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Originally Posted by Omnikaiser

That's the thing that bothered me too.
They made it a cliffhanger last week as if it was important and could be used by AIMS to their advantage somehow, and next ep it becomes pointless.

To be fair, it's not like he was making any great effort to hide.
Last episode he just transforms out in the open like five feet away from where Yua was fighting. Not that the show addresses that, but still. For as short a period where it lasted the show didn't really go to great lengths to have him cover his tracks.

The focus of that last scene wasn't really about unveiling his identity either, but more about Yua, the fact that she was meeting with a mysterious person, and the stuff about the Progrise Keys and the ark, the identity stuff doesn't really take away from that at all.

I'm biased because I thought introducing the secret identity element was a bad move to begin with, but I don't mind getting rid of it so quickly at all. Even if the fact that he hid his identity for like two episodes is kinda pointless for the overall narrative, maybe they'll squeeze some relevance out of the whole thing by revealing some important reason Izu wanted him to do it, or something like that. At the very least, I think the way they did it is fine, tying it into the episode's story and Aruto not wanting to keep any secrets.