Ankh revival confirmed? :D

"Might not be the best?" "ALMOST reaches Emu level?!" Dude, he EASILY beats out Emu in terms of character development due to this simple small character arc alone!!! I don't know how he can't be by now one of, if not, the most developed character in the show. (The ONLY exception I can see is Taiga, but that's up to whenever the heck we get all of the Kamen Rider Snipe Episode 0 Series) Yuya Takahashi was somehow able to take the most static character in the show, and give him a great Arc of development in only 4 Episodes!!! The character development of Hiiro was being able to forgive not only Taiga for not saving his girlfriend, but to forgive himself for his past mistakes with her. When the possibility of bringing her back came up, he began to realize how he not only messed up in giving her a happy ending to her life, but he then went on to blame Taiga for her death. He's now facing his notion that in actuality, he's the one to blame, and therefore, this puts BOULDERS of guilt on Hiiro, to where he has to do SOMETHING in order to make it up to his lost girlfriend, hence why he betrayed the others.

But in this Episode, and the previous one thanks to Taiga, he's finally realized that he needs to let go of the past, and move on forward. And that includes leaving behind not just guilt of Saki's death, but also grudges toward those he blamed, namely Taiga. He said before that until he sees Saki again & makes amends with her, he's unsure he can move on being a great doctor, but now he's realized that he indeed CAN move on without her, because like he says, he will focus on the operation at hand to save the people in front of him.

.....TLDR, SCREW all that "Hiiro's development sucks" nonsense, Hiiro just became the best character in the show. :P

I really agree, now after seeing the Movie Poster one more time, what if Hiiro is the survivor in this series ?
remember Gaim? Micchy and Takatora finally have happy life,
so does Hiiro and Saki in the end of story

Wow! Such a great written speech for Hiiro! I appreciate it, TheGloryXros. I do want to say that Hiiro's development is the best out of the four but I'm a little biased because I love Taiga so much and he's the best character for the entire show. I know that in terms of development, Hiiro wins in several aspects, but I just love the way they show how warm is the cold and jerkass Taiga that we all know. That's why I love Nico being around because she actually pushes Taiga's soft personalities into the surface.

Also, I know that Hiiro's suffering so much, especially here because of Saki's true death. However, Emu also had gone through so much pain too. The only difference is Emu, ironically, managed to hide his own feelings or just let go off his mental torture. But, for Hiiro, he just breaks down the moment he expresses his feelings; watch back episode 34 a more deep evidence. This is why i really love Emu and Hiiro's dynamic; they're as cute and good as Shinji and Ren's dynamic.

On deeper hindsight, I found that the whole reason why Hiiro wants to Saki wasn't because he loves her. Well, granted, he indeed loves Saki to some degrees but it only makes up for several percentages of his whole betrayal. Seriously, there's tons of women out there who is much better than Saki at best, but he still clings to the past of his girlfriend despite her death. Even if you indeed revive her, would that fix your relationship with her? It's not that Saki will be 100% your wife in the future, right?

I found that the whole reason Hiiro wants to revive back Saki because he wants to free himself and count up his sins because of Saki. As what TheGloryXros said, Hiiros basically blames all of Saki's death to him and he feels it as a dreadful sin that couldn't be forgiven unless he can get Saki back. This is why this whole two arc basically try to scream that Hiiro shouldn't shoulder all of his sin and burden all by himself and he should just move on from all of the mistakes that he had done before.

But, I have enough rambling here before anyone becomes even lazier to read this.

Really, really great episode. Hiiro's struggle over the last few episodes has been fantastic and to see it come to such an end was really moving. Watching Kiriya and Kuroto working together was pretty crazy too, and shows just how far Ex-Aid has come since it started.

My biggest takeaway though was that apparently Emu is a good enough intern to work as a scrub on a dangerous operation :lol he's only even been doing surgery for a couple of months!

They could just send Taiga to a normal hospital.I think there's a lot more capable surgeons operating in Japan. Emu is a genius gamer, but he's definitely not a pro surgeon.

So Hiiro's arc is finally over. Taiga's is probably next and most likely end once all of Episode Zero is shown so around mid 40s? About that time, the Taiga and Hiiro should call each other and Emu by names already...I guess Hiiro already does.
I wonder if Taiga will get an upgrade...its unfair Hiiro gets one, he doesnt. xD

Next episode, Emu finally deals with Parado. He is becoming a tragic villain. He may not be killed off and instead return as the final boss abandoning his dream to beat Emu and just finish off humanity for being rejected of his wish or he will merge with Emu.

Graphite is absent from the preview...wonder what will happen to him. Please don't rob me off his final showdown with Taiga (hopefully with an upgrade) and/or Hiiro.

I still hope in the next episode and few, Parad will still fight Emu after Gemdeus. Drive vs Heart.

I think everyone's hope for Taiga to get an upgrade will be shot down. There're no news or anything particular that foreshadows Taiga to get an upgrade. The toy catalog confirmed that the final toy batch are the Taddle Legacy and the movies' Gashat. So, nope, a slim chance that Taiga will receive an upgrade. Still, there's always a staple of the annual last-minute addition mismatch forms recently. Taiga might be lucky to get one. I really hope that this will be true since I'm really sick to see BBS overused.

As sad as the preview of the next episode is, I'm pretty sure that Parad will survive. Let's see the fact that he will appear in the True Ending cements this. Oh, by the way, recent episodes summaries show that True Ending is canon to the main universe in some ways. Second, come on, after the whole heck dead or alive things, would you still expect them to kill Parad? He's just a bratty child who wants attention from his brother-like figure, though, in the most extreme way. Third, even if Parad dies, would it be a permanent death? As of this episode, Hyper Muteki hasn't shown the abilities to kill Bugsters permanently. So, Parad might come back in some ways later

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Dangit Toei, we talked about this! Leave the poor guy alone already! He has enough problems without all the bruising!

Great episode. The subplot with Hiiro comes to exactly the end it was obviously going to come to, and I couldn't be happier. The closest things I have to complaints are:

- The ending had that Ghost problem where the scene just sort of stops a little before the emotion really has time to sink in.

- I guess literally anytime anything sad happens in Ex-Aid's world, it just starts raining. If this weren't a show about video game doctors beating up viruses with swords I'd call that a bit much.

- Similarly the whole thing with that tear falling VERY DRAMATICALLY was rather odd.

But hey, none of that is enough to really bother me, and next week looks beyond amazing, so I can't wait for that.