Review: Dimension W “The Voice Calling from the Past”

Overview.

Kyoma has been the grumpy bad ass up until now, with hints of a dark troubled past. Rather than dancing around the hints the series has dropped up until now we finally dive deep into what happened to make Kyoma hate coils. Last episode we met a woman whom called herself his sister but is actually Kyoma’s sister-in-law (or would have been.) It turns out prior to working in Grendel that Kyoma was a fairly normal guy.

One of he more interesting things about the flashback is that it appears that Kyoma wasn’t the subject of strange super-soldier body modification. He was just naturally that tough, sort of like a Marine but with Coil-powered Kunai Drills instead of Guns.

He was recruited for that fact alone. The flashback is certainly effective at what it sets out to do, and I’m glad it’s out of the way.

The circumstances behind the finer details are a bit more complicated than I would’ve originally guessed, but not too far off the mark. It does make Kyoma a more sympathetic character, although it really doesn’t completely excuse his behavior toward Mira which just seems like a convenient excuse.

NT continues to be an organization that is both entirely ominous, just check out that board of directors, and yet not entirely evil. The war they keep alluding to seems to be not of nations but of interests inside of New Tesla. Likewise, there is nothing in Al’s past that paints him as sketchy as he comes off as either. He says they won the war, and he works for NT in the present, so their faction must have been the victors in the struggle. He was the only other survivor because he was the one ordered to hang back. Once again it’s not clarified what lead to the division, but I’d love to get the details on the whole bloody mess which resulted in such amazing destruction.

NT and the Prince gather up the coil collectors who answered his challenge and head for the island. The collectors are an eccentric mix of the bizarre and the bad ass, and all are quite colorful. Loser and his daughter Liz are there as well, back in disguise once again. Kyoma, Mira, and Al don’t arrive at the rendezvous point with the others but take their own route to the island. Kyoma may be the only one of the bunch who knows what that destroyed island might hold in store for them and is planning accordingly. By the end of this episode things are already going badly for those aboard the Prince’s flight.

I could definitely be reaching here, but remember wen Mira’s head popped off. That could’ve been foreshadowing.

I want to make a prediction… Mira is actually Miyabi. We, *including Mira* just doesn’t know it yet. There will probably be an event involving Dimension W where we see the process of her being built. Something of Miyabi being used to create Mira.

What if Mira was modeled after Miyabi? I mean Dr. Yurizaki was treating Miyabi at the same time as inventing the artificial human. For all I know, Mira could be the artificial Miyabi.

Also she was gonna die either way, and the operation was only possible to begin with because of coils, and even then there was a chance it wouldn’t be success and that she would die during the operation. So outright hating coils completely is a little odd and extreme. I mean it’s like if someone dies because something went wrong with the car engine and it crashes, and consequently you’d then never use any sort of vehicle ever again.

The Mexican collectors don’t even look remotely Mexican. The girl looks more like an american cowgirl. Correct me if i’m wrong, but i assume it must be the same for the African characters. :v

From the moment Miyabi appeared on screen, she kept putting up death-flags, ’til finally she had a whole bunting strung up……..that’s when they told us her head went walkabout in the W dimension!!!

I wouldn’t say that’s the case Mira’s head was pointed out to be artificially made though the brain is organic to some level but if it was the girls head I would have seen hints of like memories or having some familiarity with Kyoma in some way.

As much as I don’t wan’t to rain on your happy thoughts here she’d be a floating head remember. I mean she’d be a cute floating head, but a floating head nonetheless.

Whelp, i fully understand why Kyoma hates coils so much, but if this series keeps following the path it has set out on there will probably be some form of reconciliation for Kyoma and he will start to use coils again in his most dire situations at least. (Unless you count the Cellphone he had in Episode 1.)

These “Flashback” Episodes are often found in nearly every piece of fiction (From comics, to movies to even TV shows) and the intent is to answer questions about a particular character’s past. In this case the episode is devoted to telling Kyoma’s backstory and explaining his rabid hatred towards Coils.

Who knows if something interesting will happen next week. We still don’t know what Salva wants to do with all of the collectors there. We know that he’s looking for traces of life. There shouldn’t be any on the island, considering that the accident rendered it totally inhospitable, but there’s also photographic evidence to the contrary.

With some much needed backstory out of the way, Dimension W still contains more mysteries than answers, the foremost being where the show might be going with all of this.