[Switchblade]

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Originally Posted by Kurona

Otherwise yeah this sure is a final episode. I'm sure both Switchblade and Androzani are about to jump in with some Production Fun Facts which will explain a lot so I won't steal their thunder, but needless to say it's not just the content of this episode that left Hibiki's actor so spurned. Though I wouldn't blame him for that either.

I am, yes. Thank you for your restraint.

So the second Hibiki finale...

You thought the episode was kind of a mess and that's because it is. At this point, the show's production had gone so far off the rails that they were literally writing the episode while it was filming it.

At least, that's the urban legend. My understanding is that it's more a case of they were re-writing it while they were filming.

The staff has multiple different ending ideas in play and there was some major waffling back and forth between ideas. The suit that Kiriya wears when he transforms? Not actually made for him. It's a kitbash of the original suit made for Kiriya with parts added from the one that would have been Asumu's. The idea that Asumu was going to end up as an Oni got so far along that they'd even begun making a suit for him.

As I always say, I view what happened to this show as a tragedy and this complete clusterfuck of a finale is kind of the perfect note for this era of the show to go out on: a bunch of dumb chaos desperately thrown together by people who had no vision for the show.