Some notable guests this time around, probably the most recognizable in relatively recent anime is Jun Fukushima aka Kazuma from Konosuba as the brothers. Seems like this is a younger siblings-centric sorta ep with Walter relating to the younger heart brother and Daleth, wonder if we’ll see more of those sorts of parallels in future eps. Always fun to visit the witch world with its Edvard Munch-esque looking ways.
Ah, large houses and magical girl shows, it was bound to happen in this show at some point (although the only thing coming to my mind right now is Cardcaptor Sakura, well the ranborg fight reminds me of another magical girl show but maybe mentioning the name would be too spoilery).
Look how far we’ve come in this series, Ellee is speaking rather coherently this episode. Now that I think about it, Sora’s cape (particularly during her transformation) kinda reminds me of Takuto from Star Driver. So I guess the whole house got ranborged and also everything inside of it and also there’s a suit of armor left behind in the house?
The ending was kinda weird, like when did they have time to figure out who the family was and also conveniently when that gets brought up the family shows up lol. Also what’s the whole thing about Marron talking and how would a little girl end up with a sentient stuffed animal with I guess psychic powers? Does she know Marron talks? Eh, whatever, let’s just say it’s the power of childhood wonder and imagination. I guess the first half was nice enough and it was nice seeing Ellee have more agency and be buddies with Marron (although I guess it was kind of a Sora focused episode?), kinda feels like a continuation of Ellee’s communicative abilities like what happened with the animals earlier. In a semi-related topic, Marron kinda reminds me of how Beanie Babies used to have normal-sized eyes and then I think they started getting designed with bigger and bigger eyes?
Meteos for the DS. Never got the Disney sequel but the original was great and probably my most played DS game.
Are huge pigs pulling carts a thing? Hanamaru’s cart and Shinshinoshin remind me of the traveling cart from Stardew Valley.
The transitions in the finding Lailaps montage were fun, especially the one from Kanan’s eye to Chika’s eye. “We’re going to be together forever and ever. Right, Lailaps?” Why’d you have to ask that smh.
The OST was nice again today, I kinda wonder if the piano + reversed piano bits at the end were the same music as Episode 6. The use of saxophone in this series reminded me of Revue Starlight and so I looked up who was credited for music and sure enough Tatsuya Katou is credited for this, a lot of Love Live (including the LLS main series), and Revue Starlight (alongside Yoshiaki Fujisawa) among other things. Anyways, the lighting was nice this episode (as it has been throughout the series) and it was a nice episode overall.