Bokurano

The mysterious masterminds fit Kanji's worldview but skipping the other families in the epilogue was a letdown. We needed to see how all those parents were coping after losing their kids even if it was heartbreaking.

The military logic here made no sense at all. Preemptively scorching the whole are was infinitely more destructive than just letting Zearth fight. Complete military miscalculation. What a disaster episode.

Human idiocy aside, Jun's character development here was fantastic. Taking genuine responsibility for Kana and getting Machi fully on his side shows just how far he's come. Major win for his arc.

This episode was flat out bad. Bloating an already packed plot with random new elements isn't useful storytelling, its just jumping the shark. Fix what is already there before adding more noise.

The classic rewatch curse. Building outlandish theories makes the show feel limitless but the inevitable speculative collapse when real answers drop always makes the world feel so much smaller.

Loved this episode despite how out of place it felt. In a standard action series, this would be peak setup for a final boss fight. Really fun watch.

Nailed the core issue. The clash between an intimate character drama and a bloated government conspiracy plot completely ruins the focus. It really needed to commit to one direction.

Argh this episode make me having headache. I become confused now.

Okay now I understand the heavy duty spoiler tags. The custom dividers made me think it was end of series level stuff. So getting that reveal now completely caught me off guard.

Easily my least favorite episode yet. The whole Mafia plotline felt super unnecessary and shoehorned in and the fight itself was completely underwhelming.

That reveal recontextualizes Machi's whole attitude. She was not just being forceful. She actually knew the horrifying stakes and had time to digest it while everyone else was in the dark.

Great reveals but what a weirdly structured ending. Giving the characters room to process the info dump was solid tacking on a forced cliffhanger right at the end definitely was not.

Completely agree the thematic thread is lost right now. Instead of meaningful character arcs. It feels like they are just dumping a quick backstory on someone right before killing them off for shock value.

Moji went from looking like the natural mediator in the early episodes to completely fading into the background later on. Massive wasted potential for his character arc.

Aiko seen has not gotten any focus after that scene of her not sitting on her chair at home. But every time they are in the cockpit she seems to be breaking just that little bit more. The silence as they are waiting for the pilot to be picked is quite defeaning.

Daichi finally getting his spotlight. Such a bittersweet episode for lighter in tone than the recent horror show but watching him have to say goodbye to his adorable family was still a total tearjerker.

Hard to take that fight scene seriously with how bizarre the enemy mech looked while getting beaten up. Whatever deep symbolism they were going for definitely got lost in how goofy it actually looked.

That opening spin caught me totally off guard but spinning right out of the van is easily a close second. Absolute peak comedy.

I didn't mind the military stuff but the pacing was way off. Having the robots chat and run around instead of diving straight into the fight totally ruined the tone and tension for me.

This was a good episode. It checked every box, new mysteries and solid character moments. All while staying effortless to follow. Easily one of the most satisfying watches so far.