1 I can't figure out a few things.


1. Who the girl in the picture at Jimon's father's desk was? I suppose it would make sense for her to be Renge, with the implication that they are siblings, half-siblings. Surely nobody is going to keep a picture of random girl on the desk, don't you think?

2. Was the sequence we saw at the beginning the necessary future (e.g. the present of the narator (Yasu?), or was it some kind of dream sequence? Preview in 09 seem to show a similar kind of destruction.

3. What's up with the sudden expanse in Zvezda's numbers? Where do they plug into the HQ organization (e.g. Plamya is supposed to lead the mooks in TO, but she never does).

2 You don't have to hide spoilers here.  There's no way I could do episode reviews without them (if I could find the time to do full blown episode reviews....).

1) I don't think it's Renge since they're about the same age, I think the kid is just his little sister. Also, he wouldn't have her on his list of potential dates at 27 of 68. (Yes, I re-watched just to get those numbers.)

2) I think it would have to be a different kind of destruction, having just rewatched that cold open, the thing that stood out was the statue of a fully grown Kate, so obviously a lot of conquering has gone on since.

3) I believe Kate's greatest power is her infectious persuasiveness.  Remember that she raised an army of 80,000 just in her anti-smoking campaign. Jimon lucked out (severely) by getting recruited into the core group, and while initially he thought this was just some small group of crazies who dream big, there's been an awful lot of stuff going on that proves that impression to be wrong.  She already had quite a reputation before Goro and Yasu joined up.

3 Does Asuta know who White Robin is? I know she knows who White Egret and Dva is, but I;m not sure about him.

Do we know what kind of relationship there is between White Falcone and Itsuka?

I feel bad for teh Chef. he was a good guy.

4 Oh, and White Egret knew both who Dva is and his relation to the Governor. Does the Governor then know about Asuta?

5 Asuta THOUGHT he knew who White Robin was, but when he got the chance to unmask her, he was fooled by a mask under her mask, so now he's probably absolutely convinced she is NOT who she actually is.

There seems to be a lot of one-way Identity knowledge going on here.

I don't know if the Governor has been told that his son is in Zvesda yet. I suspect that little nugget might be held back for future uses.

I asked a Ukranian fellow at work, and he said "Zvesda" means "Star", so "Shining the light of Zvesda across the world" makes a certain level of sense.

I think Cthuko's translation is more faithful.  FFF in the opening song shows "Kiss and cry" in the Japanese lyrics, and "Kiss of death" in the subtitles.  Where the hell did they get that?

6 What a difference with ep. 10. I feel like I missed about two or three episodes.

7 Yeah, the whole Japanese civil war thing came out of nowhere. But really, that episode could have been retitled "Shit just got Real."

There were two lines in that episode that REALLY had me going though. "Do you think I'm a kid because I WANT to be one?" and "It's 12,000 years too early to be giving up Renge!" I REALLY want to know what that means.

8 Looks like Asta's sister is not an acting character (they cut around her in domestic scenes). Pity.