The Third: The Girl with the Blue Eye

[Apraxhren]

FnT has released episode 6. Their video quality is a bit lower than Ayu and the timing is a little fast but the translations seem to be better.

Edit: About the narration, the original work was a novel so the narration in the book would tend to be overly descriptive since there are no pictures. It seems the producers either wanted to reference the narration in the book or keep the original feel of the book through the narration. As Ryllharu said "It's like reading a book"

[Kraco]

The fifth of the Third, from Ayu:

Episode 5 - Ayu

[Ryllharu]

So, Thirds are just regular mutations, and Honoka is simply a mutation of that mutation. There goes my theory from the last preview.

Anyhow, I'm guessing now that since the normal red Thirds interact with technology and information, essentially non-physical commodities, Honoka's must be able to sense and control all matter. She can find the invisible robots, sense the flowers, and cut anything to ribbons.

[Kraco]

Yeah. Sounds like a plausible theory. I was thinking this series was a bit more realistic, thus the fact she uses a kind of spirit blade was a surprise to me, although it of course explains why those robots were so weak against her.

Well, I guess it might be more interesting this way, if also more traditional.

[Ryllharu]

She was saying she using the katana as a focus though, so its really more like applying a super fine edge to the blade (like the molecule thin Damascus Blade from Battle Angel Alita or you can pick your favorite cyberpunk monofilament). It generally doesn't extend beyond the edge of the katana, but ensures that the katana goes clean through anything. (Exceptions being the end of eps 4 where the one of the Blue Breakers exploded after she got out of the PSP)

From this eps and the last one where they showed a flashback of her master, it seems fairly difficult for her to concentrate on the cutting ability, thus the typically need for a focus object. Its not some unconquerable combat ability, she really has to give it her all and visualize whatever being sliced in half. It's still samurai-esque skill based, but the 'spirit blade' is like the Zen concentration.

[Apraxhren]

Ayu released Episode 06

[Yukimura]

Fansub no Tameni - The Third - 07

Interesting, more of Honoka's teacher, and Chibi Hono was so cute!