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Appare, Hototo, Kosame, Jing, Al and Sofia.

“Kosame! Appare! What’s wrong with you?!”

Bonus:

Appare was a big surprise for me this season, after pausing because of covid, it finally continued this summer. And it turned out way better than expected!

The story is set around the late 19th Century, near the beginning of Meiji era. It revolves around an eccentric inventor and second son of a respected merchant family, Appare Soriano and the samurai Kosame Isshiki that is tasked with keeping Appare's eccentric behavior in check. Appare want to go away from Japan, so he starts building a boat, after a series of events Kosame accidentally strands them both at sea, ending up stuck in Los Angeles. To find a way back hokr Appare and Kosame decide to enter the "Trans-America Wild Race".

This is one of the best original anime series I have seen recently. At first it got me really excited because I loved since the beginning Appare's character, during episode 3-6 I got a bit bored I guess, but then again it became hella good, it started to get more dramatic and cool. The story hit the right point and every character made it even better.

Appare was the best, his cold and calculus personality made me fell for him, and I really got everything I needed from him as main, as the story goes he gets more open with his feelings to a point we saw him desparate, happy and even crying like there's no way back. Absolutely adore him.

Kosame was amazing, being a samurai makes you think he would be all heroic and serious, when he actually fears of death and gets afraid when it comes to fighting due to a childhood trauma. His development is really good to, once he overcome his fear he became the top top master of the sword. It was really really exciting.

The rest of the group was really nice too, I really enjoy every moment with Hototo, great addition to the team! Jing and Al were great too, along side the Thousand Three members.

Animation was really good, that steampunk concept went so nicely, and the music goes perfectly with this 19th century story, both op and ed were amazing.

Appare is one of my new loves ^^, my final score 8.5/10⭐

We get a delightful interaction between Sofia and TJ in this week’s episode. TJ has been shown to get bored and restless very easily/often, but we see Sofia keeping pace with him here. We know that Sofia can be a bit bold and outgoing when she wants to be, and I feel TJ would definitely encourage that (after all, he seems super impressed with her in the drinking scene). Plus, her assertiveness and sass would be something that would keep him on his toes. 

In a previous episode, we saw TJ singing along to music (even when he didn't really know the lyrics, lol) and I could also easily see her singing along to music with him.