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Originally Posted by DreamSword

Sure, I can see that. I just wish it had focused in more on just about any specific aspect it'd brought up. For example, having Rei in on a normal Horror plot is cool and all, but it would've been way cooler had he been the primary focus, especially after that scene where the Watchdogs tell him he's gotta start splitting work with Koga from here on out.

You mean this line?



「罰として、二人の命を一日ずつ剥奪します」

'Cause that's a mistranslation on TV-N's part. They're actually saying both Kouga and Rei are going to be punished for fighting one another by having their lives shortened by one day each. (I think TV-N were thrown off because of what a deliberately weird thing that is to casually throw out there) There's even dialogue following up on this in the episode after. It's a line less about the plot of this specific episode, and more about dropping some of that juicy lore, because, again, this definitely seems like an episode mostly concerned with propping up other episodes in the future. Very selfless of it! ...I guess is a positive way to spin it! But yeah, I won't argue too much about the script being a little too scattered, especially with how tight a lot of these episodes have been.

Oh, and speaking of really tight episodes that stand on their own -- episode 11! Really adored this one. The whole romance novel style plot with Kouga and Kaoru is easily the thing that's got me most invested in this show, so to have this episode where Kouga has to go to obnoxiously huge lengths to rescue this woman he's sworn to kill later anyway, I mean, it doesn't necessarily progress the narrative, but it encapsulates a lot about the story so far beautifully, while also being a ton of willfully silly adventure with a completely bonkers visual style. It's like Kouga is traveling through some final dungeon in a JRPG where reality as we know it just kinda doesn't exist, and I was all over that. It's one big experiment with the visual effects, and I thought it was delivered in way that makes the obvious green-screen fakery of it all into a strength. It is another Amemiya-directed episode, and I think you can seriously feel the creativity going into this one. Even Kaoru's weird silent movie thought bubble thing, I don't know, I'd believe it if you told me there was some real intent there. (Even if that intent was probably just "maybe this'll be neat to do")

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Originally Posted by DreamSword

I've heard alot of mixed opinions about the show, but the grand total of two episodes I've seen so far made it look interesting if nothing else.

(Also, have you really not seen Kiva? I could've swore I remember seeing you talk about it on here before somewhere.)