Do people not like Episode 07? (Spoiler for Episode 07)

There are also some Chinese fans here and there is currently an ongoing backlash on the episode over there in the Chinese fanbase. So I expected it to have a decent decrease in overall rating. I quite surprised that it still in 8.25 after 48 hrs. I expected it to be quite lower especially there is also some good amount of unsatisfied viewers here on MAL. The episode score of 4.4 from the usual 4.6 is not that too drastic of a fall too. It just shows the polarized opinion about this episode. For a good number of people in the Global, JP and SEA fans from what I see, it is the best episode of the show. For the Greater China fanbase, it is the worst one. If you have reddit, there are posts in the BanGDream subreddit there about this rather interesting phenomenon. You can visit them if you want some understanding.

This episode is pretty much the turning point of the season. We are pretty much done with this "suffering porn" phase. I think the remaining episodes would not be as chaotic as the first half of the season (Yes, even with the apparent Uika crashout) because Saki now has more allies on her side. Yes it would still be dramatic but not as messy as before. She now have that emotional support crew to back her up whatever happens which she didn't have before. Its interesting how the Chinese would react to it.

There are also some Chinese fans here and there is currently an ongoing backlash on the episode over there in the Chinese fanbase. So I expected it to have a decent decrease in overall rating. I quite surprised that it still in 8.25 after 48 hrs. I expected it to be quite lower especially there is also some good amount of unsatisfied viewers here on MAL. The episode score of 4.4 from the usual 4.6 is not that too drastic of a fall too. It just shows the polarized opinion about this episode. For a good number of people in the Global, JP and SEA fans from what I see, it is the best episode of the show. For the Greater China fanbase, it is the worst one. If you have reddit, there are posts in the BanGDream subreddit there about this rather interesting phenomenon. You can visit them if you want some understanding.

This episode is pretty much the turning point of the season. We are pretty much done with this "suffering porn" phase. I think the remaining episodes would not be as chaotic as the first half of the season (Yes, even with the apparent Uika crashout) because Saki now has more allies on her side. Yes it would still be dramatic but not as messy as before. She now have that emotional support crew to back her up whatever happens which she didn't have before. Its interesting how the Chinese would react to it.