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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

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I love it when a show comes up with an inventive way to resolve a cliffhanger. Last episode had Faiz completely at Kitazaki’s mercy. How were Yuuji and Mari going to survive?!

Hey, what if some kids were flying a balsa wood plane, and Kitazaki wanted to do that instead?

It’s such a perfect, in-character thing for him to do. All he wants is to be entertained. Fighting Faiz is okay, but doesn’t that plane look way more fun? And then he just walks away, leaving Yuuji and Mari to escape. It’s completely character-driven, totally established, but still wildly unpredictable. I’m so happy when shows can get a cliffhanger resolved using only what’s at hand, only the things a character would do. Great writing!

This is actually one of the most derided moments in all of Faiz. A lot of people complain that it's a cop-out way to keep Kitazaki from killing Yuuji. I agree with you that it's in-character, though, both in the sense that Kitazaki would wander off from a fight and that he would feel bored even in the middle of a battle.

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I’m honestly pretty glad we finally got what’s hopefully the final word on the Ryusei Reunion. I want that plot to be done. The meat of it, the What of it, it’s fine. There was an Orphnoch attack. The Why of it is maybe/probably still to come, and I’m not even mad about that. I’d like to know what the point of that plot was, even if I feel like it took too much attention away from the character-driven stories that defined the show for me.

Still, yeah, happy to move on from the mystery of what exactly happened a year or so ago, and get back to stuff that matters in the here and now. ‘Cause, like, a satellite made Faiz red all of a sudden? And I’m curious what that means!

You're not quite done yet. The show still needs to get around to explaining both why the students were attacked and how they un-died. Both of those answers are coming.