Time Travel Girl

I'm probably gonna be too harsh on this but Jō is kind of right in this episode, Eiji's kind of a hypocrite if we take everything into consideration. The pacing defininitely got better for this episode now that everything's coming together, even then the animation is still pretty average.

I've been waiting all previous episodes for Jō to finally show up as an actual antagonist, he spent too much time playing nice to Akira when he's keen on getting insie Eiji's lab. Back in the past, I think Hertz severely underreacted towards the modern devices he was shown from the future, so that was kind of underwhelming.

A satisfying finale that ties the educational adventures together while still keeping the sense of discovery. The ending provides a rewarding payoff for viewers who have followed the series, keeping its charm throughout.

This episode brings together many elements that have been set up in previous episodes leading up to this point. The mystery gains momentum without sacrificing the series' educational aspect. The pacing is still solid despite, again, the exposition dump it often falls into.

A meaningful to the story's overarching mystery while still maintaining an approachable balance on history and science. The featured historical figure is certainly more impressionable than previous ones, which makes the character interactions feel more confident. Unfortunately, the episode does fall victim to its usual info-dump at times.

A rather compelling entry. And start of another two parter arc. The historical setting feel well integrated into the adventure, with a memorable featured scientist as well. Exposition is also noticeable better. Less info dump and more natural discoveries, which does wonders for its pacing.

More of a lighthearted focused on character interactions. Gives the historical storyline a bit more weight while still keeping the overarching mystery on the horizon. The pacing is solid and the interactions between the cast and the featured scientist is noticeably more natural than some earlier episodes.

Twist and turns, huzzahh. Something this story needs as we continue to develop the overarching mystery. There's more focus on the time travel aspect than the educational aspect. Not that they're absent, but they've taken a bit of a backseat in comparison to last few episodes.

Continuing from the previous episode, this current historical figure is given enough personality that the educational aspect of the episode feels more organic. It can still get rather info-heavy, but there's enough balance with the adventure aspect one might shrug it off.

This episode delivers one of the stronger historical segments yet. There's more focus on the featured scientist as an attempt to make them less one dimensional. Pacing is also a bit better than the last few episodes, which was a jarring issue beforehand.

While a bit better than the last episode, it's become somewhat noticeable that the episodes so far suffer a bit with pacing problems. The mystery aspect of the show keeps the plot going, but the, let's say, info dump segments can really slow down the pacing. Educational yes, but there are ways to do so without making it a straight info dump.

While weaving scientific concepts with historical adventure is kinda fun, I feel it kinda hesitates to veer into one direction. It's a bit talk-heavy for a simple fun adventure, but it sanitized the historical figures a bit for it to be fully educational. It would benefit of picking a certain demographic to stick to.

I think it's a good thing this anime keeps doing two episode arcs instead of cramming everything into a single one. I think Mari being concerned about her mother getting into an affair is weird but kinda hilarious. There seems to be no real perception of time from the perspective of the time travelers, we knew this already but it's way more drastic with Eiji than with Mari.

Hmm... I don't feel like the episode took advantage of the time travel aspect that much. Kind of a missed opportunity. A few scenes linger a bit longer than they need to, but the growing sense of discovery is nice as part of its educational aspect. It feels a bit yap-heavy for younger audience though, I feel.

Every anime needs a beach episode, no matter the plot. I get why we keep going back to Europe and the US since they have been huge innovation powerhouses across history, but I feel like we could've also explored at least one Arabic or East Asian scientist by now. Besides that, It's kinda sad the way Mari's mother talks about her marriage, even if it doesn't seem to faze her.

I think this is the first time I've seen a character struggle learning to read Japanese but it must be somewhat realistic for Japanese middle schoolers learning more complex Kanji. I think Morse might've been the easiest one they've helped so far. We finally know that instead of changing the course of history they cover up for any missing parts in order to make sure it happens the way it has to, which is kinda cool but I wonder how Eiji knows where and when to go without the book.

This one continues right where the last one left off. Jō's plan is absolutely ridiculous, he first comes off as a very intelligent antagonist and now out of the blue he's coming up with the worst plan to get access to Eiji's research, he could've at least made some fake documents to back him up. The rest is pretty good actually, we get to see more of a human side of these historical figures and what their daily lives could've been like.

It's nice to have some slice of life side plots besides the time traveling. Thankfully Waka joins for this adventure, it was getting too repetitive with just Mari doing everything. I don't think Faraday's idea of "If you love it you don't need to study it" helps with what Waka's going through, Futa should still stay in school even if he wants to be soccer player. The analogy doesn't even work with his own work besides what we see in the episode.

Okay this one is definitely better than the last one, I was hoping this anime would also show all the reasons the past is not so great if you're coming from the present. It's not clearly explained if they're changing the past by coming into contact with it or if past events happened because they came from the future to make them happen, either way I don't think this is one of those animes with deep paradoxes.

This is kind of what I was worried about, I understand they have to show historical figures with the best optics as they're revered for their achievements but having Benjamin Franklin being overly nice to his slaves while trying to flirt with a middle schooler really does not land well no matter how you try to portray it. I still have no idea what the unnamed grey haired guy is up to.