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Originally Posted by barnstenchfartface

Anyway, decided to wait until 13 was out to watch both it and 12, and I'm glad I did. Managed to get through that without building up too much hype or anything. Anyway, they were great. They were great, but...I...found M slightly anticlimatic? I dunno. I was expecting like...something to happen. Someone to die or something. Really thought they were going somewhere else with Mamoru too. And with the timeskip, us seeing Jin and Haruka in their beat-up states, and learning that they've been fighting constantly for weeks now...a lot of it feels like it'd fit a beginning more than an ending. Like season 1 should have ended with Tlaloc and the team being disbanded, and then when we come back with season 2 we get most of what happened this episode. If one or both of the lead Amazons or Mamoru had died, or if the events of this episode in particular had any lasting repercussions, I'd feel differently about it, but that not being the case, I'm left with a weird feeling. Not even sure if I'm making sense.

The finale was likely filmed before they knew that season 2 was definitely happening. I think that's why it feels like it could be either an open-ended finale or a more transitional chapter ending. Either way, I liked it, although they could have done a better job of making it feel like a lot of time had passed between Tlaloc Day and the extermination team reuniting - I know they said it was three weeks, but it was also about five minutes in audience time.

I'm going to miss this show; it's been the bright spot in a fairly mixed spring of tokusatsu. I wasn't that into it at first, but it really grew on me a lot as it went along. I will definitely be back for the back half of the alphabet next year.

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Originally Posted by Undivide

Judging by Haruka and Jin's response, I think that ball of mystery meat Jin was eating might be from an Amazon.

And noodles. It definitely contained noodles.