Like hang out with terrorists when they don’t want to kill people.

Short Summary:

After the explosion, which seemingly killed the Union Council General, Bay Gelabu Belashi, Birdy heads into a Red Light District looking for an Ulugarian, who seem to be a race who are heavily affiliated with terrorism (I still don’t understand the reasopn they targeted him specifically). On opposite sides of the silver river, the Union and the Federation, are arguing over the neutral zone Aolis and this has lead to many conflicts between the two. She finds the Ulugarian in a bar and tries to coax information out of him along with his partner but they figure out what’s going on and try to escape. Just as the Ulugarian corners Birdy, Nejula shows up and kills him. She tries to kill the partner as well, but Birdy stops her, and in the meantime one of the dancers from the bar, who turns out to be his ally, casts a smokescreen and airlifts him out of the area. Though Birdy complains about Nejula’s actions to the Megius Investigation Department, there’s nothing she can do about it due to Nejula’s rank. At that time, it’s revealesd that the terrorist King-Zero, who, though he’s sent a message that he’s going to blow up the Union consulate unless Birdy and Nejula become enoys to convey the fact the Federation give in to his demands, is actually going to attack the “commitee” (could be the federation, though subs weren’t that clear) with a satellite. At the M.I.D, Skeletsu, Weegie and Bugman discuss what’s going on, and as the Union fleets are lining along Aolis, there’s a danger of this ending up in war.

Nejula meets Birdy at the scene of the explosion, where we learn that the white-haired woman from her memories was actually the marionette mother who raised her named Violin, as she didn’t have her real parents growing up. The two head to the meeting point, but it’s a trap, and though Nejula escapes, Birdy ends up stuck under the rubble of the building they were in. Later, Senkawa wakes up to see the terrorists and King-Zero himself in front of him. He’s saved only by the pleas of the dancer we saw earlier. At their stronghold, it’s later revealed that Gelabu faked his own death to justify King-Zero’s true attack, dropping the satellite on the commitee. Senkawa manages to sneak out of his cell and grab the control for the satellite, but he’s discovered. Luckily, Birdy choses this time to wake up and kick ass. At the same time, Gelabu tries to make his escape but Nejula’s waiting outside; behind Gelabu appears the partner of the dead Ulugarian, who turns out to be a double agent, and Gelabu realises there’s no way out, and that if this incident is exposed to the public the Union’s reputation would be ruined. Therefore, he kills himself so that his “death in an explosion” story rings true. Back inside the King-Zero’s stronghold, the dancer gets a hold of the control, and Birdy fights Zero, who’s in a robot suit. After learning how many people will die, the dancer blows up the sattelite with the control, and Zero and his subordinates are defeated and arrested.

Back in M.I.D, it’s shown that the Union have withdrawn their forces as the blame for Gelabu’s death has been placed on the terrorists. The double agent, Kashugeza, is introduced by Skeletsu as his subordinate and it turns out not even Bugman knew of his existence. Though Birdy says it would have been better if Kashugeza reported back earlier so that he explosion wouldn’t have happened and people wouldn’t have died, Kashugeza says that if they had done that they wouldn’t have learnt of Union’s plot . Birdy, obviously angry, makes to punch him, but Skeletsu takes the punch and the blame as they were his orders. Birdy and Senkawa leave the planet, and on Earth, he talks to Hayamiya who tells him to go to Nakasugi’s party.

Next Time:

At Nakasugi’s party, Senkawa drowns?

I can hope.

Thoughts:

King-Zero, that is one poorly put together terrorist organisation. Your bitch (literally) betrayed you and one of your best subordinates was a double agent.

Megius Investigation Department, that was one poorly put together investigation. One of your Deities almost killed the double agent without whom the Union’s plot wouldn’t have been foiled.

Senkawa, you still suck. Even if you had the least screentime of every character this episode. Except for the Ulugarian who’s death was surprisingly detailed and painful-looking; imagine having for arms chopped off and then a needle thrown in your head, ouch.

Anway, gripes aside, this episode was slightly better than the last one, but unlike the last one absolutely nothing happened to advance the plot (they killed some terrorists and went home, possibly stopping a war, but I don’t care about all that, I want more info on what’s happening on Earth) and it lost points as it focused on politics, factions and war, and I hate politics, factions and war (unless it’s within the idiotic confines of the world of Code Geass). However, we did see a little more of Birdy’s past with her marionette mom. The terrorists were just odd and forgettable, they’re one-shots for sure, and we didn’t even get any decent action out of it; when you look at the first episode and compare it to this, it’s really not up to par, and I hope that the animation budget hasn’t just been sunk into the first epsiode to grab more viewers. What was said that was interesting is that spies are being sent to Earth, which’ll most likely include Kahugeza things may get started nest episode.

Anyway, back to the real plot next time and though I hoped they’d keep “The Days in the Life of Senkawa’s Friends” to a minimum, that seems impossible after seeing the preview.

New and Improved Senkawa, now with Amazing Stealth Action Skills.