[Nokination]

I find it hard to describe this episode, even after watching it there was no part that really stood out to me, don't get me wrong it's still a good episode, but aside from the end of the episode, I wasn't particularly invested. Speaking of the end of the episode, this whole episode is just tying almost every plot point up, even including the Ark, which is just blown up along with Zea/There, it's anticlimactic to me, and I get the whole the 'Ark is immortal because it's an AI inside of Zea' thing, but I'd rather that the Ark was just destroyed by Zero-Two, even if I do like Ikazuchi getting to destroy the Ark on his own.

Though I guess it's fine to have an anticlimax since apparently the Ark isn't the final villain, but rather Horobi, who wants to extinguish humanity so they can't make another Ark (acting as if he hadn't been the main reason that Ark had such a negative effect on humans and HumaGears), it's felt like since episode 1 that the show has intended to have Horobi be the final villain, but (just like the rest of these Covid episodes) they did it in a rather rushed way.

They have him explain his motivations in less than 2 minutes, and I can see almost where he's coming from, considering how humanity is, there's definitely a chance of there being an Ark 2, but just based on the possibility that there's a chance of it happening, Horobi decides that's a good enough reason to exterminate all of humanity, I can kind of get it, but the villains in the show (and especially Horobi) haven't gotten enough development for me to understand why Horobi would do this. Though other than those two things, it was still a fine episode, not the best, but not the worst, just a plain ending to an arc for me.