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Rating: 8.6/10

Impressions:

Once again, I was expecting a lot of action, plot advancement and drama, but once again, little to nothing happened. Sure, there’s a lot of character development, but that is hardly necessary during the last few episodes of the series. Personally, I think at this stage of any series, it should be plot and climactic action all the way, until a nice resolution at the end. So far, the pace is far too slow, and it doesn’t feel like anything is getting achieved. Sure, maybe Alice changed the minds of some of the people around her, but that is not going to do anything. It does increase the drama and tension, though not much to my liking.

The suspense is rising steadily though, with the approaching members of Silver Wheel(?), as well as what seems to be the real fight now. The next episode better be good to make up for the crap episodes near the beginning of the series. The animation quality really is pretty inconsistent, and in this episode alone, there are some nicely done scenes, though a few are pretty mediocre. Overall the quality is a lot higher than the first half of the series, though this makes me wish this series had been 13 episodes long. The pace would be faster and perhaps more entertaining, while the cost will be cut down significantly. There wouldn’t be any useless episodes about nothing either.

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