Bitch, What Did You Do? [08]

Dear Diary,

Scratch off “Two Is Bet­ter Than One” and write “Nine, Which Is Coin­cid­ent­ally the Exact Num­ber of SSS Mem­bers Who Sac­ri­fice Them­selves, Is Bet­ter Than One.”

Con­tinu­ing from my pre­vi­ous entry, Yuri begins to fight Kanade-clone again. Wait, did any­one notice that she went from “ouch, I just came back from a battle and I am covered in cuts” to “com­pletely healed and ready to fight”? Yes, I am aware we heal quickly here in the after­life, but our clothes don’t really go back to brand new. Seriously.

Any­way, Yuri and com­pany start attack­ing Kanade-clone, but we all fail. Kanade then fights Kanade-clone her­self, land­ing her into our school infirm­ary. We deduct it was her har­mon­ics skill used, and Yuri goes to mess with it on Kanade’s com­puter. Yuri, not being the most tech savvy per­son in the word, some­how man­ages to add a time­wait to absorb all the clones after using harmonics.

We go to the Guild again and run into more Kanade-clones. Con­veni­ent for us, the num­ber of clones match the num­ber of people we sac­ri­ficed exactly. What are the odds?

While Yuri fought off the last one, I ran to the ori­ginal Kanade and asked her to use har­mon­ics to absorb all the clones. Once she made one clone, this clone explained…that by absorb­ing all the other clones, she’s absorb­ing all their con­scious­nesses at once and she might not be okay after doing this.

You could have told me this earlier. Time for more hug­ging. Hug­ging should fix this too, right?

–Yuzuru Otonashi

Thoughts

A good epis­ode. Also note that the title of this post isn’t dir­ec­ted at Yuri or any of the other char­ac­ters by me. It’s just my favor­ite line from the episode.

Aw, more Yuzuru/Kanade fuel. Even Yuri and Hinata com­ment on it. Ammy is very happy. I liked how when all of the clones were com­bin­ing with Kanade and she was scream­ing, I verbally told Yuzuru though the com­puter screen to hug her and he did. For you yaoi fans, more Naoi/Yuzuru for you guys. I loved how no one cared Naoi died. Like Yuzuru, I don’t really care much about Naoi. It’s still fun to see bits in the epis ode where he called every one trash, except for Yuzuru of course. Hug ging is that magical.

As for the clones, it did bug me how con­veni­ent it was for the num­ber of clones. Kanade-clone had enough time to make a huge army. Instead, we only got nine, if I coun­ted cor­rectly. I was also hop­ing the clones would be more evil, like so evil that you want to strangle them and scream at your com­puter screen “NOOO!!!11one” for an hour. Eh. Still, it’s still nice to see how ador­able Kanade was wak­ing up. All her con­scious­nesses com­bin­ing into one in the ori­ginal? Should have seen it com­ing but really didn’t. You could see a bit a con­scious in the begin­ning of the epis­ode where the first clone hes­it­ated just a bit.

One other thing that bother me is that all the SSS mem­bers just needed to be stabbed for the oth­ers to get through. No struggle? At least hold her down!  Also, Yui was use­less as usual. She didn’t even get to be stabbed. She had some fun lines though. She points out Naoi’s (un)importance in the story now. His story is over.

Yuri got a little more love from me in this epis­ode too. It was awe­some watch­ing her fight the Kanade-clone and win. Smart girl. Plus, she’s not totally against our “Ten­shi” any­more. Yup, I think I like Yuri now.

And as quickly as they come, the clones are resigned from the Big Bad pos­i­tion. Ser­i­ously? How many two epis­ode ant­ag­on­ists are we going to have? I’m also inter­ested in see­ing how Kanade’s going to be now. Will she turn Ax Crazy with all those clones merged in her? Will she be stuck in bed get­ting bet­ter while they fight some new ant­ag­on­ist who seemed to come out of nowhere? Will she roll over and turn into a cat? So many questions.