It’s episode nine. We’re about to hit the climax with five episodes left. And so this episode comes with a seemingly unrelated arc that ends with a cliff-hanger that will continue into the next episode. I’m really interested in the creators’ intentions here.
Don’t get me wrong here, this episode was excellent as usual. I still consider this to be the best executed series of the season. But I’m fearing that this series will go down the road of Sora no Oto and wait too long with its ending, resulting in a bit of a cop-out. If this episode wasn’t what it looked like and actually was already slightly hinting at that climax then it’s fine, but I don’t want the same thing that happened with Sora no Oto’s ending to happen here.
Anyway, about the episode, when you ignore the time-limit of this show, it was a very good one in its build up. The creators are continuing to develop Maya, using her relationship with her father, and the next episode especially seems designed to push her character in a new direction. Meanwhile this episode was excellent with its facial expressions, especially Maya’s, but JK also shined here.
It’s interesting how the case was seemingly solved before the end of the episode: the spirit’s father accidentally killed her due to neglect, now all that’s seemingly left is to bring this ghost to that father, have a bit of dialogue and things should get finished. That shouldn’t be enough to fill an entire episode. Still, with all that build-up it had better be building up to something awesome. It’s quite like Sengoku Basara Two this season: they’re both spending quite a bit of build up hyping up their own climax, so at this point I still can’t say anything about how good they are going to end up becoming in terms of the big picture, unlike, say, High School of the Dead where you know exactly what to expect.
Rating: ** (Excellent)
Has it really been confirmed that this will only be 1-cour? It seems like it will be longer than that to me.
Anyone else getting the vibe that Mikaze might be an alien? She’s been perfectly positioned to cause problems between Fumiaki and Maya in every situation. I’m actually more interested to see Mikaze and Chihiro’s conversation that’s shown in the preview. Hopefully it’s not just the usual “back off, he’s mine” exchange.
>Sora no Oto’s ending
I thought you meant the flying pantsu at first… >u>;;
“Has it really been confirmed that this will only be 1-cour? It seems like it will be longer than that to me. ”
Agreed, I’m loving it so far and the polish and style of development outside of a few hiccups, and especially it’s easy liveliness and ability to cross genres and avoid some genre forced relationships dominating the story, make this feel like it has the potential to be one of those re-watchable classic 24-26 episode pieces that get their chance to continue to expand and do as much as possible properly.
If not I hope the final set can live up to expectation and pull off an exciting conclusion, but I hope it’s getting a second half if it keeps delivering.