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Decent.
Was surprised to see that MacDougall didn't die in the manner which had been foreshadowed (actually, I'm not sure if he ended up dying at all... was a little unclear). His repeated failure to kill Yu despite what he's supposed to be capable of was a bit annoying.
Kurokami V1-
Finished, now I have to wait until November for V2 annoyingly.
The case blurb says that Keita is a videogame programmer and that he loses an arm. Neither of these are true.
Outside of the first episode, they haven't really done enough with the Doppleliner system as I would have liked.
So there are three instances of every person on the planet, one of which is the 'root' and two of which are 'subs', and they have 'fate' split up between them with the root getting the lion's share and the subs dividing what's left over. If the root meets one of their subs, the sub dies soon afterwards; if both subs meet each other, they both die. When this happens their 'fate' gets sent back to the root. On top of this, subs tend to have generally worse luck in life than roots do. Now you would expect that people that know about this would have questions regarding it. The people in the show that do don't really have any, though! The most explanation that we've gotten so far is that it is set up this way to 'protect the co-existence equilibrium', a vague and unexplained thing which sounds suspiciously like it is referring to circular reasoning. This is all despite the fact that they have access to some of the people guarding the system that would presumably be happy to discuss it, although I have some doubts that they really know the purpose of it either. Anyways, the question has only been asked three-odd times so far, and this is including times when it was asked rhetorically to people who had no way of answering.
Roots with both their subs killed by the system (or unnaturally?) become Master Roots which so far has not meant a whole lot aside from that they're pretty much all bastards who were happy for their subs to have been killed. Most of the ones we've seen so far didn't know anything about it until after they were picked up by the people who organised it after the fact, but still.
Keita wins a fight by insisting that the person he is fighting is miserable and it is annoyingly annoying. She also dies shortly afterwards for no explained reason which is further aggravation.
So our main man Keita here is supposed to be a sub which should in theory be somewhat interesting. The show does not seem to want to run with this at all and is constantly making him out to be special. It is disappointing and I will not be surprised if it turns out that he isn't a sub at all.
I originally thought that the show was going to be playing up Ration as having seemingly evil goals but he was actually going to dismantle the System, but it looks like what he was actually after is not going to be clarified any time soon if ever. It doesn't seem to match his character, what little of it we got to see, for him to just be generically evil.
I fully expect Kuraki to turn out to be a negative root. Interested to see where his playing off of Akane against Yuki goes.
Transformers G1-
Finished season 2.1, onto season 2.2. I don't have too much of a problem with new Autobots showing up out of nowhere (originally I thought they were being built like the Dinobots, but the show has used the Dinobots being the only ones built on Earth as a plot point - not that the show is particularly consistent), but when it comes to Omega Supreme this is a bit of joke. He's a tad too big to have just been overlooked until now.
