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His underaged teenage burger coworker. This is despite The Hero getting way more character development and meaningful time together with the MC, including the two of them raising an adopted child together, and also teenage underaged coworker being underage.Wisteria? Can you go ahead and spoiler pop who was the final girl for our dear part-timer? The suspense in here is palatable.
nope, just watched ep. 6 and it implies direct sequel, it talks about the Uprising War with the Eva dronesI don’t think it’s a sequel so much as an Instead-quel
Finally watched the last Great Pretender arc. Mostly very good but I feel like the pay-off was a bit disappointing. I know anime has a past of turning old enemies into antiheroes or heroes but... every other villain from the last three arcs sucked. Don't work with these people. It wasn't earned. I don't mind the show's post-credits coda but I feel like the previous character codas don't work for me. I completely forgot one of the characters they revealed and I would much rather have had one more moment with Edamame than the President thing or the painting thing.
Yeah but these aren't characters redeeming themselves and one of them has had people straight up murdered and they've all been shits from beginning to end. I love a good redemption arc and think that humanizing criminals is a BIG part of this series but usually that's in the form of side people (the first baddy's henchman, the second baddy's complicit but less shitty brother and the lady whom the third baddy was bleeding dry. It really doesn't track with the characters as I've seen them previous nor is it something I'm excited to see. They never really get humanized. If anything, the choice not to kill almost seems more to protect the inner circle who is committing their crimes from doing harm to their souls. Ironically, Suzaku is most humanized main baddy despite the fact that her crimes are objectively the MOST awful and though she has genuine compassion for one person, she is willing to sell children.I liked the ending, I wasn't that bothered by the previous arc villains coming back, because it was very much in character for these morally grey con artists to use former adversaries in their conman schemes. And when you get down to it, those previous villains were all con artists themselves, so they'd all jump at the chance to make money and let bygones be bygones. I also think it somewhat links up with the theme of the show that almost nobody is irredeemable and purely evil, and even if you've done heinous shit in the past, you can atone. Which is a theme that's going to rub a lot of people the wrong way, especially in our culture that thrives on retribution and absolutism. But Edamame's entire arc is basically an argument for criminal justice reform which we all ought to be more amenable and open minded to.