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Cool use of Gotcha Brothers with Gotchard SteamHopper upgrading to Cross UFO-X!

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Originally Posted by Zolda

Lachesis has finished undergoing the memory reversal process. She says @ 04:54 that the person she was modeled after was an ambitious singer with a greedy, unpleasant personality. So, now she has both the memories of the person she was modeled after and the memories as a homunculus. It's kinda like being 2 different people at once. I wonder if those overlapping memoriers will cause conflict and identity crisis later. I think this scene could be better done with a flashback, rather than a plain infodump like this which makes it look mundane and unimpactful.

Reminds me of how Sento still believed in love and peace after regaining Katsuragi's memories. After all, memories are information, but we can decide what we do with them. That seems to be the theme of this arc. I understand Lachesis' feeling, about how she respects that selfish person, as wanting to reach people with her singing voice isn't a bad thing. A desire like that is proof of being alive and as long as it doesn't bring harm to others, it should be encouraged.

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Originally Posted by Zolda

Kyouka is kinda low-key playing the matchmaker role @ 21:06, haha.

For science, of course.

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Originally Posted by Mesnick

Geryon convinces Clotho that he is ready to take back not only her, but also Lachesis, but the latter?s vision (memory?) hints that he should not be trusted.

Yeah, I totally wouldn't trust Geryon. He doesn't want Clotho working with his competition, so he only tells her what she wants to hear, so he can manipulate her. Poor Clotho is being used by all the Dark Kings.

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Originally Posted by Mesnick

P.S. The ending with fireworks is incredibly cute. I'm also glad that there was room for a UFO in the episode.

A wonderful ending to a wonderful love story!

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

Gaelijah continues Germain's goal of making humans act towards their nature, albeit not as dramatically as him. The climax of this series starts now with her spreading the Malgam extracts to the masses through a podcast that exposes the memories and elements the Academy tries to hide.

Gaelijah being a Vtuber is unexpected, but interesting.

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

Hijiri feels undeserving of Kajiki's affection because of her relation to Tsurugi and her time as a Malgam. Obviously, Kajiki was present when she was a Malgam back in ep. 10. At first Hijiri was in denial of her being a monster, due to Chemy's Law making her forget, but while someone accepting their darker aspects is good, Hijiri went to the opposite extreme instead by making herself an outcast due to knowing her darker aspects. And she still loves her brother in the end despite wanting to get revenge on him, but the malice is only really gone after feeling she's accepted.

So Chemy's Law is definitely the root cause of this problem (albeit Gaelijah accelerated it to show Hijiri that) as Hijiri forgot that Kajiki already reached out to her as a Malgam and a direct one too in her producing Malgams here. Kajiki's memory being returned and not erased again is what allows him to remind Hijiri of the events of ep. 10. It's clear that Kajiki cares very much about her to risk his life to reach out to her, and this care might extend to anyone he has a strong attachment to, although it's uncertain whether this applies to those he doesn't have a strong attachment to (either due to being too afraid or not caring much) similar like Keitaro, Shunpei, or Onari.

This scene reminds me of Drive Saga Mach with Gou declaring that he will protect Reiko even though she's the child of a monster and that she deserves a chance at happiness. The main difference is that Kajiki is presumably not a child or sibling of a monster, but his heroic determination to protect Hijiri is the same. Kajiki asking for Hijiri's bad memories to be erased and Hijiri choosing to live with both good and bad memories show the power of their love for each other and was another scene where I couldn't help but smile.

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

Finally, this realization gets through to Minato that he wants to honor Suzuya's wish of prioritizing society's well-being over the law. Now, there's someone similar in Houtaro who's still alive and ahead to achieve it.

Yeah, I'm glad Minato finally acknowledged that. With Kajiki and Hijiri being allowed to keep their memories, Houtarou has taken a big step towards his dream.