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Nicely, I figured it needed to occur ultimately. Takemichi’s gone far too lengthy with out making a foul mistake, and even with Chifuyu’s assist, there’s solely a lot one can do to stem the tide of our hero’s poor choices. This time, nonetheless, he could have simply made the largest mistake in both of his lifetimes.

Funnily sufficient, that mistake is not that he decides to work with Kisaki on this complete Christmas assassination plot. In truth, Takemichi makes a fairly strong argument for why this can be a good concept: Taiju would be the quick enemy, however stopping Kisaki’s machinations is the final word aim of this complete story. Working with him is an opportunity to both earn his belief or study essential data that may assist them cease no matter he is obtained deliberate. The truth that Kisaki proposed it makes the entire team-up suspect – I belief this dude about so far as Takemichi might throw him – however there is a compelling danger/reward rigidity that makes the entire thing dramatically compelling.

Although because it seems, if all he needed was data on Kisaki, Takemichi might have simply bothered speaking to his girlfriend. The reveal that Kisaki had a reference to each Takemichi and Hina is shocking, but additionally is smart. If Kisaki was obsessed sufficient to assassinate each of them sooner or later, there needed to have been a motivation exterior of Toman. Extra pertinent, nonetheless, is Hina’s insistence that Kisaki was an alright child. Takemichi cannot actually imagine it, and we already know Kisaki’s down for arranging murders, nevertheless it begs the query of what “stopping” Kisaki up to now may imply. We have seen, time and time once more, how the ability and violence of the underworld could make first rate guys into their worst selves – is it doable that stopping Kisaki may contain getting him out of that world, quite than merely thwarting his plans?

It is an attention-grabbing thought, although not one which Takemichi has a lot time for. He is too busy making the largest mistake of his life, and I am of two minds on all of it. On the one hand, it is in character for Takemichi to make a dumb determination out of a need to guard Hina, and he actually has cause to fret about her getting caught up within the violence of Toman. So breaking apart along with her is actually a plausible determination from him. I am not one to demand characters take advantage of optimum or “proper” alternative in each battle, and I am actually no stranger to seeing Takemichi fumble ass-over-tea-kettle via issues.

Then again, Hina is a criminally underdeveloped character with loads of potential as extra than simply any individual for Takemichi to guard (simply look at how rapidly she threw fingers!), and seeing her sidelined is basically irritating. To not point out how Takemichi is simply repeating the errors of the previous despite the fact that he is aware of breaking apart did not save Hina within the earlier timeline. If he actually needs to maintain her protected, would not a greater possibility be to, I dunno, inform her the reality? I do not even imply telling her about being from the long run—simply being trustworthy about wanting to maintain her from getting concerned in all this impending gang warfare would go an extended option to present that Takemichi has some type of belief in her. As a substitute he makes a half-assed excuse and will get his face beat into salsa for it, and by god is it deserved.

Possibly that is the purpose of this, and the story arc will resolve with Takemichi really trusting the particular person he loves sufficient to be truthful along with her. However proper now it is an aggravating backslide that the story’s attempting to persuade me is a tragic, crucial sacrifice for our hero. I do not purchase it, however on the very least it is drama that retains this episode and story transferring.

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