Coppelion : Awakening

Episode 11

Time is running out, how are they going to get out of this situation?!

***SPOILERS***

So suddenly there is a giant spider machine thing....

And I'm not sure the point of this t all....

And Aoi has been captured again. Just to be thrown and picked back up by Ibara.....

And then the commander who I'd forgotten about is freed, I'm sure everyone has forgotten about him to be honest.

Now I remember them saying to unleash a "thing" or some such wording but we really got very little warning about this giant structured thing they've got that can destroy the bloody city and that they'd never used before in the whole series or at all by the sound of it.

This episode just feels like we've missed a whole load and again takes you out of the bloody setting of a deserted wasteland and makes it feel like it could be set any old place with bad guys in gas masks.

Oh and here we get the reminder that if the randomness of all this (Aoi destroyed the spider with a hidden power no one knew she had) doesn't kill them then they are running out of time for the survivors.

So Ibuki's father isn't really a bad man, like the professor who made the plant he just blamed himself for things going wrong and it seems that the 1st Division commander just knew first hand how terrible humans can be and reacted angirly. He is right the brave and the weak were left behind and in it all they made a life and worked together and brought out the best in humanity. Probably why I like this group so much it just shows how wonderful humans can be.

Finally they get the train moving! Gennai (the old man) seems to have died in the process, he got hit by the wind and doesn't seem to be making it easily. Haruto also got shot and then with the help of the commander of the 1st Division stayed behind to hold up a signal post that would have fallen on the track and stopped them moving. It is all VERY sad to be honest.

This episode had a lot going for it I will say that, it played on the emotion and gave us a lot to go on.

It was nice seeing the plot move forward and getting to know that these characters are just all brave and wonderful, I mean they might have been corrupted or get tetchy or whatever but they stayed behind, they worked hard and they looked out for each other. I mean the commander is a freakin' mutant now all he did was come to save people but the government didn't care about him and left them all there what do you expect him to feel?

It is a good anime for reminding you the best and worst side of humans, it is just unfortunate that stupid things happen for seemingly no point at times and you just sit there scratching your head. Deep down it is a very deep and meaningful series with a lot of good plots, themes and character development.

Just because the show is about clones it doesn't mean that we have to watch "dolls" on screen.

Ibara is bipolar in her actions, one minute in a flood of tears over nothing important which is magnified to importance by her training etc the next she's as cold as anything whilst blowing up a fellow Coppelion or getting herself pretty much killed (or using Aoi as bait.) It makes little sense, she started off ice cool, went all sobby then turned back to the kick ass character you thought she'd be.

Aoi has had no character development and acts the same until she gets her magical power that no one knew about.

Taeko has been all but forgotten and she was the best one of the three!

Haruto was brilliant and brought two characters you probably didn't think you'd learn much more about together and brought out the best in them. He taught Ibuki's father a lesson and then let the commander die as a human and not what he'd become which is nice.

The love story between him and Ibara came too late for me to care about it (rang of Erza/Jellal in Fairy Tail to me.)

I'll be interested in seeing what happens now because its swerved greatly off the original story!