anime dominion

Back to the astacasia academy, the higher up is trying to cover up the terrorist attack and makes it seems as if nothing happened. In term of our heroines, Suletta and Miorine have to split up as Suletta continues taking care of Miorine's garden and keeps communicating with the other crew members while the later is currently waiting for Deling's recovery and having an interogation related to Gund Arm.Inc situation during The Dawn of Fold's attack. Meanwhile, the earth house crews are the only civilian witness from the terrorist's attack incident and it makes them scared (especially Ojello and Lilique) as they were forbidden from spilling the truth and will be expelled immediately should they expose the truth. Unknown to the academia students, the higher ups are sending their armada to enact revenge to the death of Vim Jeturk and the amount of casualties that the earth terrorist had done to them. It's quite ironic that Sarius and Shaddic conceal their knowledge about the attack as they were also part of the planner...not to mention that the original mastermind is none other than Vim Jeturk; the one that Shaddiq betrayed during the incident.

Sophie Pulone and Norea Dunoc arrive to the Asticassia academy as the prospective students from earth. The first thing Sophie does is trying to get closer to Suletta saying that she has been waiting long to meet her idol. Well, Suletta doesn't recognize the girl as during their previous encounter, they were battling inside their mobile suit without any visual transmission. I'm enjoying the fact that the series doesn't try to prolong the tension and trying to built a slower tension scenario like before. The addition of the two earth terrorist-chans gives enough pressure to Nika as she is the only one from the academy who knows their real identity; the dead bringer agents from the earth. She is still torn about her previous mission where she almost makes her team mates died and now without any warning, Shaddiq sends two dangerous individuals to reside with them. I for one think that their sudden appearance in the academy is kinda forced as it is just the first airing episode for the second season. The writer can opt to slow the tempo and build the story about the earth faction's preparation to infiltrate the space and the Gund arm Inc crews condition after the incident in separate occasion. However, I can fathom that the sudden arrival of Sophie& Norea manage to make the tension better and create interesting outcome; another dueling opportunity between Suletta with them. Just before the credit rolling, Nika desperately tries to shove them away but Norea and Sophie try to kill her on the spot when they were planing to hijack Gundam Phalanx. Suletta, who somehow witnesses that the newcomers tries to hurt her friend, grabs Nika out of danger. Norea wants to shoot them using the mobile suit head riffle until Suletta challenges them for a duel. I know it's a bit illogical that Sophie somehow becomes interested with the duelling and choose to accept Suletta's proposal. Alas, she still mocks Suletta's challenge and says that duelling is a children play compared to the real life or dead situation of real war. Unbeknownst to them however, Suletta has been surviving a war more than once.. Not only during the last terrorist attack, but also during her fourth birthday event (that is if she really Erict Samaya)

Speaking of which, Miorine only makes a small amount of air time during this episode.. as well as Lady Prospera. Nevertheless, despite their lack of screen time, their meeting pose a serious key factor  to this episode. Depth in her heart, she acknowledges that Suletta's action (despite horrendous) saves her and the old man's live. Watching the small blue "Mr Cool"– keychain in her hand reminds her of that time when she finally admitted her feeling to her..Still she knows something is wrong with Suletta's behavior and Prospera had a part on it. What I like about this episode is on how crafty Prospera can be regarding to the event during the terrorist attack. In front of Suletta, she ensures that Suletta's way of dealing with the terrorist is the correct way and she should not regret her decision. In front of Miorine however, Prospera says that while she still hopes that Miomio would still accepts her later, she admitted that Suletta had gone overboard. The masked lady playing two hands at this moment and she intentionally uses both of the girls fragile side (Suletta's need to be useful & saving her friends and Miorine's feels indebted for being saved from the attacker) to get their trust. Prospera's performance is really strong on this episode and I am very excited to see what kind of stunt she will pull on future episode.