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Rockman.EXE Episode 12 Review.

Roll... Charm? Nah.

Crash or Clash? Im so confused.

We start this episode with Yaito and Meiru at the N-1′s gift shop. You know, since shopping is something girls do.

Meiru-chan tries out a hat only to have it taken from her by Iroaya Madoi.

Because she felt like bothering some kids today.

After insulting Yaito’s shiny big forehead she proceeds to insult Meiru.

The insult was better in the dub.

She finally reveals to be Meiru and Roll’s next opponent and the title card appears.

Midorikawa begins to announce the next two matches, starting with Netto vs Hinouken in the main dome, though she sounds more excited about the match in the B-dome which will be Madoi vs Meiru, the first “Girl vs Girl” battle.

Too bad only ONE of their Navis is actually a girl!

Did she called Madoi old? Also, whats with the poses? Was Madoi fixing her hair before her picture? And Hinouken is like, “Yeap, thats me, I am a fire god”. BTW his real name is Kenichi, turns out Hinouken is a nickname.

After this we cut to Meiru-chan and friends in the locker room, where all the guys are keeping their distance.

This girl is on fire!

As you can guess, Madoi has her compleatly burning with rage, or is it a firery aura as Higure-san says?

Whatever it is, it engulfs Yaito as well when Meiru promises to defeat Madoi using the chips she gave her.

If anything, Tohru should be the head of the Madoi hate club since she kidnapped his father, and are we also forgeting that she is part of the World Three?

Netto doesnt understand why both Yaito and Meiru are so angry at Madoi, (World Three, Netto!) so he asks them what happend, while they’re still burning.

And we get a scene where they are standing face to face with Madoi and the hat from the gift shop flying in the background.

Who paid for the hat anyway?

She is like twelve, of course she has small breasts!

But Meiru-chan fights back and unintentionally calls her old because she said “Obasan” which ticks off Madoi.

She never said “Old hag”, she called her madame, ma’m or old lady XD

Also, 23?! Not with that makeup as Yaito and Meiru tell her before calling her old again. Intentionally this time.

We then get a dramatic scene with the two of them insulting eachother.

It is ON!!!

After that “flashback”, we cut to the cyberworld where Glyde and Roll are talking about how rude Madoi was to both their operators.

Quick, Rockman! Say yes! Say YES!

Saved...

Netto says goodbye to everyone since they will be go cheer for Meiru-chan at her match. Followed by Yaito asking what happend to Masa-san, who was apparently there earlier. I like the way Higure-san starts searching for him.

Netto is runnig down the hall on his way to his match but is stopped by a monitor on the wall about another record being broken.

Yeap! Sharkman, the Navi Rockman met back in episode 5. Turns out he is the Navi of the strange man we saw with Miyuki and Saloma before, who is totally not Masa-san, even though he tells everyone to eat more Calcium.

So thats his theme? Ok.

Netto starts getting excited over this and Miyuki appears next to him saying that the commander is exagerating his “rank”. This, of course, makes Netto ask her if she knows him, and she denies it in such a rookie way.

Come on, Miyuki, you can do better than that.

She leaves and Netto continues his way to the match, and we see Mahajarama coming through the wall just to say something ominous about his battle with Hinouken.

How does he do that? O.O

In the next scene Netto and Rockman’s battle begins, with Hinouken looking suspiciously confident. Once the battle begins, Rockman dashes at Fireman using the same attack and animation he used against Gutsman back in the first episode.

I call it, the “Rock n Rumble”!

As the battle continues, Midorikawa announces that the battle in the B-dome is about to begin. So we cut to Roll in a redish canyon arena where Coloredman attacks her by surprise.

Roll starts her attack with her Heart Flash move, but Coloredman is able to catch them and... Eats them?

So Roll throws candy hearts?

Coloredman throws his ball at her, she dodges and this happens.

He’s lying of course, Coloredman’s ball comes rolling back at Roll giving her TIME to dodge! Seriously, this is how the scene goes.

“Why didn’t you tell me to dodge?!”

Meiru, you had plenty of time to use a battle chip! Who is the operator here?!

This was to create drama before cutting to comertials, and we return with Roll on the ground and Meiru nagging Madoi who is just powdering her face.

Shouldn’t you be helping your Navi?

Madoi just starts mocking her which also angers her friends on the stands where Masa-san takes the oportunity to re-join them.

Told you this was gonna be a thing.

The crowd suddently starts going wild, everyone begins to cheer for someone, starting with this kid who looks like Netto.

Madoi is confused about this until she finally pays attention to the battle.

No wonder they’re going crazy, this is awsome! XD

This results in Coloredman throwing his ball upwards squashing him in a comidic way.

Coloredman gets angry and brings out his mini mes!

But Roll-chan has a new trick up her glove, she throws her hearts at the mini Coloredmen making them fall in love with her, and she then orders them to attack him.

After this, Coloredman literally knocks some sense into them and they then proceed to chase Roll, running her over.

Or should I say, “Roll” her over? XD

We cut to the spectator stands where we focus on Miyuki and Saloma, not only because the light focuses on them, but because they are the only ones who are not brunnetts.

They’re talking about how they can’t arrest Madoi, even knowing she is a World Three member, because Net criminals can only be arrested over the Net. Which is kinda dumb considering how she held someone hostage in episode 6. 

Anyway, its funny how Miyuki says this last line only to follow it with this scene.

Midorikawa tells the audience the progress of the battle in the sub dome, as we cut to Rockman’s battle.

Fireman attacks, Rockman dodges it and lands like this for some reason.

Talk about light on your feet.

In the battle we see that they are evenly matched as they both get pushed back by the others shots.

Netto realizes that Fireman is even stronger than before, and Hinouken confirms his thoughts by telling him that they have train exhaustively ever since they lost the second time, (although it really wasnt Rockman who beat him)

You already had an episode about that, remember? And you failed!

After that, we cut back to Roll-chan who has finally read the mini Coloredmen attack pattern.

Meiru brags about it to Madoi, but she decides to play dirty by blinding Meiru with the Sun’s reflexion on her powder box mirror.

Meiru’s reaction distracts Roll who is attacked from behind by the mini Coloredmen.

With Meiru incapable of doing anything (even less than before), Coloredman takes advantage of the situation and decides to get ready to delete Roll with the Aqua and Flame Towers.

However, Yaito wont allow this to happend and runs down the stairs to where Meiru is to cheer her on. Madoi gets annoyed at this and decides to use her mirror on her too, which turns out be a bad idea.

Yaito, with your forehead so bright, wont you blind my sight tonight?

Yaito’s shiny forehead returns the reflexion to Madoi who falls backwards droping her PET in the process.

This has an effect on the mini Coloredmen who get damaged and blow up, leaving Coloredman confused. Meiru takes the opportunity to FINALLY use one of the chips Yaito gave her which so happends to be a rare chip.

Coloredman gets scared and counters with his ball, but the Triple Lance Battle Chip is too much for him and shoots through the ball hitting Coloredman afterwards, ending the battle.

After Meiru and friends celebrate her victory they decide to go cheer for Netto in his battle.

Speaking of the battle, we see that things are heating up, literally, as Fireman and Rockman are standing back to back, talking to eachother.

Netto slots-in the Elec Sword, Fireman uses a Fire sword and the episode ends with Hinouken saying something suspicious as he looks up at the sun.

My thoughts on this?

Is it just me, or is everytime a shonen anime tries to focus on the girl characters, it ends up being lame in comparison?

Dont get me wrong, I love Roll and the way she battles, but the match felt more like a filler than an actual battle. I know Coloredman isnt the strongest Navi in the World Three... but he is a World Three Navi! It’s like they dumbed him down so he could lose against Roll and Meiru’s rookie fighting style. Rockman delivers punches and kicks from time to time, but Roll just pulls hair and pinches faces. It was pretty fun to watch though.

The dub decided to make this a two part episode, but it is originally two diferent episodes, this being part one and the next episode as part two because it ended in a cliffhanger.

Speaking of the dub, I find it really confusing how they changed Yaito and Meiru explaining Netto about Madoi after he asks them, the dub just cuts over to the flashback without mentioning it as such, it just looked like something that happend later rather than earlier, which makes the hat flying at the begining not make any sense.

This episode was probably a reference to the first game where Roll tried to stop Coloredman from blowing up a bus.

Of course, she couldnt handle it and Rockman had to step in and save her, but Im not saying she did a better job here. Roll did good as always but her operator has no idea what she’s doing. Roll-chan did all the work and Meiru gets the praise because she send a rare chip at the very end, that was literally her only job!

 In the dub, a lot of dialogue was added where there wasnt, like in the part where Roll is about to get hit by Coloredman’s ball, the dub had her saying that it was too late to avoid it, better than just standing there waiting for it to happend.

To be fair, an operator also directs the Navi, telling them where to go or what attacks to use sometimes, but Meiru still SUCKS! Its until Axess where she becomes a little more competent, so we still have an entire season to suffer through her dumb operation. All we can do for now is root for poor Roll-chan.