10 Second Anime - Cross Ange - Episode 20

Cross Ange - Episode 20



Embryo shows Ange his plans for the two worlds and how he bent the other women to his will. Ange and her friends begin their resistance.

Heh.

There was a marked improved in animation quality during certain scenes. It's like they got the group who did the first three episodes to do the final ones.

 

Too bad there was also a marked increase in celestial rays of censorship to go with these better animated scenes.

 

Ange tried to kill Embryo again, this time by immobilizing his hands. Oops. He doesn't need hands to move himself around in time and space.

 

Embryo gave Ange the pain, then the pleasure. Stick and carrot, not carrot and stick.

 

We still don't get an explanation of where Embryo came from or why Ange is special enough to resist his mind breaking skills. Maybe they're both special in that they're blonde and have twin pronged ahoge? Perfect match!

 

The Arzenal crew finally had enough of Alektra's personal vendetta against Embryo.

 

Tusk is a pure pure boy. Of course Hilda couldn't resist teasing him.

 

I find Ange's mean girl mispronunciation put downs hilarious. She called Salamandine all sorts of wrong names and then she pulled the same thing on Salia's Diamond Rose Elite Squad. Ha! Daikon radish!

 

I'm not fan of this twin world conceit. Why stop at two? Couldn't there be a whole bunch of different worlds? Why doesn't Embryo go pick on those pure saps and leave his failures alone? Just really start over.

 

Hmm.

I like how Embyro considers himself a "Tuner" of worlds, and that there are songs that power up his Ragna-mails to do physics breaking feats. One of the ramifications of string theory (bear with me here, former astrophysicist talking) is that every bit of matter or energy is just the fabric of space-time "vibrating" at set "frequencies." The mesh of space-time is made up of "bubbles" as small as the Planck's constant (at least we think so since nothing can actually be smaller than that by theoretical definition). Pluck one of these chain links to vibrate like a note, and we'll have an x-ray photon, an electron, or a quark. Of course, since string theory is just a mathematical view of our current knowledge of physics (actually it's over 30 years old now as applied only to quantum gravity), it doesn't explain how these strings get "plucked" in the first place. It's merely descriptive, at least right now. Someday, somebody will design an experiment that doesn't need a supercollider the size of the Earth's orbit to test its predictions for gravitons. Anyway, having the Tuner sing these two songs to start the strings vibrating how he wants is a nice idea.

 

I'm not sure why Embryo wants to combine the worlds. Sure, he ended up making lazy people on one side, but if they run out of magic crystals, they'll have to get busy and build stuff like regular people have for eons. And he doesn't like how easy they hate things? He's the one who gave them the Norma target to hate on. Seems like he's doing an awful lot of complaining about how he sucks at making worlds.

 

Well, combining the two worlds is bad, because people are going to die, so we can't have that. Libertas continues on without Alektra's misplaced priorities. Ange's plan to return Aura to the other side is the only one that makes sense, but I don't know how they stop Embryo from taking the old dragon back. Maybe Salamandine figured something out. She came awfully quick after Riza's distress call. Dragon ladies come to save the day!