Sidonia no Kishi: Daikyuu Wakusei Seneki-06

Well, I can’t tell if this is supposed to be romantic…or awkward.

Well, it was more character development this week with our main trio, as Nagate finds a new place to live, and ends up rooming with not one, but two wonderful ladies. Nagate stays with Izana for a night and the two do have a good time, even if it is interrupted in true horror-movie fashion, by Tsumugi, who has since learned to how to used the enormous piping system in Sidonia to find her way throughout the city, and thus to Izana’s home. It’s obvious that Izana is quite nervous about staying in the same house with the guy that she’s got an obvious crush on, but the impromptu presence of Tsumugi defuses the situation a bit, despite some rather cliche anime rom-com shenanigans.

Exactly, how long are you, exactly?

If one has been watching the show since the beginning, you might notice the slight but definite growth in Izana’s character.The girl from episode 1 of the series couldn’t even stand up to Norio, much less think about asking a boy she liked to potentially move in with her on a permanent basis. Nagate has grown by leaps and bounds himself, and it’s not in his nature to take advantage of another’s hospitality, and so even before Izana can even ask, he tells her of his plans to move out, and  using his rank and status to get himself quite a nice place along the wall that grants him a wonderful view and has enough space that he even has room for his closest friends to move in as well. I must say that it’s about time that Nagate took advantage of the rewards that come with the rank that he has more than earned out on the battlefield.

Izana baulks at the idea of moving in with Nagate at first, especially since her rank doesn’t give her the same allowances as it does him, but he assures her that it will be fine. I find it funny how she covers her nervousness by turning it around on Nagate and using her new bionic hands to actually make him feel uncomfortable instead. Izana isn’t much of a tsundere, but there are times that she can fool even me.

Hah! Got him right where I want him, and he doesn’t even know it.

Tsumugi continues to be as charming as ever, her adorable cute noises are both weird and pure moe all blended into one. Her interest in the new world around her is vivacious and understandable considering that she is only months old and it wasn’t until last episode that they even found a way for her to actually see the civilian world of Sidonia. She finds wonder in everything and her uncomplicated ideas on the world and life are both intricate and simplistic, as they would be through the eyes of a child. She and Nagate’s relationship has grown as well, and quite rapidly considering that not much time has actually gone by. Considering Tsumugi’s innocent and infantile nature, I can’t quite put her in Nagate’s ever-growing “harem” per say, but I see them more so as in between a brother/sister relationship and one of a young girl who has had her first crush. I just love how Tsumugi tried to gather the courage to ask Nagate if she could sleep beside him, and in such an innocent way. It reminded me of a child who wants to sleep with their parent or older sibling, having yet to adjust to an unfamiliar surrounding.

On the military side of things, we first have “Mozuku” taking over for Ochiai as pilot of Tsumugi. I’m not sure if this was because the man is becoming more busy in regards to his plans, or that he’s not going to risk his life again after the last fiasco, but considering his penchant for complete control as well as his vanity, it’s probably a bit of both.

Speak of the devil, Ochiai and his cronies are on the move again and so is Captain Kobayashi. I’m at the point where I don’t think that the captain is under the mad scientist’s control, or at least not by the use of the blood nematodes. He’s definitely playing her though, and for the power that she desires from his “research”, she’s going for it hook, line, and sinker. Kobayashi has always seemed like a woman that was constantly balancing on the edge of knife, wanting what was best for her people, but willing to do questionable things to do what she thinks is best. Yet, as of this point, it feels as if she’s lost that balance and has allowed her obsession of destroying the Gauna to cloud her judgement.

Is anyone else here getting 2001 vibes or is it just me?

Rather than get the supplies that her people can use from a nearby dwarf planet, she uses the celestial body for target practice instead. She has declared war against the Gauna and is dragging all of Sidonia into it with her, and at the same time, is working to make weapons using the research of a man that was willing to sacrifice millions to get the results he wanted. She’s become a tool for someone else’s use, doesn’t even realize it, and it’s through her own volition. The canon that she’s had created (that wasn’t ready to be tested) works beautifully, but at what cost? We can see that energy isn’t the only thing coming off that death machine. However, I do wonder if that was part of Ochiai’s plan all along, and if so, what is he up to?

Keikaku doori…

The captain is beginning to remind me a bit of Captain Kirk in an original series Star Trek episode simply titled “Obsession”. Kirk allows his inability to forgive himself and his growing obsession with killing a monster from his past to take hold and affect his decisions, risking the lives of others both on his ship and elsewhere. That episode had a redemptive ending, and I’m hoping for the same with Kobayashi. I rather enjoyed her presence in season one and I liked that she was learning from past experience to change the way that she used to do things. However, I feel that unless she’s got some kind of hidden ace up her sleeve, she’s becoming a pawn that will end up destroying all that she wished to save.