When did Motoki and Umino suddenly become friends in Crystal?  I don't recall them being as close to each other in the manga as this episode of Crystal portrayed them as.

Neon Genesis wrote:

When did Motoki and Umino suddenly become friends in Crystal?  I don't recall them being as close to each other in the manga as this episode of Crystal portrayed them as.

I think it was just a way to show how Umino got to the situation in the first place. In the manga, he just shows up.

I assumed that Motoki made friends with a lot of his repeat customers, like Usagi for example. Umino probably visits the arcade frequently.

Yeah, I bet he comes there a lot to play games. They probably know each other on a first name bias. (Or last name since they're Japanese?) I wouldn't say they're super close friends.

I would love to know what they did to Rei's face in the arcade, that was kind of bad lol.

I love that they did bring all the generals together. You can tell from where they stood on the rough a lot about their relationship with each other. I'm really excited to see how that is going to work.

I was wondering about this part too...

The Generals all have the dark power from Metalia in them so they aren't changing their gender per se, they are simply using the dark energy to shapeshift into a different form in order to acquire more energy for Metalia ^^ In the long run they are still boys ^^

it was cool that they kept jeddy alive

I loved this episode!! I was a bit meh at some animations in ep 3, but this episode was really beautiful :3 I'm really looking forward to the next few eps, just re-read my manga recently and just <3 Haha all my hype feels are strong~