Brynhildr in the Darkness ep 12: shit happens!

THIS EPISODE BROUGHT TO YOU BY POOR PACING, IT’S WHAT’S FOR THE ENDING [INSERT WITTY POOR PACING CEREAL BOX WITH RYOTA]

I found it guys. I found the good anime being suffocated underneath this shit pile. It’s dead. I found it’s corpse.

Sooo…turns out I was wrong. It wasn’t Neko. Or Ryota. It was fucking Kotori who is 1107. Okay, that’s pretty interesting. Why the fuck? On top of it Valkyria knows Neko on sight and is friendly with her. She even seems sad when Neko doesn’t remember her, but her allegiance seems to lie in her one sided love of Jedishima.

Jedishima becomes incredibly uninteresting this episode with his almost meaningless pursuit of ‘life’ and other bullshit. He’s literally made Valkyria into a meaningless pawn when she was supposed to be the threat this episode, and that’s only slightly disheartening. Jedishima orders Valkyria to destroy Neko and she does so…only for captain sepukku to jump on the sword and push her out of the way.

While he is dying Jedishima almost orders the kill again…until the badass people from the shadows we kept seeing in the opening appear from nowhere and stop Valkyria’s magic. Admittedly they are really cool-….and admittedly Jedishima gains some cool points for going ‘fuck this noise’ and shooting the fuck out of the kid stopping her powers so they could take Kotori and run.

I must emphasize my wtf at it being Kotori. Largely Kotori has been a useless biatch in my opinion who was way too ditzy and dumb to warrant much concern. She was boobies lady until this episode but learning about her reason of importance is a little cool. The only problem is they fucking SHOVE THIS BULLSHIT IN OUR FACES. In a span of about 5 minutes, Hatsuna dies to save Ryota, the priest garbed people reveal why kotori is dangerous, nanami has implanted shit inside ryota’s mind she should have told him before about their motivations, neko’s powers are explained, and we learn nishijima’s backstory. You get all that? yeah fuck this show.

HOW THE FUCK AM I SUPPOSED TO FEEL THINGS? THESE GIRLS FLIPPED OUT WHEN RYOTA DIED BUT BARELY SHED A TEAR OVER HATSUNA. THE VILLAIN’S BACKSTORY WAS UNDERWHELMING AND JUST…WHAT? JUST WHAT?????

Jedishima’s backstory is..underwhelming. He was in love and she died and so the only thing he cares about is finding a way to restore her human consciousness. That’s….incredibly underwhelming. That’s it? That’s why he’s cool with destroying humanity? His girlfriend is dead?

Then the whole alien bug thing is explained- the aliens are living in the harnests and growing until they eat human bodies and become eldritch abominations. And why is Kotori important? The ultimate eldritch abomination lives in her body – the grane. Once hatched it will melt and destroy all humans and leave the planet without life.

Don’t get me wrong it’s not that this isn’t interesting. . . in a good anime. This would be interesting as hell if done right. But it isn’t. The grane is shoved into our faces and then we’re supposed to feel shocked and worried when at the end of the episode it hatches. I’m not threatened. I want most of these people to die. And for being an intelligent scientist I don’t see how the fuck he thinks it works that feeding the ultimate monster his dead girlfriends brain would GIVE HER CONSCIOUSNESS TO IT AND NOT JUST MAKE THE THING HAVE INDIGESTION

I’m. . .guys.  .there’s too much in this episode. Too much that would’ve been good. Too much that might’ve made it a good anime. But no. It’s fucking terrible.

The pacing of this episode is just…no. Just no okay? This whole show is paced fucking awfully. I just. . .I’m so mad right now. I’m so mad this show went to waste. That it’s crap. Because it is. It’s crap.

More on this next week…on the finale of this garbage pail.

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