I really need to start tracking these things more closely, because I had no idea Fumetsu was running for two cours. Which is doubly idiotic because the first two seasons did, too. But there you go, we have another 10 eps to go (Fumetsu cours are never conventional length). The brevity of this piece shouldn’t be taken as a criticism, as – for the second week running – I thought the ep was quite good. It’s just a concession to the reality of Sunday anime coverage and the fact that this isn’t a series review post (which you can’t really cut short).
Yuki continues to be a source of amusement and entertainment in this very uneven season. But this week saw him lift his game as a paranormal investigator quite significantly. That whole “mutant” thing was hilarious in classic baka-Yuki fashion, but there was a method to his bakayarocity. Yuki put a surprising amount of thought into figuring out the nature of the nokkers, and came up with some compelling conclusions too. He figured out stuff Fushi never has (and Fushi has the benefit of infinitely more time and first-hand experience). Yuki also figured out how to use Eko and her clay pot to communicate with Fushi out of the nokkers’ earshot – again, very impressive (and useful).
We also got a hilarious diversion with Fushi trying to figure out how to delete Izumi’s photos (we still don’t know why she asked him to). Needless to say even by Japanese schoolkids’ shockingly low standards Fushi is PC-illiterate. After trying to rip open Izumi’s monitor he finally gives up and tosses it into the sea. This nets him a scolding from Aiko and of course, does nothing whatsoever to actually delete the photos (freeing them up to Chekov’s Gun later). One of Yuki’s insights is that the nokkers will probably try to take out his creator as a means of getting at Fushi, so Fushi heads over there to try and head that off at the pass.
Satoru proves that he still has plenty of The Beholder in him, and he deals with Funa’s nokker rather easily. The one inside Michi, on the other hand, he leaves be – as there’s nothing else left inside her. And this is the rock once more rolling down the hill for Fushi – as much as he wants the nokker thing to be a slam-dunk, it has moral and ethical nuances. And while Satoru pointing out that Fushi himself isn’t so different from the nokkers in how he self-identifies is a low blow, there’s more than a little truth to it. Satoru’s advice to just give this fight up is probably for Fushi’s own good, but I just don’t think he’s capable of following it.
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