Canaan 08
August 25th, 2009
Summary:
Canaan starts awake afraid she just got the bad end, but fortunately Maria is safe. While Maria and Canaan make bedroom eyes, Minoru chats with Kenji and learns that most victims die of the Ua virus well before developing any tissue changes. This leads Minoru to suspect that the Snakes have an antivirus and that the destroyed village was a human experiment. We then get scenes of Hakkoo rocking everyone’s mind, first in a flashback where she unknowingly blows up some random kid’s brain with her voice, and then in a Nene concert where her love of This is Life gives everyone a severe headache when Hakkoo tries to sing along.
When Minoru suspects Santana of being a Snake and controlling Hakkoo, Santana agrees to take everyone to the village that he destroyed. Hakkoo still hasn’t forgiven Santana, and through the whole ride she keeps shooting dirty glances at Canaan. After some painful male singing and some goofy photography, Canaan tells Maria that even without the colors she can sense Maria’s kindness. This display of shoujo-ai drives Hakkoo over the edge, and that night she tries to air-choke (shoulda used a blood choke!) Canaan. Hakkoo’s horrible melee skills and her pathetic pebble-throwing skills pose no threat to Canaan, but before the night ends Hakkoo silently mouths, “It’s all your fault [that I don't get more romantic scenes with Santana],” at Canaan. The next day, the boys wisely seat Maria in between Hakkoo and Canaan, and unexpectedly run into Yunyun.
Reaction:
All the VA did a great job this episode, but jumpy, vulnerable Canaan was another masterpiece by Miyuki (easily my favorite VA, though I only recently realized it). However, in terms of actual story this episode was very confusing. What was the importance of Liang’s factory? Why was Alphard so pissed at the map? I suspect that Alphard was looking at the location of the village, where Sham got himself a new, younger Canaan, but it wasn’t clear. I’m not sure I really understand the Snakes’ plan either. They made America look bad and now they’re going to mess around with various stock markets and stick it to capitalism? Oh well, I guess I’ve heard/seen much worse plans.
So now that we know that fear is green and hunger is gray, we’re going to get all the named village survivors gathered at the ruins. I liked the Canaan emo over losing her synesthesia, especially when she couldn’t figure out why Hakkoo was such a hater. It still kinda pisses me off to see Minoru doing all the reporting while Maria just goofs off, but the little road trip was amusing with the Canaan-Hakkoo tension. Did Hakkoo know young Canaan? I also wonder if Nene will end up being an important character since she keeps popping up the way Yunyun did at the start.
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