Halfway there
(This review contains
spoilers!)
We’ve officially reached the halfway
point of our adventures with the creations and creators, and this episode was definitely
a tonal shift from what we’ve been seeing for the last few weeks. Altair and
Magane are nowhere to be seen, and the episode focuses on Sota as he finally tells the truth about his past
with Altair. Now that that’s out of the way, I don’t see him as a waste of
space anymore.
Instead I see him as a terrible person
now, but I digress.
The creations are recovering from
their injuries from last week’s showdown, so that means it’s time for idle
chitchat! In all seriousness, the characters do have some nice genuine moments
together, including a very good scene where Selesia and her creator go over the
merits of creating a fictional world for others to see. It’s a genuine
conversation you’d think for these two characters to have, and it makes me
really happy Selesia is back in the spotlight.
The mech guy also finally does something this week! Yeah, remember him? He’s still in
this show! He turns out to be the one that finally encourages Sota to tell the
truth about his past to everyone and how he can make a change despite being
human. It’s a very Kingdom Hearts-esque
speech, but one that rings through nonetheless.
So now it’s finally time to see what’s
going on with Sota and that mysterious girl from his past. And…it’s basically
what we already knew. The two of them hung out, but when her art started to get
more popular than his they drifted apart. Then someone accused her of plagiarism,
and now she’s dead. Simple and easy.
The flashback scene felt pretty darn underwhelming
for two specific reasons: one, we already basically knew what was going to
happen thanks to the show outright telling us a few episodes back. And second,
the voice actress for the girl wasn’t quite up to snuff. Her delivery made her
feel like a parody of the typical romance anime love interest instead of a character
of herself. If the character ever comes back I really hope she does a better
job.
This really felt like the “breather
episode” after the breakneck pace back-to-back fight scenes we’ve had for the
past few weeks, and there’s nothing wrong with that. These episodes give us
time to build characters that we really haven’t seen in a while because of all
the action, like Selesia and the mech guy (I’ll learn his name someday, I
swear!) Despite this, this episode felt kind of skippable, especially since
they all but told us what happened to that girl a few episodes ago. It was
extremely easy to put the puzzle pieces together just from the info we had, so
I think the only reason why they spelled it out for us was so the other
characters could get that information. This episode was a weaker one, but it’s
easily forgiven when you remember how good this anime’s been the last few
weeks.
FINAL SCORE
6/10
Okay
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