Downloaded a raw after hearing that this one was good from various sources. It is.
I’m not quite sure what’s going on here yet. The episode opens out with a few scenes of two girls fighting each other in mecha. Yes, this is a Mecha anime.
The bulk of the episode centred around a young schoolgirl, Aoba, who is kidnapped by a guy in drag, who throws her in the back of a truck along with her grandmother’s memorial stone (her grandmother died in the scene beforehand) . She manages to get away, and stumbles upon a giant robot nearby. Of course, Aoba just happens to have a Mecha fetish and goes gaga over the robot. Unfortuanately for her, at that point a siren goes and she is forced to hide inside the robot’s arm.
Aoba is caught up in a battle between the robot (which is piloted by the dude who kidnapped her and some old dude) and some evil mechanical monster thing. Yes, it’s pretty cliche. Aoba helps them save the day and destroy the opponent.
It seems that they’re on Table Mountain. Last I checked, that’s near Cape Town in South Africa, so I don’t know what’s up there. The episode ended with some guy strangling some chick, and another vapire-ish girl sitting in the shadows watching them saying “i’ve found you” or something to that effect.
The concept sounds tired, but the execution is not. This one is really nicely put together, and looks like it will go places. I can’t comment on the OP (it didn’t have one, opting to instead have extra in-series footage for the openng scenes) but the ED is great, a new piece from angela, who did the Stellvia and Fafner OP/EDs.
No subs yet, but they’re inevitable. I predict this one gets quite a bit of attention.
Guess what, AnimeYuki is picking up Jinki : Extend. Thanks for your support
Awesome. Been hoping a decent subber would pick this one up.