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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

If I were to offer a bit of defense in favor of the story as well, I'm not sure Kiva ever needs too much justification for landing any plot back on Wataru's connection to his father giving him the strength to press on? Sure, the narrative of a particular episode can build it up more thoroughly and be better for that focus, but with what the show as a whole is about, I don't know if there's any scenario where you could say with certainty that it's completely out of place.

Sure, but I think the problem in this instance is that it's not until Jiro randomly teleports in to progress the plot (it's unbelievably random!) that Otoya is even really brought up in the 2008 part of the episode. Prior to that... there's maybe some residual guilt that it was his father's violin that got damaged, but nothing that made him explicitly reference his father.

It's this personal story of Wataru needing to do some growing up, but then part of the resolution is about Otoya's legacy? It feels a little forced, and the plot doesn't work too hard to make it feel earned.