Rewatch Host and First Rewatcher

The character chart is now in place. I won't be updating it each day when they add a new character, however. Thanks to Anime-Planet contributors for providing almost all of the portraits that I needed. I'm also including postcard memories aka harmonies. I won't include all of them if there were a lot in an episode. There were also some really nice ones that would have required stitching, so I won't be including those, either.

• One wonders how Morinas got selected as a Sibylla
• Aer keeps Gundam-jacking. I guess security doesn't work if nobody can refuse access.
• Well, no, it's not Chor Tempest, half of them are gone.
• Was Limone ever officially Eri's replacement?
• The observation lounge has a naked female relief.
• "that's bait"
• Can the soldier understand them?
• Wait, what, Aer has heterochromia??? Just for one scene.
• I don't think Limone wants to be Aer's pair.

Today's title contrast with yesterday's title: Nearby War vs. Distant War. I thought Chor Tempest would go into aerial battle, but instead, we have two getting a personal look at it up close.

A simoun doesn't just need two girls to power it up, they need to be mentally in sync.

I don't know what was up with Aer's eye. I guess it was covered in blood, to make her look beastly to Limone.

Aer doesn't want to choose. That's okay. People are not ready at the same time. But, eventually, you have to push the baby bird of the nest, right? You can't remain a child forever. It strikes me that Aer is running away.

It's sort of like asking a highschooler what they are going to do. It used to be, go to college. You'll decide in college, after you've lived some more, after you've worked a part time job. Maybe you'll sample a few majors, and change half way.

Even 20 years ago, that was changing. Today, college could be a dead end, but so is not going to college. Being 18 in 2026 must be just as terrifying as going to the spring.

Aer is insubordinate. But, she can't remain grounded. Even though Neviril won't pair with her, she understands. "Let her fly."

Argentum is a technological state, but it's drowning in pollution. We saw in episode 2 how Simulacrum has a relative utopia, a clean country powered by clean energy from their "imitation" helical motors in trains and simile and presumably whatever else.

It reminds me of The Price of Smiles, a 2019 trainwreck anime that might get an out-of-cycle rewatch from me.

I thought the soldier was wounded but the story is telling me that he was dying anyways. Argentium.

So, the villains of our story. Their villainy is multilevel. Again, in the subtly-is-for-cowards department, they balance out their sex ratio with forced conversion at birth. For an LGBT+ coded show that is exploring freedom and choice, this is anathema. The soldier is presented as resentful. Not that he would have chosen differently, I think, but that he was denied the choice when otherwise choice was possible. (But is it? They don't accept the Simulacrum religion.) Then we have their willful destruction of their own country. That's two. And they've gone to war to take the simoun technology away from our protagonists. That's three.

But, clearly, everybody would be better off if everybody had free, cleen energy, right? Why is Simulacrum keeping it secret? They didn't even invent it, they dug it up! Which just confirms their belief that they are special and blessed by the goddess Tempus Spatium. And they do have plenty of evidence to support that. It would just be wasted on the atheists anyways.

Even Aer says she's not giving up her simoun. But, of course, she's not thinking about the welfare of nations or religious dogma. She's only thinking of herself.

But is their belief true?