“Senketsu wasn’t the weapon created to kill his brethren!” Ryuuko argues, “It was me!” That’s true from a certain point of view.It would’ve been so much badass though if Ryuuko had shrugged it all off and said, “Who the hell cares what I’m made of or where I came from? I know who I am!” At this point in the series, however, the conflict just feels contrived so that we can squeeze in one more battle between her and her friends. I mean, I’m sure she’ll come around before the story ends, but I’m just sayin’… I could tolerate this temper tantrum of hers had it occurred earlier in the narrative.In Ryuuko’s eyes, Senketsu is guilty by association, which is just a shame. It really makes you feel as if all the time she’s spent with Senketsu was for naught. So it’s just too bad that our heroine hasn’t recognized something this obvious by the twentieth episode of the series. After all, I’m pretty sure our pets are perfectly capable of loving us (unless they’re cats). The capacity to care and love isn’t exclusive to humanity.
“I’ve never been human to begin with,” Ryuuko whines, but humanity isn’t the end all and be all of the discussion. Other than the way he forced Ryuuko to wear him in the very first episode of the series, Senketsu has done nothing wrong. Oops, I guess I forgot about Senketsu.At the end of the day, that leaves me with only Mako to cheer for. Unfortunately, I can’t exactly root for Satsuki either because she’s fascism personified. Against Aikuro, she accuses, “Deep down, I bet you were laughing at this freak of a girl.” C’mon now, is she really going to be this irrational at the 11th hour? I know it must be a shock to learn that someone like Ragyou is your mother, but this is just too much for me. I just don’t know where she’s coming from whatsoever. Well, if Trigger wanted to make Ryuuko unlikeable, they succeeded.And once more, we return to Honnouji Academy to do battle.Ragyou taunts, “He treated his own daughter as but a mere tool.” But to be honest, if I end up being a tool for saving mankind from the enslavement of mass commodification, I don’t think I’d mind it too much.Had this occurred earlier in the series, I would’ve been more receptive to Ryuuko’s existential crisis. Would you really throw it all away just because your heart is not made up of flesh and blood? And the companionship that Senketsu has provided her, is it worth nothing now just because Life Fibers are wreaking havoc elsewhere? I guess I’m disappointed in the direction that Ryuuko’s character arc has taken at such a late stage in the game. Everything she’s done up to this point - her memories, her accomplishments, her friendships, her values, etc. But who cares? That’s just one aspect of her totality as a person. Basically, Ryuuko doesn’t think she’s human because she’s part Life Fibers. I gotta say I never like how this often plays out in most stories. Fictional characters always claim that they’ve been living a lie just because they learned something new and unexpected about themselves.
Satsuki and Senketsu reluctantly team up in hopes that they can stop Ryuuko. Ryuuko is forced to wear Junketsu, which she then uses to attack her former friends and allies. Instead, our villain focuses her attention on bending Ryuuko to her will, which she manages to do rather effortlessly. In the end, they manage to save her without a hitch, but then again, it doesn’t really seem all though Ragyou was actively preventing them from doing so. Thanks to Inumuta, they discover that Satsuki is being held prisoner beneath Honnouji Academy, so Aikuro launches Operation Rescue Satsuki. The rest of Nudist Beach resigns themselves to the fact that they’ll have to carry on without Ryuuko. She hates herself and intends to fight Ragyou all on her own. Damn, look at the paint job on that bike.Įpisode summary: Mako tries to reason with Ryuuko, but the latter refuses to listen to anything that anyone has to say.
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