- The art and fight scenes leave much to be desired. For a manga that's on a monthly release schedule and not a weekly release schedule, I expected more. I mean, I'm not asking for Berserk or Vagabond art quality but sheesh, I've seen better art from weekly release mangas.
- Exposition is handled clumsily. I especially found the race description to be misleading and pointless what with race stats difference being pretty much insignificant in-game. Not to mention that mentioning about Newmans being great at Techniques sounds dumb as a few pages later, we see a T-ATK Human waifu completely demolish a T-ATK Newman. Granted, we're fully aware of why that specific Human waifu is so good at Techniques but still.
- I'm liking Melphonsina's personality so far and I sure do get a kick out of seeing Gettemhart being talked down to and actually being scared of someone else. Would have loved to see a short flashback of one of their sparring matches, or rather, just the end result of it given how "meh" the fight scenes are in this chapter.
- Matoi is just great in this chapter. I've been wanting to see her old cold ruthless self from EP2-6 and this chapter delivered on that. I particularly like this panel of hers the most:
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- Matoi's banter with Xion/Clarissa, who is being a smartass troll towards Matoi (Oh, so THAT'S where Xiao gets it), is adorable and fun to watch. More of that please.
- I do have to wonder why Clarissa chose to tell Matoi that Melphonsina isn't a Dark Falz after Matoi fought and almost killed Melphonsina instead of before like with the Player in EP2-6.
- Little Melrandia is adorable. Damn you Gettemhart for destroying all that sunshine and joy by being an abusive prick later on!... Oh, and little Zeno is there too. Yay, I guess?
- Why is Melphonsina patching herself up in the Shop area for all to see? I get that Oracle people are probably desensitized to ARKS girls showing off a lot of skin but come on. The ships have med bays for that. Its not like it wouldn't have been possible to put Gettemhart, Melrandia and Zeno in a scene together if Melphonsina was in a med bay instead of the Shop area. Plus, I totally would have loved to see more of the hot ARKS nurses (who I'm pretty sure are also doctors too given the lack of contrary evidence) and maybe a short cameo of Fillia in training.
- Despite Lilipa (at the time) being a restricted area, somehow without any explanation, Melphonsina still manages to travel there without any trouble by a Campship. I'm not really sure how Campships really work beyond how they function in-game but shouldn't Campships be programmed to not allow regular ARKS to travel to restricted planets? Does Melphonsina happen to be a skilled hacker or did she have connections to pull strings for her? That should've been explained.
- Why did Melphonsina think it was okay track Matoi alone? She got her ass kicked the last time she fought Matoi alone.
- Apprentice appears at the end but honestly, she's easily the most pathetic of the Dark Falzes and, ironically, the least attractive looking. Luther is obviously the prettiest looking Dark Falz. Can't wait for Luther to appear.
Originally Posted by Golgotha
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