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Ange was willing to kill dragons due to in part they were attacking their livelihood and so didn't think much about them as sentient beings or not, but when found out of they are humans then she just proclaims she will never fight dragons again because of this revelation.  Then next episode she goes killing humans anyways, what was the point of the prior proclamation?

In this episode, there's the whole scene for Momoka and Ange to escape, where were they going to escape to or with? The entire base was being attacked and they know they do not have much ability to make it anywhere safely since none of them know anything outside of the island except for the empire.

In this episode, Embryo states why he likes Ange's conviction for injustice and passion for wanting to fix the absurdity of the world/events leading up to this point, so he wishes her not to dirty her hand with murdering of Julio, but prior to this point Ange had killed several unmasked soldiers and most likely many unarmed personnel on the ship, but who cares about those people only Julio will affect her the most?

What is the deal with Tusk? He was shown in 2-3 episodes, maybe more but not the entire season so far, and for some reason he's a big deal to the plot, it's as if they wanted a male hero so he can be there to be the knight and shining armor to protect Ange, funny because he did say he was a knight to protect her for whatever reason only he can, and most likely the entire humanoid population, as the opening shows him dueling with Embryo.  All he does is come in an just does one task that for some reason only he can do; Ange needs to be rescue go Tusk, Vivian needs to be rescued go Tusk.  Why is this needed, to sell this series to prepubescent male audience who can't accept female leads?  I have a feeling Tusk will be a major necessity of saving this entire world but I could be wrong but I highly doubt it.  Since this producer love his Kira from Gundam Seed.  Why do so many people like him, MAL users on the forum for Cross Ange wants him to more but why, he had nothing to do with the plot line except to assist with some missions for plot convenience, they haven't explored on this character so why are people attracted to him?

The only character that gets any sort of character development is Ange, everyone else is just very one-dimension, Jill has nothing going for her except that she is the commander of the opposing faction, and that is all that she has going for her.  Salia, all she is doing now is crying about how she should have been the one to be Ange riding the Villkiss, being the one who should be the savior or what not.  Tusk, as stated prior.  Chris and Rosalie, just to be there so they can form cliques to dislike whoever is the limelight or make the audience understand the character they are interacting with are 'growing' as a person i.e. when Hilda protects Chris from the solider shooting at them.

This show has been described by some as 'edgy', and I can't agree with this statement.  The only 'edgy' thing I can recall about this series so far is the implied rape/molestation during the physical exam Jill gave Ange, Ange was being forced upon by Zola, Zola being killed after Ange's cowardly action.  These are the only scenes that stand out to me and only occurred in the first 3 episodes.  The revelation of the dragon as human, burning of children, the ruthless killing of Normas, none of these are really mind blowing or 'edgy', many other series or movies has shown this twist in better faction because as the audience we had more connection with the characters and the plot in general.  Full Metal Alchemist did a better job of revealing the human sacrifice for the major plot; Jin-Roh had more of a major impact to the audience when the massacre occurs since you have been attached to the plot of why and how this event went down.  We already understood that the mana users already looked down on the Norma and never once thought they were anything but just flesh of bones and organs, when the massacre occurs we as the audience expected nothing else; that small quip of one solider asking if they should kill them or not was just a simple way to try to pull on your heartstrings that maybe the mana user might have some semblance of conscience but that is not enough to sway me to think these mana users are actually good people being manipulated.  Dragons being humans did not cause any emotional response for me, since we had no depiction of what the dragons are doing or why they are doing it, we can't really associate anything about why this is a grotesque situation, if this was any other conflict between humans vs humans we wouldn't care about the opposing faction of the situation, yet this revelation was a big deal because?