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Just like last time, I'm gonna spearhead my blundersome critique with some actual praise — it's as if this show suddenly decided to get somewhat good*! In terms of plot and execution, the things I've picked at all along are still there, and I don't think that the relationship between Akechi and Namikoshi is particularly interesting. Nor do I tend to be interested in that old sad plot about how one kid got cruelly bullied by absolutely everyone forever, but that didn't bother me so much.
* very opinionated statement. I know a lot of people have loved this show the whole way through.
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| Now, unsubtle character analyses like this? They bother me. |
But I really liked the scene in the bed. The ending, like any Ranpo Kitan episode where the ending music starts playing over the visuals, feels powerful. And the pretentious artsitude is successful — not a big wow like last episode, but y'know, sometimes it caught my eye.
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| Like this! |
Back to the regularly-scheduled irreverent comedy hour. Our main character has been kidnapped by the leader of the Twenty Faces crime phenomenon, a.k.a. the dude who "died" years ago, a.k.a.
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| Oh no! What will he |
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| a-BOOOOO. |
He pauses his evil, or at least morally-grey, plan in order to talk about the good ol' days when the world used to look different.
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| Or maybe he just said "BUILDING BUILDING CARCARCARCARCAR" |
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| "I'm not done! That was the first of THREE trials." |
Young Namikoshi got beat up all the time. His dad beat him and his classmates beat him, and his teacher was either a dummy or the biggest bully of them all.
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| Give this symbolically-rendered guy a hand! |
But one day he went to the library and found young Akechi, the only person who not only refused to beat him to a pulp, but also talked just as much about annihilation theory and Laplace's demon and all that scientific philosophy bull as he did. He even goes to the classroom and beats up the dummies! He truly is a natural talent in all walks of life.
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| Pi-yeah! |
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| "Flawed." |
Speaking of unsubtle, can you guess what the weather and lighting was like on the one day that Namikoshi and Akechi learned that the predict-everything math formula they'd been working on had a "deadly secret?!"
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| in soviet russia math hates you *BA-DUM CHIK* thank you, thank you very much |
Whenever they talk about this learn-the-future magic formula that they just typed into their computopes and plugged the variables into, it strikes me as ridiculous. I know that the motif with that is "science equals magic," a modern take on mystical stuff, yeah yeah and all that. But the gap is too great for my suspension of disbelief.
When they say the formula inevitably kills the creator, I not only wonder why they wouldn'y have Namikoshi insist that he doesn't care if he throws away his life on his one great endeavor, but also wonder why a predict-everything equation would have that kind of demon-pact constant built in. (Does the plot even need that detail? Feels like more fake drama. Look we ALREADY HAVE MASS MURDER, why not build on the plot-bricks that have already been sitting around?.)
When they say that the Dark Star formula produced
...I know it's like a spell creating life, but of course unless you have a 3-D printer your computer is not doing that anytime soon. There already exist so many ways to start a revolution, and it would feel so, so much smarter if they said that they used the results of the magical formula to guide the actions of Twenty Faces (who is actually Namikoshi in a mask, followed by copycat killers).
And when they say
I just think "oh this is so stupid." This ain't no Devil Survivor.
Anyway, the formula still isn't complete!
I think he and a bunch of other people have to die to complete it. This makes no sense because I don't see how them dying will cause the formula to auto-update itself. This is the problem with not having an explicit connection to magic! You have no easy plot-contrivance leg to stand on!
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