Review By: Jesus Chavez
Twitter: @Sponger64
Summary:
Episode 11 begins with Kojou waking up to find out that Himeragi is missing, so he goes searching for her. Kojou makes it to what appears to be a hot spring and finds a girl who looks a lot like Kanase. However, once Kojou spots her, she immediately disappears. Himeragi then spots Kojou and assumes he was being a peeping Tom. After said situations, the two try to find the mysterious girl. The two end up getting spotted by a couple of robotic grunts (or automatas as the show calls them) working for Magus Craft (which is the company that owns the island). Both of them surrounded, the end up getting saved by a girl named La Folia Rihavein.
La Folia Rihavein (the princess of Aldegyr)
After fighting off a couple of more automatas, we find out La Folia Rihavein is the princess of Aldegyr that Sayaka mentioned in the last episode. The episode then transitions to Kanase's adopted father (AKA, Kensei) explaining his plans to sell these Angel Fauxes (artificial angels) like Kanase as weapons of destruction. Transitioning back to Kojou, Himeragi, and La Folia, we discover that Kensei was the royal court mage of Aldegyr and the reason he wants La Folia captured is to use her for his magical techniques to improve his research (since he requires one of the royal bloods of Aldegyr to use them). We also discover that Kanase's real father is La Folia's Grandfather (making her La Folia's aunt despite La Folia being older). After that, a boat from Magus Craft comes to the island with Kensei on board. He says he's creating these creatures called the Angel Faux so he can create entities closer to God. Also, it's said that Magus Craft is helping Kensei with all this since they're in financial problems. Kojou is forced to fight Kanase, and gets hit pretty badly. Kanase then goes berserk and causes havoc. The episode ends with Sayaka and Natsuki trying to making to the island to help out.
Overall thoughts:
I thought this was a really good episode. We got a lot of information involving Magus Craft and Kensei's intentions are with these Angel Fauxes. There was a good amount of action scenes, which is great since previous episodes were sometimes lacking in action. Fanservice was more frequent then usual, but I didn't mind it. I like the new character La Folia since she seems like an independent character that's not willing to wait for someone to save her as well as she helped explain a lot of what's happening in the story. A great follow up to episode 10.
Grade: A
You can find Strike the Blood on Crunchyroll.
