Postby Fauna » 8 years ago
So, change of plans...I put my preorder of the album on hold (it's a long story), and volume two arrived this week. I'm glad to see Noh Uno here: his A:TB name is officially the Earl Aaron Bremner. (Earl is his rank. His name in the original text is アーロン ブレムナー伯爵.) He's from Scotland, and has a multi-armed, butterfly-like robot named North. Yes, he's the creator of a female version of Greatest Robots' North.
Ran has a crush on A106, which is really interesting so far. Speaking of him, that tournament was particularly brutal. Mars was supposed to flat-out kill A106 on the spot, but he defies Dr. Lolo's orders and just collapses on the ground. Even though he was spared, the fight left A106 missing the lower half of his body and his right eye. This follows with an interesting chapter of the few weeks that A106 is table-ridden, overhearing the conversations of the kids around him (and subject to being sit on by Tom Cat.)
A106 also has reoccurring intrusive thoughts about being stabbed in the torso by Mars. This is one of the few times I've seen robot PTSD in media, and an accurately portrayed case at that! The kids - Motoko, Ran, Shunsaku Ban's nephew Shunsaku, Tenma, and Ochanomizu - go with Motoko's maids and nanny to a beach island in search of the source of some odd inorganic signals. This is where they meet an enormous squad of Mars clones, and the new ally Aaron Bremner. The three young lads discover an abandoned lab on the island that may have a clue to what caused the strange explosions in Japan five years prior...
My grievances: Tenma has a thing for Dr. Lolo. No, this isn't envy from me, this is over how ridiculous this is. It's presented as being purely physical, and the other characters roast him a bit for it, but like...this is a woman who tried to get a robot to kill his robot creation and friend. The thirst is unfeasible.
Also, Kasahara needs to calm down with drawing boobs. If he has a chance to draw a boob or even add extra cleavage line, he takes it. It's really distracting, especially with an out-of-nowhere swimsuit scene with Motoko and Ran. Last volume had a few needless pantyshots for Ran, and this volume had one stupid swimsuit scene. At least there seems to be a cap on this.
Now, chapter 14: We pick up again with Unnamed Woman driving the kids away from danger - this time it's a squad of Mars clones on bikes. Unnamed Woman (I'll call her UW for space) calls for Rabby to fire a Micro Smart Grenade at the clones. Unfortunately, they easily avoid it.
UW has been presenting as a journalist up until this point, and Tenma figures out that it's a cover. She reveals she's a special agent with ICE, an Interpol-like international investigation circuit that focuses on robotic crime. She activates her Brain Link with Rabby, which lets her use her robotic eye to see through Rabby's point of view on the van. She's able to finally make some damage with shooting the Mars clones behind them. And that's all we see for now until next month...
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Fauna on Sat Jan 02, 2016 10:37 pm, edited 2 times in total.
Reason: Removed something I complained about, because I mistook knees for boobs. Now I'M the dunderhead. 
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