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Hmm... see, now here's the problem with Kaiba. Overall story wasn't bad at all. Plot twist and characters relationships were interesting and the fact that you can't trust what you see because memory can be modified, provided some unexpected turns of events. However, it was just paced badly. In one episode, one person goes insane, 6 important characters die in about 2 minutes, and missing memory comes back out of nowhere. Now, I felt a similar kind of feeling when I was watching Masaaki Yuasa's another show Kemonozume. As story progresses towards the last episodes, things just move too fast.
It is just hard to get convinced how Popo was in love with Cheky all along. It just never looked like it. No foreshadowing, no hinting and Popo's emotion towards Cheky was never dealt with and it should have. You cannot call something like this a plot twist. It's just too abrupt. Popo, who already tried to kill Kaiba several times and realized he can't be hurt leaves without confirming his death? Popo who was sneaky enough to edit his friend Neiro's memory never knew Cheky's memory was edited? On top of that, dropping a memory of his mom he kept so dearly for all these years on the elevator? -_-;;; I mean, come on... And what's with all this "let's all become one" crap? Evangelion? I'm sorry, but it's just badly planned. When a character dies in an anime, you should feel some kind of overwhelming emotion. There's 6 somewhat important characters died in this episode and I don't feel anything.
I commented many times before that the pacing of the beginning of the series was too slow. Dealing with Vanilla or the grandma who had NOTHING to do with overall story (unless they re-appear next episode somehow) was just a waste of time. It's just so disappointing because overall story had so much more potential. If this was given at least 26 episodes, it could have been so much better.
Final episode will air next episode and I just hope they somehow wrap things up properly.
*p.s1: What's with the "ya-hoooo" at the very end? It just ruins the mood completely.
*p.s2: I really wanted to retrain from going all out criticizing this series until the very end, but this episode was just too much.