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Originally Posted by Switchblade

I really like your take on the ending. This is one of the parts of Faiz that gets a lot of scorn. The popular opinion is that it isn't an ending: the Orphenoch King and Kageyama are still alive and Takumi is still dying (or maybe died? Curious to see your take on that). In a lot of ways it feels like the show is leaving a lot of sequel hooks that never get picked up on because Blade is wholly unrelated to it. I can't lie and say it's one of my favorites, but I get all of your points and they do go a long way to re-contextualizing it. The show was all about the characters and it is a satisfying resolution for them.

Thanks!

Yeah, I feel like Inoue tossed in a bunch of red herrings, plot-wise. It's stuff that feels like it's going to be a big deal (Orphan Daddy) that isn't a big part of anything. There are definitely a few things that, if you're feeling less-than-charitable, are a distraction. There's a lot of 47-49 that just really really muddies the water of what the show's been trying to say. They don't end up harming the ending, I thought, but it's not at all a smooth series of episodes to get here.

The leftover stuff with Kageyama and the Orphnoch King... part of me was like "Oh, this'll be a thing in the winter movie with Blade," until I remembered that they don't do those yet. As such, sure, that's a dangling thread. But, like, it's hard for me to imagine fans that invested in the Orphnoch King? Like, if you're saying the fandom views it negatively, I believe you, but I honestly didn't care if they swept that part of the story under the rug. Thematically, I thought it got dealt with as much as it needed to?

The Takumi part, I got two answers for. The first is that the show makes it explicit that Takumi is doing all of this because he knows that he could die at any minute. His life isn't measured by its length, it's measured by its depth. Whether or not he dies in ten years or in ten minutes, it doesn't really matter.

The other answer is that I knew Takumi showed up in later movies so I wasn't super worried about him. This is why I don't like hearing spoilers! I ruined the ending for myself!

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Originally Posted by Switchblade

I'll still say this about the ending, though: I want a spin-off show about Mari, Keitaro, and Kaido breaking into secure facilities with laundry equipment.

There are a billion possible Faiz spin-offs, and they're all good.