Cross Ange 08 — Finally This Is Going Somewhere

Announcement: I’m going to be travelling over Thanksgiving so I won’t be updating with new episodes.

Maybe. Took them long enough.

Summary

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Time for the school festival! Wait, they’re not in school, they’re in prison you say? Well it doesn’t matter! Every anime needs a school festival episode!

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And since it’s in prison, that means we can make it a tradition for everyone to wear swimsuits! Perfect! Also everyone in this prison is a girl under the age of 18.

Hilda is missing from the festival.

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It’s probably just her period.

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Of course, two girls find a convenient place during the festival to make out. Ange interrupts them and steals their seat.

It turns out a princess is visiting.

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Hilda holds up Momoka so she can use her mana to fly the princess’ plane.

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Ange kidnaps the princess.

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Meanwhile, important events are occurring at the school festival.

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Tragically the captain is losing the “carry eggs with your boobs” contest.

Ange and Hilda run into each other at the airport.

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Hilda pulls a gun on Ange.

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Ange has a bigger gun.

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Ange needs to escape so she can save her cute wheelchair imouto. Oh, Sunrise…

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It turns out Hilda only became a rapist and made friends with bad people so she could survive. I seem to remember Hilda being worse than her friends but whatever…

Ange has escaped. They call Tusk to go get her, or something. Whatever, I’m sure they’re just going to make out.

Thoughts

The reconciliation with Hilda was really dumb. Are they seriously trying to paint her as a good person after all this? I don’t know… It’s one thing to let her redeem herself, it’s quite another to just completely excuse all her raping and murder attempts…

I’m kind of disappointed that this episode didn’t take things far enough as the previous episodes. I mean, after all that we’ve seen, girls holding eggs with their boobs in swimsuits is pretty tame. We didn’t even get to see the “bread-eating in melting swimsuits contest.” Not that I actually want to see that…

4 thoughts on “Cross Ange 08 — Finally This Is Going Somewhere

  1. Wait? Hilda was the rapist?

    I thought Zola was the one doing the raping? Hilda’s a lot of things- attempted murderer, stuck up bitch and all round nasty person but a rapist is one thing I’ve not seen her do.

    Unless you consider Rosalie and Chris to be raped, but they accepted Hilda rather willingly from the looks of things.

    1. I guess, but she sure enjoyed and supported the previous rapist whom Ange killed, and sounded like she wanted to replace her.

  2. “Ange needs to escape so she can save her cute wheelchair imouto. Oh, Sunrise…”

    War… war never changes. There will always be innocent civilian victims, mankind showing its ugliest, most brutal side, awesome super-robots and wheelchair bound imoutos to save.

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