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Originally Posted by XW1n5t0nX

But the whole school and mom thing was really pointless to me. They didn't really do anything with it and it pretty much just became set dressing for the Takeru/Spectre stuff. In the end, it should've probably just been cut or saved for later and just have the two meet over a random Ganma attack.

Did you miss the parts about how Alan was manipulating the whole situation to turn the school-ground into something greater for the Ganma while the place was vacated? And how because the mom was hurt, Specter tipped the kid about the temple so that it would lure Takeru into the area as well?

Instead of just providing a setting for the events to take place, it also built things up toward the future. The plot threads weren't self contained in this episode, but that doesn't make them pointless. I'm sure it'll lead somewhere later down the line and I'd much prefer that over "a random Ganma attack."