[DreamSword]

Just finished the Yesterday two-parter, and I actually somewhat agree with you on it being close to perfect.

However, it was not Yukie getting amnesia that annoyed me. There, I get the dramatic irony of her past literally escaping her rather than the other way around. As well as it meaning her memories returning will hit her like a brick wall later on. Like coffee, her fate is more bittersweet than any outright swing one way or another.

No, what more annoyed me was Isaka and Saeko, because it goes back to my problem of Isaka being boringly invincible. Sure, Isaka doesn't go by completely unscathed, but the only reason Saeko lives by the end of all of this is through him. And yeah, I get it, no way was she gonna bite it this early on, but given that we knew nothing about how the Taboo Memory actually worked up to now, why not just say that it has the power to undo brands/curses/rules/whatever term they wanna use? Instead, no, it's all thanks to Doctor Boring and his Magic Science. Which means that the Taboo Memory probably is literally only good for flight and energy blasts, which is lame.

I also called foul and Wakana's' claim that Saeko was looking back on Kirihiko with any sort of fondness or regret. Gonna give a big NO to that one.

But despite that, everything else about the two episodes is good, so I'm not about to say the whole experience was ruined or anything like that.