Wow Hiroyuki, way to be a little shit.
Well, I guess that's one way to break up a student rally...
I kind of like the idea of paralleling current Japanese sentiments regarding America's use of Okinawa, but that's about it. When they were alluding to it (and attempting a little world building) in the beginning of the episode, it felt more like they were senselessly throwing around place names.
So the Tiger and Bunny Reject has future vision as well as time-stopping abilities? Sweet! I want to know more, though.
Mmm, I love the smell of a good PR battle in the morning. Nothing like making a fake adversary to stir the masses!
I really don't think I've ever seen such a lack of cohesion in an anime series in my life. It's like the writers threw every single last one of their thematic ideas in without really bothering to check if they clashed or contradicted. The "questioning who the real beasts are" tosh only tends to sit well in Jiro's case (and even then it's still weird), the "government's making fake enemies" thing did not resolve cleanly (or, at least the reaction to the MegaGon VS Jiro battle from the peanut gallery made it seem that way)... and what of the timeline-jumping "Jiro leaves because stuff and turns into a jerkwad"?
I figure this is all paving way for an overarching theme about the horrors of systematic corruption, but at this stage I really couldn't care less if the entire cast were profiting unfairly off the suffering of others. They're giving a lot of focus on the unlikable Jiro (because he's part-beast and it makes for easy navel-gazing about ~"the definition of humanity"~), when they really should be making the world he inhabits make a little more sense and giving the characters around him a bit more leg-room in the personality and backstory department.
Although, apparently it's full of historical and pop-cultural references (especially if you substitute CS's dates for dates in the Showa period), so that's a plus.