[Fish Sandwich]

Hey, I actually have a few different things to say about an episode for once!:

- Geed's consistent quality makes this so obvious I feel like I don't even need to say it, but this was a solid episode that accomplished what it set out to do very well. The unique part is that "what it set out to do" this time was build on a character who is, for one thing, just a disembodied voice, and for another, more in the background that nearly everyone else in the series. Naturally dealing with that first part was pretty easy, but the way Geed effortlessly pulls together every bit of continuity it can remains as impressive as ever. The recap before the opening even pulled those last lines from the recap episode. Like apparently that was foreshadowing? Stuff's crazy, man.

- Kei's officially a fully fledged Game Master now. No more "in-training" qualifier. Did you SEE how much he was enjoying himself here?

- Zero losing control of Reito's body seemingly entirely because someone put the glasses back on might be the funniest thing I've seen in Toku since that time in Gingaman when Bull Black shot that truck off the road to loot its cargo of tomatoes. Major props for writing him out of another episode. I don't mind how active Zero is in this show but it's always nice when Geed gets to do things himself.

- You know, I was just being willfully ignorant for the sake of a joke,
but Riku naming Rem after a Donshine character only further supports my theory that the thing under his bed is fan-fiction. Just about everything else in this kid's life seems to come back to that TV show, right? In all seriousness though, it's cool how much that revelation actually does match up with the first episode, where Riku seemingly pulls that name out of nowhere and then just goes along with Rem's own explanation. I thought I was missing the joke or something at the time, but evidently I wasn't.