WONDERFUL! I love you! :D

This episode reminds all viewers to always wear protection! You don’t want to get an hiV-type infection.

I’m not quite sure that I follow your line of reasoning, however. On one hand, you acknowledge the fact that Sheryl is very independant and stubborn; which, in itself, is part of her personality. On the other hand, you say that she lacks personality.

Based on your later replies, I’m more inclined to think that rather than finding her character shallow, you disagree with the way in which she approaches her problems. That’s fair, but it’s a different issue altogether.

The purpose of the illness isn’t so much to show some radical change in character, so much as it is to give you more insight into who she is. Superficially, it’s easy enough to write off “I’m Sheryl Nome” as arrogance, but in many cases, it’s a reminder to herself that she needs to be strong for the sake of others.

Even in episode 1, for example, Sheryl comes in feeling extremely tired from her flight; but she knows that she has to put that fatigue aside to give interviews. In this episode, she sees the worry on Michael and Klan’s faces – so she tries her best to reassure them, even though she’s feeling terrible inside.

While Sheryl’s insistance on bearing her burdens alone is always frustrating to watch, I can’t help but admire her remarkable strength of character at the same time. That’s what makes her such an amazing presence in this show.

And once again, thanks for the clarification on who’s who in the photo.

@ Kaelyn: Yea, I am bias, for numerous reasons, some of which I can’t help. But that’s okay, while objective analysis is good basis for discussion sometimes, fancamp wars are almost always more entertaining, if only more frustrating.

I think it was a better choice to keep the grunts useless and limit their weapons to two big guns which every shot had to be conserved in order to remain effective. They could have easily copped out and started handing out VF-27 guns for lots of beam spam but they didn’t. So in the end it was actually some what more realistic in that they just discovered that their weapons were useless and they remain useless, instead of having some sort of miracle weapon.

Mao (the older woman in the middle) looks nothing like Ranka, Ransha Mei (the green haired one) is Ranka’s mom though being the motherly type might have been doing Sheryl’s hair. Since Sheryl was picked off the streets by Grace it is likely that Mao Nome, being the more noted of the three adopted Sheryl one of the reasons being that it’s technically unethical to just start experimenting on random people you pick off the streets. At least with Sheryl’s adoption Mao, the most responsible of the three, would have been able as Sheryl’s guardian to authorize some tests and justify what they were doing as a means to save her adopted child.

I am sure next time would be a good time to deal with Alto-hime’s past and for hime to bury the hatchet. Ranzo at the very least gave good advice to his son. Perhaps now Alto-hime will find a new reason to fight given how he can’t protect Ranka or Frontier. His guns can’t do anything and Brera supplanted him.

Ranka got braver, but she seems to have colluded with Brera to make her sortie. Given their increasing closeness it saddens me to think that Ranka is starting forget Alto-hime and is now relying on Brera. This will have dangerous consequences in the future because Ranka’s cyborg knight is and Agent of Grace.