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Fourze 43-44

Okay, I'm over the last big hump in my Fourze rewatch: these last two fucking episodes.

So, I don't think it will surprise anybody who's been reading these to be told that I don't really like Yuuki all that much, especially during the back half of the show where she goes completely off the deep end. This arc, then, has always been a rough watch for me. We have Yuuki, we have Evil Fake Yuuki, we have Zodiarts Yuuki, and we have Yuuki's Insane Parents. That is a lot of insufferable obnoxiousness. Maybe if Yuuki's actress had some concept of what subtlety is, it might have worked, but I kinda doubt it.

I hate to be too down on this arc because there's some great Gentarou stuff in 44 when he finds his old keepsake that turns Yuuki back to "normal." So much of this is just Yuuki dialed up to 11, though, and I mostly just wanted these episodes to hurry up and end already.

Oh, we got the first mention of the Presenters, too. They're not a bad idea, but I think they would have worked better if they'd been seeded sometime before the last five episodes of the show.

Most importantly, though, I realized exactly what my big problem is with the Sagittarius design: