jumi Hunters. Unfortunately for them, they had been killed one by one and their core taken. Esmeralda ran away from her pursuer until she fell on the ground. Just as the three Jumi hunters about to take her core, suddenly a light teleported the hunters away and when she looks back, she saw professor Nunuzac from the Geo magic academy. She owed the professor for saving her life and from that moment, she planned to be a full-fledged magician so that she could take her sister’s core back and revive them again one day. There were a bit of problem thou. Professor Nunuzac would never allow her to leave Geo if she didn’t have her own knight or at least she became a full-fledged magician. Shiloh and the other told her that they will support her and asked to meet with the professor directly

In contrast with Nunusac, a certain boy call himself a Gundam xD

They went to the academy and meet with Professor Nunuza; who look like a living summon circle than a person. The group told him that they wanted to leave Geo with Esmeralda along. Also, they promised him that no danger will befall her as they would act as her guardian. Nevertheless, Nunuzac rejected their proposal right away. First, he said that Ruri had already Shinju-hime as his princess and it was impossible for a Jumi knight to protect two himes at once. He also turned down both Serafina and Shiloh proposal to be her knights instead. Back to Serafina room, they talked about how stone-headed the professor was. Then Esmeralda decided that she would leave Geo right away. Nevertheless, every time she tried to leave the town’s gate, Mr Nunuzac immediately teleported her back to his place again and again. They deducted that he must have their vision so that he knew where Esmeralda’s location was. Therefore, they made a plan to create an illusion for their escape. Both Serafina and Esmeralda wore an identical clothes and a cloak to hide their face and just when Nunuzac summoned her, he realized right away that he took a wrong girl. Before Nunuzac tried to summon Esmeralda again, Serafina begged the professor to reconsider. She said that her nervousness that she had was because she was overthinking so much to be independence and worried about failure. She added that they would help her overcome her inner problem and helped her finding her sister core together.  In addition, she mentioned that even if a danger befall to her, Nunuzac must be able to teleport her right away with his vision. After seeing how honest Serafina’s intention to help Esmeralda; Nunuzac gave his blessing for the girl to leave Geo. Back to the party, they reunited with Serafina again and she told them about Nunuzac’s Blessing. Henceforth, they continued their journey to find Esmeralda’s sister core.

 

Review

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his episode was basically a character introduction and some background information of Esmeralda; the green haired girl friend of Serafina. Esmeralda herself s closely related to the green stone Emerald. That was the reason why she had a hair green color. Well, in my opinion, the episode tried to retelling the game player on how the magic system work such as how they need to use elemental spirits and instrumental equipment to contact them. I like the color of the animation that was vibrant and I know how well they animated their character is. The problem was there was a bit of a missing plot here and there. Like how Serafina met Esmeralda? We never saw them and out of sudden they were already friend. They could give more detailed background information for the viewer.  A little detail would make us know about the reason why she suddenly appeared in Geo. In this episode, Serafina took more spot time than Shiloh. It was as if they take turn as the lead protagonist. Well it was not bad for a while. At least she got her time to fleshed out a bit of her character here. The episode was a bit of lack luster but since it was focused on the story instead of the action, still I think it was an ok episode. The time spent for the story was a bit dragged on so that it could finish the 12 episodes. Therefore, expect a bit of more conversations down the line. In regard to Esmeralda’s event, I kind of forgot about what is going to happen to Esmeralda next so I am kind of curious with the next episode. Will she find the sister’s core or will she lose her own core because of Sandra? I will continue seeing the anime and hope there will be a better episode soon.