[DreamSword]

I'll be upfront: These past two episodes of Revice were the first two that I actively didn't like. At all.

When it comes to what is supposed to be the main focus of it all, it in essence just comes across like a slightly less forced version of the Ryuga arc from Zi-O: Everyone in the cast keeps insisting that Sakura is in actuality a total wimp, despite there being very little indication of that up to this point, making the entire point/message feel unearned.

In extension to that, these episodes really had me turning on Mama Igarashi. Her blatant double standard of insisting that Ikki has to go out and save the world despite his own desires, yet telling Sakura that nothing in the show is Sakura's' responsibility despite Sakura wanting to contribute really rubbed me the wrong way. I don't care if it's human, or realistic, or accurate representation of a family unit or not, it's still a double standard and I found it very annoying.

Hiromi just dumping his backstory out of nowhere was not only forced, but made it really seem that the writer's' found him as more of an annoyance to work with rather than wanting to actually think of giving him any proper focus. The backstory itself is fine, but it would've been nice to actually explore that in a Hiromi focused episode, rather than just stapled into this randomly.

And lastly, and most importantly... that child is dead. There's no two ways around it. But yet we're still supposed to see the mother as in the wrong for wanting to do whatever she can to save her child's' life. This is what I was getting at with my fears of villains talking to much sense: Something like this where I am outright rooting for the "bad guy" despite the show not wanting me to. It's a really cruel message to end the episode off on and it seriously killed the momentum built up by how good episode 10 was.

No Line Texts this time, as there were none in the episode itself. Such a disappointment.