And here it is! The long-awaited first chapter of the story, showing the first mission that Watashi had to undertake. And interestingly it is a bit of a semi-sequel to the previous episode as well, keeping with the format of having two-episode arcs in this series. This episode’s purpose was to explain what went on last week, and on top of that it was really cute to see Watashi first laying contact with the fairies.
Like last week, this episode was meant to show a bit more about the Fairy civilization. The collective theme seems to be that when a lot of them are together, and they’re triggered somehow (often with candy), they rapidly recreate human history: building huge cities and advanced structures and technologies, only to collapse again afterwards. These two episodes show more than any other episodes so far that indeed: humanity has declined.
Now, the question is how on earth are the creators planning to end this? I mean, there are two episodes left, and that will likely be the climax for this series, but for some reason I see no build-up to an ending whatsoever. This episode of course was the first episode in the series so it was a bit hard to do that, but still. Are the creators just going to end with a random story like the others? In that case, they’re going to have to make these final episodes count. Make them memorable in a different way from these previous ten episodes.
Rating: 5.5/8 (Excellent)
My first question when I finished this episode was “Why wasn’t this the first episode?”
don’t know if there’s going to be a “climax”, and this isn’t likely even the “first” chapter of the story.
going off the op we’re still going back further to watashi’s time in school prior to becoming a mediator.
if there’s any “climax” at all it’ll either need to be linked to that time period or be a standalone bit fit in the final episode.
I’m expecting dinosaurs.
IN SPACE!!
Chances are it ends that way it began, randomly
This backwards episode order seems to work in the sense that character introduction or plot development aren’t that important; leaving us with just a big bunch of funny and crazy happenings.
Too bad it just has 2 episodes left.