The series draws to a close with this episode as Cobra and the gang make their way into the temple. Or does it?
What They Say
Cobra is very known space pirate, but decides to change his face and to clear all his memories. He becomes a common guy, with a common job, and a very boring life, but suddenly he starts remembering his true identity and new adventures begin.
The Review!
Content: (please note that content portions of a review may contain spoilers)
The slated twelve episode series hits its final broadcast episode here as the gang ends up heading deep into the temple when the plan goes horribly awry. With the group now having King as part of their party, along with his friend Ellis, they've figured out the best way to investigate the temple by having Ellis transform into her fairy mode and slip inside and look around. It doesn't take long for her to get captured though and that sends King right over the edge and he flies off to get her before she ends up in more danger. Of course, he does this with no thought to himself or the others in the group which causes all of them outside of Queen to hop on the frogs, the Partisans, to follow after him and help since he's obviously going to get captured.
Most of the episode involves the time inside the temple as Cobra and the others do their best to rescue them and figure out what's going on. The idea of finding the hidden underground waterway from the temple to Shiva Castle is certainly a sound one but it becomes a much more tense operation because of what happened to Ellis and then King. Those tensions rise when they find the area that requires a human sacrifice and Cobra is really the only human of the group there and he certainly has no intention of being sacrificed, virgin or not. Others don't have quite the same problem with it but in the end it's just going to unleash more bloodshed as a rather surprising critter rises from the darkness from all of this, something that the head priest hinted at, which in turn makes for the entire temple adventure rather dangerous.
Much of what we get here is all about the action, though there's an amusing moment where Eight tries to get Cobra to partner up with her since he's the only one she can trust. Of course, she says this as she's quite literally connected to her husband in the same robotic body. The action is par for the course with the show though it does extend a bit more here instead of a couple of quick bursts here and there. The gang is generally on the run, either trying to avoid detection and move fast to rescue King, or they're running like hell from the massive creature that they've unleashed onto the world.
In Summary:
Admittedly, this episode left me confused as to how it would play out as all the solicitations and the Crunchyroll site itself lists it as twelve episodes. It does not conclude here and it has a preview for the next episode, which may be the ending. Whether it's a DVD only episode or not is unknown as I write this but the 7th volume home video release is slated to have episode thirteen on it come October 2010. All told, Cobra is now falling prey to what hit some of the earlier arcs in the series in that it's stretching out. If this episode had been the last, I think the arc would have been a lot tighter. As it stands, this episode doesn't really add much besides time where nothing truly critical happens that could have been dealt with better. I like this show, but they make it hard to like it which is not a good thing.
Features
Japanese 2.0 Language, English Subtitles
Review Equipment
Sony KDS-R70XBR2 70" LCoS 1080P HDTV, Sony PlayStation3 Blu-ray player via HDMI set to 1080p, Onkyo TX-SR605 Receiver and Panasonic SB-TP20S Multi-Channel Speaker System With 100-Watt Subwoofer.
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