Hello,
Today we'll talk about the seventh episode of the spring season 2012 anime series named Accel World that finally completes the prologue story arc with Haruyuki recovering enough points to be able to fight a bit more in the accelerated world.
The battle revolving around the pair Aqua Current/Silver Crow was greatly animated and very entertaining, even if I don't really like the idealistic "I trust my companion" attitude from Haruyuki. It reminds me too much of Shirou...
At the same time I was a bit annoyed by the Kuroyukihime/Taku fight. It was luckluster at best as I would've loved to see the black king go serious against him.
I was not expecting Aqua Current to leave Haru's side so soon, without a real reason. Did she just want freedom or she has some special reasons for deleting Haru's memories?
Will she eventually join Haru again in the Kuroyukihime's army in the future? I would love to see her (cool beauty girl) have a conversation with Kuroyukihime (cool beauty girl as well)!
By the way, am I the only one loving the ED song ("Unfinished" by Kotoko) more and more every week? It's somehow getting ingrained in me...
Taku joins the party and with him the basic cast is complete. We still lack two additional girls in the main cast, but I suppose the prologue of the story can be now considered completed.
I wonder what is the sin Kuroyukihime is referring to in this scene. Is she talking about her killing the red king in the long past? Or something else we still don't know anything about?
We also get the nice information that glasses are useless with the Accel World technological level implants. I wonder if we'll ever get such a technology in our world as well...:P
Judging from the episode preview segment, next episode will feature plenty of comedy/fanservice and will introduce another character of the main cast named Yuniko Kozuki.
I've tried reading some information online and she is a red haired elementary schooler (fifth year) who seems to be involved in the burst linker world and will end up becoming part of the Kuroyukihime army.
Why? Well, she is shown at the very end together with the rest of the main cast! That's supposedly a proof powerful enough to consider her "one of the friends" at the very least.
Concluding, Accel world is an entertaining series with a very promising story setting that I hope they'll explore in detail.
I'm quite eager to watch and blog about the future episodes as well.
See you soon,
feal87