MegaMan's down and out, and it looks like the
Net Police are screwed. The greatest father in the world, Dr. Hikari, decides to rebuild MegaMan using an untested, painful, possibly dangerous procedure, on his only child, Lan. Lan of course has no problem jumping into a giant test tube for his buddy of course, but it'd be nice if his dad at least maybe struggled with the idea...Anyway, they're going to rebuild MegaMan by enabling a cross-fusion between Lan and MegaMan, which will hopefully fill in the missing data for MegaMan. With both Lan and MegaMan recovering, and Chaud without ProtoMan, the Net Police are in trouble. Luckily, Lan's friend Raoul shows up, chasing down a darkloid named BrightMan. Raika has also been called in, and Chief Keifer orders them to work together, despite Raika's protests.
BrightMan isn't the only one causing trouble though, as more new darkloids show up. There's SwordMan, StarMa... god damn it! Why is his name NovaMan now? Fucking retarded ass translations. Anyway, they also have ColdMa... wait? He's FridgeMan now?! I... well... no I'll give them that one, ColdMan is a damn fridge... (I hope you can detect the irony in this paragraph, I really couldn't care less about the names...)
Raika feels Raoul is unqualified to help out as a civilian, but eventually Raoul and ThunderMan prove themselves (somewhat) to Raika by, not only saving Raika's life, but also correcting a mistake of SearchMan that saved the day. Raika grudgingly admits that Raoul was helpful.
At the end of the day, the procedure with MegaMan was successful, but MegaMan still needs more time to recover. Things are looking positive though.
Critique
Despite the train wreck of the last few episodes, this one is actually pretty good. I always thought Raoul's voice actor was pretty good, and it helps put up with the character's weird look and demeanor. He's one tall lanky black dude ain't he? Raika still comes off as an ass of course, but Raoul handles Raika pretty maturely, as you would expect an adult would handle a punk kid.
There's some really cruddy animation this episode, especially the running animation for Raoul about the middle of the episode. It just looks awful. The writers also go a bit overboard on the "anime man got hops" thing, when Raoul is leaping across pillars like a damn grasshopper.
Even though the story is decent this episode, I would still give it a thumbs up even if it was horrible. Why? Just look at BrightMan! HA HA HA HA HA! Holy fuck, that guys character design cracks me the fuck up! Look how hilarious he is! You couldn't ask for a better looking character for this show! Too bad BrightMan bites the dust at the end of the episode though, but for every moment he was on screen, I was in stitches!
Rating: Thumbs up!
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