
He’s probably my least favourite of the bunch, just by my first impressions of him, and I don’t quite believe anything he says. Calling it now, it is most definitely not Fremy. In fact, she’s less likely than Adlet at this stage. We know nothing about her, really, but my gut is telling me that she can’t be the fake.

They’ve all got their mark, but legend dictates that there is always six Braves – no more, no less. And then there’s the seventh Brave, Hans Humpty ( Suzumura Kenichi), an oddball with cat-like characteristics who doesn’t seem shaken by the revelation that there is an extra Brave among them. She’s the most mature of the bunch, and instantly feels like the ‘leader’ of the pack. Mora Chester ( Satou Rina) makes her appearance after being referenced last week. Chamo Rosso ( Kakumi Ai) is introduced as the strongest Brave from the offset – a little girl who is already well-known by all of the others. The episode finally gets good when the final three Braves are introduced. Why? We don’t know just yet, and I suspect that mystery will be drawn out until the very last moment.

Yet, as Adlet points out, she seems to want to take down the Demon God herself. We learned that Fremy is in fact the Brave Killer – going out of her way to assassinate those who could have been eventually chosen. Apart from some lame fights, nothing really happened. It’s an odd one, because the first two-thirds of the episode were below average, and not just in the visual department. Thankfully, the last few minutes of the episode saved it from being terrible. Since that premiere, we’ve never got anywhere near that level of animation quality. I found myself wondering what Rokka no Yuusha would be like if it were animated by a more renowned studio – would it have received better treatment? Passione are still newcomers, so this lackluster execution is to be expected, but it’s still disappointing because the first episode in particular had some promising art direction and fight choreography.

That camera-spin at the end was nauseatingly bad. Note: These screencaps are not reflective of the overall quality of the episode – these were the passable parts lodged between one terribly-drawn scene after another. Character models were wonky, and the CGI fiends and environments are overwhelmingly poor.

So many shots were needlessly zoomed in (which I presume was by error), characters were speaking out of shot, and about 80% of the episode just looked off. There’s no point sugar coating it: this was one of the worst looking anime episode I’ve seen in quite a while (and I watch World Trigger!). First things first, this episode was ugly.
