I’ve been busy. I’d write something on my poor neglected blog about it if I wasn’t so goddamn busy, but I digress.

Anyways after a long vacation/break we return to our favourite GONZO show of the season. Note that all the screenshots are from episode 6, since I watched 7 – 9 while on my travels (did you know Ururk aired at like midnight-ish JST? Talk about prime time -_-) I’ll keep the summaries insanely short, and just list the important things that happen since they are way overdue :X

Summary:

Episode 6 – Jil and his party rescue an old injured warrior named Gigi, who was a famous Guardian in the past. They take him to a camping area but the party is plagued by problems. Jil gets his wallet stolen and Melt and Coopa get into an argument. Coopa thus leaves the party and sees the boy, Yury, who stole Jil¡¦s wallet. Coopa ends up befriending Yury and somehow they end up in the forest. Jil and the rest of the party pursues the two kids and somewhere we find out that Gigi is Yury’s grandfather. In the forest, Jil and his party defeat two monsters while Coopa and Yury are fleeing from another two. In the end Coopa gets cornered, but is saved by Jil and company. The episode ends with Coopa rejoining the party.

Episode 7 - General Kelb and the Uruk army is pinned down by a one-winged dragon. A large number of climbers, including Jil’s and Neeba’s parties observe the army as they prepare for the upcoming battle against the dragon. Jil tries to persuade Neeba, who is also known by some as “Neeba the Dragon Slayer”, that the Climbers need to work closely with the Uruk Army to defeat the dragon. Jil of course fails at gathering climbers to help him and the Uruk army defeat the dragon, but his party pulls through for him and gathers most of the the climbers in the area to help. In the end, the dragon is defeated and the Uruk army and all the climbers advance further in the tower.

Episode 8 - Kaaya tricks Jil into venturing into the original Tower of Druaga (claiming she had some incurable illness). Once inside Jil loses control of his body and instead, Kaaya controls it from some arcade-machine look alike. Throughout the episode Jil keeps dying but they only need to insert a coin for him to respawn on the first floor. Many side characters takes turns controlling Jil and after a whoel day of gaming, Kaaya gets Jil to Druaga. On that floor, Gil is able to move on his own. Battle ensues and after defeating Druaga, he heads to the top floor. There he passes out, but we get to see a Kaaya lookalike (it’s probably Ki?). Jil however, drinks a poison and dies, but is saved by the last coin used to respawn him.

Episode 9 – Climbers and the Uruk army are fighting against some blob things, when suddenly the blob things decide to blow up all the bridges. Everyone falls to the bottom of the pit and we have some irregular parings:
Jil and Fatina, Kaaya and Needba, Ahmee and Kelb, Melt and Ethana, and Kally, Utu and Coopa. While each pair (and trio) makes their way to the settlement of Baragesi, we get more background on Ahmee, as well as a few other interesting events. We find out Ahmee and Kelb knew each other and that Ahmee used to be in the Uruk army. A fellow superior proposed to her, but she did not know how to repond. In the next battle he is killed and Ahmee left the army. Meanwhile, one of Pazuz’s minons dropped a coffin-thing and it is discovered by Kally’s group. Kally gets a look inside but then Pazuz shows up. In the ensuing battle, Kally is killed, and so, Utu takes Coopa and flees. The episode concludes with Kaaya almost being tricked by Jil’s doppelganger and in the end the succubus confronts her and once again the topic of Kaaya betraying her party is brought up.

Thoughts:

Episode 6 – This episode was just useless. There wasn’t much plot, nor was there much character development. Usually this is fine with me as long as the episode was entertaining. In this case though, it was just plain bad.

Silver lining:

Episode 7 – This episode was ok for me. Nothing really stood out but it wasn’t a terrible episode either. That and I watched this the first night I arrived in Osaka so I was dead tired.

Episode 8 - A tribute to the original game, if you played it this episode was probably more enjoyable to you. Other than that we get a bit of info from the conversation between Neeba and Kaaya. Of course Kaaya has something to do with what happens after Druaga is defeated (as it has been hinted at many times that something will happen after his defeat), but Neeba asks her something along the lines of “how do you know you won’t ditch your comrades?”.

Episode 9 – Kally dies!? It felt tacked on, kind of like how Christine and bionacle man dies in Gundam 00. Not much character development, then BAM! Didn’t serve much of a purpose in my opinion. It did show how evil Pazuz is, but I think we knew that already.

Well only 4 more episodes to go with many questions still unanswered!