What They Say:
Another person in No. 6 has suddenly aged and died. Sion hears about this from Rikiga and races to the theater where Rat is performing to inform him of the news. This is the first time he’s seen Rat act. But during the play, Rat is visited by a strange wind and song and he faints on stage. Meanwhile, in an art museum in No. 5, Safu is looking at a work which displays three bees when she, like Rat, is visited by a strange wind and song, and she also faints.
The Review:
Content: (please note that content portions of a review may contain spoilers)
While we’ve followed Nezumi and Sion outside of Number 6, things are still moving along within the special zone. With a few episodes now and time passed without any new deaths, we get one right from the start here that’s brutal as a young woman ends up turning to dust within seconds of the infection hitting. It’s made obvious where it’s coming from and how it’s being transmitted, though there seems to be more to it than just that because you’d imagine the bug would nail a lot more people just because of the number of them it would come into contact with. Bringing the virus and its effects back into play is welcome, since we’ve spent a lot of time with Nezumi and Sion outside of the walls now.
The news of the disease does make its way to the outside as Rikiga is definitely the type of guy who will hear such things through his connections. He doesn’t exactly intend to break out that information to Sion, but it comes up when Rikiga is there with Dogcatcher and the reveal about the bees being active in No. 6 again gets to him and he openly talks about it, which certainly surprises the other two. Considering his connection to them in almost dying himself and the changes his body went through from an encounter with one is definitely an event that allows him to talk very personally about it all. Enough so that the other two are pretty certain that he has to talk to Nezumi about it all to make it clearer to him what’s going on and the importance of it all.
What we get in this episode that starts to define how things are coming together involves a song, a curious song indeed. We get two separate instances within the episode where Nezumi on the outside and Safu on the inside hear a song with very curious lyrics to it, filled with the visualization of many bees, turning the skies red and causing nothing but fear and pain. There’s definitely a greater power at work with all of this, and the edges of it start to become a bit clearer with this. How both of them handle the situation is definitely different, though it’s worse for Nezumi since Sion frets over him while Safu deals with an unexpected loss on her side in addition to the song and wind that she also experienced. The connection between the two has a lot of potential and offers a definite mystery to events.
In Summary:
While No. 6 has a bit of unusual pacing to it at times, it’s offering up a very curious story that has me wanting to know more each week to see where it goes. But it also offers up some great style and wonder to it. There’s a haunting dance sequence, which will certainly elicit excitement from a segment of the shows fans, that really is thoroughly engaging and intriguing to watch play out because of the colors and mood of it all. It’s easy to see more out of it than it may be, but that’s part of the fun. The relationship between Nezumi and Sion has been strange from the start and continues to be so to this day and through all of these unusual circumstances. And the more that they know each other, the more time they spend with each other, the more is unearthed about both of them that makes each of them wonder what other secrets they harbor.
Grade: B
Simulcast By: Crunchyroll
Review Equipment:
Sony KDS-R70XBR2 70″ LCoS 1080P HDTV, Dell 10.1 Netbook via HDMI set to 1080p, Onkyo TX-SR605 Receiver and Panasonic SB-TP20S Multi-Channel Speaker System With 100-Watt Subwoofer.
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