[Fish Sandwich]

Hey everyone, guess what time it is!



Time for me to have a new favorite episode of Zi-O, evidently.

This was just awesome. Fitting for the arc paying homage to the show that ended the era of repetitive two-parters, the story here gleefully messes with the established formula by starting us towards the end, and then having Sougo go back in time to mess with the events of an episode we haven't actually seen yet.

It's just brilliant, and on top of that, it continues the trend of Sougo becoming more and more creepy, which I'm getting more and more convinced is entirely intentional. Episode 10.5 joked about the inconsistencies between writers, and it definitely seems like Nobuhiro Mouri has a much crazier vision for Zi-O, but once again, Sougo does strike me as the kind of dude who would do something like this. Even in the Wizard episodes we starting seeing him mastermind schemes that leave everybody else shocked how competent he is when he puts his mind to something, so this is about right. Extra points for managing to thoroughly confuse Woz, though. For someone I initially had pegged as a generic, boring high school protagonist, Sougo has become pretty fascinating to watch. But then, I guess that's the point.