English Dub Review: AZUR LANE “INTERSECTION – Hold You, Never Let Go”

Overview

After Akagi’s defeat, the Sakura Empire forces are being hunted by the others. Akagi’s body is taken by the sirens, and an injured Kaga mourns her death. Simultaneously, reality seems to be creating rips in its own hologram, created by the siren technology. Enterprise’s activation of the Black Mental Cube proves to be destructive, but after witnessing Javelin and Laffey save Ayanami, she falls to her knees in disbelief.

Our Take

Enterprise’s own existentialism when it comes to how “war never changes” seems to change dramatically when she sees an act of unadulterated kindness on the battlefield from two opposing sides. It’s almost as if Javelin and Laffey saving Ayanami was the proof Enterprise needed of their “humanity,” and the fact that they weren’t born to fight. Sakura Empire’s defeat was simply the pre-boss to the main boss, which are the sirens. The reality-warping animations were pretty cool, alongside the artistic choice of having Enterprise be lost in a dream where Akagi and Kaga are.

This still doesn’t explain a few things, and the mystery is getting tangled up in all the multifaceted sectors of the show. This is what happens when there are so many characters, but it finally seems that everyone’s arcs are at least becoming intertwined — rather than being separate stories.

The intent of what the sirens are exactly planning to do is still unclear, which makes the past few episodes pretty confusing, but at least it’s not throwing underage fan-service and full-frontal titty scenes in our faces anymore.