[Kefit]

Haha wow, it's finally starting to come together.

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It's nice to see Eve and Gido's backstory finally touched upon, though at this point the addition of Karin to things just makes it more confusing. It's really not clear what the relationship is between Kasumi, Karin, and Eve. Why take half of Kasumi's brain if they were able to keep her alive? Where did Karin go?

I did get a good laugh out of Saten and Gido taking out Arclight like nothing. Watching Kami's long charted plan to take down the nascent god was very satisfying. Gido and Saten make far more interesting villains than Arclight ever did too. Though I'm still not convinced that they are total villains. Just what are they after? I guess Gido is after some way to help Kasumi, but I can't conceive how all of this can be related to that.

And of course I got quite the hoot out of the shoujo butai showing up at the end. I've always hungered for a shoujo butai vs Riru battle but I never thought it would actually happen! Looks like they've gotten power ups too. I bet Saten triggered something in them via Eden's Seed and then took control of them with Black Attraction. This would certainly explain why Setsuna went all bestial, started to overpower Teruyama, and then lost control of herself and ditched the battle. And of course Mio remains unaffected by his trick despite being with Setsuna and Kuchinashi for some time immediately prior to the current chapters. Something's just gotta be up with her.

Anyway, our final boss is suddenly gone and it's not immediately clear that either Saten or Gido is going to play the role of new final boss. I wouldn't be surprised now if we have an entire new arc to go through before this part of the series ends.