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Episode 9: Erumpent

The Catastrophe has begun.

Although that being said, is it weird that one of my immediate thoughts upon reaching the end of the episode was that a crossover of this and Pacific Rim would be incredibly easy to do?

When it comes to science-y side of things, alot of the talk has to do with how Ashihara was desperately trying to map out various different timelines in order to avoid an apocalypse from hitting own universe. And in a cute nod to the original Godzilla, brings up the famous "I am become Death" quote.

Rather tellingly, alot of the suits ignore the majority of what Mei has to say about her findings and are only concerned with profit and getting rid of the red dust.

And while that was all well presented and interesting to listen to, the other half of this episode is pure A Awesome, detailing the struggles of the Otaki Crew against a legion of Spider Kaiju. The entire sequence is high energy, intense, and even contains probably the sickest action scene so far: That being Jet Jaguar fighting a hoard of Spiders atop a burning warehouse.

While there are certainly victories across both plotlines, the ending is very much "get ready for the climax" as the whole world is starting to get overrun with Kaiju, just as Ashihara had predicted. Though it also does raise an interesting point about being able to see the future, which is the idea that in order to actually see a specific future event, it must be one that actually has the possibility of happening, otherwise you wouldn't be able to find it.

Very interested in seeing how this all ends across these last four episodes!