Five years ago, the Garnet MacLaine Gillard Army are attempting to create their own Resonance in a secret experiment. However things go awry and the dragon egg rejects the human, resulting in the master’s spontaneous explosion. An infuriated Garnet wonders why the ISDA can do Resonance while she can’t.

Jin and Gio finally arrive at a space colony on the moon. Jin hears Toa’s song and remains positive that she is somewhere in the city. Meanwhile, Toa is sitting alone outside a basketball court where a group of boys are having fun playing with an RC plane. A rain program activates and the boys run back home. Toa continues to sit alone in the rain until a woman with groceries stands over her with an umbrella. Jin and Gio soon arrive at the empty basketball court where Toa was. Gio decides to abandon Jin and go his own way as per their agreement if Toa was not on the moon.

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Ichigo Mashimaro. Manabi Straight. Moetan. Sky Girls. Kodomo no Jikan. These aren’t your average shows with young female leads intended for a young female audience. In fact they’re aimed at men. It really seems that the amount of series like these have drastically increased in the past couple of years.

I can understand why these shows are so popular. It gives lolicons the chance to do what they want (i.e. watch young girls in… ahem…”precarious situations”) without getting 25 to life. Should it be encouraged for studios to continue churning out these types of shows though? Is the anime/manga industry just perpetuating the problem by appeasing the intended audience with their next loli fix?

Maybe this is a problem that has always been present but is only getting more noticeable because of the recent shows with loli ero content in them. Of note would be the fact that Moetan episode 6 was outright banned from a TV airing and Kodomo no Jikan has also been heavily censored. What about the other shows I mentioned? While series like Ichigo, Sky Girls, and Manabi Straight aren’t as bad as the aforementioned ecchi titles, you can easily understand their target audience. I don’t suppose these shows are hurting anyone, but it is surprising how quickly they’ve found their fanbase and became an anime niche so quickly. Perhaps this matter has really come to light because the TV medium is so mainstream that you can’t help but notice how much things have changed.