Thread:Ashleyien/@comment-918376-20150707020140/@comment-918376-20150710032421

With a title like "Sweet Trap," which was basically how Nureha manipulated the people of Minami into following her, I was really let down by the fact that it was all filler, non-canon stuff. If it had even followed the manga version with Minori and Akatsuki helping each other as friends and not rivals (and no stupid flavor text love fruit), I would've been happy -- but no, it was decided that it'd be the equivalent of the cake episode (which itself had very mixed reactions with the western fandom). Episode 13 is just one of the episodes I can complain about forever. They may as well have split volume 9 into two episodes, and that would still have been better than what we got.

Having it aired on NHK is a blessing and a curse. A blessing, in that this is how it got funded even though it didn't sell tremendously (although for an NHK show, it had remarkable sales). A curse, in that the more mature content gets inevitably cut, and some concepts repeated till the end of time. Although apparently the latter still doesn't help drill it into some peoples' heads.

I like Rudy, since he views these events in a different light as a Lander. Him and Isuzu are one of my favorite pairings in LH (and it's Mamare's favorite as well). I don't really like the whole 'dog' thing, but it's passable.

I'm sorry to hear about your depression, but I'm glad that LH was able to cheer you up at least a little bit. Usually I don't like characters with Tet's personality, but I found her to be fine. ReGan's a strange character for sure. He said that his mentor had died, but we now know that his mentor's alive and well, and is working for Plant Hwyaden (and on top of that, his mentor stole some important item from the Mirror Lake libraries). At the same time, though, he seems pretty genuine about helping Shiroe. Eins is set up as the (really obvious) spy for Minami (as "Agent One" ... when Eins means 'one'), and Shiroe even calls him out on that in episode 24, but I'm kinda hoping that it's a red herring designed to place suspicions on Eins instead of the real culprit, while his case isn't helped in the slightest due to his recent stance on issues in the Round Table.

I kinda feel bad for Eins come volume 10. His guild is probably taking the Catastrophe the worst, especially with Krusty's disappearance. No matter which path he chooses, Akiba or Minami, Honesty will take the worst of it unless they find a way home, and fast. He has legitimate complaints, but most of the other people in the Round Table brush it off because his solutions aren't any more beneficial to Akiba as a whole.