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(This review contains
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Last week’s Re:Creators continued to finally become more of the show it
promised it would be from the beginning, upping the action and mystery while at
the same time throwing out the unnecessary overdose of exposition that plagued
the first few episodes. This week was a continuation of that same high, as the
show focused on one of the most fun and interesting characters in the whole
thing.
The big question from last week was
whether Mamika was going to survive her encounter with Altair or not. This
question was answered in the cold open with a big and bloody “nope”, as she was
brought crashing down to Earth still mortally wounded. What this episode doesn’t tell us is what the consequences
of the Magical Splash Flare were. Altair is nowhere to be seen this week, and
neither is the gun-toting guy that seems to be her number two. While it’s
fairly obvious they’re still alive, one has to wonder what happened to them
afterwards.
Anyways, Mamika dies in front of
Magane, with her last wish being for her to tell Alice that they need to side
with Meteora to take down Altair. Magane, of course, doesn’t exactly tell Alice
the truth, instead flipping the narrative to make it sound like Meteora is the
one who killed Mamika and Altair is the one they need to side with.
A lot of the episode is given up to
Magane, and how she’s working to turn all the heroes against each other. It’s
been made obvious that she doesn’t care whether the world is saved or
destroyed, but rather just wants to have fun messing with everyone. Since
Altair has done barely anything at all over the course of the series, Magane is
the closest we have to a main villain right now, and she’s a lot of fun. I love
the subtle ways she’s able to turn conversations around in her favour and get
people to do what she wants. She’s an extremely interesting and fun bad guy.
Through her we also got hints to Sota’s
past, and how he’s done something in the past so that he “can’t see someone
anymore”. I think at this point we’ve been given all the puzzle pieces to
figure out what happened here. Sota was friends with the girl who created
Altair, but the two drifted apart after she became successful. Then he did
something to make her commit suicide, which is why Altair targeted him in the
first episode. All that’s left is for the show to explicitly tell us the
details.
There’s also an interesting little
nugget of conspiracy lying beneath Magane’s lies. What if Meteora is actually
working for Altair? She kind of randomly showed up in the first episode
alongside her, and it would explain her sudden knowledge of all her plans
despite never really coming into contact with her. Plus there’s also the fact
that it would help Altair’s plan of making the creations fight each other if
she had a double agent working on the other side.
My one big problem with this episode
is a continuing one with the entire series: there are too many characters than
they can juggle right now. Selesia is completely absent this week, as is the
mech guy who still has done squat. While they don’t really have a place in an
episode so focused on Magane, I really wish they’d been given something to do. Why not have Selesia be
the one to fight Magane in the end? She’s the most prominent character in the
intro and advertising, yet has done basically nothing crucial since the pilot.
Despite that, this episode is awesome.
The writing on Magane turned her from a fun baddie to a truly interesting
antagonist, and the way she’s subtly trying to manipulate the narrative is
fantastic. Plus, if my Meteora prediction comes true, it’s an awesome little
nugget placed early on for the more zealous fans.
FINAL SCORE
9/10
Amazing
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