Arpeggio of Blue Steel -Ars Nova- Episode 8: House of Dolls
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EPISODE REVIEWS

A busier episode with a lot happening at once. Some genuinely funny moments mixed in with the serious stuff. The show balances the two reasonably well without one undermining the other.

If you think it's going to jump into action right away then you haven't been listening to Gunzou on the previous episode. This is a more informative episode that expands the world, but while it answers a few questions, it still leaves many of the series' mysteries unresolved. Although it comes a bit late, the layout of Iwo Jima is finally revealed. The episode also explains a rather a simple explanation for why the Fleet of Fog chose female forms for their Mental Models and also a small information about the Admiralty Code that the Fleet of Fog follows. More importantly, Kongo delivers several intriguing lines that hint at larger mysteries surrounding the Fleet of Fog and their purpose.

was she cooking up some dubai chewy cookie on that beach or what it's so sad to see kongo still not convinced that models and humans can get along after all, but i guess that really happens when all you've ever known is the admiralty code. it's hard to get out of an environment that brainwashed you into thinking you're separate from the rest of humanity and everyone's an enemy

