[barnstenchfartface]

I liked Tachibana and all, don't get me wrong (and I do think the beginning did well by focusing on him, they pulled some pretty bold stuff there that I liked). My issue was more with the first handful of episodes of the show, which I felt were too fast and overstuffed to handle themselves properly. Too much happened in too little time. That didn't last long, though, so it's fine.

What bothered me about Tachibana is his apparent death in episode 47, in which it was this cool memorable moment for him and everything, it's treated like this important sacrifice and all. He's still gone in episode 48, because, well, he died? Then in the last episode he just pops up like "hey so i'm still alive" and when asked how all we get is some non-answer about Karasuma saving him, despite him not being in any position to help him at the time. And other than Kenzaki asking how, nobody else has any reaction to his return. It's just. Such a weird thing. Did people complain about his death so they just chucked him into the last episode in the last minute? Or what? It just blindsided me and I still really do not get it.