A major theme of the past season is fooling the viewer: going into an entirely different direction than what would be normally expected. Mission-E definitely has these themes: its predecessor (Code-E) was a cute little love-triangle set in a high school, so naturally you’d expect something similar for its sequel. As it turns out: I [...]
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Short Synopsis: Mission-E ends as Oz rushes in to prevent the foundation to carry out its plans. Highlights: Predictable, plot-holes, but overall better than expected. Overall Enjoyment Value: 7/10 And so it has ended. I wasn’t expecting too much of this episode, because there isn’t much you can do with the underdeveloped villains of this series. There was [...]
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  Flux Capacitor… fluxxing! Impressions: No matter whatever else happened in this episode, I started cracking up like mad when they ran the Back to the Future credits. Featuring Nancy McFly, played by Michael J Hox. That alone brought me more entertainment than the entirety of the ZnT season finale. Aside from that throw away joke/homage, it was [...]
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Short Synopsis: The calm before the storm-episode, where Chinami and Kotarou’s engagement gets celebrated Highlights: Hilarious banter. Overall Enjoyment Value: 8,5/10 Ah, now I understand! I finally realize why Mission-E has disappointed so much, thanks to this episode, which probably was among the best of the entire series, along with the first one. The thing is that this [...]
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  I’m with Maori and Adol. Impressions: It seems to me that between last week and this week’s episode, there was only about 20 minutes worth of anything interesting. Hiiragi (and I only remember his name because of all the shadowy figures going "What’s Hiiragi doing!? at the end) hijacks some television stations with his Gadget [...]
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Short Synopsis: Chinami does what more anime characters should attempt: try to talk things out. Highlights: A bit forced, but it’s good to see this series heating up. Overall Enjoyment Value: 7,5/10 So what first seemed to be a standard calm-before-the-storm episode turned into the introduction for the finale of this series. While there is some potential, I [...]
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  What the hell is that even supposed to mean? Impressions: An alright episode I guess, though with two episodes left, I’m kind of at a loss as to where all of this is leading, especially with Maori and Adol apparently in the hospital next episode. Let’s not even talk about how awful that ending scene was [...]
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Short Synopsis: A calm-before-the-storm episode, mostly aimed at Maori. Highlights: Maori’s development. Overall Enjoyment Value: 8/10 Aah! It’s been too long since I’ve watched Code-E. To think that Maori actually made a small appearance there. It was hardly a moment that stood out: a dog ran into Chinami and she freaked out, but now that this series has [...]
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Prelude Impressions: I love how Kotaro shows up in an expensive military helicopter with a new Refley Dress (apparently the name of the power suits), dozens of scientists… and one large box of tangerines. Aside from that, and the almost hypnotic way that Chinami’s butt undulates at the mention of Kotaro, not the most [...]
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Short Synopsis: Chiyoko Soraizumi and Nietzsche Kafka may have eloped together, but Chinami isn’t planning to end things that way. Highlights: Great opportunity to see some different sides of Chiyoko and Nietzsche. Overall Enjoyment Value: 8/10 Oh boy, it’s hard to believe that we’re still talking about the tough Maori and Adol (or as they introduce themselves in [...]
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  Don’t pick fake names off of billboards people. Impressions: I’m rather busy today, and this crap is supposed to be out on Mondays anyway, so my apologies if this is a bit brief. It wasn’t the most terribly exciting episode anyway. Maori skips school because stalker Chinami is waiting for her at the gates, and instead [...]
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Short Synopsis: Chinami and Maori “try” to retrieve hacked information from the foundation. Highlights: Outsourcing ftw. Overall Enjoyment Value: 8/10 That was an interesting fight-scene, and it looked actually really nice. A changing animation-style can either work really well or completely flop, there’s no in-between, but it looked very nice here. Mission-E’s artwork is perfect for a bit [...]
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  Uh… what just happened here? Impressions: Wait… Adol x Maori? Where did this relationship come from? I’ll admit that both of them had terrible days, what with their bosses both basically flipping them the bird. It’s a little hard to feel too bad for Adol so far since he was trying to shoot the girls [...]
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  Only with electricity instead of paper. Ow. Sorry I’m a bit slow for these couple days. I’m absolutely swamped with work, and while anime is a nice temporary distraction from grading some 500 odd pages worth of papers, my brain feels like it’s leaking out my ear. I’m not going to hit up at [...]
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Short Synopsis: This time, a woman with a Kansai-ben accent is being chased by the foundation. Highlights: Fun chase scenes. Overall Enjoyment Value: 8/10 Definitely the best episode of Mission-E so far. It really was one of these episodes that was fun to watch, and ended with a powerful cliff-hanger. It was interesting, seeing how Maori at the [...]
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  This episode had so many silly fake company names. Impressions: So, things got a bit interesting towards the end, but most of the episode was just Chinami and Maori roaming around Osaka playing Abbott and Costello, or boke and tsukkomi if you’d prefer. Maori almost made a friend. Apparently her dog is supposed to be [...]
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Wow, just wow! Seriously…I’m surprised and shocked. If you’ve seen the first season, which is Code-E, you’ll understand why I’m shocked. But if you haven’t, well, it’s because Code-E was more mellow and laid back and followed the days of Chinami and her strange powers. It was alright. But Mission-E, is anything but mellow! It seems [...]
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Hey, anyone else remember that one show from last summer, Code-E? Remember how good of a warm, slice-of-life show it was with a dash of romance on the side? How you cried for more after that ending that was just asking for continuation? Well, no you didn’t, because nobody watched it. But it doesn’t matter because [...]
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Short Synopsis: It’s character-building time when Chinami and Maori pay a visit to the research facility where Kotarou works. Highlights: A Cow? Overall Enjoyment Value: 8/10 Fun episode. It’s nice to see Kotarou back in detail, and at the same time this episode also showed the difference between Chinami and Maori in the ways that they grew up. [...]
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  Call now, ladies. There’s a cow waiting just for you. Impressions: I should just switch to calling this ‘Monday Birdy’… or maybe to calling Birdy ‘Friday Mission-E.’ Lord knows that both feature long periods when I sort of tune out and then super powered girls in skintight suits hitting people with things, though not hitting [...]
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