It was nice while it lasted.
It’s an oddly specific observation, but I’m sure I’ve never had less confidence in an episode coming on the back of two great episodes. Part of that is just simple Fumetsu PTSD – it’s a whiplash-inducing rollercoaster of a series. But it’s also the preview which tipped that Mizuha was coming back into focus this week, which is never a good thing. When Yuuki said “I wish Mizuha were here” in the midst of last week’s banger ep, I’m pretty sure not many in the audience agreed with him.
Given all that things took an eminently predictable course. While this doesn’t rank among the most exasperating and/or awful To Your Eternity episodes, that’s a high (low) bar. Certainly the lofty heights of episodes 14-15 were a distant memory, and things descended into the kind of perverse and perplexing weirdness that suggests an editor’s strike. With Mizuha involved that’s almost a given – it runs in the family. Unfortunately she’s the MacGuffin of this season in many ways and we were never going to escape it falling into her clutches again.
The new school year begins, and Mizuha has transferred out. She’s not answering the buzzer at home but Fushi hasn’t seen evidence of the family moving, so the gang decide to make her a photo album for her birthday using Izumi’s photos (from the computer whose monitor Fushi threw into the sea). Her dad intercepts their attempts to deliver it and since Yuuki is determined to at least officially confess, a decision is made to track her down at the underground lair Bon’s ghosties visited a few eps back. We also got a short segment on March’s first day of school, which starts as badly as you might expect but seems to end on a positive note.
The rest of it is just the usual head-scratching Fumetsu weirdness. Some of the antics of Yuuki and the club baka are funny, as is Hanna’s reaction (so like our own) to being pulled along in this hallucinogenic trek through underground tunnels to the Hayase clan’s lair. The singing, the birthday cake, the dialogue – it’s entertaining in its sheer randomness. But we’re a long way from the Fumetsu no Anata e of the past two episodes, stripped down to the core elements of the story that make it soar on the rare occasions when it does. In the words of Jon Lovitz, “I’m not mad – I just want to know why”…
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