I just noticed except for the 3 young girls almost everyone else has the smaller style eyes like you find in American animation. No wonder the emotion is absent. Well, besides the bad writing.
I think land and sun should have been different sexes. The soldier should have been sun, so he'd be Helios and Kuniko would have been land, or Gaia (or even Demeter). That just would've made more sense.
Ok—the boomerang, it's a little silly, boomerangs can't do that, but I'll buy it. But, standing on top of a plane in flight? Feh. Clearly, that's not going to work.
This episode was alright. It's the build up towards something awesome. I have something to say after every episode don't I? It's all to keep track of what I've watched. Tarisan one of Karins chats is seen in the flesh.