This is a 00s anime after all, we should be glad that we are getting a story that is actually hopeful in any sort of manner at all and doesn't try to be an edgy depressionfest. Really I'm surprised that the anime isn't just going to flat out kill everyone and then end with some shitty message about life being nothing but depression and despair. While the villain wasn't great, his death was even worse. If only you had tried to save Sayaka before she killed hundreds if not thousands of people, but I guess then we wouldn't have the mad dash to save Sayaka, because that's apparently romantic. although her actions at the beginning of this episode were a bit anomalous. that doesn't mean everything else doesn't matter or that she would happily eradicate an entire civilization if she thought it could be avoided tho, as her actions have clearly indicated since her appearance in episode 4. its simply a matter of priotrities, for her its 1) Federation 2) everything else. Nejula was always trying to help in her own way, but she was constrained by her need to carry out the directives of the Federation. Shamylan died too fast to realize that he wasn't chosen, and personally i thought that part was done wonderfully :) which i'm sure he told himself repeatedly throughout the episode, even if only in his own head. Besides, he was lying to himself about her not being the Ryunka, and if she wasn't the Ryunka then he didn't have anything to worry about. Senkawa was internalizing most of it, he's not the most physically expressive character and i'd have found it much stranger for him to suddenly trash his house in aggravation at not being able to help Nakasugi. This could have been better, but it was just ok. And now all of a sudden the other Altarian has an ethical crisis and is depending of Birdy? Ridiculous. I didn't believe any of Senkawa's actions in the beginning-there was such a lack of frustration and we're given inexpicable resignation-and I would have liked a reaction from Shamylan as he realized he wasn't chosen, maybe they could have done slow-motion, I don't know. I liked the episode visually, but from a story standpoint, it was quite hollow.
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