This episode was really despair inducing, in a way that it was pretty great regardless of how its going. It actually is starting to become more suspicious around Chisa, since she at the end of the episode smiled in a way that doesn't seem very normal. Her smile usually its normal and at the end it seemed more like an evil grin, which means that she got affected by the video that Ryota made. By the way there's someone that pointed this out, but what Mukuro did in this episode reminded me of one of the episodes of Hunter x Hunter with Pitou. Which in reality like holy shit the similarities at least for what I remember.
The fact that the characters are going to go and save Chisa was already a sign that their hope would pretty much be destroyed by despair, and Junko planned this up along the way which in all honesty I'm not even surprised, considering Junko is the one who has a lot of plans to back herself up in a way and while I hate her direction and her plans I do like how she plans them out beforehand, I can't hate her because she's just amazing.
The fact that also at the beginning of the episode she made fun of freaking Shoujo mangas got me laughing my ass off because usually these Shoujo demographics would have these type of lines during romances most of the time. It was really funny to see that at the very least.
Also, I did mentioned the scene where Chisa was getting brainwashed by the video, which I will point out that was kinda disturbing in some sense, but the more disturbing thing in here was the Reserve Student cutting his own throat off which unfortunately it was censored because "Thank you Japanese Industry for Censoring the Fun", but my god I felt the fucking disturbance on the manner. It made me lose my appetite when I saw that... and of course it was kinda creepy, I mean, Junko ordered the student to do that and he couldn't stop it because he has no will of his own body.
It's pretty clear that the people we saw around in the second half of the episode are Brain Washed too, or at least I can assume that's the case, I'm not sure. At least on Junko's side then I can assume those were brainwashed, which is clearly obvious.
I feel very bad for Ryota due to his talent which he wanted to use his anime for the better of the world, being used as a tool for the worse of the world. It just seems fucked up if you think about it that way, I mean in that case I feel bad for Ryota, as he didn't wanted any of this to happen, and he was forced to do this because if not then his friends would be in danger.
Speaking of "Ryota" the fact that the Imposter revealed his freaking face made me think of him in another light perspective wise Lol. I mean he still looks damn fine but holy cow man, you look nice with black hair :3
Also I wanna point this out as well um, if Peko was controlled by despair, as someone said previously on the forum, she wouldn't have said to the classmates to not go there because it's dangerous, she would have said the opposite which indeed would make things suspicious on the manner. So, I don't believe she's in despair. At least for me. Most likely she just got injured and beaten up by Mukuro, Mikan (which she was already controlled by despair) pretended to be fine so she pretty much took Peko towards the class just following Nanami and Komaeda.
I actually liked at least Nanami's development in this episode, I mean if you look at the first episode and then here, she seems very determined about wanting to save Chisa, despite the fact that going there would lead them to despair at the very least. But still, it was something.
Lastly I don't really like this but there is an issue with the pacing at the very least, between the issue where Juzo and Munakata are talking, where they found out about Junko being the one behind this. Did they cleared that up beforehand or not really? That's my question.
Aaaand another side note, Am I the only one who noticed that Nidai's bulge doesn't look normal compared to the game? Now it just seems like a big ball in the middle which distracted me in a bad way. Like seriously what the fuck?
Anyway, great episode as always.
P.S: Nagito while still talking about Hope and Despair thing speeches again, I still like it because at least he also seems determined to help the others... at least here. |