天下制覇

I didn’t see one die use Last Resort. How disappointing.

Impressions:

This was… odd. I’m not so surprised that Teddy’s persona didn’t get even a moment to be a badass like at least Kanji did. He was reduced to bouncing around with those damn annoying dice in the background. Then when they found Mitsuo, they bypassed all the usual shadow stuff and Yuu got sucked into a delusion that was kind of a mix of various events along with chunks of the bad ending before finding the DEMON FETUS in his dream and Yosuke pulling him out of it. Then with a cry of "I am NOT empty" (Ha HA! Title in the episode itself! …sigh) he proceeded to summon every single one of his various personas in turn, including some he’s never used and spank the baby.

Like I said… it was… odd. Also probably the best looking battle in the show to date, but still… the whole thing was a bit off-kilter. Coming from Guilty Crown though, it’s hard to judge just how far. Given the smash cut from finding Mitsuo to various antics, I think they really should have made it much more obvious that it was an illusion from the start. Show some static during the transitions or something. You’re not a good enough show to get away with a jarring shift like that without a few other cues. For a moment, I wondered if they really were flashing forward for some reason before they started leaping months at a time. They could have also done a lot more in the dream if they wanted to give weight to Yuu’s declaration to show he has no purpose or relationships with the case over. It would have worked nicely as a contrast between Mitsuo’s own hero-complex stuff too which was more or less completely cut. Oh well. C’est la vie.

The show’s off next week for the holidays and will be back with all the new broadcasts in January.

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