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Having watched both episodes, but only commenting on the first for now, I will say that Otoya's presence is definitely an anomaly here. It's this odd thing where they got the actor back to play a vastly different role than intended. It's an interesting decision though and also it answers the question of "What if Otoya wore a pinstripe suit."

I definitely liked a lot of the Tsukasa content here, just the whole feeling of dread slowly overtaking the episode right from minute 1. It was really nice to see honestly, and I always love it when we get more subtle moments from Tsukasa since it's a lot of "Here's this thing presented to him and now here are his reactions". Also there's just a nice bit of comedy what with Onodera reacting to all of Tsukasa's good fortune.

Speaking of good fortune, hey good photos! Even though I agree with Eijiro, I liked Tsukasa's usual style of photo's. They had a certain aesthetic to them.

Compared to Natsumi's side which is a lot more in your face about what her story is about with the constant flashbacks. Given just the change in writers and stuff I can sorta give them a pass on this. But it'd kind of been cool if Natsumi got involved in the Faiz stuff? Because of the whole high school theme? Just saying, it would've probably been cool foreshadowing and stuff and just the many things my Fanfiction loving brain has been thinking off. I will say though that yeah, once we started to get further into the flashbacks they did feel a bit like "Wow, can we kind of move on already?" for me too.

That being said I do appreciate how calm this episode is despite the impending dread. There's a good sense of a calm before the storm here that I appreciated before the brawl at the end.