The Third really continues the awesome path it set before. It especially managed to deliver during its climaxes, when it really needs to. The rest of the time, it spends building up. While this building up may seem a bit boring when you see it, the effect it gets is awesome.

In short, the woman from the previous episode indeed has an important role in the anime. Her name is Paife, and she’s sent to spy on Honoka by the same company that hired her. For some reason, Paife acts totally different near Honoka than the way she acts normally. I guess she’s probably fascinated by her. That’s shown in the previous episode, when her strange hypnotization technique doesn’t work, and this episode, when Paife really gets astonished by Honoka’s fighting ability.

Interesting points:
- Paife has heard of Ikus. (I’m still calling him Ikus, by the way. I like that more than Iks)
- Ikus has something to do with the warped space. He either caused it, or he tried to prevent it.
- Honoka really has put her mind on Ikus ever since he left. She was very glad when she saw him again.
- The Third are planning to blast the warped space with something called the Wormhole Driver. It’s something that the Great War left them, though they never had to put it to use.
- We still have no idea what the “Great War” is (that, or I simply forgot), though it seems it was pretty significant for the story.
- Honoka’s extremely tolerant to people she trusts. That becomes clear when she sees that Paife’s an ordinary murderer.
- In this world, people are known to transform into monsters. Why this happens and what it’s got to do with the Great War still remains unclear.
- Honoka’s too nice, when the managed to give Joey an opportunity to study further. He was really happy when he found out. ^^
- The music really was amazing in this episode. It really accentuated the climaxes.
- There are a lot of things unclear about the cult, though they seem important to the story in some way. And what were they doing near the warped space?
- What’s Gravestone?
- Honoka was shocked after the mutant guy was killed. NOT after she saw Ikus. That happened afterwards.

Overall, The Third was amazing, it is amazing, and hopefully, it’ll continue to be amazing. So far, all signs point to yes.

Memorable moment: Paife killing off every person Honoka knocked out, while Honoka watches her.

Okay.

THAT was awesome!!!

I never would have thought that Tsubasa Chronicle would be able to produce such an incredible episode. The following happens: Mokona transports the foursome to another world, after which they immediately get captured by a feather, which turns them into a story, into chibi-mode. Not only was this extremely cute, Mokona also had total control over this story. That resulted into some of the most hilarious scenes ever! I SO loved that!

Even though Tsubasa Chronicle may be a mess at times, this episode showed that the anime still remains awesome. I really cared for the characters, it really does an incredibly good job in familiarizing the main characters with the viewer. I so kept hoping for Sakura and Syaoran to kiss together. Something that doesn’t really happen often. But ah well, I guess that the dimensional witch put a halt to that one. It seems something will happen once the two of them kiss. Something which will break her spell.

Overall, everything in this episode was incredibly cute, and incredibly awesome. Ranging from Sakura and Syaoran being together to the playful Fye, and of course the ferocious Kurogane in his new outfit. ^^

Memorable moments: the entire episode. ^^

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Duh!

Okay, let’s recap:
- When Ashura and Yasha fought in Sakura’s flashback, Ashura killed Yasha because the latter caught an illness.
- The next day, Yasha showed up like nothing happened, while in fact it was a feather which replaced him.
- Kurogane pretended not to know Syaoran because the latter would not take his training seriously if he did.
- Fye pretended not to know Syaoran because he pretended to be a silent warrior, because he couldn’t understand anyone in the Yasha-country, because Mokona was too far away.
- Something in the Yasha-country changes the eye-color of its inhabitants to black.
- Ashura and Yasha became gods because Ashura asked Yuuko for it.

Okay, everything makes sense now. Everything felt so incredibly obvious when all was revealed. Maybe a bit too obvious. Still, I’m happy with this arc. Everything was nicely told, not to mention the story was great. Kurogane was awesome once more as well.

Oh, by the way, I’m back again, and I have a lot of catching up to do. I started with Tsubasa Chronicle, as I heard that the next episode will become an awesome one. Apart from that, I’m also very interested in The Third and Simoun, so these ones will come in first, after the rest. Also, as there’ll be a lot to blog, be sure to expect a lot of short posts.

I’ve also discovered that Blogspot stopped allowing hotlinks. That doesn’t make me too happy, as it’ll make my first posts without any images. Fixing this will be a hell, though I’m at least planning to make Mahou Shoujotai to look good. After all, one of the best series ever deserves that.