This episode reminded me of why this show originally caught my attention: the atmosphere. It’s what ties the story, dialogue, characters and visuals all together here. And looking back, it’s this that was missing from the previous episodes. My guess is that it had to do with the silly dialogue not blending in with the story: it was well written, but disrupted the mood. And admittedly, it started to get repetitive.
this episode though knew exactly when it needed to be laid back and when it needed to be serious. The repetition of the dialogue didn’t even matter here: as soon as Rintarou started to send that message about the lottery to the past, this episode had a tight atmosphere that never went away. Beyond that I also liked that this episode cleverly used the time that Rintarou waiting for John Tytor by sending in calls from the other characters, and how that little chat with the part timer downstairs about brainwashing lead to her getting in trouble with her boss. Now those are well timed and very nicely blended into the script, as opposed to the “let’s now devote X minutes to building up and goofing off so that we can focus Y minutes on something serious”.
On top of that, I also really like it when a series only reveals parts of a characters actions, yet leaves enough hints to give us viewers a clue of what he’s been doing. We never got to see Rintarou’s reaction to the message he received about the Lotto, at the same time he probably got pretty excited about it, so much that he delayed his other plans for about half a day.Because of this they were only at the stage of trying to think of what to send back in the new timeline.
Rating: ** (Excellent)
Awesome, just awesome
This is one anime I really wish I could marathon right now, cant stand waiting for the next episode…
I wonder why Okarin didnt explain the situation to the others, Im sure they would have understood, since they know how the time machine works anyway
no one would be able to help/explain it to him . . . except one person. but saying who that is would be a spoiler so I wont.(although its kinda obvious who im talking about)
playing the gameなう。
Yeah, the pacing and jokes inserted into the last few episodes. And as amusing as they were, you have to admit the banana and yuri field jokes were getting overdone.
I like how Okarin’s reaction to be called Messiah is pure terror. It would be pretty natural to be scared of such responsibility.
@Frost
It would take hell of time to explain, not to mention that PURE FACT of explaining it would change timeline EVEN MORE with lots of unintended consequences.