#cause why are there names on the same street sis?

[kazekage-libra]

Wild that your side piece named her son, that you sperm donated to, after the wife you cheated on. Girls' girl honestly.

[milaisreading]

Part 2 of the isagi older sis please🙏🏻

🌱🩷: here u go! Hope u like it and thank u for the request. Yn as Isagi's older sister pt 2

Warnings: Reader uses she/her. Requests are open

⚽️Blue Lock belongs to Muneyuki Kaneshiro and Yusuke Nomura⚽️

It's been a week after the Blue Lock team won their first, official match and Yoichi was finally back home. He felt content with himself for the first time in a while. He was proud of his achievements so far, he was happy he made his parents and sister proud. He was happy he could finally eat his mom's food and sister's special kintsuba she always made for him. The only downside he felt was that some people recognized him on the street and would ask for pictures.

Today, for example, he and (Y/n) were strolling around Shibuya, and every once in a while some guys, girls, and kids would stop them to take pictures with Yoichi.

(Y/n) would laugh and tease him for being so shy.

Right now they were in a local mall, where (Y/n) was looking for some clothes to buy her brother and herself.

"Why didn't you go out with your friends, Yo-chan? Isn't shopping with me boring?" (Y/n) wondered as the boy finished talking about what his team had planned for the day.

"It isn't boring!" Yoichi said quickly as he took a few shirts she picked for him to try.

"I like hanging out with you. Besides, I would have probably done the same thing with them like I am doing with you now."

(Y/n) sighed in relief, then pushed her brother to the changing room.

"Alright then. Hurry up and try them out. We can go and check out the new karaoke bar after."

"Alright!"

Yoichi grinned and went to change, leaving (Y/n) behind. Her smile slowly dropped as she remembered the offer given to her by Anri after the match had ended.

'Hmm.... assisting someone like Ego-san and her would look pretty good on my resume in the future. Blue Lock is the latest buzz not just in Japan, bit internationally too...' (Y/n) frowned and took out her phone to look at the number Teieri had given her.

"Should I accept?" She mumbled to herself.

"Sis, I think I like this one a lot." Yoichi's sudden appearance caused the girl to look up from her phone and at her brother.

"Ooh! It looks amazing, Yo-chan! It goes well with your eyes too!" She grinned, putting her phone away.

'I will think about it later.'

"You think there are any rooms left for us?" Yoichi asked his sister skeptically as they walked through the hallway of the karaoke bar.

"It doesn't hurt to look." (Y/n) pouted as Yoichi laughed a little.

"Blue Lock! Our arch nemesis!" The Isagi siblings stopped in their tracks as they heard the familiar team's name.

"Blue Lock?"

"Isn't that Sendo's voice?" (Y/n) and Yoichi wondered out loud.

"Who?" The girl raised her eyebrow as she followed after her brother.

"He is from the U-20 team." Yoichi saidas they arrived at the where they heard Sendo's voice from.

"Ahh..." (Y/n) nodded her head as she slowly opened the door, the two Isagi siblings left dumbfounded as they peeked inside. In the room, the U-20 team was having a glare-off with Reo, Chigiri, and Bachira.

"Yo-chan, those 3 are your teammates, right?" (Y/n) questioned her brother, who groaned and nodded his head.

"What are you 3 doing?"

The trio, and U-20 team, jumped up and turned to look at them in surprise.

"Isagi?! What are you doing here?" Bachira questioned as he saw the ace.

"Ah~ you brought your sister too!"

"Hi, (Y/n)~" Chigiri and Reo sighed, waving at the girl.

"Not again." Yoichi glared at the two.

"Again-"

"I can't believe how much of a pig you are!" (Y/n) jumped up at she heard a woman yell from the room across from them and pushed Yoichi behind her. The two siblings and the others watched in surprise as two enraged women walked out of the room, all the while yelling at whoever was inside.

"What's going on?" (Y/n) whispered to Yoichi, who was just as dumbfounded.

"Anyways, how are you doing today, (Y/n)?" Bachira suddenly asked, pushing Yoichi away from her side.

"Oh? I am fine. Yoichi, did you hurt-"

"Are you here to sing, too? The two of us can make a cute duo." Chigiri suggested, resting one of his arms on her shoulder.

"Ah, well that sounds-"

"Now, why would you ruin her magnificent voice with your screeching, Chigiri?" Reo teased as he stood in front of her, and earning a death stare from Chigiri.

"Isn't that a little bit rude?" (Y/n) wondered.

"Can you 3 not?!" Yoichi yelled, grabbing his sister's arm and pushing her behind him, an action which earned pouts from the three boys.

'I think my breakfast is about to say hello.' (Y/n) thought, trying to ignore the confused looks from the Japan team.

"What's with all the yelling in here?"

"Shut up, Oliver. Did you cause that ruckus with those women?" A white haired boy asked the captain as he walked inside.

(Y/n)'s eyes widened as she heard the familiar voice and name, and looked at the entrance to the room.

"You know me, Hayate. I can't settle down for one- (Y/n), what are you doing here?" Oliver asked in shock, face paling.

"I... I came here with my brother...' The girl said, pointing at Yoichi. The said boy and his friends stopped arguing, and looked at the older girl, and then at the captain of their rival team.

"You two... know each other?" Bachira raised an eyebrow.

"Are you two friends?" Reo added in as Chigiri and Yoichi grew unnerved.

"Friends is too humbling, rich boy." Oliver laughed, earning a glare from (Y/n).

"What does he mean?" Chigiri raised an eyebrow.

"We... we kind of dated for 6 months or so." (Y/n) finally spoke up with a red face.

"What?! And you never told me?! Sis, I thought we don't keep secrets from each other!" Yoichi yelled in disbelief, now trying to hide his sister from Oliver's gaze.

"Why this old fart?" Bachira asked the girl, sounding betrayed.

"Well-"

"Regardless, at least you came to your senses and left him." Chigiri smiled in satisfaction, earning a glare from Oliver.

"Are you not going to defend me?" Oliver asked the girl in disbelief.

"What am I supposed to say?!" (Y/n) spoke up.

"Hello?!" Oliver waved his arms around as Hayate, Sendo, and Niou were laughing at his misfortune.

Soon after the whole chaos had started, the rest of Blue Lock arrived at the room too. The boys were either amused at the ruckus, or they went to talk with (Y/n) as they saw her being shielded by her brother, Chigiri and Bachira.

'What a day...' She sighed, trying to pull her brother away from an argument he was having with Oliver.

"Mikage-san, please calm down too." She asked the boy.

"Sure will!" The purple-haired boy said with no hesitation as he looked away from Oliver.

"Also, Reo is just fine with me."

"Anyways, I suggest we find a new place to hang out at." Niou suddenly spoke up, earning nods from everyone.

"Great idea, Niou. Let's go, (Y/n). The two of us can-"

"No!" The Blue Lock team interrupted Oliver.

[scentedpeachlandcreator]

Hi!! Have you had any success stories or know any of someone manifesting superpowers? ♡

Yeah i have one, but my manifestation was just having Supernatural Friends and boyfriend.

And let me tell you that i have manifested this even tho i didn't even discover the Law of assumption 😭, i just knew shifting and i didn't have limiting beliefs about the illogical things.

So what i did is i scripted my WR (stands for waiting room) and i scripted Also my Supernatural Friends and my boyfriend.

I was trying to shift there to meet them..but it didn't work (cause duh i had so much limiting beliefs about shifting believing that i had to do methods to shift🗿).

But since i haven't shifted i just decided that they will Come to this World.

Firstly i didn't know if they did Come here or not until in november 2020 my little sister Saw in the window that my Supernatural Friends and my boyfriend was in the car passing by the street that is in front of our apartment.

And i told her (my little sis) "hey..isn't one of my Friend have telepathic power? Then why don't we try to communicate with Them through our Minds?" And yes it worked so my sister started talking to them with just her mind (if you doubt me and you just Say "how did you know that it worked?" Well there were so many proofs and i will talk about them later on).

We had so much fun talking to them with just our Minds (thanks to my little sis🥹).

But you might wondering if i met them? No i didn't cause they didn't want me to meet them cause of my strict parents (by the way my Supernatural Friends are : 4 guys and one of them is my boyfriend and 2 girls).

Proofs : well when drama was happening in my middle school i would Ask my boyfriend to read their Minds or to know an information about them, and he would told me, i couldn't believe him at first but then when i would Ask some common Friend about that "the rumors" they would Say the same thing my boyfriend said and yup i was speechless and that proved that my friends and my boyfriend were here.

Then i really wanted to manifest my favorite fictional character (eren yeager from attack on titan) cause i had a Big crush on him 🤭, so my boyfriend suggested to bring him here with the Magic wand (yes my Magic wand is with my boyfriend 😥) so he made him Come to this World and he didn't Even told me (cause yeah my boyfriend is jealous), i was Sitting in the Park with my sister and my parents then i noticed a man walking like he didn't Even know where he was (and he was looking exactly like my fictional character "eren" he even was wearing the same clothes and even the hairstyle hsbfkgnidbf😫😩💗) i quickly told my sister "hey don't you think that man looks like eren?" And she told me "oh yeah it true" then i told her "hey Ask (my boyfriend's name) if that man is eren?" She hesistated a bit and told me that yeah it was him but 10 years older (because in the show he's 19 so that means he came from the future), so he started walking then he sat near my Parents my jaw dropped to the roof i was extremely surprised and Also excited, he was holding a black bag and another bag full of bread but suddenly it disappeared 😨 and he started smoking, girl i started fangirling at that moment 🤭😂..and i have so many stories but i would write an essay if i could tell you all of it😂.

Oh and also one day me and my little sis witnessed eren teleported right in front of us. (Yes my eyes couldn't believe what it Saw).

So yeah that it, now i'm manifesting to wake up in the void aware and to manifest my dream life and to live with my Friends.

Sorry for rambling 😅 and yeah that my success story.

[silviakundera]

Joy of Life Episode 15 and 16 liveblogging

This is my first watch, so don't tell me secrets ;)

This massacre just doesn't feel like a crown prince move? 🤔🤔

Going back to the reason they were on Cow Street... Are they going to figure out that Si Lili is a northern qing agent?

Looks like me and ML are on the same page..?

Yeah I remember when she burned her cover earlier. Damn ur bro died because you trusted a mysterious stranger who you knew to be a good liar, able to defeat knockout drugs, and not a real courtesan. In retrospect, not a good look. Idiotic forced romance misunderstandings are the mind killer.

Now he's gonna hire crooked map seller as his subordinate... we'll see how that goes.

I suppose I better learn his name: Wang Qinian, Wang Qinian, Wang Qinian!

We got a backhug! Very romance.

Dad shows up for him at the bridge.

The horses are imperial army. This is stirring up my carefully repressed conspiracy theory that ML's a Secret Royal.

Ok so.... Those guards are from the emperor's personal army. And who is The Bureau Head? Do we know??? He and Dad had "not an ordinary friendship". (also the english subs are using "he" but I don't see 他 used in the Mandarin subs? I guess I'll just presume the subbers know more than me)

Fan Daddy and the Emperor are super interesting together. This is the closest to anyone who's been able to go toe to toe with the emperor. For a moment they almost walked side by side (still dad a step behind). Here we finally see how he could have captured the heart (or at least the friendship?) of the iconic woman ML' mom is reported to be.

I'm actually the most interested about the emperor's relationship with Marvolous Mom. Were they frenemies? besties? lovers? comrades in arms? She was so larger than life, I can't believe she didn't mean SOMETHING to him. Did she have a hand in the shaping of the foundation of his rule, 16+ years ago? 🤔

Lord Zhu is also tracking Si Lili. Hope you help the cause instead of fucking the chase up

lololololol crap maps strike again!

This plan is awful. ... oh good, ML agrees

Ok, she's disappearing! But WHERE???

This is all very exciting! I hope they catch her! Go team go!

Finally he gets to use his poison skills again \o/

Episode 16

Is there anything that Wang Qinian doesn't know?! He may be the most powerful master in the land 👑

"When I met Si Lili for the first time, I drugged her." "Lord, is this a good addiction?" LMAOOOOOOOOOOOO

I'm enjoying the ridiculousness of this chase. Reminds me of the circular "if you suspect that I suspect that you would have suspected..." battle of wits from The Princess Bride

There she is!

Now she's asking the question I have - how is luring him here gonna put him in peril?

ah, naturally an ambush! So how will she be defeated?

...soliders? Did he send a carrier pigeon?

The Black Knights belong to the head... Who is the head?????? Uncle Wu? Grandma?

Chen Pingping?? The king of assassins. If I should already know who this is, you're laughing at me right now.

He's using the public display offense again

Royal Princess has a 1 track mind. Come on, CP! I'm (sort of) rooting for you. Not in the power struggle, but to have your own ambitions and get out from under your wacked aunt's thumb. She's lost perspective & she's not on your side, just her own.

ML is very smart but even if she tells him something, why believe it

I don't trust this water

Don't trust her ML!! This is not Arkham Asylum catch & release

Wang Qinain works for Chen Pingping, right? The way he was fishing was super suspicious.

Yan Ruohai keeps having to save ML's ass, how tragic for him

'I thought you were going to save me?' Si Lili, girl are you for real?! He offered to save you IF you cooperated and you didn't.

Why do I feel like ML doesn't trust Wang Qinain as much as he pretends to?

Sister Ruoruo visiting the Crown Prince? What's the deal there? She's promising to join his team... Why? Like me does she suspect that he's chasing after Fan Xian as a deluded compulsion, like a dog after an ambulance..? So she thinks if she explains his moves the CP will realize he's not a real threat? Or is she trying to spy on him? Or.. she really just wants to hedge her bets? 🤔

UGH the fact that 🍗 just gives these weak ass little protests to her mom and brother but doesn't fight for the guy she clearly likes. Not even manipulative tears! sigh. Just crumbles like a paper bag. She and ML are cute when they're alone but perhaps her personality is just not my cup of tea.

The person 🍗's bestie saw is also the person that is coming to interrogate Si Lili.... Right?????

[wordsandrobots]

Iron Blooded Orphans G - Urdr Hunt - Episode 18: Horn and Flower's Shadow [Part 2]

So, @trafalgarlog has put up the next set of fansubs for the Urdr Hunt and, well, honestly, I could just let the thumbnail on the video speak for itself this week. However, that would rather defeat the point of making these notes for myself so:

This week, 598 meets the family, Shino and Yamagi drop by for a swift lesson in what it means to be like Tekkadan, and a bunch of no-name pirates learn the hard way why you do not, under any circumstances, mess with the Turbines.

Hajiroboshi  (Part 1, Part 2)

Departure (Part 1, Part 2)

598 (Part 1, Part 2)

Corridor of Betrayal (Part 1, Part 2)

Holder of the Ring (Part 1, Part 2)  

Unexpected Encounter (Part 1, Part 2)

Venus’ Worth (Part 1, Part 2)

Brothers’ Ship (Part 1, Part 2)

Horn and Flower’s Shadow (Part 1, Part 2)

But first, there is a certain amount of fallout from the last set of revelations. On the Erda II's bridge, the gang reel from Katya telling them that she is the last heir to the Issue Family. She goes on to explain that her mother was one of the Issues' servants and when 'the man who claims to be [Katya's] father' discovered she had become pregnant, he tossed her out on the street. Katya is understandably pissed at this treatment and even more so by the Issues now pursuing her in the name of continuing their line.

She apologises for the trouble she'll cause but begs to be allowed to stay anyway. Range is having none of it. The Issues aren't going to give up. They'll keep coming after Afam Equipment as long as Katya is there. It's too big a risk.

Luckily for Katya, nobody ever listens to Range. Wistario admits that he was incredibly relieved to hear she didn't want to go with Londo Bron. All his friends from growing up left Venus and he was scared she would as well. Korunaru too says she would be lonely if Katya left. Of course she can stay.

Range grumbles -- what are they supposed to do about the most powerful Gjallarhorn family gunning for them? Wistario agrees they can't fight the Issues head-on. They'll have to start gathering information about them and come up with a plan to keep Katya safe . . .

Anyway, enough of that. It's time to check in with the real star of this game: 598 and the kids over at Foundling, who we find on approach to the Saisei (Teiwaz's roving headquarters) in the company of the Rakou Pirates. It seems Tamami intends to introduce her new business partners to her boss . . .

We quickly get a very strong sense of how Tamami relates to Naze and 'big sis' Amida: our stern pirate captain is clearly wound tight at the prospect and wants 598 on his best behaviour. Parstai tries to assure Tamami they'll try not to be disrespectful -- a promise slightly undercut by 598 having to ask what 'disrespectful' means. Tamami tells him to just act like she taught him to. Which turns out to mean announcing her presence outside Naze's door extremely loudly. (I would also like to note that 598 spends this scene following Tamami's lead on neatening up his clothes, which draws attention to the fact they wear their overalls in exactly the same way, e.g. with the zipper open to their mid-drift. That's a really neat design touch I hadn't appreciated before.)

Naze, of course, is thoroughly laid-back, casually welcoming 598 and Tamami in a manner totally at odds with the two of them immediately standing to attention. He's interested to meet the boy Tamami told him about -- though this opens with him saying that he heard 598 led an attack on one of his ships.

A visibly terrified 598 apologises profusely (or at least, loudly - Tamami is a very good teacher on this score, apparently), to which Naze responds that this isn't the kind of thing you can settle just by bowing your head. 598 admits he knows that, right before Amida tells Naze to stop bullying the kid. The matter is sorted, Tamami having already covered the costs.

Naze says sorry for his joke and tells the pair to make themselves comfortable. 598 exhales in relief and the four get down to business. By which I mean, Amida leaps straight in to making fun of Tamami for coming back to them with a 'son'. They thought she'd finally found a man, but instead it's her kid!

598 (still very, very not relaxed) insists he is not a kid, and won't stop being loudly formal on account of not wanting to bring shame on Tamami. Naze carries out introductions and then zeroes in on 598 calling himself Foundling's boss. What does he need a title like that for? Well, because Foundling want to be like Tekkadan, of course.

Amida observes another knock-on effect of their sworn brothers' success while Naze makes a note to tease Orga rotten about this later. Then he muses for a moment and suggests 598 help him out with a job. The Turbines have received a message from one of their ships, which is being trailed by some suspicious characters. 598 will go as backup for the guy they're sending ahead as an escort for the freighter.

Since there are no men in the Turbines (Naze excepted), Tamami wonders who they're talking about. Well, 598 will just have to go and find that out. Amida whisks him away while Tamami stays to talk to Naze.

Having joined Amida and 598, Parstai wonders about the unusual mobile suits they pass on their way through the Saisei's hangars. Are outsiders really allowed in here? Amida says that was the point of frisking them on the way in, then explains they come with Tamami's recommendation and the Turbines trust her judgement. Parstai can understand that: Tamami is extremely honest. Amida thinks 598 is as well, which he takes a compliment and thanks her (I cannot stress enough that he is *still shouting*). But Parstai murmurs that she doesn't want him getting under any more strange influences. Does that mean she wants to take his reins instead, then? Parstai answers Amida's question in the affirmative, but before 598 can work out what that means, they reach their destination.

Inside a rather fetching rose-coloured Kutan III transporter that is currently holding a very familiar pink mobile suit, a certain blonde mechanic oversees the final systems checks ahead of launch. Yep, turns out the 'flower' in the title for this episode is Tekkadan itself. Amida asks Yamagi to come out when they're done with the checks - she has something to talk to them about.

The other half of the 'they' in question immediately reveals himself to be - of course - Norba Shino, stripped to the waist and plugged into a comically long Alaya-Vijnana connector cable. Well, I say that, but it probably makes sense for those things to stretch at least as long as a mobile suit is tall, for the sake of maintenance activities. The shirtlessness is clearly just for the beefcake, since Shino really ought to be in one of the skin-tight suits Tekkadan usually wear while in space (indeed Yamagi is himself wearing one of them in the same scene). And, like, who's complaining?

Certainly not Yamagi, who shows off one of his patented 'smiles for when I'm interacting with my crush and he can't see me' as Shino knocks on the Kutan's window to say his part of the checks are done. At that point, Amida calls Shino over to the gantry.

He's a bit put out since he thought they needed to hurry. Amida apologises and introduces 598 as a kid one of her sisters is taking care of.

Shino remarks that 598 has an interesting name and introduces himself in turn as captain of Tekkadan's first unit. And this is --

OK. Yes. Pause for the inevitable AHHHHHH that is Shino catching Yamagi's hand while floating in the middle of the hangar and proceeding to stabilise him at what I can only describe as kissing distance (to Yamagi's slight protest) then holding him there for the entire rest of the scene while, I remind you, being completely naked from the waist up, with the camera framing both their faces incredibly close together.

Because yes, this is a very thorough reminder that everyone involved in this, Shino's voice actor notably included, is onboard with the ship. But also -- it's just visually neat. Shino pulls himself to a relative stop using the A-V tether, as we've seen Mikazuki do, showing that's common practice for pilots moving around while connected. He then catches Yamagi's hand while barely even looking -- Yamagi is approaching from behind and Shino sticks his hand out *before* turning to see him coming. Which, one, demonstrates these are people in sync with one another and, two, seems like a nod to the fact that the Alaya-Vijnana ups spatial awareness.

But also yes mainly the slash.

Anyway, 598 is stunned to realise he's talking to people from the actual Tekkadan and confirms he's been asked to help them out. Shino asks Amida if that means she wants them to show 598 how they do things?

Yamagi quietly reminds everyone this isn't a game, drawing a sideways look from Shino, but Amida merely remarks that she's heard 'you guys treat your mobile suits pretty well', winning her the award for straightest face in the enter IBO canon (even Shino doesn't buy that one).

But whatever - they need to get back to work. Yamagi pushes off Shino's shoulder and returns to the Kutan while Shino drags himself back down to the mobile suit cockpit. As he drifts away, Yamagi looks back to see 598 bowing loudly to them and notes that the kid's overalls are obviously fitted over an A-V whisker . . .

Upstairs, Naze and Tamami continue their conversation. She is shocked to hear 598 will be helping Tekkadan out, ratcheting her volume straight back up again. Naze explains that Teiwaz is busy launching the new Shiden model of mobile suit and some of Tekkadan are here for technical guidance on it. Lafter, Azee and Eco will be heading to Mars to help them as well.

Tamami comments that Naze must really trust Tekkadan to let them have the new 'suit. She'd heard he exchanged sakazuki cups with their leader? She'd definitely like to meet him too. However, Orga isn't there. Just like Tamami wasn't there when Naze exchanged cups with him . . .

Naze jokingly asks if she's jealous, which she quickly denies. She just wants to get into the position where she can also have the sakazuki ceremony with him some day.

He would prefer it if she was free. It's helped him to have the Rakou Pirates running around on their own. Tamami reluctantly accepts this but wonders if it's safe to trust Tekkadan to protect the ship that's in danger. There's a lot of buzz around them and it can't sit well with the other Teiwaz executives. To which Naze says, well, they've never liked him anyway. [Insert loud doom-flag gong here]

Don't do anything that would make Big Sis sad, Tamami requests. He could say the same to her -- what's this crazy stuff she's been involved with lately? He knows about what's been happening with the Omden Colony Company and the Zan Clan, and he's worried by not having been able to find much background on it. Tamami needs to be careful -- Amida would be sad if anything happened to her.

She says she'd never be a bother to her Big Sis and Naze decides that's enough boring talk. When Amida gets back, they're all going to have a drink together!

On route to the freighter, 598, Shino and Yamagi chat in the Kutan's cabin, discussing Tekkadan's past successes. By which I mean, 598 geeks out over stories of their achievements and Shino reminisces about fighting mobile suits in mobile workers and losing so many friends. He grouses that it's not as if Tekkadan enjoys picking fights, but quickly cheers up as they talk about battling the Turbines and boarding the Hammerhead. 598 is extremely impressed with the guts it took to negotiate with Naze. And what about escorting the Maiden of Revolution to Earth?! Ah, yes, that was their first job - and thanks to it, they now get much bigger jobs and paychecks!

598 can't wait to get Foundling to the same position. Yamagi, however, pours cold water on the extreme himbo energy he is sitting next to by pointing out the danger of the work and how you never know when you might lose someone. They don't even know how things are going to go with this mission.

The kid is concerned by Yamagi's pessimism (and possibly the fucking knife the writers just drove through the audience's heart), but there's no time to dwell on it. They're approaching the rendezvous point and with so much debris and gases around, they're going to lose contact with the Hammerhead. It's a trickier situation than Shino thought it'd be.

Becoming suddenly serious, he orders 598 to be quiet and keep his eyes peeled. An explosion swiftly follows, dead ahead, and Yamagi reports mobile suits attacking the freighter. Shino leaps into action - he'll go stop the enemy in their tracks. There are only nine, no biggie.

Switching to another animated segment, we get a lovely shot of the Shino launching in a repaired Ryusei-Go, which is now an ungodly mash-up of the original Graze Custom and some Hyakuren and Rouei parts. Don't worry though: it still has giant cartoon eyes sprayed on the side of the head.

Shino tells Yamagi to get somewhere he can signal the Hammerhead for help; he'll deal with the pirates. 598, heading out too, protests that this is crazy -- they're outnumbered by a stupid amount and reinforcements are nowhere close. Shino reminds him protecting the freighter is their job. With Tekkadan's name riding on their shoulders, they can't run away without trying. And he proceeds to bullseye a blue and grey Man Rodi with his gun.

The pirates are surprised that the freighter's back-up consists of one extremely pink mobile suit, but Shino dives into the fray with aplomb. However, since 598 is the boss of his crew, Shino tells him to leave with Yamagi. This is Tekkadan's job.

Wavering, 598 asks if he's sure and Yamagi chips in to say he and Shino are just doing what they can. People in Tekkadan do more than just shout.

The Man Rodis begin to overwhelm Shino, one of them managing to grapple him so another can shoot him. Of course, 598 jumps in with the save, shooting him free using the cannons built into a newly-upgraded Monkey Crab Rodi. Shino asks why he came back but 598 isn't sure. All he can say is that he's doing what he can too. Shino grins.

Together, the boys put up a good fight, buying time for the Hammerhead to arrive. But it's a tough battle and they're gradually worn down. As the Man Rodis surround them, the pirate leader tells them they're finished. Shino isn't sure about that though -- nor is he bluffing, as one of the Rodis finds out what it charges in for the kill and flies face-first into the knee of Amida's custom Hyakuren.

The Turbine's lead pilot and all-round badass proceeds to demolish the pirates single-handed, She pauses briefly to ask 598 if he's learning a lot, then lands on the shoulders of the remaining Rodi and blows its cockpit apart by sticking her gun down its collar.

598 yells about how cool she is while Shino laughingly complains Amida took all the good parts of the fight. Which, I mean, yes of course she did, because as I have said before, she is the best mobile suit pilot in the series. This is a someone who goes out taking on a whole fleet by herself and nearly winning, and I'm really happy to get some extra glimpses at what she's capable of.

Afterwards, she expresses mild disbelief that it's over so soon. How sloppy. Yamagi is glad they made it in time and Shino calls out to him, thanking him for his help. But, err, the Ryusei-Go got a little wrecked (again). Yamagi tells him he can apologise by helping fix it back on the Saisei, prompting Shino to complain about having to deal with the Chief, who never stops talking about things over his head (and your humble note-taker to once more marvel at how anyone comes to the conclusion Yamagi isn't the one in charge in this relationship). Anyway, shouldn't Shino have a word with 598?

Shino obediently checks in on the blue-haired gremlin, who is not hurt, thanks to him. Shino protests that he couldn't have done it without 598, either, and offers him a place in Tekkadan.

598 is taken aback. Shino explains Tekkadan is recruiting new members and he should give it a shot. But 598 passes. He's Foundling's boss and has a responsibility to them, so instead he'll aim to stand side-by-side with Tekkadan one day! Shino agrees that could be a bit more interesting and wishes him good luck.

(They're just . . . coming at us this week, aren't they? Twisting those knives and creating Concerns about 598 and co's future. Thanks, Urdr Hunt writers. Thanks sooo much.)

Later, outside famed drinking establishment 'Pub Someday', Tamami catches up with her protege. She's finished her business and heard 598 did as well. How was Tekkadan? 598 says they're a big deal and hopes anew that he'll catch up to them.

But just as he's agreeing that it was a good meeting, the pair's Urdr Hunt rings go off - !

Smash-cut to the Erda II where Katya and Wistario experience the same thing. The next objective is here.

Aboard Mendou's research ship, Slice notes receipt of the fifth waypoint. I see, Mendou says . . .

And, in the corridors of Omden Company HQ, Cyclase gets the same message. Finally.

So yes. Asadgjwaxbefid?AEDchiuaaaaaa!!!!!?!?!?!!!!!

What I particularly loved here is the way in which 598 was contrasted with Tekkadan. Because sure, he's brave and a decent pilot, and he cares a lot about his crew while being quite naive about the wider world. But he hasn't (yet) hit the point of feeling the need to constantly go bigger and bigger. He's chasing the idea of becoming like Tekkadan, sure. However, it's clearly a 'one day' thing. A future goal. This is very distinct from Tekkadan's 'everything, right now' attitude and the fatal flaw of constantly trying to exceed their own legend. For Shino and Yamagi, diving into battle with a vastly larger force of pirates isn't a choice: it's their responsibility as members of Tekkadan (and may I just say thank you to the writer for flat-out having Yamagi concur with Shino about that in an official piece of media; my interpretation of him having the exact same flavour of loyalty and beliefs but in a different register is feeling highly vindicated right now).

For us, the audience, this is a portent of where we know the story ends. For 598, it's an interesting lesson in how far he has yet to go and highlights that for all his posturing, he can recognise how suicidal Tekkadan's approach is, even as he is in awe of what they can accomplish. It'll be interesting to see where that goes, especially with Parstai telling Amida that she wants to take 598's reins. We've seen that she shares a lot of common cause with Foundling, being human debris herself, and that she wants to stay with them. This heavily implies she wishes to start actively leading them and curtailing 598's habit of shooting off in random directions. Since Tamami herself counts as one of those directions, there is some potential for conflict there, though of course our resident pirate captain certainly has the kid's interests at heart too.

Seeing Tamami interact with Naze and Amida was a delight, showing off how different that dynamic is from the core Turbines. Tamami comes across as more of an outsider, left in a slightly weird position by being in charge of Naze's grey-ops team. She obviously wants something she already has (their respect), and is looking for official markers of the relationship that she can't be given. This also really sold the idea she used to be exactly like 598 (and in some ways still is) when it comes to trying to act the way she thinks she ought to.

More Amida, as I have said, is excellent, as is more Turbines stuff in general. It surprised me this took place aboard the Saisei, since I didn't expect the ostensibly Venus-based adventure to stray that far. But it worked as a method of bringing in another fan-pleasing cameo (surely the biggest we're going to get, he said, tempting fate) and I'd say this is the tightest of the crossovers with the series canon so far.

Furthermore, I think this is probably the final nail in the coffin for the idea of Naze himself being the mysterious 'N'. I didn't think it likely but unless he is outright lying to Tamami (which would seem very out of character), he's got to be out of the running now.

Yeah, this was a really fun episode.

I'd be remiss if I didn't take this opportunity to make a note about the chronology of the Urdr Hunt. I believe it is established somewhere that the events of IBO season 1 take place towards the end of the PD 323 (which fits with the wintry travels across North America). Urdr Hunt begins six months after the Battle of Edmonton, meaning we are well into PD 324 when we meet Wistario. Based on timings given in previous episodes, we are now at least two or three months on from that, so likely closer to the end of the year than the start.

Meanwhile, the first few episodes of IBO Season 2 strongly suggest that Tekkadan is very new to using Shidens. So new, in fact, that they've only just started operational tests with them -- the exception being Shino's Ryusei-Go III, which has undergone extensive customisation and that he is clearly quite familiar with (though the fact it has an Alaya-Vijnana, unlike the regular models, might explain why he's so comfortable with it).

This episode is positioned as the bridge between these two points, with the references to Shidens being sent to Mars along with the three Turbines who'll handle the training for them. But it does feel a bit early for that to link directly into what we see happening at the start of Season 2. Perhaps this is the point, therefore, where Shino gets his new Shiden (to replace the Franken-suit he just got bashed-up) and the rest of the new models get delivered later? It's unclear. But it's cool to see that progression, even if only from afar.

[For the purposes of my own fan-fic wrangling, conveniently, I had written a scene of Eugene, Shino, Yamagi and Dante going to the Saisei to get started on working with the Shiden prototypes so I can just say that happens a few days before these events. But it has made me realise I've misread Isurugi's timeline, though not in a way that works against me. Crumbs, writing around stuff still coming out is such a novel experience for me!]