Friday, December 6, 2019

Azur Lane the Animation Ep 9 Review: Starting Over

Hi Everyone! This is my Azur Lane Episode 9 Review and what happened after Ayanami was saved by Laffey and Javelin from certain doom?



Ayanami woke up in a hospital bed and realised she is in Azur Lane Base. Arc Royal came in to inform her that she is a prisoner of war but also offered an apple to her. 




Laffey and Javelin were reprimanded by Hornet and Cleveland for being reckless and rescuing an enemy. Cleveland gave the two their punishment- To supervise Ayanami during her "imprisonment" (In another way, be nice to Ayanami) 




After the two destroyers left, the others checked the Black Cube which is glowing differently and suggested that Enterprise might have accidentally caused it. Enterprise herself is just hanging out alone as Vestal told her to go and rest. 




As Enterprise pounded on what is happening to her, Laffey and Javelin brought Ayanami to Akashi's shop for necessities and along the way, the various ship girls actually welcome Ayanami and even praise Laffey and Javelin's heroic act to save her.



I wonder why Long Island want a model kit of Enterprise where the real one is stationed at Azur Lane? 


At Akashi's shop, Akashi told Ayanami what really happened that day she escaped from Sakura Empire and learn that Akagi and Kaga are really working with the Sirens. (All these while Arc Royal is watching the trio from afar)







Back at Sakura Empire, Ayanami's friends were upset that Ayanami was "captured" by Azur Lane and even Zuikaku blamed herself for letting that happened. Shoukaku informed Nagato of what has happened and even advised her on halting the Orochi project.


We are finally introduced to Admiral Hipper who is Eugen's elder sister and her personality is based on Asuka from Evangelion.

Naughty, Naughty Eugen...

The Iron Blood girls who are stationed at Sakura Empire were also wondering what will happen now with Prinz Eugen thinking of their next move.



The Royal Navy girls in Golf clothing..make that a Skin in the game!


The Royal Navy girls were playing golf and also discussing what has happened so far with Enterprise as the centre of the discussion. Illustrious has also checked with Belfast on Enterprise's progress and could only conclude that Enterprise has to overcome this ordeal herself. 










Laffey is such a playful girl, taking Ayanami's strawberry from her pancakes.



The three destroyers later meet Illustrious, Unicorn and Belfast and they went to the town centre and enjoy themselves. Belfast even told a nose-bleed Arc Royal to behave herself. 




This will become a Meme very soon...


Later during dinner, Ayanami told the girls that life in Sakura Empire is very similar to Azur Lane as everyone is friendly and nice. (Arc Royal finally revealed her true colour when Glowworm had a cut on her finger and tried to get too friendly on her with Glowworm headbutt Arc Royal to knock her unconscious)



The Siren Tester approached Kaga and began to influence her in continuing the Orochi Project and even lied that Akagi died for her to fulfil her wishes...





Ayanami couldn't sleep and go out for a walk. She saw Enterprise who also couldn't sleep and they learn from each other that they hate fighting but have no choice in this war. Ayanami then went to the hill (from episode 1) and Laffey, Javelin and Unicorn approached her again. The three girls reintroduced themselves and finally, Ayanami also introduced herself with a smile...

We finally had a closure for our three destroyers. (Poor Nimi. Hopefully, she can join them in the future) As expected, Ayanami learns that the people in Azur Lane were no different than those in Sakura Empire and after knowing what Akagi did from Akashi, perhaps she can convince Sakura Empire to fight against the Sirens. I was expecting the Crane Sisters to join Azur Lane also since they were at the battle when Ayanami was rescued. But Shoukaku now being the alert one has already advised Nagato on how dangerous the Orochi Project is, however, Kaga is now being manipulated by Siren Tester and I am pretty sure that is not going to go well if Kaga finds out that Akagi is still alive.

Of course, we had the introduction of Arc Royal and yes, she is a Lolicon who loved to ooze on little destroyers girls since her backstory was that her real-life ship was always escorted by destroyers ships and now it is being personified ten times. At first, she was acting all normal and even watched the girls from afar but then it was too much and she finally revealed herself in the mess hall.

Now we are left with Enterprise's story and wondered how is she going to overcome her ordeal? Can the rest of the girls able to help her or history will repeat itself again? What about the Iron Blood who are just watching from the shadows? Will they make their move now with only three episodes left? Until then, see you in the next post! 

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