After last week’s bizarre episode I was expecting some riveting event to take place. This episode didn’t have anything like that, but in its place it’s full of laughs. I thought the previous episode was as much humour as we were going to get. To my surprise, this episode blew it right out of the water as far as comedy goes. We get to see how Rill spent her days while they were stuck waiting for the wind. There were lots of hilarious moments. We can always rely on Pino for a good laugh. Pino imitating Rill was just priceless. To top it all off, we got to see what was probably the most awkward, yet hilarious, moment in the series: Rill walking in on Vincent and Pino while he was playing with her makeup. I never expected to hear Rill laugh in this series. At the end of the episode she is finally able to start smiling while in their current situation. It may just be me, but I don’t see this lasting. My guess is she will revert back to the way she was in the next episode.

Q Q Q! This has to be the most bizarre episode of anime I have ever seen. As a single episode itself it’s not the weirdest episode I have seen, but when taking into account the previous 14 episodes of the series this episode feels completely out of place. As odd as this episode was I found myself enjoying it quite a bit. I thought some parts were pretty hilarious. For instance, Pino making faces while confined just cracked me up. There’s lots of new information in this episode as well. We learn about the Proxy Project and how there are 300 Proxies in all. I’d like to consider this episode a filler, but I just can’t simply because of all the relevant information this episode provided. The last quiz game Vincent played was supposed to give him 30000 points for a correct answer. Just before the end we see him with 910000 points. I’m no mathematician but it doesn’t seem to add up to the best of my knowledge.

This was probably the most bizarre episode so far. For a good part of the episode things were pretty confusing. Rill, Pino, and Vincent wandered into a Dome with no sign of life. We then notice that there are Rill and Vincent imposters. It isn’t until late in the episode when we find out that it all due to the Proxy of that dome. Pino didn’t have many scenes in the episode yet again, but she was great in every scene she appeared in. The scene where we see Pino serve food cracked me up. Her dish may have tasted bad with that kind of food combination, but at least it doesn’t seem like it gave Vincent food poisoning. It wasn’t too surprsing that Pino was able to tell the difference between the real Rill and Vincent and the imposters. She appears really child-like, but she is a lot smarter and sharper than we give her credit for.

Things may have felt slow for the last little while, but this episode changed all that. We find out that Iggy had been infected from quite a while ago. I was surprised to find out that this would be the last time we get to see Iggy. It was pretty intense to see Iggy switching back and forth between his two personalities. I think they pulled it off nicely. I’ve never thought about how pampered Rill had been. This episode made it clear that she’s so used to having Iggy do everything for her. It did make her seem less appealing, but it was kind of funny at the same time when she asked Pino to help comb her hair. Pino was hilarious as always. She manages to lighten up the mood a bit to make things easier to watch.

Before watching this episode I had started to get worried that this series would not be able to be as good as the first episode.  To my surprise, Vincent confessed to Rill.  At least now we know that Rill doesn’t feel the same way about Vincent.  She even goes as far as to state that she would take advantage of it.  It felt like it has been a long time since we got to see Pino.  She was quite hilarious in practically every scene she was in.  One thing I did find kind of strange about this episode was they encountered a proxy in the middle of nowhere.  If they wanted to show us that the bullet could actually kill a proxy I think they could have chosen a better setting.  Rill has seen first hand that Vincent is Ergo Proxy.  This puts everything she is going to do in a new light.  With only one bullet left, will Rill eventually use it on Vincent?  That’s one thing I look forward to finding out.

I’m sad to say that I was sort of disappointed in this episode. The art was really bad in my opinion. The characters looked weird at time and the amount of inconsistency overall was high. Luckily the colours were still good. This was pretty much a psychological episode. Thus it looks like a really bizarre episode. In the end it accomplishes what it set out to do. Through the many odd scenes we see, Vincent accepts that he is indeed Ergo Proxy. The series is turning out to be really different than I had expected. It’s going in a completely different direction from the first episode. Currently I don’t see it as a good thing, but I’ll give it a chance to get better.  Rill manages to find Vincent at the end of the episode so I have hope things will pick up now.

The story shifts back to Rill, Daedalus, and Raul. It was a bit disturbing seeing the rural residential area without a single living person and only robots mindlessly carrying out their jobs. As trivial as it is, I never expected to see that kind of housing in this series. Rill’s dream may appear to be pointless at first glance, but I think it represents something quite significant. Of course, I could also be trying to look too deep into it. Daedalus ends up working for Raul so he can get access to a proxy. I never really liked Daedalus as a character in the first place, but this episode makes him out to be somewhat creepy. It’s now only a matter of time before Rill finds Vincent.

For the first half of the episode I was just like Vince, confused about what was happening. In the second half, things started to come together and the episode really picked up from there. If we are to believe what was said, then there is a lot more to learn about Vince than I had previously anticipated. This was the first time we get to see Vince changing into Ergo Proxy. He is finally able to maintain Vince’s consciousness as well as recall flashbulb memories of the other Proxy in Romudo. I think there’s a possibility that Pino will play an important role in Vince coming to terms with the truth about his identity based on what was said in the last scene of the episode. “Ergo Proxy” is taking a break next week so it will be another two weeks until the next review for the series.

Just when I thought I was starting to understand what was happening they threw us an episode like this. Now I’m pretty clueless as to what exactly is going on yet again. This was a pretty hectic episode. Things were moving too fast to really grasp everything that was taking place. This is the first time we get to clearly see Vincent fight another proxy. It was entertaining to watch that whole scene, but they don’t explain anything that would make us understand the reason for the event. Since we’re already a third of the way through the series, I hope they don’t take too much longer to give us answers to a lot of the unanswered questions. As much as I like a good mystery, being clueless as to how all these events are interrelated takes away from our enjoyment.

Up until this point we really lacked any sort of information that could really allow us to piece things together. This episode was packed full of new information that answers a lot of questions we’ve had from before. In fact, it may have been a little too much. We learn where they found one of the proxies, the same place Vincent is heading to. It turns out that the proxies are extremely important. We know the proxies exist, but their existance is being denied by Rill’s grandfather. There were some additional information on Rill as well. First, we see that she’s 19 years old according to the data shown on the screen. Her name had a different spelling than what was listed on WOWOW’s site. Instead of changing the spelling again I will continue to use Rill. At the end of the episode we see that Rill gets hurt by an autorave and a death certificate is prepped. From what was shown she really was hurt, but there’s no way that she can die so early on in the series. Proclaiming that she is dead in the records would allow Rill to move about more easily though.