You know, at one point, I didn’t really like this episode, for obvious reasons (fanservice, a rather annoying Lilio). But when the episode finished, I do admit that I left it with a good feeling. It’s a typical example of an episode which was good and annoying at the sane time.

The thing I like about El Cazador is that each episode has some kind of semi-hidden meaning behind it. Every episode shows a certain character who is special in one sort of way, and it shows how Ellis and Nadie relate and react to this character. The character of this episode: Lilio. The difference with the previous episodes was, though, that we didn’t delve into her background. We never get to know anything about who she is. Instead, the episode spends its time fleshing out her character.

With a shower- AND pool-scene less then five minutes apart from each other, this had to become annoying. But these scenes did show one thing: Lilio and Ellis are very similar when they’re together. At one point, they’re both waiting for their companions, they’re both getting enthusiastic when someone similar to their companions comes close, and they both remain enthusiastic when they realize they’ve got the wrong person.

For Ellis, this was obvious, since she likes to imitate people, and Nadie never told what she was going to do (this time, she just went to get some cash from Blue-eyes to pay for the hotel they’ve been staying in). But Lilio raises lots of questions. Why doesn’t she get lonely while she waits for her father? Why does she always smile? Why can’t she talk? Why would her father take her along on a dangerous mission like this one, and heck, why would he leave the girl unguarded? Does Lilio know what her father is doing, and if she does, then why doesn’t she mind?

Also, I LOVED LA. Not only did he kiss Ellis in the previous episode, he also cut off a piece of her hair and turned this into a straw doll. His obsession is really getting freakier by the minute, and now it seems that he’s a walking killing-machine with that string of his. Still, who does he work for I wonder? All I know for sure is that Rozenberg has possession of the videos the guy makes, so why does he want to have the guy removed from the scene? It seems now that LA indeed is acting on his own, but if that is the case, then I do wonder how Rozenberg got a hold of his videotapes…

The question also remains: what did Ricardo did to LA after knocking the guy unconscious? Obviously, the guy will wake up with quite a headache (Ricardo did this in quite an original way, actually. I never recall seeing someone getting knocked out when a gun is shot too close to his ears), but I do suppose that Ricardo didn’t just leave LA’s body afterwards. It’s a bit strange for his mission to just knock the guy out and just leave afterwards.

I just don’t know how to start this entry… it just was so… disturbing. Bokura no is just grabbing me like no other series this season, and at this point, it’s become my personal favourite of all the anime I’m currently watching. You can really see that the same mangaka for Narutaru worked on this, and Narutaru already was amazing.

This episode can be best described by a quote from Takami: “if we do find him, what should we do?” Isao had been missing since the previous episode, and it’s only natural for the others to try and find him. Yosuki, Takami, Moji, Chizuru, Aiko and Yoko did, at least. I’m not sure about the others. Jun probably didn’t care enough, and Kana didn’t have something to tag along with. Kanji has shown that he’s got a relaxed personality, so he probably doesn’t worry too much, which is probably why he didn’t come. Daiichi feels a bit distant from the group, somehow, which could explain why we didn’t see him. I’m not sure where Maki and Mako went, though. I can see Mako being too shy to come, but Maki did show in the previous episode that she definitely cares about everyone.

Anyway, this pretty much is a Chizuru-episode, in which she tries to find Isao, who has been turned crazy by the premonition that he’s going to die. I kept wondering how he’d pilot Zearth in a state like his, but this episode showed that he’s probably one of the few to actually die without having piloted Zearth when Chizuru kills him after he tried to assault her.

The only bad point about Bokura no that I can really think of is that we just know that Chizuru will be the next pilot. While it would be awesome to see someone else in the pilot’s seat, she’s the only one whose background is fleshed out enough for it. Still, I loved how Chizuru blamed herself for killing Isao, and that she didn’t try to find some kind of excuse.

Another thing I just realized is that the OP indeed shows little blurbs of what’s to come. I really noticed it after watching this episode, as it shows both Chizuru and Isao in the aquarium, and I actually recognized these scenes. Based on this, I’m especially curious as to what Yoko’s scene means, when she stands in front of a burning city.