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Okay, so the backstory stuff was kind of interesting and informative, that was good. All the stuff with Shibuya and his mom continued to be really boring, though (but it was fun seeing him fighting the mooks - I kept hoping he'd pull out the Den-O Belt and suddenly make this a good show).

The ending actively pissed me off, though, to the point where I literally shouted "What is this shit" to my laptop (the laptop didn't respond). That was one of the lamest, most deus ex machina-y endings I've seen in ages: "A bunch of people are stuck as children, but it's okay because Takeru and Tutankhamen can just use their time anomaly reversal powers!"

What.

The.

Fuck?

That ability literally came out of nowhere, makes no sense in the context of anything we've seen Ghost or the Tutenkhamen Eyecon do before, and has fuck-all to do thematically with King Tut. What was the thought process here? "We need to do a Tutenkhamen storyline, what ability would be appropriate?" "Well, he died as a teenager so logically he has the power to turn de-aged people back into adults."



There's bad writing and then there's lazy writing; this managed to somehow be both at the same time. I am not a big Ghost fan on the best of days, but this episode was just plain fucking awful.