[Fish Sandwich]

There are plenty of things I like about these episodes. Most broadly, I think the kinda Twilight Zone atmosphere of everything with Yuuki is a lot of fun, where she has this doppelganger running around and it's goofy but also increasingly unnerving and suspenseful as the story progresses. No surprise the atmosphere is thick with Ishida directing though, which I think accounts for the comedy as much as the horror. (And also for the zoom-out transformation in 44 that now shows the entire universe, because we've come a long way in a year.)

I also like how it highlights the villainy of Gamou in a way that's also highlighting his humanity? The whole plot happens entirely because, in his own twisted way, he longs for the companionship of someone he feels he can truly relate to, and that's a neat angle for the final boss of Fourze. To have a hero who seeks out and embraces people specifically for being different than him, and a villain that fails to see the value in anyone who can't/won't follow the exact same path he does, and then give that conflict some nuance with the underlying notion that neither of them wants to be alone.