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Sousei no Aquarion Episode 8 - The First Union

Tsugumi and Jun are very nervous about their first potential Aquarion union, and each goes to their respective sempais for advice - Tsugumi to the embarassed Reika, and Jun to the rather overly randy Pierre. While they successfully unite in training, Tsugumi gets incredibly nervous about it and causes things to start exploding when her heart rate peaks (unsurprisingly given that Jun manages to get a picture of her heart beating transmitted all around the DEAVA headquarters - nice going, mate), which seems to be her special Element power - although she's called on to fight with Apollo and Jun, she runs off and has an Angsty Backstory Moment where it's revealed that she blew up her home town and was ostracised because of it as a kid. Pierre swaps in instead of her and gets beaten up by the Cherubim, which has an incredibly tough outer shell - Reika transfers in and also gets beaten up, and it takes this plus Jun's imploring to get Tsugumi in to help. Cue gattai, and Tsugumi's "Psychometric Bomb" technique blows up the Cherubim, thus making her happy.

Oh dear, that was a bit dull. Tsugumi and Jun just aren't all that interesting, unfortunately - Tsugumi's only defining character traits are that she's a bit of a wuss and she has a crush on Reika, while Jun's is that he likes Tsugumi - big deal, neither of them are important enough characters for me to really care, and if they'd been in more than about one episode so far I might have been more interested. There were some decent crack-induced moments as usual - new gattai sequences are always worthwhile, especially Jun's - but overall this was generally rather meh. Ah well, one bum episode isn't the end of the world.