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Originally Posted by Layton13

So... Yeah... Episode 15...

Aka, the episode the show just clicked for me where it went from having fun with it to actually liking it. Where all the "buts" became so insignificant that it was just "I'm enjoing this!"

We?re not quite there for me, but we?re on the cusp. The big plot point that made the show into something I genuinely anticipated each week is coming up in the next episode or two.

But for now, let me talk about Mei, since the subject is on the table. When the show first started I was positive that I would find Mei to be intolerable. I don?t know if I?ve ever mentioned this, but I wasn?t the biggest fan of Onari on Ghost and I saw a lot of signs early on that Mei was going to fill that kind of ?human cartoon? comic relief role and they did not instill me with a lot of confidence. I definitely didn?t expect her to turn out to be one of my favorite characters, but the show generally toned down the more excessive elements of the character as it went on and focused more on how she fit into the cast and less as a vehicle for slapstick (I say ?generally? because you can always tells when Fukuda was writing an episode as Mei becomes about 300% more cartoony).

For me, she?s probably the heart of Team Saber and a lot of my favorite character moments come from her interactions with Touma, Rintaro, and a couple of characters that haven?t been introduced yet. I also appreciate the fact that, at some point, she started standing up straight, although I don?t remember if she ever ditched the child?s backpack (I compared her to Onari above, but it?s more accurate to say that she was very much Shunpei 2.0 under Fukuda?s pen).

Also, fun trivia note, we are now at the point in the series where someone on this board began making constant posts about how much they wanted Mei to become the new Espada.