While this episode has a lot less action than the last episode, it was certainly no less impressive in terms of scale. I will admit that there were quite a few bad drawings in this episode. This is to be expected after what’s been happening recently. However, it still bothered me even though I had mentally prepared myself for this.

I read a lot of complaints about the usage of vocals during the insert song and I have to honestly disagree with those opinions. It didn’t even occur to me that it was even remotely out of place when I was watching the episode which made it even odder for me to read comments noting that the vocals should’ve been removed.

The series is very slowly beckoning towards its conclusion. There’s a lot of speculation about what’s going to happen at the end though I think that we can all agree that there’s pretty much no way they’re going to spin an anime original ending at this point given the events of the next episode.

I didn’t check their website in a long time so I was actually not aware of the fact that their new album, “LOCKS“, was going to be released today until Amazon.co.jp sent me a notice a couple of days ago. I guess those emails do come in handy once in a while.

Not counting the tracks that were released as singles (as I’m only evaluating the new tracks), I think my favourites so far are 「もう一度笑って」, 「ふたり」, and “Love is a Bird”. Of course, my opinion isn’t really worth much since I’m heavily biased towards them, having followed them since late 2003. Being in possession of every single, album, and DVD they have ever released doesn’t help either. ;)