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Wonderful episode. The trend towards linear storytelling and actually answering a few questions is a welcome one, as is the slow warming of the emotional tone. Really caring about the characters has always been the lagging indicator for me, but that's finally catching up to the intellectual interest. The influence of the Casshern Sins posse on the Tabuki flashbacks was also a nice touch.
I don't know about anyone else, but I'm getting a seriously bad feeling about Shouma - or rather, I've had one for a long while but the events at the end of the episode (and the preview voiceover) really have "bad flag" written all over them. At some point he has to stop being an observer and become a participant, and he clearly places zero value on his own life.
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