Oh, perfect! Exactly how inconceivably wrong was it?
I feel like this would have been similar to a soccer episode where one team was allowed to throw the ball and the other wasn't. Or a chess match where one player was allowed to say his king was actually a one of the other pieces in disguise and then shoot his opponent in the face.
I've never played, but I was so disturbed by last night's episode that I had a dream where I was ferrying a mahjong board (is...there a board?) from one place to another, trying to keep it as pristine as possible.
...until I realized all the tiles were made of chocolate. And ate them.
Um...p-pon?
My feeling is that the story/mystery is too shallow for even 1 cour and we are forced to have just these tiny bits of info per episode so it doesn't drain fast enough.
I'm inclined to agree with you.
If the show was more clearly about Odin choosing to spend the final days on the planet trying to make Yota's life as good as possible (b/c she finds him worthy or some nonsense), then all the random crap would seem to make sense. Or, really, even if she was sticking to her original premise of wanting to experience the world before it was destroyed, then she would have a plan so much as a series of reactions to things placed in front of her. But...ugh, I just don't--
Wait.
Wait, how in the f*** did she win the online tournament to even get Yota to that match? Does she
actually know how to play and deliberately misled him because she knew it would make Sexy CEO drench herself over it?
WHAT THE F*** WAS THAT EPISODE?!
Also, what is the appeal to Izanami?
I'm always of the mindset that if the character likes a girl coming into the story, then it's typically only necessary to accept that there's a good reason for it, from his perspective. As in, it's only important to the story that
he likes her.
Also, typically, these stories have him run into a new girl who we spend way more time with who he is eventually supposed to end up with, making the need for the audience to understand much less important that we might initially think. (That isn't always the case (
Nisekoi and
Toradora spring to mind, for example), but often the original crush is not someone the MC already interacts with, so his adoration of her is based on things that mostly exist in his head anyway.)
That said...she's pretty?
No, I mean, you're not wrong that something is missing, there. If I had to put a name to it, though, I'd probably say it was less that we don't see much personality out of her than it is that we don't see much
friendship out of her side of things. Like, prior to her voluntarily tagging along, this week, she hasn't shown much in the way of attentiveness. Like, I know she's deadpan, but there are ways to betray that placid exterior that don't involve showing a lot of emotion.
...though she did go to that baseball thing without complaint. Hmm.
Did you ever get the feeling that all of this might be some sort of simulation? Just a nagging feeling I'm getting.
Something's definitely amiss. Though whether it's Yota's perceptions of the universe or bad writing, I couldn't say.
HOWEVER...we've yet to see the Mad Haxxer interact with the same world bubble as Yota's stuff. We assume they're in the same plans of reality, as it were, but we don't actually know that. There would seem to be overlap between them, since Sexy CEO was hosting that event...but she does seem to have two different roles in each side of the story, given that fanboy Yota didn't list her as being the CEO of anything when spouting her CV at Odin like an absolute dweeb that I have never once been at all like in reference to a TV broadcaster ever in my life ever he's such a dweeb right guys.
So, um, it's certainly possible.
Yeah, that's...an odd one. They're using it for the dub, it looks like, if that...matters.
Well, the assumption is that he's trying to track
her, even if Sexy CEO hasn't mentioned her by name. So I suppose there's that.
Although...it's also possible that, given the above, she's sending him after Yota, who is being kept alive in some kind of VR stasis chamber, and
he's the "family" of that scientist they were talking about in that weird interview scene.
EXCEPT...we saw that moment with Yota's parents and sleeping Odin, which was entirely outside of his perspective and, therefore, not something the simulation would have produced.
UNLESS...he's in a holodeck of some kind, and he's not the only one. Like, his parents are real (though perhaps not his parents) and Odin is a harbinger of the end of the simulation that they knew would crop up eventually.
Or Yota's a clone. Just like Odin.
Or whatever it's all a mess anyway.
#WhoCaresMoreSoraPlease
