[Androzani84]

You may remember (or you may not, I never know), I had a very open, outspoken dislike for Ryuki when I watched it (which was roughly the same time as you did) and had a tendency to prefer the franchise when it was in the hands of ANYONE but Kobayashi.

As such? I LOVED this episode. The idea of people fighting to enforce their ideas of justice being taken absurdly literally is just incredibly more entertaining than what Ryuki did with it. And I don’t mind Abyss’s design, since he does have two Contract Monsters (seriously, that’s broken as hell) and at least he manages to actually look like them (looking at you, Imperer).

Also Tsukasa’s line “I suddenly want to find her very much innocent” is one of my all time favourite lines in anything.

And finally for this, an etymology lesson for the counterpart’s.

Shinji Tatsumi - Tatsumi is a portmanteau of tatsu (dragon) and kagami (mirror)

Ren Haguro - Haguro literally means “blackwings”, as in the name of Knight’s Contract Monster.

Atashi Journal - atashi is the feminine equivalent of ore (keeping with the theme of Ichijou’s and Maya’s equivalents being a female and a male respectively)