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I'm appreciating the show's pacing as we move into the mid-30s. The love triangle stuff is taking up multiple episodes, but it doesn't feel drawn out at this point and there are still consistent developments with it. There's definitely a version of the show where Taiga gets introduced earlier and the triangle gets dragged out for 5-10 episodes, but bringing it in this late in the game does add some urgency to it that the Otoya/Yuri/Jiro triad lacked.

In general, I'm finding that the modern era is more engaging for me right now. Otoya and Maya making a violin while Yuri angsts downstairs is an important plot point, but the forward momentum is a lot slower than what we're seeing in the present. Also: damn it, Otoya, if you're going to emotionally cheat on your girlfriend at least have the common decency to do it while she's not sitting there watching it. That's still bad, but at least its polite.

Nice to see that the Fangires are finally, 30+ episodes later, showing some concern about this new Kiva guy that's running around killing them.