Clain shows the girl avatar Nessa around town. Nessa would make a good intersection traffic cop. Summary: At a giant palace/church, nuns are worrying over Phryne going missing, but their leader isn't worried and states that Phryne has nowhere to go. The leader also declares that for stealing "the World Key", Phryne will be punished when she gets back. Back by the seaside house, Clain learns that the cheerful energetic girl that appeared out of his computer is named Nessa, that she is not Phryne's doppel, and unlike most doppels Nessa can be touched. After greeting Clain, Nessa goes downstairs and greets the doppels of Clain's parents and dogs, and Clain is surprised that Nessa can also "touch" other doppels. Clain's parents tell Clain to return Nessa to Phryne or give her to the police. With Phryne long gone, Clain decides to bring Nessa into town by riding his bike. Inside the town, Nessa goes into explorer mode and wanders all over the place, forcing Clain to catch up with her. When questioned by Nessa about the lack of people in town, Clain explains that most people live in motor homes outside of town so they are not bound to any location and can escape when stuff falls out of the skies. Nessa then decides to visit a group of motor homes just outside of town, and her touch appears to make electronic and mechanical devices go wild, causing the motor homes to crash into each other and fritzing out electronics. They don't have fireworks in the future, but they do have flying umbrellas. After escaping from the angry residents, Clain wants to take Nessa to the police station. Nessa states that her home is where Clain is, but after finding out Clain can't touch her anymore she agrees to go the police station. After leaving Nessa and Phryne's brooch at the police station, Clain returns to find his bike dismantled by the young blond girl and her two goons. The girl, name Annie, and the goons then kidnap Clain and carry him into a basement to see a young man in a military-style uniform. The young man asks Clain where Phryne is, and Clain answers that he doesn't know. The man decides to let Clain go, but Clain realizes that Annie and the goons are following him. These three aren't exactly the masters of disguise. It must be nice having the ability to shut up nagging parents with the wave of the hand. Clain goes back home to do research on doppels that can be touched, but the only doppels that somewhat matched the description are used for sexual purposes and needs the users to take in special nanomachines into their bodies. Clain is then called down by his parents' doppels for a talking. Clain's parents are worried about Clain's behavior lately, but Clain isn't in the mood for a lecture and dismisses the doppels. Clain then spends the next while running blindly outside to vent his frustrations, and after stopping Clain realizes that he doesn't want to be alone and wishes Nessa and Phryne would come back. To Clain's surprise, Nessa appears on the nearby field and runs into his arms, and Clain can touch Nessa again. Clain then notices Annie and the goons nearby, but Nessa doesn't notice and drags herself and Clain right into Annie's pot hole trap. Annie and goons then fly off in their airship with Nessa and Clain in tow trapped inside a net. Talk about falling into an obvious trap. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Out of the new shows that I'm following this season, this will be the only one I'll blog episodically. Anyways, Fractale is still going at a relaxed pace. Most of this episode was Nessa acting cute and causing trouble for Clain, and also more activity from Annie and her goons. There are some small revelations about the world but we are probably far from the core mysteries of the series. We are still at the beginning stages of the series, and we don't really know who is working for whom and what their goals are. The only things we know so far are that people are after Phryne because she possesses something, and Nessa has an important role in the mystery. Phryne seems to be out of the picture of the most part, and Nessa has taken over as the primary female character. I like Nessa so far. She is cute without being "too" cute or annoying, and has that genuine carefree curiosity and cheerfulness. Her origins and abilities are quite mysterious though, and perhaps Nessa might be the "World Key" that the worship leader was talking about. It seems that Clain can only touch Nessa when he is not apprehensive towards her. One of the answers (or partial answer) from this episode was why people use doppels instead of actually living in houses or towns. It turns out most people live in motor homes, and the reasons given were that they didn't want to be tied down and that they can avoid stuff that falls out the skies. I'm thinking that the latter may be the more pertinent reason, although Clain's parents have pretty strong views about how it's better to not live at a fixed location. Of course, this is probably not the complete reason since we don't know what falls out the sky yet. Overall, the story is unfolding at a slow and easy pace, and I'm not expecting things to move any faster. Hopefully Fractale will have a genuinely interesting story behind all the cuteness since the cutesy stuff can't carry the entire show. It looks like Clain and Nessa's real adventure is about to begin though, so things are looking fine at this point. From the feed of A Product of Wasted Time
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