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