天下制覇

Did this make sense at any point?

Impressions:

Once again, as is frequently the case, I feel like simply summarizing the episode does more to mock it than I ever could. After being forced out on a date with Hare, they run into Yahiro again (who Shu recognized from behind in a hoody, somehow), and then Hare is completely forgotten for the rest of the episode despite being shown trailing them. Yahiro begs for money despite hanging out in a luxurious apartment literally surrounded by aquariums, so they try to find refuge with his infected brother, but are attacked by the world’s worst snipers. I thought for a moment that they were simply trying to lead them in a certain direction, but after shooting and missing completely, they sent in the mechs with grappling hooks. So… uh… yeah.

At this point, Yahiro’s brother started emitting MAGIC SIGNALS which for some reason match Shu’s MAGIC SIGNALS (and apparently are not shared by anybody else infected because you’d think they would have noticed this before now) and the disease proceeds to TAKE OVER THE MECH and attack Yahiro. Shu tries to stab it, but PASSES INTO THE MECH and into a flashback of Jun’s past where he gives a pithy little speech about how everybody’s mean, basically the suicidal version of your standard Persona 4 Shadow speech, at which point Shu kills him. Yes. Kills a sick ten year old kidnapped from a medical facility a few days prior who thinks he has seen too much evil in his life and can no longer go on living without hating people. And then everybody apparently just goes home because it cuts to Yahiro and Shu on a bench with Hare stalking them again.

I feel like I’m letting something down here. I have nothing to say that could make this any more inane than it already is. At what point in the writing process do you go from "You know what’d soooo unique? If Shu’s void crap was related to the infections" to "what if the infection took over a mech and was also simultaneously a portal into a ten year old’s brain?" And that isn’t even getting into that Shu is hanging around school working on a play with the bad guys apparently just… watching him do that.