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EP. REVIEW: Full Metal Panic! Invisible Victory

Are you certain about that? I went back and looked at the first episode of the first series after seeing this and Mira looks a lot more like one of the AS techs on the TDD; the hair length and color, eye color, and facial design are all better matches. I know the character you mention is supposed to pop up again at some point, but this doesn't seem like a good match.

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I don't disagree on the color palette issue concerning that scene, as I noticed that myself. However, that's still a more radical character resdesign than anywhere else in the series if that's meant to be the same character, and making her look so similar to the one techie character, when the franchise has otherwise been careful about clearly-distinguishing characters visually, is a significant mistake.

There's no way they finish this arc in the remaining episodes right? If feels like there a ton of lose ends.

The animation in this episode also deserves particular comment. Character movements in most action scenes seemed more awkward and stiff than normal, with the exception of Kaname's swimming scene, which was executed in a slightly different style. I'd be curious to know who is responsible for that particular scene.

Or at least it should be a shocker, anyway. I've known this since the beginning of the season due to some novel spoilers that I accidentally saw, but it was definitely an unexpected turn. Yes, Kalinin's behavior back during Amalgam's attack on the Merida Island facility was fishy, and he had quite the storied career before joining Mithril, but I find it hard to believe that he would be so easily swayed to the Dark Side.

As crisp as the writing has generally been, it bogs down this episode in the scenes with the ex-military guy, who comes off like an old-school mecha coaches, and the effort to insert the F word into every other sentence he speaks seemed strained.

The scene where he shoots the Mithril guy from Hong Kong and essentially leaves him to die suggests that he isn't just infiltrating the organization, either – if so, he's taken “deep cover” to new extremes

The animation is nowhere as bad as Golden Kamuy but episode 10 was not the first to feature clunky animation. The last 3 or 4 have had moments of awkward animation(particularly action sequences). It’s either outsourcing or time constraints because I’ve noticed multiple instances where characters go off model. The jean Reno bad guy went off model a lot spoiler[before he met his demise.]

That scene with Sousuke in the hospital bed was a disaster. The part where he set the guy trying to kill him on fire looked like something out of South Park.

But we saw Kalinin and one other man get on the sub at the last second before they launched.

The part where he set the guy trying to kill him on fire looked like something out of South Park.