English Dub Review: AYAKA: A Story of Bonds and Wounds “I’ll Go with You”

Overview (Spoilers Ahead):

Jingi helps Yukito in his fight against the fire dragon.

Our Take:

This episode focuses almost entirely on Jingi. We see when Makoto told Jingi that Yukito is the water dragon. We also see that he’s planning on sacrificing himself to help Yukito become the water dragon. He goes through with this and it seems like Jingi is now gone for good.

We don’t see much of the fight and what we do see feels bogged down. Aka goes through his full transformation, which has been teased for a long time, but the impact feels very minimal. There’s no build up to it in this episode and there’s barely any reaction after it happens.

The main focus is Jingi’s story, which is told well. Unfortunately, it’s another case of the climactic scene not feeling as impactful as it probably should. It’s still a decent scene, but I feel like it should carry more weight than it does.