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Let me just add that Hiro's renovation in this episode is a mystery to me.
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I have to agree with that. The renovation started totally out of the blue in the previous episode and I don't think we ever really learned what triggered this profound change in his personality, it looked very much forced to me.
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The Karada x Tetsu element was, in my opinion, focused on far too much.
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Very true. But then again, I never liked Tetsu to begin with.
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Just what, exactly, made Hiro suddenly so appealing to Shouko?
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Well, the anime gave the "great" explanation that Shouko thought Hiro had dumped her because she was no good and the implication seems to be that when she understood it was because of Karada things changed which I cannot really buy.
I was so ready to get into full force bashing mode, minutes before the end of the episode but thankfully Miss Plot-Device (a.k.a. Kotomi) did enough to get things back to normal, no chibi adults and giant Karadas. So in the end I liked the series a lot but it had tons of potential that was mostly wasted in its second half, IMO.