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Just closed off Agito 45-51. What a finale, or rather "What's a finale?" because I don't think the show knows. Lots of things I didn't like about the show came back in full force.

We're treated to a 1 month time-skip for reasons I'm still not sure off, and the time-skip didn't accomplish anything for the show. The show makes it feel like the time-skip's job was to make Houjou see future Agito's as more dangerous than the monsters when he could've come to that conclusion in less than 30 days. The G3 Unit was broken up & we're lead to feel bad about it despite the fact that we didn't get to see the Unit act as individuals long enough to care. Also Hikawa, my favorite character from Agito, is now suddenly okay with Shouichi being Agito? I don't get it. Aside from that he was pretty good through to the finale. Proving that he could play with the big boys despite just being human was cool & continuing to be a cop to the end fits him completely.

Kino was killed.....that's it. He just randomly croaked on his couch in front of Ryou. I guess the kid that wants to be a doctor now wasn't important enough for us to see his reaction to Kino's death considering he looked up to Kino as a role model. That was a dumb move. And we never got an explanation for why his right arm only stops him at some times from hurting others. But the show tries to wave over that by redeeming him instead. Also dumb.

Speaking of Ryou him & Shouichi shared some nice interactions with random characters that felt like they would've benefited from if they weren't so deep into the show. But of course it's not Agito if we don't make Ryou suffer for no good reason. Killing the girl that he was begrudgingly attached to.....what did it do for his character? What did it do for the story? All that happened was that Ryou literally became suicidal and let a monster kill him.......only for him to come back for no good reason shouting that he's immortal. Yeah, his character was ruined. He got a little dog a year later in the middle if nowhere. He was ruined.

Shouichi at least faired a little better. That dude that used to be with his sister (didn't here his name enough times) made a great moment happen with Shouichi.

Mana didn't do much but run from Shouichi for nothing. Does she not trust Shouichi & that's why she's pushing him away? Does she not want him to feel bad so she's pushing him away? And how did her growth occur? She learned she could be a potential Agito only for that to go nowhere. Shouichi didn't even try to comfort her about it like he halfassedly did with Kana. And why does she still have powers to begin with? Weren't they all used up reviving Ryou?

Then there's the God-like entity that was the villain for the season. What was he doing for a whole month? Recovering? I dunno from what because he got hurt more from Shouichi after the time-skip than before. Don't get why all the meaningless symbolism was needed. So he's gonna kill all the humans. Right, that's what happens whenever a show puts a God-type character as the antagonist. Why kill only the Scorpios first? Probably just to make Ryou go into a catatonic state. Why make monsters from stars? We're they always like that? Why did the constellation make a cross-shape when the "light & darkness" stuff was all about Asian myths involving the Yin-Yang? Are they combining mythologies? Why? And if that's how the monsters were made why were the astronomers acting like it's the first time they've seen it? Then of course his defeat. It's difficult to handle having an omnipotent villain, but that's the writer's fault for putting one in there to begin with. So being kicked with Agito's power made him believe humanity the deserved a chance to grow on its own. Not really. All the kick did was prove that future Agito's had potential, not all humans. But the writers messed up the whole season so I don't doubt they messed up the message. Plus why were the two Gods fighting in the first place? They just hate each other? Why? Why did the light-one show up on the ship? He just randomly dropped there despite the fight happening long ago? You know what, I'm done talking about this because I'm just confusing myself.

The best part of these episodes for me was seeing Shouichi's ending as a restaurant owner. He named it Agito! That was awesome!

All in all Agito was okay at best. I think this season has the popularity it does in the fandom because of all the faux symbolism and the illusion that the show is being mysterious. It wasn't mystery to me, it was writing mistakes. We get Shouichi saying he remembers everything closing out an episode only to find that the next episode shows he actually doesn't & that it doesn't really matter anyway since he just lost it again. Then there inconsistencies with him reacting to only a select few Unknown instead of reacting to all of them like his powers were established to do. Ryou started off strong but had very shaky handling that didn't leave him in an acceptable position as a character. Hikawa was easily the best character & even he was done kinda iffy later on. I like all of the ideas Agito presented but they couldn't execute them to save their lives. I hope Ryuki does a better job, because while I do think Agito was better than the bare-bones, almost-boring Kuuga, Agito failed to deliver. It was just barely fine.