[DreamSword]

Episode 4: KILL

How fitting that an episode about a split in the group features a Kaiju that has a sword for a head.

Speaking of which, I think I used to have a toy of that Kaiju as a kid. Anyway...

While a few characterization aspects are a bit jumbled, the episode overall executes its idea fairly well, with everyone in the group having differences of opinion and some more backstory for the cast revealed.

The premise being that as the Eustace Foundation continues to do more and more suspicious things, everyone in the main six debates as to whether or not to trust that the Foundation means well, or to say "screw this" and abandon the Kaiju research project altogether.

That's all well and good, but where things are a bit messy in terms of the writing are the finer details on the characterization of some characters. For example, when Boco is opening up to Brody about he Boco has been getting bullied for most of his life, Brody shows some empathy as if Brody himself weren't an established bully for a third of this show's' run time.

I also didn't like how Emiko and Boco call James and Joe cowards about their decisions to get the hell out of dodge when both frankly have some very good reasoning as to why they'd wanna distance themselves from this entire ordeal as much as possible. Heck, this is hammered in when, frankly, Joe is basically proven right once the Kaiju attacks and Gamera nearly loses. And that's ontop of the Foundation heads dodging simple questions from James.

Still, the episode's' heart is in the right place, and as a transition into the overall climax of the story, it works pretty well. Learning how exactly Boco and Joe became friends what exactly Joe has to deal with on a day to day basis was nice too. Joe's' home life is an unfortunate reality that some kids have to face, even today. Though that, plus the extensive swearing does make me wonder who exactly the target audience for this show is. Because until now it seems as though Rebirth was aimed at kids, but now I don't know.

Either way, I was entertained, and the scene at the end has me very interested in where exactly this overall plot is headed.