So the BL hints are becoming more and more obvious to the point where it’s hard to deny. Brushing hands, patting heads, looking into each other’s eyes, stripping in front of one another, and mounting each other in bed are just the tip of the iceberg.

No. 6 is also getting too overdramatic for my tastes. You don’t need to grab his neck for everything. I get that Nezumi hates No. 6, but give it a rest already. Shion almost died and just woke up from a three day nap, and you’re strangling him already? Nezumi wants everyone in No. 6 to die. Overthrowing the government is one thing, but declaring Shion his enemy if he tries to stop everyone from dying in a plague?

In spite of Nezumi’s strong rhetoric, however, he does communicate with Shion’s mother and feign concern for his love rival. So clearly there is a bit of posturing going on.

I’m still keeping my hopes up that No. 6 will turn out well. I don’t mind the BL that much, as long as it stays on this level. Things were probably worse in this episode because the only characters, for the most part, were Shion and Nezumi. With the dog girl and some butler guy looking to show up in the next episode, I think things will pick up.

The scene with the bee was pretty good, mounting jokes aside. There was an appropriate intensity to it, even if Nezumi’s reaction wasn’t the most believable. Everyone already knew from the OP that Shion’s hair would turn white, so the effect of that transformation was muted however. I’m not sure why he was so upset over it, he definitely looks cooler now.

The robotic mice are awesome. I hope we can see more of them. They seem more like cyborgs than robots though. But if No. 6 has technology like that, then everyone is screwed. I can’t help but wonder if the bees are the creation of No. 6. As Nezumi so astutely pointed out, Shion and his friend were rogue elements in the city, and Shion was targeted for assassination. He and his friend also became infected with the bees. Coincidence? Regardless, I’m fairly confident that defeating No. 6 won’t be as easy as Nezumi suggests.

Girls in the future are quite straightforward.

So this will be the second show I’m picking up this season, after Usagi Drop, mainly because I love the dystopian sci-fi setting in No. 6. Hopefully No. 6 will make better use of its setting than its predecessors Fractale and [C] did. The creators seem to have an idea of where they’re headed, so my hopes are high.

In this episode, we jump two years into the future to see what happens after Shion harbors the runaway Nezumi. He is found out in short order by the Ministry of Peace, and both him and his mother are exiled to Lost Town. Shion meets his girlfriend again, who still wants to have his baby, but he puts her off. Nezumi gets jealous and draws Shion away with his rat.

Shion finds a dead, aged body in the park and reports it, but is met with a mysterious coverup. Then, as Shion mentions that the city is hiding something, his friend has the same thing happen and dies, and a bee comes out of the wound. Shion is arrested for treason, but Rat frees him, and they escape together through the sewers. Shion appears to have marks on his throat in the area where the bee left his friend.

The setting continues to be great, and it is only expanding as they go outside the wall. There are still plenty of questions left, and the creators haven’t played all their cards yet. I’m looking forward to finding out more about the city. What is Lost Town, and what is the truth behind the cities? The plot is also good: the creators seem to know where they’re heading.

On the negative side, it looks to me like this show is headed for some yaoi content. I can take some, and it doesn’t seem like it should be that bad. Another issue is that the two male characters suffer from bishoujo syndrome. They don’t seem to have too much of a personality and are too perfect. Shion’s previously unstoppable curiosity appears to have been beaten into compliance by the government.