I'm fairly sure that's what I was supposed to take from this episode.
Alright. Where to start.
For those of you haven't noticed: For the past few days, my blog's status had been set to private. That was my doing, reason being that someone hacked MAL and among other users' accounts, mine too. Going by how, following the hacking attack, several aniPodium/aniSearch members had their accounts (and other things) hacked too, there's reason to assume it was the work of a German. Unfortunately, I was gullible enough to use my old-ass MAL pass (which is no longer in use for anything else) for my blog as well. Which is linked on MAL. Do the maths.
So, what happened basically boils down to this: Someone hacked my MAL account, got my blog's password, hacked my blog as well, changed its title, my name, the mail address, moved 200 of my posts to the trash bin, furthermore completely erased 266 posts as well as 93 drafts from existence and deleted thousands of comments. And here's the best part: I don't have a backup. Well, that sucks so I did the standard security stuff, contacted the WordPress staff and I have yet to receive any response on what else to do and whether they can restore my blog or not. Frankly, I'm not all too hopeful for this one which is also why I decided to collect all the deleted posts via Google Cache to retrieve them as much as I can. Needless to say, that's a shitload of copypasting as well as integrating more than 800 pictures and deleted comments will only be displayed in the articles themselves () than in the comment section. Also, copypasting text sadly doesn't retrieve lost codes (as in embedded YT videos, links) so depending on the kind of article, there's either a bit damage or a lot. I've already re-uploaded about 40 posts (including the entireties of P-P, Gargantia and Gen'ei Taiyou) and will continue to keep doing so. Be warned that it WILL take a while though.
From now on, I promise to make a backup after each and every post and will no longer use the same passwords. I am terribly sorry for any inconvenience I might have caused.
Now onto the episode: I think I liked the first one and a half minutes. Ginka's empty room, her father getting her stuff - see, that's how you do the aftermaths after someone's death. It had the necessary, was implicit with the room thing, short and to the point. So figure how pleased I was by it being followed by Akari crying and wondering WHY things had to happen like that. As with most melodrama in anime, "why" is perhaps the least interesting question to pose. It doesn't make you think, only repeats what happened and there's never any conclusion or an answer to it. It's a fruitless effort to add some depth to the characters or some weight to the situation. It doesn't really help all that much that we can't even be sure about Ginka's death in the first place. "Has disappeared to somewhere" is the official explanation and I'm going to stick with that as long as it's not disproved. I'm still expecting a reset ending anyway, so there's that too.
In more news, Ginka's death has shocked Luna so much that she spend entire 3 days in her room while being angsty because she could be the next. It was at that point that I realized "Oh yeah, this is Luna's episode.". Thank goodness it was far less formulaic than I had expected and also had some other twists (antagonist boy is apparently being ordered around by superiors and not very happy about that and there's that dummy cards twist) but most of it wasn't all that content-heavy either. Luna went back to her villa to get some rest while flashbacking about her lost sister who is sooooooo much like Akari and how gruesome things have been for her. Dear anime writers: This does not add depth. Just crams in some content that came out of nowhere (except for some unsubtle foreshadowing) and wants us to care about a character who has contributed little else than angst and pseudo-lesbianism to this show so far. That's worth as much as Ginka's gimmickry fang and at least that wasn't even half as annoying as Luna is.
Or gullible, for that matter. Akari suddenly popping up at her villa with no aforementioned notice should at least get her to suspect her a bit but hey, there were more important things to do like baking cake and learning a thing or two about flower language. The episode also made it far beyond the usual lesbian subovertones. The constant amount of blushing was kind of worrisome to the point one had to wonder about the two of them suffering from intense fever waves. Other than that, holding hands, sleeping in the same bed, yada yada. Up until the shocking reveal that Akari's just a fake at least which Luna didn't really catch on even when Akari's eye color changed but nonetheless, my sadistic side enjoyed this far more than it probably had any rights to do. One has to wonder how antagonist boy was able to mimic Akari so perfectly in the first place but never let it be said that I dislike cynical cruelty like her lesbian love ramming a phallic object into her, turning into a boy (I'd like to interpret all of this as a very symbolic subtext), causing Luna to turn into a monster girl, thus making her a better and more interesting character by at least 500%. Yup.
And so we've finally arrived at the long since-predicted point of a magical girl turning into a Daemonia only that angst wasn't the cause but pseudo-lesbian stabbing. Once again, the implications. Beware of them.
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