[Fish Sandwich]

I liked this episode overall, and I loved what it was going for, but I found myself getting a little... lost, in some of the details. Like, that explanation for the photos at the end isn't hugely relevant to the overall plot, but it's the perfect example of a thing in here where I got a bit taken out of the episode because I was sitting there going "...huh." That's a payoff to that foreshadowing that renders the foreshadowing itself pointless, isn't it? Nothing about the question of those photos suggests the answer we got, and I'm pretty sure most people were theorizing the exact opposite answer, given the recurring visual was of Ikki himself disappearing.

And there are other bits I question too, like having Ikki get his emotional catharsis from making up with an illusion of Jiiko(?), but all that aside, the broad strokes of the episode were quite solid, and delivered with loads of style thanks to Sugihara. I'm not sure what this arc really added to Ikki's character (It kinda feels like he just fell back on the "I'm fine the way I am" comfort zone yet again?), but I can at least say for sure it touched on a lot of his different facets in a pretty interesting way.

I think my favorite thing in the episode was Aguilera's scene though, to be honest. Kinoshita is so obsessed with Sakura, he literally writes characters in the show to be obsessed with Sakura, and it never stops being amusing to me. Still not complaining though! Next week should be fun!