This episode was surprisingly darker than what we’ve seen of this series so far. It’s still a typical Letter Bee episode, with Lag crying, misguided villains and Gaichuu fighting, but some parts were surprisingly heavy.
The thing is, that most of the time in series about kids, bad guys tend to underestimate those kids, and go easy on them, allowing the kids to easily overpower the adults with whatever God-mode beam they have.
Letter Bee too has its share of God-mode Beams: the shindan. However, the adults around them have no pity for them whatsoever. As an anti-government
town, they hate everything that has to do with it, and even tried to feed a bunch of kids to a huge monster. It’s happened more often that kids are put into such ridiculous situations, but thanks to the build-up of the rest of this series, this was actually one of those cases in which I bought it.
As for the “one unable to become a spirit”, we’re still not exactly sure what those are, but Nichi seems to be one, strangely enough. At first I thought that they simply meant that they’re unable to become ghosts, but a “seirei” doesn’t seem to be often associated with humans. In any case, they seem to be so wanted that people are trying to create fake ones by performing surgery on them. Now where do they get those arms from in the first place, and what would be the point in creating them?
The episode closed off with a bit of a deus ex machina, though. What was Zazie doing there, appearing just at the right moment?
Rating: ** (Excellent)
