Anime

I am on vacation this week, so I don't have a chocolate bar at the ready for this week's episode, so bear with my chocolateless ramblings.

• We pick right back up with the action and Rouge still can't figure out that Aes isn't in control, but it's likely Alice, and they are not on our side.
• Eden and Naomi seem to be the only ones coming to Rouge's defense and Eden just got his ID plucked from his chest. I guess that is the thing they use to transform? He seems ok without it other than that he lost his super suit.
• Rouge's sister showed up to fight her for...reasons. I don't know why really, but this fight is one of the more fun ones we have had recently, so vacation-mode me will accept it.
• Alright, so Visitors are a race of aliens separate from the Usurpers? Naomi was created by the Visitors as a way to better communicate?
• Exposition dump recap: Visitors show up to Earth. Share Nean technology with humans in exchange for terraforming Venus to act as new home for Visitors. Usurpers attack! Humans use Neans to fight off Usurpers. Usurpers want to use chaos created by freeing Neans to attack once again. Basically nobody wants to actually free Neans, humans/visitors want to keep them enslaved, while usurpers just want to use them and then destroy them.
• Naomi and Rouge are going to Venus to do....something about the Usurper attack. Not sure what, but they seem to have an idea, so let's roll with it.

On the one hand, I appreciate the lore dump we had this episode in that it helps bring into focus the position that the Neans are in and gives us an overview of the different factions and their motivations. However, the time for this was like 6 episodes ago. Introducing all this lore this late into the series just screams of trying to glob some kind of story onto this after the fact. I wish this show focused more on just Naomi/Rouge doing stuff together. Episode 2, with them riding the transport across Mars was so much fun and it has been pretty downhill ever since.