All that was missing is some reference to Digma’s.

I still fail to see how the surface is inhospitable? Considering the people in Akhibara and Doumdoum don’t seem to be starving and the place isn’t exactly run down. Let’s not mention the secret US base maintained by one guy with an access road that’s not overgrown. In addition aside from Ryoko what kind of oppression of the masses have we seen? The first 12 episodes would have been better spent establishing the world of Shangri-la and motives rather than a vapid “character development” or some fallacious pseudo-intellectualizing about Carbon credits which seemingly has little to do with the current plot; except to “make money”. Make money to do what exactly? Seems its a meaningless ploy to buy otaku trinkets: perhaps a dig at today’s shallow consumerism (I doubt it) considering Karin hasn’t revealed why she needs to make money at all.

Seems like the surface dwellers do a lot of bitching.

Ok to what is meant to be the saving grace, the dogfight of this episode - It visually was Good - MACROSS ZERO beats it with the yard stick until it’s a sopping wet bloody mess but whatever. F-35 Joint Strike Fighters? unable to hit a slow moving target just using machine guns!? Just to remind people these planes have VTOL capability (and stealth) as they are the Harrier replacement; therefore can easily match speed of the Stealth bomber. Let’s not even get to destroying 2 A-A missiles travelling at Mach 3 using a boomerang

As Ryoko said:

“That was hilarious”

Next unmanned super-spinning tops. If you had those to begin with why use the airforce to begin with? Just to show how evil Ryoko is? Hardly evil just pointless. Next hilarious thing was Konoe-san, I mean how shite are weapon systems of he future if you can’t hit a non-moving target (relatively speaking) at point blank range.

Next apparently one finds out Atlas true purpose. Can’t say I’m holding my breath.

As I was expecting, I’ve loved the ambitious nature of this series since the very beginning :)

My god I loved episode 13.

No, it doesn’t change.. this series is pretty consistent. If you liked the first few eps (their pacing, the animation style, the action, etc), you will like all of them. If you were annoyed at the chars, lack of reasonable plot, depth etc then you will not like all of them.

I don’t consider GONZO as the master of CG, but visuals were indeed very amazing in this episode! I love the CG action scenes in this episode *_*

forgot to mention that this got me really amused:
but so far the only thing he’s done is screw up when Kuniko was around.
BWAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA xD

I’m obviously no animation expert like you, so I know that I’m rambling a bunch of nonsense here and I realize that this is highly personal, but Gonzo’s CGI for some reason has a certain something (call it an X-Factor) that I have yet to notice with Satelight, or at least, the Satelight productions that I watched, since I can’t speak for Aquarion or Macross Zero. If it turns out that Blassreiter’s action scenes were blatantly ripped off from Aquarion and Macross Zero also had a boomerang-shaped air-carrier that assaulted a huge fortress while moving slow and realistically, then I of course take these words back.

Sorry about the internal server error. It seems that my shared host has been going into crazy overload mode more often recently. :(

By the way, I’m getting an internal server error when I try to post on your blog. Does this happen more often?

Anywayz, I haven’t seen the episode . . . yet. But seeing those spoilers and screenshots already confirm to me that this episode is awesome! *_*

As for the episode I would have to say it was impressive.