The rest, unfortunately, is a lot of padding. Get the required two-minute recap of the last episode, followed by a series of extensions where Take Michi tripped over his but on the kettle and failed to try to achieve a lot. I've joked about how ineffective our heroes are in combat, but the pace of this arc is a tedious, tedious twist from the "hot-blooded boy heroes." The previous ark showed that Take Michi could be an absolutely fascinating protagonist, but as the conflict in this story became more complex and the emotional centre of the story shifted away from him, he felt more and more like an unhappy viewer reacting to the story he has. , again, the most he achieves when he has to make a decisive difference in this fateful battle. It's to help the boyfriend bleed a few minutes later than originally planned. Heck, he forgot which villain K was supposed to stab him in the first place, and inadvertently immobilized him and prepared the man for an attack. The more I think about it, the more I feel like Takemichi shouldn't be here.
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Kazutora, he continues to confuse his opponents. I said last week that I at least understood the logic of his actions, even though the underlying motives were unstable from a written point of view. He goes out the window of this episode. Instead of taking Baj out in the middle of the fight, Kazutra appears, stabs him for no apparent reason, and mumbles that it's Baj's fault, just as he blames Mikey. The generous reading here is that Kazutra is being manipulated by Kisaki - because no one is at this point - and cannot accept the guilt he feels for all the life he has destroyed in the past. for a very long time to materialize the idea. As it stands, Kazutora feels like a plot with a knife in hand, ping pong causing confusion and conflict, and has no recognizable purpose. It feels especially fragile in the already messy arches.
Fortunately, the Revengers always know how to keep it simple when it comes to Baji. He was visibly absent during this brawl, as he was biding his time for a chance to cry on Kizaki's head. Sadly, the show takes place in space where the skull is made of vibration and the metal pipes have the damping power of styrofoam, so this fatal blow only stuns the brain's flashy glasses. But Baji never stops, so after an awkward hug from Takemichi and a clumsy stab from Kazutra, he crosses the entire Toman Mobius faction and leaves a cold line to stab a man in the throat. He twitched a bit as he eventually succumbed to that rod before pulling it out, but as the last, on the Look How Cool This Guy Is Moment show, he did a good job.
Sadly, that's still not enough to keep you from losing weight in this episode. Probably the worst culprit is the section after Baji had Kizaki in mind, where he, Takemichi, and Chifuyu argued loudly about the plot the evil nerd set up behind the scenes. In a chaotic and tense battle, it takes a surprisingly long time for a character to remain mysteriously isolated from other fighters, and everyone notices or reacts to those few minutes of discussion. In a sense, it's a microcosm of the bigger problem with this arc and this episode, and it takes a tremendous amount of time to rehearse, with little to achieve what we've already firmly established. As the end of the season approaches, it's just a wreck and I really hope the Revengers can get back on their feet.
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