sola Ep. 03
Well, they certainly cut backed on the tension and seriousness in this episode. They threw in a couple of cute little moments and lots of good laughs in this one instead. Like StrikerS, it seems it’s hit the budget wall as I noticed some dips in the art quality here and there although it was nowhere near as great of a drop as StrikerS.
In this episode, it is revealed to us that Aono has been sick since she was little (or maybe that was revealed in a previous episode and I just missed it). At any rate, this begs the question of whether my first theory about “what” she is from my review of the second episode holds or not. If it still holds, I guess she must be a new one that was picked off of the streets or something. Could she be weak because she’s still young? In the manga, we learn that Matsuri is actually 350 years old, so that might be it. There are enough possibilities about what her true nature is to make my head spin. I just hope it’s not going to be any of the ones I’m going to come up with as the series progresses because then the shock value would not be as great.
I’ve kind of watched this episode twice (well, when doing reviews I give it one run and then another run to take the screenshots, although not in its entirety literally since I sometimes skip a bit) and it still bothers me as to how easy it was for Mana to accept and allow Matsuri to live at Yorito’s place. Maybe she will come to regret this decision in the future if Koyori somehow gets involved and subsequently dies or is injured badly? Oh, this could get very good. ;)
