"Which one's Kato Marika?" "I can't tell. Shoot them all!"

You flaming son of a bitch, burn in hell.

I thought sure that Marika was going to be in the Silent Whisper, but she didn't use it this time. Despite how it looks, I wonder if the Silent Whisper isn't really designed for atmospheric operation?

Five years ago, Lynn already had a reputation around Hakuoh, even though she was in middle school. Members of the Yacht Club got her to break into the computers containing the information about the upcoming race, including the exact route they were going to follow.

Well, the members of the Yacht Club decided it was boring. So they got Lynn to change it, to make it more exciting.

The result was that only two pilots finished the race. Lots of dinghies dropped out, and there were lots of injuries. And that is why Hakuoh Academy was banned from racing for five years. (I bet that was when Lynn got suspended from school for her hacking.)

Anyway, that's the reason that old hag has a grudge. But she wasn't the one doing the shooting. It was the Bisque company, and they're there to kill Marika.

She borrowed a dinghy and joined the race, even though she wasn't a participant, as part of the Bentenmaru's job providing security. The enemy ship shows up and starts firing on the dinghies. They know Marika is in one of them, and they don't seem to care how much collateral damage they do if they can get her -- or how many schoolgirls they kill. Nice guys.

Ai-chan gets a moment of awesome. It was completely believable.

And the outcome of the race? That was believable, too.

This seems to be part of a larger plot, and next time we're going to learn a whole lot more about it. Seems someone is hunting pirate ships, and has already gotten several. Bentenmaru is on their list.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste in General Anime at 09:45 AM | Comments (22) | Add Comment
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