This week wasn’t a particular exciting episode as it went further into how the mechanics between the Creator and Created might or might not work.
As speculated last week, Yuuya Mirokuji is a pretty fun character that takes his teleportation into the modern world in stride. His own fictional universe of the Tokyo underground isn’t all the different from the real world and it doesn’t come as a surprise that he sees this whole ordeal as a vacation with good food. It’s too bad that Alicetelia February entry into the show is only given a brief moment to extract Madoka Mamikia before Yuuya gets to steamroll her. Alicetelia’s description as a knight/lancer is within a fantasy setting is a little similar to Selesia’s own story but her noble upbringing is probably the difference that causes her to team up with the Military Uniform Princess.Hopefully, we’ll get to see more fights features multiple creations smashing each other’s faces at the same time.
The bulk of the episode is found in conducting the experiment on whether or not the creator could change their creation’s powers through their descriptions. Whereas most shows would have quickly covered this aspect in an scene or two, Re:Creators, with its extended runtime of twenty-two episodes, has the luxury of fleshing out its relationships and it does so with some humor. Finding out that Charon will eventually betrays Selesia and having her best friend die in the latest light novel is one way of achieving that while demonstrating the differences between the anime and light novel versions of herself. Perhaps the highlight of episode is when Selesia’s attempt at her new transformation that actually combine Sawano’s epic music for a comedic scene of hype and failure.
I was a bit disappointed initially from this episode. I expected a much more serious conflict between Selesia and her Creator (why make me as you made me, why put me through hell etc). But then Meteora made a point. Selesia is able to argue with her creator because of the way she is described as a character. So I wonder if the limits to the questionings of one existence and their creators that the characters exhibit are the result of lack of depth?
Beyond that the episode did do a good job providing some plausible explanations why these characters materialized, and also why it is not so simple to re-write the story.
I am still excited for this series, but I do wonder about the parameters of the self-consciousness of the created characters.
And as you said, the new transformation scene was pure comedy gold!