[TheRaizin]

Reading Dreamsword's opinion on Akane is very interesting in that I never actually felt this way on my first watching. I don't know why though. On me following this thread, it did make me go: "Wait a minute, he's right!" on several instances. Akane's character has some issues on the writing, maybe the show needed more episodes to convery her character other than "girl with escapism issues enabled by a big bad with a weird name". And yeah, it's become jarring that she's done a lot of things and the main cast kinda just forgives her for that. Especially when she stabbed Yuta and Rikka wasn't all that much angry.

I still like her tho.

But with the reveal of this anime (and the prequel manga I'm attempting to read) that the people living in the world are all digital beings called Repli-Compoids that were programmed to basically like Akane unconditionally, it kinda lessens the impact of any death. The characters forgiving Akane easily, as iffy as it was, now kinda makes sense. They were all pretty much tools to Akane for her fantasies. Only that the fantasies grew a bit of their own conscience and told Akane to wake up.

Gotta talk about one of my weirdly favorite scenes tho. The scene where Yuta and Sho hang out in 721 after he got into and argument with Rikka about fighting Akane. It's not my favorite because of what happens in the scene, it's the atmosphere and took me back a bit to my first trip in Japan and entered one of their convenience stores. That or I just like convenience stores in general. Anyway, I think I could also hear Ultraman R/B's ED in the background as well during that scene? I happened to think of it when Youtube played R/B's ED and I thought I recognized it from somewhere.

Got not much else to say. Again, I enjoyed following this thread and rewatching a few episodes of Gridman and I eagerly await SSSS Dynazenon, especially with the possibility of Sigma showing up. The kind with the blue hair and yellow eyes is very suspicious.