[Kiwami]

I was initially going to be a lot harder on the episode because the King Joe debut was kinda meh, but the emotional dilemma of Haruki is pretty great, and I really like that it continues into the next episode. Plus, we haven’t seen everything the new King Joe can do yet either.

My only nitpick with this episode, which can be applied to the show in general: Z communicates way too little with Haruki. Early on we had these nice little scenes were Z would pull Haruki to the side to talk to him, and we don't really need more of that but instead simple voiceovers, Z can talk to Haruki in his mind, let him do that more often!

Like, this episode would’ve been so much richer if they just framed the flashbacks with Z being like "Wow Haruki, I never knew about your family, what was your dad like?“. If I'm right there will be a "talk" of sorts next episode because Z will try to get to the bottom of Haruki's feelings but just saying, I would find this a lot more "natural" if Z spoke a bit more often.