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I was worried about what would happen to the mall but im glad they alr evacuated and set up barrier defenses too nice, I wonder if this old lady was a part of E-RDE, Grown man throwing a fit lol, So is hades like Mahoraga? In a way Hagane's mom saved both her and Tetsuo, this hit right in the feels. Oh so she was then, FINALLY!!! Someone said it ! Im glad that Ao and Land of Men are here, guess we're about to get a full on Kaiju and Mecha vs Kaiju fight next ep, very hyped.

Well, they couldn't eat Sagami's men to Mishima Mall...but at least Tamiya isn't as much of an unhinged psycho as the rest of them are? He doesn't seem to want to kill everybody as much as the rest of VIERDE do. Though maybe that's just because he has more of his pre E-RDE memories that he shares with Nayuta. But if they thought it would be easy to take the mall...think again! It's more than prepared to respond to Kaiju attacks! It helps that the Boss of Mishima Mall is actually a rofmer E-RDE member and doesn't mess around in the slightest! Of course, as good as the defenses are, VIERDE's Kaiju are superpowered mutants who are more powerful than your average Kaiju. And too much for Mishima Mall to fend off. Yukio's headbutt actually did some serious damage to Hercules! Enough for the Colonel to throw a tantrum like the manbaby he is about how he still hasn't killed Tetsuo! But what doesn't kill Hercules...makes him stronger. I guess Hagane going off on her own paid off because the drone her mom helped make (wait doesn't that original tech head look familiar...?) to keep tabs on her is how Mishima Mall figured out what was going on. But they also have no intention for Tetsuo to keep fighting in the state he's in, so they want him to join the other evacuees. Which...is pretty reasonable. He's not the only Savior they have anyways. Imagine holding a conversation via lip reading, complete with sass. While her subordinates can't join her because their ride fell into a crevasse...that's not going to stop Ao from running all the way back to Mishima Mall to summon Land of Men, take Riko out, and tell off these idiots for making humans fight each other NOW of all times. It's time for the Great Kaiju War!

Yeah, about what I expected. I guessed last week that this episode would mostly be them returning to the mall while the mall mounts some level of defense (hence the name of the episode). I guess Ao running back didn't take as long as I expected, I was expecting the scene with her running back would be like halfway through the episode and we'd get several minutes of flashbacks, so I'm glad that that at least didn't happen. Also Tetsuo not actually going back to the mall itself but instead to the evacuation site is a slight wrinkle, I do appreciate that he's not just, also gonna show up at the same place as Ao. I hate the villain with the bird kaiju. I don't always even hate like, battle crazy maniac villains, but his dialogue being all about how like "this is so cool and fun" and meanwhile he's just like, whacking at a sci-fi barrier for several minutes was ridiculous. It felt like he was trying to convince the audience that what was happening on screen was interesting more than anything else. I think he should have been bored by the barrier and only gotten excited when they started firing missiles at him. Looking back, he doesn't start actually attacking the barrier until after the missiles have already gotten fired (and blown up by the guy on the deer), but it still feels weird for him to have been impressed by the barrier, as if that in and of itself makes for an entertaining battle. Also I think it's kind of lame that the mysterious message at the end of the previous episode/beginning of this one was just, from Mishima Mall. I guess the implication is that the technology still being around is a surprise? But the actual scene implied that it was going to be a new, 3rd party. I was expecting Tetsuo's dad. It being an existing character who they just like, didn't have caller ID for does kinda ruin the wonder of trying to figure out who else survived the apocalypse.

I thought today's episode was pretty good. The attack on Mishima Mall begins although it seems like one of the V-IERDE, Tamiya, would rather handle things peacefully. I wonder if he'll change sides. Mishima Mall is also not as helpless as it appears. Looking forward to best girl Ao kicking ass. Why did they end last week's episode with the cliff hanger about the mysterious call if it was just the folks at Mishima? Was it to foreshadow that Erde was still around, meaning the old lady at the mall?

You thought this show was about Tetsuo and Yukio, but it was me, AO! "Is this a situation which calls for righteous fury? Yes, you say." "Tetsuo, we can see that you've been crying. Take a breather and let us handle this." Tetsuo and Yukio can certainly come back to contribute later, but after taking a while to set it up, we're poised for a rage-filled kaiju battle featuring Ao. In the meantime we've added another ex-VIERDE character to the mix, more squabbling in VIERDE, and the convenient but now expended upgrades to the mall. They're all believable elements, but Tetsuo is further and further only along for the ride in his own story.

A coded message? Oh. Uh oh. And so everyone's dead. Or not. A shield? Missile turrets, VLS cells, and cannons? Ok they seem to be sending a whole alpha strike of an Itano Circus at them. So much for that... More trouble? Oh, it seems that kaiju bled out. Wait, the mum of one of them is the same mum of that girl? So, they're evacuating? You'd think with their Festung they'd be able to hold until he returned to relieve them. Uh oh, there goes the shield. So, she's going to fight them. So, they took that opportunity to evacuate.

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