[Librarian]

Really liked the Dai-Mazine designs.

Love the episode overall, and how it's setting up the timeline shakeup to come.
Tsukasa is really coming across as pivotal to how the tone changes.

Love the emphasis on dreams too, though I find it interesting about the face shrouded in shadows. The obvious implication is it's himself, but I think it might be a certain somebody from Decade's series instead. Overall, keeps the series very self-contained without having to use an overabundant 'mystic/supernatural' story device, and still maintains the overall theme of pushing for your dreams.

The retainer design was pretty sweet too. Looking forward to seeing those and more on what they are.

Overall, really like how this show is developing out and all the heavy handed foreshadowing.

And yeah, the dream is very emblematic of time travel stories and the loop/paradoxical nature of time travel stories. Where dreams and Deja vu are related to how timelines diverge because of looped natures and how the loop diverges in each subsequent loop. Cyclical theories of time travel. Which fits the nature of the overall clock theme of how 1-12 are a cycle that repeats, but changes from night to day and day to night.