Daughter of Twenty Faces 10
Remote Island Syndrome
Movie time! Chiko, her aunt, and Tame trek to a secluded island under the guise of seeing a movie shoot, each with her own ulterior motives. See if you can match the goal to the character, kids!
- Find the jewel and see if it leads to Twenty Faces‘ whereabouts
- Kill Chiko
- Stop Chiko from being killed
There they run into Eye-Patch, aka Ken, aka Akito Tenkawa from Nadesico after he comes back all dark and broody in Prince of Darkness. He ain’t happy.
But it’s a funtime family reunion when it comes down to saving each others’ lives. Little do either of them know, Twenty Faces may have been working on a project during the war to turn ordinary humans into rubber Mazinger Z dolls. And one of them lured Chiko to the island using the jewel.
Chiko graduates
The highlight for me was the scene from one of the nifty action sequences in the show’s OP. That’s pretty neat to finally see in itself, but in this scene Chiko goes from spunky thief-girl to ultimate badass. Ken and the humonculus (or whatever she is) both notice how much like Twenty Faces she suddenly looks. And they’re both scared by it.
What’s next?
OGT has been speculating on the nature of the second half the series; his thoughts are that either Chiko’s going to get increasingly bitter and angry as she finds out more about Twenty Faces’ seedy past experimenting with Frakenstein-esque human hax, or she’s going to find out she’s been punked. I lean more toward the former, possibly because I just hope it’s not the other. For Twenty Faces to pop out at the end and say… “You passed!” reeks too much of the old “it was all a dream” trick.
No matter what, the Twenty Faces continues to be super-fun, and I’ll bet you anything that the first season ends with a bitching cliffhanger.
I’ll leave you dirty, dirty, fanboys with a bonus.
- otou-san out!
June 27th, 2008 at 8:20 pm
Damnit, the guy’s not hot enough …
June 27th, 2008 at 8:38 pm
Chiko and Tame sleeping together was awesome and it didn’t last long enough.
Expecting three-way between the Detective Girls by end of series.
June 28th, 2008 at 3:30 am
Aunt trying to push Chiko off the boat was awesome.
Arm pillow just leads to pins and needles.
June 28th, 2008 at 11:53 am
@blissmo not hot enough compared to 20 Faces? Or just not hot enough for blissmo-sama’s standards?
@OGT I think Kabitzin has the reasoning there as to why it didn’t last any longer. Nobody likes the pricklies.
@Kabitzin You don’t sneak up on the Chiko.
June 28th, 2008 at 7:41 pm
OK, that would seriously suck.
July 1st, 2008 at 12:18 am
On the one hand, I’m slightly frustrated that this wasn’t a 13-16 episode series, just because I’m lazy, although the everyone-dies episode was kinda cool in that it set up a totally different second arc. As far as the plot goes I’m up in the air…I don’t really care what happens. After we got introduced to that stupid rich girl I was about to drop it but if 10-12 don’t satisfy me then I probably will to watch backlogged stuff.
July 1st, 2008 at 11:15 pm
@otou-san:
Not hot enough for blissmo-sama’s standards of course!
July 12th, 2008 at 8:26 pm
I’m glad that you’re still following this. I trust your anime judgement, and you’re one of the few people I found who was into the show from the beginning (like myself). That said, I’ve fallen behind…but it’s good to know that Chiko continues to be awesome and it’s worth my while to catch up soon.
July 14th, 2008 at 10:48 am
Trust? Me?
I’m honored and I appreciate it, but don’t blame me when you see episode 11, which is kind of lame and really crap in the animation department.