After watching this episode, my reaction was, "Wow! Holy shit!"

Which is not very eloquent, I have to admit. But at least it was heart-felt.

I really wish I could watch the next episode right now, but of course I'll have to wait for next week, like everyone else.

Nessa definitely is a doppel. And this episode provided a bunch of answers and background. Spoilers below the fold.

It turns out that people who are part of the fractale system, including Clain, have surgically implanted "fractale terminals" in them, presumably in their brains. It is possible to remove them, and a person who has no fractale terminals cannot sense doppels unless they wear special visors.

At the end of ep 2, Clain and Nessa were captured by Enri and her two clownish henchmen. In ep 3, they are taken to the village where Enri lives. And the people there cannot see Nessa, unless they wear their visors.

Curiously, with the visors on, some of them can touch Nessa, feel her. But Enri's older brother is not one of them. His hand passes right through Nessa's hand. Nessa says that it means he doesn't like her. Only those who like Nessa can feel her.

I won't even try to describe the things that happen in this episode, especially at the end, because I don't fully understand them. But I do believe we'll get explanations that satisfy before it's all over.

In the mean time, this ep ended with a cliff-hanger, in a sense. Who is it that Nessa was made to look like? Is she real, or another doppel?

Wow! Just... wow!

Posted by: Steven Den Beste in General Anime at 09:20 PM | Comments (7) | Add Comment
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