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Mar 15 2010 07:53 PM

That sounds sooo wrong. If I showed this to my history-major friend, his head would probably explode.

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Mar 15 2010 06:24 PM
Ironically enough, this last episode also had those the elements that anime should've focused on originally from the start - mystery behind the current state of the world (and apparently opposing dogmas between Romans and Helvetians) AND the actual not-so-cold war between these 2 warring states... makes me wanna rage when I see how much time they wasted on moe crap.

And hell, Romans are GERMANS? Maybe it's just me, but I didn't see that one coming.

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Mar 15 2010 03:10 PM
I'am going to have to be a little... sexist here. Episode 11 showed exactly why you don't let a group of teenage girls run a fortress. Sorry ladies, but if us guys would've been in that siuation that spy would've been handed over to HQ long, long ago; just like she should have been. None of that emotional crap like "we're all the same". NO! Things don't work like that; and I'am disappointed at, whats her name (blonde), that she acted so childish and emotional when what she should've done was in front of her all along; especially considering her past.

That out of the way, I'am sure something cheesy and unrealistic like "negotiations made it in the nick of time" will now come into play with that last phone call, but we'll see next monday.

@terili: Still too much info missing. Fact is, we had to put most of it together using our imagination, such as what exactly was said on the phone; certain conversations, ect. It simply made it no fun. Yes, the pieces come together, but as I've said it was simply a book with pages missing.

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Mar 11 2010 11:33 PM
I'm rather surprised at the reactions to Rio's situation being expressed here. You knew in the "telephone duty" episode that Rio had run away from a situation at home, and anyone who has the power to commandeer the "test call" as her father did is obviously someone very highly placed. That he didn't simply order her to return, that he _let_ her remain distant was a clue to her own position ( she wasn't afraid of any "official" reprimand cause she knew there wasn't going to be one--she was too important for that). Then in the following episode she gets a summons, and still ignores it, is another clue. A soldier just _does not_ ignore official orders, so these weren't official.

And all along for the last several episodes they've been saying how negotiations haven't been going well, how things could break out into fighting again. I figured from these clues that somehow Rio was involved in those negotiations as a pawn, somehow, especially when you include her father on the phone saying that they needed her.

This episode simply brought all those things together, especially when they explained the background in this episode. You'll notice that she decided to return only after she heard that the "Roman" army was massing on the border, clearly a prelude to renewing the fighting and she realized she had no choice if she didn't want to see her country possibly destroyed, and her freinds, soldiers, definitely killed in the fighting.

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Mar 11 2010 07:49 AM
The new episode was very good with this sad atmosphere. It should have been like that in the others episodes (well not all of them xD but a few would have been great).

Now we know more about Illya and her link with Rio and Kanata but...

I think the same ! When I saw Kanata and Kureha crying, I didn't understand why. I knew the music sang on trumpet meant something but what ? Then I saw Rio quitting the village and I was "wait... WTF? Where are you going and why?"

It was too rushed without any explanation =/ A little deception =/

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Mar 10 2010 08:39 AM

Exactly. I was thinking "time skip" as well, but who knows anymore with this one... although they can't just kick one of the heroines out with the crappy info given to us.

Shinobu I don't think it's as simple a solution as that. Considering what this anime has been throwing at us with other titles that could have meant they'd finally move out, this could simply mean that a fire somehow started on the dried wood in the fields or something, thus I refuse to hope for much more than that.

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Mar 9 2010 11:59 AM
well usually any episode with the words "burning fields" in the title means there's a battle coming up.

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Mar 8 2010 08:21 PM
I really liked episode 10, this is the type of storytelling I expected from this anime since the very first episode; yet at the same time I feel like it was very rushed, and some of the actual story was... skipped; like a book with missing pages that contain details to the actual plotline.

We still aren't told what the letter said exactly, but obviously it was a summon for Rio. I take it she is... going to be married off for a peace treaty, just like her sister... but so much dialogue was missing here that you have to use your imagination to understand what exactly is going on.

So the title for the next episode is "Burning fields of snow" or something like that... I honestly have no clue what to expect anymore; and what I don't understand is how they could simply get rid of Rio like that; with no real setup whatsoever... are we even going to see her again, or is this some sort of new way to get rid of a character?

W/e, I'll see what happens next week; because this one threw me off.

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Mar 6 2010 10:00 AM
Well i get the feeling that we'll all throw out our opinions when the final 3 episodes come out when all the episodes we've seen so far will mesh together nicely and make since when the big battle comes. Whether it be with another nation or the revival of the "fiery beast" remains to be seen.

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Mar 3 2010 04:34 PM
I think a lot of us (including me) overhyped this anime too much. We had some expectation with all the advertising in the first episode (like the skeleton) and thought that Soranowoto would take a dark path after a couple of episode. Speaking for myself, I had some expectation about this series, to take a different route than the slice-of-life one by explaining the past (like the episode with Ficilia (not sure for the orthography) and then beginning a new war or any path that would break this little peace.

As AccipiterF1 said, they don't find a good balance between comedic and dramatic elements which is a big failure and the reason why after the 9th episode I don't expect much more about Sora no Woto for the future episodes but keeping the slice-of-life path.