The difference? I thought it was spelling… This episode was a little lack luster with the all too brief fights even though they had the new awesome Knightmare Frames which seem to be getting ridiculous in power. The Gurren vs the Shenhu was a glorified laser tug of war almost, which ended as lamely with Kallen conveniently running out of power. 

Tianzi is somewhat like Kaguya, and is extremely likable. Her taking zips at the straw was quite cute and I like the dynamic between her and Kaguya a lot. Her and Kaguya together in a soundproof room… One could only imagine the doujins which will be made later.

I am a bit pissed, C.C.(my favourite character of this show) is reduced to a lowly truck driver and from the looks of it, she had enough time to customise her work station (read: truck cabin). One has to wonder how much pizza she had to eat to get these prizes especially so considering how little pizza she has eaten recently. 

Fugliest mech ever. So the Shenhu is the Chinese Federation’s high powered surprise mech. It was only working on 40%, so I assume it will be kicking more ass sometime later in the series. Kallen is captured this episode and I can only imagine how many doujins this will spawn because of it, a less appealing boom than the bunny girl kallen doujin wave. 

Xingke… So mud was your master plan!? After a long while of using your land tactics, this is starting to sound repetitive no matter how new and innovated the technique is. The little back to back banter and plan revealing between Xingke and Lelouch was somewhat boring. I would have been happy if they just used the Hadron Cannons to begin with. 

Foreshadowing! Anya has some link to Lelouch from childhood maybe. I would like to see this developed just to see some more of Anya, that actually does some plot development rather than her just doing near nothing for all her screen time. Seriously though, I really like Anya, I swear.

And finally, the usual end of episode big shocker. Oh I am so surprised… I am sure it will be simply explained and not so important later. It has been that way for a while and frankly, I am now used to it. Oh how the show has fallen. I missed the day of the first season so much. Hope the next episode picks up, with Zero backed into a corner, I hope to see something cool at the very least.

If this was all the show had fallen to, I wouldn’t be complaining.