English Dub Review: Lycoris Recoil “Nothing seek, nothing find”
Overview
After the incident at DA Headquarters, Chisato and Takina live a smooth and easy life at LycoReco. On one particular day, Chisato noticed that Takina doesn’t have a casual wardrobe to help her properly fit in. Fed up with Takina’s absolute indifference toward herself, Chisato decides to take her shopping!
Our Take
It was nice to see Chisato and Takina get a break and just go shopping, and once again the dialogues and interactions between them are so good. Underneath Chisato’s playfulness, there’s a sense that she wants Takina to be able to separate her Lycoris life and not be so “on” all the time, and I’m glad she got her to relax a little bit.
However, this doesn’t quite last, because, underneath all of this, there’s a hint of sadness given how expendable the Lycoris are to the organization… That train station scene with the terrorist attack led by a green-haired Madman whos dressed like a rejected Cowboy Bebop character was just brutal. And it hurt to see Chisato just as worried and upset as Takina as they were on their way home, even if she didn’t let it show, for Takina’s sake.
Overall, this was a nice change of pace after the non-stop action scenes we consistently got, the mystery around the gun dealers, and what more. Having the excuse to get new clothes, they not only went shopping but to the aquarium and we learned a bit more about Chisato’s past. I feel like there has to be more to Chisato’s preference for rubber bullets than just disliking murder since none of that is properly unraveled. I’m also curious about the deeper significance of Chisato’s Owl necklace. As for the post-credits scene, I wonder who that Madman was. but for now, I appreciate moments they have like this, where you can even laugh when the villains interact, especially when they mutually don’t like each other.
Short of getting Roiland back, which I'm sure isn't going to happen, I don't even think they could get much better than the new voices from the previous season. And the ratings for season 7 weren't much lower on average than for season 6; it was pretty much just a normal season-to-season drop that most likely would have happened regardless.
I mean, look at the actual averages:
Season 1 - 1.57 million viewers Season 2 - 1.97 million viewers Season 3 - 2.33 million viewers Season 4 - 1.52 million viewers Season 5 - 0.96 million viewers Season 6 - 0.56 million viewers Season 7 - 0.42 million viewers
Ever since season 3, it had been having steep drops even with Roiland still involved; the season 6 to 7 drop is actually the smallest-percentage drop it's had since it started dropping, and if anything it's possible that changing the voice actors actually *boosted* interest a bit and prevented it from dropping even more.