I am still really want Pallad show his true Bugster Form.

Maybe in his climax battle?

Maybe he IS already in his Bugster form.

LeL

^ Those are spoilers dude....



And holy shit Pallad is M! Or something like that. It kinda reminds me of Sora/Roxas from Kingdom Hearts 2.

What, I... I was hoping that M was the human and Emu the bugster, but it's Parad who is M? And Emu is just the doctor? What this episode ending suggesting really confuses me. I was hoping it'll be the route where Emu was the competitive gamer who lacked the humanity that M, the bugster, has provided. Considering how the theme of harmless bugster in this series, that will be the biggest plot point to cement that idea.

Maybe Parad was the initial virus created by Dan, but it escaped the body and manifested itself to a physical being, while Emu is really the antibody created after infection. This might explain why Emu is far more humane and empathetic, while before M wasn't. And the reason why Parad desires to fight Emu was because he believes M's body is his rightful host.

edited already man
haha sry

but we got all those scans in rumor thread
comee visit and see

I really, really liked that idea too, trust me, but there's no way it's canon. It's been stated before that, before he was infected with the Bugster Virus, he was...well, the Emu we have now, who was sweet and wanted to be a doctor. After he was infected, he slowly turned into M, and that, after his Bugster Virus was harvested, he returned to being Emu. This was confirmed back during Nico's backstory episode and the episode where Dan infected himself with Shakariki Sports.
So it's more likely that the big 'paradox' about Parad is, simply, that all along, he's been in two places at once, because not all of Emu's Bugster Virus was harvested - most of it was, and that became Parad - but the little that remained is still M.
So I suppose, if Parad/M is the Buster of any game in particular, it's probably Mighty Brothers XX, at least symbolically.

Really? I thought it was stated before that he was a gaming genius, and his interest in becoming a doctor only came later. Which episode was this stated? I need to rewatch that.

Nope. It was stated he wanted to be a doctor ever since Director Hinata saved him, but that he slowly became distracted by games, before suddenly getting serious a few years ago.
The relevant information to my above post is in, as I say up there, the episodes focusing on Nico's backstory, and the episode wherein Dan infects himself with Shakariki Sports, although I can't recall which those are number/title-wise.

EDIT: It's Episode 15: A New Challenger Appears!, Episode 16: The Paradox of Defeating M, and Episode 22: The Conspired History!

Although the stuff about wanting to be a doctor before he became Genius Gamer M is also in Episode 9: Beat Up the Dragon! and Episode 10: The Disharmonious Doctors!

Fuuuuuuuuuck this episode is so good. It shows how threatening and outright abusive Parad is, Poppy managed to get development, the episode was a tear jerker, Emu played smart, and now Parad possessed Emu. Fuuuuuuuuck Writer-san doesn't take any breaks
EDIT: Though I just remembered the best thing about this episode. Para-DX tries to fight Emu but Emu can literally ignore him because of M A X B O I S
I fucking love this ridiculous mech suit