Ah, so the puzzles will indeed be getting much more elaborate, dangerous and deadly from now on. The first half of this series really was just a warm up. It’s great to see this show evolving.
Rook turned out to be quite the interesting villain, mostly thanks to the background this and the past episode gave him. In fact, this episode really worked because it was all about Kaitou finding out that his former best friend changed completely.However, I do have to wonder how he was able to pretty much act like god inside this puzzle of his. Using a hidden shortcut of course is one thing, but diving into a flaming pit of seventeen stories high… that’s not really survivable, no matter how many secret trick you happen to know.
In any case, it’s clear that the way in which this kid was raised is completely crazy. With the way that POG is set up, I can easily imagine that we was raised specifically for this twisted goal. At this point it’s pretty clear that Makata Jin is that Professor Pythagoras, which does make it very likely that he had Kaitou and Rook meet very consciously. As for the naming of this guy… well, the real life Pythagoras was also completely crazy and came up with the most crazy yet logical systems, so in that way it makes sense for this show to use his ideas at its core.
Rating: * (Good)
