The second movie starts up right where the first one left off with the invading Mechass attacking the fortified city walls. Hero boy sets out to talk with his old friend to negotiate a peaceful surrender. Of course his old friend doesn't know that for the king to surrender it means signing his and his wife's death notice. And the hero doesn't even mention that fact to him. You can tell there is some conflict in why the Hero's friend is fighting and neither one of them wants to hurt the other.
Until of course the typical jump the gun war happy general gets his squad and himself in some hot water leaving the two friends no other choice to fight. The hero runs off avoid fighting his friend only to wind up in another fight with the overly gung-ho chick who the hero fought before. Itching for a rematch they scrap and of course the Hero is able to keep her at bay with some amazing power and an uncanny bit of luck. The hero is able to take the girl out of the fight when another soldier shows up to collect the hero and take him back. Before doing so the new soldier is going to finish off the fallen warrior as there is no place in this war for prisoners. The hero isn't happy with that idea.
Preventing the soldier from killing the girl allows her time to fire one last shot killing the just arrived soldier. Moments later after saying her last farewells and getting the last wordy shots off at the young hero, who doesn't want her to do something stupid, offs herself instead of becoming a prisoner to a bunch of Barbarians. Now our young hero realizes just how bloody and unfair war really is and he wants no part of it.
After learning the harsh realities of battle the young hero says his goodbyes to his friends and finds out that the king has decided to surrender. Before he gets to far out the door the young hero decides that he should stay and fight and protect his friends. After the credits roll we find out that you young hero has been officially knighted and has joined the ranks of the military. Once again we get a lot of pretty generic mecha hero boy plot devices but in the middle of all that is a pretty well written story up to this point so far. Hopefully it will continue in that way. The animation looks fantastic and the battles are pretty good nothing to epic and overly outlandish.
Now I'm really excited about seeing how the third movie will continue the story and how all the friends will re-connect and solve the big picture. Almost makes me want to snag the novels and find out but I'm not that gung-ho about that much ready at the moment. I can wait for the movies.
The individual movies don't have their own trailers and why post the same video I posted last time....and I don't want to post the videos of the actual movie so how about an AMV instead this time.
