CANAAN - 12 September 20
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Summary:
After returning from the factory, Canaan, Minoru, Yunyun, and Maria find a place to stay in a nearby town. Canaan is plagued with thoughts of how everyone has been hard on her and how so many have died, and Maria is the only one able to make her feel a little better. The next day, they find that the car has broken down, so Minoru decides that the girls should go ahead by train. A short time into the train ride though, the train stops, and Canaan hears gunfire and goes to investigate. She still remembers how Siam died on a train like this, and much to her surprise, she finds him sitting in one of the cars. In fact, all the people who have died so far are there, and they imply that it was Canaan who killed them all. One of them, Hakko, even appears to get a bullet to the head after blaming Canaan. Siam tells Canaan not to avert her eyes and rely on strange senses, but to instead fix her eyes on the truth.
The train then starts moving again, and Canaan realizes that the car is full of passengers who have been killed, triggering what Siam claims is Canaan’s fear of death. Back in the car that Maria and Yunyun are in, Alphard suddenly shows up and cites how Canaan is the strongest when she has a light to protect. Alphard wants Maria to be the detonator that awakens Canaan’s true power, and Maria agrees under the condition that she can take Alphard’s picture. Moments later, Canaan hears a gunshot and runs back to the car that Maria and Yunyun were in. When she gets there, she at first sees Siam, but once she remembers his advice, she sees Alphard instead. On the nearby seat is Maria’s blood, and the trail leads out of the back of the car.
As it turns out, Alphard had shot Maria in the side and had locked her and Yunyun in a car with some timed explosives nearby. This gives Canaan very little time to fight Alphard, but she has no choice but to do so. All during the fight, Alphard taunts Canaan with how she’s also Canaan and how she and Siam are the same. She also claims that Siam wouldn’t have died on that train if Canaan hadn’t appeared and that Canaan is like a baby with a very straightforward love. When she forces Canaan against a wall, she explains that she doesn’t want to kill Canaan - she wants to kill the despair that Canaan represents since that’s how Siam had felt towards those like her. As those two continue to fight, the timer on the bomb continues to tick down, and Maria decides to have Yunyun leave their car and detach it from the rest of the train.
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This was a good episode, but I had to watch it a couple of times to really understand Alphard’s motivations. I think part of that is because they kept switching between her and Maria’s scenes, so it was a little confusing to follow the first time through. Canaan seeing Siam and the others who have died was a little confusing as well, but I’ll chalk it up to her having the cross of a mental breakdown and an introspective moment. In any case, I still like that Alphard is a complex character who you can’t just call a villain, and this episode showed how it’s the despair that Canaan represents that she’s trying to overcome. I actually came out of this feeling that Siam is as much to blame for what’s happening as either of the girls thanks to how he influenced them.
Of course, the most consistently great thing about this series is the action, and P.A. Works once again wonderfully animated the battle in this episode. It was much longer and not nearly as one-sided as Canaan and Alphard’s previous encounter, and it was really just a lot of fun to see the fight choreography. Since the bomb hasn’t yet gone off, I’m hoping for some big bangs in next week’s finale too. I don’t think they’ll kill off Maria, but you never know…
Anonymous at 4:03 am on September 20th, 2009
it would be awesome to see Maria die, nice twist :p
Jason Isenberg at 4:04 am on September 20th, 2009
Crap, this is getting intense =/
Syaoran Li at 4:10 am on September 20th, 2009
Don’t you remember? When Maria was used as a hostage to lure Canaan, the little fellow used a fake bomb in Maria, so my guess is that Alphard will do the same here.
We’ll have to wait one more week to know the truth.
Heck at 4:32 am on September 20th, 2009
Nice nice…
YOOHOO at 4:44 am on September 20th, 2009
Man, Alphard looks so incredibly hot without her jacket on. Forget the damn episode, I could watch her fight in that getup all day.
Joyce at 5:00 am on September 20th, 2009
Personally i like Alphard’s character and i dun find her a villain, rather i find that her past had force her to morph into what she is today.
As for Cannan, i find that she is still much naive and straight forward =)
Siam and those who turn them into what they are, are really to be blame .. hopefully no one else dies in the Grand Finale ~~~~
beeboobeeboo at 5:11 am on September 20th, 2009
die maria, just die. please.
Do at 5:20 am on September 20th, 2009
There’s no point in living for Canaan if Maria dies.
Seriously, so many shit happened to these two, let them have a happy ending.
mutio at 5:27 am on September 20th, 2009
Next week end already? Is there any plan for a 2nd season or can we say: “That’s it” ?
Exia at 5:48 am on September 20th, 2009
i think maris dead.
Megas at 7:14 am on September 20th, 2009
30 seconds is way too long. I would only have hopes for Maria dying if it was like 10 or something.
island esper at 8:13 am on September 20th, 2009
the only way to stop Siam legacy is to have both Cannan and Alphard die in a big boom. Sadly Mari ahas to live to expose/publish the whole story to stop the human experiments that was the trigger behind all this mess…. Just a thought
island esper at 8:17 am on September 20th, 2009
oh forgot another alternate ending… the three girls can hug and start kissing a la Needless pretty girl squad…. woot
alex at 9:31 am on September 20th, 2009
Hmm i dnt think maria will die the whole “your job is to live” that alphard kept banging on about kind of does it for me i think she ment to live thru the whole thing,but then again cant see alphard dying either mayb just canaan either way i dnt think it’s gonna be a happy ending imo but who knows gief nxt episode nowz!
kokweng at 9:44 am on September 20th, 2009
the bomb left <30sec wo..
i think the bomb fake 1 or maybe maria die
Nyx at 11:23 am on September 20th, 2009
Except Alphard isn’t ‘the little fellow’, who planted that ‘bomb’ on Maria just to lure Canaan to him. Alphard shot Maria beforehand, so she’s pretty damn serious in blowing her to smithereeens, despite her previous statements. Contradicting herself much? Also, since the carriage’s in the middle of freakin’ nowhere, even if the bomb’s a fake, no rescue’s abound, and Maria’s bleeding out in the carriage. I reckon she’s doomed, at least.
And if Canaan has ‘no point in living’ without Maria, maybe the staff are aiming for one of the bleakest endings in recent anime history.
FMF at 12:06 pm on September 20th, 2009
Maria hasn’t been the most likable character throughout the series but her decision to disconnect the train to save Canaan and sacrifice herself, imo, is redeeming.
So, if they kill Maria or they somehow separate her from Canaan permanently then the show is complete ‘fail’.
*crosses fingers for next week*
BROOKLYN otaku at 1:09 pm on September 20th, 2009
yawnfest!!especially alphards motivations ZZZzzzzzz Zzzzzzzzz. . . the ep would have at least left a smile on my fce if the woulda blown maria sky high at the end, but..
TJ at 1:28 pm on September 20th, 2009
I think it all just comes down to Alphard wanting to prove that she’s stronger than Canaan, but the show makes everything more complicated than need be.
foamer at 1:45 pm on September 20th, 2009
me goggles were steaming watching this episode :3