天下制覇

…Great.

Impressions:

I wasn't expecting much of an ending, and I can't say it delivered one. Most of the first half was spent changing all the rules that it had previously established. A few small things could've maybe slid. We said you were paid in time, but that actually meant time travel that you could use to change the past and create all manner of paradox, but also, everything that happened now doesn't count. Also, you can take other people's time, and if we feel like it, you can skip the previously stated rules about not remembering anything. Also, teleport to wherever you feel like. Well, gee. Isn't all of this remarkably convenient. Also, here's a magic box that drags whoever opens it to hell. Take it with you. 

So, gee. With all these new rules spewed out 10 minutes before the end, how do we think this is going to go? Neko goes back in time, tells Osoto to go away, and then he opens the death box because why not? None of it feels like any kind of satisying triumph because they've been buddy-buddy with him for the last ten episodes, nor did Neko even really do much of anything. This hasn't been any kind of antagonistic relationship in the slightest. Nor can you feel bad for him because he is an inveterate serial killer. Having it both ways leaves no side satisfied. Hell, Neko didn't even try to close the cases and reveal that Osoto had already killed a bunch of people. They go out of their way to point that out, another baffling decision. Nobody else matters but Atori, after all. Oh, and Neko says she's going to hell too because she… got pushed down stairs and her death box opened by a murderer. Those are the notes it ends up. This is meant to be a satisfying triumphant ending. What the hell.

Season preview will go up next week at some point. It's actually almost entirely done, earlier than usual. I just need to sort things. It's a weird season. But comparatively few cheat power shows. By which, I mean there's only like six.