[Fish Sandwich]

So yeah, Androzani already pointed out Gatling Hedgehog, but this episode also features a few other things that I think more or less mark the end of this particular stretch of the show halfheartedly shilling a bunch of random merchandise. There's that big showcase of unfamiliar Progrise Keys right at the start, with a particular focus on Exciting Stag, which was also up for preorder around this time, as well as the bit with Zero-One using the Attache Arrow, because in a reverse of what happened with his sword, the boxes for the Attache Shotgun and Arrow both prominently featured Zero-One on them, implying Zero-One would use them. ...They never bothered having him use the Shotgun at all, if you'll forgive that spoiler. These past few episodes mark an interesting little era for the show in that sense, because there's really not any other chunk of Zero-One that seems to care that much about getting every little thing being sold in there, and given just how minor a lot of these recent showcases have been, I think you can sort of tell the people making the show really wanted to just be making their show as much as they could.

And as one weird little era of Zero-One comes to a close, another one begins, because from episode 10 to 13, the action director is actually not Jun Watanabe, but Takeshi Miyazaki, who was the main action director for a whole boatload of the Heisei shows.

None of these things really matter that much to the end product here though, which is an enjoyable episode as always. I don't have some huge rave about prepared or anything, but it's definitely another one I think I liked a lot more than Die. Ansatsu-chan is always great, and I do really enjoy the dynamic between Fuwa and Yua here.

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Originally Posted by Androzani84

In Japan, ?NG? is a derogatory nickname for a bad actor

I've never heard of "NG" being used that way? It generally refers to flubs that make a take unusable (which may or may not be due to an actor messing up), and also has a broader meaning outside of film, that something is for whatever reason unacceptable, not allowed, or, put most simply, No Good. I'd be surprised if that actually was where Enji's name comes from? NG is enuji, for one thing, so I always assumed Enji comes simply from enjiru (演じる), which means "to act (in a role)".

Legitimately never realized the dude was Yuuya though. That's actually really cool!